Hello there, it's Sandy All-Knock Artist and Paper Crafter and today I'm going to show you how to paint this beautiful Poinsettia card for the Sunny Studio Stamps blog hop. Mendy invited me to join in on the blog hop and when I saw this layering Poinsettia die, I thought that could be really interesting to do with watercolor. I've been looking for a project in which I could show you Cascade Green and give you some tips on using a color that's not in your palette. I see a whole lot of people who love to buy more and more and more palettes and more and more half pans and really I don't know that you necessarily need that. So I'm hopefully going to save you some money in this video. So the first thing that I'm going to do is just start throwing some of this in a background for my card. And the cool thing about Cascade Green, it's not in my regular palette because I don't normally have a use for this kind of color but I recently was at an event at a paint store and tried it and it was just like, oh, this is fun. This is just kind of crazy and wild. This is also the same color as Christmas green if you ever see that but it turns from this green into a blue and you get both colors out of one paint tube. It's just kind of fascinating the way that it works. So I'm putting down kind of some splashes of color, different thicknesses because I was experimenting to see how thick or thin does it need to be to turn really blue. The painting that I did, which I will post over on the blog, that one kind of just turned into this really super pale blue background. I was just playing with it and that's what I encourage you to do with any new paints that you get. If you buy a new color, just do something like this with it. Try it with different amounts of water. Try it with super thick paint, little like kind of watered out dribbly paint, drop paint into each other, see what happens and just play with it.  Here I decided I wanted more texture in this. I wanted the background to be super interesting and I waited for it to dry and then started splashing and flicking paint and all sorts of things on it and trying to make an edge for it. I wanted one corner to kind of be bright and the other corner to be rich and dark and full of texture and I was just goofing around and really that's what you can do. I was looking for any areas that looked hand painted because I didn't want to see brush strokes. I wanted everything to look like it had just broken up that way. There are some paints that do that naturally that granulate out and do things like that. This one doesn't move quite that much so I was doing little tricks to kind of make that happen. I was tapping with a baby wipe and then it was like, oh, now I've got little pop marks on it so I had to add a little bit more back in. I just picked it up with the baby wipe and tapped more on and it just starts to make it look more granulated by doing that and I can add in really kind of some specific spots and create the kind of background I was looking for. This isn't meant to be anything, it's not meant to be any kind of particular imagery is not supposed to look like a garden even though it does but there you go. I put it onto a layer after it was dry and set that aside and I'm using the leftover paint from what I had used first and notice I'm using an 89 centile from the hardware store. I did not go to great lengths to have that. I just keep it in the drawer and when I have a color that's not in my palette I just drop a little on there and I'll keep finding a couple other projects to paint while I have paint on there. Here I had to add a little bit more because I decided I wanted to add a thick drop of it right in the middle of each of these and then just let them splooge out as necessary because I'm going to use these for the poinsettias and I wanted them to have white tips on some of the areas and colored tips elsewhere and I wanted to see those broken water coloring lines and I wanted to let the blooms happen so that was kind of my thought behind this. I had little circles because that would give me some control over it. I picked a circle that was bigger than the largest circle in the dyes so that I could drop them all in. I'm trying to kind of center them around that middle dot so that the centers of the flowers end up being the darkest and then tape them down and ran them through my Gemini Junior to make a whole bunch of little pieces. You can make a gajillion flowers this way. You can make just a few flowers any old way that you wish and then start layering them. Now I know that Mindy has a whole layering guide to go with this and you can follow that or you can do what I did because I did not have the guide and I just started randomly pasting them on and they looked great. So there you go. You can choose by whether or not something has a white tip. Do you need a white spot in a particular flower and then just layer them on top of each other. Now you can use three layers. You can use two layers. I just used two because I wanted to put little centers on them. There's a little round center and then a little round center with holes in it so you get a little texture there and I'll show you how I did that as well. But I wanted that in the middle so I just did two layers so that I don't get this whole card being super, super thick. So I took a scrap of the paper that I used for all those circles and on the top half I painted some iridescent gold and on the bottom half I painted some really thick cascade green.  And I'm using the Kinect Glue from Gina K and I punched the holes by the way with a very old Tim Holtz tool. I call it the Poke Tool. I think it's called a Craft Pick which is kind of not a good name for it because it should be called the Poke Tool because that's what I always look it up in order to link it and nobody else calls it the Poke Tool. So there was a Season's Greeting set that Mindy also sent me and I decided to put that in here and I found a spot where my white embossing would work. I used my powder tool to get rid of all the statics so that the powder only sticks to the right place and then got out my little embossing powder. I put my white and my clear in a big container since I use those the most and I buy a whole bunch of them at once so I have a big container and I use a spoon from Dairy Queen. Shhh! That's a good reason to go to Dairy Queen. Tell them you've got to go out for craft supplies and get yourself an ice cream and you get a little spoon like that. So he'd set that and then the little word Seasons goes up on top and I was thinking that was not going to show up quite so well in the white embossing. So then I was stuck with trying to figure out I don't have an ink that goes with this. I have some inks that are kind of related. There's Aquatini from Catherine Pooler, kind of one of the closest that I might have. I tried stamping that twice to see if it showed up dark enough. Not quite. I wanted it a little darker so I layered in a little bit of Distress Oxide. Just barely touched it and then put it back down because I liked it and I touched it again to get it a little darker. You can make your own inks that way and your own embossing powders.   The top section is separated by some dimensional adhesive from the bottom so it's a nice raised black mat. And the flowers after all that effort I know for some people it's going to make them cry but I cut off two of them with right angles to them. You can do that in a paper trimmer but for the video it was easier for my fingers to just whack them off with the scissors and then glue them on. I put them on with dimensional adhesive and after all of my wanting it not to be thick now it's going to be extra thick but there you go. That'll just be an extra stamp at Christmas and I put one in the middle. It's lovely, a very simple card, beautiful dimension on it and only using that one paint except for a little bit of gold for the centers of the flowers. So I thought that was a really pretty card so go enjoy the rest of the blog hop you can find all the links over on my blog both to the hop and the supplies and the supplies are also just in the doobly-doo if you don't want to go see all that and you just want to go shopping by all means go get that dye because it's really pretty and it would be gorgeous in a lot of different colors done with the same kind of technique. Alright I will talk to you guys later have a lovely lovely day. Goodbye!


There's a lot of people out here that watch podcasts that want to be in a podcast game that's doing they thing. Tell them what to ask for when going to make a podcast deal. Number one, ownership. The first thing you want to do, especially if you have a podcast going in, is saying, hey, listen, I own my podcast before I want to own it while I'm here and I want to own it while when I leave.  If you could get a rev, they're going to claim they're going to give you a promotion. But a lot of a lot of times with a couple of brown and black people, they can't promote you in the hood and in the culture better than you can. What they're going to try to do is say, hey, we're going to give you a general fee or we're going to just bake it in as an all in. So whenever they offer you, you have to be thinking how you can get more. And also you got to think about how you believe in yourself. Some people look at podcasts as I'm getting a bag. All in fees is going to, of course, entice you.


