Ahead of the 2023 General Elections Nation's Electoral Empire, the Independent National Electoral Commission says it will not release the election timetable until the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law. What is the implication of this decision? The pyramids are back, this time not granite pyramids but rice pyramids. President Mohammed Buhari yesterday unveiled what is said to be the world's largest rice pyramids. Better days ahead for the agricultural sector. We take an in-depth look at these on the programme. And as usual, we dive into the headlines for the nation's national dailies on the breakfast. Welcome to the breakfast in Plos TV Africa, it's a great day and we're going to be having a great time on the show. I am Messi Bopu. And I'm Kofi Battels, we start off with our top trending stories. It's interesting news coming as fast qualifications for the leading positions in Nigeria quality is concerned. Of course, and that's because you have the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femig Bajabiamila, raising the concerns that the National Assembly should pay attention into reviewing the constitution to amend it to ensure that we have an upward review for qualification. It might also interest you to know that the qualification currently, I think it's at the SSC. School certificate is being called. But this is one concern. And I remember the time in 2019, where the 2019 election where the part of the constitution was amended to allow young people to actually contest for that election. But there are a lot of reactions that have generated or that have been generated following this school of thought. The question is, will that enhance performance? Will that bring about good governance? Will that solve the security concerns? Whether or not a person has a higher educational qualification, does that translate into having good policies and what have you? But I think it's a two-way thing. So it's not a criteria to become a good president or to become a better governor. But it's also necessary to have all of that education and information, especially for a client like Nigeria with diverse consent, and trying also to imbibe, you know... So what are you saying? Because it sounds like you're giving this... So you're making a case for this change, is that what you're saying to me? So I'm making a case, and I'm also not making a case for it. I'm for it. I'm also saying that as much as that's a good one, but it's not necessary... I mean, it's not a criteria. Like we talked about yesterday, we have seen professors who are governors, you know, we have seen academics, and nothing to show for at the end of the eight years and counting. And so what is the... Does that really mean that if someone have a particular qualification, would that really make them a good governor or a good president? Would that translate into standard of living of the people? So this question, quite daisy. That's a very important question to ask, you know, lots of Nigerians looking at the pros and cons. No educational qualifications for political leaders, especially those who are occupying the number one position in the country. Usually a subject of debate, I mean, it's not just with Nigeria. You go back all the way to the United States of America, it's been an issue. And I'm sure the other countries we can point out that have had issues like this. But in Nigeria, the academic qualifications for the current president have been caught into question before. And therefore you have, you know, supporters of the different political parties taking sides on this, and it's evident in the discourse online. Like you've said, there are pros and cons of such a move. Of course, you look at the fact that the concession is concession, it has to be amended. The electoral act also needs to be looked at before such a move is implemented. But maybe those who are going for this don't want anyone to be excluded from the process and to give the chance of opportunity to contest. No, so I don't think that that might be the case, you know. So I'm going to make reference to that 2019 where the not too young to run bill was actually introduced.  So how many young persons did we have? Because you're looking at the time. The time is very slim. You have to talk about preparations. Elections are not just that you don't wake up in the morning and say you want to become a governor or president. You must have been working before now. So you probably would have had all of your strategies. So if you don't have these laws already in place, if you don't have the backings of the law very early, existing enough time, so the people can actually prepare. So because you are meant a particular, you know, section now. So let's even assume that we now say, OK, if you have the BSE and then just how many more days somebody wakes up and say, OK, now that we have the qualification is up, so I can actually vie for it, PhD holders and masters. And so what is the time frame now? So I'm thinking that we shouldn't always wait for it. It's very brilliant, but we don't have to wait for almost an election year. More like the eve of elections. Absolutely. Absolutely.  I remember being passed. These are things that they need to be planned. Well, the logistics and the the planning that goes into an election is quite huge. It's quite large. You know, I was listening to Celine Dion. Sorry. So we're asking what's a different relationship between Celine Dion and election. But she canceled her tour. You know, she has meant to perform in some parts of the world. She canceled the tour. Why? She said because of health reasons and she apologized to her fans. Why does Celine Dion apologize to her fans? Because she says that they had they had bought tickets and all that. And she says the planning it takes into that goes into the work that goes into planning a concert, you know, is a lot. So I said to myself, if if a musician, if a musician does a lot of detail planning for just one concert, you know, how much more an election, a lot of planning goes into the election. So it's going to be tough to see how this plays out.  But then again, you know, some of them have also asked I've looked at some of the comments online. Some of asked them, what's the value of a university degree in the country today? What do people need to go to to get the degree?  Is this one to graduate? What is the quality of education we have in the country today?  And then you say, yes, this person is is teaching me something. This is what people online will say. And I was I was interested in some of the comments that having a degree in the country today doesn't necessarily mean that you put in the work, you know, with all the strikes that have been going on and all that. We need to look at the quality of education and and and learning we have. And then we also need to pay attention to the fact that the world is evolving. I mean, things are changing. There are a lot of dynamics. And so we need to catch up with all of this. So 20 years ago, things were quite different. I mean, the analysis and, you know, the way we look at things. So it is important that we evolve as much as it sounds very brilliant. I'm also thinking that we should also encourage, you know, vocational training and what have you because we were actually paid attention to, you know, the conventional institution. And so we constantly pay attention to it. The world is moving away these days. People are looking for who can solve problems, problem solvers and not necessarily because we go to school and will be taught theories.  How do you handle all of this?  So it's something maybe we need to include. So there are a lot of things. It goes beyond just having, you know, academic qualification. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Well, moving on the federal government on Monday filed a fresh terrorism charges against the embattled leader of the indigenous prescribed indigenous people of Biafra group, Namdi Kano, in the amended processes filed before the federal High Court sitting in a buja. The government increased the counts in the initial charge. They preferred against him, a Kano who has been in detention since alleged abduction from Kenya. So say repatriation and return to Nigeria faced as seven reasonable felony charges, mercy. But now he's been he was expected to enter a fresh plea to or respond to the charges of 15 amendment charges against him. The charges were amended, like we said yesterday, discussed yesterday in the news headlines, barely 24 hours to the shadow commencement of the hearing by trial justice Bintanyaku. And of course, we also got to learn yesterday that a new member of Kano's team legal team at a marriage in the present of Michael Zekome. He is now the lead counsel to Kano in this case, of course. Ajiofo is still there. Ajiofo is still there. But Zekome now takes the lead and Michael Zekome complained after during the trial that his client was still being subjected to poor treatment in DSS custody. He said that Kano was still being kept in solitary confinement and that any other detainee who greeted him was also kept in solitary confinement. And this is the first time we're hearing this, you know. And shortly before adjourning the matter, of course, it's going to be really impossible for Kano to enter a plea to something charges that just came up barely 24 hours to his appearance in court. And before adjoining the matter, the trial just just is just has been reminded the defendants that a different detention facility was not a five-star hotel. She had to say to Kano, a detention facility is a five-star hotel. I mean, that was really dramatic. But she have reiterated a previous order to the DSS, in whose detention he is that the IPOB leaders should be allowed the maximum comfort possible. I mean, how does that sound? The maximum kind of comfort possible. If you check out what he wore yesterday, it's still the same outfit that he was captured in or he was arrested and brought back to Nigeria as far back as June 2021. And the trial judge was livid. She was upset and not happy that he was wearing the same fendi outfit. So she said, you know, that she says in a coat, I don't want to see him in these clothes again. This is this one is almost off-white is what the judge said. Also, make sure that you allow him exercise. So it's been quite a very, very touchy show online in an on air with love, Nigerians reacting to this. So for me, my concern is why would the office of the attorney general? I mean, after two years or they're about just all of a sudden increase the charges. As much as I would agree that, you know, it's a yes, that they do have a right to increase or reduce charges, that is it. But it is sticking. I mean, that's a lot of time. So what happens to the proof of evidence before you get a case to court? So you probably, I mean, the fact that the case in court is that you have established all of the evidence and so therefore you can continue. So all of a sudden you wake up and then there are new charges where this charges coming from because we cannot talk about the merit of the case.  But look at some of this issue. So it's a consent. Now, if you remember vividly in November, I remember the time when the president said he was going to have meeting with the Orhanese and Digbos and some of the elders and said there was a possibility of him granting amnesty or a political solution. Yes. And he said there was a but yes, because I think that if the president had said he was going to grant in Cano, you know, or was it called amnesty? Nigerians wouldn't be surprised. It wouldn't be surprising. But this is very shocking that so in November, this happened in November and what are we again? We're in January, he granted just a few. Yes, sorry to interrupt you. Well, he granted an interview a couple of weeks ago. That famous interview at the TV station and where he said with a media house, sorry, where he said, you know what, he can and should defend himself in court. His government will not release him, you know.  