My name is Rebecca Kahn and I'm a researcher in the Research, Learning and Innovation team. I work on a project which connects historical sources via annotations made in linked open data to each other. What this means is we're able to take digitised historical documents like maps, texts and images and using linked open data connect these objects to each other and to other objects on the web. This means that researchers are now able to make new inquiries and do new studies using sources that had previously been unconnected. So for example, we recently did a project with the British Library in which we digitised maps from the 13th and 14th centuries. By using these maps and the digital sources that we were able to connect them to we were able to show that sailors 700 years ago were able to create maps that are as accurate and as correct as maps that you can find today. Using linked data to search for historical sources is a little bit like being a digital Indiana Jones. You can search through museums, libraries and archives and find things that you might never have been able to locate in the past. But the best way to find out about these is to visit our website www.pelagioscommons.org to find out more about how this works.


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Did you all know that 3 million deaths worldwide every year is due to the harmful use of alcohol which constitutes the 5.3 percentage of worldwide deaths? I am Dr. Satish. I am here to talk about alcoholism and its harmful effect on us. Alcoholism is when a person has no control over the alcohol consumption despite its harmful effect on the occupational life, personal life, social life, even a person develops a lot of physical health concerns and still a person has no control over it. This is how we can define alcoholism. So the short term symptoms can be where a person can show nausea, vomiting, increased heartbeat or the person can show restlessness, agitation and the person can even show some sort of irritability. When we talk about the long term symptoms which are mostly physical health issues, probably there can be insomnia where a person has difficulty in sleeping at night and without alcohol they cannot sleep anymore and there could be sexual dysfunction which is the major cause of alcoholism lately. People do have psychological sexual dysfunction and without alcohol people find it very difficult to manage them and then there are other physical disorders like cardiovascular disorders, hypertension, low blood pressure which can also lead to high risk of diabetes. The first cause we can attribute to the social causes, probably the main reason is stress where everybody in the world today are going through stress. The major stress can come from the work life when a person says that they are working for a longer duration of time and when they have issues with the workplace at the end of the day they depend on alcohol and nowadays it's a trend that work hard party hard where five days of a week the person has to work and the end of the week where a person goes to a party binge drink as much as they want and the second thing could be lifestyle. It's a trend so it's a trend that where everybody are having a peer pressure that if they're in a group to look cool they have to drink so there's a peer pressure which is an added risk of it and other than the stress and other than the peer pressure now talking about the risk factors biologically if the father drinks for a longer period of time genetically the son also has a predispositional genetic factor with a child has higher risk of drinking when the child grows up so that is how biological and genetic factors can be spoken about when we talk about the family marital disturbances the family disturbances which can also lead to it and the last thing would be the personality some people who are predispositionally vulnerable to anxiety or being very depressed can have a higher risk of consuming alcohol yes alcoholism is a medical condition and that requires treatment in fact there are various different modalities of treatment it depends on the severity if a person shows mild or moderate and severe depending on which the initial assessments are done to identify what kind of treatment so let's talk about the severity the severe intensity mostly pharmacotherapy where some sort of a psychiatric interventions are done medications are given and the second which is mostly moderate to mild features psychotherapies and counseling so we first identify what are the vulnerabilities like as i already mentioned in the previous video talking about the social factors biological factors family factors is it the work stress or is it the personality we identify them and based on that there are different psychotherapies available the most common are cognitive behavioral therapy or stress inoculation therapy relaxation techniques cognitive distractions and many more prevention of alcoholism is definitely up to the stress management as we previously discussed stress is everywhere it's in every part of our day but stress can never be escaped so ultimately a person is depending on alcohol to overcome the stressful day or how to relax at the end of the day so finding a coping mechanism finding an alternative to alcohol alcohol is simply but a habit which can develop into a medical condition so developing a coping technique where a person depends on social support where a person depends on family in fact we call family as a resilience where the person who is more accustomed being with the family mostly has a less risk factors of drinking alcohol and those people who have better coping mechanisms that is people who depend on playing music listening to music or people who have drawing painting who loves cooking who enjoys going out to people do have a lower risk of managing the alcohol it is only when the person has no um no activity to do outside of the work life say when you finish your work come home i'm so bored i don't know what to do these are the situations where people easily depend on alcohol and that's how addiction begins so having a different activity to manage through the day can easily the person can easily overcome the alcohol behavior


Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today we're going to look at the 1979 Darth Vader TIE Fighter. We would be honored if you would join us. All right, the 1979 vintage, right, this is vintage, Darth Vader TIE Fighter. I've been waiting a long time to get this because I've been collecting all of the Kenner ships for a while. Of course, started with the X-Wing, then moved on to the TIE Fighter, then went to the Landspeeder, right? And then from there, it was just, which ship do I want to get next, right? And I had got the Monium Falcon, I even got an A-Wing, I even got a B-Wing, I got the Slave One, and I got a Y-Wing. And so really, the next one on the list was the TIE Fighter from Darth Vader. And oh yes, I have the troop transport and I have the ATSD. And the AT-AT. Yes, okay, so I have all those two. So I've gotten a lot first. I had gotten a lot first. And this one was kind of, it was kind of a ludomy because out there on eBay, this comes in a lot of unfinished stages. And I'd already built some ships from scratch, I'd already refurbished some, and I was kind of looking for a completely 100% vintage, decals, everything. No, no repro parts, and everything included. I didn't want to have anything missing. And so I found an auction where the guy had all original items, and get this, the lights and sound work, and he even mailed it to me with fresh batteries inside. Couldn't have had a better seller.  