It's hard for both of us to be in it. Hi from Philadelphia. I'm here with my friend Wendy Wells. And we have a lot of poster sessions. Have the opportunity to visit here so we'll go to some of them. Let's go. We just came from the bloggers cafe and had some really good chats. So that was neat. And now, so Wendy, the challenge here is trying to find a good poster session where we can get to the speaker and put the microphone up to them. Sometimes that's hard because the ones that are really interesting people seem to be gathered around and you can't get to the speaker. This one is called This Is Not Your Mama's School Project. That's a cute name. That's a cute name. Did you get that? This is not your mama's school project. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, this is Wendy from the bloggers cafe yesterday. Hi, welcome back. Glad y'all could join us. And now people are complaining they're not getting much done because they're watching this instead of doing their work. Oh, you got some hearts, Wendy. That's really sweet. Yeah. My favorite Periscope moment is when Wendy met Angela Meyers yesterday. Like the broadcast before it expires, or I'll get it up on YouTube here soon so you can see that was neat. We got to see Angela Meyers shoes, too. That was important. She had some really cool, the hashtag. Shoes matter. Shoes matter, hashtag. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Let's see. Oh, she's from the school district I taught in. All right. Well, I'll have to. Let's see if she remembers. I mean, she wasn't there when I taught there. At Morton element. That's where I student taught. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah. And I worked there. I worked there for six years as a before and after school child care leader there. So yeah, it was fun to meet you, too. Let's see. So they have some amazing apps. Once we know, pick collage, Pinterest, Skitch, yeah, and there's some websites on the other side, amazing tools for school projects. All right. Let's see. Yeah. So this is Julie from Omaha. Do you mind being videoed? Yeah. Yeah. There's 33 people watching right now and they're giving, like, they're giving you some hearts because they really want to hear about your poster session. They're mostly people who can't be at ISD, so they're learning about it. Come to dinner next year. Okay. Tell us about what you have here. That's where I student taught. And you were at Willowdale. Yeah. Yeah. Small world. Okay. So basically what I've done is taken apps and websites and put them all together so that instead of doing a worksheet or assessing students paper pencil, you can put technology in front of students and quickly assess what they know. I have examples of each thing. So if you don't know what Skitch is, you would flip in my book to the Skitch section and you would see 10 examples of how to bring Skitch into your classroom. Where do we get your book? You have to come here. Sorry. You can. There's my QR code. Well you keep talking. We'll leave the address on there. Does this go to Morton's website? It goes to Morton's website and then if you scroll at the bottom, you can get the handout and it lists apps and websites. They're all free or relatively inexpensive and I'm just encouraging my teachers who are just getting started with iPads to take on one thing and bring it into your classroom and have your kids become comfortable with it and then once that becomes easy in stations or morning work or however you want to use it, then you would bring in another tool. People want to see the code. I was doing the web address but they want to see the code. Okay. My code is better looking. I don't know if they can see it. The live stream sometimes doesn't have the best image quality. I think starting simple and your top app on your list here is one that I think teachers can start with really easily and that's Pick Collage because there's so many things for them to do with it. It's easy to understand and kids like using it. Right. The other great thing about it is if you have families that you want to share it with and we have pulled the Pick Collage into like our newsletter so it's on the front page of the newsletter when they get it and we try to encourage teachers to use it but we want families to use it too because it's super simple. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing. Thank you. Oh, no. You don't need to sweat. You did great. You did really great. You look great. You sounded great. Yeah. So, MPSomahad.org slash Morton is her school's website and I don't know if they have their newsletter on there or not so that might be something to check out because they put Pick Collage there. Let's see. This one has students. We've got to find this one. This one is Virtual Safaris and Beyond, Augmenting Reality in the Classroom. Oh, I hate that I'm on my phone right now. Do you have a phone, Wendy? Can you scan that code? I want to know what this is. One of their posters says, we made these photos come to life. Scan them using their Arasma app. It looks like they've used Show Me and look, they have some of the kids cut out in little speech bubbles with a QR code. Okay. So, you scanned. You scanned this. Is that a beaver? It's a puppet and then you can watch that puppet in a puppet show. Yeah. I don't think the internet's going to cooperate but frozen but we, yeah, okay. We've got to talk to one of these kids. It's a little hard to get them. The Augmenting Reality app back here is making it come to life. Yeah. You have to work your magic, too. I know. Yeah. I don't like to push my way through places, though. Which app? Arasma. The purple letter A is the app they use to make their augmented reality so they make a picture and they can make it come to life using the picture as a trigger in Arasma. Let's see. There's a little video that's playing. Looks like they're having a great time in that video. Hi from Ohio. Hi from Pennsylvania. This class is from Philadelphia. Oh, they're from Philadelphia. Oh. Well, it makes sense that they're here. Wait. We might not get to talk to them right now. Well, maybe we can come back. Oh. Get her. Yeah. Do you mind talking into the microphone? Well, first, you have to take a picture and then you've got to tap it two times and then you can put it, you have to tap it two times and then you can swipe it away and then you can read it or figure out what it means and does like that. That's what it means. So did you get to make one of these? Yes. Which one did you make? Well, I made a cheetah and I made a cristianmigucci. What did you learn by making one? Well, we learned by making one with a rasma because like if you go back and you see this, you press it and that's how you get to a rasma. Get to a rasma and stuff like that's how you get to a rasma is like if you want to like do these and you've got to go to a rasma and do that. Well thank you for showing me that. You're welcome. Yeah. So with augmented reality the picture acts as a QR code so you don't need the code but you need an app and you need to subscribe like to a channel so it knows what to put there. But I couldn't hear her very well but hopefully Periscope people could because I put the microphone really close to her but it's so loud in here. So loud. They were. All right. Let's make a loop this way. She got lots of hearts. That was good. She was a little shy but stem little sprouts. Oh whoa. This is we're not getting through there. So this is why they call the app Periscope so you go like up and put your arm up there. What I was thinking kinders with iPads is the name of this one. If you go to do the SD 2015 website look at the program and look up this poster session what I was thinking kinders I bet hopefully they have a link or something there because we'll have to check that out a little bit later. Crowded. Yeah. Next one of the themes around here has been app smashing combining apps so yesterday was the the smash pub and there were others a drink menu and you made martinis with apps that's how they got teachers to understand workflow with apps. So this one is called they did the mash the app mash when you do you know are you do you recognize all those icons your name of all the yes yes pic collage show me pop let the camera they are labeled but if they weren't labeled you could still do it. Hi aunt. Do you mind being recorded? Do you mind taking a microphone and telling us about they did the mash the app mash. At mashing is when you take one app and you make something in it you save it to your camera roll and then you put it into another app to enhance it typically we're at the elementary level we the enhancement is adding voice to it but these are some of our favorite apps for app mashing and taking them into another app and making it better yep absolutely yep that's me what's your what's your favorite smash ever my favorite smash ever my my most favorite app lately has been thing link because they can make anything and in other apps and save them and then put them all in thing link so we