But but some some pundits said that maybe Nigerians are rushing to conclusion regarding that statement. No, it's not that it's not that the president categorically said he was going to grant him amnesty. But I mean, the fact that he said it was a possibility. Yeah, there's a possibility.  And then he had agreed to the fact that he was going to meet with them just for, you know, peace and what have you. So shortly after, three months after they're about, then we have new charges. I mean, it calls for a lot of concern as much as we will continue. I agree. It's OK to say that, yes, they do have a right to increase the charges or reduce the charges, however. But we're saying that after how many time he was first to rain in 2021? Two thousand and twenty one. Yes, yes, he was captured in July two thousand and twenty one and taking the very first time he was a rain. Yes. But I mean, his lawyer, Michael Zekome, still echoed some of the things we said here yesterday. And so I guess that, you know, though I guess on the of the press was saying, you know what, it's still part of the practice in law. I think they call it the administration of criminal justice. No, but you can you can do that. No, you can do that. But you're also asking that if you I mean, for the fact that you're in court, you means you have proof of evidence. I mean, that's why you're in court already. So at what point do you now have new charges? I mean, if we have we've won the system with the legal, the judicial system of the legal system is very functional. You know that this case would have been done. We would have been done with this case by this time. So it's like in the words of Michael Zekome, his leak has the very, very also instructive and even support what you're saying because he said that the last agenda it was was in December, which is November, I think, which is barely one month. Away from they had about one and a half months, basically, to to amend the charges against him and increased accounts from seven to 15. But they did that barely 24 hours to the trial, like you said. And he was asking when or what time are we going to have to meet a client for him to go through these new charges to to decide whether what kind of plea to enter in some what kind of plea to enter, you know, guilty, you know, guilty. And is it that we're going to come to court and may we see a client to say hi, I'm speaking for the first time and we're going to show him. OK, this is what I got yesterday night. Look at the new charges. Are you guilty or not? We have to prepare the fence. And so it's he said he used to work delayed tactics that these are delayed tactics being employed by the federal government.  The issue of security presence is a public trial and the fact that people are not even allowed to go in. It's not a secret tire. It calls for another consent. And the fact that it just shows you when the judge said of the correction also is a correctional centre, by the way, and if that's a correctional centre, it just shows you the state of our present and how people are being treated, whether or not you are, you know, you're a special. I don't know if there's any VIP, you know, in the present. But I'm just saying that it goes to show you the state of our. Is it a bit better if you look at because he's a DSS right now. But of course, you never can tell, you know, so little confinement, but we'll move on. We asked us an issue with 5G and aviation. Of course, the global aviation industry is said to be facing a catastrophic disruption from the rollout of the 5G network service this week. According to the leaders of major airlines in the world, they had to write a letter to the United States transport and economic officials saying that the launch of this long-awaited, long-expected and anticipated 5G technology could ground flights and leave tens of thousands of people and even possibly millions around the world stranded. You know, so this is quite surprising because, you know, we've been looking forward to this 5G technology and how it's going to make life easier. Some people have said it's the best thing since sliced bread and now the airlines are coming out to say that if the technology goes ahead, we may not be able to fly.  No, also, so please, are we here? Yes, you know, you also had the fourth generation network. There was also another one associated with the swine flu. And so if you begin to look at the times, even, you know, with the fifth generation network, people say, okay, so they have decided to associate this with all of the viruses and diseases and they say, okay, this is the reason why we're having all of this outbreak, including the 5G network, we've had that. Almighty 5G, we couldn't sleep about. Exactly, so I just want to believe that, you know, this has been scientifically proven because all of those, all those, you know, thoughts and what have you, postulations have not been, you know, science have come out to say that this is not actually it. So I just also want to believe that this is not another conspiracy theory, has that been proven by science? Because that's what you want to say. As far as we know that, you know, the aviation sector has raised a concern, but we should be able to find out if, you know, that's really the case. Yeah, fantastic. I think that that's very important for us to find out, you know, but I think, you know, the difference between what we're seeing now and what we saw with 5G, 4G and 3G will be that this is coming from the scientists, you know, not from the people who are seeing the cables being rolled in their background in the mass and saying, why are they doing this even though there's a lockdown? You know, it's not coming from the preachers, you know, because there's a lot of messages where preachers are saying that, you know, some conspiracy and all that. But we have those cables being laid in Legos as well, I've seen some of them being laid around. And we told that the 5G will bring very fast, ultra fast is the word they use, internet speeds, extra bandwidth and increased connectivity. So, you know, we're looking forward to it. But, but, well, science is a science. Let's see what happens at the end of the day, because we don't want to be flying in hearing that because of 5G is an air crash and all that. We don't want to have that. Interesting times we live in, interesting times in days. Well, we'll step on the brakes right now and when we return, we will be looking at the papers. We're calling it off the press, we'll be right back.


What's kind of guys? Welcome back to another video. So in this one, I'm going to show you how to do verified product research. So when I say verified product research, basically what I mean is finding those products that are proven to sell. They have the information, the data, and the evidence behind them that make them a proven products that you can start selling today. So if you've been doing hours and hours of product research, you're scrolling through Ecom, Hearn or AliExpress, struggling to find that one golden products that you really want to commit to, or perhaps you've been testing dozens and dozens of different products and you've struggled to find that one product that gets that traction and actually makes you a profit, then this is the video for you. So today I'm going to show you how to cut that process down to a matter of minutes. And I'm also going to give you my five step checklist of criteria that you can apply to any products that you find. And if it meets the criteria in this checklist, then you know you've found yourself a great product. And so with that being said, thanks for tuning in. Hope you guys enjoyed the video and learned something new. If you do, make sure you hit that like button so I know what kind of content you guys want to see. And of course, if you want to see more of my content, make sure you hit that subscribe button too. Thanks again, and let's jump straight into it. Okay, so the tool I'm going to be showing you how to use in this video is called Drop a Spy. The reason I like Drop a Spy so much is because all of the information and data that it gives you is all legit because it comes from Facebook, it comes from external sources. So you know, and what I'm going to show you in this video is that if it meets these criteria in this checklist, then it means and makes that product a great product, a verified product that you can start selling today. So if anyone out there who wants to try and see results as quickly as possible, then in my opinion, this is definitely the best way to go. And just to illustrate how quickly you can get results then when you have the right product, then let's take a look at this store here. So October 1st to October 6th, we can see there were no sales. If we go from the 1st to the 14th, we can see there was a bit of a slow week. This is the testing week, just trying to establish essentially where the interest is coming from, what ad sets, what audiences, so on and so forth. But as soon as you have that kind of verification of the product and you start ramping up your ad spend, if I go for the entire month of October, you can see that before the end of the month, we were actually able to hit that 1K day. So in less than three weeks, we were able to scale the product up to $1,000 every day. And this is what this whole product research strategy and kind of premise is built on. So with that being said, then let's drop in to drop us by this is actually a tool I paid for myself because I liked it that much. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I think it comes with a free trial. So definitely head over and check it out. But I obviously have the paid plan and the biggest difference to my knowledge, if I remember correctly, is that with the paid plan, you get results from the last two months. So from your dashboard then, what we need to be doing here is applying a lot of filters because this isn't just tracking Facebook posts from the UK and the US, it should track in globally. So a lot of these, if we scroll through, you can see aren't really related to e-commerce whatsoever. So what we need to do, we need to get rid of this first and then we need to hit our filters in the top left corner. What we'll do now is we'll just go through and basically eliminate anything that isn't related to e-commerce or related to Shopify or related to drop shipping. And that way, all of the posts and all the results in which we'll be looking at will be potential products. Essentially, we can add to our stores ourselves. So no need for a text search, post-creditation date is fine, we can leave that blank. The first change I'm going to make is in our target audience section to the actual country. So we're going to go for the US and we're going to go for the UK. These are the two kind of most popular countries in which a lot of people drop ship to me, personally being based in the UK. I have more of a focus on the UK, but using this method, if you find a product that's selling well in these other countries and you can't find it, say, selling well in let's say Australia or New Zealand, then it definitely opens up an opportunity to take this product to a different country. So we have the US, we have the UK. Language can be blank, six can be blank, and so can age. The domain is blank. The econ platform I'm going to go for is Shopify. That way we increase the kind of chances of actually finding another drop ship in store, which makes it more replicable. What we're also going to do is we're going to select different call to actions as well. So we want shop now. So obviously we're focusing on posts where people are selling things. If we scroll a bit further down, there's two others in which I like to use as well. So buy now. And one more, I believe just below it, which is order now, which brings us onto the next section, then which is reaction. So what we're doing here is we're setting filters for we're telling drop spy, especially to only show us posts, which meet the criteria which we're setting here. So for example, if I was to draw this slider for shares across to a thousand, it will only show us posts that have a minimum of 1,000 shares. And this is where I like to start as kind of like my starting point. Actually the more engagement then the more kind of money