Hello, my name is Brad Langdell, I'm here to talk to you about balancing with oxidation numbers, but today we're going to talk about what happens if you've got acidic conditions. Little different, few new things to keep in mind. While this is the same as before, your number of electrons lost in your reaction have to equal the number gained. This is the conservation of matter, big, big idea here, but new for acidic conditions. If you've got some extra oxygen kicking around, you're going to have to balance those with water molecules. And what happens if you have some hydrogens you can't account for, you're going to balance those with hydrogen ions. That's what's going to make it acidic, since the hydrogen ion here is usually found in acidic solutions. So as a bonus, I'm also going to show you another way you can kind of go through and solve this problem if the oxidation number thing isn't your cup of tea. So let's give it a shot. Here's our reaction. We're going to start off like our regular balancing problems. We're going to go and assign oxidation numbers to everything. Oxygen is really easy. It is too negative in every circumstance, and there's seven of them. So that's a total of negative 14. And here I'm going to have to make up an oxidation state for chromium that's going to give me positive 12 in total, because I want positive 12 and negative 14 together to add up to the charge of negative 2. So I guess each of the chromium, there's two of them, they're going to have to be plus 6. Okay, what's happening with chromium over here? Plus 3 is the charge, plus 3 is the oxidation number. Okay, iodine, minus 1. That was pretty easy. It's an element over here, so it's 0. Not bad. Okay, so let's see what's happening to the chromium. Each of the chromium ions is going from 6 to 3. So it's going down in oxidation numbers. So it is undergoing reduction, and it's doing so by three electrons. It's going from 6 to 3. Now in the dichromate ion, there's two chromiums. So that means if it's reducing, it's gaining six electrons. The reason I had to double that by 2 is because in dichromate, there's two chromiums. Each chromium went from 6 to 3, so each of them gained 3. But there's two of them in the compound that can react, so it's a total of 6. Now let's look at what's losing electrons here. The one that's increasing in oxidation number is the iodine. So iodine, the ion, loses one electron. Okay, so now we have to think about balancing. Here we have a gain of 6, a loss of 1. That's not possible. You can't have something gain 6 when there's only one lost. So we're going to have to go and multiply the iodine here by 6. That way we'll have 6 lost, 6 gained, and everything will balance out. So I know I have to have a 6 in front of that iodine. Now I'm going to take a look at balancing everything else out. So I know my coefficients in front of the dichromate and the iodine. I can go and balance out the chromium, so that's got to be a 2. That'll balance the chromiums on either side, and I can balance my iodines. Okay, so those are good. But I've got a problem, I don't even have oxygen on the product side. So here's where the acidic conditions are going to come in. I'm going to add a water molecule over to the product side. Now I can do that because if it's in acidic conditions, like everything's aqueous, there's water here that could react, right? It means dissolved in water, that's what the aqueous state means. So that's where our oxygen is going to come in. And I can balance that out here, I've got seven oxygens. So I guess I'm going to have to put a 7 here in front of that water to balance those out. But now I've got a whole heap of hydrogens. Well, that's no big deal, I can add some hydrogens as well. So because this is under acidic conditions, there is going to be hydrogen around. And I'm going to need 14 to balance it out. So you can check it now and it's just balanced. If you want to double check, a really good idea is also to check the charges. So for charges, what do I have here? I've got plus 14, and I've got minus 2, and then I've got, so that's 12 in total. And then I'm going to take away 6, 6 times 1, so that's negative 6 in total here. And on this side, I've got, sorry, positive 6, and on this side I also have positive 6. So it's balanced, I'm set, I'm finished, I'm done. Now if you want to check your work or think of this in another way, you can also do this reaction by adding together the appropriate half reactions. Here we have a half reaction for dichromate, and here we have a half reaction for, where is it? Iodine, there we go. Now we can take those two and add them together, we can get the same balanced equation. So it's the same sort of idea here, we're going to start off with that dichromate. So CR2, oh, 7, 2, negative, I'll omit the states for speed, 14 hydrogens, and 6 electrons, and that forms 2 of the dichromates, and 7 of the waters. Okay, there's one half reaction. Now the other half reaction I'm going to put this with is the bottom one here, the iodine forming the iodine ion, but I've got to flip this one around. I'm going to write the reactant first, or the product first, because what's happening is that's what's actually reacting with the dichromate in our original question. So I'm going to flip this one around, and that's also going to make it so that the electrons are on opposite sides, which is good because we want them to cancel out. There's gain, there's a loss. And again, we see we don't have the same amount on either side, so we have to multiply this equation through by 3. So what do I get in total? I'm going to get one of the dichromates. I'm going to have 14 hydrogens, 6 electrons, cancels with 3 times 2, 6 electrons, so those cancel. And I also have the 2 of the iodines over here, and on the other side, we have 2 chromium ions, 7 waters, and our 3 iodines, because we have to multiply that by 3. That's the same equation as we had a second ago. 14, 1, 6, 2, 3, 7, 14, 1, 6, 2, 3, 7. And it works out. Of course, here I went 3 times 2 was 2. There's a 6 now. If you're looking for some more help with balancing with oxidation numbers, check out the website, www.ldindustries.ca.


It's year three of the David Jones era here at Phelps, as the Phelps Hornets have gone over the years from 13 players, barely fielding a team to having over 30 participants. The Hornets coming off a five and five season one year ago, their back in district play with 15 starters back on both sides of the football, Phelps they're working hard to have a special season. You know I was a part of this program for 10 or 11 years when I first started teaching and we never had 30 kids on a July day when it was 90 degrees. You know I think we saw 32 or 33 at one point last week and it's unbelievable what he's been able to do in such a short amount of time to get the kids out. You know that's really been of help when I finished seasons with 12 or 13 kids on the sidelines going to race in the playoffs and it wasn't fun. Joe Jones has added several different assistant coaches throughout the years to help him build this program and one former leader who has now come back to be a key assistant on this year's team, Randy Smith. Joe Jones gave me the opportunity to come back out and I was like you know I think I will. I think I'll come out and see what I can do to help him and I think that we got a real good chance of doing something special here this year. But right now our main focus is the first game of the year at Eastridge. We look at one team at a time. We don't look past nobody. I think we're on a pretty good high level for the start of the season and I think it's going to be a pretty good season this year though. With the Hornets with over 15 starters back, plenty of experience and athleticism. They are looking to do damage and have a memorable season. Go game by game, work hard, practice Monday through Thursday, strap them up on Friday by game. The fan support is crazy. I mean I love it. As many people that come here or at the away games, just everybody's fully behind you supporting you all the way. At Phipps, for EKB Sports, I'm Joe Kinzer.


