Hi, stampers. Welcome to Watch Weekly Wednesday. I'm Jill and I'm going to show you from our new mini catalog that just started in January, the 2022 mini catalog. So I'm going to open up this great suite. It's called to New Horizons Suite. And the cool thing about this, I love that there are so many landscaped ideas in this new mini catalog. So it can mix and match with so many different sets. So this is the six by six paper that comes with this suite. And I'm telling you, I just love it. It's just amazing. It's got gorgeous sunsets, little landscapes, seascapes. I mean, you can use it for so many. And the cool thing is on the background, you can use the solid color of it. And it's just beautiful. So it's like the watercolor effect. And let me show you this one right here is just a couple pages from that's called grassy grove. It's also shown here with some of those scapes. And so there are endless possibilities you can use with this. Also just taking scraps, save your scraps. I save my scraps and you can make cards with the strips. So I'm going to show you some of that. Here is the stamp set for that suite. And I like that it's got these stains, relax, enjoy your day. And you're going to see some celebration ones I used with this suite also. So remember, if you purchase $50, you get a free stamp set or selection from the celebration. And so there's just many options. So let's go ahead and start. I'm going to take this six by six, this particular scape I love because it's just beautiful, the colors in it. And I'm going to go ahead and trim it down to the four and a quarter by five and a half. And so I've already done that. So I'm taking it from this. And if you notice what I'm wearing, I didn't even notice it, but it's even evergreen, perfect for the video. So there is that scape. Now what I'm going to do here is I'm going to take these, they're called water painters. And there's three of them in a case. They have all different sizes to use of the actual water painter. But I'm going to use the smallest one today. And what I'm going to do is just take this scape. I'm going to kind of put it right over because I kind of want to copy what's there. So I'm going to look at this one that's already been done. And with the evening evergreen and the old olive, I'm going to create a scape to match the scape. Okay, I'm going to go ahead and start with, I'm just going to go ahead and use this right now is the greenery to kind of match in with it. So I'm going to start on this side. And then I'm going to come over a little bit more. And I'm going to move this so I don't overstamp onto it again. Okay, so there that is. And then I'm going to take my water painter. I mean, this has a little thing right here says push. So you can push it to actually bring the water actually bring the water down to the edge of your painter. And to get the color, there's a couple of different ways you can do it. But I usually just press it down like this. And then open it up again. And there we go. There's enough right there. So I'm just going to use this. And I'm going to go right over the stamped part with my painter and kind of just blend it in. So I want it darker on the actual so grabbing it from the thing and I want it dark right here. So I'm just taking solid color and making it dark right here. And then I'm letting it, I'm going to push it right here because I'm just kind of want to blend it down. Just let it flow with a lot of water. And just let it go. Okay, now these, these I'm just going to wisp with the actual aqua painter. Just going down like that. It doesn't really matter back and forth. It's just you can be messy with this. You're just kind of just getting that watercolor look. Okay, so I've done that. Now I'm going to look at this a little bit. And you know what, I'm going to go ahead and put some evening evergreen in here. Just because I think it's cool to have a little bit in the grass. And we're kind of copying but not, you know, let me put a little bit of this off if I don't want it too much. And you just add this other color and it just makes, look how it gives that depth and dimension. And just adding a little bit of that evening evergreen in there. And I'm just, you don't have to be perfect. Remember that's kind of you don't want to be perfect. Okay, it kind of matches that same color scheme. Now I'm going to go ahead and take the card again. And I'm going to go ahead and match that up a little bit. Now I want to go ahead and take this. And we've got some of that on there. But I'm going to take the old olive and I'm going to go like this. Just pretending that I'm kind of doing the exact thing. And then because this kind of has these little wisps of greenery, I'm going to copy that. It looks like I'm running out of some old olive there. And if you notice, it's got kind of, I'm going to go ahead and kind of blend this a little bit up here. And let me move that and then take some of this and just make it blend in there. And it doesn't, it, you can just mix, mix it. Okay. So that kind of looks like that spot. And let's take some of this. So I'm just really using the two colors because that's the way that they did it too. And this is pretty dry right now, but I'm going to go ahead and push this and get a lot more of that out there, the greenery. And then I'm going to go ahead and add some old olive to that too. Okay. So there we go. We've got our look right there. Let's say if we want some more, we can add some more color in here. If you want some darker, let's add a little bit more of evening evergreen in here. But this is what I like about just kind of doing it messy is, you know, you can decide how you want it to look because watercolor is kind of messy. Okay. And the other one that I did, it might be totally different from this. So that is the piece that I've done. Now I'm going to show you how to do the same that I'm going to do because this is watercolor paper. I want to go ahead and put it right up at this one spot. So I'm actually going to use the stamparatus. The stamparatus is a great tool because if you want to stamp something in an exact place, you can. And I'm going to take my stamp right here that comes with this suite. And I'm going to go ahead and place it where I want it. And the reason why I'm using the stamparatus is because with watercolor paper, there's little ridges in it. And let's say I stamp it and it's not dark enough and I want to stamp it again. So I'm going to go ahead and put this down to the stamp and it will pick it up. And it will be exactly in the spot that I want it to be in. So I'm going to go ahead and ink it up with the evening evergreen. And I like to like hold this up just a little bit so it gets the ink. Okay, then I'm going to go ahead and turn that around and push on it with my fingers. So it's like, oh, see, look, it's pretty light. So what do I want to do? I want to put some more ink on this and it will stay in the exact same place that I put it. So then it will become darker the next time. And you push down to get that ink on the paper. See, and you could do it one more time. Let's do it another time because I think the A, because of those ridges in the paper. And I'm just going to make sure I press down with the A right there. See, that creates a really dark image. That's what the stamparatus is for. I love how if you want to get something and you can do multiples that way. So I'm taking the evening evergreen and I'm going to go ahead and put the adhesive on this. And then I'm just creating a frame around this beautiful watercolor look that I did. And you looked at it and remember it's not like perfect. But look how cool it looks on this. And I'm going to pop that up with dimensionals and it will look awesome.  But also, it's separating your artwork from the artwork that's done on the paper. You can add ribbon if you want to, but it's really just beautiful the way it is, the natural way. Okay, see where that line is? That's where I'm going to put it. And they're wishing you so much happiness. Let me show you the one I first did and see everyone is going to come out differently because I did the background here. So it's just amazing how each one of them looks different. And this one I did with the stamparatus. Look how nice that looks compared to this one was a little bit too too light. So remember when you're working with watercolor paper, it's always fun to use the stamparatus to get the brighter look of your stamping. Let me show you some other ideas that I've done with the stamp set and the paper. Okay, this one is the relax, enjoy your day.  And I love this dye right here, the fence. And so cool. And that paper you don't have to do much to. Okay, this paper, we thought that this would look good like water and you just tear the paper and it looks like waves. All right, this one was fun. We just same thing. We tore the paper and looks like a beautiful sky. These little accessories, these stones come with this sweet also.  That makes it fun too. This is the strips I was telling you about. And this is just an all occasion stamp set. It's called Slim Sains. And that is one of the Sains that comes with it. And this is it's fun to be able to take this and do your envelopes. Look how cool that looks. Now these are some of the dyes that I cut out and you can make the snow on them like that. This is a cute just a card to say you're amazing. That's one of the new celebration ones with a hundred dollar order. I love it. And this is just the paper, the back side of the paper and the front side of the paper. And that's one of those Slim Sains also. And there are just another way to do it. But I love this, these peat and the sweet. Everything goes together. If you don't have a stamp enough demonstrated, you can comment below and we'd be happy to send you a new catalog with our wonderful products. And I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday and we'll see you next time on Watch a Weekly Wednesday.


