Can I just get a quick survey of the interests that people have here, because we don't have a fixed outline, so I'm happy to go into whatever is useful. Can I ask, can the researchers in the house raise your hands? Alright. Can the tool authors in the house please raise your hand? Cool. What are you all doing here? Who didn't raise your hands? I'm intellectually curious. Step forward. Alright, so just to quickly give an overview of what ORS is, we use some basic machine classifiers which are things that categorize other things, sorry, algorithms that categorize things. It's based on training data which comes from human-entered, generally human-entered labeling, which is when you go look at edits by eye and you say, that's the F-bomb, not appropriate, this is damaging, and we have a special interface called wiki labels which gathers that data. We can only create models for things that we have data for, so if you have new ideas for models for us to implement, let us know now, because it's a long process to design the model, gather the data, figure out how to analyze it, and create a model, but we're interested in any new applications you think there might be. So ORS is, it's a generic container, it's designed right now for scoring revisions only, but in the future we plan to look at different wiki-pedia entities. That would be revisions as in a snapshot of an article, diffs as in the changes between articles, so the difference there would be a diff is something like the edit that was just made to an article, the revision is the whole article at a point in time, so you would look at something like the quality of that article. The current models we have available are article quality, which gives you something like the wiki-pedia 1.0 assessment of an article that lets you know, is this a stub article, is this a c-level, b-level article, is this a featured article, and we find those line up pretty well with the human assessments of articles. Another type of prediction that we can make is, yeah, I think I should probably help paste links in here. Another type of prediction we can make is the likelihood that an edit is damaging to an article, the likelihood that an edit is good faith or bad faith, those usually line up pretty well, if it's damaging that it's bad faith, if it's not damaging it's probably good faith, but there's some interesting stuff happening in the two places that don't normally happen. So if something is damaging in good faith, then that's a good opportunity to mentor an editor. If something is not damaging and bad faith, or model is probably just wrong, or it's the most benign attempt at vandalism ever. The, we're just offering a service here, but in my opinion of what we're doing, the purpose is that people take these scores and actually create social impact on wiki-pedia with them. So one thing that's done is the damaging predictions can help reduce the article patrolling backlog, so patrollers don't have to go look at every single article, instead they look at just the ones that are most likely vandalism. I can show you what that looks like on wiki-pedia, hopefully. So in recent changes there are new filters, hopefully you've seen these. These filters start with some categories based on Orr's predictions. Can you see them? Yeah, so this is very likely good. We'll make that green. Maybe problematic, probably bad, definitely bad. Yeah. This is really big for accessibility. If red and green look the same to you, being able to choose different colors is great, or someone like me who likes red and green, I can still use my choice. James here is saying that choosing the colors is great for accessibility, absolutely, and it's fun. So you can see that the good ones look green, the ones we're not sure about, or actually these are probably ones that aren't evaluated by the service yet. Those don't have anything on them. Russian jokes, that's a prime target for vandalism, let's see. Actually that might be okay. So anyway, these are just some of the things that you can do with Orr's. Yeah, it would be great to get a little bit of feedback from the audience about what you're interested in though. So this is just a quick overview of what's available. I guess I should also mention a fun new model that we're on the verge of deploying. It's available in beta but not production, is an association between brand new articles that might just have a few sentences in them and the Wiki project that might have a community interested in that article. The idea is that hopefully somebody writes a tool that will connect the new article patrolling workflow with this information so that we can say, hey, Wiki project medicine, you might want to know someone just created an article, but it currently doesn't have any citations. There's a good chance it's going to be deleted. Please go find the editor and rescue them from what's about to happen or help them with what just happened with their article being deleted and them being a new editor. Hopefully that will reduce the new article patrolling backlog. Can I ask are people here interested in how to actually query the service? Okay, for some reason I was expecting more than that but at least two people are interested so I'll go ahead and show you. Got it to Spanish keyboard mapping. So if you go to the top level of our server, you'll see that there's some documentation on the types of queries you can make. All of our requests so far I think are get requests that return JSON. So it's really easy to use it from almost any environment, even from just a JavaScript environment which was actually the first iteration of this was done in JavaScript as a gadget. Here's the top level documentation. Once you dig into that you'll see you can get a score on a number of revisions, you can get a score on a specific revision. You can use this documentation to actually run the API from while having all of your parameters available so we'll say nWiki, revision, something that we know exists. I won't give anything else, any other parameters because they're optional but just so you know these parameters mostly restrict the outputs so I'll look at the most output we can get and it'll say here are the models that we have for this so we have damaging that I was explaining draft quality which is more of a quick, it's another way to help patrol new articles so this is probably okay there's a small chance that it was a spam edit whether or not the edit was made in good faith and then the quality that I was describing and here quality can be tricky to decipher but in this case it's the article is still stub quality we think. I'll show you the actual diff or nobody needs to know that. Let's see so if people don't want to know how to query the service can I ask what you do want to know? Anybody want to jump in here please? For scoring things like the article quality? Yeah okay so article quality I think is done by by taking articles that have already been assessed and Aaron can you correct me on this? Is article quality done using a labeling campaign or by just using existing judgments? It depends on the wiki so for English Wikipedia there is a lot of labels that people have applied to articles to say this article is a stub this article is c-class this article is a featured article but in a lot of other wikis the labels aren't very commonly applied so for example I don't believe that Turkish Wikipedia does any real assessments at all and so we set up a wiki labels campaign actually I think it's still active if you want to try to look at Turkish Wikipedia we can pull up an example and essentially we'll show people a random sample of articles and have them say this article is this class this article is this other class and then train the model based on that. Really the majority of the cases though there are some labels that are useful a lot of wikis will just do a featured article but they'll skip everything else and so we'll set up a labeling campaign for filling in the rest and we'll use some heuristics like the length of the article to try and make sure that we're getting a good sample of articles at various quality levels but ultimately it'll be human judgment whether it's coming from our own labeling system where people can manually work through a random sample or people working directly on the wiki and just labeling articles through their own processes and then to compare the previously labeled articles against new content to then determine a score how does that work? Let's see the the the breakdown is is basically that we just tried to interpret based on things that look like things we've seen before so we have a number of features they're called they're ways that we analyze the article or the diff and they might be things like how often do curse words appear just to pick a simple example and you know there'll be a number like it's zero percent curse words it's a hundred percent curse words it's done by an anonymous editor which turns out to be a little bit problematic. We take all the features that we can that we think are useful about an article we feed it into a thing which which is good at recognizing patterns that it's seen before in this case we're using gradient boosting just the type of machine learning algorithm and it's using this library that you can play with at home too scikit-learn python library but yeah so we just we take a large number of observations which are the type of thing that we're going to judge so we'll take a bunch of revisions we'll feed them into a feature extractor which tells us what what types of things we're looking for show up in the article and then we just say you know the gradient boosting in a sort of opaque way will will determine that this this is pretty close to something that i've seen before and it'll spit out yeah humans say that this kind of stuff that jet is damaging a lot of the time but there are some problems with that approach like whatever flaws the humans have who made the judgments are replicated by the AI I should note too that at least in English Wikipedia a lot of the classes have changed over time so if you look at an article that was labeled B class in 2006 probably doesn't have any citations you can't even get to start class these days without at least having citations in the article and so one of the problems that we have too is that judgment changes over time and so we do a little bit of work to try and figure out when and most recently stabilized in order to make these predictions but it's a good example of how you know whatever whatever quote-unquote mistakes there are in the data ends up showing up in the bottle later I should probably talk about things that we can do with this data I guess the mechanics of how to actually query it are simple enough uh if no one's jumping up and down to see me run some queries then maybe I won't but but the things that you can do with this are pretty cool like we just had um sage ross who's writing the the wiki education dashboard uh take this sort of obscure feature inside here which is the ability to to hypothetically run a score as if something in there had been changed so um an erin's example you need a lot of citations for something to be considered a good article in english wikipedia so what you can do is you can just look at the score for article quality we'll say it's it's still a stub class article and you can try changing each one of those features and see which one which one of these might get me to uh start class article so you can you can say what if I had 10 citations and you you just add a parameter to your query that gives you back what the score would be so you can see how the score would change depending on on those variations um you could also say um imagine I added 10 images see how that changes your prediction let's see I'm not sure I can I can again if you want yeah please um or you can explain it so so here I'm going to I'll see if I can get started though uh so so we have some revision in english wiki uh we're going to see what the quality is and we're going to output the features so these are the raw most of the raw features that we're using these are most of the raw features that we're using to actually um make our quality judgment so you can see things here like uh you know how how many words are in there 420 uh how many paragraphs exist without references what's their total length um how many characters are in this diff and then you can take this feature and you can feed it back in and you can say uh so so now you can help Aaron um inject so don't use the jack just run the query you should run this right against the services okay yeah so here's the actual get request that you would make to to find which features are