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It's Harry Haas and today I'm going to just be going over a couple trades I made this week. I know previously my other videos were just kind of teaching videos. I'm probably going to keep doing a few more, like as I see stuff come up, but for right now I've kind of, you know, hit a brick wall on those and that was kind of my goal. I wanted to showcase some of my strategies, showcase some of my ideas, showcase my kind of approach to trading in the market. So that when people ask me questions, I can say, Hey, check out this video that I made on, for instance, when I stopped going long or when people asked me about my morning process, instead of just having like a five minute conversation with them and trying to get them to understand, I can show them my actual video and how I use my process every morning. Just if we use that kind of as an example and it just really kind of gives people an in-depth look of what I do. So these, the next couple videos are probably just going to be trade recaps throughout the week. I mean, as always, if things come up and people ask me for a bounce video or people ask me for stuff like that, I'll, I'll keep continuing to make those types of teaching videos as well. So it really just depends what kind of happens on the week. So I guess my idea for this video was I'm just going to go over, you know, some trades from this week, stuff that kind of stood out to me and also maybe just kind of talk about a couple of questions I got through the week and just stuff like that. First of all, I'm not a financial advisor. This isn't financial advice, even if it seems like it, all for educational and entertainment purposes. So let's get into this video. Yeah. OK, so this one was on Monday. It was APDN number one hot chick of the day. Everyone knew about it. Everyone was talking about it. It was running pre-market. It was a COVID stock over extended pre-market by a long shot. It got lots of volume. And I guess my plan on it was that at the open, I just wanted the stock to show me where it wanted to go. And then I was just going to kind of tweak my plan and adapt kind of accordingly in the room. I said that I wanted the 10-20 line. It ended up getting there and bouncing for like pretty much a dollar move. And I don't really call things or, you know, I try not to do that type of stuff. It's more just to show people what I'm thinking. And maybe you disagree and you say, Harry, I think it's going to go a line lower. I mean, totally fine with me. I just more so do it for the kind of educational purposes so people can kind of see what I'm thinking. But anyway, it reminded me of past tickers and I'm going to include a past ticker that it reminded me of just to kind of show you that I'm not necessarily a quote patterns trader, but I like to compare the same types of patterns and the same types of price actions. And by studying and watching the tape and reviewing charts and going over past tickers, I can kind of show you what I mean by how I compared APDN to another stock that I remembered in August. I'm pretty sure it was. So basically, yeah, you know, heavy tape at the open again, low float. And I just kind of like the idea of buying dips if we could get a type of play like that. And that's exactly what we got. I'm just going to go over some share statistics as well. So you guys don't need to really kind of back test. I don't really go over the average volume for the three months or the average volumes for the 10 day because we know that these big up updates are obviously going to be doing exceptional volume, more volume than the ticker usually does and probably, you know, a year or something like that. So it's, I don't really pay attention to this stuff. Shares outstanding. I mean, yeah, if we're looking, I always use this kind of Yahoo finance and this kind of Finvid stuff, just as more of a benchmark, I don't need to know that the float is exactly, you know, let's say here it's wrong and the float is like, you know, somewhere along the lines of like 2.9 or maybe they've issued more shares or so. I just need to know that it's in the kind of ballpark. So I don't really calculate the shares and the float and everything like that down to the millisecond. It's really not my deal, but I just need to know what kind of ballpark it in. It's in just so I can kind of ballpark it and just say, OK, this is, you know, a lower float or this is, you know, if this was 50 mil, I might have a different idea on it or I might be having, you know, I might be thinking about something different on the place. So yeah, basically, I don't really, it's not that I don't care. I just want to know more so, you know, what is the kind of, you know, ballpark it's in. So yeah, I guess we had, you know, 16 percent held by insiders, you know, around 20 percent held by institutions. That's OK.  I don't really go through it. I just wanted to include the whole thing in case someone wanted to do any back testing on it or something like that. And yeah, obviously lower market cap. So those were ideas I had going in. I just wanted to be familiar with the market cap, the float, everything going in just to know what kind of ballpark I was playing for. And just so I can kind of tweak and adjust and just so I can get a good understanding of the ticker based on these kind of like, you know, share statistics. So these were the trades that I made on it. I mean, nothing really special, guys. I basically kind of bought this like VWAP dip on the support around here and did up working. And I was just kind of just looking to kind of sell pops. And again, we got this kind of dip down here. And I just I just kind of I placed in order because I had a feeling that we get probably one more bounce to VWAP and that's what we got. And I mean, that was pretty much it for this ticker. Pre-market, the reason why I avoided pre-market. I know I'm going to have a lot of people saying, oh, Harry, why didn't you why didn't you hit this pre-market? And the reason why, guys, was because it was Monday. As you can see down here, Monday. I don't like to screw things up early on Monday. It's Monday and Friday that I had. There's really three days for me that I'm always very cautious. One day is Monday. The reason why I'm cautious on Monday is because, you know, I want to I want to be setting a good example for myself for the week. I want to be having a great process for the week. I want to be green on the day. I want to and even if I'm small red, that's okay too. But I just want to be setting a good example for myself for the week. And then we have Friday. That's another day where I definitely take my foot off the gas pedal because usually I'm up a decent amount throughout the week.  And then Thursday for me also is another one where I don't know why I'm not really sure, but Thursday is a day I just completely always underperform. I didn't underperform this Thursday, but the two Thursdays before that, I lost 27 K on one and I lost 6 K on another. So obviously there's something up with Thursday. I really think it's just because I'm kind of tired throughout the week or I get a little bit too cocky and I don't want to cut losses. I'm not really sure. But this Thursday I made sure that I was in check and thankfully came out green. So I mean, that's all we can hope for. So anyway, basically with this APDN trade, I just kind of the reason why I wanted to buy dips on it and I wasn't expecting to rip the 14 or 15 was just because it, I found it at already kind of topped out around 13. And it was more so of a backside trade, which is completely fine with me. I mean, I don't need stocks to go to the moon every day. I just need consistent singles. And I mean, that's exactly what we got here. You know, it's a really great one and a nice treat. And you know, these backside bounces, I love them because it's just kind of just buy the dip, sell the rip, you know, and I'm just letting the stock move. And I'm just kind of, you know, doing things with my lines. I mean, I'm sure people are going to back test later. I mean, I just was basically saying, okay, we knew this kind of 11 20 area was previous support from before. And that was when I just, you know, kind of said to myself, okay, I'm just going to just going to kind of take some. Also kind of lined up with VWAP as well. So you have those two types of buyers, the VWAP buyers, the support buyers, you probably have some, you know, people. And then everyone who was trapped, I guess my thesis on it was that everyone who was trapped from this 13 area was probably looking to sell. And then when they saw it kind of, they were, they were probably hoping that it got back to 13 or maybe even went up to 14. But I, there were a lot of people who were kind of starting to buy up in this type of range.  And that's the time where you just need to, if you're ever trapped and your risk level breaches, you just got to get out. That's the most important part. And thankfully with APDN, we didn't really get in that situation. And it was just some backside bounces, just two trades on it. And then I just kind of let it run in this type of direction. Because, you know, the first bounce is okay. The second bounce, you know, you're usually getting a little bit of a bounce. Maybe had of this got above, let's say 12, I might have looked to buy again on this line here, but just couldn't get there. And that's completely okay. And that's just trading guys. Like you just got to have if it goes here, then I'm going to do this. Or if it does this, then I'm going to avoid. And that's kind of the way I make my plans on the kind of if then statement. So yeah. And then I also wanted to say that it reminded me of this ticker. Obviously, this was July 17th. A buddy of mine recorded this for me, which was super nice. And it reminded me exactly of this ticker where we kind of get this, this nice kind of opening range type, type scenario. And this was Fran, same type of, same type of deal where just a lower float. And just a little bit too overextended in the pre-market needed to pull back. And that's exactly, you know, I just kind of, I have a really photographic memory. And exactly when I saw APDN lining up, I was like, okay, we're going to go through the backside bounces. That's how it's going to be. And my plan ended up working out super well. But this is an example where you can, where you can review old tickers, where you can watch the tape on old tickers, record your screen, understand how these type of low float stocks move. And then you can kind of use that to your advantage. Because how do I not put in the work? And how do I not review this chart?  