Hey everybody, it's Brian Wilson here. I'm the co-instructor for the 2019 MIT computational law course workshop, and I'm joined by Juan Ramirez from Inserio and today we're going to be bringing you guys a the part one of integrating interoperable apps and services with a legal platform and so what we're looking to Do some key concepts and then from there get actual experience with kind of what it looks like to actually build these apps in To end flat on so with that one I'll hand it over to you. All right, perfect. Thank you, Brian We'll welcome everybody So this will be kind of a one-on-one chat or breakout session where we go over We're going to focus on relativity and we're going to talk a little bit about e-discovery and what it is So I'm hunter mirrors. I work with Inserio. This is a company that developed applications On top of that platform right for the relativity space So we're going to start off with just a basic introduction of e-discovery work into relativity And then we'll go into building Basically a no-code application within relativity, so we don't actually need the code we'll use their tools and It's you know semi-functional application since we have some time restrictions, but this is something we can view We'll say in the next course right and this afternoon There's another course and we can extrapolate and build on what we started building and start showing you things that actually do require code So to kick that off I'm gonna I have some slides here. I'll just use them as reference and we'll be kind of going back and forth So bear with me as I switch over All right, so I'm assuming most of you know what e-discovery is if you don't e-discovery is basically the handling of electronically stored information right or ESI as the industry calls it And so this didn't exist in the past This was if you look at a black-and-white movie. This was When you'd have stacks of paper And you'd hire these associates to basically go through documentation and try to find what they call the smoking gun of a case And at some point in 2006, I believe in December Amendment to a civil procedure actually gave gave birth to e-discovery right where they actually said you can submit Electronic information as evidence and so that was basically the birth of e-discovery and all these companies that handle big data You know, it started off small but people were either scanning things in now. It's grown to Basically, you know millions of documents to hundreds of millions of documents Whereas before, you know, you'd have a stack of paper and you would review that At this point the industry is around ten billion dollars and it just keeps growing within, you know, four years We will close to double. So this is something that is You know is getting a lot of innovation just due to the the financial initiative that that it has behind it So, you know, we're focusing today on relativity and what is relativity? Well, relativity is one of like the dominant the dominant, I guess providers of e-discovery, right? They they focused at first and I'll jump slides here. They focused at first We're looking at an EDRM here of just this little blue piece of the EDRM Which is I ingest data. I review it. I analyze it and then at some point it'll get produced meaning I'll hand it over to the opposing council They're starting to expand their their coverage of all of this which kind of makes them a preferred basically platform that we want to develop on And so that that's what we've been up to since 2011. We're a relatively small team We started, you know, obviously just one with me hired the next guy and for the last couple years We've been growing and evolving as a team And the same thing with their platform, right? They started with some really janky and hard to use APIs And now it's it's very modernized and it's very technology agnostic They're based on .NET for the most part, but now that they use rest services You can basically write software on anything, right? You can do it and just client scripting if you really needed to So it's a pretty it's a pretty stable platform. It's growing. They're moving into a SAS environment So their data the data sets are growing. They're into like, you know hundreds of millions of documents or even billions at this point So it's something that that is growing And they not only do review their forward thinking in the fact that we're building applications that really have nothing to do with review But they have something to do with a specific case So we've done things for different clients where you know at a point somebody needs to visualize something in a pipeline That the you know some oil company was purchasing so they need to see how that was going all the purchases of these things We've done, you know project management type applications Which in essence have to do with the case, but they don't necessarily have to do with just review So it's it's expanding a lot and their platform is really helping and So with that so you know, I'll talk about some of the success stories I have some samples, but you know they have these innovation awards The pipeline thing is one thing that was really outside the box where it wasn't you know Analysis or searches or some AI engine that search for topics But it was something that they thought out the box and they did it But the same thing with a petition application where they won like a 20 million dollar case because we were able to identify a little bit of fraud from these petition guys Which is kind of a funny business because they had paid for signature And so we were able to identify that they started the signatures early and that you know Once we visualized what counties they were on We were able to say that they weren't you know They weren't there was basically a person in two places at once And so when it came to the actual trial that just throughout the case and it was like a 20 million dollar case So it was a really big deal So the return on investment on customized some of these things is really big for some of these law firms or some of these corporations and that's basically why I exist as a company and why Relativity is doing so well just because of their coverage and in and how they're expanding their platform similar I try to compare it to like Salesforce where they're I guess you know a CRM But you can do anything with it and there's providers out there that are already worth You know multi-billion dollar companies that are writing software on top of sales for so I mean we're not worth a billion dollars But at some point hopefully we will be But for now we'll stick to To writing like you know small case applications Yeah And I think this gets at something very important that we've tried to hit on in the course and that is that you know their technology and design are Allowing us to transition more from the law being law centered where it's just focused on regulations and Statutes and how they apply to people to being more human centered where it's focused on how people themselves interact with So it's it's kind of this Paradigm shift from you know one era where things you know Happened one way to this new more exciting era where they're designed actually for the people to make their lives a little bit easier and more intuitive Yeah, absolutely, and that's kind of a trend. We're seeing is smoothing out workflows Organizing things so you know it reduces the you know human error factor And speeds up time so a lot of firms are able to either you know bid on cases that they can win at because they're a lot more efficient now Or charge a premium because they're more accurate So we're kind of tackling things like you said in the human factor not necessarily a hundred percent where everything's done Automatically and you don't know what this thing is doing for you, but it is facilitating is like their jobs Yeah, that's awesome cool All right. Well, I will share you know, I kind of want to go through a walkthrough of what relativity is I'm sure some of you have seen it and some of you have not so I kind of just want to give a 10-minute little overview of what it is So I'm sharing a basic relativity screen, which is when you log in you see this little guy and workspaces to them is Analogous to a case and so relatively we'll have clients climb my cases and cases could be subdivided into workspaces Workspaces then have documents and documents if we look at the EDRM spectrum This is after collection, right? So we've determined what documents we need what custodians We need to kind of review documents for that that are involved in whatever, you know litigation we're in right now We've processed all this so we've kind of filtered out things. Maybe it's by date So we've done some some previous filtering so we don't shove in you know hundreds of gigs Which we could and then filter it within relativity, but the idea is to kind of we Preselect the data we want in there. So right now we're after processing since we already have some documents in here And relativity is not known for their gorgeous. Yeah, I they're known for Managing large data sets and and having powerful search tools And so you'll see this is very Excel and so this this provides an opportunity for us as well To provide very you eyes depending on what data you're working with Once you're in relativity the basic function is to basically Go through documents and see if they're relevant or not And so they go through different phases they go through a first-pass review a second-pass review And what relativity offers is additional metadata And all these things that are called fields within the relativity space are basically things that as a lit support person or a project manager for the case has added as Items of information that we're either going to add in or have been identified to collect And so we'll go through some basic ones here, which is you know, is this document hot or not, right? Is this is this responsive or not responsive? And for the most part it started off in 2006 or seven as a manual process I'm going to read this email and basically yes, this is responsive Go to the next thing. This is like a logo. This is not responsive And that's how it went Nowadays they have machine learning which you start training it and it knows What themes or context you're looking at and so you know you'll train it with a couple hundred documents And it starts learning what the content of this is so they are using some a lot of machine learning here to save time Because data sets keep growing with the average data set in 2007 I believe was in the hundreds of thousands of two hundred three hundred thousand and now the average workspace has Approximately five to ten million so to hire You know the average review rate of manual review reading a document is about I would say 40 documents an hour So if you were