Okay in this video we are going to go ahead and set up the order service. So you can see on the screen here on line 72 I have the order service definition from the Docker compose file and the key takeaway here is that we want to be exposing port 8081 and we have six environment properties set up very similar to the other two services except on line 86 we are setting the beer service host. So just a slight divergence there and again the beer service we are setting the host name equal to service names and that is how we will resolve that service. So let's go ahead and I'm going to come over to the command line and start setting this up. So we use cube control to go ahead and create the initial YAML file. So we're going to go ahead and create a deployment and this is going to be for order service and this is going to come from the image spring framework guru slash KBE brewery dash order service. We are going to do driver on client use YAML output and we will direct that to order service deployment and you have a mistake there double dashes there that should do it okay now let's come back or to intelligent we'll go ahead and edit that and see this is a file that we created through cube control and what we need to do is set up these environment properties here these six properties I'm going to pause the video while I do that and then we'll come back and do a code review. Okay I've resumed the recording and can see on line 24 I added in the clause for the environment so we have the environment and then six name value pairs setting up the environment properties to configure the spring boot microservice key points being that we are setting up the host to MySQL for the MySQL database JMS for the JMS broker and then also the the beer service host is running on port 8080 at the host of beer dash service in a Kubernetes context so let's toggle back over to the command line now and what we want to do is apply that file order service deployment that is going to create the pod in the background for us and now we want to actually create the service definition cluster IP it's gonna be order service and in this case we're gonna do 8081 dry run equals client minus O equals YAML for YAML output so I'm going to redirect that output to a file called order service and then we can do Q control ply minus F order service YAML see that is created and if I do a Docker PS we can see the various containers running in a Docker context on the host and then if we do we can do get all to see the environment being set up here so I've got to scroll a little bit now you can see that we have beer service failover service inventory service JMS MySQL and then finally order service and then those are the pods running those are the Docker containers and then also we have the services running and we can see we've got about six seven of them now so right now we have our core services the JMS MySQL running as well as the four spring boot micro services are up in our environment and Kubernetes is running all these applications for us so let's toggle over to IntelliJ and just do a quick review of what we did so I added the file I created the order service deployment using the command line keep control from the man line and then we had to edit the file to add in the six environment properties and then the order service we did not have to edit this file we did create that purely from the command line and then we did the apply command to apply that to our Kubernetes environment


So we're closing out SOCAP 23. What an absolute privilege and I'm sure you've all had Wonderful week same as I have so as introduced. I am an impact investor I work with Caterpult and we invest in early-stage impact technology companies focused on climate ocean and food and agriculture in Africa And we also help to raise awareness through the Caterpult Foundation about the tools of impact investing and impact technology for good And more recently I am a master's graduate from the University of Cambridge After a big 20-year gap I went back to embrace academia and to put myself through the Troubles and Turbulations of going back to school to really try and understand this world of AI ethics and How I could bring that into my work at Caterpult with the founders and with investors that we work with See what overlap there was and how we could learn from AI ethics in our work as impact investors So I'm going to share some of that research now in eight minutes and 55 seconds bear with me But first off I'd like to buy a show of hands who has Companies in their portfolio that are using artificial intelligence machine learning as a value driver Okay, super quite a few as Expected and this is sort of what I found in my research So I looked at pitch book database and analyzed portfolios of 350 impact investors and found over 2000 deals in their companies been invested in by impact investors across all of the SDGs that we're using AI on machine learning Which is not surprising given that the numbers continue to arise that have been invested into AI and And Goldman Sachs are telling us it's not a bubble So we anticipate that this will continue and research is also showing us that it can be used for solutions to our environmental and social problems and the stat I quote here is from academic research showing it can support 79% of the UN SDGs But what does that mean for us as impact investors? There's lots to get lost in there's a lot of hype There's a lot of noise AI for good AI for bad. How can we navigate our way through that? So this hence my interest in AI ethics. So by another show of hands How many of you that have looked at an AI have thought about integrating AI ethics into your work? Oh Beautiful Okay, super. So you're proving out my research Thank you, so cap in that there are more that have done the investments and have started to think about sort of AI ethics But I'm quite impressed at this little group here. You need to come find me afterwards But what I did find from interviewing 14 impact investors both private wealth and impact VCs That there is definitely sort of an interest in learning more and Recognizing that an integration of these themes of AI ethics can be supportive in Achieving sort of their goals of being making better impact investments So what does that mean sort of for us and sort of where do I sort of go next with this research? And what are these risks that I'm talking about? Well, these risks are real First off just thinking about techno-solutionism, you know critiquing ourselves is technology always the best Tool for the solution to the problem that we're seeking But then thinking about some of the investments we might see so examples such as a Company seeking to debias the recruitment process by using sort of algorithmic decision-making But if that tool has been built on data that was already biased We're just going to perpetuate sort of existing biases and we're not going to get sort of a de bias recruitment process or a health company a mental health company using classifiers looking at language being used by individuals to see and raise awareness if somebody's at risk of self-harm But again, how has this tool been built? How do we know it's classifying and it is going to sort of escalate the correct Issues those that really are at harm and who might get missed So by asking these questions about how the tools have been built and thinking about sort of the ethical considerations of those tools Helps us think about sort of the