Make it a break it is this fight they kept on having for two weeks at the 50 day moving average That's the make it a break it here. We're just trying to get baby steps here. We're just trying to Welcome to access a trader the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success profitability and longevity Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge master your process and own your future Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the axis of trader calm nightly wrap-up show Hope everybody is doing well. So Now that may is here, right? We wanted to see what the market at least for the first couple days can do after the worst performing month sit on the S&P lost almost nine percent's lowest since 2020 and the absolute worst month for the Nasdaq since 2008 going back to The mortgage crisis and you know the market posted. I guess you could call it right back-to-back Up sessions, right? That's the best way to say it. Is it, you know, are we getting anywhere? Probably not right if you look at most channels most names are very very tight, okay? I think The market is on pause Waiting for the Fed to give us a little bit more kind of guidance of what happens next You know, is there another rate hike ahead of us for tomorrow? Probably right? I think it's all Already been discussed the plans laid out now. The question is, you know, how aggressive do they want to get that? They want to go 25 they want to go 50 Whatever the case may be again as much as I would love to have a whole conversation About transitory inflation. Yes, it's a word. I will use now in a sentence to word transitory You know, it is what it is, right? There's 3 million people have different opinions It is what it is with inflation moving high on gas moving prices To the all-time universe highs and all that stuff and they're squeezing the middle lower class is very very tough to get excited About what the economy is holding but again, it's not our job. We can't control Everything that is around us. The only thing we can control is well our craft, right? Our craft our trading our ability to wait our ability to strike when things are aggressive when things are clear N1 sentiment matches Technical analysis and that's all it is and what we've seen now for the last couple days, you know, look yesterday when I logged off You know that the Dow was down the Nasdaq was was down a hundred and points or so But ended a day, you know a nice little rally, you know a nice little turn around again The bull could turn around and say well, that's it. You know with it.  Everybody's gone. They're both right, right? They're absolutely both right and nothing nothing guys remember nothing is going to materialize In any shape or form until number one we get that News out of the way tomorrow, but more important is kind of from the technical point of view The balls did at least a good job today, right? Reclaiming the five-day moving average on a back-to-back victory again Call it what you want today green is green the scoreboard is a scoreboard The market had an opportunity if you guys remember last Thursday to kind of follow through to the upward bias At least for one more day and the next day what happened was the next day was Friday They failed to do so the net the Dow towards end of the week on Friday lost 900 points So tomorrow let's see, you know, can we at least follow through Get back to this 10-day moving average and then slowly but surely we'll take baby steps These are all questions that it's very very tough to answer because this there's not a lot of emphasis here You could you could see it with your own eyes For the exception of for the exception of today's session We haven't had a back-to-back, you know back-to-back sincere right since 418 This is the complete breakdown of this this Bollinger Band lower So it's very very tough to get excited one way or another and most important is you got to look at it from the Trading aspect point of view. There are no breakouts, right? They're absolutely very very few stocks in any aspect of the market the S&P again You could turn around for the oil trade like a name for example Like an oxy right and they for example like oxy looks good, right?  Hey, they look okay They're not really tradable yet. They're invest in veal's you worst case you buy them two three days You use the previous days low as you stop but that they're not the darlings of Wall Street It's technology right and the whole point of technology is two things are happening either stocks are way below Their supply and that pretty much goes for everything or they're trying to get above supply But they're just not enough room for them to go on this Gargantuan gangbusters run because there's no emphasis people don't believe this and then there's a good reason They don't believe this because well where way below supply when you look at that just on the cues when you look at the Spies as well, right spies, you know is just completely lost the 50-day moving average Traded down put in a nice hammer, which is a little bit bullish trade it up today Okay, cool got rejected off the five-day moving average so they couldn't even close above the five days So I think tomorrow will have a little bit more Kind of a guideline of what's going to happen Maybe for the next day or so tomorrow By no stretch of the imagination is going to be a make it or break it for the market because we're not even close to that You can look at any index in the world make it or break it is this fight They kept on having for two weeks at the 50-day moving average. That's to make it a break it here We're just trying to get baby steps here We're just trying to reclaim today's highs and going back to the 10-day moving average reclaim the 10-day Going to the 20 and on and on and on but that is not here not there and it all kind of depends what happens Tomorrow with the Fed the one thing that I will say, you know not too much to report today Right when every when things are kind of in a holding pattern, okay And everybody's kind of waiting for you know, what's going to happen tomorrow with the Fed as you can possibly imagine There wasn't 85 dollar moves one way or another people are just sitting people are just washing people are just maybe even positioning even Even the options market today. It was pretty quiet and that is again Understandable was there, you know, was there pivots for us to take advantage of only a couple right literally only a couple One of them is obviously the greatest stock in the world And this is again when we talk about how why option flow is so duper super duper important when it comes to Facilitating a possible confirmation It gives you a guideline where the institutional money flow is going But other than that there's really not a lot to talk about for today's session after the close You got a mixed bag Of earnings AMD nice little quarter, you know considering this whole supply chain Supply chain status quo right AMD putting up a nice quarter Airbnb who got you know pretty beat up Throughout the day is rallying back a little bit after the close Not so lucky on the other side lift is getting a pretty good A pretty good haircut here. You can see his really really big move down Match.com apparently my tender account has been suspended because I just don't understand the stock is Is going lower but more important is again, you can see the structural bowels not here not there Nobody's really predicting nobody's really making a point of reference of emphasis. Which way we're going to go next Again for me, I don't need to guess right We don't need to try to figure out what's going to happen You know what's going to happen a month from now a year from now The only thing we care about is what happens tomorrow right and again You could continue to continue to use the word sell buy a sell buy a sell buy us Until we at least start reclaiming the 10 day moving average and have a tradeable At least have a tradeable little bit rally back to the 20 day supply But as of right now status is quo It doesn't make a difference the markets up a little bit today the market is down a little bit today The matter of fact is stocks were Contracting the channels there wasn't any emphasis like I mentioned before the options market wasn't screaming This is going to go this way. This is going to go that way. We're just pretty much in a holding pattern Waiting for tomorrow and again, that's the discipline right you only trade when you get value You only trade when you have clear channels and this morning when you look at You know when you look at the twitter feed this morning, you know, there was literally I literally put what? three or four pivots and I and I basically say I got look You know market rally gested into the close and really messed up downside setups right leaving us with very few tickers To the upside with room right that's the optimum word room any stock can move up But the point is can stocks move up enough that there's range that you can take advantage of a trade That's not the case with most stocks. Uh, and that's kind of the those the mo for the whole day Just things were just not moving. Uh, and that was the the bottom line So and I said, listen, I'll put additional pivots as they develop especially tesla tesla definitely save the data Right. Definitely save the day today and it's obviously one of the stronger names. So let's talk about today again Not a lot of room anywhere Facebook one of the very few that actually had it. I guess a low ball Beat today, you know beat this quarter on earnings. Uh, 12 50 13 needs to build again Not a big move right the initial move is less than a dollar went up like a dollar in change went from that 11 12 50 13 area ultimately to about 15, you know, listen tomorrow if we follow through could it get to 17 18? Yeah, I think it can but again, it's very very tough to get excited This isn't exactly, you know, this isn't exactly the go-to pattern Structure of a stock, you know, normally, you know when a market is good The last thing I want to be is in anything that has gapped down Several times into their into their quarter and now trying to recover But again beggars can't be choosers and this is definitely One of the aims at least has a little bit of visual room That you could take advantage of so, you know, nice, you know, a nice little pop there on Facebook Netflix never got to uh, 205 I really thought we were gonna have a I really thought we were gonna have a pivot today on on on On docu right they got downgraded today by wedbush 81 is the pre market low for experienced trader However, this needs to confirm the daily 80 30 80 and if it builds below can flush potential of 77 It never even confirmed docu. It's the most the wildest thing docu Traded down to 81 17 and all it did was literally from the word go Just it actually went green at some points. It never came close to even Confirming to the downside, which I thought was extremely puzzling, but it is what it is This is the one that definitely saved the day 9 11 tesla 9 11 needs to build This is one that we talk about how important the importance of option flow is We started seeing the 9 75 we started seeing the thousand weeklies come in And tesla took out this whole channel here, right took out this whole channel here And went from 9 11 all the way to the 9 24 daily measured potential and why was it 9 24? That was the 150 day