weapons coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier stands ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country you the American people against aggression this is the big picture an official television report to the nation from the United States Army now to show you part of the big picture here is Sergeant Stewart Queen our big picture for today takes the form of a pictorial report we will be showing three separate stories instead of the usual single subject however the three stories are interrelated the first deals with medicine the second with experimentation and the third with construction but all are concerned with some of the Army's peacetime roles now part one of today's pictorial report none of nature's malevolent forces strikes with greater violence than the tornado the tornado's wake is a path of wreckage and annihilation it is as though some giant steel ball had been rolled along the earth crushing and smashing all that stood in its way unfortunately tornadoes may strike in almost any section of the United States usually with little or no warning worse than the effects on homes and business property is the tornadoes impact on human life in its wake to our left the killed and maimed the tornado is a natural disaster which tries a community's resources to the extreme recently Brooke Army Hospital in Texas undertook a test to see just how effective it would be in handling the mass civilian casualties of a natural disaster the mock disaster was later to affect the city of San Antonio in the wake of the mock tornado there will be nearly 1000 simulated casualties to be treated by Brooke Army Hospital of this number 800 cases will be listed as serious injuries the remaining 200 cases will require emergency treatment playing the parts of the thousands of simulated civilian casualties are the soldiers ordinarily on duty with the Brooke Medical Center schools and laboratories according to the fictional account of the disaster outlined by the designers and testers of the operation a tornado has swooped through northwest San Antonio early in the morning it has left behind demolished buildings wrecked homes and raised factories to represent the kinds of cases which would actually exist under such circumstances army doctors have compiled a list of injuries based upon genuine disaster reports of the past the simulated casualties are made up to represent these injuries as faithfully as possible who recreate conditions as they would exist in such an emergency the hospital staff will continue to care for its 700 genuine military patients as usual the additional 1000 simulated civilian casualties represent an enormous extra burden designed to test the hospital's facilities to the extreme other of the army's resources also come up for testing as a part of the exercise the army's helicopters usually found serving casualties in battle are converted for civilian use here today they are being used in a shuttle service between the medical center and the simulated disaster so such fast airborne transportation would be used for carrying injured civilians most in need of emergency hospital attention the exercise called fire drill has been planned carefully to utilize all of the staff supplies and equipment available hours after the tornado struck and civilian authorities requested military aid the first of the 1000 simulated patients begin to arrive the hospital service club becomes the reception center and to analyze and evaluate the exercise our umpires both from Brooke Medical Center and from the Surgeon General's office in Washington the lessons learned here today will help prepare a blueprint for all the hospitals throughout the country which are drawing up plans to meet emergency situations when the alert signal was heard the service club was cleared of furniture and recreation facilities and then converted into a huge emergency room and sorting station specific areas within the auditorium have been set aside for cases of varying degrees of seriousness as far as possible every situation an emergency has been prepared for on the tags which the patients wear special symbols are used to help doctors recognize immediately the casualties status while buses trucks and private cars are carrying the tornadoes victims to the receiving station army helicopters are speeding the emergency cases to the medical center techniques developed in Korea and in army training programs for swiftly carrying casualties by air for prompt medical attention are applied in today's exercise here as at the receiving center umpires will check and report on the care and efficiency with which the simulated casualties are handed converted service club medical officers give emergency treatment as they sort the patients into categories one group is slated for immediate treatment the second priority goes to those listed for later treatment and a third classification is made for those to get treatment when personnel and space become available at every stage umpires check on the treatment given double checking on the care administered and recommendations made by the doctors once the casualty has received emergency treatment and been sorted is ready to be sent to one of the main hospital buildings where surgical staffs and equipment are waiting ambulances and buses are pressed into service to take patients to the main hospital building realism is the keynote of the exercise every contingency has been thought of and planned for chaplains are on hand to give consolation to the critically injured and sacramental attention to the died civilian volunteers man the typewriters which keep patient and hospital records up to date and accurate and information service is in operation to help anxious relatives learn about the conditions of patients admitted to the hospital the public information office is providing lists of casualties to news media quickly from these carefully compiled records it is possible to tell whether a victim of the storm is in a ward surgery or has been discharged for the simulated casualties whose condition demands the most immediate attention those who might not survive the short ambulance ride from receiving center to hospital proper additional helicopter services available today's exercise is covering a 12-hour period this means that casualties are arriving at a clip faster than one every minute the fast moving helicopters shuttling between receiving center and the hospital's wards and operating rooms helps feed up the flow of patients the actual moving and simulated treatment of the casualties is an enormous flow of medical supplies just as the simulated casualties are treated as though they were genuine so the hospital staff supplies the supplemental goods and facilities which would be needed if the casualties were genuine beds bandages medicines and towels linens and splints antibiotics and surgical instruments although the simulated casualties don't actually need blood transfusions and plasma volunteer donors really do give their blood to help enlarge the hospital supply against the day when a genuine emergency might exist and this blood be sorely needed every one of the hospital's operating rooms has gone into round the clock service again although no actual operations are conducted the variety of simulated cases presented to the surgeons demand that they test the ready availability of more than 50 different kinds of surgical instruments following the successful conclusion of operation fire drill the findings of the umpires are presented and discussed the procedures adopted and the conclusions reached here at brook army hospital may prove invaluable to many other hospitals throughout the country in time of disaster where the first chapter in today's pictorial report dealt with the role of army medicine in relation to civilian disaster our second episode is concerned with the job of the army's core of engineers and the work it does in minimizing the effects of disasters before they occur while the tornado usually confines its violent destruction to a narrow path over a relatively short