When Nigeria is going through the hardest times in the nation's history, what solution is there too with economic wars facing the country? Annually every 4th of February the World Cancer Day celebrated worldwide. Today on the breakfast we'll discuss fighting cancer with a focus on global observance. Well look at what the papers are saying this morning in other press as we bring you the headlines on the front page of today's National Dailies. I know back in the breakfast and plus TV Africa it's a brand new week, a week to face the battle of living in Nigeria. My name is Kofi Bartels. And I am Messi Ibukbo. It's good to have you join us this beautiful Monday morning. All right Messi how are you surviving? How are you? How are you my friend? How was the weekend for you? So Kofi, I mean I think that this is this is a time where a lot of people need to take you know like you have to self-care you have to be very deliberate.   So you practically have to be deliberate to say hey I'm not going to let this get me into a point of anxiety and we'll have you so you have to keep your thoughts together. So you went to the market this weekend? I didn't go to the market but my point is in the course of course I don't understand. And how do you hear you talk about markets? Why do you, but we don't get to talk about markets now. Do we get to talk about markets on the show? Well the first trendy I mean I mean there's only one thing trending in Nigeria today that happens to be the economy you know the economy. But before then just a quick the quick touch on the politics. As was lit yesterday of course Dogariya Kudogara, former Speaker of the House of Representatives was trending. Reason it was trending was because of a tweet by Festus Kiyamu saying that the president had endorsed Bola Amitimbu you know in Nassarawa state at the rally you know because there was some sort of confusion as to whether you know the president was supporting the APC candidate and some people say he doesn't have his back. So there was a big deal for supporters of Bola Amitimbu yesterday and then it was a back and forth between Festus Kiyamu and Yakubu Dogara who of course told Festus Kiyamu after Festus called him a political prostitute okay he now replied Festus is a street because Yakubu had said Buhari's endorsement of it was a satire you know it was a satire and Festus called Dogara a political prostitute and then Dogara replied you're not I would have spoken to you if at least you want a councilorship election we're not political mates and of course Festus actually replied him well we will not be political mates in terms of winning an election but at least I'm your senior at the bar and you went on and on the Nigerians were you know enjoying enjoying it you know so there's a lot of tension I just had to touch on that because is this showing that we have political tension as well as it's gonna make tension in the country but talking about the economy one of the people groups talking really is a political party called the socialist party of Nigeria mercy have you heard of socialist party of Nigeria before yes I have heard of socialist party of Nigeria yes I have to go and check to be sure because you know you know some party that you register is actually be sure because I'm not head who is a presidential candidate are you sure we have them you know anyway they condemn the ongoing economic hardship and social hardship witnessed by Nigerians under the Muhammadan Buhari administration and they're calling for a mass resistance to reverse the situation all right I'm sure they want to see people who come up you know talking about how it's hard to get banknotes in excess cash for daily transactions and the whole field supply situation I mean inflation at 21% I was saying to myself how come it worked this morning that inflation at 21% may even be a scam because a lot of things I've got sometimes a hundred percent you know so I'm they issued a statement on Saturday and they are saying that they welcome the socialist party of Nigeria they welcome pockets of protests across the country in some cities across the country they want to see more so they're calling Nigerians to come up on mass and embark on mass action remember what we saw in a dual state but more especially in Benin in Ibadu the capital of your state where it went a bit violent you know with a irate youth attacking a particular bank in the capital of your state and blocking roads and all that the latest reports we have one person dying from that clash you know your state because the security agents had to go curtail it and we have one person died that's from premium times so what they're saying this is socialist party of Nigeria is saying is that they're calling on trade unions pro masses organizations etc to provide coordination and leadership by initiating a program of mass activities including protests and 24 hour general strike to demand an immediate three month extension of the bank no turnover period and educate provisional petrol at the current official price they want the the narrow swap or the narrow deadline old narrow deadline to be extended by three months so that's all we have massive what are your thoughts on this it's quite interesting I'll talk about this here yeah yeah so first of all I think that the social democratic party for you are the correct socialist party socialist party of Nigeria actually if you've heard of this party I have heard of this party I mean Kofi there are several parties there are several parties in your hair you know you know what is tp you know labour party you know pdp no so Kofi you know that you know the the kind of system that we operate we have a multi-party system but unfortunately it seemed like we're practicing a two-party system and this is you know one of the questions but some people want to begin to make a comparison between Nigeria and you know if you look at developing democracies your access of what exactly is it I mean for those you know this country you see will find out that people shuttle between these other party and the other party that's what it is so these parties are there I mean I remember in 2019 the social I have to say that social party of my socialist party socialist party thank you so much the SPN they didn't file a candidate there were about you know 18 of this candidate or 19 of them who didn't file in candidates for the presidential elections that's exactly what happened but of course you know 2023 elections you have several parties who are alive or political officers but you know to come to the crux of the conversation is that I think that the socialist party of Nigeria is acting you know and doing the beating of an opposition party that's exactly what it is but there also might be questions as to you know if this is you know the time in terms of I mean when you look at it you begin to ask yourself this is the right time when was the last time you heard of this party I mean have they been very vocal because the major role of opposition party in any government which is very critical is that it helps check the activities of the party in power with a view to pointing out where they're going wrong looking at the excesses and what have you and I think that you know the socialist party of Nigeria is acting in that you know regard that's exactly what opposition does but we have over time asked and queried whether we have opposition in Nigeria I mean for the past eight years you ask yourself is there an opposition party including the major opposition party that you should have that's the people's democratic party it's been a lot of question and some people say hey that's not the case but I think that that's what it is and if you also look at the concerns it's fine to have people protest but it's also you know the responsibility that's why you have the opposition party it's very critical in any democracy because that's that's really where you begin to pressure in and not necessarily politics here but you begin to point out what you're not doing right and he helps them you know in check and you want to ask yourself if we if Nigerians are complaining about the APC what has the role of the opposition being so far from the past eight years what have this political party's done including the major political party and every other party because they are all in the opposition so what have they really done how come all of this has gone on I mean how come if you say that the APC has not fared well has not driven Nigeria well but how far how come you know they haven't done well in in attempt in terms of saying the APC is sitting back and putting their acts together because the role that the opposition plays is what gets the other party the ruling party to sit back and put her acts together but that's not the case and yes protest is a tool like I always say that has been used by different you know government in different climes climes to demand you know good governance so people actually get out to protest protest different policies what have you I mean it's also a recent video that I saw you know where people are protesting the economic situation in the united kingdom and that's it so protest is it's important but what we are also saying is that some people take advantage of the system I mean the protests become very violent where you have people looting so yes if Nigerians are going to protest it's okay but if people are going to go out to begin to destroy loot and you know cost mayhem and just you know for the destroyed economy then that's not it that's not protest so I'm just hoping that at this point when a very critical situation and I think that those who are speaking to power are speaking fruits and what have you should be very careful so people don't miss quote all of this and begin to act indiscriminately but it's also expected that the law and those who are saddled with executing the law would be responsible maintaining the law peace and order especially the police you know we will be right at it and all of that so we will continue with this conversation but but but here I'm more concerned about where has the opposition been so far you know it is uncounted right um message so it's it's it's it's it's very interesting what's going on and there's some dots that we can connect and that's that you quickly connect those dots I think all our training service today have to do with what you call again the narrow scarcity crisis we'll call it that and of course the fuel supply of fuel scarcity crisis we'll call it that so we have the APC on one hand we have the PDP this is a political season so we cannot divorce the political parties from the economic situation in the country because the conversation is political so who do we vote for in the next election um of course uh the our progressives congress in its through its presidential candidate had been calling for you know saying there's a sabotage at play and some people are trying to scuttle his chances of winning the election by ensuring that there is no fuel by ensuring that uh we don't have uh cash because this will put the government in bad light and if they put it puts the government in bad life because people would vote in protest what it called protest vote against him I mean it's kind of the APC ruling party um the the the presidential candidate of the peoples and credit party last week uh uh atikua bobakar had come up to say the cbn should not extend the deadline uh for the old narrow notes from february 10 they should not because according to him it's going to encourage both vote buying if they extend that deadline then we had malam nasir l5 who is in the inner conclave of the APC presidential candidate but atin will come in and and to say