has been put into an ad, the more popular it is. And the more interested the natural consumer or audience is in that post, otherwise they wouldn't choose to engage with it. So we have the US and UK. We have people selling on Shopify stores. This is really important too, because once you've found somebody's Shopify store, then obviously we can use their product pages. We can use their websites as inspiration and we can use our free Chrome extensions too to see exactly what their best selling products are. So we of course have the call to actions of shop now, buy now, order now, and a minimum of 1,000 shares. So if we start scrolling through and try and find something that kind of catches my eye. So I tend to stay away from cat stuff, not really a cat person, to bring in some more of a dog person. This looks like a cool product, but also looks like a super cheap product too. I try and stay away from really cheap products. And then we have a super absorbent pet bathrobe here on the left. There must be something good about this because it's got nearly 30,000 engagements, 5,000 comments, 13,000 shares. So let's have a look at this video then see exactly what this product is. So it looks like it kind of slips over their head and it's got a wrap on the bottom and also one for the head too. So this is actually a pretty cool product. I've never seen this before actually. Something actually gonna, and it goes under their legs, what we should can see. This is actually a really cool product, especially for this time of year in the UK. Obviously it's winter time. In fact, I walked a dog this morning and the amount of time it takes after a walk to towel dry your dog down whereas this solves that problem. It shortcuts that whole process and just makes somebody's life a whole lot easier. So I think genuinely I'm actually gonna order one of these and sell this myself. So we can see, in fact, if we open this up and just have a look at the comments as well on this post. So now that it's loaded up, we can see all of the information behind the product. So this is a proven verified product. There's no doubt about it at 13,000 shares. These guys would have made a lot of money. We can see the actual ad copy they've used too. We can see the description at the top. So we can definitely use that as inspiration if we want to sell this product to ourselves. And then what we can also do is go into the comments section and look at what people are saying about this product and look for people who are saying that they've bought this product and they actually like this product as well. So now that we've found on the surface what looks like a really good product, we'll need to apply our five point checklist just to make sure that it is indeed a verified product and it's worthy of testing. It's worthy of investing in an ad copy, paying an influencer to produce some content or perhaps producing that content ourselves. So point number one, it needs positive comments in the last two weeks. The reason why this is key is because a lot of these posts, especially if you're using the free plan on Droperspy, they may be posts from last year or the year before, whereas if we can find comments which are less than two weeks old, we know this ad is still active, we know people are still interested in it and therefore it makes it a great product to start selling today. So from the comments section, what we need to do is rather than hit this most relevant button, we need to go to newest. And when this expands out, we can see that this product was from two weeks ago. This comment story was from two weeks ago, two weeks ago, two weeks ago, two weeks, two weeks, one week, two week and so on and so forth. So we can see this is still an active product and therefore that is point one checked off. Point number two is over a thousand shares. We already confirmed this by using the Droperspy filters. Point three is there needs to be $25 room for marketing. So if this product costs us $10, we need to be able to sell it for a minimum of $35. And that way we have plenty of room for Facebook ad costs or whatever platform it is you're using. So to check this, we need to do two things obviously. We need to, first of all, we need to go to their website and see exactly what these guys are selling it for. So we can see once everything loads up nicely, they're selling it for $25, which is actually very, very cheap. However, they do have a bundle offer. So it may be a case that people are buying perhaps one, two, three, maybe even four of these things. What I've found personally myself selling in their dog space is that a lot of people do actually have two or more dogs and dog owners tend to have friends who are also dog owners too and they tend to buy things for each other. So now that we've found what these guys are selling it for, we obviously need to head on to AliExpress and see if we can find this exact product from a decent supplier so we know whether we can actually sell it ourselves too. So let's put in here dog, let's go for dog robe, see if anything comes up under this search term. On the top right here, that looks like something very similar. This looks like something very similar as well. We can see that not a lot of these have many orders too. So this could actually be a really good sign that it's a brand new product to bring to the market that not a lot of people will have seen before. So let's check out the video to see if it is indeed the same product that slips over the head. It's got like that neck guard that kind of folds down as it got the one that goes under the belly it has. So this is pretty much exactly the same product if not an identical one. And these guys are selling it for £8.54 or it gets a bit more expensive as you go up in price. It makes me wonder how these guys are selling it so cheap in fact, maybe a case that it's just converting so well that they're able to get away with selling it that much or perhaps there is a kind of high percentage of people actually buying more than one at a time. So point number three, $25 room for marketing. It's a bit iffy that one. It doesn't really match the $25. However, these guys are still selling it currently. So there must be something going on behind scenes that we can't quite see or perhaps they are just converting that well. So it's definitely something that would still interest me or product that would still interest me in testing. Point number four, it needs to be targetable audience on Facebook or whatever platform is your username at the moment. So this is obviously dead easy to do. We can head into our ads manager, head to the detailed tags in section box and just obviously put your niche in and make sure you can actually laser focus and narrow it down on your exact audience. And then point number five, is this product in trend or is it evergreen? So in trend means it's currently on an upward spike in popularity. Essentially more and more people are looking for a product like this. So if we have a look at the Google Trends info we can see Dogtower search term in the UK, 2004 to present is currently on an upward spike. The weather here has been pretty miserable for the last few weeks if not a couple of months and it's gonna only continue for the next few months too. So this is definitely a product which is on the upward trend. Essentially what evergreen means is there's always new people coming into an audience. So if you find a particular product that's selling really well today and it has an evergreen audience, it may be a case that that is actually a really good product that you could continue to sell for the next 12 months and beyond. And so as you can see in the space of five to 10 minutes we've found a really good contender for potential product in which we wanna actually move forward and test with. This is something that actually really interests me myself if you don't know, I've been selling in the dog niche for a few years now. Perhaps I could even record a series around taking this product, building a store around it, testing it and see what kind of results we could get. If that's the sort of thing that you guys would like to see and like to follow along for make sure you let me know down in the comments section below. And so with that being said then as you can see the process is very simple and very quickly. Obviously when it comes to actually selling a product well there's so much more that actually goes into it in terms of the actual store you build and the design and the structure and kind of setup of it. There's the actual ad itself. You can gain a lot of inspiration using this method of showing you today. But if you do wanna learn more and actually work alongside somebody who has done this stuff like I've demonstrated in this video I do have an accelerated program where me and you can work alongside each other for 90 days and I'll take you through the whole process. Think of me as like your business partner, someone to go to for support, guidance and ask your questions. And for 90 days we can take you from scratch all the way up to having a fully fledged functioning business making a thousand dollars a day like I showed you in this video today. If that's something that interests you put accelerator in the comment section down below I'll reach out to you I'll send you across the information we could perhaps hop in a call and talk about your goals and what you'd like to achieve and what you can get out of the program whatever it may be. So with that being said thanks again for watching guys I hope you enjoyed it. Enjoy the rest of your day and I'll see you in the next one.


Dear students, in previous module, we have learned how to record a variable into a same variable through SPSS. In this module, we are going to learn recording into different variables in SPSS. So, the command of performing this procedure is similar like a recording into the same variable. You have to click on the tab, transform, and then after clicking on the transform, you have to select the option, recode into the different variable. Once you have selected recode into the different variable, this type of dialogue box will be opened. So, when this dialogue box opens, then you have to decide your variable, which you want to recode into a different variable. For instance, you have selected one variable, which is PPFVD, post-pandemic fear of viral diseases. After selecting that, this software will ask you, what are the values of this variable? So, in doing so, first of all, you have to give the name, you have to keep its name, you have to tell its label, and after that, you have to click on the old and new values tab. When you click on it, then similarly, you have recode into the same variable, this type of dialogue box was opened, similarly, recode into different variables, the dialogue box will be opened. Here, you have given the range of the variable in the recode into the same variable, its two categories were made for the range. Similarly, here, you will give its range, its minimum and maximum value. There will be two categories on its basis, as you can see here, two categories have been made, and you have given it a code. After giving the code, you will click on the continue tab, when you click on it, then you will have a new variable that will come in this shape. You will also have the original variable, which is here, and a new variable will also be added. The advantage of this is that, when you do recoding into the same variable, your new coding scheme enters in the same existing variable. But when you do recoding into different variables, then you have a new variable that comes in front of you. When it comes in this shape, then after that, you have to do the same procedure as you did in the recoding into the same variable, you will go to the variable view, click on the values tab, and there you will go to the coding scheme that you used, one two, it will give low and high values. So once you have given the values, first you have this one two shape that you had, but when you have given the values and you have selected it by clicking on the option, then you will have some such values in the shape of high and low.


