Hello, welcome back to the channel. This week's video will be a C-motion visual 3D tutorial. I'll show how you can use segmental colouring to demonstrate various variables, such as segmental angular velocity, ground reaction force magnitude, or any other variable that you've calculated in visual 3D. Stick around for the end of the video when I'll also show how you can add various bits of equipment into your visual 3D visualisations. To start with, you'll need a C3D file recorded in Qoalysis, Vicon, or any similar system, which you will then label in Qoalysis Track Manager, Vicon Nexus, or any similar system prior to fitting your model as usual in visual 3D. If you're unfamiliar with the process of building and applying a model in visual 3D, then I recommend you check out the excellent Wiki on the C-motion website, which I'll link to in the description below. Once you've built and applied your model, it will look something like this, at which point we can begin to apply the segment colours. To do so, we will select our segment of interest, so in this case the left foot, right click and map segment colour to a signal value. So left foot already selected, I normally set the minimum colour to white, and for the maximum, something like red stands out and contrasts quite well. For the mean value based on our signal, if red is 25500 on an RGB system, then go somewhere halfway between, which means that both green and blue will be 128, but you can obviously choose whatever colour system you want. We will then save that colour map so that we can quickly load it and apply it to different segments later on. Apply the colour to a signal that your interest is in visualising, in this case the ground reaction force and the Z or vertical component. Apply the colourisation, and we should now have that left foot coloured, scaled to the magnitude of the vertical ground reaction force, which we can see upon the landing. So now we'll go through and apply the same thing to all of the other segments we want to display, moving on to the left shank, but we can now load our previously saved colour map. We will need to apply it to the vertical ground reaction force again. We can save all mappings throughout the body so this can also be quickly applied another time. Apply that and we will now have two segments coloured based on the ground reaction force magnitude. That can be quite time consuming to do, however, if we're processing multiple trials or multiple participants and so we can add that process into our visual 3D pipeline. We do so through the map segment colour to signal value command, which you can edit in the same way that I just showed doing manually. Once you execute the pipeline, that will then apply to all trials that are active within the workspace. I've shown what this would look like to illustrate the ground reaction force by colouring the lower limb segments. However, other alternatives could include colouring every segment within the body with its own segmental angular velocity in order to illustrate the timing of segmental rotations through the body. Or you could colour the entire body according to one key variable of interest, such as in this case the angular separation between the pelvis and thorax segments. As an interesting side note, anybody who doesn't have access to visual 3D is able to download a free CMO reader from the C-Motion website so they can open your workspace file if you share it with them and they can then interact with all of your trials, your visualisations, so they can zoom in and out, drag it around, change the view settings, etc. For the final part of this video, I will run through how you can add various bits of equipment into your visualisations. There are many options of websites available, but I like free3d.com, but anything where you can download 3D object files will work. For example, I'm going to use a cricket bat, so I just search for cricket bats. A few options come up and I select one for free ones. Download and save the files. To do so, we'll select the bat segment. We will then browse and apply our model file, where we saved it after the download. This will be the .obj obj, and just to check, we'll also add in the material file, apply the model, and now we have the bat in our static trial. Just to check the dynamic trial, which now also has that bat within it, and we're able to apply the colouring to that bat in the same way as we did for any other segment earlier in the video. To show another example, instead of only additional segments, such as a bat, it's possible to use existing segments, such as the head or shank, to apply additional objects, such as a helmet or pads. So here's one example of cricket batting, bat, helmet and two pads. And then another example in badminton, we have a racket, but also applying the segmental colouring, as I mentioned earlier, based on segmental angular velocity. Just to put it all together at the end. If you want to move beyond the provision of nice-looking graphics and reports, and actually use the feedback that we can provide in a useful manner to improve performance, then I recommend you check out this recent paper in the Journal of Biomechanics by Paul Glazier, which I'll link to in the description below. Thank you for watching. I hope you found that useful. If you did, please like the video. It really helps the channel to grow. If you've got any questions or if there's anything else you'd like to see, please leave a comment. And if you want to stay up to date with future videos, then please do subscribe to the channel and click on the bell to receive notifications. Thank you very much.


Hello, I am Aruna. I will be leading this project, T-Cube. We are three members in the team, Abhinaya, Deepesh and myself and we report to Avinash sir and we will be hoping to have 15 more from you people. Some of you will join. Now, what is T-Cube? T-Cube stands for train the teacher. Now, I will be talking about the T-Cube projects. There are two parts, T-Cube software and T-Cube library. So, T-Cube software is a major project and T-Cube library will be the subproject. So, I will be talking first the background, then existing systems and then the description. Same way I will be doing for the T-Cube library. Now, FDP. You are hearing it since morning that FDP is faculty development program. This program targets to train teachers of technical institutes in India to improve their teaching skills. This FDP has two components, online component and face to face. The online components, the quizzes, assignments are done in the MOOC platform and the face to face component. We have some institutes as a remote center with the A-view facilities.  Now, existing system. We are having NMAICT software right now, which facilitates logistics. Means for this program, the registrations happen here. For the students registration, even the remote centers register here. Face to face interaction is there. That time the attendance is done in this module in the software and then the certificates are generated. Then IIT Mumbai X platform is used for the online activities as I said quizzes and assignments. The limitation is there is no direct communication between these two. So, NMAICT software, some data is there and IIT Bombay X that online data is there. There is no direct communication. So, we have come up with the project. This new T-Cube model, which Avinash Sharma suggested that in that the principle of this project will be to create a content to meet the need of imparting knowledge to the learners with minimum physical intervention of faculty. We will be having courses. Once the course is stable, means the content everything is finalized, then the course, whenever the next time this course is repeated, then the instances only will be created. We will be standardizing the content and then the same thing will be done again and again in the course. So, the features of this model will be creating a faculty pool. So, when first pilot FDP course will be conducted by IIT faculty and the teachers, we call them learners who have excelled in the course will be given the responsibility of teaching the other learners in subsequent offering of that course. These features will be called assistant faculty and this will be a bootstrap model, which will allow exponential expanding of the training. I will show you how. This is that T-Cube expansion model. Here, when the course instance will be there, in that the learners will do the courses. They pass the course and then they will apply for assistant teachers position. When they qualify for the next instance, they may be taking that course and new learners will be coming and then they will pass and then they will apply for the teaching assistant position. They will be qualified and then they will continue. They may continue to the next instance of that course as a teacher. So, this is how it will evolve. Now, the block diagram. We will have three entities. One is the T-Cube software, another will be hosted server and then the production server. Production server will be IIT Bombay X. Hosted server will also have the same copy of IIT Bombay X and T-Cube software will be on the same machine where hosted server is. So, once the course is defined by the faculty that what content will be there, how many sessions will be there, how many quizzes, how many assignments will be there and for each session, the duration, all those things are finalized, then the instance will be created. How the instance will be created? We just have to choose the date and then the instance will be created automatically in the hosted server with all the course template. Once the instance is created, then this program will be open for teaching faculty and remote centers for the registration. So, these people will be registering in the T-Cube if they are interested in teaching that course and remote centers if they want to participate for the face-to-face interaction. So, once the registration is done, then the faculty will check if enough numbers have shown interest, then they can decide the course can be conducted in the further course can be conducted. Then the course content will be uploaded and this from the hosted server that the course will be moved to IIT Bombay X as an invitation course and the registration will be open for general public and mass mail will be sent to the e-mails we have in our database who have already done the courses. Then once the registration process is over, then the IIT Bombay X online activities will start, quizzes and assignments, the grades will be there, those grades will be directly transported to the T-Cube software and then for the face-to-face component, attendance will be there in the T-Cube software, then those reports will be analyzed, compiled and then the detailed analysis will be done of the grades and then it will be shown to the faculty and then depending on the pass-fail criteria whatever has decided by the faculty, the certificates will be generated from the T-Cube software. So, most of the things like registration process, attendance module and certificate, certificate is very minimum, has been developed in NMICT software, we will be redeveloping it in T-Cube model and other things, faculty, other modules I will be talking, those things will be developing for the T-Cube. So, this will be done in Django Python. Now, I will be telling about the different modules, what we have to be implement, the FTP management and course delivery module. So, the course creation, basically the definitions and all those will be developed here, announcement of the program and related to that the features will be developed here. Then the course registration module, sign-up, edit profile, registration, status change when the people register, then the their documents will be verified and the statuses will change, those things will be developed and some the FTP it depends like if the payment has to be done at remote center or IIT Bombay will be pay, will be charging the money, depending on that we will be having the feature payment at remote center and payment gateway will be developing if payment through IIT. Then attendance module will be there, where we will be creating the program schedule and then attendance for each session will be generated and then the export to that attendance sheet also will be provided. Course monitoring module, this is good, in this module the grades and attendance report will be collected and then analysis will be done and different type of analysis will be shown and then also the aggregate report of all the instances will also be generated here and view and edit access to different role for these reports will be given. Certificate module, depending on the