to try to tackle a couple million your expense of actually hiring review Either associate attorneys or you know, there's actually outsourcing of reviewers So there's there's big companies out there that will outsource the review So then you have some elasticity and in your demand whether you know you need a lot now You don't need it later. So there is some outsourcing there, but regardless there are early rates aren't low And so this is where they started implementing a lot of either early case assessment or machine learning right trying to use a lot of this Compute power to figure out how we can reduce the actual manual So they'll do first pass maybe through machine learning and then once the machine identifies things They'll do some manual, you know, I guess searching at that point or review at that point And so it reduces it quite a bit right you can you can kind of get rid of more than half of the documents that you would have to do manually To machine learning and this is all you know part of the relativity training course that they go through So it's it's not an easy onboarding with relativity. There is a lot of pieces to it And they keep expanding on it. They just keep this analysis pieces where they batted some no sequel database that they started using Elastic search as their back end for really large pieces of text And so one they're able to do concept searches And they run extremely quick compared to a sequel, which is their main back end on Like relative objects and things like that and so that's kind of the gist of relativity as a document review platform and One of the things that the relativity is really good at is letting you expand its use And what I mean by that is they have this this concept Relativity dynamic objects and they you know refer to them as rdo's and what that is basically is is allowing you to Basically create a Relational database by building entities And so when we can compare it to a database, this would be the example. I can give you here is Creating a table and if we align to a database Each field that we add to to an item could be Related to like a column, right? So what I want to go through here is a basic I don't know contact list application that we can use later on to to kind of assign tasks to people and things like that But this is kind of one-on-one for them where even even at this level with zero code people have found it really useful Where they can just keep track of things whether it's when a hard drive came in through the mail and they ingested it Or just keeping track of people involved in the case whether it be a custodian So they do a good job of giving you flexibility to to create things without actually having a higher Developers so what I've done there is created a new a new object I Can create a new field which was be would you be analogous to a column in a data table? And this was contact It comes with names so but I'll I'll be first name They have different field types and so very similar to a database which is you know Is this going to be long text which is unlimited like a blob or fixed length text we can go up to 4,000 characters And then these are the other What we saw before regarding review was it was considered a single choice because it's either you know documents either hot or not In our case, we're just going to do fixed-length text for somebody's first name and we'll just create cheese clear it out for me and Then we'll just keep creating the field that we've made last day and and it's true and there's somebody who's worked with relativity through Project that I had with the ABA Center for Innovation The I can speak a little bit to the ability to kind of customize cool things and relativity workspaces They allow you to generate You know kind of anything that you want So we had a project where we were just looking at the most common features of wrongful conviction investigations Innocence projects across the Midwest and so it it was This is something that you know the only limit I think nation and if you figure out how you can kind of get your imagination to where it works and kind of this Excel sort of database model, you know, there are a lot of Really cool opportunity there are really done a good job of highlighting and like Yeah, totally agree with you in so you worked on a case with that with them So I was a when I was a fellow with the ABA Center for Innovation We kind of did this proof-of-kind and some other of their support staff to kind of Produce our network with us and can we produce a framework for reviewing documents that allows for Distributed workers where it can be done by people who have different permissions across, you know several different locations and then can we use that information to make some data-driven insights and that was Through their academic partnership program with Janice Holman, and that's actually how One and I got connected for everybody who is here on the live stream cool cool Janice ever sees this video. Thank you to Janice for making all of these connections She's gonna appreciate the shout-out So while Brian was giving us a little background I went ahead and created a field called I think Contact type. Oh, yeah, there it is And I added some choices to that so now when I go and add or modify contacts Which we'll do right now. They're Like a single choice and relativity gives you these are all what they call tabs, which is pretty Pretty self-explanatory, but then we get into things like layouts and views right and right in here What we're supposed to see is you know a list of contacts once we start creating them They give you the flexibility if you have a thousand views or a thousand fields You don't want to see the whole thing so then you can kind of focus on what you want to look at Regarding You know what is available if you have a thousand fields in a document You don't want to see the whole thing. So it's kind of like you know in Excel where you want to filter through a couple of them You don't want to see everything. So that's what they do here And so all I have the ones I added since they're pretty much all relevant to what our example is here And so now our little grid will update Automatically has filters and things like that So if I had a list of contacts that I had created it automatically allows me to filter by the possible values that are available And so these are views when you go into layouts layouts is basically the field that they Want available to users when you're editing or adding new items? And so let's go ahead edit this layout because by default. It's only giving me the name field Which is pretty useless to me So I kind of want to go first name Last name email What's the name name in there since I might be going to do it and contact type and so we had someone here it could be like And the choices I have here, I'll just say he's an employee And so he starts popping up and now that I'm in my list If I had a thousand he'd start showing up here And name is not relevant to me since I'm gonna I'm not I'm never gonna use it I could modify it to full name at this point if I really wanted to I could create an event handler that would basically Format last name comma first name and added in the full name field automatically without me having a populated So they have different pieces of the API that that allows you to basically automate all these things Right now they're based on the dot-net framework, which is you know, we use C sharp for everything Regarding and it's a DLL that you would import this thing to tie it as soon as you to hit save It would populate this full name field that we would rename it to full name But that applies to everything you can you can automate a document to say if I do this value Then populate this other value or if this value was set make sure this other value is not empty So, you know prevent it from being saved So, I mean getting back to the contact event handlers would be a way to Basically without adding an interface create rules that people can Can use to keep some data consistency And not kind of create this database where there are duplicates or In this particular case, it's a contact so you could easily Identify it is just by sorting and things like that But you could create an event hammer that said hey, there's already a Joe Smith in here Are you sure you know it's not the same person So they have coverage of the API just about everywhere in relativity What I want to do here is that in this contact doesn't really have a ton of information So I wanted to add an address so to do that I Was going to create a new object type just called like address and then I'll show you how we would associate it Basically to the contact object and allows us to have more than one Address per because we could have added, you know address city zip to that one person But you know, he's gonna have a home address. He's gonna have an office address So this is a way that relativity kind of grows Very quickly where you start associating one thing to another And it makes it really easy without being a DVA to to really create Something useful Yeah, and I think that ability to kind of connect things that in this lecture especially where we're trying to You know figure out if we have we've got one single source of data from that data hurry it in order to Also that they themselves can start coming up with new ideas about make it You know start putting these things to get the things that I was made to do Maybe they come up with a new idea for you know an app or a service that they could that they actually don't know that they need until now And so I think that Sessions like Valuable in that way. Yeah And yeah, I think the flexibility, you know creates a little bit of complexity because people need to kind of learn But it's not that difficult And people really have created very extensive applications using just this framework, right? Just you know the the relational database type of concept So in this particular case, I'm creating probably the most interesting one that we haven't done and this is single object Which is where I am going to associate it to our contact And so if this was a database term, this is where I did a join between the two tables, right? I'm doing a basically a join between the contact and The address so we'll have to go and do the same thing we did for contact Where now we did new contact we still don't see address, so we'll go back and change the layout Actually, no, it's not here I Didn't open to association, but now we have the address and we can do the same thing here So let me go ahead and modify that let's add a new one. I'll modify the layout so you can see how I can create a new address And associate someone to it so address Same in-city state And related contact. This will be the interesting little piece here So here's related contact Did we