And I would have been totally disoriented, right? So it's always good that we always, always, always are reviewing and looking at old charts and looking at old trades that we made and always kind of studying. And that's kind of my motto.  But it's always good to always remember this type of stuff. So thanks guys for watching DM me anytime. I'm literally always available at MIC. And yeah, I mean, that's pretty much it. So I hope everyone has a great day and you guys can catch me next time. Thank you so much for watching our video. If you want to see more of our videos, please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the button here. 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My name is Sarah Pondett, I work as a business developer at Media Evolution. I'm here to present the next speakers at this session called Moving to the Cloud. I'd just like to make a note that we have a little change in the speakers today. Sveining from Hyperalink couldn't make it, but we have the very fantastic Anton Johansson from Twinkly. So, with no further ado, let's give the raise for Anton. Hello, everyone. Nice to be here. So, I'm Anton Johansson, I'm the chief marketing officer at Twinkly, but I'm also a product owner, which means that I'm responsible for product development for some of our products. I'm here to talk about the cloud, but actually the cloud sounds so unsexy in my words. It feels like I'm going to talk about SharePoint or Microsoft SharePoint or something. I don't want to talk about. So, I changed this a little bit, so I want to talk about frictionless. Does this work? No? Okay, sorry. I need to go to the first one. So, I'm going to talk about the cloud, but I'm going to talk about it as an enabler for a frictionless world. So, and when you think about it, the friction is something we don't want in this world, and everything is striving towards a frictionless world. So, when we're building new products, when we're trying new apps, when we talk about innovation, it's all about removing friction in our daily lives. So, everything is becoming easier, everything is becoming easier to use, easier to build, and actually it's kind of our laziness that's coming in this matter. So, I'm going to talk about two areas, and it's product development and it's a user experience. And when you see here on the screens here in this room, the user experience part is kind of interesting because it's more about removing so much of the actual interaction so you can all put the energy on the actual decision. So, the picture here is of one click to buy on Amazon.com, so you can buy eBooks with one click. The only thing you like thinking about is whether you will buy this or not, not about fill out different forms, et cetera. And when it comes to product development, it's more about, what I'm going to talk about now, it's more about an infrastructure. So, instead of thinking about how to build things, we're thinking about what to build. And this is possible because the agile movement as well. So, it's the cloud and the tools you use from the cloud to build things, but it's also about the agile movement which means that you can work a lot more faster and a lot more easier. So, these two together makes a great infrastructure to build products in the product development space and this means that you can build an app or a new company that startups today are built in like two months instead of like two years. You need very little money and very small teams to build really great products. And this is possible due to a few services or tools or platforms and one of these is Heroku, which is a platform to build and maintain and host your apps on. And this is not like rocket science, but they're not only hosting your apps, they're also helping you with backend, with load testing, with a lot of the other things that you don't want to work with. When we started Twinkly five years ago, we needed to build our own service. We set up a lot of service and work a lot really hard. Today you can just start an account on the Heroku and you can get going in like a day instead of like three months. So, that's just in five years. Then we have Google App, which is basically the same, but that have other features as well. And the thing about this type of services is that you don't only host them, you host your app there, you also like build your app there. So, you get a lot of the backend is already there. So, you don't need to like build your own search and in for your service. You have like the infrastructure to build it. So, with a few clicks or a few lines of code, you can actually have like the search in it directly. And you can't talk about the cloud without mention Amazon, of course. Amazon Web Services is like many of the web apps we're using today like Instagram, Foursquare or Twinkly as well are using Amazon to host. And Amazon isn't just another like web hosting provider. They're doing a lot more so you can get a lot of help from Amazon when you build your apps and it's getting a lot more faster. So, basically instead of focusing your time on like building setting up a lot of servers and backend, et cetera, you can build stuff really, really fast. So, and that's also why like hackathons, like 24-hour business camp or music hack is coming because you can actually start a company in 24 hours today. Instead of a few months, it's like a few hours to build an app. But I'm also going to talk about user experience as I talked about it. And when it comes to user experience, the cloud is more like the connectivity for the apps. So, with 3D and 4G, you should all try 4G when you're here in Sweden because 4G is really good here. This makes also great infrastructure to like use the apps. So, instead of just use the apps and like you did it before, you can get a connectivity and they can talk to each other, you know, APIs, et cetera. And when you think about it, it's kind of boring to have a folder with photos that you can't access from different devices. Of course it should be shared and synced with different advice. Another example is think about having an app for maps on your phone which can't show you where you are. It's kind of boring, right? So, but that's what the cloud makes to these apps. It makes it possible to see where you are. It makes it possible to see where to go. And this is because it's in the cloud. Without the cloud, this wouldn't be possible with Google Maps, for example. Then you have like spreadsheets that's really boring to work with but sometimes you need to do it. And then, that will become really easy to share in real time so you can edit them together, et cetera. And that's what Google Docs does. And this is all possible due to the cloud. And when you think about it, this is all becoming like more of a frictionless experience. You can use these apps and it doesn't need to think about how to send this actual sheet to your account or anything. You can just share it with a button and then use it. But the most epic frictionless experience is Spotify, in my opinion. I mean, that's the really, really epic thing with Spotify is that it's so frictionless. You don't need to understand how to use it, just use it. And that's when it comes to really interesting. You can really dig into music instead of thinking about if you should download it in MP3 or Visteria M3 or anything. So, and I mean, for a few years ago, I had a big MP3 collection at home and I had an iPod or a Gensel Sweden MP3 player, but it was, and I was really happy. But I mean, when Spotify came, I understood that this is what I wanted to do because I'm really lazy and I want to use the most frictionless experience that I can have with these type of services. And this is also big in games. I mean, have you tried Word Feud? This is Word Feud. It's a really popular game app for iPhone and Android. And the connectivity in games have become really big. I mean, World of Warcraft was just the beginning. Now we have Xbox Live, which means that video games is becoming, you play with your own friends, but on different devices. And this is, it's the biggest trend in games right now that you actually can get the connectivity because of the cloud and that's the experience you want to have. And it wasn't so frictionless when you had to call all your friends to come home and play video games every Friday night just to play. But now it is frictionless. You can just click, do you want to join me and then you can play. And you, of course, Facebook is doing this as well. And Facebook Connect is the best example I think because when you log in to Spotify, for example, it's not just a nice button to log in with. It's also a nice button to... So when you click on log in with Facebook, you also get all your friends there. So you don't need to like find your friends and find which friends to enter a playlist. You have them there already. So they're not only becoming a platform for login, they're becoming a platform for seeing which friends are there and how you can interact with them. And this is becoming like the most epic frictionless experience to invite your friends. So it's one button and then you have a frictionless experience. Whoa. Okay. Was it that boring? So when you think about, when you think about how I think a great way to like try this for your own app or for your own services is like if you turn on the airplane mode on your iPhone or Android phone or smartphone, is your app working as you want? Or is the apps you're actually using working as you want? I mean, when I turn on airplane mode on my phones, I don't, I can't use any apps because everyone is connected in some ways to the internet. And that means that the cloud is really, really important today. It's so big part of the user experience that you really need to understand it and hopefully build some stuff on it. And that's also what I want to talk about today, like make the world frictionless. I mean, we're really, really lazy and we can build things really, really fast because of the cloud and we can really build really, really cool stuff that has a great user experience because they are frictionless. So try to make the world a little bit more frictionless in the cloud. Don't compete with the cloud, compete in the cloud. And thank you.


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It's good to pray without ceasing.  It's good to pray as you go about your day but do not forget that place of solitude carving out a section of your day to devote only to prayer and you are focused on nothing but time with the Lord.


Colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I think this particular session is most different from previous panels because we're like inside a fish bowl. We have a panelist, a panel of experts. They will be asked to respond to certain issues and we won't go for a question and answer at the end of our session. So let me just quickly introduce what the session is about. We're taking off from what we have been discussing the past two days, no? Yesterday, the UP president has been talking about the UP think paper which we drafted for the 2016 presidential candidates. This paper embodies our view of education, the role of education and the challenges that education poses to the next administration. We are partly introducing the concept of superstructure in this paper and therefore this will be the focus of the discussion and the sharing of their minds among our invited guests. I am very fortunate to have a very illustrious panel of experts so I won't take a long time to introduce them. Let me begin by introducing each one but before I do that, let me say that we will take off from a brief overview to be presented by the UP president himself and each panelist will be given about seven minutes centered on mainly two questions or two issues. One is we wish to invite the panelists having understood that the UP paper would like to invite them to respond to first the question on what they think should the next administration do to respond to the UP paper and as challenges posed by the UP paper. And the second question is what could or what might media do to help promote the development of the so-called superstructure which is embodied in the paper. So we will freely allow the panelists to discuss basically around these two issues. Let me come now to each one will be given seven minutes as I said and if we have the extra time later on we can have a second round of three minutes each for them to do their parting messages. So let me introduce the panel now. I will begin from my left hand side of course our honorable UP president Alfredo Pascual. May I please ask you to give him a round of applause. Seated next is Dr. Bucinda Lissai our own from the UP Institute of Creative Writing as well as a writer, columnist from the Philippine Star and of course the UP artist. To his left hand side is Dr. Ernesto Pernia of the Philippine Daily Enquirer and Professor Emeritus in Economics. He writes also for occasionally I'm corrected for the Philippine Daily Enquirer and he is currently a Professor Emeritus in Economics. Then we have Randy David of the Philippine Daily Enquirer and also Professor Emeritus in the field of Sociology. Next to him is Robbie Alampai from the Business World and Interaction. I know him also from the Southeast Asia Press Alliance and the UP Mass Con. We also have Mr. Jose Lito Yabut of the Capisana ng mga broadcasters sa Pilipinas, KVP. Of course you watch him occasionally or probably often with TV5. We have Mr. Lorde's De Vera of the TV5. Last but not least we have the lone female member of the panel. We have Chato Garcelliano, the Philippine Daily Enquirer. So as you see we have a conversation here between the academe and the media people and would like to get the viewpoint of our panelists as media people, as experts and how we are able to connect and collaborate between the university and the media. So without further ado, I'd like to pass on the microphone to UP President Alfredo Pascual, sir. Thank you, Professor Edna. I just want to introduce quickly the background of this knowledge-based development and governance paper that we issued in March. The predecessor of this was a paper that we prepared to support our effort to get the government to upscale the budget of UP. So we came up early in my administration with the paper that shows that it pays for government to invest in UP as the National University. But then we've seen that just by helping UP one single university although the National University is not enough. Okay, we need to get the government to support the entire education system in the country. So in our paper, we started by again reminding government that education is indispensable for economic development. Of course, formal education for one but also the education that comes as part of the job, the only job training. We're not limiting ourselves to formal education. And of course, we recognize the initiatives that government has taken to improve education like the Enhance Education Act of 2013 which was or is the basis of the K-12 program that is now going to be implemented in our basic education system and the strategy that Chet adopted which is geared to the formation of high-level human resource and the generation, the patient, and transfer of knowledge and technology for national development and global competitiveness. We highlighted next in the paper the low government investment or expenditure on public education. And we have benchmarked the level of public spending in the Philippines with the level of public spending on education in ASEAN as a whole, particularly the original ASEAN 5. And we've pointed out that in the Philippines, although there has been an improvement in the level of public spending and education, we're now at the level of 2% to 3% of GDP. But our comparator nations are at the level of 5% to 6%. So there's still a long way to go for the country. And the moment you zero in on higher education, we'll notice that it's even less commitment on the part of the Philippine government to higher education as a percentage of GDP. And the moment you talk about R&D, R&D in universities, again, it's even much, much smaller proportionately. The ASEAN countries and the recommended level by UNESCO is 1% of GDP. The Philippines public expenditure or R&D is only at the level of 0.1%, 1%. Now, how do we reverse the trend so that we are able to produce the high level human resource that we need for the development of the country? Well, the paper has shown that, okay, education is important, but there's also emphasis that has to be placed on higher level education. The level of education that goes beyond the bachelor's degree to be able to produce the researchers that will create innovation that will in turn spur industry. It has been shown through research that it is manufacturing that's needed to have sustained inclusive growth in the country because it's manufacturing that provides sustainable jobs. And in our country, we have very low level of manufacturing and whatever manufacturing we have is low technology. And there are in sectors that are of low slow usage of of technology. So we need to produce the higher level knowledge that's needed to boost our human capital. And human capital is what we now term a suprastructure. A term adopted by a Dutch cannabis. We have specific proposals to achieve this. And some of them were proposals that we gave in our earlier paper about the needs of UP. One is to promote the large scale foreign training of our young Filipinos to build the knowledge capital that we did in the country. We need to send more people than the government should invest in the education of our young people for advanced studies. Not in the Philippines but abroad. To be able to bring back to the country the kind of technology that we don't have as yet in our needs. Next is the promotion of a massive or large scale return of foreign trained Filipinos in every discipline especially engineering and science and offer them opportunities to come back in the country. As you may know a number of my contemporaries are now in the U.S. And the generations that follow me followed me also a big portion of their graduating classes have gone to the U.S. and other foreign countries. They have achieved sufficient training and many of them have earned advanced degrees masters and PhDs. And I think we can now attract them back in the country given the developments that are happening here. Our region ASEAN is the focal point of development in the world. We are a fast growing region and it's difficult not to get pulled by the then locomotive that's pulling the region upward. It was China but China is slowing down but many ASEAN countries are still experiencing fast economic development but the only way we can sustain this is if we have the human and knowledge capital to support continuing innovation producing new products new processes and improving the ones that we now have. Another recommendation is the hiring of international experts and educators who can help us form and shape our country's knowledge capital. There has been a version to bring in international talents but you look at the countries around us. Filipinos have been in high demand in Indonesia when Indonesia was trying to develop its economy and its educational sector but now they're trained people Indonesians who have been trained abroad have come back and many of our Filipino professionals Filipino professors who are working in Indonesia are coming back to the country but they have started by using international experts and Filipinos have contributed a lot as foreign professionals in Indonesia. Well Singapore given its limited indigenous population must become a first world country with GDP much much higher than any other country in ASEAN through the use of international experts. In our case we have the human resources but our level of knowledge capital is still at a very low scale and low quality. We need to upgrade this and the fastest way we can do that is bringing the foreign experts foreign in terms of foreign origin and foreign maybe but including Filipinos who are now living in foreign countries. Now at the moment we have all these experts in the country how do we organize? We are proposing the hub and spokes model of organization where we have an expert institution or an expert individual serving as the hub around which we will bring together different sectors government industry civil society and academe to be able to focus these various sources of knowledge and expertise on specific problems specific regions or on national challenges. So these are the the key recommendations of the papers and I think we would really appreciate the reaction of our colleagues in the panel with respect to this specific and overall thrust of the papers. Thank you. We can do the reverse way now. As I said our two important questions for our panelists are first what do you think the next administration should do to respond to the UP think paper challenges? And the second one is how might media help promote the development of the human capital as specified as defined in the UP think paper? So I'd like to invite Chato Garceviano from PDI to please start the discussion. The think paper of course would be perfect in an ideal world okay but in which we are not. The next administration has has a huge task ahead of it in terms of the ideas proposed there and short of throwing money at the problem which well the administration the current administration has started doing in the sense that the education budget has been more or less increased pero ko lang pa siyempre short of throwing money at the problem we need a radical change in the mindset of people in government who think of education as mainly classrooms teachers et cetera as it is who are playing catch up we're still in the in the process of gods ensuring there are chairs the teachers are there the teachers have gone off to have gone overseas to be nannies in families et cetera there is no respect for what they are so it's a it's a radical change that we need but we've we've all wanted this radical change for so long but maybe a specific a specific person or team that will address this education problem and look at the importance of higher education apart from the importance of basic education we are setting aside idea I mean I could I could talk about the I could talk about the miserable condition of basic education in the public schools where the where teachers are not even paid the way they should be paid but in terms of higher education okay in terms of higher education there has to be a a specific team for to address that superstructure that we need now how can the media