Hey, this is Brett and this 2018 GMC Yukon SLT is stock number 12303Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, your new and used SUV headquarters. This 2018 GMC has the 5.3 liter V8 engine. This Yukon has been fully safety and inspected by Elmer Service Shopper, the state Wisconsin inspection process. The hood has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this vehicle is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside under the hood, start it up in this video, go over all the options. Onyx Black is the color and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now because it is your best way to check out the quality condition and options of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Automotive in the upper right hand part of the screen is a subscribe button, click that, and then click the bell notifications and you'll get updates every time we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the 22 inch painted alloy rims with the painted black pockets. It has Michelin 285, 45R22 tires with probably about 50 to 60% of the tread left on them. Nice tread on those tires, nice tires themselves. Front fender is in excellent shape, didn't see any major dents or dings. Does have the projector lamp headlamps, LED running lights, and factory fog lights. That front bumper is in excellent shape, didn't see any dents, dings, or cracks on that looks really good. Comes with a chrome trimmed grille and the hood is in really nice shape as well. Passenger side front fender looks really good too, no dents or dings on that. And the passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the vehicle, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, that it was helpful, and that Brett sent you. Back tires have just as much tread as front tires, frame and underbody looks really good. They'll go all the way underneath here. You can see just how nice that frame and underbody is. Very little to no corrosion. And it does come with the factory running boards. Very clean down this side, didn't see any dents, didn't see any dings. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumpers in great shape. Does have a full towing package which includes the receiver hitch and seven pin wiring, backup parking sensors, LED tail lamps. The tailgate is in excellent shape. This is a power gate. You can see that that is working nicely. Back storage area is very clean and we do have the cover for the receiver hitch. We keep them inside the vehicle so they don't go missing. Third row seats go down really nice and fast. And they come up just as fast too. Use those buttons to do that. Storage looks like you get some headphones for that blue ray system. Nice storage area back there. And to get this gate down, you press this button right here. Does have the flipper glass, there's the button for that. And you can see that the shocks are doing a nice job holding that up and that the rear defrost cables are still attached. Shuts nice and solidly. And as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, no dents or dings on the rear quarter. And for full disclosure, this back room is in excellent shape as well. Down the rest of this side of the Yukon, really nice and clean. Does come with blind spot monitoring, built in directional signals, and these mirrors are heated.  There are no rips or tears on the seats. They're in really nice shape. Comes with factory floor mats, auto headlamps, turned out four wheel drive. It does have the power telescopic and tilt steering wheel, power pedals, lane departure warning, stability control, and those parking sensors. You can turn those off and on. Power windows, power locks, power mirrors, memory driver seat, Bose sound system. And you can see these mirrors do power fold in. I always like showing both sides so that you know that both sides are working properly. Little hop inside, check out the miles, radio, and everything that this Yukon has to offer. You can see that this one has 57,272 miles. You do get a compass display on there. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel. Excellent shape on there. Bluetooth and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls, forward collision warning controls, and heated steering wheel on the left. So it comes with, I believe it's the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. It does have the GMC and telelink radio with the factory navigation system. It does have AM, FM, and Sirius XM radio capabilities. And then you have a projection manager. You can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay and use your phone through the screen. That's a pretty cool system as well. Does have a storage cubby behind there with a USB PowerPoint. Does have a CD player right there. This is also where your backup camera shows up.  