Hi you guys welcome back to another so long series this time I'm gonna be making the seam work chantel dress It is a super cute little body skimming button-up Collared dress with a little sleeve option. It really is so adorable and really a great transitional piece for the fall This is our episode zero This is all the stuff that we're gonna need to do before actually sewing I like to keep the sew along to sewing But I also want to do some of the prep work to and give you guys some of my best tips and tricks for Fitting this pattern the alterations that I made to this pattern We're gonna talk about fabrication including the fabric that I'm using and some other options that you have Gathering up the other supplies that you need as well as all the prep work that we need to do before we Actually start sewing with the sew along which kicks off with episode one. So let's get to prepping this one Okay, so when we are talking about fit for seam work, we're gonna come down to Fit details page five and you want to notice that their block is Draughted for a C cup the straight sizes are for a C cup and a height of 5 8 and the plus sizes are a Double D cup and a height of 5 9 so no matter which of the blocks you choose Double check your cup size and your height. Thankfully. I am close enough to a C cup, especially like with a bra on So that's gonna be okay for me And then I but I'm only 5 5 so I am gonna need to reduce the height So I'm just gonna make a note of that in my fast-fit workbook and then we're gonna come down and they already Tell you the ease in the garment. So that's one less thing you have to calculate when you're working with the seam work pattern So you can go ahead and write those numbers down here You can go ahead and write your measurements down here And then you can go ahead and write down the intended fit as well before ever even doing anything else You can write down one four and five the sections Okay, and then we're gonna come down to the body measurement chart Which is right here and we're gonna compare our measurements to the body chart So I was closest to a size 10 technically sizing down, but that's okay We will factor that in later We will factor that in later and then for the waist I was technically closest to a Size 14, but I don't like doing more than one size grade For every horse for every horizontal line on the body. So from bus to waist. I don't like doing more than one size grade I don't like going from a 10 to a 14 bus to waist bus to hip 10 to 14 is fine. That's two sizes for two horizontal measurements on the body. Okay, so I said, all right There's princess seams. There are six seams all the way around this body all around this pattern If you want to look at the line drawing up here You can see we've got side seams one and then the center front so one two three four and then the center back as well Five six So if I took half inch if I took quarter inch seam allowances just at the waist I'd be able to earn back three inches right there plus we've got five and three quarter inches of pattern ease already That's already kind of a lot So I know I have a couple of inches to play around with there as well So I I'm thinking to myself, okay We're gonna make the 12 even though it's gonna be technically too small and we're gonna fudge with the seam allowances in Or to get it to fit. That's what seam allowances are for you guys. They're for fitting. Don't just Use the seam allowances or sew at the seam allowance and then just surge it off every single time use it for fitting That's what it's there for. Okay. All right. And so then for the hip I was gonna do the size 14 again to honor the one size grade in between each horizontal measurement Okay, so then the finished measurement chart is right below the body chart you can see that right here and We are comparing size 10 12 and 14. We're writing down the finished measurements for those sizes right here now We're gonna compare Three and five. All right, we want the intended fit what the pattern designer kind of hopes that this will fit like What their plan was for us and the finished measurements We want those to try and be kind of close so close enough on the bust, right? For the waist though, I knew I was gonna be way off because I'm technically sizing a size too small But remember I have those three inches if I take a quarter inch seam allowance So I'm gonna do that and then know that I'm just gonna be four and three-quarter inches at The waist ease and that's fine. That's plenty. You could even go three and three quarters two and three quarters even You know, it's it's that's pretty generous at the waist for the hip. Okay, so always for the hip I was like, you know when I'm looking at this pattern I'm like these are cute, right, but they're a little bit Professional they're a little bit office appropriate. They're a little bit kind of buttoned up for no pun intended I wanted something a little bit cuter and flirtier and sweeter even and so I always wanted to increase the Circumference of the him to kind of create a little bit more of a flared skirt here at the bottom So that's what I did. Seamwork has an incredible tutorial about how to increase the Width of a skirt of a top of a sleeve whatever you're working on. I'll have that linked below And believe it or not. Well, you might believe it. You can't just Sadly just add to the side seams There's a great article. I'll link that in the description box as well for why you can't do that It's a little bit more Sciencey than I want to get into here But the short answer is you can't just do that and I'm sorry But it doesn't work out right and doesn't end up looking right it distributes the the hem in a weird way and You really need to be adding it into The panels so I did a mixture of both I added to the side seams I added to each seam and then I also cut up from the hem to the waistline the waistline ends up being These like first notches on your side seams right here just above the pocket dots So I ended up cutting up you can see right here cut up through the hem and then cut up through the waistline creating a little like Hinge right here and then you can kick it out just a little bit. I did a half inch on each one This ends up folding over itself by like I didn't even know like not even a millimeter. It's very very small So now I've added an inch to this panel, but that's technically two inches, right because We make two of these Same thing for the side front. I have two of them here and then for the center panels I only did one so you can see I cut up just one time here. Okay, so all the way around I think I ended up adding One two three four five six inches all the way around on my hem Now once I did that I Notice that the side seams. Let me find the side pieces We're gonna be a little bit too Curvy when they created their little Their design to make it a little bit straighter you have to add in a little bit of a curve here for the For your hips, but because I was adding so much at the hem Technically adding also some at the hip line, which is right here. I Didn't need that much of a belt. It was gonna create. I don't know a weird like Bubble at my side seams. So I simply just straightened those out. Okay, so The goal here for you guys as you are looking at what I did is not to just mimic exactly me Unless you're exactly my Size like you're exactly my measurements and you want to just you know do the exact same thing I did the goal here with this video is for you guys to start to critically think about the patterns design What you like what you're comfortable in and start to feel more confident in making the kind of adjustments that you Need to make to create the garments that you know, you're gonna love and that's what I was able to do here So I've got all my Measurements done.  