Kenner originally released the Darth Vader TIE Fighter in 1979. This came out with the Monim Falcon that we just mentioned. It also came out with the Land of the Jawas playset, came out with the Joy Factory playset, the Patrol Dewback, the Imperial Troop Transporter, and the Creature Cantina playset. All right, so a couple of the features of the TIE Fighter. One, it doesn't have the pop-off wings like this regular predecessor, you know, the regular one, you can press in on these and the wings eject. This one does not do that. Probably because it sits kind of awkwardly because of these wings. There's so much area in the back and not as much in the front that design-wise, when this sits on your table or wherever, it kind of has an imbalance to it. And what collectors have found over the years is these wings and the springs inside of them and the connections get a little loose and they tend to sit awkwardly. And I was really glad that this one has really strong snaps. And so that's something you might look for is how this sits. So no wing ejects. The cockpit bubble is, I mean, I would say it's identical. You're going to have the same exact lift-up door entry here, same exact seat and computer readout and display. These side panels, these are stickers, okay? These are stickers and you can see mine have bubbles in them, but they're original and they're completed. It would have been nicer if this was a printed grid, you know, that you could feel that had a texture to it, but, you know, they weren't doing that back then. And the other feature, of course, is the lights and sound. Adam, I'll show it to you right now. If you've never seen it, you've never heard that beautiful, beautiful sound of 1970s Kenner lasers. Here it is. I'm going to stick that by my microphone so you can hear it. That's what it sounds like, kids. That's what lasers in space sound like. So when this retailed, it originally was on the shelf for $14.99. $14.99 in 1979. That's a lot of money. And you wonder why, you know, how come my parents didn't buy me the Star Wars ships when I was a kid? They only bought me the figures. They didn't buy me the ships. How come? It was $14.99 in 1979. Like, I would pay $19.99 for this now, right? Pay $20 for this now. So $15 back in 1979. That was a high, that was a lot of markup on the ship, right? I would, I would guess that that was expensive. So you can only only imagine why some of our parents didn't buy us these ships. So I'm really happy to have this in my collection now. And I'll stick some more pictures, of course, in this video throughout, so you can see all the details and all the finer things of Darth Vader's tie. Tell me what you think about this ship and whether you have it in your collection or if it's one of the ones that you've been putting off for a while too. And thanks for watching, guys. May the Force be with you. I'll see you guys next time. Bye.


In today's episode, I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do to make your mark in the multi-family industry. You want to be a maintenance man? Well, stick around. I'm going to tell you exactly how to succeed. So you want to be a maintenance man, right? Okay. Well, I got a few things I could tell you about that. First thing you want to do, if you want to be in the maintenance trade, well, I think it's going to help that you have some kind of mechanical ability. If you don't know how to turn a screwdriver or know the difference between a straight head and a Phillips, this might not be the trade for you. So I'm just suggesting that get a little bit of knowledge behind you. I think the maintenance industry is very rewarding. And by that, what I mean is that when you are out there fixing things, you get a sense of accomplishment for it or with it. And I think that's the reward that you get. You've made somebody happy. Remember, when you're in the apartment maintenance industry, you are working on people's homes. This is where they live. Now granted, a lot of them live like pigs and there's nothing you can do about that, but it's still their home. So if you can go in there and fix something for them that they want to be able to use, then you're fixing has definitely given you a sense of accomplishment. So you got that reward part of it. Also, if you want to succeed as being a maintenance man, there's certain things you need to do. First of all, you can't be scared to go out there and do things that you're not comfortable doing. If you don't know how to replace a compressor on an air conditioner, first thing you want to do is follow along with somebody who is doing the work and watch and take notes mentally. And if you have to physically take notes, then you can do that too so that you can reference back to that. But I think it's very important that you take note of what's going on in that process. And then later down the line, you don't have to be afraid to try it yourself. Hey, if you fail on certain things like that, you can start over and do it again. So you need to take risk and do things that you're not comfortable with in order to succeed. Be the guy that's always first in and last out. Keep your surroundings clean and clean up the clutter that's around your shop. When you pull a motor out of a box to replace a fan motor on an air conditioner, that box, it needs to get discarded. So you definitely want to discard that box and keep your shops clean. People notice things that you do. If you go the extra step in doing your job, people notice that and they take note of it. And when it comes time to be promoted, you're going to be first in line. So be sure to go the extra mile, take that extra step and do the little things that need to be done in order to show people that you are responsible and that you care about your job. That's the biggest thing, is showing that you care about your job and that being enthusiastic about doing things is going to go a long way with your supervisors. Next thing I think you need to do is concentrate on getting some good quality tools. You don't have to go out and buy those tools all at once. You can pick up a couple of good screwdrivers. Myself, I'm a Klein man, so I like using Klein tools. So I didn't buy all of my Klein tools all at once. Here and there I bought pieces and moved the old stuff out of my tool bag to make room for the new quality, better tools that I have now. It's taken me many years to put together some good quality tools that I feel comfortable using and I've used them for so long now that it makes a big difference when you're using a quality tool. You know you got something good and you can have these tools last you for many, many years. So take some effort and try to invest in some good quality hand tools. And with that we're going to expand a little bit more on a few things. So let's take a little break right now and I'll be right back. I want to start off this segment by letting you know how I got started in this business. It's a pretty funny story actually and I can still remember it like it was yesterday that I was working for a moving company at the time. I think I was probably 17 years old and the moving company's business was kind of slumping. They weren't they were basically just getting started in that business. So there wasn't as much work to keep a full crew busy all the time.  