I was a communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews in an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI. From the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevetik, come many of the incidents in this unusual story. Here is our star Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik, who for nine fantastic years lived as a communist for the FBI. They never say so, but after a while you learn that no visitors are allowed in the Communist Party.  Should the visitor try to leave, he immediately becomes a patient. Condition critical. Treatment drastic. And as in this story, not expected to survive. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevetik, under cover man. The differential file is marked. The same place, the same faces. Comrade Keller, comrade Richie and the others. The same talk, the same thoughts, treachery. Malicious intent disguised as the philosophy of the proletariat. But there was something wrong. Tensions seemed to crackle through the atmosphere. Comrade Keller, the cell leader, was too withdrawn and distracted. Even reports of party progress hadn't moved him. He was thinking of something else, something he didn't like. It showed in his thin, gaunt face. It even edged in his voice. All right comrades, all right. Make arrangements to stand by for emergency calls. Every one of you is to be available at any time within the next 48 hours. The reason? We have a traitor among us. A traitor! A comrade determined to sell us out. Well, that's a strong accusation, Comrade Keller. Are you sure of this? A direct report from the party police, comrade Sevetik. I thought that you especially would be interested. Was I that traitor? I mean, I was the only one. Was I that traitor? I made a mental roll call of the comies present as we walked toward the door. Ritchie? No. He was Keller's pet groom boy. That brass knuckle of virtue also for the group. They were talking together at the desk right now. Dora? Uh-oh. Radovich. There, it was coming now. The party bird dogs had flushed out a traitor and I... Radik, you stay here.  What's on your mind, comrade? What do you think is on my mind? I've been discussing this situation with comrade Ritchie here. We're taking extreme measures. Extreme measures. Yeah, traitors are unhealthy. This one will be the unhealthiest of them all. Ritchie. You're sure you know this, man Keller? Yes, and you do too. Do I? Comrade, comrade, too active. He knows too much. We know he's been in touch with the FBI. With him? Dumb, comrade, dumb. His name, Stedik, is Kimball, Henry Kimball. Kimball? Yes, the courier for this area. The liaison man for all the cells in this region. He's selling us out to the FBI. I can hardly believe it, Keller. Seems he's been using the payphone in the lobby of his apartment building more than his own phone. A tap was put on it. We learned that Kimball is offered to be the government's surprise witness when our national leaders are brought to trial. Kimball has got to be stopped, Stedik. What do you want me to do? It's got to be quick and clean. It's got to be an accident. Yeah, I'm pretty good at accidents. Ritchie will handle it. And I? You'll stand by in case he needs any help. Great, just great. I read with turning white and I had to help block him out. I vowed my allegiance to Ritchie, told him to call me if he needed me, then headed for a phone booth. A booth as far from coming headquarters as possible. I dialed the FBI and talked to my contact. Beaker, this is Red. Hi, something wrong? Yeah, who's Henry Kimball? One of your comrades, why? What else is he? What is he to the FBI? Are they tagged in that? Yeah, tagged and labeled for the obsolete file. We need him for that trial, Matt. He's volunteered to come. I know it. The whole party knows it. Fine, fine. There's a goon on his trail right now, Beaker. You better get to him. Okay, we'll find him. I'm just a few blocks from his apartment. I'll check up there. Be careful, O'Chump. We don't want to overcrowd their obsolete file. From the street outside Kimball's apartment house, I could see a light shining in his flat. That was good. The FBI took him safely away. Oh, Kimball. Oh, hello, Richie. What do you want, Betty? Put that gun away and I'll tell you. I thought you might be Kimball. You were told to stand by for orders. What are you doing here? I came here to get Kimball out and he opened. The kind of accidents we want can't happen in his own apartment. No, come on in. Weirdly shows up. Suppose he doesn't show up. The party's got a net out room. When someone spots him, headquarters gets word fast. I check in by phone every ten minutes. Hey, sit down. Make yourself at home. Kimball won't be using this place much longer. I sat down. Richie paced the room, glancing at his watch every few seconds. Finally, it was time for him to call Keller again. Had anyone seen Kimball yet? They spotted him. Right of his song just a few minutes ago. He's driving that blue convertible to his. He's heading toward Ocean Highway. Well, let's go. Uh-uh, not you. Why not?  This one is all mine. About three, four minutes ago, Beaker, Kimball's headed for Ocean Highway. So's Richie. Get there first, Beaker. For heaven's sake, get there first. After that, there was nothing to do but wait. I went to party headquarters and waited with Comrade Keller. Keller was a wreck, pacing, circling the phone, waiting, circling, pacing, waiting, waiting, waiting. Stop filming those fingers, Svedic! Sorry. Why doesn't he call? Why, why? Take it easy, Keller. He'll call. He'll call when he's done. Wait a minute, I'll go. Hello? What do you mean? He saw me following him, changed his course. Hand, hand, hand? Yeah, an accident. It was gone right off the road. Those cliffs are high. I'd say it was a fatal. Mission completed. The red mission completed. Kimball had tried to leave the commie road for the straight and narrow, but he wasn't careful enough. It had led him right over a cliff. Now, Comrade Keller, there's no longer a clue. Fatal accidents were great fun to Keller. News like that relaxed him. What could be funnier? What could be more amusing? No, Svedic. And now to report our success to control conditions. You think they'll enjoy it as much as you, Keller? I'm sure they will. Yeah, you're probably right. Tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, first thing, our cell will meet to find a way to weed out the other traitors. This may be fun after all, Svedic. More fun than we expected, Earth Svedic. So Keller left to meet with the control commission and I went home. It was difficult to sleep at night. The next morning at the cell meeting it was obvious that Keller had had even more difficulty than I. He wasn't laughing anymore. His eyes were red-rimmed and sunken. The cheeks were even more hollow than he was. He looked grim and he had good reason. You saw the newspapers coming at you? You read these papers? I'll read them for you. I'll read them to you just as the control commission read them to me when the edition hit the street. Listen. Government witness in mystery accident. Henry Kimball, a communist courier who had secretly volunteered to testify as a government witness in the forthcoming trial of red party leaders was found seriously injured last night. You're here, not dead, not dying.  FBI agents arrived on the scene of the accident only minutes after it occurred. A spokesman for the Bureau reported that they had good reason to believe Kimball's mishap had been pre-arranged and pre-medicated. You wonder why I'm upset? You wonder why I act this way? Well, I wonder how the FBI just happened to be so close to the scene of the accident. I wonder why they believed the accident was pre-arranged. Well, what have you to say? What does anyone to say? Comrade Keller. I noticed that Comrade Ritchie is absent this morning. He'll be absent every morning from now on, Stedick. He failed at his most important assignment. He'll suffer the same penalty as any traitor of the cause. Now, what about Kimball, Comrade? What if he lives? If he lives, he'll have more to say than ever before. Well, you said you knew there were other traitors in league with Kimball, didn't you? Yes, Comrade, and it's time we found them. Kimball must be silenced completely and the traitors must be found. All right, that's all, Comrade. I said that's all, that's all.  