overriding sort of impact of those investments So the second part of my research was to think about Okay, what do we know what is out there within the AI ethics world? What work has been done that we can integrate into our impact investment? processors and In talking to the impact investors This is what I looked at Our investment processors. How can we think about different steps and stages in our processors? That could lend themselves to integrating AI ethical considerations This was my hypothesis and I tested this with those that I interviewed So first off screening due diligence Some of what I just flagged as high level. How can we get those questions? How can we as impact investors integrate sort of more effectively the right questions to ask? So we can get underneath sort of how the companies are using these models building and deploying these models to ask questions That are going to illuminate for us what the potential AI risks may be And then once we've done that, you know, there are tools out there So there are tools out there should mention some of them are here and there are many others We have Ravid Dottan who I work with who has put together a framework to support investors on diligence We also have NIST here in the US with their risk management framework There are things out there that can help us and can be used and adapted for our processors So once we've asked those questions and we have our answers Contracting I'm sure many of you have seen I have in my time working in impact investment this Increased number of us that are integrating impact terms into our term sheets into our contracts How could some of those be adapted? how could we sort of add in and Cover some AI ethics Terms within those contracts. So for example, you know Embedding sort of the purpose and an AI tool can be used for multiple purposes But if we're investing for the energy efficiency purpose, or we're investing for sort of the health outcome How can we embed that and ensure that the company and hopefully ensure that to support the company to head on that Trajectory and not to use a tool for something that goes against the impact that we're looking for So contracting being the second process it and then the final one Follow up show up use our voices. We sit on the boards of these companies. We mentor them We run accelerator programs for them Ask them to report Give us the feedback loops so that we can get the data as to how these models are working and what are the risk management processes that the companies have put in place ask for that data support the companies and Be sort of a good steward for those that we invest in from an AI ethics standpoint So this is what I proposed and this is what I spoke to my Interviewees about and I got some resounding yeses. This sounds great. Alison. Let's sort of go out. Let's go build it So that's sort of the next piece and I want to sort of you know I'm not an academic but I'm an action-orientated impact person and so you know in distilling sort of my two years and 16,000 words Dissertation the key point I'd like to make here today is that this investment is continuing There is something that we can do and if it's not us then who is going to sort of take that step So you've heard from me and I've done quite well. I've gone pretty fast and I've got one minute and 51 seconds left So now I'd like to hear from you so this is sort of my call to action from the end of this sort of talk and That I'd like to learn from others that have started those of you here that raised your hand that have started thinking Reach out to me. Follow me on LinkedIn. Follow catapult foundation Revita and I are actually doing a webinar next week on her work and we'll continue to do so We will sort of put together sort of content on this topic over a period of months and we want to sort of bring those of us together that would like to learn more so that we can put together some best practices and I would also like to build out further the tools that we've considered and make them publicly available So the catapult foundation supporting this but I'm also looking for other funders so that it's not just me I can sort of work with others and we can build out sort of more of these tools So I hope and by doing this that next time if I come and ask those to put their hands up that Are working with AI ethics integrating AI ethics. We have a few more of you in the audience raising your hands Thank you very much


What's up everybody, Jason here for JazPisCaseRates.com, 22-23, Panini, Spectre, basketball, just what else? This is a two box break, pregame teams number three.  I remember, buy two teams get one entry, four teams two entries, six teams three entries. And top two names win two, fifty each. So we'll do that randomizer at the end, and actually my print and run out of paper, so let me just show you guys everybody that's in here. So again, obviously the R&B customers will not be part of this, but like I said, there's all the names in there, like I said, well I'll advertise and see who gets part of that break credit promo later in the break. Now we have half a case left guys, two boxes on top, two boxes on the bottom, that's the way we've been doing them, so top two boxes will be one, two, three, bottom two will be four, five, six, let's see how it plays out, and it's four, the bottom, so these two will be for number four guys. Also two for the R&B customers, this is what you guys have right here, for also the 12 teams. That's Brian, Rockets, Galen Terry, and Malik Monk to 99, sky high signatures for the Kings, Sacramento Kings, David B, Gold, Darius Garland for Cleveland, put a mark, out of ten. Nicholas Batum, one out of five, catalysts, nice, that was like a $19 clippers team, did anybody buy them or are they part of the R&B? No, marked it, there you go man, Terry Rosier, out of 149, that's another one there for Brian and the Hornets, and Vince Williams to ten, Memphis Grizzlies, oh sorry to 75, not to ten. Memphis Grizzlies, that is Wen Shun, Jalen Bronson, out of 49, and Jay Will, not Jay Dove, but Jay Will, the other Jaylen Williams, nice one there for O.K.C., 35 out of 99, he also had a great rigged season, Oklahoma City Thunder, that's part of the R&B, five for the D&B, alright, so next box, to 49 for the Brooklyn Nets, going to William, and Tari Easton at 99 for the Houston Rockets, 12 team R&B, 41, spot one is David B, Spencer Din Whitty, not numbered, LeBron, Jaren Jackson Jr. Deep Space, that is Memphis Grizzlies, which is Wen Shun, alright two more guys, remember we don't get like a color blast or anything like that in these last two packs guys, last two boxes are going to be extremely loaded for some of the big teams guys, Mood Dorfo KC, that's six, gonna rob a wrong call, so just let you guys know man, don't sleep on them, Glenn Rice, no I think that's gonna be a randomizer, retrospect, she got Miami Heat and Charlotte Hornets, so Miami Heat is Kev, Charlotte Hornets is, I believe was Brian, so that'll be a randomizer as well, last one here folks, here we go, Donovan Mitchell for Cleveland, Glenner Mark, I don't know, 149, and last one here guys, Jalen Jirana 35, aspiring for the Detroit Pistons, Pistons part of the R&B, 5, David B, and there you go guys, so again, I don't know what was hit in number two, because I don't think I did number one, but again that's potentially some big hits, I don't know was there was there a color blast or something like that in