Had a little what they called at the time an efficiency apartment. Now they've given it a better name and calling it a studio. That's really fancy isn't it. But you know it was my little apartment. I was proud of it and I didn't want to lose it you know and I definitely didn't want to move back in with mom and dad because I had had a taste of living on my own and at that time I was pretty stubborn and pigheaded so I didn't really want to follow the rules that they had set. So I figured go out on my own and do what I want. And I found out soon enough that you can yeah you can do what you want but you got to pay the bills in order to be able to do that. So well I found myself without a job and an apartment to pay for and it turned out that the apartment community that I was living at needed a groundskeeper. Not like I said I was 17 years old so I was kid. I'm just a kid. So I had gone in and applied for the job and you know they kind of pushed me around a little bit and and you know you don't really know anything about the apartment industry. You haven't done this before and blah blah blah and so I took the job. Well I'm getting ahead of myself. I kept going back to the office and basically begging them to put me on put me to work give me the job because I needed to work and I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. I didn't I didn't have any money coming in. Didn't know how I was going to eat. So it was it was getting pretty tough. So like I said at least two three times a week I would go in there and beg them basically to give me that job. And after about a month they finally relented and gave me the job. So I started out as a groundskeeper in the apartment industry at the age of 17. It wasn't very long after I got that job that I was I was still doing grounds but I would pick up a work order here and there and go take care of a work order and this is like I was saying in the first segment. When you do things that are that are out of your comfort zone people notice especially if you're successful at it and if you're not you can keep at it until you are. But I would I would go out and do work orders when I wasn't doing the grounds and they noticed that and it wasn't probably three to four months after I got that job that they had asked if I wanted to be a maintenance tech just a general maintenance guy. You know I was doing little small work orders like light bulb replacements and that's been so long ago now but you know the little tedious jobs the little small jobs that that air conditioned heating guys don't really have time to do but they need somebody to take care of the small stuff.  So that's the stuff that I was doing also turning apartments that's that's really the place where I shined at that time. So as a maintenance tech now after four months of starting into this industry I started doing apartment turns and got really good at it to the point where they were like this is awesome you know we've never had anybody turn an apartment like you do you know and it's the attention to detail that I would take I wouldn't cut corners on let me get in here get out and be done with it and move on to the next project you know if it took me an extra 10 15 minutes to cock a bathtub the proper way then you know I took that time and I did it and again like I said that kind of stuff is noticed and it's noticed pretty quick because when the resident moves into that apartment and they see the clean lines of your caulk you know your all your outlets are or straight and clean even down to the smallest detail of making sure the screws on your outlet plates and switch plates are all in the same direction where you're not just turning them in you got one cock-eyed to two o'clock and the next ones that were 10 and you know I would always make sure that my screws were the slots were turned straight up 12 and 6 12 and 6 that was just the mainstay I I got to be pretty anal about that as a matter of fact so like I said those little attentions to detail got me a lot of recognition and it really made people's eyes light up and notice that hey you know Dan's doing a really good job for us here he would probably be the next guy we would promote to you know maybe a lead tech or at that time they were doing a lot of level one level two level three technicians and I was a low grade level one at that time I'd probably say that I was in there for maybe six more months as a as level one tech and I'd been punched up to a level two tech which meant that I was going out and doing a little bit more intensive electrical work and maybe a little bit more of the harder plumbing type work I was no longer turning apartments except for when they needed a backup I would go in and fill in for somebody but it was more going out and doing the work order part of the of the job you know and we've all seen that where there's certain work orders that certain people can do and the certain people that can't do certain work orders so I was the number two almost a lead tech at that point and it wasn't very long that I got moved up to be a maintenance supervisor now like I said now I'm probably hitting 18 years old and being asked to be a maintenance supervisor on a property granted it was a small property it was probably only 150 to 180 units or something like that and spent so long ago now I don't remember the I know the name of it but and I won't go into that but again it's it's the attention to detail it's the the willingness to want to go out there and put yourself out there to to do things that you're not comfortable doing and then and then you know once you get that under your belt where you've done this job that you weren't comfortable with to start with now you're getting comfortable at it and you can do it and you can perfect it you can get better at it you you can find ways to do it faster and still do a good job at it that's the thing that gets you noticed so if you want to be a maintenance technician in the apartment industry and in the multi-family business you have got to do things right I you know I I always harp on this you know I don't like cutting corners on any kind of a job because it's just going to come back and bite you in the butt later so that that's one of the things that is most important is to make sure that you're doing a good job and that you're doing that job to the best the absolute best of your ability and to do it right and if you don't know how to do it right you know you can find ways and find out how to do it and not have to cut the corner just to get in there and get out I'll be right back welcome back one of the things that I've talked about a couple times is doing things out of your comfort zone and doing this podcast and I'm what I'm going to try to do is a weekly broadcast and a weekly show on different subjects and topics that I think I might gear this more towards the maintenance industry I think that I I've got a word that and some things that I can teach people out there that are in this industry or maybe just starting out and they need some help and trying to figure out what they should do and how they should do things so I may go that route and hopefully I can help somebody you know I have really harped and harped and harped on the fact that doing the job and doing it right is the only way to succeed and it's amazing how much that is so true doing your job right and not taking shortcuts and cutting corners on on projects that are going to come back at you that you're going to have to go back go back into and redo you know that that's just not the way to succeed if you want to succeed as a maintenance technician and if you want to succeed in maintenance in this industry you have got to do the job right it's amazing how many people will notice that and it may take some time it's not going to happen overnight but it's a career choice and if this is what you have chosen to to do for the rest of your life then why not do it to the best of your ability if you want to succeed and maybe move up the chain and climb that ladder