13-year follow-up of Avon longitudinal study of parents and children, ALSPAC, found that each minute day of light physical activity, LPA, was associated with a 3.6G decrease in fat mass, while each minute day of moderate to vigorous physical activity, MVPA, was associated with a 1.3G decrease in fat mass. Persistently accruing greater than or equal to 60 minutes per day of MVPA was associated with a 2.8G decrease in fat mass per each minute day of MVPA, partly mediated by decreases in insulin and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. LPA elicited similar and potentially stronger fat mass lowering effects than MVPA, making it a potential target for obesity and ST prevention in children and adolescents who are unable or unwilling to exercise. This article was authored by Andrew O. Agbaige, Wei Yipeng, and Toma Pekka to a mainan.


Good afternoon. I want to start today by addressing some concerning incidents that we've seen over the past few months at youth sporting events. From spectators in the stands using racial slurs at players, the tragic violence in Albert recently. Now, I understand the passion surrounding sports, but it's clear we have a problem and we should not tolerate the hate. It's not just that these events or sporting events in general are unique to Vermont. I believe it's a symptom of a much deeper problem with as far too much anger and a lack of respect in our society. We're constantly being divided into camps, whether it's politics, religion, race, or social issues where everything is turned into us versus them. Too many want to stoke fear, raise the temperature which can sometimes lead to violence. We see politicians convince their supporters that the other side is the enemy. And some in the national media choose to ramp up conflicts, to get more views, sell more papers, or increase their ratings. And when both politicians and media are successful with those strategies, they end up pitting neighbors against neighbors. Unfortunately over the past several years, we're seeing more and more of that build up and boil over. And it leads to big problems, like storming the capital, but also on a smaller scale, like what happened in Albert. None of us should find this acceptable. And all of us have an obligation to go down the rhetoric, recognize the humanity in everyone, including those we disagree with, and just be better role models for our kids. The idea that a brawl would break out amongst adults in front of their kids at a middle school basketball game is just plain sad. Our kids watch us every single day. Many of them want to be just like us. What message are we sending? What are we teaching them about how to handle disagreements when this is what they see? I think we should all ask ourselves, what can we do in our everyday lives to help bring down the temperature a bit and be better human beings? Maybe it's something as simple as deciding not to wade into that keyboard feud on social media with someone you've never met or even take a break from Twitter or Facebook for a week or two. And maybe instead of flipping off the driver or cut you off, you let it go and reflect on the fact that you probably made a mistake or two behind the wheel as well over the last few months. We also have a responsibility in this building too, from public servants to lobbyists and those who report on it. Not every disagreement has to be a battle or a fight. I think almost everyone here just wants to make Vermont a better place. So let's use that as the starting point. Now, reasonable people can disagree on issues. In fact, it's healthy to do so. So it's really about how we have that conversation. But it doesn't mean that we're not trying to do what we think is best. And it certainly doesn't mean we don't care about the well-being of others. We just have different thoughts and approaches on how to get there. It all comes down to respect and civility and doing our part to calm things down when tensions are high and things get heated. At the end of the day, whether you're a parent, coworker, public servant or leader in any capacity, the things we say and do carry much more weight than we might think. So before acting, just remember, regardless of age, we're all role models for someone. And we all need to play our part. And it's never, never too late to be a better person. Lastly, turning to state business, I want to share our thoughts about the Budget Adjustment Act that passed the House as moving to the Senate. First of all, I'm grateful that there's a lot of agreement in it. But there are some areas we believe need further consideration, which Secretary Clouser will now cover. Thank you, Governor. Good afternoon. H 145, the Budget Adjustment Act or the BAA, includes dozens of adjustments to last year's budget, as well as time sensitive one time initiatives. The governor's recommended budget adjustment included approximately 57 million for one time initiatives like municipal assistance grants, broadband state matching funds, additional funding for the Vermont Housing Improvement Program and money to address the critical need for youth inpatient beds. Importantly, each of these recommendations were evaluated simultaneous to our work on the full FY 24 budget. That means we considered all other priorities when making these decisions. The House passed Budget Adjustment, which is the governor said will now be taken out by the Senate, includes all of the governor's recommended adjustments to last year's budget and the governor's one time initiatives. It also includes almost $90 million in additional spending on numerous House initiatives and investments. The administration greatly appreciates that the House included all of the governor's initiatives. And we look forward to working with the legislature to put these funds to immediate work upon passage. The administration also recognizes that several of the smaller investments added by the House should be considered by the Senate. However, despite significant agreement on both adjustments and one time initiatives, the administration is concerned about three sizable investments, which together exceed $80 million in new additional general fund spending. These investments may be good investments, but we don't believe budget adjustment is the best place for their consideration. Ultimately, they are policy decisions that require more time for legislative review and should be weighed with all other priorities in the FY 24 budget. So let's talk about them. First, the House provided $50 million to the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board, VHCB. The administration supports the House's dedication to housing as a priority this season. However, the investment is better contemplated and prioritized alongside other proposed housing investments included in the governor's FY 24 budget. These investments include money to Vermont Housing Conservation Board, but also to the Vermont Housing Improvement Program, to middle income housing and others. If the legislature directs $50 million to VHCB and budget adjustment, it could come at the expense of other diverse and essential housing investments, which policy committees have not yet had time to consider. Second, the House provides $20.9 million to extend and expand the Pandemic Emergency Housing Program through June. As the federal funding for this pandemic program is winding down and the federal public health emergency is ending, this proposal uses state funds to expand eligibility back to pandemic levels of assistance and extends that expansion through June 30th. The House has proposed appropriation of $20.9 million for an additional three months threatens funding for more effective longer term solutions that work to solve the housing challenge and should be considered alongside all housing proposals and supports contained within the FY 24 budget. Third, and finally, the House invests $9.2 million in bridge funding for organic dairy farmers. The administration is acutely aware of the economic challenges facing Vermont's agricultural sector and is not opposed to providing support for organic dairy farmers. But the appropriate venue again for this conversation would be in the context of the FY 24 budget development, not budget adjustment. This funding was provided by the House with no input from the agency of agriculture, food and markets, or from other market participants other than the dairy organic dairy farmers. Further evidence that this is not right for inclusion in the budget adjustment is the language in the budget adjustment, which holds these funds in reserve pending additional study and action by the legislature. So there's no urgency here. Again, we appreciate the partnership on the governor's proposed initiatives and adjustments. However, for the three initiatives just discussed, this additional spending will come out of the FY 24 budget. And as a result, this is not something the administration can support without understanding what will be removed to accommodate these additional investments. Governor. Well, open up to questions. This is hardly the first fight or the first conflict that we've seen at a sporting event. How do we change the culture, whether that be on sporting teams or perspectives to Yeah, I mean conflicts amongst players has been historic when we've seen that throughout history. But this one was just a little bit different. This was amongst adults at a seventh and eighth grade basketball game. I think that tells a lot about the situation, the responsibility we have as spectators and response we have for our kids as well. I mean, sports are important in the development of kids and teams and so forth and teaching them things along the way. I this this just wasn't the way to teach them anything, except the wrong approach. And so I think we just have to reflect on all the anger we're seeing throughout the country. Again, it's not unique to Vermont. But but it seems to be systemic. It seems to be elevating from my perspective over the last number of years. And it's it's coming to a boiling point that we need to all take a responsibility to tamp down. The superintendent of the Maple Run Unified School District is calling on both the VPA and the AOE to provide more guidance and education for for circumstances like these. In your view, what what role does does the state play in in providing that? Yeah, I think I think they have a responsibility to the to the kids, first of all, the students, the athletes. But as well, making sure that the the forum is safe. So they've done that. But but again, this is I'm more concerned about the spectators than I am about the play. And that's where, you know, things seem to be getting out of hand. And it's very difficult to manage. But again, all of us have responsibility and can do our part to reduce that. In your opening comments, you also alluded to not necessarily this incident, but there's been incidents in the past that have been related