certificate criteria whatever is defined by the faculty the grading will be done and with the grading that certificate generation will be there from the T-Cube software. Course faculty pool module, here we will be developing an interface for the learners, once they complete the course successfully they will be, they can apply for conducting, they can apply for assistant faculty position and so that interface will be there and then this interface will be seen to the faculty and he will be deciding whether he will take or not. Then remote center module, where the remote center they will be showing, if they are interested in participating they will be filling the capacity like how many participants they can accommodate in their center, they can see the view field capacity and updates can be done the different roles. Survey module will be developed where feedback from the learners for course and assistant faculty will be taken. So if it is required to change the content of the course and all that feedback will be there and assistant faculty if he has, his response and the way he has answered the questions he has participated in discussion forum regarding that the feedback will be there and this feedback will be presented to the faculty by the software and then he will decide where the assistant faculty has to continue or not. Then content management module, here the website content like related to the FDP if some details information has to be given then it will be automatized and the email content also will be automatized while registration process different types of email goes to users. So that also we will be developing. Now we will be talking about different roles here. So at the top business head will be there, who will be deciding which FDP has to be conducted and when it has to start and who will be the principal faculty. Then principal faculty he will be appointing assistant faculty and principal faculty can be one or more. So this principal faculty will be responsible for the course the template finalizing the template and all and then principal delivery manager. So principal delivery manager and assistant delivery manager these will be responsible for conducting the course if everything is the course is going smoothly the quizzes are going on properly all the checkups he will be doing he or she and then there will be a principal content manager and assistant content manager. These people will be responsible for the course content. So any any change has to be done in the content at the course content has to be put in the website and all these things they will be responsible and there will be RCC will be independent there is a remote center coordinator he will be responsible for arranging the face to face sessions and there will be a FDP course coordinator either he can be FDP course coordinator or he can appoint FDP course coordinator his role will be to fill the attendance during the face to face component and there will be a learner these will be the teachers this is all about this general idea. Put little bit of perspective. First of all this is the one project where we are developing a complete system based on a model. So the model is very simple I will give an example this is like a film there is a Shah Rukh Khan film shot only once which runs on various cinema theaters and you book and go and watch it. So here is a principal faculty who designs a course template. Frozen solid it has got one test three quizzes how many marks per test how many marks per quiz everything is frozen. Questions will change from each show let us assume that. So he designs my film is done I am principal faculty. Now on the various remote centers are like your cinema theaters a show will run there. Now what is the difference between this and a MOOC? MOOC is exactly same the difference is this funny concept of face to face I am completely against it that is ok. But the powers that we say that there cannot be any certification because until I see people whether they are attending or not or whatever. So the course was designed in a user friendly way so that this face to face can happen on weekends. You go through this is designed specifically this model is designed specifically somebody wants to give this education technology course correct Phylac teachers it cannot be done by IIT. So unless I have to do which I take the good teachers and make them responsible for the second delivery it will not work ok. So that is why face to face we want to restrict to weekends ok. So that I can automatically run. So basically I give this one shot thing ok train a few people choose a few of them and then run it say every 15 days one show starts on August 1st another show starts August 15th another show starts September 1st. Now for each show I need the faculty to do two things one is to handle face to face second is to handle discussion forums. So these are the two activities. Now in my view this is going to be a paid thing ok. The faculty who runs it should get paid because they are giving service ok. The teachers also have to pay to learn ok. Currently IIT is not taking any payment but if this model has to work that is why there are two payment models. One is by IIT Bombay one is by remote sensors ok. This is going to be very flexible because I do not know ok how far it will go but I think this is the only way it can be done ok. So we have come up with this model ok. Now that is that answer what was your question? IIT Bombay x. IIT Bombay x is a delivery mechanism for the online portion ok. Now the model is flexible enough like I can drop face to face or I can drop online ok. So basically face to face is managed by TQ ok. That is the attendance model ok. Somebody in the remote center has to certify how many people attended ok and we will use A view that was being done by enemy site enemy ICT. Enemy ICT current software is pure face to face model ok. Now we are taking that and we are taking IIT Bombay x. We are managing a sequencing ok. We are managing flexible sequencing with the first instance of the course we Dr. Fadak talked about ok as one face to face in the beginning one face to face in the end ok. And then he was going to take that for the second module of his course again he was going to marry that. But basic concept is come up with a template deliver once by the principal faculty and make sure that a bootstrap model is done later on ok in the blended mode ok. If the assistant faculty is not required we do not need this software at all. Book will work ok. Because it is the assistant faculty requirement of that and because ok I also need a mechanism ok by which the learners who have got a certificate can say I want to become assistant faculty ok. A principal faculty to evaluate and find out maybe interview whatever that is outside the system and say give out of this 200 people who want to become faculty because it is a paid position remember ok. I want to give only these 4 5 10 that selection into promotion into faculty from learner is part of the system because that is not built in right now ok. Once a faculty is promoted ok he has to decide which show he wants to conduct. I have got shows running every half an a man I have got remote centers saying that I want to run this show I want to run first august first September I do not want to see in august something like that. Faculty also has to say ok. Now the show cannot be announced the public till I have got a faculty who is saying ok I will take it and some 10 15 remote center whatever it is saying that I am ok. I cannot run empty theaters ok. I need theaters I need the conductor of the program ok. So, the model is extremely flexible ok it is in a initial stages for the first time we are building a model without having any track record and without any having any difficulty any definition ok. I keep telling everybody who works for Dr. Fartuck ok that I have done lot of software development for lot of customers but I never met such an idiotic customer there is nothing definite ok. So, the movement you have to develop something for Dr. Fartuck ok you have to write the highest type of software which is very flexible ok. That is why I have got a sequence of FDPs suddenly a came and said no because see he is also working for the government ok. So, the person who is actually giving the certificate if AICT suddenly decides that we do not want face to face ok. My model will still work ok. I will make face to face 0. So, that means my assistant faculty now has to do only discussion programs ok. Now what I need is what is so special about it why I need this ok. Any software any system you do you have to answer that question why does it exist ok. It exists because that monitoring ok. The monitoring of the education delivery ok. How many discussion forums has the assistant faculty answered if I am delegating my job as faculty to him I have to know whether he has done a good job no software is doing that currently ok. So, how much how much of that faculty has answered discussion forum has to be found ok. The second thing that is so special about it is I have introduced the concept of surveys ok. Because this is not a film which is shot once this software is not hardware ok. So, since you have a have a repeating is like a book once it is written is fixed this is a changing book. I deliver the course once now I repeat it second time I should get a feedback ok. This is something which is supposed to last for 5 lakh equal let the first 5000 allow me to improve ok. So, feedback is extremely important that is why I built this in because it is not there anywhere ok. That is why there is a delivery management as a separate unit is their job to say whether this video was good is their job to see basically you see in a MOOC there is a lot of matrix for one instance ok. I want to tackle matrix across instances ok. First instance chapter 1 people have failed fine maybe it is very difficult ok. Second instance also they have failed third instance also they have failed I have changed the chapter now. As it improved to that is delivery across the systems whether each particular component is achieving the quality I need across system tracking is required that is why I need externalization ok. IIT Bombayx will not do that it will give me for one delivery of the course I can repeat it, but between this and this is there any change ok. See there is a lot of analytics in IIT Bombayx and I I say hang it everybody knows that I said you cannot track student behavior by finding out how many how many times he has clicked because I am an unusual student I do not learn from teachers ok. I kept telling everybody lot of analytics work has been done by past interns and the end we have this question business I have like my fights with reliance you have had fights before ok. I have said if I was learning from MOOC ok you will find that I never watch a video does that mean I why I find it boring ok and each of you will have it is your separate things I have I have come to one conclusion that I am a very bad listener. Once my sister tried to tell me see you can learn from listening you gave me one cassette I know everything nothing I could not do anything I can I can only learn from my eye ok. I do not listen well I did actually wrong most of the suggestions you gave even if I say no something keeps taking take but thoughts I just keep thinking ok. Now does that answer your question it is the only thing which will be complete ok it will give you use cases right from that beginning right to the end and by the time you leave I want a website ok. The other second portion no no both already covered by Mahindra is that library repository the major thing in that will be ok the technical challenge of taking existing assets existing videos ok and classifying them according to keywords automatically ok. So, he says software you need a front end ok because I do not trust any software especially with somebody asked about accent any software which takes a video converts it into text with Indian accent ok. We will not produce 100 percent but why do we need 100 percent India is a country where labor is cheap if you do 80 percent I can have somebody look at it and correct the remaining 10 to 25 percent wrong no ok. So, auto almost semi automating that process is one of the chief thing rest of it is nothing ok keyword search in text is already done nothing complicated about it ok. So, I will get in after every project to tell you what is special about each one of them ok that was special because it was only electrical and they have done great job so far they do deliver something library project the second portion is what was covered by Mahindra earlier. So, we will stop there for this time.


