Let us if you want to ask some more questions, we have about 20 minutes. So, we can do another interactive session at this point. So, I already see two hands raised and we can jump into it right away. Jabalpur College, Jabalpur over to you Jabalpur College. Ma'am, yesterday you had given one homework. I had written two sentences that too unchecked. Number one, the methodology that I adopted is quoting real-life examples at times establishing synchronized analogies so as to convey concept effectively, develop interest in learning, break the monotony and keep teaching alive. Second one, expect responses from the students at times to complete the sentence which I have intentionally left incomplete so as to pull the attention of these students and create competition amongst these students. Okay, thank you Jabalpur College. Let me just summarize what that person had done and I would like to give a few comments there. So, there were two ideas, teaching learning ideas that the faculty member has implemented in class. For example, he has intentionally left certain sentences incomplete so as to draw the attention of students and create a healthy competition amongst students. These are the kind of ideas that we are looking for. Another idea that he stated was quoting a real-life example to establish an analogy. When you start with your ideas, this is exactly what I mean. Think of any small idea that you already have used and try to develop it into a research problem. So, thank you again for your ideas. What I would, what I need to say at this point unfortunately is that I say unfortunate because I would not be able to give you feedback on each of your ideas right now or I am sure all of you have really good ideas that is why the homework too is going to be uploaded. And that is where it may be possible for me and other people to give you feedback. Please try to limit your comments and questions right now to actual questions and if you are not sure if you should ask the question or not here is a guideline. Do you think all the other 2,499 fellow participants would benefit from your question? If so, please go ahead and ask it. Secondly, just a quick reminder of the protocol. If I say over to you it is your turn to speak, there is no need to ask if the audio video is not, if the audio is not clear, if the video is not clear. If it is not clear, we will tell you right away. And when you are done speaking, please say the same thing over to you. Next question from Truba College Indore. Over to you Indore. Mathematical penetration is required in writing a conference or general papers. Okay, thank you for your question Truba College. What was asked is, if a mathematical manipulation was done, let us say you had to do a long derivation of some proof, is that required for a conference paper? You have to decide that because let me flash a slide. What evidence will you provide to justify your claims? The evidence can be an analysis of proof. If you think that the mathematical derivation is required to provide the evidence, you should give it. If you think that it is unnecessary and digressing from the main points, do not give it. So, nobody other than you, even other people in your own domain will not be able to answer this question. Evidence on evidence will help you decide whether you have to include it or not. Let us look at a question from Amrita School in Bangalore. Over to you Amrita. I have two questions. Question one is, suppose there is a published work attacking a particular work in a particular way. Is it possible to publish another paper attacking the same problem in a different way with no particular advantages as of now? But that may have advantages in future which others can find out. Thank you for your question, Amrita. The question was, is it, this question was asked in a slightly different way at the beginning at around 10 o'clock. That if you have already published something, should you, can you publish it again? In the morning I talked about what to do if you have extra data. Here the question is what to do if you have a different way of doing it, but you do not know whether that new method is more advantageous or so on. Again when the question is very specific it is hard to answer without details, but let us look at some guidelines. I think these slides do provide all the guidelines. What are the key contributions? And by here in this slide by your, let us replace it by what are the key contributions of this paper. If you are able to say that this paper you are writing makes key contributions that have not been made before, you can go ahead rewrite your second paper based on the first one. On the other hand if you are not able to say what are the main contributions of your second paper, it might be worthwhile to wait, do more experiments or identify in what way the new technique is more advantageous and then write your second paper. So use this slide as a check for yourself. One more small comment regarding protocol. If you have more than one question I would encourage you to ask only one at a time because as you saw yesterday I will tend to forget either the first one or the last one and I might not answer all your questions. So ask one question also we have a large number of people in the queue and I would like to visit everybody at least once. Anna University Chennai over to you. How many problems can be referred to the specific problem domain whether journals or magazines or conference papers would provide better solution for the reference for the problem domain. Over to you. Thanks Anna University. I think the question was about how many references to include. I am not sure if anybody in the audience heard it. I am going to assume that the question you asked is how many references to provide. We did discuss this point a lot yesterday there is no fixed number here and since we talked about it at great length yesterday I will only say that use let me summarize what we talked about yesterday. Use as many references as are required to make your central point. If there are survey papers those are good references because they in turn contain references to further to all the other papers. If your references are newer usually the practices you refer to the newer ones or the most important ones or the most comprehensive ones. So the most comprehensive papers are the survey papers the new papers are easy to find out and how do you determine if the reference is important or not. There are certain see if it appears over and over again see how seminal the work is and so on SRM Kanchipuram over to you. My question is like suppose in any research work we are going to implement something and for that we are using some algorithm that has been previously described but in my work I am going to change that algorithm based on the I mean basic building block but after that the flow will be as per the existing one. So is it necessary I should include that algorithm in the paper over to you. The question is if there has been some previous work done specifically in this case previous algorithm something has been changed is it necessary to include the previous work. I am going to answer this very broadly the key word here is relevant but is it relevant or not is a call you have to take and you have to take that call also based on the ideas we discussed this morning on giving credit to others. How much is your algorithm dependent on the previous one? If you do not give credit to the previous one it is not right but let us say you are asking should I actually include that algorithm and how many details very broad answer again as many details as it would need for the reader to understand your work. So when you ask a very specific question I am only going to be able to answer it at this broad level these are very these are good questions because that is where we all get stuck I might in turn reply to your question with further questions. So what I would ask you in this case is how relevant is the previous algorithm and I think it is because you are basing your work on theirs then put yourself in the shoes of the reader and ask is it necessary for the reader to know the details of the previous algorithm in order to understand my understand mine. If the answer is yes do include it. If the answer is partially perhaps you can summarize. If the answer is no my work is stand alone even though it is based on something then you perhaps do not need to include all the details but you still have to cite it. I hope that answers your question. Let