being used what they look like I don't want to zoom in on that maybe it's a little hard to see back here thanks it's a little bit more complicated than what you're seeing on the screen but really the only complication is that we divide one feature by another and we're not really showing you that here and so for example one of our features is how many content characters per character and so like markup is generally not rendered as content but like a word is generally rendered as content and that's one of the indicators quality that we use you know looking at this list it's kind of amazing that we're able to predict quality at all but this model is actually very very good so that's kind of one of the the things that we run into with machine learning is just so long as we have something that has some signal then usually any any modeling approach will be able to pick up on it make some useful predictions based on it fun story this article quality model is one of our most used models and people find it very useful despite this really simple feature set of number of citation templates number of category lengths number of image lengths that's really it's just a count of content bits I think we're at like 200 external queries a minute and that doesn't count the caches that are on the outside there are a lot of caches that are on the outside that's like somebody wrote a tool that's querying us right now whereas like the scores that Adam was showing that load up in media wiki that doesn't get included in that number because they're sort of externally cashed in media wiki so what I just did here was I took this query which was kind of expanding how we're predicting the quality of this revision and I said okay well right now it's a it's almost certainly a subclass article what would happen if you can see the URL here what would happen if I added at first I tried five reference tags and it didn't make much of a difference in the prediction so I said what about 10 reference tags now it's a start class article so in the wiki education dashboard you can do the same thing in an automated way and you can say you can just suggest to a person writing an article you can say hey nice work on your article but it still considers subclass if you want to be considered start class you should probably add at least 10 references just an example of something to do with the service it's a little bit hard to give examples of things that people aren't doing yet I'm trying to think of how we could generate those here does anyone have a problem you're working on on wiki the tool you're writing the problem you're working on questions you want to have answered about articles what are the models to be ourselves making um we have a list of them um let's see if I can show you that oh really no I think the questions what models have we not thought of yet which is pretty hard to answer so there's a edit type is one that we're probably going to release pretty soon so you'll be able to run this like say for example on a history page of an article and be able to label each edit with the type of change that it was making like was it adding new content was it refactoring was it just doing a copy edit that kind of thing was it vandalism right well we already have that right yeah and so that's that's something that we figure will be useful both for analytics and for just helping people you know navigate the wiki and what's going on in the wiki here's um some background reading on the edit type model there's you were working on a couple um paid editing uh yeah paid editing detection thanks that's that's a really fun one that should blow up in our faces um yeah the idea there is that we have we we as of a couple weeks ago we have a dataset which is a list of sock puppet accounts who have been probably engaging in undisclosed paid editing and so we're doing a similar kind of analysis except in this case I think we're using grammar primarily because people seem to use a bunch of puffery when they're writing promotional stuff um and we can detect that by their inflated grammar that that one's not complete yet but but when it is yeah we should be able to do some type of abuse filtering or hopefully someone wants to integrate that with a tool that will help find potential sock puppets potential paid editors and investigate further uh draft topic is really fun like um I described it already but let's see I'll I'll show you what that looks like so far sure why it's taking that long okay there we go so um yeah maybe we should go ahead and look at this diff but the prediction is that it's in uh history of military history and these are the probabilities that it falls into these other categories it or other wiki projects sorry this particular list is actually what we're calling um middle level wiki projects it turns out that there are a ton of wiki projects and a lot of them are overlapping in different ways so Sumit Astana the the person who created this model has um created uh middle level in the wiki project hierarchy which is a little bit more um bibliographic or something it it it breaks it down into more logical categories an article can still fall into multiple categories so it could be it could easily be biography and military history do you want to show us the article this key map is killing me oh you're okay so it happened to be right in this case we like when that happens yeah um and funny story when we were creating this model there was a little bit of a miscommunication about what we were actually using as the raw material to score and um the model was created using the very last version of an article the the most recent version of an article which is obviously the most complete one in most cases and um and so when we retrained the model using the very first revision we got almost exactly the same model which is it's pretty cool and it means that we should be able to connect someone with an appropriate wiki project right away and if anybody wants to work on that particular problem we'd be pretty great just get in touch with this please um because for all of these models where we only have the resources to create the service that gives you the scores so we're relying we're relying on other people's interests and skills to use them in a workflow um we might have suggestions about how the workflow might look uh we will definitely have suggestions about how to use and interpret the scores coming out of our models erin you have any suggestions about generative questions here i seem to be striking out yeah let's look at some of the tools that use ours thanks actually why don't you just go to the artist page and look for the tools that use our section and you got it that's it great um so these are some things that have been done already there's there's integration inside of media wiki that was the the highlighting and special recent changes it's also in special contributions and um article history page history oh watch this i'm sorry it's in watch list also um huggle uses or its predictions seeing if there's anything completely different here patrouba i don't i don't need to do any shaming here but patrouba is kind of an interesting story this is a bot that was being used on spanish wikipedia and anytime you use one of these predictions you need to be thoughtful about the the cutoff level that you're using to interpret the the uh to interpret the numbers that we're giving you basically um if you can't just use 50 percent because the the score is going to have a completely different meaning on each wiki so you need to actually be thoughtful about what the precision and recall are um if you know what those if you don't know what those are it's pretty easy to look up but basically it's the the number of things that you're catching and uh it's number of false positives and uh that's that's a bad way to describe it let me show you the picture um you need to be thoughtful about the threshold that you're using as a cutoff because that that makes all the difference to um what the what the results actually do the person who wrote patrouba uh used some arbitrary number and it ended up um causing a huge number of perfectly good edits to be reverted which is a very bad outcome uh you you want to err on the other side if anything uh you want to help people find as much vandalism as you can until you start being annoying to people writing good changes um so yeah if you end up using or's please check some of our documentation about thresholds we have a threshold calculation formula built into the models so you can say things like uh i want to know i want to know what the threshold is for catching 90 percent of vandalism you can just type that right into the url and we'll we'll give you the number for that and then you can use that number the number will change over time slowly so you should go back and check that number every once in a while i can show you two things actually to help to help understand that so yeah this is uh this is a little diagram that helps understand precision and recall precision is basically how much of the things we're flagging are correct or correctly flagged and how many are false positives recall is how many of the things you're looking for did you catch with that threshold and so if you look at the if you look at the in actual if you have access to the internet and you run this so this is what a precision recall curve looks like this is for the the english wiki damaging model when you see that um the the x axis is the threshold that you use as you cut off the y axis is going to be the precision recall and filter rate um but yeah just to look at recall so so it kind of makes sense that the higher your threshold is the fewer of the the less data you're actually going to find so so this this will shrink as your threshold goes up for this particular model as you increase the threshold the precision goes up but that's because you're finding less fewer and fewer of the actual items actually that i can't quite explain why that works but if you if you look at the graph you'll you'll at least see you know i just can't explain why it's not like centered on the border anyway as you increase the threshold it seems to get more accurate but that i think i feel like that's um that's not really important uh no you could graph accuracy too um anyway so yeah exactly so as you increase the threshold you're essentially saying that you need to be more confident that this is damaging in order to flag it it's damaging and so when you essentially what you're doing is you're reducing sensitivity as you increase the threshold um that's sort of the term that they like to use a signal processing and so as you decrease sensitivity that means that the stuff that you catch that's really really vandalism and so precision goes up you know you're right more of the time when you say that something is vandalism but recall goes out you're not quite catching as much stuff if you need to be super duper confident about it so as you can see like as as the threshold goes up from left to right uh or recall makes this steady decay um that by the time that our threshold is 0.5 we're only catching about half of the vandalism that's there um so you can actually query the api you use a statement that looks just like this you say give me the best possible recall with a precision above this or or more useful um with a recall above this recall is often useful because that that reduces the number of of good edits that you're bothering with so it depends on your application though um feel free to ask us for advice about that too for what it's worth too if you're looking at playing with this like implementing it in one of your tools and you need to set one of these thresholds um it takes a little while to get used to the machine learning evaluation metrics that will help you pick the right threshold this is something we're pretty good at consulting at so for example if you were setting up a counter vandalism tool that i would tell you that you probably want to set a threshold at 90 percent recall and catch everything that's below that threshold and so you're going to get low precision but you want to have that high recall so that you can catch almost all of that vandalism if you were building an automatic revert bot where no human review was going to happen i would say oh let's set the precision really high because the mistakes are really difficult there so let's set precision at 90 percent and we might only catch 15 percent of the vandalism which it's not a bad thing we catch it really fast um but so these are sort of the tradeoffs that you would make some cases you want high precision some cases you want high recall and it's okay the sacrifice