Hey friends happy Sunday, and since it's Sunday It makes it a perfect day for us to go out and actually do some Disney theme park memorabilia Hunting and find what we can find at some of our local flea markets and yard sales right here in Orlando right next to Walt Disney World, so Let's go do this Our first stop is gonna be the visitors flea market right here in Kissimmee across the street from Old Town and Inside here. They have some amazing boots In fact one of the vendors in here actually has some of the rarest Disney pins in existence So it's really cool to see the stuff that you would probably never see I just love visiting places like this because it's so amazing the things that you can find and like I said Some amazing Disney stuff too Some of the boots that I'm gonna show you are here year-round and then some of them were just random Sunday Let's open up a booth and sell all of our stuff from inside the garage, and I like that The first place I'm gonna show you is Booster packs and beyond and this place has like I said some of the rarest Disney pins out there Plus some other amazing Disney memorabilia This picture right here is something I've been eyeing up for a while I would really love to get this. I love how it's just a perfect layout of seven seas lagoon in Bay Lake You got the monorail and the contemporary the Polynesian This is really nifty and it's actually mark 34 300 so very rare and Then for the die-hard Epcot fans take a look at this Epcot plaque with pins How amazing is this world of motion pen horizons wonders of life the land Journey into imagination Communicor this is a cast member exclusive only a thousand of these were put together That is super rare because I think it came out in 1997. Yeah, 1982 to 1997. This was to celebrate 15 years and like I said previously Some of the rarest Disney pins you will ever see are actually in this little store right here and Look at this right here. This pin is actually limited one of five I'm gonna show you the backside of it. They've already been clean and sanitized. We've got to be careful right there one of five and this pin is actually earned by cast members and they've only given out three of them and One of them is here. The other one is in the Disney archives These pins right here are actually one of ten so only ten of these actually exist and One of them's here. Like I said unbelievable And like I said, not only pins they sell here. They also have some amazing Disney park history stuff like take a look down here That little pink slip there is an actual past Pleasure Island. I really love that That's a Pleasure Island day pass and then of course a bunch of limited Disney dollars and these ones Very I don't know if I can see them to go. They have Simba They have the Dalmatians the prices vary on them, but those were always an awesome little find I've always wanted to actually start a collection of Disney dollars and try to get all the ones that I want Obviously, I think the 101 Dalmatian dollars probably my favorite one I would love to come across one of those and then also take a look at these very old Disney figurines This one was from 1957 this little Dumbo Disneyland. That's amazing and Little piggy there 1940 Also, take a look at this really awesome 1957 original so of Donald Duck. I think that is amazing. You can see it's starting to deteriorate a little bit But still kept well One thing that I think is really strange, but pretty awesome is the last will and testament of Walter E. Disney This is a copy of that. I can't even believe I'm looking at this. I mean, this isn't the original one This is just a copy, but still That's pretty remarkable They also have these amazing Walt Disney World cast atlas. These ones actually have never been opened before It's a little bit of history right there for you This is really interesting because they don't do this anymore, but this is an honorary citizen certificate This was actually the date is 1981 but we don't know how long they actually kept running this for I think this is awesome And there's a couple of them here so you can actually buy your own Certificate and make yourself an honorary citizen. I Think I'm actually gonna get one of those honorary citizen certificates These are just so awesome look at this 1982 Epcot Center is open Wow, I Love this I'm sorry guys. I am just blown away by these old Walt Disney Newspaper and then company like newsletters. This is like gold to me. I really love all of this and Take a look at all of this This is a log movement for Tom Sawyer's Island in and Fort Wilderness This is the proposal plan and then over here is The news briefing for Epcot. This was given out to all the cast members 1982 This stuff to me is just like gold. I love all of this and I gotta be very careful with it Along with the pins. They actually have some of the coolest honnit mansion Pinsets I've ever seen and these are all the honnit mansion stuff that I absolutely love This is really cool because it's 999 Happy Hans and then the pin that actually comes with this set is really nifty because It's the uninvited guest huh and They just keep on getting better as we're going down.  Let me get down a little bit more These things are very expensive, but very rare and very special And I always point this out But I appreciate how all the pins are actually set up by the movies or by the genres that they are Like Nightmare Before Christmas and then they're all labeled that way honnit mansion pins Wreck-It Ralph Everything is just perfectly labeled and it's easy to find whatever you're looking for 101 Dalmatians Very cool Some more very cool pins. This is a club 33 pin from Disneyland This is the club 33 door and if you take a look inside, I'm gonna try to flip it open Well, yeah You take a look inside Walt's standing in the door Just to show you how detailed pin trading actually can get these pins right here Are all the same pins except for these three are what you call PP So pre-production these ones are the ones they send out to have people look at to say yes I'd like to do that or if they want to make some changes So you notice like Mickey's outfits yellow then it goes gold So they actually change it from one to another and then the final product was this one That's pretty amazing, isn't it? Here is their information if you want to come check out this place because like I said, it's amazing not just for the pins but all those historical newspapers and Actual like papers from cast members that just blows my mind. I'm actually buying some of them today Now we're gonna actually jump down the road a little bit about two minutes away to another really nifty location That I happen to know about and here is the other spot I was talking about this is the character corner This is an actual store that's open basically five days a week and it has amazing Disney collectibles in here and a good pin section. I Showed this store off before when I was kind of decorating for my apartment when I first moved in I got some nifty Mickey soap dishes But I wanted to come back and show you some other amazing stuff because there's a lot in here And just take a look at this right here. This is an actual railroad spike from the Disneyland Railroad, it's marked 58 out of 100, but that is something amazing on its own I love that and then take a look at these really nifty old vintage license plates I love this contemporary resort one MGM studios Main Street Electrical Parade that is awesome. That's from a cast summer celebration. These were all about like 20 30 dollars That's a pretty good deal Another cool thing and I pointed this out before it's all these used cast member actual name tags And you can just see That maybe one of these is your name. Well, I mean if there was a Nathan one I'd probably buy it right now, but Not seeing no Nathan see a lot of esters and bobs. I Don't know why Historical Disney artifacts just catch my attention. I just love it. I love the history of Disney itself They also have vintage Disney shirts now These are actual Walt Disney World branded shirts like Epcot and they even says Epcot center on it That's pretty amazing Another thing that I've learned to appreciate is the Disney home decor stuff like the older stuff I mean, I like the newer stuff, but it's something about the classic Mickey stuff that I really do like Especially glasses that are from like the 1990s and the early 2000s some of the ones you would get at McDonald's They're actually very popular or even like I said the soap dishes. I have that itself That's sold in Disney, but they have tons of really cool knick-knacks coffee mugs I said I was gonna get this last time. I think I'm gonna get it today Look at this That is awesome, isn't it? Another really cool mug is this Liberty Tree tavern one I'm telling you this was from 1995. That's really awesome. These are collectibles to a lot of people even a Disney security mug Protecting the magic. I Also love all of these. These are the movie collector box sets They come with the VHS version and the DVD version and they're huge $40 apiece. They have Cinderella Beauty and the Beast Pinocchio Lion King. I don't know how much these are Oh, they say nine hundred ninety nine dollars. I mean ninety nine dollars. Whoo They also have a Latin and even toy story and they're all unopened Even the very rare classic 60s 70s and 80s Disney toys they have look at some of these I always think Mickey Mouse just looks so strange, but he's definitely changed throughout the years You can see it like from here to here To there to there Definitely a big change in our pal I don't know much about Barbies themselves, but I think it's really nifty that they have an animal kingdom Barbie They also have more knickknacks in a glass case You know what that means glass case means fancy fancy in the back. You can see a 25th anniversary pocket watch and then they have all of these different golden tickets coins and Some amazing old Mickey figurines. I like that Epcot 2000 plate in the back though They also have a pretty impressive Walt Disney Classic collection figurines that I actually love some of them I've never been kind of big into buying figurines But I know they're very popular and they're actually very expensive. This one in the back $599 and I like these actual little film rails Walt Disney's three little pigs Fantasia some very interesting stuff That is a Walt Disney World security badge. I love that. I wonder how much that is. I'm interested in this, please It's a hundred dollars for that Walt Disney security badge I really like it. In fact that it says Walt Disney on it like Walt Disney World security $100 I Don't know though. Oh boy. I think I'll stick with my contemporary mug. Yeah 1299 and Here's all the information for the store if you want to look them up This is their business card and isn't it nifty? It looks like a fast pass itself and you can get a free pin with this Right there is their website character corner net. I think the free pin is actually in store only but check them out and With that, I think I am done for the day. Hope you guys enjoyed this video I enjoyed making it Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see more videos like this in the future Because I love coming to these little places all the time. It's like my favorite little thing to do Anyhoo's we'll see you next time. Bye