us look at a question from SGS-ITS Indore over to you Indore. Good afternoon madam first of all we would like to congratulate you for an enlightening session on technical writing. My question is do we need to provide mathematical model to validate a method for which experimental results have already been given. Thanks for your kind words and it is an interesting question that how much evidence to provide that is how I would try to abstract out your question. If you have experimental evidence and strong data do you also need to give a proof and a theoretical analysis of it. Let us go back to the slide. You have to give as much evidence as the reader would need to believe you. How much is good enough is again dependent on the situation itself. A good practice usually is that what is done overall when scientific knowledge gets created and discussed. If you are able to give evidence from multiple sources it is considered the claim is considered to be stronger. Just like if you measure something using two different methods you can be more sure of the measurement. So if you are able to give a theoretical proof as well as experimental evidence it is a very strong paper. It is a very strong and you have defended your claims very strongly. If on the other hand everybody knows that there exists a theoretical proof to the claim but nobody has shown the experiment yet and you are filling in that gap. It might be sufficient to say that a proof exists, here is the reference, nobody has done the experiment so far, here are our data. So whether you have to provide everything or only part of it depends one on the problem you are trying to solve, two on what has been done before and three on how strong you want to substantiate your claims. Let us look at a question from MES Pillay Nupanveli over to your MES. Thank you so much ma'am. Ma'am I have two questions. My question number one is are the keywords necessary to write after the abstract what should be the criteria for writing the keywords? My second question is is it necessary to summarize all the sections of a paper in the introduction briefly? Thank you ma'am. The first question is easy, should I should you write keywords or not? It depends on the format that the conference asks you to do. Most engineering journals they ask for it and in some cases they do not. So just look at what style and what whether it is required. So you make the call depending on what the journal publishers or the conference program chairs ask you for. The second thing had to do with the introduction and I believe the reason this question was asked was because of a slide that I showed you, the slide said the introduction should be brief and complete. The word complete here means that the introduction should be sufficient for a reader to understand what you are going to do, why you are going to do it and how you have done it and what you found. Many readers may not go beyond it, that is what complete means. Complete does not mean all the details, complete means at the outline stage. If you are able to sketch out quickly the problem outline of the solution claims and why they exist. Good readers would go on and people who are not interested in the details might say, oh this is a very, this looks like good work but it is beyond what I want to work on so I look at something else. Yet you have given them a full idea of what you have done and that was the meaning of the word complete here and in a way you did bring out an interesting contradiction between the word brief and complete. How is it possible to be brief and yet complete at the same time and the way you try to resolve this contradiction is by looking at the outline, not at the details. Question from K. J. Somaya, Mumbai over to you K. J. Somaya. In yesterday's session we had discussed about one technical paper, it was in the style of report writing in active voice. This morning session in writing style, again it was suggested to write it in the same style but in standard IEEE format about technical papers we find some different style of writing so which one we should adopt. Over to you. This was, it is a good observation you have made that most or many I would say not most. Many technical and scientific papers even in top journals are written in a style which contains passive voice which reads and I am going to use this word without any judgment which is very dry because we have been taught that that is the way to write. If you do it that way you are not going to violate any rule. If you write in passive voice you are going to violate the rule in trunk and white which is the Bible for one of the other Bibles for grammar and writing but in terms of scientific writing everybody does it you can do it. What was mentioned yesterday and today was if you want to write powerfully, if you want to write precisely in an attractive manner so that the reader wants to go on so that the referee understands what you are doing active voice conveys all this much better. Secondly, in terms of your own thinking active voice gives you a more clear way of putting down your thoughts. So, look at fourth entry here it might be noted that this method only works in the static situation that is the passive way of writing it. The active way of writing it is we and here we refers to the authors. We would like to emphasize that this method only works in the static situation. I think this example is good to illustrate that the active voice is powerful it draws the reader's attention you are using the word emphasize and you are using the word we emphasize. So the right the reader is going to is primed to look at the rest of the sentence. Secondly when you are writing it the moment you say we would like to emphasize the writer you know that you have to write something important because you say we want to emphasize. So in your own mind you are trying to think of what is the most important thing you want to say after the phrase we would like to emphasize. So active voice is preferred for all these reasons I do agree with your observations that most or many scientific papers are in passive voice. I know I did not answer your question do this well if you ask me which one you should do I would say use the active voice it is much more powerful. If you then ask me well are other people doing anything wrong by using the passive voice I am going to refrain from answering it is I do not think it is wrong but it might be less powerful. We have a question from we have a comment from Dr. Mukta Atres. I am just adding to her question right now there was a query on Moodle if one should use V or I at all. The queries should be use I or V at all I would say in some cases the style or the format either encourages or discourages you if you know that in your field in your domain it is completely prohibited to use the word I did this then please do not do it. In some cultures by culture I mean in some scientific communities it might not be good etiquette to say I did this. If you belong to that community perhaps it is not a good idea for you to follow it. On the other hand the reason active voice is suggested is to directly and clearly state what you want to state that is why most style guides and most people who teach good technical writing suggest that. Question from R.C. Patel Sherpur over to you. Hello my question is if my work is already published in some conference can I resubmit it to some journal with some modification if not whether it will come under self plagiarism. My second question is a survey paper written by person who is not well known in that field shall he submit paper for journal or conference what is your comment go to a map. Thank you R.C. Patel I am going to take only the second question because we have discussed the first question twice already once in the morning and once even in this session. So I am going to ask you to discuss with your colleagues in your remote center and see and maybe they can summarize the discussion for you. The second question is about a survey paper should a person let us say a novice researcher or a beginning student should they write it. Let me tell you the advantages of attempting to write a survey paper the student who tries to write a survey paper is going to gain a lot because they have to as a word suggests survey a large number of published articles they have to in fact they will become an expert in their field if they manage to do a good job in writing a survey paper. Should you send it for publication some conferences do not