My plant parents today will be exploring another way to go vertical with our plants, which is way easier than installing a whole green wall. For this video, I've partnered with our friends at Mother. If you have been following me, you know that I've partnered with them before, and this is because of their mission. They care about sustainability as well as making plant care as accessible as possible for you and me. And this time, they sent me their newest product, Forest, which is a vertical garden. I'm very excited to build it, so let's get to it. Exactly where I am standing, we're going to put our vertical garden. And as you can see, we have a south-facing window here. It is actually kind of cloudy today, actually very cloudy. But we get a lot of bright sunlight from this window, so I thought that for this vertical garden, we're going to put a lot of plants that like bright light. And one of them is a peace lily right here. As you can see, it has a new flower, which is really exciting. And I know that the peace lilies actually really like bright light, because when I put them close to the window, they grow many more flowers. So I'm going to see how it goes with this one. Then we have two platyceriums here, this one and this one. This is actually a new leaf on this platycerium. And I had it very close to a mother plant spectrum 32 grow light, and it's growing really well, so I'm excited to see how it grows in front of a window. And then I have this one right here. This is a Califia medallion, so it's a very small plant right now. This one doesn't need so much bright light, so I'm going to put it here, but I'm going to try to protect her from the bright, direct light. And I'm going to show you how I do it with this vertical garden later in the video. So let's get to assembling our vertical garden. I'm going to scan this QR code right here, which is going to give us the instructions and it's really nice. And let's follow it step by step so we do it right. The forest includes a power cap, and this is in case you want to add some grow lights in the future, you can actually add extra grow lights for your plants. We got bars of different sizes, and we will connect them like so. Bar ready, we will tension it between the floor and the ceiling, which is great because we're going to have so much space for plants. And we are on top of the ladder, this is one of the few times that I'm taller than Jan, and we're going to use this ladder to tension our bar. So we have a ceiling here, and all we have to do is tighten this one right here. And to make it nice, we're going to use this one right here to cover up the rod. Okay, so the next step is to add these nodes to our forest bar, and our pots are going to be on top of these ones. As I said before, one thing that I love is that you can optionally add some grow lights to these nodes, which is really great in case you need more light for your plants. But now let's get to attaching this so we can get to the plant work. Now we will attach the node, which is very easy. All we have to do is to put this one inside here, and you just turn it like this. We have attached the node. One thing that I love about this system is that you can attach them in different directions, and that way you decide how the plants are going to look and what kind of light they will receive. And I just thought that we can add extra nodes to our forest bar, which is really great in case we want to add more plants in the future. I think I'm going to add some more so it looks more like a forest. I forgot to check my piece Lily right here, because as you can see, it doesn't go in the pot. But not to worry, as part of my vertical garden, I decided to use this IKEA ladder right here. And some of the plants are going to go there, including my piece Lily. So the piece Lily is going to go here. We have our first plant. As you can see, the pots have a little bit of elevation in the center, so we can feed the node here. But they don't have any drainage holes. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to place my plants inside these ones, but inside the nursery pots, so I can make sure that I have some drainage holes, just for when I water them. And my Calicia medallion right here. I'm going to place her a little bit farther away from the window. This is a feature that I really like about this vertical garden. You can place your plants at the angle that is best for them, depending on light. And suddenly, we have a forest at home. What do you think about this vertical garden? So make sure to comment down below. Also, if you'd like to learn more about Mother or the forest right here, make sure to check out the link in the description below, because they offer 10 euros off to the whole community. And as always, I'll see you in the next one. Okay, adios!