distance hitting and moving fast the hurricane and other of nature's wild disturbances usually strikes along a broad front with sustained violence the tearing winds torrential rains and surging tides usually result in floods in recent years the hurricanes which have hit the Atlantic coast of the United States appear to be striking the eastern coast of the country with increased frequency the lives lost total in the thousands the property damage has run into hundreds of millions of dollars at such times of crisis civilian and military populations alike combine efforts to rescue and relieve the victims of the storm but to help prevent such scenes from reoccurring the United States Army is conducting experiments which will result in curbing some of the worst effects of hurricane ties playing an important part in helping to minimize the effects of future storms is the army's core of engineers waterways experiment station at vicksburg mississippi one of the projects here entails a study of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay area technicians at the experiment station have constructed a scale model replica of most of the state of Rhode Island and part of massachusetts abnormal tides which usually accompany hurricanes sometimes flood the low lying areas around the bay causing severe property damage and loss of lives the army's waterways experiment station is trying here to discover a plan promising success in preventing hurricane tide damage a manually operated generator is used to reproduce hurricane tides in miniature on this scale model every hurricane of the past can be recreated and its effects observed many different proposals have been made to reduce hurricane damage caused to this section of New England at the experiment station every plan is put into effect on a small scale and then tested under simulated hurricane conditions in this way the engineers will be able to foretell at minimum cost which plan will benefit the area most cutting loss of life and property damage in the future compared with the duration of tornadoes and hurricanes floods are natural disasters of longer lasting and more widespread destruction when one of america's might hear rivers overflows its banks hundreds of thousands of square miles of land are inundated the population must not only suffer while the floods rise but wait helplessly for the waters to receive and even when the river has returned to its place between the banks weeks and even months may pass before the stricken communities will be able to return to normal and just as the waterways experiment station at vicksburg is seeking to minimize the effects of hurricane tides in the new england area so too it is engaged in efforts to stem floods in the mississippi river valley a model of the entire area has been constructed to scale to further studies of the engineers in many a chore the waters of the mississippi flow all the way from the northern reaches of the united states to the gulf of mexico this hydraulic model covers two hundred and twenty acres the primary aim of the model is to aid in planning for flood control measures throughout the mississippi basin this project represents almost 15 years of detailed study and careful planning such models properly constructed and verified faithfully simulate actual or hypothetical floods they graphically and quickly illustrate the need for specific flood protection measures and by testing flood controls in miniature before measures are adopted the taxpayers are saved millions of dollars yearly the effectiveness of any given plan can be estimated in miniature at a fraction of the cost of a full-scale tryout growing out of such experiments are projects like the bank revetments of the lower mississippi throughout its history the mississippi has been a meandering river that has constantly changed its course in order to keep the river within its banks for navigation and flood control the army's core of engineers has developed a revolutionary embankment control method after the bank has been cleared of trees and undergrowth and all snags and obstructions have been removed from the water at the bank's edge the bank itself is graded to the proper slope which will give the greatest ability once the banks have been graded the strange but effective sinking unit moves into place the job of the sinking unit is to lay a flexible concrete covering over the banks of the river individual wire and concrete squares are assembled on the sloping barge day to form a mattress 150 feet wide to keep the often willful and tempestuous mississippi flowing where it will do the most good and the least harm the sinking units which lay the mats work day and night the year-round along the lower mississippi more than 326 miles of riverbank have been blanketed with concrete mattresses the stabilization of the river by such methods is vital to safe and dependable navigation and to efficient trustworthy flood control moreover every additional mile of mattress laid further strengthens and protects the sections already completed in such ways the army's core of engineers follows through on the investigations of the waterways experiment station and works in the best interests of not only the military but the civilian well-being of the nation the work of the core of engineers is not of course confined to flood and hurricane fighting in addition to scores of military assignments both in war and peace army engineers apply themselves to many projects of great benefit to our civilian population since 1824 the core of engineers has been carrying out a program to improve the rivers and harbors of the nation unless continually dredged many river channels tend to fill in obstructing navigation pipeline dredges with their mechanical rotating blades loosen riverbed mud which is sucked up through pipes the mud is later disposed of in designated areas leaving the channel deeper wider and safer for navigation designed by the core of engineers the essay on's is the world's largest sea-going dredge in New York Harbor where dredging is essential to maintain the necessary depth near piers and docks and in the channels the essay on's has removed millions of cubic yards of mud year after year when the long drags are lowered to the bottom powerful pumps suck up mud and discharge it into huge tanks inside the ship when the holes are full the essay on's puts out to see where her cargo is emptied into deep water another familiar site in New York Harbor is an odd floating contraption this one is appropriately named the drift master it's a sort of water-bound vacuum cleaner sweeping up the harbor surface of floating debris which could cause delay and damage to vessels moving in and out of port another phase of engineer activity has been the testing of the DeLong pier investigating its possible application to military operations the portable pier is actually a floating dock barge which can be towed into position it then sinks its own piles and raises itself out of the water to the level desired by means of air jacks this 800 ton structure can be made operational in a matter of days ordinarily months are required to construct the standard pier bridge construction is usually the job most closely identified with the core of engineers the bridges themselves are of many types each is designed to fulfill the demands of time and place it may be a floating bridge for a quick crossing or a fixed bridge which is expected to last for years like this bridge in Korea waterway experiment station investigations have proved that one of our main bulwarks against floods are dams North Dakota's garrison dam is the largest rolled filled earth structure ever undertaken by man modern earth moving equipment human engineering skill and the core's experience have made possible a project which is 20 times the size of the great pyramid of Egypt Fort Peck Dam at the headwaters of the Missouri River in Montana is a reservoir for navigation flood control power and irrigation it is estimated that in the past 14 years this multi-purpose project has prevented about 60 million dollars in