even allow survey papers when should you send it for publication do so only if you are sure that you have done a very comprehensive job poorly written survey paper is useless for anybody for and even for the person who is writing it a survey paper that actually manages to do a comprehensive survey including an analysis survey papers not simply a listing of what else other people have done there is a serious analysis done comparison of various techniques various results between one paper and the other. So, if you are a novice researcher and decide think of if you are thinking of writing it follow all these guidelines I know we did not talk too much about survey papers here and that was in the aim of this workshop I am sure you will find certain guidelines on what constitutes a good survey paper. The analysis part is something I had forgotten to mention earlier, but that is important when we were discussing the literature survey section of yesterday's papers the good paper and the not so good paper we made some points there why the good paper had a better written survey section it is the same points even in a survey paper do not simply list all the 100 papers you read categorize them draw themes find out why how they compare against each other and so on. Walchand college sangly over to you. Actually I would like to ask two questions first one is that is it necessary that we should do practical work at the time of writing the conference paper means before practical test cases must be there or no at the time of writing the conference papers. The second question is while we present the conference paper in the conference we have been given only 10 minutes to present it. So what should we concentrate in this 10 minutes at the time of presentation? Tell to you madam. Okay thanks second question first that is easier concentrate on your key contributions I know keep coming back to that, but if you have been given 10 minutes or sometimes you will be given 6 minutes let us look at the case of the distance education scenario interactivity in distance education that we have been talking. Suppose you spend 3 out of those 6 minutes on why distance education is beneficial and how so many people are using it you have wasted a valuable 3 minutes everybody in that session in the conference will know about distance education it is likely that the entire conference is about distance education you do not have to talk about why the problem of distance education is important. But what you can start with there is main concept underlying your work interactivity and distance education so you can start from there quickly very quickly come to your contributions that is what everybody is looking for then spend some time justifying those. If you make great claims and do not provide evidence it is no good if you do not make the claims at all it is even worse. So that is the second question should practical data be included in conference papers? I think this previous session has helped me because I have slides to answer all your questions at least I feel that they do answer. Defend your solution if you have proposed an idea and not provided any test cases no implementation data it is still just an idea. It becomes the answer to a research question only if you provide evidence for that idea. So you we do see this situation quite often people send in papers with good ideas but with no test cases no implementation no data sometimes not even plans for doing so. We do have to reject those papers from the conference because until you have some sort of evidence it is just an idea. What kind of evidence that is again up to you and we have discussed it but only an idea it is not even a claim at that point it is not even a contribution it might be a very good idea but it is not a contribution unless you have an evidence for it. NITU Arangil over to you. Good afternoon professor and madam really we are happy to associate with this kind of session you have given lot of work to the enthusiastic participants. Hello ma'am what is citation is there any difference between citation and in-text references are there compulsory in the conference papers. Okay thanks the first question what is citation I would suggest that you look at the slides from session 6 will be posted very soon on what is a citation very briefly it is a way you give credit from in your paper it is a way you tell your reader that you are referring to somebody else's work. In papers usually you only have citations you only do site you only have to site. Index references and all I am not exactly sure what you are referring to but those do not come within a paper it is only when you are trying to see how many times somebody else has referred to somebody else's work those become important. So I am not it is something I do not think we should be bothered about at this point. Let us look at a question from MES IMCC Pune over to you MES. Good afternoon ma'am my question is what is camera copy and how we can prepare this camera copy for general paper or constant paper over to you ma'am. The question is what is a camera ready paper this happens if you have been asked to submit a camera ready paper it means it is good news for you. Because your paper your draft has already been accepted by the conference chairs or by the journal editors. Camera ready copy is the final copy that is going to go into the journal or the conference the conference proceedings no change is made on the camera ready copy or once a camera ready copy is done it is ready no change is made. So what usually happens in a process is that you submit your draft it goes through a review process depending on whether it is a journal or conference the review process is the different ways the review process happens.  As an author your responsibility is to read the reviewers comments take them seriously evaluate them and act on their comments it does not mean that you have to do every single thing that they told you to do you can choose to refute it in a journal you cannot do that in a conference. So you and by refute I mean if you have strong reasons to think that the reviewer said something that you have already done you can simply point out saying that look this has already been done. But most of the times it is a good idea to take all review comments very seriously you revise your paper that is your final camera ready paper and you submit it after that no change is done. This has to do with the process in which conference and journal papers operate. Last question for now M.A. and I.T. Bhopal over to you please. The question is if there are there already has been if you already see a table comparing the techniques of solving a problem. This is often common in survey papers can you use the table as is I would like to reference the points we made today morning about using an illustration or a sentence directly from another paper this falls in the same category. If you are going to use a table as is from somewhere else it is equivalent to using a paragraph or picking up a paragraph and directly quoting it in your paper it is usually not a good idea to do it because it is for a paragraph you can put quotation marks you can indent the text you can use different font to tell the reader that look this is somebody else's words these are somebody else's words it is you cannot do that in a table what you should be doing at that point is if you also want to talk about a comparative analysis develop your own comparison it can be based on the previous persons table but try to find a few new things to compare with compare the papers against maybe you can say that we extend the table that was present in the survey paper add five more techniques and here is the extension that we present. Your extension in can be in terms of number of rows number of rows are usually the number of entries you are comparing or it can be in terms of the number of columns which are the criteria that you compare against it is always a good idea to have some extension to a table before you present it otherwise it is exactly like copying somebody else's illustration. With that we are going to have to end this session and the correct slide to have here again is this one and what I want you to concentrate is this last line here I am really very grateful for your sincere and enthusiastic participation it is very encouraging to see all this we can still interact for some more time over moodle over the next one week and I think I would encourage you to do that post your questions.