precision and we can help you with that in fact the service can help you with that too if you already know what sort of tradeoffs you can you can make you can actually query the order of service to ask where you should set your thresholds in order to achieve that tradeoff um and then practically if you go to just the the or's page on a media wiki you'll you'll see a description of each of our models that are available in in usage right now then this might be useful too we have a table that's updated dynamically that tells you which wikis have which models available put this in the etherpad any other ideas come up to people questions about things you'd like to see here yeah um i think most of the main vandalism fighting tools use or's um the the situation before or's existed was that there were there were a bunch of ai's written by volunteers the ai's would generally just target english wikipedia or a small number of wikis because they have to all be maintained by somebody um so uh this is trying the or's was trying to solve that problem um if you want to see the specific tools that are being used there's this this url so this also might be useful for looking at example code but maybe not because i think a very small amount of the code in here is is actually interfacing with or's it's probably more useful to just figure out the urls you want to hit and then look at the output and see if you understand it yeah let's just switch to questions any more questions in or's tool well we were here just to show how easy it is it's 30 lights long and i'll be able to download it so somebody think of a question so that you can buy me i'm gonna those questions on the uh okay thank you um reviewer judgment yep so i think we answered that one um the differences between version two and version three the the biggest the the url structure has changed slightly the biggest change is just that we have the threshold calculation built in now um there will probably be a version four but um we're trying to keep compatibility for as long as possible so you can still get to some of the v1 endpoints um when when there's a version four it'll just mean there's some kind of breaking change that we can't have in the same url syntax so you can continue using v2 and v3 probably for quite a while and v1 yeah i think a few things are starting to break but oh that shouldn't be we should fix that okay those are legitimate bugs you should never expect that v1 will change if we do we'll have some sort of rfc where we're gonna try and see if we can get rid of it but without an rfc those are officially bugs okay and then of course we won't go backwards so just try to target the latest api version write your app that way and then you shouldn't have to worry about it for a very long time um any plan to enable article quality indicator another major wikipedia is yes definitely uh let's go to the support matrix um so here's article quality uh french wikipedia has a model uh persian wikipedia is at 16% labeled and so uh this is a labeling campaign in case you're interested i can't actually link straight to it but the idea is just that you have people looking at specific uh you you have people looking at revisions and typing in what they think about them manually it looks like this oh right there we go so yeah um so just just keep track of this table and if you want edit type free wiki um it's pretty easy to get started just let us know and we'll help you start a labeling campaign time for a demo okay all right folks let's see if i can manage this i'm very a little bit broken but i think that i can i can probably manage all right pdf.org okay so we we just started playing around with releasing this draft topic model and i i want you to to see a clear example of both how you can use it and uh how easy it is to build a tool on top of it uh maybe i might even inspire you to build a tool during this or take this very simple tool that i've just built while we were in this session and expanded into something that people might actually want to use as soon as my phone cooperates and lets me do my two factor authentication any administrators in the room anybody assist off on a wiki have you enabled two factor authentication yes okay you're you're good people and you feel good about yourself okay we do temporary key and it just updated let's see if it still works yeah it still worked but it won't work now okay all right so first let me show you the script that i made what looks like there was a topical assessment from the main page oh yeah so so as this script works it is assessing every page it's called draft topic whoops and how does typing work uh and we will be able to do that assuming that i don't take too much time so here's the entire script it it is 30 lines of code um basically what this does is it reaches out to ors and it gets predicted categories for a page any page that you're on um it does this by getting the current version of the page by constructing a request to ors figuring out part of the page that i can write that output to and then making the call and writing the output this is the actual call that reaches out to ors and uh this is the function that actually writes the output to the page the only thing that it's doing here is making sure that ors prediction is above some minimum probability otherwise i won't even show up to you okay so let's pick a page uh i'm gonna do let's see if we can do and bishop biologist and so it'll run here we go so it predicts that this article is about medicine about chemistry uh this history and society history and society it's a little bit of a bug in the um the wiki project hierarchy yeah let me zoom in a bit maybe there we go um let's see geography europe geography countries philosophy and religion language and literature and apparently this matches some maintenance templates so now let's look at the first sentence so a biologist good in university university of cambridge or good in college um so obviously uh geography europe matched chemistry was matching biology was matching um worked on parasites responsible for blockhead disease so obviously we're matching with medicine so this is a good example of what this tool can do um so you don't really need this for and bishop because and bishops article has been around for a long time and it's already relatively well categorized but i want to show you something about and bishop if i go look at which wiki projects have marked this as within their content space you'll notice that wiki project medicine isn't here neither is wiki project chemistry or uh wiki project biology so this is an example of this model is a great way to show wiki projects what uh articles they haven't categorized yet uh one other thing that i want to show you real quick if maybe we have time is like i what i think is really the killer use case for this which is um for reviewing article drafts so i'm going to go to english wikipedia's articles for creation and hopefully we can just go look at a draft yeah let's look at steven g waxman and there we go so without even reading the article we already know that this is about physics it's about medicine it's about chemistry about biology see neurologist let's see seems like it's spot on and so if you're if you're a member of wiki project medicine and you want to go review drafts of articles that are within your subject scope here you go or as we'll back you up anybody want to work on this and make it render a little bit better maybe maybe even make a tool that will render a big list of drafts for wiki project medicine or another wiki project i'd really like to talk to you about it 30 lines of code let me log out so many i'll use my admin account to do anything so uh adam and i will be around at the hackathon uh smear back there yeah there he is amir is also on the scoring platform team we're the team of people who maintain this prediction service we're really interested in the tools that you're developing we're interested in modeling ideas that you have and we're certainly interested in helping you use models we already have so reach out to us thank you


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Oh boy, four o'clock. Now usually this is Hawaii the state of clean energy at four o'clock. And we talked to Elemental Accelerator, and they put us in touch with Tristan and Saul. And now we're slightly off that. We're talking about sustainability. We're talking about preserving the environment and our planet, which is really important. So did I rename the show? Did I rename the show? What are we calling it? No, the name. Oh, think Tech Talks. So this is a tech show. We're doing tech. That works. OK. And the title of the show is UH Breakthrough Innovation Challenge. It's pretty ambitious. Thank you, Lauren, from Elemental Accelerator. Tonya Kaua, thank you for putting us together with Tristan and Saul. So I want to know about you guys, because you represent a generation that maybe could save us, save the old guys, save the new guys, save the planet. It's very noble what you're doing. So first, who are you? Take one minute. I don't want more than that. OK, Tristan, you go first. OK. So my name is Tristan. No, my name is Tristan. I go to the business school, Shidler Business School here on Oahu. I'm in my last semester of finance international business. I'm originally from Maui. And I have always wanted to create some kind of sustainable or environmental project that could lead us towards something better. And now that I've met Saul recently, we've actually started working on something of that nature. Wow, I hope you can carry that forward. Maybe we can carry it forward here today. Tristan Iver, yeah? Yes, sir. And Saul Barnel. Yes. Saul, can you explain your half of this? And how much of what he said do you agree with? A lot of it, yes. I'm Saul. I'm currently doing my master's at UH in learning design and technology at the College of Education. And I moved to Hawaii in 2015, which coincides with the time when Hawaii established the sustainability goals of 2045. So when I first got here, I got really excited of this new wave of sustainability. And the past three years, I've been working on my bachelor's, now on my master's. And I've been looking at the issues around the island. And there is a big issue with trash. And so we want to do something about it. OK, so you started out with the notion at the Innovation Center on UH campus? Yeah. Space. Started out with the notion that you wanted to do something about it, do something about the planet. Correct. Which is noble, but difficult. There's lots of resistance points on that. And so you start out from a huge, ambitious idea. So take a minute and tell me what the idea is and exactly what is your breakthrough innovation challenge. OK. So I will explain the idea in easy terms, I guess. And then he will explain in a more technical term. So what we're trying to do is we want to track trash. And we want to do that in order to change people's behaviors on trash production and to help with management companies handling trash.  We're paying $0.05 for each can of aluminum and plastic. Yet a lot of it is getting burned and that money is not getting back to us. We want to make it to where that money goes back to our wallet and it's not wasted. You mean the $0.05 per can? Yes, the high $0.05. What about all the other trash?  