So welcome everybody to the presentation models of support for data science and the perspective of two libraries I'm young browser. I'm head of research at the State and University library in Göttingen in Germany and With me is my colleague. Well, I get he's a professor for scientific Information analysis also from University of Göttingen and we have David Minor He's head of the research data curation program at UC San Diego and these are the two libraries that we're talking about Göttingen and San Diego So what are we talking about? This is a brief table of contacts. We will talk a bit about the difference in our years in Göttingen and San Diego about data science and what we are planning to do in the future and Some of you might be aware that this is sort of a follow-up talk to something we did at the last C&I meeting Fall in Washington DC, but I assume not all of you have been there so in this Presentation in Washington. We were elaborating a bit that Since 2016 now there is a cooperation going on between Göttingen and San Diego because we found out that the University of California San Diego and the University of Göttingen especially the libraries have a lot of similarities in size in Focus group and the campuses also a bit alike And it was interesting to see how we do things differently and how we do things alike and to learn from each other And since then we started to Learn from experience. We had staff visits and the longer staff visits shorter staff visits. We're working together We signed even an MOU Where we agreed to work together look at different topics because We as you all know we know that science is a global thing and we have to be in this together And sometimes it's it's very good to learn from each other walking to each other's footsteps To see what people on the other half of the globe are doing and that can be very beneficial so While doing the Washington presentation We were very much focusing on research data management because in Göttingen we have a service unit that serve office specific services for research data management on campus and That's something that San Diego is also doing and so the focus of our Corporation in the first years was looking at day-to-day work in providing research data management services and infrastructures and But we also identified topics that we want to look Much further into into the next phase and these include data research analytics data science in general also more exchanges and More than just staff exchanges also student exchanges Researcher exchanges and so this is what we're doing now and this is what this presentation will Mould us be about so for those of you who want to know more about the research data management that we're doing I'm referring to the video from the CNI fall meeting. I remember all the presentations were taped and you can see David and I making a presentation in Washington and this could be also very interesting So without much further do I give over to David? Musical chairs here. Thank you. Yon and hi everyone. I guess I can say welcome to San Diego. It's nice to have you here Please go spend money Yeah, so as you guys mentioned we want to talk a little bit about the Environment in which we operate in our libraries and in our campus Going through the lens of data science machine learning AI a lot of the things that that we've been talking about at this conference and in our Our work almost every day and I think many of you are a certain large subset of you We're in this room for the last presentation by Stephanie Laboux So you will have seen Actualization of some of these things so we're going to be taking a step back and talking about the environment in which we're operating So just to give you and I know I said in the back I know it can be hard to read the screen So please do refer to the slides when they're available But just to give you a quick thumbnail sketch of how we got here at the UC San Diego side The data science program was founded in 2015 so not that long ago a less than a decade And for the numbers in the last year or so you will see we have grown both in terms of scale number of students as well As the size of programs the number of programs the type of programs You could fill in the black and we've probably doubled and tripled it and not surprisingly both for students And I think for researchers and faculty. This is an incredibly interesting major As Stephanie alluded to it's not just data science. It's computational Fill in the blank biology social science chemistry oceanography. They're all in this space somehow. Oh And as I said or as it says on the bottom of this slide the data science and this sounds obvious But just stick with me here the data science program is primarily focused on education and training students in data science a A few years after that and actually is in 2018 the Holyachew Data Science Institute was formed on our campus and named after our the primary benefactor who was something like Facebook employee number three Something like that and gave a bunch of money. We don't have a lot. We're very new universities We don't have a lot of alumni But we have one and so he gave money to found this Institute and this was very much a game changer on our campus Because it really took the work that was started in the data science program and brought it up to kind of that national research Kind of excellence doing this work kind of thing And so it cross-cuts a much wider swath of the university than you find just in the classrooms And does a lot of support for both not just education, but also research both fundamental as was well as the more high-end things And in contrast to the program it's generally focused more on advancing the field of data science through research and innovation So we've got kind of these two different threads intersecting with each other on campus And then we lastly have a library. This is Stephanie for the I don't know if she's even still in the room anymore but data science librarian not coincidentally hired right at about the same time and Not just hiring her but a lot of other services in the library We're either started or increased at that time So some of these will be kind of familiar to us in this space data and GIS lab a wide range of services Which I'll be getting to in the next slides We've begun bringing student data into our library digital collections. I'll also be touching on that in just a second And as Stephanie mentioned they have been doing a lot of research on what it means to be kind of a library and a repository in this space I do encourage you when the paper comes out to read it that she referenced And I wanted to emphasize again this kind of point in the library and this will come become very interesting when Baylor starts to talk We've really been focused on this kind of external facing Assisting students and faculty were appropriate being in the classroom were appropriate We haven't really taken a lot of this on board inward, right? And this is a place a lot of organizations are asking now like can't we do a lot of these Efficiency scaling and understanding a new process internally So we're kind of right at this point of asking some interesting questions and looking at some interesting purposes The next couple slides are an eye chart. I'm not even going to bother reading these But I just wanted to give you a sense of the kind of work that we have been doing in the library in support of students So first off just a quick gloss on the kind of interactions we have And I think you'll see they range everything from literally one-on-ones to sitting in huge classrooms of students Some of it is our long-term relationships working supporting people through projects capstone projects Graduate work all those kinds of things. So we've really spanned the gamut in terms of how we support students here We've created a lot of the kind of materials. I think you would expect ephemera going forward. We've got lib guides We've we help you either run or help sponsor a lot of events on campus Working through different Programs and project student groups on campus. We have a heavily support for a lot of our data science groups on campus And we've also been working on it as you saw in last presentation I'll be talking on just a moment of actually bringing student data data Data science student. There's a lot of data in that word data science student data into our data repository I was going to get there And then lastly and this is definitely emerging as the new graduate programs are spinning up Not just data science, but as I said computational biology fill in the blank We're trying to navigate. What does that space even begin to look like? Because these are rapidly developing programs It doesn't say it in here. I think it was on one of the earlier slides one of our data science graduate programs Is the very first one at UCSD that's can be first fully virtual So there's a lot of experimentation in this space having things like that I also wanted to talk and this will be my last slide But this is kind of one of our big next steps is Working with our repository. So we do have a data repository on campus that manages Well, that will accept any kind of data. It's a generalist repository for a campus What would it mean to actually bring some of these data science projects data? Outputs things people are using in the classroom into the repository and hopefully leverage some of those best practices that are Librarians are researching about and finding so this this is going to be the way that we begin to get in and implement some of these new steps But I just wanted to highlight this this new program called an educational data set service This is the library working hand-in-hand with both our campus research IT Who manages a large machine learning platform that all the students use for their classroom? Analysis and running code and all those kinds of things working with them as providers But then also working with our researchers in our faculty in the classroom to say what do your students need? Where are the gaps? What are they not understanding and There was a question in the last session about kind of that education of students for creating using saving Sighting all those kinds of things. This is going to be how we the library begins to address this that we say Okay, on the one hand, we'll take a bunch of data and make it available and tag it appropriately But we'd love to work with students going forward so that they can learn how to create the tags And they can learn how to do the meta they they can learn about licenses and all those kinds of things So this is actually a pretty exciting development for us And I think it's going to be the first step and some of the things you're going to see starting on the next slide Where we're going to begin to dip our toes into what does it mean internally to take on board some of these processes? And maybe even what does it make it mean to begin to work with these students directly in the library? These data science students of all different levels So again, that was a very quick gloss. I'm happy to answer questions either after or after the presentation And then I'm going to hand it over to dr. Gip Thanks, David Hello, it's actually my first time here at the conference. Nice to meet you all My name is Bella Gip and I'm from the University of gutting and in gutting this The university library and the university they work very closely together And I'm a faculty member of the computer science department, but actually for example our offices are in the state library So although we are computer scientists