Hi, this is Ross Fadero with Driving Forces at ACMI, and I'm here today with Christine Dorchak and Kerry Thiel, who are from Gray 2K, USA, worldwide, which is a dog-racing lobbying group trying to abolish it across the country. I'm based right here in Arlington, and my first question obviously is how did Gray 2K start, and why did you guys choose dog-racing as the target for your activism? Well, you know, we're problem solvers, and we saw a big problem here in Massachusetts back in the late 1990s. There were places, two places, that each had a thousand dogs living at small cages. They'd take them out every few days, race them in circles. Sometimes they'd die. Sometimes they'd suffer such terrible injuries they'd get put down. And then, after they were finished racing, some got adopted, some didn't. Nobody kept track of it. It was, it was, it was hell for these dogs. And we decided we'd do something about it. And when we formed the Gray 2K committee back in the late 1990s, our dream was to end dog-racing here in Massachusetts. But since that time, we've become a national organization, and then we graduated to international work. So, we have ended dog-racing in multiple states, and now we're working in places like China and Ireland and Australia, so we can combat the same problems. How did you begin the process of closing down race tracks, and how has that process evolved over the years if you got more and more successful? Yeah, well, thank you, Ross.  There was really a movement to end gray-hunt racing, which is, you know, part of obviously a broader animal protection movement that has really been successful in pushing reforms across, you know, many aspects of our society over the past couple of decades. And I think, you know, Christine was doing local activism on this issue and other animal protection issues. I was originally from the West Coast and came here to work on an initial campaign in 2000 to end gray-hunt racing, which was a ballot question that lost 51-49.  And when we first engaged, we had no idea what we were doing. To be honest, I mean, we had a lot of energy and a lot of passion, but we didn't understand, you know, political activism and social justice activism, you know, other, you know, in any real way. And so I think the fight itself has taught us, I mean, over the last 20 years, it's been an incredible journey that's taken us around the world and back home again. And, you know, last November, we won this historic victory to end gray-hunt racing in Florida, shutting down 12 commercial racetracks, a victory that had been sought by the animal welfare community broadly for decades, generations. I mean, really, a landmark seminal victory for animal welfare in the history of the Western world. And so to start, you know, here in Massachusetts, not knowing what we were doing and go on that journey and come back and win Florida and be here with you today is really cool. It's still a little surprising, quite frankly, but, you know, we always, to answer your question more directly, we always found a way to stay grounded. We always found a way to stay true to who we are and our roots, but at the same time, we were forced to become good at this because we had a powerful opponent. And if we didn't find creative ways to fight for these dogs and not only make life better for the dogs and the industry completely, if we weren't constantly trying to get better and improve ourselves and be more creative and be more dogged, and we lost a lot, quite frankly. I mean, our biggest teacher was our defeats. And that forced us to take a step back and say, you know, what is a better way to fight for justice in this area? So, but yeah, it's been a lot of fun. I think we've, as Carrie has said, we made some mistakes along the way, but we were willing to make mistakes. We were willing to risk our reputation, such as it was, and push on. I think a lot of folks start out with great ideas. They get to, you know, they don't win the first time as we did not in 2000 in Massachusetts. And then they give up. And we saw no reason not to keep fighting. So when our grade 2K committee of 2000 folded after the near, near win, I like to say, we lost 51-49 on the ballot. We said, okay, well, dog racing should have ended by now in Massachusetts. Should have won that one. Now we're going to not just come back and win in Massachusetts. We're going to take this nationwide. We're going to close every dog track in every state until it's all over. And at that time we were just thinking about the United States, but now we're worldwide. I would also say that, you know, we've had some luck. So the perseverance was important, but luck really played a key role. One of the things we didn't have was a lawyer, and we couldn't afford a lawyer. We had no money whatsoever. So well, I drew the short straw and I went to law school. And I got a scholarship to go to law school so I could be our lawyer. Little did I know until the third year, four years at night that the scholarship I had won was paid for by the local, one of the local dog track owners. He happened to be the benefactor for the New England School of Law. And well, when I learned that I kept it to myself because I figured I had one more year to go and I better not say anything. So as it turned out, I graduated, got my degree, and when I let Mr. Carney of Rainham Park know that he had sent me to law school, he insisted on being at the graduation ceremony and giving me my diploma. So it's been a strange ride. And as you said, you guys are now international. How did that begin? How did you guys begin to stop the spread of dog race in other countries? Like I know you guys have done it for Jamaica and some other places and the Canadrome and Macau. How did that begin? Did you guys contact other organizations over there and that's how it started? Did you start to do work and then find the organizations? Well, I think it started at home. I mean, I'm getting a kick out of Brooklyn photo bombing us.  He's struggling with osteosarcoma but so as we're doing the interview, Brooklyn's hopping behind us. But I mean, it started locally.  And Christine was one of the central organizers of that fight. And I was doing similar legislative work as a citizen lobbyist in the state of Oregon. And when we took on this powerful industry, we used the Citizens Initiative process. We collected 150,000 signatures in less than 100 days with an all-volunteer effort which just really isn't done in that process today and put it on the ballot and lost 5149. And that was, you know, on one hand a crushing defeat but it also sent us a message that improved to us that, you know, it was possible to take on this powerful industry and win. I mean, that, you know, Greyhound racing had been an incredibly powerful special interest in Massachusetts and around the country. At one time, you know, Greyhound track owners in the Bay State were some of the most powerful political entities in the state legislature in any industry. I mean, they really were hand the state in a lot of ways.  