number two, I don't think I did it, I don't think I did it number one, so there you go guys, thank you guys so much, let's do that randomizer, giveaway, $500 in break credit, and then if there's any non-numbered cards too, we'll do that giveaway as well, so dice roll will be for all of them, 1, 2, and 3, so this one here will be for, we'll do the Glen Rice one, so what is that, we're next, heat, next one will be for non-numbered R&B, alright, and then last one here will be for the break credit, so just one team, David B with four, it's two entries, add two, Kev two, Mark with four, Sean Matic, Sean, William, one each, alright nice one and eight chance guys, two-fifty each, dice roll, seven times, here we go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven times, five, two, five, hornets, seven times for the non-numbered, two, three, four, five, six, seven, thank you guys, and in advance for the bless you, Robin Ronkel, non-numbered for you, and here we go seven times for the break later, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven, seven, seven, one, Sean and Mark, congratulations, two-fifty each to both of you guys, we'll send that soon, Jaspy's casebreak.com guys, thank you


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Hello and welcome to Dispatches from India, where we bring you some of the significant developments of the week. In this episode, we take a look at the second anniversary of momentous political change in Jammu and Kashmir, this continuing impact of Pegasus revelations and the condition of power looms sector in the state of Tamil Nadu. We begin with Jammu and Kashmir. August 5th, 2021, marked two years since the central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, abrogated Article 370 and Article 35A of the Indian Constitution. Now these provisions gave a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Alongside the move, the centre also bifurcated the state into two union territories that is Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Now union territories are directly under the administration of the centre. Thus, in a flash move, the people of Kashmir lost not only their autonomy, but also their ability to govern themselves. Simultaneously, a harsh communications blockade was imposed and military deployment was increased, causing massive suffering to the people. Two years after the move, the people of Kashmir still have little say in their administration. On the occasion, News Clicks Pragya Singh spoke to Mohammed Yusuf Tarigami, a member of parliament from Kashmir from the Communist Party of India, Marxist, on what has happened over the past two years. It seems as if constitution of Jammu and Kashmir was abrogated, but also the constitution of India was not working, is not working in this region of the country. Otherwise, ordinarily, whenever any state got divided, new states got constituted. Constitutional, it was mandatory to refer it to the people's opinion, to the concerned population, concerned legislature, has this constitutional direction followed with Jammu and Kashmir. I think our countrymen do remember that time and again, the senior leaders of the country have been telling the people of India and people of Jammu and Kashmir that Kashmir remains the crown of India. How was this crown treated? You see, our state, a historic state, and Kashmir has 5000 years history, and then it is downgraded, it is divided with whose consent? The manner in which the special status of the erstwhile state was taken away, shocked the people. The decision was suddenly announced without any consultation with the representatives of the people, and it was hurriedly passed through India's parliament. The fact that the communications blockade was in place, restricted people from even getting proper information about the development or protesting. Nonetheless, a few rallies and demonstrations did take place. In addition to the change to Article 370, Article 35A of the constitution was also scrapped. The provision put restrictions on outsiders buying land in Kashmir, which has always been a major concern for residents. Today, the government is talking about Naya Kashmir, as they are claiming in the rest of the country building Naya India, New India by destroying the very basic structures of India, modern India. Similarly, they want to destroy the whole Naya Kashmir, which came into being through the hard historic struggles while land to the tiller was first enacted in this part of the region, while the peasants became masters of the erstwhile and land where women rights were ensured, where free education up to the university level was provided. That Kashmir has remained an eyesore for the Sangh Parivar. That's what this government has done on 5th August 2019, destroyed the constitutional provision, destroyed the very constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, destroyed those very rights which were, which emerged out of long struggles of the people of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Now, we have been put in a state of silence and this silence is not voluntary. This silence is not of our choice. This silence is forced silence. But how long? This is the question which we are posing. This is the question I hope the democratic opinion of the country will someday ask these people who are in authority today. Now, when statehood will be restored remains a major question. In parliament, on being asked about the restoration of statehood, a ministerial state for home affairs that's Nithyanand Rai said that it would take place when normalcy was restored. Now, when this normalcy is going to come back and what is in fact this haloed normalcy is a question that remains unanswered for now. Staying on the topic of Kashmir, we go to the victims of pellet guns. Over the past many years, in fact over almost a decade, security forces in Kashmir have used guns which fired pellets against protesters in the region. Now, security forces claim that these pellet guns are non-lethal equipment. However, these in fact are greatly harmful and many have lost their eyesight or suffered severe injuries due to this. A media report two years ago said that anywhere between 10,000 and 20,000 people could have been affected by the pellets. In addition to the injuries and the medical procedures needed after that, many of the victims suffer from intense psychological distress and mental health issues. We bring you a feature on some of these victims. Now, if you hit the corneal, then the corneal tears and it is dangerous that the corneal whiteness also becomes, which is called corneal opacity. As the pellet gets hit on the eye, it travels in a very high velocity and it rotates. The problem is that there is actually copper in it and some other chemicals, which goes inside the eye. Unfortunately, the vitreous body, the water inside the eye, becomes a chalky type of material. It becomes a cheesy type. The chalk type becomes as much of a reaction as possible.  But most of the pellet victims, their prognosis is not so good. Our next story is about the ongoing Pegasus controversy in India. The names of a number of journalists, politicians and even judges figured in the list of people who may have been spied upon using the spyware Pegasus, which was manufactured by the Israeli firm NSO Group. Over the past few weeks, the opposition has continuously raised the issue in parliament, but the government has not provided a categorical answer on whether these public figures were spied on. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of India is also hearing the matter. Newsclicks editor Praveer Purkhaisar talks about the various dimensions of the issue. The Pegasus issue still continues to rock the Indian parliament and finds resonance in the media. As you know, a number of journalists have been found to have been infected with the Pegasus cyber weapon or spyware, whatever you want to call it. And this issue has now come not only in the parliament but also in front of the Supreme Court. Number of journalists and other important figures have petitioned the Supreme Court that they should start looking at this issue and have a judicial review of what has happened and is it true the government of India did buy the Pegasus software and did bug a number of journalists as well as opposition figures. From the listed transpires that even some of the ruling party and government officials including judges had also been similarly spied upon. This issue is not going to go away, particularly the government refuses to answer a very simple question. Did it or did it not buy Pegasus spyware or cyber weapon from NSO, the Israeli company? A simple yes or no answer should by now have been provided but the government has stone walled it in the parliament, outside the parliament and even in front of the Supreme Court. The answer they are saying is there is no proof. The question is people are not asking show us that this was not used. What they are asking is a simple question that could have an easy yes or no answer. Did any government agency buy the Pegasus software? Did government of India's money, people's money was used to buy the Pegasus spyware or cyber weapon as Israelis themselves admit that this cyber weapon or spyware was deployed against the Indian journalists as well as other figures in the country.  Whether the Supreme Court will order a Supreme Court monitored inquiry is something that is before the courts and let us see where it leads us to. Why is it important that this issue needs a closure, whether Pegasus was deployed in India or not? This is because the government surveilling it, the opposition surveilling judges, surveilling journalists is an issue of democracy that if this is allowed to happen, if these weapons are used against its own population against various sections of the people including the opposition, then this really endangers what we consider essential that is the privacy of the people and also their ability to talk to each other free from government surveillance. This conversion of India into a surveillance state in a way that we had never foreseen that means that you carry a spy in your pocket which is your phone. These are things which are extremely dangerous for Indian democracy and I think the government owes it to the people and the Supreme Court owes it to us to also give a clear answer that what is the way forward. And finally we go to the state of Tamil Nadu and its struggling power loom sector. Small scale units have been especially hit after the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns but even before that they had been affected by the sudden demonetization process in 2016. Now this process made invalid a large number of high value currency notes under the guise of fighting black money but caused a lot of difficulty to the people. Similarly the introduction of goods and services tax also affected such producers. The COVID-19 lockdown in the country was the final nail in the coffin of what was an already suffering sector. Here is a video feature on some of the issues faced by them. The power loom sector is a significant industry in Tamil Nadu. According to the Tamil Nadu hand loom and textile department nearly 3.2 lakh people have registered as power loomers. Further there are 142 power loom viewers co-operative societies covering 24,000 looms across the state. Two-third of these power loom units are functioning in Koyamthu, Tirupur, Eeru, Karu, Salem and Namakal districts. During the pandemic induced lockdown the sector confronted various problems including the exporting of clothes. The problem involved in the production said that they are not getting adequate income out of it. News click visited a power loom unit and its worker in Salem to understand their problems. That is all we have time for today. We will be back next week with more news from India. Until then keep watching People's Dispatch.


t we want to do the tribal double-check and there's no there's no problem with saying let's get a you know another set of eyes I Think we that that you don't need affirmative authorization. No, I could do that. Thank you though for that. It's guidance. That's helpful Thank you. And I and again, I think because there's been federal legislation just to include that update We will separate apart from the to court proceedings So and do we have a consensus that at this time and in no public hearings and We'll just right now ask for a federal update on the tribal issue and a draft RFI which We understand it will be a draft. I wouldn't be surprised if we've got to do a quite a bit of work on it Because it is a different approach with the Understanding that a respondent would not be precluded from a potential RFRRP I think yeah to the extent that that's permissible Thank you anything further that we want to give guidance on this matter I think if I can just add one more thing, you know in our In our packet, I know all of us saw this Not only did we have a letter from From good when the representatives from Mg and e in regard to this issue, but we also have What I know we were given samples, but over 300 messages I counted of from folks who were Opposed to the proposal down in Brockton As part of our packet. I Know we've also seen a passionate letter from the mayor. We've also heard testimony from the state senator You know, I don't want it to go unnoticed. I don't think it has that Brockton is a gateway city and it is a city that is continued to Be anxious to find economic development opportunities to Turn around their pride city and offer new employment opportunities for their residents And I think you've heard that from both opponents and proponents of gaming as we've as we've listened to the folks in Brockton I've lived and worked in the gateway city I understand that that drive and ambition Somewhere in the back burner, I think it'd be great if we remained open somehow to a possible role we might play with That challenge before the city of Brockton. I don't know what shape it takes, but I would just like us to Be mindful of that Of that situation for the city And as a reminder at the proceeding at which Mr. Bloom and his lawyers Presented their motion for reconsideration We didn't include those comments because we viewed they were outside the scope of that proceeding However, at that proceeding The mayor again as an elected official was able to offer his insights on exactly those challenges that you Recognize a commissioner Stebbins today. We did include them to to really Provide a little glimpse of balance as to both the The good and proctor Letter and their request in the fact that we have in fact received significant public comment which Might suggest less support than what they were advocating for So again, it doesn't sound like we're going to solicit further public comment at this juncture or Go for public hearing because I think we recognize that more information will be