Over the weekend there was a drone attack on an Iranian military facility, an interesting military facility, in that this military facility is right in the smack of the center of I think a big city in Iran, Isfahan. Isfahan I think has about two million people in it. It's a big city, right smack in the middle of the city is a military facility. It's a facility that supposedly is responsible for both research and development and building of missiles, missiles for the Iranian military. These are missiles that potentially could be targeted at Israel. Glenn, thank you, really appreciate the support. Could be, that's $100 from Glenn. It could be targeted at Israel, but these are some missiles that there is some talk about the fact that these missiles might be sold or given to the Russians with regard to the war in Ukraine. The attack is almost certainly was almost certainly the result of the Israelis, almost certainly this was an assault by the Israeli intelligence, I assume, the Mossad. It's interesting the drones that attacked this facility, the Iranians said they knocked them all down, but there was a large explosion in the middle of large explosion in the middle of what do you call it, Isfahan. So it appears that they achieved their target. These were done by quadcopters, these are drones with four of these, what do you call it, like a helicopter. There's no way, there's no way these drones could be launched from Israel and travel hundreds and hundreds of miles all the way to Isfahan. You could imagine they could be navigated by satellite, but it's hard to believe that they can go all the way propellers. Thank you, Rob. That's the word I was looking for, propellers. And it's, so these, nobody's talking about this, I mean, none of the stories I read, they talked about this, but these must have been likely launched in Iran by, you know, Israeli operatives in Iran or maybe from neighboring Iraq or somewhere neighboring, but almost certainly not all the way flown all the way from Israel. That would be, I think, impossible. So it is interesting, it's also true that this is not the first attack by drones on Iranian facilities, by what we believe is Israel. In August 2019, Israel sent an exploding quadcopter into the heart of a Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood in Beirut, Lebanon, and to destroy a machinery vital for the production of precision missiles. So they literally brought it into a room and blew it up. I mean, that's pretty cool. And that was in 2019. In June 2021, quadcopters exploded at one of Iran's main manufacturing centers for centrifuges, which purify uranium at the country's two major uranium enrichment facilities. A year ago, six quadcopters exploded in another Iranian manufacturing and storage plant for military drones. So they were already attacking the Iranian capacity to produce drones, although it seems like they're still producing huge numbers of drones that are primarily going at this point to Russia. And then in May 2022, a drone strike targeted a highly sensitive military site outside Tehran, where it is assumed Iran develops missiles, nuclear, and drone technology. So Israel has been using drones pretty regularly to attack sites and targets within Iran. I mean, this is pretty cool. Drone technology allows Israel to do this at relatively low risk. It doesn't involve flying jets into Iranian airspace, which is, again, hundreds and hundreds of miles away. You'd have to travel over Jordan, over Iraq, over Saudi Arabia in order to get there. It's been done. Israel, of course, bombed a nuclear facility outside of Baghdad, but Iran is even further than that. And they would have to fly in some kind of stealth mode to avoid detection. It would be a very, very complicated operation to fly actual airplane in drones, allow them to use, I guess, local agents or local special forces units in order to do all this stuff. And if you think about it from the perspective of special operations, when you think about it from the perspective of what is needed and the kind of intelligence that they have to have in order to launch this, it's pretty amazing. A lot of these installations remember are secret. A lot of these installations are not known. Generally, the Iranians don't advertise that the Israelis not only have the intelligence to know where these installations are and to know what exactly to attack, but they also have the intelligence and the resources and the personnel to actually be able to deploy within Iran and actually be able to destroy targets within Iran. All I can say is good for the Israelis in doing this. I think this is something the whole world benefits from. I think the Ukrainians must be happy, but mainly this is an act of self-defense of Israel, Israel defending itself. I mean, if you consider this plus all the attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, Israel is an ongoing, sustained nonstop war against the Iranians on Iranian soil on an any way Iran sends its troops, its military and its equipment. And this is a way to just degrade the Iranian capacity for significant, for war with Israel. So again, I think these are all pretty impressive from a military strategic intelligence perspective and pretty important from a self-defense perspective. Thank you for listening or watching The Iran Book Show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening. You get value from watching. Show your appreciation. 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Okay, love is just something that you feel.  I have hearing issues, so my boyfriend has had to live with that. I have to ask him, could you say that again 50 times in a conversation and not get upset or angry or frustrated? It's different for everyone, but for me specifically, it's, I don't get jealous. Really, yes, I like it. They love each other, okay? And nobody will understand that love is good for them. They don't know what love is. He's sharing his love with everybody. That's what he's saying. He's sharing his character love. Yeah, sharing his character. It makes you want to, I wouldn't necessarily say be a better person, but be a better person for them.  Is that love? Cover it on the bed and love to do the thing. Love is painful as well. What's your advice to like kids our age who haven't had children? That's, that's real life. You have already had children? Who haven't had children?  Really? And trusting, trusting and communication and senses in there too, but it's not the major thing. He's been helping J.K. every day for 30 years.


Putin's opponents expect to be hunted at home and abroad after election. Allies of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have suggested that Vladimir Putin could be vulnerable following his re-election, although dissidents expressed fear that repression of opponents could become even more brutal. According to iNews media outlet, the president returned to power with more than 87% of the vote in an election widely derided as a sham. Leonid Volkov, chief of staff at the Anti-Corruption Foundation, founded by Navalny, said that the inflated vote share for Putin would give him a false sense of confidence. Dictators, such as Romania's Nikolai Shalshescu, were deposed shortly after sweeping victories in compromised elections. Noted Mr. Volkov, who was recently assaulted outside his home in Lithuania in an attack he attributed to the Russian regime. Dictators with huge percentages often have a bad end, said Volkov in a video address. The greater the demonstration of people's love, the less love there is. Julia Navalny, Navalny's widow, issued a message calling on followers to keep fighting in the aftermath of the vote, urging them not to brush off work because it doesn't immediately lead to the results, but to have patience and move forward. Daniel Ken, head of the Teachers' Alliance Trade Union affiliated to the Navalny network, told that he took encouragement from the Noon Against Putin campaign, in which supporters converged on polling stations at noon on Sunday to vote for opposition candidates. About 200,000 people took part, and millions more saw the action on TV, he claimed. We will try to come up with new original ideas, said Ken. Paris, preparing to deploy troops to Ukraine, battle of Russian and French soldiers expected there. France is preparing its forces for deployment to Ukraine, the head of Russia's foreign intelligence, service Sergei Naryshkin, claimed in a statement. Paris, allegedly, seeks to send as many as 2,000 troops to Ukraine, he said. French President Emmanuel Macron said last month that he cannot exclude the possibility of Western soldiers being sent to aid Kiev in its fight against Moscow, branding Russia an adversary while denying Paris was waging war against it. Russia's military and top officials have repeatedly pointed to the presence of French mercenaries already fighting for Kiev on the ground. In mid-January, the Russian Defence Ministry said that more than 60 foreigners, predominantly French, nationals had been killed in a high precision strike against a temporary assembly point of foreign fighters. In the statement, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service chief said the French armed forces had become concerned about the rising number of French nationals dying in Ukraine. According to the spy chief, the French military is worried about the government's plans to send the contingent to Ukraine, considering that such an operation would be difficult to conduct without Russia noticing. The French soldiers would indeed become a legitimate priority target for attacks by the Russian armed forces. The claims come as the chief of staff of the French Army, General Pierre Schill, said in an interview that France is prepared to take part in the toughest engagements militarily and is ready to face any international developments. He added that Paris could assemble a division of 20,000 troops within 30 days and an army of 60,000 by joining with divisions from other NATO allies. Schill said France has international responsibilities and is linked by defence agreements to states exposed to major threats and must therefore have its forces trained and interoperable with allied armies. He added that nuclear deterrence is not a universal guarantee because it does not guard against conflicts that would remain below the threshold of vital interests. Schill said that the army must show itself a credible force through responsiveness in terms of force projection and the ability to carry out operations of increased scope. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also claimed that Western mercenaries, including French nationals, are dying in Ukraine in large numbers. Commenting on a potential NATO deployment to Ukraine, the President also warned that this would be one step shy of a full-scale World War III.