how can the media help as opinion editor of the Philippine Daily Enquirer I like to think that we are helping already in that aspect we have certain columns and features that address or at least discuss the problem of education we have a specific education column every saturday and which Anandas discusses the always focuses on the depth ed the commission on higher education and test that as the trinity that more or less oversees the whole education system he specifically addresses the skills that are needed for students to to get employment I think that there has to be something more than that naturally we have to address humanities we have to address the arts and how to steep to bring back to bring back students into the arts culture et cetera I think there is a lack there the internet has damaged many minds in many ways Facebook while important Google while important has produced minds that need only short bursts of information so that there is no there is no sort of logical coherence to things in our in our work at the inquirer we like to talk about education not only in terms of skills generation but also mental and if you like emotional development we we focus on these things in the sense that we encourage we encourage not only a excuse me academic not only an academic presentation but also a something that would appeal to young people and not only in terms of of academics not that we are not that we are adverse to academic presentations but in we have a new column now it's called IM Gen M it addresses the millennials and we have a doctor a physician a young physician and we have a an events organizer and we have an all around person from this one Visayas Mindanao the young physician talks about her education and how she applies it to to her new work and she is anguished anguished at how she hasn't been told that this that being a young doctor and working for example at the at an institution like PGH is such a also a psychological and emotional problem for her in terms of coping with coping with the needs of of impoverished patients these things i think more or less address the problem of education and as it applies as it applies to the public and students we are we in the media are quite open to helping for example the UP gather its resources its funds needed etc and to disseminate whatever else ideas and proposals that you may have thank you I'll be speaking from the point of view of someone who works in television and when we talk about the subject first thing that comes to mind is programming a superstructure a superstructure brings to mind a solid web of talent and information that needs a solid communications component so if you talk about higher level education and you look at the reality of prime time television parang hindi nagtutug ma yung dalawa although mga kari di ka na naging italyan sa tv pa minsan-minsan pag-abit right naalala kayong ko alam y doktor davidate sa inquire umaangal sa kasi yung late night news program naging late na palet ng palet ng palet na sobrang nakaantuk na parang alas dosit naging sakit po yan ng lahat ng networks kasi prime time prime time is king essentially ang lahat ng mga broadcast networks are hostage to the market forces of ratings and audience whimsy so kung diting na mo ilang porcento lang talaga ng programming ang devoted to news and public affairs I speak someone from tv 5 yung mga news and public affairs namin is either obsimily early in the morning or criminally late in between sandwich in between yung entertainment talaga so mga ang formula is 70% programming entertainment 30% news and public affairs no the landscape is not that bleak since there are foundations specifically a b s e b in foundation uh has maintained a knowledge channel for the past many decades and but essentially this is what you call educational television educational television but this level of educational television addresses only the basic so you have social studies programs you have a program called agriculture cool agriculture parang isang occult na topic ay nilalapit nila sa mga bata para hindi siya maging abstraction so in terms of what the next administration should do if we were we were trying to visualize the the superstructure as divided into little hubs in regions which spokes i think it is time at the government invest in broadcast it is hopeless to actually expect all the major networks because they're all hostage to ratings and advertisers the next administration should probably invest more on ptv4 bring new life into although there's effort naman nalagas sa ptv4 but in terms of broadcast when you say government network it brings to mind a specific aesthetic a specific look a specific texture ang ideal sana is that you have a network that addresses higher level educational issues without being dictated upon by advertisers because ratings pa rin talaga ang laban na ratings eh so kung magawa ng goberno ang ptv4 na visual thinking parang malabi bc na matahas ang antas ng craftsmanship at content at hindi yung pagsinabi mong government network ay puro mga lumang cards in si doctor pasokalik sa bing folk dancing home tv shopping mga coverage ng ed sa celebrations mga ganyan yun so kailangan ng component kung pwede tayo magdag-dag ng spokes doon buhayin din muli ang mga regional networks kasi bawat isang riyon may kanya kanyang unique na concerns o mga problema so palagay ko mahalagang i-address yung issue na yun so ulitin natin na educational instructive broadcast independent of market forces at hindi lang sana yung budget ng UP in taasan taasan din sana yung pondo natin para sa ating government network I will be speaking from the point of view of a broadcast operator and manager the question is what must the next administration do for the country what what what it can start first and foremost in my mind and and i think this is shared by by the broadcasters our members at the KBP that the freedom of information law must finally come come to come to be realized it's something very important because it's the freedom of information law that will help do something about the structure of our country I read the paper and I'm so glad that there is no consciousness about funding and uh I think you will agree with me that naman hindi natin magawa kasi walang pera but mayan we know very well that the government has money with your value added tax with all the fees and everything we tax payers alam natin hindi naman tayo ule right in fact uh advance pa tayo mag-buy ng tax ng taxes natin to the with the with health taxes so I think it's very important for the next administration to take a look at this buoy na yung freedom of information law and everything will be that will help a lot in the structure even even in how how government is run how people can be uh can be uh can be asked to to help in their communities they will be conscious about hey it's our money let us let us uh I want the government to be accountable parang a simple corporation alam yung I mean we should be treated like stockholders that hey you're running the company let us see how you're doing it and then maybe hear from us now how how media can help again from the point of view of the association of broadcasters the kbp I would like to say that we have not been locking in in in helping in advocacies but I would like to share with everybody here that there are lots of advocacy partners that that that will be able to help in in in what we want to impart to to the people kasi lahat mantay we want to share in nation building right there's a kbp there's a advert ad foundation there's uh ad standards council and uh there's also an association of national advertisers la pana kasi sometimes people are saying dami dami naman commercials ganyong ganyan wala na mapanawad sa television wala na wala na laman ang radio but but I think everybody knows that media is still a business but its valid role is for media to be to be an ongoing concern hindi naman magagawa na media and service niya to inform, entertain, educate ko hindi naman siya viable so advertising is really needed but again uh with with with advertising with uh running media as a business I I I would like to say that all operators and and owners of broadcasting stations they shared the they know that there's a valid role of media that they can reconcile business purpose with social purpose and that is to sharing that association building so I like to say that we are very conscious that we can get funding because we know there's money they cannot tell us that wala na para I think we should we should work on that how how uh how we can make our people be conscious of this that para para I like to say at the day when when the the constituents can ano can can can really knock their legislators na hey can you help us in our community kasi it's funding that we need we don't want them to build basketball courts or barangay barangay ceramic ceramic place barangay halls we'd like them to help and really education is a must education is the one that will know that will uh help uh make good citizens lahat taman tayo na gaagri na ang ang ang kalay pag malaki natin yung ating sambayan and what makes a nation is people so we really need to to really help I like to assure the the the the group here and and and you be that media has not been remaced media will continue to help kasi citizen din naman ng media thank you ako ako albi speaking as an optimist I honestly do think that when it comes to the educational agenda from from um from grade school all the way to um graduate schools and advanced education I honestly do believe that you know or probably I'd like to think whoever becomes the next president can appreciate this think paper I mean I think I I I read it I really don't I cannot imagine anybody saying these are all bad ideas in fact I imagine everybody saying yes and in fact everybody saying we've been talking about that for the longest time so that's my way of saying kaya niyan and also my way of referencing this by saying that I'm not really qualified of course to talk about public policy and and education for that matter so I'll be also be speaking apart from an optimist as a media practitioner and I'll go straight to the second question on where might we help I don't I I would I I think where we can help is not so much in offering our platform but in giving you some insights on what we're learning as you know we are in a sinking boat also media is also in a field business model but in in in appreciating that we are seeing how information is disseminated and how advocacies are done I think we can contribute or I can contribute and giving you some idea on not so much how to lobby government to put more funds not just into education but particularly into STEM and advanced STEM but also how to bring in the public in appreciating that I think it's not so much that government is against it or any leader is against it it's just that there's no public clamor for it and there's no deep appreciation for STEM so where do I begin one is you don't need mainstream media for that that's what we're learning now in in in the field of of mass media nobody needs us anymore 70% 80% of our traffic are coming in by a social media and there is a very low loyalty to any particular brand of news so in other words the millennials and certainly the generation after them will be consuming news directly from from social media from Facebook from Twitter and platforms that we don't understand like Snapchat and so on and so forth we also see that they are interested in a lot of a lot of they are interested in science and technology the problem is all of the science and technology that they consume is from abroad and that's where I think UP can learn and this whole movement for STEM can learn one thing that groups like NASA realized is NASA does not need Nat J.O. or Discovery Channel anymore in other words NASA thinks of itself not as a science and technology agency it thinks of itself as a content generator and with social media there they distribute their videos direct to social media nobody needs it anymore nobody needs mainstream media to bridge them to the audience that they want in our particular