have one? Yeah Every time you're live something happens That's all right We added Joe Smith, so let's say His brother John Let's go Oh, I'll tell you why because The descriptive field is empty and we can change that a little bit. I'll show you what I did here meaning That very first name that we didn't popular it is the what they're using as kind of a description So we actually have two items here with an empty name. We'll fix that a little bit This is address Let's say that this is my home address. Why not? And so we didn't anything for state. We made a similar choices. We didn't want people typing things out We can go ahead and take like the whole repository of states. We'll just stick to like a couple here Let's say Wisconsin So we've added a new address here. We can't tell what it is since we haven't modified the actual view yet And so this is a full-fletch address now and to actually see How this relates? I think we can go back. Oh, no, I didn't add the contact but the gist of this while I'm kind of creating these adjustments is that we've basically created like a little Like a little application that you know can can host all these contacts in there and Created basically the form to add them, right? This is like a form creator whether you know you've used like a Survey monkey or any kind of like Google forms to send out for gathering information It's basically the same thing right what information do I want to gather and collect and store? And how do I want the form to look like so we've done all that in the gist of maybe what 10 minutes? Which is you know in in DBA terms it would have it would have taken a while It would have you know required me to to talk to either in my DBA And then my DBA is gonna you know ask me about primary keys and things like that He's gonna take a while to do it and whether he's internal or not We might have to pay for that and then I have to talk to a web developer to actually give me a form You know like an HTML page that I can actually gather this data And you know we're not using any of like the Google tools or other like form data-gathering tools that are out there And so we you know we did this in five ten minutes The the UI isn't the most beautiful right is very Excel looking and very table looking But this is kind of where we'll go in the in the session That's after this and see how we can take some of this data And visualize it in a way that one it's not boring And two it makes it maybe a little easier to do some data entry because now we don't have to go to two pages Of two places to to update data And so that's kind of like the next the next session We'll we'll kind of we'll show some examples of what we've done to visualize some data that's stored within relativity as RDOs or as field data That's awesome, and I think this kind of highlights, you know the the beauty of what relativity and what you know allows you to do and that is You know you you can create a playground instead of something that is very clunky and very heavy So instead of having to focus on all of those kind of mundane steps with configuring the database So if you the database administration steps, you're just able to go in and say, hey You know I know I'm going to need this these features for this object and in order to create that have that cranked out and Is it really exciting? For somebody who's spent a lot of time looking at data because you know data doesn't just happen you have to Come or it to be Ever comp that you want on top of that in order to kind of get to the ultimate outcome that you want to Yeah, you want to be yet Right no, and I think ease of show with that Success and there are tools out there that allow you to do similar things But I think people are using this within relativity to associated whether it's case management or Tracking more documents are at it's usually associated to something to do with their case and so the tools that are out there Yes, they're great. They probably have a Better interfaces and things like that to store data because that's their core focus But in this particular case if you wanted to do something like that in a separate application You would have to either have two accounts of two different places Or find a way, you know to write now a bridge between the two apps So the beauty of this is that you can do it within the system and potentially re-utilize the data that's already stored within relatively Yeah, and and to that end, you know, we talked a little bit in the session about different types of API's that you could use to connect with the data and all of those objects and then make them into something else one of the one of the comments that we had in the pigeonhole session was Could you could you just explain very quickly about, you know What API's there are so like what it what's an API? Yeah face and how? Okay, in order to In order to get to these outcomes that we've talked about Yeah, um good point. So Basically, they have all kinds of API's They all have very similar structures, right? So if you've programmed in rest or if you program in dot-net, you know, it's some sort of object That has methods has properties things like that So the most basic one is what we just looked at which I don't think they consider an API They just they consider it just a way to build applications The most basic one might be an event handler, which we talked about Which is basically a library drop or in our case a DLL drop that associates to the object And you can do all kinds of behavior with it Yeah, you'd say whenever I mark something responsive send an email to you know the partner attorney to make sure that he's getting notified When all the very responsive documents are being identified within the case Or you can use it for data consistency, right? If I for some reason have a set date of I don't know in the future. So whenever I'm modifying a document I could do some data consistency that says, you know, this data is not right You take all kinds of actions, you know, it could be a trickle effect a lot of things that we get is If if I set this to this then do this this and that right? So they kind of a lot to how they want to see it and that's that's the event hammers You kind of could move up from there and consider agents to be the next step and agents is basically a service in windows it could be Just a window service or I'm trying to give analogy in Linux Apple like a like a demon And so what these things will do is just run on an interval and you tell it all kinds of things you could say Do you give me a report of how many people are logged in? You could say You know clean clean this up because this was temporary data So agents are very useful when it's an iterative process or you want things automatically done without human interaction On top of that would be What they call their Kepler services, which we'll go into probably not today, but tomorrow, maybe we'll touch on it today But basically Kepler is a way to reach all the RDOs all the document all the back-end data You can use rest to get to it So you can query the new contact object that we said, you know, we could say you know contact number You know ID number this this and that I want to know all their information and once you have their information you can You know post it to You can use an agent to to basically send constant emails to these guys Or it's a basic way to read and write what's in the in the repository And probably a big piece of what we do is I mean we do a mix of things, right? There's always every solution has probably a bits of the API that we have to use Custom pages is probably the biggest one, which is the ability to inject HTML into relativity So you can create something that has you know really pretty reports are really intuitive interface Something we'll see later this afternoon is you know visualizing things in Google Maps or a Google Calendar or a way to drag and drop tasks So really giving it a more modern feel and ease of use To something that you know, for example the context we're gonna later on in this afternoon session will add Like tasks and so you're gonna send a task to a contact and then instead of going to a task and updating its progress You can just drag and drop it to the different states of where it can be The other piece is that they're working on right now or that they have established is their import API Which is a way to consume mass pieces of data I mean it could be a little bit of data or it could be millions And so the import API is basically a way just to get data into relativity And they've expand that to what they call rip, which is relativity integration points And we've created rip for Google Drive to one drive To Amazon storage so it's a it's an easy way for Something automatic to go and either pull for something and ingest it or the other way around to export it as well So they basically have the whole thing covered right you want to get data in you can you want to visualize it differently you can you want something automatic to happen based on a certain piece of information that you said a document you can So they really expanded to basically anything you can do and if they don't have the coverage You can go into the wild and just go direct repository They don't recommend it, but you can you can go Wild West on it and really go straight to the data tables and that gets to one of the questions that one of the students had about you know similar programs And I and what's I think the most exciting part about this is relativity has kind of turned itself into almost like an app store for anything that's related to you know the installation of pieces You can see that optimizing legal workflows in the future So with the api provided you could you could tie it to anything right it really It really is hopefully whatever you're integrating with ways that you as well so then you know we built bridges to Billing application that's that's very specific to to law firms right where they log in their hours and that's what they're Going to use to invoice their clients And so we've tied those applications into relativity and so it does it does Lend itself to to time to basically any industry standard application And that's something we'll look at tomorrow how hot to use collaboration tools So we'll write a quick application to integrate to slack for example And slack and query objects that are in there and see you know what a document's doing or or how a task is progressing So yeah, there is definitely ability to to tie into other industry standard software And I don't know if it's me brine you look frozen But I'm frozen a brand frozen. All right. I think we're waiting for brine to rejoin In the meantime, I do see more questions Regarding sequel and its benefits. Is it faster? so relativity has And hopefully you guys can hear me Relativity has implemented multiple databases, right? They they have a really solid our relational database with sequel Um But they also know that their data sets are getting larger and larger So sequel at some point just is going to be memory intensive And so what they've done is certain pieces of relativity use elastics elastic search, which is based on the machine engine And it's incredibly fast and it's very good at Tech searching And so that's that's where they get a lot of their speed where basic functions are handled in sequel And a lot of like the mass operations and big data handling is done in no sequel database Daza asked what kind of apis there are There's both right there's dotnet framework type api And there's also rest api and usually you get both coverage If you're writing a non dotnet application, you can consume it and all using all the rest Api or I mean you can even write this the client scripting or a client code Application that has zero compilation and you can basically use notepad or any text editor to write a full functional application Since there's no server code running besides the rest services So yeah, there's there's there's both