And, you know, we started, you know, trying to figure out ways to advocate for the dogs in the process and in the political process and be effective. And, you know, we gradually started to win and we borrowed a lot from other social justice movements. And we did come up with our own methodology, if you will, about how to do this. We started having success. We came back eight years later in Massachusetts, collected 150,000 signatures, again, with an all-volunteer effort, put it on the ballot in 2008, and had a sweeping victory where we carried 12 of 14 counties, you know, almost 300 of Massachusetts 351 cities and towns. I mean, we just won from one end of the state to the other. And that was a really powerful moment. But, you know, after that, we started to look and say, okay, if we care about Greyhounds in the United States, we obviously also care about Greyhound racing and the Greyhounds are suffering in Ireland and in Macau and in Australia. And so we started to reach out. And I mean, I think we've been at the center of this movement, but there's a huge movement underway to help these dogs and a huge movement underway to help animals generally. I mean, it's a really significant part of our time that I think is overlooked in many ways. But to be at the center of that and see it and see that our, in an age where things are so polarized and seem so corrupted, to see that our democracy can work and bring about change and justice. It's really empowering. And I think Christine and I both feel just incredibly fortunate that we've had the opportunity to do this work. And do you guys want to tell us a little bit about the dogs you have with us today, Gina and Brooklyn? Well, you might say that we bring our work home with us. Gina, who is the beautiful fawn asleep at the moment, is rescued from Florida. She raced at Derby Lane almost 200 times until she was rescued. And she's been with us for a few years. Now Brooklyn, he has just come to us this year. He was one of over 500 dogs that we rescued from a Chinese dog track called the Cannadrome. And this was an eight-year campaign. And Brooklyn was actually the poster child for the campaign, the inspiration. Our board member went over to Macau to investigate the track on our behalf. We had learned of this track just by reading about it in the paper. There was a story that said that over 400 dogs were shipped to this terrible track in Macau from Australia each year, and all of them were killed. There was no adoption program for any dog.  So about 30 dogs would be shipped every month, 30 killed to make room for them. So she took pictures of several dogs, but this dog, Brooklyn, just spoke to me. And I said, I'm going to save that dog. That dog has really reached my heart. And eight years later, we were able to negotiate with the Chinese government to close down the track and release the dogs. So starting late last year, we had the Macau Airlift and 535 dogs were taken from that track. And we had a network of adoption groups around the world who received them in the United Kingdom, Europe. Most of them, over 300, were shipped right here to the United States. And they are happy and safe now for the first time in their lives. And Brooklyn here, he's such a charmer. I just can't really explain it, but everybody who meets him loves him. And I'm thrilled that he can be with us here today. He was, after everything he went through, after only a few weeks of being with us, he was diagnosed with bone cancer. So he's a survivor of that. Every day he just runs around, explores, and sees new things, and meets people, and he's just incredibly sweet. And yeah, it's one thing to view this as a fight against oppression and injustice. And it is for us. We feel very passionately about that, obviously. And we view it as directly relating to the other social justice fights of our time. But to go home and to be with Brooklyn every night and to take care of him every day and just love him selflessly is, it makes it real, but it's also just an incredible blessing. So we're really, really lucky to have him. Our cat's not so much. He's not a huge cat fan. Well, he's really taught us a lot that change is possible. When we discovered that this track even existed, which we did not know. It's on a peninsula, Macau, which is off mainland China, basically kind of like the Las Vegas of China. All the gambling happens there. It's not allowed on the mainland. So when I said to Kerry, I shouted across the room, I said, do you know about this track? 400 dogs are killed a year. We have to do something about this. And he said, Christine, how are we going to do something about a Chinese dog track sitting in a basement office in Massachusetts? And I said, I don't know, but we will. And it really has taught me that if you put your mind to it, you can make real change and to know that the result is to save this beautiful dog, I can't tell you how happy I am about our work and about how it's enriched my life. Well, and Ross, I want to tell you how great I am to be here with you today because in recent years we've familiarized ourselves with, we're both history nuts, but obviously with the history of Massachusetts, but the history of this area. And even though we've lived here for a long time, we moved our headquarters to Arlington just under a decade ago, and we really feel blessed to be here, to be down the road from where Bronson all caught and Thoreau and a lot of the abolition movement found support, there's no question that we are doing cutting edge work in this one particular area of activism and social justice. And one of our goals is to create a methodology that hopefully can apply to other justice fights as well, or at least have some contribution in that. And so to be in Massachusetts, we're so much of this work started and just the fights and the people who precede us, and it's just a welcoming community as well. Arlington, obviously when we were on the ballot, voted overwhelmingly to support Andy Greyhound Racing, and we're really honored to have our work be based here. We're growing tremendously as an organization, and so we're proud to be a part of the Arlington community. Let me just say, our goal is to put ourselves out of business. So we hope to be back on the show sometime and say, well, we're done. That's our goal. We want to be obsolete. We don't want this problem to be happening anymore. We want to solve the problem. That's our number one goal. Do you guys want to talk about some of the problems that come with dog racing? Sure. Like some of the biggest reasons that it needs to be pulled down? So our criticism of Greyhound Racing is not based on individuals. There are good people and bad people in this industry, just like in every industry. There clearly are individual acts of cruelty that happen in this industry. There's no doubt about that. But our criticism is that this industry essentially uses dogs as numbers to gamble on, and with that comes a constant pressure to secure the highest return, economic return, out of each dog while incurring the least amount of cost. And so what that leads to is a series of industry standard practices that are essentially cutting corners and are either suboptimal or absolutely terrible when it comes to animal welfare. So for example, in the United States, every racing Greyhound endures a life of confinement. The dogs are kept in rows of stacked metal cages that are barely large enough for the dogs to stand up or turn around for about 22 hours a day. They race half a dozen times or less per month. And so the vast majority of their life is spent in a cage. And there are these giant kennel compounds that are attached to each race track that has many of a thousand dogs living in just these windowless buildings with rows of stacked cages inside them. That's obviously not the way that we would treat our dog. A huge number of Greyhounds suffer serious injuries and die on the track. I mean, we're doing work right now in West Virginia, and over the last decade, more than 8,000 Greyhound injuries have been reported just to two race tracks in that state, including more than 3,000 dogs suffer broken bones, almost all of them broken legs, and more than 400 Greyhounds that died on the track. And so the injuries are just a persistent, constant problem. And similarly, there are serious drug problems in the Greyhound racing industry. Not only performance enhancing drugs, which definitely happens. We've seen dozens of Greyhounds tested positive for cocaine, opiates, but also all female Greyhounds are given an anabolic steroid called methyl testosterone, which is used to prevent them from coming