in our group. We yeah, work very closely with the library Of course also is with Jan and who's working there in the research department and we have joint projects and yeah, I'm very thankful that we have now this collaboration also is yeah, David and his team and Working together on interesting research projects mostly related to libraries and establishing this exchange program So in case you don't know gutting. I mean, it's not the Probably most of you haven't really heard of it. I don't know so it's in the very center of Germany As you see on the Google Maps, so it's really I think Yeah, maybe you know I think this only a few kilometers away from the most central point in in Germany and yeah on the right you can can see the library and we are located in the actually in the historical building and that's our research group and In the next few slides, I'd like to give a brief overview what we're working on so The core research areas are information retrieval so finding relevant information kind of what what Google is doing then Natural language processing is in research field that is getting more and more important for us Would say most of our doctoral students now work on natural language processing and we also work on Using blockchain technology for archival purposes So yeah, the foundations are data science artificial intelligence and information visualization So in natural language processing we Have various different Projects and I'm very curious what actually the first project is maybe where we collaborate But I mean you all know chat GPT and and all the possibilities that large language models offer And I'm sure that there will be some really interesting areas to color rate Another field as I said are Literature recommendations, so we develop recommender systems for literature and Developed in this area also some some algorithms and have a system to evaluate our algorithms and Another area is plagiarism detection, although I have to say I think this is soon an area of the past because with generative AI the whole Yeah idea of plagiarism I think will just change no one will just copy paste you will use AI to to rewrite something and but also identifying texts that were Generated using AI is something that we work on although. I'm not even sure whether that's something that we will need in the future because I Think you shouldn't forbid the students to work with Systems that yeah used generative AI to write text so it's a it's a difficult question and I don't really have an answer for that at the moment Another field is Intellectual property protection and we developed some Systems that use blockchains distributed ledger technology to embed timestamps in these blockchains Which can also be relevant for for archives and digital libraries And we work on analyzing news. So for example That you can identify media bias and and similar things. So these are the main Research areas and the last one math information retrieval. So maybe if you I mean, I'm sure you all have used Wikipedia whenever you see a formula displayed within Wikipedia that actually developed in our group this Representation so we want to make sure that You don't just have an image with a formula but actually the The formula can be embedded and that's something one of my group members actually developed and that is now rolled out in Wikipedia worldwide So yeah, many interesting areas for for research and I just wanted to give this short overview to show what we are working on and Also very important We as we plan to have this research and student exchange that Yeah, do you want to know you send this slide? Okay? Anyways, so we have this the idea that students from UC San Diego come to Göttingen and the other way around and They're very interesting possibilities, but not just for students, but also for Yes staff exchange and I don't want to go into all the details of the programs that also Financially supported because of course it also costs money But you can see here a barcode and then you can download the slides with the links So they're interesting programs from the DAD which is the German academic exchange Organization and they have some really interesting funding possibilities for that. So Yeah, if you are interested or know someone Please let them know and I think then I hand over to Jan again. Thank you So as I said, um, we now look back at eight years of of cooperation and so what we found out in the In the first phase that was of course very heavily disrupted by the COVID pandemic where we did not meet as much as we wanted to but we have been a benefit very much from from learning about each other because we saw that libraries all over the world they face very very similar issues and of course the way that the Libraries in the different countries and different domains deal with these issues are different Of course relying on the on the individual culture in the on the funding scheme on the financial situation of the library and But the general questions are all the same and we found out that it's very helpful to a See what are other people doing and also sometimes have invite people from other communities Especially other libraries as critical friends and let them have a look at what you're doing So we had colleagues from San Diego being at gutting in and we showed them This is the way we do things and what do you think about that? And that sometimes gives good insights from from the external perspective and vice versa We came to San Diego and looked at the way they were doing things and this was very beneficial with a clear focus on Services library services research data management services research data management infrastructures And now as a next step we saw that on this this whole Cooperation started from the libraries, but it's now slowly spread into the whole universities So it's no longer just the University of gutting and library and the UCSD library But it's now the whole universities the whole campuses that have an interest in learning from from the other partner around the globe So actually focusing on data science Firstly on the different topics that Bella was presenting as actual topics where his team can work with David's team and also the folks at the UCSD from the data science division and see if there is Interesting topics for for joint proposals. The other thing that we wanted to do is also help our cooperation by having individual exchanges and these are of course researchers exchanges But as Bella presented there are nice funding opportunities for students So we actually have good funding opportunities for California students to come to Göttingen and vice versa and it it actually fits a very nice gap and it's very the right thing to do because as I learned in the master program data science for the UCSD students in the first year of their master program, they actually have to make a project and it's mandatory and Bella's team and we at the library we have a lot of projects where people actually can work and of course We also invite California students to come and work with us and vice versa. Our students are encouraged to come to To go board for a semester into a different country and they have interest to of course to go into California So we believe that with this exchange of students we will bring our cooperation to the next level and Interestingly, there are funding opportunities by the German government for that. So that is something that we're now very much looking into and hopefully 24 25 we will have the first students being sent across the globe to the different country and then who knows Next spring CNI or maybe the fall CNI this time We can give you an update on how it has been and what has happened in the time between So that's all from us and we very much welcome you to give us some questions and give us some statements and see what you're thinking about So questions, please. I know there's a refreshment break, but I'm not quite sure if they already have I think they will only start Serving in eight minutes So the first part of your question how we how and when and why we met each other interestingly enough was at a CNI meeting All right, I know In NDC seven or eight years ago. Actually, it was the the previous library director Both from horseman at good to get in and yawn were there and it was literally the standard CNI Afterwards grabbing a beer and saying oh, you're working on that. Well, we're working on that, too We should work on that together. So it was literally as simple as that. Yeah, right But at the same time I think it was the group being open to not just having those discussions, but actually wanting to do something You know, I think that's something we're big fans of is Start Start because what just as an example what we have found out even more recently in this collaboration is On the UCSD side as we've been exploring for instance these new student exchanges There's a ton of funding opportunities out there, right both for students and for faculty and researchers that If we hadn't even begun to ask the question no one was going to tell us about and it wasn't until we could go and say Oh, we're interested in working on with this group on these topics on on these special things and the university said Oh, yeah, that would make us look better as a university. So yeah, please go do that So I think from our vantage point that was a big piece of it and in terms of how can you get these connections? Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to that, but I would say generally if you attend international conferences you as David said you usually network and then you meet other people and and I think you I think most of you will have Contact with some colleagues from aboard and where you share just interest in the same topics and then it's a pretty Small step from widening this up and saying that why don't we let get our institutions evolved a bit And I think the most crucial part, but please correct me if I'm wrong is that you have to convince the superiors in your institutions to be actually open-minded to invite external people and take them Serious enough that listen to listen to what they are saying because I think that's the critical part I know that many institutions like to do the way the things they do things and then coming up with the idea Let's invite these colleagues from that country come over to spend for two weeks And we show them what we're doing and and they can give us an input on that and then they tell us what they're doing I think that's the start it needs to come up with ideas where you can work together But but being willing to to invite the people and listen to what they're saying I think that's that's the most crucial step, but apart from that the I Think inviting a visiting researcher over for two weeks come to our place Learn what we're doing is is pretty straightforward And I would say most researchers have some sort of funding for that sort of trip So it's just not many more money involved in that and then you can do the next steps next steps Okay More questions Okay, I seems we've blown you away Of course, we're proud of that but so and please we're here so don't hesitate come to us Speak with us directly if there are some of the topics of Bila that you were would have learned more about If you want to just exchange some ideas come over to us and we're here. 