I've got all my adjustments done I'm not gonna go into like super super great detail about exactly how I graded and all that kind of stuff You guys figure out what you want to do for your dress and knock it out But I do want to point out that for your so for the bust up. I made a size 10. Okay, remember So that also means that for the collar pieces you're making a size 10 minor right here and For the sleeve you're making a size 10 now I'm looking at the sleeve on her and it looks great. I'm looking at this leave on her and I'm thinking There's gonna be some issues with the bicep. I just know that there are I tried to Figure it out on the flat pattern myself and I just didn't get You can see all the blue lines. I was I marked my seam allowances. I was trying to figure it out I think the problem is going to be the height of the sleeve cap I have plenty of fabric so I might be recutting mine to add Honestly, like maybe an inch to the sleeve cap, which also means I'm dropping the arm side on these pattern pieces Again kind of an advanced situation. So if you're new to pattern adjusting Just make the sleeve that they gave you hers doesn't look that bad I might take a smaller seam allowance that might give me enough I just I just think that there's not enough to get around like a meaty shoulder Like I know I have if you have narrow shoulders like this girl then You'll probably be fine, but I know I have a little meaty shoulders meaty biceps, you know So I'm a little bit nervous, but we're gonna we're gonna do our best right and we're gonna get as close as we can Right. It's not perfection. It's as good as we can and that's enough. That is enough. Okay So that's what I have to say about pattern adjusting when it comes to fabrication We're gonna come to page seven supplies fabric and measurements And these are all the things that you're going to need. Um, I'm skipping top stitching thread I'm not going to worry about that Um, if you wanted to make like a sportier look and you wanted to do flat-filled seams both flat-filled seams Top stitching thread would be really beautiful. I'm not worried about that on mine Um, because I'm using this corduroy. I'm not entirely sure how much it would even show up So I'm not worried about that on mine, but you do need some fusible interfacing I ended up using I ended up using the mid-weight Woven interfacing from heat and bond. I love love love love heat and bonds interfacing I've talked about this a thousand times Because one you don't need steam. So, you know, when you have that issue of using your Interfacing that ends up being smaller and ends up shrinking up your pattern piece That doesn't happen with heat and bond because we're not using water at all. It's just straight up heat That's all you need to melt little doodads on the back I also love it because it acts a lot more like fabric. Can you see how this is technically woven like fabric is? And it's not like the papery stuff That's non-woven heat and bond makes that as well. But I like the woven stuff. So this is the woven I want to say this is the mid-weight Because I am using, uh, you know a little bit more of a thicker fabric not so much summery Like they were doing in their example. This is more fall appropriate corduroy um If you're doing like a velvet or a denim or anything like that You're probably going to want a heavier interfacing as well Just to give that collar enough stability the collar and the facing are the two pieces that are going to get interfaced. Okay um fabric wise medium weight woven fabric such as linen denim chambray vatisse lawn Rayon shally here is not a me a mid-weight woven fabric. I'm not entirely sure why they have that here But uh kupro is also a rayon and so is tinsel So I because of the the time of the year it's like about to be fall I'm going to go with this. Um, it's kind of like a lighter weight of kind of thinner Corduroy, but it is corduroy still so it is you know a little bit more substantial than just like a regular cotton is So this pattern though you can use lots and lots of different fabrics You can use anything from quilters cotton to I would say probably like a I don't five ounce denim maybe at most Any of those weights anywhere in there and you will be just fine Okay, so that should be everything we need to cover before we actually get sewing.  I promise you guys like There's nothing worse than like getting ready to sew this pattern and then having to go get the interfacing and do all of that Plus the interface pieces. They're not the very first things we need, but they're pretty close Um, we won't cover them until the second video, but go ahead and just do it now I promise you your future self will be so happy Okay, so here's the cutting layouts cutting layouts There was nothing funky with this if you are working with a corduroy Remember that there's a nap to corduroy. There is a right way and a wrong way To corduroy and they also need to be the same. So all of your tops need to be your tops. So see how this is upside down I needed to flip that one over So I had to you know, do a little bit of pattern tetris with this But um, I was able to get it going no problem and then we're going to get started with stay stitching in our next video Okay, you guys so um, yeah lots of homework to do Before we get to our next video. So go ahead and knock that stuff out Leave any questions you have in the comment section below Otherwise, I'm excited to sew this dress with you


Hello everyone, this is Ross at teacher talk at the most influential blog on education in the UK today I am super excited to be joined by Dr. Waseem Ard Time of recording Waseem has just relocated from Newcastle to Stirling in Scotland And my particular fascination with him and his work is particularly on Social media network analysis, so we're going to talk about this a little bit and how it correlates with the world of education And the life of teachers But before we get into all that let's just say hello to Waseem Waseem. Good afternoon. How are you? Hi Ross. All good. All good here. It's been enjoying the sunshine in the last few days Scotland Yeah, surprisingly the last two days have been I've been quite nice Here so it was very rare for the member but been enjoying it so far You're moving you started in Sheffield You're in there now in the world was in Newcastle now you stop Stirling. I guess you'll be an Inverness next Yeah, we have so all my friends in Sheffield keep joking.  