to race. And there's been conflicts surrounding that. Does Vermont? How have we been dealing with with that? And does Vermont have a race problem? And if so, how do we address that? Again, I'm not sure that this, those incidents are unique to Vermont either. It feels as though this has been systemic across the country. But again, we can hold ourselves to a higher standard. And we've got to do so. And I think it comes down to education, it comes down to just basic respect and civility amongst people. And, and I think that we have, we're poised, we're in a good position to do that. But again, it comes down to us as individuals, not somebody telling us to do this comes down to what's best for society, what's best for our kids? And what are we teaching them? It's becoming increasingly evident that there's a fundamental difference of opinion between you and Democratic leaders in this building over whether it makes sense in this moment to raise taxes to fund new government programs. And, you know, as you have, you know, become aware of that yourself, as I'm sure you've been watching what they're doing, I'm wondering how that informs your approach to policy development and or general deliberations with, with lawmakers? Again, I think it comes down to the fundamentals and basics. And it's financial basics from my perspective. I mean, I, I think we've talked a lot about the possibility of a recession. I think there is going to be some sort of recession in the future. Hopefully it looks like it may be a soft landing, which would be great. But, but at the same time, we have to prepare ourselves for that. We're, we're already a very high tax state, very costly to live in Vermont. We need more people here. And we can't, we can't add to the affordability issue that we face. So again, what we do now will have a far reaching effect on us in the future. And for those of us who have been through some downturns over the last two or three decades, I think we should listen and because it's coming. And it's going to affect us. And we're going to have to make some very, very difficult choices in the future. If we don't do this right now. Presumably, you think there are times when it's appropriate to raise taxes to fund something that is in the public good. What's the, what's the thought process that you go through when determining whether the state is going to be better off for having collected this new tax than it would be at that money stayed with residents. I think there's a better approach. Again, we have common goals with a lot of the initiatives. It's just how we get there. And for instance, the pay family leave. I think the approach we're taking with a volunteer program sets up the structure, the build the foundation for something that we could utilize in the future. And in the future, having so that we don't as a state government have to build up another bureaucratic bureaucracy to oversee it. It's going to be the private sector that's able to develop that are already develop it and utilize it. So if we move forward with that in the future in two or three years when we have maybe hopefully with some organic growth in our economy, we'll be able to pay for it with existing funds without having we we proven time and time again that if we focus on the economy, grow the economy and and we'll bring in more revenue organically, which we have done consistently over the last six years. So raising a tax might stifle that economic growth and and put us further behind in the long run. This will be my last question. I got to rephrase it under what circumstances do you think it is appropriate for government to raise taxes on people? The problem is in Vermont, we've already done all that. We've already raised all the taxes over the years and that is stifled our growth. It's stifled. I think economic opportunity. I think it's it's led to many people not being able to stay or attract as many people as we need. So again, I don't think we should be raising taxes. I think we should be growing the economy to grow that tax revenue organically rather than rather than with another tax.   So you know the idea something on the motor that will keep it from going to too fast. You ever feel like that when you're dealing with the legislature? Well, I think there is a there is a responsibility to make sure that we're not over revving. And when that happens, we don't protect the economic growth of the state and have far reaching consequences. If we do do way too much or raise too many taxes or do anything to make it more unaffordable here in Vermont. So yeah, I think I have a responsibility to make sure that that we can get through this, that we can we can have measured growth and and all get to a better place in the future. I don't know the precise number. I know it's out there, but state with divided government like you or Republican in the government's office with a thoroughly democratic legislature. Does this make your life more difficult, more challenging? I don't know any better, to be honest with you.  So I've never served in the majority. So I don't really know what that's like. But I was interesting. I was on the phone with Governor Lamont in Connecticut. And I saw one of his sweets yesterday where he's cutting corporate taxes and helping out middle class. And I'm thinking what what's happening here? I mean, here you have a Democrat in another state New England state, and he's cutting taxes. And and we're trying to we're trying to help with the ITC and help reduce the tax on those living on fixed incomes with social security and so forth, and and help the lower benefit folks. And we weren't that successful in doing so last year. And we're trying it again this year. But there is a little bit of role reversal here in different states. Back to the school fight. I mean, I just want to make it clear. So you think the same degradation of society or however you want to describe it, that allows something like that to happen in Alberg and is the same thing at the other end of the spectrum that led to the January 6th, I think there's a lot of anger throughout society throughout the country that we're seeing boil over in many, many different places. Again, this isn't unique to Vermont, but I but I do think that what we saw there was just so again, so sad, so unusual and and unnecessary. There's no justification. Albert, Albert, we better say Albert, by the way, yes. Yes. But it's there's no justification for what happened. I don't care what the situation was. There's no justification for brawl breaking out amongst adults in front of their seventh and eighth grade kids who are playing basketball, none. Sure. I may be getting way ahead of myself here, but if the BIA passes as it currently stands, do you have to be done? I think you're getting way ahead of yourself. I don't think in all my years here, I don't think I think there are some some questions in the Senate on this issue. So we'll see what happens. But I think we'll come to agreement. How do you in the dynamics of the legislature that we have right now with the super majority that the Democrats do have? I mean, do you feel that you are being listened to, frankly, when they have theoretically both override veto? I think they to be honest with you, I think they did listen. They included all the initiatives we asked them to. These went a little further than we'd hoped. And they did that very quickly. And it may be for for good reason. But now it's for the for the Senate to to flush that out. Maybe take some more testimony. We'd like we just like for the housing. For instance, I don't think any of us are disagreeing on the investment in housing. We all want that. We've been talking about that for six years. So it's just we need to have the conversation in its entirety. We have a lot of other pieces to this puzzle that are in the big bill. And we just want to make sure that we we've, you know, consider everything rather than just one small smaller piece of that. The piece about the dairy, is your concern about giving money to organic dairies related to the fact that that's only one segment of the dairy industry and that you feel like that's inappropriate to give one piece of that industry incentives or assistance instead of a broader again, I don't know. It's not the it's not the nine million to the organic dairy sector. It's really about what are the ramifications of that in terms of the big big bill. We've included $13 million for agriculture in that sector. Is it coming out of the 13 million? Where's the money coming from? And again, we should look at the entire agriculture sector when we have make those decisions. So again, I'm concerned as much about where does the money come from? On Jerry, I think there's also a push to find a way to maybe increase dairy prices for permount producers. Have you looked at that yet? I have not seen that. I do know the price of eggs has increased quite a bit. Governor, the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Technology, which oversees the Vermont Community Broadband Board also sits on the BCVB as a representative of the communication union districts. State law explicitly prohibits an active legislator from sitting as a legislative representative on that board. While the law doesn't explicitly forbid the CUD representative from being a lawmaker and representative Sebelia is extremely knowledgeable, does raise questions of separation of powers and a possible conflict of interest. Do you share any of these concerns? It's the first I've heard of this, but we have House and legislative ethics policies. And and I'm sure that they will react accordingly if they think there's a conflict of any sort. I believe that the House leadership will will take that into account. I also have a great deal of faith and representative Sebelia to do the right thing. So I don't have any question about her capabilities or her sitting on in the in the House in the legislative way. We have a number of folks in the legislature that have in a worse small state have some conflicts. And I know in the Senate, we had we have a mechanism to to ask leave of the Senate if you have any type of conflict so that it's visible. And then the legislature or the Senate votes on that. So I'm not sure about the House rules, but but I think it will be dealt with appropriately. Do you think the pandemic, the lockdowns and the remote schooling, I know the educators are saying that this children are having a real mental health crisis in part due to that. Is that connected to this sort of maybe what happened in Elberg and the general mood of anger? I I don't really have the answer to that. But I do know there are a number of mental health issues amongst men throughout throughout every sector. And so I don't know if we can point right to that. But again, I don't believe the kids were the ones who started this one. This was adults and adults should be able to to handle that. Quick question