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And welcome to Oi Week Live. I'm your host Alan Levine and I've already messed up the broadcast stream three times. And so that happens here when we go live and that's sort of the reality of the show. But anyhow, we've been doing these all week long. Initially, I hope to do some things to get people like, hey, coming up in the next couple of hours we have this thing and over here people are talking about chat GPT but everybody knows what's going on but everybody can find the schedule. So I wanna get quicker to the people we have in the studio because that's been the best part of this is these informal conversations about the projects people are working on and things they are doing. So with that, I'm gonna start bringing my friends into the studio and I have to say this is our last show and I saved the best people for last. How did that happen? Well, we'll see. So I'm gonna start bringing our guests onto the stream and that way they'll be able to talk and wave hello and hello, everybody. Hey there. Are you ready for something crazy? Yeah, always. Sure, okay. I don't have anything specifically in mind but I really wanna thank everybody for being willing to come in here and do an unstructured format. I know sometimes that makes people nervous but really I just, I feel like we don't always have enough time for kind of unstructured conversations because we're all so busy. So I'm gonna ask some folks just to like do a quick hello tell us where in the world you're from and what's the thing you're most excited about right now or you can just talk about the weather. So anybody wanna go first? I'll call on people if- Okay, I can go first. I can always talk to you ma'am, huh? Let's introduce ourselves and say what we're most excited about. Yeah, yeah. All right, so I'm Lavelli. I am a professor of practice. The American University of Cairo is Center for Learning and Teaching so my main job is as an educational developer and I am very excited about a lot of things because I get excited about a lot of things. I guess the most exciting thing that's happening next week is that two of my students and one of my research assistants and I are doing a Futurize Your Course type of thing where we're talking about what would my course look like 20 years from now and we're gonna meet on Sunday to finalize that. So I'm excited to imagine what my course would be like in the future, inshallah. That's really brilliant. And it's so great to have you here, ma'am. We don't get enough time to hang out but I know we will make ways for that to happen. And like just talking about ma'am she's on YouTube now as well. She's like in two places at once. She's like facilitating the conversations and practicing that hospital equity that equity unbound intentionally creates. So thank you so much. So I'm just gonna call on people. So I really wanna welcome. This is excited to have Bukhola James come to us who just signed up for my forum without even knowing what she was getting into. So welcome, Bukhola. Hi, Alan and everyone. Thank you for inviting me to this session. So my name is Bukhola James and I'm joining from Nigeria. And yeah, the time currently is after past 5 p.m. Yes. And I'm a satisfied trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the classroom program. I joined the Wikimedia community in 2020 during the lockdown. And so far it has really like inspired me to learn a whole lot of things within the short time that I've joined the community. And yes, sorry, I forgot to tell you that I'm a graduate of Library Information Science and I'm also a special advisor for the Wikipedia Plus Education User Group. And yes, we've been doing a whole lot and something that stood out for me this week was that I had the opportunity to go over what many people have been doing in the open community. Like before now, I had also followed what Alan has been doing for the live TV show and I've seen series of very interesting sessions that he had held with some other presenters before today. So thank you so much. I'm so very honored to be on this session. Thank you. And yes, forgive me that my background is not really bright. Yes. Sorry about that. No need to apologize. I was just so excited to see you sign up on the forum. And I just have to say after a podcast with some librarians, including one in the Ukraine who came to us from the Ukraine, like I always thought highly of librarians but like every time I interact with them, it escalates. So thank you so much, Bukola. And now let's say I'm spinning the magical dice here of who's gonna be next. Who's just, I'll call my good friend colleague Mia Zamora. Hi Mia, it's a nice to see you. It's feeling I'd be next. Am I that predictable? No, no, I think it has to do with a little like chemistry or something. Okay. Anyway, it's great to see everyone. And Bukola, I'm so glad to meet you. The rest of the team here I've worked with in one capacity or another, but Bukola, I just love meeting new friends. So I'm glad to have a connection with you now. Okay, so I'm Mia Zamora. I'm based in New Jersey where I teach literature and writing. I'm a co-founder of Equity Unbound which is a wonderful network of people who care about learning in the open. And what am I excited about? I was thinking about that for a second or two. A couple of things. I'm teaching this course right now which really delves right into the whole question of technology and writing because I'm a writing professor. So we're thinking a lot about artificial intelligence and natural language processing and the direction that that's taking writers in both professionally and in the context of learning and education. But I think what I'm excited about most is that the is the core of the spirit of the course which is it's the human nature of writing. So that leads me to my comment about what I'm excited about which is this kind of moment that's opening up I think in many discussions for centering humanism as a critical aspect of what we do when we learn and we love and we connect with other people in a way that's meaningful. So anyway, that's it. And then the other quick thing I wanted to say which is a little bit more like a snapshot about life is I'm planning on traveling for the first time overseas since the time of the lockdown of the pandemic. And so my family and I are going to Portugal because I'm presenting a paper in Portugal this summer. So I'm really excited to eat like fresh sardines in Lisbon. That's what I wanted to say. That's fantastic. And yeah, AI, maybe we'll talk about that. That's a popular topic now, right? It hasn't come up. Not at all. Not at all. So this leads like on many levels of connections I'm gonna bring on Karen Cangliosi because there's a lot of things. You just got back from Portugal and you're talking about membership and Mia Kane University just joined OE Global as a membership. What's the synchronicity there? And well, first of all, say hello. Okay, hi. Thank you, Alan. I know there's so many things that I would like spark things that I want to talk about and I'll try to do it quickly. So I'm Karen Cangliosi. I currently reside in Western Massachusetts, Northampton, Massachusetts here and I'm the director of membership for OE Global. And yeah, I'm excited about a lot of things. I've done a lot of travel just over the last three weeks, just the trips that I needed to do just all ended up back to back. And so Portugal was one of them and I definitely recommend eating the fresh sardines and all their other wonderful food that they have. But as most recently I was in Hawaii for the Hawaii Student Success Institute and that was really fabulous. Like talk about a passionate group of educators, Wade Oshiro in particular who is at Leeward Community College. He's just amazing. And all of the folks working there within the Hawaii Community College system including Sunny Pie, super fabulous. And then I went from Hawaii to Miami. I know it's crazy. And working with the Leadership Institute for Rios which is the Institute for Racially Just, Inclusive and OpenSTAM that's riosinstitute.org I should have put a link up there somewhere. And we're doing so many exciting things including working on a paper about open science and how open science integrates in with open STEM education. I'm super excited about that. And of course I'm here to also talk about the membership drive for OE Global which I'm equally excited about. So so many things going on. And I could talk more about that as I wanted to give other people a chance to talk. Thank you so much, Karen. And so speaking of best for last, hello Ursa. Thanks, Alan. That's hilarious. Do I lay it on too thick? Perhaps, just a little. It's all good. I was thinking about sardines and I was like, I know, no, just know. I'm not gonna do that. But I encourage and support everyone who does. My name is Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh. I tend to go by Rissa because I was Rissa Kim on Twitter for many years, but I'm not anymore. And I teach chemistry statistics at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque. And I am excited. What am I excited about? I am excited that it's, I'm gonna be really like in the present and be like, I'm really excited that it's Friday. It's the weekend. And then, you know, it's, or it's going to be the weekend. And it is just really nice to have some time to think about being in nature and eat good food and sleep late, you know? I mean, that's where I am right now. And also my fest, which I'm trying to get a lot pumped up for. So there we go. That's what I got. That sounds like a perfect plan. And so just act as being from Albuquerque, are you into the super high chili green peppers? Oh, yes. I was dying eating some. Yeah, actually, chili peppers, like if you watch Hot Ones or any of those shows, chili peppers still don't really, they're kind of weird in terms of the, what is that called, the scale that does the chili? Yeah, it'll come to me like two hours later. It'll come to me exactly. I'll look it up, give me a second.  I just remember a cold soup I had there once. Oh, sorry. I'm going way off track. We're not here to talk about food, but we can, so that's the format. But I know each of you came with some things you wanted to talk about. And so again, I don't know if anybody wants, if the equity on bound folks want to go first or Bocola, if you want to talk about your Wikipedia in the classroom project, I would love to hear about that, because that's when I know about the least. Is that too much asking you to go first? OK, yeah, thank you. So the reading Wikipedia in the classroom program was, although the program at area started in 2020, and it's a teacher's flagship training program that was organized by the Wikimedia Education. So what's the program aims to achieve is that it wants to enhance teacher's media and information literacy skill using UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy Framework. And this framework focuses on promoting the ability of teachers and students to be able to learn the technicalities that are involving better assessing information online and also having that skill on how to not just assess this information, but also learn how to evaluate the kind of information that they consume. Because, ordinarily, here in Nigeria, before the COVID-19 lockdown, it was basically face-to-face teaching and learning process. But with the pandemic coming to change the old regular, traditional Nigerian education system of having a face-to-face teaching and learning, like people had to now learn the new normal. And the new normal was that if all schools had to go towards e-learning, it has to be either distance learning or remote learning. So for most secondary schools who are not really used to this kind of teaching and learning, they would find it very difficult to easily adapt the new system. So with the reading Wikipedia in the classroom training program, I was able to receive training from the Wikimedia education. Because it's a kind of a trained trainer approach, a TOC kind of program where I had received a three-month online training program where I had to run over the courses. It was an LMS structured kind of program. So I had to go over those courses. And at the end, I got satisfied. I was the first Nigeria, not Africa, because we had a representative from Ghana as well during my cohorts. But before my cohorts, they had earlier had some series of cohorts. But there was no African