Does have the keyless entry with the remote start and rear gate buttons. Passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. I didn't see any rips or tears on there. Headliner is in really nice shape and it does have that blu-ray screen right there. Your sunroof, home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lane systems, map lights, and sunroof and rear gate controls on Star and SOS capabilities in the Rubin Mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and take a look under the hood. You get the second row bench seating in this vehicle so it is an eight passenger. No rips or tears on the seats. They are in really nice shape. It does have that center console there as well. Factory floor mats back here. You get rear air controls, 110 volt, 150 watt plug-in, Augs, 2 USB jacks, and an HDMI hook-up. And you have your heated seat buttons and a 12 volt power point back here as well. These seats fold up like so. To get to that third row, and that third row is in excellent condition. No rips or tears on those seats. They are in really nice shape as well. And you can see the headliner is in nice condition back here too. There's your blu-ray screen. You can see that's working nicely. Back doors are trimmed out like the front doors and the bottoms of the doors all look really good. We'll start it up. Take a quick look under the hood. We'll check out all those lights in front too. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. Didn't want to verify that this is a six-speed. Yep, this is a six-speed. You just put it down to L and then you hit the tap shift on the shifter to find out your top gear. So this is a six-speed automatic transmission. And it does have the backup camera which is working nicely there. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to verify the quality and condition of this Yukon all the way around inside and out under the hood. We have the 5.3-liter V8 engine. Engine-based. Very clean. Runs very smooth. Once again, this Yukon has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this one is 100% ready to go. There is your emission sticker. And I would highly recommend this vehicle from a quality and condition standpoint. And see a single ding on it. And to see more pictures of this Yukon or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, recorder tons, one-tons, you name it. We got it. Go to that website right there at www.SummitAuto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash SummitAuto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications. 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Hello, I'm Tiffany Barsodi of HealAndThrive.com and I'm here to tell you a little journey, a brief journey about my story of becoming a healer, a reluctant healer. I really did not want this job in the world. I, perhaps, this is why I'm good at it, but I really didn't want this job in the world. And at school, when I finally went to it, we learned something called detached compassion and I have found that this has actually been very helpful and perhaps there is really a gift and an art form and a skill that is about detached compassion. As a kid, my journey was really of being very much an empath and I didn't know about this idea of detached compassion. And as a kid, what I had was very sensitive to my environment and prophetic dreams that I actually thought I was causing the disasters in the world that would be in the news and the newspapers the following days. And for a four, five, six-year-old when all of this was really happening for me, it was really disconcerting and I didn't want to sleep and I also didn't know this at the time but very clairvoyant and able to move objects mostly when I was very angry. And it felt to me that my life was out of control. I didn't know what was actually happening with this super sensitivity of everybody that came in the house, knowing information that they didn't know about themselves. But something that was actually very helpful is being able to read when a person's energy was congruent with their words, with actually coming out of their mouth if it was truly congruent with who they are. And that as a kid, I think all kids really have that but to all of a sudden become so hyper-aware it would just be very disconcerting and undoing. So I spent a good portion of my life in those early days turning it off. I also had my first out-of-body experience when I was seven years old. So I really wanted to do everything in my power to never have another one of these experiences again. So skip two. Now I'm doing things in the world and I'm about 18 or 19 and I get an astrological reading. And in my teenage years I really was interested in music and the arts and marketing and really being a business person and was enthralled with all of the areas with being able to work with and manage people and manage careers which is what I ultimately ended up doing in the entertainment industry. But this astrological reading that our dear friend had given me as a gift, a gift to my mom at 18 or 19, she said, you're a healer, you're here to help people, help themselves and you are gifted at massage, at therapy, at counseling or any of these things that I had zero interest in. I didn't want any of that. And it hearkened back to me to these early sensitivities that I had as a young kid and I did everything in my power to push that away. So I was telling her this in the reading about how difficult this was for me to be hearing this, that this is my life journey, this is absolutely not what I want. And her next reply was, well don't worry, you're also a late bloomer. So I accept that now and having gone to school, graduate seminary in my late 30s and deciding that, okay, I'm going to have to walk this path, it didn't come easily. I spent about 22 years in the music industry and was very