I don't think that we should assume there'll be a post-COVID-19 era any more than there's a post-influenza era, or for that matter a post tuberculosis era, or a post-AIDS era. Welcome to World Versus Virus, a podcast from the World Economic Forum that aims to make sense of the COVID-19 outbreak. This week, historian, Nyle Ferguson. Historians are more alert to these disasters because we spend a lot of our time studying disasters. Nyle Ferguson challenges our assumptions on how and even if we'll beat the virus, and how fast we'll be able to rebuild the global economy. You get these wonderful V-shaped projections suggesting we'll be sort of back where we were at some point in 2021. And if you believe that, I'll sell you a bridge later in this interview. Also, still in lockdown, looking for a good read, award-winning Green Business consultant Tariq Al-Olaimi has three book recommendations. For me, reading this book is like taking a walk in a forest. This is really a wonderful book to guide as a compass, but also how we connect to the wider natural world. Welcome to World Versus Virus on Apple, SoundCloud, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Robin Pomeroy, and this is World Versus Virus. I'm joined by my colleague Charlotte Biel, who's in London. Hi Charlotte, how are you? Hi Robin, I'm well. Thank you. How are you? Not bad. Thanks. So, you interviewed this week's guest, Nyle Ferguson. Who is he? And why did you want to interview him for this podcast? Nyle Ferguson's an economic historian. He's currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford. I was very curious to talk to him. He has been writing about coronavirus since, well, since we were all at the annual meeting in Davos in January. And he said, look, we're all talking about climate change here, but we need to brace ourselves for a coronavirus pandemic. And he followed it through February as it grew and grew. And I really wanted to find out what he thought about how it had all unfolded. This is Nyle Ferguson talking about the historian's eye view of this kind of thing. I think historians are more alert to these disasters because we spend a lot of our time studying disasters. And this was a very interesting illustration of the point that if you've read a lot of history, you are kind of sensitized to that sort of risk. And the red flag was very visible to me, even as other people, including at the World Economic Forum back in January, were focused on climate change. I take the issue of climate change seriously, but it is a relatively medium-term threat compared with the pandemic, which was bearing down on us at high speed when we were meeting in Davos back in January. So he's an economic historian. What did he say about the economic impact of the pandemic? He pulled no punches about the economic repercussions and pointed out that they could be a lot longer lasting than many of the reports that are being put out at the moment. We are now in the biggest economic shock since the Great Depression, and it's moving faster than the Depression because it took actually years to get to that kind of unemployment rate in the early 1930s. We're getting there in weeks. So this is like a high-speed depression. And the big question is, can we get out of it equally quickly? Now, if you look at the kind of forecasts that investment banks produce and indeed governments, you get these wonderful V-shaped projections suggesting the Bank of England did this, for example, that we'll be sort of back to where we were right at the end of 2019, at some point in 2021. And if you'll believe that, I'll sell you a bridge later in this interview because there's no way that this is going to be a V-shaped recovery. Even the much smaller financial crisis of 2008-2009 was followed by a pretty slow recovery. If you remember, people used to worry about secular stagnation. It took six years for unemployment to get back to where it had been prior to the 2008 crisis. And I'm afraid the idea that we're just going to merrily go back to where we were in a matter of months is entirely at odds with economic history. A shock like this can inflict a very, very sharp decrease in economic activity, but you will not get an equally sharp recovery. That's a pretty clear lesson of history. So there are two things that I think one has to take away from the economic history and the history of pandemics. One, pandemics take a while. You know, typically two years. There's usually more than one wave. Sometimes you get three like in 1918-19. And a lot depends on whether you get to a vaccine in that two-year time frame. There's no certainty that we will, although I think the chances are better than probably at any time in history because of the sheer number of projects to find a vaccine right now. The second point is that any economic shock of this sort takes time to recover from. And although fiscal and monetary policy are being used on an impressive scale. In fact, on a scale we haven't seen since World War Two, pandemics not a war. In a war, you employ a lot of people, mostly men, to go and fight. And then you employ a lot of people, including women, to make things they can fight with. But that's not what pandemics are like. There's no great production stimulus. We already passed the point at which the world is short of ventilators. Even if ventilators were useful, which is itself not clear. So it's much more of a deflationary shock, a pandemic, than a war, because there isn't this offsetting demand for labor and resources that you used to get in the 20th century in time of war. These shapes have become a sort of game, really, a sort of parlor game for economists. So I just say, imagine the tortoise-shaped recovery where you start up here on the shell and you go down to the point at which the neck connects with the body. And then you go up, but the head where you finally get to is quite a way below where the shell was. So I do think that there's a need to recognise how difficult it will be to get the world back to where it was at the end of 2019. Now we're in a much different place. And remember, it's not clear that normal service can ever be resumed in air travel, in tourism, in entertainment. As long as there isn't a vaccine or a very effective therapy, those activities that essentially were predicated on gregariousness on people being in quite close proximity to one another can't recover. You can tell people the lockdown's over, back to work. They've already done that in China some time ago. But you can't tell them go out shopping, go to the movies. They're not going to do that because people are rational. Up to a certain point, they adjust their behaviour and they really try to avoid getting into situations that would likely cause disease spread to resume. And as the world cautiously returns to work, what will it mean for globalisation? Niall Ferguson has been saying for a while that we have already reached peak globalisation, that we are on the downward trajectory and that the populist governments that we have seen in the West in recent years are a symptom of this. However, he's clear that it's because we are so globalised and that global networks are so entrenched that the pandemic has been able to take such a hold. Globalisation was in retreat already. And I'd been arguing for some time that high, high globalisation, peak globalisation was probably 2006, 2007. Financial crisis dealt a blow. Then there was a political backlash that produced populist governments like Donald Trump's. And protectionism was suddenly back on the agenda. All this has been playing out for more than 10 years. But the pandemic's a real shock, a real setback for globalisation, because it exposed something that I've been arguing about for a while and most recently in my book, The Square and the Tower. If you build a highly integrated global network, if you really integrate all the sort of markets in the world, then you are actually vulnerable because highly integrated networks are just great at spreading things like viruses. In the same way that highly integrated online networks can spread fake news and malware, computer viruses, a transport network like the one we had built by the end of 2019 was sort of perfectly designed to make sure that a virus like SARS-CoV-2 could get to global, could spread to pretty much every country in the world in an amazingly short space of time. So we can't in fact go back to the world of 2019 in a number of respects. First, I don't think that we should assume there'll be a post virus post COVID-19 era any more than there's a post influenza era, or for that matter, a post tuberculosis era or a post AIDS era. There