that um uh you know to criticize atikua bobakar for calling uh making that call saying people like him are not feeling the pains and digerians are feeling and that's why they are he's calling for that extension not to be or the deadline not to be extended and of course atikua had to reply that the reason why arufi atinbu and other apc stalwarts were you know calling on the central bank to extend the deadline was because um it was not politically convenient for the politics to be implemented and for the deadline not to be extended and for political purposes they were calling for that deadline and um so it went back and forth but the the are you talking about the opposition you know merci uh and how opposition parties should approach this particular uh um policy and what's going on now interestingly last night at about 7 40 p.m the presidential candidate of a uh of labor party which is the fastest rising positive party in nigeria um i mean some poll that we saw over the weekend put that party ahead um of course apc has come out to reject that poll and he says in a tweet quote that he came out to tell nigerians categorically for the first time that he supports the cbn policies and nigerians need to bear because the policies are well intended that's why he says the currency redesign is not peculiar to nigeria quote okay it is an exercise that comes with some inconvenience and pain but it has significant long-term economic and social benefits we told me right even though the are improvements that can be made he says he has an exercise that comes with some inconvenience mercy and pain but he has significant long-term economic and social benefits uh he says i urge nigerians to bear with the cbn and federal government with the hope that the general populace and nigeria will have will harvest rather the gains that will come with the reforms uh you know it's what he says so that's uh an endorsement of any support he's taking a stance now some people could say a socialist part of nigeria what game are they playing uh because we've seen a particular section of the polity uh asking for the cbn to extend the deadline we've seen a particular section of the polity saying we are not in support of this maybe because it does not support their public aims i mean and people have come up to say you look at wiki for instance yes we could govern a river state during campaign rally at some part of river state over last week you know saying that nigerians are suffering the masses are suffering saying oh um uh you know this is not affecting me it says i already have my campaign money i've planned everything already but i said i said is that not an indictment self-indict but let's do that for another day you know but it affects you the man i don't suffer it i don't suffer it was asking but you know some are saying when did politicians in this country especially of abc and pdp the major politicians we know the governor's inclusive when where did since when did they start becoming concerned about the plight of the common man since when did they start becoming concerned about who goes to bed hungry and who not because the antecedent we've been seeing is it shows a lack of concern you know is it today so people a lot people are not taking what they are saying that oh we are speaking the interest of common man that is a blatant lie because you can't ignore okay the patterns is what people are saying let's see look at the conversation out there a lot of people are saying we can't ignore the patterns is it are you all of a sudden i mean you know someone said miracle no the entire jesus you know about the situation it's a miracle there is politicians what they are telling us that they are messing that they're interested in who goes to bed hungry so are you also are you also making reference to this party so we case situation where yeah for we case situation where we came out to say that your masses are suffering people i was looking at the comments and look we were laughing it's it's you know these guys take Nigerians for fools i mean i mean come on i see i always tell Nigerians these guys actually think you're dumb we're at the entire country is dumb because of the things they do you know it's like they will go back to their rooms take out their their konyak their whiskey in their brandy and clink doesn't laugh this okay so a governor who has implemented draconian rules you know used the police to to arrest political opponents and including protesters mercy who has implemented a decrease okay that i seem to be anti people okay decrease that i seem to start i mean i would really like to jump in the hotels of of investors coffee i really like to jump on this conversation but and then you're telling me that you you you're interested well for the people you know let's let that slide it's all right we're definitely right so i mean what we talk about this just in some way in the sentence all i'm saying is that a lot of Nigerians are laughing at the politicians who today are telling us that they are so interested in the plight of the common man and and that's why and that's why we're also questioning you know the role of the political parties who are supposed to be playing the opposition because i mean political parties are very important in every democracy and so you have different political parties i come you're speaking now what happened all the time i mean people have gone through a lot uh some people say people have seen shiggy too much shiggy and the extra shiggy i do you support the mass action mass action what mass action i talked about that now and i my position on protesters has always been one protest has been a tool that people have used to demand change change a policy you know demand a lot from the government but over time and that's what we say and there's nothing wrong in protesting because it's it's it's a it i mean it's within your right uh just as it's within your right to go out and cast your vote it's also within your right to protest but whatever becomes a threat to national security whatever becomes a threat if you constitute a threat and that's why it's no longer a protest it becomes a you know something different an attack on the state and that's not what the the case should be so yes people can go ahead and say we're protesting and that's what the SPN is saying but we're saying if you have to go out to protest then let it be within the ambience of the law because if you are contrary like the one we see we're seeing people destroying stuff that's not it and that's not going to yield you any results but the way the apc presidential candidate is today in today's purpose he called it on his supporters to adopt to be violent regarding the narrow extension so we'll see we have to go now kofi yes we really have to go we take a break and when we return we'll be right back with the papers please stay with us good morning


Let me ask you a question. What's up, man?  Visitor. Anybody come visit you? Like what? I don't know. What the? Y'all sent me up here. What type of visitor, brother? What were we talking about, like, what y'all? No, I'm just saying. You know, visited are probably the one that nobody knew that they came to visit you. Nah, I ain't never had nothing like that. Everybody came to the door. I knew who the f*** was on the door. It wasn't no surprise, yes, around this motherf***er.  Hey, Drew. I ain't never had that conversation, brother. Not once. You want 67 more commercials? Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. And I think I know the visit y'all talking about. I ain't never had that visit.  I ain't been that visited yet. Not yet. Hey, nah. I hope not.  Yeah, it'd be crazy, too. I'm busy with some hard work. That's why you got to keep God, brother. Yes, sir. You got to have God, man. I can't wait till they come. Hey, hey, what the f***? Send it a little right and then get it sent. He gon' grab the money. I can't wait till they come. I'm sending it right and then get it sent. F*** God, yeah, man. You gon' sacrifice, it's your cousin, ain't it? No, he coming back out. It ain't like that, man. He got to visit it before.  I don't know, I don't know. And I never got no visit like that.  I don't think it's real. Look at how you look at it. How you know? What have you seen to where you feel like it may be real?  Other than that, what have you seen that can prove that any of that real? Right. Truthfully, truthfully. You know, I heard about them visitors that come. From the source? I can't see that, but it was some visitors. You don't have to say the person's name, but you have heard from a source. Somebody told me and Gil about a party one time. Sheesh.  Nobody never told us about the party.  Hold up, hold up. Tell me, tell me, I want to hear this. I don't want to hear this. I ain't even going to say nothing there.  I am curious though. I really am curious, man. I'm curious. Somebody told me and Gil about a party. Yeah. And we didn't believe this person.  That's all I'm going to say. And that's when we knew.  Because that f*** was in the party. He was in the party. He was there to recruit you, and this is the... No, he... Oh, it was his connection. I didn't know. Oh, it was his homie. He didn't get jumped in. He didn't get... But tell me, tell me. It was crazy. It was crazy. When he showed us a joint. He sacrificed it to you. He was like, Gil, you remember that? He said, Gil, you remember that night? And in the back, I see Gil walking by. Oh, man. Oh, man. I said, wow. Because I've seen a picture with him and... R. Kelly. Yeah.  Was that real, or was that AI? No, no, that wasn't no AI. He was... He'd been already on record talking about all the parties. You haven't called that long? All the parties he'd been through. First of all, I met R. Kelly through cash money. First of all. Didn't he have his arm around him? Like, no, he was at his house. He was at his house. He was at his house. He'd been to R. Kelly. How many people you know have been to R. House? And I'm not saying that wrong. Have you ever been to R. House? Never. Never. Have you ever slept in R. House? I wasn't even lit when Kells was still out. Have you ever stayed the night at Kells' house? I have never stayed the night at nobody's house. Ask him that. Ask him that. You stayed the night at R. Kelly's house?  And then the picture came out. I'll put it back in the back. That's crazy. What did you sleep at when you stayed in his house, Doug? He did look younger in the picture. That was a smile like that. Yo, where did you stay at? And I think you had your tongue out, too, in the picture. Yo, where did you stay at when you stayed at R? What room you slept in? Come on, man. What room you slept in? We don't do the line. What room you slept in? Who you slept in the room with? The guest. The guest bedroom. You slept on the couch? Or the guest house? No, everybody just slept in here. He took you to a separate house? Everybody slept anywhere. No, he was in his house. Damn. He stayed in his house. Stop saying it like that. First of all, the whole cash money stayed there. You tell me, I don't just stay there. Why do you keep telling all people? You're not going to put this in there? No. What you doing, man?  I got enough problems with Bird, man, man.  Oh, he stayed too? Let me tell you something, man. Now he tried to get a ball. What room did he stay at? You just slept wherever you fell asleep at. Where did you sleep at? Where you fall asleep at? Right on the couch. Yeah. Like this. What did you drink? Well, one I opened.  He like baby butts. I got a grown.  That picture, say a lot.  I got a picture of you and your celly in the dump. Yummy. Instead of Christmas pictures. No, they had one big bed. They put the best.