about the program again. That's now getting some closer scrutiny in the House committees. Essentially lawmakers are looking to pause the veggie program whenever unemployment drops below five percent, maybe four percent depending on how the legislation goes. What's your sense of whether that program is unnecessary or should be put on the pause while unemployment is still going? Yeah, I'm not I'm not in agreement that it should be paused. I do believe that there are improvements that could be made in the program itself, maybe more transparency, maybe even taking a look and making sure that we're investing in the right areas of the state, more the rural areas of the state that could use some economic help. So there are some ideas like that. But but I think if you tie it, I don't I don't think the unemployment rate is a good metric to use because it doesn't tell the whole story. And particularly in Vermont, where it might be what's happening in, let's say Chittenden County or the northwest part of the state is far different than what's happening in Wyndham. And Wyndham could use a little bit of help right now. The Northeast Kingdom could use some help Bennington could use some help. So you know, I think if you tie it to something like that, you might will just cancel the program. And if you put it on pause for too long, then you're too late to the game. Because if you have a major employer, let's say, that decides to leave the state, let's say there was an IBM, you know, previous to them actually leaving. But if they decide to just pull up stakes and move their operation to fish skill, and and then just leave the state and leave three or 4000 employee employees, it'd be too late at that point, we it would take two or three years to recover from a veggie perspective, it's always kind of forward thinking, making sure that we diversify and spread, spread out in the economy, and especially again, in those rural parts of the state, they could use some help. Don't think we have anyone on the phone today. All right. Well, thank you very much.


Hi, it's FC A3 Garner on the USS Ross. Hey, I'm OSS and Thomas. I'm on the Ross for the exercise sea breeze. Hi, I'm DC F. N. Smith aboard the USS Ross for exercise sea breeze. Hi, I'm FC and through the tag on the USS Ross exercise sea breeze. I'm Ensign Greer, USS Ross, wishing everyone a happy Independence Day. Wishing everybody a happy Fourth of July. Happy Independence Day. Happy Independence Day, guys. Happy Independence Day. I'm P.S. Touhou. I'm Chaplain Johnson. I'm GMS and Cortez. And from USS Ross, happy Independence Day. Vanya, blood. Fendi Independence Day. Pran, OK.


of research data in the social sciences and humanities. The presentation has a focus on research data management. You already have received a briefing paper. We are responsible for that. There will be a subject this afternoon in the afternoon sessions. I will come to that later. This is the outline of our presentation. There should be an introduction of the open research data pilot. This morning, Karine already told you everything I wanted to say about this introduction. It's better for you because this presentation is between you and the lecture.  I will skip another. I will skip about text slides or something like that. My colleague will tell you more about research data management. It's prepared for responsible research and also the roles and responsibilities during the research project. Then I will come back to you for the data services. You already heard a little bit about it. It's a no-go. When you can find your data in Kolsky, I will be more elaborate on that. I will give you a short summary and later I will tell you more about these afternoon sessions. I can skip the next slide. We will do this, wait on this. I want this, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work. We had a given. Yes, you can do this. The back please. I understand that, but if you on the computer you put just saying number six and it would come to number six. Okay. Open Air supports the European Union, but Open Air supports the open access policy of the European Commission. The National Open Access Desk. There are a lot of people involved in the National Open Access Desk today here. Who are the know-hows for their country? Maybe it's nice to see how many know-hows there are here now at these moments. Ah, lots. Very good. We also have from the international intermediate between the research and the European Commission. That's a national contact point. We also have them here. How many contact points are there? National contact points. It's nice to know for your afternoon sessions. The Open Air website is a lot of information. We already heard so, and also information about research data files. So if you need information, you can find it here. And now in the description. It looks like the other slides. Okay, be there for responsible research, my love. We're going to start with a brief video clip. So Eddie didn't say much so far, I'm going to say less. We'll find the link to this clip and the remaining half of the clip in the information that was already e-mailed to you. And it will also be in the breakout session this afternoon. The clip was about why and what of data management planning. Let's talk a bit more about the how. Before, in the earlier presentations, DMB Online was mentioned as the preferred tool at the moment to find a template for the plan. It is preferred because it was already there. The comics of the digital curations and the total DCC have done a very good job by building this application that you could consider as a generator for data management plans. There is a clip on their side as well but I'll show you a couple of screenshots just to talk you through. And I know many of you are not active researchers and still I'm addressing them as if you were big researchers because this might be the kind of information they expect from you. On the first screen, you can select that the European Commission is the founder of the research for which you are going to write a plan that is the profile of a particular template. And next you select your organization. If it's in the list, what project, for instance, the European Funded Anexia Project in the divine sciences has made a version of a data management template. There is no problem if your organization is not in the list and you just leave it open. But the thing that I would recommend is to always check the box for some extra guidance provided by the DCC that is not fine tuned to horizon 2020. It's general purpose common sense guidance which is very good to have in extension to what's in the templates. The program then summarizes what you have selected so far and it also pretends some information that I ended earlier. The identifier that you see on the top is one that I assigned myself. This is not the so-called project identifier grand number persistent identifier or what have you. This is an identifier for your convenience to share the information with your colleague. And inside the application you can work with colleagues on this plan. You can share the information and collect it. And at the bottom it says that the document is not a fixed document so data management planning is working on a living document but it's a very pleasant statement of course. You should deliver it in the first six months as a project deliverable that you are supposed and welcome to change things, expand information and so on. The summary here below the orange bar says okay this is a couple of questions and topics within this template. Remember that there are a lot of templates in the tool so they are different in retrospect. And basically what's in the blue field is what I suppose to provide informational and it goes through the whole process of carrying out research. This is what it looks like if you're starting to fill out the plan. This was the place where I entered my fictitious identifier for this fictitious plan. And it's one of the setting of questions and answers. On the right hand side you see the guidance. In this particular field is the guidance provided by the ECC from this famous NX number one. The NX 2 description of the liability management plan but it could also be the guidance provided by the ECC. Another slide I'd like to recommend to look at in this application even if you are still writing your initial review this tends to look like what is being asked of you in the latest sessions during the project. And basically the information here is about making your data reusable so it asks questions about how will the data become this kind of a buffer for others. How will others be able to assess the value of the data for the wrong purposes and so on. So you don't have to fill out this template within the six months it's sensible to at least look at it. And there are some initiatives within the open air community to see if these two templates could be integrated to one template and you have to answer only a couple of questions initially and you flesh it out during the project and then it will be able to come here but that's ongoing work. Easy part. There is a template. The more complicated part of course is what to write in a particular case of your project with your consortium and open science is about collaboration and it's about collaboration between lots of organizations of different natures. So this is roughly the team of stakeholders that you will be dealing with when you carry out a project and the researcher is quite central here and the researcher what we call a front desk or front office, a head desk within the organization the knowledge institution or within a discipline or whatever that would be even better. And typically the front office in the discipline or in the organization would provide information on legal issues, who is allowed to do what with the data and what should I write in the plan or practical IT information, what kind of facilities do we have for safely dealing with the data while we are working. And that's also the institution that might have their own data policies or data management policies. It's not just families which are very active in developing policies in the area and policies could be very incompatible. That's just the fact of life that won't be solved within a short time but it is good if front office people within the organization are aware of that and can tell the researchers, yes, that's how it is. Don't worry, it's a pilot, we'll leave. The release of front office is a clear stakeholder. Front offices might also want to collaborate with what we call back offices. Long term archives, for instance, could be considered as a back office. Organizations that provide secure data transfer or high performance computing could be so-called back office services. They need not be within your discipline. They need not be within your organization. So that's maybe with the front office back office separation of concerns. Publishers