So I did a PhD at the University of Sheffield in health in informatics and Before that I did a masters in information Systems and actually started off by studying a pure philosophy at the University of Sheffield's philosophy department For for three years as an undergraduate. So that was my kind of interest and really fascinated by it Then I moved over to information Technology and then into kind of health in informatics after I finished my PhD during it I was interested quite a lot in sports and Analyzing social media activity around sports brands and I did an internship at Manchester United That gave me kind of a lot of business Insights and I was also kind of publishing in that area So then I ended up moving from the health Informatics side of things and and where I worked as a research associate to the business school Well, and I joined the Northumbria business school as a lecturer in digital business And I was there for around a year a year and a bit and then I moved to Newcastle University in the same role And then now I'm senior lecturer in digital business at Sterling University's management school Mm-hmm Now just have a quick sneak on your Twitter profile before we started and I'll see this nice little clip of you on Sky Sports talking about our BBC sport talking about Man United and Christian Ronaldo's transfer and how the news Immersed or emerge itself on social media, which is interest, but we'll talk about that in a moment And what we like at school. Let's rewind a little bit further. We were the person that got your homework in on time So when I was younger when I did my GCSEs And I just scraped through I got I got I think seven C's and they're all on on the borderline So I didn't really kind of pay much much attention during the GCSE days And then I felt a really anxious Waiting for my GCSE results because all my friends were doing sixth form and I thought or maybe I'm actually not gonna be able to go to sixth form I might not meet the criteria and that the night before the exam results was terrifying Got the results. I got a lucky escape managing to get into the sixth form and then I thought I'm not gonna let that happen again. And as I was predicted. I think two D's and an E and I was at the towards the bottom of the class. I actually finished with two A's and a B and The teachers were amazed. They said they've never actually saw that happen Before when the students normally predicted grades and normally around that month So when I was getting the A's and the B's and the teachers were really happy And I managed to get into the University of Sheffield as well So first my family to get into that kind of a Russell group University and then I just found it all with kind of research and academic side of things So there you go and look at you now So so no, I guess you're teaching in some shape or form, but no calling to become a teacher I suppose Not teaching as such I always wanted to kind of get into the research side of things and with the university teaching you've also got the academic research side of things that kind of So just for listeners context, you know, I Foolishly or excitingly also, I guess I'm feeling both emotions start in my doctoral research And I'm exploring social media network analysis We're seeing you're the expert here. Could you tell my listeners? Yep, so So social network analysis is a method that we've been using to kind of analyze Online discussions networks. So it's originally a theory stretches back people using in sociology to study social groups and influential people in social groups Management consultants were going into organizations Analyzing who is speaking to who to find out employees that are influential So they've got a lot of connections to other employees and the world Approaching in the online world. We can use social network analysis to visualize and map out virtual communities and actually pinpoint people who are Influences and spreading in information and those social network visualizations can be really Enlightening we can actually see shapes and crowds. So I think I think you've seen some of those as well Well, we've got one user in the middle and you've got a crowd of users around them So it's really helpful in visualizing in how online information is spreading And it's been useful in our work around misinformation and disinformation You kind of find out some of those users and mapping and spreading that information Now you've got a paper that you've conducted on in the world of teachings. So could we just Talk about that in a little bit detail. Could you just remind everyone what the title of the paper is? Yes, also when I was doing my PhD in around 2016 I presented at a conference in Croatia in in split around contemporary issues in economy and technology in our paper was titled a Twitter and teaching To treat or not to tweet and I remember at the conference It stimulated a quite an intense debate around Teachers and academics and whether they should be using think platforms like Twitter and social media in the paper we reviewed around a hundred academic articles to look at how people were using Twitter in the classroom and It we found some interesting findings. So there were positives on both sides So for the students and also the teachers as well So people are kind of engaging and asking questions that might necessarily do it in the class And it was a kind of back channel for sharing information and other things in the conference We found a lot of Concerns and issues around the people's anxieties and fears and kind of introducing Something like Twitter and microbugging tools as well and in the paper we talked about what what can happen and things like that as well Now I've also read and I guess this on the you know the flip side or the negative side of that kind of if I had in the Word surveillance, you know if I choose to tweet freely I know I've certainly become I've had my hand slap once or twice in my career as a teacher For the thing that you say or expression an opinion and this is very you know many years ago But I can still see I had teachers today who are fearful of what they say compared to Maybe some others who wouldn't give to who some are quite happy to express an opinion and Any thoughts on on on that kind of surveillance? Yes, it is a tricky area. So I know in the United States There's been a lot of cases of that as well. So parents have been reporting teachers They're going and looking at the Instagram or Facebook and they're seeing them opposing with alcohol and another And they're getting in a lot of trouble, so You have to really be careful and I think that might be Getting teachers to be more careful Media that might drive some of the apprehension as well kind of thinking twice before Posting and things like that from your position of expertise was seen. What do you see as the benefits for you know? Well, someone like myself just a teacher to share an opinions and you know, we add in that word influencer where What do you see those benefits from that online perspective? So with with Twitter you can really kind of have your voice heard If you get retweeted by a couple of influential users, they can really kind of cascade The information it could also be useful for for networking as well So there's a lot of other teachers headteachers from other schools, for example using social media and Twitter so far as a career Connections and progression and also useful for kind of networking and meeting people as well Yeah, I mean I you know Trying to think when I first started using Twitter 2007 or 8, you know I look