of success and and be the supervisor of the property listen this is what my motto was for a long time I like I said way back in the beginning I have I was a very stubborn person I was pigheaded I was headstrong and my dad and I did not get along because I wanted to do what I wanted to do he wanted me to do what he wanted me to do and I was still going to do what I wanted to do so with that that mindset you know from early on I did not want to be told what to do you know in this industry you're always going to be told what to do and I've come to learn that but what I would what I had figured out early was that you know what in order for me not to be told what to do I want to be I really honestly want to be the guy telling other people what to do and what I started doing was going out there and beating people to the punch and that's just when I was a technician I would go do things before I was told to do them because I didn't want to be told what to do but I saw things that needed to be done so I just went ahead and went and did them so that nobody could tell me what to do and then eventually it turned into where you know I want to be a supervisor because I don't want a supervisor telling me what to do and I thought that was going to work and you know I butted heads with a few managers here and there because you know even as a supervisor at a young age I still had that mentality that I don't want to be told what to do and that's another thing that you need to remember you're always going to have a boss you're always going to have somebody telling you what to do and in order to reduce the amount of stuff that people are telling you what to do on just if you see something just do it and that way if they're not telling you what to do you've already done it so they don't need to tell you what to do that's a little bit of a ramble on and on about not telling me what to do I know but honestly that's the the biggest success story that I can tell you on on how to succeed as being a maintenance technician or a maintenance engineer or a service manager of an apartment community or in the multifamily business is to make sure that you're going the extra mile beat beat the people to the punch if you don't want to be told what to do beat them to the punch go ahead and if you see something do it fix it make it right you know and then after you do it you can say hey I took care of such and such I knew it or you can just leave it quiet and let them discover that oh I saw that yesterday and now it's I went back to look at it and it's fixed oh I wonder who did that they'll ask who took care of such and such you know I did no hey great great job I appreciate that that stuff goes a long way you'll get noticed really fast so that's how you're going to succeed you got to go the extra mile you got to do things right you have to take the initiative to do things on your own so that people aren't having to come to you and tell you what you know why don't you pick up that that bottle out there in the yard you know that's something that you should be just doing and and after a while it becomes automatic and you just do it and again people notice that kind of stuff you're going to be noticed really fast so that that is my little quick story on how to succeed in in the maintenance industry if you want to be in the multifamily business it's a fun job to be in you know there's a multitude of personalities that you're going to have to deal with and that can be interesting at times it can be a little frustrating at times and it can be rewarding at times you'll get to know some really interesting people and it's it's just all part of life you know whatever you do in life you're going to have situations that you're not happy with so make it yours own the job that that's another key you know own your job if you are the maintenance technician and it's your responsibility to complete work orders then own that be the guy who owns his job people are going to see you and they're going to recognize that and you're going to succeed in this industry I promise you it may not happen overnight but it's going to happen this is Dan Giles thanks for listening and we'll see you on the next episode


There are many ancient areas which we often cover which you, the viewer, will clearly realize is of a controversial nature, especially regarding dates in which we claim are actively being denied and concealed by powerful and wealthy academic institutions. Many ancient relics within and the fact that these, what we claim are lost antiquities, are often dated by us merely through logical processes of deduction, are there in dated far before the officially guarded modern development of man, or the path thereof. My work is actively denied, and regardless of the mountain and still mounting volumes of evidence we present, still denied as having ever existed. Funding refused en masse in regards to any consideration whatsoever possible officially, thus any claim in any form of a highly advanced civilization except our own, ever occurring here on earth before, will always be denied. Civilization so old, the ruins now easily dismissed by geologists the world over as natural formations. However, thanks to the fact that nature rarely builds walls and courses, or create enormous megalithic walls of equal sizes, built in techniques akin to the modern house brick, yet with bricks, often many hundreds, sometimes thousands of tons in weight. And all once seemingly effortlessly placed atop one another, and thanks to these clear factual elements, which can allow us to identify the artificial nature of many formations claimed as geological, this evidence thankfully still being visible upon these so-called geological formations. Features which enable awe with critical capacities to distinguish that of a ruin academically suppressed by being systematically dismissed as geological. Kaimanawa Wall, near Lake Taupo, New Zealand, is but one example of this massive dismissal of ancient antiquity, reluctantly explored by mainstream academia in the late 90s. However, an individual by the name of Barry Brailsford's also published an article in the New Zealand listener, which stated as we do that the wall is not geological. And for a brief moment, created a public exposure of mainstream archaeology and historical institutions' active refusal of the obvious in favor of the already concluded. Barry Brailsford's Valiant Journalism considers the possibility of a lost civilization, like one mentioned earlier, and although, in his opinion, is located within permitted history, and our claim is of one far older pre-ice age in fact, he still, regardless, penned its creation on the correct parties. Titled Megalith Mystery are giant stones in the Kaimanawa Forest Park evidence of an ancient New Zealand culture. According to Brailsford's article, the stone wall is at least 2,000 years old and was created by the first settlers of New Zealand, the Waitaha. Furthermore, Brailsford also pertained to the wall being a link between New Zealand, Egypt, and South America. We feel his article is a very well presented investigation into what is clearly an ancient ruin of artificial origin. However, we attest to the wall being a relic of a once far more advanced and much older, now lost civilization. Brailsford listed 12 pieces of evidence for its construction. For example, the fact that the visible stones in the front are a uniform 1.9 meters wide by 1.6 meters tall and 1 meter wide deep. However, politically, the view that civilizations existed in New Zealand before the Maori culture, the currently protected paradigm, is never going to be accepted. The conclusion made by