Nice to meet you. Well, it's nice to meet you. Whoops. I'll be on your bus. Hi. Nice to see you. I want to say hello for everybody back in Illinois. I'm sure they'd like to. Can I see a big hug for you? I'll see you, especially. Yes, I was going to have to ask you. Where else is daughter going? No, I'm Vera's daughter. Right. And Elsie is my aunt. We were very close to her as well. Well... It's been every Christmas where there is. Well, the mother and all of them were... It was a very close relationship for quite a while there. We would make trips, and I remember his number coming in the winter, and this really dates me back when we'd get in the horse-grown slave with the buffalo roams and go out to fight pigeon. We had great times there. Right, I'm sure you did. I'm so proud to be meeting you. Well, thank you very much. You've done such a great job with this country. Thank you. All my friends are very proud also to have such a fine man in the White House. We just wish you could run another term. The foundation is laid there. Did you ever see a no-white pigeon? Oh, yes. We grew up real close together. We had great times there. We grew up real close together. We lived there for 20 years. I can still remember the great reward, and every day was, if we'd all been good and everything, was that nickel-bottle of strawberry pop in the basement. Maybe, yeah. Well, your grandmother was a wonderful, wonderful woman. I'm not sure she was. My mother was the youngest of the whole clan, the last child she... She really was devoted to. She was devoted to. To her sister, Kenny. Yeah, yeah. No, it was far away as we thought. Well, listen, I have just got a couple of souvenirs here. And I think, Terry, I want to get a nice post-fovo, too, right? That's just a pin for a souvenir. Thank you. Oh, thank you, sir. All right. Why don't we... You get in the middle of your pretty picture. All right. Yes. Thank you, sir. Nice meeting you, sir. Well, good to see you. Thank you. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Great pleasure to greet all of you. And to have you here. The decision-maker here. Yes. Well, somebody sent that. Right now. Yes. And maybe, and then you could really get rid of everybody by just turning up the screen. Ha-ha-ha-ha. I think we're in the best. We'll leave it out about tomorrow. No, someone sent it. I don't know whether they approve of what we're doing here in the district. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you all for the fine work that you've done this past year. There are a series of reports that represent the most comprehensive reviewer of the defense establishment, I think since World War II before. And you've shown the way to real reform and have conclusively laid to rest the myths about some of the defense procurement things that have bounded in the press only a year ago. Dave, your alluded leadership and your vast talents as a senior captain of industry have claimed the spotless record of integrity have made this commission successful and I think all Americans will use and your compatriots here a debt of gratitude. I understand that you want to tell me what's in the final report. Yes, I'll take a few minutes, Mr. President. Well, what's wrong? You got a problem? I got a huge problem. I'd like to see you. You're good to the next room here and you're good to my. So nice to see you. But why do you think there were short sessions of Congress? Congress happy to bail out of Washington. President was glad to see him go. Air conditioning was the scourge of the country. Yeah. And air conditioning is one of the most hurtful things that's happened to the government. People still want to come to Washington and seem to keep them away. A lot of air conditioning. Not that fast. Well, I think they want to become even. I read about her once on my phone. Do you remember the young lady? She was a teacher in the American school in Egypt and of Malta. She was the one that the hijackers shot in the head and then threw her down. 16 Democrats. So I learned the subject of contract. Well, last shot. Then it was after one. I was kind of thinking that the taste of candy wouldn't hurt. So I find that I would help myself to somehow pass the chance to see that girl down on the table. I found her. Oh, right. Let him in. A welcome to the White House and a special hello to your executive director, Julian Nijek. And it's certainly a pleasure for me as honorary chairman of the People to People program to have this opportunity to speak with you before you're off on a great adventure. These exchange programs in which you and many thousands of others participate, I think, to learn about our values and our views. During your time overseas you would likely be confronted with many foreign policy questions. There's every reason for Americans to be proud of our country's dealings with other nations. We've been a force for freedom and a force for peace on this planet. And when we turn over the reins to your generation that won't be so long from now. We want this to be a safer than it is today. That's what the negotiations in Geneva are all about. It's a great deal of maneuvering that goes on during such negotiations but I'm still optimistic. The United States is willing to do more than put a lid on the number of nuclear weapons. We're proposing to reduce U.S. and Soviet nuclear arms to an equal and verifiable level and it's in the interest of both the Soviet Union and the United States that the Soviets will agree we can get started on this right now. While trying to achieve nuclear and conventional arms reductions we're exploring technologies that will protect people from the threat of ballistic missiles. This is our research under our strategic defense initiative which everyone knows as SDI. If we're successful those missiles will be less effective and thus both sides will be all likely to agree to cut deeply the number of these weapons in their arms and if that one day leads to a shield against ballistic missiles the whole world I think will breathe easier. You young people more than any other group will have a stake in the future. I'm going to be speaking at a high school graduation in Glassboro, New Jersey next week. It will be my first high school graduation in quite some time and some of the matters under discussion the future of peace and freedom will be on the agenda and I know that you have some things that you'd like to discuss so we should allow the press to retire and we can get on with our discussions. Well Mr. President there's still a lot of confusion sir about the salt agreement last night. Did you mean to say that salt is dead and did you sign off on the limits for the air launch cruise missiles? Did you definitely decide to do that? It is salt there. We'll make the decision with regard to the ballistic missile or the cruise missile when that time comes but in the interim we're going to be dealing with the Soviet Union on their most recent proposal to us. The time has come to replace a treaty that was never ratified that has now gone beyond the length of time for which it was designed which they have never observed have been violating since its inception to replace that with a legitimate orange reduction treaty that was saying last night. Salt is dead. Salt is dead then we're going to try to replace it with a better deal. Why won't you say it when your spokesman is saying it very flatly to us we need it from you is it dead or isn't it? Yes. Larry's being told us very definitively that it is dead and yet you won't say it. Thanks very much. I think you could trust what Larry speaks for himself. Well he also told us sir this morning that you had signed off on definitely exceeding the limit for air launch cruise missiles. One of the reasons I'm not saying that is because right now we are utmost to engage the Soviet Union in an orange reduction agreement and anyone going into negotiations I think has a right to remain silent because whether nothing will be used against it. Okay. Let's go Frank. Thank you. We have good protectors here. Okay. This happens all the time. No more film. Let's go. Larry I know that I'm expecting to hear from you. Thank you very much. The program's mission will take this year's student ambassadors to 24 different countries throughout the world. This summer I will be participating in an initiative for understanding the American Soviet Union's tools. This program is a direct result of your United States Soviet Exchange Initiative following the recent Geneva summit conference. Its purpose is to provide the opportunity for direct communication between young people in the United States and the Soviet Union. My fellow student ambassadors are participating not only in the Soviet Initiative but in equally important exchanges at Eastern and Western Europe. Again, we sincerely appreciate this opportunity to be with you. Well, Mr. Hyde, I'm very pleased to be with all of you. I have long had a belief that we're only getting trouble when we're talking about each other instead of to each other. And I just have to believe that if all the young people in the world forget to know each other it's not by people. The tragic problem with regard to the Soviet Union is that unlike our country their people don't have any influence on the government. They're not even allowed to criticize it, let alone vote for it. So it does make a difference. But a generation, and I ask you something then and I will leave you guys some questions here. I don't know what preparation is given but we're going to go to these other countries and all over about our own. And I do know that when I was your age I had some pretty fixed ideas and was pretty cynical about some of