All of you, out, out, out. All but you. Yes, Comrade Stedick, you. You stay right here. But what? For good reasons, Stedick. For very good reasons. Calling as Matt Stedick and I was a communist for the FBI and the second act of our story. For the second time in two days, Keller had dismissed the cell and ordered me to stay. That'd be the first time. But this time, this time, he'd found a leak in the party line. He was looking for its cause and he'd ordered me to stay. He was looking right at me. For good reasons, Stedick. Very good reasons. May I sit down? No. What do you want? I spent the entire night with the control commission, Stedick. We had no time to sleep. When the newspapers came out, they talked and I listened. Yeah, that's fine. To be sure you're the right man. I still don't know what you're talking about. I'm talking about Henry Kimball. He's still alive in that hospital. Can you blame me for that? No, you imbecile, of course not. Then what? I made a grave mistake assigning Kimball's accident to a fool like Richie. Richie failed. You'll have to succeed. You want me to murder Kimball? It's got to be done. If he lives, he'll testify at that cryo. At this point, the job needs intelligent handling, fast-thinking, polished technique. But Kimball's in a hospital. The FBI probably has a security screen around him that you think... Exactly why we need a man like you. And if I fail? You won't fail. Richie failed. You know what happened to him. Guarded like Fort Knox. Beaker, I've got to get into that hospital. No, Matt. Look, if I don't get in, the party will send another red to do the job on Kimball. And his intentions would be a lot less honorable than mine. No one's permitted in there without clearance, Matt. Well, you can clear me, can't you? It may be rough, Matt. If I don't make it look good to the commie speaker, I'm a dead pigeon, and they'll send someone else to get Kimball. Okay. Get out of the hospital first thing tomorrow. Apply for a job as a ward attendant. I'll see that you're assigned to Kimball's ward. I followed Beaker's instructions. It wasn't too difficult. Every hospital in town was crying for help, experienced throughout a while. I wasn't told, but I knew that my application would have to be cleared by the FBI because of the security screen around the place. Beaker saw to it that the application was pushed through fast. Even Keller was surprised when I told him I was fired. Without experience, Betty? It seems impossible. They're short of health, Keller. That's no secret. You locate the room, of course. You'll waste no time. That's your first opportunity. You enter that room. And then what? This? A half-a-dermot. I don't know how to do it. Sheryl's technique won't be necessary in the arm, leg, anywhere. One injection of this fluid is all he'll need. This hypo will take care of everything. A hospital at night, and the uninitiated seems to be alive with sounds that emphasize the silence. A faraway cough, a moan, or the hiss of labored breathing coming in the darkened room. I wasn't a very efficient ward attendant. My clumsiness irritated the nightmares beyond words. She found every excuse to be away from me. That part was fine. It gave me a chance to empty the poisonous fluid from the syringe Keller had given me and refill it with sterile water. At least if I had to administer this to Kimball, it wouldn't do any harm. Matt! Matt, answer me! What? Oh, yes, ma'am. Bring me that tracheotomy tray and hurry up. Which tray? The tracheotomy tray is on the second shelf and hurry. This patient is... And next time you work nights, don't wear leather heels. This is a hospital, not a dance floor. Oh, I'm sorry. You better fill the water features in the room. We'll be busy later. All the rooms? All of them. I can't leave this patient now. I thought 412 was restricted. It is, but you've been cleared. You can enter 412. Oh, listen to that. It's a sorry state of affairs when a ward attendant has to be cleared to fill water pictures.  There won't be time later. Room 412 was Henry Kimball's room. I visited every room on the floor before entering that room. I didn't know what to do. What could I possibly do with my plakie, the commies, without actually harming Kimball? Never to plainclothes men or perhaps a federation stationed at the door to Kimball's room. He'd been watching me casually as I made my round. I hoped he'd stop me. But he didn't. He just nodded and smiled. After all, I was just another hospital employee, cleared by the FBI. Inside Kimball's room, the night light was glowing dimly near his bed. Kimball lay still. Very still. As I approached his bed, though, he would keep toast with this thing. I scooted around the bed, filled a small water-pigeon in the large one I was carrying. Okay. Okay, Mr. Kimball. There you are.   You're shredded. You're shredded!  He told me there wouldn't be any commies here. He said the Reds couldn't find me.   Moose! Moose, he's a Red!   He killed me! No! No! That did it. The man guarding Kimball's room thought to it that I was relieved of my duty fast. I'd been called a commie. Maybe the patient was just hysterical or delirious or out of his mind. But maybe Kimball was telling the truth too. I was taken into custody. The guard called the local FBI office. The car was sent for me. I was taken downtown. Then I waited. Then waited. Then waited. There was activity behind the doors in the inner office. Voices. Tealing my doom, no doubt. But Beaker warned me that he probably couldn't help me. I got caught. They were motioning me inside now. FBI men who had no idea I was risking my neck to help them. None of them knew. None of them... All right, fellow. Thanks a lot. I'll handle Svetika alone. Hello, Beaker. She knows I probably couldn't help you. I know. I know. Well, where do I go from here? Back to the Reds. What? Yeah, you've been cleared.  In math. For Pete's sake, be careful. I can't afford to lose all his sleep. There was still a few hours left in the morning. I spent them walking the streets. Kimball was safe. But how safe was I? I'd hoped to find some means of keeping the Reds happy. Something to make them think I'd done my job for them and done it well. But now, there's no chance of that. No chance of... Wait.  Well, Svetik, how'd you make out with Kimball? Speak up, Svetik. What happened? What's wrong with you? I want an audience with a control commission, Keller. And I want it now. What are you talking about? You heard me? I want a report. What happened with Kimball? I want to know. After I see the control commission. You! You! You! All right. All right. You'll see the control commission, all right. And they'll see that you suffer the penalty for failure, for insubordination, for... Come on. And Comrade Commissioner, this fool was assigned to follow your orders to administer that hypo to Kimball. And he failed, Comrade. Failed. This is food, Svetik. It's true, Comrade Commissioner. I did not give Kimball a hypo. I suggest you explain and explain fully. Sure. When I entered Kimball's room, I found him in a semi-delirious state. So, go on. He was ranting and raving about the fate of his friends. Not Comrade, my youth. Friends. He wanted to know if they'd be treated the same way by the party. Would they be killed? Would they meet accident? As he did. These were the worries he was ranting about. So, go on. Go on. I knew if I waited long enough, I'd learn the identity of those friends. I'd discover who the other traitors are. The ones preparing to sell us out. You did I. Go on. You learned the names? Yes, I did. Who? One of them was Comrade Ritchie. Oh, no wonder he didn't finish the job on Kimball. And the other was Comrade Keller. What? You Keller? You? He's crazy, Comrade Commissioner. He's lying by insufficient evidence. Maybe this is stronger. This? The hypodermic? Yes. This is the hypo Keller gave me to poison Kimball. Go on. Check its contents. You'll find that poison to be nothing but plain sterile water. He's lying.  He's lying. You can't believe him. You can't, you can't. You Comrade Sretik, you may go now. No, no, don't let him go. He's lying. Stop. You may go, Comrade Sretik. Yeah, I'm a hero. But be careful, Beaker. They won't give up on Kimball, you know. They couldn't get in without our help, and we don't intend to help any authentic red. How's Kimball's health? Better. Doctor says he's out of danger. How about you, man? Are you? Out of danger? For the moment I am. Just for the moment. That was all. I hung up, stepped out of the phone booth, and walked away. Where to? Which way? Home? No. Too many memories. Too many shadows heavy with might have been. The party headquarters? Oh, I'd be welcome there, all right. But I couldn't go like that. Not so soon. Friends? There are no friends when you walk this road. There can be no friends when you walk. And Druze will return in just a moment. This is Dana Andrews' friends. You can't give people freedom. They have it to begin with. You can give them tyranny, but not for long. But tyranny is no substitute for democracy. It's a challenge. And as long as there is an America, that challenge will be accepted. In this story, as in all others, names, dates, and places are fictitious to protect innocent persons. Many of these stories are based on incidents in the life of Matt Severick, who worked undercover for the FBI. Next week, another fantastic adventure. Join us then, won't you?