case the Philippine public how do we make the Philippine public appreciate science and technology we just have to position science and technology as part and parcel of the fabric of Philippine life the problem is we don't brand the Philippines as a high tech nation I think if we're trying to attract people from abroad with advanced knowledge to come back to the Philippines the messaging should not be come back here so that you can raise the level of science and technology in the Philippines I think the message should be come back here because we're doing a lot of science and technology stuff and I think for scientists that's what's exciting for them and I think UP in particular has a role to play in that one is because you're sitting on all the data and you're all the knowledge the gap is you don't know how to tell a story but the pegs are all there you look at NASA you look at Harvard Business Review you look at universities all over the world who have created not just channels but their own communities around their brand and people following them specifically for stories that they can tell and knowledge that can share specifically on that I'll have an anecdote there was a top Philippine executive who was in a closed door round table something like this with his alma mater in the Philippines not UP and they were brainstorming on what do we do how do we and then one question posed to this executive was tell us the truth how do you perceive our school how do you perceive our university and he says well it's like this I see you more for the soft courses liberal arts sociology for the no offense to anyone this is his words he's saying mass communication human resource management and so on but and then he said but I'm sorry when it comes to engineering sciences I think of UP then lasal then mapuwa and and that was his insight and I think UP can bring that I mean because we're talking specifically about STEM I think UP should be able to embrace that and bring that to the ano not just for UP but for the Philippines in general so those are the two things that I would like to on a one is that UP should UP and this movement for STEM should realize that the crucial thing right now is not convincing is not convincing government I think our leaders do appreciate STEM and the fact that we need to be more high-tech and we need I think for that to have momentum what you need to bring in is the public and for the public to have an image of the Philippines not as an agriculture-based economy not just as a about the socioeconomic ills and corruption and so on we also need to I think build the the imagery around a Philippines that is in fact high-tech that can compete that can produce a lot of information and a lot of data and tell it in a compelling way and that UP and this movement for STEM is a community that's worth following on social media and once you envision it once you see it in fact as proof that we're doing wonderful things in biotechnology that MIPS is producing you know these high-tech gadgets that makes hard metals that has direct applications to commerce and so on I think that goes a long way in the advocacy and in sustaining what we can do thank you thank you thank you for asking me to participate in this UP Knowledge Festival I like the word festival that means the celebration of knowledge I'm glad you didn't call it a knowledge market the way we talk about jobs we're supposed to celebrate knowledge here and I know that universities as institutions for the last 150 to 200 years have waged a sustained struggle to declare their independence from the other forces in society that try to dominate their agenda in the beginning that was the church which was concerned with producing souls that would glorify God then it was followed by universities that were adjuncts to to the nation state and today in the present period universities are confronted with the challenge of the capitalist market I would like to think that universities have a role other than just producing human capital they're supposed to produce leaders of society as well as builders of nations and creators of knowledge and not just employees or workers and that is the reason we have other things that are not easily marketable in universities like the arts and the humanities although those branches of knowledge are getting less and less appreciation in a world system that is dominated by corporate driven globalization the fact that we participate every year in the rankings of universities that see nothing actually but conformance with the criteria of economic globalization attest to the fact that we have allowed the goals of the university to be subordinated to the global market that has always been a struggle it is not unique to the university of the Philippines although the UP carries a unique burden being both a state and self described national university if you look at the history of the university of the Philippines I'm certain that we all know it was created by the American colonial government first of all to produce Filipino highly skilled professionals and bureaucrats who are skilled in modern state administration as well as doctors agricultures that's the reason for UPLB that could develop the economy in subsequent years and for many decades as we all know the university of the Philippines was the leader in the region in the 1960s when I was an undergrad together with President Pasqual I think Fred was one year behind me in the 60s nearly one third of our classmates in school were foreigners from Vietnam from Singapore from Malaysia from the Oceania Oceania countries from Africa and so on and so forth why? UPLB was a leader in the higher educational field thanks to the Americans who brought in the legacy of public and higher education to our country thereby making the university of the Philippines the spearhead not only of liberal thought but also of secular thinking for that very reason the first graduates of the UP were nation builders but the graduates of my generation 60s 70s and 80s I would say more than one half of them fled the country subsequently in other words all that investment in higher education was weaped and harvested by other countries particularly Europe which was already advanced and North America which was already advanced therefore if you ask me how the next administration should respond to the UP paper I'm a little skeptical about asking the government for more money to send Filipino scientists to go abroad and study abroad without any guarantee that they would come back because the previous generation whether they're doctors or scientists or social scientists were sent abroad they signed contracts but they asked the corporations and the universities that hired them subsequently abroad to pay for their contract they think it's all money the problem with us Filipinos we talk about nation building to a point of nocia actually but we don't really mean it there is not enough patriotism and love of country even among UP graduates it's so easy for them to say I'm still attached to the country the country is still in the heart but when it comes to really giving back to the country that nurtured you and raised you to what you are today it's almost nil are we going to be able to bring back the specialists the scientists who had migrated to other shores maybe as they did in 1986 and 87 but we went back subsequently abroad and when you asked them they said they were not enough laboratories they were not enough people to work with in the Philippines so enough of patriotism in the hearts of such individuals if we had more money for education as even UP experienced an increase of three times in the last six years I think if the government had more money I would say poured it into basic education make UP secondary priority if you like let's go back to developing graduates with enough character which is the original meaning of the university wise individuals not just technically equipped well rounded people who see their role in the history of their country as vital to the development of their society and the people how should media react which is the second question of it now I worked in media where I've been writing a column for 20 years I'm almost about to give up it's almost senseless actually I worked for 14 years on television started at nine o'clock in the evening pushed up to one o'clock in the morning having to compete with brother Eddie Villanueva and Mike Velarde wala ka nabans really heon so in channel four Lourd was I would say the most progressive most intellectual station during Manchello the best programs culturally we're on channel four but hardly anybody watch these programs they prefer the programs the trashy programs put out by commercial television why? because of the quality of your origins that's why basic education is so important you've got to infuse science as we understand it into the common sense world view of our people you've got to elevate what you call culture among our people in their everyday lives so that they need not go for escapist television and trashy printed work no? thank you thank you to the organizers yeah thank you to the previous speakers for giving me some more ideas to to spew out yeah I'll be less philosophical than Randy although my first major was philosophy I'll go more into economics now of education you know all the candidates vice presidential candidates as well as presidential candidates talk about the need for a country to have more infrastructure but they just really talk about physical infrastructure there are two types of infrastructure actually the hard infrastructure that's physical infrastructure and the soft infrastructure that which is human infrastructure again this is an economic term Randy so human infrastructure is where we have under invested as well well to the extent that we have under invested in physical infrastructure we have also gravely under invested in soft infrastructure and that is that explains the reason why we have been lagging behind our neighbors that's a cliche now and the other issue is that both hard and soft infrastructure are concentrated in NCR and surrounding regions like Calabar zone and probably central zone so and all the other regions are getting pithans in terms of infrastructure spending both hard and soft infrastructure I think the next administration should address or be able to distinguish between hard and soft infrastructure first that's one and secondly they should also try to disperse some of the investment to the regions so that you know there's so much animosity against imperial manila and one way to you know to attenuate that animosity would be to invest in both hard and soft infrastructure in the regions in the in the sense of they have a spokes model I think the thing to do is to focus a massive investments in hard and soft infrastructure in certain critical strategic regions centered around ilu ilu for example ilu ilu city which is which has a lot of things going on already and so it's just a matter of some more push and perhaps sebu sebu is also deserving of more infrastructure and it is ready to receive such infrastructure both hard and soft perhaps northern in northern Mindanao Kagayan Dioro and Sambuanga in the south or Davao on the other side on on the eastern side of Mindanao so in and then in the hubs and spokes model of the think paper can then be attuned to that kind of investment as well in the sense that I think education higher educational institutions in the sebu in in ilu ilu in Kagayan Dioro and in Davao they're already of such stature that some more investment would bring it bring them up to par with with those in Metro Manila and the other thing is that you know the public universities seem to be averse about partners partnering with private universities that should be facilitated because certain universities in the regions are the strong ones are private universities and this should be where you be my partner rather than with with you another public university that may not be as strong as the private university okay on the on the question of what media should do I think medias to in general rebalance