supply zone. So again tesla continues to be even in the tightest ranges Continues to be just a just a godsend. That's the only thing I could say just a godsend When this thing is finally going to go higher it needs to confirm Last what was it last thursday last fridays High so if they could confirm the 50 day moving average, then this thing could wake up But again, we're far away from that the most important thing is again just take it One day at a time. So again, nothing really I think that's about it, right in the video Towards the end of the day exploded. Excuse me. It's spiked up after the close On amd's earnings stock is moving above that level right now, but that's it I mean, that's it and sometimes again, you know as much as Social media feeds you the whole thing about, you know, everything's moving. That's moving. That's moving this moving I don't know what market you're looking at But you know anybody that has been trading for a very long time knows that value is value Not value is quantity value is quality and that's the most important thing that we'd like today is quality But that's this one, right? You sit because you are waiting for measured potential Not because you're dying or itching for a trade that's called gambling That's called an addiction and that's something you might want to see somebody about but that's it guys It all comes down to Fed day tomorrow is a possible we have a gang buster Two three hours before the Fed fingers crossed, right? But there's also a possibility that we're just sitting there playing with our hands Until the Fed comes out with the numbers again These are things that every professional trader is going to be all watching exactly the same way I promise you my you know my view of the market is going to be exactly the same as yours and vice versa So all of us are in the same boat. So guys have a great night everybody.  Stay happy. Stay healthy and all this help. We'll see each other tomorrow. Take care


My name is Jimmy his name is Jake and this is the weekly dumb middle camera Good one two three The love affair happening between cousins center of the table gross and not in his nephew. How are you Jim? It's not about me unfortunately You're in it man. You got a vacation coming up your car got stolen. How are you doing? I'm on vacation right now as they watch this So hopefully I'm doing really good playing on the little kids water part Seven kids down slides not catching them. Which one's this? Oh, here's guy.  That's my goal. I want him to dominate the like three-year-old Water slide place as a one-year-old three-year-old. Well, he's one, but I'm gonna dominate all three-year-olds I had goals man. Well, he beats up his cousins already. He's a lunatic your cousins are soft Let's talk about the sports. What do you got Jim huge games this weekend? Let's talk about what's important Guardians manager Terry Francona We met him Terry Francona had his scooter stolen and you're more sus than a bus on this Yeah, the story is good the video is good the police give him it's all good The police give him his scooter back if you don't know he rides his scooter everywhere He rides it from his apartment to the stadium game on game days. I like that so you could see him There's clips of him having it on the field before the game and so because Terry Francona has no rules and that's fair No rules and that's fair. He shouldn't he left it Outside his apartment while he was gone or something came back for a fan fest and so where's my scooter? And the cops were like we'll find it right and then found it rather quick Feels a lot like this. You know how you say I got towed recently Feels a lot like right Cleveland police did not realize whose scooter they saw outside of apartment and just locked it up Oh, yeah, we found it in some homeless park and it was cleaner.  Hey Joe that's scooter you took in less. It was that oh man There's been no arrests made no, it's cleaner. They just deliver it and it happened like that Maybe it's maybe it was like a rookie initiation like oh your cop. Why don't you steal that scooter? You stole Terry Francona scooter. That's like the most valuable asset in Cleveland. He loves that scooter. He loves that scooter Jim what's this almost a breakdown that's going through the streets another spin on a story that the headline here is man Struggles to lift stolen gorilla statue into pickup truck and if you watch the video.  He's wearing gloves. He's on a caper He's a thief on caper a caper isn't that like a heist I think those are like on French dishes two different things nice and he's got cutters So he cuts the gorilla free because the gorilla was changed enters and then he picks up the gorilla also two terms Cutter pitch. Yeah cutter people are cutting line cutters puts the gorilla into the truck bed And you kind of gently like twist it lez it down make sure the head doesn't get hit He didn't struggle at all. Yeah in his head executed it perfectly He executed this perfectly and I think that's how the police are trying to track him down, right? They make the headline man struggles. This guy's not gonna stay silent, right? He's gonna be like I Didn't struggle at all, right? Gotcha going to some of the local brew poops local brew poops. He's telling people in there Yeah, that's police work one-on-one. I didn't struggle found a dead body Yeah, the guy cut off all the hair It looks like he also sneezed on the body and then the murderers like I didn't sneeze on nobody and the where it Arrested is that hair where it got me was it looked like there was gonna be a struggle because he flips the gorilla And I thought he was gonna do the like flop it in the bed of the truck and the truck does the like He just lets it down gently no struggle from this man better down gently What's he doing with that gorilla statue? Can we get back to the sports shake and let's keep it baseball? Related. Yeah, it's a big baseball. I have football. There's only one more game left One of the best closers in baseball history Arkansas State for a year Maybe Collin Stone who's a big warehouse competitor for a stoner one. You may know his uniform You make flurry power. We brought him back to do a challenge. She hit 103 on the gun from 50 48 feet which the math comes out to about what buck 20 45 to the actual home plate 47 feet to the strike zone. Yes, I got buck 20 120 mile per hour reaction time And we did and people chime in these balls move a lot You saw it already pop out of my hand from that distance moving the washer hand We didn't make a lot of contact Joe's McFly accidentally did any one and people are wondering if he's dog shit or not He did three times. He made contact. It was pretty scary the first pitch to Kenobi. Oh scared for where we are That's scary. We had some people in the comments that kind of called us losers and we're not Why don't you take that with you point counterpoint man? Collins pitches were so hard and curvy like your Roman wiener go to Roman. Thanks Roman for curving it up The not sports is exciting J But you don't like this story. It's an animal story an animal that I don't think the animal is suffering So according to the story this raccoon the animal suffering this raccoon had its testicles Frozen to a railroad track and was just sitting there staring at the oncoming trains I tried tugging at its nuts and they're frozen and then these two Humans came along and they said I poured water under his bottom While a co-worker worked the shovel under his butt. He jumped off the rail ran in the woods never looked back So the not grateful the raccoon for being saved So I was wondering if there's some kind of kinky role play that the raccoon was doing with another raccoon kind of damsel in distress situation and the human Ruined it so you missed the guy's name that saved the raccoon. It was obviously Neil Mullis Rate that name three wait hold on Neil Mullis three two one two and a half. Yeah, it's not great Neil's funny at the end of the day Mullis, I mean almost a zero if your first name is Neil your last name has to do a lot of Mullis yeah, my god mr.  Yeah hot He was just trying to test out the cold temperature on his swimming swimming It was negative 12 degrees like he had a sip of water and then like he pivoted his balls clipped the water on the way out Relatable First timer, I'm not sure maybe maybe and a Hernandez Amanda on the sales team brought in a big deal not like something what you've been asking and chasing not like a big No, not like a like oh you save the company and pay these people now like no something cool hit tracks Who hit the ball the hardest now we'll know and now we'll see and better times for you and me enjoy therapy Hello That was a weekly time Today's episode was brought to you by Roman Valentine's Day is coming up And if you want to have better sex got to go to Roman because Roman addresses a variety of sexual needs for men They can help you last four times longer in bed with their swipes They have medicine that helps achieve and maintain a stronger erection.  That's our oh dot co slash John boy He thanked all the police officers. He revved it. It's like all that power And then he takes this this brief pause and nods and then says good to be back in business And then drives away, but because it's a scooter not a motorcycle. He has to like use his feet He does like a little kick pedal like a Fred Flintstone. Yeah, that made me laugh. I like that too


China attacked the American continent with spy balloons. A second Chinese spy balloon has been spotted over Latin America. A day after a similar craft was seen in U.S. skies, prompting the scrapping of a rare trip to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Authorities labelled the high-altitude balloon which was spotted over sensitive sites unacceptable, saying it violated U.S. airspace and international law and was being used for surveillance. Beijing previously claimed the balloon was a weather research airship that had been blown off course. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed with Director of China's CCP Central Foreign Affairs Office Wang Yi on the phone on Friday the incident with a high-altitude Chinese balloon over the United States. I spoke this morning with Wang Yi to convey that, in light of China's unacceptable action, I am postponing my plan to travel this weekend to China. Blinken said at a joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin at the U.S. Department of State. And I made it clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in U.S. airspace is a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law. That it's an irresponsible act and that the PRC's decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussion that we were prepared to have. Blinken insisted. Last November in Bali, U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping agreed for the U.S. Secretary of State to visit Beijing to follow up on the agenda the two heads of state had discussed at the meeting. China said the first balloon was for civilian meteorologic and scientific purposes that strayed into U.S. airspace. The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological purposes. Said the statement attributed to a foreign ministry spokesperson. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into U.S. airspace due to force majeure. It said, using the legal term for an act outside of human control.


