Hey everybody, this is Christian Buckley with another MVP buzz chat and I'm talking to you with Sander. Hello. Hello, Christian. Hello. It's great to see you in the the bright blinking lights there. I'm always a fan of the gadgetry around there.  Who you are, where you are, what you do. Yes. Hello. My name is Sander. That's short for Alexander. I live in the Netherlands. I'm working for Alton the Netherlands. That's a company which is mainly focused towards engineering and companies who do engineering. We do projects and innovative MVPs and R&D for these companies. I myself, I'm an SIRT solution architect. So I'm thinking about how to connect devices somewhere in the world, either in a factory or on a vehicle and have telemetry and diagnostics sent to the cloud and, well, make it presentable towards the enterprise and this adding value. Thank you. That's an interesting space. I mean, there's been so much that's been happening in that space. In my background, my first tech company that I worked for ran operations at Hewlett Packard. And so we started to implement, this is in the early 90s, some automation around the warehousing of the storage of equipment, of devices, of monitors, of machines at this facility at it in Rockland, California, outside of Sacramento, but where we were having to manually do things to where there were ARFID IDs and that would be, scanners would pick it up as it was walked into the space and revolutionized so much of that. From that to working in the collaboration space, but with manufacturing companies, high tech manufacturing, building products, building X boxes and things like that. And again, the edge devices that they would have in monitoring the machinery that was heavily automated so that somebody halfway around the world would get alerts if there was something which could impact and delay the completion of and shipment of a batch of product. It's just amazing. You know, some of the tools that are out there. Do you work in any specific industries? Well, it's it's mainly focused regarding HRIT. And well, it's used in many markets and in many ways, locations. So I've done a project where the edge device was located in the jungle of Malaysia. And I've also done a solution, several solutions where the edge solution was running on a ship or on a platform in the sea. So most of the projects that I do, they are involved regarding factories and also all over the world. Because that's the challenge nowadays that we are able to connect devices to the cloud. But they are mostly inaccessible or hard. It's hard to access them because they are scattered all over the world. And we want to have them zero touch. We want to operate them and update them and being able to monitor them remotely over the air from the cloud. And only if it's really needed that somebody has to, well, step in the car or in the plane, travel to the device, open the box where it's in and try to figure out what's what's going on. You know, I was just thinking too that I think it was reading a couple years back about, you know, Microsoft was exploring and a couple companies have done this. I think Google's done the same, but where they had the underwater data center, which is essentially like a, you know, like a shipping crate, a box, but then submerged so that it could benefit from the cooling of the cold ocean currents as well as for energy. And that they had monitoring throughout this thing so they could be aware of what's happening. Because like all servers, there's a lifespan and there's certain things that they could automate, but just be aware of what's going on and see how effective and efficient it is down there. And my first thought when seeing that, like, it was, how's this cell phone reception down underwater to be able to retrieve that, you know, information? Well, it's zero to nothing. Right. So how are you capturing from even those remote jungle locations, for example, and getting that data? Well, luckily, well, what we needed, of course, is some kind of communication and that could be a landline. But in our case, we had the luxury of having a LTE connection. It was a really poor connection, but it was there. And if it was raining, well, it was the rainforest, so it rained a lot. The reception was even gone. So we had to wait until it stopped raining and then we had connection again. But while the connection was gone, the device itself was still capturing data and it was storing the data locally. And once the connection was back, it tried to send the data again back to the cloud. So we had no data loss. And we actually tried to measure it. We did measure it to see and because this was the promise, of course, that we delivered to the customer. And we were able to do that just with the standard Azure IoT Edge solution. There is an offline scenario supported with the standard solution. So that's great. If you want to build something yourself, that will cost you many hours. And now, well, it's free out of the box. So, Tanner, you've been, so you're a five-time MVP right now. And what month did you, or like, so how close, like I got mine in January. And so I always, like, when they say, oh, yeah, you hit, I just hit my 10-year. I was like, yeah, technically 10 and a half years, but you know. Same goes for me. I also got my MVP award in January 2017. So it's definitely almost five and a half years now. So that's, that's really great because that's the maximum that you can get out of it. You can get a half year for free. Just be clear, Microsoft, we're not bitter. We're not bitter about that, you know. So, but, so how did you, what was kind of your path to becoming an MVP? Like, you know, Azure space is not my space. And I know it's so broad. There's so many things different aspects of what's going on there. So what was your path? Yeah, it's, it started all that I was already passionate about sharing stuff that I did. I wrote some articles. I wrote some blogs. I gave presentations to local communities about web development. And I also did some mobile development on some mobile platform, which is not longer here, has to do something with Microsoft. I know, yeah. And from there, I started to do some, some cloud development. And back in 2016, Microsoft started a bit earlier already with offering Internet of Things on Azure. And I was immediately hooked. This, this is something that I really like, remembers about the stuff that I learned when I was a student. So I picked it up fairly easy. And at some point, Microsoft asked me, well, we're doing something with a, a Lora network provider. It's the Things Network, a local community here. And we want to have a workshop for people to play with. Well, I believe it's this sensor. So just a sample sample. Well, I put some a box around it. But to have it connected to the clouds using that platform and then if people measure the temperature, it's sent to the cloud and there's a dashboard. So in the end, I built a workshop in a couple of weeks. And it was pretty successful for both the Things that Work and Microsoft. And well, we had a lot of people coming along. And then the guy from Microsoft who inspired me to do this, he said, well, why, why aren't you a MVP? You do this. So, well, it's, it's so nice. I said, well, okay. I'm not quite sure how the program goes. So I was nominated by him. And I had to submit a lot of stuff that I already did. And at some point on the first of January, I was with the family, of course, New Year's Eve. And I got an email. Congratulations. So I was flammergasted, of course. But yeah, from there, if you're an MVP, it's so much easier to talk about your, the subject that you love and get in touch with companies. And well, then it goes from one to another. Yeah, it's, it's a, it was tell. So one, you know, so I had the same thing where I had Microsoft people and some other fellow MVPs that I was speaking in a bunch of conferences, and they're like, wait, you're not an MVP. They just assumed I was, I was, you know, around. I was doing all these things. And, and, you know, honestly, it was one of those things where I said, Oh, that'd be great. But I wasn't focused on that. I wasn't, wasn't my purpose in doing all the community activities that are out there. But it's a, you know, to have, so now you used to be able to self nominate or for a while you could do that, but it has to be a Microsoft person or another MVP that submits.  No, not that much, a few of them, but to become an MVP, it's not taken lightly. You have to have a track record of one or two years with actually a bunch of blogs and presentations. So if you're not committed to do that, you just do it once in a while. I'm not, I'm not sure if you actually will be rewarded. So I tend to be a little bit careful. If somebody asked me, how can you nominate me? And then I first ask, okay, Microsoft will look at this. And what's your value? What do you bring to the community? And if you're confident about it, then I'm okay with it. But if you're just, yeah, are a casual blogger once in a while, okay, then think twice before I will submit it. That's the same thing where I've had people that reach out like, hey, can you submit? And I was for one, I barely know you. You should not ask somebody that you barely know. So because you and I, we would have to have confidence in the quality and the volume of the contributions there. That's one, get to know us first. And after a few months, if I'm just like, wow, this person is really going above and beyond and consistently, and there's a history, there's a pattern there. But two, I just had somebody that I submitted. I'm familiar, I've known her for years. I've seen, she's one of these people where I've asked, why are you not an MVP? Who did you anger at Microsoft that you're not an MVP? But where I was able to go in and I said, look, I want to submit you, help me put together, I'm aware of a bunch of things, but let's collect. What is the frequency of your blogging? What is the frequency? How often are you speaking? She was organizing, she's the head of the user group. She organized other regional events, speaking at conferences around the world and doing all this stuff. She wasn't creating a lot of video content, wasn't blogging a lot because she preferred events and other things. But there's no set list of, hey, if you are blogging X times a month and have spoken at this many, there's no magical number that you can be like, check, did that, check, did that. It's a combination of those things. It's about adding value to the community. And that can be done in many ways. If you're a somebody who answers a lot of questions on Stack Overflow, or if you... Once in a while, I submit a pool request on the Microsoft documentation because there's something wrong or incomplete or just a typo. That can also count. And at this moment, I'm doing a lot of answering questions on MS Learn. They have a Q&A section over there, and I love, well, that's for me a nice angle to add value to the community. And it also triggers me about people doing stuff. And then I learn something from, well, they're doing this, and that's unexpected from what I should do it. Community begets your community. If you're in there involved, even if you're, again, maybe your goal right now is not to become an MVP, you're not right, you're blogging a lot. But if you're participating in the community and providing that kind of feedback, that's one other thing that I would say. There's one thing to be, Microsoft makes missteps. We all rush in, we give our feedback on those things. But you need to also do it in a constructive way. That's helpful. And that is something... I mean, that's just a rule in life, really more receptive. It's, of course, it has to be constructive. If you're just bashing that something is not working, well, they will note it, but they cannot do anything with it. But if