have data availability policies or they don't have but they might get them. So they will impose some restraints and constraints on the researchers to provide them with data. And of course within projects there are many private organizations as well and they can have their traditions and considerations on what could be done with the data and what could not be done with the data. All these stakeholders should ideally be involved in writing the plan so that the plan is not important. It is the planning, as was said this morning, and it is an instrument for communication. It's not just administration, please. Okay, let's recall the goal. We are still in this early stage of preparing for the real projects. We are in this first couple of months. And the idea is that at the end of the project the data will be well curated and preserved. Now here comes my negative slide. Storing data on a hard disk or a USB stick or even on your organization's server is not necessarily curating and preserving. That is just storage. Curating is typically meant to include activities like enriching the data. If data has been reused in a couple of years it is nice to refer to applications based on the re-use and add that information on the future applications too. The data itself is an instance of curation of data. Reserving includes activities like making sure that the data files remain usable over time so it might include converting data to another format. That is not done when you only store the data somewhere on a hard disk. Now if you have archived the data properly that in itself doesn't mean that the data will be found. It is up to the researchers to provide good metadata, good descriptions, good information, good keywords and so on in order for the data to be found in a repository. If they are findable it does not necessarily mean that they are also accessible. It has to be clear who has access to the data so that it is a legal issue perhaps or an ethical issue but it could also be a technical issue that has to be solved. If the data has been archived and they are found and they can be accessed it doesn't mean that they will be usable if you have not explained what a variable means or if it is not clear what definition you in your research have used for hiding that pressure. So the data will not be compatible to data from other sources. That's the word here, interoperability. Even if you have taken care to make them understandable about providing all that information they might still not be usable if you have worked in obsolete, outdated, unavailable software for instance. So there is a lot to think about but the upswing of this is that you should provide the context with the data that was already illustrated in the talk this morning about Professor Margins. It's also about the code and so on. Let's see what it means. This is a lot of text. The blue words are the most important. So we talk about data management but data is only part of the package. We need a metadata. Additionally, of course, things like title and who created it, I mean, since when it has been available ideally you use a metadata standard that is common in your line of work and if there's nothing available in your line of work well that might be a good idea to start talking about standards. It is a slow process. We went this morning if you want to do it in an open infighting way but it can be done and it is being done. So for the time being, you could rely on existing generic metadata schemes and a couple of them are mentioned here. Furthermore, you are expected to provide information and documentation like depending on your domain, of course, code books, explaining variables, lab journals, preferably electronic lab journals and other paper ones. If you're dealing with respondents or interview people, for instance, you might have informed consent forms. Now, the sensitive information of a consent form need not necessarily be shared with everyone. The fact that there are consent forms where people have stated, okay, it's okay that you use my data in my interview for this or that type of research that is fairly more information for the next user. And everything you've used in a range of instruments and tools, queries in the syntax queries in your statistics program, the configurations of the machine that you have used, it is all relevant. Now here, sometimes confusion starts because this is relevant for replicating studies. That's why sometimes a package like this is called a replication package. If a replication package is okay, it includes everything that an intelligent colleague can use to trace back what you have done. Actually, we, of course, are hoping for more, not just replication or replicating. We are aiming towards the more creative kinds of reviews used for other questions and used in other areas and so on. So a replication package might be a term that is too limiting. If you have better ideas about the term I'd like to hear from the breakout sessions this afternoon of what we are looking for, terms that sell well. This question could also arise about a notion of data because this is all fine and good. But yeah, in my domain, it's somewhat different. There's always some that say, yes, but in our domain, things are different and they are right because in your domain, in your domain, in your domain, things will be different. And that is why it's so important that initiatives start within disciplines. So there is, of course, a top-down initiative from the funders, for instance, or from your board of directors, but please take also initiative from the grassroots and participants. Develop your own funders. Another possible bone of contention is that's quite a lot that we should deposit at the end of the project. Yes, that's true. But it doesn't mean that you have to deposit everything that's gone through your hands and through your computers over a couple of years. There are two good reasons for making good cuts on what should be deposited and what doesn't have to be deposited. One of them was already raised in the grant agreement. There are good reasons for leaving some information, some data out of the public domain. That doesn't mean you have to opt out of the whole project. You can stay in the private, but just writing your days of management plan, I'm going to make this section of the data available under a restricted access licence for some of the reasons. At least that is explicit and people know they can ask you for it and they have good reason to think, okay, maybe I can get still access. The other kind of selection is the selection that may not need to be deposited if things can easily be reproduced. We hear examples from physics, for instance, where storing a huge amount of data is very costly. Storing it in a sensible way with all the documentation that you might have makes it even more expensive, but the work can be done again and again and again, so you can just repeat the experiment. Of course, this is again domain dependent, but please think about it and motivate in your plan why you select those things and why you make such choices. Archives, repositories, databases, storage and so on. Pedro told a bit about Sonodo a little bit ago. People are into archiving and what have you because it's also our background and we like to talk about it.  And we like to promote the idea of trustworthy literary repositories, not every repository is trustworthy.  That is not what we mean. What we mean is if a repository does not have the mission and, of course, the budget to invest in keeping things available in the long term, they will probably not apply for a certification as being a trustworthy repository. I leave the rest to Amy. We were still in the process of writing the plan. We were still in those early stages. This slide you've seen. This is the recap. If you have collected all the information from your stakeholders, make things explicit, have made some choices and when you face them in the plan, you are now ready to export your plan. You can do it in several forms, but probably the European Commission will be happy to receive it as a PDF. And that's basically it. And remember that it's a living document. So this was the preparation stage. This was a large number of slides. During the project, which will take more time, you will still be you researcher, your customers, I might say perhaps. They will carry out the project and you will be involved again. Perhaps in another role. During the research, questions might pop up like, okay, I know I have to anonymise my sensitive data. What is the state-of-the-art tool to do that? Or is there a state-of-the-art trusted party that can do it for me? Another question might be, how can I share my data with colleagues outside the consortium? Is that okay? Do we have a tool for that? What do we need to have them sign a contract? Another question could be, okay, I'm using a new instrument which is fine, but the data format is different. How should I go about to make the data format as sustainable as possible? My data turned out to be bigger than I thought. Now they don't fit the repository. Where can I find another repository? So a lot of questions can pop up during the project. And the stakeholders and you will be asked to help answer them. During the project, it makes sense to do what Federal law has already introduced, think about linking the data and publications. And I'd like to take a data-centric approach and to just claim, not originally, that the publication is part of the context information to the data. I fully agree with the idea that the life of the data will probably be longer than that of the publication. But there is no need for you to include the publication into this package. No, please put it in another good repository and make sure that the repositories talk to each other. Either because the repository can accommodate data and publication at the same time, or because you use smart persistent identifiers that help to trace the relations and keep it sustainable. I started with the movie that was brought out so to speak in 2020. And there are also some incentives, of course, that are broader than the project and the project funding. So at least the paper was published in the Esther Physics domain. It's one of the areas where people have looked into the question, okay, what's in it for me if I go and take this extra trouble of properly archiving my data and leaning to them? Well, the good news is, although it is hardly above anecdotal information so far, the good news is papers that link to data are cited more frequently than people that do not link to data. If that's not incentive, I don't know what is incentive for research. Another incentive might be I am so pleased to see my old data get a new life. In 1977, there was an expedition to Spitsbergen where the scientists took a lot of data on biomass and vegetation and the data were analyzed to the back that you see at the left-hand side. It