the Commission-funded geologists is that the formation is merely an outcrop of a large ignombrite, a natural formation, created about 330,000 years ago. They claim the uniform shapes were produced by conveniently identical fractures in the rock. The official line is that the Kaimanawa Wall has been proclaimed a natural rock formation. And we know better than many that this tale of events is very unlikely to change in the future. Yet, regardless of this, we find the Kaimanawa Wall highly compelling. Upon the shores of Lake Taupo within New Zealand is an intriguing as yet unexplained artifact that has become known as the Kaimanawa Wall. What is interesting regarding the Kaimanawa Wall is the fact that it clearly predates academia's rigidly attested view of the past inhabitations of the country. New Zealand is largely accepted to have first been inhabited within the last 800 years. However, the analysis that has been done on this mysterious wall has shown that it is, at very minimum, 2000 years old. Additionally, it clearly displays the telltale construction qualities of a lost knowledge, evidently within countless other ruins found all over the world. The controversial wall first came to public attention during the early 1990s, with a publication by Barry Brailford in the New Zealand listener called Megalith Mystery, Our Giant Stones in the Kaimanawa Forest Park. Evidence of an ancient New Zealand culture? Within, he details how analysis has shown that the stone wall is at least two millennia old and was created by previous unknown settlers within New Zealand. He called them the Waitaha and postulated that they were subsequently exterminated by the Maori who arrived only 800 years ago. Furthermore, Brailsford maintains that the wall could link New Zealand with Egypt, South America, and many other ancient civilizations, continuing to list 12 pieces of evidence to support his claims. Predictably, however, individuals within many different fields of academia have leapt to the defense of currently upheld paradigms. The Department of Conservation, archaeologists, geologists, and just about every political party in New Zealand, including a number of media outlets, directed tremendous hostility toward the claims, leading to the site being completely shut off to the public. You have to wonder, what are they so scared of people finding? Regardless of Brailford's evidence, a conclusion that the wall is nothing but a mere natural formation has been publicly peddled ever since the publication nearly 30 years ago, a conclusion in staunch denial of reality or evidence. The conclusion made by official geologists was that the wall is an outcrop of a large ignombrite, a natural formation created about 330,000 years ago. They claim that the block shapes were produced by fractures in the rock, attributed to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and other natural events. It seems scholars are quite happy to date such sites, but extremely reluctant to attribute any intelligent design within their creation. Could the Kaimanawa Wall really be a 330,000-year-old man-made wall, a wall built by the same people as many other sites found across the world? We find such possibilities highly compelling. We have often postulated that many of the ancient sites found all over the world, regardless of permitted academic study, are actually surviving remnants of a once highly advanced civilization now lost within the history of Earth. These exquisitely, as yet unexplained structures, were, we feel, strategic vantage points once built for defensive purposes, later exploited for this advantage by civilizations now academically claimed as the creators. As the generations passed within these ancient cradles, the memory of these inhabitations predictably faded. Thus, these sites, for intimidation purposes, slowly became attributed to the leaders of the tribes, which now resided within. Many of these modern imposters, predictably meeting their demise within less than a century as modern history was formed, each succumbing to invasion by a slightly more capable group. We feel, on top of the mounting evidence, suggesting that these structures are far too advanced for their modern attributed creators. These invasions are additional evidence of these sites being re-inhabited, rather than once created, understood, and maintained by the actual builders. Many of these ancient sites, we feel, were indeed the cradle of the many, more modern, well-studied, academically-claimed constructors. These sites becoming modern tourist attractions, many eroding away to a ruin. However, some placed within suitable locations for modern suburban development and of such enormous monumental size that, regardless of their unexplainable constructions, have survived, slowly becoming engulfed within the modern world, with academia hoping that they continue to be overlooked by a busy populace. The ancient acropolis of a lottery within modern-day Italy being one such site. This acropolis was indeed once the ancient cradle for a lucky few who stumbled upon and realized the potential of this enormous walled-in location built with forgotten and now unexplained polygonal masonry techniques. Who built the Cyclopean wall, which creates the acropolis of a lottery? How did they build it? Why does academia ignore such monumental feats of ancient, unexplained architectural engineering? We find the wall of a lottery highly compelling. In a small, cold region of Russia named Arikulsky sits a gigantic stone structure. It is a wall made from stone not local to the area. Humongous slabs of rock, rest neatly stacked on top one another. It is known as a Cyclopean wall, Cyclopean masonry is the ancient unknown technique used for laying huge stone walls. Specifically found in Mycenaean architecture built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. Specialists from around the world have visited the wall, and examined it, resulting in split opinions as to what it could be. Some say it is a natural formation, while others say it is artificial. The fact that the stone used to form the wall is not found locally, has left those attempting to argue it was formed naturally in a tough spot. While the specialists that have examined the wall and concluded it was built by hand, are in just as tough a spot when it comes to trying to perceive human beings accomplishing such a feat. The stones within the Cyclopean wall show signs of many years of erosion, they also show evidence of impact from past cataclysm. Was the wall built by giants? It is an outlandish argument on the surface, however, many ancient ruins appear to have even been designed for use of people far larger than we are today. In fact, Peru holds so much supportive evidence for this, it has been popularly renamed in certain circles of study as the land built by giants. The giant steps of Machu Pichu is but one of Peru's many examples of what appears to be ancient ruins of a land built for giants. Numerous ancient artwork depict rulers as giants, towering over their subjects. Were these drawings accurate? Were these giant beings a part of an alien race, like so many ancient cultures teach, such as the still existing but ancient Dogon cultures of Africa? With their intimate knowledge of the serious star system. They tell of a race of giant reptilian beings bringing gifts to Earth, such as hops. If this was the case, however, where are their remains? We are capable of lifting huge weights with the use of our advanced technologies. But the ancient civilizations are said to have lifted these huge stone megaliths found across the world, without advanced technology. I struggle to see how.


