pretty so that we can see it a little later. Welcome. My name is Lori Beth Larson, and I am going to moderate our panel's today as we talk about the intersection of EDI and OPEN. We're going to try to share my screen and go back and forth so you can see the panels as we do so. Our agenda today is CCCOER overview. I'll tell you a little bit about CCCOER, the panel discussion. We'll let you know of upcoming events and how you can stay in the loop. Our panels today are Tanya Connerly. Would you like to introduce yourself, Tanya? Yes, good afternoon. My name is Tanya Connerly. I teach full-time and sociology department at San Jacinto College. I am also a part of the DEI College-wide committee there at San Jacinto College. And I'm also the co-vice president of EDI here for CCCOER. And I would like to welcome each of you. Thank you. And that's Dr. Shinta Hernandez. Would you like to introduce yourself? Yes, thank you, Lori Beth. Welcome, everyone. My name is Shinta Hernandez. I am a department chair of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice at Montgomery College, which is located in Montgomery County, Maryland. We are just right outside of Washington, D.C. And I'm also, I'm vice president of professional development on the CCCOER Executive Council. And I welcome and thank all of you for being here. Thank you. And Santue Dawson, would you want to introduce yourself? Santue, I'm not seeing you here on my screen. She is running from one thing to the next. So let's just wait a minute. And when we see her, I'll ask her to introduce herself. Maybe Tanja or Shinta, you could just send me a quick note if you happen to see her. All right. I am Lori Beth Larson. I am English reading faculty at Central Lake College in Minnesota. And there's a Santue, a Santue. And would you like to introduce yourself? Sorry, we can't hear you, Santue, yet. Can you hear me now? Sorry. Yep, thanks. I'm going to start again. I'm a Santue Dawson. I am an associate professor of mathematics at Housatana Community College. I teach in the first year of studies department. We've been using OER in our math courses since, I think, 2015. And I've been a part of the CCC OER EDI work group since, I guess, last summer, summer of 2020. Thanks. And thank you to all of you for being here. We look forward to hearing what you have to say. Our membership in CCC OER continues to grow. We have 94 members in 35 states. And Una mentioned the other day that we have a few members even from Canada away in the United States. CCC OER's mission is to expand awareness and access to higher high quality OER, to support faculty choice and development, to foster regional OER leadership, and improve student equity and success. There are a number of panels, a number of these that we work on in various groups and continue to thrive and continue to grow. So let's start our questions. This first question, we're asking all the panelists to answer. And Tanja, would you mind going first, answering whether you believe or in your experience is open education promoting inclusive and equitable access for all, and if so, how? Thank you, Laurie Beth. I do believe that open ed is creating an exclusive and equitable access for all, but that word all, that is a large pill for us to swallow, because all is covering a lot of demographics. I think that OER is accommodating everyone that they can possibly include. So anyone with disabilities, we have accommodation for them. Anyone with sight or either reading disabilities, we have things to accommodate everyone.  I think that one way that we're doing this is that allowing our students to really be involved in our pedagogy, because we know the students know what their abilities are and their disabilities are. So from there, if we can include them in helping us, the creators, the educators include them in reference to creating our syllabus, include them in reference to writing assessments, include them in every aspect, getting their opinion. I think that in that way, we most definitely are creating a more exclusive as well as equitable environment. Thank you. Excellent. And Shita, you had some thoughts as well about whether Open Ed is promoting inclusive and equitable access for all. I do. Thank you, Laurie, Beth. And I appreciate Tanya's response, because I'm in full agreement with that. So I also believe that through open pedagogy, open education can most definitely promote inclusive and equitable access for all of our students across higher ed, with the word all still being that hard pill to swallow, as Tanya pointed out. I truly believe I do believe that when educators engage in open pedagogy, what they're doing is that they're engaging in teaching strategies that are creative, that are innovative, and it allows for social justice and for equity and for inclusion to seep into the fabric of our classroom environment. So here's a good example that I'd like to share. So open pedagogy as a concept places students at the center of their learning process in a much more engaging and a collaborative learning environment, and that we can achieve social justice in the community at the same time. So specifically, we know that by creating and promoting open educational resources or OERs, knowledge becomes a freely available public use. But really, we have to take that one step further, because it's not just about cost anymore. It used to be maybe in the beginning, but it's really about that social justice and inclusivity piece to this. Open pedagogy also offers an opportunity for faculty who use OERs to have more flexibility and course redesign, as Tonga pointed out, and to be able to customize and create the content that they believe are much more inclusive. And it creates, again, this collaborative learning environment for our students and for our faculty colleagues when they expand their community of practice and share ideas with one another on how to create that inclusive environment. So ultimately, yes, I do believe that it does provide or promote inclusive and equitable access for all of us. Chinta. In the summary, you had some thoughts on whether open ed is promoting inclusive and equitable access for all. Oh, yes, I definitely agree with my colleagues here. But I do want to go back to the issue of cost. Cost is still relevant. My teacher in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the past, our students would go through the whole semester without, especially, a math and a science textbook, which are really, really expensive traditionally. Our materials are now accessible immediately. As soon as they sign up for the class, they are able to access the materials, which is huge. The other piece, while I think it does promote equity, we still have some work to do. Technology access still remains a problem for our students. Accessibility still needs some work. I think also when we think about the generation gap, some of our older students struggle with using the technology that comes free for them. So I do agree that it is promoting equity. But I also want to make sure that I say there's room for improvement. Thank you, exactly. Let me share my screen here. And Shinta, the next question we had is, how can OER creators adopt, find, and engage with culturally relevant content? And how might we find that? And I know you have some resources to share with us as well. Thanks. I do, Laurie, Beth. Yes, and if you don't mind moving to the next slide, I can share those resources now. And I can talk about them one by one so that because I can tell from the chat that there are some varying levels of knowledge of OER in this Zoom space right now, some who are just beginning the OER work, some who have intermediate knowledge, and then some of you are advanced in this work. So I just want to make sure that I provide enough resources to help anybody, regardless of your knowledge level. So these resources here, many of us rely on, many of you even know about, and perhaps even rely on. You may be familiar with this. These resources include OERs that we believe are engaging, culturally relevant, and applicable across many disciplines. They can meet your needs one way or another. I can almost guarantee you on that one. So the first one I want to share is the OER comments. And this is a public digital library of OERs. And this site's pretty neat because it allows you to explore and create and collaborate with educators around the world to help you improve your course curriculum. And also what's pretty neat about this site is there's a special link to remote teaching and learning with OER, which was actually created as a result of the pandemic. So definitely take a look at this and it has a lot of the culturally engaging materials that can certainly meet your discipline needs. The second resource that I have on this list is Creative Commons. I think that anything you find on this site already has a Creative Commons license, which means that you know right away that it's all right to use and it can show you how you can retain and use the material. And specifically, this Creative Commons search is a tool that allows openly licensed work to be used by anyone like the images that they have. They have a plethora of images that you can use to help illustrate the inclusive content that you're planning to deliver in your classroom. So this is a great tool to have. The third on the list is Merlot, which I don't know if any of you know this, but it stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. And so this site, again, also provides access to curated online learning. It's driven by an international community of folks of educators and researchers. There's another neat thing about this particular Merlot is there's a content builder on the site that allows you to create a website so that you can host all of your inclusive course materials and have them be fully accessible. So try it out and see if that will fit with your teaching needs and your student needs. The fourth one on the list is British Columbia Open. This site is similar in the sense that it contains those high quality online open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats. And even though this is specific to Canada, the open education community on this site is available for all of us to use.  