The topic for our afternoon session is the use of visualizations and we have Sameer Sahasrabudde here. He is our PhD student who has just submitted his thesis and an expert in this area of visualization. So he will be leading this session. Okay, good afternoon to all. We will be starting this thing, this session actually and the focus of this session is about the visualizations of scientific content, like the pre-lunch session was where I think you have already talked about learning objectives, you have already submitted I hope so that they are on the moodle now and I think there was an assessment question also to be formed at the end. But when we talk about learning objectives, when what is the plan for teaching, the second question which we are now going to start off with is that which types of visuals will be important when you know that you are going to use such ICT tools into your teaching. So the objectives for this session are first of all to list out various different categories of visualization, what are the different types of visualizations available, we will run through a range of that and then towards the end we will also see how you can choose visualization which is appropriate for your topic. So with this let us go ahead and first let us see some of the visualizations, okay. So this is one type of visualization where the topic is already segmented into smaller sections like what you see here and if I open one of the sections you will see that there is a video here I will just mute the volume here. So the video is running you will have access to play pause it, you can also instead of the audio what was being seen you can read the audio transcript here by clicking on this button and you can use this text to know what is happening on the screen and this is a ongoing video. You will have interactions and at the end of this you will also have a summary slide. There is one more video it is from the mechanical engineering domain, okay. So what you see here is option given to change the parameters by two ways one is by dragging the cursor and setting the time limit on one axis and on the other axis you can set the number of experiments. After you have given these inputs you can click on start and the animation will show you how different experiments are being plotted onto this graph. After this step is done you can also generate the ensemble averaging which is displayed in another graph and the relevant equation is also displayed here. We will also see third type of visualization which is from robotics domain and that is called 2R manipulator I will just run that. In this you can see that there are some more interactions possible all the aspects of this interaction elements can be manipulated by the user like the length of link 1, link 2 and the angle of link 1 or the link 2 all these things can be manipulated not only by the slider bars but also by moving the actual object like this. So these are three types of visualizations what I wanted to show you in the beginning and now assuming all of you have seen these three visualizations let us start an activity. What we want you to do is to have this activity called think-pair-share this has three stages as written there. So the first stage of think is to be done individually. So now every participant should list three purposes of why to use these visualizations you should take two minutes to do to write those and once you are done the coordinator should let us know. So just write any three purposes why you should use visualizations. So it appears that some of the centers were unable to see the video when we were sharing the screen. So instead of really worrying about what exactly was there in the video we can let us just go ahead with the activity just go ahead to think about listing three purposes of using visualizations in your course. When would you use a visualization for what purpose would you use a visualization? Yeah please hold on to sending replies some centers are already started sending replies in the chat window just hold on to that this is just a think phase. So only individual thinking has to happen and write down your reasons then we will discuss within the center and then finally send the reasons to us we will move on to the pair phase now. What now you have to do is individuals who have listed down the purposes they should share with your neighbor and it is possible that there would be similar purposes written by your neighbor. So just discuss the commonalities and then also discuss about a difference in opinion if you have there. Ok now that you would have had some time to discuss with your neighbor let us move on to the share phase which is to come up with the top reasons from your center. So share your groups top reason with the class so that is what the individual pairs will do and what the coordinators are requested to do is to send the top two or three purposes from your center through the chat window. So most of you have written one thing common which is to make the understanding better by using pictorial visualizations and there was another aspect which was mentioned about retention. So if visuals are used then students will retain that particular topic for a longer time. There are also points like static and dynamic views of the system or the phenomena become available then there are points like better grasp. So we can now stop with sending the responses over chat and look at the summary that we have created. So as you can see the summary has mix of the responses what you have also written and one of them which is the most prominent here is making invisible things visible. So there are possibilities where you are explaining some complicated visual angles or to the different magnification level like atoms or internal structures of some machines. So this invisible objects are made visible using visualizations apart from that there is movement of object and various components wherever trajectories are involved a particular path. So trajectory is actually the path on which the movement happens and the multiple steps in a process or procedure was shown in one of the visualizations earlier where we have to stop after every phase or step in the process and then we can go ahead with the next and that is another use of visualization. This was also mentioned by one of the college about students can see things which otherwise they have to imagine. So this facilitating of what if scenarios is a major advantage of using visualizations. The point that we are trying to make here is in addition to the point that you have all noticed that of ease of understanding ease of memorization ease of recall which are valid universally across disciplines. The ones which are extremely relevant in the engineering and you know science context of education are the ones that you know some of them which are listed on the slide which is like making the invisible visible like for example when you want students to understand how the atoms are interacting with each other in order to create a particular phenomenon. So that can be easily shown through the use of visualization also trajectory of movement is again a fairly well encountered phenomenon where even right from 12th standard itself students are used to writing equations for showing various projectile motion whereas now here they might actually be able to see what is the impact of those various equations that they are writing and also the point about facilitating various scenarios saying what happens if I set the voltage of a particular circuit to very high beyond the given limit. So these kind of experiments which cannot be really performed in real life where it would be either dangerous or too expensive to perform in real life they can be easily performed through the means of a visualization. So in addition to the generic points such as you know look and feel ease of retention and so on these are some specific points for which visualizations are useful in the engineering education scenario. So based on this activity and the deliberation what we had now our focus in this workshop would be around the visualizations which are either transformational or interpretive. Now what do they mean is written in the further columns. The transformational visualizations actually are capable of showing the changes happening on the objects over time and space. So what happens after stage 1, stage 2 and stage 3? So these changes can be seen in the transformational visualizations. The examples are animation of weather cycle like how water converts into vapor and how the rainfall is occurred or video showing how to operate a particular equipment. So interpretive graphics or interpretive visualizations are mainly to illustrate a theory or principle. For example a schematic diagram of an equipment where the actual equipment we cannot see what happens inside that is converted to a schematic diagram where by using arrows and the motion we can illustrate how the working of that equipment is happening or micro level objects like molecular movement where which cannot be otherwise seen by cameras or other video capture devices. So we will be focusing more on these type of these two types of visualizations. But once we decide on the visualizations having motion and within motion graphics there can be different types again and the most common of them are the ones which have videos which are shot by cameras and animations which are generated using computers. So let us see examples of these two prominent types of motion graphics and try to evaluate the pros and cons of them in our next activity. But before that let us try and see this video right this time I will try to show you using the camera here I hope you will be able to see that. Now you will see a video being played this is from Chemical Engineering. As you can see it is shot by camera but it also has couple of textual graphics inserted like what are the ingredients of this experiment. You see the steps of how it is performed you can also actually observe the way it has to be done. For example they have shown how carefully you should handle these objects they have shown gloves being worn while adding zinc to this powder they and adding they have also written that it should be mixed carefully in the petri dish and in the last stage they drop a water drop of water is added to this mixture and you see that fumes come out of this mixture and then they show the chemical equation which is relevant to this experiment. We will see one more visualization which is so this is the animation on distillation column when you start this it shows the entire distillation column slowly it fades on to the cross section of that where you see the processed air entering it you see the boiler and the fumes start coming in they reach on the top where so you see this when these fumes reach on the top and the condensation happens so it gets accumulated and it overflows on these stages. Let us summarize here one minute for the benefit of those who could not see. So in the first case there was a video of a chemical reaction being performed in the laboratory so there was a petri dish and there was zinc granules and some iodine which were mixed together very carefully by a human being wearing gloves and then finally when the drop of water was put on to the mixture there were violet fumes that came out so that was the first video that we saw and in the second case what we saw was an animation where we looked into the internals of how a boiler distillation distillation column works and how the various fumes in the distillation column rose and condensed and then the actual process of distillation took place. So these were the two types of motion graphics that we have seen. So now what we want to do is to