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Question. Is it possible to ever fully recover from anorexia nervosa? I've been asked this a few times and it's quite a controversial question and I just wanted to explore it a little bit really. I'm exploring this video today in a personal capacity as someone who has a history of anorexia nervosa rather than from a professional point of view, although I do have a PhD from eating disorders, it's here. But yeah, this is my personal point of view because actually I don't think there is a definitive answer on this. Now the thing is that some people are like really keen to say yes, you can completely get over an eating disorder, you can completely reclaim your life and it can be entirely in the past. I have a different view of this because my personal experience taught me that this attitude can make things go really badly wrong. So let's rewind a few years. I had been well-ish for a long time. Like maybe, I don't know, some period of years where I'd been relatively well. You know, fast forwarding a few years, I know I'd never really been at a healthy weight. I know that I had loads of eating disorder behaviors maybe that were still ongoing. But to all intents and purposes, I was pretty much engaging with normal life and doing broadly okay. But since I'd had a history of anorexia when I was younger, I had always been very, very structured in my approach to food. I have made sure that I maintained something, approaching a healthy weight wasn't. But anyway, I maintained the weight that I was maintaining by eating always religiously three meals every single day without fail. Now at this point, I was travelling all over the country working with different schools, delivering training and that kind of thing. And I would often find myself arriving at a hotel really late at night having travelled hundreds of miles and I would have to force myself to eat dinner.   And I remember one day saying to myself, Pookie, enough is enough. A normal person, a healthy person, would not force themselves to eat a full dinner at 11 o'clock at night if they didn't want it because they were tired after travelling. They just wouldn't. It's okay. You've got this. You're healthy. Let it go. You can relax the rules now. I very vividly remember having this conversation with myself. Is it weird that I have that maybe? Anyway, I had this conversation with myself. I gave myself permission to relax the rules that I had around food that I had had for many years. And eight weeks later, I was passed out cold on the bathroom floor having lost a huge amount of weight and have very much in the grips of anorexia again. Now, does that mean that recovery isn't possible? Maybe not, because actually, on reflection, I was still very much struggling with eating disordered thoughts and feelings and behaviours throughout the course of the time when I considered that I was okay and I was maybe lying to myself and to everyone around me and no, I wasn't at that point clinically anorexic, kind of weight-wise, but in my head, yes, everything was still not quite right. So maybe it wasn't that, you know, recovery is not possible. It's just that it hadn't happened for me yet at that point. But having had that experience, now that I'm entering this more stable period of my own life now, hopefully, and I am at a healthy weight, I can't imagine ever not making myself eat three meals a day. And yeah, I have got backups, so I now am a little bit more flexible. So if I have, for any reason, that I can't have a meal, like either because I kind of mentally can't do it, or it's just physically quite difficult, you know, I'm in the wrong place at the wrong time or whatever, then I've got like backups, so I will have kind of food supplement drinks, or I always carry really high-calorie food bars around with me so that I can consume the right number of calories. So I have like other backup plans, but I do take really close attention to how much I'm eating, and also now that I exercise more, I pay really close attention to making sure that I'm eating enough to compensate for the exercise I do as well. So yeah, for me, I can't imagine not doing that anymore, and I'd be really, really scared to let go of that. And maybe that doesn't mean I can't recover, maybe that just means I haven't yet, and that this is a longer process. And perhaps if you ask me in another five years or another 10 years, I might feel differently about this. And I do know that there are people who do feel like their eating disorder is completely in the past, that they've left it completely behind, that they are completely recovered now. But I think even those people, if they were really honest, would probably say that this is something that at times of high stress, they might possibly be tempted to revert to, because once you've found something that works really well for you, even though that might be working well in a really negative way in doing you great harm, but actually at the time it's meeting some kind of need, it's really difficult not to go there in your head at times of high stress. So actually I think this is a bit similar to like drug or alcohol addiction, for example, where for me, I kind of need to really keep away from it. And actually similarly to the addiction thing with drug or alcohol, the idea that if you're an alcoholic, if you had a drink, then it might kind of tempt you back in. I get a bit like that with food. Like I do find if I... I have to set quite clear parameters about the time scales within which I need to have kind of consumed calories, because if I get that feeling of empty or that slight lightheadedness that comes with not having eaten enough, yeah, I want that more. And that, yeah, I feel a bit uncomfortable kind of admitting to that really, but at the same time, I think it's really important to recognize that, to understand that, yeah, this is a long and complicated process. I think in terms of making this kind of video useful and maybe more interesting and practical if you're interested because you're worried about someone else is that I think that me saying, I don't think that I have or maybe ever will fully recover from anorexia nervosa even if it's kind of really well kept in check, I think it's important to acknowledge that I think that it might be sitting there in the background, but much like someone who maybe like was an alcoholic many years ago and now considers themselves to be, you know, in recovery, that yeah, I can do the same. I can live a completely full and happy and healthy life where my eating disorder does not impact on my day to day other than that I take care to avoid being kind of triggered into relapsing essentially and I take care to make sure that I'm healthy and happy and well. And I think the other thing is just to note that the most vulnerable moment in terms of recovery is probably the point at which when everything starts to look okay. So like now I would say I'm potentially a vulnerable moment because I look well, things are going well, everything's pretty good. All the support that you have in place begins to really, really drop away because you don't need it anymore because you're doing really, really well, but actually sometimes that's the point when it becomes hard because you haven't got that coping mechanism anymore. All the additional support that was laid on has gone and so that's a potentially vulnerable moment and so it's really worth knowing that if you're supporting someone who is recovering from an eating disorder that just because things begin to look okay and they look healthy, actually don't completely step away because that might be the time when you are sort of most needed. So yeah, this feels like a slightly negative video because I'm kind of, yeah. So no, it's not all negative. I think I'm just being pragmatic. I think for me I'm saying that I'll always consider myself in recovery and I will be glad of each and every day when this goes well. I will be mindful that there will be days when it goes less well and that those difficult days are, you know, they need to be carefully managed but they are, you know, not insurmountable and that I always need to be aware to those kind of triggers and warning signs when things might then potentially go wrong and act fast and never, ever be complacent again and I think that's also something I need to ask of the people around me too. So it's not all doom and gloom. I think it's just pragmatic but that doesn't mean to say other people don't have a different point of view and I would be really interested to hear what other people think as well.  Do you think that you have fully recovered or ever could fully recover? Yeah, what's your take on it? I would love to hear. Okay, one of my more rambly videos, hopefully interesting and perhaps helpful and food for thought. Anyway, it made me think if nothing else. Okay, take care. Please subscribe for new videos every Tuesday and Friday and I'll see you again soon. Thanks for watching. Bye.


Hi everybody, it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft and thank you for watching my tutorial today. I thought I would do a fun gift box. I haven't done a good size gift box for a while, so I have this four by four by three, fully reinforced gift box with this firework topper, which I'm naming it a firework topper, or a fountain topper. It was really, really fun and totally came about by accident, so I will show you how to make that. And then I finished off here with this little happy birthday tag. And I'll show you those dies as well, because they're really fun. And it just opens up like so, and you can see there, it's all reinforced inside as well. So it does use three pieces of 12 by 12 paper. So it's a luxury gift box, so one to do for those real special gifts, or as a really nice storage box in your craft room, bedroom, wherever, I think it would work really well with that as well. So very straightforward to make, as always. Don't like complicated things. So today I'm using these papers here, which I was so excited to get my hands on. They are gorgeous. This is very much my style. Excuse the dried glue there. That was from the box I've just made, so I'm just gonna peel that off actually, because it's gonna irritate me otherwise. Okay, that's better. Back to the papers. So these are the Let's Celebrate Fest Edition papers. I love 12 by 12 paper packs. And as always with the Fest Edition, they're the ones I'm using today. You can see all of these up to here are all double-sided, and then the rest of the pack are single-sided, but they're more of the luxury papers, or the fun kind of papers. So look at these. Just brilliant. So much fun. The cake's there. This one here with the foiled balloons. And you've got the confetti. Just really, really good. And then the double-sided ones are here. You can see they're just corresponding sides, so they all work really, really well together. And I just know I'm gonna get so much use from them, like I already have today with these boxes. So I have chosen these three here. You get three of each design, so it worked perfectly for this gift box. So I'm gonna use these ones here. So it's another birthday style, and you'll need your scoreboard. And you're gonna score two of them exactly the same. So, but you're gonna do them, let me just take these apart, so I've still got the join on them. There we go. Right, so the first one, you want to score with your print facing up, and you're gonna score at three and at nine. So sorry, three pieces of 12 by 12. I don't know if I did mention that. I said you needed three, yeah, three pieces of 12 by 12, I did mention it. And then again, three and nine. Okay, so just three and nine on both sides of one piece with the print facing up. Then on the second piece, with your print facing down, because it just makes it, it's just nicer when you fold. You're