This is what we use in the state of Maryland. And it's called the Most Commons Hub, M-O-S-T, Maryland Open Source Textbook Commons Hub. Again, another online repository designed to support faculty and staff. And it helps you discover materials. It helps you collaborate with colleagues across the state and contribute, again, to course redesigning, course curriculum improvements. And I'm sure that across the country, you'll find something similar and specific to your locality. But again, you can certainly just go to any of these sites to find those culturally engaging materials. Now to answer Lori Beth's second question about how might we recognize bias content, one of the main questions I think you should be asking yourself is whose voice is missing? So while adaptability and affordability are two important aspects of OERs, as we've already talked about, another facet is perspective.  Are there any under-representation of a group of people that may impact the inclusivity of your course environment? And if so, how does this impact the students' learning process? Now I have found that to achieve the inclusion of multiple voices using OERs from any of these resources on the list is certainly one way to achieve that goal. Another way can be that as you are creating OERs, invite instructors and professionals from your discipline and across other disciplines to contribute to the creation of the OERs so that it offers those diverse voices that might be missing in your current course materials. Thank you so much. Great questions. And I had no idea about those resources. I know some of them, but I didn't know at Merlot. Thanks, Shinta. So another question that we wanted to talk about was what are some ways of inviting more diverse authors and perspectives? And Tanya, I believe you are going to speak to this. I am. Thank you, Lord Beth. I'm going to tap in a little bit more in reference to Dr. Shinta discussing asking our colleagues to contribute. But before I go into that, I think we need to understand how important and how much work, as an OER advocate, the work that we're putting on our shoulders and the biggest changes that we are making to our colleges, our institution, as well as our country. Think about our publishing companies. They have a hierarchy of employees. They have textbook authors. They have sales reps that are at your door knocking on it now that we're back on campus. But we, as OER advocates, we're just basically a one-man show. We're the author of the textbook. We have to knock on the doors of our colleagues and ask them to be a part of this new knowledge that we are bestowing upon our students. Once we knock on the doors, we are asking them, hey, come and be a part of this. So we're the bookseller. We're the book rep. We're all of these balled into one that a publishing company has five and six different people at different levels doing. So one way that we are able to invite more diverse authors is, again, by touching base with them, letting our colleagues know what's going on. And one of the group of colleagues that we tend to ignore are our adjunct professors. I'm a part of a part-time faculty advisory board at San Jacinto College. And I think 65% of our adjuncts teach our classes. And we took a poll last year in reference to what we can do in order to make your job easier. And they just said they just really want to feel like that they belong, that they belong there. That isn't hard. That can be accomplished. So one way that I am inviting and asking and making sure that they are long, I'm asking the vice chancellor to allow me to introduce open educational resources at our new faculty orientation to make sure that they are most definitely aware, because we automatically think that people know about us. We have to stop that. So every time we see someone, I even have buttons that I wear. At our college, it's called Open Books. And I've created open book buttons that I wear on my very nice blazers and my dress. Because, again, we automatically think that people know. And remember, again, our role. So if we continue to be the bookseller, to be the book rep, I think that, again, we can encourage a more diverse pool of people. And then if we do that, that means that we are going to receive a more diverse information that is going to basically be a part of what we're trying to promote an exclusive and equitable environment. So I think, again, in closing that we all need to be commended in reference to wearing so many hats. And if we just continue to promote the wonderful work that we're doing, I think that our diverse audience of authors and we'll be able to grow as well. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, Tanya. That's some really good ideas there. Santa, when you were going to answer the question, how might we become more aware of our audience? Hi, yes. And I just enjoyed what Tanya was saying about getting people involved. But I just wanted to remind folks that you don't have to create brand new OER. You can modify. You can supplement. There's so many ways that you can contribute to this without having to write a whole new textbook. And I think sometimes when you sell it that way, that's important. The other piece is getting your administration involved on your campuses when we have a dean who supports OER. And so when the administrator support it, it leads towards initiatives on campus and also promotion and there's incentives there when everybody, all the key stakeholders are involved as well. But I'm supposed to talk about how to become aware of our audience. So one of the things, teaching math, math is one of those subjects that people enjoy or they don't enjoy. It's usually really, really extreme, not much in between. And so it's really difficult sometimes to bring people in. And so you first want to recognize the audience, how you identify yourself, how they identify you. You want to engage them. You want to make sure that you learn about the world the students live in. And you build your mathematics around that. And I think about math. And oftentimes I come up with a topic. We talk about numbers and we talk about sign numbers. And I always say, well, where do you use negative numbers? And it never fails. Someone says bank account. And I always kind of laugh. But it is really, when they make that relationship, that's how they understand negatives. And so when I'm teaching them or going through a problem and they're making this mistake with these negatives, I use that banking example often because it's something they relate to. So you want to pay attention to your audience. You also want to pay attention to nonverbal cues when they're getting it, when they're not getting it, when you're speaking in a way that they just, the language sometimes, they just don't understand. It's a lot of vocabulary involved. And so you reword it. You keep your expectations high. You keep teaching the content, but sometimes it doesn't have to be worded in sort of the old way of saying things. And so meeting your students where you are, allowing students time to learn is important. And you just want to make sure you keep ensuring access to high quality curriculum. And so with OER, as we said earlier, is that you're able to modify, you're able to supplement. And so anytime a need arrives, I'm able to add content. And I think that's one of the beautiful things about this work. Exactly, excellent points. It's made me much, much better teacher. So our final question here is, what work then needs to be done? And let's see, Shinta, I'll ask you first if you don't mind, what work needs to be done? Great, thank you, Lori Beth, for that question. So I'm gonna build off of what Asanto was saying earlier about getting that administrator support. I speak from experience at Montgomery College. We've had such great support up and down and left and right. And I think that's what has enabled us to be so successful over the last several years and allowed us to save our students a lot of money through our Z courses and Z degree programs. We're now at our savings of $8.4 million. And it just continues because we just keep adding more and more Z courses. We continue adding more professional development opportunities around the work of open pedagogy and open education. So it almost has become like mainstream Montgomery College. And I think so much of that has to do with that administrator support. But for anyone else who is thinking about what else needs to be done, I definitely would say that kind of support can help provide an alignment of the work in things like the institutional strategic plan and other institutional guiding documents because as Asanto pointed out, then you get resources, then you get funding, then you get exposure. So that's one thing. And I wasn't thinking that until Asanto brought that up. So I appreciate that. But the other thing I did want to say is, and this is very, this is similar to what we had talked about earlier between myself and Tanja, engaging students. We need to engage students more in an active way that allows them to be agents of change both in the classroom as well as in the community. So for example, as Tanja pointed out, invite those students to help redesign a course. Invite those students to offer perspectives that we as educators would not have thought about. And those perspectives are so diverse, as we can imagine, not just the usual racial, ethnic, gender diversity, but there could also be the age background. There could also be just different educational expectations they have that we simply weren't thinking. And all of that diversity going into a course redesigning can truly impact, positively impact, a student's learning process. Have the students be a part of your teaching experience and their learning process. And I'll add one more thing. Another way to engage students, I think, is to have them apply what they're learning in the classroom through Open Pedagogy and then get them to contribute back to the community through some form of service learning, experiential learning, active learning. This allows them to be more interactive and collaborative and really make a difference in their educational journeys as well as help to save the better world or to make the world a better place to live in. So thank you. Exactly. Yes, making valuable learning lessons. Tanja, you had some thoughts on what work needs to be done? I do. Thank you very much, Lori Beth. I know that earlier, one of my colleagues, I can't remember which one, spoke about the point of us having a more equitable environment. Even though OER is free, we still have students that don't have access to technology, such as laptops and Wi-FIs. I am really so honored to work with OpenStacks as they continue to partner with technological companies in order to get free Wi-Fi for our students who are not able to