you give an alternative or you elaborate why you think that the way it's done now is not the most obvious way, they are really open and willing to learn. And once in a while, I get a follow-up where I have a call with a team, with a product team, about how I do stuff and why I do it. And it's, I think that's one of the most beautiful things that you get in touch with the product team so much easier as an MVP. Well, that's two... I mean, again, thinking of entry points for non-MVPs that are interested in getting more involved, there are a number of formal and informal like working groups and things all around the various Microsoft technologies. Patterns and practices team is another great example. There's a lot of people that are very active within that space that aren't MVPs that are taking that approach of like, here's how we're trying to use it. Here's our experience. This is where... So it's providing that constructive feedback of saying, here's what we saw with our customers or with our own companies or just participating in the discussion of the creation of solutions and then going and testing that out in your organization and providing that feedback. That's actually another way to get involved. Same thing, I'm part of a number of groups where on a regular basis, we have calls, there's a limited number of MVPs and partners that are involved where we're able to provide that direct feedback back to Microsoft around compliance, for example, around the Microsoft Viva solution space. Again, I'm on the collaboration side of things, but these are working groups that I'm a member of and provide input into, but those are great ways for customers and for partners and for those that are looking to do more in the community to go in to get involved and to raise their visibility with those key Microsoft people because that's also part of that.  It's recognizing the work that you've done, really focusing on the last year of giving back. If Microsoft people have no idea who you are because you're not standing out in the community in any way, then they'll never, you may have a great list of things that you've contributed, but they'll look at it and be like, I've never run into this person. I've never had an interaction. So that's why it's a blend of those things. It is people that are involved. Yeah. And it also goes the other way around. I've been contacted by Microsoft already several times regarding the certification program, and they asked me to help them as a subject matter expert thinking about the topics that should be in the exam. And well, I'm really honored, of course, about that because that means that Microsoft also sees me as a, well, as a subject matter expert. Yeah. And then, well, it goes both ways. Yeah. That's very cool. Well, Santa really appreciate your time, meaning I know that it's towards the end of your day, and we're really appreciate all that you do for the community. It's great to meet you, get to know you, and I'm hoping one of these days for events to get back underway and get back. I was trying to think, when was the last time I was in the Netherlands? And I think it was four years ago. It's, yeah, it's been too long. I need to get over to the other side of the pond and see people again. Well, if you're around, give me a goal and we will have a beer. We'll do lots of beer. Well, really appreciate your time today. It was great talking to you. And for folks that want to get in touch with you to reach you, what are the best ways to find you? Well, of course, I'm on LinkedIn, and I have a Twitter handle, S-V-E-L-D-E, S-Felde. I have a blog, if you just look up my name together with the name of the word blog, you will find my blog. On GitHub, almost every project that I do and stuff that I build, like the demonstration here behind me, I put it on GitHub. Together with a friend, we even start the IoT Edge Foundation on GitHub, where we submit Azure IoT modules, which we think are handy or fun or a good starting point to build your own modules. So I'm there on the internet. And of course, anybody watching or listening, you go to bucktheplanet.com. I'll have the blog post that has all of Sandra's information as well, and with links to all the social networks and to your site. And so appreciate your time and we'll hopefully see each other in the near future.


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Good evening aspirants. Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankara IS Academy for the date 16th of September 2022. The articles taken up for today's discussion are displayed here. With this, let's move on to the news analysis. Have a look at this news article. This news article talks about a meeting chaired by Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu yesterday. In the meeting, it was discussed about drafting a policy for organic farming in Tamil Nadu. So, in this background, let us understand what is organic farming and some of the government's initiative to promote it in India. So coming to the question, what is organic farming? See, organic farming is a method of farming in which crops are grown using organic manure, bio fertilizers and by adopting other nature-friendly practices. Or to put it more simply, it is a farming method in which the use of synthetic chemicals and fertilizers are strictly prohibited. Here note that manure is obtained naturally by the decomposition of dead plants and animals while bio fertilizers or living organisms when added to the soil will result in improved plant productivity. Most importantly, organic farming reduces reliance on external inputs and it also maximizes productivity by making the best use of ecological principles and processes. Ultimately, it will result in lower crop cultivation costs. Now, let us see some of the initiatives of Government of India to promote organic farming. First initiative, which we are going to discuss is Paramparhat Krishi Vikas Yojana, shortly known as PKVY. See, under PKVY, organic farming is promoted through adoption of organic village by cluster approach. Here, in cluster approach, farmers come together to form a land cluster having at least 50 acre land. This land will be used for organic farming as part of the scheme. PGS certificates are given for the products produced here. Note that PGS or participatory guarantee system is a process of certifying organic products which ensures that their production takes place in accordance with the well lay down quality standards. Second scheme, which we are going to discuss is Mission Organic Value Chain Development for the Northeastern Region. See, this scheme was brought in to realize the potential of organic farming in the Northeast region of the country. This scheme promotes third party certified organic farming of niche crops of Northeastern region through former producer organizations. It primarily focuses on exports. Here, niche crops are nothing but crops that specifically grow in the Northeastern part of our country. Other schemes regarding organic farming are given here for your reference. You can have a look. This is all with respect to the schemes of Government of India regarding organic farming. Now, let's see a few additional facts relating to organic farming in India. First, Sikkim, one of the Northeastern states of India practices organic farming. From the year 2003, Sikkim has stopped the import of chemical fertilizers into the state. Its farmers only use organic manures for cultivation. This has resulted in Sikkim becoming the first organic state of the country. Second, India is an import dependent nation with regards to chemical fertilizers. It imports a huge quantity of fertilizers from abroad, which depletes its foreign currency reserves. Now, with growing research towards organic farming in India, a move towards organic farming will help India solve its perennial problem of import dependence on fertilizers. Through this discussion, we have learned about organic farming and some of the major schemes of Government of India regarding it and a few additional facts regarding organic farming in India. With this, let's move on to the next news article. Have a look at this news article. This article reports about the defection of the members of Legislative Assembly of Goa. This is in news because recently in Goa, eight MLA's of the Congress Party had defected to the ruling BJP party. In this context, we will learn about the Anti-Defection Law, its provisions, exceptions mentioned in the law, its shortcomings and then finally recommendation of various committees relating to the law. The syllabus for this discussion is highlighted here for your reference. Now, let's see what is Anti-Defection Law. For better understanding, first we have to know what defection means. See, the word defection basically means to abandon one's duty or allegiance. Now, in the political sense, defection refers to the act of changing one's party's allegiance. For example, we will take the recent defection in Goa. Here, the eight MLA's were initially got elected from the Congress Party. But now, they had vacated the Congress and joined the BJP. This is what is called as defection. So, to address this evil of political defection, the Anti-Defection Law was passed in the year 1985. Now, let us see in detail about this Anti-Defection Law. See, the 52nd Constitutional Amendment of 1985 added a 10th schedule to the Constitution. The schedule speaks about the Anti-Defection Law. Here, the Anti-Defection Law lays down the procedure by which the members can be disqualified on grounds of defection by the preceding officer of the legislature. They can be disqualified based on a petition by any member of the House. Note that the term members include both the members of the Parliament and the members of the State Legislative Assembly. Now, let's see about some provisions of the Anti-Defection Law. See, Section 2 of the Anti-Defection Law provides for the disqualification of the members of the House belonging to any political party on the following grounds. Firstly, if the member voluntarily gives up the membership of the party, he shall be disqualified. Second, if the member votes in the House against the direction of his party or if he completely abstains from voting against the direction of his party without obtaining any prior permission, then he can be disqualified. Based on the above grounds, we can say that a member elected on a political party ticket should continue in the party by obeying the party's direction. If not, there is a chance that they may face disqualifications. Now, coming to the independent members. See, the independent members, that is, members elected to the House independently without being a member of any political party. They will be disqualified if they join any political party after the elections. And now, coming to the nominated members. They can be disqualified if they join any political party after the expiry of six months from the date on which they join the House. This means that the person can join any political party within six months of taking a seat in the House. However, the law provides two exceptions in relation to this procedure of disqualification. Now, we will see about these exceptions. First one is regarding merger. See, if a member voluntarily gives up the membership of the party as a result of his original party being merged with another party, then they will not be disqualified. A merger is construed to take place provided that two-thirds of the member of the party have agreed to search merger. Coming to the second exception. If a member after being elected as the preceding officer of the House, voluntarily give up the membership of his party and rejoins the party after he ceases to hold that office. In this situation, they cannot be disqualified. This exception has been provided with a view to uphold the dignity and impartiality