try to identify which of these is better and for what purpose and so on. So what we will do is do this through yet another of these active learning techniques in the morning we have already been introduced to two active learning techniques one of them is the think pair share and the other one was this polling and you know talking to your neighbor. So now we will look at a third active learning technique which is called a debate and we will go ahead and identify the benefits of these two types of visualizations through this activity of a debate. So what we need to do is form two groups so in each remote center the coordinator is requested to you know break the classroom into two groups so you can simply say that all those people who are sitting to the left of me are group A and all the people who are sitting to the right of your group B when you are standing in the middle. So that way you form two groups in your classroom and group A's topic is video so group A are the people who are going to fight for saying video is the correct mode or video is a better mode of showing visualization while group B is going to say the same thing for animation. So what you want to see is which of these two groups actually win in your center and for what reason. So what we will do is for the first five minutes we need not have any real discussion between the groups. So we can simply say that all the participants in each group you can just do the activities one and two which are listed which is identify the advantages of that of your type of visualization. So if you are group A then you will be listing the advantages of video and the disadvantages of animation and then later once this once you have come up with a reasonably long list of advantages and disadvantages then we will have a debate with the other group to find out what is which one is really better. So you can get started form the groups and list the advantages of your type of visualization and the disadvantage of the other type of visualization. So many centers we can see I have got this right in the sense that they have created two groups and two groups are first talking to within each other before starting to talk across the groups. In some other centers people are still doing this as a pair activity. So while it is okay to do it as a pair activity it will be more fun if you do it as a group A versus group B type of an activity. So by now each group should have come up with a fair number of advantages for their form of visualization be it video or animation and should have identified some disadvantages of the other type. So now it is time to start fighting between the two groups and what the co-ordinators job now is to moderate a debate between the two groups. So just ensure that the two groups do not come to blows with each other, let them talk to each other, let them refute each other saying okay one group gives an advantage the other somebody else from the other group says a counter advantage so it is like a standard debate that we see or we are used to seeing on TV and let this debate happen for about five minutes and then the co-ordinators can summarize the learning from their center for us to share across all the centers. So many centers are still debating within the group. So what we can do is now debate across the group, identify that okay if you are pro video then find the group which is pro animation and prove to them that video is better than animation that should be the goal of your exercise right now. So if the debate has somewhat stabilized in most of the centers what we can do is we can move to the next step wherein the coordinator has to do a little bit of work now. The idea is that communicate the top advantage and limitation of each of these techniques. So group A should say what is the biggest advantage of using a video and group B should say what is the biggest advantage of using an animation as well as the limitations. So the co-ordinators can please communicate these from your center to through the AVU chat window like we can already read some examples here like animation is more acceptable to students than video through animation we can explain a lengthy process in less time animation makes invisible things visible. So now it's time for some of the videos we can record the actual process on video okay so we have a lot of responses already many of them are very interesting and some of them are even contradictory in some cases people are saying that animation is more informative in other cases people are saying that video is more informative in some cases people are saying that video is more expensive while in other cases people are saying that animation is more expensive I think we can stop sending the chat responses and let us summarize as to what we have found across all the centers right so some of the interesting ones are actually about the purposes where making invisible visible which which was already discussed but they have taken that point as their top thing but video advantages exact replica of the object will be present and all outputs are real so this realism is being also communicated by couple of centers which is okay I will just go through the presentation slide now where we will summarize in the next slide so this is definitely one of the leaders in most of the responses what we found that it video captures the realistic visuals so there is nobody denies if they see a video as opposed to an animation but on the other side when you want to capture with a camera there are certain positions magnifications angles where camera can't reach simply things like furnace where the temperatures are really high you can't put in cameras on the other side for people who were backing animation this was this was a strong point that it shows visuals which are not possible to be captured by cameras and the same point where people are commenting on realism is a drawback in animation that people find that it is not real at times so it looks artificial so these are very commonly found points which we were able to also trace in your responses so now I will go ahead and we saw these two types of animations here already but when we want to have the best of both worlds is when we look at a third type of motion graphic which is motion visualization or motion graphics which is called a simulation now let me clarify here that this is different than standard matlab type of simulations where you write code and it generates the the visualizations or the objects in in the render window or in the preview window but this simulation we will just see an example of that and then we will try to see how it addresses the issues raised by both the limitations raised by video as well as animation okay so now we are going to see a simulation this is on the topic of image thresholding in electrical engineering I am also going to explain it side by side when I am doing it for the benefit of those who are unable to see it maybe at that time what you can see now is animation a screen where you have an image on the left hand side of the screen and another image other thresholded image on the right hand side what this simulation offers is a slider bar in the center of the screen in red color and if I drag it on the right hand side you can see that the image on the left hand side is getting changed in real time so what it happens is the user can change the thresholding values and see the changes happening there it also allows the user to change the graphic or the original image and see what happens if the values are changed you can see one more graphic which is of a car you have this flower image and you have this rabbit toy coming back to the slides yeah I saw couple of them could not see it but let me summarize it for them here it we were showing a particular simulation where the user was able to change parameters and see the effects in real time and user was also able to change couple of components within the animation itself or the simulation itself. So to capture it in the slide a simulation is the one which provides the controls and of changing parameters and displaying the results now these this factor is missing in either video or animation where you have user control to some limited user control where you can stop the animation or you can go back to the video till the point you wanted to see it again and you can see it n number of times if you want to but you cannot change the parameters. So the amount of iodine which was put up into the petri dish cannot be changed in the video and so on so forth. So these are the three different types of motion graphics which are available for usage in our teaching practice as a strategy. Before we go on to the next activity let us do one small question so at this point there is a pole window in a view and we what we are doing is we are we have created one question which says which of the following is an appropriate visualization for the topic of internet communication. So all of us are familiar with internet communication so the idea is that ok you are sitting at your home and you are maybe going to Google to check out some query and the question is which of the following visualizations is appropriate for this topic and the choices that are there are a schematic animation of packet delivery across a network schematic being like what we saw in one of the animations of this image thresholding or the distillation call up. The second one is an interactive simulation of the time taken to transfer a file across the network. The third choice is a video of some engineers configuring various network devices. The fourth choice is all of the above and the fifth choice is none of the above. So what each center coordinator can do is to quickly get a feel for which is the majority option for their center and convey the responses through your chat window. So, far about seven centers have submitted their responses so after another few minutes once all the centers are done we will discuss the response. Ok so almost all of them have now responded we have received 35 responses and I am one very important thing which is visible in the result is that all the people who are backing video also have not voted for this video of engineers who should be shown configuring various networking devices and rightly so because not many people will understand how the Google website was seen on your computer if they see engineers assembling the machines. Ok so let me take a contrary view here I mean so there is a debate now between your two instructors so just for some added entertainment you can say for your benefit see what we find is that some of you have said that video of engineers configuring network devices is not useful. So I am going to claim that it depends so if my goal is to teach how to configure these devices or how which wire goes into which socket that is my goal of teaching then I am going to claim that that video is actually useful so I am going to say that look that is an important part of internet communication and that is what is useful. Ok on the other hand most of you have voted for interactive simulation of time taken to transfer variety of file sizes over the network so this has got 19 votes out of 35 and I am going to say that look this is really not a valid one because it again depends upon I mean I don't have expect to have any exam question on how much time it takes to transfer a file over the network. So I really don't care about how long it takes to transfer a file over the network so essentially what I am saying is that the answer for which most of you voted for I can find a counter example which is suppose I want my students to learn how the mechanism of transfer happens then an interactive simulation which talks about the