successful at it for periods of time. It's definitely a rocky business filled with ups and downs but for the most part I was successful in it. And one day living across the street from Ground Zero and this was in New York City at Ground Zero in a building that had only been inhabited recently and it was as the buildings had already come down so I was not there for when the actual disaster of those buildings falling happened but I was there when they were taking apart all of the buildings that were in the surrounding neighborhoods because of the damage that had been done. So as a result of that I got very sick and I didn't know what was happening for a really long time. I would lay in my bed and not be prepared for what was going to happen to me psychically, physically, emotionally, any of it. All of a sudden I felt like I was this portal of an operation system for these beings to move through that were sort of stuck in this weird place of turmoil. The Tibetans have a name for it called the World of Bardo where you're not quite dead and you're not alive either. So that became my skill set so to speak but not before it made me very ill. I had all kinds of maladies and disorders going on and I won't go into the graphicness of it because it was awful. And I would come out of these scenes sometimes I would be in meetings and all of a sudden I'd be pulled into memories of what was actually happening in that downtown area and for some reason things started coming out of my nose. I had matter literally falling into my hands. I actually thought my brain was coming through my nose. It was very, very dramatic. And here I was sitting in a law firm and all of a sudden I would just gush with blood. So I had my nose cauterized like five or six times. I had seen cardiologists, pulmonologists, all of these people couldn't really get rid of this chronic bronchitis. Horrible coughs. It was a nasty situation. Finally one doctor said to me, you know we really don't know what else to do for you and you are likely going to have to be put on that watch list for mesolothelioma for some of the people that were in Lower Manhattan. And I remember feeling at that time going, oh my god no way I'm not going to go on that list. I don't want to be labeling myself with such a sickness that was pretty much a death sentence in the way that they had delivered the news. So after a couple of moves into Upper Manhattan and then overall moving out of Manhattan and into New Jersey, I laid on the floor still sick. At least two years later still sick. And laid on the floor and had an intuitive voice that came and said very clearly, go to a medical intuitive. So I did. And I called somebody in Manhattan, found her right away, got in luckily right away. And she comes out of her trance-like state in our very first meeting and says, you have three days to make up your mind. Now I just started crying and actually I didn't cry right away. I was mortified and stunned and I was like, well what does this mean? All well-knowing deep inside I knew. I knew there was something and I was doing important work in the entertainment industry but it was not on my path. And because of that I had to step up and change some things. So when she said you have three days to make up your mind I essentially had to get to a point of where I had to surrender into this journey. And that surrendering is where things shifted. I made my mind up that I was going to go to school and learn about the things that I've always been interested in which was medical sciences, physics, quantum physics to be exact, spirituality and how all these things go together. So that was the journey that actually helped to wake me up. And I still operate today using detached compassion with myself and with others. So I'm looking forward to talking with you about this journey if it's meaningful to you, if it speaks to you in any way. I'm told sometimes that my story is inspiring. I just see it for what it is and the truth for what it is. But if it's meaningful to you I'd love to hear that and your story and how it relates. Thank you.


Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another Photoshop tutorial. In this one, I'm going to show you how to whiten teeth using artificial intelligence masking. It's brand new in Photoshop 2023, and I'll take about 60 seconds at the most. Let's go. All right, here we go. We got our image loaded up. The first step, I'm going to right-click over here on the blank side, and I'm converted to Smart Object.  This new masking is inside Camera Raw, which is inside Photoshop 2023 exception. Okay, here we go. Hover over here on the toolbar, and you'll see the middle one here. It says Masking. Click on that. When you do that, you'll see here that it's a selected people. This is now a new option. Left-click on People, and it selects the Person 1 in this case. And then, look, here we go. We're going to go down here, and then one of them is Teeth. It has done a great job selecting the teeth. I'm going to click on that. I'm going to click Create. And now watch. The process is quite easy. I like to increase the exposure, and basically, you just want to go ahead and decrease the saturation a little bit to get the look that you're going for. And that's it. Hit OK, and press the O off on. That's it, guys. Thanks for watching.


OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network. Hello everyone, I'm Melinda Holt. I'm a project specialist for OTAN, the Outreach and Technical Assistance Network, and I will be your host for this OTAN Tech Talk. The title for this OTT is Guiding You Through the Digital Guidance. Our presenter today is Francisco Pinedo and OTAN trainer and let's get started, Francisco. Okay, so good afternoon everybody and welcome. Once again, my name is Francisco Pinedo, subject matter expert here for OTAN. A little bit about me again, as I just mentioned, I'm an OTAN subject matter expert. I'm also the lead instructor for Solid Data Adult School, and I'm also a contributor to the guidance document. So that's going to be what we will be discussing in this video, the guidance document. So it's not just the random person that I'm going to present, but it's actually somebody who did contribute to this guidance document. My objective is for you to go into the OTAN website and get the guidance document. So that's going to be my main objective that I'll be presenting in. So what is the guidance document? So the guidance document is a resource for adult education staff and administrators to look and to see how can I use it in my agency. Also, it could be a resource for your local kid consortium, which is what we are using it with in my local consortium. Just want to make clear to let you know that this is not a set of standards for teachers to remember, that's a question that I have been getting asked a lot. Is this a new set of standards in adult education? No, the guidance document does talk about standards for example, the IST standards, the International Society for Technology Education. It also talks about the CASAS competencies, it talks about adult education standards. So this document does talk a lot about standards, but this is not a new set of standards, but it's a document that includes all the standards in adult education. So just want to make sure that's clear because people have asked me, is this something new? It is also not how for your agency to do things, but it's rather a framework that you are going to be building over time. So the keyword here is over time. You know, once your agency and your agency, you get this document and you disseminate it, it's a framework for you to be building it over time, not meaning it's going to happen this school year, but it's something that you could start incorporating this school year and next school year and building upon. The guidance is not meant to be done by one teacher or one administrator, but rather by a collaboration of admin, teacher, and staff. And I would also say students, you know, students are the ones who are going to be benefiting from this, so why not invite them to the table as well? The guidance will benefit, as I mentioned, your students, thus increasing student retention. So we have seen since we've been using more different types of learning models that student retention is the increase in some of our local programs. So where can I get the guidance? So if you visit the OTAN website, on the upper right-hand corner of the screen or section of the screen is going to be the link to the guidance document. So right here, you would be able to go onto the OTAN website and then on the upper right-hand corner, there will be an area where you can download the document, just do that, and then you will be able to have this living document. So this is a living document, means it's changing constantly, so it's not that it's just published and done, but it is going to be updated quite regularly as new information comes along. So if we look at digital learning, the big picture, so we have equitable access, meaning the students have access to different sorts of technology, more so than a four-inch screen, because we know it's very difficult to function on a four-inch screen, like a smartphone screen, but that the student has equitable access to different sorts of technology, whether it's like a tablet, it's a laptop Chromebook, or a desktop computer. Also, when we talk about digital learning, we're talking about appropriate content, content that is culturally sensitive to our students, but also at the same time, is appropriate for the students. It's not going to be something that is like cartoon based or geared for elementary, but it's geared for adults with a cultural sensitivity. And also, and most importantly, I would say is prepared teachers. It's having teachers in enough professional development, having them, giving them the access to PD at your district level, consortium level, and also a different level at the state level as well, like OTANXCC and other agents at CalPRO as well, to prepare the teachers. So then that way, we, that way we have all of these three components, equitable access, appropriate content, prepared teachers, and that's going to add to equal to happy students, a happy school where learning will happen, both digitally and in person as well. If we look at the digital guidance, it does have seven chapters. It has the introduction, where it's going to be giving you a brief history of adult education. It's always important to know where we come from, to understand where we are, to lead us into what is coming next. Chapter two is talking about ensuring equity and access, mainly talking about devices, connectivity, understanding the learner's needs and accessibility, also talking about universal design, which is very important in the universe. Other information that you could find on the OTANXCC inside of you about universal design. Chapter three talks about the foundations of adult education and digital learning. So here is where it's going to be talking about the different theories, the different standards that I mentioned previously. It's also going to be talking about professional development. Chapter four, designing flexible learning experience. So here we're going to be, you will be reading about blended learning, digital learning, OERs, the open education resource, and how to evaluate that content and tools to evaluate that content. Chapter five is talking about adopting models that work. So different digital learning models, planning, reporting as well. Chapter six is data-driven instruction by an digital assessment. So we all know in our programs, we do a lot of data-driven instruction. So here it's going to say how to use this data to help your students succeed. Chapter seven, fostering healthy, equitable, and inclusive digital communities