just did a fifth grade branches of government project they made a chatter kid they made a doodle buddy they researched and then we put everything in the thing link so I received one product with a link to all of their products instead of getting a chatter kid a doodle buddy the text and all that yeah so it's super cool thank you and you have do you have anything online a s'more you have a s'more okay leave it there for a moment all your favorite apps for app mashing are right there nice thank you right and thank you here I'll show up so there's like 40 people watching and let's see got some hearts for and nice hello I use it for everything awesome yeah thank you okay oh there I thought I lost Wendy Wendy's been been following me so let's see what else we have here oh yeah so this one's iPhoneography using your iPhone to take and enhance photos and it talks about Instagram let's say this is William King hey William do you mind being on camera do would you like to take a microphone and tell that this is on Periscope there's about 40 people watching right now so while you talk I'll kind of pan across things and your name okay my name is William King I'm the head principal at balling green high school got hired the day before I left for Isti so but it's the same school I've been at for 14 years just just went from freshman principal to head principal but basically what we do we try to tell the story of our school if we don't tell our story about our school or classrooms somebody else will tell it for us be at the school across town on angry parents on angry students so we try to you know filter in a negative share to positive so we do a lot with school media relations we have a school Facebook account the school Twitter account the school Instagram account Periscope snapchat whatever it is it's going to reach kids and parents in the community we're going to join into that and so our kids all sign off on acceptable use policy which allows us to use their picture or their Twitter or their Instagram whenever we tweet out so it looks like we're at every event but we have four administrators we all have access to it so you might be the boys game I might be at the girls game you might be at the swim meet and we're all shooting images and sharing that out using platforms like tweet deck or Hootsuite that way I don't have to open 40 apps 40 times from one button one time I share all that to every platform so that's very useful I have not used edgy clipper but I love Adam bellow so maybe I'll get on that shout out the edgy clipper Adam bellow check it out so then on the other side I have a lot of different fun photo apps some of these I use in the classroom or at the principal level some I just use personally but for example touch retouch is an app where you can remove things from pictures so if I've got a student that doesn't want their image in a pep rally picture I open touch retouch I paint over that student my finger hit play it removes them and captures whatever's behind them so boom they're gone I can share it out so that's great for removing you know light pole in your picture or stop sign or car that you know whatever Google snap seed is a tool tool by Google it's probably the most powerful photo editing app if I was gonna get anyone that one's awesome then there's big lens you can use that the blur kids out of a picture so if it's like a kindergarten class and I don't want kindergartners on the web but I want to picture what the teachers doing if I took that picture I can paint over the kids and blur them but still use the image you can't tell who they are then there's visco cam and mixtures those are great tools for filters square ready a lot of pictures that you take won't load onto Instagram or other sites because they're not the right dimensions so square ready I open that picture whatever the dimensions are and it it makes it fit and then I just click save and instantly tweeted out or put it on there color effects turns your pictures black and white and then with your finger you can paint back in the color so I can have a garden and I can run it through color effects makes it black and white then I can paint over a purple flower and you just see that one purple flower it's like the movie Schindler's list we have the one girl with the red jacket it's a black and white film but it's a very powerful parts the only color in the in the film so pro cameras another app so we've got all kinds of fun apps that if you'll tweet me or email me I'll send you a list 10 times longer than this but anyway it's just it's fun telling the story of your school but it's also fun you know on your personal accounts to play with images and take pictures of like Philly I've been taking a lot throughout we do photo walks and it's just it's lots of fun so yeah I just want to do a little shout out to William when you were talking about being a principal that has all the social media open that that's fabulous because that that's an inspiration for the school and for other administrators to realize the power of this and so definitely connect with William and find out what he's doing innovative in their high school so I think it's gonna be a great great year for you he's doing a quick photo op and and so adding to your apps just tomorrow I'm doing a session at 830 called finding and designing visuals for your project so I talk about a lot of those things I found one app lately that does a lot of that all in one and it's called Pixler and it's free there's no e at the end Pixler and it yeah they have it for every platform and I love it because you can do you can do the color effects you can do the blur you can do the mixture kind of things where you add overlays all in one app so it's pretty neat yeah yeah I know that you would use a mixture yeah yeah for sure so and then I see as I recognize some of these I like over for putting text on apps and path on you draw a line and then the text follows oh this is circles yeah you know but path on fun I use path on Fonto and over to share like we had a student get a perfect score on their ACT and their SAT so I download their picture from our school you know records program and then I paste it over there you know what is a perfect score on the ACT and SAT look like and it was a picture of her and so that's a great tool for that Fonto over and path on one more shout out Microsoft has an app a free app called photosynth it's also on desktop it lets you take a 360 degree image not like the iPhone camera where it's just one angle you do the ceiling the floor that's great for field trips or if it's you know the school year is getting ready to start in August for us in Kentucky I can say this is going to be your son's first grade classroom and the parents on their phone device can with their finger take a 360 degree tour of that classroom or if we're on a field trip so anyway that's a that's a powerful free tool and Microsoft has done it it's top notch so William King you are awesome and somebody and then here let's give you some hearts turn my camera around so you can see the hearts coming through they say I'll say it's great ideas I agree yeah if you want my resources if you will email me at W King BG it's on my shirt at gmail.com W King BG at Gmail I'll send you my presentation in a ton of resources and I'd love to see your pictures so Tony Vincent look up my name you'll find it it's called worth a thousand words there you go alright I get everybody else's name tags now finally somebody gets mine you're welcome that wasn't he wasn't it yeah yeah really great principally understands the power of communication particularly visual and social communication so I love that I'm sorry yes is touch cast close by I will see so much of I was telling Wendy this earlier it's like they're serendipity and what you come across like I don't like we just walk by and go to something and sometimes it turns out oh I love you too thank you people are people online can I have a little love as well yes please thank you all love the hearts you do you do love the hearts okay let me know and we'll we'll see and somebody somebody asked if I'm periscoping my session tomorrow I probably am not because I'm a well you if you want a periscope you probably you I'm not I won't stop you you can record it but I don't I probably want to do it myself just because I'm worried about the presentation and I have I I have two videos that I've dream screened in front of and are done really nicely that kind of cover the topic I don't I'll sleep on it I'll sleep on it I'll see if I see if I what I decide they're saying please yeah I don't know we'll see we'll see it's Wendy on periscope right now I am yes I am a yeah my username is the same as Twitter it's Wendy Wells ed tech T.E.K. Wendy Wells ed tech T.E.K. yeah please follow me because I just opened up my periscope account yesterday so yeah I love that she's been watching me do it and and I think she's she wishes she had a microphone right now that's why she keeps taking mine but you also can order a