Item No. SCP-1781 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures The roadway leading to SCP-1781 has been blocked off near State Road. A perimeter fence has been constructed around SCP-1781 and has to be patrolled nightly. Any individuals who breach the fence are to be contained, administered a Class A amnestic and turned over to the ██████████████████████████████████ Police Department Description SCP-1781 is a drive-in movie theater located south of ██████████████████ Indiana, along State Road █████████████████. The theater consists of a dirt parking lot, a concrete projector booth, a large screen and a sign near the entrance labeled Moonlight Theater. During daylight hours, SCP-1781 exhibits no anomalous properties, to projector booth can be entered and contained in the standard movie projector used in similar theaters. Footnote Data is at ██████. Every other night at dusk, SCP-781 will activate. The door to the projector boot will close if it is open, and the parking lot lights will dim if they are lit. The projector within the boot will then begin playing a random film. Thus far, there appears to be no restrictions on the genre or length of film shown. During this time, the projector boot door and window cannot be opened. The selected film will run for its duration, and upon ending, SCP-781 will deactivate, causing previously dimmed lights to return to full luminescence, and the projector boot to become accessible once again. Individuals within the projection booth when SCP-781 activates seem to experience no passes of time during the film. While the type of film shown can vary wildly, the single constant throughout all observed showings is the presence of Australian British film actor Hugo Wieben in some role previously filled by another actor, actress or prop. Often these inclusions are immediately recognizable while others the role may be very small. Footnote 2 For example, during the screening of The King's Speech, it was initially thought that Hugo Wieben did not appear in the film, however, it was later observed that he had replaced a minor character in a large crowd shot. Notably has been verified that an underfilm shown to ever cast Hugo Wieben in the roles he assumes during screenings of SCP-1781. Additionally, when he replaces a major character or his presence is otherwise obvious, no characters in the film will take notice of him regardless of the capacity he is in. His inclusion may, however, cause discrepancies in the film from the original version. Footnote 1781-1 and 1781-2 Two notes can be found pinned to a small bulletin board within the projection booth. If removed, they will reappear the next time the booth becomes accessible after a screening. The note reads as follows. I don't know what it is, and I don't care. I ran the numbers and began at least a 15% attendance booth whenever we show movies with this guy in it. Not only that, popcorn sales increased on average 22%. We've got to find a way to get him in every single goddamn film, I swear. Everyone needs to call one of those film students in Hollywood and get them on this. John. John. Alden got your letter. We can definitely work with that. Can't wait to get started. You'll know when we're done. A and F Observation Logs The following are records from observed screenings of SCP-1781. Personnel assigned to SCP-1781 are reminded to list the date, film title, role taken by Hugo Wieben, and any variation from the original production if applicable. Observation Log July 8th, 2014 Film title, Bruce Almighty 2003 Role Taken God Previously assumed by Morgan Freeman Variations No major variation apart from the role change Observation Log July 10th, 2014 Film title, X-Men 2000 Role Taken Professor X's Wheelchair Variations Hugo Wieben wearing a silver jumpsuit inscribed with a large X carries Patrick Stewart on his back as he crawls from place to place. During transit, Hugo Wieben is noticed making a soft, whirring sound. Currently scenes containing significant movement on the part of Patrick Stewart's character takes considerably longer to play out. Observation Log July 12th, 2014 Film title, Hercules 1997 Role Taken Dehydra Variations During the battle with the Hydra, Hercules cleaves off Hugo Wieben's head. It is quickly replaced with an additional two, however the second head appears to be Hugo Wieben in red skull makeup from his role in Captain America, the first Avenger. As Hercules takes off additional heads, more appear resembling the different personas from different films Hugo Wieben has appeared in. During the final sequence where the Hydra consumes Hercules, Hugo Wieben, not considerably more unwieldy under the weight of several heads, is seen stumbling over the Hercules attempting to eat him and being unable to do so, resorting to chewing aggressively on his head. This continues for approximately twenty seconds after which Hercules stabs Hugo Wieben in the stomach killing him. Observation Log July 14th, 2014 Film title, March of the Penguins 2005 Role Taken A Penguin Egg Variations During a sequence depicting Antarctic penguins laying eggs, one penguin in particular looks to be inconsiderable to stress. The narrator, voice of Morgan Freeman, comments on this and the camera zooms in on the penguin. The penguin rocks back and forth before falling over and struggles on the ground for a short time. A large group of penguins then gather around the other penguin and the narrator comments about the cruel nature of life in the Antarctic. Finally, the penguin screeches and a fully formed naked Hugo Wieben erupts from the bottom of the penguin. Hugo Wieben lays in the fetal position of the ice as the narrator wonders about why this footage was included in the film, citing its graphic nature. The film continues afterwards, although occasionally both Hugo Wieben and the now-deceased penguin can be seen in the distance.


It's one of the things we've talked about for a long time is that we've had, we need to make our industrial parks and our downtowns more competitive as we're trying to attract new investment industry because we have lots of hurdles that other communities don't have, whether it's geographic location or a sparse population, some of the challenges we all know. And this is one tool in the toolbox that brings us up to a closer level playing field as we work to compete to bring new companies into the region.


Great, and we're live from Pivotal Labs here, and about to be introduced, here we go. Okay, cool. Okay, great. Thanks everyone for commenting today to our Tuesday Tech Talk at Pivotal Labs. I'm Penny, and I help coordinate Pivotal Labs, if you're not familiar with this space, it's like I'm offering something for me, and you can have me to talk to you about it. But right now we're going to hear from Dazza Greenwood. Did I say that right? Yes you did. Awesome. So Dazza is the founder of Cinex.com, which is a routine provider of professional control duty services for digital business and trust networks. So Cinex.com enables organizations to deploy cross boundary data flows, transactions, and other services using integrated business, legal and technical architecture and design methodology. So engagement for tailored to-purpose and leverage innovative solutions for digital identity, data policy, and technology strategy. A little background is at MIT since 1997. Dazza held various academic research appointments, including business scholar, lecturer, and scientist, and Dazza developed repeatable methods for integrated business, legal, and technical design and development assistance or services that were moved over decades of private consulting and released under open MIT licenses. Currently at the MIT Media Lab, Dazza's research focus is on integrated legal and technical code enabling trusted identities in the cyberspace, reliable big data analytics, and legitimately fair personal data sharing. So that's a good start for the intro. And so he's going to get started by telling us about his most recent project. Yeah, hack. Hack. Oh, it seems like your mic might not be on just yet. And then after that we'll have our cue in it. Thank you very much. Can everyone hear me okay? Yeah. Great. So this is a project that is open source and I'd say very exploratory from the MIT Media Lab that we're calling IAuth. It's a project that has grown out of the research work of Professor Sandy Pentland who runs the Human Dynamics Lab and basically the focus is on use of big data to gain insight, especially into human behavior and groups and population and trends. So you could think of it sort of like using epidemiological techniques or I was advertising techniques. But let's just say from a approach that he calls reality mining. So we like real time data and we especially like data from individuals. So unlike most social sciences, which are definitely quantitative, you know when I was an undergraduate like I had a clipboard and surveys for Psych 101 and we had an economics that did regression analysis. Certainly quantitative. The difference here is that the types of statistical models and analytics are more like what we would think of as modern data science and less and then specifically based on the models like machine learning or derived from the data directly and not from an assumption like rational actor in economics or psychological model like Freudian or something. So that's why we like the data right from the people. We like individually identifiable data which also is somewhat shunned in social sciences. Typically for research the game is about anonymization and aggregation and perturbing the data so that individuals are not identifiable. So just to give some context for this IOT app, the project that started it was in the Media Lab where I spent part of my time as a researcher not the civics.com consulting that Petty mentioned. In the Media Lab DARPA granted a project to Professor Pentland's group to develop a method for the Pentagon to do a better job in identifying vets returning from the wars who were suffering from depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome were the two key ones. So they threw a lot of money at it in different ways. Most of it more traditional clinical. Some of it went to the Media Lab to do something more exploratory and it was to basically work on a platform out of our lab called FUNF which gets sensors, all the sensor readings from Android phones and puts them in a nice single package that's easy to work with, no wrangling needed. From that it turned out that it was demonstrated that it was possible to have a very high degree of predictive confidence when depression or post-traumatic stress syndrome were present. Partly because these are behavioral. They're based upon observation. There's no blood test and the phones are really, really good at creating and preserving and transmitting data about behavior. So for example if you think, at no point did we get the payload of email for example or text but just the metadata showing patterns of contacts with others is extremely telling about people's mindset and how they're doing and their trajectory in a social environment. GPS is great to see a great deal and accelerometers and gyroscopes can tell you a lot about how people are walking. With early onset of Alzheimer's that's another important area. Slight changes in the way people walk. The way people walk is very signature. It can be a very, very good indicator of early onset of dementia or Alzheimer's. This can be picked up with the accelerometers and gyroscopes and phones very easily. Similarly for the DARPA study when people are not leaving the house so much when they're not communicating