systematic inequalities and disparities. We encourage faculty to use open educational resources as a tool for pedagogical reform of teaching, learning, and research materials. OER is a catalyst for innovation, providing students at no cost a learner-centered experience. So this is supported all the way up to the top. And so if you're interested in OER, we know that we have their support as well. Okay. Thank you, President. Thank you, Vice President. And now our keynote address is Una Daley. And Una is the Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, a community of practice for open education celebrating its 10th anniversary. CCCOER is a partner in achieving the DREAMS OER degree initiative and provides support for the California Zero Textbook Cost Degree Program. Previously, Una was OER Library Service Manager for the California Open Online Library. And prior to that, I was directing CCCOER. She led the College Open Textbooks Accessibility Professional Development and College Grant Programs at the Foothel de Anza District. She holds a master's degree in education with a focus on e-portfolios and undergraduate studies and formerly was a software engineer. So please join in me in welcoming Una Daley. What are your eyes? Thank you very much, Dr. Hoopis. And can everyone hear me out there? Yes. Okay, wonderful. And thank you very much to Dr. Bianca Roden-Quince who invited me to speak with you this morning. And I understand that you're celebrating Open Education Week, which is really exciting. That is the global celebration of open education and its impact worldwide. We're celebrating the seventh year of that, our seventh annual celebration. And it changes a little every year. This year, we have 31 countries who have submitted either online events, resources, videos, or are holding local events on their campuses. So institutions from 31 countries, representing 15 languages. The top three languages this year and this is different this year are English, Arabic, and Spanish. So really exciting, a real game changer in many ways. Okay, I talked a little bit about, I'm sorry, Jim talked a little bit about me. So I'll skip over that one. I want to tell you a little bit about the Community College Consortium for OER. It was actually founded right here in the Bay Area 10 years ago at the Foothel de Anza Community College District. And Dr. Martha Cantor was the visionary. I think some of you may have may know her. 2007 when she envisioned open educational resources as a tool for community colleges. And prior to that, most of the work that was being done around open education was at the four year colleges and universities, particularly the private universities. So she really had a vision which aligns with the vision that Jim shared with us earlier from your president and vice president, that not only could it provide faculty with choices around the content they use in their classroom, it could also be a catalyst for pedagogical innovation and development. And ultimately, of course, at the bottom of that is student success. Since that time we've spread throughout the United States. We have members in 28 states. We have 11 statewide members of which of course California is a statewide member and we have a number of individual college members. So right to education goes back at a very basic level around the world. UNESCO which I think and open education really aligns with this. And UNESCO has been a huge, in fact, they are the ones that are early 2000s. And MIT who is really, they're really given the recognition that they first in the sort of modern era of open education were inspired to kick this off. And their faculty looking at the internet that had was fully developed in the early 2000s and looking at the ability to share their knowledge around the world decided that they would put their entire undergraduate curriculum online so that learners around the globe could have access. And of course people thought they were kind of crazy at the time. But what they have found is that it attracted so many people to their to their university. 50 million visitors from 200 countries have visited their site in the last 15 years when it was first put up. But it's attracted amazing faculty and talented students to their doors. And out of that grew the open education consortium which CCCOER is part of. And it's hundreds of colleges and universities around the world committed to advancing open education and its impact globally. So you can see 40 countries, 29 languages. So enough about the big picture. I want to dig down on just a few details. And so I've got a little quiz for you. And there's really no right and wrong answers here. But it's just it's just for fun. So here's the first question. Are open educational resources in the public domain true or false? Can I see a show of hands for true? Okay, so I saw a couple go up. How about false? All right. This is kind of a trick question. Because in fact open educational resources are teaching and learning resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that allow their free use and repurposing. This license is normally referred to as the Creative Commons license. Now I would say 10 years ago when CCCOER was founded far more of OER was in the public domain. We didn't have as much of this user created educational resources that had been licensed under the Creative Commons license. So that's really what's changed in 10 years. So if you answered true or false, you were you were just fine. And here's an example. So here's some examples of what these this OER looks like. Some of you may be familiar with the really wonderful open stacks textbooks. Those are free online for students. They're available in print copies in a very affordable modest fees. And in fact, one of those textbooks, I'm showing three here, but one of them introductory statistics was actually written by a community college faculty at De Anza College, which is Dr. Barbara Alowski and there was another faculty member Susan Dean who wrote that. And at De Anza College alone in using that textbook over the last 10 years, it's gone through a number of adaptations, but it has been an open textbook for the last 10 years. They've saved their students millions of dollars. And I happen to know that some of your skyline faculty have have adopted this textbook and I'm sure it are also achieving a lot of savings for students. So really OER is any tool, material or technique, including textbooks to access knowledge freely. There's also free videos online that have a Creative Commons license, which means that you can bring them into your classroom, you can even edit them. And they're free to reuse. Lulan Learning is another company that publishes open courses. All right. So last quiz question, by what percent have textbook prices risen since 2000? Okay, and show of hands less than 50 percent. 50 to 75. Okay. Good guess. Over 80. And actually it is over 80. I think many of you have probably seen this graph before. This is a little out of date. It's from 2002 through 2012, where you can see that college textbooks increased by 82 percent in that 10-year period. They haven't decreased in the last six years. They are not accelerating at the same rate that they were in the early 2000s, but it still is a problem. And what kind of problem is it causing for our students? Well, this survey is done every other year in Florida. The last one was done in 2016, with 22,000 university and community college students. It was primarily college students, but there were university students in this. And what they found is that, and this, and I have to say this is, they're doing another one this year, but these numbers are pretty consistent year to year. They started the first one in 2010. So 67 percent of students did not purchase a required textbook at some point due to cost. 38 percent reported that they felt they earned a poor grade because of it. 20 percent reported that they failed a course because of not purchasing a textbook. And maybe even more dramatic is that 48 percent almost half reported that they occasionally or frequently took fewer courses because of the cost of textbooks. So it's clear that this is impacting students' ability to achieve their educational goals and complete in a timely manner. So how can Open Educational Resources support students and teachers in helping them to be successful? So online access on the first day of class, free online and low cost print options. And because it has that open license, faculty can adapt for students. So what does that mean? You know, for many faculty who've taught in the classroom and I myself have, the textbook's quite expensive.  