flood damage Fort Randall dam and reservoir in northern Nebraska is another major core of engineers project this dam is a second unit in the comprehensive plan for the development of the Missouri River basin by providing flood control storage it will protect against destructive waters from Fort Randall to the mouth of the Missouri River chain of rocks rapids located on the Mississippi River above St. Louis presented a troublesome hazard to navigation to remove this barrier to inland shipping the core of engineers set to work constructing a canal and locks for nearly four years now the canal has been open to river traffic the all-time peak of core of engineer achievement came of course during World War two advanced air bases were built in record time in all parts of the world often under conditions that might be considered impossible by anyone but the engineers there were countless water supply problems solved in jungle and desert alike more than 11,000 miles of pipeline were laid to carry fuel to the remotest arms of our fighting forces the engineers are road builders the Alcan Highway is a milestone in the history of engineering over 1600 miles long it narrowed the distance between us and our northern outpost Alaska many experts warned that the Lido road couldn't be built the tropical growth was too dense there were too many trees too many shelves to carve in the towering rock of mountain size this was another kind of combat but in this war nature gave way to the engineers and our trucks rolled through the wilderness of Southeast Asia with the ball churno in Italy for bulldozer drivers died at their wheels the river still raged but our army was soon across on another engineer core bridge perhaps the most remembered crossing of World War two was over the Romagin Bridge at the Rhine River the bridge had been dynamite by retreating Germans but a forward engineer unit made immediate repairs and in the next hours a substantial number of our troops crossed to the other side by the time the Germans knocked out the bridge we had pushed two miles deep into enemy territory helping to shorten the Rhine campaign the biggest single undertaking of the engineers construction program was the two billion dollar atomic bomb project Manhattan District the name given to this monumental building job included plants in various parts of the country but all interrelated so the atomic era was ushered in today the core of engineers is approaching its 183rd year its history has been colorful its accomplishments inspiring the men privileged to call themselves engineers are justly proud of this oldest professional service in the army there is every reason to expect the achievements of the future will eventually outshine those of the past these then are but a few examples of the way in which the United States Army has helped and is prepared to help in the future to protect American lives and homes illustrations of how military power and organization are used for peaceful ends now this is sergeant Stuart Queen inviting you to be with us again next week for another look at your army and action on the big picture the big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the army at home and overseas produced by the army pictorial center presented by the United States Army in cooperation with this station you too can be an important part of the big picture you can proudly serve for the best equipped the best trained the best fighting team in the world today the United States Army


Felly yr ysgolfydd yw'r reu yw yw'r haesiau a'n mynd dweud beth yw'r hyn yn hygynnu y bydd i ddweud. Rydyn ni'n ffordd i'r hyffrnewid a gwahfyr ystafell, magefyd, mae mynd i'n gwneud lleol agos o'n mynd i'r hyffrnewid. Yr ysgolfydd yw'n gwneud lleol agos o'n mynd i'r hyffr initially ac mae'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i'n gwneud, ac mae hyn yn ein bod yn gweithio'n fryb yn eich bod yn gwneud. ac mae'r rhaid i'r rhaid i'r rhaid i'r ffordd i'r wahanol, ond rhaid i'n gwneud i'r rhaid i'r ffordd. Ac yna'r ffordd yn ei ddechrau'r gynhyrchiol, mae'r contentmind.org. Mae'n gwybod, rhaid i'r ysbryd i'r ysbryd o'r ysbryd. Okay. So mae wedi dweud i dda i'r gwybod yn y ffordd yn cael y ffordd ar gyfer y Llywodraeth a mwy o'ch rhaid i'r Yw Llywodraeth, Cereddau i'r yw eu ddwylo, ac mae oedd yn gweithio erioed o ddwylo a'r ysgol yn ymdyn nhw'n gwybod, ond y ddwylo yn ymdyn nhw o'r eu ddwylo. Felly rydyn ni'n gweithio... Oh, ddysg, rydyn ni'n gweithio. Rydyn ni'n gweithio i'r llwy fath o'r pethau cyfnodd, ei wneud â'r fath o'r wneud, i wneud â'r ddwylo a'r fath o'r pethau yn gweithio i'r ddwylo. Dw i gael i ddwy i ddyn nhw ar dwy'r cwysig werthmotig, ac bydd yna bod ti'n gweithio'r gweithio. A dyma, dyma'n golygu. Rwy'r unrhyw o'r obesityd a dyma yw hwnnw, yn gwneud yn gwahysgwysynydd, unrhyw hunain. Rhyw hunain都有 unerhyw hunain, mirwyd cyfraet. Cyn gweld y Llyfridog, ac penderfynodd o'r 10,000 papyrs ond ydych chi'n ddysgu'n dda'r ddysgu'n gymhau. Rwy'n hoffi 20 ysgolion yr oedd ymddych chi'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n oedd yn ddysgu'n blaenau o'r mawr. Ie, mae'n gweithio'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n gweithio, oherwydd mae'n gweld yr oeddau, mae'n gweithio'n ddysgu'n gweithio, mae'n gweithio'n ddysgu'n ddysgu'n gweithio. yn ysgol iawn. Rwy'n gweithio'r oedden nhw'n gwneud o'r ddweud o ddweud yn ddweud hynny. Ysgol iawn ychydig 10 oed. Pauli – rwy'n ddweud hynny – gweithio'r ddweud hynny. Mae ymdilyniadau am 10,000 o'r rwyf, ac mae'r ddweud y ddweud hynny'n cynghwyntau. Roeddwch yn ychydig, mae'n 1600 papys yn dweud o'n ddaeth gweithio. Mae hyn wedi'u haes. Byddai'n mynd i'n gynyddu'r maen nhw i'r cyflawn. Mae'r cyflawnio'n gweithio'r ddweud yn cyfrifio'n mynd. Mae'n gweithio'n gwneud gyda'r pryd yma. Mae'n ddod o'r ddod o'r llysgrifol. Mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gwneud. Mae'n gallu wneud hynny yn gweithio. felly dyn nhw'n meddwl yn roeddi'r cyfan o'r rhan o'r hyn sy'n ei ddweud. Ond ymddorol ymddych chi'n ffordd gyda'r hyn ymddurol, ac mae'n cael ei ddweud yma sy'n goll sydd ymddych chi'n gael. Mae'n ddweud o'r hyn yn rhan o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn. Felly mae pobl yn dweud o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn o'r hyn. Here's another one. EU clinical trials. There are 400,000 clinical trials published in government repositories, of which the EU clinical trials are one. Ben Goldacre in the UK has been pushing for trials to be open. Many clinical trials are not open and they're not even published. This is what we're pushing for, because if you only have the positive trial about a drug a wedi bod y negatif wedi fod yn gondol i gael. Yn ymddi'r hyn, mae'r gwahau o'r hyn yn gallu unig ar gyfer ac mae'n ffrwng yn y regisgrwyd yng Nghymru yn 2009. Yn ymddi'r cyflogion yn y 6 yma, mae'r regisgrwyd yn unrhyw gydag ar gyfer y maen nhw'n ymddi'r i'r wyf. Yn ymddi'r llwyddiadau ac mae'n syni'n gweithio i'n dweud, ond mae'n rhaid i'u cyflogion gwneud o'r llwyddiadau, gallwch i'n mynd i chi. Felly, eu bod yn sifftu'r nifer, neu yn ystod, yn ymdegwch yn yr ymdegwch ar y clywedau llinigol i ddim yn gweithio ar fynd yn digwydd. Felly, rydyn ni'n gweithio'n gwneud arwain yn ei ddweud, ond mae'r ddysgufyrd yn gwneud ymdeg? Mae'r ddysgufyrd yn gwneud. Yr ystafell ar ddysgufyrd, ymdegwch ar y ddysgufyrd o'u ddysgufyrd. Felly, rydyn ni'n gweithio gwybod i'w Google gyda diweddwyd o'r ddweud yma, ac yn ddweud. Ond, y Gwgol maen nhw'n fagorol. Rwy'r gweld yn gwlad Gwgol gwybod i g wedi'i gydag'u gweld. Rwy'n gwybod i'r gweld, yn y Gymru, wedi'i gydag eu gweld i'r Unedig i'w gweld. Cyngorol, mae yma yn y Europea'r Yn Llyfr. Dwi'n credu'n gweld i'r gweld i gydag, mae'n credu'n gweld i'r gweld i'n credu, neu'n credu'n gweld i'n credu'n gweld. A rydym hynny, os ydych chi eisiau ei ddysgufynio! The next thing is to scrape the papers and we do this off the publishers' websites. Now they say we are not allowed to do it because it's violating something but we are doing it. It's the primary publication. We then index it and you'll