Yeah, so we want to start with the trash that shows the most profitability potential. So plastic is one of them. One of the issues right now with plastic is that it's not being sorted. It's all being collected in one container. So we want to start sorting plastic in order to start reusing the plastic. I mean, there's more than one kind of plastic out there. That's correct. There's many out there. There's organic plastic. There is plastic that has already been recycled before. Plastic that is brand new. And it all has to be handled differently. The birds and the fish, they collect plastic. They collect quite a bit. They know how to do that. Yeah, very sadly. It lands right there somewhere and it kills them before we came. We're actually watching a video that depicts that. And it's not a pretty sight. Although it does give a lot of insight into how the plastic is moving throughout our oceans so that people have a better understanding. Yeah, as do you see that as well, where we actually consuming quite a bit of microplastics and all our meals and drinks and stuff. So going back to what Saul was saying is that you're right. So there is the plastic problem. There's a pollution problem. There's this trash problem. But the biggest problem behind this whole circular economy, behind this whole triple R, behind this whole movement towards something more environmentally sustainable. It's a triple R. Reduce, reuse, recycle. I knew that. I think it's better to put it somewhere around here. But the biggest problem as well as what you were saying when you honed in on how you're going to do this when you have a lot of pushback, the money's not there. So that's, yes, the actual problem with the trash is hard. But behind that is the problem is how do we rework this whole concept to make it viably economically? Just to give an example, $90 to $180 billion worth of plastic packaging is just thrown away each year. That's a lot of value that perhaps if some system was created, could be incorporated into another system. So how do we tackle this? How do we look at it and then not run it through deficit, not run it through government money from the taxpayers money? How do we do it so it can over time sustain itself? And that's kind of where we got our brains working. That's why Saul mentioned this aspect of the five cents because we have to start somewhere where we can be at least partially self-sustainable at the beginning. And so I'll speak a little bit more, okay, so there we have the economical problem, which is probably the biggest driver of what we have with plastic right now because it's cheaper to make virgin plastic than it is to recycle. We only started in the 1950s or so for mass production and we've created over 8.5 billion metric tons. You remember the graduate? Graduate? Yeah. He was talking to his girlfriend's father. His girlfriend's father, I forget the actor. He, the girlfriend's father was giving him advice and he said, plastics, young man, plastics. The world is in, the future is in plastics. How wrong that guy was. Yeah, he don't remember the graduate. Or sadly right, or sadly right perhaps. Because. But that was the promise. The promise was that plastic was gonna change the world. The only problem is that we didn't recycle the plastic that was being produced. If we kept recycling that plastic, it would be a great solution but we just keep making more of it. Yeah, and just throwing it out, throwing it into the environment where it does terrible things and it lasts for a thousand years. Correct. It would have ruined the planet. And up to 2017, we were making good money out of it. We were exporting it to places like China but after 2017, they changed how those rules work. What do they do now? Now they have a really high level of contamination requirements basically. So you can't use plastic. It makes it really hard to. You can use plastic except China won't buy anything with contamination levels higher than 0.05%. In the plastic or in? In, so to give an example, they'll send this huge bale of plastic all compressed but there's a tire in there and that tire will raise the contamination level of the entire bale and then it's worthless and they won't buy it. So the way we have our single bin recycling system here, it doesn't work because there's too much admixture of things and they stopped receiving it. So we used to sell it and it was a profitable economy but now that they stopped accepting it, we're just throwing most of the stuff in the landfill. I mean, only 10% of plastic right now is being recycled. So we know that trash is a huge big problem, including here. But you're not focusing on old trash, focusing on what, cans, bottles, plastics. Is that what you're focusing on? So initially, yes, with time, we want to look at all of solid waste management. So let's take the beginning. Let's take the initially part. How do you reduce the amount of plastic that is going out of our communities and into the wild, so to speak? How do you do that? How do you do that? The first step is by bringing awareness to people. The same way today, your cell phone tells you the usage per week, tells you you've been using your phone for five hours a week. So I shouldn't buy anything in plastic. We just want to make you aware of how much plastic you're consuming. You want to change my conduct, right? Make you aware of it, and then if you want to take a step. Okay, so what happens to my Coke? This is product, this is called product placement. How much are you getting paid? Nothing, nobody ever pays us anything. So, okay, so you want me to stop using plastic. Is that the mission? We want you to start reducing your usage of plastic. By how much? What's your target? You have to start somewhere and... 50%. If you could, that would be wonderful. But, so I'll give an example going back to what Saul was saying about this dashboard. So if we could potentially show how much you're throwing away and what material each of these items are.  You know, you spent this much money on restaurants, this much money on this, this much money on gas.  I must be crazy. Okay, next week, next month, I'm not spending that much. We could potentially create a reaction at like that from the plastic usage or from the trash usage. I threw away 10 pounds of plastic last week. Yeah, or the last. I can't do that. I can't do that. That's ridiculous, you know?  And it could be even a game within yourself as in, oh, I did this much. Okay, let's see, next week, perhaps I can do this much.  So, and it just spread and it actually had some impact on the world. So potentially with this awareness, we could get change from people. Yeah, well, okay, that's theoretical. But, you know, the question is, lock and hobs, you remember, lock and hobs. Is humankind perfectable or imperfectable? Okay. You're very optimistic to think that people. This is the genetics now. I don't mean genetic wise. In terms of a species, can we live in a perfect society? Can we achieve that? Or is it always going to be impossible for us? It will always be challenges. No system is perfect. But again, we want to start, for example, first bringing awareness. Once we've become, we've made people aware of their consumption of trash, we're going to be able to sort it. So we're not going to be able to get rid of all plastic consumption. We're conscious that there's still going to be plastic out there. Don't you see this as a crisis? I mean, you guys got together, I'm sure you have a level of crisis in your collaboration. I mean, the globe, the world, and climate change is crisis. 11,200 scientists said that a couple of days ago. We are in climate change crisis. And likewise, we are in environmental crisis with all the species dying off and plastics is right in there. Why don't you find a way to tell me, Fidel, no plastics, you may not have the next diet coke out. You have to stop right now. Cold turkey, no plastics. What about that? I mean, that could be a solution, but that would be, that wouldn't work in the US. How long do you think we have before we run into a wall on this? I don't believe in infringing that strongly on people's personal aspects and going back tracing our law and laws and natural law and these aspects. I believe that, you know, as long as someone isn't harming someone else or someone else's property, they should relatively be within the right of doing what they're doing. So I'm not saying I'm going to come and prohibit your usage.  Because let's not kid ourselves. We all have that gut feeling or that voice. Yeah, probably I'm going to have another diet coke.  All right, let's go. Look at that water over there. That's plastic too. Okay, so now we have decided that you're going to try to affect my conduct and you're going to try to do this by showing me how much I am contributing to, you know, the decline of the planet and everything on the planet. So how do you do that? This is a psychology question. It's an education question. Maybe it's a software question. Yes. What's the answer? So we're going to use a combination of hardware and software to create a solution that can track your trash.  So any item that you put on the trash can we're going to be able to track it and give you a report of the trash contained in that container. With that information, we're going to be able to distribute how companies like waste management companies go and pick up trash. If there is not a lot of trash being consumed in that street, we don't have to go that week. Maybe we can go next week. So it's also trying to reduce cost on how we handle a trash today, how we pick it up, how we split. How are you going to get to me? Are you going to use social media? Are you going to send me an email? How about a big sign on the highway? Don't use heavy trash. How are you going to get to me?  This is one of the most difficult things in the human experience. Change my conduct. And legislators have a big problem with this. Incentives and disincentives, taxes and credits and exemptions and all that. And nobody knows how much or how long or in what way how you would impose it and so forth. So I can do it. Make me stop. Make me slow down. By showing people the potential of what they are changing. What's the mechanics? If we show you that by sorting your plastic, not stop using plastic, but by sorting your plastic, we can now make fuel for jets and airplanes here locally instead of having to import it to the island. Good thoughts, good messages. How are you going to deliver them? It's like Jay Scheidler calls this the via. Okay. The via, the method of delivery. Really important for him. Absolutely. So how are you going to do it? We're going to create a social media. It means social media, of course. Stop me in the street corner. But are you saying how would we get you to implement this within your home? How are you going to get me to know that I can do something or that I'm overstating, I'm overusing trash. I'm not handling it correctly. How are you going to get me to integrate that information? Okay. So I'd say at a base level, we all have that awareness that we live in an extremely convenient society. My previous experience, we all know at some level that there is something perhaps not truly correct with the way we're interacting with consumer goods. But if we're able to get to you exactly and show you, hey, we can do something that can give you a reward at the same time, allow you to see what your usage is and perhaps compete with yourself and compete with others to bring it down, then we can get you interested in this solution. So how are you going to tell me about it and how are you going to deliver the reward? So it would have to be all virtual. So the same way that this could initially be virtually sorting the trash so we know how much of each kind is in your trash can, we could then, so let's give an example on a little bit more of a macro level than an individual home. So if we have at UH Manoa, we have trash cans and we can see that 60% of all plastic bottles are from the Coca-Cola company and the Coca-Cola company has this huge mission right now of trying to use, I think it's 60% recyclable bottles by 2035, 2025. So they're putting tons of money to this are seeking solutions, they're putting money out there. So if we go to them with their and show them, hey, 60% of all plastic that's gonna end up in the landfill or burnt is from you guys, perhaps we can create some partnership with the corporate incentive that we don't have any data whatsoever. And that goes back to the fact that, so I'll give you an example, the EPA right now tracks the trash in the United States through seeing what was purchased, how long that lasts and then making an estimation because as I was saying earlier, trash is measured or is worked with, solid waste is worked with at a city or county level. So there's no aggregate of all this information. There's a serious lack of data on the solid waste stream management side of things. So with more information, you can make more accurate predictions and decisions that could then potentially create a system where we can recycle. I'm having a vision, I wake up in the morning, I turn my phone on and it comes up with a dashboard. I tell you are using too much trash.   You've got to stop doing that. Here's what we recommend, cut this, cut that and so forth. Is that how you're gonna change my conduct? That plus then we'll give you money back. Money? Yep. Money? Yep. Oh my God. We're gonna take a short break. We're gonna consider money and we come back and we tell you how much money and how that's gonna be delivered. Okay, that's all interesting, we'll be right back. Thanks to our ThinkTech Underwriters and Grand Taurus, the Atherton Family Foundation, Carol Mun Lee and the Friends of ThinkTech, the Center for Microbial Oceanography Research and Education, Collateral Analytics, the Cook Foundation, Dwayne Kurisu, the Hawaii Community Foundation, the Hawaii Council of Associations of Abarbon Owners, Hawaii Energy, the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum, Hawaiian Electric Company, Integrated Security Technologies, Galen Ho of BAE Systems, Kamehameha Schools, MW Group, the Shidler Family Foundation, the Sydney Stern Memorial Trust, Volo Foundation, Yuriko J. Sugimura. Thanks so much to you all. Okay, let's talk about the money first. All this is gonna take money. I mean, developing the message, you know, I have to say, we didn't cover this, but saying the message, the words, the concepts, to reach people, you can't bore them. They've heard all this before and you have to take them to another level of understanding and appreciation. It's poetry, it's the language, it's many languages.   