So welcome to this community call dedicated to the open air content providers. So just before we start some information about how we will organize ourselves and how can you participate so the idea of these community calls is that we have like half of the community call off of one hour so 30 minutes we will dedicate to a specific topic. I will do a specific topic that we think are relevant for the, the time. So now we will dedicate our 30 minutes to guidelines version four, and then 30 minutes 25 minutes to questions to comments, apart to the presentations that we gave some clarification and then, of course, open to other issues that you also want to integrate. So we don't want to make it an Arctic so I will be, I will invite you just to mute your microphone so for this first community call we are just testing out with everything will work so we will give you the possibility to turn on and turn off the microphones we will be able to mute everyone, and then mute so this is why I'm asking you to mute in order to not make noise for the, for the, the others that were presenting. So but this is open so you can also put a question or a comment in the right moment. So audio or you write it in the shot. Okay, this is we really want this to be participative so the main objectives of the community call is to give you to provide more created information, more detailed information in some improvements some of the services some of the, the, the developments that we are doing in open air infrastructure in the different services or in the related topics or interoperability guidelines, control vocabularies or other, other topics that are relevant for, for the open air infrastructure, let's say ecosystem that we don't, we also depend on others. So provide some information but also have your feedback for our service but not, but not only to share some relevant developments in your, in your systems in your, in your repositories or other kind of research systems that are relevant for the community. Okay, so it's really a participative call that we want here. So that's a lecture 30 minutes for a topic 30 minutes for open to all of you to talk. So this is why I, so I invite you, you to, to note your questions and comments about this first presentation and then you can make your questions at the end it's better. So this is the way we will work. So in the coming minutes, I will share in the chat document for a link for the notes of the meeting where we will put, we will share the main comments that you are doing and the link for the presentation so I will share that in the coming minutes. But this first call this first in this first call I would like to use this first two or three minutes to, to provide you some informations about recent developments so this we will use also this first part of the, of the presentation to, to share those the novelties let's say. So I want to highlight three, three informations I will share all the links here. So, the first one is I think a relevant achievement that we made so we have now a public roadmap for the provide service, provide service with the, the main service for the content providers services and functionalities available so we have decided to create a public roadmap in order for you to be aware of what we are doing currently to improve the service and what we plan to do. And in some things that we also considering so maybe I can also share my screen. No, it's not working. Okay. We have this provide roadmap where you can see what is in progress what is planned, what is under consideration you can also provide and make some questions suggestions here. Some of the suggestions for example that we have here under consideration came from the workshop that we that we have organized recently for example in Kawar in open repositories or recently also in Spain by the end of September. And some of the suggestions from the repository managers are, or other content provider managers are here so you will be aware so the link is public I will also highlight it here, or my colleague and we will also do it so we will share this link here in the chat for you to know and we put it in the notes. This is the first information that I want to provide you. Then the second one is about some some some small improvements that we did in the provide the dashboard. So things like so we want of course to to to work on a relevant relevant and a big update in terms of user interface. I hope that we can have that in the coming in the coming year but for now we are doing slightly changes. Also, taking into consideration some of the suggestions from the users. So one of one of one that I will just highlight to one is this my data sources at the glance. So, we have created this box here in the right side of the of the screen, where we have some of the main members that say often of your repositories, we want to make it visible. And this is what we have in in in in the roadmap to change this interface but at least you already can see in the first page, your numbers, the other small in yes but but but I think it's important this is why I'm sharing this is also about the it's it's related to the collection monitor so the collection monitoring provide is where you can see how open air is aggregating your content your the content from your repository or from your service and when we did that aggregation where when we did the transformation and we have had it here as you can see now in the screen. The light, which version of your content is indexed and publicly available in our explore service so let's say for this specific repository the repository from University of New, the version that is available is this one and it's highlighted here in blue, which version do we have we are going to continue is aggregating the content but you can be aware specifically in the collection monitor, which, which content version is available in the in our index. Okay, this is what I would like to highlight from the provide service and also a last comment that maybe Andreas will also talk about so we have already the rules of the version. So you can use it on the version for of the guidelines integrated in the validator. So you can test using the the validator tool in provide your way IP image interface against the