450, it says, in the first place, all the particles of Earth by reason of their weight and entertainment congregated in the middle and occupied the lowest positions. And there's another part in both. Well, basically, well, there's another particle that says something similar. And I think it kind of suggests that there is a center of the world or some sort of spherical spatial structure. But I think that also kind of contradicts what we heard earlier in class about how things fall parallel to each other rather than towards a center. So I thought that part was kind of confusing. It is. So first of all, they have an infinite spatial universe. So it's infinite in all directions. Now that is for sure. They don't have a limited cosmos like Aristotle does, where it's just a sphere or something. So already there's a problem. There can't be a center of something that's infinitely extended in every direction. So how could we, I mean, just immediately there's that problem of talking about a middle. Furthermore, this idea about atoms falling in parallel lines. And so you have this sort of laminated structure where everything is constantly falling downwards. Well, if everything is falling downwards, then again, how do they say there is any center? And also, how do they say there is any downwards? Because if it's infinite in all directions, what's the difference between up and down? Up and down means relative to some end point or beginning point. But if there isn't one, then downwards doesn't make any sense. So there's a couple of ways we use to get out of this. One thing we can do is have a conception where we have a kind of Cartesian grid with an x and a y axis. And we say that all the atoms all are falling at the same speed in the same direction downwards. And that means downwards relative to this grid, which we can place anywhere in the universe. Now, the idea of it collecting around a center, and what does that mean? First of all, in theory, that should imply that there is a spherical Earth. For example, I'll give you a simplified picture of Aristotle's cosmos, a sphere with a sphere in the center. The Earth is in the center. And downwards means in the direction towards the center. And that can go from any point on the circumference. So this is downwards. That's downwards, meaning towards the center. And up means away from the center. But that's not the Epicurean picture, because they don't have a spherical cosmos. And it's not even clear that they have a spherical conception of the Earth. So what we have to do here is talk about cosmic border states that somehow you have these vast regions of space. And then you get these that are full with atoms moving in all sorts of different directions. And these are relatively full. And then, but there's these vast void areas. There isn't actually a boundary here. It's just indicating that this is a void area that's free of these. Then there's a theory about how atoms falling into these kind of vortices end up swirling like this down towards the center of vortex. And so that's why it's thought to be down as it's sort of like a whirlpool heading down into it. And then down in the middle of this is where the heavy stuff gets collected. And there is a sort of centrifugal motion here where heavy bodies head towards the center and light bodies get thrown out towards the edge. And that's meant to account for the observable cosmos. It looks like heavy bodies are all here, like the ground we're standing on. And there's all these light bodies, like the stars and the sun and the moon up there. And we have to explain that. And we think that's all just motions of atoms and void. So we have this general view that atoms are all moving in the same direction. But they get caught up in vortices. And then there's some kind of physics of vortices. But although we need to use Lucretias to try to figure out details of Epicurean physics because of the loss of all the main Epicurean works, he is not always very clear with this. And so we get problems like this passenger calling our attention to.


You can now follow me in all my social media platforms to find out who my latest guest will be and don't forget to click the subscribe button and the notifications button so you're notified for when my next podcast goes live. And yeah, they both beat me up and I went home crying and my mum said, what's happened? And I said, I've just been beaten up by the two brothers. They lived on my estate. So she got me in a car and she gave me a bat and she said, brother lived there. I said, yeah, she stopped outside. She would get out of the car and knock on the door. And he'd just be the life out of me. So I had to grab him and I beat him. And I got disqualified. Got banned for a year in amateur boxing. I think I was the only first one to bite someone.  Love was just blind. I ended up turning to booze and drugs. And we're still fighting to try and get the money for that. To try and turn my life around. I wanted to turn my life around. I wanted the money, but it wasn't. It was just a vicious circle. I was making money to spend money, to drink money and to sniff money. Working for drug dealers. They've ended up killing one geezer. I ended up driving a motor, doing runs. When I was younger and pulled up, some geezer opened a car door and he went like that down the back of the seat, pulled out a gun.  I'd do a video. Hey, what's happening now? We're doing, smiling. Have a great day, people. Mother, put the phone down. I'll cry. I'll cry. And I took a load of pills. You get to that stage where you don't want to be. Don't mean to, like, get upset, but I've been there. It does, it does really.  I just want people to listen. Boomer on. Today's guest, we've got Chazza. How are you? Chazza, how are you, mate? It's a pleasure. Good to see you. Good to see you, buddy. You're looking well. Yeah, it looks like you've been all right, not me. I want you to get some colour. Mad story, Chazza. You know yourself. You're one of the boys. Party scene. You're boxing, career. Bare knuckle boxing. You've battled your own depression. Good friends with my boy, Dapper. But a roller coaster. But a lot of people can relate to these podcasts because I think a lot of people have kind of been in that same boat. Trying to make everybody laugh. Drink, drugs. Pretending to be something that we're not. But glad to have you on, brother. It's been a long time coming. Thank you so much. I'm glad to be on just to express my story for the real people out there. You know, the people that are at the bottom and that go through mad stuff. And there's just normal people working class. And that's all I want to do is just show that if I can do it, anybody can do it. I always go back to the start of my guests. Where do you grew up and how it all began? Grew up on a council estate. I moved in with my nan on the estate when I was three. Lived there. It was a rough estate. You had to fight the way to the top in that estate. There was nothing given to you. Got bullied as a kid. Coming through, we're like, sorry. I got kicked out of junior school. What for? Argued with a teacher and then I kicked him in the shins.  Just a little, I was just a little tear away. Then, yeah, I went to high school. I got kicked out of high school. So I've got no education whatsoever. Grating now. Always the funny kid. Always the classroom clown.  And I was 14. So I found myself a job. It was over that.  It was called the Collins Beach Center where the naughty kids go. So I went and got a job. And right, it's right. I had to pay my dad half my wages for rent. I think I was on £12 a day. So I had to give half of that to my old man. Made me the person I am today. What was it like getting bullied? How did that affect you from then to now? It was horrible. I hated it. You know, I used to wear shoes too big for me. Everyone used to call me flipper foot. My old man was Dr. Martin's. So I used to always get bullied. And I remember coming home one day across the field. We still had a field. And two brothers, they sat on a wall and they waited for me to come. And I knew it. It was every day they was doing it. Screaming and shouting, abusing, slapping around the head. And yeah, they both beat me up. And I went home crying. And my mum said, what's happened? And I said, I've just been beating up. But the two brothers, they lived on my estate. So she got me in a car and she gave me a bat. And she said, where they lived there? I said, yeah. And she stopped outside. She would get out of the car and knock on the door. She'd been doing one by one. And my mum's a bit old school. I had no choice. I was scared and knocked on the door. And down my mum's door, I never forget. And I just stood there and said, where's your boys? They've just beaten me up. I want to fight them one on one. She said, put the bat down. So I put the bat down. The two boys come out. And the mum come back to the door while the boys were standing there. And she was like, are you sure you want to do this? And I was like, not really. I said, but I've got to.  