is community building and also digital citizenship, which is something that I emphasize over and over is having those digital citizenship skills and also having digital access to your students. Plus a comprehensive literature review, glossary, and executive summary. The guidance document also includes videos from different teachers in different agencies throughout California and also includes teachers and administrators and kind of like their testimony on how they are using digital learning in their programs. So I invite you to please download the digital document and visit on it frequently because the information will be changing. So I will be talking to you about how we use the digital guidance in our consortium. So for example, here in our Salinas Valley Adult Education Consortium, we do have a PD designed for and dedicated to high-flex and hybrid instruction. So the digital guidance, we use it to see how can we as a consortium better help our agencies in our consortium to how we could better our instruction both for high-flex and for hybrid learning and also remote learning. Some programs are 100% remote. Some programs are in-person and that sweet spot in the middle is having both students in-person and online at the same time. And how are we going to do that? So that really has helped agencies like Salinas Adult School, like Soledad Adult School and other adult schools here in our consortium to start looking into, we could serve more students because we'll have them in the classroom, we'll have them outside of the classroom. Thus, it will help our retention and we'll also build our numbers which is something that a lot of agencies are interested in. We are also looking at open education resources used in pathway programs. So in our pathway programs, a lot of the pathway programs that we have in our consortium are using OERs at the adult school and also with our local community college. So this is great because a student no longer has to purchase a textbook that is fairly expensive but they can use OER books that are available because in our consortium we've talked about the importance of OER and also in our local community college is using OERs. Providing our students with access to technology include devices, internet access and digital literacy skills. So in our consortium we really have been looking at a lot is how can we provide our students these devices needed to be successful. The internet access which we know that now in a national initiative is going to be addressing that issue. And also how can we teach digital literacy skills? So that was one of the things that in our consortium is really important and making sure that all of our students have at least access to some devices whether if it's loaned out or they could use it extended hours during our programs that we operate. Also internet and providing those digital literacy skills which I highlight and I always say are very important to make this guidance document work and to helping your students be those happy students I showed you the slides before we need those digital literacy skills. So using the local guidance at the local school level for the students the students always as they come in our program they do the student technology intake form which is what they do and I'll visit that form. You could visit that form and then right there it's on the Cal adult org site and it's the student intake form where it asks the student what type of technology do they have what type of technology do they use? So that one right there we use it to see visually see what is it that our students are lacking what skills they're lacking and what skills they know and we kind of build from there. So every quarter, every semester we look at the results and then we also look at previous year results and we're able to see okay, students are having a hard time accessing for example, their email or students don't know how to respond to an email or things like that and then we're able to address those little gaps within each school I mean each school site is very different and then we determine what barrier students face in technology. We also use local nonprofits to help students get devices here locally there is an organization Low Species and Computers based in Salinas and I know there's many more in the state of California that and beyond that do offer students help getting devices based on you know different, different parameters like if the student is in free lunch K-12 students if for example they would qualify to get a low cost computer or that they could keep also it provides them with help to getting access to internet having access to and then this organization also offers digital literacy programs online both in English and in Spanish. We also offer students help with signing up for the affordable connectivity program at our school site. So right here the students could go get help signing up for this program where it will give them a $30 up to $50 credit every month on broadband internet. We also loan devices to students so these were devices that were purchased a few years ago so we do have a program where we loan out devices we would also be doing hotspots in the past few years in the last year we haven't done that but in some agencies I know they are doing that they're loaning out a device and also a hotspot that way it will help the learner be able to learn using different platforms that are used in the classroom. Also incorporating digital literacy in every program and again that's something that I do stress a lot not only is it for ESL but it's also for your CTE programs it's also for our HSC program or HSC program. So in every program here we are incorporating digital literacy skills literacy skills for example we're transitioning from paper based testing to more having computer based testing so that means that in our HSC program we are having students do typing skills how to use the mouse how to type when you have a little timer on so that way they won't get distracted when they're taking the HSC exam and they see that little clock. So doing all this in your classroom is going to prepare your students to be more successful when they take for example the HSC exam. Also in our CTE programs all of the CTE programs that are offered here in our consortium use technology to some extent especially like in the medical field. So teaching the students how to capture data how to read data how to incorporate data into a spreadsheet for example or how to use some