guidelines version for go rules. So we are in a testing period, let's say, but but it's in production so you can use it if you find any, any, any bug, any issue that you think it's not working well just send us your feedback but it's already available so you can also test. So we have, if you are experimenting, experimenting any issue with them, accessing the service login issue, assessing the provide service this is also the right moment. So my colleague and Ray will share the email, and you can contact him directly or send a message here in the chat, because then we will try to find what is the problem. Sometimes we have managers of repositories that cannot access because of the account is related to other email that from someone that already leave the institution or a mail that doesn't exist anymore so try to solve these issues. So, this first call is dedicated to the open air guidelines version for as we are in an important moment of a take of these guidelines from by the community. And we will share the, the specifications. So my colleague from University of Bielefeld, Andreas will present the main specifications and what is new in this version for the guidelines. And then we will have use cases, you can also share your in the second part of this meeting. We will have some repositories in Spain that are already implementing this guidelines and exposing the content based on this guidelines so Emilio from Spain will share what they have done for those repositories. And my colleague Jose will present what we are developing in Portugal, and they're the network of Portuguese repositories. So we will have a use case from specific repository and from also an aggregator national aggregator, and then also the Latin network of repositories la referencia will also share what they have in their plans they it's not use case of implementation but in fact, is that just to showcase that we are that the guidelines are being used it also in other parts of the world, and what are, what they have in their plans. So now, I will give the floor to Andreas. So, just to move with the presentation. So, Andreas, I will make you presenter and you can do your presentation so we will start with Andreas from Bielefeld presenting the specifications and then we will have the use cases. If you want to put questions during the presentation you can do it in the chat. Okay, at the end, we open the floor to you also to make questions out of you. Yes, the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you, Peter. Thank you. And hello everyone from my side also. So I will present the guidelines literature guidelines version for it's coming out in the last year. I have a feeling that I have a little bit, a little bit more slides. But I think I skipped some slides during the presentation. Okay, guidelines and recommendations. The agenda is short of you and very briefly repeat about the aggregation and the teacher guidelines version for as you know, is integration scenarios in open air. We directly have us from repositories or from journalists or we are harvesting indirectly from aggregators or publishers. You can climb articles and we set references via personal identifiers. So there are a lot of types of repositories and these repositories have many types of research outputs. We have the for a big four publications data sets software and other research products. And we are wasting these from institutional repositories thematic repositories also journalists publishers from data repositories. And you see here and short overview about about the connection that institutional repositories. Oh, by the way, you see my mouse. Yes, yes, yes. Institutional repositories provide information about publications article preprints also about data sets also about software and so on. And these types will aggregate. Yes, we have different guidelines. First of all is the literature guidelines or now as institutional and thematic guidelines for repository managers. For Chris platforms current research information systems for data archives for software repositories and other research products. If you like where you can take a look on guidelines at open air but you are for more information here. This was a for review guidelines in general is our very good tools for repository managers to define and implement their local data management policies and so on. And these guidelines give you the requirements for some of my says strategy for European Commission or for for other national funders in open air. We can harvesting from the bin and begin of this year, the access content and also the non open access content. And this is a switch in the content acquisition policy of our mayor in the last year. The guidelines have also autos to met some requirements for open access from the Commission and give you a more diesel better quality on the metadata on these sites. What's new in the literature guidelines version four. It's based on doubling core and data site. It's has separate metadata format prefix, why e underscore or mayor. There's no sets that must provide. And it's fully compatible with the new content acquisition policy. The next is the use the consequent use of contract work couple race from the configuration of open access repositories there are access rights resource types versioning and so on. And we support from the new literature guideline version for various of different identifier types. Do I handle orchards is me for different types of things of articles of authors of organizations, and there are a lot of personal identifiers around and the new guideline support these pits. Also, new is you can create hierarchical level by a container. This is part of an article can is a part of it can be a part of a journal or chapter is a part of a book and a book is a part of a series. And also a poster can be a part of a conference so you can create hierarchical level on these objects on guidelines of mayor. You can see the application profile here so short screenshot. For this one. The guidelines are also published in. You can read this document there. So what are the metadata goals for these new guidelines. There are. Metadata to for more discoverable or citable that ability so. You have. And better quality on these meter data where we use