Ang karununghan ay kapangyarihan. It's time once again to put that power to the test. Here on K-Check. Hello everyone, I'm Gabby Concepcion, the attorney, not the artist. Right, nata ko naman si Jules Giang and this is K-Check with another season of teaching and learning. Patulay pa rin ang pagahanap natin ang mga gustong sanayin at palawakin ang brain power nila through competition. Alamin natin kung kaya nila ang brain workout na inihanda natin for them this season. Kaya naman, samahan nyo po kami until final week of the competition dahil may tatang halina naman tayong panibagong K-Check champion. Apat ang contestants ang dadaan sa ating karununghan check sa araw na ito. We have Shella, a senior student at Bulacan State University. She started doing stage design and is currently focusing on refining her skills backstage. Romeo on the other hand is a political science student at UP Dileman and a certified community volunteer hailing from Mindanao. He teaches English online to Japanese learners. Yan is a student at UP Dileman studying food technology. Her interests include hiking, camping, watching K-dramas and playing sports. She also enjoys listening to K-pop songs. And Raywell is our student from our Lady of Fatima in Valinsuela studying entertainment, multimedia communication. His hobbies are drawing memes and sometimes langdaw singing. And these four will be competing, of course, under the watchful eyes of today's K-Check panel of experts. We have Professor Neil Santillian, former chairperson of the UP Dileman Department of History. We also have Assistant Professor Marla Endriga from the Department of Biology of UP Manila. And we have Professor To Austria of the College of Fine Arts from UP Dileman. At ngayon, contestants, handa na ba kayo for our first round? Get ready to buzz in and collect those points. Let's begin. Round one. Let's begin. Question number one. In astronomy, how many years does it take the earth to revolve around the sun? Romy, one. One is correct. K-Check. Question number two. What is defined to be the basic principles and laws of a nation or an organization that determine the powers and the duties of Romy? Constitution. Let me finish the question. Determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it? The answer is Constitution. K-Check. Question number three. In 2017, which city in Lanao del Sur became the setting for an armed conflict between government soldiers? Yan. Marawi City. Let me complete the question. Between government soldiers and forces that include the Mautegru or Mautegru. The answer is Marawi. K-Check. Question number four. The ICC is a worldwide tribunal seated in the Hape, Netherlands. What does ICC stand for? Romy? International Criminal Court. International Criminal Court is correct. K-Check. Question number five. Which eight letter word means a thin round of a livened corn bill or wheat flour bread usually eaten hot with a topping or filling? Nobody got the correct answer. The answer is Tortilla. Question number six. Which among the five Rs is the reprocessing of a resource so it can be used again? Just like melting used aluminum cans to make new aluminum products? Recycle. Recycle or recycling is correct. K-Check. Question number seven. What is the English term for the Spanish gracias? Romy. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let me finish. The Spanish is gracias or the French is merci. The answer is thank you. Correct. K-Check. Question number eight. What is the general term given to a war between people of the same country? Romy. Civil war. Civil war is correct. K-Check. Question number nine. Elementary math. Natawa sila. What are the prime factors of 42? Prime factors of 42. Okay, nobody got the correct answer. The answers are two, three and seven. Okay, question number ten. In what province in Mindanao did the Ampatuan Massacre happen in 2009 occurred? Yen. Sultan Kudarat. Sultan Kudarat is malik. Okay na yun. One try only. Okay, nobody got the correct answer. The answer is magindanao. Yes. Okay, number eleven. Which Latin word for a goddess now refers to a famous female singer in the opera or pop music? Nobody got the correct answer. The answer is diva. Last question for this round. What will you get if you divide the distance traveled by the time elapsed? Yen. Velocity. Velocity is malik. Romy. Speed. Speed is correct. K-Check. That ends round number one. Anki Jules, after that round, we have Romy in the lead with 70 points, followed by Yen with 10 points, and Chila, tying with Raywell, at zero. Yes. For now. For now, kasi pwede mas sila bumawi later, pero kilalanin muna natin yung ilan sa kanila. Si Romy ay isang community volunteer at isang English teacher. So Romy, ano po mas mahirap, maging English teacher o maging community volunteer? Siguro ano po, maging community volunteer, kasi kailangan mo talagang pumunta mag-immers sa community at saka hindi lang po kasi yung may kita mo yung pagod kasi pag English tutor ka online, nakaukukalang, pero pag community volunteer, kailangan mo pumunta talaga at saka mamuhay kasama yung mga tao dun sa komunidad. Napaka multifaceted. Yes. Karakter 20, Romy. Pero yung iba naman, I'm sure madami rin silang pinaggagawa sa buhay nila. Pero Sien, pick up food technology. Pag ganun ba yan? Otomatik mo na mahiling din ko, Ma. Hindi naman. Napakapayap pa rin. Usually po kasi pag food technology siyan sabi na, mahilik ka rin ba magluto? Hindi rin po ganun. So, mas sa interest nyo lang po yung food science, food tech. Good skin ako. Very interesting. Parang bang chemistry yung food tech? Marami po. Marang. Tagagawa siya ng pagkain. But not necessarily pagluluto. But we would love to hear more about our contestants, but in the meantime, kailangan natin balikan, ang ating competition at ang round two. Susunod na yan sa pagbabalik ng K-check. So, rin pa rin ang ating karunungan check. Pick up mo na tayo ng points. Leading pa rin si Romy with 70 points. Snusundan iyan with 10 points. Ahabol sila Shela at si Rayo Well sa ating susunod na. Anything goes kasi marami pang kataanungan coming your way. In the meantime, may tanong naman si Prof Neal kail Ray Well. Tanong ko, binanggit sa Bayo mo kanina na mahilig kang mag-dron ng memes. So ang tanong ko ay ano yung topics pag bumubuoka ng memes? Usually po, yung mga kunoarit, mag-detect ako ng photos ng mga kibigang ko or kung anong makitao, aso na dumudu, misadaan. Idu-drawing ko po yan at Idu-drawing ko parang yung exaggerated yung kanilang magina. Okay. Experiential. Paano mga nakikitan yad binibigyan nyan expression pero exaggerated. Yes. So now it's time for round two. So contestants, get ready to buzz in but make sure you strategize. Correct answers are worth 20 points each but you lose 10 points if you answer incorrectly. Let's begin. Let's begin round two. In geography, what do you call the location north or south in reference to the equator which is designated at zero degrees? Very well. Longitude. Malik. Romy. Polls. Malik. Pwede pang humabol? Hindi na pwede humabol? The correct answer is latitude. Question number two. We will rock you and don't stop me now. Our music chart hits songs of which band led by Freddie Mercury? Pag hindi mo makuha ito. Queen. Queen, of course, is the correct answer. K, check. Question number three. What do you call the lymph tissues at the back of the mouth which sometimes becomes swollen and infected and may require surgical Romy? Tonsils. Tonsils is the correct answer. K, check. Question number four. What 2300 meter tall volcano in Central Luzon erupted in 1991? Yan. Mount Pinatubo. Mount Pinatubo. K, check. Question number five. Who celebrated his 10th year as prime minister of China in 2023? Romy? Prime minister Xi Jinping. Tama ang korek na ang palsay student natin. Buto na lang. K, check. Question number six. In the movies, what do you call a small role where a popular actor makes a brief appearance? Kamiyo. Kamiyo is the correct answer. K, check. Question number seven. Which city in Panay known for its dishes like bachoy was declared a creative city of gastronomy by the UNS called Romy? Ilo ilo city. Ilo ilo city is the correct answer. K, check. Question number eight. Food paren. What do you call a usually expensive delicacy consisting of the eggs of various large fish? Very well. Caviar. Caviar is the correct answer. K, check. Question number nine. In science, what do you call the transfer of heat by the motion of air as in a turbo broiler? Parang nakahagutom ang mga talong natin. The correct answer is convection. Question number ten. In one of the top-grossing blockbuster movies of 2021, King Kong gets to mix it up with what gigantic Japanese monster? Very well. Godzilla. Godzilla. K, check. Question number eleven. What term refers to the right to vote in electing public officials and adopting or rejecting proposed legislation? Romine. Right of suffrage. That's the French term. In the English language, it's the right of suffrage. K, check. In basketball, which American mentor has compiled the most PBA championships won by a coach, including two Grand Slams. The correct answer is Tim Kong. And that's it for round two. Great job, contestants. Ngayon naisilipin natin ang kanilang mga scores ng muna parin si Romy with 160 points. Wow. Nasinundan ni Rayoel with 50 points. Cien with 30 points. And Sheila hahabul. Hahabul pa. Next round. Pero hindi pa rin tapos ang laban na ultimate pagalinga na sa pagbabalik ng K, check. Welcome back to K, check. Brofto, meron ka daw ka tanungan para kay Sheila. Sige. Para sa chat, bro, paano mo na laman na ikaw ay nasa backstage at hindi na sa front stage or on stage? Nong nang start, nang simula pa ng first year. Nang start mo kami ng pandemic and nung una pa hindi ko gusto yung pieter as in kasi hindi wala na po akong maisip na ibang course po para sa kan. Pero nang start na po yung face-to-face na po na hulma po yung pagkagusta ko sa pagpabakstage. Nang start po yung intensive class ng second year. Pareo tayo, backstage din gusto ko. Thank you, everyone. Of course, before proceeding to the next round, just a brief recap. Romy at 160 points. Very well with 50, yen with 30, and Sheila with a lot of catching up to do. Pero talagang makakachap pa siya dahil meron pa tayong parating na ultimate pagalingan round. Dal dito, correct answers are worth 30 points each at my 15 point deduction for wrong answers. Remember sa ating panel of experts mang gagaling ang mga kapanungan. What are we waiting for? Let's begin. So welcome to K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. Sir Neil, go ahead. Okay, unang tanong para sa Philippine history. Sa anong panguluhan naipasa ang local government code. A, Corazon Aquino. B, Gloria Makapagalahoyo. Romy. A, Corazon Aquino. So tatapusin ko lang yung mga pagpipiliyan. B, Gloria Makapagalahoyo. C, Joseph Estrada. D, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. E, Fidel Ramos. Siyang unang babaing pangulo ng Pilipinas naipasa sa kanyang panunongkulan ang local government code ng 1991. Ang tamang sagot ay letter A, Corazon Aquino, K-check. Prof Marla. Science naman tayo. What is the main function of red blood cells in the human body? A, Transporting Oxygen. A, Transporting Oxygen. Let me read the other choices. B, Fighting Infections. C, Producing Antibodies. D, Regulating Body Temperature. E, Secreting Waste. Red blood cells or erythrocytes are the most common type of blood cell. Their function is to A, Transport Oxygen. K-check. Hindi lang sa polisay. Magaling hirom. Misumasay ang science denis. 