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Can you jump? Here's John. Come up that way. Start over a little hip. Hop to the hibby. This is a pleasant surprise. We love singing all so much that we decided we were going to do an early pour. What's up? Take this. This does not look good for us. I'll take this. Well, those are the old ones. This and this. Thank you, Jen. Judy. I've been sending you messages on Facebook, but I don't think you're getting them. Did you get a surprise in the mail yesterday? Do you did get a surprise in the mail yesterday? What day is it? Yeah, it was yesterday. Yeah. I'm going to get them packed up. Move. What are you doing? So, I was just like, you need to rest. Because you can. Love's going to be lives. Well, welcome to the fam, Angie. A little ATD on a sunny Saturday afternoon. It's always good. What's up, everybody? What's up? What's up? Let's all shake hands first and make the better pour or win. I told everybody it was the head to head. Oh, God. Da, da, da. Here's the thing. I'm going to win. Turn your back. Ten paces. Turn around and fly up. You turn your back on me. I'm going to be like, whoosh, set a tour. Y'all know I do that sometimes. She's known for it. I'm amazing. How did the workshop go this morning? The workshop is this evening at 6 p.m. I actually had a few people cancel. So, we're only a half full class. So, if you're in the Dallas area and you want to come to a class, I have openings. You're welcome. So, yeah. We'll play nice for sure. BAMP, I got the extra height button. There were two. So, now I'll have one on this side and he'll have one on that side. We're going to hit it for every time we get a donation. Is there a donation sheet for the day? I have a light, too. I even have a light. But I do have batteries in it. It's a little old-school cop light that you put on top of your car. Anyways, the giveaway is July 31st. So, hi, Lucy. Yeah, I'm missing things. You don't diss stuff like y'all. You know what you got. Jeff's listening to his hip-hoppiness. Oh, this is a Sugar Hill gang. This, this, this. This color is so sick. Look at Jeff go. I didn't know it was a head-to-head now. I hope everything is fine with Amazon at this point. Two, three, four. The Stone Coat Black is amazing. Guess what? I remember because we love you. And it sounds like you guys are ordering and buying Stone Coat, which makes them happy, which makes us happy. And we thank you for that. Like, for sure. Linda, you like that saffron? I was actually surprised at how pretty it was in person versus, like, on the product listing. I was for sure it wasn't going to be as pretty as it was in person. This almond color. I almost want to do a pour with just this and black. Hi, Patty. Hey, Ronan. But I don't have some colors in this. It's really that black. It does bananas things. I was going to use it today, but I am pouring for Diane Cardinale, which some of you know she is in the poor fam. Well, she just got let out of the hospital because she didn't have insurance and it's expensive to stay overnight at the hospital. She's doing outpatient stuff. And I asked her what color she wanted me to pour today to pour in her honor. And she picked turquoise purple, silver, white. So that's what I'm eating. So this is in her honor. She does have a GoFundMe set up. I'll link that in the description box after this video posts. Could someone explain to me the media, pop up that power thing. It's a DJ thing. It's a high button. It's something that the DJs do when they announce somebody in the club or they're dropping a new album or just starting off a song. Just get people's attention or after they say their name. You know? All of those fun things. It's just to get the party started. It was done so much that it became annoying and it stopped. And then people just started saying it so it kind of was a funny joke for a while. And now it's just one of those old things that people do just to do it. I guess. David, is that a something concert? A something concert? Yep. What does that mean? I forgot what you said. It's me messages. Hi, Crissel. Super Tramp concert. Super Tramp. Can you take her for you? What can I say? So, Vance, you've been using Stone Coat for a while then? Deborah said, I say, Erica wins hands down for this for being so sweet. Angel Halo. She just fixed, she got all fixed up. I was going to put some little makeup on and do my hair, but I was like, not feeling it today. Not today, maybe tomorrow. I hope they would make up in his hair. Deborah has just a hype button to get the crowd excited about what's happening. And we use it as a notification to let people know that we've got a donation. So, yeah. Lucy, you're getting floor resin as well. Can't wait to see how that goes. I'm going to have to order some when we do. I'm going to have to get these four house floor. Looks like you did to your hair, Jeff. I did. Well, I have to feel better, Vance. Angel said, just poured my first piece last night with the art coat and loved it so much, I put an order in for the Stone Coat and the black base tint. Y'all have base tint. They sent us two base tints, this blue one and the black one. I'm going to mix some of this blue and I'm going to use the yellow one to see if it does the same thing. Which I anticipate it would. Like a millionaire that has one. Lucy, the black that we used yesterday is the Stone Coat black base tint. Looks like this. It's this much and looks like this. Don't forget to use the ATD promo code so you can get $30 off when you order some of their resin. Vance feels a little bit better. Her blood pressure is back to where it is. Well, not to where it's supposed to be, but closer. I cannot see his head. It's in there. Deborah, I don't know if all the tints do the same thing the black did, but I'm going to test this blue base tint to see if it does do the same thing. Their powders do not do what the black did yesterday. Because it's a chemical that's in the base tint, supposedly. I'm going to try this color today to see if it does the same as what the black did. Shy, what you have to do is put the resin and the two tints, the metallic that you want into your cart and then that'll total $80, but it'll deduct the $30 for the two colors that you pick out. So that'll drop a backup of $50. That sounds awesome Lucy. Ellen, I think these are their regular sizes. This isn't like a sample size they send out to people. This is their quantity I'm pretty sure. Which doesn't seem like a lot for that price. Like for their resin to be so well priced, I don't know that this is $15. I don't know if it's just a sample or it's not, I think this is the full size. I'll check on that just to make sure. Well they're not in the room, but I'll check on that. What's up Kenny? Bamp, I think that's the reason why. Ramona, it just made ridiculous cells. It just had an interesting reaction. It does stuff before you even mess with it. It starts to it immediately starts to almost sell up with the color that it's touching. Then it seems like almost like an infection where it touches the color and it just kind of drags it into it. So it starts to fade into the black. For instance, it was a pink last night and it was dark and then lighter and lighter and lighter. It just spreads. It's pretty intense. I'll check on that. That's awesome. Hopefully I'll be carrying just resin colors soon. Natalie, I will show yesterday's painting again. I got you that is the full size. I think it is not oil base, but have oil in it. Like it's not a whole lot of oil. I don't know. I don't know the chemical makeup. I know that I usually don't use oil paints in my like oil tube paints in my anything because it doesn't really work right, but Oh my God. That looks blue, but then it looks purple on the side of the cup. Understood, Alan. I'll check. Hi, Carol. Natalie, that is what it looks like. It looks like this white for sure. I follow all. Greetings from Greece. Howdy. Wow. Rustica? Did I say that right? I'm going to unravel. Check that.  I'm excited about these colors, you guys. Ellen, you got this size pigment powder. I assume. Linda, the countertop pigment is still good. Hi from England. All right, Ellen. So this is the size that comes when you order a two free metallics. This is their standard size that they sell on their website, and this is what you get two free of. I'll clarify on this. They're very pigmented, so it doesn't take much, but I'll double check on all that for you guys. Also, Mike will be filming live with us next week the end of next week, so he'll be available for y'all's questions as well. I don't have any control over anything. There, but I can't ask questions for you guys. And he's really happy to answer questions too. He's a super nice guy. Super informative and very, very genuine, nice guy. We've talked to him several times on the phone now. Look at that. I just put that in the clear.  You can use your soap, Mike. You're going to put the black on first. I don't know. Remember how last night I had the black kind of in the middle so that when I moved it it broke apart so you could see through it? I don't need to help you. We're head to head right now. Hi Jessica. Let me adjust the I'll zoom in a bit after we get going. We are amazing. Thank you for asking. I've been watching your videos for a few weeks daily before I started doing some work. I'm so confused in terms of which resin to use on MDF there's so many types, which do you recommend? You live in but I would check the pricing of shipping for sure and beyond that most of them will work fine on MDF. It's really it won't make a difference really. Is Jeff bringing in his head or dancing? Both. I'm just kind of looking at this like seeing what I want to do. I'm using check shipping this black tint base. I'm using just resin indigo turquoise and this amazing almond bug get up close when I'm starting to pour so you guys can see these colors they're amazing. I think I'm going to do a black base. I'm using by request artists who amethyst, which we do have in stock just resin white just resin mystery color and this resin tint in the shade aluminum from Eli Kim. Shai says, Jeff, you better not let me down. I can see what side you're on, Shai. And this is sound. Are you going to frame the MDF at all? This is going to be interesting. I don't think I've ever done this. Started with solid black tint. I think it's just resin.com.au but don't quote me on that. I'll link it in the description box after I post this video. The black base tint is Jeff's Numeric Throb LOL. I think it is. Yeah, there's definitely oil in this. I have to say Jeff, what my favorite silver is I wanted it to be mayron but it really just didn't work out like the gold did and this aluminum by Eli Kim works a little bit similar like it reacts in resin similarly to how the mayron did. Didn't you like that aluminum? Yeah, that's what I'm using. But Jeff really is a fan of the platinum from just resin as well. But I think the platinum is a paste so it works differently than this since it's a powder. Thank you, Stephanie. Hi, Nita. I see you now. No, you're not alone. Hi, Donna Wild and Debbie. Are you filming these already? I was hoping Diane would tune in for this but she's probably resting. Shia Zidman, Jeff is all about that black. That he is. I wanted to see what like I just, I'm experimenting. LOL. I've never done a solid black with putting paint in it. There you go. It looks like chocolate. Never mind. I completely lost my train of thought. Linda, Jeff talks to himself literally all the time and it drives me completely bananas because I'm like, what are you talking about? And he'll just start mid-sentence. He'll start the sentence in his head and then halfway through it he'll share with me what he was talking to himself about and I'll be completely lost. What are you talking about? What's happening now? And he's like, I wasn't even talking to you but we're going to in the room. LOL. Okay. This black is trying to come through. Let's zoom y'all in on this. Donna, we're going to do a wings 4 test. I just haven't yet but it's on our to-do list. Of course. Are you using a paste? Add some of this blue base coat to a powder and seal it. The turquoise jet before it is. When are you guys coming to England? We don't have a date yet but we plan on hitting all the countries before too long. I was wondering about that. You can go ahead and leave now. Are you dismissing me right now? That looks so crazy. Y'all come on. Jeff, what was the blue and purple again? This is what I mean by look at this. This does a fade to where it looks like you've painted it and then just kind of lightly airbrushed it. I'm going to show out over there. Recommendations for a teal jade color. I have jade. Awesome, Lou. Donna, I bet it is hard to do. Any medium. Oh my gosh, I want to lay this flat.  