types of programs so that is something that is used as well in our consortium. So in every aspect even in our ESL a very low beginning literacy ESL program heavy on technology but with that it also includes having the teachers having that training on how to teach the students to use technology. So in our school we do have a lead instructor who helps the teacher with students to have like teach them how to use basic literacy skills. We also refer them to like I mentioned before local nonprofits that might have more with digital literacy or even partnering adult schools that they have events in our local community college also have events for students with low digital literacy skills. So in our consortium and in our school we are always looking for those resources to help the student be successful. So using the guidance document at the local school level for teachers the teachers again use the teacher technology intake survey and with this one again we see what are some of the areas that the teacher is proficient in and what are some of the areas that the teacher is lacking skills in and then we kind of build a PD around that. We also offer continuous PD for staff on using technology then our district has also invited us in the past for their technology PD days which are usually held before school starts before school returns from spring break and sometimes during the summer so they always invite us to be part of these trainings we're also always get invited from other local community colleges and adult schools also developing mini tech team to mentor your teachers. So some agencies I know are small so that might be difficult but maybe having that one or two people at each side who is going to mentor a teacher on how to use technology. Also allow teacher input when selecting the technology. I've noticed that in the past when I tell my staff where you wanna use this curriculum or this curriculum what do you think? They actually give me input because they're the ones who are going to be using it. So when I allow my teacher input when selecting technology one, they're more likely to use it and two, they're gonna feel like they had a say in it so they're going to use it actually more because they had a say in it. Also continue loaning out devices to students and have drop-in technology hours. So since the beginning of the pandemic we have had a Friday, every Friday where we have drop-in hours for students to come in if they can't access Canvas since we do use Canvas for our ESL program if they're having trouble connecting to their high school diploma program that they were using. So it's having that drop-in technology for students to come into our school and get that help that they need because one of the biggest barriers besides having access to a device is for the students not knowing how to use the different programs that are being used in each of our programs. We're in our learning management system. So for example that one did prove to be a little bit more hard. So we would set time aside for the students to onboard them if they came in later during the program and that onboarding included about an hour or more of a teacher helping the student how to connect to Canvas, how to register in Canvas and how to navigate the coursework in Canvas. So having that time invested does really make a difference because one, it will keep the student in the program. And two, that one or two hour of investment will help the student succeed. Thus the student will also help you students who come into the classroom and help onboarding them. Some of the conclusions that come up after reading this guidance document is one, as it would mention in this presentation main challenge for adult learners in digital learning is of access. Accessing a device, accessing the internet, accessing the programs that are used within the classroom. Also another conclusion, despite challenges from students and staff, we know that digital literacy and digital learning is here to stay. So we see that more and more and more programs are have an in-person, a hybrid component, some of the high flex as well. So we know that it's only going to be growing. So knowing that that right there is pretty much here to stay. And understanding that there are resources that will help as an administrator for your agency to be able to deliver this type of differential instruction to your students. Students also have more control of their education by having greater access to educational opportunities outside of classrooms. So if the student can't come to school because of weather, because of health or because of work, they know that they could go on to the learning management system, capture and see the work that was done the day they were out, maybe some agencies upload the videos of the recording. So the student will have access to that information at any time. They're no longer bound to a set time in a brick and mortar setting. Their education now could be in the palm of their hands or they recommend better on a computer screen. That way the student has greater opportunities to be successful. And it's also one of the things that the students really appreciate. They really like the fact that if I can't come to class one day and I connect or if I do it virtually or remotely, it'll be the same experience as if I was in the classroom. And that is ultimately what we want. We want to provide our students with opportunities to succeed. And I understand it can be a challenge for us educators, but with the guidance document, it will provide you a framework of what you can do or maybe of what you are doing now with the tools to help your agency serve better the students. So that's the purpose of the guidance document. Again, the guidance document is on the OTAN website. So when you go into the OTAN website on the upper right hand corner, there will be an area that says the guidance document and it'll take you to a webpage where you will have, again, access to the document, also access to the chapter notes and access to conclusions and findings. So I hope that you take the time to go to the OTAN site and download a copy today. Thank you. Thank you, Francisco, for presenting this OTT. I'd like to encourage viewers at this time to subscribe to OTAN's YouTube channel where instructional tech videos related to adult education can be found, including OTAN Tech Talks. All of this information and more is available on the OTAN website at www.otan.us. Thank you for watching this OTAN Tech Talk.