And she gave me a leaflet to a boxing gym. So I went back in the car and I said to her, mum, just give me this leaflet. They don't want to fight. I made it as if they didn't want to fight. But it was me really that didn't want to fight. But I was thinking I had to do it. And that was that. I went to the boxing gym and fell in love with boxing at a young age. And become good at it. Who did you feel your first part in session? Can you remember? Yeah, I can't. It was the fact where the anger, everything as a young kid, by getting bullied growing up and getting the verbal abuse at school and wish on a please everyone and that day you sparred. And it was just like, yeah, you just let your aggression out. Obviously I wasn't good. But the buzz to actually release was just amazing. Yeah, that's a lot of weight off me. People get bullied and scared. I believe a lot of people who fight, in fact probably everybody who fights is the fight because of fear. The fight because of the pain in the past or what they've been through and holding that kind of, I don't know what it is, man. That was the fear of accomplishment, the feeling of you feel you're a man.  And then you're impound. Did you start craving the buzz for that? Yeah, I just, I fell in love with it and I felt it was just a massive release and I become good at it. And it was as well, James, it was people knowing, people knowing that, well, you can throw a couple of punches here. And it was after the people started stepping back and leaving me alone. You know, it wasn't the fact that I really, I did fall in love with the sport, I'm not saying I never, but at the start it was more go there to learn to defend myself and I was seeing people stepping back and not really abusing me anymore and not really trying to bully me anymore because the bullies were going to get bullied eventually because they knew, if you know someone's a boxer, you're going to think twice before... Yeah, picking on them. Picking on them. Did you ever get revenge on the bullies? Yeah, yeah, when I bashed them up later on when I was 17. How'd that make you feel?   Now who's laughing? What was it like getting your first damage out of you? Buzzing. Buzzing. I had a great image at career James. I had 50 fights at the amateur, I lost 12. Got to the ABA finals. I lost to Tony Duckey, Patrick Duckey's brother. Great fire. Great pro. He won the ABAs. Schoolboy champion. Nationals. I won a lot of titles at the amateur. I just loved him. Small hall, close fights. Smell of cigarettes in the crowd. All the drunken old men. Dad's verse, dad's screaming and shouting. You can't get them days back. After your first fight, did you win? Yeah, I won, yeah. Did you ever have that nerves when you were getting buried to then go on your first fight? Or was it totally different? Totally different. Totally different. I'd learnt my trade and I knew what I could do. Confident. Yeah, I was really confident. I was different in the image. I was a little chubby kid and I was just a hustle bustle when I was just going there for a fight. It was great. I remember I got a box for London, represented London. I don't know if you remember, Lewis Cadman. Danny Cadman, that was great. I boxed a Cadman. Danny Cadman. He was the England captain. And I boxed him in the London ABAs. I'm not so sure if it was the Semis. And they said, Chaz, pull out the fight. He's too good for you. He was a great boxer. Boxed for England and everything. And he just beat a life out of me, so I had to grab him and I beat him. And I got squalified. Got banned for a year in amateur boxing. I think I was the only first one to bite someone. They all jumped in the ring, was trying to attack me. They had to put me in a change of room. Anyway, about a year and a half later, I got to the semifinals again in the ABAs and they said, you've got Cadman again. Let's go. We just drop it out. I said, no way. I'm here. And I was losing the fight.  I went, warm with a left hook. Caught him on a chin. St. John's Ambulance had to come in and take care of him. Yeah, uproar, uproar. And then I ended up getting called up to fight for England. And we went to the airport and my trainer in my gym used to represent the England squad. And I see him at the desk. He was talking. Long story and he's come back. And I said, what's this? He said, look, whoever was represented in your weight didn't want to take this fight. So we've called you up. I said, so I'm just a sub. I'm just someone you're going to call up. He said, look, I didn't want to tell you, Chaz, but yeah, we had to get a ticket now. Look, he's your fighter. He's Italian. He's unbeaten. He's mustard. And the fella that was in your place didn't want to take the fight. He says, look, you trained in my gym. It's up to you what you want to do.  I'm here. Win, lose, or draw. I'm representing England. I went out there and beat him. Went out there and beat him. I had to be on my game. And then I started screaming and shouting.  You don't tell me I couldn't do it. He was mustard. I'm mustard. And then I said about England. I said, now I'm fighting for England. I said, the other fella didn't want it. I said, I took it and won. And they said, well, we can't do that. And then I just turned over with Kelly Maloney. Frank. Yeah, Frank. Good boy. Frank, you're boy Kelly. Yeah. How was that then? Like getting through the amateur careers. How was that as well that when you bit that person, why did you do that? Frustration and I knew I weren't going to win. The part that he feels if you're getting bullied again? He'd come back as if I couldn't get to him. Couldn't get past his jabby, which is too good. When I got close, it was frustration. Instead of losing it, it was just, yeah, it's in the back of your head all the time. I still think about it now, you know. I still go out and you'll get in Croydon where I'm from, you know. You'll get people come up to you. Give me a pound for a bus or give me a cigarette. And that still comes back to you. I'm like, not like I'm scared, but I'm like, sorry, I haven't got it in there. Let me see. Sorry, just leave me alone. Even though I can have a fight, but I'm still half looking like I'm scared. Because it's scarier for life, you know. It's no matter who you are. What was it like turning poor? A great buzz. A great buzz, you know. I grew up with the likes of Kevin Mitchell. Another good guy, show out with Kev. Big up Kev, yeah. He's a great guy. We was in the same camp together. Trained together. There's a few of us. It was just a buzz. It was like, right. My ambition was to be a world champion. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to set my mum and dad up. I wanted to... I weren't really doing it for me. I was doing it to better.  Look, I want to get off. Things take time. My sister's just gone. My mum and dad's gone. But back in the days, I wanted to get them gone. I wanted to make that money. I wanted to go, there you go mum. There you go, get out. Because it ain't a nice place. You were 12 and 0, did you go 12 and 0? I went 12 and 0, yeah. 12 and 0. You must have been thinking... I thought I was unstoppable. I thought I was unstoppable. 12 and 0. And then... This is...  I remember being in the toilets at an Xbox's association. And it was Alan Minner who fought Marvin Hagler. He was standing next to me.  And he went, all right Chaz. I said, your son's in line to fight me next. Ross Minner. And he said, you're too dangerous. I never know what Chaz is going to turn up. Because if I trained James, I was dangerous. But I started getting to that stage later on in my pro career where I thought I was too good. I was taking work training properly. I was taking the step back. And it was always like... Yeah, I've been to the gym. I used to find my trainer. I've just been for a 5k run. And I hadn't. Because I thought I was too good. And it got to me yet. And he said, my son won't fight. He's too dangerous. Never know what one's going to turn up. And then before you know it, et cetera, et cetera, I'd been on holiday and I'd come back. Because they told me they couldn't get me a fight for the Southern Area title. And it was a two weeks notice. Frank Maloney, Frank Warren. And they said, take the fight. Never in a billion years. I said, I've got over a stone to lose. I'm the champion. You can't tell me I've got to take the fight. And if you don't take the fight, you're going to have to go to Germany and get a boxing license.  And they offered me... I think I was the most paid. I got seven grand for a Southern Area title. It was big money back in them days. They offered me five. I said, no.  And they found me back. I said, there's seven grand.  Don't cause a scene. So yeah, I had to take the fight. Money was good. But yeah, he definitely stopped it in the third. I think I got to the third. Another good fight. I knew I wasn't fit. I knew I hadn't trained. I was overweight. I was more concentrated on losing the weight. How was that feeling, first professional loss?  That's when I went... Self destruct? Yeah. It was crazy. I ended up booking a flight in Ghana, Greece. Done a summer out there. Drunk every day. Let me self go. Come back. Thought I'd give it another shot. But my mind was just... When I got that first loss, you know, my mind was just never always on it. I was doing it for the wrong reasons. I was doing it instead of going to get a job or giving it 100%. I was always doing it half-hide and to nick the money. I knew I could have a fight. I've done well as a pro, but... there's regrets there, you know? I was always drinking it. Have you been drinking or taking gear before? Before the 12-1-1-2? No. Focused, dedicated? Focused, dedicated, too. It started getting to me. I remember going to a fight. I was in a hotel. As you do. Getting on the gear. Drinking. It was a Friday. I was fighting on the Saturday at your call. I ended up getting my boxing bag and going to your call. Locking the fella out in the second round. Going back to the hotel and everyone was still there. Carried on snipping.  