see that in a minute. We search and analyze papers and we carry out complex transformations on this. And this is what in the US is known as transformative. ac mae'n ddau o'r ysgolwyr ei gŵr. Mae'n ddweud o'r document a'r adnoddau, ac mae yna'r gŵr yn ddoddau. Mae'n ddoddau'r gŵr yn ddoddau, ac mae'n ddoddau'n mynd i'w ddoddau'r gŵr yn ddoddau. Yn y cwmteniad, y pwyntio'n ddau yn diogel ac mae'n cael ei ddau'u ddau. Mae'r ei ddau'u ddau yw. But most of the rest of the paper is diagrams, or mathematical equations, or maps or tables and that is often the most valuable bit in the paper. And that's why I use the word content rather than text and data mining because if I don't publish it will claim that because this is a creative graphic work it belongs to them and I claim that Mae'r ddweudio'r sgwrn yn fwyfyrdd o'r oran contracts, am gweithio'r ysgolwyr yn y ddiogel, oherwydd mae'r ddweudio ydym yn ei sgwrn sy'n gyffredig sy'n gwneud bod oedd yn gallu'n misgafent, ond yn meddwl ni wedi'i fyndelu wychio mae'n meddwl tuwyng agorogi, mae hyn yn ymryd gennym o gyflym findol. Mae'n clywed greud sefydliadau eich gweld i'r ddod amgeisio cyfaint. Efallai eisiau cyfrïddiaid ynghylch, I put a several years of my life into building this, and my young colleagues have built the same amount again. I'm not going to go through this in detail, but just trust me, this is a complete infrastructure. We've deployed it, it will do everything you need in mining, and it will allow you to add bits on particularly at the end. So if you want to mine for species, you add a special tool at the bottom where it says Amy here, and that will mine for species. If you wanted to mine the proceedings of the European Parliament, the tool would also work for that. It's not stuck on science, it will do really any subject that you want. I'm going to give you a demo now, this is the only interactive demo, but look at that, that's chemistry. Most of you won't understand it, but it's a recipe, it's like baking a cake. We added this to this, we heated it, we stirred it, we boiled it and so on, just as you do in the kitchen. Now that's quite difficult to understand, but I'm now going to go to Cambridge, so this is a real live demo. We're going to put the same thing into Cambridge, and you can do this at home, and we've sent it off to Cambridge, and that is how quick mining is when you're allowed to do it. It's almost instantaneous, and not only has it worked out all the phrases, so I'm going to show here's the wash phrase, and here's the dry phrase, and here's the dissolve phase, but also it's worked out what the chemical compounds are. It did all of that while you were watching, so that's what the power of machines is, if you are allowed to do it. Back to the slides, we've done this for patents, we've done this for half a million patents, and we get a very high degree of accuracy, but we can't do it on the chemical literature because the chemical publishers claim that it's their copyright. Elsevier, if you mine their stuff, specifically says that you must not compete with our products in the marketplace, and one of their products is called Reaxis, which is a chemical database, and so if I sign their permission, which I am not going to, then I would be debarred from publishing any chemistry because it might impact on their product in the marketplace. And this, in my view, is totally unreasonable and why I've challenged their copyright, their text and data mining licenses. We're doing endangered species, I'm not going to spend much time on this, but you can see here the need to put a fact in context, so this is a fact, it's a ribbon seal, and you'll see that the text run is critical to understand it. And we mine facts every day, and this is today's fact, which is E. coli, and very quickly I'm going to show you what we can do about aggregating information. So you may be familiar with the tree of life. Here's us animals, okay, and here is an endangered species, that's a Danish polar bear in Greenland, and here is an experimental animal from one of the labs that we're working with, I won't give names. We want to build a tree of bacteria, so we've taken 5,000 papers, we've read those from the literature, we've extracted the image out of each of them, we've done some, I'm quite proud of this, some very advanced mining of this, because this is all pixels, as you can see. You don't have to understand the details, but the point is we can transform it automatically into something here, it goes through lots of stages, and ultimately we end up with a tree of all bacteria that have been published in the literature. And here's a rather pretty picture of it, so it's pulled all those papers together, but technically during that I have almost certainly violated copyright. I cannot do this work without violating copyright, that's the point. And there we are, we can't do reproducible mining without it. And the Hargreaves legislation, which is very important because it gives us the moral authority to go ahead, it still gives us very little power to publish. We can't tell you what we did, because if we published it, we would publish stuff where copyright was claimed, and that's the real problem for a scientist, so they actually have to say, well we can't tell you how we did it, because otherwise we would be breaking copyright. And that's a terrible thing for a scientist to have to do, not publish what they feel they want to publish. I'm sorry that the publishing industry has been so unhelpful over this. After the legislation in the UK came out, they spent their effort trying to produce licences for Europe, trying to discredit everything that was done. There's not a single major publisher who's done anything positive in here. And I simply use this. If you trust Microsoft, then trust Elsevier. If you trust Facebook, trust Mendele, it's as simple as that. I don't think any major sector can be trusted implicitly without serious checks on it. And there are no checks. There's no government on scientific publishing. So some of the things they're doing, we get masses of FUD and disinformation. The publishers may say that they're helping you, but actually I spent five years debating with Elsevier. It's wasted five years of my life and got nowhere other than FUD. There are monopolies on the infrastructure. I think this is very dangerous that you will end up with something similar to Apple's universal infrastructure if Macmillan and the APIs from the publishers are allowed to happen. And all libraries are persuaded in signing restrictive contracts. If the university libraries, and here I would commend Leroux and Lieber and other organisations, if they can make the members say, no, we are not going to sign these restrictive clauses in the contracts, because they don't have to, then we would be a long way forward. Here's a typical example. Why need to be helpful to researchers has introduced a capture. So every 25 papers you have to type in a capture. And I have a limit of 100 papers a day. Imagine we were going through 100,000 papers for clinical trials, as you've seen. That's three years to go through Lieb widely because you would only be allowed to mine 100 a day. That's the issue. And of course they say, well, we'd be terribly helpful and give you exceptions. But everybody who has dealt with publishers knows that it takes years for them to respond to individuals asking for things. And there are hundreds of publishers. So my last slide, we see libraries as one of the major solutions here. But libraries have got to stand up and fight for our rights. So we're working in Cambridge. We've got some very forward looking libraries there. We're working with Cochran next week on systematic trials. We're very grateful to Lieber, which has done a wonderful job in pushing this forward. And we are part of their future TDM programme and H2020 programme. And that's wonderful. And ContentMine provides workshop and training in this area. So if any of you are interested in having internal or public training, we'd be delighted to do it. And thank you very much for the invitation.