into season and prevent a loss of race days. There's obviously a performance enhancing drug. It's terrible from an animal welfare perspective, and there's all sorts of known side effects. But the industry does it because these dogs are at the track for a short amount of time, and they don't want any disruption. And so giving regular shots of animal steroids to females is one way of preventing disruptions, which again is just crazy, just mind-blowing. And that actually is prohibited in a lot of dog racing jurisdictions overseas, but continues here. The food they're fed is what's called 4D meat, which is deemed, meat that's been deemed unfit for human consumption, essentially the animal has fallen or is sick and cannot go into the human food chain. The animal is still rendered, and it's sold to the Greyhound industry for pennies per pound. And again, that's used in all sorts of known health problems. There have been many cases of just entire kennels of racing Greyhounds falling ill, dogs dying, but they do it because they're trying to secure the highest return while just spending as little as possible. So it's, you know, the dogs are disposable. They're always putting the buck before the buck. I mean, there's just a cost-benefit analysis in place at all times, so the day will come when that dog loses and that dog's not worth keeping, and something's got to be done. And in the past, they were simply destroyed. Thankfully, since Greyhound racing has been exposed, Greyhound adoption has really flourished. We're so excited because just a couple weeks ago, one of the tracks we've been most concerned about, Southland and Arkansas, announced that following our victory in Florida, it saw the handwriting on the wall, and it was voluntarily phasing out dog racing there, and they would make a thousand dogs plus available for adoption. I mean, this is a new day in our campaign, so we don't even start the campaign and they say, okay, wait a minute, we know what's going to happen. Let's get these dogs out, let's do this the right way. And the wonderful thing about this is when a business makes its decision, the business then accounts for all those involved, so the attract employees are going to just be phased into new jobs at the facility, and it's a gigantic facility. Dog racing is only a small part of it, and in fact it's a losing part of it. Across the country, every state with dog racing is losing money on live racing because nobody's going to watch dogs run around in circles, and as a result, the track owners are often taking a bath, so they're actually looking for relief. In Florida, which is phasing out dog racing now, it must do so by December 2020. The track owners were losing a combined $35 million a year, so that's incentive. I mean, another thing that I think has been really amazing about this fight is it really is just so bipartisan, and to me, dogs are part of our lives. I mean, they're family members there, and the notion that you would keep a dog in a cage for 22 hours a day, the notion that you would give hundreds and hundreds of dogs in an anabolic steroid cause them to run around a track knowing many dogs are going to be seriously injured and die, so people gamble on them is really counter to just our basic values as Americans, almost like our sense of common sense and decency, and again, in an era when things are just so highly polarized, and so it seems like we're fighting over everything and can't grant anything. The Florida campaign, which I said in the media after we won Florida, I thought it was the most significant animal welfare victory to this point in the history of the western world, and I really believe that. I mean, it was just a huge moment with a 69% vote in a conservative state, where voters said this industry is going to be swept away and put into the history books because it was cruel and inhumane. This was a multi-billion-dollar industry at one time. I mean, at its peak in the early 1990s, there were almost 70 operational dog tracks in 19 states, more than three billion dollars bet. This was a massive industry at one point, and the Florida campaign had the most incredible support from both the right and the left, and we had Andrew Gillam, progressive icon and gubernatorial candidate, Sean Shaw, who is the Democratic Progressive Candidate for Attorney General, the League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Democratic Progressive Caucus, the Florida College Democrats, and Laura Trump and Matt Gates. The sitting governor, conservative governor, Rick Scott, who is now a U.S. Senator, there really is no other issue, I would argue, in today's time that unites people on the right and the left, and it really just comes down to, there still is some sense of shared community and shared values. I also think that once we educate people about what's happening to dogs and let them understand the economic impact of dog racing, these two prongs really reach both the Democrats and the Republicans that everyone in between. So maybe one isn't so concerned about how dogs are treated, oh, they're just dogs. Maybe the other is saying, well, economics is, wait a minute, the track owners are losing 35 million a year, and the state is losing over 3 million regulating it? I don't like that. So no matter what side of the aisle you're on, there's something wrong with dog racing, and we're happy to inform people about all the reasons why they should vote for the dogs. And to shift the conversation to something a little bit lighter.  How is it beneficial to be a married couple who runs a non-profit? Well, I mean, look, I think we... Careful. We were not married when we formed Great 2K. We were both volunteers for the Great 2K committee. He came along in 2001. 2000. 2000. Okay. And I had been working on it for several years here locally. So he came over from Oregon, and he was this really smart guy who knew it. And it just turned out that after all was said and done, there were two of us left in the room who said, well, let's keep fighting. Yeah, we lost, but let's keep fighting. And all around us, people started to come back and say, yeah, we'll try again. Yes, we'll work with you. And it was so fulfilling and wonderful, but we weren't a couple. We were just really committed to the same thing, helping these dogs. And well, one thing led to another. And if you work in a small room for 12 hours a day, you're either going to love each other or hate each other. So we chose the former. No, it's Ross. It's just for me personally, I don't have a lot of the trappings in my life that a lot of people have. I mean, I don't have long-term financial security. I don't have, but to have these two beautiful dogs and an incredible wife who's the love of my life and four cats and work that means everything to me. And a really welcoming community is, I mean, I feel incredibly fortunate. Awesome. Is there anything else that Great 2K is doing on their big to-do list that you want people to look out for? Any way that people can get involved and stuff like that? We can always use office volunteers. And we're located right in Arlington Center. And this is our busiest time of year. So anyone who'd be interested in coming and pitching in, meaning Brooklyn and Gina, they come to work every day, love to have you. I just want to say how proud I am that we're located here personally and our headquarters located here. We want to make Arlington proud. We want to be a part of this community. And we want to be something that everyone in the town can say, this is another reason why this is such a great place to live. Okay. And that just about wraps us up. This has been Ross Federa from ACMI with Driving Forces and Carrie and Christine from Great 2K USA Worldwide, based right here in Arlington. And check in for our next episode to see what our community can do for you.