of the office of the speaker. Note that the 91st Constitutional Amendment Act of 2003 omitted an exception provision. The omitted provision mentioned about disqualification on ground of defection doesn't apply in case of split. The deleted provision said that if the member voluntarily gives up the membership of the party as a result of split of group of members from their original party, then they will not be disqualified. Once again, remember that this provision was removed by the 91st Constitutional Amendment Act. This is all about the exception provisions. Also remember, any question regarding the disqualification arising out of defection will be decided by the preceding officer of the House. Here, the preceding officer means the speaker. Originally, the Act provided that the decision of the preceding officer is final and cannot be questioned in any court. But this was changed in the year 1993. In the famous Kihoto Holohon case, the Supreme Court declared that this particular provision is unconstitutional, since it takes away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the high courts. It further said the preceding officer while deciding a question under the 10th schedule should function as a tribunal, which means that speaker's decision can be subjected to judicial review in terms of shortcomings. Now, let's see about some of the shortcomings in the anti-defection law. Speaking about the speaker's power in disqualification on the grounds of defection, he or she is the ultimate deciding authority on the questions arising out of disqualification. This particular provision leads to controversy because if a member from another party joins the ruling party, then the speaker, who is generally from the ruling party, may delay the proceedings in favour of his party. Another problem with the anti-defection law is that individual decision making of the members of the political parties gets affected because of it. Members of a political party are simply instructed to do what their party whips want them to do. These are some of the problem areas with respect to the anti-defection law. Now, let's see some of the recommendations of the various committees to restructure the law. First, starting with the Dinesh Goswami committee on electoral reforms, it recommended the issue of disqualification should be decided by the president or the governor on the advice of the Election Commission of India rather than by the speaker of the House. If implemented, it will result in reducing the political bias of the decisions made under the anti-defection law. Now, coming to the second recommendation, the Law Commission report of 1999 said, the provision which exempts mergers from disqualification should be deleted. Note that the 10th schedule legalises wholesale defections while punishing retail defectors. Now, coming to the final suggestion, Constitution Review Commission of 2002 suggested that the defector should be barred from holding public office or any renumerative political post for the duration of the remaining term. The vote cast by a defector to topple a government should be treated as invalid. This suggestion was included to help maintain a stable government. That's all regarding the recommendations. Through this discussion, we came to know about the anti-defection law, provisions of it and the need for restructuring the law. With this, let's move on to the next news article. Take a look at this news article. This news article talks about Kutub-Shagi-Tooms complex. Now, suddenly it is in news because yesterday, Karnataka's minister for urban development inaugurated six restored wells inside the Kutub-Shagi-Tooms complex in Hyderabad. The minister even stated that the restored heritage site will assist in making it a solid case for UNESCO World Heritage City status. So, in this background, let us revise about the Kutub-Shagi dynasty. Kutub-Shagi dynasty refers to the Muslim rulers of the Kingdom of Golconda in the southeastern Dekhan region of India. They ruled from 1518 up until 1687, during which Aurangzeb annexed the whole of Dekhan to the Mughal Empire. Note that they were one of the five successor states of the Bhagmani Kingdom. The other Dekhani Sultanates were Agmadnagar, Berar, Bidar and Bijapur. These five Sultanates ruled cumulatively the region present between the Bindian Range and the Krishna River during the medieval period. First, let us see about how Kutub-Shagi dynasty occupied the present-day Telangana region. See what happened is, in 1463 disturbances broke out in the Telangana area of the Bhagmani Kingdom of Dekhan. Sultan Kuli Kutbul Mulk was sent to suppress the uprising. Note that Sultan Kuli Kutbul Mulk was one among the high-ranking military officer under the Mogamadshah Bhagmani who ruled the Bhagmani Kingdom. That is why he was sent to silence the protestors. And when he was successful, he was appointed as the Subhadara of Telangana with Golconda assets headquarters in 1495. Later, with the disintegration of the Bhagmani Kingdom in the early 16th century, Sultan Kuli gained virtual independence. As a result, he established the Kutub-Shagi dynasty. It flourished from 1518 until 1687 when Aurangazup Saharmi invaded the Dekhan. You can see the extent of the kingdom in the image given here. So, the dynasty spanned 171 years in the history of South India. And during this period, Yelid Kings ruled the land and its people. Note that the Kutub-Shagi rulers were great builders and patrons of learning. They not only patronized the Persian culture, but also the regional culture of the Dekhan. The Golconda fought Kutub-Shagi tombs and the Charminar are proof of it. Now look at these beautiful images. These are the Golconda fought Kutub-Shagi tombs and Charminar. Even though not located within the same complex, these three monuments together represent the earliest Kutub-Shagi layer of Hyderabad's history. The Kutub-Shagi tombs alone houses seven tombs dedicated to the former kings of Golconda. Now, talking about specifically the Kutub-Shagi architecture, see, the general architecture plan of these tombs include a raised square base and arched corridor runs around the main building. It generally consists of a single or double-story building with a dome and huge bulbous dome built on the cylinder. A small lattice wall all around the cylinder not only covers it, but also gives an ornamental look to the dome as if it is wearing a necklace. All the buildings are perfectly symmetrical which is a distinct feature of Islamic architecture. The actual grave lies underground below the ornate grave in the main hall. The internal ceiling of the dome is painted with the motifs of the time. So, this is all about the tombs architecture of Kutub-Shagi dynasty. With this, we have come to the end of this particular article discussion. Through this discussion, we have seen about the Kutub-Shagi dynasty and the process through which the first ruler of this dynasty occupied power and also about their tomb architecture. With this, let's move on to the Prillinth practice question discussion. We have two different questions taken up for today's discussion. Coming to the first question, it's a two statement question. Let me read out the question. Consider the following statements. Natural forming does not use chemical or organic fertilizers on the soil. Coming to the second statement, there is no ploughing, soil tilling and beading in natural forming. The question asks for the incorrect statement. Statement one is correct. See, even though both natural and organic forming methods are chemical-free, organic forming still uses fertilizers and manures, such as compost, verirumi, compost, etc. Natural forming does not use chemical or organic fertilizers on the soil. In reality, no additional nutrients are put into the soil or given to the plants. Natural forming increases the breakdown of organic matter by microorganisms and earthworms right on the soil surface, gradually adding nutrients to the soil over time. So, statement one is correct. Now, coming to the second statement. Because of this unique forming method, ploughing, tilling, mixing, manure, beading, and other fundamental agro activities are not done in natural forming. So, statement two is also correct. So, the correct answer for this question is option D. Neither one nor two. Now, coming to the second Prillinth practice question. Consider the following pairs. We have four pairs of dynasties given. We have to match the dynasties with the regions they have ruled. The question asks for how many pairs given are correctly matched. The answer for this question is option D. All four pairs. Let's see briefly about the Bhagmani kingdom and the breakup of the Bhagmani kingdom into five different kingdoms. Bhagmani kingdom, being one of the great medieval Indian kingdoms, was founded against Mogamathbin Thuklaq of the Delhi Sultanate. After nearly 150 years of rule, the Bhagmani kingdom disintegrated into five different kingdoms in the early 16th century. These kingdoms were ruled by five different dynasties. Nizam Shagis ruled the Agamagdnagar, Kutub Shagis ruled the Hyderabad, which we have seen deeply in our news analysis today. Barid Shagis ruled the Bidar region, Imad Shagis ruled the Berar region. And finally, Vijapur was ruled by the Adil Shaghi kingdom. With this, we have come to the end of the Prillinth practice question discussion. I have displayed a main's practice question. 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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has 10 documents before the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal. The documents presented before the three-month tribunal panel on Tuesday by INEC include forms EC8A, EC8B, EC8C of polling units from nine local government areas of Kaduna State. Addressing journalists after the court proceedings council to the PDP say the documents should be in custody of the church for authentication or the court rather for identification and verification for their witnesses to certify the copy, the signed. INEC was hoping to bring some of these documents, original of some of these documents. However, we noticed that amongst the originals were a few photocopies but that issue is not necessarily an issue for now. Right now what we wanted, right now the application largely I think was to bring these original, we wanted them to remain in court until we begin to call witnesses. The idea was for some of these witnesses to identify some discrepancies between the original, the certified true copy and then the duplicates that were given at the time of the election. But well, the INEC lawyers raised the issue that they didn't want these documents being original to be in court and all. Also, council to Ubar Sani and that of the APC all raised concerns on objections to the documents sent out in court, noting that they would be filing their objections to the admissibility of the documents and their respective written addresses. However, the council to the independent electoral commission declined the interview as the tribunal of John sitting to Wednesday 12th of July 2023. What ordinarily will come before the tribunal as certified true copy of public documents? And the reason is very clear. When the document is a public document, everyone else other than the parties before the tribunal will be entitled to have certified true copy when they apply and pay the necessary fees. But since they have issued a subpoena for them to bring in and they have brought in, they started with the undo to pollute the order of the tribunal. Because the subpoena is in the class of the order. Not to make prayers that the parties don't be dismissed. That's okay. Why? Because the reasons will be in what we are going to present at the defense. Not for now. This is the first time in which I would not want to say anything.