Okay, maybe what we could do is go back and just recap a little bit of what we've been talking about. We are talking about the One Book One Nebraska Deaf Zones and Darling Spies, Seven Years of Vietnam War, reporting by Beverly D. Keever. Apparently you probably didn't hear any of what we said, so I will just introduce ourselves real quickly. I'm Mary Jo Ryan, I'm the Communications Coordinator for the Nebraska Library Commission. I'm Ron Meyer. I used to live at Superior, Nebraska and was an NMA Vietnam Petron. I'm Lois Meyer and I am a member of the Board of One Book One Nebraska, which is one of the, excuse me, of the Nebraska Center for the Book, which is one of the sponsors for the One Book One Nebraska program. I'm Ron Wagner, Director of the Library Commission, a member of the Nebraska Center for the Book Board and also with Lois and some others, a member of the One Book One Nebraska committee, selection committee. Great, and as we talked about earlier, the One Book One Nebraska program encourages people all across the state to read the same book and talk about it. It happens in libraries and bookstores and individuals and friend groups and book clubs and all kinds of things all across the state. A committee at the Nebraska Center for the Book, which Rod and Lois are on, reads these books and right now you're reading for this coming year, correct? We are. We are. And so they each read, what, three, four, five books? Did you say? Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, maybe. Yeah. It's a busy summer and the committee members divide the books up. We want to be sure that every book is considered that it's nominated and we offer our observations from our readings and determine or narrow down the number of books that were nominated to a small number that we then pass on to the board to make the final selection. Great. And at this point, we are getting very close to narrowing that down. The One Book One Nebraska for 2016 will be announced at our festival in November. Yeah. The Celebration Nebraska Books here in Lincoln, November 14th. So we'll be making that announcement for 2016. And the short list will be publicized as well. Yes. That's right. Finalists will send a news release out in a few weeks probably. Is that right? When will your committee give us the finalists? Within a few weeks, a couple weeks probably. We need to get it to the board so they can make the determination by the celebration. Fabulous. The board will vote and that'll be how they'll make the decision. This whole program, the One Book One Nebraska program is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities Nebraska, Nebraska Library Commission, and University of Nebraska Press. We're moving kind of quickly, theoretically, through these slides. There we go. These are the books that we've had in the past 11 years, 2005 to 2015, starting with my Antony in and this year we're reading Death Zones and Darling's Pies. Again, a nonfiction story by a Nebraska author. She was a Pulitzer Prize winning or not Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist. And she, her story about the besieged outpost of Quezon in 1968 was what she was nominated for. She's the longest serving American corresponding correspondent covering the Vietnam War. And this is truly a story of the Vietnam War and many sides of Vietnam War. And she's the one that I would say. Her goal was to tell the story so that people at home knew more facts about what was really happening in Vietnam. But in the process, she also tells a lot about what was happening, not just to our American soldiers, but in the politics and government of Vietnam as well. And that's one of the things you mentioned, right, Ron? The people of Vietnam on both sides, telling that that story of the politics you mentioned was one of the interesting points here that you learn a lot about the politics of North Vietnam and South Vietnam boat. And Lois, you mentioned that as reading this book as a woman and as a teacher gave you a lot of insight and. Yes, it did. I think it especially in the field of journalism. It's a wonderful example of very fine journalistic writing. And I would encourage people who teach journalism in high school, especially in college to have students read this book because of. Journalism now, I think, is too often shouting matches and arguments and not a whole lot of facts to back up these arguments. And what she does in this book is really do the hard work that is necessary to find out what is truth for people on both sides. And what is truth for people on both sides isn't always the same truth. And I think that's an interesting concept to discuss. And an interesting thing to have teenagers high school students explore because they won't remember any of this. Obviously, of course, you know, this is way beyond their years. But but those issues of the what is the truth and what does it mean to tell a story of truth? That's a cool thing for them to be thinking about. Well, I am when I originally recommended that my husband read the book because of his experience in Vietnam as an American Marine. His perspective at 19, you know, was one that he was, well, I'll let you know when you're going through military training, you're indoctrinated into believing that what you're doing is the honorable thing to be doing. And so you go into these situations with that mindset. It's only afterwards that you begin to question what the whole thing was. And part of where my questioning began is when I started reading other journalists that served in Vietnam and some of their the books that they had written. This book just reinforces everything that I had read about Vietnam since I served there.  Look, this book. Yes. And when you're, as you say, a 19-year-old Marine, you have a more narrow, obviously, perspective because that's what you need to focus on. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I guess what we're hearing is all across the state that people are reading this book in groups and libraries are checking it out, checking out the book club kits, and that it's really making quite an impact. And we're getting a lot of feedback that it's an excellent book to read. And I thought, listening to her, I did get to hear her when she was in Hebron to visit her mother on her mother's 111st date. So I did get to hear the author speak and they had a special library program at the nursing home where her mom lives. And she was really great. And her recall of all of this is fabulous. And so someone asked her that, of course, when she was speaking, said, how can you remember all this? And she said, well, I don't remember it all.  