at you know I've got I actually think I might have eight or nine accounts behind the scenes But I'm only using my personal and my teacher cook at one and I certainly know that the benefits that it's had You know the ups and downs as well I guess my question is What what are the benefits of social media network analysis once we've got the data and we can You know see all the nodes and the groups of discourse and who's who's the big cheese? I call it the influencer. What what what could we do with that information from a from your perspective as an academic? Yes, so it would depend on what the kind of research aim is if it's from a public health Perspective and we might be interested to see if those influences can be trusted and whether the information the sharing in terms of web links and other things whether they're from trusted sources are not peer-reviewed academic research If they're not we can kind of Have that information to hand see what conspiracies might be being shared by those groups of influential users And just to raise awareness for the public saying that you might be see see this content But it's not actually true from a marketing business school branding perspective It's it's good for kind of monitoring how your brand is being represented by Influences online for kind of brand management perspective and also potential collaborations as well So influence of marketing is growing now, and if you've got influences around technology around your brand You can actually collaborate with them. You can have sponsoring Opportunities with them as well. So it opens up a lot of doors. Yeah, no, it's a very interesting world. I mean I know the perceptual of myself on Twitter is is of an influencer And I guess I've got that social capital that those number of followers and to kind of back that up But there's a lot of things that I guess as an influencer. I don't necessarily Make people aware of I guess now there are a lot There's a lot more people aware of the world of influences and you know a tweet leads to X I'm out of cash, etc. And I've always been a bit coy about those kind of things because we were a bit shy in the education sphere about You know money and all that type of stuff But I can certainly vouch for all that aspect of influencer life myself I guess I guess I kind of another question for our switch topics will seem is what what what benefits You know, you talked about branding you talk about networking and we've talked about the individual but um, what? Your work in business particularly how can schools use this information to? Market their skills a little bit better how understanding the network around them in an online sense rather than physically outside their school gates Yeah, that's that's a really good Question I actually I went back to my old school On I think two occasions to actually speak to the students and I actually brought up a network graph and I showed them This is how we can analyze social media networks And this is the analysis that we can do and and some of the students were really Frightened with the analytics that were possible on public data And they all said at the end that they were going to be more careful in changing the settings of their accounts Because I laid bare the visuals and I talked to them about what brands and other people were doing and They had no idea that some of this stuff was was happening So as a kind of educational tool introducing this in in the curriculum showing the students This can happen having experts kind of speak to them Possibly some of the students went back in and changed their settings A general marketing perspective Schools could also keep an eye out on on how they're being mentioned Kind of on the internet around these kind of key words around the school I kind of monitor that and and also possibly introduce it into the curriculum as well as a kind of educational tool To protect the students from kind of sharing too much information online On the topic of online harms and the kind of bill going through Parliament at the moment What are your thoughts and recommendations? You know, I guess misinformation Disinformation, you know the moment particularly in education anti-vaccines mass closing schools that those types of at least when I've dabbled with Social network analysis on those topics through the pandemic And I'm picking all that but what what your thoughts on that? Yes, so the the social media research foundation and Dr. Mark Smith who's the chief social scientist And we've been arguing in the foundation to kind of allow people to become their own social media editors and we've written a blog post on a potential way to Kind of protect users of social media kind of crowd-based solution Against potential harms and things like that. So if you look up look up the foundation We have to find an article where we propose a potential solution Where your followers and people in the community can actually report content is being harmful And you can hide things and have editors so you can kind of filter away a potential kind of misinformation and things like that and we would lean towards those types of kind of solutions So I guess what you're saying it is as an organization Changes their terms and conditions and you just press the agree button Behind the scenes all your seconds are changed and updated To a point where you could be exposed with further algorithms misinformation is that is that correct what I'm interpreting you say it's so it's it's more about and Allowing I'd say a Community so if you've got a lot of followers that you'd trust and and if someone is abusing you are assigning misinformation Allow those users the power to flag content as being misinformation So you can actually vault things down and have them hidden from from your Speculated with the thumbs down button, haven't they Yep. Yeah, so a kind of adding features Like that could could help so there was a lot of cases around the the football as well the Premier League Yeah A lot of players were getting abused and they were seeing seeing that if there was an ability On Twitter to add editors That can actually screen these tweets and just get rid of them and I could help if kind of before it reaches a player Now I want to switch topics with Seema wanna I guess for my own selfish reasons talk about the process of going through a PhD or a doctorate and You know, I'm You know in the early days still if it's a struggle I guess because you know explain the process for people that are like me just starting out or people that are thinking about it And I know that's a big question But you know just your general tips and insights now you've kind of passed the finishing line Yeah, yeah, sure. So at one point in my PhD actually fell a little bit behind And I managed to catch up at the end and I finished I think in three years three three months as And what I did was it in the middle. I think I made a strategy and blocked out a lot of time To research and be a bit more systematic. So in my calendar I would actually flag that between three and four. I'm gonna be writing and I would move to kind of different locations different libraries and just go and just write write that content and Because I was doing it in in health, which is in kind of a bit of sociology in there as well The length of the thesis was quite significant and involve kind of writing all those chapters just getting down and editing it It's the planning and quite a bit blocking out time and being strategic as well Then it's just a long process and there's a lot of back and forth as well in revisions and topics can change But just being kind of the duty yours full time. Yep. Yep.  