are a whole bunch of diseases that we simply learn to live with as a species because we can't actually eradicate them and we can't successfully vaccinate against them. So I think it's better at this point just to imagine a world with COVID-19 rather than a world after it. Now, in that scenario, I think a couple of things are really clear. First of all, bigger isn't always better. The countries that have handled this crisis the best are not the big ones. The big guys have really underperformed. The winners, if you want to use that terminology have included really quite small countries like Taiwan, South Korea, which did a pretty good job, Israel, New Zealand. So small is beautiful in a pandemic. There are disconomies of scale. If you're very large, you've got a very large border, you've got a whole lot of things to handle. It's hard actually to keep a virus out of a country like the United States. You can't exactly shut the state border. I mean, even if we wanted to here in Montana, we couldn't actually just shut out traffic from, say, New York, where the disease has done the most damage. So I think that's point one. Point two, Cold War two, which I have been talking about for more than a year between the United States and China is very clearly a reality. And if you doubted it last year, when I first started talking about it, it's surely very obvious that the relationship between the United States and China is very badly damaged.  There's been a war of words. I certainly look back on the endless conversations about trade deals last year with a certain amount of amusement, because at this point, the whole issue of trade has, in a sense, receded, because we're now much more focused not only on this info war, but also on a whole bunch of technology war issues that I think are really more important than the trade war. So I would say that's really the key takeaway right now. Cold War two is a reality. He's a self-confessed doom monger. Does he see any benefits from the lockdown as some people do that we might come out of this better people? He was clear that the lockdown and the pandemic are going to leave a lot of people a lot poorer. However, for the people who do have somewhere safe and comfortable to be, and especially for people who like being at home, like books, like a more solitary life, the way that life has slowed down over the last few months and is going to stay socially distanced could be a positive change of life. But most people do like socialising, do like going out for those people. The next few months, the year ahead is going to be challenging. Well, I certainly that we will not go back to travelling around as much as we did for meetings and people that kind of adjusting to having conversations on platforms like like zoom. I think that's that's a good thing for a whole variety of reasons. I won't say the obvious one, namely that if we fly less often, we'll shrink our carbon footprint more generally. I have never been somebody who liked parties or crowded bars. I was always somebody who liked to live in a relatively isolated spot. So from my vantage point, the world's going my way and all the things I used to hate about the world like flying far too frequently and having to go to conferences, all this is going to be rather satisfyingly diminished. I wrote a piece this past weekend saying to learn how we'll change our behaviour socially, ask how we changed our behaviour sexually after the discovery of HIV AIDS. And I think the answer is we'll change a bit, but not entirely. Because in fact, even when it was clear that HIV AIDS was lethal and before there was any kind of effective therapy, people didn't wholly change their behaviour. They continue to have unsafe sex. I think we'll continue to have unsafe socialising, even when this virus is threatening our lives, because that's how humans are. We're not terribly good at radical adaptation of our behaviour. But my own personal response is to say hurrah, I can spend much more time with my wife and children than I used to travel much less, live in a more secluded way. For me, that's a clear win. The trouble is, I think that for the majority of people who are much more sociable than me and don't have the option to live in a remote part of Montana, this is not good news. And I think most people will find a permanently socially distanced world rather a miserable, depressing world, even as I'm enjoying it. And that was Niall Ferguson, a historian who's enjoying being locked down and away from people. My thanks to Charlotte Beall. Thanks Charlotte. Thank you. I'm joined now by Linda Lasina in New York. Hi Linda, how are you? Hi Robin, how are you? Yeah, not bad, thanks. So this week you went out in search of reading recommendations and you spoke to someone who recommended three books we should all be reading in a time of Covid-19.  I spoke to Tariq Alamey of Three BL Associates and that's a think-do tank that focuses on climate issues and changing how businesses conducted. He has been recognized by a number of organizations for breaking ground on sustainability innovation. He was named a climate trailblazer by the Global Climate Action Institute. He's also a member of our global shapers community. He's an all-around thoughtful guy and a fine person to go to for a book recommendation. And so we thought we would talk to him. My first pick is made for goodness by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The Archbishop tells these incredible stories of how they approach the HIV AIDS crisis as well in South Africa and what it meant to really take up this mantle, acting from that place of goodness, that place of trust, even when all of the surroundings around us would probably tell us not to.  I know that this podcast has spoken to some of the many psychological effects of the crisis. I think connected to that is really testing the trust between citizens, between our communities, between friends and colleagues, between us and our governments. And this is a remembrance for me of believing in the goodness of human beings, but also really having a response that is really rooted in love and thanksgiving, but also centered around justice. Tell me a little bit about your second choice. The hidden life of trees by a forestry by the name of Peter Ulleben. There's these incredible facts and ideas and just wondrous statistics that are laid in each and every single page. It tells this fact that there are more life forms and handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet. Under the mere sort of teaspoons full contains many, many miles of fungal filaments that all these work to to really nourish and transform the soil. That when we start to think about this moment that we find ourselves in, of biodiversity loss and destruction of nature, and where viruses like COVID-19 are so deeply interlinked, and we're really trying to step up nature conservation and enter into the UN decade of ecosystem restoration. And it's a way for you to cultivate bi-empathy. So we talk about empathy with human beings, but I think when we talk about empathy of nature, this is really a wonderful book to to guide as a compass both for restoration efforts but also how we connect to the wider natural world. For me, reading this book is like taking a walk in a forest with the trees whispering, its secrets for how we can best work. And your third pick, why don't you tell us a little bit about that and why it's so important? So the third book is Emergent Strategy by incredible author and activist Adrienne Marie Brown. It is science fiction combined with Black liberation theory and really a manual for how you can enter into a meeting and run it with your organization according to the principles of nature. There is this wonderful line about the art of flocking. The art of flocking is staying separate enough not to crowd each other, aligned enough to maintain a shared direction, and cohesive enough to always move towards each other and build together. And I think that's a beautiful metaphor for how we should look at maybe social distancing and really embracing what it means to to not social distance but really to embrace the art of the flock. Tariq Alolemi was speaking to Linda Lassina. You can find all of our coverage of COVID-19 at weform.org and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube and on Twitter using the handle at wef. Please subscribe to receive the podcast every week. Just search World vs Virus on Apple, SoundCloud, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to Gareth Nolan for help with this week's podcast. We'll be back next week with a slightly new look format. Until then, goodbye.