What's good Josh boros back again with another video so I'm gonna check out ten insane crowds that didn't let the rest of Speak I just dropped a video earlier today talking about the importance of a great wrestling crowd And how it can make or break a show. So I had to check this out of Crowds not letting a wrestler speak. That's when you know, you got something hot there that's when you know the crowd is really invested and what's going on in front of them and It all overall just makes just a lot of things better for that show or segment So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all the love and support by wrestling flashback great Wrestling content if you haven't already go subscribe to him link to the original videos down below. Let's keep writing to this This is song getting heat comes with the territory in wrestling as he'll promos are often met with booze and jays Children the same talk, but sometimes a reaction can be so thunderous or negative the rest of can't get their words out Good We'll look at various examples today as we highlight ten times the Dominic definitely deserves to be on that list When it comes to Mordring the PG era Notorious excuse me catchphrase was born due to Vicky forgetting her lines But it became a way to fire up the crowd that we're booing her with the phrase becoming a staple of her promos Most heat of her career on the December 20th raw from 2010 here She and off Ziggler interrupted John Cena and once Vicky got all the excuse me is out of the way She went to speak Every one of her sentences would be shot down by the fans leaving Cena in fits of laughter Listen to that I Got louder and louder. It was absolute gold. The Austin Texas crowd showed Vicky Roman Reigns received a similar negative reaction the night after he defeated the Undertaker at Russell mania 33 Nuclear heat and it was good, but they didn't capitalize on it But nevertheless nuclear heat won many of the hardcore fans disliked and this dislike intensified when Roman beat the beloved Undertaker on the grandest stage especially since taker had left his hat jacket and gloves in The ring following the match alluding to how this was meant to be the dead man's final match Yeah, when Reigns opened the show the next night He always rockers raw after a some menu crowd were ready to let the big dog have it This is so good Every time he lifted the microphone to his mouth Roman was met with a plethora of booze The reaction didn't let up leading to Reigns uttering just one line before leaving to yet more booze He'd seemingly reached out with the greatest of all time This was all the ammunition the fans needed, but with just five words Roman was able to set the audience off even more It was one of the most imagine if you would have turned heel that that moment on he Just been an arrogant like I'm the one that attired the Undertaker. None of you bums could do it like ah Man he he we would have gotten what we got with Roman now a lot sooner Negative crowd responses ever seen in WWE even though Reigns wasn't a heel at the time I wouldn't be for another three years Yeah, for that one night in Orlando Reigns was the most hated man in the business Which is good They had something next we go to another postmenia promo as Dominic Mysterio spoke to the world after losing to his father Ray at WrestleMania 39 Dominic had been a great heel in the run-up to the show of shows So fans were delighted to see him finally get his comeuppance now the people wanted to rub his nose in the last by not letting Him talk as Dominic was drowned out by a so good on the April 7 2023 edition of Smackdown Mind you, he just lost and they were booing him like like no other oh man Fantastic the fans didn't want to hear his excuses and thus they verbally pelted Dom with booze Then came the you suck chance. Mysterio was eventually able to finish his promo after being booed out of the building by the Portland, Oregon crowd It was some great heat and a test great how well Dominic had been doing as a heel. Yeah Biggest heel in the company, bro I Was an incredibly special moment as fans were delighted to see the rated R Superstar back in the squared circle the next night on Raw, yeah, you should see attacked by former tag The next week all to look to explain his actions However, the Salt Lake city crowd weren't going to make it easy The fans booed in before he grabbed the mic then when all 10 attempted to speak the booze were even stronger Oh The audience didn't want to hear why Since Edge had just come back from a career-ending injury only to nearly have his career ended for a second time The crowd instead chanted for Edge and directed you suck chance at Orton the apex predator ended up just putting the mic down and left the ring It was Sometimes you don't even need to say anything to cut an effective promo Sure, it was planned ahead of time But it was still a smart idea as each time Randy delayed what he was going to say allowing the booze to build and build Orton's assault on Edge spoke a thousand words Yeah, fans booing Orton spoke such a great attack was still fresh in everyone's mind with the people at their most upset Orton took advantage of this by letting the crowd cut the promo for him Randy later explained his beatdown on edge in a more traditional But still brilliant promo This is What is promo was an example of how he can greatly enhance the story But this wasn't the case for Bailey on the August 7th 2017 episode the week before Bailey suffered a separated shoulder during a match with Nia Jax It meant Bailey wouldn't be able to compete for the Raw Women's title at Summer Slam Bailey came to the ring for an in-ring interview to give her thoughts on the situation right as she began to speak the booze rang out You guys made me feel a lot better. I saw your tweets and your posts She thanked the fans for their support, but the booing continued which Bailey then addressed I don't know it was booing. I'm thinking the ones who are not booing right now But it's only made things worse with Bailey looking taken aback by the response from the WWE universe Yeah, and I think it just hug gimmick wasn't really working as well as they thought it would it's just The cookie-cutter baby face thing it just was not working for her, bro It just wasn't fans got tired of it. You know it did the fans got tired of it and they kind of turned on her The negative reaction for Bailey wasn't just because Raw was in the so-called bizarro world of Toronto It was because a lot of damage had been done to Bailey's character Feud with Alexa bliss Bailey had lost the women's title in her hometown and was then easily defeated at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view When she fell to use a weapon not to mention how badly she was She didn't want to use a weapon bro, because she was too much of a goody-two shoes like people just stop like all right, bro This is disgusting get her off my team made fun of in the infamous This is your life segment that chairman Vince McMahon himself buried as one of the worst segments in company history Bailey This is your life I was crickets Bailey's fault by the way because of the kind of baby face I was because of the kind of character was I just wasn't seen at that level That's when it was like it was just not working Bailey's booking and popularity at this time was a far cry from her days in NXT Or even a year prior on Raw which we'll get into next as here We have an example of a wrestler not being able to speak due to a positive reaction from the crowd as opposed to a negative one This occurred on November 7th 2016 during a segment featuring each member of the Raw women's survivor series team This included Bailey who got on the mic and was immediately serenaded by the Glasgow crowd who sang hey Bailey The song Bailey is often greeted with when she wrestles in the UK Yeah, it is crazy even when she's a heel the fans show out they show a love Bailey acknowledged the fans and then tried to get back on track with her promo numerous times, but the people just kept singing Made a cool moment topped off by Bailey's heartwarming reaction The sing-along continued once Charlotte got the mic as the Queen also couldn't get a word in over the boisterous crowd Charlotte was forced to raise her voice, but even then she couldn't drown out the vocal majority Sasha Banks came out and joined in all in all it was a vintage UK crowd reaction The audience sang for so long that the WWE had to edit down their chanting by the time The show aired several minutes were cut from the segment Wow UK fans spent nearly five minutes singing for Bailey which is almost as long as the Seattle crowd Brute Elias and Kevin Owens for my room 2018 Elias and Owens were cutting a promo together when Elias mentioned that it didn't make sense to have a basketball team in Seattle Oh Good Referencing the Seattle Super Sonics moved to Oklahoma City