It's always tilting that way. I wonder if it's just because there's some resin on them. Oh my gosh, you guys. Hold on, I'm going to show them. They're going to show you the close up and we'll go over what the colors are. I wonder if it's this light with so much of the reflection. Yeah, but the colors aren't as bright. I'm telling you, I'll plug it in.  We plugged that light in. Look at this, you guys. Look at that. And they're not even pits. Like it looks like it would be a pit. That just goes like and goes and goes like This is amazing. Where it breaks through. I'm telling you guys, the trick is just to over pour. I know that sounds really wasteful and just like but that's how you get stuff that looks like this.  You know why? Because we haven't had a white wall for the background. Reflection. Try not to get the cord and see the ceiling is white so it's all just reflection. That color was not gold, it was almond. Almond. Thank you Jumping Bunny. Jumping Bunny, that sounds fun. Jumping Bunny Silver said the stuff you just did is amazing. I just I know y'all and know working on it. Just a second to get my bearings please. You needed to win. Feeling okay? Shelly said I want you to know the T-Shirt order is very comfortable, especially nice in this weather we're having here. Very good quality. Jeff wanted to know T-Springs quality. Oh nice. Which one did she get? Still deciding on that, Bant. Jeff just got here. Please tell me what colors do you use? Stick. I got it. It's like, it's like, it's stale but Jumping Bunny, I see this. Creasex is really good. Make sure you shake it up really well before you use it. Cindy says, tart the ceiling. What is just black? You're going to have to tell them all of your colors while I try to recover this. It looks like a jellyfish swimming up. Sorry guys. You got resin on my shoes. I used stone coat black base tint this amazing alien black so amazing and then I'm using just resin turquoise and almond you guys can see those and indigo all these colors go so well together. Looks like it does do what the other one did. Look at that. They can't see it. I'm sorry, cryptic art, but you can use our um, link for Amazon stuff. I think it's actually, if you're looking for stone coats cheaper from their website it's first layer. Look at that peacock color. You said you're just showing off now and I tend to agree. I guess I could just make this into a dirty horror. I know I just want to I can't believe these colors. Amazing they act. Thank you Diane. Look at that. It looks like there was just no color there. Yeah, definitely need a new level. It was looking fun. What did you do that for? Because it's, I don't have enough on here. Thank you Anita. Jeff looks like a portal open on a canvas. It did. Hi Tamara. Well, I don't want to just look at that. Look how it sits and then it like makes a print. Thanks y'all. Awesome Carmen. Yeah, Diane, we came on early today since we're doing a class later. Hi Lori. What's up Dawn. Thanks Dawn. That's gonna be so fun. That's true jumping bunny. Agreed Angie. Thank you Shad. Jeff, dab it with a brush. Thank you later Kenny. Thank you camera. Thanks cryptic. I just got all of that. You gotta get rid of these old sticks. I know it. Yeah, a limit is not casting resin. We actually had some in molds last night. We already popped them out. It's super soft. It's really soft but like it's still flexible. Let me just Well, it's gonna take days for it to cure fully. Yeah. But let me just say that I didn't see any bubbles in it. Granted we use a lot of pigment. So I'll do one with clear to see how well it goes. Yeah, Angie, we have cured ones from I'll leave it now. I wasn't gonna, alright. Oh, that looks so good. Look how fun that is. There's like two different types of I gotta hit it with a little bit of heat to see if the bubbles out, but I won't change it. I was gonna say, if anybody's interested in the one that I just did I will fill in a couple of these little what are they, mariachi? No, they're like Mexican wrestling mask. Little magnets. It's like basically all the colors combined. It actually looks pretty awesome. Walky walk. Organic done. Hope resin. Alright y'all, I'm really good. Let me get you in closer to see who does moving himself closer and closer to the door. Yeah, I'll show y'all just four too. Yeah, you can do this on many other things other than canvas. You can do it on glass. You can do it on a skateboard. You can do it on piece of wood. You can do it on a mirror. It's limitless. They want to see things y'all. I'm gonna see if that's level over there. Okay, will you take mine with you? So, let me show you guys the ones that we just pulled out. It wasn't the best one. What color was the one you just did? I think that's the one I love. Any resin left? I almost want to just make a tiny bit and put it on this edge. I want it on enough to edge it. You know it's gonna move in. Just leave it and I wouldn't mess with it. It's gonna push your whole design in. No, it won't. I wouldn't do that. All these edges are perfect. Alright y'all. This is one that we pulled out today that we did yesterday. And it's still malleable, I guess would be a good word. It's still bendable. How shiny that is though. It's very shiny and it doesn't have any bubbles left on the top which you would expect from a resin that is not meant to cast. Let me show you what I did with art resin. So I did this one with art resin I think and you can see right here where I don't know if you can actually get it up. There you go. I'm just gonna come around. It looks like I look like a trial. So you can see where it like the bubbles gathered and came up right here. But I mean it still looks good but it definitely did not release all the bubbles. Whereas like this one is very smooth. I did head to this so I can't say if it's clear all the way through. We did do this one but I can't remember what resin this guy was. What is it? That's just clear and that's art resin. Or just resin. The resin was not just resin. Oh the resin. So you can see bubbles in this one but I can't remember how to be what kind of resin this was. Well if it is if there's bubbles it's because we just didn't hit it with a what's up plan? You need what on the payment plan? The painting? Yeah it's I don't know how long it will be bendable How about jewelry? What do you mean by not meant to cast? I mean that casting resin is labeled casting resin because they usually have an air release agent that helps to not have bubbles stuck in the resin like I just showed you guys. So I do research and found that we got fiberglass resin I don't know anything about fiberglass resin but I want to say that it's not clear, right? Is that fiberglass resin? Fiberglass resin is for making speaker boxes and stuff. I don't think it's a word. You have to have a respirator it's not something you want to use. Somebody actually tagged us in a post that they bought it. Let me do extra research on that for you Shelly for me so I don't forget. Thank you Ramona. We're going to have that army bee print even be available to buy. We're going to have them available on our website on Monday I haven't tried color coded I'll look that up. Jumping bunny, I I didn't do I mean the pores that we do whenever we have anything left over we just put them in these little ice molds or chocolate molds we got these at Michael's I think and that's what we do with our leftover resin if we don't make coasters. Do you show them this? No. How much is the piece you just did today to eat? What size is that? That was 12 by 12 12 by 12? I would say. What price are we doing those 12 by 12s I can't remember. I think it was 125. 125 perfect. Plus shipping? Can we get you to give hi y'all can we get you to give Eric and Jeff a thumbs up for today's video. Thank you. Thank you. We're doing such a piece of today. Congrats. You guys want to see that with yesterday? This is driving me crazy. You use mullet foot? What is that a pressure pot? Oh yeah that turning guy from New Zealand I didn't mean to he's a cool cat I like watching him.  What's the contest again? That is the butterfly dip tick just get two canvases I haven't even done one yet and it just has to be inspired by a butterfly. You don't have to look like a butterfly doesn't have to be resin any fluid art will work Stephanie there is no code for us in just resin just yet we're working on finalizing our agreement so that I can carry them here in our studio so you don't have to wait for international shipping times or pay international shipping fees so we're almost done with that negotiation. Got you Diane Sherry brought us to the beach with them that's awesome Kelly forced there's a contest we post them on our Facebook group ATVs poor people we have them every month Laurie I will Sweaty is that going to make it splotchy? I will definitely check that out Laurie I'll reach out to Ryan I'm really happy for your sale Mary Jean I really appreciate that we're going to find a list of your classes Ramona I have them on our website if you'll raise that a little bit then be super cryptic I think Diane wants that piece but I will do another one with those colors so I'll do another one and if you like it you can have first dibs but since Diane this was an ode and homage to Diane since she is sick I got to give her dibs so cryptic I'll do another one you got dibs Deverella that you call it a flutter by awesome you guys will be purchasing just resin as soon as you carry it brilliant Jumping Bunny we have videos on table like how we resin our tables they are all listed way back they're older thank you for saying that I think you shy cryptic I will replace I don't know okay that's a lot early cryptic in the very next four I will be with the same colors same method and if you like it it'll be yours thank you Anita I think yeah come here come here you say hi to the people you say hi to the people Jumping Bunny I do have a website do you want to erase this so that you can see the website I believe in you Anita I wanted to show you guys this piece from yesterday as