That's you know over your head How will how was all that process for you? You know finding a supervisor seeking funding Learning a new type of way of language Yes, so I was lucky so My when I was doing my masters and I carried on with the same a master supervisor and kind of transitioned in into the the PhD But writing a research proposal was very tricky very difficult process of a kind of a 10 15 page research proposal and Because it's so competitive to get any funding Those proposals have to be really good and kind of speak that that language as you mentioned that kind of academic Lingo has to be realistic achievable and kind of review review literature and and so If you're applying for funding typically, you don't have that much time as well to cook quickly, right? That's it was really intense. Yeah process and you have to learn a lot of stress one on the go So can I can you give me an insight into some of the vocabulary? You could now use that you couldn't use before So there's a lot of a kind of research philosophy epistemology Yeah inductive deductive Approach and so kind of nailing all of those things down and some of the technical things as well kind of machine learning between their centrality Network metrics kind of mentioning methodologies all those different things Centrality is a new word for me actually so for people listening that and Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming that's a more academic term for an influence of the person that kind of unlocks the discourse to their network and It's that connection between both Yeah, that sounds that sounds alright. Well, I'm winning. I'm winning. Okay. Um, right. We'll switch topics once more and Tell us about the life. I know you're new to sterling University But tell me kind of the you're you're working with the things that you're working on the kind of people that you're like Trin the stuff that you're researching. What's going on there? Yeah, so my my teaching is is around the text analytics business intelligence things like power bi and Tableau and data visualization My teaching interests are related to that as as well so in my research interest. So I've been researching Um, recently misinformation around COVID-19, right? And also looking at kind of sports and Online content online homes and sport Kind of negative comments sports athletes have been receiving and and so forth. Yeah, I've also been looking into the Netflix TV show Squid Game. I'm not sure if you've seen I haven't know So we've been analyzing that because it went viral so quickly We've been looking at how Electronic word of mouth kind of spread Right you can show and how people are watching it So I've written if you know I've written a few thoughts, you know people for people listening Tableau and power bi are bits of software That way you can manipulate data online Have you got a particular favorite we're seeing or you just different tools for different purposes? Possibly, yeah, but I've been using not Excel Quite quite a bit which is Microsoft Excel plug-in to pull in data from Twitter YouTube Wikipedia I need to use those fascinating Utilizations and and I really like using that particular tool No, I do it's my favorite so far and I would still say I'm a beginner So I probably need to come back to you and have a few tutorials and it's a go back to the text analysis and sport I'm assuming that that includes, you know racism and other other kind of issues as well Yeah, we have so looking at and kind of case studies where there's been a flare-up of Racism in response to a particular event and also trying to categorize the type of abuse Social media athletes might be receiving so athletes on on Twitter What what is it that people are abusing them about what might be some of the motivations for them? And back to the kind of lecture inside. So what kind of things are you, you know Groups of MA students be ads, you know, who are you working with in it from a lecturer perspective? So it's a mix of everything so a couple of undergraduate classes and students and masters Levelers as well and I get invited quite a lot to deliver external talks as well to PhD departments Kind of skills upgrading and training and international events as well So I did a talk for University in Mexico and Also, Indonesia as well last last month kind of talking about social networks and analysis So in a pre-pandemic world, you would have had a physical invitation from the month's little holiday Yeah, we have so in there before COVID I had been to places like China and United States and across Europe as well. I was also in South Africa for a week And it's all exclusively on network analysis Yes, well kind of social media network analysis Visualizations and things like that. And how you settling into life in Scotland. It's it's been going good Been in trying it here It's been really nice really scenic. I know the Sun's out. We're getting a bit chilly It's not too cooler compared to Newcastle. You'll be used to that in Sheffield in Newcastle, I'm sure So I want to throw it all back to the world of teaching and we'll see what would be your recommendations for kind of curriculum teaching, you know, I know the online harms bills being proposed as there's a computer science Curriculum there's PSHE lessons or our RSE I should say where we teach kids, you know social media We have people coming into assemblies and stuff, but Any specific things that you think would be a valuable addition to the the school curriculum? So I think that that case study I mentioned before where I was showing them a tool which can actually search all social public social media profiles and you can actually Map out where someone has been in a given point of time if they have got their geolocation on so you can actually map this person was here doing this this person was here doing that and When it's framed like that to the students and it kind of it frightens them and they seem a bit more concerned about and kind of privacy and Is that platform? So I don't remember the name of that, but there's a couple of them Yeah, I think it's called location-based social media, right? There's a couple of tools out there and you can actually map out Where people are and and it analyzes people's locations wherever they're going and things like that so you can actually Show students some of these techniques and tools and then they realize why It's critical for young people, but you know what about the people like you and I who are you know The certain age and we have a choice of the information that we share. What are your thoughts on privacy? Location data all that type of stuff Yep, so With I think you can go into your settings and I think there's options to disable kind of location-based tracking as well and and just being careful about what's what's being tweeted and Kind of aware of who might be kind of reading it and posting it as well