is too detailed, of course, on the barge screen, but when last this summer a new expedition went there, they had the map and they found that the underlying details of data were still available and usable. So they could make a new map, of course with new techniques and technology, and they were able to compare the changes throughout these four decades. So that's interesting, that is a long-term thing. And of course the funders involved in this second expedition were very pleased to be part of this expedition and their website is lovely, so please take a look there, even if you're not interested in the data. And the ultimate incentive, of course, if nothing else helps, I don't know if data management does not prevent theft. So, for another few minutes, we're talking about data services, how to find a repository, and I want to talk about trustworthy repositories. Because, as Marjan already said, you can store the data, or the search, you can store the data in a repository, but it's also important that it's a trustworthy digital repository, it's important that the data you want to keep are still real for 20 years, et cetera. I think, for example, of DVDs, in a few years' time, no one can see them anymore, so you can have just think about it. And that's arranged in just very digital repositories. These repositories can have a seal. In Europe, are the data seals a proof of this example? It's a very basic seal for a trusted digital repository with, I think, 16 guidelines you have to follow. And this is a self-assessment and there are reviewers that will assess what you've done. The Nestler seal is, there are more guidelines in it. It's also a self-assessment. Of course, the ISO is even different with an external assessment. And in the United States you have the world data system and at this moment the boards of the BSA and the World Data System are trying to make it one seal. So where do you find a repository? Well, you can find an external repository, like, for example, easy at dance. They are quite well, especially for the social sciences and humanities. It's seen in the world. You can also use an institutional digital repository. And of course, Sonodo we've already seen something about it. I will show you again. And then, of course, you can find another digital data repository at www.reezydata.org But it's important in that you search your SNES and again, the point of the Treasury Treasury Digital Repository which also this morning Professor Martin said that all kinds of data are disappeared. So it's very important. You'll have to see if it matches with your data needs. For example, it cannot take no, it can be actually, of course, clear but also XML or other things. What does it mean? Open access, restricted access. It's important that there will be a permanent digital identifier so that the data can be cited. And it's also important that the repository helps with outside the data. When you see the registry of research data repositories it's repository can register in the Internet herself, how do you say it? They're from all kinds of academic disciplines that doesn't speak to one. It's for permanent storage, of course, and it's funded by German research foundation. And in this model there are around 168 repositories you can find in it. You can search for example by discipline by country. This is very hard. You can see the green ones are the countries where there is registry of research data repository. Of course, if it's blue color then there are digital repositories because it can be possible that it's not registered in this registry data. Of course, Melodio Pedro shows some slides. I think it's very nice that they also have communities. And so all the data of what community can come together. You can see that it's on the European Commission. There are a lot of publication and data sets already there's 16,000 publications and 1600 data sets with all kinds of information. Of course, Melodio has all kinds of features like it that will give you a digital cryptocurrency permanent identified for the data set. You can it's nice that you can search if you share the data you can search for the data not only data, of course information etc. What I said, you can create your own community and it's safer than information on your computer. For open-air to make the link with open-air there are already a thousand data sets in open-air and here you can see the information about it. For example, the data providers you can find data sets by data provider or by year or by access mode etc. and this you must know this slide I'm glad you didn't show it this morning but it's very nice that you can see the relation between the publications and the data sets 52 publications from 20 different open-air data providers there are 392 data sets from by year it's a data repository in the earth and in the environmental sciences and the project is HIPOC in FB7 project it's about ecosystems and you can find the distribution of the project but you can also find data sets and publications and here one from again and the data set from the entry cost I think this is a very nice idea it's not you can do it for sharing information with other researchers. So a very short summary we talked about the research project in about 20 20 areas are automatically part of the pilot we had about the possibilities about data management plan of course if the data has to be in a repository you have to make it open for example create the funds CCO of CCO by license and there are now 11,000 data sets in open-air this is open not to European Commission it's open as possible as close as needed and this is a patrol from the RDA literally last year in Amsterdam I think it's also very it's started since a few years now that's very important to also take care of the data and even make them open available so the last presentation about the open research data pilots just one minute for the afternoon session Dan is responsible for the past research data management and training sport and we visited the support kit for this we've made a briefing paper about research data management and we'll receive that and it will be the focus of this afternoon our program is that we have talk about what kind of challenges you think they are in your country for research data management we want a little bit of breakout sessions about the brief we've made and about the program and see if there are more questions any questions at this point you can talk about the breakout groups of course as afternoon for more details but a question you would like to ask right now which is relevant for the whole group it's a call for action there is a petition launched by Lira the League of European Research Universities called Christmases Over and it deals with the formal practice of double tipping and it calls for action Lira wants to put this on the agenda on the European Commission under the Dutch presidency and I really urge you all to sign this because they would like to have at least 10,000 signatures it's now at the 7,000 something and it will not just be the Lira University signing it is a matter that all of us are confronted with the libraries we need to cut budgets whether they want or not and the researchers should not be paying money for publications research money should go to research so please look up the tag Christmas is over and sign the petition yeah okay that's absolutely important for anything and so let's have quick questions discussions for this afternoon and let me give a word about the discussion this afternoon I have a separate one under what because this afternoon we want you to work not only the European Air People but yeah I want to see what I have to do now this afternoon you all have dots colored dots on your and we divided the group because we want a mix of people in the groups that's why we mix you up up front we want to have people who know some things about open air services and the mandate and people not knowing much about it mixing up with people that are more involved in project coordination and others who know us because we want really interactions afternoon we want to hear from you how we can help you even further which support is needed how can we improve the services that we offer so this is what will happen this afternoon so there are four groups before coffee and after coffee each time we have two groups talking about the same topic and after coffee we switch to the other topic so the green ones for example will talk first in the library which is down here just beneath us about the data pilots while in the afternoon they will talk about the mandate on open access in practice in the first conference you know but that's my room so you just I will just gather you and take you with me because it's in another part of the building the blank out room is up here so we have a library here under my feet which is first for the green group and then for the red group the blank out style is just one more up and the blank out will first be occupied by the yellow group and afterwards by the blue group and then you have for the mail in the year this is for the mail in and press conference room that's following me so the first group for me the red dot follow me just after that room and then after coffee break there will be a coffee break in between of course the people from the green group can follow me in the press conference then we get back here because we will report about what's happening in these groups what are the questions that come up and round up and afterwards we have reception at five o'clock so I hope you could say that too now after lunch which is at the same room we had before at two sharp we will start so please just before two o'clock go to the room where you have to be also at the registration desk it's indicated so thank you very much