well it was not level so it adjusted a little bit so my melted watermelon doesn't have the seeds as much anymore it stayed okay or don't fill this here it's such a different looking resin too like when it's clear like when it's done super awesome finish it gives it almost a soft effect thank you Sherry you will love it we will have fun at the workshop we do have a couple of pieces with you guys reporting in Dallas what are you guys watching you work for your job I have a multitasker I feel like that's big Chris I know it is like glass isn't it set up super well yeah Jumping Bunny we do self kits it comes in a the size that I did a 4 on tonight the 12 by 12 includes resin paints stir sticks all the things that you need Mary Jane is a million degrees scared today as well it's like it's going to be amazing anyways y'all if you want to check out our aprons will be listed on the website by Monday at Artistledep.com our Instagram is Artistledep's videos Facebook group where we have all of our contests listed and winners giveaway etc we'll be here this is the one that's going up for the $26 for the pre-orders it's awesome because it has a little adjustable strap right there and these straps are super long sure Bonnie you like to wrap around a couple times or whatever you feel and then all these pockets for your tweezers and sticks you can put a kujo in there if you need right if you have any questions about anything feel free to email us at artistledep.com 2Ts, 2L all of this by the way the description box below if you would like to send us a letter or anything our snail mail is 4209 S.M.G. Texas 75215 if you want some of our t-shirts and merch you can find it at T-Spring the link is also in the description box below on our website you can see the Artisuit paints and eventually the Just Resin and Color Obsession paints I just have to show you guys a present that we got a housewarming from Miss Laura Taylor she sent us a wine chiller y'all I don't even know what temps it's supposed to be on but it's all chilly in there super pumped I'm going to figure out how to work it I already read the instructions moo is it time is it time to go outside do you want to go potty Laura Taylor sent that to us as a housewarming for our new studio super pumped alright moo we'll go in just a second so I have to show you guys not my messy living room we almost have everything set up we just got these new shelves in all the paints my Artisuit collection to send out to you guys I don't have a light in here just realized all the Artisuit so if you order anything that I have in stock this is where it will come from Laura is generous she's amazing and I don't know if you guys heard my shipment of white busted in transit they all all died but you know things happen I have another order coming expedited so if you guys ordered a white this is why the orders haven't been out yet email me and let me know if you want to substitute the white for another color that I have in stock or if um you want to wait until I get the other white in I'm getting it expedited so it shouldn't be that long but it will be an extra weight so if you don't feel like waiting I will absolutely sub it out or refund this one out for you guys just let us know oh thanks jumping bunny this is our humble abode we're not done yet we did get the studio set up nope well we're almost done with the studio part we have um sorry ADD diantel poly said bye that's my newest geode first layer super pumped about it so far but I want to show you guys our art wall that's what it's about Kelly so we're going to have our gallery in here it looks like this super pumped oh yeah okay I'm done with the people thanks Jane D um I sell those also on our website the artist till death website so yeah artist till death if you want the sticks the mystery boxes the artist who paints the lip art um info on the classes all right there um if you send us a donation we super appreciate it you're on our list for the giveaway on July 31st are you messing that up does it look like I'm messing it up I'm just trying to get that trying to get out Tamara just let me know what size I can customize them any size you need a dipped bus for that corner right we try to go live every day but we're going to be mixing in some of our uh pre-recorded videos she really said she she really said she did post the um the t-shirt she brought all right you guys Kujo's gonna buy my ankles if I don't take him out I will see all y'all um tomorrow because I'll be teaching the class tonight um Clara I will not be going early tomorrow because the class is at 11am so it will be regularly scheduled time tomorrow night anyways y'all great we love you forever be nice to each other so oh um we can do online Skype classes as well anyways bye that was creepy


What's good everybody Chris from justice case breaks calm doing the last filler that we need to do for impeccable three box case break This right here is 22 Panini origins football international blaster one box break random team number 15 at the end of this We're gonna give away nine spots in our impeccable impeccable case break, but let's do our first randomizer for the box itself. Good luck everyone Niko down to Diego at the last spot mojo. Thanks everyone for getting in and the Cardinals down to the commanders This dice roll will be for both randomizers Three and two five times five times. Good luck one two three four and five five fifth and final time Diego last spot mojo gets top while Thomas F F down at the bottom just for this one just for the box and Once again five times for the teams one two three four and five at the final time for the teams Colts down to Patriots. Yeah, I mean like yeah, the the thrill of hitting something big is great, but you know Clicking says like that's all of stadium club Yeah, you can get some big stuff in there and I'll grab a box every now and then of it But really I love all the pictures.  All right Here's our first half Diego with the cold trouble with the Bears Aaron with the Broncos James with the Ravens Craig with the Seahawks Aaron with the Jags Thomas B with the Packers Chris with the Giants Eugene with the Dolphins David with the Niners Lawrence with the Jets Niko with the Bengals Matthew S with the Raiders over with the commanders Eugene with the Bills and Cardinals our second half here Jake with the Titans Russell with the Chargers Eugene with the Steelers Ivan with the Lions and Cowboys Russell with the Rams Chris T with the Bucks Nicole with the Texans Chris with the Browns Nicole with the Chiefs Matthew with the Eagles Nicole with the Vikings Jake with the Falcons Thomas B with the Saints and Panthers and Thomas F with the Patriots There we go No trade since it's just a blaster a filler break Yeah, that's the you know my this is my addiction My diction is for wrestling What a guy he was the best, huh? I missed that guy All right one box break Eugene with the Cardinals Down to Oliver with the commanders and random team 15 The last filler not only for you one for us. Thanks again y'all By and spot should have got a few left small handful. I think three three spots left straight up Couldn't one of the last things that we do tonight But like I said, I will stick around for it If we go past the 11 o'clock hour Just don't tell mom and dad so in hush and some working Calvin Austin the third to 149 for the Steelers gonna go to Eugene 137 to 149 Aden Hutchison going to the Lions and Ivan Pickens rookie Kenny picket catapults and a Kenny picket To 299 one more for the Steelers Not too bad for a blaster filler for Eugene 21 out of 299 doesn't ridder somehow variation All right, somehow going to Oliver on the variation Doesn't ready to go into the Falcons and Jake Smith And one more Kenny obviously going to Eugene. Oh Steve Closes out the impeccable. So we are all good after this nine spots being given away here We're grabbing these names here. It's Diego down to robert Fresh dice and our fresh list. There we go this dice roll Three and four seven times seven times on the randomizer top nine get into our impeccable. Good luck everyone. Thanks again. Thank you Steve. Shout out one two three four five six seven It's our final time seven times All right, 10 down to 32 sad times. Thanks again for getting in though Appreciate you 10 outside looking in Nicole got a few spots though. See if you get in Matthew gets in Ivan gets in Eugene gets in Nico gets in Diego with the last spot mojo gets in. Nicole does get in nice. Nicole Craig gets in Russell gets in and top spot Russell Double dipping at the top there Nice. Congrats to y'all There we go I'll fix that. I got the sheet in front of me. It's okay that spot for the Cardinals going to Eugene anyway, but so let's go origins Number 15. All right, you nine get in congrats. Thanks again when we come back Steve close out the impeccable. We come back with a free box case break of 22 impeccable. Thanks again interesting case breaks.com


Item number SCP-590 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-590 is assigned to a regular SCP living space at Sector 7. There is to be one guard on duty at all times within said space, to ensure 590 does not harm himself. SCP-590 is to be supplied with one television, which is to be used only in the broadcasting of children's shows. At no time is SCP-590 allowed to leave Sector 7, for any reason. Subject is to be fed only the vitamin-laced protein gruel created for SCP-590. Anyone caught attempting to feed SCP-590 anything else will be demoted. SCP-590 is not to be handled without proper authorization. Note, SCP-590 is not to be named as anything other than 590. He is a tool to be used, not someone's friend, sibling or child. Anyone found forming attachments to an SCP will be removed to a less people-intensive duty. Description SCP-590 appears to be a young male, approximately 16 years of age. The only benefit he receives from his powers is apparent longevity, as he has not aged since his arrival at the Foundation. Although in all aspects a normal teenager, when SCP-590 touches any other human, he heals all injuries and ailments, physical and mental they may have. As an odd side effect, SCP-590 receives the injuries upon himself, being subjected to all the pain and the aftermath. To elucidate, when healing a physical wound, SCP-590 not only feels the pain of receiving the wound, but gains scars relevant to where the wound was on the subject. When healing a cancer patient, the tumor's material lies at varying places on his body, usually along his arms or legs. Any mental healing performed is transferred directly, resulting in SCP-590 gaining whatever mental aberration he was healing, those wounds he receives from using his powers accumulate. SCP-590 is not capable of healing mental disorders caused by psionic induction, including those caused by certain mind-altering SCPs. In ██, SCP-590 was bedridden and unable to leave his room due to accumulated injuries. In ██, SCP-590 was put on life support, unable to even breathe on his own. Shortly after, he was given one dose of SCP-500, which brought him back to full health. At the instigation of Dr. Bright, SCP-590 was immediately induced to heal several cases of mental retardation. Due to this action, SCP-590 is permanently at the mental level of a three-year-old child and is extremely tractable. SCP-590 is currently reserved for use on researchers and above. Any requests for testing should go through Dr. ██.