Yeah, it's a minute. I use Google Maps So, you know, you speaking out loud makes me think cautiously about the information of share You know, don't say that don't tell you I'm off on the holiday tomorrow So it's been really interesting now part of my Podcasts were seen as once we've had a conversation. I've been busily writing notes I'm gonna throw loads of questions at you and try to catch you off guard and So I'll start easy. What project do you work? What's on your desk today? What you working on? Today I was working on the the squid game analysis I Will be a piece of advice for a teacher who wants to start up in the HD So think carefully about your research area and also Your supervisor is as well and make sure there's a kind of good fit and match before I kind of starting it Thank you. And what book are you reading for fun? And I'm trying to think I've actually I've not had time to read Have you tried haggis yet? Not not yet. Not yet. Okay. That's good to know. I'm not yet Let me see and if you weren't I'm assuming this is your dream job But if it isn't what would be that wacky career that you've never had? And so I've always been interested in in sport So a family league football over the nice paycheck would be nice. Very nice And what's your biggest achievement today career-wise? It would probably be my A-level so getting those grades and getting into the university Okay, great. If we were in Sheffield for 24 hours, what would we do where we go? so we would probably Have some Turkish food on London Road and some really nice places that I've not had Turkish food as nice as as you can get in in Sheffield. Yeah, and then you can't be it's it's I find it a bit of a struggle up where I am now find the right cuisine There's a place in Sheffield called zoom up and there's a picture of Ronnie or Sullivan Championship he dines there. So that's the caliber And so in that we're going back to your research paper to tweet or not to tweet should I tweet? Yes, you should be tweeting Good to know and who do you recommend I interview next and why? So it could be worth having a chat with Dr. Mark Smith from the social media research foundation. Yeah, I've had a chat but not for a podcast, but I'll certainly Chase him up and just for listener context. Why Mark? He's been doing a lot of kind of fascinating stuff in the area of social media and social networks for for a number of years and it's always enlightening speaking to him about kind of online crowds virtual networks and He was publishing about social media and online networks. I think in the 90s when Internet was just becoming a thing So he's got a real experience over the last say 10 10 20 years He's good fun to talk to as well And he's certainly when I get on these nerves about how to log in in his mode or why does my power be on your license? Not work. He's very patient to be fair We're seeing working listeners find out more about you connect online your blogs tweets, etc Yep, so I've got a blog Wasim Ahmed Org and it's got a list of my publications and few videos and things on there as well And I'm on Twitter as well at W a s 3 2 1 0 And my final question was seen is what would you hope to be your legacy? That's a tricky one is as well So possibly Kind of around having an impact in policy around some of the research We're doing around kind of online misinformation online homes having some type of Kind of real-world policy-based impacts of offer that research Great. So there you go folks. So I'm mean dabbling in the world of social media As a teacher and looking at network. We'll see him here is the the expert. We'll see him. Thank you for your time No worries and I wish you all the best instead I hope to come up and visit you some time and share some ideas or at least attend some of your lectures So I can master my research a little bit more, but thank you Great. No worries. Great to be here. Thank you


Mali drops French as its official language. Mali has been a French colony since the 19th century, and French has been the official language of the country ever since. However, in recent years, there has been growing resentment towards France and Mali, due to a number of factors, including France's perceived military and political interference in Mali's affairs. This resentment came to a head in 2020, when a military coup overthrew the Malian government. The coup leaders promised to hold elections in 2022, but they have since delayed the elections, citing security concerns. This has further angered many Malians, who feel that France is preventing the country from holding free and fair elections. In June 2023, Mali held a referendum on a new constitution. The new constitution dropped French as the official language of Mali, and instead gave official language status to 13 other national languages. French will still be used as the working language of the government, but it will no longer be the official language of the country. The decision to drop French as the official language of Mali was made by the country's military junta. The junta has said that the decision was made in order to promote national unity and to give more prominence to the country's other languages. The decision has been met with mixed reactions. Some people have welcomed it as a step towards greater independence from France, while others have criticized it as a move that will make it more difficult for Mali to communicate with the outside world. It remains to be seen what the long-term implications of this decision will be. However, it is clear that it is a significant development in Mali's recent history. The 13 other national languages that have been given official language status in Mali are Bangbara, Bozo, Dogen, Fulfold, Hausa, Malink, Mandinka, Senink, Tamashik, Kesank, Minyanka, Senufo, and Songhai. The decision to drop French as the official language of Mali has been praised by some African leaders who have seen it as a step towards greater African unity. The decision has also been criticized by some French politicians who have accused the Malian junta of trying to isolate the country from the West. It is still too early to say what the long-term implications of this decision will be. However, it is clear that it is a significant development in Mali's recent history. The constitution is viewed as crucial for rebuilding the nation after years of turbulence. Previously, Mali had witnessed two additional coups, creating a sense of uncertainty and delay in holding elections, which were postponed from February 2022 to February 2024. This decision by Mali to shift away from the French comes at a time of growing anti-French sentiments in West Africa due to perceived military and political interference. Relations between Paris and Bamako have soared over accusations of military failures against jihadists and allegations of political interference. In August, France concluded its nine-year military operation in Mali, withdrawing its last troops from the country that aimed to combat armed groups. Late last year, the military government of Mali ordered all NGOs, including those funded by France, to halt operations in response to Paris' decision to suspend development aid to Bamako due to concerns about Mali's alleged cooperation with the Wagner-Russian private military company.