microphone from Tony me Tony V. me yeah so this microphone you can get the microphone on Amazon but I made a short link Tony V. me slash microphone thank you Wendy well is that how you say it Wendy Wells ed tech is that Wendy Wells ed tech that looks right Wendy Wells ed tech yes yes it is it it is it okay let's let's see here elementary school take is it there must be an elementary theme here I I should really check this before I get into poster sessions what the theme is this morning it was like global collaboration and an ecology and now it looks like so so elementary teachers love QR codes so we see a lot of QR codes around here this is a third grade heritage project yet blended learning is a is a is a big buzzword it seems to a lot of sessions are about blended learning at SD making is a big deal maker space maker space which it seems to me they're making like a lot of different things to for learning which we've done a lot a lot and here's here's one about genius hour there's a lot of people here so I don't know if I can just walk right up behind the behind the counter like I did the other one you might you might get tossed out I'm not sure I can't even get into ask her she wants to on the microphone so so be another well to make a second looping get to the ones we get to if my battery lasts that's the I don't know how long my battery is going and with this microphone it connects to my lightning port so I can't connect my USB battery because the microphone is taking it sorry no and then Periscope doesn't tell me how much battery I have either and I'm afraid if I leave the app the the session will end yeah I am it is true they should be happy to if I'm periscoping I'm adding 30 more people that can probably hear the presentation better than we can in person because as I keep saying it's really loud in here I know about coding that's another big theme is coding here at ISD 2015 let's see there's some resources well if you guys want to screenshot this Gary Pinkston.com slash SD.html yeah I'm in love with this mic I just got it before I came to ISD I don't think I would be periscoping without it because it would like it's just it's really loud in here all right how you keep popping digital storytelling tips and tricks this looks like the same stuff from the Remind party last night yeah unless they got the stuff from the same store the same it's the same font same designer you you guys you are very welcome I love to this so let's let's check this out so two truths and a lie digital storytelling is really cute tips and tricks on sharing your story and building your voice in the digital space lurking is a good way to start you guys can lurk on periscope and then you can be your own periscoper absolutely now look at the bottom creating a class hash hashtag can promote transparency for community stakeholders yeah your own class hashtag you know I had the sessions here at ISD have to have their own net hashtags you can't use the ISD 2015 hashtag in a session they'll get lost in in all the other hashtags are in in all the tweets learning increases when we develop PLN so PLN is a big big buzzword as well for teachers to make sure you're connecting and you can connect all different ways like periscope the poster people are still everybody's so busy which is good it's good to when your people are talking oh somebody you're I'm glad that I could inspire you to periscope the gaff summit I think it's how you pronounce Google apps for education I think I heard they pronounce it gaff summit that's great wow oh do you mind being do you mind being on the internet do you mind being on the internet being recorded not at all do you would you mind taking the microphone and then you are in so much trouble now he gave me the mic okay so I'm Liz Bomarito and I'm here for the USC Shoah Foundation we have a website called eyewitness where we have Holocaust and genocide studies we have over 1300 testimonies visual testimonies of survivors of the 20th century genocides we have over 25 activities for classrooms this is all free online because Shoah Foundation is totally non-profit we make our money through fundraisers and donations this is a wonderful tool for history teachers and English teachers and digital literacy teachers and students learn how to use the internet they find out about the Holocaust and they find out about Armenia and they find out about Rwanda they video edit they go on information quests and create clouds word clouds they do many quests where they create projects that they can share and learn from each other there's just so much information here I don't know how to tell you how to do it I need you to go to eyewitness.usc.edu sign on register it's free poke around watch some video testimony all the videos have been indexed so that you can search for a clip that's based on a topic or a theme I've used it that way even when I'm not doing genocide studies when I'm teaching a book I'll show a clip about justice or civics or religion or faith and I use the clip it's two or three minute clip and I use the clips to spark debates to introduce a topic or just to start a discussion with my class it's totally free I I the letter eyewitness eyewitness.usc.edu totally free of charge for educators and anyone that wants to go online and take a look at it they they people who want to be a dissie but so they're they're here through Periscope so I mean they'll give you some hearts too because they that's look how wonderful that is thank you so much we are willing to train the teachers that want to use this for free whether through a Skyping session or sorry or through webinar or to come out to see where are you guys I tomorrow is a webinar at one o'clock eastern standard time they find out at eyewitness at eyewitness.com we'll be using testimony and primary resources tomorrow how to use testimony and primary resource it's a webinar online how do they get on there through our website has it they can register okay thank you thank you for sharing Owen thank you for the pen thanks enjoy the rest of Visti I'm no it's on you on my Twitter and I'm Tony Vincent on Twitter and you can see a link to that yeah you got a pen you got the like a whole pile of pens yes it's just Tony Vincent find me on Twitter there's it would be the link that just that's about this time of day and it says it's on Periscope is what is what this is called yeah all right yeah people are finding you on Twitter right now yeah they saw it on your name tag take care I do I well I've used Periscope we had an edtech day and it was just a great way to bring people in who couldn't be in so the not for Isti hashtag they're probably so excited that's great now they're sending you hearts and they sent me lots of so free pens yeah here if I if I could push this through here you can take a take a pen for people who are not at Isti well I'll take a few and put them in my purse how's that all right my little battery 20% warning so when 10% warning happens that's when we can wind down we've got to go to lunch we haven't had lunch yet yeah she was very enthusiastic and so while while you were talking to her I was a periscope and that's what she was saying that yeah that's how she found out that you don't know Tony Vincent she did not know you don't you don't have to know you shouldn't know me but she knew me so funny anyway yeah this is exciting we got some really cool stuff and hopefully you guys have a little yeah so somebody has how much does Periscope drain your battery well this morning I started with pretty close to 100% and after a half hour of walking through the poster sessions I was down to 50% so you know you get about a good hour so then I recharged as much as I could and I got up to like I don't know 80 years no I was at 60 when I started this session so yeah it's it's a big battery drain like it said I could I could I'm gonna look into a case that has a lightening that I can so I can have this microphone plugged in and a and a battery case yeah and the other thing I want to get to while we're talking about it is that I want a wide angle lens so that like when I when I turn the camera around here you really stretch my arm out in order to see me or to get to you know or have to do a lot of panning which is shaky so if I had a little wide angle lens I could slip over the top of my phone and I have a cheap one but I if I'm gonna be doing this more I probably could get one that's that's not so cheap looking at intent the phone and the microphone because there's a lot of other media people here that have tripods and the camera and so I mean this is creating the same atmosphere but in a simple way I'm on an iPhone 6 and then the microphone the microphone is the iRig HD yeah well I'm happy to bring you to SD and let's see gotta run I gotta run to so yeah it is time for lunch and to charge the yeah I haven't hit anybody with the microphone yet you almost did but we've got you we need to charge your phone and then also fun yeah yeah so so thanks for watching and we'll see you later