220 na. Ok, Prof to. Kignan natin sa arts and design. It is the dominant object in a picture plane and usually the focus of attention. A, Figure and Ground. B, Embedded Figure. C, Alternating Figure. D, Ambiguous Figure. And E, Figure or Form. Eter-Epo. Tama. Parang napahamon si Rumi sa tanong di. Sir, to. Parang kinabahan. Riving kayang-kayang mong social sciences, geography at history at itong susunot ng tanong. Anong bansa o territorio, ang hindi kasama sa British West Indies o Anglophone Caribbean. A, Bahamas. B, Haiti. C, Grenada. D, Jamaica. E, Trinidad and Tobago. Napahamon rin sa tanong naiba. Ang tinutukoy na bansa ay Kolonia ng España bago ito na hawakan ng France. Ang tamang sagot ay letter B, Haiti. Thank you, Prof. Marla. Marine Science. Which endangered marine mammal, often called the sea cow, can be found in some coastal areas of the Philippines and feeds on seagrasses. A, Blue Whale. B, Spinner Dolphin. C, Dugong. Promi. C, Dugong. I'll finish reading the other options. D, Rissos Dolphin. E, Whale Shark. These mammals are threatened by habitat loss and pollution, resulting from a steadily growing human population. The correct answer is C, Dugong. K-check. Prof. Sige, sa art ulit ayo.  It produces various tints and shades. A, Analogous colors. B, Acromatic. C, Monochromatic. D, Use, E-Values. Yes, sir. C po. Tama, Monochromatic. K-check. Thank you, sir. Prof. Bukod sa Pilipinas, anong bansa sa timok silangang asya ang kasaping tagapagtatag o founding member ng ASEAN at SIATO. A, Indonesia. B, Malaysia. C, Singapore. B, Thailand. E, Vietnam. Yes, sir. C, Singapore. Malik. B, Malaysia. Malik. Indonesia. Malik. Sa kasasayan ng C-game, silang may pinakamarami medalia. Ang bansa ng ito ay nagsilbing buffer state sa mga kolonia ng mga preton at pranses sa timok silang asya. Sa 20th century, tumindi ang bansa ng ito laban sa komunismo. Ang tamang sagot ay letter D, Thailand. General Science. Science scientists propose the theory of general relativity. A, Isaac Newton. B, Albert Einstein. Romy. B, Albert Einstein. I'll read the other options. C, Galileo Galilei. D, Stephen Hawking. E, J. Robert Oppenheimer. This German-born theoretical physicist is B, Albert Einstein. K-check. Philippine art history tayong ayon. An esteemed national artist from the UP College of Fine Arts. He worked with another national artist for film, director Manuel Conde, as production designer for the award-winning 1950s movie, Ganghis Khan. He painted the mural, Filipino struggles through history, permanently installed at the Philippine National Museum of Fine Arts. The national artist is hailed by his kababayan as the great Angonos mural painter. A, Vicente Mananzala. B, Carlos Botong Francisco. C, Fernando Amorzolo. D, Cesar Ligaspi. E, Larry Alcala. His famous painting mural datang nakainstollito sa Manila City Hall. Ngayon nilipat na sa Philippine National Museum of Fine Arts. Ang kasagutan ay si Carlos Botong Francisco. Huling tanong mula sa akin, ano ang huling denastiya ng Korea na tuluyang nawala bunsod ng kolonisa siyong hapon. A, Kim. B, Lee. C, Park. D, Song. E. D, Song. Malay. Epo. E. Letter E, Yi. Bahagi ang denastiyang ito ng Joseon Kingdom na tumagal mula 3092-1910. Ang tamang sagot ay letter E, Yi. Kcheck. Chemistry. Which type of band involves the sharing of electrons between atoms? A, Ionic band. B, Covalent band. C, Metallic band. B, Covalent band. I'll finish reading the other options. C, Metallic band. D, Hydrogen band. E, Peptide band. This band is found, for example, in oxygen, in nitrogen and in water. It is the B, Covalent band. Kcheck. Simaraming ang chemistry sa food there. Nama. Sa design tayo ulay. Parang walang nakakasagot sa tanong kutongkol sa design. Ay, si Rihuel pala nakasagot kanina. Okay. It is a distribution of visual elements such as point, line, shape, colors and even white spaces are range either symmetrical or asymmetrical. A, balance. B, equilibrium. C, symmetry. D, radial. E, axial. K, check. Tama. Oh, masaya na ngayon. Ngunapapansili nyo yung stage design natin. Nandyan sa inyo sa kanan natin yung contestant na sa left ang panel of expert na sa git na or full chrome ng balance ang mga hosts. Kaya yan yung balance. Di siya center stage full chrome. Okay. Thank you so much. Very impressive round. Palakpakan ninyo ang bawat isa. That's it for our K-check Ultimate Pagalingan. Congratulations to Romy, our K-check daily winner with a final score of 280 points. Wow. Record-breaking yan. 280 points. So we'll see Romy again on Friday when they compete with our other daily winners for a spot in our semifinals. Maraming salamat ninyon kaisyela Yan and Rayoel for joining and, of course, to the members of panel of experts, Prof. Neil, Prof. Marla and Prof. Kong. This has been attorney Gaby, Concepcion. And I'm Jules Giang. Join us again tomorrow for another K-check.


For xerium headlight, there's our most important head disease of small grains in North Dakota and Minnesota. When scouting for this disease in a headed crop, there are a few key features to differentiate for xerium headlight. The first thing is you'll notice is premature whitening or bleaching of the spike. Sometimes it's only a single floret, or it can be the entire head. Regardless, this is a symptom that you may start seeing 10 to 14 days after flowering has been initiated. When it comes to looking for symptoms in barley, you can notice premature bleaching of the spike lids, but often infection first occurs as small brown water-soaked lesions that continue to colonize a barley kernel. When you take the combination of these infections, the biggest result in this is you'll see shrunken kernel size, which can lead to yield loss. In the top photo here, we have Durham that has been characterized by infection from least severe to most severe in barley on the bottom. You'll notice that as the infection becomes severe, in this case an earlier infection on the head, you'll have reduced kernel size. This will lead to yield loss and discounts due to the production of the vomitoxin, production of vomitoxin known as deoxyneavalanol, that is a product of the phraserium fungus. When it comes to determining the amount of risk in your field from phraserium headlight, there are three things you can consider. Pathogen and probably the most important is environment. This disease is favored by high humidity and prolonged periods of moisture prior to and during the heading and flowering process. The optimal temperature is a range of 75 to 85 degrees, but disease can still occur outside of this range if ample moisture is present. The pathogen is a very good survivor in North Dakota and Minnesota. It uses several strategies and some of its preferred hosts are corn residue as well as small grain residue. The susceptible hosts that are associated with phraserium headlight include all small grains, but the level of susceptibility seems to be the most in the Durham crop where most of our resistance is in hard red spring wheat. When it comes to gauge and risk, there are some tools out there to help make that decision. There are forecasting models, one being available as the national model through funding from the U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative, and you have local state models such as one that's at NDSU and also at the one at the University of Minnesota. When it comes to management of disease, it uses a multi-pron approach, and this is going to include variety resistance, fungicide choice and timing, cultural practices and best used in an integrated manner. When it comes to looking at variety resistance, there are some great resources out there through continual breeding efforts and evaluation efforts in the breeding programs at both North Dakota and Minnesota. You can find these easily accessible each year by typing in the crop of choice and looking for specific trial results and evaluations of the diseases that you find in each manual. When it comes to fungicide, the first thing is making sure you're using the right fungicide. The best way to describe efficacy of fungicide can be found through the NCERA 184 table that is available at the Crop Protection Network website. Here it lists the five fungicides that are currently recommended for phrasarium headlight control, but notice that you're going to see efficacy differences amongst them. Generally over the years, triazole fungicides was our only class of fungicides for control, but recently a new SDHI that has come on the market has now also provided good control. When looking at these products specifically, Kurumba, Miravisace, Proline and Prasaril are going to offer the most protection against phrasarium headlight. When it comes to timing to make a fungicide application, it's going to differ slightly between wheat and barley. For wheat, you're going to look for the onset of flowering, which are the yellow anthers or yellow flowers protruding from the center of the head. When it comes to making the decision to make an application, research done by field trials in the US and Wheaton Barley Scab Initiative have shown that the window of efficacy starts at early flowering and is good for seven days. In other words, if you can't get out there to make a fungicide application on early flowering, you have up to seven days to make that application. When it comes to barley, our target is going to be full head and complete full head emergence as sometimes that flag leaf can be a barrier when trying to get great fungicide coverage. Again, the same mentality holds true that the fungicide window for making an application in barley is at full head and extends up to about seven days. This will give you the most reduction in phrasarium headlight and also the vomitoxin, deoxanabalanol. When it becomes looking at cultural practices, these can have some success when reducing infield inoculum. Certainly, rotations away from its preferred host crop of corn is one example where you can employ crop rotation to help reduce the risk in a field from phrasarium headlight. But the best way to manage this disease to reduce the amount of damage it causes in the field is used to an integrated approach. Oftentimes, this is done first by selecting the best available variety for resistance and using a fungicide application during the season. The combination of these events, you can show ways to help reduce this disease and help reduce potential concerns with it for that season. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me. My name is Andrew Friskup. I'm an extension plant pathologist at NDSU or I encourage you to reach out to your local extension county agent or county educator to help with some of the decisions that may be coming with phrasarium headlight.