I kept it all and sent it all home. And so I had it to go through to do research when I was writing the book. So it's all based, it's not based on my recall, it's based on everything I wrote and took notes on and everything from that time period. And she had a great story. Her husband, Chuck, was there with her. And she had a great story. They said, well, how did you meet your someone asked her the question? How did you meet her husband? And she said, well, when I was in Vietnam, I was tramping all over, I had a pair of combat boots, and I bought a pair of set of tigues. And I was tramping all over trying to follow the troops around and see what they were doing and go to these outposts. And finally, the Marine said, we better find somebody who can kind of show her around so she doesn't get herself hurt or something. So she said, so they assigned this young Marine to show me around. And he's been doing it ever since. It just goes to show you give a Marine an order. He takes it seriously. So they were very cute. And I had a great time talking to him. And I just respected everything that she experienced and related so much. She was just a really an exciting thing for a young woman who grew up in a small town, as you said, in Nebraska and went to country school. And what she said is she really, really wanted to go to China, but she and the suggestion of a professor, she decided to stop in this place called French Indochina and see what was really going on there. And of course, could never leave because it was just so compelling to tell the story. So we, of course, all of us are really recommending the book. We're sorry that the first part of our discussion may have been lost in translation here. We might have not been able to catch it, but that's okay. We're going to move on. We see it's while we're moving on. I don't have the details, but her papers have been she has given her papers to the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and are being managed by the archives staff at the University Libraries. Yes, Mary Ellen Ducey is someone who could definitely give us more information about that. Hopefully she will. We at the celebration of Nebraska books will have more details on the archiving of her materials and papers and her story that's been captured there. I just wanted to mention that we know that Nebraska and Salah across the state are actively engaged in reading this book and talking about it and they'll keep on doing it throughout 2015. The book club kits are booked already through March 2016, which is a good reminder that you don't have to read the one book one Nebraska during the year. You can read it the next year if you want to. And if you want to check out the news and events tab on our website, which is one book dot Nebraska dot gov. If you check out that news and events tab, you'll see what's going on with one book one Nebraska where the programs are that are being held and the book discussions. We also invite you to join the conversation here on Facebook. One book one Nebraska has a Facebook page and I will actually go to that potentially. Let's see if I can see it. Try that. Okay, here we are. You can see that we have a variety of things that we've posted on Facebook. One of these is the museum exhibit at Washington D.C. featured the press pass for Beverly Deep Keever at in one of the exhibit displays. And so I took a picture of it because I was so excited to see her press pass. But you can see she's just a young kid really as so many of the soldiers were in Vietnam. And it was funny when she left that said in the legend here on the exhibit board said fellow reporters gave Beverly Deep Keever this North Vietnamese Army shovel when she left in 1969, noting her mastery of Vietnam's journalistic vagaries in the inscription. And this was her press pass when she was reporting for the Christian Science Monitor. And then on Facebook, of course, you just get more reminders about celebration. But I did have Yeah, this is the actual exhibit in the museum and you can see it was a very moving thing by the way. There was one one room which was nothing but television reporting from the Vietnam War on an endless loop. And it was hard to be in there. You know what I'm saying? Very hard because it was a horrible reminder of that time. But also very, very interesting juxtaposition to the kind of reporting we see now, versus the kind of reporting that Americans saw in those days, which pretty raw and pretty immediate as opposed to translated for us later, you know, kind of thing. So I recommend that you join our Facebook page and join the conversation. I also really want to suggest that you create a local program. We have publicity tool kit, which is a digital media kit. We have posters that are easy to use on our website. Just go to that. Right. Not that. Website is there right there. One book, one Nebraska or one book dot. That's not it. Whoops. The website is one book dot Nebraska dot go. And you can see again, we have information about the book, information about the author, information about how to get involved and news and events. And under get involved, there's quite a bit of information. One of them is this digital media kit, which can help you with publicity. The other is some promotional tools, which includes some posters. Okay, we also have this discussion questions that are very helpful. Ron and Lois worked on those. And I think that we've gotten a lot of good feedback on those being very helpful in the discussion. We have book club kits that libraries can check out for their book clubs, which includes some bookmarks and some some of the books, of course, website and other resources. But one of the things I really wanted to point out is that Humanities Nebraska has through their Speaker's Bureau set us up with a presenter and they will actually provide libraries and other nonprofit groups with the funding to pay for the presenter's expenses. The name of the program that Thomas Berg presents is Beverly Deepkeber, an unconventional woman for an unconventional war. And I think that would would draw a lot of people who wanted to talk about the book and wanted to hear his take on it. He's a history, partner history lecturer here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His name is Thomas Berg, and he describes his presentation as the fact that she champions women as capable war correspondents and trounces the misconception that American press quote unquote lost the war for America. So I really think this is a very interesting program and we will have him at the celebration to give us some some of these insights and share with us some of what he's learned in his research. So that should be good. So get involved schedule a book