involved in those previous cohorts. So I happened to be the first cohort to come from Nigeria. And then at the end of this training session, where we adopt the UNESCO MIL framework. And also, we are using this in line with Wikipedia as a learning tool. Because there are so many learning tools online. They wanted teachers to better accept the story, please. That's fine. Something came into a room. So we know this happens. Yeah, so sorry about that. No worries. This is real life. My cat is going to come on the screen. Yeah, I had to borrow space to do this section. So that's why I just have to accept some of this interaction. So while I was on this training program, we had a series of online training where we had to not just learn how to help teachers understand the positive impacts of LWC. That is reading Wikipedia in the classroom. But to also learn how we can better communicate this learning to the teachers. Because I wasn't an educator. But I wanted to go and face teachers. And these teachers, they have the experience. And coming with something new, they sometimes tend to want to avoid it. They'd be like, yes, I'm experienced. What are you coming to give me? Things like that. So we had to go over this training session. At the end, I was satisfied. And I was also privileged to be the first person to implement this training session in Nigeria. And yes, during the implementation, initially our goal was that we wanted 50 teachers to be part of this training program, where we transfer the skills that we have gained from the cohorts. And initially it was 50. But when we put up the call for application, we had over 100 teachers who signed up for this training session. But at the end, we had to limit our selection to just 70 teachers. And after the selection, 70 teachers across 35 schools in queer states were engaged on how to promote their media and information literacy skill using Wikipedia as a learning tool in their various classroom. And also, this training was, in fact, very important and very useful at that time. Because most teachers always believed that, no, Wikipedia is not reliable. They don't want to promote the use of Wikipedia in their classroom. But having to engage these teachers and giving them a better understanding of what Wikipedia is really is and how they can effectively and more efficiently make use of Wikipedia, we were able to change their perception and also help them accept the use of Wikipedia in their class. At the end, 60 teachers were satisfied at the end of the training session. And so far, so good, we've been able to establish three Wikis secondary school clubs. And these school clubs was created as a result of the teachers who were part of this training program wanted a sustainability for the program. They wanted a space where they can also showcase what they have learned to their students and help them better know how to assess reliable and factual based information from Wikipedia. So we had to establish this club, and the club was set up in three schools. We engaged 45 students. And at the end, those students were also given a certificate of participation. So that's a little bit. I know I've really said a lot already, so it's not a little bit. So that's just a brief about what's reading Wikipedia in the classroom is all about. So it's mostly about helping teachers better make use of Wikipedia and helping them to incorporate the use of Wikipedia into their classroom curriculum. And even, in fact, helping the students learn new things outside of their regular curriculum. Like, we get to help students understand how to use the citation. And also, we had them understand that there are some features that on various Wikipedia articles that determines the category of that Wikipedia article and how students can better make use of those Wikipedia articles, because Wikipedia is very broad. It has so many fields of topics and subjects. And sometimes, secondary schools to them might not be able to effectively make use of Wikipedia as a reference for their assignments if they are not well guided on how to use it. So that's a little bit about me. I don't really want to take all the time. Thank you so much. No, thank you. First of all, you have incredible energy for this. How did you get involved with this? And why did this create such excitement in you? OK, like before now, I've always been a passionate learner. I've always liked to learn new things. And because I'm also in the information sector where we want to promote open access to information as librarians, we want to open up our collections, then I feel it's not just about opening up the collection. How are people making use of these collections? How are students, or in fact, readers that are outside of the four walls of the library? How are they making use of the information that is on the online spaces? So this was what inspired me to put up for that program when the Kofo application was on. And yes, this has really spurred my energy. Like it's really inspired me to want to do more because before now, Wikipedia in Nigeria, for most academia is always a no, no, no, no. But at the end of this training session, like having over 75 teachers put up for a program that is just meant for 50 teachers, it was really, really something that was exciting. And yes, we wanted to push this forward. Thank you. Oh, thank you so much. And that is the way we can best do this is you get 75 people changing their ways and get that excitement and they will spread it. So I really appreciate you coming in here. So thank you so much and feel free to jump in the conversation anytime till I want to stop talking. That's allowed too. Let's talk about like, you know, Mia, Maha and Rissa and actually Karen too is part of Equity Unbound and LifeFest and me. Yeah, yeah, but I'm keeping quiet. I'm overrepresented here and my daughter. That's great. Oh, she's probably like an adult by now, right? He's 11, almost 11. Hi, Hoda. Hi, Hoda. I'm telling you, she's the youngest co-organizer. So how do we talk about LifeFest or Equity Unbound in general? I always start talking about this. Okay, so I forgot to say in my introductions that I'm a co-founder of Equity Unbound along with Mia and Katherine Cronin in Ireland. And so MyFest, the first time it was ever offered was June, July, August of 2022 and MyFest stands for Mid-Year Festival. And so it was a three month learning journey, choose your own learning journey. It was meant to energize, re-energize, re-energize us all in community to focus on why should a conference be three days long if it's virtual and why should we stay on Zoom for six hours in a row when we have lives? And so we're like, yeah, let's spread it over three months and not have more than two or three sessions a day, spread it out over a week. And why don't we see what people need right now? What does our community need right now? And everyone was burning out from sort of the change from being fully online to being back face-to-face and hybrid. And so what were the topics people were interested in and those are the topics people were interested in. They were interested in open education digital literacies. They were interested to talk about critical pedagogy and social justice. They needed to do community building and reflection together. And there was so much need for well-being and joy. And we also wanted to embrace emergence so that we could come up with things as people asked for them. And I'll let Mia and Risa say more about it. Go ahead, Risa. I was gonna say, that's you, Mia. Well, I mean, I guess one thing I can say is just my first was a moment in which we really felt the world needed recharge and renewal. Remember the context is was the pandemic and the COVID-19 crisis in the world and what it did to educators everywhere, learners everywhere was definitely a kind of collective trauma that we all experienced. It's not over. I'm talking in the past tense and I'm uncomfortable about that, so I'll just say that out loud. But at any rate, these two words, renewal, recharge, were very important to us and we responded to that. And that's the sort of tradition of equity and bound. So I'll just say a little bit about what equity and bound is in the context of the Mid-Year Festival, also known as MyFest. Equity and bound is a network, a network in which anyone can join and we hope, Bacola, I hope you consider joining and I hope you bring your friends along and I hope anyone listening will feel the invitation that I'm extending. And in equity and bound, we kind of anchor our work around a kind of value system called intentional, equitable hospitality. And we write about it and talk about it, referring to it as IEH, again, intentional, equitable hospitality. But really it's about inviting people in with the value of inclusion, understanding that equity is an aspiration, that we are very different. All of us are very different people coming from so many different contexts, especially when you broaden that out into a global context. But we want to practice a sense of care and hospitality in joining together on a learning journey. And so yeah, those are some of the kind of key aspects of the value system of equity and bound. It's basically an open learning network. We have a lot of other things that we care about within it, but we have been honored to sort of be a part of a momentum around those values that I expressed over the course of the last four years or so. So, and the pandemic I think was a time when we really needed to come together in new ways and start to think about learning in broader, newer ways with that humanist underpinning that I mentioned when I just was chatting in the beginning. So I'll be quiet now, but hopefully that sort of shared some of the things we're up to. I think Maha and me had just about covered it. I don't know what else to say. Exactly. We could talk about organization and such, but do you have a question, Alan? Maybe what you saw during my fest, like what were some things that really stand out for you? I think what is important to me about my fest is it offers a different way of thinking about multi-generational learning, inclusion, and really thinking about topics that we don't technically, technically that we often don't talk about as broadly in academia as we really should, or in K through 12, I mean, this isn't exclusive to higher education. Things like grief and play and Sabbath and... I'm listing all of things my sister did, but in terms of thinking about that rest and recharge, I really, even the ideas of Adrienne Marie Brown that Karen talked about, I really think that it's a place to really dig in to social justice issues in a caring and collaborative environment where everyone can kind of be themselves authentically. Does that help? Yeah, I think if I could jump in like as someone who is a bit more of a participant, like a bit more like just coming into my fest and not having been part of the organization the first time around, and I think that what I would say about it is that like the real sense of authentic community that was developed there is pretty rare. Like people often say, let's build a community. And I think that what the my fest organizers and the Unbound Equity does is really build community in ways that you don't see happen where people are trusting each other, where they're talking about how do we bring these ideas into our work so that they actually are generative? And I think we can often underestimate the extent to which it's important to have a sense of support and community in order to get any of the work done that we need to do. So even though I was there to talk about STEM education and social justice and STEM, like just talking to folks like, here's an idea is one thing, but saying you have a community of people that are gonna support you through this process. That's where transformation can happen in education. And I think that's what my fest does differently than pretty much anything I've seen in most other places. Okay, Hart, Karen, I don't know if I can stick with that. That's better than an emoji, any day. Ellen hates emojis, by the way. I love them. And I love that you love them. I don't object to what other people do, but also it'd be nice to hear about, like there's some planning and you're going on for my Fest 23 and I'm waiting for Mahada to come in, but you guys can talk about it. But I also wanna say like the range of both types of things that people could do was so much wider than other things. And the potential it creates to create connections. So you're not necessarily coming together with the same people that you generally come together at other meetings. And that's like what we want first. I mean, that's what's happening here. It's happened all week long where people sign up for these sessions and they at least have some good conversations going. So what is the trajectory for my Fest 23? I guess I'll- Can I talk with? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, yeah.  So the trajectory is to bring in people who are participants and organizers and pass together to co-organize. We organized something in January just about intentionally equitable hospitality and we told people, you joined this and then you can be part of the decisions of how my Fest 23 happens. And a lot of people wanted to do that and wanted to do that. And we're hoping, I think the key thing that's standing out for me other than keeping what was good about my Fest 22, the key thing that I think is standing out for me is that people now want to talk about activism and systemic change and how do we enact our values? Not just in our classrooms, but in our institutions and make that change, systemic and wider and deeper and not just in pockets, which is where it is now. And we need our allies outside of our institutions to help us think through how to do this within our institutions, I think. And maybe, I'm imagining Bacola's hearing this for the first time and some people and listening audience. Like, I think the hospitality part is we don't wanna make it feel like it's for the people who've done this before and you are expanding by like, how can people get involved with this right now? Because I mean, it'd be great to have some Wikipedia activities in next year's my Fest. Yeah, I think one of the things I just wanna emphasize it's been said already, but I think undergirding all the work of equity and bound and definitely the spirit of my Fest 22, my Fest 23, which is yet to come, is participatory investigation, learning, community. And so it's that sense that everybody has a voice. And one thing that Karen said earlier that I just wanna bring to the foreground is the idea of trust. Trust is not something that we come across easily. It's something that's built in sort of small moments, paying attention, slowing down and sharing things that matter to us in ways that are sometimes vulnerable, being able to laugh together about things and let things go too that are troubling in our world. Meaning the day-to-day kinds of things that hold us down. So I think the quality of trust is a really important part of equity and bound and my Fest. And we are always trying to explore how to build upon that, how to build platforms that matter to people, how to like kind of grow crowdsourced portfolio of things we care about. So we have like a music library, a reading library. Rissa mentioned intergenerational learning and that's so, it's a pop for me, like something I care about so much. Basically when children are there with grandparents are there with, I don't know what I am. I was gonna say a mid-person, I don't know what that is.  I need a T-shirt of that, by the way, Mia. I'm a mid-person. I like that. I'm a sandwich generation. I'm a sandwich generation. And that doesn't mean average, okay? I don't like the mid-person moment. I mean, none of us are average. None of y'all are average. You're from the mid. Yeah, you guys get the drift. And that was actually quite interesting to see unfold is that there were activities meant for children to do and family and you know, you often never see that at conferences and events. But naming this in an inclusive way is so big. Like Huda, my daughter said, don't call it for children, I'm not a child. You call it for all ages. And then Marissa Hovey, I've heard that and she said, for all ages is nicer than families because what if someone's single but they wanna join, right? So for all ages, really, it's a much more inclusive term than even we intended, I think. Like even we hadn't meant it to be that inclusive but it turned out to be, I think. Let Huda know that I heard her and I am. I am adjusting my language. I love it. Yeah, no, I think that trust, I think y'all have said it beautifully. I really thought that, I think that the activism, what I'm hearing is the activism because of the nature of all kinds of things happening all over the world and including the United States but also really trying to get some sense around burnout and grief and all of the pieces that we might not have fully dealt with. That we need to continue to deal with. Let's put it that way. And I wanna kind of go back to it. Mahaa was saying about systemic change. Like what does that really look like? What does that mean? We often talk about changing structures and systems and that's not disconnected from the conversation about trust and compassion and learning and like how are we bringing that to actually change systems? I love that we're gonna explore that and there's so much that needs to happen. There's so much backlash happening especially within the United States and like how do we address that? How do we bring what we've been learning here to actually transform systems? That's what I'm excited about. As long as we don't run into the problems of change management, have you guys, have you heard that before?  I don't like it. I don't like you. And no, I don't get it.  So we don't want that. I've probably heard that. You know what I mean? That sounds like a speaking series. Pretty sure it is. Come to RISC's development seminar. But also, with change management, always a hurdle is like the overwhelming sense about what can I really do because the systems seem to have the power and where are the ways that we can exert our influence and not keep hitting our own efforts and energy against things which just constantly closes down. That's the trick, right? Like, what is it really? What does it mean to really think about what a system is? And I think that I often, when I've talked, like I just did a couple of presentations about open pedagogy, you know, with an institute, people will say, oh, but our systems don't really allow me to do that. Like, we can't edit Wikipedia ourselves or we can't actually have students working outside of the LMS and it's because our systems won't allow us. And I always ask the question, well, who created these systems? You know, like who's responsible for systems? Like accreditation boards. You know, like accreditation boards weren't really handed down from God, right? Like we created them and we need to change them. And so I know it can be really hard to think about how we really can confront existing structures to say, we need to change it. But I also find that a lot of people, especially faculty that have been ensconced within their systems of tenure for a really long period of time can be the most conservative about wanting to change anything. Partly because the system's working for them, you know? So really how we address the privilege within our institutions I think is one of the things that we need to think about when we think about systemic change too. And I, a long time ago, I can remember doing some stuff with like, and this was kind of within the frame of using technology and education about how some people would be innovative and create they would subvert the system that's in place. So they would do things in an LMS that weren't really built into the LMS. They would defy it. And the other way is just to going completely outside when people would create their own things. And so it's possibility, you know, I really believe in the inventiveness of teachers because that's what teachers always do, you know? When they are in the mode of teaching, they're not operating from, you know, an artificial intelligent generated script they're operating from their human nature. So I don't want to talk about AI. I'm tired of it. Anybody else? We can, but I saw Karen, I know I wouldn't give you a chance to talk about the membership stuff. Sure, yeah. So you may or may not be aware that OE Global has been trying to increase our members both at institutional and individual level. And in fact, the idea of being an individual member of OE Global is kind of new. I think it just sort of predates my being membership director and they were piloting it last year. Ellen could probably say more about that. And so what we've decided to do during Open Education Week is to allow folks to join as an individual member for free during OE Week. Although that's about to expire. It's gonna end on March 12th, which is Sunday. So if you sign up now before Sunday, you can be a free individual member of OE Global for a year. And we also have institutional discounts that again, we have a 50% discount for institutions in underrepresented regions and 20% discount for institutions in not so underrepresented regions. There's a details on the website and maybe Ellen could put the link up to that there. But I wanna say when I think about being sort of new to OE Global and thinking about why would anybody wanna be a member? Like what does it mean to be a member of OE Global? What is this organization about? What can it be about? I think is a bigger question because we talk about OE Global as a member-driven organization. And so what I'd like to do is hear from our members. What do you think we should be doing that we're not doing already? I think we provide spaces for network and discussion. The OEG Connect platform, which is actually an incredible system. It's a little complex, but I encourage people to find your way through. And that system, that's all Ellen. Like he constructed this magic on the web for people to find each other and network with each other. And so part of what we're trying to do is to really leverage the ways in which people can support each other and talk to each other and find each other. And so at least starting there, bringing members together to say, what do you want us to do? Instead of a few of us sitting in a room saying, this is what you're gonna get as a member. What I'd like to say is what would you, what would the ideal be? Like how can we bring the values of unbound equity, for example, into the organizational structure and functioning of OE Global? That would be, that's Karen Cangellosi's dream. I don't know if that's the dream of the other folks that are running that organization. But it'd be great to just chat about like, what could OE Global really be and look like if we could change those systems and make them anything that we'd want them to be. So I'm gonna just sort of throw that question out to all of the brilliant minds that are right in this little room as well as anybody who's listening. Well, thank you. And also like, we've casually talked about this. What about, what kind of relationship can we build or cooperative agreement to work with Equity Bound on MyFest and have it be more than, hey, just come join us. It's like, no, we should be joining you. So we have no idea how to make that happen, but I think we'll be talking about it. That sounds really exciting. I think partnership in general is, can be so fruitful and grow so many wings of work. I think one of the things that's exciting is finding thinking partners and working partners, like kind of a matching magic that occurs. And it doesn't have to be everybody like interfacing with everyone. It can be a small faction working with another small faction to bring it to new community audience, et cetera. That I think is part of what we keep learning about. And figuring out together, but no doubt like we're in this zone of seeking new ways to work. And to me, that's exciting because we're trying to do things better than they were done before. And I think one of the things with all of this is when you jump out of any institutional boundaries, you can imagine and spread your wings and try things without someone reading down your neck or telling you you can't do that yet or you have to do it this way. But then you try it.  And you develop your thinking along with them and you refine it.  This is my way of doing it.  