How much money? Where's the money gonna come from? How are you gonna deliver the money? You have messenger? What? Well, first of all, it's, we're not giving you any new money. It's, we're just giving you back your money. There's money that you initially deposited when you got those containers that we are going to recycle now for you. So, the concept is, instead of having to go to a location to recycle your plastic, we know what trash you have at your home. We were just saying you a notification, saying that we're gonna go pick up the trash today. You just gotta have the container ready for us and you get your money through an app. So, once we pick up your trash, Where does it come from again? It comes back from your deposit. Oh, deposit on the can and the bottle? Correct, on your purchase. Okay, but you have to, then you have two transactions going on, the in and the out. When I bought the can and the bottle, maybe you don't care about that. No, we don't. You can just deduce that because I have the can and the bottle. So, it's one transaction. It's when I throw it out, then you can make some kind of calculation about how much should come back to it. How does it come back? PayPal? Something like that. Yes, that needs to be worked and there's a lot of research that needs to happen, but that will be the goal, that you get it through an app and then that you can buy stuff on the internet, get a gift card or just send it back to your bank account. You have to make sure that you do collect the money at the front end. I don't know if all states do collect the money from the cans and the bottles. Maybe some do and some don't. Right, so that's one thing about Octa which is our business. We are a local company trying to fix the Hawaii trash problem. We will eventually expand to other states but we first want to fix the problem in the islands. How are you going to live? Which ties... Oh, well, how are we going to live? How are we going to eat? How are we going to survive? Oh, well, you know, we're two resourceful chaps over here. We'll figure something out. We can always work and we have a large attention span so we can multitask. But I think that Hawaii just really supports us. Well, I'm, you know, I'm from here. Saul's been living here for a long time and they have this very strong sustainability goal going forward and there's no one trying to create a system of this manner here. There are some systems of similar capabilities but most of them are focused on the robotics aspect of the sorting of the plastics specifically. So we would like to do... You're not into that. In a future moment, perhaps. But first we want to aggregate all of this data and have a deeper understanding and then perhaps it could be extrapolated to many different fields. But at the very base, we want to start here in Hawaii and then create the consciousness here that may give us the impulse to go and go forward other places. Well, Hawaii is a good laboratory for a lot of things. But you'd have to... You'd have to weigh the trash or measure the trash and somehow. Who's going to do that?  How are you going to measure the trash? I'm sat by my back door. Oh, well, that's what the visual software would be able to do. It knows what each qualities of each can or bottle possesses. Is it going to look through the trash bag? No, so I have to sort. No, basically the camera or the sensor will be installed on the trash can.  Okay, but usually my wife and me when we have a can or a bottle, we tie the trash up neatly.  There is really no place in that sequence where a camera would be able to look, except if you put a camera in my kitchen at the place where I might throw the camera. Watching you drink your beer in the back, which my wife actually may resist having a kitchen camera. And as we were saying, the aspect of the actual collection that is further along of the roadmap, initially it is just this straight awareness aspect of, I know for myself and I know a lot of people in my cohort and my generation, just within having that awareness would change behavior because it's easy to hear these things on a macro scale that there's this plastic out in the Pacific gyre that's the size of Australia. I know it's not that big, but it's enormous. There's a guy trying to rope it in, you know. Yeah, there's this young guy from Holland. Yeah, it's encouraging. It's a very inspiration. He hasn't actually succeeded yet, but he's got hardware. I think these are all projects that are gonna take time and they're gonna take commitment and they're gonna take support. And I do think that what we have on our side is I don't necessarily believe in panicking people into these changes in their lives and to telling them you're gonna die in 10 years if you don't do this, but I do believe in a slow conscious movement forward. Evolution. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So let's go back to Coca-Cola, who says they wanna make, you know what we call it, plastic-free or plastic-free bottles. They wanna, not plastic-free, they wanna have a large percentage which I'm pretty sure is 60% of their bottles from recycled plastic. Oh, they'll recycle the plastic. They wanna recycle the plastic and reuse instead of using virgin resin. Is that doable? I mean, technically? It is doable, but they don't have accountability. So they set a goal in 2005 of being at 25% by 2015. Yet by 2014, they were only at seven or 9%. They're not rushing because it costs them extra money. It's more expensive to do that than just make a new bottle, I guess. Right, and because nobody is tracking the trash. And so we want to have that data. We can then approach these companies and help them with their goals. They want to do this, but they don't have an understanding of the trash consumption either. Well, if Coca-Cola went along, that would be a big leadership point. And a lot of other companies that use plastic bottles would come along. What about the cans? Is there a similar possibility with the cans? As far as recycle, well, aluminum is recycled at a much higher rate than plastic. Already, now. Now, yeah, it's not as expensive a process. But you need a lot of energy to do that. You do need a lot of it. Well, the thing is just to get raw aluminum and that manufacturing process is enormous amounts of energy as well. So it's not the same as with plasters. So here's the thing, an aluminum can is all aluminum. You can just throw it all together and it works. Plastic, your cap is a different material. Your label might be a different material. You might mix in a bottle from type 1 plastic, then from type 2 plastic and you can't just recycle those together. And that's where the sorting aspect comes. And yeah, there's more nuances to it. And with the aluminum can, easy to crush, you know, like that. Crush it right away. Yeah, hopefully empty, right? Skull yourself, but... And it comes down to the chemistry. John Belushi. Oh, it comes down to the chemistry because there's basically one type of aluminum, but there's different types of plastic. So that's all it is. Okay, so you guys have a very admirable and noble mission in mind. And here we are, it's the fall of 2019. You know, the US is like not really attending to this on a national level. I'm sorry, you must know that. And we're not involved with the Paris Accord. We are not really doing anything to advance protection of the environment or species that are going extinct and the like. So what's your next step? What's your next step in advancing this? I mean, first question, do you see this as a long-term project? Do you see this as you're gonna hang together for the next 20 years and do this? Yes, so Hawaii needs more than... This is on tape, you know. No, I'm just saying. So Hawaii needs more than one solution to really fix the sustainability issue. So we have created a corporation that will bring more technologies into life that will accelerate towards that goal. So the first one is helping with the biggest problem, which is trash. But eventually we want to move into more problems like education, just education about biology and basic things that we are not doing either and can help educating those new generations. We wanna also help with the energy management. So creating technologies for battery storage. So we do have a long-term plan. Right now we're doing the solution that needs to happen today and that can be worked on today as well. Yeah, so important to educate the world. I mean, look around, you find that people do not know enough about this, can you say? Yeah, I was gonna say that we, you know, it may be true that at a federal level there hasn't been a huge push towards the things you were mentioning previously, but since this national sword policy, which is the China policy of not just discriminately buying all plastics, the recycling industry in the whole United States is revamping quick. They're looking for solutions that help them bring down their costs so that they can start taking on this enormous load that used to have to be shipped out. So even though right now we are in crisis and most of it is going to the landfill, I do believe that with enough time we will have to adapt our infrastructure to be able to accommodate this influx of plastics and recyclables. Well, would you agree with me, big question, would you agree with me that in order to effectuate this plan, make this come true, you're gonna need to develop governmental policies and have the government spend money on infrastructure one kind or another. Because it strikes me, and you can disagree, it strikes me that you cannot do this either as a straight business matter or as an ill-emotionary, you know, charitable effort. So if I'm right about that, you can disagree. That means the government has to come in. Now, this administration will last forever. And maybe when we get around to the next administration, they'll be more receptive to policies and incentives that I think would be necessary. Reaction. Reaction is, I do believe you're right in certain aspects, but the thing is, so most of solid waste management is private companies. About the United States, I mean Alliance and Waste, Waste Management Inc. They're 60% of the market share and they're of course for profit businesses with shareholders and you know, they have to maximize the profit of the shareholder. So right now it's cheaper for them to put it in the landfill than it is to recycle. So they have to raise rates. So there may have to be some government incentive, but see, I'm not a great believer in change through subsidy. I do think that if there is disruptive enough innovation or a system that can change behavior massively, then there can be a shift without having to use massive amounts of our taxpayer money inefficiently to bring about the change. Okay, but you are right. I need your view of that. You're right, we need your support, the government support and everyone because right now we're already making a change. We're informing people that they need to sort their plastics better. And policy will have to change and even if we don't do it, policy will change by itself. You just saw it on the big island. They are not taking as many recyclables now. So the policy has changed without solution. So the solutions will have to need some policy support, but we also see a big awareness on people today on wanting to make a change and they taking the cost of that change.  Good for you guys. Good for you, it's admirable, it's noble. And I hope you can hang together and do something notable over a period of time. You can do even just a little, it'll be a great contribution. Tristan. A pleasure meeting you. Okay, thank you for your time. It's all great to have you guys down here. Thank you for coming down. And may I say that although some would say this has been a very good discussion and a good show here on Think Tech, which you know, you can play it and educate people, and other people might say it's been trash. Pretty much, yeah. That's how we're all about it. We have that trash extension all the time. Thanks guys. Thank you. Thanks so much. Have a good one.