Hey, John here, affiliate marketer. And I'm going to be going over in this video, how to get started with affiliate marketing. Now, I've been doing affiliate marketing for over 10 years now. But I'm going to do this video relevant to today, right now in 2020, how to get started. So let's get it. Now, the first step to get started in affiliate marketing is join an affiliate network and get yourself an affiliate manager. Of course, you can just Google affiliate network and you'll find millions of results. Most affiliate networks are free to join and I've provided a helpful link down in the description of this video where you can join many of the most popular affiliate networks for free. Now, affiliate networks give you what are called offers to promote where you have to do way less work. You can promote existing products and earn a commission from them. All you have to worry about doing is sending traffic or getting clicks on the internet instead of all the other complicated parts of running a business. You don't have to worry about creating a product. You don't have to worry about shipping the product. You don't have to worry about warehousing the product. You don't have to worry about patents or legal disclosures. You don't have to worry about support tickets. You don't have to worry about merchant processing and all the other complicated parts of running a business, right? Also, when you join an affiliate network, you get access to a wide variety of products so that you can test marketing different things if you'd like and you get an affiliate manager with many affiliate networks or somebody that you can ask whose job it is to help you make money. Now, a few things that you can ask an affiliate manager that are helpful or what offers are hot right now, which means what offers are the most popular and selling the most with traffic and also ask your affiliate managers what's traffic sources are working right now. They'll say Facebook ads or YouTube ads or Google, SEO, whatever. Affiliate managers are also able to help you get approved for offers or the promotion of existing products that maybe you don't have access to and they can give you tips on how to run traffic to them or what you should be doing. This is much easier than trying to figure things out on your own. The second thing to get started in affiliate marketing right now today is link up. Have your affiliate managers link you up with the top converting offers. Affiliate networks usually email out the top converting offers every single week. It's one of the reasons I suggest you subscribe to a lot of different affiliate networks. You can organize these emails. What I do is organize these emails in a specific folder in my email inbox and I check them up every so often to figure out what trends are going on. A lot of masks, a lot of COVID related materials, a lot of sanitation related offers are very hot right now. These always change. This allows you to stay on top of what trends are happening. You also won't have to guess what's working right now because you'll just know. You'll just be able to look through your emails and see what the top offers are across a wide variety of networks. You can even ask what type of traffic is working best and start there. You can also ask what offers are working best for your preferred traffic source. Maybe you don't like Facebook. Maybe you want to do TikTok ads. Well, you can probably get an idea from some of your affiliate networks, your affiliate managers that will tell you what offers are working best on TikTok traffic. And lastly, the third step to get started with affiliate marketer as a beginner is you want to master one, only one, traffic technique and one paid traffic technique. Now it's good to start off with one free traffic strategy and one paid traffic strategy. You can invest time into the first strategy if you don't have lots of money. And then when you make more money, you can invest money into the paid traffic strategy. Now you have twice as many strategies working for you right away. And whenever you have more time, you put it into the one traffic strategy. Whenever you have more money, you put it into the other traffic strategy. When you have a lot of money, you can even pay other people and outsource that strategy or the work to them. Or you could take your money and invest it all in the paid traffic strategy and scale that up even faster. Now if you're doing a free traffic strategy like YouTube, for instance, which is my free traffic strategy, then you'll definitely want to invest money into a remarketing list, right?  You know them best and you know what products to sell to them. And this way you're combining a highly targeted audience, which already knows you, with paid advertising and pixeled members so that you can sell more products to them. The combination of these two strategies will really set you up to win in the long term. I highly suggest it. In my case, you know my free traffic strategy, which is YouTube. And my paid traffic strategy, I've talked about it a lot, is Google ads. I recently transitioned to TV ads. So now I'm doing TV and Google ads. I've spent a lot of time on marketing. I've been doing this for many years. Now I have three traffic strategies really that I go after. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to focus and building skills and being able to always have something to do. So just keep doing it. Best of luck and make sure to subscribe to my channel if you want to learn more about affiliate marketing. Check out my other videos. I have a lot of free traffic strategy videos. And join our community. We have a Discord channel where you can join the community and chat with other people that are starting online businesses. And if you just want to chat with me casually, make sure to follow me on Twitch. So I have a link to Twitch down below. I do semi-regular streams on Twitch. I play a lot of different video games after my kids are in bed. I don't mind chatting casually there, but don't expect too much. But if you just want casual talk with me, that's going to be the way to do it. Thanks for watching. Have a good day. Bye.