Tonight, on EKB Evening News at 6, leaders hash out issues during a forum at U-Pike last night. Good evening. I'm Gary Slott. And I'm Cindy Mae Johnson. Last night, four of the five legislators who represent Pike County took part in a legislative review on the U-Pike campus. One of the major issues discussed during the evening was the state's coal severance tax, which has continued to dwindle as the coal industry has taken a downturn. The EKB news reporter Shelby Steele attended the forum and spoke to the leaders about this issue. The significant decline in coal production in eastern Kentucky continues to impact families in our region daily. Now that coal production is declining, that means coal severance taxes are getting smaller. During a legislative review held at U-Pike and Booth Auditorium Tuesday evening, coal severance taxes were the hot topic among the legislators. State Senator Ray Jones explains that coal severance was originally intended as a cushion for the state. Coal severance tax was intended to guarantee a future for eastern Kentucky once coal was no longer the mainstay of our economy. And unfortunately, that day has arrived more rapidly than anyone could have ever thought. Representative Chris Harris adds that now that we're seeing a decline in coal severance, farmers need to be more proactive in the way they spend tax money. We have to be safer and more thrifty with the way we spend our coal severance money. It has to be spent for projects that are valuable and that are substantive to helping our economy and helping us diversify into different areas. Representative John Short says that the most important thing needed in eastern Kentucky right now is economic development to create opportunities for the next generation. We've got to get jobs in here for the future of our children and for the future of the people that's wanting to work here and live here. We have to stand up for the people of eastern Kentucky and spend the money wisely. Representative Leslie Combs agrees with Short stating economic development is important, but we also need to pay attention to other needs. Pike County as a whole obviously has a lot of infrastructure needs still and water and sewer and we have economic development needs. When we did the last budget as far as using coal severance dollars, that's what we were trying to keep in mind was that money was originally intended for economic development use and that's why we structured it the way we did. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shelby Steele. Tomorrow Shelby will bring us part two of that report. It focuses on one potential source of diversification many people are talking about. That's tourism. So during last night's forum another item on the agenda was working together in cooperation from everyone including county, city and state. 94th District State Representative Leslie Combs says this is imperative if we want our region to thrive. I think we've got a good future ahead of us. The main thing I think that was emphasized tonight is that it's so important that all the officials in Pike County from the state, from the federal down to the state down to the local level work in concert with one another and that's I think that was the main theme tonight. We need to work together. I think we've got a good future. An opportunity for leaders from around eastern Kentucky to work together will take place in Pikeville next week when the SOAR initiative returns to the east Kentucky Expo Center for a strategy summit. In the first part of a two-part series, EKB news reporter Shannon Deskins take a look at what SOAR it is and perhaps more importantly what it aims to achieve. In 2013 Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and U.S. Representative Hal Rogers launched an initiative aimed at diversifying the economy of eastern Kentucky, SOAR, which stands for shaping our Appalachian region is working to help the region develop and put into action locally oriented strategies to attack challenges facing eastern Kentucky. SOAR is about rallying and unifying the region, the state, federal partners around one vision of what the region can be and then being the catalyst for change to get us there and making sure investments are strategic throughout the region and that local leadership they have the capacity to grow their communities and how do we do that. Arnett said our region has always faced economic problems but the recent downturn in the coal market has pushed some communities to the point of losing hope. What we hope to do is inspire communities hope at the end of the day because a lot of them have lost hope and think they can't do anything but they see SOAR as wow everybody's together we are getting federal attention, we are getting investment, there are opportunities for grants and planning grants and we can assist in that and facilitating and kind of be in the middle person and directing them that way so we're open to communicating with anybody who wants to make a difference in their community. According to Arnett, the best way to learn more about the SOAR initiative and to reach out with questions or ideas is through their website. Our website is probably the best place to start on that go to www.sore-ky.org there's a contact button on there you can fill that form out send us an email our office numbers on there so you can call our office and we'll help however we can. Tomorrow we will bring you more from our interview with Jared Arnett and preview the 2015 SOAR strategy summit which will take place in Pikeville on Monday. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shannon Deskins. Well tomorrow night as Shannon mentioned in part two of her report she'll be previewing next week's conference. Police are looking for a Perry County man while another remains in the hospital following a shooting last night at Airy. Many state police troopers were called to a residence at Coates Branch where they found Robert Earl Miller lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the face. Officers were told Miller had been in an altercation with 61-year-old James D. Brewer just before the shooting. Brewer allegedly fled the scene before police arrived. Brewer had been charged or has been charged with first degree assault. Police are asking the public to report any information concerning Brewer's whereabouts to Kentucky State Police post 13 at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Coming up, coal miners will soon have a new and freeway to be tested for black lung. And trees were planted at Bob Ames Park today. We'll be back to tell you about it in two minutes. A Pike County star athlete was arrested today following a fight during a baseball game yesterday. Eighteen-year-old Bradley Elkins has been charged with second degree assault. The charge is a felony, carrying a possible prison term of five to ten years. According to the arrest warrant, Elkins allegedly punched an opposing player during Pike Central's game against Lawrence County, knocking him unconscious. There was an altercation last night at Pike County Central High School between one of the players from Pike County Central and a player from Lawrence County. They got into a fight and they ended up calling Amelots and the boy from Lawrence County was transported to Pikeville Medical Center. The other player who is not being identified because he was a juvenile was transported to Pikeville Medical Center for emergency treatment. According to the arrest warrant, he remains under a doctor's care. Southside Elementary's second graders, along with some boy scouts and students from the Honors Biology class at Belfry High School, planted chestnut trees in Pikeville today at Bob Ames Park. Thanks to the American Chestnut Foundation, Green Forest Works, the Office of Surface Minds and Reclamation, and the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative, students were given the opportunity to plant twenty trees. EKB News reporter Shelby Steele tells us more. Southside Elementary's second graders, along with boy scouts and students from Belfry High School's Honors Biology class, gathered today at Bob Ames Park in Pikeville to plant twenty chestnut trees on an old mine land. Second grade teacher Alice Tackett and her students have been working on a project where they have to solve a problem within the community. The problem we looked at was the mine land that's been abandoned and had minimum reclamation done to it. And what could we do with that land to make it useful and beneficial to our community again? And we decided that because there's so much change taking place in Eastern Kentucky that animals needed a place to live and kids love animals, so we decided to plant trees. And so we began to study about the American Chestnut Tree. During the early 1900s, a fungus caused a blight or a major die off of the American Chestnut Tree. The president of the American Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation says giving young students the opportunity to plant this tree in Eastern Kentucky