time taken for various files to transfer is not useful to me and also on the other hand the choice for which none of you have voted which is the video I can again find a counter example where we say that suppose I want to teach people how to connect the devices together then it is a useful video. So having said this I will pause here for a minute for you to reflect and think about what is the condition under which we make this choice of which video for what purpose. So we will do an interesting thing what we will do is now we are having seen one set of answers we are going to post the same question again and let every center answer again. So let us see what your answers are this time which is the majority answer this time. Okay so for the second round of polling on the same question what we find is more than 50 percent of the centers have voted for all of the above and a quick poll of the video and looking into what is happening at each center again shows a lot of people in animated discussion about when which technique of video or simulation has to be used. So in fact this is exactly what we were hoping would happen that after some debate and some thinking about the choices that we have made we realize that it is all of the above under the condition of which is the appropriate learning objective. So depending upon the learning objective is the choice of the type of simulation. So if the learning objective is how to connect wires together then the video may be the correct type of motion graphics to choose if the learning objective is how does a packet move across a network then the schematic would be the correct type of visualization to choose and if the learning objective is that how much time the two different files take to be transferred from a website to the client then the interactive simulation of the file transfer timings would be the correct type of visualization to choose and so therefore most of you seem to have now got to that point of saying that the answer is all of the above and it depends upon what the correct learning objective is or what the corresponding learning objective is. So we will now go on to talk about how we make this choice of appropriate visualization. So taking Q from the same point where we actually had example from computer science domain I have couple of other visualizations on the concept of packet transfer. We will show you those two animations or visualizations one after the other what they these two are of two different types and may be almost relating to the options which we had given in the poll we will again try to share the desktop and the first one you see is it has various interactions for the user to go back and forth it shows one sender and receiver side and when you click on play you see that a set of values appear on the left hand side as sender and in frame one they are sent to the receiver and receiver is receiving couple of them acknowledgement is sent and again the sender is sending the second frame based on the acknowledgement. This can be paused and you can also rewind this to start fresh the designer of this particular visualization has also given the reference from where this has been taken like chapter 11 of some book on data communication and networking. So this is one type of visualization right.  So back and next actually talks about stages in the action in the entire process. So if the acknowledgement is received right now and if I click back then it will start from sending the first packet and then you will see that the entire process is shown again for the benefit of the user. Similarly next will go to the next set of action. The second visualization is also on packet transfer but it will give you a different scenario. It starts with animation of some icons and buttons. You have this previous and next button coming in and whenever you are ready you are supposed to click on next first. You see a scenario here a file is been sent from computer A to computer B over a network. This is quite similar to what you saw in the first simulation where there was a sender and a receiver. Here you see this file F I L E and A and B as the two ends of this network. When I click next this file is being converted to four packets. After every such step when the step is over a pop up comes here to prompt the user to click on the next button click when ready. So after you have finished reading. So there is an explanation given here the file is broken into smaller pieces called packets. Once I have read that I can click next and then the packets are labeled individually with origin destination and place in the original file. Now this the place in the file is first and now the packets are sent sequentially on the network. So you see that those are arranged one below the other and then they start traveling on the network. After traveling from the network when they reach there they have arrived at the destination but the computer has to reassemble the species in order to make sense out of that. So that is how it rearranges and then you see F I L E recreated again. So this was a demo created by people at Oregon. So we come back to the presentation. So all of you have seen this presentation. So let us now see a way to choose appropriate visualization for your topic. For this we are going to refer to some graphs made by researcher called Rini Weiss. So it actually starts with couple of points which we discussed in the summary where why to use visualization. So when we discuss the purposes. So this starts with the first purpose that will the trajectory and movement in your chosen topic enhance the instruction. So it is not only important to have trajectory of movement in your topic but it should also add to the instructional quality of instruction. So if it is going to be enhancing if it is not going to enhance the quality of instruction then animation may not be necessary in particular for that particular topic. For example there are situations where the animation is used but for cosmetic or attention grabbing or just motivation purpose. So if that is the function it is going to serve then this graph says that use it sparingly. Do not use it overboard because it will not serve the purpose what you are trying to use it for. On the other side if the trajectory and the movement which is inherent in your topic enhances the instruction then you should also figure out whether that which function is being served by that movement. So if that function is about presentation or clarification of certain things then animation should be useful but like we discussed during our poll it depends on the domain. So even though there was movement involved in packet transfer but if it is about clarification or presentation then animation should be the useful technique. So I will repeat these two sides of the graph once again for the benefit of the participants. If the trajectory or movement in your topic is not going to enhance the quality of instructions then animation is not necessary to be used. But if it is going to help you in presenting the topic or providing extra clarification to the students then animation should be useful. But the domain or the learning objective like we discussed last time what is that focus will determine how to use it. The next graph actually gives you further clarity on this like we saw if animation is not is if it is inherently tied in your subject and then we are going to use animation but within that so the first topic on the right hand on a right hand top talks about if it is not inherently tied to a subject then you just go to the figure 1 and it should solve the problem because the answer will be animation is not useful. So when you have come to the end of the first graph and yes it is going to be useful for you then try to classify the topic between whether it is a procedure or it is a concept or it is some kind of a principle to be taught. So what we mean by that is that the procedure why will animation enhance the teaching of a procedure is because of the equipment or the context which is not readily available like the example given by Professor Shridhar earlier about the registration column. So it is a huge machine where it is not readily available also it is so big that and the heat inside is so high that you cannot put in camera you cannot see inside. So these kind of context are highly recommended for the use of animation where you can also include the steps of procedure to facilitate a steady flow of knowledge transfer. Concepts are something where you have to have the stages where the changes are happening over time and if this is done then this will happen. So these scenarios of various simultaneous influences happening and change of time are very important in terms of concepts where animation is recommended by this graph but where there are simple facts or rules which are not connected to any other changes within the imagery or the state of object or that particular topic then animation might not be a useful tool to be used. So these are the details of this particular graph which we will be leaving for that. To repeat the second part of the graph when you saw that the animation is inherently tied to your subject try to classify the topic whether it is having a procedure to be explained or a concept. The procedure it is about equipment or context which is not readily available therefore animation can be useful and in terms of concepts where there is change over time and the object is changing its forms or things which are not visible to your naked eyes like atoms molecules and there is system impacted by simultaneous influences like you have you change the parameters and you want to see what happens like we saw in the robotic arm where you can change the lengths individually of every arm and the angle. So multiple influences reacting on a particular object is to be shown these type of topics actually are best suitable for using animation in the instruction. So now with this we will be having another activity of a worksheet which is related to your earlier assignment what you submitted a relaunch where you have written your learning objectives and also the assessment question related to your topic. So you have to start with your topic and use this graph 1 first and then the graph 2 to see if animation is useful to explain your topic. So the activity you can just start by using the. So what we will do is that the worksheet has also been uploaded on model. So essentially what you need to do is to take the learning objective that you wrote in the morning and put it through this graph and determine whether an animation is required for that learning objective or not. So that is one part of your worksheet and the second part of the worksheet is that suppose it turns out that animation is not required for the learning objective that you wrote in the morning find another learning objective in your topic or in your course for which animation is useful. So in the sense that find a procedure which you might want to show or a concept which needs to be explained. So that is essentially what is there in the worksheet and what we will do is we can you could work on the worksheet in the class or what you can do is we can do this along with the next lab the next lab is also on model and we want to say something about the lab. So what we will do is we will just give you some instruction about the lab also and then you can simply take a break have tea go to the lab finish this worksheet as well as the lab which is also connected to the worksheet itself and then come back at maybe 4.30 or so for the next at 5 o'clock for the muddy points or the clarification session. So we will just leave you with a few instructions for the lab and then we can break for tea.