Today I want to give you guys a little bit of a better understanding of our process which underlies the recommendations that we make for programs like sailors. So see if I can move on to the next slide. There we go. So our process has been recognized by the Council on Higher Education accreditation. We'd encourage you to check out the joint statement on the transfer and award of credit. That was put out by CHEA and ACRO and the American Council on Education, really to try and encourage organizations to feel comfortable using credit for prior learning to help their students succeed. It's a process, as I said, that sort of serves as an industry standard and all of our participating organizations from the College Board and their AP and CLEP exams, DSST, to folks like sailor organizations like Google and Walt Disney and all of these folks go through the same process with the same rigorous standards. So we start off with what we call an eligibility check, and this is really where, before we engage subject matter experts, our staff go in and make sure that these programs are structured in a way that is going to allow a successful evaluation. We check expectations such as the learning outcomes that they are able to explain to us. Do they have appropriate assessments? How are their courses structured? They're grading standards. We look at the actual learning experience and environment that the student learning is taking place in, and check those sorts of basic requirements. Things like the qualifications of their instructors are a big one, make sure that classes are being taught by folks who are qualified to teach them, student record management and security processes, all that kind of thing. But really the meat of the review is not conducted by ACE staff. We rely on subject matter expert faculty from accredited colleges and universities that we recruit to participate on evaluations with us. So that next step is to put together a faculty team based on the subject areas that are involved in the course. So we make sure that we have at least two faculty per subject area, and some courses may encompass multiple subject areas, particularly we see this in the military, where we have some learning experiences that are counted as a single course, but they involve thousands of hours of training that these learners go through, and they can encompass multiple subject areas. So some of these reviews have very large faculty teams that we assemble. Those faculty must be currently teaching and have at least five years of experience teaching in that subject area at an accredited college or university. And we do our best to make sure that in our recruitment of faculty, we pull from all different accrediting regions because we don't want our process to sort of accidentally end up reflecting the preferences of a particular regional accreditor. We want to make sure that it's applicable across the board. Nationally. And for those faculty, we provide them with some guidance, some tools, rubrics, tools like I mentioned, Bloom's Taxonomy to make sure that they all are sort of normed with our expectations and standards. But we really rely on those experts to let us know to keep our process current, right, to really reflect their expertise in the field. And what they know is current expectations for that particular discipline in the field so that our recommendations always reflect current expectations in that field of study. So we really do want that feedback from them. If they say, Hey, okay, you know, this course matches up with what you'll see In colleges right now, but we know, for instance, that conversations are moving in this direction, you know, and a few years when these folks go up for re review. We want to make sure that they're ready to evolve with the field so that we make sure that we're always staying current as much as we possibly can. During the actual evaluation, those experts then go through and review everything about that course that we can get our hands on they evaluate the the syllabi, the sort of schedule assignments, those learning outcomes. Assessments we put a particular emphasis on again because we are often evaluating learning experiences that happen in nontraditional contexts, you know, they might be learning while they're on the job in some fashion and doing formal training that's interspersed with things. We want to make sure that at the end of the day, we're checking that each of those learning outcomes is assessed at an appropriate level of complexity and rigor for the sort of level of sophistication of the learning outcomes that they've associated with the course. And so it's really about that scope, that depth, that rigor that we ask them to look at and to think also about that college equivalence. So if there is a sort of standard expectation for an introductory level course in a particular discipline, we want those faculty members to compare the learning that happens in the program they're evaluating with those expectations so that we can make sure that they really line up. And at the conclusion of the review we issue a final report. The reviewers must reach consensus on what the credit recommendation will be and it takes the form of a number of semester hours at a particular educational level. Lower division, upper division, graduate. We also sometimes issue recommendations at the vocational or certificate level and in a particular subject area. It is possible going through a review that no credit is awarded if the course is not structured in a way that that allows them to really ensure that that learning is documented and that any student who passes it has indeed met the learning outcomes. We might issue no credit recommendation. We do try to catch those kinds of things during the eligibility visit. We also might find that there's the potential for a significant and meaningful level of learning but there are some key aspects of the course missing. Say a particular learning outcome that's important to the course but they say there's an assessment and it didn't show up in the review. We can issue a conditional recommendation and give them a chance to fix that before it's published. Nothing gets published until all of the appropriate aspects of the course are available and implemented in the course itself. And at that point we publish to the National Guide. So if you guys are familiar with our credit recommendations you've hopefully checked out the National Guide before. Within the next month or so you will see a new and revised National Guide that we're very excited about. It's going to have a little bit additional functionality, some better search options for schools that are receiving transcripts and needing to look up courses and match them with your curricula. And we'll also be able to add some supplemental material in there as well as our organizations are interested in doing that. And at that point those organizations also have transcripts available to their students. So in addition to conducting the recommendations, ACE does the credentialing around those experiences to make sure that the students have a portable way to explain and showcase what they know and the work that they've done to a college that they want to go to.


In this training video we're going to look at adding cost for a cost resource. So for task 5, a consultant has been added for the design of the job packs, but if we go look at the resource sheet view, the consultant has no cost against the cost resource, so there's no cost being put in against this consultant. Now this is when project views become quite important within Microsoft Project, so there's no way I can get cost put against this consultant, and that's going to be the same for any cost type of resource, but I can do it not through resource sheet view, but through another view. So here's the consultant, no cost, and I'm just going to go to the cost table first, so I'm going to go back to the Gantt chart, and I'm just going to review the cost table against the table's cost. So right now we can see, under advertising, there's a 1,640 cost for the total of advertising, and at the moment, design job packs has a £720 cost, which is against the HR manager present, and that's against the rate applied to the HR manager. Well let's say the consultant charges just £1,500 for helping with the design of the job packs, so that's going to hugely increase advertising, but it's also going to hugely increase the cost of the design job packs. So this is what we're about to do now by adding cost for the cost resource, which is a consultant in this example. So I'm going to change the table view back to entry. Now to do this, we change views, I like to change views to the task tab, to task usage, so it's the usage of the task. So it's, I'm going to go to task usage, now for the design job pack, which is this task here, here's the consultant, but I can now assign a cost to this consultant in task usage view, and I can double click, and here I can add a cost. So here's the cost I'm going to put in, £1,500 the charges, click OK, and if I go back and change my views, go to Gantt chart view, first I can now see a cost against the consultant. So when you add a cost resource, the cost goes on the Gantt chart against that cost resource. So I can see the consultant cost us £1,500 in this example, but if I go back to the table view now, for cost table, I can now clearly see that the design job packs has increased hugely from the £720, and the advertising has changed, and that has also affected the total cost. So this is how you can manage cost resources, and add in cost for a cost resource through task usage view, and change the table back, but we can now see that the consultant has a cost, and this couldn't have been put in through the resource sheet view, which is a standard opening cost, so we can still see there's no cost showing against the consultant. So this is when project gets important to know some of the views. So a cost resource now, I added the cost to the cost resource, and I'll go to task usage view, and then if I double click the consultant, there's the £1,500 I put in. If I say for example, if this was incorrect, then it was £2,500, quickly updated, £2,500, client chart shows the update, cost table will show the impact on cost, and there we go, it's updated itself again. So this now completes the training video on using cost resources, but also being able to add cost for a cost resource using the task usage view. If you enjoyed this video, make sure you like and subscribe to our channel. Hope to see you for the next tutorial, and thanks for watching.