Dozens of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Saturday to protest the visit of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Turkey, the protest, organized by the Socialist and Nationalist Veyton Party, called on Turkey to cut ties with NATO and denounced Blinken's trip to the region. We are here to declare, to shout, that all the attacks in the region, in Iraq, in Iran, in Libya, as well as in Palestine, are realized, perpetrated, by America, said Nariah Kayasalmaz of the Veyton Party of Blinken kicked off his latest urgent Middle East diplomatic mission in NATO ally Turkey, as fears mount that Israel's war against Hamas and Gaza may explode into a broader conflict. Blinken met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fiden to discuss what Turkey and others can do to exert influence, particularly on Iran and its proxies, to ease soaring tensions, speed up humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza and begin an earnest to plan for reconstruction and governance of post-war Gaza, much of which has been reduced to rubble by three months of intense Israeli bombardments.


Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalding Decon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding, and much more. These are our stories. Hey guys, Steve Wolf, General Manager of Spalding Decon Tampa. We're here in what's typically sunny Tampa, Florida. But it's kind of chilly. I'm cold as a Florida boy here. So the type of cleanup we have today is a level chord. The client actually just moved down here from out of state, got out of a relationship that kind of provided a little anxiety for her. She's also a full-time student and working full-time. So it actually got her a little overwhelmed and the clutter started to build. It hasn't compounded a lot. So what you'll see here might seem like it is at the level that, you know, maybe you might think she can handle it on her own. But that anxiety level is where we come in as experts and help her overcome that battle that she knows is about to grow bigger. So what you're going to see here is us doing some trash removal and a deep clean. Follow me. Hey guys, so we're starting on the horde. What we did is we're starting in the main area, the living room for this house or for this apartment. As you see, what we're doing is we're sorting everything that is keep against this wall over here, keeping some cat food. What is very common in a lot of hordes is that hoarders also have pets. What we find in most cases is that the pet is, you know, a companion to them and helps with their anxiety. We find a lot of pets, which means there's a lot of times because they're not cleaning and they're not throwing away trash. They're also not taking care of the kitty litter. So we find cat feces all over the house because it sometimes goes beyond the kitty litter because the cats don't like going in the kitty litter when it is full. So then they start to expand beyond that kitty litter and we'll find it all over the house. If you look over here, you can see we actually have some feces. This might actually be just some overflow. There's actually a worn piece of carpet right here where the kitty litter was sitting here for so long that it's actually the color of the carpet has changed. It's starting to flatten out in the carpet here.  It's because when the cat goes to the bathroom, he likes to kick, kind of cover it up, but now he's throwing feces all over the thing. So after we clean up this area and remove all the trash and sort it out, we're going to vacuum and treat this rug so we can pull all of that out so she has a nice clean rug again. Got some moldy potato wedges for you. So the biggest thing is you're going through the trash. You have to be careful and very meticulous on looking for things. I actually found her debit card as I'm looking through the trash here. So I'm sure she might have been looking for that or she might have already reordered one because she thought it was lost. But what I'm going to do is I've also found some other sensitive documents. I'm going to put them together, put them to the side that way that she has them because I don't want to throw away something that's very important to her. But if it's buried in the trash that's here in the corner, she might have not even known it was there anymore. She might have already lost it. A lot of times those are the frustrations that you find with hoarding people. What happens is as the trash starts to build up or the contents start to build up, they start losing important stuff. We often find the deeds to houses buried in mountains of garbage, priceless heirlooms, something that's been handed down from generation to generation buried under piles of stuff. So we have to be very careful.  We have to take our time and make sure that we're very diligent on what we're looking for. Pizza anyone? I watched, buried under everything. Down to the piece of jewelry, buried underneath everything. I'll set these things to the side. Sure that she probably would wear this every single day if she knew where it was. So now that when she comes back, she'll have her eye watch back. She'll have her piece of jewelry back. If you see in here, there's other jewelry in here to the side. So what we do is we put all the jewelry together and then we're going to photo document it. Show her that we found all this stuff. So what I'm doing right now is I'm going to take this sheet out inside. I'm going to shake it off. I'm going to vacuum the actual mattress. That way I can put the sheet back on. I don't have a new set of sheets here. If I did, typically I would do that as a courtesy. I'm