When you're using an OER textbook, you use the chapters you need. They're free to students online. There's no requirement, no compulsion to cover chapters that aren't necessary simply to make it worth the student's cost. There's no requirement to change versions every few years based on the publisher's whim. You stick with it. You can update it or you can go to an updated version if you choose to do so. You can customize it. And this is really a powerful piece because you know best what your students' needs are. And many of the open textbooks have ancillaries now, PowerPoints and test banks that you can use. So I want to mention just some wonderful resources within California. The California Open Online Library was kicked off in 2014 and it continues to be updated. It was a partnership between all three systems, UC, CSU and CCC, to provide open textbooks for the top 50 courses, the top 50 transfer courses. So it has peer reviews, accessibility reviews, and it's all listed by Common Course ID. So you can look up and find a textbook and read the peer reviews from the different faculty within our system about that if you're looking for a textbook for your course. So a wonderful resource. Out of that original legislation came the Affordability Textbook Act more fondly called 8798. And these were grants that were allocated in 2016 where colleges could apply for between $10,000 and $50,000 to convert their courses to use open textbooks. 23 community colleges in California were awarded those. And the savings so far as of December of 2017 were quite impressive. The orange lines, I'm sorry, this is a little bit of an eye chart. The orange lines are the community colleges, the blue lines are the CSUs, because once again this was a partnership. And as you can see, Pasadena College exceeded $600,000 in savings in that timeframe. Butte Glenn Community College got to almost $400,000 in savings. And you can see there was great savings across the board. So now in the last year we have kicked off in California and throughout the nation, I might add, what are called OER or Z-Degrees. And these are complete pathways of courses that have been converted to use OER or zero cost materials instead of traditional textbooks. So these are faculty converting their courses to use these open educational resources. So the goals around this is to provide this complete pathway, expand access for students and equity by making it lower cost and more accessible for students. It's also going to help with degree completion, because if we go back and look at that survey, those students that had to stop out, take fewer classes will not have that problem if they're enrolled in one of these Z-Degrees. It provides faculty with a lot of different choices. It's an opportunity to enhance your pedagogy, to use all of these wonderful open educational resources and zero cost materials. And within California we're growing this repository of courses that will be available beyond the initial 23 colleges. So 23 colleges were awarded an implementation grant for the Z-Degree, including Skyline College, which is really exciting. And you can see here are the degree areas for the California grants. Child development, by the way, was the top one. There are six colleges that are working on degrees for child development. And beyond that, I think the really exciting thing here is that California had a lot of what we would call career technical education degrees slash certificates, which is unusual in the more national picture. So really looking at OER and workforce, and I'm really excited about that. I think that's a wonderful combination, is providing affordable training resources for workforce classes. And of course, respiratory care. Skyline is doing a full degree around that for the Z-Degree. And you can see that there's a number of other career related degrees as well. Kinesiology, architectural tech, biology, lab tech, precision agriculture, administration of justice. And then some wonderful gen ed business administration, communications, computer science, et cetera. And here are the colleges that are doing that. Sorry, I probably, this is an interactive map. And the colleges are all around the state from up in the top there, which is Butte College all the way down to Grossmont College in the south. But you can see a pretty nice distribution of colleges working on this work. And as I said, once again, all of the materials that are produced by this grant will have the Creative Commons license. And they will be put into the professional learning network, as well as in the California Open Online Library, which I showed you earlier. So that means that you as faculty within the community college system in California can look at those resources. You can adopt them, adapt them, bring them into your classroom as well. I wanted to just give you a really quick, a few national data points as well. So achieving the dream is the community college reform network. They work with a number of colleges in California. And of course, throughout the country, particularly with helping colleges that are working on tough issues around student completion, et cetera, student learning outcomes, a wonderful organization, and they kicked off the largest OER degree. And I use that term interchangeably, OER degree and Z degree. There are some slight differences, but they kicked off a national program just about a year before California. And they are working with 38 colleges in 13 states. So this OER degree and Z degree work is really getting a lot of national prominence. And there's a lot of promise and potential for helping our students at the community colleges to be successful. And we have two California colleges that are participating in that as well. And that's Santa Ana College in Southern California, and West Hill College, LaMoure, who are part of that program. I also wanted to give you a data point for one district in the United States. Now, this is a large district. They started adopting OER in their, at their colleges five years ago. And their goal was to save five million in five years. And they are just approaching the anniversary of their five year program. They have saved their students, as you can see, more than double their goal at 11,520,000. And they did it through creating faculty awareness, providing professional growth. There were stipends for developing new courses using OER. And very importantly, they reached out to their students and created student awareness. They did focus groups. They provided information in the student information system, which I know many of our colleges are doing right now, too, so that students could search for OER courses or low cost courses to help out with their needs. So, there's been a lot of success. There's also been some research done, which I want to share with you. So, this research that I'm going to report to you has been done by the Open Education Group. They do a lot of the open education research within the United States. And what they've done is they've aggregated 21 different peer reviewed studies of the efficacy of OER. And when I say efficacy, I mean the learning outcomes associated. So, how did students do who were in OER courses versus students who were in courses with traditional textbooks? So, it's a comparison of that sort of efficacy measure. And there were 167,000 or slightly over that students from the 21 peer reviewed studies. And 95% of the students did the same or better in an OER course versus a traditional textbook. So, we're finding that students are doing as well or better and yet they're saving so much money. And we know that student debt is such a huge issue these days. So, this is a net positive. Also, I want to talk to you about perceptions of quality, because this is often a question that comes up with OER. Is it as high a quality as the textbook that came from my publisher? And so, they took 20 peer reviewed studies of OER quality from both a faculty and student perspective. There was over 16,000 faculty and students involved. And the results came back that 55% said that the OER textbook was just about the same as the textbook publisher in terms of usability and working with their students. 35% actually said that OER textbook was better. And 10% said that it was worse. So, once again, a very promising result. Still early days, but we had a lot of different voices come into these. And finally, what we're using as a measure to look at student success for OER is an aggregate measure where we look at a combination of drop rates, withdrawal rates, and then pass rates. And this study is still fairly limited. It is from Tidewater Community College in Virginia, which is a large community college in Virginia, but is still, you know, one college. They did their study over 2014 and 16, and they found that their students performed significantly better on their course throughput rate. The students in taking an OER course than those of their peers who were in a traditional textbook class. And now, once again, this is using that throughput rate, looking at drop rates, withdrawal rates. Because we feel that we have seen evidence that students who are in classes where the textbooks available on day one and it's free, don't drop at the same rate. So, they have a higher persistence rate. So, if we look at that aggregate measure, it's very promising. All right. And that was published in a peer review journal as well. All right. That's all I really had today. I just wanted to mention to you that there's a there's a big community out there. CCCOER has a community email list. Bianca's on it. Quite a number of people from Skyline College are on it. We'd love to have you on it. We do monthly webinars featuring OER experts and practitioners in the field. We often have folks from California talking about their work. And if you're interested in finding out more about