in 2008 This hit a nerve with the audience as their booze were deafening the sustained raw lasted for more than six minutes No, this is a good deal. He had he knew he had them Listen to that it was over a minute before Owens and Elias said another word after the initial chorus of booze rained down They're gonna have to speak up Despite raising their voices having their mics turned up KO and Elias could still barely be heard It was surreal to hear a crowd boo that loudly Big cast and into a more a word popular team despite never capturing tag team goal 2017 when cast and heel leading to a feud that lasted several months The big show eventually became involved leading to a match at Somersalm where Enzo would be suspended above the ring in a Shot cage six days before the match big cast came out for a promo during an episode of raw from Boston, Massachusetts This Sunday at Somersalm it'll be Has tried six times to size promo, but he was stopped after each attempt by the audience's booze this Sunday I'll be here. I'll be over the booze which in turn became louder and more sustained It was surprising to see casket that much heat He made the most of it by continuously stopping on purpose Manipulating the crowd and soaking up the booze before then talking I still think they shouldn't have split them up before they at least won the titles and had a decent title They shouldn't have split them up, but I know a lot of people in the back weren't big fans of Inzo down to the crowd One night stand 2005 was one of the most memorable paper views as we got to witness the original ECW This show was still under the WWE umbrella though So some of the company's heel wrestlers ended up having a big presence on the show The Smackdown crew was led by JBL and had reserved seats on the balcony Bradshaw cut a scathing promo on ECW and its fans The people responded with loud uncensored chants and venomous booze This was a hostile environment JBL stopped once, but the fans weren't going to slow down.  I believe that's what happened WWE and especially on the January 28 2019 edition of rule while some fans may have been tired of Rousey as a face The WWE certainly didn't help matters by sending Rhonda out to cut a badly scripted promo Which the fans hammered her for last year. I stepped into this ring for the first You can sense that Rousey wasn't feeling the material that was written for her She watched on as the crowd chewed up and spat out of her every sentence I felt bad for it cuz they started Rhonda Definitely needs someone to speak for her let her in ring ability be that but She's not good might when it comes to talking on the microphone Causing her to pause multiple times and then stutter as the booze in chance for Becky Lynch rained down Yep Yeah, Becky was super over at this all Rhonda could do was smile and say things under a breath no doubt frustrated at the situation She began to play with the audience before finally being cut off by Bailey's music. Oh My god, this is oh Rousey was put in a tough spot as cold promos talking to the audience like this were not her forte It was far better later in the show when she had someone to verbally spar with in the form of Becky Lynch And that brings us to the end of this video Hey, man, if you enjoyed the video, this was a good one, bro This was a fantastic one. If you guys enjoyed this one, you already know what to do Go ahead hit a like button on this video or go ahead You can also hit the like button on the original video once again original video will be linked down below This was a good one. And once again, it goes back to the video. I made earlier Wrestling crowds they can make or break a show What a good wrestling crowd is invested it create great moments that can you know, you can always look go back and check out man one of my favorite wrestling crowds Money in the bank 2011 I'm always gonna go back to this because it was it was just That John Cena versus CM Punk man, it just the atmosphere of that show was just Electric I love that Man, take me back comment. I'm gonna let me know what was your favorite wrestling crowd event doesn't matter if it's an AEW Doesn't matter if it's in WWE ECW let me know just an event where the crowd went crazy. It can even bring up some WCW days, man Let me know What crowd you remember the most just made the show that much better and the crowd went crazy for whatever happened Let me know down below, but I appreciate all of the support road to 150k And I'm still gonna speak to you to rest and check the world. I can't even be see our next one


Hi, this is Dr. Don. I have a problem out of Larson chapter two on descriptive statistics. We're given the information about heights of men on a baseball team. We're told that they have a bell shaped distribution, which should be a clue that this is a normal distribution. We're given the distributions mean of 181 centimeters and a standard deviation of nine centimeters. And we're asked to use the empirical rule to find the approximate percentage between these two sets of values. Remember the empirical rule is also known as the 689599.7 rule. But what we're talking about is that 68% of the data are the values in a bell shaped distribution or normal distribution are found between minus one and plus one standard deviations. 95% between minus two and plus two standard deviations and 99.7 within minus three and plus three. Now you can use that information in your calculator to find these probabilities. But I would recommend that you learn to use stat crunch calculators to do this kind of problem. Remember you can go to the question help if you're in my stat lab, click on that and then open up stat crunch from there. Once you're in stat crunch, you just go to stat calculators normal and we open up the normal calculator. When it opens it comes up with the standard normal distribution which has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one. Here we're given a mean of 181 so we enter that and a standard deviation of nine centimeters we enter there. So before we click compute, let's click on the between button because we're given two values and we need to enter those one, six, three, one, nine, nine and then we click compute and we get an answer of 0.954. That's the area in red under the normal distribution or the bell shaped distribution. 95.4% of the data is found in that red area between these two values. Then we just enter the final two values 154, 208. Click compute and we see we get our 99.7% in that red area. One final thing I'll show you just to solidify the empirical rules, we put back our standard normal mean of zero and standard deviation of one and we put in minus three standard deviations and plus three standard deviations and click compute we get 99.7 which we should and that confirms the normal distribution follows the empirical rule. Hope this helps.


So we're here at the Nokia booth and you have this medenaphone. Yeah, that's the fantastic Nokia 8110. So it's the next phone in the Nokia retro story. So, you know, just like the original Nokia Soraka. And the difference is this comes with 21st century connectivity. So it's on 4G, but also comes with Google Search, Google Assist, Google Maps. And also you can go on to the store and download Twitter and Facebook. And the microphone is on this corner here? Yeah, the microphone is just there. But why do you need to open it then? Slide to open, yeah. Can you answer a call without sliding? No, you need to slide to open. Slide to open, slide to talk. Wouldn't it make sense if the microphone was here? It's part of the fun, the slide to open, right? How much is the cost? So 79 euros it's going to be when it goes on market in May. And can we look quickly a little bit on the UI? What can you do? What is the system? So it's KaiOS, it's the operating system. You have to download 558. Yeah, that's stuck because people have been using it a lot. Yeah, correct, yeah. There we go, okay. Thanks. It's nice and easy. You've got a call log, contacts. It helps the store to download your favorite apps. It even comes preloaded with Snake. You've got a 2 megapixel camera. See all your photos. And then it also comes 4G. But it comes Wi-Fi hotspot Bluetooth. It's got a fantastic battery life of 25 days of standby battery. So you can go on holiday without your charger. Can you drop it? It doesn't break? Well, I've not broken it yet, so I'm not going to try right now. But it's a good robust strong phone. And it actually comes in the other color too? It comes in black as well, yeah. Can you show that one? I'll show the black one right there. But of course, another one is the coolest one. Was it originally in this color in the past? Or was it a new idea? It was in the black of the past. Cool. It's to compete with the Apple company, right? I think this is just about Nokia's heritage. And it's the strength in Nokia's heritage. The brand and fantastic design.