Now, we are going to see about a java script, ok. So, now we previously we have some given information about a JSP. For JSP we want to develop any web page we have to use JSP, but interact with the server. Whatever the data you are giving will interact with the server and then the process it and send back to the browser. But before interact with the server we have to give some validation in a browser page itself. So, if you want to do any validation of a page not only that we can create a dynamic content in java script also, ok. Actually then another one the where the java script will be executed. The server page if you done any validation that is the client side. If you are doing any validation in server page what are the thing we can do it in a client side validation for checking the whether email address is valid or name have any numbers. So, this kind of stuff we can do it in a client side. In server side checking your correct users then yeah if the user and password is same or before inserting any data in a database other than that all the data are valid. So, this kind of this kind of thing we can done in a server side validation, ok. So, now we going to focus on client side validation, ok. This where we can write a java script in your html page. There is no restriction to write a java script in your html page. Wherever you want we can write before html tag or end of html tag and in between the body and inside head wherever you want we can write. The best practice of writing a java script is where inside head that is a before body, ok. That is the way the best way of writing a java script in head, ok. So, java script is supposed to add your java script element in your tag what is the tag script we have to mention a type of the script, ok. Text dot java script we have to add, ok. In this program what I have to do is what is actually the thing is going on here. We have a one button then one what is that paragraph tag, ok. But initially there is a paragraph tag nothing is inside, ok. When you are press the button what will happen? It will invoke the method display date then the date will be where it is in where it is displayed in paragraph tag, ok. With the help of the attribute name is called inner html, ok. The inner html we have to know it is a very important attribute for most of the elements like do you want to dynamically change any content or you want to dynamically post the content we can use this attribute inner html. So, I am taking the particular tab using a id get element by id then inside that I am the putting the date, ok. Then using external java script what is the external java script whatever the content you are using inside the same page that is the inner inside java script external what it mean? We can separately write your java script as a dot js file. If you want to include that file in your html we have to add it using a src, ok. We have to specify the part of the particular js file, ok. We use to have semicolon in java script that is not a mandatory thing. If you want we can use this is optional one, ok. If you want to in a single line if you want to write multi statement we have to use semicolon, ok. Here also the java script also we have a command like what we are using in C. If you want to it is a single line we have to use double slash if it is a multiple line we have to use slash star then star slash, ok. Alert the pop-up box. What is the pop-up box? If you want to alert any messages, ok. We have a three type of pop-up box over there. Person is a alert, alert simply it will alert the message that is it. Second one what is that? Confirm. Confirm. It will get whether it is ok or cancel. If you are press ok it will return true else it is false. Based on the true false we can do some action that is why we are getting a confirmation. Then third one prompt. If you want to get any data from user we can use prompt. We can get the data whatever you have enter in a prompt, ok. The simple is the demo alert it will simply display the alert message then confirm it will ask whether it is ok or cancel then prompt it will get the information from user, ok. Then next one is the JavaScript event. It is a main thing we have to focus on event. You are writing in a JavaScript at what time it is supposed to execute it is a very important.  At the time of key up, key down or mouse up, mouse down, ok. Based on the particular event we have to perform some action, ok. That is the thing of using JavaScript event. For example if I want to display my name, ok, before entering into the page what I have to do? Unload. Unload what we can do? This simply in a page I want to display my name whatever I enter in a text box or whatever it is. How we can do? We can use prompt. According to this scenario we can use prompt whatever data you enter we can store it in a particular variable that variable we can print it in a particular div or paragraph, ok. Where we can write an unload function in body of your HTML. So, unload I am invoking a prompt pop up, ok. Then inside body of your HTML I have added one div. What is a div? With id name, ok. So, when the page is loading what will happen? Unload event it will invoke the method prompt. The prompt what it will do? Simply it will get the name from user using a prompt window. Then that value will be available in name, ok. So, with help of this value where you want to put that value in our division? How to access the division? Get element by id. So, document dot get element by id what is the id name? Name. Then I want to put inside the div. So, for the inner HTML. So, what happened? Why it is not coming previously? Catch. Catch. That is the main problem in catch it. If you are developing any web publication here maximum we have to avoid to have catches. It will make lot of problem, ok. So, try to remove your catch it. I have entered RA. So, RA will be displaying your page, ok. JavaScripts, ok. If you want to do any validation circuit field what we have to do? If you have for example, I have a login page username and password. User supposed to enter username and password. How to check? How we can check? Each and every text field we can have we can define a id. With help of this id we can get that value whether we have to check whether the value is empty. We have to alert the message which enter the name. So, ok. This is the way we can use required field validation. If you go for email validation we have to use some logic inside a JavaScript method. What is the logic we have to use? The whatever the value the value supposed to have to constraint. The main important character supposed to be there. What are they? At and dot. And then the position also it is supposed to in correct place, ok. If you are using at before at supposed to have some characters after we have must have some characters. The dot also you must have minimum number of characters after dot, ok. So, these are some with the help of this logic we can check the validation. So, we have a here I have have added to text field whether it is visible, ok little bit, ok fine. The first one is a name, ok. If I entered, so if there is a value. So, it will not throw any alert for name it will throw only for email, ok. If I not entered any value. So, it will check for name. It is not valid because I am not added dot, ok. Input is valid. So, what I have done here further simple the same thing in valid function. When you are I have added to input fields there is a text another one is a button. When you are perform any action there is a click on the button it will invoke the method valid form. When you are doing a valid form I am taking the data of text field the text if the text field is empty it will throw the alert then it will return it will not go for where email.  If the text field is ok then it will go for email validation. That was tip some little bit that one like timing. If you go for any website there will be some frequently if you go for ispn.crickinfo.com what is happening in that one we can show the score. But whether we want to every time we want to refresh the page whether it is necessary for refreshing page to get the current score no need. After 3 seconds it will be auto refresh the page. So, if you want to do any the refreshment or if you want to do any message alert or whatever the thing based on the some specific time we can use set time out, ok. After particular time if you want to do any action repeatedly. So, we can use set time out and then we can clear the time. Just use it on the variable we are using for set time out, ok. Then another one is the object what is the object in Java what is the object instance of a class. So, if we have any class the class have lot of variables. If you want to use that variable we can use object to access the variable. Likewise in Java script also we have a object we can have a more number of variables with values pair, ok. Variable and value pairs with help of that object we can refer the particular values based on the name, ok. For example, here we have a person object the first name last name and then age, I color these are all name of the object the value we have mentioned in double quotes that is the zone. So, everything if we can mention in a double quotes, ok. The value want to access simply we can use that object dot name of the attributes which one you want to get cookies already knows that is a temporary storage in your vendor machine. These are the though that is a document object model. The simple whatever we have discussed that is a simple way of just simply we are validation or how to access the data how to just check whether the value is entered or not. So, this kind of stuff the document object model that is a document object. If you want to access the specific part of in your HTML file you want to access the anchor tag you want to access the div. With help of document object we can access all your component in your HTML page, ok. For example, the first one document dot anchor. So, it will return a what will return? It will return the number of anchors in your HTML page with help of the square bracket we can mention a index value to get the particular anchor. For example, if you have a five anchors, ok. If you want to access the fourth one. So, we can access document dot anchors square bracket of three. This is start with index start with zero. So, three if you get the values we can get the value. If you want to get the value that is a with help of dot inner HTML we can get the value of anchor, ok. So, likewise we have we can use the document object for all the components in your HTML file or it is a button or input or if it is a division or paragraph tag whatever we have we can use. I have one function, ok. The same fields like text input name and email, ok. In text field one that is a name I have added one key up. When you are pressing the key board key, so what will happen? It will invoke the method which button. So, there is a even we can pass the even for the particular JavaScript method. With the help of that even we can get the which key the value the ASCII value we can retry, ok. So, that is why a lot even dot key code. So, I have entered g. So, it shows the ASCII value for g, ok. I have entered enter key. So, that is why it shows that team, ok. So, likewise we can pass event value to your Java script function. We are working with that animation kind of stuff, correct. For learning portal some of them they developing the applet. For all working going to work for applet what you going to do in applet. With not only that we going to go with some demos also, no. I think you going to for like simulation kind of stuff, ok. How the chemical is transferred to one thing to another. So, likewise it should be happen with an animation. Likewise in JavaScript itself we can have a animation kind of stuff. If you want to draw the line or if you want to draw any shape, if you want to move the shapes to one place to another place we can do it in our JavaScript itself, ok. So, if you want to use this kind of features we must have to add the libraries, pre-defined libraries, ok. We have if want to draw the 2D animation, 2D shapes we have to use the existing library. What is that? js draw 2D dot js. It is an open source, it is available in code dot Google, ok. So, not only this we can have lot of j queries. What is the j queries? It is a j query is a library, but it is a pure JavaScript only. But it is fully tested and they have lot of features. We can use it as a library, that is it. Likewise here also it is like a library. We can use our feature whatever the thing we want. For example, you want to draw the line or shape, field, circle. So, this kind of stuff. For example, if you want to use this library first we have the main thing. Before that we have to draw the line, we have to create object for 2D animation. So, for that for creating an object we have to use new js graphics. What we have mentioned inside the bracket that is a bar to draw the shape. Here I have mentioned a div id. For example, if you have a division, ok.  