10 Biggest Ongoing Mega Projects in Ethiopia Ethiopia is a hilly, landlocked country in the Horn of Africa, divided by the Great Rift Valley. It's a place of old culture, with archeological artifacts dating back over three million years. Lollabella, with its rock-cut Christian buildings from the 12th, 13th centuries, is one of its most important locations. With obelisks, tombs, castles, in the Chapel of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Axum is the remnants of an ancient metropolis. Construction is one of Ethiopia's most important industries, and it is the country's second largest employer after agriculture, according to some estimates. The government has launched not just massive construction projects, but also very minor ones, such as Unity Park, which cost only five million Ethiopian burr to alleviate poverty, expand Ethiopia's infrastructure, and create jobs. When you compare that to mega projects in Ethiopia, such as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which cost just under $5 billion, you can see that the government isn't reluctant to go deep into its finances. Ethiopia has recently completed magnificent projects, such as urban development projects, bridges, dams, and industrial projects, among others. The well-designed Wellow Sefer Overpass on Bull Road is just one example of Ethiopia's enormous potential in massive public construction projects, which it has yet to demonstrate to the rest of the world. Stay with us as we go on this journey, as we take you on a tour of the 10 biggest ongoing projects in Ethiopia. 10. Beautifying Shedger The Ethiopian government's Beautifying Shedger project intends to clean waterways and develop public works in Addis Ababa, the capital city. It was inaugurated on February 27, 2019, by Prime Minister Abhi Ahmed, and is expected to last three years. The second phase of the Beautifying Shedger project, an Addis Ababa Riverside green development program involving the creation of squares and roadside vegetation works, has commenced. Jai Ing-su Nantong Sanjin Construction Group is building on a 179,000 square meter plot of land adjacent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and on the National Palace Garage. It primarily entails the development of a central plaza with a science and technology museum, a children's amusement park, a sports center, a shoreline, auxiliary buildings, and a domed theater, as well as supporting infrastructure like roads, pavement, ornamental lighting, and landscaping. 9. Laguerre The Laguerre Master Plan, designed by Smallwood for the Eagle Hills Development Business, is one of Ethiopia's greatest mixed-use developments. It is located in Addis Ababa, the country's capital. It includes more than 4,000 homes, a five-star hotel, offices, and retail components, and has a gross floor space of over 360,000 square mile. The location is in a highly attractive neighborhood, directly across from the CBD and the government precinct, and is well connected to the rest of the city via a metro station and major road frontage. The goal is to draw attention to Ethiopia's rich history and natural beauty while also contributing to the local economy by creating jobs and solidifying the site's position in Ethiopia's economy. The entire open-air shopping mall is a specialized market for local goods. An internal spine fosters a feeling of community and strengthens ties between project components and residents who have access to their own amenity areas and gardens. Eight. Mejanajna Mass Transport Terminal. Addis Ababa will have four standardized bus terminals to improve its mass transportation operations. The selection of a construction company for one of the terminals in the pipeline is nearing completion. The terminals, which will be located in Mercado, Payaza, Summit, and Mejanajna, will house a variety of amenities, such as cafes, ticket offices, and stores. The project will be implemented before the city's 10th master plan is approved, which is still being debated by the public. Several other master plan components have also begun their implementation phases. The terminals are intended to improve the public transportation services supplied by various buses as departure and arrival destinations. Their design was also created to meet the city's rapidly growing mass transportation needs, which were recognized in the city's most recent master plan. There are around 376 hydro buses, 374 ticket buses, 405 public servants buses, 603 ambessa, 37 Shedger, and 27 Alliance buses in the city at the moment. In addition, the city intends to add 300 more Shedger and 500 other buses to the fleet next year. The terminals will serve as a center for all of these types of transportation. According to Yahe's Gurma Salasi, head of the program office's pedestrian and public transport management division, the city currently lacks standardized bus terminals. Seven, Addis Africa International Convention and Exhibition Center. According to certain officials, work on the Addis Africa International Convention and Exhibition Center, AICEC is moving well. The construction of the center would be extremely important in this regard. According to finance state minister, Dr. Ayub Tekalain, as Ethiopia prepares for a massive meetings, incentives, conferencing and exhibitions, mice, industry. While there has been good progress thus far, we must increase our efforts, he tweeted. In Addis Ababa, the AICEC share corporation will be a multi-purpose business center that will hold a variety of events, such as international conferences, conventions, trade fairs and exhibitions. Addis Ababa has been working on a variety of greenery and beautification projects in order to become one of Africa's most popular tourist and investment destinations. Six, Mess Up Tower. Mess Up Tower is a one-of-a-kind structure that depicts Ethiopian culture. When completed, the public-private partnership development will help to increase visitor inflow and improve the country's favorable image. The 70-story building will be located in Addis Ababa, the country's capital. It will stand 250 meters tall and cover 20,000 square meters of land. The $681 million project will include, among other things, hotels, shopping malls, a cultural center representing Ethiopia's several regions, a gym and a golf club. The construction is expected to be completed in five years. Five, Largest Airport in Africa. Ethiopia is planning to build Africa's largest airport in Bishoptu, a town located 39 kilometers south of the capital Addis Ababa. The $5 billion airport in the United States will occupy 35 square kilometers and have a capacity of 100 million passengers per year. Woll International Airport has a capacity of 19 million passengers per year. Woll's traffic is likely to be greatly reduced as a result of the new airport. Ethiopian Airlines, Africa's largest airline by fleet size and revenue, has grown faster than the continent's air infrastructure. Four, Lapset Project. On March 2, 2012, Kenyan President Yuviru Kenyatta, Ethiopian Prime Minister Miel Zanawi and South Sudanese President Salva Kier inaugurated Lapset. The Lapset Corridor Program, which connects Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan, is Eastern Africa's largest and most ambitious infrastructure project. This mega project consists of seven key infrastructure projects starting with a new 32-birthport at Lamu, Kenya, interregional highways from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to Juba, South Sudan, Isiolo to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Lamu to Garson, Kenya, crude oil pipeline from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to Juba, product oil pipeline from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to Addis Ababa, interregional standard gauge railway lines from Lamu to Isiolo, Isiolo to Juba, Isiolo to Addis Ababa, and Nairobi to Isiolo. Three, Genildawa Hydroelectric Power Plant. The Genildawa Hydropower Project was built by a China-Jajaba group and cost $451 million in total, with the Ethiopian government covering roughly $67.8 million. The rest was paid for with a loan. The project was first announced in 2010, but it was put on hold for more than a year due to delays in the resettlement of villagers living near the dam. The project's completion is expected to boost the country's electric power generation capacity to 4,654 megawatt, up from 4,200 megawatt now, as well as boost the economic benefits of the Genildawa villages by boosting irrigation development. Two, Addis Ababa Djibouti Railway. $4 billion, the Ethiopia Djibouti Railway Modernization Project, often known as the Addis Ababa Djibouti Railway, is East Africa's first modern electrified railway line, stretching 752.7 kilometers. The Ethiopian and Djiboutian governments jointly own the project, which is being built by China Railway Group and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, CCECC. The modernization is expected to improve Ethiopia's landlocked access to Djibouti's port. The 780-kilometer meter gauge line connecting Ethiopia and Djibouti via Dire Dawa was completed in 1917. It is the only railway line connecting Ethiopia's landlocked country to Djibouti port, a key cargo entrance point, but it has deteriorated due to a lack of maintenance and administration. One, Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, $4.8 billion. Since 2011, the GERD project has been under construction. It is located in Ethiopia's Benishangol-Gyumas region, some 15 kilometers east of the Sudanese border. When completed, the dam will be Africa's in the world's largest hydroelectric power facility, with a capacity of 6,450 megawatt. Currently, the project is 71% complete. The reservoir will take five to 15 years to fill after it is completed. However, it has met a number of obstacles, including a regional disagreement over the Nile's flow, delays, and the cancellation of the initial contract with MEDEC, which is operated by the Ethiopian military. These are the ongoing projects in this nation that upon completion will greatly improve the lives of Ethiopians. 