as much with other people as you can tell from the metadata and some other tells like that of a fairly thin slice of the data turned out to be very predictive. So the game that I was playing as a former lawyer in this project was basically all about how does one have a valid legitimate method for the Pentagon to get incredibly intimate data about that's after they're back from the war. In some cases they'd be civilians at that point. It almost sounds like the kind of thing that you wouldn't want and like some dystopia where the government has a bunch of information about everybody and they're trying to help us. That was a pickle and it required some really deep thinking and eventually we basically embraced an idea from Sandy Pentland which is what he calls a new deal on data. The vision is that in order to get the most out of the potential of big data we need to use individual identifiable data. That's a big part of it in fact. The only way to do that legitimately is where people own and control their own personal data. A radical that may sound by today's standards where almost all of our data is fractured across some third party systems and very literally when we click the buttons, accepting terms and conditions that we are assigning and transferring ownership or the equivalent of ownership rights and we can't really track where it is, we're not sure who's looking at it, we're not sure what's being done with it from that point forward nor we're necessarily sharing in like a fair value exchange and more of the point, it's kind of quick sand for the companies and government agencies that are relying on it. It's hard to, having been on the other side of that many times, it can be hard to get behind bold heavy duty action premised on personal data that maybe has if illegal or political basis to have because you're never sure where a bad headline or a lawsuit or a political dust-up is going to come with personal data. It can be like a third rail. So what's truly needed to transition to make the most of big data to really come to a digital footing in the economy like big as well as for every company is to be able to have a legit basis. New DO1 data provides that and it's actually not so different from the laws in Europe where people have deep rights to the personal data. We don't have a privacy directive like Europe and so what we did for the DARPA project or what I did was came up with a contract-based framework. So basically every party in the contracts had a legally enforceable by contract even playing field that reflected similar rights to the fair information practices the kind of rights you'd get if you say you had HIPAA covered data or school records. The school can't just give your transcript to anybody or your disciplinary record. It requires consent. Same with your medical records. Same with fair credit reporting at financial privacy and it turns out it's the same with quite a few bodies of records in the United States since Nixon's sort of implosion. There were 74 onward for several years. We had quite a blossom of privacy laws that were actually similar or better in my view than the current European privacy laws giving people very complete rights to their personal data in terms of control, knowing where it is, being able to ask for a copy of it, being able to, if there's something inaccurate, basically correct the record and all these are basically good information hygiene. So proving from some of these fundamental rights, fair information practices that they're called or the wrapper that we use in Sandy's lab is a new deal on data. It's actually a pretty old deal on data. Every party agreed to those terms as though it was a statute, but they did it in contract. So as I was trying to figure out how to really do that, so it wouldn't cost too much and it would reflect and support existing business practices and systems and the same technology that we're using already, it became clear very quickly that the pivotal point, if you will, was the OAuth 2 tokens. So it's that token exchange where all the action is. That's where you can get full alignment of the business legal and technical dimensions of the creation of new value, of the creation of a new asset class of personal data used in the aggregate to do some pretty important things. To save a lot of money, potentially make money to make value. And it also aligns a point when an individual has given a literal, direct, actual consent.  The user, like Moses or Klicks, there's a user action required to consent to terms that the user sees. That's legit right there. The terms we see aren't always that terrific. Frequently, they almost come across as an afterthought of collecting them for years now and looking at them and they're not always carefully construed or reviewed. But if you look at Facebook, Google for sure, Twitter, all the big companies and many smaller companies like startups from our lab that do clinical use of data using funds, for example, those terms are very heavily negotiated and they exactly reflect what's in the contracts and they absolutely reflect the fundamental business deal, the deal between the parties. So first of all, for that DARPA thing, if you want to look at those contracts and the system rules, those are available for free. They're a bit heavy because the parties were kind of heavy. But the underlying design concept was good and felt it had legs so it kept noodling on it and it was basically to come up with a simple, well, a design pattern, a reusable design pattern that was generic that would permit any company that was, let's call it a resource provider or an authorization provider in any individual that was utilizing OAuth2 to grant access to protected resources, which is what it does, could basically know in advance that that would be the moment that you should be careful about the words to make sure they line up with the deals and to be careful with logging so that everybody has a real log of what happened exactly and to be careful with maintaining the endpoints so that if you, for example, do a token revocation, like we want that endpoint to know when a user is revoked authorization from either side, it's available if you look at Google or GitHub and others, like they will give you endpoints so when, if you have an app and you revoke, and a user revokes authorization for your app with Google or GitHub, there is an endpoint that you could if you cared to let Google or GitHub know that the token's been revoked, that authorization's been revoked and they will cancel it. A lot of times we don't necessarily do that because no one's asking us anything so long as I separate the authorization on my side, we're good, right? Sure, and as long as we just do it any sloppy words we want in that moment and the authorization we're good, right, yeah, I guess but the opportunity is to be a little bit better at that and to actually do two or three things right with logging authorization, logging revocation of authorization and lining up the terms with the contracts and the deal if we just take a little more care and involve business, legal and technical people just a little at the same time, not a lot. It's possible to unleash a major source of untapped value. Here's how, so I wanted to show you now something that we hacked, so this has been more or less an idea for a couple of years with very not great prototypes and proofs of concept that have done grad students or just whoever cared about it, no one's paying for this at this point and so it's been hard to get things together thanks to Pivotal Labs and doing a TED talk on this that can be very clarifying in the mind thinking, well, gosh, what am I going to show? And so we have hacked something together up into three hours this morning and by golly, I think it actually works and to show you what we have done we've got a Node app that demonstrates what we have and so let me just go to Akshith for a moment. Now I should say there's two volunteers here so a lot of the work I do, you would call Civic Hacking so someone from Code for America is here and Massachusetts Legal Hackers are I think following online and I just love hacking as a volunteer, a lot of good things can happen and here's one of them, so Akshith who lives in India was a participant in January short course I did on Blockchain and Legal Intensive and Gabriella who is next to Akshith here can you see that? Gabriella also was a really great contributor and helped me run the class she's here in Cambridge at this moment so here's a couple, these are not MIT students but they're behaving like great MIT students with the code and Akshith do you want me to just hit the video of the Node app that you brought together and then answer questions live? Sure. Okay great so because if you rely on the live demo from India it will never work, we've taken the precaution of making this video, of course it is working now but we've got the video so let's play the video. Why is the Blockchain is quite soft? Can you hear that volume? Yeah. Why is, oh I think I, it's funny it was lying on my computer already so I think what I'll do is I'll just kind of talk through it a little bit so what you, is this paused? So what you see here is a front screen of an app that we put together that lets you log in with GitHub or with Google. Okay. And the next thing we'll implement is log in with MIT which also supports OAuth 2 now in addition to Kerberos OpenID connects specifically. What you have, this one figured, yeah good. So once you log in, yeah here we go, once you log in, you see a little screen that says basically I've taken the permissions that you get and I put them at the top of like the user's profile. So if they want to know what they've agreed to rather than digging for like usually like an apps permissions page it's under a settings page, it's under account management page, it's under preferences page, it's under hard to find frankly for most people many people don't know it exists that you can review the apps that have been authorized from a service. We just kind of put it right up front and center and at near the top of the page and the idea is to see what it would be like to delete the terms and conditions delete the privacy policy, I know it's scary but recognize that they don't work, they're broken. People don't read them if they did, they wouldn't necessarily be better off, they're hard to understand, they're hard to parse I have trouble reading them and replace it with something that could work, something that could work could be something like what you see with a one sentence human readable summary of an authorization that you can click on and understand more about the nature of the resource and you can get paragraphs if you do click on those things what you could do and I've done this with some city clients in particular that are trying to have better plain language and understandable agreements for click through for citizens you can basically just bottom line the two, three, four or five key terms like we're not liable for anything you own the data you agree to share data you can go to online parties and then ever note as people agree to there was permissions, you can have a dynamic contract that actually does demonstrate some of the obligations of the parties at any given time because that's what happens when you look at the currently authorized apps you should see a then current listing of the apps that you've authorized right and when you revoke one it disappears this is basically a screen let me just back up for a moment and say the architecture of this was absolutely not built so that we could just demonstrate something that we