And some of people from our institution came and now I have allies. I have so many more allies in my institution because of all that I do outside of the institution that I invite them to. And then they have freedom to say things and do things that they couldn't do elsewhere. And I think that's part of the ways you resist those structures that are going against the kind of values we're trying to engender. I think that's beautiful. And I think I pledged to be more insidiously radical on the Scoville scale. High on the Scoville scale. Yeah, we need a Scoville scale. I love it. You're flaming, burning. I love that. I also need a t-shirt of that. Not a very inclusive metaphor. I really love it. Metaphors will always let you down. As much as I love metaphors, they're always going to go off the rails, so. Can I get us something about metaphors? Because I always said we wouldn't talk about AI. But my mom doesn't know anything about AI. But she says she thinks AI is like fast food. And so I always tell people that this is a metaphor my mom gave, what's a metaphor they would give. And the other day someone got so upset because instead of saying fast food, I said junk food, which is of course, they're both the same thing, but the connotation is already a more negative connotation. I mean, I'm okay with calling it junk food too, but that person was really not okay with it. So yeah, the subtle differences in how we name our metaphors makes a huge difference. All right, thank you so much. I want to put a question, this came up like spontaneously yesterday. And so I think it's a good ender. Like, we started with excitement. Let's end with some hope. Anybody want to talk about what's given you hope going into the next period of time? I'll go first if I can. Yeah. What gives me hope is the opening of any creative space where we can collaboratively come together and think about what's next for us or what we can do and what have you. So creative spaces are giving me hope. Okay, so for me, I would say what gives me hope. Before joining this session at earlier, like going over other presenters profile. And yes, something that struck to me was the equity bound, if I'm not mistaken. So like I went over the website and like I saw something very different, something very new. Like I've not seen that before, yes. So I want to give it up for, is it maha? Sorry, I don't want to mispronounce your name, yes. So I would say, and just to add to what she said initially about the future of open education global, I would say having more gathering like this, having like a panel discussion where we engage like minds, people that are very passionate about the same thing that we want to achieve. I think it will really do a lot good to increase the community and in fact, bring more people to accept what they do in open education global. And yes, equity bound, I think it's something that like we could have a kind of a partnership with the Wikimedia Education if it's something that interests her or with the Wikimedia community because like these are things that we don't really get opportunities to discuss, like engage most of the time or in fact have a better understanding of the concepts and how we can better understand what these topics are all about. So I think it's very good to have, I think open education should look out for having more partnership like this, having discussions that sprawl out ideas, generate new programs and make people see reasons to continue to advocate for openness, continue to advocate for not just openness now, but like have more people become part of the open community. So that's just some of my few cents that I would like to add to this. Thank you. And I'm just gonna riff off of that community and openness, give me hope. And people's openness to become part of community because there is no community if people don't open themselves up to the possibility. There's an attitude of coming into something like my fest where you're willing and then the hosts all obviously have to do the intentionally equitable hospitality to welcome you but people who are open to that in itself gives me hope. I'm gonna sort of just also just echo everything that people have said about like what gives me hope are communities like this and the opportunity to have these kinds of discussions and unbound equity in my fest are, I think at the forefront of creating spaces for people to have hope and find hope. And so I'm also hopeful about what a partnership can look like and hopeful to feel that OE Global can kind of help to build that in ways that maybe it hasn't done before. So I'm hopeful about those things which is maybe different than saying what's giving me hope but I'm feeling some hope there. So thanks. All right. I guess I'll just thread a little bit of what I'm hearing together. And I just wanna say what gives me hope is love but I don't wanna just say that and throw it out there like without context. I think when we can trust each other when we can listen to each other when we can connect in communities that are open to partnership and trying new things that haven't been done before, when we wish for more and better than what society seems to dish out and we're able to sort of think together in love that gives me hope. That's fantastic. And I wanna thank you so much. I think my husband internet may have flaked out on her but we know she's here always. And also I guess we hope is just these kind of conversations because and still probably the most exciting thing ever since I started on the internet a billion years ago is that you accidentally meet people that you never would have before. And then you kind of like I always am hopeful and fed by things that just lead to the serendipity of coming into other interesting ideas and people and that's what happens in these spaces. So I really wanna thank you so much. A for coming here and being part of the conversation making these connections. And then also I already forgot the last thing I was gonna say thank you for but just also for putting up with an unstructured environment. And I am planning to do more of this because I think these are very valuable. Well, we're thankful for you, Alan. Yes, thanks. What you create here. It's pretty amazing. And you talk about serendipity about meeting people in these different kinds of spaces only to discover that they're from your hometown. Like Alan and I grew up in the neighborhood we're five minutes away from each other. Which we have. Computing high schools. Milfordville. That's right, Milfordville. Amazing. That's what makes me happy. So again, I wanna thank you again and the people who are watching us on YouTube. And I find out people are actually enjoying and Bacola mentioned this that they're enjoying watching these later. So it's something that I hope to continue doing because I think these are pretty valuable. So happy last day of open education week which of course doesn't end anything for all we're doing. It gives moving on to other things. And we just hope we keep crossing tracks. So. Thank you. Ciao. Thank you. Thank you Alan. Thanks everyone. All right. Thank you Alan. Thanks everyone.


Hello and welcome back here to the channel. I'm evil rabbit here to talk about the big torque drift update If you guys haven't guessed by the title, well, then stick around you're about to find out So if you haven't guessed by the title the big part of this new update is Adam LZ is now in torque drift with his S15 his S13 and his R32 so Definitely a big update to add three new cars into the game a pro car and to basically street legal drift cars so that is probably the biggest and I would say the most Anticipated release of this I feel so we're gonna go through a couple of the other items that were in the release We do have a new sponsorship tree where you can actually assign sponsors and get the rewards like you used to do on Mobile which is a great thing to add money gold all kinds of things on to your cars or into your Accounts so signing sponsors is definitely a good thing Which means we're gonna have to go back and start running the sponsorship tree again and try and complete the tasks So another thing road Atlanta got a big update with clipping zones and proximity on speeding proximity zones which is tried and true to actual fd So it's big, you know update to see that they're leaning more towards that type of thing Which is great, you know, obviously working with formula drift torque drift is moving more towards that so rebalancing on a couple cars like Chelsea De Noffa and Vonget and juniors cars Johnson Nair and Of course all three of Adam LZ's cars was another big Improvement on the game so that they handle a little bit differently and things of that nature Visual improvements adding headlights. I know there's a few videos where I was running my z at night The headlights didn't work. They didn't show up on the track They've adjusted that with some visual improvements increased in some of the interiors of the cars and things of that nature New items in the store LZ MFG gears in the store So a couple of the other things other than the you know FD things saw responses sponsorship trees new headlights tuning force feedback On the wheel support, which should be a we'll test in another episode Much higher quality audio on PC, which is definitely a big thing that they increased some of the car sounds E46 no longer clips through walls. Okay cars tuned with SR 20 engines no longer rip burnouts unless you want them to That's a big thing because those SR 20 seem to be always just burning out tires so, you know iPod iPad players can now join live lobbies without an issue better controller support We're gonna be testing today because we are gonna be on our controller and some bugs and some resolution things But like I said, the biggest thing is the Adam LZ update We're gonna go take a look at his three cars here for today on today's episode And the other thing is now torque drift is out of early access So it's free to play on PC so you guys don't have any have a PC You might want to go check that out in the steam store and maybe switch your accounts over to PC if you want So we're gonna go into the store and take a look at some of the new store items The first thing that comes up is the Adam LZ starter pack his S15 his 180 sx or s13 and His r32 so it is a DLC. I believe it's about $15. We're gonna go ahead and get that and You know take a look at both all three of the cars here for today's episode We're gonna cash in our free bullion We're gonna do that and then we're going to claim our free things and of course Like I said in the earlier LZ MFG gear is now in there as well as sticker packs for his S15 and is our 32 So there's a lot of big things in here So we're gonna get these cars in our inventory and we're gonna go check shake them down and see what we can do with them So we're gonna head into the garage because we did like I said pick up Adam LZ is our 32 His 180 sx and his s15 and we're gonna go take them all out today Definitely models look very nice and very super clean So definitely super, you know excited to get some nice new models in the game for sure and you know Obviously more pro cars. It's always a good thing. So let's go take these cars for a rip Less talking more drifting. Let's go see what we can find. Let's go to multiplayer. What do we got? We got English town go-kart track. We got a visit west ocean drive or no fear Hakone so we're gonna go with a no fear at Hakone and we're gonna take out Adam LZ's S15 Hopefully we can find a battle here for today Like I said, we are on the Xbox one controller for today We will test the wheel support in the another episode here. What are we going against? We got the gashio's factory and juku racing S15 Anybody want to go against it? We gonna find a competitor or we're gonna go against a bot Recently been having a little bit of problems finding people to go against I don't know if it's something with my matchmaking or my side. So if you guys have been having issues Finding one. Let me know finding competitors. Let me know down in the comment section down below This is not the view I wanted Oh Totally screwed that up because that was not in the view I wanted so we are nowhere near where we should be But we'll throw it out afterwards definitely not a clean run wrong view but we managed to Somehow put together a Halfway decent run.  