have free Wi-Fi. And they're also working with other companies to partner with them in order to create a more equitable LMS system as well. So we are continuing. We know that equitability is an issue, but we are not ignoring it. Again, change is a process. It is not an event. So it takes time. And I think that a lot of times we're just looking for instant gratification. We call it McDonaldization, because when you're in the line for McDonald's, it takes like five minutes to get a burger. And we have our computer access, so everything that we have right now, we want instant gratification. We want a response. But this is a process. There are many people involved, and many lives are at stake. Because, again, we are providing knowledge for our students so they can be a productive member of society. So the work that really needs to be done is trying to, and like I said, that we're at all. We're trying to reach the masses. We're trying to reach all, but all is such a large word. So again, we're trying to accommodate as many people as possible. But again, we know that there's work that needs to be done in reference to providing accessibility to technology and providing more diverse look and reference to our society, looking at our textbook in a more open range. We know that, so we're aware of that. So we're looking at that, encouraging more people of color to be a part of our committees of CCCOER. So again, I think that we're acknowledging that there's work that needs to be done. But again, we are progressing and trying to go in that way in order to make sure that the work is being done. Thank you. Thank you, Tanya. Yes, the McDonald's. I can't even say it, but it's a great work. Anna Santore, you had some thoughts on this. And what work needs to be done? So in terms of what work needs to be done, I think we need to continue sort of sharing our knowledge and pushing this agenda of open. One of the benefits of reading from equity talks, equity while they talked about how valuable experiential learning was. And so Connecticut's in the process of, I guess, adopting a new strategic plan that includes equity. And we're moving to a corequisite model in that. And so working on one of the pathways, we're trying to move away from the high-stake assessments of testing, but really creating assignments that are maybe semester long and incorporate the content throughout the semester and have these renewable assignments. And I think we just need to also continue to share. I started with sharing, with sharing these kinds of assignments. We're looking to create these new experiences for students. But someone has already done some of this stuff and just making sure that we let folks know where to find this information, I think also can be helpful. But yeah, getting out the good word. And I think I'm going to get a button too so that we keep growing. And then we talk the talk, but really just walking the walk. I think that's something for personally I need to work on as I keep learning and being involved with these groups is that now I've collected all this information. Now this is when the work happens. And it doesn't have to happen all at once, but just a little bit at a time. And I think that that's really what needs to be done. Exactly. Yeah, buttons are good ideas. Thank you, Asante. Yes, and you were referring to the book club, the EDI book club that we had most recently, the equity talk, the equity walk, and just a plug. There are other book cups coming up as well. Thank you all. So we have time for questions. And we do have one question here right away. Sybil asks, would you be willing to share your button design, Donja?  You know, we're on a budget. Our student engagement department literally had a button machine. So I literally create a button, the format of it on word. And I literally was in the student engagement office for like two hours creating buttons so I can give it to our faculty member. So that's just something that I'm putting on my resume, button maker. So that's how I did it. I literally learned how they taught me how to make them in like 10 minutes. And I was literally in there like making buttons so I can pass them out at the faculty event. And it just says open educational resources, books are free. And word has a template. What a great idea. Yes, I love OER. Give the button maker a raise in promotion. Excellent idea. Perfect for your resume. Yes. Any other questions here? Feel free to type them in the chat or unmute yourself and ask any questions or comments, if you like. We'll wait just a couple of minutes. I have a question. So I teach at Community College, sorry, CCBC Community College of Baltimore County. I wanted to find out, like, yeah, some of these things that you mentioned in this panel was definitely very meaningful for our students. But what are the benefits of becoming a member of all CCCOER? Sure. And Shinta, you've been with CCCOER for a number of years. Would you want to? And Tanjai, I believe you all have as well. Go ahead. Absolutely. Number one benefit for me is networking and community practice. I have, as Lori Beth went out, been a member for a while now. And we're now four friends. We can call on each other, talk to each other, zoom with one another with ideas. And we do conference presentations together. So that networking that happens so naturally as a result of this common passion we have on OERs and Open Education has led us to where we are today, which is just continued contributions together and continued work collaborations. So that, for me, is definitely number one. Tanjai, if you wanted to speak to other benefits as well. I, you know, we talk about OER, about sharing. And, you know, as Dr. Hernandez said, more than anything, it is about us sharing knowledge. You know, you can start something and create something new if you like.  It's amazing. And it just makes me so proud to say that I'm a part of an organization. Look at all that we've created. I mean, if you look at everything that we've literally created and you have people to go in and actually, you know, remix and make it their own, that's amazing, you know? And that is probably what the biggest benefit for me is the sharing of the knowledge. Because I'm always wanting to learn. And as educators, I think that that, you know, that's just in our DNA that we wanna learn all the time. And this is just such a great way in order for us to continue to gain knowledge.  I love that, I love that. Yeah, thank you. And it's not the way you and I are newer members. As a newer member, what would you, how would you answer that? What are the benefits of being with CCC OER? Oh, there's so many benefits. You know, I had been using OER for years. Not as familiar about things like open pedagogy, you know? And so being a part of the group, I've just learned so much how much more out there there is to learn. And then these folks are, they're the experts in the field. And, you know, if I need something, OER can give me a resource in a heartbeat, which is very valuable. So I think, you know, that's what Shanda said, networking is important. You have people to call on that have all the information that you need. Yeah, I would agree with what you just said. There's a question here. Sybil asks, if someone creates a resource that has more diverse voices in it than other OER textbooks, how could one promote that? She also says, should we sell the book by saying six out of 10 student examples are by people of color and those in the LGBTQIA community or student examples in this book are not from dead white guys? Let's see, anyone want to have some ideas on that one? Promoting, I think promoting more diverse voices. Tanya? That's a good question. So promoting more diverse voices, I think that, again, if your college or your university is not promoting diversity, take it a step at a time. We always have department meetings. So talk about it in your department meeting. From there, your department meeting, you'll probably go to another meeting, go talk, find a way to promote it there in reference to OER. And at one point, somebody's gonna get tired of hearing you talk all the time and there's no action. So as long as you have the facts behind you, it's not like we're just saying these things that OER works without really numerical value. So I always take some form of data with me that says that during the pandemic, we've saved this amount of money or over this amount of time, we've saved this amount of money. So I think that one way that we can promote the diverse voices is to basically start from the bottom, go to somebody that's next door to you, go to your department meetings and talk about it. And people are always at a loss in reference to, is it okay for me to talk about this?  It's okay for you to talk about it. Excellent. Yes. I agree. There's another question here that says, a lot of campus-wide work hinges on administrator support. What advice do you have for campuses just joining the movement and don't necessarily have the support and resources needed? I can speak to that, Lori Beth. That's all right. Thank you. In fact, actually, not the administrator support part, but when I first became a department chair five years ago, we had just received the Achieving the Dream grant on creating Z-Degrees. And so as a new department chair with a department that was, I don't wanna say anti-OER, but when we experienced change, everyone kind of hesitates a little bit. So we're all kind of new to that, relatively speaking. And one of the things that I did was I quote-unquote piloted the program. So I oversee two campuses at Montgomery College in sociology anthropology and criminal justice. So what I decided to do was take the smaller campus and make those courses OER based courses, Z courses, and then survey the students separately from the course evaluation that we normally do at the end of the semester. And eventually I saw the data and it was all promising data. We had a bunch of questions that we adopted from the ATD survey as well as questions of my own. And I had faculty to help me with this. So that's another component. It's faculty champions who will work with you. And when we saw that the data was very promising, I scaled it up to the other campus and the other campus, a much larger campus, twice the size. And then once I did that and the student success rates continued to go up across the campuses, I was then able to show it to other department chairs and other people who either are champions of OER or not as much and just say, hey, look, it's working. And