helpful for not only asked But for the public is that there? Yes, okay Thank you. All right So that concludes your report under commission matters item 6 Ed and we do have our placeholder for commissioner updates if We could hold off on any commissioner updates in the interest of time and provide them At our next meeting which will be in plain Ridge Plainville, I'm sorry, that's right. It won't be at the casino. It'll be in at the plainville public safety facility Then we'll move on to Items number eight nine and ten because we have moved item number seven to our to another session Most likely our most next immediate session And with that items eight nine and ten our executive sessions Contemplated for executive sessions If we so vote for item eight the commission will go into executive session pursuant to mass general laws chapter 30a section 21a Subsection 3 for the purpose of discussing strategy with respect to collective bargaining as discussion at an open meeting May have a detrimental effect on the bargaining position of the commission Do I have a motion to go into executive session for that purpose? so moved And I second that motion second Thank you, and as you understand an executive session requires a roll call vote commissioner stephens How do you vote hi? commissioners Sunica I Commissioner O'Brien I Commissioner Cameron I and the chair votes yes Moving on to item number nine if you so vote The commission will go into executive session in accordance with mass general laws chapter 30a Subsection 21a subsection 3 for the purpose of discussing strategy with respect to the ongoing region a litigation as Discussion at an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on the litigation position of the commission Do I have a motion to go into executive session? Do I have a second second? Okay moved and second at this item as you know requires a roll call vote commissioner stephens I Commissioner Zunica. Hi commissioner O'Brien. I'm commissioner Cameron. I the chair votes yes As to item 10 Consistent with my past recusal. I will be recusing myself from this particular fine Executive session, and I have asked commissioner Cameron to chair that session If In accordance with Chapter 30a this executive section section 21a 3 for the purpose of discussing Strategy with respect to ongoing region a litigation And this is a discussion At an open meeting may have a detrimental effect on litigating the litigating position of the commission Do I have a motion to go into executive session? So moved a Second second again. This requires a roll call vote Commissioner stephens I Commissioner Zuniga. I commissioner O'Brien And I commissioner Cameron vote I as well and my recusal and the chair has just Mentioned that she's recusing from this item and make note of that Great before we Go into executive session item 11 does Ask if there's any business not reasonably anticipated at the time of posting I think we're all set so Commission will be now in executive session the public session of the commission meeting will not Reconvene at the conclusion of the executive sessions all members of the public and any staff members not involved in the matter to be Discussed must leave the room and the doors to the room will be closed. We thank all for your attention


Yes, my writing's all done. I've got a complete manuscript. It's the right length. It says everything I need. I've got the figures I've got the abstract. I've got the title. What more could I need to do? Huh, I haven't edited anything yet. Uh, I can only imagine what the text actually reads like now that I haven't looked at it for a month Well in today's episode, I'm gonna share with you my top 10 tips to better and more effective editing Stay tuned to PIs because there's a little rant for you at the end Hey folks, I'm Pat Schloss. Over the past several months, I've been working on a manuscript here on YouTube You can go back and look at the previous 60 or so episodes to see its evolution Recently, we've completed all of the text. All of the text is there in the manuscript but As I look back over the text, it looks a little bit like a Frankenstein's monster There's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Maybe it doesn't quite flow that well My process of writing is to get all the text down that I can without editing myself as I write I've done very little editing as I've gone The reason I do this is because I find that if I'm editing my text as I write well Then I run into the problem of just constantly editing and wordsmithing every sentence and I then don't get very far For me and I find for trainees that work with me and my collaborators That it's most effective to get the text down and then to go back and do a lot of editing to clean things up Like I said, it's a lot of editing so what I want to share with you today are 10 tips that you can use to make your editing more effective and You know if you follow these tips What I think you'll find is that the next time you write a manuscript that your writing will be even better tip number one Editing should be iterative. I find that when I'm editing the first time through or the first several times through That I make a lot of changes There's a cat Steven song that was covered by Cheryl Crowe and a number of others from when I was in high school Cheryl Crowe Called the first cut is the deepest that is certainly true with writing as I've been editing this manuscript I've had that song Just going through my head constantly the first cut is the deepest It's enough singing anyway. So know that initially you're going to make lots of changes your manuscript is not perfect It is not ready to submit. It needs a lot of work still. I Prefer to edit the text text directly in the manuscript On a physical document.  I go to other sections of the paper I just get easily distracted and so by having this kind of physical token of my writing that I can interact with I Find that I make much better edits and that the process goes much more smoothly as I share with you what mine looks like Here on my iPad You'll see that I've got a variety of things highlighted for things. I need to come back to I've got things in red to stand out to me. Some people don't like red. So, you know, use whatever color works It's a nice contrast in color And then I've got a fair amount of text in here One other thing that I do is I write as you saw when I was talking about inserting references They like to leave in placeholders Kind of like what I have here For this text right I didn't exactly know the E coli coordinates that I was referring to so I put an xxx again If I spent the time then to go back and find the coordinates that would have like totally killed my momentum in writing But now I can come back and I can I can fill in those X's right So there's a variety of those things that I need to fill in Version numbers and things like that as I go through the editing the amount of editing I do will hopefully become less and less until I get to a point where it looks pretty clean and Perhaps I've got a headache from looking at it so many times and I'm just like Let's move on to something else tip number two Let it breathe as I just said sometimes I edit so many times and so many Interpretations that I got a headache and I'm just sick of looking at the thing right well a few episodes ago I was talking about this also in terms of my analysis and letting the analysis breathe and giving it a chance to percolate