And I took the gamble. I just thought I was better than what I was and I just let everything slowly creep up on me. What did you do after that? Was that your last fight? No, no. I had a long break. I think I had about 16 fights and I just weren't right. I must have lost about four then. And then... Why do you think that loss threw you off? I guess it was the fact where I never won. I needed to win, but I didn't get that right preparation time or that right call. Everything just came on top. I thought I was unstoppable and beatable. 12 wins and I got gals around me. I'm in the local, where I am, household name. I'm in the papers every week and Southern Area champion. I was going to fight Kilbrook for the British title. Matthew Hutton. I got called up for that fight and I accepted and that didn't happen on his behalf in Manchester. I just thought I was better than what I was, J-Mo, and it all got to me and getting mixed up in that life. That life where you think they're your friends and then no. They want to be around you for the hype. Who's buying the drugs this Saturday? Don't worry about that. Chazza, have a load. Who's paying for the hotels this Saturday? Chazza's got a room. Who's paying for these round the drinks? Chazza would get that. Even though I won on much money, it was like a reputation I had to because I wanted him to think that I was saying that I won. Thinking I've got money when I never. Thinking that I'm this someone when I'm not. Yeah.   It's a case I write knuckle down, get rid of all the losers but it's difficult.


Thank you, Dan. So What we're going to do is I'm going to tell you just a brief little bit about me I'm going to tell you about what I do at the University of Richmond and what the team I work with does What the driving forces for change were? What the change was that we accomplished and what the outcomes were? We have plenty of time for questions and conversations small intimate groups. So let's get going. So I'm the director of web services. I'm Responsible for the care and feeding of about 150 websites about 140 of them are branded University of Richmond We are fragmented into subdomains. So chemistry and Anthropology and HR and they all have their own sites Some sites are two or three pages Probably the average is a hundred the biggest sites probably six eight hundred pages. There's a lot of dynamic content on those pages though I am A geek at heart.  I build stuff my drives my wife crazy because I don't put it up I just got projects everywhere But the most important thing in my life are my two daughters and they're involved in first robotics So they have some STEM interests. So she's goes to the University of Richmond. That's Jackie and that's Allison She's a rising 10th grader So we're going to talk about about benefits We're gonna talk a little bit about some heavy lifting stuff, but not too much because this is supposed to be the business track So what do we do at the University of Richmond in terms of the web team as I mentioned about 150 websites? We have all kinds of websites 140 of them are branded you are and have some common look and feel here We have Mobile ready pages every page we have on the branded sites are in fact mobile ready. We don't have two pages It's just a flip of the style sheet and off we go. So We hide some content, but not too much. It's all pretty much available there We integrate third-party apps. It's a routing system for our bus that goes downtown and comes back But we also build our own mapping systems I don't know that I haven't I have one picture of a mapping system. We have a content management system It's important in the context of what I'm talking about the content management system. We use is cascade by hand and hill It's a push content management system. It's not like Drupal or WordPress. You don't interact with it as a web user We just push pages so And we've built our own mobile app we went from zero to 200 miles an hour in three months. It's Android and iPhone It's got a lot of modules in it that takes content now most of those modules take content out of the system I'm getting ready to talk about and it's got an update wall and the update wall has These stories you can pick based upon your preference What kinds of stories come in based upon tags out of an XML database? So the wall update you see the one this was taken that 15 new updates And it also then works for our mobile pages so sometimes we downgrade to just taking you to a mobile page for For the expediency purposes. We learned an awful lot about this We've got a lot of phone calls people go who did your mobile app for you and we did it so we're very proud of the mobile app it is important in the context of What we've done that I'm talking about today But because we're enabling certain kinds of content both Mobile and web and it can go to other devices if we want it to so what are the driving forces for change? In the web and change at universities will some of these you'll probably know about some may surprise you first Is cost everybody knows about cost demographic changes and competitiveness so The cost of higher ed has been going sky high. You see it's double that of the rise in medical cost and And much higher than all the rest and I don't see it abating for a while and hopefully regulations don't come in and mess everything up, but For us We have to do things faster better cheaper. Also Demographics are changing. This is kind of hard to see Probably not surprising. This is you know, Caucasian white declining the highest curve up there is a Hispanic Rise in Hispanics applying to college. So now those change from their initial population. That's not overall weighted There's a huge tectonic shift going on in higher ed Fewer students are applying partly because of the change in the population curve Partly right now because of the economy Way more females than males. We're not fully understanding all the driving forces 57 percent at our university Of the freshman class or females So that's a pretty big shift. Some schools are seeing it more dramatic They're coming in savvy. They're connected. They're mobile Smart phones university richman's a fairly pricey school That we have some need-based students as well. They're all coming in with iPhones or Android. Most of them are iPhones or iPads They require better content. They don't want to be marketed to they don't care about marketing Everybody's marketed to 80 million times a day. They want to know what the experience is like And on average students are applying to 10 colleges now 10 When I applied to college, I think in which was eons ago I was like before dirt I think I applied to three places. So that's a big shift So what does this mean? Well, some schools are going out of business Some schools are not surviving. Here's two examples in the last couple years one in St. Paul in virginia St. Paul's Closed just like three four months ago We're going to see more especially look smaller liberal arts that are not particularly selective closing We have to do more with less. We have to do it faster better And we heard that call So we got a request in 2009 from the president's office Said reinvent our web. We want it to look good. We were now in the content management system We had taken a couple years to get everything in We want you to reinvent it And oh by the way, can you do it in 12 weeks and we don't have any money for you All right, so typical story right and we instead of freaking we said wow, this is an opportunity So we had a crazy dream we wanted The ability to create Experience-based content quickly We wanted to support our factory model, which I'll talk about that dan calls it agility We want our users to find the content easily And we want to deliver targeted content to specific users So I like project names You know, I think project names help us get centered and focused So we found this name Artemis. Artemis is a greek goddess. She's the goddess of wildlife She's the goddess of the hunt And she's the goddess of childbirth. Okay Any cute kid? That's one of my co-workers young child. Okay, so i'm going to come back So wilderness we had no idea where we were headed We had no idea if we could reinvent the web in 12 weeks And that has nothing to do with the content on the back end that was kind of an add-on that we were trying to do We were on the hunt for a solution To those principles I showed you a minute ago And when we got in the middle of it, it felt like childbirth. He's a little older than a baby, but So that's how Artemis came about And his eyes are that blue So we already had a factory model. We were we're scrum based And anything that we do twice, we don't want it to be as hard the second time as the first time So we want to I talk about cranking the wheel. We want to crank the wheel And get productions going. We had done that with the content management system and really cranked out a lot of sites Um And we wanted whatever we were going to do with the content system to fit into the factory model Okay, so here is Um a drop down. It's pretty ugly Only only the admins see all of these because if you you have permissions You probably have permissions to six or ten of these items But that's in our content management system and those are various little pieces of content Types and whatever that you might want to access All right Everything comes out Initially everything was coming out of the content management system You'll see some pictures in a minute. Some things are coming out of