then through the grant, we also saw positive differences in other disciplines as well. So I say, start small. If you're starting brand new to this work, gather the data, get survey data, get anecdotes from faculty, staff and students and then work from there. Excellent. Sandra, did you have anything to say on getting administrator support? I think Shinta, hit on it. You really need to present the data. It's almost like our state is adopting this correct model. Why are we doing it? Because the data says it works. I think enough is around, especially through ATD about OER that you can get information and you sell it like, hey, students are completing, students are persisting, right? These are the things that colleges wanna hear. And yeah, you just keep, you sell it to one person and hopefully it grows from there. You do have people who resist, either they've had negative experiences with making their work free or some of the textbooks don't necessarily cover exactly what you want. And it does require sometimes a little bit of work, a little bit of modifying. But at the end of the day, when students are able to access the book, you're able to teach and the learning happens. So I think, yeah, just follow the data would be my advice. Yeah. Excellent. Let's take a look at this next question and I am afraid I don't know. Has anyone compiled or raised books, resources which comes for an idea perspective anywhere? Anywhere? Do you have some thoughts on that, Tanja? Well, I would like to define exactly from an idea perspective, can you elaborate on that? Because I'm not familiar with an idea perspective. Let's see, that's Shagoon. Shagoon here too. Was that a typo or is it? If you could just explain an idea perspective, I will be more than happy to try to attempt to answer that, but I don't know what an idea perspective is. Shagoon just put it in the chat. So idea stands for inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism. Okay, great. All right, okay. I have a new acronym now. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. Got a new acronym. I will be using that in class. I love that. That is the reason why we, in our summer book club, we did from equity talk to equity walk. And unfortunately, we did have to utilize a book. Well, there's, I should say fortunately, but unfortunately, we did have to utilize a book that was not an open educational resources, but because we didn't have a particular one that was addressing the diversity that we were looking for, discussing equity. So that is the reason why we had to utilize from equity talk to equity walk. But if you have something in mind, I can tell you that you will have a lot of people who would love to partner with you and order for us to get something out and about this topic from open educational resources. So if you, like I said, if you have something in mind, hint, hint, we would love to partner with you. So our contact information will be at the end of our presentation today. So again, that's the reason why we had to go from equity talk to equity walk because unfortunately right now, we do not have anything from anything concrete. Unless Una, I know you're here, that's our guru of knowledge. Una, are you aware of anything that is, that targets this perspective that would be a good starting point? I know we have our anti-racism information. I know we have a whole thing on that that Una is, that CCC OER is working on. We have all of that on our website. So that would be a good start for you as well. And Tina Mullins just added a shortlist of OER for IDEA. Oh, great, oh, great. But I know that we have our, I know we have our anti-racism platform on CCC OER website so that can give you a great start and then Tina just put something here and so that's what OER is about, sharing. Thank you, Tina. And speaking of that, Wade Oshira just said you don't have to be a member to attend excellent CCC OER webinars but membership gives your institution additional networking and leadership. It's worth the price. And so I wanted to get to just one question. Asante Wei, you alluded to free software support. Do you have any thoughts on where free courseware might be headed? I have no idea where it's headed. We use my OpenMAC for a learning management system. You know, sometimes in terms of like graphing calculator and stuff we supplement with Desmos. I don't know where it's headed though. We just try to make sure that, you know students can get the work done. And those OpenMAC is great for homework and it's a management system. So you can set it up almost like a blackboard course and they keep modifying, which I think is great. It's definitely improved since I first started using it. Is it Pearson's product? No, but it's still comparable. So, I mean, that's what I use. And I know there's some other ones out there. I just at the top of my head can't think of it right now. Yeah, thank you. And the, Liz just made mention too as well that there's a EDI book club that can be found on the CCCOER EDI's blog post. That's a lot of acronyms. All right, to any final thoughts? Any other questions? Jonathan asks, does anyone want the domain idea for OER.org? He bought it last year and he'd be happy to give it out. Talk about sharing. Any other thoughts? I saw you had your hand up Shakur and then it went down. Oh, there, Elaine wants it. So, to the site, to the highest bidder. Any other questions we have here before we start finishing up? Any final thoughts, Shinta? No final thoughts other than I really appreciate all of you being here and sharing some really good information on the chat as well as raising some very thought provoking questions. So thank you so much for all of that. Thank you. And Tanja, any final thoughts? No final thoughts, but I really want to thank you for attending and I really look forward to continuing to share more information. Well, us sharing information with each other to continue our journey and our plight in reference to open educational resources. Thank you. Thank you. Anasante, are any final thoughts here? No final thoughts. Just again, thank you for listening to us and sharing with us as well other resources I see popping up in the chat. Exactly. So let me share our final ideas here. We do have another webinar coming up on December 8th which will be a fascinating one. It's a student panel on the impact of OER. And Liz, I see a question on when the chat and recording come out. Please take a look at the community email. It's an incredibly busy email. Very useful, ccc oer.org community-email. There are a number of EDI blog posts and student OER impact stories on the ccc oer.org. And you can look under the tab getting involved to stay in the loop. Here are contact information for Liz and for Una and the CCC OER staff. And yes, when we have the recording the emails for Shinta, Tanja and Sandovi are also will be at the beginning of that recording. Thank you everybody. Anything else to add here, Liz, as we finish up? No, thank you just to let people know if they wanna save the chat, they have to do that manually but I will be emailing a link to the recording and the slides out to everyone who registered.


We invite you to enjoy life, life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Cy Howard, and starring that celebrator actor, Mr. J. Carol Nash, with Alan Reed. A year ago, when Luigi Vasco left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would write her and tell her about his adventures. So now, we look over Luigi's shoulder as he writes another letter to Mama Vasco in Italy.  I bet you're surprised how Italian a boy like me gets American a girl. What is your most surprised? Because the biggest American hero is Italian. In Italy, it's the Garibaldi. In America, it's the Gary Cooper. Since I'm a fallen love with American a girl and Mama Mia, I'm gonna try to find out more about them. Last week, I'm talking with a cashier girl in a movie house. And when she's telling me how she's gonna go out for a good time, it's just like we build a house in Italy. First, she's a put on a foundation. Then she's a spread on the paint. After that, she raises the roof and then she gets a plastered. Another thing I don't understand. All American girls, they look nice and skinny. Even if they're fat, they look skinny. It's because a great American invention called girdle. All the girls who wear this are because they take them in when they go out. But American inventors, they're never satisfied. So somebody is an event of what they call two ways to reach. That's not only to take a girl in when she's a go out, but also to take a girl out when she's a go in. Anyway, Mama Mia, since summer go out with American a girl now, I tried to find out the more about them. I ask the people, but there's nobody discussing the subject. So I find out for myself. I buy beautiful a magazine with the beautiful picture of a girl on the cover. It's a very exclusive high-class magazine. It's called a true passionate story. This, this is only for ladies, but I give a news a deal of extra 10 cents and he lets me have a coffee. I'm reading a true passionate story this morning in my antique store. When in walks a Pasquale in my country, a man who's a bring me to America. Luigi, my friend. Hello, Luigi. Hello, hello. Hello, Pasquale. What are you reading there, my little man? You're studying for your examination at night school tonight? It's not important, Pasquale. Hey, why are you trying to hide the book? Come on, give me. Pasquale, don't touch. Let me read. Oh, it's a book about Italians. True Paisan story. Is it not the Paisan? It's a passion. Passion? Shoot, Pasquale. I explain to you what is a passion. Don't bother explaining.  So I'll sit away, Luigi. Pasquale spends his time reading the junk. It's not the junk. It's a very interesting. Tell us all about the American girl. Listen, I was a married to a glassblower. Joyce Marlon, girl, a pin boy. I was a held captive by a chiropractor, or I knew it was a love. I could have filled it in my bones. That's the sound of every education. That's right, Pasquale. It teaches you all about the love. Ah, Luigi, you're a greenhorn to read a magazine like this. This stuff is a baloney. Pasquale, to you as a baloney. To me is a slice of life. Luigi, what's happened to you ever since you go out with American a girl is that nobody can talk to you. Instead of a study and for your examinations tonight in a school, you're reading this at trash. I was in a lover with a glass of pin boy. Joyce Marlon, a girl, a chiropractor. Luigi, throw away this junk. Read your lessons, otherwise you'll pass your examination tonight. Pasquale, I don't know what's to come over with me. I don't can eat. I don't can sleep, and I don't care about the night school and examination. The trouble with you is a very simple, you will love. Pasquale, I don't go to school tonight. I got a date with my new American a girl, Peggy Marsha. You're going to have a date tonight that I missed in the examination?   