I think it's time. It's time to get started. I'm Janice Robinson. I'm the moderator for this session. This session is called Born Analog. A university library joins the digital age through private public partnership and our presenters, Detroit SB, Melissa Bailey and Austin McLean from ProQuest. So this is just a reminder to all of you who have entered this session to make sure that you keep your video and microphone off until we get to a point where you might want to ask the question, but you can also type your questions in the Q&A and the presenters can see those and I can help make sure that if they don't get them answered that I'll help them, you know, ask the question. So take it away, Melissa, Austin and Troy. Okay well great. Well my name is Troy Espey and I'm a librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and joining me are Melissa Bailey who is a cataloging assistant also from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and Austin McLean senior director of academic relations at ProQuest and like Janice said this is our presentation Born Analog. A university library joins the digital age through a public-private partnership. Melissa take it away. Alright so I have been working at UWSP with the thesis for close to nine years and we've always been real paper pushers. When I first started helping out with the thesis finding we required everybody to submit a paper and an electronic thesis and they had to deliver each of those paper copies to us. If they wanted extra copies for themselves they had to print out their own copy of each one they wanted to have bound and they had to physically deliver it to us in the library. Along with that we only accepted paper payments. We didn't have a card reader so you either had to pay with cash or check and we also had a lot of paper forms to fill out. There were agreement forms and there was a form we had to fill out and return to the department to confirm that the student had completed their requirement for graduation and we also had to do a lot of shipping. So we physically had to ship every item that we got in so that increased our paper trail with shipping lists and additional bindery slips. So we first considered digital submissions in 2017. That's when the Doctor of Education and Sustainability launched at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Now this was the second doctoral program on campus but it would be the first to require a dissertation for graduation. I just kind of love this photograph they're all holding up flat Stevie. Stevie Pointer is our mascot so to make doctoral students do something that silly I thought was fun to share. Next slide there Melissa. Okay more about the EDD program. So the EDD and sustainability was an online program with students spread across the country and there's even an international student or two in that program. So we knew that paper submissions for dissertations was going to pose some challenges and then it wasn't long after the EDD program started in 2017 that their faculty began asking about submitting dissertations to ProQuest ETD administrator. The faculty argued and Anastas is going to tell you much more about ProQuest ETD administrator at the end of this presentation. So the EDD faculty they argued that inclusion and ProQuest would increase discoverability of students' dissertation and then it also carried a degree of prestige. I mean I think the ProQuest definitely is the gold standard of thesis and dissertation databases and those were all valid arguments. Next slide. But I was having none of it. There was no way that I was going to put our students' dissertations behind a pay wall of a private for-profit company. Not I just wasn't going to do it. I'm a librarian. I'm all about open access. Plus our library we don't even subscribe to ProQuest dissertations and theses database. So does that mean our own patrons wouldn't be able to access the dissertations of our own students? Well, spoiler alert. I eventually changed my mind but please let me let me explain why here. Next slide Melissa. Okay so sometime after this EDD program launched on our campus the UWSP libraries made a decision and it was kind of a big decision. We decided that we were going to upload all of our theses into our institutional repository which is called Mines at UW. So we're talking more than a thousand theses dating back to the early 1970s. And we did it. They're all in there. It took over a year to get them all in there with all the metadata and such. But now you can freely access and download all of our dissertations and all of our theses from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. We also made another decision that any future theses or dissertations also would be uploaded to Mines at UW. So this would ensure preservation and open access and never one of those pesky paywalls. And you're going to see why this was an important decision in just a little bit. All right go ahead Melissa. So let's fast forward to 2020 the year 2020. Our acquisitions manager Ann Swenson announced her retirement. Now Ann was the one who had handled paper theses for more than three decades. And from Melissa's slide you understand how much work that involved. And this probably won't surprise you either. The library wasn't going to replace Ann. Theses processing would be absorbed by the staff. And when I say staff I really mean Melissa. All right next one. Okay also in 2020 as you remember an uninvited guest visited campus. Melissa next slide. Yeah like with everything else in the world the pandemic really wreaked havoc on the library and on theses submissions. So the library closed students were sent home. And then for theses and dissertations the library we actually suspended paper submissions. So instead of paper submissions we asked students to send us an electronic version of their theses or their dissertation. And then we the library would print copies for them. And that was all on the library's dime. We absorbed that cost for the students. However students still had to pay if they wanted bound copies of their thesis or dissertation. And this really turned into a logistical fiasco. You try convincing a millennial to mail a paper check to the library and good luck with that. In fact we still have a box of unpaid dissertations in the library basement. Next slide. Finally we decided to take the plunge. Next slide. In June 2020 we created a portal in ProQuest ETD administrator for students to submit to ProQuest dissertations and theses database. And despite my initial reluctance setup was quick and easy and support was fantastic. Next slide. So at first submission to ProQuest ETD was optional. Students still had to submit paper copies of their theses and dissertations to graduate. The portal was more or less just a convenience for students who wanted to include their theses or dissertation in the ProQuest database. Discoveries, prestige, all that. Now students still could buy cheap bound copies of their theses or dissertation from the library. They didn't have to buy from ProQuest if they didn't want to. For students who submitted to ProQuest the the process included institutional repository agreement form. Next slide Mosa. So with one click while students are submitting their theses or dissertations to ProQuest ETD students could agree to upload their theses or dissertation to minds at UW institutional repository. And for me this was really the clincher and ensured that our students research would remain open access forever more with no pay walls. Next slide. And as promised ETD students started submitting their dissertations to ProQuest. In fact the library received the first dissertation in the university's 126 year history. Next slide. So we pulled the plug-on paper submissions in January 2021. Now all theses and dissertations must be submitted online to ProQuest ETD if students want to graduate there. Now I kind of want to explain this next part here. There is no upfront cost to students okay that is if they just want to submit their theses and dissertation and be done with it that's free okay. However students must pay if they want any bound copies for themselves okay and ProQuest also offers extra services that cost money as well okay so it's not completely free it's free just to submit if that's all you want to do that's free but you definitely can buy extras. And full transparency most of our students do end up buying bound copies from ProQuest along with extra services such as copyright protection. Okay next slide. Now whenever a student submits a thesis or dissertation ProQuest automatically sends a copy a bound copy automatically sends a library a bound copy which we then add to our permanent print collection here in the building. Now the library pays for that bound copy not the student okay so that's kind of the end of it and Melissa now will explain the process in much more detail. Yeah so the process has been much simplified so on the student side they just have to go in and they create their login and they submit their PDF to the ETD site. And then all the information that we had on our agreement forms and any additional information we needed for cataloging was already in what they had to fill out on the site. Then if they wanted their own extra copies they could enter their payment information right there and then after that all they have to do is wait for their confirmation email and then their personal bound copies would be sent right to them. And then on the staff side I receive an email that somebody has submitted their thesis or dissertation. I check to make sure everything's complete mostly that's checking that they have their signed warrant page in there that's usually the one thing that holds things up and I can insert that in there if needed and then all I have to do after that is accept the submission on the ETD website and then I can download the PDF from there to upload to our institutional repository mines at UW. I send out a confirmation email to the student and their department and their advisor and then I just have to sit back and wait for the library copy to be delivered. And there are many benefits to switching to this. With the online submission form it moves a lot more smoothly than it did when we had all these paper copies. The students don't even have to leave their home to come and submit their thesis. They don't have to print off like five copies of their sometimes very long thesis and then bring that to campus. They don't have to worry about bringing cash or a check to pay. That was one of our big questions was how do we pay and most people wanted to pay with a card. We would have to send them to the ATM which is actually no longer in our building and we actually got rid of our cash registers so that that was one of the things that was holding us up with being able to get rid of that and then with the binding we don't have to make shipping lists or fill out the bindery slips. We just have to press a button and then wait for it to come. Another thing that cost us a lot of time was having to contact the students or their advisor when their copies came back to us and trying to coordinate a pickup or directly mailing their thesis back to them. Most people have left the area, left the state, a few even leaving the country and we would have carts full of bound thesis and that nobody had come to pick up and then of course there's the added benefit of the added open access. There's more readers, more citations, more recognition and their works are able to have a greater impact. I think that's it on our end. Great, yes. Hi, I'm Austin. I'll be happy to talk a little bit about ETD administrator for those of you who don't know what it is and are maybe interested in trying it. So next slide please. So the ETD administrator is a free and easy way to manage the workflow. The process is in the middle of the slide there where a student submits their ETDs, is then reviewed as Melissa talked about and some universities do a very thorough review that includes format, going through the PDF in a lot of detail. Other universities do more of a cursory review but after the review occurs there's communication that can happen with the