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. Hi, I'm Stu Miniman and this is the seventh year of theCUBE's coverage of the MIT Chief Data Officer and Information Quality Symposium. We love getting to talk to these chief data officers and the people in this ecosystem, the importance of data, driving data-driven cultures and really happy to welcome to the program. First time guest, Aileen Vadrin. Aileen is the Chief Data Officer for the United States Air Force. Aileen, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Stu, really excited about being here today. All right, so the United States Air Force, I believe had its first CDO office in 2017. You were put in the CDO role in June of 2018. If you could, bring us back, give us how that was formed inside the Air Force and how you came to be in that role. Well, Stu, I'd like to say that we are a startup organization and a really mature organization. So it's really about culture change and it began by bringing a group of amazing citizen airmen, reservists, back to the Air Force to bring their skills from industry and bring them into the Air Force. So I like to say that we're a total force because we have active and reservists working with civilians on a daily basis. And one of the first things we did in June was we stood up a data lab that's based in the Jones Building on the Air Force Base. And there we actually take small use cases that have enterprise focus and we really try to dig deep to try to you drive data insights to inform senior leaders across the department on really important, what I would call enterprise focused challenges, which it's pretty exciting. Yeah, it's been fascinating when we've dug into this ecosystem. Of course, while the data itself is very sensitive and I'm sure for the Air Force, there's some very highest level of security, the practices that are done as to how to leverage data, the line between public and private blurs because you have people that have come from industry that go into government and people that have from government that have leveraged their experiences there. So if you could give us a little bit of your background and what it is that your charter's been and what you're looking to build out. As you mentioned that culture of change. Well, I'd like to say I began my data leadership journey as an active duty soldier in the Army and I was originally a transportation officer. Today we would use the title condition based maintenance but back then it was really about doing running the numbers so that I could optimize my truck fleet on the road each and every day so that my soldiers were driving safely and data has always been part of my leadership journey and so I like to say that one of our challenges is really to make sure that data is part of every airman's core DNA so that they're using the right data at the right level to drive insights whether it's tactical, operational or strategic and so it's really about empowering each and every airman which I think is pretty exciting. Yeah, there's so many pieces of that data. You talk about data quality, there's obviously the data life cycle. I know your presentation that you're given here at the CDOIQ talks about the data platform that your team has built. Could you explain that? What are the key tenants and what maybe differentiates it from what other organizations might have done? So when we first took the challenge to build our data lab we really wanted to really come up our goal was to have a cross-domain solution where we could solve data problems at the appropriate classification level and so we built the Vault data platform. Vault stands for visible, accessible, understandable, linked and trustworthy and if you look at the DOD data strategy they will also add the tenants of interoperability and secure. So the first steps that we have really focused on is making data visible and accessible to airman to empower them to drive insights from available data to solve their problems. So it's really about that data empowerment. We like to use the hashtag built by airman because it's really about each and every airman being part of the solution and I think it's really an exciting time to be in the Air Force because any airman can solve a really hard challenge and it can very quickly wrap the escalate up with great velocity to senior leadership to be an enterprise solution. So is there some basic training that goes on from a data standpoint for any of those that have lived in data? Oftentimes you can get lost in numbers, you have to have context, you need to understand how do I separate good from bad data or when is the data still valid? So how does someone in the Air Force get some of that beta data competency? Well, we have taken a multi-tenant approach because each and every airman has different needs. So we have quite a few pathfinders across the Air Force today to help what I call upscale our total force. And so I developed a partnership with the Air Force Institute of Technology and they now have a online graduate level data science certificate program. So individuals studying at AFID or remotely have the opportunity to really focus on building up their data touchpoints. Just recently, we have been working on a pathfinder to allow our data officers to get their ICCP date federal data sector governance certificate program. So we've been running what I would call short boot camps to prep data officers to be ready for that. And I think the one that I'm most excited about is that this year, this fall, new cadets at the US Air Force Academy will be able to have an undergraduate degree in data science. And so it's not about a one-prong approach. It's about having short courses as well as academe solutions to upscale our total force moving forward. Well, information absolutely is such an important differentiator in general in business and absolutely that the military aspects are there. You mentioned the DOD talks about interoperability in their platform. Can you speak a little bit to, you know, how you make sure that, you know, data is secure yet I'm sure there's opportunities for other organizations for there to be collaboration between them. Well, we, I like to say that we don't fight alone. So I work on a daily basis with my peers, Tom Cecella at the Department of Navy and Greg Garcia at the Department of Army, as well as Mr. David Spurk at the DOD level. It's really important that we have an integrated approach moving forward. And in the DOD, we partner with our security experts. So it's not about us doing security individually. It's really about in the Air Force, we use a term called digital Air Force and it's about optimizing and building a trusted partnership with our CIO colleagues as well as our chief management colleagues because it's really about that trusted partnership between to make sure that we're working collaboratively across the enterprise and whatever we do in the department, we also have to reach across our services so that we're all working together. Yeah, Aileen, I'm curious if there's been much impact from the global pandemic. When I talked to enterprise companies, that they had to rapidly make sure that while they needed to protect data when it was in their four walls and maybe through VPN, now everyone is accessing data much more work from home and the like. I have to imagine some of those security measures you've already taken, but have there anything along those lines or anything else that the shift in where people are and a little bit more dispersed has impacted your work? Well, the story that I like to say is that this has given us velocity. So prior to COVID, we built our Vault Data Platform as a multi-tenancy platform that is also a cross-domain solution. So it allows people to develop and do their problem solving in an appropriate classification level and it allows us to connect or push up if we need to into higher classification levels. The other thing that has just helped us really work smart because we do as much as we can in that unclassified environment and then using our cloud-based solution in our gateways. It allows us to bring people in at a very scheduled component so that we optimize their time on site. And so I really think that it's really given us great velocity because it has really allowed people to work on the right problem set, on the right classification level at a specific time. And so I really think that and plus the other pieces we look at what we're doing is that the problem set that we've had has really allowed people to become more data focused. I think that it's personal for folks moving forward. So it has increased understanding in terms of the need for data insights as we move forward to drive decision-making. It's not that data makes the decision but it's using the insight to make the decision. Well, and one of the interesting conversations we've been having about how to get to those data insights is the use of things like machine learning, artificial intelligence, anything you can share about how you're looking at that journey, where you are along that kind of discovery. Well, I like to say that in order to do AI and machine learning, you have to have great volumes of high-quality data. And so really step one was visible accessible data. But we in the department of the Air Force stood up an accelerator at MIT. And so we have a group of amazing airmen that are actually working with MIT on a daily basis to solve some of those what I would call opportunities for us to move forward. My office collaborates with them on a consistent basis because they're doing additional use cases in that academic environment, which I'm pretty excited about because I think it gives us access to some of the smartest minds. All right, Eileen, also I understand it's your first year doing the event. Unfortunately, we don't get all come together in Cambridge, walking those hallways and being able to listen to some of those conversations and follow up is something we've very much enjoyed over the years.  Well, I really think it's about helping each other leverage the amazing lessons learned. I think that if we look collaboratively both across industry and in the federal sector, there have been amazing lessons learned and it gives us a great forum for us to really share and leverage those lessons learned as we move forward so that we're not pitting the reboot button but we actually are starting faster. So it comes back to the velocity component. It all helps us go faster and at a higher quality level and I think that's really exciting. So final question I have for you, we've talked for years about digital transformation. We've really said that having that data strategy and that culture of leveraging data is one of the most critical pieces of having gone through that transformation. For people that are maybe early on their journey, any advice that you'd give them having worked through a couple of years of this in the experience you've had with your peers? I think that the first thing is that you have to really start with a blank slate and really look at the art of the possible. Don't think about what you've always done. Think about where you want to go because there are many different paths to get there and if you look at what the target goal is, it's really about making sure that you do that backward tracking to get to that goal. And the other piece that I tell my colleagues is celebrate the wins. My team of Airmen, they are amazing. It's an honor to serve them and the reality is that they are doing great things and sometimes you want more and it's really important to celebrate the victories because it's a very long journey and we keep moving the goalpost because we're always striving for excellence. Absolutely, it is always a journey that we're on. It's not about the destination. Eileen, thank you so much for sharing all that you've learned and glad you could participate. Thank you, Stu. I appreciate being included today. Have a great day. Thanks and thank you for watching theCUBE. I'm Stu Miniman. Stay tuned for more from the MIT CDO IQ event.