Hello, everyone. I'm Keith Webster, the Helen and Henry Posner junior dean of university libraries at Carnegie Mellon, and I'm delighted to welcome you to tonight's event, Citizen Science and Community Data, inspiring engagement between CMU and local communities. We're joined this evening by three CMU leaders who are going to share with us their passion for community focused projects, innovative approaches to engaging communities in collecting and utilizing their own data, and ideas on how those in academia can support community led advocacy. Many thanks to my colleagues at the university libraries who have worked behind the scenes to bring this event to you. Tonight I'm particularly grateful to Sonya Wellington, our events manager, looked after all of the logistics for tonight, our entire external relations team, and our moderator Emma Slaton, our data curation, visualization and GIS specialist in the university libraries. I'm also grateful to our exceptional panelists who will be sharing their insight with you this evening. First, we have Mickey McClassen, a community data scientist at Carnegie Mellon's Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment, better known as Create Lab. He works in partnership with people and organizations across the Pittsburgh region to collect, analyze and visualize data relating to air quality, affordable housing and more. He'll share his experience working directly with community partners to collect data for a variety of initiatives. From the university libraries, we have Said Choudhury, director of the open source programs office. Said brings his expertise using open science to bridge the gap between academic institutions and community organizations, especially in his previous role at Johns Hopkins University. In that role, he launched Johns Hopkins open source programs office, the first of its kind within a US university. Said was also President Obama appointed to the National Museum and Library Services Board and has served on a number of other boards and committees focused on science and data. Finally, we're joined by Alex Hinniger, Director of Sustainability Initiative at Carnegie Mellon. Alex has guided communities from 18 different countries across the globe to understand how their data can be used to combat societal problems. And she now works with the Carnegie Mellon community to incorporate the sustainable development goals into the university's education, research and practices. And I'm very pleased that Alex has found a home in our university libraries. At the end of the evening, you'll have a chance to join in the conversation with a question and answer session. Whether you're currently a faculty member or student here at CMU, an alumnus using your research skills to make a difference, or a community member from Pittsburgh or beyond, we'd love to hear your thoughts on using data science to better center and promote community needs. I'm especially glad to welcome to this evening's event members of our Board of Trustees and leadership and friends and colleagues from peer institutions. We hope that you can use this time to get excited about how we can all come together as a broader community to affect real change. Thank you all again for joining this evening. Without further ado, I'll turn things over to Emma to get the discussion started. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us on this Tuesday evening. In our work at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries to support data education, it's become clear to us that there is a broader need and interest for our students to actively engage with our community partners. Not only do we as researchers recognize that much of the work that we do is founded on data that is provided to us by the community, but we also understand that we have a need to give back to recognize that contribution to our work. So beyond just offering the opportunities like we do at CMU Libraries for community partners to join us and do some skill training to help broaden their data skills, we recognize that it's also important for us as researchers or those who are actively engaging in community partnerships to give back by talking about their work and encouraging others to not only follow their lead, but actively engage with their projects as well as inspire work of their own. As we go through tonight, we'll be hearing from our free panelists, which Keith already lovely introduced. And so as we go through from Mickey's introduction to his work, Said's discussion of his role and Alex's discussion of the sustainability initiative and her other many accomplishments, I'll ask them to start by answering the question. What elements of your role or work involves engaging with the community and bringing to light community voices? And how does that aspect of your role and bring you to CMU and the work that you engage with in our university community as well? So with that, I'll pass it over to Mickey. Take it away. All right. Hi, everybody. Thanks, Emma. So I'll just I'll just briefly introduce myself, talk a little bit about my background and like I can ask what brought me to CMU and so forth and and and tell you a little bit about the work of the organization where where I work now, which is the cradle. So I went to grad school at CMU at Heinz College, which I'm guessing at least somebody, if not many, somebody is on this webinar, you know, also did or are doing right now. I had a great experience at Heinz College. Did that several years ago work before that and in planning for a local government and worked after that in community and economic development through an organization called Fourth Economy, which is based in Pittsburgh, works all over the country and does a lot of work specifically in the Pittsburgh region.  It's the Crate Lab. It's the organization where I work now. And the reason that I joined the Crate Lab and absolutely thrilled that I got the opportunity to do so is because Crate is a really fantastic example of a university based group that has long lasting, meaningful partnerships on a variety of different projects with community embedded organizations. Crate's been around for a lot longer than I've been here for about 20 years now. And several of the other lab members that I work with have been around for a lot of that time. And the long list of projects that Crate has developed in partnership with other groups demonstrates the genuine commitment that I think our lab tries to have to doing work that is community oriented and that seeks to benefit not primarily the university, but primarily the community and the partners that we've worked with. Let me just highlight a couple of projects real quickly that our lab works on right now, active projects that Crate is involved in. And then as we go through the panel, I'm happy to discuss any of those or others or just in general to discuss the kind of work that Crate does, if people have questions. So for starters, the Crate lab has a really strong history of working in environmental, in the environmental justice space locally. Specifically, a lot of that work has revolved around air quality. We work in partnership with a variety of different groups that are embedded in communities throughout Allegheny County in the Pittsburgh region to establish the infrastructure, the technical infrastructure needed to collect data about air quality, to publicize and analyze data that is collected through that infrastructure and to advocate around the analysis that comes out of that work for improved air quality in the region. Anna Hoffman and our lab leads that work and that program is, to me, the strongest example I can come up with of what universities should be doing in partnership with community groups. And there's a long history of work to show for it. We also do a lot of work in data visualization. One platform that we developed that is focused on data visualization is called Earth Time. The Earth Time platform has been around for a long time now and it's gotten a lot of play internationally. But we also use it locally. We use it to help local organizations visualize a variety of different locally focused data. And a developer in our lab right now, Harry Hawkins, is working on creating a Pittsburgh specific version of Earth Time that that'll be focused on just that for the Pittsburgh region. A couple of other things to highlight. So we work in partnership with an organization called the Black Equity Coalition. That's a group that was created a few years ago in the immediate aftermath of the COVID pandemic, the outbreak of the COVID pandemic in the U.S. in response to concerns about racial equity in the Pittsburgh region during COVID. We participated in the BEC Black Equity Coalition, BEC Data Justice Working Group, since the onset and have worked in close partnership with others in that group who include representatives from the University of Pittsburgh and a variety of different community groups, nonprofits who come together to look at data to try to advocate around data. And while most of that work over time has focused on advocacy around COVID, we're also starting to look in that group at broader issues of public health and injustice. One other thing I want to highlight. So we work in partnership with the Center for Share Prosperity, which is a new initiative that probably a lot of people on the webinar are already familiar with. I'll not say too much about that yet. But if people have questions about CSP, happy to talk about that. But we work with CSP-led projects to provide technical infrastructure, data visualization, other types of support, and several of our staff members spend a fair bit of time in partnership with CSP projects and the community groups that lead them. Okay, with no further ado, I'm going to throw it to our next panelist here in a second, who I believe is Alex to speak next. But I'll just say happy to take any questions on work. I've done the work that the CREAT-Lab is doing. I've probably done a pretty lousy job of covering the wide variety of stuff that we work on, but totally happy to talk about anything that people have questions about. So Alex, you're up next. Thanks, Mickey. And as you were speaking, I was quietly mapping all of your work to the Sustainable Development Goals, because my name is Alex Kinnaker, and I'm the director of the Sustainability Initiative, which is Carnegie Mellon University's commitment to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals into our education, research, and practices. If you're not familiar with the Sustainable Development Goals, there are a set of 17 global objectives that all countries agreed to achieve by 2030. And while most people think of sustainability in terms of the environment, the Sustainable Development Goals go beyond the environment to include questions of social equity and economic justice in addition to environmental factors. And at the heart of this agenda in these 17 goals is the concept of equity, and that if not, everyone has access to the resources outlined in the 17 goals, then we haven't sustainably achieved them. What brought me to CMU is that CMU committed to become the first university in the world to report on their alignment with these goals through a voluntary university review. And before coming to Carnegie Mellon University, I actually led New York City's program to use the Sustainable Development Goals to coordinate with the United Nations as well as cities and countries around the world. In fact, I came up with the idea, typically people think of the Sustainable Development Goals as something top-down that comes to the United Nations, but they were actually agreed to following consultations with millions of people around the world over the course of seven years. And there's explicit recognition that cities, academia and the private sector as well as civil society play a really important role. But there's no clear definition of how they can engage. It's considered to be at the country level of the United Nations. So while I was with the City of New York, I said New York City is implementing all of this. We actually are doing the Sustainable Development Goals day in, day out. So I created the concept of a voluntary local review to report on their progress toward these goals and to have a say in how global discussions were happening and what their impact was on the local level. I'm excited to share that since I created the concept of the voluntary local review, more than 300 cities around the world have begun engaging with voluntary local reviews in their local governments in the United States. That includes Pittsburgh, as well as Los Angeles, the state of Hawaii, the city of Orlando, and more cities are looking into it. But what I want to emphasize with the goals is there are 17 goals. There are 169 targets and 252 indicators. And there's a lot of expectation that everyone has to report perfectly on every goal. But