But anyhow, we don't need it. We got the Starbucks coffee right here. Starbucks, like I said, is my favorite. Well, Pike's Place is my favorite Starbucks coffee. Let's put it that way. So Starbucks is great coffee. Hey, how are you doing out there? What's going on? We're talking about Starbucks, Pike's Place, K-Cups. Great deal in the carousel right now today. Like I was telling you, this is the 22 pack that I get in the supermarket. I just ordered a 96 pack when I found that what the deal was. I mean, what I'm paying in the supermarket for this, it's less than half if you get it, if you get the 96 pack from Amazon.  But yeah, Pike's Place is my go-to Starbucks coffee. This is Pike's Place Starbucks. I'm drinking it right now. What are you drinking on Sunday morning? What are you drinking this morning?


Timothy is small for his age, a good student and not at all athletic. Brad, almost a year older and a good thirty pounds heavier, spies him walking by himself and paying no attention. He can't help but see this as an opportunity to put Timothy in his rightful place. He sidles over and gives Tim a good shove, knocking him off his feet. He is rewarded by the puzzled look on Tim's face. He was ready to give the little nobody a good kick for being such a wimp. When two others, Tim's friends, step up beside him, keeping an eye on Brad. They help him to his feet. Brad lets it go with that. He will have to catch Timothy when he is really alone. Brad was a bully and wanted to accomplish something very personal. He wanted to be the one who decided what Timothy would have to do. He wanted to take choices away. When Timothy was in the presence of friends, he was not really alone and Brad's purpose was frustrated. He could not accomplish his purpose at the expense of Timothy. So why do we have friends? The answer is that a person alone can be easily victimized by others. A person who has friends is much less of a target for the bullies of this world. There are always those who would make your decisions for you, directing your time and effort to meet their wants and needs. Some of them can be brutal or demanding. And he wants to dominate and direct Timothy as his purpose. Put the rest in the black box. He acts with violence against Timothy to accomplish what he values. He isn't big enough to bully all three of them at the same time. He fails due to Timothy having friends. All of a sudden he finds that Timothy has resources he hadn't considered. Friendship is an unspecified agreement, a connection recognized by two or more people where they will not sit idly by while their friend is being abused. There is an agreement based on being able to enjoy each other's company. It is found in a loosely shared commitment to that friendship, recognizing it as having value to both of the friends. Friendship is very much a human characteristic and it is most amazing when seen in terms of performance. It has a spiritual aspect where the friends both feel empowered by no longer being alone. In terms of performance, friendship is not a performance relationship. It does not exist to accomplish some performance result. It is not formed because you have something to accomplish through entering into a friend-to-friend relationship. Friendship is not really the result of any value-based investment. There is no valued result to accomplish. It does involve a commitment you will have to make, but your friends will have to make it also. What a friendship does provide as a result of that investment is potency. Friendship provides resources. The person with friends is more potent than the person who is not with friends. They can accomplish things together that they cannot accomplish when acting as independent units. As Brad was quick to note, being with friends raises Tommy's performance potentials, discouraging his bully behavior. In a like way, being a boyfriend and girlfriend together has social potentials that exceed those of being a girl or a boy who is not recognized as a couple. It involves a level of shared commitment and results in a social potency not granted to either of them as individuals. For you as teenagers, friendship is generally a choice, an option that comes available through your commitment of time and effort based upon choices by potential friends of their time and effort. It is a choice in both personal commitment and your expected results from making that commitment. As in most such things, the more you put into being a friend to someone else, the more it encourages them to be your friend. The more valuable their friendship becomes to you, the more likely they are to find value in yours. It still has to be mutual to be effective, but it is almost always a possibility. As you are still growing and changing, your friendship will tend to be temporary and your commitment may not yield long-term benefits. But then your time and energy are high and you are the decision makers who choose where you will act. For performance, your teenage years are a time of learning. Performance starts with purpose and there is potential purpose in having friends of all types. You may not see clearly what the result will be from making friends, but this is a time of learning. You will look at the options available at the time and effort you would commit to direction of this development, then you can expend or withhold your effort as seems best to you. These are your decisions to make.