the things that I'm doing. Having to do with government and the big business involved have become much more tolerant of the years that have gone on. For example I could understand if you had a belief that well corporations and so forth I had quite a lesson in that how wrong I was from feeling that way. I was doing a television show for eight years for the General Electric Theater. Part of that show the head of the company Ralph Corden that giant corporation thought that it would be wise if I was sent around to some 139 plants that General Electric had in 39 states and visit and meet the employees. I met a quarter of a million employers in those eight years. I grew on about 10 weeks a year in a row of about two weeks stretches meeting these people. And then they made me available to make speeches also like to the chambers of commerce or whoever asked me and there was always somebody asking. And one day the young man who went on these trips with me called me Tennessee Valley Authority TVA had told General Electric that if they didn't fire me they would take $50 million a year in business away from General Electric. It seems that General Electric in all those years of making speeches never told me once what to say or what not to say. I wrote my own speeches and I was pretty much then talking about free enterprise that was against government that government had gone to and so forth and I had used TVA as an example of the government getting into private business and competition with free enterprise and so forth and this was TVA's reaction and I asked this fellow and he called me and I said we're going out on the road in just a few days and I'm going to be making the same speech and I said what does Ralph Court say he says no one's heard from him so day or two goes by and I still haven't heard from Ralph Court and he finally dawned on me we weren't going to hear from him so I picked up the phone and I called Ralph Court now that isn't as easy as it sounds there was the head of this giant corporation a chairman of the Board of some board and all of that and I was an actor and I was getting used to pretty rarefied atmosphere and I told him what I'd heard and he said well I'm sorry that you heard about that he said it's my problem and he said I have told Tennessee Valley Authority the general electorate has never told an employee what they can or can't say we're not going to start and I said to Mr. Court and I'm not going to take up your time to tell you what that means to me to hear you say that but I would hate to think that some of those employees I met at the turbine plant the connectivity might be laid off because of something I said in the speech well he said that's a price we'd have to pay there's a principle involved and I said Mr. Court what would you say if I told you I can make that same speech and be just as effective and I don't have to use TVA as an example and then suppose that a very human voice said well it would make my job easier but I just thought you might hear but when you go you're going to find people with a lot of different viewpoints well yeah come on in and sit down oh I am thank you I was counting I was counting I don't get any thanks for the vote on the hour did I I don't get any thanks for the vote on the hour yes well Mr. President first of all thank you for seeing us on short notice secondly Bill Armstrong who requested


Relevance of slaying and idioms in the classroom With a flash of exasperation my Colombian friend, Jose, inquired, Why do you always say it like that? I paused unsure to what he was referring. Jose continued, We're the same age and you've lived here for months but you still greet me like I'm a long lost grandfather. As I prepare to teach English abroad, this interaction forced me to confront the question of slaying and idioms, SI, in the classroom. Is it appropriate to teach slaying and idioms to learners of English as a foreign language? LEFL? Reasons to teach SI The widespread prevalence of English SI combined with the familiarity of slaying as a relationship building block dictates that teachers of English as a foreign language, TFL, should teach SI to their students. LEFL would be disappointed to complete an English course and discover that native English speakers can verse in a less formal manner. Ideas and examples demonstrating how to teach SI to follow the arguments outlining why it is a necessary component of a comprehensive curriculum. Definition of slaying First, it is necessary to define slaying. Slaying is most easily defined as a set of colloquial words or phrases in a language, including highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's dialect or language. Slaying falls within the broader colloquial categorization but colloquialisms are not necessarily slaying. Rather slaying is often specific to a particular social group. Idioms are colloquial phrases that mean more than the sum of their parts and often do not make sense when taken literally. How would the statement, he kicked the bucket, be interpreted by a LEFL lacking instruction on idioms? Slaying English is commonly spoken in everyday life and present throughout various forms of media LEFL are likely to encounter. The international distribution of English language music, movies and television ensure that students will encounter slaying or idioms at some point in their lives. Stories abound about LEFL repeating popular English music lyrics without a true understanding of the meaning. Those students are poised for awkward interactions with potentially significant consequences if such lyrics are repeated in a school or workplace. Slaying in everyday life The scenario recounted above involving my host brother Jose illustrates the importance of slaying in relationship building. A formal textbook reading to an intimate friend, colleague or family member can be off-putting, uncomfortable and even damaging to the relationship. If Jose were any less gregarious he may have limited his interactions with me for fear of my misunderstanding him or simply because he didn't want to deal with the trials of having to mince words and my actions to convey his message. Another possible interpretation of highly formal English uses that the non-native speaker appears aloof or intentionally distant, further isolating the non-native speaker. Problem faced by teachers There exists a distinct caveat in the proponent position to teach SI. It is always the responsibility of the teacher to provide their students with the tools necessary to better interact with native speakers. Teachers of English for specific purposes such as international banking and finance or international nursing courses may need to maximize class hours spent on industry jargon. Banking and nursing may have numerous specialized terms that students will need to fulfill their job. Unfortunately, instruction hours are often constricted and teachers cut lesson plans on SI. If the teacher determines prior to the start of the course that there are sufficient instruction hours to include a class on SI it would behoove them to do so. The utilization of English as the language of global commerce requires a greater than a superficial grasp of the language. Many business cultures across the world require personal relationship before the trade can be conducted, and a highly formal English vocabulary may hinder relationship growth. The ubiquity of SI in day-to-day life and their importance for relationship building prescribes the need for classroom instruction to prepare learners of the English language. Non-native speakers are less likely to encounter formal English outside of the classroom, thus it is imperative that teachers expend all effort to include a lesson on SI in the curriculum. How to teach slang Slang and idioms are plentiful in English and so a teacher is limited only by the number of instruction hours provided. A good practice is to teach only a few words or phrases at a time so as not to overwhelm students. The methods used for teaching other aspects of English such as grammatical structures or vocabulary are applicable to SI. Unengaged level activity could be scenario building such asking for the students to greet each other as they would their friends. Other, engaged level activities could be discussion or discovery. Common study level activities are gap fill and matching exercises. Students could then move into the activate level by acting out scenarios, communication games or story building using as many idioms as they can recall. Teaching slang is a more dicey proposition than it appears to be. A large portion of slang that students will hear in music, movies, and television programs could be inappropriate. Therefore, the teacher should make a determination based on the appropriacy to the students and task, as well as the teachability and the frequency or coverage of the language in their lives as they do when selecting another vocabulary to teach. Still, the teacher should seek clearance of their lesson plan especially if they are teaching abroad in a culture different from their own. Not all slang is inappropriate, the majority of slang are words so ingrained in daily life that native English speakers may not even realize they are slang. Thus it would be easy for a teacher to avoid inappropriate vocabulary and still fill multiple class lessons. Should a curious student inquire about the inappropriate language the student can be encouraged to use their resources to learn its meaning on their own time. Do you want to teach English abroad? You are one step from it. Slang and idioms are an integral part of using the English language, and it would be detrimental to exclude a lesson on them. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