could demonstrate with paperware or PowerPoint slides it was built to have three, four fundamental capabilities that should in principle be able to be standardized, formalized built upon and scaled because they have the right things, the right business legal and technical things one of those things is a capability for people to in a sense own their own identity at some level and so when I say own their own identity I don't mean that pure bank or a company that they'll take over your account system that would be bad what I do mean is that at some point there's some source of identity some credential that goes with that they're doing so on their own behalf and not only as an employee through an X500 director of LDAP service through their employer but not only in their capacity as a Google customer but actually they themselves can consent at some point that's important like we consent to be governed yet there's no mechanism for that consent is a two person, two or more party transaction, I can't consent to myself two different parties so consenting from inside somebody's account system actually does not it doesn't, it's illogical somehow people need to have an identity from which they identify themselves and can offer consent and can revoke consent meaningfully like sometimes through no fault of our own we don't revoke consent correctly like just hacking this app we frequently thought we were deactivating things and disconnecting endpoints and we hadn't being able to have people stand externally is important to keep everything honest and also for portability so the way we do that is through a JSON file so actually it was very patient with me and he instead of just having environmental conditions in Heroku or putting things in a Mongo databases you normally would for an account system and maybe having aspects of an account or a profile of a user just be dynamically generated from whatever you have laying around and not necessarily subject to a very high bar we just, we took a subset and said the account, the identity of the person is what exists in an account file and that file is a JSON object UTF-8 encoded just right on the server in a directory where we're putting them all what that means is that at any given point a person could look at their file their account and they could, you know JSON isn't particularly readable but it's not unreadable and it can certainly be arrayed so people could see oh here's my name, here's my current authorizations, here's my address here is my identity in a sense and what we're doing with the apps for this is we're actually having people go, for this service we're having them go to a couple of different apps one of them is Google, another one's a Node service we don't really want Google to own the identity of our people, we don't also want to run an entire identity service for these apps so what we're doing is we're encapsulating identity in a UTF-8 encoded file and guess what now you get portability so this is hard with identity systems to think of portability across domains it can be tricky there's a lot of ways to do it that are inefficient and hard to understand I can tell you firsthand but this may be a simpler way which is if you had a system of identity as consumers or citizens that was encased in an account file that represented your identity your core identity, your root identity and you want to go say from Google hosting it to doing it on your own service or some MIT, ACLU service, whatever, some identity RS service, you can port it you can move the file keep a system of pointers so people know where that file is and it can always have a non-authoritative source in more performance data driven systems but the authoritative source of the data the account file can literally be a hashed secure publicly verifiable file that you could read, know, have, own you can own your own identity and be a free person that is capable again of consenting to be governed for example you can and here's how so that's one of the features second thing is and it's working which is the most remarkable part so we forget how to make file, modify file because it gets buried in these frameworks and the complexity is hidden and so this is just like we're moving from Heroku to Ubuntu next on AWS in a mirror server in the media lab and I'm really thinking wow it's terrific go back to the primitives and the rudiments of just create file, modify file and not being lost in frameworks that disintermediate us from fundamentally what's happening with the authoritative data so for some things that's okay for a lot of things it's simple and it's faster for certain things it may be better to go to the old ways you know like a change mod and you know like an actual file that in that sense is authoritative here is an example of the how people add accounts and there we go there's the authoritative file and when you so right now I think she has done a really terrific job after some back and forth but she just represents them from the services that we currently have registered which is GitHub and Google you can see it's like true or false and so the true ones are the ones that are currently authorized we have precisely one scope for each service which is login the next step on the roadmap you'll hear in a moment will be to bring on a few more scopes like you know give me a copy of my account file so that's create a post it's basically can make a commit in my inner repository or you know put something in Drive for example the corresponding scopes we will bring on MIT shortly that will be a third and because we're really relying on OpenID Connect design for OAuth 2 it's not just OAuth 2 like that leaves most things to your imagination OpenID Connect is slightly more defined extension of OAuth 2 that includes a concept of certain endpoints and certain common claims for more enterprise-facing but it still works perfectly well for individuals so we're using OpenID Connect version of OAuth 2 totally backward compliant so any OAuth 2 thing that you guys are doing your clients are doing does not break when you add OpenID Connect what you do get however is for example a dynamic registration of services the same way across infinitely scalable networks and the ability to propagate types of registries needed to see in our case if for now we have say 50 providers that we allow and another OAuth provider has say 75 that is absolutely knowable at endpoints you know that can stay in sync in ways that I won't get into right now okay so let's go forward deactivate is critical you know consent is meaningless unless you can revoke consent just leave it right there and I'd say if there's three words that I would use for the kind of the design mantra it would be number one interoperability or almost like framework and technology agnosticism which is why it is we are utilizing you know things that you could implement the same way in python and Django or in node or elsewhere it's UTF-8 encoded JSON files the authoritative source you know we keep the authorizations in a certain directory that's expected few other things like that so I'd say that's for maximum interoperability but mostly agnosticism to whatever technologies and stacks people want to use that's really up to them number two is just more how if you configure a certain way you can get certain advantages engineering advantage or identity number two I'd say is extensibility and by that what I mean is if you want if people are adding on say in their agreements some login we get hub and Google today tomorrow there could be you know Schmugel or whatever some other thing that we don't know about now really by onboarding as you normally do in your business your contract terms can now keep pace by modularizing and encapsulating legal content we can now begin to engineer legal content so that it cannot be so chaotic feels like a quicksand sometimes some of this can be engineered through workflow so the extensibility allows you to basically extend the terms but also the parties just like snapping in a new service to a good service bus you don't have to re-engineer the service same with the loss it's extensible with the legal terms it's extensible with the technical service just because it's just OAuth 2 and the final one I'd say is portability so we've got by that I mean literally a user can now finally consider their the account file something that is theirs truly theirs that is merely hosted by a steward and that they can take from one provider to another so in our case it's literally coming up with a smart cities thing we're doing with Kansas City, Missouri and with some law schools and MIT and other places and we already have had some students go from a law school to a foundation that's funding and other places and it happens a lot in the world when people move from one job to another first day last day onboarding and offboarding is a nightmare I see dead people all the time on identity jobs there's like in NASA lots of places that's like not secret deep provisioning accounts is we don't do that right because we have not engineered it and part of that's legal you know frankly just take responsibility but now the web is not a fad it's time to engineer business legal and technical processes with a concept that core relationships need to be understandable they need to be trend visible and we need to be able to have levers for managing the relationships and that allow for accountability but more of the point allow people to make choices and put together new packages, new deals new value that's reliable that's legit I will just show you quickly here's the this is live demo of code still like dripping wet what will happen nobody knows I'm clicking the button nothing's happening okay something's happening what do you think should I authorize it okay I want to authorize it aha oh that's okay that's actually supposed to say that so let's go to my account page and haha just you know refresh that haha account page oh maybe I have to go home first that was user error by the way actually did it exactly right so here we have something this is literally looking for my file I've got google and not github at this point I asked him to put a login account which is coming from Heroku just so people can see while the page is definitely changing and it is changing like this is a real page got some stuff we pulled from the profile I can authorize github from here but more of the point look at this little guy here this is my favorite part I just click on this and I go oh at last I can see my briefing account for real I just click that and here is a file here is the path it's stable the name, location blah blah blah my current things are google true github false I think that's pretty good we can hash that we can check it up on the blockchain we can port it we can have it last with it and now let's go ahead and authorize I will authorize github so I'll just do it from inside the session because oh and I had already sort of given the permission before so it remembers that I had the permission I guess let me just click this again it should now say that I have both of them authorized I should have like completely logged out of everything in advance so you can see the permissions but now on the page here are the terms so I put some placeholder boilerplate stuff up here but this would be like you agree with apps are us that you own your data like reliable for nothing but just a little bit like a little boilerplate at the top and then right to the off terms that's the fundamental nature of the deal that's the sum total of the obligations of parties that is contract gaviolts talk in a moment about how we've