Season four episode five declaration of war what's going on guys welcome back to our attack on titan reaction series after a long Two-week break in between the new episodes We are finally back to settle this big cliffhanger in the last episode We were introduced to lord willy tiber of the family holding the war hammer titan whose identity still remains a mystery Erin was then reunited with his grandfather who unknowingly started ranting to his own grandson about the mistakes He had made in the past raising Grisha and how most of the current events are actually his own fault at the end of The episode Erin had falco bring Reiner down to a meeting place just below where will he is set to give his big speech and Showcase his play we're gonna hop right into the episode as I am pumped to see how this confrontation goes down But if you're new to the channel be sure to drop us up and hit that big boy Bell You won't want to miss any future episodes as we post them less than 24 hours after release with that being said enjoy the video The graphic content warning, baby There's never been one right I don't think so I don't remember any Wacar you Better be Yo dog you have no idea what you've just done Falco Is it right he I like how he pulled up a chair for him to he's like sit down About a long conversation Do you think he's gonna declare war in this one?  Oh Just spy Oh Reiner's dad died Yeah, you've been waiting a minute I'm important people So realize how big this world is Gonna be a minute Why do I really like low-key feel bad for Reiner Rain is like yeah, it's like PTSD almost that he's just conflicted with how he was raised Oh the place starting Let's see it Willie. Thank you. I put a lot of effort into this. Oh My god You Some indoctrination, why do I feel like he's in Who Willie yeah Me That lady introducing herself I think is I Forget what her name was madam something she left I He's the statue He's literally just fear mongering just lying to stray line You The beast the beast came back though. Oh, I guess not the original group. Yeah Isn't that right Wait Who is that I mean, yeah, that's something I mean What could that be Well one of the Titans is missing Who is oh shoot oh my god That's an elaborate trap. Yeah, they've been planning planning On the island Aaron's just so calm How far down did that thing go that they dropped fricking yeah, dude that was How long did that take to make I was thinking and it's nice. It's like brick on the side. Yeah, you know Well, me Who is it To the tie-bar ket o kakusakshi Hitori no marriage in Oeyu to show she Katsuyaku sasemashita heros Eldia kokumino shima ni utsushi So cool via Kaseba Ikusen no Kyojin de Hofuku suru to ii no go shimashii Kore wa shin ii de wa arimasen Mizukara no shiso o hikisugaseru Tame Fusen no chigiri o umidashimashita Carl Fritz no shiso wa Daidai uke tsugare Konnichi ma de shima kara Kyojin ga semete kuru koto anakatta Iware ga imu beki kabe no o da to omotte ita Carl Fritz no heiwa o negau kokoro Kare no mokuteki wa heiwa desu Keshite tsugunau koto wa dekinai Izure hofuku o ukeru made no aida Ke-nii Kabe no naka no sekai ni He's definitely telling the truth, right? I don't know I know Fritz was It makes sense Yeah But what's his goal in saying this Yeah, he's just True Oh my god Uh-oh Maybe Maybe Willy is working with him It's just really sus that all the world leaders are there Yeah His arm Classic trap On the island Who was that though? I couldn't even Yeah, I couldn't tell What are you gonna do, Willy? He's gonna declare war But He basically just said they were in the wrong Oh, there you go Ah, yeah, they're creating him to be the villain There he goes About time he brought his leg back Falko's just got that kid's innocence He feels betrayed You've been the messenger, baby Thanks, Falko And there's more of them here Oh, it's so ironic knowing how cool he is I got their own colossals Who's on the right? I Find you He's basically saying no one's on the right He's so calm He sees other lives He literally did what Reiner did Yeah He's actually admitting it What is Eren gonna do?  I like my speech I thought it was cool I'm a good speaker I guess we can confirm He's not in the Warhammer Titan He either would have transformed her I mean, he might not be dead That's true, like he could like If he is the Warhammer Titan, he can just take that Yeah, I don't know But if he is, what if Eren actually like ate him Then he'd have three Titans in him I don't think he ate him Yeah, but what if he does? But there was a clip in the trailer of him fighting the Warhammer Titan That's true, so it's got, it literally can't be him It's gotta be someone else This is probably where the fight breaks out He transforms midair and then they start fighting That'd be kinda cool, but I kinda want Willie to die Oh, thanks


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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse 40 degrees Celsius today Here in Alice Springs, Australia and folks it is Christmas Eve It is 939 December 24th 2019 what a year and I'm not telling you that in a good way It's been an absolute rollercoaster, but here we are I'm making this video not only for my YouTube audience, but for myself and for my daughters in the future I've bought them a few little things nothing crazy nothing nothing over the top. I mean My eldest is not even two yet. My youngest is only five or six months So, you know, it would probably be pretty pointless to have spent a hell of a lot. I'm thinking next year I'm thinking next year when Tate my eldest is talking a bit more And I really know what she does enjoy then I'll probably be able to splash out a little bit more, but today Today, I thought I'd just have a bit of fun on camera and you know something in real time I will release this video tomorrow on Christmas Day. Hopefully wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year That's it.  It was just a Great day a day. We didn't have to worry about anything yet. No responsibilities as a kid All you got was amazing food presented to you at every corner. You know, you got all your gifts from different family members that was You know, I used to get money We used to we used to come home at the end of the day with with gifts with money with clothes You know, oh New sports equipment shoes All sorts of different things and and you know, I can see why that happens I can see why you know parents do splurge and do you know splash out on birthdays and Christmases and it's because it brings you joy especially if you Do teach your kids the value of money early on and you do you know not spoil them too much To spoil them a bit on their on their birthdays and Christmas. I mean it Hopefully they deserve it.   This was me 25 years ago I was feeling what my what my kids are gonna be feeling in the next few years, but um Anyway, I was told one thing and that was that I needed to get a tree. So that was the first thing I bought Probably a rookie move trying to buy a tree on Christmas Eve, but I did get one And I'll show you that right now Voila So Miffy the kids mum cannot say I didn't get a tree Everyone needs a tree. I've got lights believe it or not Yep Probably a few too many lights, but we're still gonna light it up. So we'll wrap the presents. We'll light the tree up and Put the presents under the tree. I've actually got two little presents that Miffy has kindly bought on behalf of the kids for me, which is Super awesome, and I can't wait to open them. I don't know what they are. Hopefully You know, I assume if he's pretty good with with you know gifts and things that mean a lot to one another So I'm assuming it's gonna be something to do with the kids and I'm gonna love it. But anyway, there you go the tree Boom, okay Secondly I have a Star Just put on the top So we know what it is.   What am I doing? What am I doing wrong here? Yeah Guys just think back think back to some of your most fond Christmas memories if you do celebrate Christmas, of course I mean, I was never brought up religious or even told what the true meaning of Christmas even was and to be honest Even at this stage, I don't really know for sure but um You know, it's just a It's just a fun time. It's a cool time. It's the end of the year. It's people on holidays kids are on holidays It's just a good time, isn't it? Good time will round let's Try Let's see what happens. They're colored. Oh, would you look at that? Stars really a little bit big isn't it? No, there we go. Perfect In three two one that doesn't look too bad Doesn't look too bad at all What do you do man? I'm that dad. I'm that dad this year. That's completely hopeless when it comes to Christmas Just does the bare essentials, you know just gets through But at least I'm doing something and it's made me feel really good getting out there going and choosing a few different things for My daughters. It's made me feel Festive and to be honest the last five years straight. I have worked on Christmas day. Thank God this year. I don't have to work I can spend it spend at least the morning with my kids. My sister lives here in Alice as well I'm gonna go over to her place at lunch time She's actually just moved out of this apartment me my mom and my sister were living here for the last like nine months It's been well, it's been it's been good. Actually. It's been really good, you know, I Guess building those close relationships again with both my sister and my mom but it was basically because I was broke broke as a motherfucker and They basically helped me out they were renting this unit off of me and I came in here and lived here basically rent-free But I didn't have a bedroom. So now finally the night before Christmas. I finally got my apartment to myself and I'll tell you what it feels good. It's been a long time coming And you know, it's just in time for Christmas Christmas day. Unfortunately, I'm not gonna wake up with my kids But the second best thing they'll be here at like 7 30 or 8 in the morning Hopefully maybe even 9 depending on when they finish over it at the the main house and I'll spend some time with them and I'll bring the camera out and get them on camera open out their presents and You know, this will be a video for the the vault a video for the family Diaries, you know what I mean for the future, so I'm gonna stop talking now the first two presents underneath the tree to daddy from Tate and Tristan And it's quite heavy. I don't know what it is, but it's very exciting and Another one to daddy from Tate and Tristan.  