We have to mention the particular id, the corresponding component you have to mention, ok. Then after that with help of that object we can draw the lines. We want to draw the line before that we have to set some parameters. Like we have to create a colors, we have to set the pen of the particular object to draw. So, for that if you want to set the color. So, we have to use js color. We have to mention a name of the color. Then we want to set the pen. What is the pen? Now, we have set the color. We have for drawing we must to have pen. So, we have to set the color to the pen. So, for that pen color plus this is the one that is the depth of the pen. For example, we are going to draw the line we have to use. What is that? We have before drawing line suppose to have 2 points. So, we have to create a point. So, for creating a point js point we have to mention a x and y coordinate. Likewise second point also x and y coordinates. After that with help of this 2 point we can draw the line, ok. GR what is the GR? GR the object for the graphics, ok. With help of that object we can invoke the method draw line, ok. Likewise we want to draw the filled circle GR dot filled circle. We have to mention a point color then radius. Likewise here we have drawn 2 circle, ok. With help of this how we can do the animation? Whether it is possible to do the animation with simply drawing the shape? It is supposed to be like it is a expanding in some time I am correct. So, instead of drawing deleting we can increase the size simply. How to increase the size? Associate with time. So, specific time the radius supposed to increase. So, how we can combine with time and shape? If you are combining time and shape it is getting a animated effort that is it. For that I show you the code, ok. This is the code we have a division. What is the division? Required. Where is the place you want to draw the shape? Then I have a 2 button one is a start and stop, ok. Then next one we have mentioned a parameter for drawing a circle. We have drawn 2 circle over here. The first circle have some coordinates, second circle have some coordinates. The both circle has the different radius. One is a 40 another one is a 30, but both are initially in different places. But it is in a same y axis, ok. So, what I am going to do? I am going to try to one circle is in a static position another circle going to cross the static circle. So, for that what we have to do? We have to at the base on the time we have to increase the x coordinate or y coordinate. Why? x coordinates. x coordinates, ok. Because x is a different. So, we have to increase the x coordinates. But initially x coordinates of the first circle is 50 second one minus 40. So, minus 40 is somewhere. So, if you are increasing it will move towards the right, ok. So, how we can do? So, at the time of start button I am invoking a method that is called what is the method? It is a method, ok. Time, count, ok. So, initially p is a point of y axis that is a minus 30, ok. Then still the p is less than 150. I have set the limit. So, it should not move after some certain space, ok. So, that I check the constraint. If it is less than 150 what it will do? It will increase. Then after that else what you will do? It will clear the time out. What is the clear time out? It will stop the time, ok. Then after what is this? Same thing. I have created an object. Then I have set the color and everything. But here we have to look at this. What is this p? Now I am using a p. So, every time you are invoking the p value, the y axis will be increment. And then you shift to right. So, it is shift to right. It is like a paint. What will happen? So, paint will be there. Again it will be paint. So, its object will be crossing over there. The previous painted color should be there. It will not be removed. So, what we can do? So, previous you want to get the previous y axis. There you want to paint white color. So, here I have used f f f. So, this is the color for white. I am taking the previous point here. See after assigning a point to previous then I am incrementing p. So, after that what is this? It is equal to set time out. Now 50 seconds is a 50 milliseconds. Every 50 milliseconds it invokes the same function. This function is written in a time count. So, it will not slip. It will be increment. So, it will be after 50 milliseconds it will invoke same. It will come again it will invoke the same. So, it will be continuously invoking. So, what will happen? The object will be moved further. So, now what is the second circle? It was in minus 40. So, it will not comes to the screen. So, when you start it will come. So, it is like crossing to the particular circle that is it. So, but it is not big deal. But we have done with shapes and time. So, that is animation what is that? Based on the time it will be do some other different different action that is it. That is it about Java script. These are the reference we can get some more information. The last three we can get more number of animated kind of effort. Not only the JS draw 2D we can get more libraries. I have taken from net. What is happening? The ball is moving to your screen. But it is not a thing. We have used only JavaScript and HTML. So, with the help of this only we can do lot of animated effort. If you go for a JavaScript just people are thinking that in the simple JavaScript we cannot do more. But it is not a case. With the help of JavaScript we can do lot of things. But we have to correctly use the JavaScript. That is a very important. Because if you are all the validation if you are done before getting to the server page most of the our process is this it will be complete before getting to the server page. We can do everything in server page. It is some disadvantages. What is that? For example the server page will be not used by single user. It will be used by multi users. So, all users data will be validated there. It is not a good way of doing the validation. If you are all validation done in different different machine that is it the client side validation will take care of the particular browser will not take care of the server page. So, it will be best way of validation do it in client side. Then important code like logins or password if you want to check that thing we have to definitely we have to check in server page. That is all about this today's session.


It's not too often you see a road like this one. The fact is nearly every state road has been paved. But to anyone using them, they're just as important as any other road. So in this program, we'll look at the procedures to follow to keep these non-hard surfaces in the best condition possible. In a nutshell, this operation involves pulling the borrow pit along one side of the road and making successive passes to pull the material across the road without changing the road's original crown, followed by pulling the other borrow pit and then pulling the material back to where you started from. Again, without changing the road's original crown. By following this procedure, you're not only making the surface smooth, you're providing good drainage along each side of the road. And if you don't know it already, maintaining drainage is one of the best ways to keep a road from developing problems. Okay, that's a quick look at the procedures and what we're trying to accomplish. But before we look at each step of the operation in detail, there are a couple more things you should know. To begin with, you should be aware that the amount of moisture in the road can greatly affect the success of the operation. Normally, these roads are best maintained in the spring and fall when there's enough moisture to work the material easily. If we look a little closer, we see an even windrow being formed. Now that's important. If the material were bone dry, the windrow would be uneven and there'd be more a feeling of scraping and ripping the surface. At that point, shaping and smoothing is virtually impossible. Of course, it's your supervisor who schedules the work, but you should be aware of the moisture concerns so you can discuss the situation if you run into problems. Along with moisture, the condition of the road will determine exactly what has to be done. It may be that you'll have to arrange for additional material to be spread into efficient areas. Blading the existing material back across the road may be enough. In fact, different sections of the same road may require different procedures. The point is, use your judgment. Remember, we have to maintain the road's original crown and provide good drainage. So with moisture, shape, and drainage in mind, let's look at each step of the operation. As I said earlier, the first thing to do is to pull the borrow pit along one edge of the road. The idea here is to clean the pit to provide good drainage. So don't be concerned with reshaping. Just apply enough downward pressure on the blade to remove any excess material and obstructions from the borrow pit. You should continue along this first pass for about a half an hour. That's because it'll take about six to eight passes to blade the material from one side to the other and then back again. And you have to allow time for hauling and placing additional material as well. So don't begin more work than you can finish the same day. And on this pass and every other pass, be on the lookout for traffic. If necessary, place additional warning signs to protect both you and the public. Okay, this is what it should look like after your first pass. A clean borrow pit with a windrow at the edge of the road. After you've turned around to begin the next pass, be especially careful not to change the crown of the road. All you want to do here is cut the surface slightly to smooth it and at the same time, pull the windrowed material across it to fill in any low areas. Remember, if the road doesn't have the correct crown, the water won't drain properly. When you're through with the second pass, the road should be sloped slightly toward the borrow pit and the windrow should be near the center of the road. The same procedure holds for the next pass. Cut the surface slightly to smooth it and fill in the low spots with the windrowed material. And that brings us to the other borrow pit. Don't do anything more than clean the borrow pit. Apply slight downward pressure and position the blade to leave a windrow at the edge of the road.  Be careful not to change the crown of the road. Essentially, all you're doing here is smoothing the surface. So no cutting is required at this point. In fact, the blade should be slightly above the surface so that you reduce the size of the windrow with each pass. Done correctly, the final pass should put the trailing edge of the blade along the borrow pit without leaving a windrow. And there's the completed job, a smooth uniform surface with clean borrow pits along each edge. But sometimes the depressions are just too deep to smooth out with the existing material. In that case, the only solution is to bring in more material. Basically, all that's involved is to dump the material where it's needed and then smooth it out across the depressed area. Of course, the entire procedure we just looked at should be repeated if necessary. And those are the procedures to follow for maintaining non-hard surfaces. Remember, make sure the road has the proper amount of moisture before you begin. When you're through, the road will have the proper crown. Both borrow pits will be clear for drainage and the road will be smooth and safe for the traveling public.


So let's do this problem for your acid-base equation, let's write the net ionic equation for this acid-base reaction. HCl plus NaOH goes to water and NaCl. So this is the molecular equation. And we want to figure out the net ionic equation, but before that we've got to do the total ionic equation. So we're writing out the total ionic equation. Just take this and anything that says aqueous, you break it up into its ions. So HCl is aqueous, so two ions are going to be H plus. This is not aqueous, this is liquid, and you're going to keep it together. NaCl, that's aqueous, NaCl, squeeze that ion in. And now all you've got to do for the net ionic is take the things on both sides that are the same and cancel them out. So those are both spectator ions. So we'll take the spectator ions and cross them out. So H plus, we see it over here, but we don't see it over here. So it's not a spectator ion, so we'll put that in the equation. Cl minus, we see it here, and we see it there, right? So it's a spectator ion. Just cancel that out, and we don't put it here. So Na plus here and here, so it's also a spectator ion. So we cancel that out, don't put it in the net ion. OH minus, well I don't see it over here, so we've got to put that in here, because it's not a spectator ion. Of course, H2O liquid isn't an ion at all, right? It's an ion has to have a charge.