He said I beat you. I'm gonna bounce. So we see if we can't find somebody else here For the s-15 and then we will bounce out. Oh, okay, right away h1 g0 or h1 go in a nice Supra So we're gonna probably try and This in fifth gear machine in Sorry, Adam. We kind of wall tapped your 15 and like I said definitely not the cleanest run either better than last run but Unfortunately, I don't think that's good enough. Maybe it is He either bounced out or did not want to go against the 15 So first impressions of Adam LZ's s-15. It is a very fast car It is super grippy and it's kind of a little bit of a challenge to control So definitely gonna be interested to get this car on the wheel and see how this car feels on a wheel Versus a controller because we all know my controller drifting is not the greatest Never has been and never will be because I own a wheel. I'm not going back to controller drifting I won't do it here on torque drift because well new controller support So I don't think we're going to find another Competitor, so we're gonna go bounce and maybe try and find another track We do have We're not gonna go price we do have English town go card So we're gonna go into the go-kart track probably way too powerful for the 15 So let's pull out the 180 s-x and see what we can do with Adam LZ's 180 on the go-kart track We are going up against drift fan. Oh one in that uh our 32 1200 horsepower to 867 horsepower on LZ MFG's s-13 Is this man's taking screenshots or a It's just waiting for the timer to go down trying to ice me apparently third gear. Oh and we just wrecked hard Into that wall unfortunately, that's a zero So we're gonna have to try this initiation again because unfortunately that was not what I wanted to do The struggles are rear So we're gonna do rematch Waiting for the opponent first time it's actually shown that it means he's actually still in here We are gonna get that rematch. All right, so don't go so hard into the paint Off the rip Okay, that's a little better. I feel like we probably should be in fourth gear, but All right, of course kind of tightens up here. I think fourth gear is the gear we need to be in fully So imagine complete that run The the 180 is definitely a little bit different and it doesn't look like he did that time. Oh man one for one on the fails, so we're gonna go to a Third round and maybe try and get now. No, I think he left Well, we did take the win on that one I think we need to be in fourth gear with this car on the track So we're gonna try and find somebody else for the 180 and then we're switched up to the R32 So make sure you guys follow me on all social media knowledge found description box below if you guys want to keep Seeing tortur if you're on the channel and you guys want to maybe see these cars on the wheel Let me know down in the comments as well best way for me to know so you tap that like button and subscribe and hit that Bell I would appreciate it sport the humble This is gonna be a very big uphill battle 1800 horsepower hmm Yep, I don't think the 180 sx will be able to take that down You go forth and We did the same thing we did last time but this time we're gonna keep the car going and Try and finish the run off. I'm just wrecking his 180 all over the place So I wish this car had a little bit more steering lock I think that is what I'm fighting for the snapback and things of that nature, but We did complete a run and we're still waiting for him. Did he fail? Or did we just take out the humble on a David and Goliath match? We did not take out the humble. He did get 12,000 and we got a So we got to do a massive chase run here if we're gonna want to take a W and Not go hard into the wall. Oh, okay. He definitely did what I did and Sent me clear into the barriers So unfortunately, we are not gonna get a good chase And that's just the tale of online drifting here on torque drift So I do like the 180 a little bit of fine-tuning maybe for my style of driving definitely be excited to do that So we're gonna be definitely taking this out With the wheel as well as the 15 so we got one more car of atom LZ's to Go against that. I just noticed there's a new opponent button down there. I don't have to keep bouncing out So a lot of cool new features added into the game, what do we got? We got the donut and And You know, we're gonna go to Ebizu go to Hills Because a better place to take the skyline than there See if we can find somebody to finish this episode off here in the R32. That was the MFG Skyline Was a red tint windows definitely need to drive this car first person. That's gonna be very bright and red Probably need to stance this out a little bit the back end looks a little bit high But we can adjust that I'm assuming in our tuning menu Final competitor here for today in the R32 If we can find somebody which apparently does not look like anybody wants to go as I say that we going against an auto dev Well, at least we'll get the chance to drive the car This one feels like fourth gear to Maybe fifth actually Nope, we stalled that out Probably should have stayed in fourth Maybe gone to fifth on the downhill. Yeah, that's what we probably should have done This gear kind of just bogs out So fourth gear is what we need to be definitely need to do some fine tuning on these cars. I told you got wrecked so not a Fan of how this R32 is handling right now So we're gonna have to go in and maybe do some tuning to it To see if we can't get it to handle a little bit better And there's that snap that I was talking about on controller for some reason I get a massive amount of snap Of course, we are running no assists and we are running an aggressive Steering on a controller because I forgot to change my settings from last episode when I was on the wheel. Yep So definitely need you some fine tuning on this skyline if I wanted to run right Oh have a bumper So that'll do it here for this episode here on the channel make sure you guys follow me on all social Subscriber box below. I appreciate it coming back and watching I'm evil rabbit. See you guys on the track


How's it going? Welcome to Grammar Tip Tuesday! And every Tuesday I'm going to take all that complicated grammar in the English language and make it as simple and easy as I can for you so you can get over those struggles and get on with your goal of becoming a fluent, confident English speaker because that's why you're here, right? And we don't want complicated grammar to confuse you or stop you from reaching your goal. And in this Grammar Tip Tuesday, we're going to talk about basic English sentence structure and forming sentences with both infinitive and gerund verbs. I know this is a topic that really confuses you. So if you feel confused by gerunds and infinitives, you're not alone. So let me try to make this as simple and easy as I can. Of course I'm Jennifer from J4sEnglish.com and this channel is dedicated to helping you sound like a fluent, confident, natural English speaker. Now before we go any further, make sure you subscribe and hit that bell notification so you're notified every time I post a new video. And now let's dive in with today's video. The basics. Understanding correct sentence structure is necessary if you want to form grammatically correct sentences. Whether they're simple sentences or more complex sentences, it doesn't matter. You have to master the basics. Now this example came up from one of my students in the Finally Fluent Academy. So I taught them the phrasal verb to take something on, okay? To take something on. And then I got my students to practice using this expression. So one of my students wrote this as her practice sentence, okay? So I corrected this for my student. But it became clear that this student and other students as well in the Finally Fluent Academy were struggling with this concept. It wasn't very clear to them why this correction was needed. So we went into this topic in detail during our live weekly lesson. And we had this really amazing conversation on grammar and basic English sentence structure. And then I thought to myself, you know what? If all of my students in the Finally Fluent Academy are struggling with this issue, this is probably something that all students are struggling with. So I really wanted to share this explanation with everyone outside of the Finally Fluent Academy as well. So here take a look at this sentence. Do you see the mistake here? What's the mistake? Any idea? Pause the video if you need. Try to find that mistake. So the mistake is with our verb, okay? And it's this verb right here. This verb is in the wrong verb tense. So this verb is in what verb tense? Can you see it? This is the past simple. So the verb is to take to take, okay? And the expression is to take something on. That's the phrasal verb that I taught my students. And that's how it's being used in this context as a phrasal verb, which means it's a verb and a preposition, okay? But this violates basic English sentence structure. So let's go back to the basics and review basic English sentence structure. And then this mistake will be obvious to you, okay? So in English, there are many different ways that a sentence can be formed. But almost every single sentence is going to include a subject and a verb, okay? A subject and a verb. So let's start there. Now after this, we have a few options. We can have a noun that's very common or an object, or we can also have another verb. And that's very common, okay? So this is what we're going to talk about when our basic sentence is subject plus verb and another verb. Okay, so in this basic English sentence structure, right here, the first verb, this is the verb that you conjugate, okay? So this is a verb that you conjugate. What does that mean? It means that you put it in a different form according to your time reference, okay? So think of all the verb tenses, we can have present simple, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, future, you know, those are the different verb tenses. That's how you conjugate. Now when you conjugate this verb, it has to do two things. It has to match your time reference. So if I said yesterday, I know that verb is going to be in the past simple, right? Because yesterday is a keyword for the past simple. Now if I say always, or sometimes, I know that verb is going to be in the present simple, because always and sometimes are keywords for the present simple. So we have to conjugate this verb according to our time reference. And we also have to make sure the verb matches our subject, okay? So you have to pay attention to two different things when you conjugate this verb. But for basic English sentence structure, I can't go into all the different time references and verb tenses and subject verb agreement, like that's just impossible to do in one video. But the important thing is it's the first verb that's conjugated, okay, conjugated according to the time reference and the subject. Now, what about our second verb? What happens here? Well, this is where a lot of students get confused. Now, we have two options. Unfortunately, it's the fact that there's two different options that causes so many grammar mistakes from students. And this knowing which option to use is really the main mistake I see in my advanced students. But this is extremely noticeable to a native English speaker, because this is basic English sentence structure, okay? And native English speakers, this is something we learn from birth. So this is very much obvious to us when we see a mistake in it. So do you know what our two options are for our second verb? Any idea? Okay, so we have the infinitive, which is what's the infinitive is simply two and the verb. So we have our infinitive is one option, okay? And the second option is what? Our gerund, right? Our gerund, our verb with ing. Now, when do you know when do you know if you need an infinitive or a gerund? Okay, I'll be honest with you. I can't explain this in one video. It would take me over four hours to explain all the different rules.  