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The topic of a project is OER repository platform. I am Sunakshi, he is Ankur, Vibhav and Harshwar then. Open educational resources. What is an OER? OER are freely accessible resources that are used for teaching, accessing, learning purposes and for research purposes. They are released under creative common license. The question arises, why do we need a platform? So the requirement of a project is to create a unified platform for searching the contents which is user friendly. We have made the platform in a software called dSpace. Now, Vibhav will continue. Good afternoon. dSpace is an open source repository software platform that we have used to develop our platform, dSpace. A lot of people won't be familiar with dSpace, so let's get some idea about dSpace. dSpace was developed on Java Spring Framework and it uses various Java technologies for various functions. It provides interface for administration, deposit, ingest and search and access. Now we'll look at the various technologies that dSpace uses. Now, talking about user interface. dSpace has two user interfaces. It supports two types of user interface, JSPUI, XMLUI. We are using XMLUI for our project. It has solar for indexing searching. It contains for database. It supports Oracle MySQL database, also Postgres SQL database. This is dSpace architecture, sir. Whatever fields we have circled, we have worked on those parts. There is an application there, business logic there, storage there. On applications there, we have worked with WebUI. We have configured it. By default, we were using XMLUI. We have configured it with a theme created by Atmire. We have used Mirage theme. Also, we have used Bootstrap to configure the UI to change various stuff. In search field, in business logic layer, we have modified search filter to make it more educational. Make our website more educational. Also, we have worked with authorization and submission workflow manager. This is the current hierarchy of dSpace. By default, dSpace has this hierarchy. It has top-level community, second-level sub-community collection. Inside collection, we can have items where we submit the digital contents. From sub-community, we can further create collections and sub-communities. And this line goes on. What we have done is we have treated this as a discipline or department. This will be our course. This is lesson. Inside lesson, we submit items. We have modified the hierarchy like this to suit our needs more. So what happens by default in dSpace is dSpace gives default read policies to everyone. So if user has to contribute or he has to add a module, he has to ask for the permission from administrator. Now, let's say we have 100 users, 200 users, and there are like two administrators and everyone wants to submit. It will be very problematic for administrator to grant rights to everyone separately. So what we did here, we changed the default policy of dSpace from read to read, write, edit. Read, write, add. This way, any user who has an account can submit a course. This created one more problem is that the problem of security. Let's say I create a course and he creates a course. I should not be able to modify his content or he should not be able to modify my content. So for that, we have changed the, whenever I create the course, he will just get the read, write, and I'll be the admin of my course. If I want, I can add him on the submitter or reviewer or any other role, but I will have the admin write over my course and I can just read his course. Now Ankur will... Coming to the metadata schema, this whole dSpace system is based on tagging. And this tagging is based on the metadata schema. And this, at initially, when we installed dSpace, there were some 67 fields which were provided at initial for addition of any new item. And those fields were not enough for the assets which were uploading, like the PPTs, the PDF, and the scanned documents. So we just, like, we found a learning object metadata, which were more oriented towards learning resources. And from there, we identified some nine metadata tags which were subject, which defined what the item was related to, topic, interactivity type. It defined whether the topic was of practical or it was theory-based, learning resource type, context, format, difficulty, if the course is difficult or is easy, and the learning time. Like, after changing the metadata schema, we were required to reflect the schemas while submission. So these were the schemas which were added by us. Difficulty level, interactive type, intended, end user role, which usually tells the viewer that who's, like, for the digital assets, who are the targeted audience. And initially in dSpace, like, dSpace works on solar in the background for searching. And by its default, there were some five fields upon which items can be searched. And those five fields were not enough. Like, those fields were usually topic, author, the date of its issued. So anyone who wants to search any learning resources, it was difficult for them. So we modified our search engine so that it can include more five metadata tags. Only you increase the number of metadata or any algorithm you have changed. Which algorithm you are using right now? Solar uses inverted indexing and it uses research in its background for searching. So have you tried some lattice search or something, which is basically used in the educational field, very popular? So at present the system, like the deal, solar was provided in the system itself. You improved the search, that is why I'm asking what improvement you have brought. One thing is that you have increased the metadata. But that doesn't mean that you have improved the search. You have improved the metadata. Search improving in the sense? So because even if I'm coming on the system and I want to search, like... So I have added the more five with that five. Like, I will give you from five to ten. So those were more relevant. Initially you would require those five but to make it more accessible. Like the extra five were added. Sir, the point was to make it more educational wise. See, sir, let's say C programming course. It's taught in class 9th, 10th, 11th and even in first year, sir. So we have added one more field which says which kind of course it is for school level or high school level or engineering level. So collection of metadata is manual or automatic? So it's a manual. While we are submitting an item, we have to provide the metadata schema. So then as far as this slide is concerned, I am saying that just you have increased a few more metadata but there is no intellectual work in this. Just increase the metadata, people have to fill in manually. So no sir, the main system was like when dSpace was initially configured on our system and it provided some set of 67 fields. Like those were not learning resources oriented. So we needed it to be more... You customized it. Yeah, we needed it to be more towards our system. Like it was like for our general sense. Like when you're uploading a file and you describe the file like what's the date or who's the author of the file, what's the type of the file and giving this metadata... But it is only the changing labels. There is no such logic available for this, no? So this is required because like at present our system loads of files like in our internal server and we are thought of importing data from other systems. You will be more impressed if you have created the metadata automatically, if you have brought some intelligence kind of thing. It's okay, customization is also work but it is a laborer's work. It has no intellectuality available. He is saying assets, I am saying learning resources. So it is just a label change. The content is same. And he has to fill the content manually. So there is no automation available in between. We changed the metadata keeping in mind that like in future we wanted the system to import data from other resources. Like MIT OCW and other... So whether there are some APIs or something you have written to pull the content. Yeah, there are sword server in this. The space to access the data. We were not able to configure it but if the system is... We are more interested in your work. What is available is okay. What I am saying that you have created any API or something to map the content of the OCW to the disk space or something. Some bridging you have done then we are very happy. If available, it's okay. That is available. The main sense was that like this is an open source system and there were no available documentation for anything. So configuration itself was a... That is the challenge before the open source things. Many times documentation is available. Even if it's changing its little source code like we have to go through something on thousand files. What is the language they have written? It's Java. The back end is in Java and the front end like it has two types of front end. And database? Database is Postgres. And just database was just for the authorization like it shows the user documents. Then the content he put into... Content is done by tagging by solar. So then this all metadata and other things where they are going to put? It actually... 5 storage. XML. XML or a text file? Sir... Where the hashtags or the... Your metadata... Solar has a JSON file like it has all... The tagging of whatever metadata tags... That is the best practice actually because it is the fastest search rather than the databases. Solar was the best search engine available at like for metadata. These were the new types using that which we can search for. And initially like there were no... Like this system was just for like... You can upload a file and you can download a file. And like there were no... Anyway like you can view the file like media files like videos, mp3, audio and image. So we like change the source code of an integrated plugins for each of the files which we mostly require. Which codec it will support? It supports like for mp4 and WebM mp4.ac codec. Which player you have used? Sir I am actually using a Web VideoJS plugin which supports... The native player or something else? So it's a VideoJS plugin, JavaScript plugin which implements both flash and HTML5. Like if the browser is a legacy one it will fall back to its flash... So it is a HTML5 built in native player? Yeah it uses its own codec for streaming the videos. Okay. And that was required because if we were using HTML5 inbuilt tags and this system was not able to play the videos as the video being of last size and these space were not providing those size in the actual way to render the videos. So we were forced to use a VideoJS. Like let's say a file is one jv and it starts downloading like user won't... like user maybe doesn't need to download that file like you can see it first and then decide what does he want to do. That's fine. That I understood. Good. And even PDF streaming plugin we used because mostly our system consists of scanned documents which are most like on 200 plus mv. So video streaming plugin means what you have used? I have used PDFJS. PDFJS. So again it is a flash dependent then. No it's HTML5. HTML5. It's HTML5 dependent. It's actually the PDF plugin used in Mozilla. So the mandatory thing is that user should have Mozilla only? No. It's a plugin which is actually integrated into the Mozilla. Okay. But it's an offline plugin which have integrated it which can be used in any browser. So somebody has to download the plugin? No. There's no need of downloading. Just I can show you the demo. So like automatically the PDF streams and you can see the content. And this like it doesn't have to require like even in legacy browsers it supports. User interface and we'd like to show the demo. So sir this is our user interface looks like. So there are the first hierarchy as you told you. Departments, then courses, then lessons and inside lessons we submit the item. So currently we have two departments that we have made. Computer science and mechanical lessons inside course also. So. Suppose I just want to add my open educational resource to your department. I'm not a course. So you can submit that in a department. There is the provision that without. I'm not a course. Sir there will be a like right now it's not there. There will be a like something like others or something where you can upload everything that's not related to that. I don't understand when you're talking about open educational resource. Repository platform. Yes sir. Where does the department and course come into it? Sir we were basing it more on college. On what? College level. For what? Sir like. There is OER repository by government of India. Yes sir. Okay. It has no department. It has no this thing. It is topic. Yes sir. What we did. Open educational resource.  