I'm a firm believer that these sustainable development goals aren't about comparing vastly different data points in different contexts. Obviously, Pittsburgh is different from Phnom Penh that is different from Kigali that is different from other places. But we can talk about is shared challenges and what we measure and why in order to achieve it. And using the common language of the sustainable development goals, I think that CMU has so much to bring to the conversation, not only in terms of how we are conducting our operations, but also in the ways that we are educating not only our students, but our faculty and staff and the type of research that we're conducting so that we can connect what we're doing both within the university and externally with our partners here in Pittsburgh, in Kigali, in Doha, nationally, internationally, as well as with the private sector, civil society and foundations were increasingly engaged in this work. I want to conclude by saying that I never thought I would be working on a sustainable development goal. As I spend about 15 years working in international development around the world, as Keith mentioned, and what I've seen in every place that I've lived from Pittsburgh to New York City to Phnom Penh to Laos to Lebanon is that if you don't center the perspectives and priorities of the communities with which you're partnering, you will never find a sustainable solution to the challenges that they've identified. And I think that that's really informed my approach to the sustainable development goals both at the city of New York and what I've been doing here at Carnegie Mellon University. And with that, I'll hand it over to Sayid to share a little bit more about what he's working on. Thank you, Alex. Good evening. It's a pleasure to be here. So I will begin by saying that one of the things that drew me to CMU was the Center for Share Prosperity. But I'll talk more about what drew me to CMU at the end of my remarks. My work focuses on supporting data and software systems that translate university based research into different settings and contexts, including local communities. University sometimes approach working with local communities using a perspective or mindset of we are the experts, we're here to solve the problems. I contrast this with a statement made by the Center for Share Prosperity's Executive Director here in the Last Town Hall. He said the overarching mission of CSP is to get agency to the people of Pittsburgh to solve their own problems. Even with the few visits that I've paid to community centers, I've learned a lot simply by listening, I can recall a young man who said I can hustle for a lot of things, but I can't get clothes for an interview. And when I walk in the room with the clothes that I have, they tune me out immediately. Or a homeless person saying it's not enough to know that there's a bed available on a shelter that evening. This person needs a bed by an outlet because they have a medical device. So beyond these anecdotal stories as we scale from the individual to the community, city, nation and even the world, we need to reconsider how we gather, analyze and share data. And building a sense of agencies bolstered where there's trust and transparency. I attended CMU SyLab, after the summit last year, and one of the speakers was the health minister from Sierra Leone, who wisely said, you don't build trust at the moment of an intervention. It requires long term engagement and commitment. So brief aside, some of you may be thinking that community engagement is a matter only for humanists or social scientists. I previously worked with researchers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center who were studying snow and ice data loss, sorry, loss in Northern Alaska. They wanted to speak with village elders who had seen such loss over time. I'm told the researchers showed up and told the elders, we'd like to build the database of your temporal observations. And the village elders apparently said something to the effect of, we're not really sure what you mean, but we're happy to tell you our stories, what we've seen over our lifetimes. That's a form of data. There's tremendous untapped potential value in using more granular, disaggregated, aggregated data and stories directly from our local communities to support the kind of great work that Mickey and Alex have talked about already. And open source software is a pathway for long term engagement with local communities using transparent processes to foster trust. At my previous institution, a group of researchers and library colleagues continue to work with the local community center, the St. Francis Neighborhood Center. They're developing a set of health based interventions, including COVID vaccine drives. A key underpinning of that project is the potential use of a platform called McCourtude, an open source software that's been used successfully to capture data and stories from indigenous communities. A key question is whether McCourtude can become a platform for building community data portals with a sense of agency that operates at national scale. So finally, what drew me to CMU? I have a background in engineering and public policy, so CMU feels like a familiar academic place in many ways. I have deep respect for the CMU libraries and I'm thrilled to be a part of the team. And finally, it's a research intensive university, but it has a service mission at its core at its very history. And I think that's reflected in all the great work of the colleagues that I have on this panel throughout the library, throughout the universities at CSP, but also most importantly, in the citizens of Pittsburgh. So with that, I'll turn it back to Emma, who's going to facilitate a discussion with the panel, which I'm very much looking forward to. Thank you. And thank you to all of our panelists who will invite to return on your videos. I can now see all of your smiling faces. So we'll just jump into some pre prepared questions while we wait for everyone in the audience to jump in with their own as well. Listening to all of your conversations about your work. One thing that became clear is centering a community voice. And much of that focus on community voice also relied on being able to access information so that that voice can be heard. And we've seen this also through the White House Office of Science and Technology. Policy has now announced that data access is the information that we need to get out this year. It's how we need to engage with our communities. So I wondering, for you, what role does access to information or data play in aiding community focused advocacy? I think maybe if we can start with Mickey and talk a bit about the work that you do with local communities here in Pittsburgh. Yeah, sure. Thanks, Emma. So what role does access play? You know, I think data access is is vital. And it's it's important in any number of contexts. But it is also almost always insufficient. Which is not to say that that we shouldn't care about access to data. It's just that we shouldn't only care about access to data. And there are probably a lot of labels for what you know, the other parts of that equation that make this type of work successful. But the the the word for me that is most important beyond access is partnership. It's it's having strong and lasting partnerships with groups that, you know, are founded in trust and allow technical experts to be responsive to the needs of community groups, which are never going to be static, you know, are constantly changing. And you know, I think I think the the story Said that you just that you just tell like we have that you just told it in your introduction there. We have stories, you know, that some version of that translates into any number of different domains that translates into local work. Too often the dynamic that technical experts whether from universities or not bring to the to the table when it comes to data, open data is is access only. It's here here's the data you're welcome. And I think partnerships are the other vital side of that equation. I couldn't agree more Mickey, we really need to make sure that it's not just having that access to the data. It's about how we center that access and the partnerships that can drive from it. And I'm so glad that you referenced Said and your response because I was also going to pass that question over to Said as well, particularly in thinking through your work with communities in terms of gathering data from them as well, but also and then creating these spaces where data can be more accessible. And maybe framing it a bit too. And what Mickey just mentioned about the centering of partnerships is an important aspect in that space. Yeah, I'll turn the mirror on myself for a second if you don't mind. So I spent two years working for the UN in Bangladesh, and I was part of the group called the Flood Action Plan. And we had the ambitious goal of modeling the rivers of Bangladesh. That it remains a solve problem. But I remember running these models in a central office in the capital city of Dhaka, and then hearing reports from the field of people basically going to earth and, you know, kind of embankments and so on poking holes of them. And I would say, why are people doing that? This is why our models don't work. There must be lots of fall, you know, leakage and so on. And they said, well, they're doing it to irrigate their farms, right? So here you have this central office trying to model rivers in Bangladesh. And then on the ground, you have people doing what they do in order to survive. And I think what we find is that when there are shocks to the system, COVID, for example, was certainly a shocking system, there's a gap between well meaning, national, state level policies, actions, allocations, so on, and making it impacting people's lives. I was reminded, you know, of a economics professor I've had who said, you know, for all our modeling and data, don't forget to look for health wanted ads in your local stores and your restaurants. That's a great indicator of what's happening in the economy. So that gap from the national perspective or large scale perspective, dare I say the academic research perspective into everyday lives is a gap we need to address. And I think that has to happen by actually asking people what's on their mind, what the problems are, how they would go about solving them, and then building open transparent systems so they can trust them that we're not gathering your data and doing something, you know, nefarious with it, that we're actually doing something that will help advance the problem you've identified. That's a great point, Sayed. I do think that we need to think about looking to what is it the community needs and listening to them tell us rather than trying to enforce those views there. And I'm so glad to see Alex very excited about that response as well because I was going to turn it to you. So Sayed just mentioned that local information and perspectives are so important in this work as well. We can't just have top down data driven collection needs. And in your introduction, you mentioned how the SDGs, the sustainable development goals can apply both coming down from the UN, but also looking at local partnerships and local commissions to identify ways to address those needs. I thought maybe you could speak a bit on that. Yeah, I just first want to say that one of the reasons I was looking so forward to this conversation is I couldn't agree more with what Mickey and Sayed just said. Totally support it. But I think that what's really interesting about the sustainable development goals is something that a lot of people suffer from is what I term framework fatigue. There are so many frameworks out there and there are so many different ways to approach things and think about data and what you should collect and why. And I don't think I certainly don't think that the sustainable development goals have captured every single thing in every single way. But what is remarkable about them is that they are this universally accepted. Like I can't express to you how incredible it is that 193 countries agreed that open government and peace justice and strong institutions are critical aspects of sustainability. So it's a starting point for us to think about how we talk about these issues and why. But I absolutely absolutely do not think that we should ever go into a community where I go up to someone and say, have you heard about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It's 17 objectives agreed to by all as people that are engaging with these partners. I think the onus owns on us to make that translation between what we recognize are the frameworks that we can use to apply our research or advocacy to other aspects and then determine how we can collect the information at this. So for example, in the city of New York, when I did the voluntary local