Oh Pasquale, you differ in a type of man. You don't know about the love. I don't know about the love. I'm a married at 26 years, but I got a good memory. No Pasquale, I explain. When you feel love like I'm a fill, it's a something you don't let it go. It is something that winds around you. Just the one you think you got it, it slips through your finger. It's a hard to get, but when you got it, it's the most delicious thing in the world. That's a love. Luigi, that's a plate of spaghetti. Well, so you forget all about my daughter Rosa. Pasquale, I'm never going to marry your daughter Rosa. Now, excuse me Pasquale, I'm a later for my date with a page. All right, my little friend, forget her Rosa. Forget why I'm bringing you to America. Forget United School, your education.  Go out with your girl. But Pasquale? I'm seeing the whole thing Luigi.  And what does a poor Don Jose say?  He's a wrong aria. He's a go like this. No, no, no, no, Pasquale, no, no, no. It's a go like this. All right, stop it Luigi. All right, stop it Luigi. I'm a son of Pasquale. Luigi, we're countrymen of friends. Think over before you leave. Drop this girl a peggy. No, he's a too late to Pasquale. I'm too much in love. All right, the go.  But there's no more roses, no more school, and no business, and no friends. And when you come a crawl in the back of to me, honor your knees. What do you think I'll say? Hello, shorty. You don't date with a Rosa, date with an American girl. I picture him. Hello? Hello, public school number 12. I'd like to speak with Mrs. Spauldiger, please. Oh. Hello, Mrs. Spauldiger. This is a Pasquale's spaghetti palace speaking. Hello, Mr. Pasquale. I'm a no squealer, but one of your pupils is a play hooky from your school tonight. Who? Well, like I said, I'm a no squealer, but he's a short fellow with a bushy hair, speaks it with an accent, and his initials is the L of B. Luigi Vasco? How you guess? That's terrible. He couldn't have picked a worse night. Not only will he miss the examinations, but we were planning a surprise party for him. A surprise party? Yes. Luigi's been in America exactly one year today. What are we going to do now? Oh, I fix up. He's a go out of tonight with a Mr. Peggy Marshak, circular 8276.  Good. I'll call her and explain the situation to her. Thank you. Oh, and Mr. Pasquale, please do me a favor about the surprise party. Don't say a word to Mr. Luigi. I'm going to say a word? Mrs. Spauldiger, what do you think I am? A squealer? I brought a little present. I think they go nice with artificial cherries. I bring her your last Tuesday. Come on, let's go to a movie, huh, Peggy? I'm not going with you. You're not to go into the movies with me. Why? Oh, I know, Peggy. Tonight I pay for you. You don't pay for yourself. Luigi? Peggy, schoolers are not the means so much to me now. Since I met you, I'm going to learn a new language from the heart. And instead of alphabet A, B, C is a love, L, E, U, V. Peggy, if you know like a new movies, then I'll take you somewhere else. Come on, I'll take you to the Y. We play handball. No. Maybe you like we stand outside the radio store and look at television. Luigi, it's no use trying to entice me. I'm not going with you. Peggy, you kind of mean that. I do mean that.  You say that because you've got another date. I resent that, Mr. Basko. Go now. And believe me, I'm doing this for your good. I can't say any more, Luigi. Someday you'll know why I did this. But, but Peggy... Please, Luigi, please go. Mamma mia, I'm thrown out to buy my girl. Just like a Pasquale says, I'm all alone. No friends and no business. No kind of go back to school. That's the story of Carmen, all right? Now I know how poor Dan Jose he feel. And now for the second act of Luigi Basko's adventures in Chicago, we turn to page two of his letter to his mother in Italy. So Mamma mia, Luigi or Sonny make a big fool of himself over a girl.   I'm a steam to starch, to press, to packed up and sent to the cleaner. My girl Peggy Moshack is left to me for somebody else. It's like Uncle Pietro say, for every man is a woman. Mamma mia in a Chicago tonight and some men is a got a two woman. I don't know what I'm going to do. All I know is I cannot face my friend. I'm going to leave Chicago. Don't try to stop me Mamma mia, I'm a go. I'm just a way to write an out for Jimmy. My 12 year old general manager to come home from his Tuber lesson. Then I say goodbye. Hello Mr. Luigi. Hello Jimmy, goodbye. Goodbye? But boss, what do you mean? Hey, what are you all packed up for? Jimmy, I'm a running away from home. Life is not fair to me. While I'm a bend down to tie my shoelace, the love is a kick in me right in the head. Jimmy, I feel so bad. I think I'm going to take a slow boat to Italy. Boss, how are you going to get along in Italy? That's all right to Jimmy. I can learn Italian again. And even if I'm a failure an American, in Italy I make a good living. I got a two stronger feet. I can always crush grapes. Oh, boss, you're not really going to go, are you? Jimmy, isn't all you trying to stop me? I'm off on a boat to Italy with the money in my pocket. How much money do you have, boss? Seven and a half a dollar. Seven fifty. With that money you're lucky if you could go steerage. Jimmy, if a captain takes me on a boat I'm willing to drive. Goodbye Jimmy. Oh, don't boss. Jimmy, don't make a scene. We're two big men. Goodbye. Kissing yourself for me. Just like this? You're leaving me? Not just like this. Everything I got I'm leaving to you. But boss, how am I going to pay all the bills? I'll leave the antiques and the statues to you. Well, goodbye antiques and a goodbye statue. Goodbye Washington. Goodbye Lincoln. Goodbye Jefferson. Goodbye college. Over? Jimmy, take good care of the vacuum, McClendon. All right, boss. Say, boss, have you said goodbye to Miss Paulding? Don't mention my school teacher's name. Play hooky is a black and a blue mark against my name. Goodbye Alexandra Hamilton. Goodbye Harissa Greeley. You with a famous a word. Go west, the younger man. Goodbye. Go west. Hey, that's a good idea. I'm going to go west. West. That's a Luigi. I'm going to west. Jimmy? Yes, boss. Which way is the west? Never mind. I'm a find out. Is there like a story in my passion magazine? I go west and become a millionaire. Boss, how do you make a living? There's plenty of ways. Maybe I go to Milwaukee and I raise a beer. If that's no good, I go to New Mexico and I grow kukoraches. Well, that's no mention of me and a Peggy Manning. We're going to live in a big enchilada. And we have a five or six of little tortillas. Go back Jimmy. Boss, boss. He's gone. What am I going to do? I've got to stop him. Huckle, Mr. Persqually. Hey, Mr. Persqually. That's the matter Jimmy. Why are you so excited? It's Luigi. He's gone. Gone? Yeah, he went west. Where's the Bobby? He's not dead. He's leaving town. He's going away forever. How much money did he have? Seven and a half dollars. Forever means he's going to be right back. What do you mean? If I'm going to know Luigi, he's going to get thrown out of the railroad station. He'll miss you and he'll come right back. You really think so? I know so. That's the way the healer want a friend. And that's the way my Rosa will be waiting for him. Rosa, I wonder you should have smelled good for Luigi. Put on some of my aftershave lotion. Ah, there it is. Across the street. Union station. Hey, what's it is Santa say? Travel at the hour expense. Join up on a seat of the world. Uncle Sam wants you. That's a tripper for nothing as a funny kind of travel agency. I'm going inside on a seat. Hiya, buddy. Come on in. Thank you. Pleaser, mister. I like to take a trip out the west. You've come to the right place. Ever served before? Oh, that's the catch, huh? No, I never served before. But if it's necessary, I'm a willing to become a waiter. How far away can I go? Saipan, Guant. Can I see me? When I'm a rich of California. California? Yes. I'm here as always a nice and a sunny in California. Well, that can be arranged. California is probably where you spend your boot camp. One minute. I'm a waiter next to a minute. I'm a fix of the shoes. No, I'm a think I don't go. I'm going to make a lot of money because Peggy Marsh jackets are beautiful. Now take it easy, Mac. I know how you feel, but things have changed. Here, have some coffee and doughnuts. How much is it cost? Free, buddy. And you get them as long as you stay with us. This is I like. Pleaser, mister. Tell me, how am I going to travel? Any way you like. Oh. Rain, bolt, airplane, submarine, dog sled, rickshaw. Sometimes you might even have to crawl on your stomach. That's the funny way to get to California. Calamity, is enough for money, seven and a half for dollars? Put it away, pal. From now on, your money worries are over. In fact, while you're traveling, we pay you 50 bucks a month. 50, darling? That's private pay.   Commission? How long is it till I become a partner? Buddy, you're a partner right now in the most tremendous, most gigantic, and what's more, most successful organization in the entire world? What's the name of the company? Great kidding. Well, let's give you a simple aptitude test to see which branch you're best suited for. Take a look at that picture. What type of equipment is that? Well, it looks familiar. They're... Tanks. You're welcome. Now, here's a piece of naval equipment. Is that a U-boat? What? Is that a U-boat? No, that's another my boat. Well, don't worry, Mac. We'll find a place for you. You know, I'm glad you said that, because I'm gonna want to leave the town right away. But you want to join a meeting? Yes. Oh, good. Now, would you mind signing right here? All right. Now, when I start... You start right now. Oh. Tin, tin! Huh? I'm right! Chin up! Chest out! And drop that donut! What do you mean by eating while you're on duty? Now, march! But, please, do you think I'm in the Army? What Army? You're in the paratroop. Now, march! Pascuale, what are you doing in my store?  