is the experience of a lifetime. When we lost the American Chestnut, we lost the very important component of our eastern forest ecosystem. These are ones that we have bred to have a level of resistance to the blight. And this is in our early stages of planting some blight resistant trees back. It was given a 2,500 stem grant and the Appalachian Renaissance Initiative also provided computers to help make this project possible. Chestnut trees were also provided by the federal office of surface mining and reclamation. There was 32 American Chestnut trees donated to Southside Elementary School up in Belferry, Kentucky. And that came from a combination of the American Chestnut Foundation and a non-profit called Green Forests Work. Green Forests Work is a non-profit organization that works to patch the holes in deforestation across Appalachia. For EKB Evening News at 6, I'm Shelby Steele. Beginning next month, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will offer a series of free, confidential health screenings to coal miners throughout the country. These screenings are intended to promote early detection of black lung. The screenings will take place in the Institute's new mobile testing unit. The screenings provided by NIOSH will include a work history questionnaire. A chest radiograph, blood pressure screenings and others will be offered. Typically, the process will take about 25 minutes. NIOSH provides the individual miner with the results of their own screening. By law, each person's results are confidential. No individual information is publicly disclosed. Well we will publicly disclose some information about both high school and professional baseball when we come back with Andrew Joyce. But first, EKB Chief Meteorologist Lathan Hopkins will be here with our forecast. We'll be back in two minutes. You know, another great summer-like day today. We're enjoying it. Temperatures force some of us into the upper 80s. Could we flirt with 90 before the weekend? Oh, you flirt? You flirt? I may just do that. I'll show you here in just a second. Some of us even dealing with some rain as we speak. That rain mainly south of Pikeville into southwestern portions of Virginia, but we do have a couple of showers right along the Kentucky-Virginia border. We will zoom in a little closer, right along 197 here from Elkhorn City stretching down toward Jenkins on 119. Heavier shower that is developed here just to the south of Jenkins in Weiss County. And we have another batch of rain. If this holds together right along 460 near Grundy, this is moving opposite to what we're used to. Normally we go west to east, but this is going east to west. So if this holds together, it will move closer to Clintwood and eventually over toward Weiss here within the next hour or two. One other little shower that has developed there near McVeigh and Phelps and if it holds together over toward Kemper can expect maybe a quick little shower over the next hour or so. All right. Let's pan out with the satellite and radar composite. You can see where the cloud cover has been confined through most of the day, mainly to the south in two parts of southwest Virginia and extreme southern and eastern parts of Kentucky. That has kept temperatures cooler there. 72 right now in Grundy. 68 rain cooled over in Weiss. But for the rest of the area, 84 Pikeville, 85 Prestonburg, 86 Painesville, 85 Inez. Look at Williamson. 88 degrees as we speak. And it's been the highest so far today in Williamson. All right. As far as the Amonet goes, 85. That was the official high for today. Close to a record. The record was 88. That was set back in 1986. The overnight low 56 and the record low, not even close 37. I don't think we'll see temperatures that cool for quite some time sunrise in the morning at 628 sunset at 825. What are we watching? Well, we're actually sandwiched in between two systems, one to the south across parts of the Atlantic coastline. The other you see severe thunderstorm watch boxes, tornado watch boxes. This is a system that will try to move in, but the good news is big blue age, high pressure in control of the forecast, and it's not moving. And it's just going to kind of hold this system off to the West over the next couple of days. It may be late next or early next week before we finally get into a decent chance of showers and thunderstorms. I want to show you this little system down to the south and we've been talking about it all week, still think about a 60% chance that that would develop into something tropical or subtropical. It's possible we could see a tropical storm as we head into the weekend, making landfall somewhere in the Carolinas. We'll keep you up to date with that over the next couple of days. Alright, pollen count time, of course, sponsored by the fine folks at Faith Pharmacy, Adams Plaza in Pikeville. Well, not looking good for the folks suffering from the allergies. Wednesday, 10.6, 10.9 on Thursday, and then as we head into Friday, 11.1. So yes, get ready, we'll be filling the effects of the pollen here over the next couple of days. 7 day forecast time, temperatures over the next several days, 87 Thursday, Friday, 88 on Saturday. I think that will be the best chance of making a run toward 90 degrees, yes, showers and thunderstorms. The best chance Monday into Tuesday. Notice what happens to the temperatures though, 82 Monday, 78 Tuesday, 72, very comfortable by the middle part of next week. So we knew it's a little too soon for these very warm temperatures may not last long, but I think by the end of the month, we're right back in the 80s. Rain on Mother's Day, don't like that part. Just a 30% chance, not a washout by any means, but of course we'll keep you posted. Good. Thanks, Latham. Tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer, and volunteers and communities throughout the region are planning events and observance. The day calls for attention to the role of prayer in public and private life. Kelly Johnson, one of the organizers of the events in Pine County says throughout the nation's history, prayer has played a significant role. You know, prayer has been throughout our nation since it's been founded. I mean, George Washington set aside a day of fasting and prayer, which Abraham Lincoln said now it's a proclamation day of Thanksgiving, and we don't fast now, but we still give Thanksgiving for the bounty, and throughout history it's woven throughout our country that there have been prayer for the Continental Congress always opened in prayer, just all the way throughout history, our country has used prayer. Most events in the region will take place at noon, although they are morning and evening events planned as well. Those include a pancake breakfast in Prestonsburg in the morning, and a prayer walk in Logan at 5 p.m. and an observance in Elkhorn City at 7 p.m. You know, it's been proven that praying for things has a positive effect. Absolutely. That's good news. Yes. We'll be back to sports in just two minutes. That was a big night for the Reds last night. Absolutely. In Pittsburgh, taking on the National League's central rival, Pirates. In Major League action last night, the Reds and Pirates in Pittsburgh, we get things started in the second inning. Todd Frazier at the plate, bang, opposite field home run for the Reds' third baseman, and with that long ball, he now leads the National League with nine dingers. Red starter Michael Lorenzen didn't need a lot of offensive support. He went six innings, gave up just one run on three hits and struck out four on the night.  Hamilton makes the cancelling bird at the plate. That's a bases loaded double, and that gives Byrd four RBI. Reds seven, Pirates one. Tonight at 7 0 5, the Reds will face the Pirates and gain two of the series. Mike Leek on the mound for Cincinnati. Garrett Cole will get the start for the Pirates. Cincinnati will try to get over the 500 mark for the first time since April 22nd. And in high school baseball last night at the Hamley Complex, Belfrey facing Pikeville. Pirates got things started. They came out with bad swinging. Runner on first, Tyler Fields with a seeing eye single that brings Keaton Taylor to the plate. He'll drop the bunt in no man's land. That will load the bases for the Pirates. Jacob Francisco comes to the plate, hard comebacker to the pitcher. That forces the double plate and ends the Belfrey rally. Go to the top of the fourth. Taylor with the runner on first, Francisco with a gap or the right center for the double. That brings in a Belfrey run and the Pirates improve to eight and nine with a five to win. Pikeville falls to 20 and 10. In other action, Eastridge got a nine one win over Phelps, Johnson Central rallied to defeat Paintsville for three. Preston's bird came out on top over Letcher County, Central nine two. And we go to Pike Central, the hope the hogs hosting Lawrence County in a 60 a district showdown top of the third, Josh Cantrell with the head to center field to start things for the Bulldogs. Red Parks to the plate. He'll follow up and drive to center field to advance the runner. One price to the plate for Lawrence County. He'll hit a fly ball to right field Cantrell tags and will score on this act fly. Lawrence County takes that lead early. Morgan Miller will drive this one to the left center field fence and we'll go to the bottom of the third. Pike Central coming to the plate, Rad Elkins the shortstop. Bobble to the throw. He'll not get the speedy Elkins. Clark will come to the plate chopper to short, but the throw is wide Elkins will score trying to put them back in the game as Clark reached second on the error. Andrew Fields comes to the plate and he will ground out to the pictures Clark scores on the throw to first. That wasn't enough for the Hawks Lawrence County comes out on top nine to five tonight in high school baseball Paintsville goes cross town to face Johnson Central Betsy Lane is on the road to McGuffin County and Pike Central will be at South Floyd. In high school fast pinch action yesterday Betsy Lane's Lady Bobcats out and slugged South Floyd 10 to 8.  