Because this is going to help you learn English going forward because you're going to understand what you need to pay attention to what you need to notice in sentences when you're reading or when you're listening, okay? You'll start to notice this. So infinitive subject verb plus infinitive is the regular structure, okay? Which means it works about 80% of the time, okay? So what I want you to do is to assume, just assume that your sentence structure is going to be subject verb infinitive, because you're going to be correct 80% of the time. And those are good odds, right? Now, the gerund is an irregular structure. So it's only used about 20% of the time. Now, when do you know if you need to use a gerund? It depends on your sentence structure, okay? And a lot of the times it depends on this verb. So this verb will determine if your next verb is an infinitive or a gerund, okay? And how do you know? Well, because specific verbs in English require the gerund. Now, unfortunately, I'll just be honest with you, it's memorization. And like I said, I know you want me to tell you right now what those verbs are. But honestly, it would take me four hours to explain all the different ways that this verb requires the gerund, okay? So it's just not possible. But what you need to do is to start noticing. So start noticing what verbs require the gerund. And you already know so many of the verbs, right? So you can start making a list, start making a list of irregular verbs that require the gerund. Okay, so going back to our original sentence, we can see here, we have our subject, right? And what's this? This is our first verb. And it's conjugated in what verb tense? The past simple, right? So this is the verb that's conjugated. I decided to, now this is incorrect, because it violates our basic English sentence structure. Our next verb either has to be the infinitive or the gerund. This is a past simple. That is not a sentence structure in English. So what do you think we need a gerund or an infinitive? Well, if we apply our rule that 80% chance of being right, if we use an infinitive, well, let's do it. I decided to take it on and we're right 80% chance of being right. And we're right. Because decide, remember, it's not this verb that determines whether it's a gerund or an infinitive. It's the first verb.  Okay, decide is not a gerund verb. It doesn't require the gerund. I decided to take it on. And now we have subject verb plus our second verb, which is in the infinitive. So now we're following basic English sentence structure. So don't worry, don't worry about the fact that you right now don't know which one is which the gerund or the infinitive, because honestly, that's not something you're going to master in one video. That's something that you're just going to master over time. As you add more and more gerund verbs to your vocabulary, get comfortable with them and memorize them and practice them. Okay, but for now, I just want you to be comfortable with the basic English sentence structure and know how to troubleshoot your sentences, know how to proofread your own sentences, because now you know that you have to have a subject and verb. The first verb is what conjugated according to the time reference and the subject. And then your second verb is what two choices, an infinitive or a gerund. And which one is the regular sentence structure, the infinitive, exactly. And you'll be correct. What percentage of the time if you use that? About 80% of the time you'll be correct if you use the infinitive. And how do you know if your second verb is the gerund? It depends on your first verb, if it's a regular verb or if it's a gerund verb. Okay, so you've learned so much today. This is just getting you started on your path to understanding more advanced sentence structures in English. And of course, don't worry, we're going to talk more and more about gerunds and how you know if this first verb requires the infinitive or gerund. Obviously, that's coming up in future videos. But for now, if you found this video helpful, please hit the like button, share it with your friends, and of course, subscribe. And before you go, make sure you head on over to my website, jforsenglish.com, and download your free speaking guide. Now in this guide, I share six tips on how to speak English fluently and confidently. And one of those tips, I can't remember which one. Oh yeah, step one in the guide is to master the basics. So that's what you're doing right here, because you need the basics in order to speak English fluently and confidently. If you don't master this, your sentence is not going to sound very fluent, and you're not going to feel very confident, right? So really important to master the basics. And that's what you're doing right now. So congratulations. And until next time, happy studying.


Update. Everyone, Basel Chapman, Tiger Technicians are coming up straight after this TFNN noon update. The Dow is down 86 at 25,964. Was warning yesterday that on a very short term basis, actually starting Monday saying that by late Tuesday, Wednesday we should see going into Wednesday morning some kind of a pullback. That's kind of what we've seen. And that's really important. As you can see, I was talking about this Chapman Wave inside track repellent zone. I'll be talking a little bit about it tonight in my webinar at 5 o'clock for subscribers to my opening call.  Let's go. 75 down on the Dow. The S&P is also down. It's down at this particular moment, it's down 9, which is, we did not take that. Let's do this again, sorry, SBX.X there it is. 19 at 2876. Also made a short term in the 120-minute short term peak pulling back sharply in the 120. But on the Dow, it doesn't even look like very much because it's got 2872 support in the very short term. Let's see how that is handled. And it's in a leg A, probably a peak A today. QQQ right now is trading down, it's trading down 107 at 182.30. After making a peak A in the Chapman Wave daily chart, 181.70 to 181.40 will be key support. IWM is also weak, IWM is down 32 cents at 150.97. It's not had very much of a rally these days. Now what we're looking at is gold. The gold is up, gold is up right now about $8 at 1339. It had a peak D in the Chapman Wave methodology at 1352 the other day. It's pulled back for three days, hasn't made a new recovery high, but I'm considering this a consolidation. Why? Because I think the dollar, which is holding quite nicely right now, it's up about five ticks at 9,675. I think that's got more weakness over the coming, you might say, a few weeks. And then it'll start, I think then it starts back up again. So in the meantime, gold is benefiting crude oil. Tried to rally yesterday, closed a little week, and today's much weaker down at $139. And the TLT, I'll be talking about these in a moment as soon as we get back after the break in my Tiger Technicians Hour, I'll also be talking about the webinar coming up tonight. Don't forget, great programming coming up all day today because Steve Rhodes, Dave Wright, Tom O'Brien, and I hope to see you later or tomorrow. Have a great day.


You two team Wrong side you two team keep it clean. What's going on saying Raven here with another video and in this video We are here to talk about the preview the predictions for this week's game Against the Pittsburgh Steelers the Baltimore Ravens taking all the Pittsburgh Steelers this coming Sunday now before we get into that Let me introduce myself Me I'm engraving this. This is my YouTube channel engraving kids and I'm a Ravens fan But on this channel we talk about all 32 NFL teams So if you're fan of Ravens, make sure you subscribe if you're fan of Steelers Make sure you subscribe to your fan and just football period. Make sure you subscribe and leave a like on the video too If you haven't clicked the thumbs up button, make sure you do that show your support for the team and Just come through me Just come through come through come through Appreciate all the comments appreciate all the lights appreciate just everything all the support period You guys make this channel exactly what it is and that's exactly what it is Something that you also need to do to continue making this channel when you subscribe turn your notifications on so when we do Go live like this You'll be the first to know so y'all can come through just like everybody came through right now Y'all are here man, and we appreciate it. So Get it into this video Steelers Ravens Steelers Ravens Steelers Ravens Steelers and Ravens Ravens and Steelers Baltimore Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Baltimore How do you want to say it? I appreciate that Harry? Thank you, man. Thank you How do you want to say it these two teams? They don't like each other, but they respect each other I got a lot of Steelers fans that come through on the videos which I appreciate and enjoy And of course we have even more Ravens fans that come through on the video Which I definitely appreciate and enjoy too this game is a tricky one This game is a tricky one based on the game last week Pig Pittsburgh Based on what I know about these Ravens and off excuse me the Ravens and the Steelers games It could go either way Based on injuries right now to brand the Williams to bring Urban Max Williams is that you know He's not a major factor or anything based on injuries. I will go with Pittsburgh Based on offense play. I will go with Pittsburgh based on defense play out will go Baltimore But for this game in Baltimore Steelers haven't won in Baltimore in a very long time Steelers haven't won in Baltimore in a very long time But Regards are meant to be broken. Yeah, you mean. Yeah, we could throw records out the window I'm really established both teams are two in one Right now I'm feeling like Steelers I'm feeling like Steelers I feel like Steelers in a close one Based off of that game last week now. I'm not trying to put all my investment. I'm not trying to put so much stock into the game last week But even if I just go based off of Baltimore period Based off of Baltimore period. I know they bring it when it comes to Pittsburgh That I do know so even minus the the past three games that we've played Minus the past three games of Steelers have played It's it's this is such a tough matchup to pick Every soccer he say Ravens and he say he's a Steelers fan. I just say Steelers. I'm Ravens fan So if we don't even know we don't even know I Say their team they say our team It is tough It's tough I'm leaning Steelers heart. Of course once Ravens to win everything in me once Ravens to win My boy Mark to 2k 6 he says Steelers Jimmy Smith always shuts down Antonio Brown. That is true Jimmy Smith, they play well against Antonio Brown and they usually play really good against Levy on belt too But we don't have any Brandon Williams. We don't have any brand Said Steelers. I'm a Steelers fan Anything for show about NFL is that nothing is for sure. There you go still has got bad offense on the road Or Ravens got bad offense Period whether they on the road at home just period and it's always a tough one. It's a tough one I'm saying Steelers and I'm saying Steelers 51% to 49% 49% Ravens 51% Steelers because it's close man It's close. Oh, yeah, Levy on did run on us with on a on that game with Brandon Williams there But the defense they were making plays that game I know they're gonna be right this game I know we're not gonna have a game like we had last week. I know that for sure. I know that for sure It's just no way it's impossible. There's no way they can be even half as bad as they were last week That's just that's impossible So it's it's tough It's such a tough matchup If Lacko paid plays bad Sunday, do you think matter will start?  