Hey what's up you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here hi hello I'm Lydia and if you are new here make sure you hit the subscribe button to join the growing family aiming to meet 6.5k and when I do I'm doing a giveaway so that's your motivation to hit the subscribe button. So today I thought we could talk about the differences between private healthcare and NHS treatment in the community. I've done a video like this where I compared psychiatric inpatient where I compared private to public, private was obviously the best. So we'll start off with the NHS. NHS has long waiting times nearly impossible to get in touch with anybody you don't get believed, you get told your attention's leaking, try and get drugs and honestly it's just not fair how I treated on the NHS. When I was, how old was I? I think I was 18, 20. When I was 20 I decided to take out private healthcare insurance, the government's a little less and I used that to get private therapy. Now there was no waiting list and got seen straight away. I was trying out for EMDR therapy and to put it bluntly I was not ready for it emotionally I just couldn't deal with it and that led to a massive decline in my mental health. I got hospitalised under NHS but I will say the lack of waiting times helped a lot. On the NHS you're looking at two to five years on a waiting list which is outrageous. When I was private I literally called someone said hey do you only wear your birthing and he said next day I'm not going to go and tell them to cast because it costs a lot of money and I was working at the time so I could afford to do it because I had student finance to live on. I used my wages to get private therapy. I had a private psychiatrist as well. Another private psychiatrist was trying to get me off of the medication and thank you to him because I was on a lot. I was on two antipsychotics, mood stabiliser, three antidepressants, clonazapam, lorazapam. I was on top of the clone and yeah I was just medicated a lot by the NHS. And my psychiatrist, the private psychiatrist like I addressed, took me off most of them. He had to be a good one antipsychotic, no mood stabiliser, one antidepressant, clonazapam, lorazapam, prn and Zopi Kerwin who did very much so to reduce my medication and I'm grateful for that because that was the time I was over medicated and I genuinely think the NHS just over meditates people who they don't want to deal with. Bam, I'm tired. I didn't even go to uni today. I felt ill.  Note to self, stop spinning around on chair. Private healthcare was worth it for me. The only downside is I did have to pay for the therapy course or EMDR even though I wasn't completing it because I couldn't do it. I wasn't stable enough to do it and I have no problem with doing that. I was unstable. I was struggling. A lot of you can probably remember when I lived in Wembley. That's quite six, five years ago now. I've lived in London for five years. Let's close the door. Let's never let the two months live in Brighton. I lived in Brighton for two weeks before I was sectioned. Would I go back to private treatment? Honestly, yes, I would. I think it's brilliant and I am considering taking out private health insurance that covers mental health because that's the cheapest way to do it. But yeah, that's all I've got for this video. Thank you for watching and if you're new, subscribe. Peace.


The Ford V8 motor is a beautiful piece of machinery. In mechanics, beauty means simplicity. Here skilled workers repeatedly disassemble and assemble a standard Ford motor to demonstrate its qualities of simplicity and accessibility. The average time required for them to completely assemble the V8 motor is less than 10 minutes. During this demonstration, many of the exclusive features of Ford V8 design become apparent. Spectators gain a better understanding of its remarkable performance, its records of long service. Simplicity of Ford V8 design is strikingly demonstrated by the fact that a Ford V8 motor can be and is assembled before your very eyes in less than 10 minutes. And of the Ford industrial world is depicted on this huge relief map. Aluminum cylinder heads are standard equipment on the 1934 Ford V8 passenger car engine. The story of aluminum, too, is told at the exposition. The molten metal is poured into a mold to emerge in the form of a V8 cylinder head. An escalator provides an easy approach to the balcony in the Ford exposition building. Hexagon headed bolts of uniform size and accuracy are produced from cold steel by a battery of automatic machines working with great rapidity. Even spark plug insulators for the Ford be early tested. If they can be lifted from a packing of dry ice more than 100 degrees below zero and suddenly thrust into a hot flame without breaking, they prove their ability to withstand punishment in actual use. Utilization of byproducts helps in quality manufacture. A Ford V8 contains more than 15,000 separate parts. Each of these, large and small, is displayed in this interesting exhibit. Self-starter generated, storage battery, and horn. The Ford exposition includes an air conditioned theater and a motion picture with special symphonic music tells the fascinating story of the Ford Rouge plant. Hereby, the latest Ford and Lincoln models are on display. Part of the Ford exposition is the humble shop where 40 years ago Henry Ford, then a young unknown inventor, worked in planned and dreamed high dreams. There he built his first automobile. There, too, he conceived the theories of low-cost quantity production which have made his industrial organization the largest in the world under the control of one man. The vast improvement in machine shop equipment through the past century is vividly depicted by an early machine shop. In contrast, it's modern equipment which tests Ford parts with an accuracy of expressed in millions of an inch. With one foot on the land and one in industry, America is saved, says Henry Ford. At his exposition, it may be processed for industrial purposes. An extensive display of early traction engines stands in front of the Ford barn. The barn contains machinery which converts soybeans into the parts used in Ford cars. Mr. Ford has long predicted a closer and mutually profitable union between farm and industry. This Ford part was made from soybeans processed in the industrialized barn. Ford cars are placed at the disposal of guests or a trip around the oval, which contains sections of many famous roads of the world. Henry Ford has said that the auto-made roads and roads make commerce and civilization. In the short space of a comfortable four-minute ride, these visitors are carried back through a period of 4,000 years to road which knew the path of the Roman legions, the yellow hordes of Genghis Khan, the marquis and feet of Daniel Boone and his Indian friends. They see bones of men and beasts as they rot beneath the fierce rays of the sun, beating down upon the great slave route across Africa. Here also are sections of roads from Germany, Belgium, Canada, Southern Africa, Asia, England, and many of the more modern types built in America today. Military roads, roads built exclusively for royalty, roads for slaves, all are there in this significant exhibit. Once more nightfall overtakes us. We end our day at the Ford Exposition by joining the fronds who sit by light in the amphitheater where the Detroit Symphony plays daily, but the home of machinery and the throb of busy activity from the greatest of all industrial plants. Here, we have been able to sense something of its high purpose and its vast significance. The Ford Exposition is at once the fulfillment of the promise and the realization of a dream. It is an indication of the future, a reassuring prophecy of another century of progress.