Letcher County Central knocked off Knott County Central 17-2. The Pikeville ladies got an 8-6 win over Eastridge and Prestonsburg and Allen Central battled back and forth with a total of 41 runs crossing the plate. The Lady Blackcats came out on top 21-20. Tonight Phelps will travel to Lawrence County for a doubleheader Shelby Valleys, the Lady Badcats go to Eastridge Paintsville is at Knott Central and Prestonsburg will face South Floyd. Are you sure about that? That was a softball score? 21-20. It just didn't sound right to me. Tough night for both pitchers. That's a lot of runs. It is indeed. Wow. And we'll be back in two minutes. Everything, the warm weather continues. For several more days as a matter of fact, temperatures tonight back into the upper 50s, low 60s, tomorrow 87, isolated shower storm possible. We continue that trend all the way through Mother's Day and a better chance of rain moving in early next week. I like that warm weather. Yeah. Loving this weather. And we've got another new video show tonight. How about that Ted Meadows rocks it out with full throttle video. He leads that throttle wide open. Well that will do it for tonight's EKB Evening News. Remember, you can get more local news anytime by listening to the radio stations of East Kentucky Broadcasting. And you can follow EKB News and EKB TV on Facebook and Twitter. We leave you tonight with a time lapse video of the Levi Sephoric of the Big Sandy River. Good night. Thanks for watching.


So what can microbit do with scratch? It has a bunch of features, but not all are made equal when it comes to scratch Well stick around because in this scratch microbit tutorial We'll go through the buttons the LEDs the pins and the accelerometer through each code block in the project editor All this coming your way Hello world surfing scratchy here teachers surf a programmer bringing you the goodness of learning to code through video Tutorials if that sounds like something that you're into consider hitting that subscribe button Hit the show more button down below to check out a bunch of links that relate to this video If you don't yet have a microbit, you can show your support for this channel by getting yours through using the link in the description below But hey, let's go suss out those microbit blocks. Here we are in the scratch project editor You can see our microbit is connected We've got our microbit category selected and all of our blocks here to explore I've made this scratch microbit simulator, which isn't perfect But it'll do the job to simulate some of these blocks in action here on the screen I'm also going to be recording an actual microbit alongside it Let's go check out the first block of the microbit blocks category and that's this event hat block here So this event hat block refers to the button presses. We can do something when the A button is pressed We can do something when the B button is pressed We can also do something when either of those buttons are pressed But no, we do not have an option for when both buttons are pressed. Okay, let's do something on these button presses I'm gonna go get this stack block here This display text stack block and what that will do is it will illuminate this text by the LEDs of the microbit So if we connect it on an A button press, let's display the text A and on a B button press Let's display the text B. Okay. I've got the microbit here And we're just going to press the A button and you can see the A has illuminated now I'm going to press the B button and the B button has now illuminated I mentioned before that there is no when A and B is pressed at the same time We can easily simulate that using these Boolean blocks here So we can get this Boolean block of when the A button is pressed And we can also get the Boolean block of when the B button is pressed And what we can do is wrap that inside an operator and Boolean block So if we go when A is pressed and when B is pressed, then we'll do some stuff So let's stick that inside of out your statement and then we can display the text both Okay, I've got the microbit here. I'm just going to press both buttons at the same time And there we go. We've got the text cycling through saying both All right, let's check out the next event block And that's when they're moved, shaken and jumped And this all relates to that accelerometer or the motion sensor of the microbit So the first block here is when moved It's basically just when the microbit is handled Show you that by attaching this display block here So when the microbit is moved, we will display this image Okay, I'm just going to go and reach for the microbit here And you'll see as soon as I touch it, it illuminates into that shape Okay, so let's check out the next event and that is when shaken We're going to display all the LEDs when we shake it We're just going to head across over into the microbit now Here we are. Now you have to give it quite a vigorous shape for this to work Here we go. There they all are The next event is the when jumped event Now that is when the microbit goes up and then it goes down Let's jump across the microbit to see that in action Okay, microbit goes up and then down Here we go. Okay, let's look a little bit more at this display stack block So if you click on the drop down menu, you'll see that you've got access to these LEDs You can press the all blank ones to reset it And you can press the white ones to illuminate them all Depends on which way you like starting from I like starting with the blank slate What we're going to do now is display four images to represent all the tilts I'm going to show an arrow You can click and hold these down to just illuminate them Here's duplicate Okay, so we've got our four arrow directions here, which is awesome And that's going to really help us to understand the tilt So let's look at the next block here And that is when the microbit is tilted Yeah, if you go to the drop down menu here, you've got front, back, left, right and any tilt So any tilt is almost like that move hat block So when we tilt to the front, let's signify that by using the front arrow When we tilt to the back, let's signify that with the down arrow here When we tilt to the left, let's go left And when we go right, let's look at the right arrow here I'll just clean all this up Okay, let's go check this out on the microbit I have it in my hand I'm going to tilt it towards me and the arrow changes towards me I'm going to tilt it to my right, to my left, and now forward This works best when the microbit is parallel to a surface Not when it is perpendicular like it is now You can also use the Boolean equivalence of these when tilted events We also have these reporter blocks for our tilt angles We can check out the front, the back, the left and the right values Now if we look over here on the stage I've got that represented in these variables here So I'm just going to go back across to the microbit And as I move the microbit, you can see those values are updating Which is pretty neat Now arrow of the microbit is not updating because I just got rid of those blocks I've skipped over one of the blocks and that's clear display I hope it's pretty clear what that one does That will just clear all the LEDs Which one happens when I press it All right, so let's check out the final hat block And that is when the pins are connected So we can detect when the zero pin, the one pin, or the two pin has been connected And we'll be using the ground pin to complete the circuit To demonstrate this, I've got a jumper cable that I'll be using And let's connect up all the pins So what I need to do here is I need to use my jumper cable to touch the ground pin And when I'm touching the ground pin, I can also touch the zero pin And it will illuminate to zero I can use it to touch the one pin And I can use it to touch the two pin Never use the three volt and the ground together I've got a link down below in the description that explains these pins in more detail