Hey, Luigi, where you get this crew haircut? It's a long story, Pascuale. You see, I'm a joint of the Army. What? First, the doctors examine me, then they give me malaria shot, a typhoid shot, a six-order shot. Then they cut off all of my hair, give me a uniform. Then they find out I'm another citizen, so they throw me out. What's in a little bandage on your arm?  What a big boob I'm looking at. What a stupid... Please, please, Pascuale. Don't talk like that to a veteran. I must suffer too much if I want to die. I know, Luigi, but you can always account on your friend the Pascuale to help you.  Shame, Luigi. Why you ever doubted me?  The biggest friend you got. Rosa! Rosa! Come here, Rosa. Say hello to Luigi. Hello, Rosa. Ain't it nice to have a friend, Luigi? Rosa, no, you must be nice and hungry, so look at what she brings you. Coffee and donuts! No, no, I'm not hungry. Well, I think I'ma leave you two lovebirds alone. You must have a lot to talk about. Goodbye, my son. Wait, wait, Pascuale. Where's the Jimmy?   I think his break is a heart. Where is he now?  You don't have to think of anything. It's just you and Rosa and a love. Who set up his thing? Luigi Bapsko, my friend and fellow boobie. Schultz, what do you do here? Have you supposed to be in a night school? Oh, night school. Well, I thought maybe for tonight I'd drop it in on your antique shop. Funny, Luigi.  But what are the examinations? Schultz, please. So Rosa and Luigi want to be alone. So if you want to come in tonight to drop in at some other time, goodbye. Goodbye. Pascuale, don't chase the shots. This is my story. This is my daughter. If you don't mind, I'm staying. Hello, my fine Italian friend Luigi. Oh, rally, Anna Swanson. What do you want to do here? You want to miss a night class? Save your worry, Luigi. Sure, and it's cold outside. It's nice to be warming yourself around that pot-bellied stove. That's my daughter, Rosa. Why you don't all go home already? You've been here two minutes. Pascuale, please. A little while ago, I was ready to live in this country. I thought I got an old friend, but it looks like maybe it's a different. If only my teacher, Mrs. Spaulding, is still like me. Mrs. Spaulding. Hello, Mr. Luigi. What's happened? It's a whole class in my store. Why not? This is a classy stool. Mrs. Spaulding, I'm very sorry to say this, but I'm a no study for your examination tonight. Just the same, Mr. Luigi. We're going to hold the examination anyway. No. Luigi Basco, what person whom we all know arrived from Italy recently? But I'm a no study, Mrs. Spaulding. Well, try it, Mr. Luigi. What person we all know arrived from Italy recently? Rita Hewitt. No, no, Mr. Luigi. I'll give you a clue. This person's initials are LB. Lionel of Barrymore? Mr. Schultz, you answer the question. With pleasure. Luigi Basco. Luigi Basco. And why is this particular day important? Well, I don't know, Mrs. Spaulding. Well, I know. It's exactly a year that Luigi Basco has been a resident of this country. That's right. It's exactly a year that the Luigi Basco has been a resident of this country. One a year today. Surprise! Surprise! I'm going to understand. What is examination? There wasn't any examination, Luigi. I just wanted to make sure that everyone, including you, would be present tonight. Oh, Mrs. Spaulding. My friends, I don't know what to say.  From now on, Mrs. Spaulding, I'm not going to go to school every night. I'm not going to study all day. And I'm not going to let nothing or anybody interfere because... Luigi, I'm here, too. Peggy. Excuse me, Mrs. Spaulding. Is there someone I got to talk to? It's a problem for the whole party. What do you bring? Donut party. So, Mamma Mia, is the day come out to good after all? Is it a proof a man's best friend is his best friend? Can't write tomorrow, Mamma Mia, because I'm on our busy writing article for magazine called The True Passion. Name of a story is, I've found the love in a Chicago. Or is ill wind what the blows and those are good?  The next week at this time over most of these stations, when Luigi Basko writes another letter to Mamma Basko, describing his adventures in America. Life with Luigi is a Psy Howard production and is written by high craft Mack Benoff at Lou Derman and stars J. Carol Nash as Luigi Basko, with Alan Reed as Pasquale. Music is under the direction of Lynn Murray, Bob LeMond speaking. There's more laughter coming your way on CBS, just a little later this evening, when Eve Arden steps forth once more as the topsy-turvy schoolmistress, our Miss Brooks and Lomond Abner gather around the Cracker Barrel in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. Our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden is heard at 9.30 and Lomond Abner are heard at 10 o'clock both Eastern Standard Time over most of these same stations. Now stay tuned for the Electric Theater starring Miss Helen Hayes in John Van Drutten's Young Woodley, which follows immediately over most of these same stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup with People's Dispatch where we bring you some of the top stories from across the globe. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Taliban offers amnesty to government officials as evacuations resume in Kabul. Death toll rises after earthquake in Haiti as rescue efforts resume. Workers in Chile's Cacerones and Andayna copper mines go on strike and in our video section we take a look at the use of COVID-19 booster doses amid the global vaccine The Taliban issued a general amnesty for all government officials on August 17th, the mayor of Kabul and the Afghan Health Minister returned to work on Tuesday, meanwhile evacuations on military flights are also resumed out of the Hamid Karzai airport. The U.S. controlled airport was shut down after thousands of Afghan civilians gathered to try and flee the country. Videos showed people climbing onto a plane as it took off from the runway. Gunfire could be heard and at least seven people were killed. The runway was cleared by Tuesday. The Taliban has stated that it will announce the new form of government soon. Senior leader Amir Khan Mutaki has met Afghan politicians including Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Mullah. Meanwhile, the UN Refugee Agency has called for a halt on post returns of Afghan nationals UN head. Antonio Guterres has urged all countries to accept refugees. This followed widely denounced statements made by French President Emmanuel Macron. He stated on Monday that EU members were working on a coordinated response against irregular migratory flows. A senior German official also stated that the country would not pursue an open-door policy. The country has cut development aid to Afghanistan. Greece's migration minister also said that the country will not become a gateway to Europe for refugees and migrants. Meanwhile, Turkey has started building a wall along its border with Iran to prevent refugees from entering. Moving on to our second story in Haiti, at least 1,419 people have been killed after the island country was hit by a 7.2 magnitude earthquake on August 14th. Eight groups have indicated that another 450 deaths have been recorded in the hardest hit area. Haitiian officials have also stated that 6,900 people have been injured. 37,312 houses have been destroyed and several churches and major hospitals have been seriously damaged. A majority of the casualties have been reported from the southern region. The city of Lake Ayaz and surrounding areas have sustained the most damage. Doctors are providing care and make shift tense after the Ofatma Hospital was deemed unsafe. The crisis worsened on Monday when tropical depression, Greece caused heavy rains in Haiti's southern coast. This led to flooding in the worst hit areas. Despite previous forecasts, the storm moved past Haiti on Tuesday morning. Search and rescue operations have resumed. And now for our main story. We first look at the ongoing strikes in Chile's mining sector. 320 workers at the Casarones mine have been on strike for over a week. They walked out on August 10th after failed negotiations with Lumina, Copper Chile. As per the union, the company stated that it did not have a budget to deliver in your offer. Workers are demanding salary adjustments and increases in bonuses and benefits. Since August 11th, striking workers have continued to protest on the road leading to the mine. Casarones is among the dozens of copper mines located in the Atacama Desert. This includes Escondida, which is the world's largest copper mine producing 5% of the global supply. Over 2,000 workers at the copper mine had issued a strike notice to the BHP company. However, the union announced on August 14th that a deal had been reached. The agreement included a bonus of $23,000 for each worker. It also included an additional $4,000 for extra days worked as two unions at the Andina copper mine have also been on strike since August 12th. The site is operated by the state-owned Codelco company. Over 800 workers walked out after rejecting the latest contract offer by 82%. They are organized by the Industrial Union of Labor, Integration and the Unified Workers Union, now a third union. Sintegato de Union plantas is set to vote in the contract offer. Codelco is expected to present the offer on August 17th that the vote fails. The Unified Workers Union will join the strike. This will bring the total number of striking workers at Andina to 1,300. Negotiations are also ongoing at Codelco's El Tinienta division. The contract of 3,300 workers organized by five unions is set to expire on October 31st. And for our final story, we take a look at the latest on COVID-19 vaccines. The US has joined a growing number of rich countries administering a third dose. The USFTA had issued emergency use authorization for immunocompromised people, experts, and are expected to recommend a third shot for all Americans. This push for booster doses is taking place just as many countries struggle to provide even single doses. The vaccination rate in the African continent remains below 2%. 