Hi everyone. Great to be here today with you. My name is Maya Itkanen. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Onego Bio. Onego is a biotech company that is doing equit with precision fermentation. EC is one of the wonders of this planet. It is such an amazing bundle of this perfect nutrition and great functionalities in this very clever package that only Mother Nature knows how to design something like that. It's no wonder it's the most popular protein in the world and it's very difficult to replace with any alternatives. Just that this traditional way of producing eggs with factory farming is both fragile and inefficient. And when I say fragile, I mean that it's very heavily affected by animal-oriented diseases such as bird flu, salmonella, and so on. And especially this year the bird flu outbreak has been really bad. So tens of millions of birds have been killed because of that across the world. Many big businesses are big companies out of business and prices are increasing and so on. When I say inefficient, I mean that one bird can just give you six grams of protein per day. And believe me, people have really tried. So they have tried everything possible, but one bird just gives you six grams of protein per day. So therefore we have found a way to produce the same bioidentical equit with the method that is both robust and efficient. So that's really great and it's called precision fermentation. So when you have one piece of land to cultivate, you can grow something in there such as grains or sugar beet or whatever. You can decide to either give that to the chickens or you can give it to the microbes. And the difference is really huge. So when you give it to the microbes, you can get as much as ten times higher yields from that same piece of cultivated land.  Well, we have this micro-organism called trichoderma-VCI. It's a filamentous fungus. We feed it in the bioreactor. We give it glucose and nutrients. And because it has been introduced, this DNA from the chicken equit, it knows to start segregating the protein that we want instead of its own proteins. And then at the end of the process, we have this bioreactor filled first with the cells to actual fungus. And then we have water that has the protein dissolved in it. We filter away the cells and then we start drying out the water away from the protein. And we will get this bioalbumin powder that is having the same nutritional functionalities, same process functionalities, but comes with 90% lower environment. The footprint is not affected by animal diseases such as birth lose. And like already told you, it's even ten times more efficient than the traditional way. And this whole thing is really, it's a really nice, holistically sustainable case. So the trichoderma, yes, now we're giving it glucose, but it actually can eat like any kind of side stream that contains carbohydrates, such as food industry side streams. And then at the same time, also the biomass, also the fungus itself is a valuable material. So you can utilize that for many other purposes, such as making packaging materials, pet food, even micellum letter can be made out of that. So the case is just a very nice, holistically sustainable case. Okay, but the trichoderma is a very special kind of organism. So it was found at the Solomon Islands during the World War II when the American soldiers figured out that something is eating their clothes and their tents. And then they isolated that, they brought it back home, and the scientists figured out that it's a very special kind of fungus. It's a hungry fungus that has the ability to eat cellulose and produce enzymes in a very big scale. So compared to these other common systems that are used in the pre-system fermentation, such as, for example, yeast, like apica pastoris, or for example, bacterias like E.coli, the main difference really is that trichoderma is a really great producer. So it produces in very big scale in very, very, like a high yields. But we really like this metaphor from Ikea that when you design something, you really need to start from the price tag. You really need to know that you have the technology that has the ability to scale to the levels that you really need in order to produce something in an efficient and cost effective way. And this trichoderma is very well proven by the pharma, textile, biofuel, food aid, et cetera, industries already from centuries ago. The only thing is that it's very heavily protected, so it has very high IP protection around it. Only a few players are controlling it in the world. But we at Aneko, we are lucky enough to actually have access to that because of our home base, our origin, that is VTT, Technical Research Centre in Finland. So at VTT, this technology has been studied for decades and years already. We are a spin-off from VTT. My background, my own background is that I'm a third time founder. I have a strong experience in alternative proteins and food tech. And Chris Landowski here, my co-founder, he's a trichoderma specialist who is the main inventor behind this technology that we are using. So we got this 10 million Euro Cedron just last February. And then on top of that, we have got 4.5 million Euro grant. So we have got to get on our 14.5 million Euro funding, which is great because this biotech is super expensive. It's not something that you can just do by writing a piece of code, but you really need to work with real materials, real physical materials. What we are doing right now is that we are preparing for the novel food approvals. So we are starting first in the United States where the regulatory landscape allows a faster market entry. And then now preparing also for this A round funding early next year. And then like going to the go-to-market phases and starting the work with the customers. So BiAlbumen is the trade name for our product. This product that can be used in all food processing just the same way as a traditional chicken-based, egg white. It has the same functionalities, same natural capabilities, same or lower price, but it's totally animal-free. It's not affected by bear fruits or other diseases that are caused, enterprise fluctuations, supply chain discontentations, et cetera. And even on top of that, we have a technology that allows us to produce this great food with 9% lower environment of footprint. So thank you very much. Great to be here, like I said. And please come and visit our booth tomorrow. We have a demo booth here. And don't hesitate to ask any questions or give some thoughts if you have. Thank you.


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Hey, this is Brad Tucker here at A&U, and if you're just as excited as me about the upcoming super blue Lunar Eclipse, here are all the details that you need to know about what this event actually is. So we'll be getting a total lunar eclipse, and you don't need any special equipment with this, and this is when the moon goes into the Earth's shadow. So light from the Sun falls on the Earth, and that produces a shadow going into space. And when the moon fully goes into that shadow, it's going to turn red. So the light from the Sun, which goes to the Earth, the sunrise and sunset of the Earth, will go into space and light up the moon, so the moon will have the sunrise and sunset, Earth's sunrise and sunset. But it'll also be closer a bit in its orbit to the Earth, so it'll be a super moon, and it's the second full moon of the month, a blue moon. So on January 31st, appreciate something that hasn't happened since before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.