can we give away a pair of rewind wireless earbuds on the show this morning standing by two contestants and they are ready to battle it out as we play talk about. Let's go to line one and where are we going? Well we're going to Klawan this morning and we should have on the line standing by Margaret Gallagher who according to this is visiting her son-in-law and brother this morning is that right? Yeah I might be doing a bit of visiting today all right because there's nothing else to be done I'm such a bad day. So you're not actually visiting yet I thought now you'd gone up to the brother-in-law this morning or the son-in-law and the brother this morning so you could round up the trips to get as much help as possible. I thought you were going to cheat on me Margaret which we can't we can't really have.  I'm only waiting. Not in your nature absolutely. Listen so that's the plan today it's a pretty miserable day out there Is it a day for visiting do you think? I know it is a day for visiting. Suppose you're right suppose you're right what would you normally be doing now if the son was shining out there this morning Margaret what would you be doing? Sitting and listening to Highland Radio. Ah correct answer correct answer. Yeah so can I can I get them now? Any any particular show you'd be listening to? Oh possibly the rewind on a Saturday and Paul McDevitt show and you know all the all the shows on Highland are good but yours is the best. Ah you see you know how to play the game don't you? Exactly exactly. Right well it's not that if only it was that easy Mark if only it was that easy listen I know you know the rules I'm going to put I'm going to put a minute on the clock all right I have a list here in front of me of random items I am going to describe as many of these items in a minute as I can you have to guess from my description what those items are if you don't know one all you have to do is say pass and we'll move on all right so Margaret Geller in Klachen but it's not in her nature to cheat or to have anybody helping her it's a solo effort are you ready? Yes she has all right let's put a minute on the clock your time starts now. Right these are vegetables that you would grow on the ground you'd have them well you have them a couple times a week with your dinner they grow under the ground they have correct uh this item uh would come in pretty handy today if you're out walking you'd rumble up correct uh if the power goes off this evening for thunder and lightning you might have to use one of these to find your way around the house. Candle. Correct um this is an agricultural an agricultural piece of machinery they're always out in the roads they might hold up track. Correct um the wetter this thing gets the more it dries you would use it when you get out of the shower correct um this is an item you might have in your handbag a man might have one a woman might have when you keep your your cards your cash uh a little small wallet correct correct uh it's bad luck to walk under one of these things if you're superstitious correct um you're not going to be wearing a pair of these today it's uh they're like trousers but no they're like trousers but they go above the knee oh time's up time's up forget it forget it Margaret time's up yeah yeah hi but i'll tell you what you're a wee bit slow there would you hear that do you want these earbuds or not ah yeah but i don't know let's listen now let's let's have a let's have a quick talk about the scores right you got one you got two you got three four five six seven you got seven of them not too bad not a bad score at all and you didn't pass on any so that seven's the score to beat right but we're going to now head straight over to glimpses not too far over the road because on the line we have Patrick Trimble good morning to you Patrick good morning Rory good morning Margaret another man sitting about the house this morning morning Rory who's you're saying good morning to me are you i i'm getting confused i'm thinking of one of the easier buds oh no you're gonna you're gonna make the whole thing collapse now just rain and i know right okay more than Patrick there we are morning Margaret yeah right are we done right that's the pleasantries out of the way Patrick you're in the you're in the house this morning no plans for the day no i i'll probably head out now whenever the good weather starts to come on oh god i wish i shared your optimism my friend but anyway yep that's okay fair play to you right well let's see now if your head might run down there maybe a pair of wireless earbuds might come in handy you know if you're listening to music when you're out walking who knows but you have a bit of work to do first all right so seven is the score to beat we'll do the same thing again i'll put a minute on the clock i'll run through as many of these items as i possibly can you have to guess from my description what they are if you beat the score of seven the earbuds are yours this morning are you ready Patrick yes all right a minute on the clock your time starts now this is an item you would use to uh you know make your hair tidy in the morning you might use one of these to sweep the floor as well correct if you're in the if you were in the shower this liquid uh you would use it to wash your hair shampoo correct you probably have one of these in the wall in your kitchen that tells you the time correct uh these are an item of clothing that you wear on your feet they're not shoes they're more open than that they have straps no they you're correct uh this is an item uh you would use some material you would use for knitting i will correct i'm speaking into one of these right now so you can hear me and make a microphone correct microphone this is something that you would have sent to somebody back in the day before email before text messaging if you wanted to communicate with someone far away a letter correct uh an item of fruit it grows on a tree uh the granny smith is a correct correct oh this is going to be close all right how many did you get Patrick you didn't pass on any you got one two three four five six seven you got eight of them Patrick which makes you our winner today well done commiserations to you it was close it was close but uh no problem listen you're probably going to blame me anyway for being too slow are you and not at all it's just it wasn't good enough i wasn't quick enough that's the best person one you'll be so hard on yourself all right not at all anyway well done Patrick of market what of market of market would like them and killing it give them to market glory well now do you hear that what what about that for a gesture market what do you think uh thank you very much that would be fantastic and early uh thanks a lot you're a gentleman i've never we've never had that before where the winner has uh not sacrifice what's the word i'm looking for relinquish their prize to the opposition it's a really beautiful moment well sure i'll tell you what market deserves some well do you know what i see can we dig something out of the prize bag for you as well Patrick all right so wow we don't want you going home empty hand but especially after such a such a beautiful gesture what do you think that's brilliant thank you very much Patrick thanks a lot all right we sorted all out oh you're welcome go away right guys all the nice things now he's making me sick go on away the two of yous right we'll sort it out off there all right well done to Patrick and well done to Margaret as well uh Margaret or runner up but she manages to walk away somehow with that pair of rewind wireless earbuds fair play to Patrick as well for being such a gentleman this morning fair play to him she keeps him away shundle


This is Think Tech Hawaii. Community matters here. Welcome to Seamor's World on Think Tech Hawaii. Well, here we are. It's been a month since I've seen you last, and I thank you for all your emails and your texts and phone calls. I am fine. We just happened to go to Africa for a couple of weeks and visited some animals and felt very, very tuned in to what it's like to be without cars, without big buildings, without all that noise. And I'll show you some pictures at the end of the show that I think you'll like. Today's show is very special to me. We are going to talk about gratitude.  And we have to not only experience gratitude, but we have to make sure that we give gratitude to so many people who help us in what we do and throughout our life. So I've invited a very good friend of mine. Her name is Irma Befti, Irna. Welcome to Think Tech Hawaii and Seymour's World. Thank you for having me. Irma is the epitome of a giving mom.  Irma is the most positive person I know, and she will share her stories of her trials and tribulations and more important how she's able to cope using gratitude as her and her children's salvation. And Irma, I have to say that I see you and you gratitude. Gratitude is not just a politeness with you. It's the way of life for you. It reflects a deep humility and love that you feel to every human being I see around you. And saying thank you is just the beginning. And I know that it's how you express gratitude in so many ways. So to make gratitude go a long way, you give back. And that's why I wanted you to be the person that talks about gratitude on our show today. So welcome to Seymour's World. Thank you. Thank you for having me. If I could, I would give you a hug, but the wires won't open up, so we can. But we're connected through wires, yes, we are. We got acquainted at Capulani Hospital. Yes, we did. Where we have our program, Make Him Smile, and our musicians were playing for Skyler one day. Tell us what happened. So Skyler's been in and out of the hospital. She's been in and out of the hospital since about the year 2009. When she was how old? She was seven at the time, just prior to turning eight. And she was diagnosed with a very rare autoimmune disease with its acronym HLH, HEMO, Phagocytic, Lympho, Histiocytosis.  And at the time, children who were diagnosed were in the statistics of one in about every 1.3 million. Oh, my gosh. Of which there were no survivors. So it was certainly a terminal autoimmune disease that didn't have the research at the time to substantiate a treatment protocol. So thank goodness for her team of physicians who, when Skyler had had that really high fever and actually, they couldn't wake her up in school at the time, admitted her, and said, we're going to start this process. So that year, Skyler underwent a lot. And that was the first, we're in the year 2018 now. So it's been quite a journey. 