12 million doses were supplied to Africa through Covax in July. However, 183 million additional doses will be required just to inoculate 10% of the people. It is in this context that the WHO had also called for a moratorium on booster shots. Here is Dr. Satyajit Rath to talk more about the vaccine divide. Satyajit, very briefly, can you give us a picture of why the contradiction between what is good for rich countries who seem to be going in for a third booster dose and why the vaccination for the world, which is the public health demand which WHO has raised, is not happening? So, this is both an unsurprising and a deeply depressing state that we find ourselves in, where we are between the devil and the deep sea as it were. The issue is, are we going to look at global public health or is each nation going to worry about its own public health, no matter what the consequences for global public health? So, the rich countries are clearly making the argument that because the Delta variant is well protected against as far as serious illness and death are concerned by their current vaccines, but perhaps not as well protected by against transmission. Therefore, they say, in order to cut our transmission down, we need a third dose. And therefore, we can't give these vaccines to other needy countries which haven't even had a first dose. And therefore, we are in this situation where the public health needs of rich countries of the global North are trumping, very evocative verb, the fundamental public health needs of countries of the global South. And the reason why we have arrived at this point is a consequence of the capitalist logic of COVID vaccine invention and development and production programs, where rather than doing a worldwide open inclusive development, comparative testing, manufacture and deployment and distribution under the WHO's Aegis, as the WHO had offered to do in the early months of the pandemic, we have opted for the capitalist logic of Big Pharma, primarily mediating this. And the consequence is that what we have is Big Pharma encouraged steady fragmentation of COVID related public policies into nationalist approaches where the global North reserves early effective vaccines for itself and the global South is supposed to deal with its own problems with a little bit of overflow charity as it were. This is the sorry state of affairs that we have landed in. And this is all we have for this episode of the International Daily Roundup. 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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing well for anyone new to the channel. My name is Lee, also known as Osiris. And in today's episode, we're going to be covering all of the details concerning the brand new max rate event that's running right now in Pokémon Sword and Shield. So we're actually a little bit late to the party here with this event. It kicked off yesterday on the 4th of February as a recording to date is the 5th. But don't worry, we still have plenty of time to take advantage of this event and make sure that we can contribute ourselves because we'll get into the details in a minute. But first of all, we'll jump over to Serrabi, our trusty source. All the links will be down in the description. You can see the current event that is running right now is in conjunction with the brand new movie that's actually just about to come out, which is Secrets of the Jungle. And it is the event itself running from the 4th of February, which was yesterday, until the 8th of February, which would be Monday. So like I say, it's lots of time to take advantage of this event. And it's a little bit of a different event to your normal ones because it's got kind of some hidden factors behind it. So you can see the February Special Max raid event features a tie in with the movie Secrets of the Jungle and features increased appearances of Pokemon from the movie, including Kramarant. This event has got a special bonus of distributions from February the 10th if enough players defeat Kramarant. So that's the aim of the game here. You've got to defeat as many Kramarant as you can. Do you bit? Do you bit for the community? That's all I say. So if 500,000 people beat Kramarant, all players will receive a gift of a Flame Orb. They'll also get a Toxic Orb and a Light Ball, all very useful, competitive items. We'll see the Light Ball, very useful for Pikachu. And the Flame Orb and Toxic Orb, really nice items as well. If you haven't got access to Kramarant and your only way is to go through the Pokemon League, which is a super horrible grind. And then so that's 500,000 players beat it. If one million players defeat Kramarant over this over this event, all players will receive a gift of a Gold Bottle Caps, three Bottle Caps and three Pearl Strings. So there's some nice items there. The Pearl Strings would be good for money in the game. And then the Bottle Caps are good for kind of training your Pokemon. So this is the event. We'll have a look at deep dive into the actual Pokemon that you can get. Obviously, Kramarant, we've already mentioned, it's going to be in every star rating. You can see that the event runs from the fourth to the eighth, like I say, from yesterday, Thursday of recording this to Monday, this coming Monday. One star rates, you're going to get Kramarant, Kramarant, Flygon, Golurk, Quagsart and Indeedy. So some really nice Pokemon here that are going to be available even in the one star rates, which is great item wise. There's nothing really that sticks out to me kind of normal standard stuff that we're going to get. Dynamics, Candies, Armourite Oals and things like that. Then we move on to the two star rates. It's going to be exactly the same as the one star rates, three star rates. Again, it's going to be exactly the same items are increasing. Obviously, the the different Pokemon, the highest stars that we're going in the four star once again, exactly the same. But with a variation of items, you're going to get more. And then this is where it gets a bit juicy with our five star rates because this is where you've got an opportunity to catch a shiny Kramarant in this event, which is, you know, it's one of the best shinies I think that we've got in Sword and Shield out of that new cohort of Sword and Shield Pokemon, the orange Kramarant. It definitely a nice looking shiny. So it's definitely one to try for. I would I would say it's only going to appear in five star rates. So bear that in mind when you are hunting it that it has to have the five star to have the opportunity. And it has only got a two percent chance to appear as a shiny, but it is going to be a guaranteed square shiny. If you do come across it, which is also very nice. The rare are shiny. The rest of the Pokemon are exactly the same as the other stars. So no variance there and the items you're just going to get an increased amount unless you defeat Kramarant, where you get kind of a smaller amount of items. For some reason, you don't get the berries and the TMS. But regardless of that, the aim of the game over this weekend is obviously beat the Kramarant, trying to get yourselves a shiny one. And there is no variation between game copies. So whatever is in sword is exactly the same in shield and vice versa. So these are the Pokemon that you can come across this weekend. As I say, it is running just to remind you from the 4th of February to the 8th of February. So we got on Monday to take advantage of this and just chip in. Just beat one Kramarant this weekend. That's all you would need to do. And that is your contribution towards getting those gifts. But the big prize here is always going to be the shiny Kramarant. So try your best to get that one. It's always nice to take advantage of these events while they're running. And I'm sure with the 25th anniversary coming up, Pokemon Day coming up just around the corner, we're going to have a lot of opportunities to get these Pokemon as well. OK, let's hop into game. Once you're in the game, all you would need to do is come to a den. You're going to want to spawn the den and make sure it is one of the event Pokemon. Delibird, leave me alone. So you want to make sure there is an event then you can only get these through red beams and what you want to do. Once you've spawned it, this is a really good place. I've covered it in previous videos that I've done on the max rate events. Run between these two drop on wishing pieces until you get that den appearing. And once you've got it, what you can do then to update your news is just come to Mystery Gift. We've done this before. Get wild area news from here. It will just take a minute to connect to the internet and it will update you. So we're actually connected to the internet now. I don't really want to be because for what we may be doing to manipulate the den, I'm just going to show you guys how to do that. If we click into the den, you can see the quag sigh here is popping up. It is part of the event. Now, if you're just wanting to hunt the Kramarands, what you're going to do is invite others. It's just going to be the day to get glitch really easy. Make sure you're offline. Come down to system settings, system, date and time. Make sure you synchronize, clock is off, skip the day forward one day. OK, we've done this a million times. Come back into the game, into the den, just quit out of the den and you will inadvertently trick the game to think the day is passed. Click back into the den and the Pokemon will change. So you just do this over and over again until you come across that five star Kramarand, the same goes for if you're hunting for the shiny. If you get a five star Kramarand, you're doing this process.  If it's not shiny, then you just reset the game, come back to it and skip again until you get the Kramarand. And there we go. See, here we are. There's a five star Kramarand. So I do plan on hunting this the shiny variant myself. So I'm going to save this one. And hopefully it would be amazing for the first time ever if we could come into this for one of these guides and just get the shiny. It would be amazing, but I don't know. It's going to be hard, two percent chance, very hard to get. Let's see what we got. Just the regular old Kramarand, but never mind. OK, I will continue on off camera trying to get this. If I do get it, I'll be hosting it over my discord at some point this weekend. But this is going to be one Kramarand that I will be able to defeat. And it goes towards that contributing total at the weekend. So this is just a quick update video today. I hope it's been useful for you. Hopefully for those of you that didn't know it was running, you're not going to miss this event and get the opportunity to catch a Kramarand. Good luck. And down in the comments, there should be a lot. If you do manage to get the shiny Kramarand, please let me know. I love hearing all the stories about all of you that take part in these events and manage to get these really rare shinies when you've got the opportunity to. So have a great weekend, friends. Thanks so much for tuning in and I'll catch you all again in front of the episode very soon. Take care. Bye bye.