student. For example if the student didn't follow the format guidelines you see those up and down thumbs represent the ability for the university to ask the student for changes and then the student can resubmit their ETD and the graduate school or the library can take a look at the formatting and if it meets all the guidelines that the university can deliver the ETD and that delivery happens at the same time it's sent to ProQuest and sent to the IR or to the library to load into the IR. We have a direct integration or it can be a mediated integration from the university perspective and then the finished ETD is presented in ProQuest and in the IR. So next slide please. So there's quite a few university benefits if you're thinking of having an ETD submission system and using the ETD administrator and we have a lot of new features. The ETD administrator has been in existence for over 15 years but one of the newer things we've implemented is this committee review feature which you can see on the screen there. A lot of times the university would like to have a committee member or maybe it's the advisor ensure that the PDF the student uploaded is the correct and final PDF. So we have a process that we can implement an ETD administrator for that to happen as well. We can accept lots of different file types. We're very flexible. They can be PDFs, video, audio files, data sets, etc. And we also have a new single sign-on feature that works with Shibboleth to allow students and administrator to use their university logins to access the ETD system. So it's quite a straightforward and simple process there. We heard Melissa and Troy talk about the university copies that are available for students and for the university if a bound copy is of interested. And we have this responsive customer service team. I was really glad to hear Troy that that's been something that's worked out for you to have that team be very responsive. So that's good to hear. Next slide please. So there are a lot of benefits for the authors as well and I thought I'd go into this a little bit in more detail since Melissa and Troy didn't talk about it in too much detail. I don't want to repeat things that they've said which was a lot about the system but this is the author benefit. So the author benefits by securely hosted content at ProQuest with the dissertation of thesis as well as I'm sure what Wisconsin has great security for the dissertations in your IR and the thesis there as well. It's important and we always point out that the authors retain copyright. ProQuest dissertations is not one of those publishers where we have to take the copyright from the author. The author has the copyright and ProQuest is a non-exclusive distributor of that dissertation and thesis. So that means that the author can do many many things with that work that they may be interested in doing down the road hosting it on their own website or turning it into a print monograph or a chapter as was talked about in the plenary session earlier that's very much possible through ETD administrator. We're happy to also offer customized embargoes for the university. The university can dictate what type of embargoes are offered to the student for their institutional repository. We also pay the author a royalty so the author earns 10 percent if we ever sell a copy of it you know in a bound format for example or a microfilm or still selling microfilm or in a pdf format the author gets 10 percent royalty payment to them on an annual basis and we have those services that I think Troy touched on the copyright registration which is an optional service and an open access service that is also optional through ProQuest as well. A lot of schools are generating an orchid for the student so that's a way an orchid ID is kind of an identifier a numeric identifier to track the student through their life cycle if they go into the academy or if they go into a corporate setting you'll be able to have that orchid ID and follow that student. The you know the alumni departments love that ability to follow the students kind of a career after they graduate. Next slide please. So what we're trying to do at ProQuest is really amplify what's occurring at the institutional repository. The institutional repository we know has thousands of viewers and readers each university has their institutional repository typically and so what ProQuest does is it takes it to an even wider audience and amplifies what happens in that repository. So we put it in four different streams essentially. In the ProQuest platform which is the ProQuest dissertation and thesis global database or what we call PQDT Global that has over four million researchers that are using it throughout the year. 3,000 universities subscribe to the PQDT Global database and it has an audience there. We also partner with Google Scholar so we've made a partnership with Google Scholar that ensures that the ETD is visible through a Google Scholar search. So that's another way that we're amplifying the visibility. We also increase readership and viewership through subject indexes and what we mean by a subject index or a disciplinary index are things like compendix and psych info and inspect and MLA. We know that a lot of faculty in particular are really focusing on their disciplinary index so if they're a psychologist for example they'll use psych info almost exclusively to do a lot of their research and so ProQuest puts in the case of psych info all the psychology dissertations and theses making them available to psych info to then add visibility as users are using those disciplinary indexes. We also support your IR by providing enhanced metadata providing the copy of the ETD through ETD administrator to your IR and making sure that the users have a quality metadata experience when they're accessing the work in the local repository. Next slide please. So we put on the screen here just a few examples of the universities that are accessing your theses if you're working with a ProQuest ETD administrator and these are universities around the world and these are some of the more prominent universities that have access to PQDT global and are doing extensive research on your ETDs. Next slide please. So finally one of the newest things that we have and we encourage anyone that is submitting their dissertations and theses to ProQuest and contributing to PQDT to take advantage of the free ETD dashboard which shows your universities dissertations and theses and how they're being accessed through those 3000 universities that use PQDT global. You can see some really interesting statistics what are your best sellers your most downloaded works for universities around the world what are your most downloaded subject areas by other universities who are accessing your ETDs and what universities in specific terms are accessing your ETDs. You may find it's a university around the block that is accessing your ETDs the most or could be a university around the world that is looking at your ETDs the most. It's a really intriguing way to think about potential collaboration with these universities because since they're accessing your ETDs so so much you must have comments courses or doctoral programs or master's programs or subject areas and that's a good way to open a dialogue potentially with these universities that are using your ETDs so extensively. So if you don't have your ETD dashboard access set up we invite anybody and at USETDA to have to contact ProQuest and we'll set up your account. Your account probably is already being used by others at your university but each person has their own login and we'd be happy to set up a login with you so you can chat me privately or or anybody at ProQuest and we'll be sure to access to set up access for your ETD dashboard site yourself. Great. So now I think I'll turn it back over to Troy and Melissa and to Janice for the Q&A session. I do have one question I'd like you and I posted it here. Can you remind all of us that so now there's an ETD at thesis or dissertation in ProQuest so if somebody finds that in ProQuest can they view the whole document or are they only viewing the abstract or the first page and then have to pay to view anymore? Can you clarify that? It's sort of changed over the years I think. I can take it. Yes. Okay go ahead.  I'm just going to take a stab at it but I want you to correct me Austin. So the way I understand it if they find UW-Steven's point thesis or dissertation in ProQuest they will not be able to access it from ProQuest right then and there because we do not subscribe to that database but again the the dissertation or the thesis would be in our institutional repository and then it's also in Google Scholar or in Google so if the researcher would just Google the title of the thesis they would find a free PDF but if they wanted to access it right then and there from ProQuest they would hit a paywall unless the student paid for the online access option in ProQuest or if their library happens to subscribe to that database. Is that accurate Austin? I don't want to completely slander you. Yeah thank you yeah that's right yeah it really depends on as Troy is saying on the library library subscription so if the library has subscribed though and you click on the link you'll be passed right through to the PDF if you're if you're on Google and you click on the link it'll say oh does does your library subscribe you know or log in through your library and so that's a good kind of prompt to a student or a researcher to log into their library and see if if they do subscribe to the PQDT database if they're not sure themselves or obviously you can do what Troy suggested and go find the dissertation or thesis through another avenue so all of those are great paths and there's it's wonderful that there's lots of different discovery paths for the ETD. And Janice we also put a link to the free PDF in our library catalog as well so did that answer your question? Yes I think so I just think that's great to know that if someone discovers it in ProQuest that they they have an avenue where they don't have to pay for it even though there's so many great services with showing up in ProQuest and the ease of getting it out there we don't want people to feel like they can't really find it and read the whole thing so thanks for clarifying that. Yes yes and ProQuest does have our own open access publishing option for an author that that is $95 as the author uses the ETD administrator if they want to publish open access through ProQuest and publish open access through their IR and that they want they're able to pay that $95 free ProQuest makes it available on our ProQuest.com website so anybody with an internet connection can find it through ProQuest or through the IR using our open access model. Do you have any statistics about how many people are actually selecting that option paying for open access open access in ProQuest versus just uploading that because they're required to for their school? Yes we do it's it's a low number it's all about five percent five or six percent that do the ProQuest open access publishing model and what we initially did that because there are a lot of universities that didn't have an institutional repository you know this was 10 years or so ago and so they wanted that option and yet even today when universities do have an institutional repository students pay that $95 because they say oh I really want the widest possible visibility and I'll do it through my IR and do it through ProQuest as well so it's very much kind of an individual decision that authors make. Yeah Janice to my knowledge on our campus we've only had one student who has opted for that and I kind of advise students not to do that because as long as they you know click the one button on the IR agreement form you know it will be open access in Mines at UW. Have you noticed that Melissa any other students doing the open access option in ProQuest? No I don't I haven't noticed I know there was that one but that was about it. I do have one other question oh Austin will you just post either in the chat where we would go to start creating a login or asking for a login to the ETD dashboard. I know