and kind of Ruminate on that and to think about what the analysis actually says to make sure everything fits together Well, if I put the manuscript to the side for a few days and then come back to it I'll read sentences. I'll be like what the heck did that mean? So as an example in my abstract, I noticed that I had a sentence right here in the middle That doesn't really add anything doesn't really say anything and I'm not exactly sure what that meant to say I think that was supposed to be a statement Summarizing all the results, but as I can already see I'm gonna be doing some other editing this abstract I think was exactly 249 words so one letter one word underneath the limit And so I could get rid of those seven or eight words and and kind of perhaps Free up the text a little bit in case I need to add things But again by giving the text some room to breathe I see sentences in here that don't make any sense oftentimes what I'm looking for are subjects Where I'm assuming that the reader knows what the subject of the verb is But again looking at it with fresh eyes. It's not quite clear what the subject of that sentence is Tip number three strengthen your sentences by putting the action up front again Looking at my abstract here. I See a sentence Right around here right for full length 16 s aren't any gene sequences. There was an average blah blah blah of that gene, right? So Where's the action? Where's the most important part right? I think it's back here at the end, right? So there was an average of point six ASVs per copy of the six chance RNA gene For full-length sequences, right? So the most important thing in that sentence is that as you find more Copies of the 16 s gene in a genome you're gonna find more ASVs, right? And so I want to move that up front in the sentence People talk about in journalism. Don't bury the lead. Well, I think each sentence kind of has a lead So don't bury the lead don't bury the important part at the end put the action up front by the same token I'm not a fan of saying as figure one shows blah blah blah blah blah Like you're kind of just killing the momentum of the sentence when you say that Say what the figure shows and then at the end of the sentence in parentheses put figure one, right? So again, put the action up in front of the sentence and that way your reader knows what's most important as they're reading through your document Tip four get your tenses right. I know this is like elementary school My kids are working on tenses as they're learning writing skills themselves in elementary school in junior high For most scientific writing the tenths should be past tense the work that we did we did in the past, right? Rarely very rarely do you want something to be future tense future tense would be for things like in the future We will do x y and z or someone else should x y and z and that will be future tense Sometimes we do use present tense and that would be for kind of statements of fact, right? So like E. Coli has seven copies of the 16s RNA gene, right? That is a it's not in the past right E. Coli used to have seven copies and now it has something else But it does have seven copies. So as I look through my own document here I find several cases where I botched the text. So for example right about here I say at the time of submission. This is the most current version of the database. Well Someone's gonna be reading this in the future past the time of submission, right? So I should say at the time of submission, this was the most current version of the database And we can kind of go through that elsewhere again the kind of two sentences later the rndb provides Could instead say well at the time that I wrote this it provided downloadable versions and again going through the manuscript and thinking about When did this event occur? Did it happen in the past? Well, it should be in the past. Is this a generalizable fact? That should be in the present tense up here in my intro I do have an example of using present tense, right? So one an example of both is seen in the comparison of Staph aureus and Staph epidermis where each genome has present tense five copies of the sixty-nose RNA gene, okay? So again most of the time your tense should be in the past If it's a statement of fact, it's usually present very very rarely is it going to be a future tense? Tip number five vary your sentence length, but ten towards shorter sentences It's very difficult to keep track of concepts subjects of the direct objects or end up in direct objects in long convoluted sentences Maybe I'm just too simple, but I like short punchy sentences the same time if everything is a short punchy sentence Then it becomes like see dick run see Jane toss right and that's kind of too simple, right? But as kind of a general principle, we're also looking for wordiness and we don't want overly wordy sentences You know so an example would be in order to blah blah blah to say to Right in order to test this hypothesis replace that with to test this hypothesis There's no need for those extra words an example here in my manuscript Is here on page 4 at line 96? This makes it more challenging to attempt to fit a distance threshold, right?  I can remove four words and replace it with one. That's a win Of course as we're editing and making things more compact We don't want to make it so compact that we again confuse the reader by dropping out useful information like what is the subject of the sentence? Tip number six forget what Mrs. Shaw taught you in high school English. Mrs. Shaw was a dear woman She was my sophomore year English high school teacher. She had sheep. Maybe that's part of the reason I have sheep Who knows but she was a great woman, but What she taught me in writing probably didn't serve me super well in the long term for scientific writing, right? So we don't want to be flowery with our languages. We don't want to use lots of adjectives We don't want to change up our vocabulary. We want to be consistent We want to be tight We are not writing the great American novel, right? I am not writing this great Pros that's flowing like poetry. I'm writing a scientific manuscript that should be direct and to the point one of the big problems that I have especially with my writing strategy of kind of writing in parts Before I edit is being consistent with my terminology an example that I find in this manuscript Is what am I calling the things that we split that ASV is split genomes into right so in the title I say unit of inference Further down I say clusters elsewhere. I say bin right and An on and on and on right and I've got unit of inference in the text as well. So I Need to tighten that up and be consistent in my language You might think well, it needs to be more variety or it's going to be boring But instead of being boring and lively by using lots of different terms for the same thing It becomes confusing because someone might read this and say well What's the difference between a unit of inference and a cluster or a bin? He's got these three different terms So if I limit that to one term that it's much clearer to my reader what I'm actually saying So I'm not sure what I want to use do I want to use unit of inference cluster or bin So what I did was I took this title and I gave it to my lab In a slack channel as I did in the last episode when I was kind of testing different titles and my lab came through with Responses to these three titles that I wrote and I find that most of the people in the lab Prefer example to where I say clusters and I think clusters where it's at because it's it's clear that this is a cluster of Sequences related sequences, and I think that's what I'll go with and I'll I'll trust their judgment Kelly in my lab gave a good comment that she likes clusters because we talked about Clustering sequences into O2 use so that title then with clusters has more of a nod to O2 use as the alternative to ASVs than the other options, and so she's right I don't mention O2 use in these three different titles And so again having clusters is more of a nod to having O2 use and I think she's right And I think the lab agreed with her so we'll run with example 2 Tip 7 enlist a friend to read your manuscript before you give it to a collaborator or your PI When you do this, it's a two-way street. So first tell your friend what you want help with Are you looking for copy editing where you want them to correct your grammar and your punctuation?  