He's not one to Really go back on his word or go back on his opinion. What what not? So I think if Flacco still stinks it up and Flacco was thinking up for the entire year So I don't see them benching him at all he would just really have to do something absolutely insane To get bench. I mean you saw last week the score was well 34 7 I mean 34 0 or 37 0 what I forgot what the score was when he got benched But it took a lot Harry said put it this way if we lost last week by 1 2 or 3 points Most of us would be saying Ravens, but a loss is a loss and we lost by that much because we started slow I picked Ravens. Okay, Harry Do you know if Steelers Ravens game will be nationally televised? Well, it depends on where you live I know where I'm at. It's gonna be on TV. What's up, CJ? Well, I'm at us. It'll be on TV But I'm not sure for everybody else. I like Flacco, but Ravens need to draft the QB next draft. Oh, I'm down with that I don't wish they would have did it this track. I'd be down with that. I am down with that now Guess what had they done that had they drafted a QB this year and that Jacksonville game went like that Oh, everybody everybody and probably included me too would be calling for that rookie QB. What's up, boss? What's up, boss? Oh, you got Sunday ticket. Okay, so you get to watch all the games. Isn't Flacco with us till 2021? I gotta look at the details of the contract. I know it's a very long time But yeah, had had that happen Oh, y'all make sure y'all leave a like on the video too. I see 16 people in here, but it's only half that half that many likes but had Had we drafted a rookie quarterback in this past draft Then he would have been getting called for Definitely, he would have been getting called for he wouldn't get put out there But he would have been getting called for Just to give us something new already, you know, but we can cut him in 2019 or 2020 I gotta see if you could draft any QB in next draft. I don't know. I don't watch college football. So I don't know about Eos guys If he has any time to throw we need to run on we do need to run on Mark said, I hope we win. I hope jet lag was the reason for the L I hope hope so man. Oh, you were living Jersey. I really wouldn't watch the game Well, it's always the streams to worst case scenario if the game ain't on TV You got the stream so we'll be fine as long as you got a computer or even on the phone Some of the strings work from the phone too, even though sometimes you got a key press and X on those pop-ups and stuff Oh, they run defense is terrible well, hopefully Ravens realized that and And Whether it's Tarence West whether it's Alice Kyle come out Kenneth Dixon look good against Pittsburgh last year But can add it's in his gone for a year and he suspended six games so It's gonna be Tarence West Alice Collins, I want to see them give Alice Collins a start I want to see it. I want to see it Tarence West I think Tarence West watched too many of our videos Because like I said, there will be a lot of people coming through on the videos that really did not like Tarence West And I'm like, man, what are you talking about? He didn't find he was okay. I like Tarence West, but then this year he's just been There I mean he got a couple touchdowns, but that's all short y'all stuff. He hasn't really broken anything Um, and Alice Collins has looked looked the part man. I don't know man That's why the bears won the last game because of their run D Okay, I think it'll be more Collins and Buck Allen than West. Yeah, that's true Shaking shaking big game and say the fleckle finds rhythm. I got the Ravens and he's Ravens fan Appreciate you coming through shaking big Danny Woodhead feel bad.  Oh, well, you see what? Yeah, that's true mark. He said we need all the running backs to have a good game. We do we do the modern area What's up, William? Yeah, he's hey the finder say, yeah, what's this kind of slow and say flackle is washed You should present. Yeah, I got your doubts. I got you Raven you always say that flackles inconsistent has bounced back weeks where he just becomes a different player But I honestly can't remember last time he played like that a lead joke dolphins game dolphins game last year Well, we played dolphins in Baltimore. That was it um, I mean the Steelers game He played a good game wasn't the best, but it was better than a lot of other stuff Cuz we played I think we played New England last year. He played terrible bad game Oh broke his heart last week. That didn't even break my heart last if it would have been in close game We would have broken my heart that game It was over. Um Those blowouts they don't break hearts for me. They're just like, oh boy. We lost. We got worked But yeah, the last time I can really remember off the top of my head is against the dolphins last year I think he threw like three four touchdown. I think he threw four touchdowns and he did the one pick though But he threw four touchdowns, I believe So yeah, yeah, yeah, he did play well enough to win the Steelers game. He did he did But the defense just couldn't hold them. They couldn't hold them. They have been They have been doing what they could do all year So I wasn't even mad at him for that game because the defense had been holding people literally all year But the offense would not cooperate the offense wouldn't do that part the offense. They just they They were terrible. So the defense paid for it So I wasn't even mad at him last year the whole Eric Well, I don't see any movie couldn't hold Antonio Brown out. I wasn't mad at him because the offense didn't do that part That's it man Yeah, if he doesn't reach we do win if we stop when we win y'all make sure I leave a like on the video It's 23 people in here, but only 17 likes but still is lost to the Bears another game like that Even though NFL teams can be inconsistent. I got the Ravens Could be man. All right You do not live in Baltimore where the flag or could talk to his offense like he talks to his M&T bank David called the Ravens offense would be something special. I've seen a couple of them commercials. Um, I don't yeah I don't get to see him that much Hmm Anyhow, I don't remember but um that Good old flak Good old flat good old flak, baby.  Hey, I appreciate that CJ. Thank you man. Appreciate it he ain't worth 22 23 million he getting and that and we got a Bus full of injured reserve guys. We're sadly done more injury will make it worse. I Won't say they done Ravens ain't done yet. They're not done. It's still got a while before they'll be done Yeah, I know we got a bunch of injuries. We got a boatload of injuries, but You're not oh, sorry. I didn't mean to do that. You're not done to your records I didn't mean to do that either. You're not record.  Let me try to set this up. So I don't even have to hold this because that's Yeah, you're not done it to your record says you're done and Ravens they're not done They are oh much better. That feels so much better so much more comfortable.  Don't worry T. West went to the same schools my aunt and uncle still that's what's up now. Yeah, he is Baltimore So that's what's up. What's going on Ben still is are done after this year. Why you say that? I mean, he's still got big Ben Tony O'Brien ain't going nowhere Maybe I'm there. We'll see what happens with him. He said Ravens the new offensive coordinator. I mean Ravens There It's not the offensive coordinator in my opinion They did that they just need guys is gonna go get it man.  They need guys with They need somebody a mean man. They got it on defense. They don't have it on offense You need that nasty Gritty grimy player on offense. They don't have that Remember we had anquan bolder. He was all got for a long time in that role. We asked the Smith senior He was all got for a couple years in that role But we yeah, we just need that dude. That's just He's gonna get a couple penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct. He's gonna get that.  We got off in that skies We need it. We need a guy that's tough. That's gritty Big guy ain't gotta be the fastest. That's what we need. That's what we're missing That's what we're missing Mike Wallace is not pretty mean. He is not he is not that guy We need a guy a tough guy the tough guys don't drop. They don't drop passes Because they're not running as fast as those fast guys so they can't run past the ball like anquan bolder He don't drop stuff season missing. He dropped stuff and no, I'm not saying they they have any drops in their Ravens Korea I'm not saying that but what I'm saying is those are the dudes that You just know not to mess with we don't have anybody like that on offense defense we got T sizzle But we ain't got you ain't got that on we ain't got that on offense There's only one constant on the Ravens offense and it's Joe Flacco It cannot always be the wire see was tight ends and offensive coordinator It's true, man, and it's like us like we always talk about if you are of the elite And you make people around you better Captain Ravens need to persuade Captain Johnson to come out. I'll be nice. That would be nice. When did I start watching the Ravens? mmm Started back a little bit in 2000 then over the years it just growing growing grew. What's your opinion? Oh, it's great. I didn't like that hit at all. That was a bad one and quite both and drop the four down fast in 2009 Regular season game against the Pats was it in Was that the game that went to overtime? Was it the game was it in New England that went in the game went to overtime or the past one in overtime? Is that the one with Terrell Suggs? Bailey touched Tom Brady and he failed and then he waited for he waited for that flag. That's that's the mom I remember back then. Oh, I hated Tom Brady. I hated the Patriots back then. I sure did. Oh, man Especially after that one especially after that play Especially after that play any Steelers fans or Ravens to any of y'all remember Willie Parker Remember Willie Parker. Oh, it's wasn't like kind of remember that one. Remember what he Parker? Number 39 for Steelers. Y'all remember him? That dude, I mean he was fast He's called fast Willie Parker You take it to the house on yeah, TJ Hoosman's out of drop. That was that was a nice That was a sad one too because that was the season. That was the Steelers game That was one of those that was the saddest Steelers game ever because that's the game that I feel like they had won like 20 times and then TJ Hoosman's out of just dropped it Flacco put it on and Quambo done had a drop in that one too. That one probably would have put the game away too but I remember Flacco before he had He threw it was like a third. It was like a third and goal or something Flacco threw the Anquambo than any end zone and he hit it perfect pass again. This is playoff Flacco He threw the Anquambo than perfect pass. I'm going to drop it hit him right in the chest. He dropped Fourth and 17. I think in that same game Hoosman's out of Flacco drops back look search look search told you this is playoff Flacco So this ain't regular Flacco regular Flacco might have missed that but playoff Flacco is on point He threw it directly to Hoosman's out of perfect pass. It would have been a first down He would have just caught it and he could have he could have caught the ball and just dropped to the ground first down Hoosman's out of dropped he dropped That was it Rest in peace to the Raven season that year. Still let's go in the Super Bowl, I believe I believe no, that's not when they won the Super Bowl. That's when they lost to the Packers But still they went to the Super Bowl. Well, I did get that free touchdown. Oh, yeah Corey Redding. Yeah, that was a nice play man That fumble with Corey Redding picked it up and everybody was looking around. Hey, what's going on? He just walked into the end zone That was a nice play I loved that um But anyway, let me go ahead and get off of here now Got a place to met him and right now I'm gonna go with uh Right now I'm going with Steelers Right now I'm going with Steelers It um Oh, then a year after Lee Evans. Oh, that was tough Oh, you went to you. Oh, you went to that game in person. Oh That's amazing, man But yeah, I appreciate y'all man. Thank you for coming through Thank you all for the support. Thank you. I appreciate y'all a lot, man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Um, hope you all enjoyed this video Make sure you leave a like on the video if you haven't already subscribed to the youtube channel if you haven't already And we're gonna go ahead and get on up out of here, man. So like I said right now I'm going with Pittsburgh. I mean, no, that's that's my pick for the week I obviously want to be wrong. I want to be incorrect. I want to be dead wrong I don't want to be right at all And this is the game where I just want to be completely wrong and I want to be I want to be so wrong where I'm just made a fool of for how wrong I am. That means I want the Ravens to prove me so wrong and not even make the game close That would be what I would want So Appreciate that Thank you And I'm out man. I'll see you all next time and I appreciate all y'all coming through. We're gone Bye


A local response rate, it's what you do in your hometown. No, local really, I mean local response rates. Think about a period of time, let's say 10 minutes. You could capture a response rate across that whole thing. That is not a local response rate. The local response rate would be narrowing it down into a small slice of that time, right? So if you think of a 10 minute period and you have the response rate for that, the overall response rate, then you could break it down like well what was the response rate at this little moment. It's very granular analysis, right? It's useful because it allows you to see how that, basically acceleration allows you to see how things change, how that response rate changes over time, right? If you looked at schedules of reinforcement book, you'll see that the patterns developed under certain schedules of reinforcement are not perfectly consistent. Some of them are scalloped, some of them are stepped. So the local response rate allows you to analyze each one of those individual pieces. So very useful for some things and not so useful for others, local response rate.