Going on everyone Sam here with late in sports cards. You've been 23 leaf autograph football jersey edition 10 bucks case break number 1 Random team style. There's a look again at your random results as always you can find these on the website under the results tab as Well as the Lincoln chat We've got Paul and with the Rams Up top and then Wayne Jacob W with the Eagles and Wayne with the bucks down at the bottom So good luck everybody. Let's do it damn working in the way. I know the coke cans There you go, look at that Come on Scott That's just a towel. I know right, dude Messed up, dude. I probably get in this box. I know I was gonna say Good luck guys.  I swung there Grats on that cash. Oh, no, it's cash. Okay. Okay. It's that Corbin Carroll's sleeve against operating tonight pretty much Pretty much. I'm Daryl Carroll We decided this we have Corbin Carroll at home. I'm Daryl Carroll second jersey is Pete Davidson. I think that's a random. No, right? Pete Davidson. Yeah What? What's this from right? The Giants Jersey, I don't know dude. It's a timing It would be Giants if it's a Giants Jersey, right? I Think I don't know how we would do this. I don't know if that's even a Giants Jersey technique. It looks like it, but I mean doesn't have any logos, so I don't know Yeah, Davidson a Giants fan. I don't massive New York Giants and Eli Manning fan Well, I'm gonna take a picture of that. Yeah, that's a and I'm going to I am not going to mark that as a Giants. Yeah, it's not Doesn't have any logos or anything I'm gonna take a picture and send it to our group chat It might not get a response by the end of it, but if I don't then I will know it's number one. It's number one. Yeah Let me send this to our breaker chat really quick. It's unexpected. Yeah, there's no logo I think it would have to be a random. I know that's the thing. It's on a Giants Jersey, but there's no logo on it So it might be a random it really might be a random Again, I'm just I'm asking. I'm I'm asking That is a that is a decision that goes above me next nice for the Saints Chris Olavi Grats on that one. Nice one there Saints Yeah, it's glad they're really clean a lot of Peter C nice one there Peter have had What's his name? The guy one of the guys from Waterboy and then one of the guys from Nice for the Steelers Kenny pick it nice one there. I think there's a throwback Steelers Jersey to Nice one there Kenny pick it for the Steelers See force just text me back If it's on a team Jersey it goes to the team. Yes, that is on a that is confirmed on a Giants Jersey So that will go to the Giants Well, actually hold on There I'm just gonna tell them there are no logos on it. Yeah, I think so. I yeah I don't know what that exactly looks like, but I think so for which one Ted Bondi Yeah, the other one on to the next one never mind Christian McCaffrey nice for the Niners. That's sick. That's really cool man. CMC Eric P Eric P with the CMC. I just told for us that there's no logo on it technically so There aren't any of those jerseys. So yeah, so technically it will go to the Giants that will go to the Giants Okay, so yeah, that will go to the Giants. I'm just gonna bring up the leaf like the check I mean, it's not gonna have a team, but yeah, that was a wrong one That's 22 cardboard Tommy with the Rams and Colton NT Thomas J with a 10 bucks Tim P 10 bucks their LM 10 bucks and Andy F 10 bucks Yeah, that one is pretty sweet man. I was watching a show called a magic dub Got Mel Renfrow for the Cowboys Cowboys Mel Renfrow whole thing 96 like 99% He's like always in this Alright, so we'll go on to the next one Taylor Swift Chief Jersey, can you imagine dude? That'd be kind of that'd be kind of far All right on to the next one is Lou Holtz coach Holtz that's pretty close Lou Holtz That'll be a random. Yeah, that's Notre Dame right there. Notre Dame Lou Holtz coach Lou. That's sick. That will be a random. Yeah, that'll be a random the Lou Holtz He's got a Giants jersey. He's got a Nick's jersey and he's got a Yankee signed jersey They're all number one. Yeah, that'll be a that that'll go to confirm to go to the Giants right there confirmed go to the Giants I think we're sold out on 10 bucks by the way, everybody. So thank you all for that. That's awesome. And we're down to 12 to go on NT I believe and on to the next one. Nice. That's Panthers. That's a Panthers Jersey DJ more Congrats on that Carolina. That's sick man. Justin F. Justin F. Congrats, buddy DJ more Panthers Jersey I think you Jordan T with a 10 box bot Shauna with a 10 box. Two left everybody. We do have another one after this too, which will be fun Always exciting. All right. Next up is Bijan Robinson, so how to go to the Falcons. That's awesome, dude. That will go to the Falcons clean lady very clean man Austin B. Bijan nice one down to Texas Longhorns, uni That's awesome. Good stuff there man. Yeah, that's a nice one I love when they put the college jerseys in here of like all the rookies. You might hit like Like a Richardson, Florida jersey or something like that. It should be sick. I don't know if he's in there But stuff thing like that and the last box is nice for the Raiders Tim Brown Tim Brown, this is the exact Jersey I hit when I First one is this Tim Brown. Yeah Tim Brown Raiders That's for cash. Nice one there. Congrats. Catch K picking up this and the Bo Jax So we're gonna do a random for the Lou Holtz Lou Holtz random. All right, everybody gonna roll the dice whatever team is on top after seven times We'll get the Lou Holtz jersey one two three four five six and seven go to the Bucks Congrats Tampa This one there bucking ears. All right. Not really a recap we can do on these So Wayne, thank you all again. Hey Wayne. There you go. Good stuff Wayne. Thank you all again for getting this filled up Up next is the second one


Okay, so this poem is called, Afraid to Look. I am not a killer. My hands are not concealed weapons. My eyes are not raisins in the sun. My lips are not cold like ice. My voice is not a gunshot or the sound of sirens. I am neither a thief nor a murderer. I'm a miracle. I am a brilliant promise. Look, laughing with the sky.


Earlier this week, the University of Pikeville announced the purchase of a new property that will be used to house a new outdoor athletic facility called Bear Mountain. Well, it's super exciting, obviously. The opportunity to take care of our outdoor sports is going to be monumental here in this opportunity. You know, to have football stadium of our own, cross country, soccer, baseball tennis, softball. We'll also have an archery outdoor range. We'll have walking tracks, biking tracks, playground. Really is an opportunity to really just transform what our athletic department looks like. We are Pikeville Medical Center, and we are an amazing place to work, healthcare heroes of all types work here, all who deserve great rewards. So while our heroes are working hard to take care of our patients and visitors, we are taking care of them with top tier benefits, higher pay rates, and great sign on bonuses. So join our team today. So what are you waiting for? Apply today. Incredible opportunities await at PMCjobs.org. Located near the Pikeville area YMCA, the new complex will reside on Potter Hill. Well says the new complex will engage the community as well as new students. Now our community folks will be traveling the hill. Our community kids will be running around on the playgrounds, people will be biking and hopefully riding their 4x4's or whatever looks like up on that hill to kind of make that the place to go. And for that to spread and to grow, that we're trying to move in that way is great. Our city has been an unbelievable partner. We've been able to play football at the high school along with them in partnership. And same with our tennis, we've got to practice football field. We do a lot of sharing in that regard. So this really spreads the opportunity for sports in our region, not just for us, but for everybody to have more opportunities, more space to do those kind of things. Currently dates for construction have yet to be announced. If you would like to learn more, you can visit upikebares.com. For Mountaintop News, I'm Joel Korgel.