third-party apis and other systems So, um, we had five guiding principles. We wanted to be flexible Um Integrated content. We wanted semantic joins. We wanted the content to be single source one of the problems in higher ed and I think it's probably a The keynote this afternoon was talking about 70 policy systems, right? We want a single source of content We wanted really clear wayfinding and navigation Very strong storytelling not marketing. So that was really important. We'd already started that process and we had a article system written in oracle That's we spent more time maintaining it than we spent getting content in it And we along the way we wanted to improve business processes It's always good to get some wins that are unexpected. That way you keep your job, right? So I had already listened to this floss weekly podcast Because I had a system that I built in oracle with the help of a contractor Content entry was model view controller. It was php app. It was horrible to maintain Um the xml was just stuffed into oracle as a blob It was not really searchable. Um And I wasn't and the people that I work with in marketing were saying well, wouldn't be nice if we had this content Tighten this content. I've been there and I was going home going oh my gosh I'll be working with the oracle until I have no hair. Oh, I have no hair So um and I listened to this podcast and like that's our solution if it only works Okay, so somewhere between that december and 2009 summer I found dan we talked a little bit about how we were going to do things and he helped us out some Got his training and all of that. That's um, but this this was my inspiration. So Exist eb How many people know what mark logic is? Don't know what mark logic is so a couple people so exist eb is open source xml database mark logic is a proprietary xml database It's standards based it has a rest api It was very attractive for real easy to get content out of out of it One of the really big things is it had a fast leucine full turps full full turps full text search ability And xml is treated as a first class object in it So we played with it a lot. It's pretty easy to set up. It's pretty easy to get started At the time, I don't know if it was xquery 3. I know it's 2 at the time, but it is now xquery 3 standards Okay So we played with it and we said, yeah, we think we can make this work All right. So here is a little bit of heavy lifting So the way the architecture is set up Is we have um on the right we have Exist db with the xquery service and xml documents and search indexes all that's just Right in we have to write the xquery it turns out that once you know what you're doing. It's pretty easy to do It's actually really it's not pretty easy. It's really easy to do We use apache web server someday. We'll probably move to engine x but Today we use apache. Um, that's all of our web content is served up by apache But within that we built off and proxy services xml to json service xml to html services and then we have other services like ldap and whatever So we proxy access to xml Through apache none of our users can get to exist db That way we can take full control over the look and feel because we're just getting xml out We're not rendering it as we pull it out. We pull it out and grab it into apache And at that point we put it into the dom model In the web pages right using php and so we get mobile And we get we get web and of course we have static web pages Okay, so think of this is now a mobile platform as a service or content as a service, right? Either one or both All right, so how do we get content in? Well, this is critical for the agility piece Okay, our content management system and our social screens in a minute our content management system has Um this thing called a data definition and all it really is is a form system You can just say add these kinds of form features on it name on Whatever and then we write a little bit of xsl t transform on the back end and take the data out of the forms We can generate it in whatever format we want. We put it into xml and we We write it to a file Okay, and then that becomes our producer endpoint for a middleware system So this is the middle piece here this kind of greenish color Is a middleware system that we wrote it's in it's in java, but it's really simple it picks up files At the simplest it picks up files and does an hgtp put to three exist db instances one for qa and two for production But it can optionally transform stuff so we can go look something up in oracle Or we can change something morph it into whatever We now have built a version service where we can write it to a version s3 bucket and say versions We haven't put that into production yet, but we're soon going to do our university legal policies in that And then that becomes a consumer endpoint and gets hgtp put into the database Okay, we also then built we have a third party A little java problem that goes out to third party apps and grab stuff from rest We go to twitter we grab twitter feeds we go to the athletic The athletic sites are run by another company We go get rss feeds for scores and news and all that We we go to a lot of different systems. There's some other third party systems we go to With it and then we also have a topic manager the topic manager actually runs in exist So it's an app even though it's over here. This is for data entry And because it runs in exist it you can save natively right into exist And we don't need to Do an hgtp put This is the top of a data definition So I apologize, but the small resolution makes it hard to see here. We have a tiny mce like a wizzy wig And then we have other fields that stuff goes out into those those data items go into the xml It's really easy to create We have 150 users across campus that know how to put data in them There's an unstyled version of the topic system. We haven't styled it yet and dan's very embarrassed. He helped build this It's not styled yet. We will style it soon But that goes right into the database. That's for us. That's a little knowledge management system for us to maintain topics Okay, so that's it on the heavy lifting. Okay, so now we're going to talk a little bit about So what does this all mean for us? Okay Why did we do it? We talked about the driving forces. So now What did we achieve and why do we think those are benefits? All right, so one of the things that we have in the system are bios and Biographical information we started with faculty now. We have faculty and some staff Bios show up as a bio a full bio over there for Dr. Salisbury They show up in the directory So you can get to his bio in the directory They show up In an expert guide if they're labeled as experts. That's a place for the news media to go find Who's the expert in intellectual property? Who's the expert in whatever topic? Those are the ones that will take a phone call from the news. Nobody else will It shows up under faculty staff listing. That's how that got opened up over there And here's an article this is the experience stories that really drove the whole initiative So this is how Serving in the peace court continues to affect you are Professors decade later right and we have a semantic join that we find out who which Faculty members are involved and really in some cases other people are involved They show up as related content on the ride This is kind of our inspiration was people who bought x also bought y That's kind of what that is Um without doing it in a more sophisticated way Yes Yes, yes, it it's it well it's extracted Right, so we say we we know This is tagged with a unique idea for the professors Um, and then we know how to get bios snippets out for those professors So we don't do it as a join we do it as two steps But there's a block for the related content and it's like four lines of php All right, plus a global kind of a global library that renders xml other questions about that Okay, we also have faceted search. We have a google search appliance which unfortunately google's getting rid of We have to replace it soon For just searching our web pages, but we also pull people back from the directory Which is also run from the content system from existdb And from this is other stuff that's in the existdb. So this is now faceted search Which has been very useful for us folks love that All right, so now we've got an experience where people can just navigate to what they're interested in And that's what those kind of lines show over there Um, mr. Nielsen of the nielsen rating said users want to construct their own experiences by piercing together content from multiple sources emphasizing their desires in the current moment I'm sure you all know that because you probably engaged in that as you surf and do whatever Um, I don't know how many is anybody in here involved in higher ed Okay, so go to websites pick a university go to your alumni site, whatever most of them are really hard to navigate And I know we have places that are hard to navigate. We're constantly trying to make it better and better You go to sites especially public schools. You go to sites Chemistry will look different than biology, which will I mean, they're all different. They have different styles or different groups I'm lucky. I work at a very small school. We're 3,500 fte's full-time students equivalent of full-time students and We have a president says work together That's very unusual in higher ed. So he you know and we were working together before he showed up But just made it easier when he got