I don't know what it is man. It makes me makes me almost feel like crying seriously That is so cute and that is Miffy's doing so Much love to Miffy much respect to Miffy. I haven't got her anything What do you do? What do you do guys? Life is a roller coaster just gotta ride it Okay, so I will I guess Show you guys what I got my my two little girls So for the eldest Tate I have a Right and draw a water mat, which is basically like one of those old sketch of things We'll see how it works in the morning fill the pen and Write or draw on the mat for hours of creative fun. The pen will only work on the mat Okay, so hopefully we can draw a few pictures. She'll take that back to her house with her I've also got her this book and And you know, hopefully we'll be able to read that together and Yeah, it's just cute. I mean says on the back you're going to be a big sister That's so lucky for you babies love their big sisters and all of the things that they do Help any new big sister work through what to expect when the new baby arrives and reassure her that although things will change They will only change for the better. So this book is actually designed for kids, you know before the baby comes But I'm sure you know, even just looking at that picture. I know she'll think straight away. That's me and me and Tristan. So Can't wait for it to see that and read that with her tomorrow morning. So we've got two things for her and thirdly I've got a frozen gingerbread house or it's a cookie castle and There's everything you need inside to decorate it and all sorts of different colors And it's gonna look something like that. I assume although I'm gonna let I'm gonna let her do it, of course So, you know, we'll see what it comes out like but that's that looks delicious. Actually, I wish I could eat it now And the little one obviously she's too young.  Whatever you want to call it. It's cute, but I've got her three books a classic a Classic where is the very hungry caterpillar? And you guys will probably know that book And I've got her two small little first readers books, which I've always enjoyed She probably won't be reading it for a while But Tate definitely will be and these books are actually just gonna go to my little collection that I'm Building here. So every book that Tate's been bought in the past From me or from someone from my family. I've got over there and all of these will be going on a pile and That's it man. It's part of having kids, you know Makes me happy when I look over there and see her toys and books and stuff makes me really happy. So now The job is to wrap all these I've got six six meters worth of wrapping tape. I'm hoping it's enough I'm sure it will be Well, there's nothing left to do but to do it.  Let's see if I can break the mold see what happens here Must admit I haven't wrapped a present for a fair while Actually used to be quite a selfish person. Um, I Would much rather keep things myself than give But the older I get the more I realized that You get more happiness from giving actually rather than sitting there by yourself with all your possessions fuck that That's just silly Tristan How do you speak? t-r-i-s-t-y-n Love heart, okay And now I'm just thinking imagine in a few years when your kids can actually understand fully what's going on and If they were like genuinely really really disappointed and like started crying and You know, they can't help that they don't they can't help what they what they really really want But if you can't provide it to them Christmas could be a very very tough time It's always gonna be a priority of mine to be able to at least provide You know things at certain times like birthdays and Christmas Bloody important, you know Even if you know, even if my kids do end up moving away again, which could well happen This time I probably won't follow as as suddenly as I did last time But wherever they are whatever I'm doing You know, I've made a pact already to myself and to Miffy and to my children Even though they don't know it that I will be there present every single birthday every single Christmas regardless Goldilocks and the three bears If you go down to the woods today You sure of a big surprise Does every bear that ever there was in the teddy bears have the pick? Nick I know that's a completely different nursery rhyme or or whatever But that was actually one of my favorites as a kid teddy bears picnic. It was I Had the book but you sung the book for whatever reason Or at least that's how I remember it going and Books man books books books books are always something I really was big on buying for my kids and Like I said, I'm just Adding to the collection every time. I think she's not gonna know what this is, but she's gonna love it regardless And so am I because I'll probably end up eating half of it see I wanted I actually went out looking for a miniature basketball hoop That's what I wanted to get tape, but I couldn't find one and so I thought you know what I'm not gonna go crazy I'm just gonna get her some small things, but as of like next year possibly the year after I think I'm gonna get her something really cool. You know, I guess I'm always gonna look for things that they can use their mind with and things that a Sports related as well so it gets them outside rather than just pointless toys But we'll see if I take take shopping and she's like crying and desperately wants a doll or something I'm sure I'm sure I'll have to give in at some point But you know you pick your battles, don't you? love that for Tate Oh look at that Whoa, hey Just for you Tate, just for you Too small Let's use the rest of it Let it snow, let it snow So delightful Prison number three Going under the tree No, I have been known to be a bit of a Grinch the last few years, but having kids now. It's a totally different story totally different All right guys, so it's about time. I've probably head to bed actually It's Christmas Eve once again I want to say a merry Christmas and a happy new year to all you guys out there this video may be coming out On Christmas Day for you it might be coming out before Christmas Day. It might even come out on Boxing Day. Who knows But all I can say is That I cannot wait to sit here with my kids Beside our little Christmas tree two for me three for Tate and three for Tristan and I am sweating actually it's freaking hot Still like 38 degrees outside Ridiculous anyways, that's us so One last time I will say a very good night and Well, I'll see you in the morning


Babies are adorable when they're playing with toys, right? But as they play, babies are also learning how their bodies move and how to manipulate objects. Berkeley researchers took inspiration from what they call babies' motor babbling and programmed that kind of learning into a robot. Meet Vestri. Instead of giving this robot all kinds of measurements for every object and task it may encounter, the usual way they're programmed, researchers let Vestri play around with stuff, getting used to its own movements while learning the look, shape, and feel of the objects. Vestri did its own motor babbling for about a week. Then it was given a specific task to move an object from one spot to another. Relying solely on what it learned during playtime, it figures out what to do. It watches its own actions through its camera and then imagines what it should do next to get the best results. It produces video scenes that haven't really happened yet, but that it thinks will happen if it pushes the object a certain way and then carries out the one it decides will get the fastest results. As it moves and imagines future scenes, it continually reconsiders what to do next, kind of like how we drive a car, constantly adjusting our course and speed depending on the road conditions. The robot was given numerous unfamiliar objects, not drastically varied, but enough to stump robots that don't have this new kind of artificial intelligence. Vestri pushed the objects the right way about 90% of the time and was even able to maneuver them around obstacles. The Berkeley team is working to expand Vestri's repertoire of objects, its ability to work in different environments, and giving it new skills, like lifting, so jobs can get done faster, whether in the future that will be tidying up a table, building a house, or who knows what.


Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of the artsy trio. This month, I was going to say week, yes I was. This month the mood board is done by our dear Mike Deakin and I love a good color challenge and in my mind this is a one color challenge. When I do one color challenges, which I do occasionally on my channel, I don't consider black and white the color. The color is the other thing and the black and white I usually allow myself to use as additives to the main color. So I kind of think of this as a one color challenge. That's where my brain is at with this. I'm also fascinated by the geometric patterns in this and the fact that it's orange, which fun fact is not one of my favorite colors. So we're going to start off by gluing this down. I should have grabbed a glue stick and I forgot. And then we are going to take a variety of things. I tried to pick at least a few things I haven't used lately.  I don't use them very often. To be honest, they're one of those things I probably should purge because I don't use them. But let's try them in this instance. I do have three orangey colors, although this rusty one might be more on the gold side. I found some black and white washi tape and some orange washi tape. We'll talk about what I have that and I found black, white and orange paint, journaling paint. I use a matte finish acrylic, either a matte acrylic or a acrylic gouache for journaling because it dries very matte and flat and it doesn't doesn't stick when you close your book. So we are going to use these items. I did also earlier I was doing some pulling of parts for my downstairs journaling kit and I ran across this collage image. And for some reason it needs to be on today's page. I can't explain to you why other than it has a little bit of terracotta-y orange color in the pot. Question mark? I don't know. So anyway, we're going to see where we can go in this. First I'm going to grab some glue and then we're going to get started. Okay, first thing let's glue the mood board down here on the opposite side of the page. I think we're going to work on the tan side this month. This is sort of an experiments journal. I started quite a long time ago now and for the most part we do our artsy trio videos in here. I've done a few other things in here but mostly I think it's artsy trio. I think after the first couple of experiment pages, yeah, so that's all right. Okay, now I think that I want to mask off a border. Now if like me you sometimes try this and then you can't to get the tape off cleanly and it rips your paper when you're done. Get it hot, use a heat tool or a hair dryer and get the tape warm and it'll loosen up the adhesive and then it should come off cleanly. You can also like put that tape on your shirt and get some of the sticky off. Okay, it's kind of straight maybe? I just bumped the camera didn't I? Okay, next thing I want to do is cut this down and make the image a little straighter because you can tell I just packed out it with some scissors to get it out of the magazine it was originally in. All right, I don't know why, again I don't know why that needs to be on there but it does. I thought we would start by doing a checker board and so I'm going to get a pencil which I happen to have right here because I've got a nightmare of abstract watercolor painting stuff to the left of me um but I do need a ruler this one is big enough yep okay I want to mask I'm mask off I want to yeah so we're going to do one inch increments four inches so that was a happy accident I didn't intend on that okay so then we're going to just draw some pencil lines it doesn't have to be perfect and Lord knows when I get to painting it's probably not going to be because you know even with the lines I'll probably still mess it up now if you have a checker board stencil use that hey Mike there's a stencil idea I don't want to make it but there you go okay now let's paint each square white or black alternating our colors and see where we go from there oh that's less than perfect but that's okay we're going to go back and touch up a few spots not perfect but I'm okay with that I got a stencil this is actually one of my stencils I don't make stencils anymore um but when I did this was called single cell and um I don't know maybe I'll think about making them again at some point if you're interested leave a comment down below all right I am going to pick my orange which is orange medium looks to me off camera as more of a salmon color um than orange but and I'm going to just pounce pout maybe pounce a scrub we'll see how that turns out it doesn't have to be perfect let's do one over here that works for me um let's dry it again I think it's time to add our plant and as I'm doing that I will tell you I never create with a plant anymore sometimes I'm inspired by a mood board like when we do our arty trio videos um or a color but I don't I don't plan I do a lot of things just by feel how it feels um or how I feel about looking at an image um I just follow my my artistic instincts whether they lead me in a good place or not sometimes not but you know that is what it is all right we want to get these out yet I think I think we want to do washi tape if I can find the end some of these washes I haven't used in so long washi doesn't last forever it starts to do that and you know it's funny I have a plant on here and Mike has two things in his mood board that are from nature they're not plants but one is a snake and one is a bird interesting so now we have these the question is what colors are they because I have no idea oh yeah yeah orange this one is a spice marmalade this one says rusty hinge I have a feeling this one's too gold oh no maybe not okay and this one is carved pumpkin wow that's orange okay where are we going to put these I have no idea I think that one was marmalade maybe I don't know I don't know I'm gonna move it around with a damp baby wipe I did forget how easy these were to use and how nice it is to add shadows with them and highlights and stuff on your journaling page see this is why I still have them because I think oh maybe I should purge them I never use them then I do use them and go oh yeah okay so anyway if you have that feel that way about some of your art supplies just know you're not alone okay now we have this really bright pumpkin colored one let's put the lids on these other ones because we used them already okay you know I know I said orange isn't my favorite color but I kind of like where this page is going plus it's always good to challenge yourself kind of artistically I am feeling the need for some green so hold on it's probably helpful if I do this with my reading glasses on so I can actually see what I'm doing you could of course do this with a paint pen just simple shapes simple leaf shapes simple curvy lines when you're painting nature it's not about being perfect because nature is not perfect nature doesn't have straight lines there's a piece of fuzz hanging off my brush take a little bit of the black why no idea I'm just following my instincts and I'd love to see you all do the same thing when you're working on your journal pages and in your artwork and if you have questions comments or concerns the RC Trio does have a facebook group that you can join to not only get a copy of the mood board and follow along with us but to get help and ask questions you can also find me all over social media there's links for all kinds of stuff down in the video description I really like that do I want any I don't think we need any more orange okay I do think it needs words because 99% of all my work well I shouldn't say that 99% of all my journaling work has words in it I have gotten to where my other work does not have words but anyway that's for a different video I think that I just picked that out right away okay that's it I guess I should make sure everything is dry first before I'm trying to get at that with the glue stick one little journal collage journaling tip I do always use a glue stick anymore and I use the lid to smooth it down the lid works great just like that there you go I like that I don't know why I like that but I do smeared the paint a little bit but that's okay I am going to make some notes on the other side and I'll be right back okay there you go I wasn't sure about this one when I started because as I said earlier orange is not my favorite color and this was a big experiment there's a couple of boo-boos on the page but it's not intended to be you know perfect I don't do perfect and I do love the way it turned out the addition of the green in my opinion just makes a pop what do you think anyway I'd love to see what you can do with this month's mood board and please go watch Bea and Mike's videos and give them a thumbs up like share and subscribe all three of our channels if you will we'd appreciate that check out ways to support the free content down in my video description they also have ways to support their content you can check out their video descriptions I even have Patreon and a private Facebook Facebook chat and my patrons have a private Facebook channel a YouTube channel so anyway think about it all right that's it for today don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys


My name is Arshal Rajaykar, I am at Manipala Hospital Bhune and today I am going to tell you who should get a liver screening or a liver screening test and when should it be done. Ideally speaking everyone should have a liver screen because a liver damage can be very late to declare itself clinical. So having a liver screen tells you whether there is any problem with the liver. All individuals by the age of 14 should at least have a liver screening done once because most liver diseases are timed out because the liver is large it takes time for the liver to get damaged. So if at the age of 40 you haven't had a liver test done before then you should get it done. Most of the liver screening protocols will include an ultrasound and a set of blood tests. There are people who need more frequent liver screenings and before the age of 40 and these people should be people who have blood transfusion before, people who had jaundice before, people who had any intervention that requires to go under the knife or anesthesia. All these are instances where blood-borne diseases can be transmitted. So hepatitis B and hepatitis C were once a full time very common until screening and testing was made mandatory and before that a lot of hepatitis B and hepatitis C was transmitted and there is no way of knowing whether you have hepatitis B or hepatitis C unless you have it tested. So you should all have a test to find out whether you had any hepatitis B or hepatitis C if you had any intervention in the past. People who had jaundice in the past, people who have a family history of liver disease, people who have a history of liver cancer in the family, people who had previous blood transfusions are people who should get a liver screening earlier and more frequently. Most liver diseases that are metabolic or genetic will declare themselves within childhood and there will be a family history. So having a liver screening is important. Any liver test that shows that tests are abnormal or the ultrasound shows a fatty liver, then further tests will need to be carried out and we will advise you accordingly. If you have any problems, please feel free to contact us. We are here to help you. Thank you.


So let's see your name and where are you from? My name is Masha. I'm from New York. And would you share with us your coming of Jesus story? Well, it's definitely because of my mother. We came to the United States in 2001, and she came to Jesus almost right away, but I did not want to do that. I didn't like the church. It was boring. But she kept praying for me. She kept talking to me about God. It seemed like every conversation we would have with her, even if it was about whether she would somehow turn it into a conversation about God. And it was the most annoying thing ever. And I'm so grateful to her that she did that. And so when and how did you come to know Christ? Well, one day I decided to just start going to church because it was either working a full day and I didn't want that or going to church for half a day, and then my mom would help me with a few hours of with the work. So that seemed like a better option, but I started going to church and then something clicked. And two years after just going to church for no reason, I decided that I wanted to get baptized. And it seemed like it was a very... not just important thing, but a very serious thing that I would have in order to do that, I would have to give up my old way of life and just all the sin. I didn't want to do that, but I wanted to get baptized. And I got really scared that if I was going to keep doing what I'm doing after I get baptized, it's going to be worse.  So what's the difference that you have seen in your life since you've given your life to Christ? Well, I have new friends, I've moved out of New York. That's a big one. My mind has changed the way I think, the way... Okay. And also as a follower of Christ, what are your goals? What is your pursuit and the vision of this church and in general as well? Well, like Mariana mentioned, this is the most important thing I think is to evangelize, to keep telling people about God and don't be afraid of being rejected. Maybe that word that you're going to share is going to click with them and they're going to come to Christ. Maybe that one testimony, that one word might make a difference in their life. Amen. Also as you have mentioned that it was your mom who had been praying for you for so long for your salvation. What would you advise people that have children that are not serving God or even friends? What would you advise them tonight?  It works.