You know, I've been doing the show for ten years and I figured, you ain't seen nothing yet. Thirty spokes show the hub of a wheel, yet it is its center that makes it useful. You can mold clay into a vessel, yet it is its emptiness that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows from the walls of a house, but the ultimate use of the house will depend on that part where nothing exists. Therefore, something is shaped into what is, but its usefulness comes from what is not. Part one, advertising. It's hard to count how many advertisements were exposed to every day. Estimates range from low double digits to tens of thousands, primarily due to disagreements about what counts as being exposed to an ad in a world almost entirely composed of products. Companies will enthusiastically command a few degrees of every passerby's visual field with billboards on buildings, cars, trucks, just about anything. That definitely counts.  Those probably count. But if you think about it, the screen you view those ads on also has a logo on it. When you open your fridge to make yourself lunch, every jar, can, and bottle is plastered with a colorful brand label designed to attract your eye on the store shelf. Even the clothes you're wearing right now are emblazoned with a little reminder of what companies sold them to you, just in case you'd like to give them some more cash in the future. There's probably at least a handful of advertisements touching you right now. Advertisers usually claim that it's essential for consumers to be well informed about products and services they might want or need, judging by the expanding use of ad blockers in the premium that streaming services can charge for an ad-free experience, those consumers feel differently. That's fun as a really good commercial can be, where force fed some number between 20 and 10,000 of them every day, depending on how you count. Our artificial world increasingly wall-papered by pleas for your attention and your money that we generally don't want to look at. Still, it's hard to quantify the cost of increasingly intrusive ads. If the inside of a subway car wasn't plastered with enticements to try this therapy app or that sandwich, the people who control that space might well think of it as a missed opportunity to make a couple bucks. Why shouldn't there be an ad there instead of nothing? Part 2 Michelangelo In 2018, I saw an exhibition of Michelangelo's sketches, a surprisingly sparse collection for such a prolific artist. He was a non-stop workaholic until the week before he died at 88, surviving almost two decades longer than his fellow artist Da Vinci. But while we have tens of thousands of pages of Leonardo's notes and preliminary drawings, we only have a few hundred sheets illustrating Michelangelo's creative process. According to one of his nephews, in 1546 Michelangelo built two giant bonfires in front of his studio in Rome and proceeded to commit every one of his sketches, pencil drawings, charcoal studies, cartoons, every bit of preparatory material he produced to the flames. Many historians and artists have speculated about why, considering his history of incredible narcissism and violent tantrums, you can probably come up with a few theories yourself. But there's one explanation that's undeniable. He didn't want anyone to look at it. He clearly thought it would be better if all the meticulous planning and iteration he toiled over for David, Moses, The Last Judgment, or hundreds of other sculptures and paintings was never seen by anyone but him. Many technologies make it easier to make things. I can 3D print an object in a fraction of the time it would take me to carve it by hand. I can type around 120 words per minute and distribute that text instantly to thousands of people. I can feed a prompt into an LLM and blast out an entire book between sips of coffee. But distilling everything you might say into the most resonant and authentic version of what you really want to say, figuring out where to hold back or leave something out, remains a thankless gauntlet of hard choices for the creator. Software license agreements, reply all wind bags, and 100-page instruction booklets use a similar maximalist strategy to avoid making those hard editorial choices. If you're overwhelmed by an encyclopedic response to every question, that's a you problem. In contrast, Michelangelo was clearly willing to make the call about which of his works were deserving of our attention, albeit with his signature theatrics. To be honest, I feel guilty for having ogled some of the things that escaped his bonfires. He'll never find out, I'm not hurting anyone by sneaking a peek, but it does seem like I've violated the sanctity of his editorial resolve. Part 3. Content. Tom Scott recently announced that he's taking an indefinite hiatus from the incredibly consistent YouTube show he's been making every single week for more than a decade, explaining how exhausting it's been to travel around the world and improve his content while keeping to his schedule. I'm obviously doing a much smaller scale thing on thunk, but I get it. I used to hold myself to a fairly rigid timetable, but I've recently embraced the luxury of putting out videos when I feel like it. The subjective experience is much different. Rather than watching a timer tick down and scrambling to scrape together something, anything that might be interesting enough to write about a record, I can think and research my topics to my heart's content until they feel ready. There's an old adage that without some sort of deadline creators will just spin their wheels fruitlessly, but it feels so much better to say something because I have something that I want to say instead of firing off some half-baked idea because I've used up my quota of silence. The world is not friendly to irregular creators, at least not new ones. We celebrate when an established band like Tool drops an album out of nowhere after 13 years, but it's almost impossible to start a creative career if you don't pair your creativity to a predictable release schedule, the way record labels, book publishers, and content-serving algorithms prefer. As a result, an increasing amount of art is being squeezed out of artists. A hydraulic press of demand and metrics-driven clockwork stamping them repeatedly to ensure a regimented two-stroke cycle of anticipation and release, never allowing things to get too quiet. After all, they're all competing for the same pool of attention. Part 4. Information Overload. Turning away inside that engine, artists produce more media every single day than I could absorb in a whole lifetime. The document I use to record all the enthusiastic recommendations for books, music, essays, video games, podcasts, TV shows, and everything else has more than 500 entries and it keeps getting bigger. I blast through it whenever I can find time. I shower while listening to new albums, read a few articles over coffee, blitz through podcasts, audiobooks, and video essays at double speed or more while I'm doing chores or walking the dog, but even without a full-time job, dedicating almost every waking hour to learning and absorbing and growing, it always feels like I'm falling behind the inexorable engine of content. In information cultures in the digital age, information science theorists and philosopher Shakhid Shbir closely examines the concept of information overload. He starts off noting that the very idea is a sort of contradiction. The term information describes a subset of facts that are useful for our goals. If you took a moment to pay slightly more attention to your surroundings, you would easily find more facts about the world than you could possibly register, remember, or process. But unless you want to use them for something, none of that is really information. We don't feel overloaded knowing that there is a specific number of hairs on our heads or a molecular composition of our shoelaces. If we don't know something, we can't use it. So why would we ever complain about there being too much information? Another claims that what we're really wrestling with is confusion between information as a tool and information as a product. To be genuinely useful, information has to be incorporated into our picture of the world. Processed, interpreted, linked to other ideas, that sort of thing. But any time we spend processing data to make it useful is time we're not spending consuming information products. If you take 20 minutes to think critically about a video essay you just watched to interrogate its claims and place it somewhere in a broader understanding of the world, you can't also be listening to an abridged newscast or speed reading a biography of Robert Moses. You certainly can't be relaxing while you do those things, letting your mind recover from any efforts to absorb the ever-expanding volume of facts. But there's still an incredible social pressure to be well-read and well-informed. You don't want to be the only one at the party who never got around to watching the Godfather. This leads to a situation where an audience becomes trapped in a frantic cycle of consuming more information products than they could possibly internalize, binging on content that never seems to add up to a clear picture of the world or how to change it. That confusion drives them to consume even more. Maybe the next podcast or the next article or the next book will bring clarity and satisfaction. The industry is mass-manufacturing those products, responding only to visible metrics like engagement and time-watched, tailor their output to be easily binged by the overworked brains of their audience, simpler narratives, fewer challenging ideas, less ambiguity. You might not be able to do anything useful with it, besides maybe bragging that you've consumed it to improve your social status, but at least all that stuff sold to you as information goes down easy. Conclusion Miyazaki Hayao Miyazaki's animated films are widely regarded as cinematic masterpieces. My neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, spirit it away, his movies are equal parts entertaining and profound, seamlessly welding a fanciful art style and colorful childlike characters to deep questions of ecology, violence, identity, capitalism, ethics, all sorts of stuff. Many who watch Miyazaki movies are most struck by specific scenes that are a signature of his work, fiercely beautiful, mostly static shots that genuinely interrupt the rhythm of the story to linger a while. Miyazaki says these scenes are inspired by the Japanese artistic tradition of Ma, a focus on the negative space between elements, what he analogizes to the silence between hand claps. Ma is easy to spot in traditional Japanese landscape paintings in Zen gardens, but once the flavor is familiar to you, you'll likely find it in all sorts of places and situations where you recognize it, or something like it, the tension before the conductor cues the first note of a concert, an unexpected snow day. Many experiences feel like echoes of that pregnant silence between hand claps. I wonder how many people appreciate them the way Miyazaki does.