there All right Here's a very different look So let me check the time We have this place called the center for civic engagement And their job is to find partnerships with nonprofits in richmond virginia, which is where we're located And connect students with those nonprofits so they can get service work learn about the community learn about service work And where the folks that have the need get the need satisfied all free labor, right? And traditionally students would go to the center for civic engagement and say I kind of want to read to elementary students Or I want to work with rebuilding homes in in a you know in a bad neighborhood or whatever And they would help them find the right partnership Um, this replaces that so if you look in the middle it says issue Students look up the issue they are they care about Um, they click on the issue They see the location for that in the city. They see the vendor Um, here's more information on the vendor and then hopefully they pick a place. This is revolutionized And this sounds for us in the technology business probably like well, that's pretty easy Yeah, it is actually pretty easy, but in higher ed and whatever thinks about these things, okay This is revolutionized their business Students walk in going I want to work on this project So now that group can do more with less And and they're not cutting staff. They're just doing more work in the community It is totally revolutionized How they do business and all of that content comes out of exist tv And then of course we did the math stuff and why do we do it? Well, this is why we do it You know the outcome is for the students Okay, so Really faculty don't always understand this But our constituency is not students. It's not staff. It's not faculty It's prospective students and their parents And a few guidance counselors in high schools and whatever That's who we do this for Because without prospects, we don't get students and without students. We don't graduate All right, so here's a quote. This is typical I'm not going to read it. You can read it. There's a typical quote I walk across campus, you know all the time to meetings or whatever I run into people They always look lost because parking lots are never labeled, right And they're like, well, what do you do here? And I'm like, I do the web And they're like, we're here because of the web I mean, I've heard that like 10 times in the last two years We're here because your website was so attractive. It was so easy to use or whatever Just like this All right, we're also we've gotten rid of at least 400 person hours in admissions The application rate has gone up partly because of the web partly because of other factors And the prospects get to do more self-service and we're not done yet So we have a crm replacement going on right now for admissions and we'll be tightly integrated with them in about six months Okay We stopped printing catalogs we started putting catalogs into xml Before exist db But we shoved them into oracle That that worked but it was problematic in terms of effort All of our catalogs and most of our schedules are now in this back end And we're not printing 20 000 or so variety of print publications a year We're saving trees. We're saving money We're not printing a annual directory anymore of people. That's also coming out of this system So so we're saving trees and that's a lovely tree near the school not on campus, but all right Now agility time is money, right? So How do we get The agility well we start with a data definition And here is a rundown data definitions take a couple minutes to a couple hours to create The middleware system takes five minutes to add The endpoints in if we have to add a new transform Most of the transforms we can just reuse and reconfigure But if we have to add a new one, it's usually about 10 hours or less of programming The x queries anywhere from 30 minutes to four hours most of it's in the 30 minute range that's programming About 30 minutes to code it to shove it in the DOM object And then putting it in the pages is not relevant because we'd have to do that anyway So in a day we can add a new content type or in two days Okay, usually the problem is where's the content coming from some groups got it created Um, so people come to us and they're like, oh, we know this is really hard and we always play dumb Yeah, this is really hard. It's so much work And then we're done with it by the time they've Got back to their desk and we've got it enabled and then we just wait for them Okay We have 56 56 Integrated content types I think there's another one that's missing up here. I think there's 57 now Corsi valves study abroad press releases reporting positions Um admission blog system we have we got rid of wordpress For admissions and student bloggers that blog for the benefit of the university. It's all in Existdb With the content management system So how do we not work well when we release koi pond one we're now at koi pond three That's the name of like weird names right koi pond Long story. I'm not going to go into it the bounce rate dropped pretty precipitously when we roll it out We added a bunch more content types tweak the css and a couple other tweaks and stuff that we like when it went live We're like, oh, I hate that. Don't you do that like you probably when your projects are done You like hate the project All right, you find all the weak spots and everybody else is like, well, we really love this But we hated it so we fixed that there a few months later and look at it plummeted So it's running at about 45 percent bounce rate That's across everything Rolled up All right, so here this is dramatic So if we look at this the the light blue is the in the middle bar is The either the minutes on site or the pages you touch If you've touched the calendar somewhere in your visit and the calendar events are done in this system So 170 and 243 percent increase This is working from an engagement standpoint if it wasn't we'd probably rip it out and do something else If you touched a feature article time on site goes up because you're reading the article probably more than anything You're probably linking to a couple other articles Page views goes up 173 percent there This is how we know it works Okay Folks don't complain about being marketed to it's actually kind of hard to find what were ranked For us news and we'll be reporting all that What they do find out and what every prospect wants to know is am I going to fit in that's what they all want to know They already kind of know the sat scores that are needed and all that am I going to fit in So the stories the feature articles are about the experience and from that they can read it and say yeah, I can relate to this or I can't Mobile users Most of them are coming back multiple times a day on the left so look at the bar up there and The number of visits they have in a month are Some are coming back You know 50 to 100 times 200 times or more So we know the mobile is working as well most of the mobile content comes out of the same system All right, and mobile users say on The site about 15 minutes, which is amazing My poor eyes they don't work so much on them Okay, why exists well it's schemalists it's xml You know you all probably most of you probably hear about scale performance scale performance t value Which one should we be in but it's all about scale and performance 100 million users or whatever You know For us It's really about ease of use. It's about agility and content discovery The engagement numbers you just saw is a you know They're finding the content and they're getting engaged with the content. We like exist first because it's open source It's a perfect fit for us if we were running, you know 100 gigabytes of data We'd probably need more logic or something but for us it's perfect our data is about 100 megabytes We probably have 20 to 30 thousand documents in it now The full text is lucine, which is now called solar is it Okay, all right, so And it works the search works good The search is uniform across everything we do other than the google search appliance But most people use the faceted search. It's easy and it's flexible Um Dan came in and trained us. We had to do a mental shift because it's functional programming. We're procedural programmers php. Whatever Um And it took a couple months for us to get our head wrapped around xml's first class object instead of treating it like text um, but once we did that we Do really really well the guy that does most of the x-query programming touches it In a given week, maybe zero Maybe two hours some weeks may be eight But most he's probably averaging about an hour and a half or two hours x-query work a week He just does it boom boom boom He did a little side project for us something totally unrelated to this something outside the university and he built four x-query modules in like 90 minutes And they work no bugs Just work it's easy So we like it We're big fans and it runs it just keeps running Um And that's it That's my wordly slide at the end. So questions Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah Oh, oh geez, um I wish I had a picture So, um Check the time Okay, we have plenty of time so uh the digital libraries group Is that we have two kind of digital Information groups that are not public web We have the digital scholarship lab, which is about digitizing things and analyzing it from a humanities standpoint They just got an eight hundred thousand dollar grant from the melin foundation to build an american