review, I wasn't going out and asking New Yorkers what they thought about the sustainable development goals. I was asking our city agency partners, I think that you're contributing to this, this and this. And this is the way you're engaging with your constituents. And I helped look at the policy, the overall policy about how they were measuring engagement. It was not my responsibility to go out and engage with the different communities across New York for this. And I think it's really important to remember that as excited as we may be about these frameworks, they're not universally acknowledged by everyone and we don't need to apply them that way. So true. And I think the exactly right, it relates back to what Mickey is saying about listening to local partners and centering their perspectives and how we think about not only data accessibility or data collection, but also how people end up using the information that researchers provider that they collect themselves. And so since we've just been talking about centering our community partners voices, I'm wondering if you might be able to share some of your experience working with community partners and maybe discuss the most unique or positive example of a project you have that involves a community partner or community collected data for citizen science collaboration. Perhaps maybe Alex, do you want to go just based on your experience in working with New York or one of the other locations you mentioned earlier? Sure. I think something that is actually informed my entire approach and worldview is working on the international campaign to ban landmines. Here's a situation where we had governments in Geneva saying that landmines were a critical weapon of their arsenal. They absolutely needed to be used to win worse so on and so forth in the 90s. But the people living in the countries where the landmines were being deployed said actually the vast majority of casualties are civilians. Civilians are suffering from this. They're not militarily useful and you're not reaching your objectives by harming civilians. So what happened was the international campaign got together, collected information and stories from all of these different countries where landmines were used, brought it to the decision makers and said, you know, this isn't the reality on the ground. This is actually what's happening. They partnered together with supportive governments. Canada took this on, developed the Ottawa process to ban landmines and we now have an international treaty banning this weapon and it's used by only the worst of the regimes these days. And that's because the people impacted by landmines stood up and said, this is how it's, this is how it's impacting us and we are going to be part of the conversation. And it was really important in that case, not only for them to be part of it, but to recognize the role that different actors could play. So we had supportive national governments. We had the United Nations agencies that were able to facilitate the technical expertise. We had civil society in terms of the people living in the countries that were impacted. And we had civil society in countries like the United States advocating in Washington DC for them to take part in these conversations and understand what was going on in the ground. And that was that was really impactful for me. And that's always the reference point when I go back to when I think about how tough things are and how important it is to keep at it to actually make meaningful change. Definitely. And building off of that example, mentioning the involvement of several different levels of institutions. So we're talking about local governments or other active agents, maybe some federal involvement. And it reminds me say it of when you were talking about the different levels of involvement or engagement at an institution level to the places that are collecting data, you mentioned your project in Bangladesh, but you also mentioned your work in Johns Hopkins. So I'm wondering if you also have an interesting project you'd like to expand more on as an example of a fun or impactful way that communities were able to actually impact the data that they live with. Yeah, and I will talk about the project to Johns Hopkins, but I'll give a reference point to something that I've learned about the Center for Shared Prosperity and Work in Pittsburgh. And I think, you know, maybe you're probably involved in this around the monitoring of air pollution and alligating County and, you know, as you say, providing ways to visualize that data. But I read in one of the articles that even though masks and filters and so on are the offer for free, there's a reluctance to actually take advantage of those interventions or, you know, sort of responses. A parallel, if you will, metaphor in Baltimore was there was reluctance to take COVID vaccines in this community center, even though we said Hopkins is willing to come and a physician is willing to administer these to you. And I'm not picking on my former institution. I think this is true of many universities. There's a serious lack of trust and a fractured relationship with some community members and the university. And it's just a historical fact that some of the medical researchers at Hopkins previously experimented or did, you know, treatments without consent and so on. So that story is passed down from generation to generation. And that's what you're up against. So what we did in this project instead was the researchers started having this, you know, reading group monthly reading group, any in the communities invited to join. And everyone was treated as a peer and an equal. And this, you know, not only is about knowledge sharing and transfer and so on, but it's just getting to know each other. And then one of the researchers held a series of data literacy workshops at the community center went there and said, this is the data. This is how you might want to read this. This is generally important. And then the Hopkins position showed up with the COVID vaccines. And I remember one community member actually saying, I'm not even here for the vaccine. I'm just here to see a Hopkins doctor. I never thought I'd see a Hopkins doctor in my life. So getting to that point takes a lot of effort and sort of unlearning what you think you may know. And with this, so, you know, here's the data, here's the analysis, why would you not take advantage of this? It's really important to unpack all these complicated issues. Absolutely. And I think it's back to the same idea that's been coming up continually in that we need to listen to what the community needs. And what projects they're most interested in engaging which was I think, and also you into that site is the goal of the Center for Shared Prosperity. How do we bring the Pittsburgh community to be full partners with the work that we're doing at Carnegie Mellon as researchers? And speaking of CSP, I'm interested, Mickey, to hear about any projects that you're working on with them. That might be interesting. I know you mentioned earlier, the programs on air quality that say it also referenced as well as working with the community for Black equity. Do you have another example you might want to share? Yeah, so just briefly on CSP, there are several in the language of CSP launch projects that have started over the last now year and a half. CSP for me is a and let me just say it again, Center for Shared Prosperity, the Center for Shared Prosperity, CSP, sorry for using the abbreviation, but that is a really interesting model for how a university might relate to the community around it. And it's just getting started.  There's a CSP is led by what's called the Center Community Committee or C3, which is a group of representatives that meet regularly to come up with these these project ideas and advance them and, you know, try to understand how in any given case, a project could create systemic change in the local community. And the idea that a university could be kind of a canvas for that without and a support agent in that without dictating what those projects end up being or how they, you know, how they progress, for me is where the really exciting elements of CSP lie. And I think that's a that's a genuinely new thing that you don't see in many other university contexts. But like I said, it's also it's also new and and it's like being created as we talk, you know, this this year is a big year for CSP as well next year be when when some of these projects that have just started to launch come into really come into being in stronger ways. And and I think probably the message that's important for the audience of this webinar, if you are local, if you're in Pittsburgh, if you're part of the CMU community, now is a great time to get involved in that work if that's something that you're interested in. And to help shape what some of those projects look like, what the what those relationships with community organizations look like and so forth. And then briefly on the black equity coalition. So the BC is a group that is also really, I think, an interesting model for a collaborative organization. It was not, it was kind of the opposite of CSP in one way. CSP was the product of a lot of thought. It was it was the product of smart people sitting down and saying like, how can we do things differently and better? And BC was the product of urgent need in a crisis. It was it was the product of a pandemic that was novel to everyone experiencing it and very legitimate fear around what that might mean for equity in this region, what it might mean for equitable health outcomes in this region. And you know, it's kind of interesting to be involved in two different things that have had very different origin stories in that way, but which both have similar strengths in terms of the depth of relationships that that they have fostered the role that you know, and especially the role that universities play in both of those organizations, not that it's the same role, but in both cases, the university is not deciding what happens. And that that's that's, I think, a model that CMU hit other schools in Pittsburgh and schools around the world can should seek to emulate to be partner without being in charge. Absolutely. And I think from what we've heard from everyone on this panel, it's exciting that we get to be here at CMU where these programs are developing and we can really make some of that change happen. And I just want to highlight again, could you also check out the link to the Center for Shared Prosperity page in the chat right now, because as Mickey mentioned, there are projects, there might be projects you want to recommend. So please do engage with that. And speaking about hearing from the community or directly giving your input to that, I think it's time for us to move on to some of our community questions from everyone who's joined us tonight. And one of the questions that I see is for Mickey. And it is basically asking, do you work with public libraries within or around Pittsburgh to affect data-driven community initiatives relating to social equity and allied aspects? Yeah, I'm in the minority of people on this panel who do not work at a library in some form or fashion. So I might not be a perfect person to answer that question. But I think public libraries in Pittsburgh, public libraries anywhere are a vital resource to a community. In Pittsburgh, that's especially true because of the strength of the library system locally. I have done some work through the Allian County Library Network to in my past role to make libraries physical space available for a variety of different programmatic functions. I think libraries are one example of what could be many different types of community scale institutions, where there is an opportunity to better utilize existing physical spaces, digital infrastructure, and just institutional knowledge networks in any type of project that involves mobilizing a community or disseminating information to a community. I think libraries are a great example of an institution that's good at doing that, and they're not alone on that list. Thanks for the question. And I think that was a great answer. And I mean, as someone who works in libraries myself, always excited to hear when people are wanting to engage with us. And I wonder if I could pass that over then to to you say to someone who's had a long history of working in libraries, what do you feel the role of libraries is in this space? Yeah, I actually go in refer to experiences. I think he mentioned that I was on the National Museum and Library Services Board for a time. And one of the really wonderful aspects of being on that board is providing the National Service Awards to libraries and museums. So we would receive applications from a wide variety of libraries throughout the country. So I had an opportunity to see public libraries, research libraries, you name it, and