From Alpha Battery, 1-6-Fuel Artillery in the Arctic Circle in Cedarmo, Norway, we want to wish the Army a happy 246th birthday.


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Yeah Yeah, two blacks black auto as well three autos as well, which is surprising means five for the entire case Which isn't bad. That's above average Uh, let me see b dug Thank you harper selling us out on flawless What team did you take b dog? I can take a look Trotto tani quarry lee. I haven't seen one yet. Let's say it could have gotten deleted Uh before I went in and said thank you Because yeah, there's only five left now, so I'm assuming yeah, thank you b dog It did go through which is I the or the email got deleted. Yoshida. So thank you b dog. Appreciate that buddy Um quick recap. We had alvarez planetary pursuit Jordan walker supernova to 99 bregman peña and vado green to 75 map mervis golds will benson o'neill cruise oranges as well though cabrera Um, we had a launch in orbit pito lanzo black clips to 10 fire and buxton auto join menace's orange auto to 25 christian yell Let's do 10 on the black clips auto and then a j rod still in ova. 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Hey folks, Ned Pyle here again. If you're watching this video, server 2008 support is either about to end or has already ended. So why do you care? You've been running server 2008 for as many as 10 years right now. It's been working great. It's a good file server. It's a good domain controller. It's been holding up your websites, running your databases. Seems pretty steady. Why mess with something which is working? It's a great question. The shorter answer is no one's going to answer your call now if you have a problem with it. So just thinking about the operational cost of running an operating system or running a data center, there's times when you run into issues that you're just trying to troubleshoot, figure out what's going on. Well, you're not running an OS where if you call, no one's under any obligation to help you anymore. If you hear about a new vulnerability that comes out, a new security patch, it will not be present on that server anymore. So you're now running inside of this space of sort of abandoned operating system and hoping that you've got everything you need, including a lot of luck to keep it running. So the end of support lifecycle of 2008 means going forward that you can buy extended support, actually buy patches for it if you are a large business or enterprise that runs with a software agreement with Microsoft, or you can migrate to Azure. There are a lot of details on how all this works and it's really too much to talk about. I want to point you to this URL right here that starts with an FAQ and explains what the process is going to be like just to get back to the point of being before January 14th, 2020, what your life was like for the next three years, up to three years. And then also, I want you to go to this URL to take a look at what your migration and upgrade options are going to be and really start planning to get off of this thing because even if you buy the support, even if you put it into Azure, even if you get critical updates, even if you can call Microsoft, 2008 is done being made. Its architecture is not going to be improved and all of the things that come to make your job easier, your business more profitable, your customers and users more productive, they go into the later OS's and they don't come backwards. So getting upgraded and getting migrated really is the most key thing for you to be looking at for the next year to three years, not just trying to keep your server 2008 platforms limping along. Thanks very much.


The Shodokon Tiger is one of the most recognizable symbols in karate, and the ideas it represents along with the striking design make it one of my personal favorites. The official name is Toro no Maki, and that generally means master scroll, but sometimes Toro means tiger, so it's not uncommon for the term tiger scroll to be used. It was designed by Ho-Won Kusugi, friend of Shodokon founder Gijin Funakoshi. Now, even though there are no tigers in Japan, they are a symbol of immense power, and here it is depicted in the circle that say that a true martial artist should contain his great power only to release it when absolutely necessary. The tiger is composed of patterns that individually represent nothing, but when together as a whole make up the image of the tiger. Just like any martial system is not just one idea, but many attributes constructed together for an identity. Now, if you look closely, you can also spot the artist's signature as he truly caught this tiger by the tail.