Hey curlfriends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today. And today, we're gonna talk about something that we kinda don't like talking about, which is product buildup. It happens to the best of us. Yes, even me. Product buildup is different than Dandruff. So first we gotta figure out the difference between the two. Dandruff is an actual skin condition that will create flakes on your hair. Often they'll fall off, you'll see them on your shoulders and they also can be a yellowish type color. Where product buildup is something that we create on our own by adding too much product, building up on our scalp.  This is really common in curly hair because we don't wash our hair every single day. Or you shouldn't be, because you don't have to. Our hair often looks better as the week goes on and I personally have stretched my hair up to like day eight and it still looked really good. So we really shouldn't push it that far if we don't have to.  So we might not have as many wash days as the next person. So I'm gonna give you guys some tips on how to avoid product buildup. Innersense has a detox hair mask. Thank you Innersense for sponsoring today's video and letting me be one of the first people to try this new detox mask. So right here it says they clarifying detox treatment to remove buildup. Amazing. It has charcoal, kaolin and white vinegar to draw out micro particles to the surface without stripping hair of natural oils, ideal for all hair types and textures. So let me go ahead and show you my proof. You guys know I love a good before and after. Here is my dry product buildup. I will admit I had a very experimental week of trying a bunch of new products because it's my job. So when I have to use new products every single day, I often get product buildup. So I'm gonna grab the new Innersense detox hair mask. This is going to be a step one before you shampoo and condition your hair. It actually has a very light scent. It doesn't really smell like too much, maybe a little bit of that charcoal. But to my surprise, it didn't have like that minty tingling sensation which I know some people actually hate that cold, cool feeling. So it doesn't have that which makes it very unique but it is a very light consistency to just leave on my hair. The directions say that you actually can apply it from roots to ends to be rid of any product buildup on the lengths of your hair. Rub it in there, kind of loosen up any product buildup. And then I'm gonna apply a little bit more to the lengths of my hair. Once my whole head is covered, I'm gonna put it up into a shower cap and let it sit for three to five minutes. So after the five minutes, I've then take off my shower cap and I'm gonna go one step further and even use a scalp massage brush. A scalp massage brush is another tip where you can really pick up any flakes or product buildup.  Then I'm going to rinse it out and voila, here are the after results. All the product buildup is gone. Hallelujah! Another reason why it is a little bit easier for me personally to remove product buildup is because I don't use products with silicone. Silicone, some people love it, some people hate it, me being one of them. I mean, I don't hate it, it's just really unnecessary and it's an ingredient that's really hard to remove from your hair. There are water soluble silicones, which are a little bit easier to rinse out than just the harsher silicones, but you don't need them, I mean, why? All of my favorite Innocence products are all sulfate, paraben and silicone free. So if you look at my hair, you obviously do not need silicone to have shine, to have slip, to have definition. My curls haven't had silicone for years and it's doing just fine without it. So if you can, choose a brand like Innocence that really focuses on clean ingredients. Innocence is probably one of the most organic, natural products on my product shelf. I actually even use these products on my baby, that's how much I trust this brand. They just really stride on clean, simple beauty. So after I rinse it out, I'm going to be using a sulfate free shampoo. Innocence makes products for every hair type. So they have three different options for you. There is the Pure Harmony Hair Bath, which is made for fine to medium hair. There's the Hydrating Cream Hair Bath, which is for thick, coarse and thirsty hair. And then there's the Color Awakening Hair Bath for medium