not folding your folds one way and then folding them another way so you weaken the score line and obviously risk cracking. So these ones here are gonna be for our base and our lid, so you want your print facing away from you. If you're using double sided, that's okay, but you still will need cards to reinforce it if you want. So it's entirely up to you if you want to reinforce the middle. You'll see that in a minute, so it's very easy to have that or not. I just prefer reinforced boxes, especially when they're bigger like that, just because they can hold heavier items. So again, with this one here, this is gonna be our base. So this one, you're gonna score at three and again at nine and then rotate three and nine. Okay, so you've got two pieces scored exactly the same, but one you've scored with your print facing up and one with your print facing down. Then with the last piece, you're gonna score again with your print facing down and this time, you're gonna score at, so this is our lid, our reinforced lid, so you're gonna score it one and a half and three and then nine and 10 and a half and then rotate and do the same. So one and a half, three, nine and 10 and a half. Okay, so there we have all of our score lines done. So let me get rid of this and then we can now start vanishing everything. So we do our lid last, we will just concentrate on the base for the moment. So it doesn't matter which piece you wanna start with, if it's the piece where you scored on top of your white, you wanna fold everything accordingly so you're folding it all up, okay? And then with this piece, you're folding down. So now this piece here is gonna be on the bottom and these sides are gonna come up and you're gonna see all your lovely design and this piece here and I've done it that way. One of them I've folded the wrong ones, I've folded them both the right, I've folded them both the same way. What was I just saying? Okay, let me remember. So this one is the one that I should have folded that way. There we go. So basically, this is the one that is gonna sit inside this one to give us that nice pattern inside and reinforce it. But again, when I get to it, it's gonna make more sense. So the one where you folded up this way with the print facing the outside, we're gonna cut first. So it just doesn't really matter with, yeah, but I guess I want that to be my front. So this is gonna be the front, so you want to cut down the side, score line here. This is just so you get a nice looking box when you look on front ways, like so. And then again, like so. So you're just cutting straight down like that. Then on the inside bit, you just want to take a little wedge out, like so, okay? And it would just mean you don't get any kind of bulky overhanging bit. And I'm just gonna trim off a little bit of that score line there. It's just not finished off as neat as I want it to. Once you see this all put together, you'll totally understand what I'm going on about. Just take that off as well.  Okay, so we've just done that one. So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna stick all these tab pieces inside, like so, and bring up our sides. And that will form a normal base for your box, but it's not reinforced. I guess these side bits here are kind of reinforced.  And you just wanna make sure you've got nothing overhanging from the top there of this piece that we've just stuck in. And that's why if you're taking out that little wedge down there, it will stop that happening. So you're just getting much nicer finish. Pop it on its side. If you've got a bone folder, just use that just to spread out any glue and just to make sure you get a really nice join. And then again, get your next one, and bring your glue all over that tab and just pop that one inside the next one. And just kind of, you can wiggle them around a bit, you've got the room too, just to make sure that you get a really nice join. And again, I'll pop that one on its side. So, and then you just wanna do the same with the end ones here. So again, just gonna pop my glue on this one here and on that other one, and just stick them down exactly the same way. Okay, so right now you've got this relatively flimsy, but very nice looking steel box. And obviously my print is directional, so I just wanna make sure that I've got these, you know, presents and the hats and stuff facing up the right way, so that I know is my front. Okay, so that's that piece. Now this bit here, what you've gotta do is go around and cut out each of the squares in each of the corners. You wanna make sure you remove the score line as well, so you wanna take out all that bulk. So I'm just cutting to the left-hand side of that one, and then the right-hand side of this score line. So you just wanna take it out completely, because this is gonna basically sit inside this piece very, very snug, but it does work. So again, you just wanna make sure that you take out the bulky score lines on each of these corners. Okay, but don't throw these pieces away, keep them, because that's what we're gonna use to make our little firework or little fountain topper. All right, so everything gets used. So now that is gonna fit inside here, but before you put it in, you will find that the tops of these pieces here will just poke out the top of here, because obviously it's sitting on top. Rather than me telling you to cut this down to 11 and 15, 16ths, which confuse lots of people and not everybody has the scoreboards that show that measurement, it's just easier. You very carefully just go along each edge and just cut off that amount. You can see there it's just a curly sliver. And just literally the tiniest amount so you get that little curly spiral coming off. And it's just easier for me to tell you to do that than having all these funny score lines that we would have to do. This is the way to keep it easy. So one of mine's thicker than the other slightly, but it really won't matter once you see what it will do. So you can see how thin they are. All right, right. So now, basically this is gonna sit inside. Now it is snug, but it will go, I promise you. So in fact, no, before we put that in, just remembered we've got to do the lid because one side of the lid's got to go in. So let's just have those two pieces prepared and now we can do the lid here. So we've done all those score lines. You just want to burnish all of them. Okay, so they're all burnished, all right. Then what you will have, so if I flip it over, you'll have these four squares in each of your four corners, okay. So it doesn't matter which one you start on, they're all gonna be the same, but what you want to do is cut down. So you've got this score line here and then the second one coming in here from the right-hand side. Just cut all the way down and you want to go past that first score line down to this second score line. So pass that one down to this one. And then again, with this one, you want to go down to the same. Then rotate it and cut that whole piece out. So again, those of you that have watched a lot of my tutorials will know exactly what you're doing here. So you can just whiz through and cut this down so it's all ready to fold in. So once you've then created this little tab here, you just want to take a couple of wedges out of both sides. Again, this just helps fold it all together and then take a very tiny amount off of the outer edge there. And again, with that one there, okay. So that is one of the corners. Go along to this one and do exactly the same. So you want to cut all the way down. Pass that first score line down to the second and again with that one. Remove both of those pieces and then just remove that top one. And that is how this here, you know, I always do, this is how you do a reinforced lid. It's the same process, it'd just be different sizes but you will always do this to create that reinforced finish. And then again, just the two outer bits just take a wedge off. Okay, so that is what I've got. These two longer pieces, two little ones there. Then flip the whole thing around. So now this is all facing away from you and do exactly the same again. So down these ones and this one and this one and then just cut them all out the same way. Okay, so that is now what you should have. So what we're gonna do is now we need to cut more away. I just wanted to do that way because it's just easy to tell you all but this piece here, well, depending on the direction, yeah, so I want that, this is gonna be the front. This is the top facing me. This is gonna be the front side facing me. So this here is the back. So I'm now gonna remove these completely. I probably could have said that to you but I just wanted to show you that if you just cut it all that way that's just one nice reinforced lid. Now we're making it that kind of hinged lid. Okay, so just remove them completely. Now what's gonna happen, so that's the front, is this piece is gonna stick. Now I know we've burnished it and again once you watch this and you're like, well actually we don't even need to score that side. That's fine, I'm just trying to show it the easiest way but by folding this it makes no difference to the final look of it. That is gonna stick inside right down and flush like so. So the whole piece is stuck in there like that. Before we do that we wanna put the rest of the lid together. So I'm gonna use a different glue because Tombow's good but it gets so tacky whereas this stuff doesn't. And everybody always asks me where everything is from. Please, please, please check out my blog because I do fill it with lots of information and on the, this is the Aleene's Glue and I'm sure I've added it if not I'm going to but I have a section on the top of my website that says the tools I use or the tools I love and on there it has all the things that I use every single day. So please just look at that first. So many people messaged me asking me what things are and it's listed. So obviously I can't say in every tutorial every single thing I use in terms of my tools. Otherwise I'd be here all day. So please just revert to the blog because it's got lots of bits and it's always shared in the video description below all of my tutorials. If the recent blog hasn't come up yet it's just because I post my tutorials to go up at midnight every other day and obviously I'm asleep. They're all scheduled. So when I wake up that next day is when I do the blog. So I know for some of you where you're obviously behind time you're getting my tutorial during the day. I know that may be frustrating because the blog isn't ready but I'm sorry. It just worked good that way for me. So anyway, so now I've just stuck those two tabs inside there to create your corners of your lid and then what you wanna do is put glue on the outside long kind of strips here on these side pieces like so and just fold them all in.  And just work your way around and do that on those other two sides. Okay, so that is now what you will have and that is the back and this is now our hinged lid. So I mean some people know if you haven't scored along that score line or even if you had like I have you put it in there and this is gonna come down over the front. A lot of you may like that and there is nothing wrong with that personally for me. I can't stand a flimsy gift box. It's gotta have a bit more structure to it and when this glue dries, it dries so hard that when you reinforce something those two pieces of paper sandwich together just become very, very strong. So I just this just I can't stand. Sorry, it's not me. So always keep in mind the front of your box. So again, this is my front. So this is the back. What I'm gonna do now is put, let me get my glue out. Glue on the printed side of the back of this lid, okay? So you wanna cover both of those pieces. Like I said, it makes no difference that you scored it. It was just easy for me to get you to this point. Like so. So again, this is my front. This is the back. I'm gonna pop it in and then put it on its side and just make sure the bottom piece is at the bottom of your box.  