encapsulated these into cards so you can basically legal components one clause per component chuck them in but here's googles like I've authorized Google to do this I've authorized github to do that then we'll have some back matter of the contract and disputes will be resolved in Bangladesh whatever so those will all be cards as well and let's see so let's now go to gosh 114 so let's go to Q and A I think and actually what am I forgetting actually I did not show the roadmap but would you like to say anything before I think actually it's actually at work right now he's from India there you go hello are you there so so number one thank you for coding this you know in volunteer spirit and anything you'd like to add yeah definitely so right now the prototype is you know on the server which runs runs node and you have simple html cs in javascript in front and the identity files are on the file system of the server so people could think of this server as a single point of failure right so in the roadmap we have things like integrating this on ipfs so ipfs is something hey Daza you can see how me yes I'm just looking for the slides sorry okay so by integrating id file on the ipfs what happens is the file is not a single system but it's on a peer to peer distributed file system so this way there's no single point of failure and though the server might fail the id file is still available on other file systems so this is one thing that we doing and the other thing would be having this dynamic contract on the ethereum blockchain so this way you know we're not limiting ourselves to the regular web but also moving this infrastructure on the blockchain which is much more reliable and better yeah thank you and so part of so I'm just pulling up this is the repo here we've got a a good whack of issues for something that we just started already but you can see most of what actually said there on the road map which is just to emphasize if you couldn't hear the signal that well we're going to be looking for distributed file sharing so that the server is not such a point of failure especially with just the research implementations we have now but also frankly at larger scale that's good for resilience it's good for trustworthiness it's good for reliability there's business models there we're going to be using ipfs it's a blockchain based distributed thing there's also something that Gabriella discovered at seasale called solid I guess that's another distributed something that Tim Berners-Lee invented and it's supposed to be amazing but we could use github for just distributing the authoritative account files but so distribution of the data is one thing and other things will be bringing on more scopes will be bringing on more identity and service providers so we can really see that dynamic contract Gabriella worked hard last night implementing bootstrap and some material design cards so we could decouple the front end better from what's happening in the back end and encapsulate those legal terms as true legal components so that the clauses and the authorizations are humming together in perfect synchronous harmony at last and what else on the roadmap some big things are on the roadmap we'll be implementing it so we kind of tore the identity system out of the app that we can use for so we can get it right in an OAuth pattern in time for this talk I think that's been done now we'll be reintegrating it with this app which is called Unworkshop it's basically just a way that everyone can do ideation at the same time brainstorm, break things actually if you sequence those the right way you can do some cool stuff so we'll be doing that next reintegrate with that app and then with a few more apps to make sure we have a identity as a service that's working appropriately good lord I think that's oh and then the lawyer's coming so in May we have what we're calling Algorithmic Law Conference which is also on the roadmap to invent Algorithmic Law shortly before then or at the conference no later than the conference we'll figure out how to better have data driven rules and dynamic systems for contracts maybe to get better analytics on what clauses to pop in which ones are litigated which are more performance better templates things that work you know you can do a lot of interesting analytics on contracts and so we're having a you're all welcome here to come to the Media Lab May 5th and 6th to an Algorithmic Law event where we'll basically battle test some of these ideas more fully and the last thing I'll say is that Gabriella and actually kindly agreed to show up at our favorite Tuesday half-night with Code for America Cambridge Innovation Center a week from today and we'll be hacking on I-Off so anybody that's interested in front-end Gabriella is a genius frankly and a hard worker but we can all use some help when it comes to encapsulating legal terms in material design cards Lord knows and so if anyone's into front-end stuff and wants to remake the law by encapsulating it and engineering it like normal people come on by also in the back end if you would like to the Node app and then our migration to Ubuntu which is important now that we prove the concept it doesn't really real until it's just on Ubuntu or Debian or something like that in the open and then we'll kind of dockerize different things but we have to migrate it or like I'll feel the baby isn't like safe it's not viable yet until it's just on a normal server with not like the special incubations of Heroku some of the things that will be happening next on Tuesday night just up the road one Broadway 7pm Code for America come on by so with that I'll hand the mic back to Hedy okay thank you we have time for two questions so who has a question here I don't I have one but some questions on faces yeah I think we can get the questions at the same time and then you guys here comes questions I got a github mug so just to summarize a big goal of this project is to put users in control of their identifying data that they share with third parties and make the contracts explicit and human readable yeah and so just for our friends that really tack this the gentleman confirmed that the main goal is to put users in control of their and then he said identifiable data and I'd say of their identity represented by more or less you can think of it like a title to a car that indicates ownership but that's right and then number two to make the legal terms more explicit and that's confirmed and confirmed alright so the question is what is the contract with those third parties after you revoke their access are you requiring them legally to believe what they have on and for you or the idea that the data is so dynamic that users are revoking continued access is that a problem you might address here great and the question was um what's the deal after revocation with the data on external systems are we seeking to control that as well like have it deleted for example and the answer is that's the question that we have to be able to answer at scale and right now it's a chaotic hot mess and it's molten hot it's unanswerable it's not tractable in my view the way things are now um my aim with this is to have it be better without changing anything on the terms or expectations of what people do with data because it's so much better just to use this it's so much more organized it's so much more reliable it's so much more efficient and effective makes new combinations and packaging a product and compositions of services possible that it sells itself and it tracks open source people and other people to add to it and then the master plan is a new deal a very old deal on data basically the deal of America and the commonwealth is that we're free people and free markets I took a note to defend the constitution of Massachusetts when I was a lawyer and it says pretty plainly it's like on our website I put it there in 97 it says the deal is that like we're consent to be governed so the real deal is that we can revoke consent and that would mean in some cases that if the consent was to have data and revoking it meant in our terms that you delete the data you delete the data if what it meant is that you didn't delete the data but you don't get further data we would see that in the card and when we revoked it that would be an auditable locked thing so the plan is to create enforceable engineered basis that people can know the deal and that I think a competitive market for people that would be willing to delete your data and to say that they'll do that no off permissions would emerge and that if some didn't do it for reasons of incompetence, error evilness or whatever we can know that and now we have something you can easily almost machinably bring into court for enforcement you know we have to go to court like you can have liquidated damages like okay 50 bucks in PayPal if you didn't delete you know these five things and then look at the span naughty so like now we have enforceable engineered scalable basis to address ownership of data and deletion is the best way to know who owns something they can destroy it they totally own it so I think you've asked the right question what was the second question you're welcome what's your name Tyson okay next good question what's the second one cool the second question is that you mentioned a few people that you're already going to work do you want to find it what makes them so excited about this project and how do you find it thanks so we have a bunch of like what I would call identity at MIT and then she crossed America like mostly in the west coast but New York and a bunch of places some terrific companies RSA here but many like are true innovators of identity services and they start work for what we call a user centered perspective so the center of all that goodness is something called Internet Identity Workshop meets twice it's an unworked conference that meets twice a year in Mountain View and it's where like all the people really really into this like below IETF below W3C and below like the trade shows like that's where we really get together and kind of have it out have a great time and event things like OpenID Connect came from there OAuth2 came from there from one of the sessions like many great things came from their super upstream we're inherently interested in identity those people and so like we kind of fuel each other I run something in that group called the legal forum we've been getting good feedback from people and also some other standards groups where we've got initial feedback so I found them just really just the people I currently hang out with that have been validating it the real power though is with Akshith and with Gabriella and with the people that you can't see who are labored is volunteers that they saw there's an opportunity to do something better and they basically volunteered civic hackers to contribute one way or another to this and you know luckily it's unknowable because thanks to GitHub we have you know commits and we have issues that go way back across some repositories that we'll be linking but it was if Akshith and Gabriella had not when we were finishing up a blockchain thing expressed interest and even passion about this and a sense that they could do it and that it was important to do and volunteered to do it late at night when you know Gabriella has a great boyfriend that she like wasn't with him throughout time and she's got a lot of money on this and then Akshith has got a job and a bunch of stuff to do like we've been volunteering on this for a while their passion and willingness to volunteer that indicated to me that the time is right it wasn't ready two years ago I don't think anyone even understood what I was talking about people understand it and people are ready to help and so I recognize that pattern pretty well it's something that's time is right so we're going for it also you come to think of it so like pivotal labs a tech talk first I was going to do a boring buzzword laden thing because I thought that was what I was supposed to do I wasn't even looking forward to it that much although I wanted to see what was going on in here so like pivotal tracker and so but the interest in is it shine fun when I just said well I guess we could do how about IOS because it's been in the back of my head lately so due to blockchain things were coming up that suggested might be time maybe and so I just trotted out there and she's like her eyes lit up just like yeah like you know our clients have that as an issue we don't really you know there's not a good design pattern it's interesting to flip it flip the you know pyramid and put the user at the center so she validated it so I'd say literally if it hadn't been for pivotal labs catalyzing the topic with the talk which then required like some kind of demo this wouldn't be happening so I'd say the main characters volunteers MIT people and you thank you so much thank you so Gabriella and actually thank you for your being here and for everything you've done and you can hang out with all of us and hack this into true existence a week from today at Code for America and we'll put a meet up on Massachusetts legal hackers in a Code for America to circulate around to people here I'd be grateful would love to see you again I'll stick around for a while for a conversation and with that I thank you very much and we're going off here