Hey guys, welcome to this episode of Rotor Riot. I'm Alex Vanover. And I'm Ledreb, and today we want to share with you guys five tips for FPV drone safety. And not just, you know, this isn't obviously all the tips, but we think these are the five most important tips for drone safety to prevent accidents from happening. Yeah. A lot of these were suggested by a poll that we put up in our Rotor Riot Facebook group. So big thanks to the community for helping us pick out what are some of the most important tips to share with everyone on YouTube. Tip number one, remove your props when working on your drone. This was actually something that was like covered in one of the first ever Rotor Riot episodes. Calibrating the issues. Every time I do it, I remove the props. But there's that day that you go like, nah, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm chirping. Go soft the ground. And I just remember going like this. So we start kicking it. Literally kicking it. We were killing an animal at that point. Still so, so important. And a lot of people still have not learned their lessons about removing their props. And it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. So just remove your props because especially when you're plugging quads into configurators or messing around with your settings, motors can just randomly start, man. Even if your quad is just plugged in like this, it's very easy to accidentally flip an arm switch and your quad is in air mode. And that can really mess up your fingers. So if you're working on a quad, please, please, please take your props. Don't just loosen the props, take them all the way off because props can do serious damage to your hands.  We actually have a rule and it's called the one-plug rule. And that is if you have props on your quad, you get to plug in one thing. You can plug in your battery because you're about to fly it in a safe manner, or you can plug in your USB because you need to change something on the configurator. You should never, when your props are on your drone, plug in both USB and your battery. Even if you're using a smoke stopper, which theoretically stopped this from happening, don't do it, just don't do it. Why don't you risk it? We've just seen it too many times, broken computer screens, quads going into the ceiling and worst of all, chopped up skin. So yeah, bottom line guys is remove your props, do it for your own personal safety and that are the things around you. You're never gonna regret it. It's an extra 30 seconds that can really help out. Don't do the thing where you just loosen them up too. Cause I've heard that before, be like, oh yeah, I'll just loosen them because that, no, no, no, take them off the shaft. I know it's kind of a pain, but it's worth it. Alex, what's tip number two? Well, tip number two is one that's very, very near and dear to my heart, which is never leave Lipo's unattended on a charger. Bad things can happen. I'll give a quick backstory. I was putting energy into these lithium pads. Well, I mean, but obviously what can happen?  For example, if you are charging a race, may or may not be overcharging, you're in your goggles and then all of a sudden your battery catches on fire in the pit area and nearly sets, actually sets two bags on fire. The point is guys, never, never leave your- All these tips, by the way, are things that we're not saying that we've always done right. We've learned from our mistakes. We wanna make sure that you guys can learn from our mistakes. And never make any mistakes. There's a few reasons why you never wanna leave your batteries unattended. First off, batteries can heat up. You're reversing the flow of electrons into batteries and batteries do not like that. Don't even walk out of the room for a split second because things can happen really, really fast. So what are you looking for? So we always say, don't charge batteries unattended, but how do you attend to them? What do you check for? Well, I'm checking for two things. Number one, I'm checking to make sure the batteries are not getting hot. If your batteries are getting hot on a charger, that's probably not good. That probably means you're pushing way too many amps in them. Typically, we like to charge it what's called one C. That's one capacity rating of your battery. So for example, on a 1300 milliamp hour battery, to calculate one C, move the decimal point three places and that would give you 1.3 amps. That's the safest charge rate. That's the safest. If you're starting to charge it like five C or even three C, that's one of the batteries. I know some of the batteries say they're rated for it, but we really recommend the safest is one C. And if you're going to do that guys, be sure you're attending them. I'm checking my batteries every five to minutes. Usually I'm charging behind me and I'm usually working on a drone. So I'm always kind of looking behind me every few minutes. And be in the same room. I'll admit there have been times I've left room. I've been lucky. I just want to admit it just to be honest that like, we've all made these mistakes. I've always been lucky. I've never had an incident, but it only takes one bad balance lead or one charger malfunction or one whatever.  But the other reason we check the batteries while they're charging is, I like to check and make sure the charger itself is not overheating. Most of these chargers have fans in them, but sometimes the fans get acquired. Yeah, what if that fan fails? What if the fan fails or gets, I've had my fans where they, you know, chargers have been sitting on my wall for five years and they get dust in the fans. It literally clogs up the fan from moving and the charger can overheat. Most chargers will shut down if they overheat, but some chargers like what I have from 2010, they don't do that. They're supposed to be smart, but anything can fail.  It's more rare than the batteries, but it does happen guys. So just be sure. Tip number two, always check your batteries. Tip number three is about flying over people. You shouldn't do it. Don't fly over people. It is actually illegal. Now, let's say you had to fly over people. There is a way that you can do it and it actually involves getting an additional waiver to go with your part 107. You need your part 107 certification and then you'll need to get an additional waiver from the FAA. So this is something that you would do if you had some sort of job where you needed to fly over a crowd at the stadium or something like that. And if this were the case, you'd probably be using a machine with lots of fail safes that has been inspected thoroughly. Not like our quadcopters that we hand assemble and buy the parts from like China. And there's very good few reasons why we don't fly over people. Number one, these drones can fail safe. Props can fly off. Motors can literally just die midair. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh, it's on fire. The likelihood of these things happening in general is sometimes one in a thousand, but these things do happen. And the thought of that happening over a crowd of people is very scary because these things come down like missiles and they're not light if you've ever picked one upside. Also, it can be really, really scary to people who have never seen a racing drone. I mean, these things are a lot louder than normal drones and that can really intimidate people. That can scare people. You can literally get the police call on you for making too much noise. So just don't fly over people. In fact, my rule of thumb is I try and stay as far away from people as possible, especially if I'm gonna be close to people. I always, always make sure I have a spotter. Yeah, well, I like to think that when I'm flying at any point, the hand of God can reach down and unplug your battery and this just becomes a projectile. And that really can happen. Your battery could actually become disconnected because the connectors were not, or you could have a reception problem because your antenna's damaged. Something could happen and mid-maneuver your quad, it just keeps going on the path that it's on. So think about the maneuvers that you're doing and what could happen if at any time it just became a projectile. So something that I see some inexperienced people do when they come to our events that always scares me a lot is they'll come at the crowd and they'll turn around. You know, it's not like they're that close but they're doing this pass by thing. But you're coming at someone.  Don't hurt Justin Bieber. You don't want to.  