AMODs is the autonomous mobile on-orbit diagnostic system. It's intended to give satellite operators another opportunity to interact with their spacecraft once it's on orbit. By having AMODs, you'd be able to have that additional diagnostic information so that you know exactly what went wrong, how went wrong, and you have a picture of the failure. We started AMODs my sophomore year at the Naval Academy. And I would work spacecraft a little bit, my plebian, my freshman year. When I wrote the proposal, I'd really been looking at a whole host of previous satellite failures. And I realized that the CubeSat form factor might be the best way for us to actually solve that problem by having a small rideshare, 3U CubeSat, really small, lightweight payload that could provide that extra information entirely independently of the satellite systems. The Naval Academy isn't intended necessarily to be a research organization. It's intended to develop leaders and be a leadership laboratory and give people leadership experiences. And so trying to fit building a spacecraft into the sort of regular day-to-day operations at the Naval Academy was quite a challenge. And I'd say a sizable portion, if not the majority, of the spacecraft was designed between 12 and 3 AM, bouncing back and forth between people's rooms as we attempted to sort of squeeze all this work in. We were one of the first really cross-disciplinary CubeSat missions that the Naval Academy had done. And that we had systems engineers working. We had mechanical engineers working. We had aerospace engineers working. So we decided by side to get a product done instead of just the typical captioning approach where it's all aerospace engineers. I don't know if you've ever seen an aerospace engineer try to code before, but it's not a fun experience. And if you can get a CS to come in and do that for you, you get a much better product at the end. About halfway through the development process in that, we weren't allowed to use the amateur radio frequencies because it was determined that because we're a government organization, we needed to have appropriate licenses to operate. NPS has been working with the Cadet Radio. And they had a couple extra that they were willing to provide the Naval Academy if we were able to work with it. I was fortunate enough to come out here and actually help bridge the gap between the two organizations and really get the ground station set up, get the radio set up, et cetera, so that we're able to talk to the spacecraft. We're able to operate the spacecraft. And as it turns out, we'll actually be operating the spacecraft from the Naval postgraduate school. And the team out here has been invaluable in supporting that effort and making sure that we're able to get licensed, et cetera. Friday, April 13, we delivered RSAT to Rocket Lab for integration. It really is looking like a May-June timeframe. I think the number that I've heard is floated around is no earlier than 30 May. Really, the goal is to continue the progression. So right now, there's a team at the Naval Academy that's working on getting a variant of the robotic arms onto the International Space Station. They're also doing a spectacular job of refining the arm control. What we're looking to do now is take some of those more complex tasks, the autonomous routing, the routing to coordinates and stuff like that, and implement them in the International Space Station to continue to test the arm and confirm that it is able to do the missions that we're pitching for it. This is something the Naval Academy's never tried to do before. We've always just operated the amateur bands. And so it's been a big step for us to get to the professional frequencies. And it would not have been able to do it without NPS.


So the first doors of the weekend edition of Thousand Doors Readathon are open. So this is it! The weekend edition of Thousand Doors is starting. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, this is a readathon that I am co-hosting with Emma from Drinking By My Shelf and Tasman from Teabooks and Tasman. I'll leave the announcement video linked down below. But basically it is a choose your own adventure readathon. You start with a prompt and what you think of the book that you read to that prompt then determines what book you read next. And we've done it more advanced than ever before. There's over 40 different possible prompts and everyone is pretty much going to have a unique readathon. No one, like, it's going to be so different for everyone. There's so many different prompts you could end up with. But you're going to have three in total in this readathon and this is possibly the first one. But I will leave Emma and Tasman's first ones linked down below and you have to pick one of us to start your journey with. If you're new to my channel, I'm Megan. Hi, hello. So it's really important that you bookmark whichever video you start with and whichever prompts you end up getting because you'll need to come back to that video, like I said. And at the end of each prompt, once you've read the book that I give you for this prompt, you will have to answer a question and that will determine which door you open next. DNFing will always be an option on the end screen and we're just hit our fan. It's a cute three day weekend edition of Thousand Dolls Readathon. I'm so excited, you guys. We have got some of, like, the best prompts ever and so many. I don't think you guys understand how many possibilities there are for your journey on this readathon. Now, each of us three co-hosts are giving our prompts in a kind of unusual and different way. Each of us is going to be giving it in a different way and mine are going to be once again based on memes. I was not expecting that.  And I will give you some tips on how you can interpret the prompt, but it's super open to you. It literally could be like a book has that word in the title or something like that. It can be completely up to you, but I'm going to give you some tips on how to interpret the memes. So, are you ready? Are you ready for your first prompt from me? You don't have to choose this one, you can choose any of the ones, but like... Okay, so your first prompt is... I mean, let me ask the audience. So I think this is a really fun one. There's a couple options for what you can do. The first thing that comes to mind for me is do a poll on social media for a couple of books you'd be interested in and whatever wins the poll. Read that, start with that book. Or it can be a popular book you've heard spoken about a lot. Or if you're really brave, you could go into the comments section of a random YouTube video and read the first book that you see that you own. That would be kind of crazy, but like, you know, live life on the edge. So that is your prompt.  Okay, bye. See ya. See ya. Bye. Okay, you're back. I hope you enjoyed it, but let's see if you did, because the question is what star rating did you give the book? So there's an option for four to five stars, so you really liked it. There's an option for three to one, one to three, three to one, three, one to whatever. There's an option for that, so whether you thought the book was average or really didn't like it. And there's an option for if you DNF'd the book, so go pick and I will see you soon, maybe, or maybe not.


I'm in my bag again, okay, the cash command, okay. I train just to make sure my body is in great shape. Just being in the heat, it pushes you to another level. I don't keep much liquid, I put it back again, okay. Treat my practice reps like game reps. Those mental reps, those little reps, when you think about it in training, they help you in the game for sure. Lack of commitment, I know your condition. It's tied to your lack of participation. Lot of excuses, you dodging and ducking like you was auditioning for the matrix. Hard body, mind, spirit, eye, clear your eyes to the ship. Nate Rose, I done made a grip, I ain't made a flip.  That's how I reset.  Because if I do my job, then the play will come to me. That's all I'm thinking about.


In the United States, 15 million children face hunger. Three educators in little falls are working to change that by combating food insecurity in elementary students. The Flyer Pride Pack program was implemented two years ago to provide children who have been identified as at-risk or challenged by weekend hunger with a bag of food that is child-friendly, nutritious, non-perishable and easy to make and eat. Each Pride Pack contains five entrees, two breakfasts, two snacks and one fruit. Children are identified by teacher referral, our knowledge as school social workers of families that could benefit and often times new families coming into the district. We divide out the food weekly. So students who receive credit for helping us out, they will bag the foods and then the custodians will deliver the tubs to the elementary schools. The bags are delivered during the student's lunch and recess in order to be private and confidential to private clubs and individual donations. 2094 Flyer Pride Packs were able to be distributed just last year. Hunger is a basic need for all children and they are more able to attend to tasks, more alert if they're not hungry and attendance is also improved. Students are able to do their projects and homework because they're feeling good. If you're hungry, you're not feeling good. For more information on the Flyer Pride Pack program, you can visit the story on our website at lptv.org slash news. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.