going to remake the bed for her. That's part of making her house a home again. You want to give her the creature comforts that makes her feel like we did a good job for her. So guys, I'm making the bed right now. I don't know how to really stage the pillows. I'm a married man. My wife does a lot of that. Every time I make the bed, I do it wrong. So probably doing it wrong. At least she'll comment that when she watches the video. But try my best. I'm making the bed. If you guys support me in the way I make a bed, please help me out. Let me know. Comment below. Tell me if I do a good job putting back some resemblance of a good, happy bed. Something that's going to be a great creature comfort for her. You'll hear me use that quite often when I'm cleaning a house. Creature comforts. Those are things that help you kind of get through the day to day. All right guys, guess I'm real gnarly here. It came from underneath the bed. Fly heaven, a little bit of mold.  Don't know what you're going to come in contact with. Gloves. That was gnarly. So I got a question for you guys. Ketchup, vinegar based products. You keep it warm, store it in your cover, or because you opened it, you refrigerate it. I think it says it does, refrigerate after opening. What's your thoughts on that? So guys, last time we were doing a stove, you talked to us and you commented, I'm going to try this because I knew a little bit about cleaning the stoves and everything. You guys commented and like I said, I read your comments about a little trick. Let me see if I can do this.  And I was told that this lifts up. That comes from comments from our viewers. I told you I read it.  That's like a hood of a car. Get in here and really scrub and detail it. Thanks for your comments. All right. This is our ULV Fogger. We actually put a disinfectant and odor neutralizer inside of it. And then we fog the residents after we've already completed our cleanup of the hoard and our deep clean. What this does is it sanitizes and disinfects the area that we've already cleaned. And then it, like I said, it's an odor neutralizer. One of the things that you will find when you're cleaning places like this and you're trying to deliver a clean residence to your customer that they are going to use all of their senses when they come into the apartment, what they can see, what they hear, what they smell. So this takes effect on the smell portion. They're going to have a nice clean smelling apartment when they come back. That will garner a lot of, a lot of favor. And then they will match that with what they see, which is that the apartment has been cleaned out. It has been vacuumed. It's been sanitized. That will increase their satisfaction level. We just finished up a hoard here. Wasn't a big one. It was a level. But there's a lot of boxes, a lot of trash, fruit flies. We had a lot of stuff that we had to clean up and everything. But follow me. I'm going to walk you through the condo. Tell me how I did or how we did. She did most of the heavy lifting. That's Shelby, my counterpart. Remember, I can only lift 60 pounds. She does 120. All right. Follow me. All right. So here's the living room. Remember when we came in here, wall-to-wall Amazon boxes, bags of trash, clothes everywhere. There was a big mark right here where the kitty litter thing was on the floor and kind of spread out. We took care of that, kind of organized it. These are all brand new items. A lot of these things haven't even been opened yet. We have furniture from chairs, other Amazon boxes, stuff that she wanted and bought for her apartment so that she could kind of make this her place again. So we cleared out this space. We also deodorized and sanitized the air as well. So there is a fragrance of cherry that is in the apartment. Hopefully she likes cherry. I forgot to ask before we started, but that's the fragrance that I picked. Come this way. So the next thing that we did was we cleaned and decolorized the kitchen.  We even had groceries that weren't able to fit into the refrigerator because there was other old and moldy food in there. But we made sure that we cleaned that. I don't know if you guys noticed through the video I used one of your tricks. Make sure you comment, like, and share. Anything that you teach me, I'll use. If I can remember the name, I'll mention you. Check out the fridge. Nice, cleaned, organized. That way she knows where all her food is. Good to go. Come into the bathroom. We cleaned off the countertops. Reorganized this. Now she has great creature comforts in here as well. That way when she's going to the bathroom or taking a shower, she feels nice, calm, and comfortable. Then we come into our bedroom in here. Turn on our light. Let me give you guys a little light in here so you can kind of see what I did. Okay. In here, a lot of clothes on the floor. A lot of stuff spread out on the bed. On the nightstand, we made the bed for her. We cleaned the floors, vacuumed the floors, made sure that she had a great place to lay her head, feel comfortable, well rested. She's a student and she needs this place to recharge and revive before she goes and attacks those books. We want to make sure that she has the perfect place to go attack the world. She's going to be a productive member of the society and the only way to do that is to make sure that she's good at those books. Make sure that you guys like, comment, and share on this video and give me any suggestions that you might have. Thanks for watching, guys. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe, and ring that bell to be notified of the next episode. For more information, visit any of our locations.