this, it's free to join. You just go to our website under community email and sign up. And there's some wonderful conferences to attend. Of course, there's a global international conference that's put on by my parent organization, which is the Open Education Consortium. And it's in different countries every year. This year it's in the Netherlands. So, it'll be a wonderful celebration of open ed. The Open Education Conference, though, is a national conference held in the U.S. generally, sometimes in Canada. But this year it is in October and it will be in upstate New York. And it's a wonderful three days of hearing about all of the projects going on around the world. And there's a, sorry, around the country primarily. And there's a very heavy community college attendance. So, you'll get a chance to see it from both sides of the aisle, so to speak. By the way, all of our webinars, our monthly webinars are archived and they're available if you want to check those out. They're up on our website. So, I encourage you to join in the conversation, participate with CCCOER, and check out our online resources. And now I'm open for questions if we still have time. Thank you. Do you mind if I give you a mic so I can hear you? Okay. So, there's been one question. So, I'm going to walk the mic over. Alrighty. Thank you for the talk and the information. I have a question, so now the OER is very useful and helpful for the students. But now I realize on Amazon or some other websites also have such as WET. And then I realized for some textbooks, it costs like a hundred and maybe two hundred dollars. If you rent it, it's only $19 for a semester. I just wonder if this will be another, if this will be another, I'm not going to say competitive, but which way you think will be the better way for students? Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you for that question. So, yes, Amazon and some of the other online vendors have been providing rental programs. Now, one thing that you want to keep in mind is students may in fact want to keep the textbook beyond the time of the course. And often these online, they're digital rentals and they're good for a semester or so. And unfortunately, as I think those of you who teach with online homework systems with your students as well, the commercial ones, students have access for a semester. Now, if a student fails a course, they no longer have access to the materials. They have to repurchase it. So, and that would be true with the rental. If they fail the course and have to retake it, they would have to re-rent the textbook. So, OER is available online for free. It's available to them indefinitely. Generally, you can download it. The student can also print it themselves. So, it is one of the principles of open education is that you can retain the resource indefinitely. So, from a student perspective, I think the OER offers quite a bit more. But there may be some cases where there isn't an OER textbook and perhaps a rental will be the best other option. So, thank you for the question. It's a good one. Thanks. I have another one is, I just handed it to Ramona and then I just turned it off. Should we come back to you? Yeah. Okay. Anyone else out there? Thank you for your talk. My question is, sorry, your peer review studies show that only 10% of students reported OER texts were worse for their learning. I was looking at peer review studies last night reading comprehension with digital texts and just quoting from another peer review study. Main findings show that students who read texts in print scored significantly better on their reading comprehension than students who read texts digitally. So, in my classes and most of my readings are digital, we talk about this and I have them write things in a notebook and sort of get over this not being able to remember what they read digitally. So, do you have any suggestions or did you want to? Yeah. Thank you for that question. It's an excellent question and I really think it's a faculty choice. OER by its nature, well, I would say really all educational materials these days are created digitally, but how you deliver them to students is entirely, I believe, a faculty choice and so many of these textbooks are available in print form as well and students can print individual pages. So, absolutely you should, as a faculty member, make that decision. Now, if the materials you're using aren't available in a low-cost print option, so occasionally some resources may not be, you may want to look at using either your print center on campus might be an option or there are some online sites like lulu.com and I know that Bianca I'm sure could help you with this, but where you can post a PDF and students can get very inexpensive print copies through that site and you simply post the PDF for free up there and then students can go up there and order one, but for a very inexpensive, you know, we're talking like $10 kind of things. But, you know, once again, I think whether you deliver to students in a digital format or print or both, even optimally to make it available to students who, you know, maybe for some reason are print disabled and need the digital. So, I think that's really a faculty choice and then working with your Center for Teaching and Learning and making sure that you can provide the proper resources for your students. So, thank you for that question. Thanks. I'm back again. So, my question is when you, when students register online for the online source, they have to open up the right or they can just click the class and then go. Well, yeah. So, it, you know, it really depends on, I'm going to assume that you're talking about textbooks. So, open textbooks. Yeah, open textbooks, how they access, they have to have their own account and then they put their personal information in there, like the name. Yeah, actually that's, you know, so the main open textbook publisher is OpenStacks. It offers between 25 to 30 very high quality open textbooks. Students can download directly from there. They do not have to create an account. Faculty can create an account on OpenStacks if they want to be able to receive the teacher resources. So, you know, I mentioned to you those test banks and those PowerPoints. If you want to be able to get ahold of those to teach your course, you need to register as a faculty member because OpenStacks doesn't give those away to students. They don't really want the test banks posted on the internet. So, but students can download directly. What many faculty do though actually is they download it and they put it into the LMS for their students if you're using an LMS, but you can also direct the students directly to the website and they don't have to create an account on OpenStacks or enter any private information. They can simply read directly from the website or they can download a PDF and read it on their desktop. Okay, thanks. Thank you for your presentation. I was interested in this movement and its relationship to publishing companies. And since you've been around so long, I thought maybe you could just comment on that. That's working or not with publishing companies. I'm not sure what your question is exactly. How are publishing companies reacting to this? Is that the question? Yeah, exactly.  If you look at their revenues, they've been down. Open Educational Resource is really only a part of it. But it's simply that, you know, if you look at the photo industry and what happened with film, that's really what's happening with textbooks. And now a number of publishers are looking at embracing Open Educational Resources because an open license also allows them to reuse those materials. And there's nothing in the license that prevents that if you use the standard license. So you have to be a little careful when the publishers get involved in open education. But we're, you know, we're looking at these different business models. They're looking at providing additional services beyond the open content. So they're taking open stacks textbooks, content like that. And they're wrapping it around their services. So, you know, obviously they have a business to run. So you, I would say it's early days in that the publishers, you know, if you'd asked me this question five years ago, the publishers were ranting and raving about OER and talking about how poor the quality was and how terrible students were going to be doing if they used, if faculty used OER in their classrooms. Well, we've got the data that says otherwise now. So they kind of changed their tune and said, oh, okay, well, maybe we can play this game too. So I'd say that the jury's out. I would encourage you to be skeptical about the promises of publishers and being open. But I wouldn't discount it. You know, there may be, we just have to wait and see what emerges. So thanks for that question. Is it real quick or because we got to move on to our panel discussion? It's not quick. Okay, so let's just stop. Thank you for her presentation and thank you. Well, thank you so much for letting me join you this morning. And my email address is on there. So if any questions come up afterwards, please feel free to email me and I'd love to talk some more. All right, well, thank you again. You're welcome. Have a great day, everyone.