11 years? Oh, 2009. Yeah, right, and 2018 is like right around the corner. So it was in March of 2009 when she was diagnosed with this autoimmune disease. And then through that, we realized as a family that there may be something else going on. So two years after that diagnosis, she was diagnosed with two classes of lupus. Now, when people hear lupus, they're like, well, what's that? There's not a whole lot of airtime for lupus. It's not that it's rare. It's just that it's not widely researched. And when someone gets diagnosed with lupus, they have one class. Just like if you had another diagnosis, say cancer. You specifically know which class you're in, depending on your PET scan and your presenting symptoms. So Skyler has two classes of lupus, which made it even a bit more of a challenge to treat. But she has a team of physicians, amazing physicians. Can we meet Skyler? Let's meet Skyler. OK, oh, there she is. I remember that little girl so well. And the reason I remember Skyler so well, Erin Domingo was playing one of our musicians. And Skyler was there. And even though I could see the pain and everything that she was going through, she looked at me and I saw that smile. And I said, that's what our program is all about. We can make a child smile, which is great. Go ahead. So two years, about two and a half years later, when Skyler was diagnosed, we knew that there was more to just her monthly IVIG infusions that she had to have. And so it was a big paradigm shift in our family. I stopped working as a full-time counselor and was really kind of her person. Yeah, and that's her. Yeah, that's her just a couple of months ago. And she's always smiling. She is. I have never seen that young girl. And I know she has pain. Oh, I'm sure she.  Look how beautiful she is. But most of the time, she's happy. That's Dr. Mellis. She's amazing. And is that her doc? That's her immunologist, so infectious disease. Here in Hawaii? Yes. OK. And she actually, not a lot of people know, but she is really the one who discovered Kawasaki's disease. Now, the reason it's not called Mellis disease is because she was having her fourth child when it was published. So the other doctor then got the naming rights to the disease. But that's one of her physicians that is part of the team that treats her still today. So how do you interpret gratitude?  Yes. So you were a single mom, right? Yeah.  I absolutely love. And you don't show, unless you have moments where it hurts, you're showing gratitude all the time. I do. That type of a person. But I'm also human. So I have my moments of being bummed and just kind of like, but in the grand macro perspective, I'm a real big believer in micro efforts. So if we make a micro effort to say thank you or to show gratitude to someone, it could be the janitor on campus. It could be the head of school on campus. There is this ripple effect that's felt. And it impacts more than just the person you're thanking. It impacts the person giving it. It might be people within an earshot. So there's an impact there. I don't do it for the impact, but I do see the tangible effect of being happy. So to you, gratitude. And here we are, Thanksgiving is next week. And I don't know when you're going to be watching our show, but Thanksgiving is next week here in the US. And it's all about gratitude. It is. It's all about giving back. It's all about recognizing people for what they do, what they've done for us, and what they do for themselves. Absolutely. And you do such a great job. Oh, I have been flowed like any other human. But I'll give you an example, Seymour. So about five years ago, I met this mom. And our children were both having infusion at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. And I didn't know where her child attended school. We just talked, oh, OK, are you eating granola? Oh, I'm eating granola today, too. Are you having coffee? Oh, I drink tea. It became that conversation. And we didn't need to know what each other's children or diagnoses were. But years later, she's become a really good friend. And she is exemplary with her level of gratitude. And then there's this sort of symbiosis that happens when you show gratitude.  And a micro-effort really does go a long way.  Absolutely. I don't care how much money you have. If you don't show gratitude for the life that you have. And of course, we're going to talk about it in the second half of the show with me and my cancer and all that kind of stuff. If you don't show gratitude, you really have a very difficult time in enjoying life. Richness has nothing to do with money. I agree. I 1,000% agree. I know of a family. In fact, this morning, I'm making lunches for my children, and I'm watching something on the news. And it was about this family that I hold very dear to my heart. Our children are both with WISH children, with the Make-A-Wish Hawaii Foundation. And in 2016, I'm sorry, in 2015, their child was playing as normal as can be. And all of a sudden, he ends up at the ER. It was May of 2015. They don't know what's going on. The school is right adjacent to the preschool. And then they find out he has a terminal brain tumor. And no one would have guessed that. He was out playing soccer the week before. He was being what any four-year-old would be doing. And that's living life and being present. And in January of 2016, he passed away. And I saw their little narrative, again, on a little excerpt for Hospice Hawaii. And I thought, this family has really had challenges, too. But they still lead their lives with extreme gratitude, even when the sun got discharged from Kapiolani. The first thing she had said was, I am so grateful for this place. No one knew that it would have been a matter of days before this boy passed away at home. But it isn't even just a chicken-skinned moment. It's a soul-stirring moment. Chicken-skinned moment for me. And a reminder. It's a reminder of, wow, there are a lot of things going wrong in this world. There are. And yet, this family has banded together. Their community, their tribe, has banded together and really saw not even the glass half-full. It was overflowing. And most people would have been like, oh, this is just tragic. But it was a beautiful experience, all of it. And it's been a year and a half since he passed away, about a year and a half since my husband passed away, because they were about two weeks apart. And do they ebb and flow? Absolutely, because they're human. But they live. They really live. And their blessings come, it's soul-stirring. It's really awe-inspiring to watch them. I think the message behind what you're saying is so important, because everything we read about in the newspaper, read a newspaper, watch television, listen to the news, it's all sensationalism about negativity. And that's how I guess they feel they need to sell papers. It's our job, my job, your job, to help people understand that life is wonderful. And I know the topic of the day right now, we are in November. And the topic of the day is all about women who are being sexually abused in the workplace. And we know that it is there. But if that's all we focus on, and we don't focus on the wonderful things that are happening to people around the world, then obviously we'll only think that the world is a terrible place. When it truly is not. It is not. And Sue and I were just talking about it, because we both happen to, like Al Franken, who's being accused of doing stuff, and now the president and CEO of NPR. And these are people who I've always looked up to, and they're being accused of it. And you say to yourself, why? How? It doesn't matter. It's a microcosm. It is a microcosm. It really is a very small piece. More important to all of you is to understand that if you have in your life a moment where you can show gratitude to somebody else, that is a moment that you'll cherish forever. And very often that comes back to you. That's what you were saying. I agree. That it comes back to you. It does. In recent months, Skylar has changed one of her specialists, one of her nephrologists, because her previous nephrologist is retiring, and we transitioned. And there was a little bit of unexpected apprehension there, because we got so used to having the same nephrologist since 2009. And as Skylar was leaving infusion last week, Friday, we bumped into Martha Smith, who is the CEO of Kapilani Hospital, lovely, lovely human with all the right life force energy in her. And I told her, I said, thank you so much for Susan Ingram. And she drank her, she was drinking her coffee. And she's like, oh, you're with Susan now. And I said, she is amazing. And she is very detailed. She is very on point with her treatment plans, and somewhat serious. But we've managed to crack smiles out of her. It's all of its beauty.  And people tell me I'm a very positive person. You are. I'm on a scale of 1 to 10 with you, because that's not that terrific. Before we need to take a break, because we have to, I have a little quote that I want to say that I wrote down. If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied. And that's a mistake, because having a little more is not what it's all about. If you really want to be satisfied, you have to be able to give back to people. That's what it's all about. I'm Seymour Kazimersky on Seymour's World. Irma Baptista is our guest today. And we are going to be talking more about what you need to do to have a better life. And I believe a lot of it has to do with showing gratitude. Back in a minute. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Aloha, I'm Gordo the Texar, the host of Hibachi Talk. Think Tech is important to me, because I believe we bring very interesting topics and objective matter to the community. For the first time, Think Tech Hawaii is participating in a campaign to raise $40,000. Give thanks to Think Tech. We'll run during the month of November, and you can help. Please donate what you can so that Think Tech Hawaii continue to raise public awareness and promote civic engagement through free programming like mine. I've already made my donation and look forward to yours. Please send your tax-deductible contribution by going to this website. Thanks for thinktech.causevox.com. On behalf of the community enriched by Think Tech, Hawaii's 30-plus weekly shows, thank you, or mahalo, for your generosity. Hi, welcome back to Seymour's World on Think Tech Hawaii. And if you've followed the program so far, you know that I believe that somebody besides me is a very positive person and can talk about what makes us so positive, what makes us such happy people, what makes us want to give back to our community and to all the people around us. So we've invited Irma Baptiste, my good friend. Thank you. Who basically is my teacher when it comes to understanding why gratitude is so important. So just before we got on, you were telling me about a story about what happened at school. Yes. Go ahead. So I think in every educational venue, whether it be a preschool or a grade school or a high school or a college or post-college, there is the need to have very serious discussions about sexual assault and what that means. And how do we empower our children, not just women, but our children to have that level of discernment and moral compass? We can't erase things that happened five minutes ago. They've existed. But what we have the ability to do is tailor here and now and afford momentum in order to nudge that trajectory. I'm a firm believer of restorative justice and the educational system. So what do we do? Do we punish every individual that has done something wrong? And that's a conversation that's person-specific, because there's no one-size-fits-all. And it's the same with the workplace. I think it has to be situation-specific. And in speaking with this venue today specifically that I just came from, I kept trying to raise my hand to explain my take on it. And it was difficult, because people had more pressing or more earnest efforts than I did. And it made me think, OK, so today is November 17. Yesterday, my daughter was at Camp Erdman. Today, she comes back to school. I pick her up. And she takes with her a container 23 times 7. That's how many pills she takes every day. 23 pills a day. A day. She takes 20 pills a day. And this girl is still smiling and loving. She is. She's vertically. That comes from you, Erdman. Well, I think it's the vertical challenge. We kind of like, we have to grow somewhere. So that's where we choose to grow. And she takes, I have a hard time with my multivitamin. And at one point, my physicians wanted me to take more vitamin E, I think, or maybe it was D. And you're right. And she takes 23 like a champ. 19 in the morning, four at night. And it's very, and it's not a condolence thing. Like, don't feel sorry. It's just a perspective thing. But what is the lesson there? How do you get to that point in your life where you start to take control of the positive things in your life, putting the negative things behind you a little bit? You can't eliminate them. You said so before. You can't. Your daughter has to take 23 pills a day. Yeah. And she has a four hour. You have to live with all that kind of stuff. She's a four hour incubation. And yet you remain positive. And you remain full of gratitude for the life that you have. Well, I also feel, see more, that if we are happy, we can learn, right? Same with a child. Do I want them to get great grades in school? Sure. But they're not going to do that unless they're happy and they're grateful. So I think if we start there and make that micro effort at home, the macro being the school environment or the soccer team or the church or whatever other thing they do outside of school will fill that ripple effect. So we do have a starting point. And as parents trying to grow our children, I mean, we have that responsibility, I think. I think you're right. And I think if we understand that the thanks we have for what we have is a lot more important than saying, I wish I had something else or I wish I had a bigger car or a bigger house or no matter what it is, it's not only children. Adults themselves have more issues with wanting more and not being satisfied with what we have and understanding that there's a lot of people below us who don't have anywhere near the comforts, the level of appreciation that we have. And that translates, the appreciation translates into thank you, that translates into gratitude. And I think that's such an important piece of our puzzle. It is. You know, at the end of every month, I redo our calendar at home at a glance, right? Month at a glance, the kids know who have soccer, who has robotics, who's going to Hula, who's volunteering today. And they know which their moving parts are. And I'm looking at this as the children are asleep. I'm looking at the calendar thinking, what a blessing it is to have so many things to go to. There you go. Okay, so wait a second. That's taking the positive side of it, where some parents would say, oh my God, look at all the stuff I have to take my kids to. I wish I didn't have to take them to soccer. And you look at it and you say, it's a blessing to do all this stuff. And my children are healthy enough to be able to do that. Once upon a time, there's no way Scarlett could be. She had muscle atrophy from being in the hospital. But that is the difference from, that's the difference between a positive attitude and a negative attitude. Now going on that, we're going to bring up some pictures from the hospital. Let's see if we can get them up there. Okay, now here we are. Look at the guy on the right, when you're looking at him. His name is Aiden James. He's at this time, he was 13 years old. And he's a young ukulele player. He's been on our show before. And he's playing for a patient in the hospital. This young man, the reason I have this slide up, is because he's now moved to LA. He comes to Hawaii every now and then. A week before he comes to Hawaii, now he's 15. He says, Uncle Seymour, can I play at the hospital? Imagine for a 50 year old to want to give back like that. Let's look at the next one. Okay, now here's a patient. Look at her smile. Aaron Domingo is playing, that's the mom. And that's the patient, I can't say their names. But you just look at her and just look at how happy she is to be listening to music. Just having gratitude for that moment in time that's gonna give her a little bit of satisfaction. Let's see the next one. Oh, this is very special for me. This is Annie and Curtis of Mango Season. And they were in the natal unit. As you could see, this is a very small baby. And the baby's actually in a full cast. You can't see it, but her body is in a cast and her arm is in a cast. And she was there for six weeks. And every time, we're there every single week, twice a week. And every time we're there, we go and we play for her.  She's in such pain. She stops crying when we go and we play for her. That's beautiful. Let's see the next one. Oh, these are the smallest guys we have. It make them smile. They're called the Hawaiian heavyweights. I love it. And they are, as you could see, good size boys. And this young lady has cancer. And she agreed to let us take her picture with her mom. And you could see that smile on her, that instance of thank you and gratitude just for coming by. I think there's another one or two before. Yes, there's Tahiti Ray and Augie Ray. I don't know if you know them, but they're wonderful, wonderful people. They're playing at Capulani Hospital. That's a playroom that your daughter has been in many, many, many times. And they're playing for the kids. It's beautiful. I think we have one more. Yes, and this is one of my favorites. This is Hawaii Foster Youth Coalition. This is the group of young people that I mentor under my You Are In Charge program. And this is their graduation day. You could see one of the guys is paraplegic. And the other kids that are there, they're all part of my program. And we graduate them twice a year. We have two eight-week sessions. And I'm so thankful that I can do that. I'm so thankful that I can help these kids because two, three years after, I get a phone call sometimes and they tell me what they're doing and what's going on in their life. So to me, that is such a wonderful way for me to appreciate the work that I've done for them. And it's just a wonders for me.  Oh, I do all the time. And that's always a wonderful thing to be a part of. I have a student who was very shy in kindergarten and first grade. And by the time she was in the second grade, she's now in the seventh grade and she's a published author because she just blossomed with her writing because she really wasn't that shy kid. We just had to figure out where her sweet spot was for growth. And we collectively did that with her therapist, with her teachers, and now she's a published author. It's amazing to know that this child has went from someone who we now see would not speak much to someone who just eloquently writes like a grown-up. And you feel partially responsible for that. It's beautiful, yeah, it is, it is. I feel the same way when people call me three, four years later and they tell me where they are. We're so blessed. I mean, about six months ago on this show we gave away a $5,000 scholarship to Argosy University to one of our foster kids, one of those kids that you saw in the picture. And I get a call from him and he says, Uncle Seymour, can you come on December the 9th? They're gonna make an award presentation to me and I want you to be there because you were the reason I was able to get into Argosy University. Oh, I love it. I think, how could you beat that? How could you not go? Cause that's right. And I've got goosebumps thinking about it. That's what it does to me too. Burma, we're at the end of the show and we have to say goodbye. And I just wanted to ask you to say thank you to whomever you would like to for all the blessings that you have today. Oh, you know, we have such an array of people that we'd like to thank, but I have to thank friends, family, my children for coming through the trenches with whatever we had come our way in the last decade, I would say. I really, you know, it's just, it's really thanking everyone around us. There's really not one or two people. It's a whole village, literally, that comes together to make this work. And especially in your situation, Irma, where you have suffered so much, I've known you now for five years, probably. And I know you're both on a personal level and a business level. And you are a very, very special woman. Oh, thank you. And it is absolutely my pleasure, my treasure, to be called your friend. Oh, thank you. So thank you so much for coming to... I see more of this world. And I wanna thank you out there for watching the show. I'm doing a commentary actually on gratitude right after the show and you'll be able to see it. And it's people like Irma that makes me want to do what I do.  And I just think that that's what makes me tick. So to all of you out there, happy Thanksgiving. To all of you out there, I wish you well and we'll see you on Seymour's World and Think Tech, Hawaii. Aloha.


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