We're very excited that the drug has been approved for use in surgery of ovarian cancer. It's going to be technically called cytolux on the market. It's kind of a combination of two different Latin words, cyt, cyt, meaning the basic word for cell and lux, the word for light, so lighted cell. For years, we had been designing tumor targeting ligands that would home in very specifically two cancer cells and avoid uptake by healthy cells. Because we noticed the specificity for tumors and following discussions with actually a group of surgeons from the Netherlands, we learned that there was still a major problem experienced by surgeons in finding, locating, all of the malignant lesions during a surgery. In many cases, malignant lesions appear at least to the naked eye, no different from adjacent healthy tissues. The patient is injected before surgery with this tumor targeted fluorescent dye and during the preparation of the patient for the actual surgery, this dye circulates in the blood veins and blood vessels and localizes to the tumor tissue. And so you have within a couple of hours very good fluorescent dye accumulation in tumor tissue. And when you turn on the fluorescent lamp, then those lesions light up like bright stars against a black sky and it allows the surgeon to see exactly where these hidden disease tissues are located and then they can go in and remove them. Every 23 minutes in the United States, another woman is diagnosed with ovarian cancer and our very first molecule will be approved for treating ovarian cancer. In 2015, when I met with Dr. Tanya and he knew that something was going on, it was my first recurrence. It was stage three and it was very serious. He explained to me that I qualified for a clinical trial. The clinical trial was a fluorescent dye that I had injected prior to surgery going to the OR. He explained to me that it's a safe procedure and will infuse you prior to surgery. I have a special light that I will shine and we will look for other nodules that were not present on the CT scan. And lo and behold, he found the nodule and was delighted. Dr. Phil Lau was instrumental in setting up on target laboratories. In fact, he's our founder. Cytolux was developed in Dr. Lau's lab. Our relationship with Purdue University is instrumental to the future of on target laboratories. There's no doubt that that relationship has been a very positive one. I grew up in West Lafayette. I went to West Lafayette High School. My dad was a professor at Purdue. My mom was here. So when they offered me a job at Purdue, I accepted. It was basically coming back home. I'm a Purdue fan. I grew up going to all the Purdue basketball and football games and I, I bleed golden black. Dr. Lau's commitment to this technology has been unwavering his ability to champion that early on and drive that from the early research stage to the clinical stage. We would not be where we are today. I'm just glad that we're on this end of it to pull it across the finish line for him. I feel grateful for this opportunity. It's there are a lot of people that come on this planet and don't really have an opportunity to leave a footprint. And I think, you know, just often in many cases due to, you know, the good blessings and good luck, we've been able to find this opportunity and develop it and make it available to the general public. There's a great deal of satisfaction in knowing that you've done something that can help a lot of people.


Colton Wong got to get to know these guys right now Colton Wong joining us right now just signing a deal with the Milwaukee Brewers two years $18 million former St. Louis Cardinal Colton it's Brian Kenny with Dan Playsack and now later welcome to the program. Thank you. Thanks for having me on. You tell me we were pretty stunned when we saw that you weren't going back to the Cardinals that had cut you loose. What were your thoughts as to what were they thinking? How did they communicate with you? What happened? Man it was just you know free agency I think and you know during COVID times obviously you know the money situation played a big role in everything going on and you know I guess I mean hey they kind of upgraded you know they got aeronautos so you know good luck to them man and I'm just excited for my next opportunity with the Cardinals. Obviously I mean with the Brewers obviously I've been with the Cardinals for my whole career man so you know the ability to play with this team that I've been able to play against and you know play well in that stadium I'm excited for this opportunity. Colton that letter here congratulations on your two-year deal but hey take me a little bit about I know this winter was not a normal winter but as a free agent were there other teams and if so why did you pick the Brewers? Yeah you know there was a decent amount of teams that reached out to us right away as soon as I hit free agency you know phone kind of rang off the hook for a little while and then you know you kind of hear that same story how it goes quiet for a little while and you know the real teams kind of show up. And you know so there was a few teams left at that you know my choice and I felt like the Brewers was home you know I just felt like I did really well at that field. I felt like I knew the center pretty well and I was able to you know put up some good numbers so I'm excited to be with this team obviously I know they're a really good team. They made the playoffs the past couple years and you know really exciting young bunch of guys so I'm excited to join up and see what I can do. Colton you're in Arizona right now this will be your first spring training in Arizona are you looking forward to it? I am I am obviously being from Hawaii you know Arizona's you know the closest trip you can get so it's nice to be this close obviously family you know they're not going to be able to come right now but everyone's excited for me to be here. I'm excited to not have to drive four hours for one spring training game so you know they're definitely a lot of you know pluses right now. You know Colton you always hear from players when they hate the defensive metrics. What is it like when the defense defensive metrics love you because you are the number one guy at the position at second base the last three years. How much do you dig into that and see that and see those numbers? You know not really digging into that too much obviously you know numbers play a big role in the game today but I just love you know being a guy who can play on all sides of the field. You know obviously you know coming up I was kind of known for my hitting in college and whatnot and then when I first got to the big leagues you know Hoseo Kendo challenged me to win a go glove and you know I took that as kind of you know challenge and a personal challenge of mine and I just fell in love with you know becoming really good defensively. I fell in love with turning to old plays making this spectacular play and just you know making some kind of art out of defense. It's been fun and it's been a really cool transition. You know I'm curious to appeal that back because I know you said that about Hoseo Kendo excellent infielder and infielder coach with the Cardinals but you know I saw you in 2010 with Orleans and I know you were a shortstop in college. You played second base there up with the Firebirds. Specifically you've been in the big leagues for eight seasons now but you have now back to back goals. What was specific things that you had worked on to get these gold gloves? Yeah I think it was a little things. You know obviously I didn't play second base until my sophomore year in college so there was a lot of things I had to learn. You know just kind of going to the fundamentals really holding that in and then kind of adding my flair to it. You know that was the one thing Hoseo was always you know on me about it.  So you know it just went from doing the routine things right and you know once I kind of got my you know own little flair on that I just made my own. That's been kind of the biggest thing. You know Colton the ballpark in Miller Park you have a trackable roof. Does the ballpark play a big role in your decision to go on where you elected to sign? Yes absolutely. I mean like you said you know I feel like I've had pretty good numbers in Miller Park and that park is a very fun park to play in as well as hidden. So you know I'm trying to see what I can do offensively as well. You know obviously everybody knows St. Louis as you know a pitcher's park. It's one of the toughest parks I think to hit in you know just because the gaps aren't big but the balls doesn't fly. So you know I'm excited to play in a park that I know I have success in. I know I'm going to bring my confidence with it and you know hopefully I can add some offense to my defense and make me a full rounded player. Colton one last thing we were just talking about the new you know health guidelines and the protocols safety protocols for baseball.  What's the mindset going into spring training for that. Yeah I mean it's all about work. You know I think last year gave us a good taste of what it's going to be like. You know not having fans are having very minimal fans. So you know it's just all about going there competing and throwing the best that you can be out there. And you know that was the one thing I learned is man it's the most purest form of competition when there's no fans out there cheering you on.  And I think that's the biggest thing man is after you know you kind of get over the fans not being there. It's all about baseball and pure baseball at its finest. Wow. Sounds like you could focus. Would you have been all right with that? No. No it's not. I'm going to follow the birdie. It's a little different. Hey Colton again best of luck with Milwaukee your new club and everything else and spring training and getting through everything safely. Thank you.