Sir what.  Sir but the department what we meant here is not the any government. It's like your content might be related to some mechanical department or computer science department. So it's a topic. Yeah it's a topic. Yeah it's a topic. Why course? Sir course like. Sir we can call it module sir. It is like a module. Why module? Sir. You don't understand. Sir. Because if you don't need to. I want to write something or pointers. Yes sir. I want an educational resource. Sir there is. Where? How the hell do I put it? Yes sir. There is two things. You don't need to create a course. You can just have a lesson. Lesson as in you can just say pointers and you can upload your content. You don't need to create a course for that. That's what I am asking. Yes sir. So that is also there. Like in the computer science department. Yeah. If you have a standalone lesson. I am not a department. Sir the course is related to that department. Sir not inside department. Inside the topic. Inside the topic. No. No. What about cross disciplinary? Come on. I mean I don't understand why you are rigid. If you are coming here to open the repository system this is rigid. So you. Wanted to have. Heat engines in aircraft. Where will I put it? This is the best practice. Correct. You could have the labels. User defined. Labels. User. Okay. Exactly. Yes sir. Yes. Formation technology department. Okay. Can I put it under two departments? Same course. Under department. I am talking about resource here. I am not going to talk about anything. I have got an educational resource. Yes sir. Can I put it under three departments? That is what it is. One is to be. I don't understand anything else. There is an educational resource. All the structure you are building is supposed to tag that resource. It doesn't have to belong to anyone. Belonging is my problem. Okay. I don't mind tagging it as anything. Okay. So if we make that user defined. Interdisciplinary is common. Yes sir. No. It is going to become more common. What? Like there is this course on data structures and a lesson on linked list. So here this is a video which can be streamed. We have added those plugins for image, video and audio as well. And apart from this that search. Understood. So if you want to search, show advanced filters. If I want to search all the videos that I have uploaded on this portal. So I will give the type video. No. Keep it video. I want to see if you are smart enough to add I. Are you? I don't think so. It will. No. He is not smart. No sir. I asked him he is very smart. So we got this search is a string. Substance of all the tagging because you see it contains. Yeah. Otherwise it will drop down. These are the ones you can use. So there is one more thing. Let's say sir PDF content or docs page. And like it can. No. All this is given by a d space. Correct? You have not done anything. No sir. Okay sir. What we have done is let's say like what was not there by default in d space. Instead of title I can drop something else. No sir. Like we can search in the content. Like if I need to search a word and if it's in present in any of the PDF documents. So that's searching the words will give me the occurrences in all the PDF documents. That you added. It gives the occurrences like if I am searching link list. And I have a PDF document with the lesson of link list. There is one question now. What happened basically in such kind of systems when you search. And you will go inside the PDF and pull it out. There are two questions. Two issues which comes many time. First is that whether I should have a right to see that. For example if I search Mr. Outage balance in the bank. If it is available in his repository. But whether I have got the right to see that. But your search will pull it and show it to me whether it is taken care first. Second thing is that many time the jurisdiction is not defined. Then it will bring so many search results like Google that I cannot get the appropriate thing what I want. So how you have control both the issues. Ranking. Yeah. Sir the ranking thing is already supported by the solar. Like it ranks each of the documents according to the frequency of the words you are searching. Like relevancy. Like the word you have searched it has all the text relevance. Like it calculates the probability of that letter and creates a ranking of that items. So it gives a more appropriate search results. What about the rights of the user. So it's open source. So like that at default we are allowing every. Open source also there is a right. If he is admin he has got separate right. I am a user. I have got separate right. He is a teacher he has got a separate right. Yes sir. Like I am a normal user right now sir. Like what I can do is. No no I am asking the rights for search. Rights for search. Yes if I am civil engineering student that I have got only rights to search civil also or I put in civil engineering search and then I will get computer also and mechanical also and everything which are irrelevant. Sir you can search in that particular like there will be this. No give me a specific answer don't play with that. Yes sir. Give the answer. Here you can search a particular department like right now. Whatever answer. That also I have to give. It should take from my login from which department I belong. So but if the civil engineer also wants to search computer then. Then I specifically mention but I should have the rights. See what I am saying that I cannot see his financial things. Yes. The reason is that I am not empowered. Forget about the general thing. I am not worried about that. But which I didn't have rights whether your search will dig it out. Normally I didn't have the navigational right to go there. But search will many time pull it out. Sir but if you upload on the open source repository it will be available. Yes sir it is an open source repository. See the purpose of the project is to search any kind of. So you can answer like there is no rights provision. Yes sir. It's okay. Answer another basic question. Yes sir. You have this space. I am asking for open education resource. Yes sir. What is special apart from adding five tabs. Special as in sir that was not there before. Apart from adding five tabs. That was not there before. Apart from adding five tabs. Yes sir. And giving this artificial boundary of department and course and whatever. Actually forgotten that's an educational resource. The educational resource is a separate resource by itself. Exists by itself. And it has got a topic which is to be used for searching. So that plain thing has been lost somewhere. And I think that is the most serious flaw you are done. Because when I come in I am not interested in anything. I am interested in learning about a topic. So what are the resources in that topic? Learning about a keyword. What are the resources in that topic? And I expect you to figure out that a topic belongs to computer science. Even they say that department is immaterial for user. So I think you have lost that. But because of the metadata schema we can uniquely identify each and every item belonging to a particular department. So there is no. But I think your requirements are wrong. Your requirements should be how to classify large amounts of open educational resource. That was the second question I was asking. How do I know that what you have done is scalable. That's fantastic word of it. So the display system is highly scalable. Because across the globe like thousands of systems are using d-spells alone for storing all these digital assets. And they are mostly digital assets are like around in TVs. So like it has a capability to be scaled. Like we didn't get the resource to scale. Scalable in terms of response time. Yeah. For search. For search if you are asking like the solar search we are using here is like almost efficient. Yes. For some reason this d-space animal. Okay. Things that only five writers is enough. Okay. So according to me d-space itself thinks that it is not scalable beyond five. Why can't I take it like that because you are not tested. So d-space is. So d-space was not like it was not constructed like keeping in mind that it will be meant. It was not meant for educational alone. Like it was as a repository for anything. Like across institutes it is like customized according to their requirements. Sir like sir I am getting your concern sir. Why five to ten was my first question. If it is educational. Yes. Okay. It has no other data except educational. So it's a d-space instance only for education. Why can't I. So d-space is not only for educational. It is not but you are configured it for education. Yeah. So. If you want to search like a particular set for. I don't want to get biography. It is not educational for me. Why are you putting it there. d-space is meant for something else. If it is meant for education then all I need to do probably in my view is to take those like you are done with a community is equal to department. This is equal to class. Similarly to the I will change title. Title is equal to department. Why I need title. I suppose corona. Why extending five to ten is a risky proposition. Yes sir. I don't know. Anyway. Yes sir. Okay go. Okay sir. Thank you sir. Thank you sir.