If you have ever met someone who thinks some people are dumb, simply because of their experience with one person, you would understand how difficult it can be relating to people. People have all kinds of perspectives about others, and it's not easy to get them to change it. People, therefore, prefer relating with liberal people, the people who are open-minded and more accommodating of new ideas, according to a conscious re-think-blog. If you're fortunate enough to be friends with open-minded people, you'd know the world is a fascinating place. No one needs to tell you. You see it on how your friends react to the world and interact with the world. Also, according to a very well-minded blog, open-mindedness can also involve asking questions and being active about searching for information that challenges your beliefs. Having an open-minded person as a friend will make your conversations less stressful. In today's video, I'm going to share with you 15 traits that make open-minded people different. 1. That make good conversations. Most open-minded people make good conversation. They are usually knowledgeable and well-read. The open-minded people become open-minded through reading a lot and interacting with other open-minded people. The more they interact with people who are like them, the better they get. 2. They don't judge. It is very easy to judge something you don't understand. It is easy to challenge other people's beliefs because they don't align with yours. But everyone holds their beliefs sacred, and everyone thinks that their beliefs are true. To be able to relate with others, open-minded people respect other people's beliefs and don't try to upload theirs as the only correct one. Don't tell someone that meat is good if they are vegetarian. They probably have an excellent reason for that. Don't ask people to smoke if they don't smoke. And if you don't smoke, don't look down on those who do. 3. They are critical. Open-minded people are critical thinkers. They are open to ideas from other people. Constantly challenging your existing beliefs and considering how new ideas can give you fresh insights not only about the world, can also teach you new things about yourself. But if you are an expert in an area, acknowledge that everything in life is interconnected, you can't separate any discipline from others because key solutions to human problems often require a multidisciplinary approach. Learning to not see everything in black and white is a step to becoming more open-minded and accommodating of new ideas. 4. They are inquisitive about life. Open-minded people are usually inquisitive about life. They want to understand things. They ask a lot of questions, unlike people who are close-minded who want to hold on to their beliefs. This is why successful people are continually learning. They learn to unlearn concepts and principles so that they can understand new ones. The important thing about going to school is not even the greats because skills matter more in life. It is about learning how to learn, which transforms your thinking. 5. They are honest. An average open-minded person is honest. According to a curious rethink blog, most of the time, this honesty comes from thinking one has to protect a particular mindset or singular worldview. The politician lies because he thinks party first, truth second. The child lies to avoid the punishment of not continuing to get the things it lies. Not being open-minded is one of the things that hinder the truth. When someone holds a religious belief, he can be so adamant, he cannot even see the logical loopholes. Some people kill for the sake of their religion, on the belief that they will obtain some reward. Being open-minded allows one to be more honest, both to themselves and others. 6. They are observant. Because they want to learn about things, they are usually observant. They observe the tiniest details and are very curious. Having friends who are like this is fun. They are quite adventurous too. They can try out different things just for the fun of it. If you want to be open-minded, try being observant for some time. You will be surprised at what you might find. You may not even have explored your personality entirely. There is so much of you to be discovered. 7. They are smart. Open-minded people are usually very well read and smart. They are open to having conversations even outside their area of expertise. They are knowledgeable in a lot of areas. They are eager to learn new things and will see through an explanation of a complex science topic even if they are bankers. They know that no knowledge is a waste and that the concept they are learning may apply to a problem that will come subsequently. If you want to have lots of fun, make friends with an open-minded person that will always have something interesting to discuss. 8. They tell jokes. Jokes are essential in conversations. You don't want to appear too serious. People don't want to feel like they are in class whenever they talk to you. Open-minded people are usually people persons, so they have acquired a great sense of humor over time from interacting with so many people. If you were more open-minded, maybe you would be funny too. Open-minded people know how to have a good laugh. They are not extremists and will laugh if the joke is funny, whether it is about them or not. 9. They don't take offense easily. These types of people are so accommodating that you can offend them by disagreeing with them. You may find it shocking that some people peak offense with people that disagree with them, but they don't. There are people like that, but if you are shocked, you are not one of them. If someone doesn't respect your beliefs and says wrong things, it is your opinion. There is no need to be offended because it won't make the person hold a different view of the issue. It is a complete waste of emotions. 10. They are sympathetic. Because open-minded people are so accommodating, they are usually sympathetic to the plight of others. Don't try to manipulate them though. They are very smart and will see right through it. Work hard to distinguish yourself in any endeavor you choose to undertake. Relate well with your colleagues and network. Being open-minded helps you to relate with other people's feelings, even if you have never felt it. Allow your mind to expand and accommodate new ideas. You don't have to accept them or adopt them. You just have to acknowledge that they exist. People who disagree with you are not bad. They are just people who don't believe in you. 11. They are great at problem solving. Problems are meant to be solved. Do you like solving problems? If you have ever solved any issues, you would know that it is best solved in teams. And teams come with different people, different opinions and different personalities. Only open-minded people do well in teams. Open-minded people are more accommodating of the behavior of their team. They are more patient and reliable. They try to see how they can help because they know that no progress will ultimately be made if all the members of the team don't play their roles. 12. They hear what others have to say. Open-minded people are good listeners. I have earlier mentioned that they don't judge others. Perhaps this is the reason why they are such great listeners. A lot of their friends confide in them secrets they don't even tell their parents. It comes with some responsibilities.  Stop criticizing people publicly and showing disapproval and issues that you don't approve of when it concerns their well-being. You are their friend and not their parents. Do you listen to others or do you hear them? You decide. 13. They are not afraid to be wrong. Open-minded people are curious learners. They are likely to answer questions in class not because they know it all, but because they want to test their understanding and improve their knowledge. They attend conversations and hope to learn from them. They don't shrink away from challenges because they are tough. Are you afraid to be wrong? How can you be right if you never take the chance on being wrong? It can take you years to become who you want to be, but the journey has to start now. 14. Think objectively. People who are open-minded approach topics subjectively. They, for instance, will not support you for a political position if you don't have experience or pedigree simply because of your personal relationship with them. They will not stand by you if you do something wrong. They are very principled. They usually hold on popular views because the majority of people are biased. They, for example, think that nobody is special, that what is special is what people apply themselves to. But a lot of people disagree because the idea of nobody being special truly means that a lot of them are wasting their time. When they want a non-biased opinion on things, though, they usually look for open-minded people. 15. They are humble. Open-minded people are usually very knowledgeable, but they don't treat other people in a condescending manner. This, again, is because they are sympathetic. They try to put themselves on the shoes of others. They are patient in their relationships with people and even kind. They are free from mental bias that suggests poor people or people who are less intelligent are second class. They treat everyone with respect. The more open-minded you are, the better you will relate with people.


I get a red ale tough day at work. Yeah, what do you do consultant me too? So what happened today? I had his gig on the West end. Thank you and They made me say not only one word, but two big boy words. No. Yeah, it was a tough day to say the least How did you get through that look I guess but you charge double for using two big boy words, right?  You want to know something crazy? What today? I had to use my fingers at work stop Yeah, yeah, they have me press the elevator button to get to the floor. What is wrong with these people?  I don't know man. That seems ridiculous Yeah, that's true


This paper examines the relationship between productivity and market structure in the U.S. stock market. It finds that when the market becomes more concentrated, productivity drops significantly. This inverse relationship between productivity and market structure is explained by the Locovolterra equations, which describe the dynamics of ecological networks. These equations suggest that increasing the strength of interactions between companies leads to increased productivity and decreased market evenness. Increasing the strength of these interactions corresponds to a decrease in interest rates, suggesting a link between interest rates and market structure. This article was authored by Hugo Fort.


Design of the human system is very important in the spiritual process. And we don't have to bother about the design because there has been... this design is a fantastic design. Your business is only to provide it the right kind of material. Now, the architect may put up a fantastic design for this building. Still with what kind of material you build it and who builds it makes the difference. So when it comes to basic creation, you have no participation in the design. Design, most fantastic design has already been done. You just have to put the right kind of material, right kind of choice of materials and how you do it. That's about this. About everything else you do in the world, there is no need for you to innovate anything. If you just simply imitate what's in nature, it'll be too phenomenal.  That's all it takes. If you... if you just have enough observation and perception for all the fantastic design that is everywhere in every leaf, every flower, just take an ant.  You will see it's the most phenomenal design. The six legs or eight legs without ever getting tangled up, you know? Don't go for a centipede, it's too complex. Just an ant. You could... if you can design an automobile like an ant, that's it, you know? Yes?