Hiroshi Ishiguro is the Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University in Japan. Professor Ishiguro is one of the world's most distinguished robotics engineers and is best known for his work with androids. A thinker of extraordinary originality, he has pursued a deeply philosophical approach to the field of robotics throughout his career. The fundamental question his work seeks to address is what is a human being? For the past 10 years, their collaboration with Professor Ishiguro has enabled AU researchers to develop new perspectives on Robo-Philosophy, a collaboration which matured into the research unit for Robo-Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas. The most important impact is that I have developed a very human-like robot called an android. And the most important contribution is to establish the human-robot interaction studies. More than 10 years ago, I was running the field of testing in Denmark by using my small interactive robots. It is called a terinoid. And then, eventually, I met office people. The office people were quite interesting because they were studying about a philosophy with a robot. And then we have discussed the possibility of collaborations. And of course, that discussion was quite interesting. I thought it's quite important to work with the philosophical people by using my robot. And after that, we are working together and we are running a conference and we are running a project together. For about 10 years, Professor Ishiguro has been collaborating with what is now called the Research Unit for Robo-Philosophy and Integrative Social Robotics at AU on various interdisciplinary research projects. And on our joint vision that robotics can become philosophy with other means. He is driven by the philosophical question, what is a human being? But he takes this question to its next step. He goes beyond contemplation and explores with construction.


What is the file picker? In this video we're going to explore Moodle's file picker and how you can use it. You might see the file picker if you upload a file using the activity juicer, or if you're in the text editor and you want to add an image by clicking the image icon or a media file such as sound or video by clicking the Moodle media icon. If we click to add a file on the next screen when we scroll down to content we can access the file picker by clicking the add button. What you see down the left side are links which are known as repositories and each of these are places where you can retrieve files to display on your course. The one you'll use most often is upload a file. This will allow you to access your documents from your computer or USB drive. Server files are the other files in other courses which you have access to as a teacher. So for example if you're teaching grade one English in one course and you wanted to add a file that you'd had used in grade two English a different course, you'd go to server files to find it. Recent files shows you the last few files that you've uploaded and it's context sensitive. This means that Moodle knows if you want to upload an image through the image icon it will only show you images. If you want to upload a sound file using the media icon it will only show you media files. Private files allows you to retrieve from your private files files you've uploaded previously in a personal space. We look at private files in a separate video. URL downloader allows you to add a web link and it will download for you the images on that web page. Other links or repositories will appear according to what your administrator has enabled. So for example you could go to wikimedia if you wanted to find an image which you could search for with a particular size or you could retrieve files from your Google Drive, Dropbox or Microsoft One Drive account. The files in the file picker can be displayed in three different ways and if we click recent files we can see how this works. If you look at the far right files are displayed like a tree. The middle button displays them with details of their size type and when they were last modified and the third button shows them as icons displaying what type of file they are. So for example we can easily see this is a PowerPoint file and this is a PDF file.


What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kenty here from Layton Sports Cards, and I'm ripping some personals here for Nick M. We've got five, 21, 22, Panini, Obsidian, Soccer, Asia, T-Mall boxes. All right, best of luck, your Nick. Here we go. Number one. These things have been awesome. Love ripping these. Sad we're almost out. Get it. All right, up first. Nice. Out of 26, a Neymar Junior. Neymar to start us off. PSG. We've got Volcanic Patch Auto from Belgium. Alexis Salamakers. Belgium Patch Auto. 24 of 44. And we've got Red Flood Galaxy Gear Patch. What is six of eight of Riyad Merez from Man City? Merez. And Red Flood from Belgium. A Jeremy Doku. 10 of 10 on the book and Red Flood. Color match there with the jersey. Solid first box there for you, Nick. First, we have Rookie from Norway. One of 26 and Milat Raschika. Raschika. Got Lightning Strike Auto from the U.S. A Mallory Pug. Mallory Pug. Pug. Pug or Pug? 36 of 44. Haven't seen her yet. Nice one there. And we've got Trifecta Nicholas Pepe from Arsenal. White, red, white. Out of 44. And Die Cuts. Nice. Real Madrid. Luca Modric on the Equinox. 17 of 26. Modric. Thank you. Box three of Mathias Kunha from Madrid. Rookie. Nine of 26. We've got Aurora Red Flood from the U.S. Tierna Davidson. One out of eight. Nice. Another U.S. women's player. Here we go, Nick. And we've got Cutting Edge for a 44 of Tierney from Arsenal. Nice dual patch there. And Tunnel Vision Die Cut out of 26 Declan Rice. Nice. Declan Rice. Alright, box four. Sounds like it's about to storm outside. We've got Rookie from Brighton and Hove of Impeyu. 10 of 26. Impeyu. Brighton. Aurora Otto from Arsenal. Eduardo. 31 of 44. Sick patch here from AC Milan. Eruption of Fikaio Tamori. It's a really cool looking patch there. AC Milan. 37 of 44. And last one here. Victorious on the Die Cut Maxwell Cornets from Burnley. Cornets from Burnley. That is eight out of 26. And last box here for Nick. Good luck. We've got a Martin Odger from Arsenal. Red Flood from Columbia. A Justin Murillo. Red Flood Otto from Columbia. Six out of eight. And we've got Red Flood Patch Galaxy of Kevin De Bruyne. There you go, Belgium. Two colored patch on that. That is four out of eight. Kevin De Bruyne. And wow, talk about Red Flood Box Equinox Die Cut Martin Odegard from Arsenal. Wow, three Red Floods in one box. Five out of ten. Great box to end it there for you, Nick. Congrats again. Thanks so much for hopping in. We do appreciate it and we'll get these right out to you.