Or are you looking for more structural information? Right, there's no need doing copy editing if you still have questions about the structure of the manuscript If you're looking for the overall flow of the story That's more of a structural question than copy editing It's critical critical critical that you tell your friend and that you trust them and that you will not be hurt by Any feedback they give you because your writing might suck Right my writing often sucks. This manuscript sucks in its current writing and that's why I have so many edits We need to be professional about that if you're asking somebody for help you should be willing to take the help Okay, so tell them that you're willing to take any critique you give them Tell them, you know it's rough, but you need their help to make it better now friend. I'm talking to you now Be honest with your with the person giving you the manuscript You do them no favors you give them no favors by handing them back a manuscript with minimal edits They know the manuscript is bad. That's why they gave it to you for help They did not give you the manuscript so that you could say this is amazing This should be published in like cell-nature science, right? No, they gave it to you because they need your help give them help Not putting comments is not helpful Fill that thing with comments and so that they can learn and they can do better And they'll do the same thing for you when you give them a manuscript Tip number eight change things up a bit. I talked about letting your document breathe Well, sometimes we don't have the the time to let things breathe for weeks, right? And we kind of want to move this story along and get the thing submitted So what can you do to help change things up a bit? Well, you can change the font you can change the margins You can change the font size what that does psychologically is it allows you then to see Phrases in different contexts as you read a manuscript over and over again in the same format You know where all the sentences are you kind of memorize the structure of your manuscript and then as you read you gloss over different things But by changing the font the size the orientation the margins those types of things you now see the manuscript in a different light because those phrases aren't kind of Lockdown or anchored to the place you expected them in the manuscript. I've been writing my manuscript in our markdown It's written as a text file again. That's one of the things that helps me avoid I was spending too much time on editing especially things like bolding and italics It also gives me a lot of power and the ability to put our code and output directly into my text. Anyway In this header, I can do a variety of things to change the format So these two lines on lines 9 and 10 are giving me a Helvetica or or sans-serif font I can comment those out. I could also make my font size at 12 point to make my margin one and a half inches And so then I can make my manuscript And we'll then see how that changes the appearance of the manuscript So that again, what we're looking for is to see sentences in different places Of the manuscript so that I I don't gloss over that text when I edit it. So again now we have a serif font We've got wider margins, which kind of moves things around a little bit Instead of being on like three fourths of a page my abstract and important sections are now over a page and again, I can then take this and edit it and By using the different font and structure to the document I can then see text anchored to different points in the manuscript to again Help me to see things with new eyes and then before I submit I'll go ahead and put it back to the format that I want to put it in Usually adhering to the recommendations of the instructions to authors for the journal I'm submitting to so here's another question for you all If you're a trainee or a junior scientist What's one thing that you wish your PI could do to help you write better and to make the editing process easier? Conversely if you have PI, what do you wish your trainees knew about writing, right? So what's something that you if you could tell people coming into your lab that you wanted them to know about writing? What's the tip that you would give them and feel free to put all that information down in the comments below Because maybe, you know, we could accumulate these ideas and we could share them with people and we could do another video to kind of summarize People's ideas.   I believe right, okay? The final two tips are gonna be a little bit controversial, but stick with me. I think it's important tip number nine Don't use track changes. I know this is controversial Most people will think what the hell is Pat talking about but really don't use track changes I think it's I think it's a crutch and I do not think it helps anybody So first of all if you take things from your trainees perspective And and they get a document back that you have made all sorts of modifications on say in a Microsoft Word document What are they gonna do right?  I'm not gonna change this No, they're most likely gonna just change everything And and not learn a whole lot from that process and they perhaps don't feel empowered to push back and say hey Pat You know, I wrote the sentence this way because of X Y and Z I mean, I hope they would but the reality is probably that they're not going to The other thing is that track changes then become a bit of a bulldozer, right? So I get your document. I put it in a Microsoft Word I start making all sorts of changes and then fire it back to you There isn't much give and take there isn't much learning Inherent in that process. So I like to work on an iPad or on printed material as I said earlier and When I when I do this it really slows me down because I write by hand much slower than I type and I I don't want to give my trainee a sea of red ink, right? I don't want to give them a bazillion track changes I also don't want to write the paper for them. I've got my own stuff to write I've got my own things to do and I you know, perhaps I can write the paper for them or do a lot of heavy copy editing for Them on this paper, but what's that gonna do for the next paper, right? Not much So what my strategy is working with a trainee is that I will spend an hour working on the document and I'll start maybe At the title or the abstract and go as far as I can or maybe I'll start with the results section and kind of Work outwards kind of in the process