Okay, so that one's now stuck down and then that will come over and fit nicely over the front like so. Okay, and you've got a nice back there. But now like I said, it's still quite loose. You can just kind of fold that right over but this is all too loose. Now that's when this piece comes in. So like I said, it is gonna be very snug but you want it to be like that and I promise you it will go in. So first of all, just do a test run and just get the front two sides in first like so. You need it to all kind of sit on all four corners at the same time.  Do you see that I've got it in on all of my four sides? Then push the whole thing down and get it right into the corners like so. So just go around and just look that none of, see, because we took that slither off, it doesn't overhang. So there's that piece there but when I lie them down, they're completely flush. Just go around and just check that it's like that on all of them. So I've got a little bit coming up there but what I can do there is just literally just snip that piece off there like so. And it's all okay around the other side. So now take it back out and then we can put glue. I'm gonna glue all of the bottom first and then glue the sides once it's all in the box. It's much, much easier. So just kind of focus on the edges really and just enough in the middle for it to stick in side. So again, just get all the corners in and the rest will all follow suit like so and then just push like that. And then I'm just gonna grab my ruler and just get that right into each of the corners. Make sure it's right pushed down and it's really snug. And when we took out all of the squares in the corner that we were gonna use in a bit by removing them, it gives you a really nice join with these pieces here on the edges here. I'm gonna get that one. You just join up perfectly. You don't get any other white box showing through. So like I said, now when this glue sets, I bring in this one. This box is solid now from how flimsy it was to start with. So it really does, it is worth it. So now the base is stuck down.  It's easier to do it this way than you get in a lot less mess by trying to glue all of it and then sliding it in. So just enough for it to stick. You don't need to go crazy, crazy. Pop it up, pop it on its side. And again, with your bone folder, get that glue all spread out and it will all help and just work your way around. So now pull down another side and cover it in glue and just do that on the rest of those sides. Okay, so that is all stuck down.  So now, already, that is starting to stiffen up. So there is a really nice reinforced box. Love it. I think it's so good, it's so handy and that is gonna be put to good use very soon. So I've got a nice gift going in mine. Okay, so now to make this fun decorative piece. Now, it doesn't really matter if the patterns are facing up the right way or not. I'm just gonna line mine up just for the sake of the video but you've got your four squares. Then what I'm using is these scissors I've used before. These are my mums, I've got the green ones. They are, there is a word for them. Can't remember what it is, it'll be in my blog but they're used for making your vegetables and your fruit and veg, that kind of stuff, looking fancy. Yeah, never use them for that, use them in the craft room.  This is what were these, in case you have thrown them away, three by three, you want that, yeah.   Each one, get the very ends there, okay. Just do that on all four pieces. Okay, so you now have four pieces like this and then you wanna join them together so I'm gonna use the tacky glue this time. Just pop a splodge of glue just down in the bottom, right hand corner and get your other one and stick it over the top. Just, it's about a quarter of an inch in. You don't wanna go right inch, you don't wanna waste it. We now wanna create a long strip. So that's that one. Another little bit of glue just there. So we're gonna roll this up so you really do just need a little bit just to kind of grip them together. That one and then a little bit there. I like to find ways to use all my paper if possible so this is a good one I think. So you will now have, this is very tacky glue. You can see I'm sticking all over the place but that's good for this bit. So that's what we've got. Now when you do the tassel you would run glue over along this whole piece. We're not gonna do that with this because what we're gonna do is when we roll it up we're then gonna pull it through the middle to lift it up to create that kind of waterfall look. So what you wanna do now is grab a pair of, where did my fancy, I just have to use these ones. These aren't the ones I had. Can't seem to find them, tweezers. And just start off at the very end, okay? You wanna roll it right underneath the other piece like so, okay? See what I'm doing there? And just keep rolling it along and make sure you keep it lined up with the bottom of this. You don't really wanna go off track, okay? So just keep going all the way along. Oh, hang on, now I'm going the wrong way. I'm thinking it's starting to look completely different. You gotta go the opposite way because you want these to cascade out. Sorry, apologies, let's just turn that around.  So like so. It's exactly the same but go, so you're rolling in the pattern and then what will happen, you see they all start to go outwards and they start to create that firework. So just keep rolling all the way along. I left about half an inch on the bottom. I don't think I mentioned that one, I said about it, but. So just keep it as lined up as possible. Don't worry if the inside starts lifting because you are actually gonna pull it up anyway. Like so. So when you get to the end, take your tweezers out, put a bit of glue on the end there. Okay, once that's all set, then what you can do, so you can move this all around a little bit, just pull any bits out that have maybe got caught up along the way. And we can always, I've got a few more there that need to be a bit more curled over. But what you wanna do is just grab any of the middle ones and just pull them up slightly. You can see how it starts to lift. You can have it as high or as low as you want. But if you've got any then, that's still a bit straight. Just hold the ends of them and then just go and just curl them over. So I'm just gonna go through and just kind of prune mine and shape mine and make it all look as much like a firework as possible because I think it looks so, so fun. And basically all your patterned paper should be what is kind of curved over and cascading. That's what you wanna see. I think that's pretty much there. I've got a couple of straight ones in the bottom. Let's just do that one there and that one there. There we go.  I'm quite happy with that. We're gonna fill the inside with hot glue until it gets to the top. And then that's when you wanna actually stick it onto your box. So bring my box in here. I'm putting it right smack bang in the middle. So first of all, fill it up with hot glue. Be very careful. And obviously this will take a little bit longer to dry fully. So do you bear with it? Once you get to the top, I can see the glue dripping down inside. Once it gets to the very end, the glue will then start running down the other way once you turn it over. So already I can see it coming down now. You wanna just, once that glue starts dripping down, just stick it in the middle. Won't take long to initially stick to the top of the lid but the inside will take a bit longer to obviously fully set. Obviously if you're having it as a storage box, you won't be using this bit, but still I think this is a great topper idea just for any gift boxes that you're doing. So I'll just hold that up now. It's stuck down enough just to kind of set. So while that's doing that, I'm just gonna show you what I used to decorate. I've just got some scrap card here. And I picked up these dies recently from, gosh, I've got it all over me. It's got these little hot glue pieces, the stringy bits. I've got these here. I thought they'd be really handy and they have been. So you get one plain plate and then you get one, two, three, four, five, you get six with like patterns and words. So this one's with love, thanks and hello and love. Now you've got two patterned ones there. So I use the pattern and the plain and the, oh no, there's one more, happy birthday. There you go, that's the one I use and happy birthday. So you get loads, really good value for money. They were on offer, I believe they were, I wanna say 7.99 from Hobby Craft and I'll find links for them. So I've got the happy birthday with the plain one and the pattern with the plain.  So there's the happy birthday. So I die cut the base, the plain base with the white card and then the pink is what's been cut in the happy birthday and that pattern. So I'm gonna go ahead and get all those cut, ready to go on the box and the glue should be set by them. Okay, so I've just die cut them both and just stuck them on the white and that's why I've got all the glue on my hands.  Then I just wanna create little tags with them. So I've got my trusty tool here, which again is in that section on my blog and the tools that I use and it's got links on there. So I'm just gonna pop. I'm using the smaller of all, you get three sizes of whole sizes. So I've just put the smallest there and then I've just got a little bit of this like organza ribbon and it's just gonna tie around the bottom of the, the firework, the topper that I've made. I can thread this through, use my tweezers there and just sit it on top. I just like the two together. I just thought it just done something more really. You could put little embellishments on and might actually put some little embellishments either end or just put one there on that happy birthday. So just together like so, I can put two from on the back there. This is drying nicely now and then I'm just literally tying it around the bottom of my topper and then just cut off the edges there. Like I said, you can't see any of it and once you bring down and still pull some of the arcs that glues just drying in the middle. So if you play around with it, just once that glues set, you won't be able to move it anymore. And then I've just got my little happy birthday tags there. So I really love it. There you have it, two very good sized, like I said, four by four by three. You can put tissue paper in them as well and just all just using for storage boxes. They'd be great for that as well. But now, I mean, this one, like I said, this one's completely dry. The difference there where I'm hitting it, it's hardly moving, so it's solid. But it's just really nice inside. So that's that one. And this one is still drying a little bit more, but you can still see it's still drying nicely there.  I absolutely love them. So there you have it. I hope you've enjoyed this gift box tutorial from me. I've just realized my phone's there. I need to message my husband. He's wondering why I'm replied. Yeah, hope you've enjoyed it. All the supplies, everything will be in my blog. But until next time, please hit the thumbs up if you've enjoyed today or subscribe to my channel to see more. Thanks for watching, bye.