All right. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, everyone, from wherever you are joining us from. My name is Emmanuel Obiajulu. I'm from Nigeria. And today, I will be sharing our, on the projects we had, our with the aid. Please slide please. Okay. Just a second. Slide is coming up. Okay. So we're speaking on the aid projects. The aid is an acronym that actually means audiovisual of evil dances. We are talking of culture. Culture, as we know, is a way of life of a particular people. But this culture, when it is lost, then automatically we lose the culture or we lose the essence of these people. Basically, there has been this conception among the senior citizens in the culture of Nigeria, most especially the evil culture in the southern eastern parts of Nigeria. And this culture is that this contraception is that so many persons are beginning to clamor that we are losing the touch of evil traditional culture. And this is because most of these are dances that we know that has been ancient to this culture. Most of the time it has started going into extinction. And because of this, so many people are forgotten about these dances. This is the essence we decided to carry out this project to make sure that we'll bring this culture as well as these dances back to limelight. Looking at Nigeria, we have over 371 ethnic groups which are further broken down into tribes. In Nigeria, as it stands, in the southern parts, this project decided to take a tour and explore five different states in Nigeria, in the eastern part of Nigeria. We have the Emo state, we have the Anambra state, Enugu state, Abia state, and Ebon state. With this project, we are able to tour these rural areas and we are able to document 16 other visuals as well as 25 images of evil dances. In the course of this presentation, we'll be playing some of these dances for you, a thriller, so that you can have a feel of what this culture is like for the eastern parts of Nigeria. And also in the course of this presentation, we'll be taking you through the experiences, the value, the implementation, the impact as well as the theme that carried out this project. So at this point, I'll be inviting my co-presenter, and the person of Mr Chibike, to tell us more about this. Thank you. Alright, welcome back ladies and gentlemen. So I'll be speaking on why we implemented these aid projects. There are so many reasons why we actually implemented these aid projects, but I'll just spotlighting just a few of them to actually give us the glimpse of how this project went and all what was involved. Okay. So bear with me. Okay. Good. Okay, the first is to bring in the unique knowledge and dance culture of the evils, people in the form of license for the visual, audio recording, and images in digital space through the Wikimedia project. Now we understand that evil actually have a rich culture when it comes to the dance, when it comes to dancing. And most of these, as Mr Chibike rightly said, that they are not well documented in digital space. So we embarked on this project in order to create that visibility, in order to create that documentation for all these dances in the Wikimedia space. This is one of the reasons why we actually implemented this project, and also to showcase the beautiful culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Also, in the course of what you've been watching this trailer, you've also discovered that so many of these dances, they are beautiful attire, which are unique to these dances. And as a source, it makes them unique to their culture, and you can take the culture away from this beauty, therefore creating a big value for them. Then also to preserve these dances and the stories behind it. You get to discover that they are ancient stories that are tied to these dances as well as tied to the culture, that you can't separate either of them. So this project ends up trying to preserve not just the dances alone, but the stories behind them. Then another fact why we also embarked on it was to ensure history is told by the right people who are actually indigenous to it. Now we also discovered that most of the time history are not being told by the right people, therefore this actually distorts history to an extent. But this project goes down to the indigenous people, the original owners of these dances as well as of this culture, thereby making them tell us how it came about, then documenting it for them. in the years to come there won't be any issue in terms of this story or this dance does not belong to a particular tribe or does not belong to a particular tribe. So with this you can easily make a reference to such a documentation on the wiki space to do this. So having said this we'll be playing the thriller of this video that encompasses a few of these dances we add. Remember I told you we had 16 dances so there's a thriller that just applies each and every one of them. So at this point we'll be playing just sit back relax and enjoy it thank you. All right so you're all welcome back I hope you all enjoy that video and I don't know if the audio was audible enough. Whatever from the video you could see the dances you could see the culture you could see as they were being interviewed. So all these ended up summarizing the whole idea of this project. So going further I'll be speaking on how people are receiving this work we have done and I'll be inviting Mr. Chibi, my co-presenter, to tell us how people have been receiving this work. Okay however let me just take a little of it. So looking at what we've done so far we discovered that from the youtube channel okay you could see the video thank you this means when you speak. Okay good it's yummy okay wonderful okay okay so from the from the interaction we had after posting this video on youtube we discovered that we have 47 subscribers and 6,303 viewers. Within since June we posted it and they're still counting so what this entails is that people are actually looking at for such content are both on the wikimedia space and on the contemporary media social media so therefore because this actually brings them closer to their culture making them feel the vibe of what it means for them to be even within their indigenous community so which means they want to actually enjoy more of this so that is why we have such a number of views within the short period of time and also the impact this work has created replication of similar projects by the Anglican community in India now we understood that we started this project at first but now it has started going wrong for people to actually imitate and do similar thing and what this end up impacting on our community it makes us be able to notice those cultural that we need to actually document so that at the end of the day we don't end up losing this culture at the time of either at the course of time or any other eventualities that might happen and also it has inspired the ebook wikimedia community to share in the joy of language and support in the outreach the wikimedia ebook community actually will come this project with a huge excitement because what this end of showing is that it showed them that they can actually stay wherever they are and people will understand the culture wherever they are and also it deepens the in-depth knowledge of what this dances means to everyone so for the community of the ebook community as large they were really excited having this to share with everyone then also the podcast series and work to document both on the US Library of Congress and so we also have this documented we have series of podcasts on it which actually also impacted in different ways through the review we've got so thank you very much at this point I'll be also be inviting my co-presenter Shibike to give us the next slide while he speaks on it thank you very much all right guys thank you very much yes the last note so we actually thank you for giving us the time to speak and also share our experience with this aid project and so we are excited we'll be dropping the link of this old video of the project also both funding wikimedia all across wikimedia projects so we'll be seeing them there so thank you for giving us the time we really appreciate and if you have any question we are open to them thank you


I found the program to be unique because it allowed a lot of flexibility. With my schedule and with choosing my classes and my courses I can go at my own pace. I had taken online classes before and maybe didn't get so much out of them but the iSchool makes sure that it's still personable. You still have a lot of access to your professors and to the other students. So I was able to make friendships over the course of this program and make connections you know with professors and I felt that I wasn't lacking, there was nothing lacking between an in person and an online program. My favorite assignment at the iSchool was during Info 298 with Dr. Chow and I was able to work with the ALA's executive director Tracy Hall and we did an amazing research project on prospective black students and the history of black LIS education. In that assignment I took away the dedication that people in the LIS field have and I learned a lot of history and it's doing great things on my CV. One skill that I thought I had down that I've gotten a lot better at and improved on is searching and doing deep web searches, being familiar with databases of all different kinds and understanding what they have to offer beyond simple searches. I've read many articles in my time at the iSchool and I've read many books but one that comes to mind is Algorithms of Oppression by Sophia Noble and I learned a lot about the way that algorithms inform our searches and not always for the better.


In this study, researchers used low-intensity pulsed ultrasound, lipos, to reduce the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines by M1 like macrophages. They tested various frequencies, intensities, duty cycles, and exposure times before determining the optimal conditions for decreasing cytokine levels. These conditions included 38 kHz frequency, 250 mW per square centimeter intensity, 20% duty cycle, and 90 minutes of exposure time. This resulted in increased metabolism and reduced ROS production without affecting cell viability. Additionally, they found that PAs01 and TRPV1 ion channels are involved in the modulation of cytokine release. Furthermore, they observed an enhancement of NF-Kappa-B signaling and an increase in actin polymerization. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that the effects of lipis on cytokine production are mediated by the P38MAPK signaling pathway. This article was authored by Francesco Iacoponi, Andrea Caffarelli, Francesco Fontana, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.