To round off this tutorial, I want to talk a little bit more about these LEDs And specifically this display stack block So you'll see that this stack block here has a space for a reporter block And that's cool because what we can do Is we can go in and pass it a list Now why would we want to do that? Well, an LED light is either on or it's off So it can be a zero or a one That's how this works So we can go and create a list of 25 slots That refer to each of these LEDs And we can turn it on and we can turn it off I've gone ahead and created a list variable to show this Put the LEDs list here on the screen And I've also got the LEDs reporter block If we click it, you'll see that it's just got all those numbers in a long line All those zeros I can drag that inside off the display I can go in and I can change the first space to a one And when I do that, it turns on Which is amazing Now in this simulator, what I've got ahead and done Is I've made all these LEDs clickable So you can go in and you can turn these on and off And you can watch all the LEDs update through here Why might this be useful? You might be asking We can also export our list And that means that we can store the drawing And if we ever want to upload the drawing again We can do that through an import Here I'm going to get the scissors that I created earlier I'm going to open that And there is my scissors display What I've gone ahead and done is Wrap that display blood block inside a forever block When the green flag is clicked So if we go in and upload that scissors image You'll see that we've got the mark bit on the screen now And we open it We've got the scissors right there So what you can go ahead and do You can go and create all these different lists With these 25 values And you can have these predefined images That you could reuse throughout your project Just a word of caution If you explicitly do this And overwrite the display block You'll never be able to display text This simulator doesn't handle text Perhaps I can leave that as a challenge For you to remix this simulator And make it handle text Drop me a comment down below If you'd be interested for me to create a video On how I created this simulator It's time for a scratchy question And I want to know, do you have any outrageous or crazy ideas To use Scratch and Marker Bit together? Share yours in the comment section below Or we might even start a collaboration Hey, thanks for checking out this scratch mark bit tutorial Like, subscribe, ring the bell if you're new around here And have a scout some other content On your screen right now Show your support for Surfing Scratcher By checking out exclusive content on my Patreon page My funky red bubble teas Or by joining the mailing list All links below in the description But until then I'm off to go find a wave I'll catch you in the next one


Good morning everyone and thanks for the introduction. I'm working for an ETH spin-off, Validity Labs, it's a company that is specializing in development of decentralized applications. I will spend the next 15 minutes before your coffee break on the crisis in research and what kind of opportunities we actually have now for collaborating and making a change in that space. The issues today were already covered pretty well, such as the open science. Why is the science right? It's not really, it's really open. Why do we have a produced ability crisis? I'm sure every one of you have their own personal opinion and experience in all these spaces, like why we don't really have a fair metric also for research impact, etc. So I'm not going to go through it, but I would like to focus on one particular issue that I think is very relevant and very important, and it is that science has actually been going through a transition in the past 30 years. So with this case of the US funding, you actually can see how as a function of time the funding was coming into R&D, that includes academic and non-academic research sector, and how the funding with the green line was federally funded. That is government and then the business is a blue line. So you see that in the past 30 years, the funding coming from the government has been decreasing dramatically and has been overtaken by the business interests and the business input. Given that we have two types of research, we have basic research, and that is the one that is actually contributing most to our advancement of knowledge and most groundbreaking discoveries. This 50% of that research is being done by academia, but the funding for that is extremely disproportionate. So businesses tend to rather fund applied research. This is also of course important, but it's not in the interest of businesses because to translate what we have in basic research, it takes about 20, 30 years to bring into the marketplace. So basic research is extremely disadvantaged. And to make matters worse, we all know that the number of papers is a function of time. This looks somewhat like this. At the same time, the number of companies that have R&D departments that are publishing is actually decreasing with time. So the science and the contribution from them to science is being decreasingly open year by year. So what's the natural solution to it and how can we in a way save basic research? Well, we have to force governments to put more money back into basic research and fund academics that are struggling. But this is not realistic. So social scientists and economists say that the solution to it is to align industry and academic interests to try to find a way that we can collaborate together. But let's not kid ourselves, right? Already in the 40s, people came up with the concept of norms and science. So those were four principles that scientists agreed are extremely important for the science output and that is communality. So sharing ownership of all the data is a human race that owns our scientific output. We do it for everybody. We have universality and that means that these findings should be judged based on the merit and based on their quality. We have disinterestedness, which means a work should be free of self-interested motivation. We shouldn't be pursuing wealth but knowledge and skepticism. So even if we spend years on our research finding we should still be able to evaluate all the evidence and if this evidence contradicts our body of work we should be able to say we were wrong. Then there are counter norms and the counter norms are if you look at it and if you're still with me at this point they are much more applicable to the business sector. So this is the fact that we need to protect our priority in publishing or a priority in filing a patent. It's particularism and that means that it's a lot easier with all the papers that are coming out of there. It's a lot easier to judge the quality based on reputation be it the reputation of a university or even a research group rather than actually look at the quality of the paper output. It's self-interestedness because their funding is so scarce that we are financing ways to game the system and we compete for funding, recognition or for money. And then dogmatism because we spend so much time investing in promoting our own work, not really thinking so much critically about ourselves. And the funny thing is that social scientists were looking at these two norms in scientists today and they were finding that scientists were rather reporting that they follow themselves, norms in science but everybody else follows counter norms. So given that business interests are driven by these counter norms, people are trying to experiment with technology and try to find some solution that will actually resonate a lot better with norms and provide the right incentives because the counter norms are driven by the wrong incentives and that's, in my opinion, scarce funding. So four blockchain characteristics which come to play, they resonate very well with norms. Just think about decentralization, the fact that you try to spread power and influence over your many peers and that fosters communality. This intermediation, that is, if you remove the structure that with its reputation gives a stamp on a paper that this is a really good work, this fosters then the universality. Economic incentives, if we manage to build a system that is going to have right incentives in it and will give more power but also money, maybe to the researchers, we will be fostering this interestedness. And then transparency, of course, if you open up, if you show exactly what you did step by step, display your entire workflow, you open up to scrutiny and you foster skepticism. So this is one of the examples that was done by our CTO Sebastian and by Martin, who's co-organizing this conference. It's about research pipeline. I don't know how well you can see it, but it consists of three parts. Number one is the acquisition of data in an experiment. Number two is doing a pipeline, research pipeline analysis, and then three is interpretation. And what you can do is you can put that data onto the interplanetary