museums and galleries and so on. And just to echo and reinforce Mickey's point that so many of these spaces are community centers in their own way, gathering spaces where people are doing job applications, you know, interview skills, whatever you want to, you know, you need to get the job. And they do provide those kinds of, I would call the central services. But that's a pathway to more of the information type of services or literacy that we're talking about on this panel, right, is that you may come in for one particular function. That's a great pathway or an opportunity to say, hey, are you aware that, you know, you may be interested in this job, but these are things you might want to know about this particular topic. Or there are other kinds of topics that may be of interest to you. And I don't, you know, put Alex on the spot or tell them what to say or so on, but the whole sustainability space that are in the county event libraries to me is a great example of how research libraries can play that role as well. So I see her nodding. So maybe I'll just stop, jump in. Well, just to add to that, when I applied for the job at the city of New York back in 2017, they asked me to bring in an example of how we could amplify sustainable development goals in New York City. And I said public libraries and rolled out a whole sample strategy for how we could do this with public libraries. Of course, I was based in the International Affairs Office. And I'm not sure if I emphasize enough that CMU in 2019, the provost came to New York and I heard him speak about CMU's commitment to the sustainable development goals. And that's actually what made me think, maybe it's time for me to see what's happening in higher ed with these additional opportunities with education and research. And over the past two years, this has been a provost's priority, but he together with Dean Webster recognized the central role that the university libraries play across campus as a convening place as a source of information for current collections and also archival information. So it's a perfect spot for us to set up the sustainability studio, which is a place for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the Pittsburgh community to come together to learn about the sustainable development goals and to do various activities and participate in different sorts of convenings to identify how their work is related to these goals and how they can connect with other partners within and outside of the university to help advance this agenda. And I just love being in the libraries because I'm surrounded by people who are incredibly knowledgeable and very passionate about sharing it. So every time someone comes to me with a question, I've mapped everything to the sustainable development goals and I can find the relevant partner, whether it's a faculty member, a staff member, another teacher to see how they can help answer the questions that someone may have that are related to the relevant sustainable development goals. Yeah, absolutely. I have the same enthusiasm about working in libraries and I also so enjoy that a lot of the content that we make available for our students and faculty here at CME was equally available to the community and we'll plug some workshops that anyone from the community can attend later as well. But thinking about the libraries as a partner in this process, it makes me wonder about other partnerships and we did talk about focusing less on here's the data and more on here's how we can work together with the data or better understand it based on community needs. But we do have a question from the chat that wonders if we might be able to further describe how partnerships work. Does it include data interpretation and guidance, offering implications and impacts of what data reveals? Does it involve working with data education? Are there other components of a partnership that it's important for community members to know when they're looking to connect? Anybody want to jump in on that question or should I call names? You know, okay, I'm careers Nikki. Yeah, I know you and I have talked a lot about the need for building data visualization skills in the community. And you mentioned something earlier that a lot of the ways that you focus on building partnerships or letting the community in on some of the content that has been developed through partnerships is through communication and data visualization. Do you want to maybe talk about partnerships at that level as well? Yeah, sure. Thanks. Thanks again for that question. I think that's that's important too often in these sorts of contexts we can we kind of like skirt by on vague words, you know, partnerships and community and things that sound nice, but are hard when you get into the details and partnership is a great example of that because it's not it's not easy to be a good partner when it comes to technical work. I don't think there's a short answer. I think it's it's at the risk of sounding like I'm ducking the question. I think it's all of the above to a certain extent, right? Sometimes it's it's being a good partner. If you're coming from a technical space like the university and you're working with the organization without a lot of technical capacity, you know, I think sometimes what it what it looks like is partly educational and partly, you know, like just providing providing services like you need you have this data and you need some sort of visual representation of it. Let me work with you to understand what that you expected to look like and try to provide you with something that's useful to your purposes. That's a that's a form of partnership, for sure. I think good partnerships, good organizational partnerships are built on shared interest and are involved a genuine reciprocity of skills and information knowledge.  Not just not just wrong wrongly from a moral perspective, we're missing an opportunity to do work better, you know, to learn, which is theoretically the you know, a pretty central focus of most universities, at least on paper, right, to learn. And I think I think that is the harder part of partnership to really do honestly. But but I you know, I think that's that has to be part of the mix to a genuine exchange of knowledge and ideas. Let us work through this thing together and I have certain skills and backgrounds and you have certain skills and backgrounds in between the two of us. We we make a better team. You know, that's what partnership is in any context. And there's no reason why it should be different when it comes to working with data. Absolutely. And I say, did you want to add something as well? I was just going to follow up. But if you have a comment, I can wait till. Oh, please go ahead. Yeah, I truth be told, when I told my graduate advisor, I was going to work in the library. He said, well, why? Because I was in engineering and program. And I said, well, you said to me early on when I said, what am I supposed to do in grad school? He said, I don't want you to figure out a particular set of things. I want you to learn how to learn. And what I said to him was, I can't think of a better organization that helps you learn how to learn on the library. And he said, well, nicely done. Good luck. Have a good career. So I think libraries are really wonderful places to help people explore data, information, services, people, resources, you name it, collections. And there's no agenda. Like nobody walks into a library and is told, you must come to this conclusion, you must come to this answer. It's very much helping you navigate that. But to do so in a way that reflects sound methods and, you know, solid principles and ethics and values and so on. And then to amplify that through a network of libraries and library and information science schools and so on. And that's not only in terms of the content and the way you navigate the content, but it's also the infrastructure, right?  But if you think about that kind of McCarty platform I was talking about, a series of community data portals. Are libraries potentially the place to provide the infrastructure for those? So I think that kind of network effect is something libraries can bring into the fix as well. No, absolutely. And I think to both those points, having worked in libraries just in six years also coming from a research background where my PhD supervisor was very surprised I was moving into libraries but making the jump for the same reasons as I want to help people better understand and access information about their lives. It's something that we can think about how places that are focused on education function and actually provide a service and provide support to some of those partnership elements that you were talking about Mickey as well and how can we help education get out as that should be the role of a university. But thinking about people coming from outside the university, Alex, I'm interested to hear about aspects that you've worked in for these kind of partnership networks and how that can relate to education or other roles and partnerships. Sure. One other area where I'm working using the Sustainable Development Goals regionally is as a member of the steering committee of Discover, which is a network of organizations, about three dozen organizations convened by Sustainable Pittsburgh that are going through every single Sustainable Development Goals target to determine how the these groups regionally are contributing to each of the targets and how do we define success in each of these targets. It's been a series of long meetings over several years in order to ensure that everyone's perspective is heard and that the local priorities of our partners here in Pittsburgh are reflected in the targets that we talk about when we talk about the Sustainable Development Goals in this region. And I think that that's really helpful to ensure that we are able to communicate with local organizations using this common language of the Sustainable Development Goals because at CMU we're increasingly looking at it internally and also there are opportunities with the city of Pittsburgh, which I mentioned is published to voluntary local reviews and other cities, states and countries around the world. And I just I want and I'm excited to share there was a question about foundations that the Pittsburgh Foundation is actually supporting our work and there are lots more community foundations, including the Cleveland Foundation, the Central Florida Foundation and a few others that are actually internally looking at how the Sustainable Development Goals can be a tool for them to determine when and how they prioritize their funding and how they identify future potential grantees. Yeah, excellent. I think you're you're hitting the nail on the head here, Alex, that a lot of this work is just beginning, not only in terms of how we think about the SCGs and apply them to community partnerships, but also if we look internally at CMU with the new initiatives that Mickey were mentioning coming out of the Center for Shared Prosperity. This is all an exciting time where things are happening and we can actually engage and take that ownership as people who are invested in supporting community missions. And speaking of thinking through the future of how community partnerships and citizen science are going to work within the context of CMU, I'm wondering if any of our panelists have thoughts on where this is heading in the next five years. How can CMU evolve to better work with community partners to support access to data or education that can help citizen science advocacy? Yeah, I'll start. I think to everything you've heard on this panel and much, much more, of course, about the university, CMU is doing a wonderful job. And I agree with Mickey. This is not typical for universities to have communities as true and equal partners. I'd love to see over the next five years and I believe it will happen that it moves from gathering data or sort of working with communities to figure out what the data are, the problems are, to actively including them in solving those problems, right? So it isn't this process of here's the data, here's the problem and then we go off and do all the analysis and give them back to you. But rather, there's a shared sense of solving the problems together through data analytics and all kinds of things. And to do that in true partnership with the community. What about you, Mickey, next five years? What's going to happen? Yeah, the thing that I would most like to see happen in the next five years, so that's maybe a slightly different answer than the question. But the thing I would most hope will happen. And I also think it will happen is that the student population of CMU, which is already to some extent an engaged student population in the local community, will become more so. I mean, I think it will be harder to be a student at CMU and to not have, at least in your