What's up guys welcome to today's vlog today we're gonna do a shorter haircut in the pixie family it's not really a pixie cut definitely more of just a short haircut long bang and we're gonna do is we're gonna go in I got the Mizitani type Z dual texture scissor this is a texture scissor that I love using it's got texturizing blades on both sides so it's a really cool scissor and I want to use that for all my texturizing at the very end of this cut so thank you guys are always asking for shorter cuts you're always asking to use the texturizing scissor so I'm gonna show you guys some cool techniques to go along with that so I hope you guys like the video let me know in the comments below and if you haven't subscribed to this channel yet make sure you hit the subscribe button right now so you don't forget and you see all of our upcoming videos coming soon so hope you enjoy let's get started okay so we're gonna start off with the most important part of cutting hair which is sectioning off the head and what I'm gonna do is separate the top and the bottom whether this was a short cut a long cut it doesn't matter you want to make sure that you're always sectioning off your work keeping it organized so that you stay nice and consistent throughout the cut with the goal that you had in mind my goal here is to have a disconnected top so I section off the top I go right along the pridal ridge all the way back to mid crown that gives me a nice rectangle on the top of the head then I separate the front and the back at the division line the division line I really just feel the head shape I feel where it starts to curve back that's where I make my parting in this case it was right behind the ear and then I go directly down vertical parting down center back and then section off horizontal sections from there what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take a two inch portion in my fingers horizontally now cutting a pixie cut horizontal might seem kind of weird but what I wanted to do was really create a strong shape in the back and stay consistent and also push myself to work horizontally because I think if you push yourself to cut vertically and horizontally just as well you're gonna be a more rounded hairdresser because you're looking at the hair at all different angles horizontal is thinking about it one way vertical is thinking about it the opposite way so as I go through here I over direct the top that first section pinch it together what that does gives me kind of a fringy feel in the very back of the head shape and then I start working up nice small horizontal sections so as I go around the round of the head I need to make sure that I'm following the head shape and I'm not letting my hand drop because what that's gonna do is create too much weight and then I end up with those lines throughout the haircut so I want to create a seamless feel the only way you could create a seamless feel and a cut like this cutting it horizontal is to stay consistent with your elevation so really focus on how high you're elevating the hair make sure it's 90 degrees out from the head and then as I start to work up that crown portion of the head shape then I'll drop my elevation below 90 just to start to build up a little bit of weight as I work through the other key thing that I want you guys to look at here is the fact that we're working around the head shape so I'm not over directing everything back when you see the overhead view you'll see that I'm following the head shape around because I want to keep consistent length around the head shape as I'm working if I brought everything straight back to me the entire way see how I'm curving around the curve there if I brought everything straight back to me what I would do is I push a ton of length to the front and that would be more of a triangular feel or just pushing that extra weight towards the face and I don't want to do that in this cut I want to keep a consistent length around and continue that length into the side of the haircut so now notice my elevation drop throughout the back so that I didn't go straight up from the crown I wanted to bring down that elevation that's going to keep the head shape and keep the proportions of the head shape nice so I just work my way through that way now you can get a good look at how I pinch that hair together and that fringy look that it gives it because I'm over directing the bottom nape area up to my section it pushes a little bit of that length down which will give me some hair to play with once it's it's dry and we start doing some of that detail work so same thing on this side working my way around the head shape horizontal partings clipping everything away just keeping everything nice and clean I think this is the key thing for you guys to really focus on is each section should be nice and clean consistently the same size and then as you work through it you can see I'm working around the curve of the head there keeping a consistent length and just working that's going to create more rounded layers throughout it so if you look at shape and you look at elevation I was taught that shape has everything to do with your hands horizontally so because I'm rounding the head that's giving me a round feel to the haircut but then the elevation it has everything to do with how much weight you're keeping or removing so I'm keeping everything at a 90-degree point until I get up to the crown because I want seamless layering in the haircut but I'm following the round of the head horizontally because I want a rounded haircut so if I want a round layered haircut that's how I'm going to work through it so same thing here watch my elevation now because it will start to drop the reason for that is at the bottom of the crown is where I want my weight line to sit if you have somebody with even thicker hair than this if they have more of a really heavy density then you might elevate the hair a little bit longer then drop it right at the last minute so it's really hair cutting to me is kind of a dance in a way that you're working your way to a point and you're really passing that weight on as you work up the head so now I'm going to blow dry the back this is something technique that I like to do a lot with short hair is really finish the section that I was just working on because if I polish it out I can really see it make sure the length is exactly where I want it I can work out any of those calyx then I'll go through this is my blacksmith fit six and a half inch scissor it's a longer scissor than I was just using I was just using a five and a half inch type K so this is the six and a half inch blacksmith fit it's got a longer blade so it's a nice blade to go through and create a little scissor over comb cross-check work so I was just cross-checking going through there dusting the ends it's not even really a cross check because I went through horizontally but just dusting the ends making sure everything is flowing nice through there so now we're going to work diagonal forward and diagonal forward I can actually see my guide coming through sorry guys I only got the overhead view on this but I think it's actually a good view point of view for what we're doing so just diagonal forward partings working my way across the head shape again think about it this way so if I'm working if I was working horizontally across this you'd have a nice even line that follows all the way around to the face so even though I'm working vertically I'm still taking small sections directing them straight out from the head to create seamless layers as well and also around shape because we're following the round of the head it's just we're working vertically so we're working more with elevation same thing on the opposite side biggest difference here is that my fingers are pointing down we have a golden rule that your thumb should always be pointing in the direction you're moving so because I'm moving to the right my thumb is pointed to the right so that just allows me to have consistent combing if you think about how I was combing the hair on the opposite side I was combing it away from the face towards the guideline so in this same thing I'm combing it away from the face towards the guideline hopefully I got that right I'm not really sure but I'm combing everything very consistent throughout the head I'm working back with my type K this is a five and a half inch scissor anytime I'm working precision I like to work with a shorter scissor because the blade is stronger now I'm also going through an elevating just that top edge on the round of the head because I tend to lose a little tension when I go through and cut you can see that the very top of that section is in between my fingers that's where I lose tension a little bit so I like to go in and just soften it with a little point cutting right around that round of the head so now we're going to connect the top this is really what makes this haircut so everything for the most part that we've cut so far is very consistent cut with the round of the head cut with 90 degree elevation for the most part now we're going to go through create more of a rooftop kind of triangular feel on the very top of the head so I'm going to over direct everything connecting that point to the side of the hair so we take a guideline from the side and then I just draw a line straight up to create that point so now I'm going to work my way across the top of the head until I get to about three inches away from the front and then I'm going to start to over direct everything straight back and the reason I'm going to do that is I'm it's again kind of like a dance so I work three sections up I kind of walk my way up to the front keeping consistent layering throughout that then I decide at that point as I'm going to go around that round of the head I want to push extra weight to the front so I start over directing everything back so you can see that happening there same thing here now I've got something to connect it to so I grab a piece from the side and I grab a piece from the top and just connect those the reason I'm doing a point cutting technique is point cutting gives you more of a jagged edge so not as much weight line build up so that's I'm really just trying to create texture and soft softer feel on the top of the head that's going to come through in the end result when we start really polishing it out I'm going to use my texturizing scissors as well so there's a lot of things that are going to go into creating texture on this we didn't need those nice hard solid lines on there so this is that front part that I'm just going to over direct to the center of the head we could call it the high point apex part of the head I don't want to over direct it all the way back over mid crown if I did that would be way too long in the front you're already going to see that there's a lot of length up there but we've got nice short layers working through on the top so we're going to use our brocato mousse this is a really light mousse I like it it's got a medium hold and it's very conditioning so I like using that in the hair it doesn't make the hair crunchy or hard so we're going to work that through the head and then I'm going to do a blow dry flat wrap so you're really going to notice me using that nozzle to blow the air over top of the cuticle of the hair adding a lot of shine I think a lot of people and this is just an assumption but I think a lot of people with short hair would just do a quick blow dry just to get it done and then they would add product in there what you're doing is you're taking out all the shine if you do it that way if you do like a power dry so what I'm doing is I'm polishing the hair from the scalp to mid shaft really working that air over top of the cuticle laying the cuticle down and adding that shine then what I'm going to do is use my brocato vibra straight iron that's going to go over the ends but before I do that I want to use hot shapes this is a cloud nine product from brocato and let's talk about heat protectant for a second what I do is I spray that in it's a wet based heat protectant the reason I