file system. Then you can also notarize who did what. So you have on top the first part was done by an operator, second by analyst, and third by publisher. So in this way you can track the entire pipeline, you can actually give people credit for what they have done. Is this the right solution? Is blockchain the right solution? Everybody today who is speaking, we're saying that we don't know, right? So finding out will take a certain degree of experimentation. So we decided to test three hypotheses. And that is number one. The solution that we're going to find will be propagating well and is going to be sustainable. This is necessary for it to make sense, right? If we first of all educate people and educate them across many relevant key players that were mentioned before in the question session about the blockchain technology, what it really can do and what it really cannot. So people don't have some puffed up expectations. And B, we need to raise awareness about issues in science. I'm sure now you're a very educated crowd. You know about these things, but if you ask PhD students or postdocs at the department, everybody is unhappy about the situation. They would like to change, but they feel that they're alone and they have zero impact. They can make zero impact. If you convince them that's not the case, you can actually use their power and use their demo's resources. Now the second hypothesis is that we will find better solutions and they will be found a lot faster if we combine interdisciplinary expertise of many people at the same time. And the third one is that the transition between the current state of the art into a new kind of scientific ecosystem will be a lot more effective if we do it simultaneously among a number of key players in this ecosystem. And that's what we call seeding. So the method would be what we discussed also during the questions that we really, it's really important that we invite to the whole discussion librarians, funding organizations, publishers, executives, investors, policymakers, technologists, researchers, and whoever else is involved in the whole infrastructure. And they have to at the same time be able to in this kind of decentralized way make the further step. Now we put them in Davos in February into the place that hosts an annual World Economic Forum meeting. And they will be for the first two days, first of all discussing the whole problems and bottlenecks in the collaborative research space that we made a word of them from the perspective of also not only open science but also economics of science. And then we will train them about blockchain mechanisms, governance, economics, and also a little bit development. Then we'll also show a number of applications in research and industry so that they get a feeling like where it is applicable. And then for the next two days, they will be subdivided into groups based on their interests where they would like to contribute the most. They will be given mentors from those areas and they will be also given design thinking experts. They will also be able to send messages for the implementation of new blockchain backed solutions and maybe tools. In this way, we will create new ideas. People will be able to pitch those ideas on stage and the decentralized autonomous organization that they will become a part of will be able to pick the best solution in their opinion that is most actionable. And the winners will advance to the incubator. The next three months is going to be an incubator. We will be working in the crypto valley in Switzerland and we will be there and the teams will be working with us remotely. So the whole three months will be sacrificed for the development of proofs of concept and the teams will have a freedom to make their commitment. So if nobody in other words has time and wants to go to the next stage, we will still guarantee that it will be executed and we will build it. The next three months will be open sourced. That means we foster the communality principle of norms and science. And the whole point is that after this experiment we want to push a little bit more the whole ecosystem towards sustainable blockchain backed networks for collaborative research or norms and science. And that means not only incentivizing collaboration and openness and science but it also means trying to find a way to research perhaps as well and to primarily empower the community. Because you know what, the situation is so dramatic that research now says that most brilliant people in the academic system, that PhD students, the very young ones, 33% of them are at the risk of the common psychiatric disorder. That situation is not dramatic. What are we doing? So Isaac Newton has written a letter to his collaborator who actually collaborated with his opponent. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants and I really hope that in my lifetime I'm going to see that philosophy and that principle being widely adopted in science. And I'm going to be here until Wednesday, including Wednesday, so please do come to me and ask me anything if you want to participate in that program, sponsor, volunteer, whatever, ask me about astrophysics because I'm an astrophysicist. And otherwise, thank you very much for your attention. Thank you, Alexander. Are there any questions? Maybe I can ask one. So I liked, I mean, in response to the talk of Ulrich Dillager in the beginning, I mean, I think the solutions in the end, also this experiment that we did with Sebastian, I mean, it's very simple, right? So, I mean, how do you think this style will be working out? What's the idea behind, I mean, because there's a challenge that people may just find it overly complicated or burdensome to engage in this? So actually becoming a part of the DAO is going to be extremely simple. People will walk everybody during their training through it and you will have a possibility to vote on the teams that will be pitching in the end their ideas. But it won't be, I don't think it's overly complicated. I think even building your own very simple DAO will be a couple of lines of code. We will also show it during the steps on Wednesday during the workshops. Yeah, yes. So it's a place where lots of companies are driven to in Switzerland, in Zug. It's partially because it's a beautiful place in terms of tax perks. It's pretty low. But yeah, so a lot of companies go in there. It's also Ethereum Foundation has their headquarters. And yeah, it's just a place where a lot of companies are and it's booming. And you basically walk into the city and you see already left and right everybody's pasting blockchain all over the town. So that's why it's getting this name of being a crypto valley, kind of like a Silicon Valley equivalent, but for the crypto world. So just... I wonder how far are we away from a status quo where I can set up my own smart contract or DAO with Lego brick-like tools. So I want to have the benefit of what you described without having to dive into technical details like solidity, which is, I hope, understandable. And I would like to know from you what do you think about this? How far are we into this direction that we have this Lego brick-like thing that can actually do stuff? We're actually very close. So there are a number of projects that are trying to integrate different kinds of platforms so that you can very easily either build also your DAO decentralized autonomous organization or maybe you can incorporate a couple of tools that are not off blockchain, but you can build them together and give them kind of the backend in a lot easier way, right, than being able to know solidity but having said that, it's also not very tricky. The whole coding and the whole smart contract that you can write can be extremely simple. Yeah, but there's lots of projects. And I think one of the things to refer back to the conversation before, why do we need blockchain at all? I mean, let's think about it. In order to fix science and fix these incentives that we talked about, even though there's been 20 years campaigning for open science, like still scientists, even though they have access journal, they don't do it open access. It's because it's in our culture. It's because we're driven by very scarce funding and competition. So if we could leverage the fact that there's a lot of money and a lot of attention and a lot of people actually are very interested in the topic. If we use that momentum in order to help our basic research, I mean, this is amazing because I know that there are equivalents like peer-to-peer, whatever. But you need to move people collectively at the same time to make a difference. So why won't we use the fact that we're just giving it right now on the plate? Great. Thank you very much. And maybe just to add, why don't we add some science fiction to it, right? So I think that's a cool way to go. And with this, we are closing the session and we extend the break a bit so there will be half an hour break until 11.15. Okay?


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