face, opportunities to be engaged in the community around you and in a meaningful way through, you know, whatever it is that you're studying in school. I think that I'm not saying that doesn't exist now, but I think that will exist more and more prominently in the next five years. And I'm very hopeful about that. I think that would be a really, really, that would be, that would be an enormous thing for the university to achieve. If it can, to a significant degree, more strongly engaged students through their academic work, through other opportunities in the community around the university. And just to piggyback on that, I think I remember you mentioning that there might be some open internships or opportunities for students to get involved even now. Did you want to mention that briefly or? Yeah, sure. If you're a student on this call and you're interested in doing this type of work, feel free to talk to me directly. The CREATE Lab often has interns. The Center for Share Prosperity also works with undergrad students to place them in different support roles for the projects that are going through the Center for Share Prosperity. So there already exists lots of opportunities to get engaged if you are a CMU student right now. Great. All right. And then Alex, next five years. What are we hoping for? What are we seeing? Well, in partnership with the work that Mickey and Saeed just mentioned, I'm hoping that our colleagues at CMU think more comprehensively about the impact of their work beyond the specific topic that they're working on and the sustainable development goals can be a way to unlock those conversations, not that everyone has to be addressing all 17 goals and they're looking at their objectives for their research or engagement, but rather thinking through the, you know, you're focusing clean water and sanitation. How is that related to sustainable cities and communities? Good health and well-being. How is that related to quality education? And having an understanding of how those different parts fit together, I think will only make us all stronger students, researchers, and members of the community. I'd be remiss not to mention the nexus on civic engagement, which I am a part of, which is a new initiative by Carnegie Mellon University to strengthen community engagement between the university students as well as faculty and staff and our partners in the Pittsburgh community. And I think that they're a great resource for people looking to get engaged in the Pittsburgh community as well. Absolutely. And I love that we're coming to the close on action items that people can take away. And I have a couple more action items for everyone. But first, I want to thank all of our panelists for being a part of this wonderful event. I know that I've learned a lot about ways that I can do more to be a better partner to the CMU community by learning from all of you. And I look forward to having more conversations on these topics moving forward. I also want to thank everyone again, who put time into planning this event and to everyone who attended. But just to let you know that there are other ways that you can continue to engage with us on the topic of community data and citizen science being full partners with our efforts here. One of those is through a series of workshops that will be happening at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. Now, we've talked about libraries as a center for education. Well, here's some ways that you can actively learn. Those workshops are going to be made available for anyone in the community to attend. You just have to register and they're free. So I hope to see some of you all at those events. Other events that are coming up through the libraries include three minute thesis where you can also learn not only how our students might be engaging with the community, but the research that our students are doing more broadly through their studies. It's three and two is an internationally recognized celebration of research that challenges PhD students to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in three minutes and in language that anyone can understand. So again, it's a great way to talk about how students can speak to the community. It's the event is happening on Tuesday, February 28th. And see me, PhD students representing a variety of research areas will take part on the stage to discuss these topics and even possibly win cash prizes. So the event is also free much like the workshops and is open to the public. It's also a hybrid event with an in-person and virtual option for attendance. And you can find a registration link in the chat to that now. Finally, you can tell that the libraries are very invested in building connections between the university and the community through workshops through events like 3MT. But if you would like to support us in those efforts, please consider giving a gift to the CMU Library's Dean's Discretionary Fund. There's a link provided in the chat. Your donations can strengthen our vital role as a convener of interdisciplinary activities and a central gathering place for the CMU community to have on campus wide conversations and conversations that also include our community partners. With that, again, thank you very much for attending this event and I hope you all have a pleasant evening.


Please allow me to introduce my friend and colleague on the C3E Organizing Committee, Valentini Pappa, to offer some closing remarks. Valentini is the Assistant Director for Education at the Texas A&M Energy Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M. Please join me in welcoming Valentini to the stage. Thank you so much Naomi for the introduction. Hello everyone. I'm the lead person for Texas A&M Energy Institute and it is time that Texas A&M University is receiving the baton for the next year. A farewell is necessary before we can meet again but before that I would like to go through a couple of points and hopefully I will represent and I will be the voice for some of you. A few minutes ago the last panel for 2021 USC3E Symposium concluded. We learned so much from the innovation in developing countries and it was one of the most inspiring panels. Also I would like to highlight these two incredible days. Thank you Stanford for this wonderful and motivating event. We all learned so much more about clean energy, environmental justice and social equity. Congratulations also to all the awardees. You are amazing and you are giving to all of us here great inspiration, empowerment and hope. This event would not be possible without the great collaboration between the DOE MIT Energy Institute, Stanford University Precourt Institute for Energy and MITECS A&M. The planning team works the whole year to bring together this event. In addition I would like to thank the 40 ambassadors that represent the C3 Initiative at public forums. All together we work towards a stronger recruitment, retention and advancement of highly qualified women in the energy field. Thanks also to all of our sponsors including six in the leading level, nine in the sustaining and three in the supporting level. Your support means a lot to the planning team, the awardees and the attendees. You give light to this event. Until next year make sure you follow us on the social media. Join our webinar series and submit nominations if you have someone in mind. So it is the time to say goodbye and I hope to see many new faces next year in person here at Texas A&M University and welcome back our many old friends. It is time for action for all of us. Goodbye y'all see you in 2022.


How do you hear the voice of the Holy Spirit? How do you strengthen your spiritual gifts? How do you start or grow in ministry? What does one have to do in order to have a more effective prayer life, become a bolder witness or overcome sin? All of these questions and questions like these really come down to one thing. Spiritual growth. When you grow spiritually, everything about you changes and improves. Now it's important that you remember that your growth is a work of the Holy Spirit. But his work requires your participation. So what are the things one must do in order to grow spiritually? Well there are many things which can contribute to your spiritual growth but for the sake of simplicity I will briefly focus on just three. Here are three keys to spiritual growth. Number one, the word. They delight in the law of the Lord meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither and they prosper in all they do. That's Psalm chapter one verses two and three. Now this may seem obvious but it's vital that you commit to knowing the word of God.  Now when I tell you that you need the word I don't just mean that you need the verse of the day or a video that you watch online. And no, not even this video is a substitute for receiving the word of God. I'm talking about getting into the word of God in depth. I'm talking about reading chapters and chapters at a time.  Number two, prayer. First Thessalonians chapter five verse 17 very simply says never stop praying. Again this may seem like an obvious key to spiritual growth but you would be amazed at how many believers neglect these simple acts. Looking for quick growth and shortcuts many leave these spiritual practices undone. Prayer transforms your very being. It bends you toward the will of God and subjects the desires of the sin nature. Number three, fellowship. And let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do but encourage one another especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. That's Hebrews chapter 10 verse 25. When you recognize that there is no power in a building but that there is power in our gathering all excuses to not gather with fellow believers begin to crumble. Think about the fact that many of the early church martyrs risk their lives just to gather with the saints. That should tell you how important it is. It's a biblical command. When you connect with other believers you are given accountability, encouragement, friendship and so much more. Like embers all coming together our gathering likewise stirs a fire. Again there are many other keys to spiritual growth but by putting these basic keys into practice you'll begin to see spiritual growth in your life. I encourage you to make the time for the word of God for prayer and for gathering with the saints. I'm David D. Hernandez and that is your moment of truth. For more free teachings like this make sure you're signed up to my email list so that I can send you weekly emails with content that will help you to grow spiritually. Go to davidhernandezministries.com slash email. Thank you for watching Encounter TV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell. Also help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now.


You made it to part 7 of this eDesign Suite video tutorial series. In this video, you will learn how to use the evaluation board selector. This new feature will help you select the evaluation board that best matches your needs in our product portfolio. As demonstrated in previous episodes, let's navigate to the eDesign Suite page and select an application use case. Before we have defined any input specifications, the tool automatically selects a list of ST evaluation boards matching our application use case. Click the evaluation board selector button. A pop-up window appears previewing boards available for our use case. For each available board, you'll see an image of the product, board characteristics, links to the board data sheet and product page. A sample and buy link to the page where you can purchase it. Let's now specify the required operating conditions. After we have done so, open again the evaluation board selector. The list of suitable boards has been refined and now features a selection of ST evaluation boards matching your updated requirements. A selection of additional boards that fit your specification within certain tolerances. Sliders on the left allow you to refine tolerances assigned to your design parameters. For example, according to our specification, the I out current value is set to 1 amp. By default, the tool adds a 20% tolerance showing all boards with an I out current larger or equal to 800 milliamp. If we use the slider to increase tolerance on the I out current, the selection of additional boards is updated with more products. Available tolerance sliders may differ according to the selected application use case, but generally include V in, V out, I out and price. The evaluation board selector is available at any step of the design process, including during the IC selection stage. When you use the interactive dashboard to visualize, analyze and refine your design operating conditions and performance. At any time the board selection is updated based on your latest design refinements and your specified price range. Tune in to episode 8 for a tour of the Digital Power Workbench.