that I would write And as I'm reading that I'm not gonna be so focused on the first couple iterations of the manuscript on Copyediting or wording of things I might you know notice things and I'm gonna leave comments more in the margins We're all highlight examples and say, you know You're using all sorts of tenses throughout here or you're burying the lead like I said earlier, right? And I'll highlight examples and then I'll give it back to them after I've worked on it for like an hour and say These are some things I noticed Rework the manuscript with these things in mind and then give it back to me and we'll do this give and take many times Eventually we do get to a point where we are ready to do copy editing and work on the wording But again doing the track changes is just it's just a bulldozer, right? And it's not teaching the trainee anything about the writing process by giving them comments and then asking them to see an example See how I would fix the example and then work on that through the rest of the manuscript I think they learn a great deal one of the other things that I just absolutely love doing And a colleague of mine Greg Dick at Michigan told me about his post-doc mentor I think was Jill Banfield did this with him. I think I've got the story right Is that she would sit down side by side with people and literally write the manuscript with them? I don't I think I think this is true But I think it was a great role model that Jill would do that with people And so what I like to do at least one time One on one paper per trainee is to sit side by side with the trainee going through their draft and Helping them to see the draft the way I see it I recall working with a former student Alex Schubert And I remember reading a sentence and maybe it was like the first sentence of the paper And I read it out loud and she started giggling and she's like I have no idea what that sentence means, right? And so again seeing it in a different context or seeing it the way I see it Helps you to write better and what I find is that yeah I might spend 20 hours over the course of a couple weeks sitting side-by-side with somebody which is something I love doing I love doing it takes a ton of time, but I love doing it But the next paper that Alex wrote was great, right? It was it was so much better written because we had gone through that process And so instead of seeing it as like a 20-hour time sink It was an investment and it really paid rewards down the road in her future papers and again That's worked really well with my other trainees So PIs please take the time to work with your trainees to give them feedback on what they need to know to write better trainees listen right don't see that example sentence fix that and then like ignore The cases of that throughout the rest of the manuscript really take their training and what they're trying to give you to heart Tip 10 now. This is for the PIs Cover your ears read the damn paper really come on One of the biggest complaints that most trainees have is that their PI will not read their paper They have put so much effort into writing this paper And you can't spend an hour to give them initial feedback on your thoughts of the paper You know what that tells them it tells them that either you don't care or that you think it just sucks, right?  It's just painful my wife's master's advisor named Steve Krasovic Had a discipline where he would get the manuscript back to his trainees within a couple of days And he said that exact same thought to me. He said Pat, you know these trainees they put in a lot of work to Write the manuscript. It's the least I can do To edit and help them to write better. My name is going on that paper Steve's name went on that paper Let's make the paper better because they're doing us a great service and helping our career It's the least we can do to make their careers better So PIs read the damn paper really Put everything else to the side and work on that if you can't get back to it in a couple of days Tell the tell the author, you know, I'm working on this grant proposal. I've got a crunch deadline You know, I'm not gonna be able to get to it this week But I promise you I've got time in my calendar blocked out Monday morning to work on it for two hours Okay, again, I think they appreciate that but leaving them in limbo where they don't know the status of the paper It's very harmful and it is just super frustrating to your trainees So that's the PI Collaborators, please read the damn paper. So again What I advise my trainee is that we will go through give and take we'll get it to a point where we really like The look of the manuscript and we like the flow of things. I think it's ready to go, right? But because I don't know everything and as a courtesy all our co-authors should see the paper I then tell them give it to the co-authors, but in the email Tell them that we think it's in pretty good shape. We want their feedback and we know they're busy So if they don't get back to us in the next 10 days or five days or some period of time We're gonna go ahead and submit it But if they have comments or if they need more time, please let us know So again by giving them a period of time that you want the manuscript back by They can plan their time around that and if they don't get back to you even just to say hey I need another like week or two Then you're free to submit it in my opinion Okay, so and that's another place where the PI should be able to step in and you know for like an important Collaborator that's done some heavy lifting on the paper and say hey, you know Mary You've done a lot of work on this manuscript. We submit it. We want to submit it But we want your feedback first. Have you had a chance to look at it and and so again the PI can step in maybe throw around a Little bit of muscle to help move that collaborator around along if you really do want their feedback. Alright, so those are my 10 tips I'm sure I have more tips My lab knows that I have many many pats pet peeves of writing But I think these are the 10 most important tips that I see in my own writing the writing of my trainees and the overall Editing process that I'd really encourage you to think about so if you have other tips that you think are important for writing Or you know if you don't think PI should be reading the papers in a timely manner Go ahead and leave a comment below and we'll send the Twitter trolls to attack you. No But if you have other comments or feedback or ideas on what makes your editing and writing process better Please let us know down below in the comments We all learn from hearing other people's experiences. You might not agree with my process But I think there's a few things in here that you can hopefully take away to improve your own writing All right, so as we go ahead We're getting close to submitting this manuscript and so in the next issue episode or two We're gonna go ahead and submit the manuscript so I can show you the process and what it looks like To submit the manuscript and to be finally done so you can lean back and say I am done writing until you get the reviewers comments back and then you think they're just a bunch of idiots. Anyway Keep trying to work these ideas and concepts into your own writing and your own research practices and Practice that tell your friends about what we're doing here on these code club episodes and we'll see you next time


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