club or book talk in the library book a program with humanities in Nebraska with that speaker that I just spoke of or local veterans, local journalists who want to talk about journalism then and now a history professor at your high school. I mean, you can think of a lot of people who would be interested in a panel discussion or some programming on this. I would invite you if any of you out there interested in doing a local radio or TV talk show, I would be happy to help you put together some materials to try to get your local TV or radio station interested in this. There are several videos on our website of author interviews with Beverly Deepkeever and like I said, she's great talker, great speaker, she does a great interview. So that's would be an interesting thing just to do a screening of that for people. And any other ideas you have for programming on around this book, can you guys think of anything or that libraries could do or bookstores could do or schools could do that anyone be interested in? You know, I think, like you say, if you could get the the humanities Nebraska speaker, the professor, I think that would be an excellent he's available to schools and any kind of organization. Yeah, we really get I think it would get people talking. I think so too. I think so too. So just a reminder to join us at the November 14 celebration of Nebraska books. Like I said, we will be featuring the humanities Nebraska speaker Thomas Berg, but we will also have some other activities going on. It takes place at 1200 Main Street at 130 the Nebraska Center for the book annual meeting will be held and that is open. It's an open meeting at 245 is the presentation by Thomas Berg at 330. We will have the presentation of the Jane the 2015 Jane Geske award. And that's an award. It's a secret right at the moment. We do not know who's going to receive it. But it's always given to a Nebraska organization that really exemplifies their work in supporting literacy and literature, reading, writing. So it there's been a list of fine organizations that have received that award. There'll be another one receiving it that day secret. So who it is at this moment.  It sounds like several of them are coming right? Yes, we've had a great response from the people who have books selected as our winners. And we expect to have really good participation from them. They're inviting friends and family to join them. So it'll be a great celebration. Yeah, we're really looking forward to that. That's always interesting to hear them read from their work. And also sometimes they'll talk a little bit about how they came to write that work. And it's always fascinating. The other thing we'll do, as we've said earlier is we will announce the 2016 one book one Nebraska book read. So you will if you come there, you'll be the first to know what will be the book for 2016. We'll have a little awards reception and book signing by those winning authors. And we'll be done around 630. So hopefully a lot of you will join us. This is just my little reminder that it's that you can currently nominate a title for 2017. It seems ridiculous. We haven't announced 2016. But people are actually starting to nominate for 2017, which is great. And so if you go to this web address, which is center for the book dot Nebraska dot gov. And you go to programs, and then you'll come to this online form. And you can either use the online form or send an email. So please don't. Don't forget that now is the time to do it. And if you have any other questions, or would like any other information, you can certainly contact me or go to our website or go to our Facebook page. Rod and Ron and Lois, do you have any other questions or anything else you want to add? Well, I think one was interesting about this book also have the whole complexity of war. When you get to the end of the book, there's lots of surprises. Oh, I know the last chapter. I know, I know. That was one of the things there was a one of the discussion questions says, let me see if I can find it. Did you find the final chapter surprising? Discuss why or why not? You could spend the whole this whole time talking about that couldn't you? Yeah. Very interesting. Anything from our audience, like any questions that you can type in the chat box? I don't see any there. We apologize for the problem we had earlier and hope that you were able to catch up with us. We had a great conversation, but I don't think anybody heard it. So we started over. And now we're good to go. Thank you, everyone. Do we know what show is next week? Next week's show is steam at your library. So steam at your live talk about science, science, technology, engineering, art, arts, music, mathematics, music and mathematics. They are the same. No, but they are similar. Music and mathematics have a similarity. Yeah. So arts does include me. Yeah. Chad Marin at the St. Petersburg College in Florida. Great. And it presents great on how to do incorporating steam into the educational framework and what the library can do. Great. So sounds like a very good program. We're gonna have a great program next week. Okay, join us again next week. Thank you, everyone for joining us. And we will end now. So thank you. And we'll see you next week.


the first variation of gradient descent that we'll look at is minibatching. Minibatch is a super simple idea. Instead of taking a gradient by averaging over all of the perhaps millions of observations in the training set to using a standard gradient descent, or instead of taking a single point and doing a stochastic gradient descent where we move in the direction that reduces the error for that one point, what we'll do is group together a set of k, maybe 30, maybe 50, maybe 100 points in a minibatch. We will then average the gradients in the over those 50 points, say, and take a step that then decreases the error over those 50 points and repeat that multiple times. This gives an online learning algorithm that works extremely well. Basically, all deep learning is minibatching. The equations super simple. We modify our old weight minus a learning rate instead of taking the gradient with respect to either the average change in loss function with respect to each weight for a single point. We'll average it over the, say, 50 points in the batch b, average there, 50 number points. And what it says basically is update all the weights, vector update, by subtracting off the average gradient of the loss function with respect to those points over the 50 points on minibatch. That's it. So give it a try. See how it works. What you will look for, I hope, is to see how does the computation accuracy speed tradeoff change as you change the minibatch size.