Number four guys, if you're flying in a group of people, do not power on your drone while someone else is flying and if you're going to do it, you need to be in communication. You need to have your video channels well coordinated with each other. Make sure that you're on different channels and be plugging in away from other people and having tested it, knowing that if I'm gonna plug in, it's not gonna blast Alex's video. So for example, if Drew's in the air and I'm not sure what channel my drone is, I'm not just going to plug in my drone because it could potentially be on the same channel as his. Even if not, it could still be close enough to blow you out. Especially if you're using a patch into it. Even if I'm on another channel and I plug in, this thing is blasting out FPV feed. Your very sensitive patch antenna is gonna pick it up and it's gonna interfere with your video managing your video channels while flying with other people. Paramount. And this is really, really important when you get into racing in particular because at races, it's a big, big no-no when you sometimes have eight quads in the air and they really, really stress that when you're in the pits, don't plug in your quad. If you're gonna do it, make sure video transmitter is just completely unplugged or has a pit switch or something like that. Because it really can cost something bad to happen. You could be flying, I plug in, you see my video and you disarm and go into a house or potentially, God forbid, hit someone. If you're not sure, just don't do it because it can lead to very, very bad things happening. Tip number five, do test hovers. Anytime you've finished a build, made a repair. I just wanna fly down. No, dude, you've got to do the test hovers. Even if you've changed your props, you should do a test hovers. And I know it's a pain. And do the test hovers away from people. Don't do it right next to people. Because what you're testing for is you wanna make sure that this drone doesn't, Tasmanian devil, freak out, make a lot of noise, spaz out on control. It could hit someone, which that sucks, as we've talked about. But also even just the noise can be a problem. If you're flying and I hear, if I'm flying out of the goggles in focus mode and I hear a drone spazzing out next to me, my instinct is gonna tell me to take my goggles off because I know that drone can hurt me. And all of a sudden now you have a flying projectile that you just disarmed or whatever. And there's not enough time. You can say, oh, I just landed real quick. No, when there's a drone spazzing out next to you, you have a very, very small time frame. So guys, you wanna do test hovers, make sure your equipment is working. Obviously when your props are off, as we said, tip number one, you can check the motor direction, try and make sure these bad things don't happen. But always test over, especially after you change props. Even when I'm flying and I know everything's fine, I still put my drone away from people in general. And now this is actually a tip for test hovering that I learned from Joshua that I think is so, so smart. What you wanna do is, before you actually just hover the drone, you can test with the pitch and roll, the cyclic stick. So what you do, don't even raise the throttle, use the pitch and roll stick. So move the roll stick to the left and you should see the right motors lift up, move the pitch stick forward. You should see the back motors lift up. If you're on a smooth surface, like concrete, you can even give it yaw without raising throttle and you should see the drone kind of skidding yaw and make sure that every direction matches the stick inputs. And if there's a problem, this test for anything, if your board is misaligned in the configuration, if one of your motors is spinning the wrong way. What if your travels are wrong and you pitched forward to the Quacos backwards? Yeah, you could have the directions wrong on your radio or even if your props are the wrong way. This is gonna show you that. And then once it passes kind of all those movement tests, you can give it a little bit of throttle, lift it off the ground, then put the goggles on and get ready to rip. All right, you guys, I think that's all the tips. That's all five tips. Let us know though, what else did we miss? Actually, I know one thing you're gonna say. Here's bonus tip number six. Never say last pack. Because the Quaggots know when it's the last pack. And that's when you're gonna crash into the ocean. Or into a van don't lose all your best van don't footage. But seriously, let us know what other tips you think are very important for safety in FPV drones. We can make another safety video because this is such an amazing hobby. And as long as you keep all these things in mind, it can be very safe, very, very safe. Alrighty, guys, thank you so much for watching this episode of Rotary. Be sure to comment down below what you think we missed. Check out our store in the description down below. We have awesome stuff like all the products we're using out here today. I'm the drip. I'm Alex Banover. And we'll see you next time. Wee-haw!  So you go check on the batteries. Check on the batteries that are charging that we're not watching. Yeah. Yeah. The irony. The irony. Oh no.


Welcome everybody. It's Jerry Ryder speaking from Ann. I'm sitting in for Karen Visser today who's unfortunately unwell, but it's my pleasure to welcome you all to the webinar today and particularly to welcome Doug, Rahul and Dave who are going to be presenting with us this morning. So today's session is, as the title suggests, in our data citation series. It's the second in our data citation series and we have four in the series altogether. This one is going to be a really interesting session because it's some real case studies from the Australian National University and the Australian Antarctic Division about their journeys, if you like, in implementing DOIs and data citation at their institutions. We'll start off with a presentation from Doug Monker, who's the repository manager at ANU. Then he'll hand over to his colleague Rahul, who's a systems developer at ANU, to talk about their experiences. Then we'll hand over to Dave Connell down in Hobart at the Australian Antarctic Division to talk about the experiences at AAD and then we can come back to some question time after that. Good. That's good. Okay. Why should we meet DOIs programmatically? A little context is helpful. There we go. We had a number of data capture projects and what we were actually doing in them was we were building a generic solution. In other words, rather than building individual tailored solutions for each project, we were building a solution that would actually be adapted to provide a generic data capture platform. This is basically a bit like having automated self-deposit by machines. In other words, the machine provides some information, which is metadata, uploads the data set, and it goes into the workflow. This is essentially the same solution as we used for sitting in the commons and for our data repository by where people come along and deposit data. It's all the same basic code. The code is based around Fedora Commons. Rahul wrote the actual self-deposit code for machines. It's no subtle. And because we're actually thinking basically about automated data capture, we're really trying to automate as much as we can. So all the way through, we need to make things as automatic. This actually is quite beneficial when we talk to human beings actually adding in data and depositing data themselves because people absolutely hate entering metadata. I've worked on a number of such projects and I can tell you professional people, professional data maintenance people hate doing metadata. Scientists and researchers really hate doing it. They just simply won't do it if they could avoid it. So the whole point is to make as much as possible, humanize it, make it as simple as we can get. It's really got to be simple. It's really got to be easy. Pre-filled feeds, all the rest of it. And this also works very well for automated deposit because it's the same thing. Computers are very good at generating lots of data, but they actually like doing it in a structured manner. So what we're doing is making things as simple as possible. The other great thing was that among our data capture projects, we had people like astronomy, genomics and so on. They actually have a culture of making data available for the substantiation of research, which is a nice way of saying they like to have the data available in support of the research papers. And they had this real demand for persistent identifier mechanism. Now, there are a number of persistent identifier mechanisms out there. I'm sure we've all played with handle.net and so on in the time, but we needed to make things simple and straightforward. That is easy. Now, remember what I was saying about humanizing the whole process? Because we had control of the workflow, we could make it look as something that just happens, which means people could actually go and request a digital object identifier and do the whole basic process without sort of anything. If you have to go to a special website, stick their fingers in the ear, dance three times around the fire, they simply won't do it.  So what I'm now going to do, having told you the message about making things easy, is I'm now going to hand over to Rahul. Hi, everyone. I'm Rahul. I'm going to be taking over the presentation from here. As Doug mentioned, we're trying to make the system of requesting DOIs as simple as possible. So what we've done is once a record gets created, a number of people have a look at it to a review of the information of the metadata in the record. And all a user has to do is click on a button that says Meet DOI. The system does all the background processes, all the checks, the verification gets the DOI from the service, updates the record. It's as simple as that. Of course, we have logs for all the requests and responses for reporting and auditing purposes. So that's sort of the technical aspect of how we implemented the solution to make it as simple as possible. Our solution can be further expanded. It's not perfect. We have a long way to go to accommodate all user requirements. One of them is the ability to version datasets. The issue with versioning is that the DOIs are minted at the collection level, not at the files within the collection level. The user comes to us and says, I've got an updated dataset and I'd like to mint a new DOI for it. The entire collection needs to be duplicated. The old data, as well as the new data, needs to be uploaded to the new collection. A new DOI needs to be minted. This again, while inconvenient, meets the requirements of minting DOIs, making sure the DOIs point to the complete dataset. And also, for the moment, we have restricted the ability to mint DOIs only to system administrators. We do have the capability of allowing researchers and research officers to mint the DOIs by themselves. Moving on, just giving you an example of what the screen looks like. It's all a matter of simply clicking mint DOI, a button on the right side, which mits a DOI to a collection. And our implementation is open source. We're using open source libraries as well. The source code is available on GitHub.