Government management is a challenge that cannot be met with just authority. This is no course in revolution. It is a course in citizen empowerment. Even more on point, this course does not give power to the citizen who passes through it. It discovers a power that is already there, and it reveals the source and nature of citizen sovereignty. Citizen power is discovered, not created. The knowledge imparted within this area of study is designed as a foundation for taking actions as empowered citizens. It includes the study of our legal foundation and government structure, so that citizens share in basic understanding of the nature of their empowerment. And that nature is one of empowerment as a people. When we the people come to agreement among ourselves, then we are the center of all national power and authority. It was by exercise of this that the United States became a nation instead of a confederation of independent states with common interests. At the time of our nation's founding, we the people were not ready to assume management over our nation. We entrusted it to those who were elected to represent us, and to see to our interests as both individuals and as a corporate nation. Even the leaders were unprepared. They had their own understanding of authority. It was set in sovereignty of government, and changing this was seen as a cost. Change is always seen as a cost, even a beneficial change. Our leaders did what they knew. They assumed the U.S. to be a sovereign government over the common people they represented. We have continued to this time as people unprepared to assume our legal authority, which is citizen sovereignty. This course is a foundation for applying our authority as gathered sovereign people who own our nation, our government, and our economy. The tool is management, giving proper and effective executive management support to those who have been hired to operate our nation on our behalf. The tool is not one of doing the operation, but one of entering into exception management over our leaders. It is giving them direction where needed, and to provide support to do things we assigned to their responsibility, and provide adequate rewards for their service, then they deliver to us. We just begin with the Constitution as our initial document. It is a source for our agreed purposes, our granted authorities to our leaders, and what we expect our leaders to deliver to us as a product of their performance. All management starts with purpose, with something that those who are hired into labor are to accomplish as a basis for hiring them into service. Our documented purpose is to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. This is the management purpose we set upon those who are elected or hired into public service. Our constituting document serves as an assignment of these purposes to all those who are paid as public servants. Our task will include establishing and maintaining our management over these public employees for the purpose of gaining these results through their efforts. Needless to say, this purpose has not been historically filled by we the people as a public owner. To establish exception management, we need to assume direct authority over three areas, finances, personnel, and discipline. For this, we need a forum in which we can regularly come together to receive and evaluate management feedback on our government's fulfillment of our purposes. Voting annually for which of a few offered candidates will be given authority is obviously inadequate to meet this purpose. As exception managers, we only need to actually exercise authority when there is a need for additional assignment, for additional public resources, for review of personnel actions, or matters of discipline being taken in our name. Our need is to support this government as it accomplishes what we have assigned. Our means of addressing these will be management feedback from operation of our government. We need to receive information on what is being used up in running this government and the goods and services that we receive from its operation. One obvious exception management directive would be that our public resources are only to be used on efforts that return value to us. Where there is no value being delivered to us, expending public resources should be treated as a criminal act, either embezzlement or misrepresentation. We also need to have a forum for intentional review of the management feedback on the success or failure of each funded government effort. Our review provides our leaders a clear vision of what we the people both receive and value from their representative actions. The concept of executive management was clearly not a part of the original vision that established this nation. The only apparent people's body for review is the grand jury, a citizen with a power of presentments. This will probably have to do as a first effort, though we are in authority, as we are agreed, to establish such executive management bodies as we think are proper. We also need to address review of personnel actions. The constituting document does not have a body of citizens performing this function. It rather sets Congress in authority to perform review of elections of its representative body. This is technically inadequate for the purpose of executive management. Congressional review can form the basis for information supporting an executive review of personnel actions, but the review is necessary for executive management. There, once again, needs to be an executive review to accept or change hiring or termination actions. A jury review should be appropriate, giving a final approval to all such personnel actions. This has recently become an issue with presidential candidates, who specifically stated qualifications for office appeared to be in question. Such matters should have been settled before the office was filled, but were obviously left in the hands of those who had other priorities. Having other priorities is appropriate for we the people, not for our representatives to whom such requirements were assigned for performance. The third matter is discipline, both review of discipline by representatives and discipline potentials for original application. The first is a simple review, and the people can and should be the final arbiter and approver on all hires where we choose to assume this review. It would certainly include discipline of elected officers who were empowered as citizen representatives. The first type of representation would involve submission of all internal disciplinary actions to senior officers for we the people's review before any application. The second is origination of disciplinary actions. This is sitting as the representative jury originating actions on whatever disciplinary actions we may find to be appropriate. I note that the grand jury system is now not arranged to perform the whole executive management function. I would suggest that there be a gathering of we the people by whatever means seem acceptable, to more thoroughly document and establish the manpower system that serves our corporate purpose. It also seems appropriate that no government burden upon we the people be authorized without expressive approval of we the people as the only party in interest. As owners of the nation, we are the ultimate source of public resource, whether through taxation, fee, seizures, or other means. Ongoing burdens on we the people would be a subject to periodic review. I note that there were severe limitations placed in the original writing of the Constitution and government leadership chose to ignore these. Without our executive management review, that has been allowed as if authorized. No system of taxation should be considered as authorized without executive approval. Unauthorized taxation is a reversal of the purpose of serving we the people, a reversal of representation. Such efforts involve people being forced to invest in their government's efforts, independent of receiving anything that they value in return. We the people want our nation to function and will support such taxation as may be needed to perform the functions of government for our purposes. Another matter is secrecy. There is no such thing as a secret representation. Even the attempt at taking action unknown to those who are represented is intentional misrepresentation. The value in protecting a certain actions or information from general publication is recognized. A potential performance approach is again jury review of actions that the public officers would secure from wider public scrutiny. A finding of need by we the people as represented by the sample who are the jury would then authorize securing matters from the larger public. This is also a matter for reviewers to dealings with other nations. If these undertakings by public officers in the name of the people, then securing them from the people is the exception. We the people are not the ones who claim to need secure representation from ourselves. Citizen rights to representation should be considered as absolutes as we already recognize that parents do not politically represent their minor children. It is only when our youth reach their majority that they are entitled to independent representation services. In the alternative, our government needs to know who it is to represent. We need a recognition of the acceptance of the United States government that we own. It is reasonable that every citizen who would be represented sign a copy of our constitutional agreement and be verified as to citizenship. All signatories will then be recognized by government as personally entitled to a citizen's voice in our constitutional government's operation. We cannot have public representatives who do not know who they are to represent. This supports a registration where the death of a citizen is noted and removed from the list. It simplifies the constitutional requirement for a census in support of the operation of our government, setting the voting role so that citizens can be identified with their signatures on the Constitution. The periodic census would also include verification of citizens on voting roles, removing those who are no longer living and verifying transfers to and from other recording jurisdictions. This list of citizens entitled to vote would provide an initial requirement for federal jury duty and for representation through any grand jury or other gathering to exercise executive authority over government operations and personnel. Any citizens who are not on the list of constitutional signatories will be assumed to be represented as part of the larger citizenry. We as the only party in interest are able to establish executive management over our government. This initially includes the purposes written into our constitution, which should be signed by each and every citizen as accepting its terms and limitations and in recognition of the rights of other signing citizens. This would include authority to assign additional duties and responsibilities to public officers and to see to the three functions of final review for finance, for personnel and for matters of discipline. The mechanism for accomplishing this is not currently a part of our constitution but is most closely aligned with an expansion of the grand jury, empowering it to perform the functions that are essential for executive management. Each grand jury would act as a sampling of we the people, representing the larger population of the citizens who have signed our constitution and whose names are on the list deciding citizens.