its attention from show bees and trashy shows as Randy was talking about to the importance of education the importance of nation nationhood the importance of love of country so that the youth and we should start early not not later in life but early in basic education about giving more attention to the importance of education and and and nationhood so that when they grow up they are they're going they're not going to go abroad and you know just get stuck over there and so rebalancing rebalancing of media attention from from the usual stuff you spend a lot of time on on these other things rather than on important things like education and knowledge building and knowledge capital and all that and the other thing is to start early start early in trying to change the mindsets of the youth on what is important for the country and for for its for the people and not just entertainment thank you I'll be talking about this from the point of view of course of an artist and a member of the arts community like I said yesterday it's horrifying to think that the last administration that paid any real attention to the arts and however skewed of fashion was the marcos administration it took in fact it took the present administration several years to just formally confer the national artist awards to the latest batch last week that's the kind of indifference to the arts that we get from from our politicians clearly we need increased and sustained support both material and attitudinal for the arts and arts education this is beginning to happen within within UP which often anticipates what the government should do for example we have received quite a bit of funding through the cultural infrastructure development program which we asked to be supported that we had to of course we had to ask for it very strenuously from the current administration but even with within UP we need to do more like establish and consolidate the arts cluster within deliman and maybe initiate similar initiatives in other campuses from the national government on the long wish list of things I would I would bat for just one thing the consideration finally of the creation of a department of culture for both its symbolic and substantive value now of course when I say that I know that there's a lot of resistance to this idea even and primarily within the artistic community itself which has been so used to accepting crumbs that it cannot imagine itself the equal of our business community or our science community and will not even assert itself but a deal but a department of culture doesn't have to be messy and expensive you don't have to build this up from the ground you can co-opt and integrate the NCCA the CCP and the other government offices already doing cultural work and organize them into key bureaus in a paper that again that I work with with now national artists Wilhilia Almario and Ramon Santos we advocated for the establishment of at least four or five bureaus such as arts and arts artists development heritage development cultural education and information and finally creative industries now speaking as an arts columnist what can the media do I think we can help by fostering for one thing real art criticism and push the arts beyond lifestyle entertainment and fashion so we can have a real appreciation of what it takes to produce world-class art following through on what lord here said we need we need public media our version for example of the BBC that will promote intelligent programs we need shows devoted to books paintings music of a more challenging level of thought and imagination than popular standards will allow and probably again only government can do this because we understand that the broadcast industry in the print media being as commercial as they are they will not be much room for this and of course I very much appreciate what what Randy said about sharing a basic education as among others a means of audience development and what I've said about arts reporting also applies to science reporting and education reporting are we ever going to see the products of this knowledge festival out in the media next week for example just to begin with that is this interesting enough can we make the sexy enough that that some young kid there will see about posibili pala ito pwede pala mangyari sa sa aking ito I myself was amazed yesterday when I was listening to to Al Sirafika talk about his invention and how how it not only of course made him rich which is always a good thing to happen to people but how it can't you know transform a humble substance like Nata de Coco into into like a cutting edge thing and these inspiring stories need to be put out there by those of us who can and for myself I've already scheduled like three columns worth and I always love festivals like this because I I'm thinking that takes care of my next month of columns but I wish that there were more people in in my privileged position who can do that and I'll do that of course because I'm UP pero kailaram mas marami pa tayong gumagwan ito para naman you know this is good news we need to spread it out there silamat po thanks for your ideas and suggestions well firstly I'd like to just highlight an important point in what we're trying to communicate you know yes basic education is critical that's why we fully support K-12 but of course to work only if you have well-trained teachers and we're also doing our part in UP to help train teachers for senior high school but quite a part of that I think what this country needs is an engine that will pull the rest of the country and having seen UP close range I think UP has a lot of promise to being that engine to the Philippine economy but we need to you know populate it with more experts than what we have now you know only 30% of our faculty are PhDs that's way behind you know what the leading universities in our region have the requirement in Malaysia is before you recognize as a research university you have to have at least 70% of your faculty as PhD the two leading universities in Thailand have 100% PhDs the leading universities in Singapore have 100% PhD that's why you know the proposition that perhaps there has to be a massive investment in producing PhDs now how do we bring them back I agree with Randy and I have questioned our own return service agreement you know that's not the way the way is what we have heard earlier to show that this country is ready to receive the foreign trained experts because we are now in that league you know of a high high technology research that we're trying to do okay that's an important message I don't know the kind of message will have to be made to change the attitude because we have the general attitude that whatever resources there are these resources have to be spread out evenly across the population yes it's a it's a nice concept but the moment we do that we'll all be hugging each other at the bottom we need to create engines you know I don't want to use the term an elite university but somebody else has used that you know in chat not elitist but an elite university that will produce the innovations you know that will fire up our industries and that's why the proposition their proposals that we need to increase the quality of our human and knowledge capital it's not so much to produce workers you know who will work in multinational companies all in global organizations it's to produce the products and services that will be the basis for creating jobs in our country within our territory okay because if we don't have job here of course we'll have people going as OFWs even teachers leaving their profession to serve as nannies in more advanced countries okay so that's the main the main thing you know that I have not emphasized earlier you know the need for high level education that will create engines in the country a national engine like UP being the national university of regional engines in the regional base hub and spokes organizations okay now talking directly I mean responding directly to what I've heard about the need to have a way to communicate to the general public I'd like to inform even my colleagues in UP and as well as our guests here you know that we're organizing a UPTV okay of course it will not be broadcast TV it will be internet based TV but it will be our platform for communicating to other universities public and private and to the rest of the country the products and the outputs that UPI has been producing over the years okay and the and the not just in the science and technology field but more so also and also in the arts and humanities fields thank you there was a richness and the diversity of the ideas that came in the ways by which we could push and let the knowledge centers such as the UPI contribute some more and you know play its role as really a national university considering and given all the realities and the situations that we are faced with the competition the market orientation and yet the great challenge and struggle for the university to become in the league of elite university in a sense of being really you know first class university but also elite in the sense that it will show leadership and it will pave the way and show the way for this nation once more so that it can really claim that indeed UPI is a national university and the maker of leaders and the leader of the disciplines that we are experts on so I think I will leave it at that but we do not exactly close the UPI paper as a think paper and as a paper that poses challenges to the next administration whoever the next administration may be UPI will be continuing its to post its challenge and to be always vigilant that it plays itself as the premium and the prime university of the country because that is what we are we want to lead the way we want to post challenges we want to be innovative we want to be creative we want to be different because we are a first class university so the conversation continues as we embark on the new administration probably and as we face a new set of people in government and I think if I may add with governance as my background I think in the discussion in the round table the challenge really for UPI as well is to deal with its own governance and to always post challenge to the succeeding administration about continuing and being able to have a sound and good governance so that UPI can as well be made efficient and effective and world class so with that I thank our panelists all of you I hope that we can invite you again come back and have another reflection around table and I'd like to thank everyone for being patient and for holding not to post any questions but just to look at us as experts within the fish bowl so thank you very much and have a good day whatever is left of it