like that is if you think about it when you spray something dry on dry hair if it's a dry protectant spray there's nothing wrong with it it's great but it doesn't really penetrate into the hair so wet products are going to actually go in there so what I do is I spray the wet heat protectant on there I hit it with the blow dryer a little bit then I polish through and iron the ends then you don't get damage on your hair now we're using our type z dual texture scissor the breakdown of this tool that I love so much is that because both blades are texturizers there's no pull in the hair whatsoever so I go through create that texture you'll see that I'm over directing everything to my side and then it's actually going to be worn on the opposite side so what you want to do is over direct everything over cut through mid shaft to ends to just lighten up the front of the fringe and then I'm going to do the same thing point cutting dragging that texture scissor through the hair but not getting any pull because of the type z dual texture aspects of it so now you can see all that texture I go through I do one more quick little flat wrap what this does is gets all the loose hairs out of the head and now I'm going to go in with joyco matte grip this product has a lot more hold than I thought it would so it was cool it smells great it's probably the best smelling product I have here I put it through the hair and then once I got it into the hair I noticed I left it in my hands a little too long so what I did was I brushed through the product into the hair I put a little bit more product on my hands just to have it go in the hair a little more of a wet application so the longer it stays in your hands the drier it gets and the stickier it gets which is great for people that want that hold you just need to make sure that you go right into the hair with it and then you can start molding don't wait so you can see I'm working with that fringy area in the nape adding a little bit of product to that I love the way the fringe kind of comes over but has a lot of texture to it so I think you guys will be able to utilize that technique for sure let me know if you have any questions in the comments below I'd love to answer those but we're just going to finish it off I got broccato's firmhold hair spray just to give me that finishing touch and then we'll give it a spin for you you can see all the texture in it but also that expansion where we dropped our elevation in the back pretty cool so hope you guys like it let me know again in the comments below so I hope you guys enjoyed the video definitely let me know in the comments below if you have any questions also hit that like button share this video with your friends and if you're not a hairdresser but you were inspired by this cut you 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Hey, welcome back to Retro Tech. We do a ton of unboxings on this channel, mostly of CRTs. And the major reason behind this is to prove to you that there's really no consistency when it comes to ordering a CRT off the internet. I think I've proven many times that you never know what you're gonna get when you open the box. Sometimes you get the wrong monitor. Sometimes you get a destroyed monitor. Sometimes you get good packing. Sometimes you get terrible packing. And you never really can tell what you're gonna get no matter how much you try to communicate with an eBay seller. But today's PVM was shipped to me in a nice box that was bought off eBay. And the price was about $400. And that seems like a pretty good deal, especially considering that it was listed as fully working and tested. All right, let's get into this unboxing and I'm gonna try to help you understand why eBay is a terrible place to try to buy CRTs. Well, look at this box. Oh, what a wonderful box. What could be contained in such a sexy, glorious piece of cardboard? Surely we must find out. Oh, don't wanna show you that. Please, Andre. Enough with the suspense. Let's see what's inside this beautiful box. Let's see what kind of travesty packing job is inside this box. Oh my. Power cable. Oh me, oh my. What have we got here? So this is all giant foam pieces. Expandable foam, wonderful. Hey, that's interesting. I have never seen one of these packed completely in that expandable foam like that. It's not gonna be easy to get that out of there. Look at that. It looks like the bag just exploded the foam out all over the place. So the monitor surely is fine if I can get it out of here. Oh, oh my gosh. Oh man, I really don't know that I can get this thing out. Seriously, seriously. How the hell do you get this out of here? Oh my gosh.  I'm gonna have to split the box in half at the seam line over here and cut it out. What in the world? I have never seen a pack like this, a CRT pack. A CRT pack. Goodness gracious, this stuff. I'm gonna have to go down to the city dump to get rid of this thing. I might have done it right there. Let's see, it's too bad. I really thought that was a good quality box. It's been ruined.  Oh my goodness. Oh man, the shipping monster, you know? Goodness gracious. Solid piece of foam right there in the shape of a PVM. Let's look here at our PVM. That's right, it's a PVM in the mail. The most important thing is does it work? And is everything else in good sound shape? Everything on the tube looks to be solid. Nobs are okay, knobby. Here's a real quick look at this box and this foam again. So we do have a double wall box, which is very nice. Now this company is a reseller of all kinds of electronics equipment, so they apparently know what they're doing. I'll give them that. There's no way that this probably could have been damaged. I mean, I guess there is always a way, but this would have been very hard to damage. Look at this, there's a good, I'd say five or six inches here of just solid foam. Now I say solid, but it does give a little bit, so that's the good thing as the CRT bounces around inside this box. It does have the ability to take some soft impacts and not affect it, hopefully, but we're yet to see and we're gonna go inside now and test the monitor. So this is our PVM. We have here a 14M2U model. This is a North American model produced in July of 1997 by Sony Corporation in Japan. This is a very early model number, one of the first few, well, 5200 probably off the production line. And we have a one amp rating for power. Down here, this wonderful monitor has a great set of inputs. Of course, you've got line A and B, which are set out to be composite video. And then mono audio line C is of course S video, but for the best experience, we're gonna go for RGB and sync and audio. And yes, you can stick both your stereo audio inputs into even the outlet on here and it will actually read that audio from the outlet safely the way that these PVMs are designed, believe it or not. Anyway, we're gonna test RGB and we're gonna flip it around here and hopefully we can get a good test going. And let's just see what happens. The first time I've turned this on since it's been unboxed, I can hear the CRT powering on. You'll notice our remote tally light down here is illuminated and that's something we don't normally want. So all right, we've got no sync. Off, okay, there we go. So to get that remote off, we need to do menu, then go to user config, hit enter, go down to user preset and make sure that's turned to off because if it's turned on, that'll turn that remote setting on. They'll be locked out of what you're able to adjust on here. All right, so let's go ahead now and we'll select our RGB inputs. Whoa, okay. There we go. Oh, perfect. Look at this. We've got some major discoloration on this tube. So it's a good thing it came to this shop and not somebody else on eBay because if we just normally degauss that, it's not strong enough to get rid of this. It's definitely an issue here. We're gonna set up and take care of. So check this out. You can see these intense spots of discoloration and what has caused that is magnetism, external magnetism actually. It's affected this tube and it's got the, you know, phosphors in the wrong position and stuff. So what we need to do is we need to get this balance back out and really the only way to do that was is going to be with an external degausser, which I've shown before on this channel. So I'm gonna get set up right now and we're gonna run through that process real quickly here and hopefully we can clear up this because this is almost like pretty much unusable in its current state. Check it out. There's a big patch of green here in the center. Some blue up here, some blue down here and then an intense blue pattern over here. And this is our red screen. If I change it to green, those colors kind of get a little inverted and then blue, same thing. We have the issues again there. So hopefully that will be the only thing that's really the problem on here. And even on white, you can tell that it just gets all meshed together and looks pretty nasty. So anyway, we're gonna get set up. We're gonna do this repair with the degaussing coil. All right, so according to eBay sellers, a good tested PVM can include things like bad screen purity, awful magnetism problems and even a remote mode that locks out half of the service menu. Way to go eBay seller. All right, we've got our big beefy degaussing coil and it's gonna be something that we can run for a minute and then we have to let it rest for 30 minutes. So we can't do this a bunch in one time. It generates an excessive amount of heat and just a layer of magnetism that will help disrupt the bad patterns and help us clear it up. So I'm gonna run through that pattern right now. I'm hoping that the red still can show these great color disruptions in here and that this degaussing coil will clear them up. So let's see right now. I'm gonna just go ahead and start with this process and we're gonna start by kind of getting closer to the screen like that. And then you should see some heavy discoloration as I run that. See how you can see red, green and blue there, I hope on the screen.  So I'm gonna do that and then I'm gonna slowly expand the size of that circle and come towards or away from the screen, away from the screen in larger circles and then I'm just gonna cut it off and check that out, folks. That is crystal clear right there. I see no more issues with anything. We're just 100% red. Let's quickly cycle through these other colors and see how they look. Green is solid, blue is solid. And of course that means that our white is solid even though you can't see it very well on the screen. There you go. I'll give it a regular degauss and now this thing is ready to use. So again, this is just another example of why eBay is the wrong place to go and buy a CRT if you don't have to. Now, if you do have to use eBay, it's always gonna be better to try to have patience and wait for something that is gonna be locally available or at least a couple of hours driving distance from you. That way if you have an issue, you can just leave the PVM behind and requested eBay return right away. Also that's gonna get rid of your chances of having some of the damage in shipment or something happen like magnetism change along that route. The other thing is, is if you are buying a PVM on eBay, you need to be prepared that it's gonna need some level of servicing. It's not gonna come into you in some great, wonderful condition unless it's already been serviced and it's professionally transported to you. There's all kinds of things that can happen to these PVMs over the years. Many of them have components in them well over 20 years old and it doesn't matter how good you took care of it, those components will eventually wear out and fail. That's gonna do it for today's video. Let me know what you think. Are you still gonna try to buy PVMs from eBay? Well, you know, I'm pretty ignorant so I will definitely keep buying them from eBay but hopefully I can show you that it might not be the best decision for you if you're not prepared to have kind of a little bit of a trouble along the way. Thanks again. I'll see you next time with some more retro content.