In these videos we don't reveal any addresses and even though I've done a house tour of my own place, please do not show up at any private residences because it's not safe for anyone. A-list actress Glenn Close has earned quite the fortune over her career, but rather than live in Hollywood she'd spend most of her life in New York. She had a main mansion in Bedford Hills she lived in for 30 years as well as a second property she purchased nearby, and then over in Montana she bought herself a dream property more recently. Glenn Close is an actress and one of the most accomplished Hollywood stars of her generation. Not only has she won countless accolades including three Emmy Awards, three Tony Awards, and three Golden Globes, she's also been nominated for seven Academy Awards. However, she's yet to take an Oscar home with her. Originally raised in a wealthy family, Close was a theater student in college before beginning her acting career on the stage in the mid-70s. She'd remain a stage actor for most of the decade before branching out to appear in films like The Big Chill and The Natural. Shortly after, she'd land her breakout role. Shortly thereafter, she'd land her breakout roles in dangerous liaisons and fatal attraction. Glenn would end up earning herself an astounding net worth estimated to be in a $50 million range. She'd then invest a decent portion of this wealth in a series of gorgeous New York State homes. Over the past couple of years, however, Glenn has decided to totally switch up her living situation, moving to a dream property in Montana where she hopes to make up for lost time with her family. Hey guys, it's Kara The Vampire Slayer back with another exclusive house tour here on Famous Entertainment, and today we're looking at the homes of Glenn Close. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit me up on Instagram to chat. Now let's get into this video. After almost 30 years of living in one spot, Glenn Close is bidding farewell to her New York State Bedford Hills estate, one that she lovingly nicknamed Beanfield. This is a dreamy farmhouse located just an hour from the heart of Manhattan and set on 10 acres of idyllic land, secluded within a beautiful setting of old growth trees, stone walls, and open meadows. Glenn's property was originally built in 1910 before being updated over the years into the epitome of countryside chic. It's unclear exactly how much Glenn paid for this property when she originally moved in during the early 90s, but upon doing so, she brought on an architectural firm to renovate and expand the property. When all is said and done, Glenn had herself a 5,773 square foot two-story home that boasted four bedrooms as well as four and a half baths. Inside the home, large rooms and a thoughtful floor plan host a ton of grand living spaces, while still being perfect for everyday living. Entertaining was at the heart of this redesign, and that choice is reflected in the spacious porch that welcomes guests up the front steps and ushers them into the entry hall, which boasts hand-painted floors. Located just to the left of the entrance is the stunning home library, which includes a fireplace and two doors that lead into the dining room. Speaking of, the dining room boasts a warm color scheme and has its very own butler's pantry with a beautiful soapstone sink just off to the side. Of course, that has got nothing on the kitchen fitted with a Viking professional range, boasting two ovens and a six burners, not to mention a sub-zero fridge, a compactor, microwave, and dishwasher. Only a few steps away from the kitchen is the family room, which is anchored by a fireplace on one side and a breakfast table on the other. Meanwhile, two glazed doors lead out to the rear deck and flank a large window seat. Upstairs, the spacious master bedroom includes yet another window seat, walking closets, and a fireplace of its own. Located just off of that bedroom is an office that Glen nicknamed the Boat Room, which contains a wet barn fridge with a door leading out to a sun porch. And the en suite here boasts a whirlpool tub, two sinks, a water closet with bidet, and a steam shower. Additional living spaces can be found in a series of buildings on the grounds, including a children's playhouse with a lost-style bedroom, two-bedroom guest cottage, and a converted barn office area. Most importantly of all, however, is how many special memories this place holds for close and her family. Not only did she raise her only daughter, Annie, in this home, but it's also where Annie recently got married in 2018, in what's been described as a bohemian barbecue-themed ceremony. Just two years later, Glen would list her long time home for $3.6 million. It would take her a few months, but she'd eventually sell it for $2.75 million. Then she turned her eye towards her second property, located right nearby. In 1993, Close Spent reported $450,000 to buy a colonial home that spans almost 3,000 square feet. Parts of this remarkable property date back as far as the mid-1700s, and it sits on a grassy three-quarter acre parcel of land, boasting an inviting brick-paved front porch, not to mention rustic wooden beams and beautifully refreshed antique floorboards. This home might be a lot more practical than her other home, but that doesn't make it any less spectacular. Are some casually decorated living and dining rooms, each of which comes with their very own fireplace, and connect to one another in an open concept type of way with the property's kitchen. In the kitchen, while it's clearly been well maintained and sparkling clean, it also looks to be a little bit outdated. Meanwhile, the nearby office slash library combo boasts a ton of the knickknacks that Close has picked up throughout her travels over the years. Upstairs, you'll find all the bedrooms and ensuite bathrooms you'd expect in a typical family home, all of which seem cozy and comfy. At the back of the house, there's a stone-paved patio defined by the swooping curve of a low-stacked stone wall. There are also expanses of rolling lawns she did by some gigantic trees that provide a peaceful setting to relax and enjoy that setting New York Sun. Shortly after selling her original Bedford home, Close would also list the property as well, selling it for $775,000, almost double what she originally paid for it. After the sale was finalized, Glenn made the decision to leave her long-time home of New York State completely. Well, where did she go? To the great state of Montana. Upon arriving in Montana, Glenn Close settled to a part of town that she lovingly refers to as Bozeman's Funky Northside. A full year before the pandemic became a reality for all of us, Close arrived in the town of Bozeman to attempt a second chance, remedy one of her life's biggest regrets, how her professional career had cost her time with her two sisters and brother. Now, this isn't Glenn's first experience in Montana by any means. In fact, prior to moving here, the actress owned a popular local coffee shop known as Leaf and Bean that her sister Jesse co-owned and operated. And that's not all. They also owned the business adjacent to the coffee shop, a one-stop shopping mart known as Poor Richard. And while Glenn has yet to detail exactly where her new home is in Montana or what it looks like for that matter, she has revealed that it's only a stone's throw away from Jesse's own home. This story goes that after Jesse bought her house in Bozeman, that's when Glenn noticed the next store was an empty property. And she told Ryan Seacrest, she couldn't have a stranger living next to her sister. Now, most mornings she walks across her front yard to get her sister's place where they share a cup of tea with one another and discuss the events for the coming day. She told Parade Magazine, I take my cup that has a little bit of half and half and sweetener in it and I fill up my coffee over at her house. And we just chat and laugh at the dogs and well that's pretty much the beginning of my day. Outside of her new home, Close has also bought a second parcel of land just north of Bozeman that's full of trees, a creek, wildlife tracks and lots of beautiful rock. It's her hope to one day build a second home here, one that will harmonize with nature. She told Mountain Outlaw, When I was little, I got soulless in nature and that has never changed. I always tried to create that same potential for my family, especially now to come back here and be with my siblings and have a piece of land outside of town that will always be here for my daughter and her children. As you can hear from that quote, it really just is about family when it comes to Glen Close's living situation. These days, she says she couldn't be any happier spending time with her extended family in Montana in caring for her Instagram famous six-year-old pup, Pippi. And really, when you're approaching your mid-70s, what more could you ask for out of life? It doesn't get much better than that. Alright guys, that'll bring this Glen Close house tour to a close. Be sure to let us know what you thought of her stunning properties in the comments down below. Don't forget to like and subscribe, then ring that bell as well to turn on your notifications. Thanks for watching and I'll see you all in another video. Bye!