J.S. Fu becomes a platform for the young and so to speak. This is Amaya Kaurve. He's come all the way from IIT Madras. He's an IIT and so Give it up for him.  He keeps putting stuff on guitar Keeps putting stuff up on GitHub and he has a cool project that kind of failed yesterday No, like the actual project, but you have a video of a thing which is totally fine So go for it. I'm at the stages all yours here. It's another robot All right, so before I begin. Yeah, it was a hack It's I wouldn't call it anywhere close to a near product and it actually failed yesterday The half of my circuit is down, but I'll try to compensate it with a real video to make up for it So, okay the idea so the premise is that you know robotics in JavaScript is like really coming up You saw a couple of very nice ones recently. I went the quadcopter. That is like really awesome That would do flips and whatever so The premise again behind building this was what if I could have a robot? Except it's controlled from my mobile phone or from my computer or from a browser for that matter So it doesn't need to be any specific device. I could literally plug my device in and control the thing So if you look at your, you know, typical devices say a mobile phone for that matter a computer Now any robot it will have you know some inputs coming in some data exchanges and then there is the output now The only tangible outputs I have are the screen data, which is more or less useless and in a lot of them We have the sound output. So the idea was that if I can somehow use the sound signal and Control a bunch of motors with it. So and that would be really cool I just plugged my device into my headphone jack and I'm able to run, you know, a bunch of motors and do things with it So I'll begin So Robo control with the HTML5 a body of API This is me. I'm studying at IIT Madras right now. I'll graduate this summer That's my email address my Twitter handle if you want to get in touch So the overview so what was at least intended to be designed was a Robo the Robo consisted of a device that has a browser with HTML5 support, so that could have been my iPad iPod phone Mike I could connect my computer if my Robo was big enough The phone had and you know the audio cable which connected to a very minimal circuit that I made That I could use to actuate the motors and the sense, you know servers and so on Now this HTML5 device. I meant assuming it has internet connectivity I have a Wi-Fi network or 2g 3g 4g so on so this guy is connected with our node. Yes server You can make it real time if you need to if your motor that sensitive enough you can use something socket.io and Then I can have a lot of controllers really connected to the node server and controlling what the robot does actually Controlling what the robot is physically through a server. So this is a brief overview of what I'm going to be doing So I'll talk about the various aspects of this and yeah, just move So today's talk, let's see. It's the motors the audio signals using the web audio API I'll probably not go very deep into that because Jason had a very nice thing about it. No the same demo, I'll probably just play a video QA So the motors now You basic kinds of motors. I have your regular DC motors. They're the ones with two pins I just give it a voltage at DC voltage. It will run I have servers so a server is a special kind of a motor now the idea about a server is I can control the angle Where my server is gonna get to so I basically give him a signal that looks like this now This is my voltage signal across time and I give him pulses these pulses happen every 20 milliseconds as this thing shows So say 50 times every second I give him pulses like this of width about one to two milliseconds It's like that's what it like it can happen thousand times a second if I do that So really fast signals and if I vary this width now between one millisecond to two millisecond I can control the angle where I'm going at so if it's at one millisecond It will be at one extreme two milliseconds. It'll go to the other extreme. So this is our server works Now the audio signals now the audio jack for that matter the 3.5 mm jack if you have any You know used up headphones or something you can cut it open. You'll actually have a jack like that so Typically it's a stereo jack and stereo jacks will have you know the ground that is the biggest one and the two pins are for the left And the right channels The signals are electrical signals. They are low It's so it's point six on my mobile phone that I checked a one volt amplitude on my this thing on my computer and They are very low power. So it's technically impossible to power a motor or something using this The three pins again as I explained and they're ac coupled So quick show of hands. How many of you are like into music or audio editing or maybe electrical engineers out here? All right, so if you've ever used something called a high-pass filter, this is something that would do something similar So if I have anything that is like somewhat constant, he'll just eliminate that signal So if you look at the previous slide if you look at you know the kind of signal here It is constant for this period and constant for this period So unfortunately if I try to use it with the audio jack the signal will be eliminated I'll just show you things later, but it's a practical limitation of an audio jack So an example again, so if I have a signal that's a plane wave that is the first one There is no change So you see a pulse in the beginning and the signal is eliminated this thing is a constantly changing signal So it remains so now this guy this is somewhat similar to the signal that we need So he just gives you pulses whenever the change is happening and then for the rest of the times nothing happens So what this is what we intend, but that is what we are going to get which is a problem This is a problem because you know the kind of signal that we need is like that And we are in trouble here because we can't directly even if I say I make a file that looks like this The actual output is not going to be like that so Yeah, the classic Gandalf thing Gandalf won't allow it. We can't get the DC signals through so we've got to do some improvisations to get this done So we have something called the comparator now a comparator is a very simple circuit component a good way of looking at it Is return a greater than B So if I have two signals a and b which have a signal is greater He'll return true I mean if the signals if a is greater it will return true if B is greater return false and true corresponds to say some static 5 volts Falls will correspond to a zero world So how we are going to use this is I'll just show you so if I say I have a signal like this And I set the b value at 0 so a greater than 0 Will give you a true pattern like that And similarly if I have a you know a bunch of sine waves like this over here, and I again set it to You know a greater than 0. I'll get a pattern like that, which is what we need now This can be used to power your normal motors your DC motors the limitation Of course is you'll have to run it at half power because you know you'll only get it for half the times And this is the kind of pulse signal that you need to feed to a servo so The web audio API okay, I won't get too deep into it. I'll just try to explain things which might not be that obvious So the web audio API it's a very high level API important point You can't mess around with the signal that a very low level at a data level you can apply generic filters And so on but you can't really go and say all right. This is my value I'm going to change this intensity right now from say 5 to 10 or so on You can load sounds into an array buffer You can load a lot of audio with modern browsers and the array buffer can be manipulated. This is the high level things You can use stuff like filters. Yeah, again, the music people you'll probably know what filters will be like and Sections of a buffer can be sent to the speaker So I can say okay send whatever is there in my buffer from say one second to two seconds and play that I Can actually send it to the actual speaker sources What I can also do is I can generate some common patterns something like a sine wave or a square wave Some common patterns you can do this with something called oscillators which I've used in one of them So the array buffer. I think this code is precisely almost similar to what Jason put up. So I'll move on with the code This is something that plays a sound. So it's like really simple. You create a source You connect your buffer to it and then you just say play play whenever you want to play when to play argument that I've added here And a scheduling now this is one way to schedule it. So this is like really simple I'm like every thousand seconds play the tune now this to this is kind of specific because I put my tunes at one second each Of course, you can sort of modify it and actually the set interval is not a very great way of doing it because The JavaScript clock lags a lot. So actually there is a nice way in which this guy tries to sync two clocks So he can either sync the JavaScript clock and the this thing there's a clock provided by the web audio API Otherwise, you can sync the JavaScript clock and the one that you know renders the frame rates So there is some syncing mechanisms. I've got code up. So I'll show it to you on my github You can have a look at the code at my github whenever you want to later It's again a hack you could please contribute to it if you're going to work on this Uh, the demo, I'm sorry the demo wouldn't work out this half of my circuit is fried So I'd only be able to use the other half of it But I'll show you a video of how I've, you know, tried to control a servo with the thing So this guy So I'm giving him a signal. I'll be, you know, moving it by The audio jack connected to my computer It's sort of connected to the circuit and I have the servo So what I'm going to do is I'm going to make it rotate by about 15 degrees every Few milliseconds and make a full sweep from zero degrees to 180 So here goes So he's rotating by the fixed angle. This angle is controlled.  So basically a few of my friends, they really helped me a lot with this all the way from You know coming up with the initial poster to a little help with the circuits, which one are some with Yeah, they're really awesome people. Thank you guys. Thank you and uh Questions any questions Questions Anything about the implementation anything basic anything advanced time file recruiter stay away until he graduates Just saying sorry. Yeah, so, uh, you want the github this thing, huh? Yeah, so github.com. I'll make our way audio hack So just check the description file. In fact, I might have it in my browser. Yeah So there are a couple of this thing's files. So Uh, is this updated It's not updated It's not updated on my browser But when you go in so there are two demos that I try to generate one for a differential drive That is your normal dc motors and you control the speeds you can give it variable speeds The second was for the servo. Maybe if you go up there The files are over here There is one thing called It'll be in the public directory Oh, there's no internet. I'm sorry. So there will be a differential drive and a servo drive a couple of javascript files All the code will be in there. I can probably show it to you from my editor or something. Uh I'll show it here Anyhow, so That again is a very simple one. So this one. I've actually used the oscillator the other one the one with the Servo drive. I've just put a very simple get audio tags and play it because Uh, because yeah, there are some problems. I tried to do some very beautiful looking code and fast things But the guy wasn't fast enough to handle it and the garbage collector sort of crashed my thing So supposedly it's a chromium bug, but hopefully it will be fixed in a while. So yeah, the thing is still very quirky things are coming up But uh Yeah, again, it's a hack and I hope we can actually go on with this I I have a I have a question sure here. Um, so the the audio The uh, so when you generate the audio signals, do you uh, directly wire up that audio output to the motors directly? Or are you passing that to me? There's a very small circuit. There's a very minimal circuit The only components are the comparator. So the comparator is this true false thing And uh, the only reason is I need to generate the specified waveform. So the comparator is like a very small chip It's some 14 pin chip and I the intention was minimum circuitry, but we should be able to get it done I don't need to buy a an Arduino or a pie for that. There's no microcontroller. No microcontroller nothing It's pretty basic. It's great that you're using a comparator, but do you think the comparator can Amountable Okay, uh, see the the comparator that you used Can it serve multiple motors? Is it capable of handling that much amount of current? Uh, so it doesn't serve motors directly. So the servo for that matter Uh, if I use the servo the logical input doesn't carry much current The powering is external to that. So it's imagine it as a switch No, no, not not for serve. Uh, no, not for not for normal motors for that You would have to use something called a motor driver. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Okay But servo it should work fine without it I was just curious that if you could It's not possible Uh, so anyone else All right, fine. Thanks. And if anyone is like wanting to contribute do tell me