Hello, this is Laptop Media, and today, we will show you how to open the HP Pavilion X 360 14 and what's inside of it. Unsurprisingly, HP has decided to hide half of its screws beneath the back feet. However, there are only four Philips head screws in total, including the hidden ones. Traditionally, you need to pry the bottom panel after you remove the screws, and the easiest way to start is from around the hinges. In terms of cooling, we have two heat pipes, managing the temperature of both the CPU and the GPU. As of the upgradeability, there are two RAM Sodom slots. They work in dual-channel mode and support up to 16GB of DDR4 memory in total. Storage-wise, you get one M.2 NVMe slot and one 2.5-inch SATA slot. Sadly, the battery here is not very impressive, as it is rated at 41Wh. If you'd like to see more disassembly videos of the latest notebooks we would highly appreciate if you hit the like button and subscribe to the channel.


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Hello everybody! In this video, I'll show you my top 10 list of new Gmail features. If you use Gmail for all your email connections, this video will certainly get you interested, because I'm going to tell you about the new opportunities brought by this email service. In fact, they have been added in late March this year, so let's find out about the new features we can enjoy now. The first thing I'd like to draw your attention to is Google Sidebar. The latest version of Gmail includes a side panel along the right side of the screen. It can host a number of third-party apps as well as classic Google features like Calendar, Google Keep, Tuts and others. To get more apps, click the Get Add-on button fashioned like a plus sign to open a pop-up panel. It will list the applications fully compatible and ready to use with a Gmail service. The main idea behind it is that users could do various tasks in a more organized way without interrupting their work to switch from the Gmail tab to another tab. Regardless of what you want to do, add an event to your calendar, a note for a specific contact or email client, or update your list of origin tasks, each of the functions you added to the side panel will always be visible. Another feature is the confidential mode for emails. It could be the most unexpected add-on to the variety of functions that Gmail already has. With this mode, you can enable specific security settings, set expiration date for accessing the letter, and even configure when it self-destructs before such days, with manual settings. When removed, the email will disappear without trace from the recipient's mailbox. The confidential mode is not limited to the self-destruct function for emails. The sender can add two-factor authentication so the recipient will have to enter a passcode received by SMS to their connected phone number or a confirmed email address. This mode also ensures that the recipient will not be able to forward, copy, print or download this email. However, it seems likely that the confidential mode cannot guarantee absolute email protection against screenshots, malware or virus attacks intending to copy the email contents and attached files. Anyway, this mode seems to be designed for sending sensitive business information. Enabling the passcode for two-factor authentication should be a very sound security setting if you are afraid the recipient's account may have been hacked or is just dangerous. It is quite easy to enable the confidential mode for an email. Open Gmail and click Compose in the upper left corner of the screen. In the New Message window that appears, type the text of your email and click on the bottom Turn Confidential Mode on or off, shown as a clock on a tiny lock. In the Confidential Mode window, select the settings you prefer and click Save. Another new feature is working with your emails offline. Now, you can search the inbox folder or type a new email even if there is no internet connection. Of course, the main actions related to sending or receiving new emails will be unavailable, but with the Gmail offline function in it, you will be able to do all other things without any limitations. So now, even if you don't have an internet connection at the moment, you can view the previously received emails, write a reply or compose a new email and send it. As soon as your computer establishes an internet connection, the email will be sent. By default, this function is disabled. To enable it, open Gmail, click on the gear saving button over the list of emails and select Settings from the menu that appears. Click on the tab offline and check the box next to Offline Email. And then finish it by pressing Save Changes. To disable this function, follow the same steps and uncheck the corresponding box. Another novelty is showing inline action buttons when you put the cursor over a specific email. In the old days, you had to open every email if you needed to remove it or archive it or do any other additional actions such as snoozing or marking it. But today, with a new functionality, just position the cursor over an email and the several inline action buttons will appear instantly in the subject line of this email. The clock-shaped button allows to postpone reading a specific email. Clicking it makes the email disappear from your inbox folder to reappear after sometime. Such invisibility period for an email can be later today, tomorrow, later this week, this weekend or next week. Just click on the clock button and then select the option from the list. If you want to select specific time for snoozing an email, click on Pick date and time and set all the details. Then finish it by clicking Save. One more new feature is Display Density. This function enables users to change the appearance of the inbox folder. There are three options – Default, Comfortable and Compact. With Comfortable, you will see less emails in one screen but with more empty space between the incoming messages. The Compact format lets you fit more emails into one screen, but this way they look sort of cramped and generally not too attractive. The third variant, Default, tries to strike a balance between the previous two. How could Gmail do without a dedicated feature to remind you about emails left without answer? It wouldn't be a Google product, then. Enabling this node suggests prioritizing certain emails and receiving system messages about specific emails to have a look at. The Gmail service will move important emails to the upper part of the screen. It will also inform you that one of the emails you sent has not been answered yet. So you will not forget about it and can take some follow-up action to make sure the recipient will respond to it. Alternatively, if there is any mail you received but haven't answered yet, it will ask you if you maybe want to send a reply. If applied properly, this feature, known as Nudge Mode, will only work when necessary to make sure that you don't lose track of really important emails among all this stuff in your inbox folder. If it distracts you too much? Well, the Nudge Mode can be disabled easily. In the Settings page, scroll down General tab until you find Nudges, and then uncheck the box next to Suggest emails to reply to and Suggest emails to follow up on. The next feature to impress you is clickable attachments within Gmail. Now, users can view and download email attachments right from the home screen of the email application. I mean Microsoft Word documents, PDF, or JPG files. Responding to necessary mail and its attachments will be shown under the subject line as clickable buttons. Here is one important thing to remember. The clickable buttons for attachments are not supported in comfortable or compact modes of display density and are only available in the default mode. Another useful feature is notifications for important emails only. With this new function, you will only see notifications about the most important emails or, to be exact, the ones that Google thinks are important. Well, after all, most of us will have to rely on Google's algorithms in deciding which email is important enough to deserve a notification. However, if you have a good list of trusted addresses, this function will help you greatly in filtering not-so-important emails. Easy Unsubscribe This function is meant for convenience rather than for security. The matter is that many websites send out newsletters, but unsubscribing them from them is something that most users have difficulty with. Usually, it means you need to visit a specific website and grope your way through its interface to find the magic button. The new email feature will help you unsubscribe from annoying newsletters you don't feel interested in. This way, you can unsubscribe from several newsletters coming from different websites and do it virtually in a few clicks. This one is really convenient, you know? To enable it, open an incoming email from a center you would like to unsubscribe from. Find the unsubscribe text link and click on it, then click Unsubscribe again. This is a small improvement, but with great potential for making your inbox cleaner and free from those nasty ads. Finally, the spam warning feature In the old versions of Gmail, warnings about potentially harmful emails were shown in the upper part of the screen. Now, such notifications have become bigger and contain more information. Gmail automatically sends suspicious emails to the spam folder, and the emails you have labeled manually as spam will also end up there. Above every email in this folder, you can see an explanation why it was classified as spam. The warnings are weighted by color in a way that's very easy to understand. If the notification is gray, this email is unlikely to be harmful. If Gmail believes it is dangerous, the notification becomes red. It means the sender may try to harm your device or steal your personal data. Summing up, using all these new features in Gmail will help you save your precious time, improve performance and protect your data from hostile actions. And that's all for today. I hope you find this video useful. Don't forget to hit the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave comments to ask questions and share your opinion about this topic. Thank you for watching and good luck.