it's been around for a while but I haven't used it and I have a new dean and I think there are others here who probably you know we haven't published that that's available and that was a great reminder to me that we ought to all go take a look at it you know share the education. Absolutely I'll post that right now I'll give you a post the email address to our customer service team that will be able to set you up with access to that. Hopefully that'll be helpful to all of us are there any other questions by anybody in the room feel free to turn on your video and mic and ask your question and see anybody I know we started with ETD administrator long time ago um and then our our publishing our bindaries in the in the state wherever we were sending them they sort of said we're not going to be in this business anymore we're not making money and we've always asked our doctoral students to submit to ProQuest but we had our own internal submission system and they always got confused they would go to ProQuest I think they were done it would like no you have to do internal too so a couple years ago we started the or last year we started the harvesting option and this so ProQuest comes and harvest all of our theses and dissertations and they're now discoverable in ProQuest and we don't have to require our doctoral students to submit to ProQuest anymore because they're going to end up there anyway which you know years ago we we made a gentleman's agreement that we would share our doctoral research with with the world through ProQuest or what what was your name how many years ago Austin UMI that well we might even be my yes that was quite a few years ago but but it's great Janice to know that the switch to harvesting has worked out so well and we're very happy to have all those master's theses to provide that added amplification and visibility it made it so smooth for us and our students only have one place they have to upload and we love that part great great and I think that's a good good thing to point out you know we we have multiple ways to be coming to the ProQuest stream e2d administrator harvesting so we really try to make it such that if you want to work with ProQuest we have a an easy way for you to do so your mic is something it's kind of choppy we couldn't quite understand that it's still a little bit choppy yeah i had a hard time translating that anybody else uh no it's it's still choppy maybe type your your comments in the chat luckily the gremlins didn't enter until after you did the presentation which is a very good thing right right um i mean maybe you could type your comments in the chat troi we have about five five six more minutes whatever you were trying to tell us you can put in the chat we can read it there or in the q and a either one and maybe maybe i could ask a question of molissa's about the e2d processes she went through the process pretty pretty much in detail has your e2d you know review changed much when you did the change from paper to electronic in terms of what you do within the e2d administrator uh no i think it's it's pretty much the same as what we were doing before um it i think it makes it a lot easier um in that area because the biggest thing was we would get um the thesis but not the signed warrant page and it's it works very easy just ask for an email with the pdf and i can slip it in there and i can upload it right away so that's that's been great so your university all of the approvals come through just the department and the committee and does your graduate office or your library do any formatting review or send them back for revisions we just kind of um assume that if it's gone through the review process with their department and and all that stuff that um it should be ready to go um we don't the library itself doesn't require much in formatting um that's another one of the big questions that we got but as long as we have a pdf that can be printed and bound that was really all that we required that in the signed warrant page and when you say a signed warrant page so this has an actual signature on it a paper format is scanned or um we right now where i think we're doing a lot of getting it signed through docuSign so that you can transmit it through the email um but before we had to have the the we had physical signatures on there from the the committee yeah and is that part of the etd that you upload or is it just allows you to upload it um i think the student can um upload that along they can upload it along with the pdf we like to have it in the pdf that gets bound um so i usually have to just edit the pdf and slip it in there but both of those will show up in the submission yeah and we talked about in the in the our preparation call i think you know making sure that they're not live signatures in the copy that goes to pro quest since we you know really discourage signatures and i know you are going to go back with Troy and talk about that to me to try to make sure that they're not live signatures in pro quest because of identity theft or things of that nature i don't do you have have you had talked any or thought anymore about that since we talked okay well we definitely don't want signatures so please please don't send them to us and we'll we're too savvy these days take your signature and plop it in somewhere so avoid that but um i do want to commend you guys for doing this quickly during the pandemic you know sort of resolving and doing something that was actually really helpful to everyone on your campus and i think you made a good choice going with progress i've used that etd administrator for many years and you know when we build our own in-house etd approval system i wanted some of those same functionality so um i think that's you know you've done a great job so kudos to you guys


Embracing technology is happening across the board, and it's helping everyone. There's a whole movement on what they call, and there's different terms for it, but universal design for learning, making sure environments are accessible for everyone, and it will help everyone.  So it's designed to help someone with a physical limitation to be able to get through that, or a curve cup, for example.  These are strategies and things are incorporated in our environment now that everyone just kind of expects. And we're seeing the same thing happen in education, in the workplace. Speech recognition, for example, is you calling on your phone to your bank and you check your bank account, you may use speech recognition. So it's embedded in all aspects of life right now. So what we're finding is that students are more accepting of it, and that's been great to see. I was diagnosed in the second grade with a learning disability, and it took many years for me to truly understand what that was all about.  The teachers were trying to help me out, my parents were trying to help me out. They were spending, my parents were spending just an amazing amount of time sitting around a dining room table helping me read. I talked funny, I read things the wrong way, and I wasn't a strong writer or a speller at all. So it took many years before technology really helped in order for me to truly grasp that I could learn like everyone else, that I wasn't stupid. And it took a while for my self-confidence to build up because I kept hearing that the yellow boy who rode the small buses and with other people who was around other people with disabilities, I didn't get why I was so different. So that was challenging for me.  And if it wasn't for the technology, that wouldn't have happened. I still struggle. Technology doesn't have a magic pill. It doesn't solve everything. But it does help me level the playing field. It does help me at the end of the day not be so tired and want out and achieve the things I want to achieve. And that's been a dream of mine. Assistive technology or learning tools, whichever way you want to call them, provides independence. So my goal throughout the day is to be independent. I want to make sure that I can do things and I don't have to rely on other people. So these technologies allow for that. It provides a freedom to hopefully succeed in school as well as to be involved in social environments such as knowing what's going on in current events, politics, religion, as well as from a work environment down the world as they transition to that. So technology is crucial in these students' lives. I think technology and how fast it's moving, specifically with speech recognition, is changing the way schools are handling their students across the board. And we are getting more of a universal design environment that helps everyone. We're still seeing a lot of the vendors out there that there's a standalone software that does some really great stuff. These are assistive technology vendors. But we're seeing that more and more embedded into these operating systems. So yeah, I think that over the next decade we're going to see some amazing things happening.


that situation there with Chris. He is that just a matter of a guy being overwhelmed by the moment. I mean I don't know that I mean you know he's in a similar situation last night and and you know really delivered so it's a tough situation for him to be in you know at times you know his issue is struggling with command. But I don't necessarily think it was necessarily a moment issue as as a just struggle a little bit tonight. You had Wilson warming there was there any consideration to just going with Wilson instead of Chris key to start just you know Willie for outs last night. You know consider I consider them to clean up an ending but you know not having much behind that even Willie was a little more emergency tonight. I must just this thing considering you guys had a few opportunities to win it had the lead for the majority of the game. Yeah. Absolutely. You know I another gut punch you know a lot of good things that went on tonight and you know an out of way there and you know they put together some really good at bats there in the 9th. So yeah it's certainly stings on a long night here and you know looking like you're going to get out of here with the first game of this series. But we also got to get over this and we've got a big weekend ahead of us. Is it a helpless feeling to watch that unfold the way it did with with Chris he's struggling so badly with command. Well I mean you're grinding right along with them and know that he has the swing and miss stuff to potentially get out of it.  So he's capable of when he's around the zone with his fastball split you know of you know stranding a runner at 3rd there and just hoping he could get through it. And the next can David off. And some accomplished relievers do struggle to make that give it to the 9th inning. I'm back in the mid David Robertson admitted to that. Do you see any that going on with Chad. Not not really. You know I think I think more with Chad is just you know and trying to protect them a little bit you know of some of his usage. You know we've we've leaned on them so heavily in the first half and at the back end of the first half with multi ending situations. So I have tried as best I could lately to you know pick some spots with them to have them down and so I actually thought he threw the ball really well tonight. I thought he was crisp. I just thought they put some really good swings on them. You know I like he I thought he was sharper tonight than say you know in Houston when he was struggling out there to find it a little bit. I didn't think that was the case tonight.  And just in general how tough is it. I know Chapman certainly should be back on the right track. But a lot of your relievers right now are scoffing and some are absent. You know just to navigate these games. Yeah. I mean part of that is you know you know when you have guys absent everyone kind of protects each other a little bit. And and that's why you got to lean on an entire bullpen to get big outs in different spots. And when you have a few key guys missing. You got to rely a little heavier and that's when when guys can become vulnerable. But you know we got to keep at it and keep grinding. We have the people down there certainly to close these things out.