texture, color or chemically treated hair, which is the one I'm going to be using today. Now let's talk about your conditioner. Silicone and conditioner, it's usually the biggest culprit and the favorite place for silicones to hang out. That is a great benefit of silicone is that it creates great slip. So a lot of people will not let go of their silicone conditioner because it has great slip. But it's not going to help your hair in the long run and it can cause product buildup. So let's say you have silicone in your conditioner, but then you also have it in your silent cream and then you also have it in your gel. That's just too much silicone packed onto your hair. But even the Innocence Conditioner has great slip even without silicone. You just don't need it. Now let's talk about out of the shower. Reasons why you might get product buildup when applying your stylers. Don't go too heavy with applying the products or with the consistency of the products depending on your hair type. First you need to realize what kind of hair do you have? Is it fine or is it really thick? I have fine hair so my hair loves lightweight products like gels or mousse. Thick heavy butters or creams are going to weigh down your hair and could also contribute to you getting product buildup.  Which is fine. But you should only be applying your stylers to the lengths of your hair. Your scalp does not need any gel or leave in or any type of styling product.  All stylers are for the lengths of your hair. So when you apply it start about here but don't like actually apply it to your scalp. If you love lightweight products let me show you what I applied today. So I started off with the I create volume. You know I love me some volume. This is a volumizing lotion. Even though it's not a lotion consistency as you can see it's very loose serum consistency. It provides fullness and is made with certified organic honey and aloe vera. So even though my hair is fine products like this that claim to add volume are going to help make it look even fuller. Notice when applying I'm going to be using the prayer hands method. Smoothing it down the lengths of my hair and scrunching it back up but I'm not applying it directly to my scalp. The next problem I'm going to be using is the inner sense I create lift volumizing foam. Can you tell I like my volume? Now the volumizing foam is a very airy lightweight type mousse. But because it is so light and airy I do apply this closer to my roots but still not directly on my scalp. Just to give my roots some lift to give it some volume. So what is something else that we usually apply to our roots? Hair spray. Hair spray is another culprit that usually loves to have silicone. It's a product that you're spraying directly to your roots to get more volume possibly every day. So I would recommend using a silicone free hair spray if you're going to apply something straight to your roots. This is the inner sense I create finish. This is one of my favorite inner sense products because I apply it to my wet hair and my dry hair. So this is the last step of my inner sense routine where I spray this to my wet hair because it will hold that definition and it'll actually help my hair dry even faster.  So if you are an air dry person and you hate waiting seven to eight business days for your hair to dry, spray some of this all over and it'll create that hold a lot faster. This actually has even more hold than some gels that I have. It's amazing. So it's a workable hair spray for hold and shine. An actual nice shine, not a silicone plastic shine. So once I sprayed this all over my hair, it then created the cast like within minutes and then I felt comfortable with diffusing because I already had that cast. So once I diffused my hair, this was my final result. Amazing, defined, shiny, beautiful day one hair. And sometimes I even will go back in, do a couple spritz just to pump it up and create more volume. So in conclusion, Dandruff is more of a skin condition that might even need medical treatment depending on how bad it is, but product buildup is something that we create ourselves. So just be mindful of the ingredients in your products.  Intersense was nice enough to give me my own promo codes of use code, Bianca 15.  If you found this video helpful, make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post new videos every week. 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