atlas From the early 1700s through the late 1800s All maps and it's Some of it will be in existdb the maps themselves will be in s3 We also have a digital library group. They digitize stuff and make it accessible Is the easy thing to say about it Their first big project they came to us to help style and then to teach them how to use exist Then we built some visualizations in it virginia 151 years ago 152 years ago Voted to secede from the union And at the beginning of the civil war Somebody got all that information together and in the early 1960s some editors published a book We got the rights to use the text from the books Copyright permission. It was all digitized and turned into tei Encoded documents and we built a discovery system on top of it for the president And they're learning new things about why the vote actually took place It's not always obvious and it's got density maps and it's got all kinds of visualizations. So Collections.richman.edu will redirect to it if your interest is really cool We're now working with them on We have the largest collection of japanese War crime tribunal tribunal documents in the world. They're now digitized, but they're not online yet That will be in exist tb They also have the digital dispatch, which is the local newspapers called the times dispatch It was originally called the dispatch And they have I don't know 100 years of dispatch Publications of the local newspaper and they're all tei encoded And they're that's a current project. They're going to be put online with a discovery layer on top of it. So And exist just makes that easy. We don't even think about the exist piece anymore The hard part is just getting all that content, you know and encoded in tei and making it look good The designers want to make it really look good So is that Yep, I'm really glad you asked that question because I just told you didn't even think about going over there So and it runs on a different server just for isolation purposes. Yes, sir Um exist is um is an open source xml database. So it's it runs as In most cases you run it as a service. We run relinux based. Um, but we also run it on the mac for You know for development purposes, so it's written in java It's got an api and it's got it's wrapped in jetty. If you all know jetty jetty's like Kind of a embedded Tom cat ish like a java server page, right? So it's wrapped in jetty and so it makes web stuff with it really easy. So Okay Other questions Yeah, you can boost search you I mean you can customize it so That you know, for example, if some if some phrase is found in a title You can say that's more important. Um, then if it was in the body You can do you can actually do proximity searches. We don't do too much of that We love it. Um, it's a full text search engine The only time we have problems with it if is with the directory of somebody's got a name that's in the stop list So we have a person whose last name is will and will is in the stop list We have to remove will from the stop list Um, otherwise they they never find will in the directory, but minor details, right? That's why we're paid You know to figure that stuff out. So All right, any other questions? No All right, thank you all


They communicate the message, transform, transform your community, environment, transform the status quo, but most importantly they convey the distinct characteristics of a mechanical object and a human being that feels endowed with faculty, endowed with free will. In March 2021, the brain scientist, inventor and national security advisor, Newton Howard erected two transformer statues, Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, outside his home in Washington D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood. His neighbors were furious. It was intriguing how with an abundance of real issues out there in the world, two sculptures were at the center of debate by such high intellectuals and high-powered people. They complained to the D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs and the federally funded Old Georgetown Board, which oversees the historic district. He was fined $20,000 and ordered to take down the statues. This is my property, I'm putting something on it, that's one of the unenlightened rights. You can't just take it. You can't just come and yank it because you feel like it. Howard decided to fight the order. After 11 years in the intelligence community, including as an analyst for the CIA, dictating to him what he was allowed to put on his own property, he says, was a violation of the principles he had dedicated his career to upholding. I would fight it all the way to whatever the highest court. It's a symbolism for freedom of speech. It represents one's ability to freedom of expression and to just simply take him down would be to give away that right. So why did Howard put transformers outside his home? He's not really a toy lover or a fan of the animated movies or TV shows. He's trying to convey to the world a philosophical idea about the nature of free will and the capacity of humans to remake the world around them. I wanted him to carry that message of transforming and accepting and changing things. Howard immigrated to the U.S. from France when he was 11. When I came to the state, I went into a talent show where you built technological objects and kind of show and tell, but on a larger scale. And I had built a hydrogen power cell back then and then kept on building things. He invented a computational system to predict Karmal functions. After college, he joined the army as an intelligence officer and ended up in the CIA's venture arm, which invests in new technologies. In one mission, Howard had an experience that changed his life. In one of the exploratory events that I participated in, I was in a transport that had received an IED or some kind of explosive device that injured me in the prefrontal areas of my brain. I'm good now, but it influenced my direction of travel, if you will, in life. It took folds, one fold that affects your physical abilities and the other fold where it takes you to the darkest corners of your brain, places where you don't want to go. And when you go there, you need to have the power to actually come back into the light part of your brain, into the positive side. Howard says that he came out of this experience with the conviction that humans have enormous power to shape their own destinies. When the US withdrew from Afghanistan in August of 2021, leaving behind many of the men and women who had worked with the American military, Howard joined the private evacuation effort. He also signed on to foster five kids waiting to be reunited with their parents.  They have no awareness or cognizant of the evil that surrounded them in Afghanistan. War and conflict is just one of those enemies. We have other things like diseases and mental disorders and brain traumas and neurodegenerative disorders and slow other things that requires a battle also and that battle happens at home. After his incident, Howard decided to refocus his career on using technology to transform the experiences of people suffering from neurodegenerative illnesses. In his lab at Georgetown University, he's working on a brain implant that would help treat Alzheimer and Parkinson's. The device that I refer to as the Kiwi, it's a very small chip about the size of a grain of rice and it is used to place into the areas that have the damage in the brain, bringing about corrections and operating almost as a micro brain inside that atrophy zone or the areas that where you have brain that died, neurons that died and whatnot. It interfaces through connectivity to a unique material that these neurons made out of, it's called carbon nanotubes and modulate electrical and optical or light if you will in that zone to bring it back to life. To date we were able to produce some of those prototypes and hopefully very soon we'll be able to get them to market. Howard fears that the FDA might delay the arrival of these implants to market. If the FDA and other regulatory bodies involved in these things understood what it needs to happen to move it faster, then it's a matter of a year or two years. If there are delays in understanding of the technology by the regulators and they need more definitions and more understanding, then it could take longer. There's an enormous expense and cost barriers should be simple but I don't understand the budget constraints and other things. There could be a good reason why they do things the way they do. Generally, bureaucracy gets under my skin because bureaucrats tend to granulate a problem or fragment of a problem into multiple problems and then add on each one of these problems a human to control it and then get this whole chaos to supposedly support a greater good which is making sure that things are done right. When in fact most of the time things are done right but in practicalities this is just slowing it down. In his fight with local planning agencies over the transformers, Howard has prevailed for now. He hired a consulting firm which argued that the statues constitute works of fine art, conveying the concept of transformation from some more earthly object into their hero mode, i.e. from car, truck, plane into action. The old Georgetown board agreed to let him keep the statues on the condition that he renew his permit every six months. We're all transformers. We're all about transforming things. Transforming is in essence of human nature, how we become in harmony with our environment.