the core vocabulary for accessibility accessibility and reuse. We take the articles in conflict and consensual. A relationship with other pro other objects research projects research artifacts and so on. And of course it's better for interoperability and reporting for these. First I give some small. Examples here. We have seen property is the field creator level is mandatory and what is the new element of this is data site contributor or title mandatory and data site title. Now. So, for resource type. Specific way or air. Resource type. Was a separate resource attribute. And these. Journal type is literature. The core vocabulary type is referenced and the name of journal article. So. A lot of. What. In the application profile to for discovery and such ability. So why a citation title is one that the title title name of this container. Is in which this work is published. Also for volumes. For research accessibility and reuse. We have access rights that are also it's data site rights and license conditions. Here are license condition. This attributes at the start date dates and. The UI of creative creative comments. For reporting. We have funder references and embargo periods here. Short example for interoperability. We have alternated identifiers in the example. It's not that if identify the URL and you give some. So for mining and downloading. Full tax if the full text is available. Is there are file with access rights. Mind type. Object type as attributes and the link of the full text. The implementation as Peter said is the validator. For the rule set of guidance version four is released. It's can be used in production and environment and also in the better environment. Data source registration updating is on capability level we integrate F the new compatibility level of for the version for integrated. The aggregation. Of these new. These repositories that support. The version for the literature guidelines are in preparation. And also in preparation is the visibility of these new data. As I mentioned before. In the dashboards. Explore or provide and so on. Here, some guideline references for the teacher guidelines version four. You can contribute to these. One. In different ways. I like to highlight the. In between of guidelines and repository platforms. This is an open table to for common commenting. These table has the repository platform the versions and which version of the guideline. Would support. Software platform and versions. So, we will share the links as Peter said in beginning the introduction. And for contribution and feedback. We have dedicated Google Doc document. And that you can show what is also. Questions, but also you need. No account to commenting. Leave commenting about the new guidelines and attributes and so on. For the other GitHub and annotate the unit. Accounts you can send emails. And so on you can. Also you can contact the new hearts. So that's from my side. A short overview. A short and quick overview about the guidelines version four and the next. I hope. My colleagues will do presentation about the implementation of these new application profile and attributes. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you also Milan that have already provided here. Relevant input here about them. Some dead links that we have. That we should fix this. Okay. Thank you. Can you can also share more. After can I can I can ask. Okay. And the namespaces for. A namespace open air do you see my or. Must not resolve. So we can declare this namespace and these namespace. Must not have nine point. This is an XML. You can I can give you the links to the. Three C and we can share this information, but these endpoints must not be. So please share in the shot. Okay. And we will proceed with those use cases that I think it's quite. Relevant for us here to. To be aware then what is being done to implement for sure. These three cases, but for sure from you, we also have others that can. Let me check. I'm trying to. Make Joseph presenter. It's not easy make presenter. Finally, okay. And then now we will proceed with the case from Portugal. From our network of repositories in Portugal and Jose will present it. So, Jose, the floor is yours. Yes, and you will see my screen. Okay. Yes. So I will present part of the implementation of the opening guidelines in rock up project. Very quickly, what is work up project. It's a national initiative in Portugal. So it's a project that focus on a network of scientific resources like repositories journals, other portals and research data repositories. We also integrate recently la referencia contents into our national portal, for example, and to integrate all these repositories and journals from the Portuguese outputs. We have from the beginning. So a little bit more than 10 years now a content policy based initially on the driver guidelines and later on the open air guidelines. And we plan to continue with this last guidelines also as a content policy at the portal level. So we have also an additional particularity is that part of this repositories and also journals but the focus here is the repositories. We have hosting service for this place. And we have 28 repositories right now. So, 28 repositories that we manage directly. This, this is also part of a set of services that has a common vision where we try to put the researcher at the middle of the context and then interact with other systems. So this is also the way we would plan to implement these guidelines and the way we want to share all this information, not only at repository level, but also through other services in which we interpret in this case. So our actual context at the national level is that we have right now at how hosting service 28 repositories with the space five version. So, our first thought is to define that we need to manage the information we have right now. Another aspect we are trying to promote is to include as many more identifiers we can into the repositories right now, to be able to expose that information in the open air for format. By now we don't have yet all the information we need to be totally compliant, but at least we can have a great level of compliance, even without many changes on the repository so I will present the change we have done. And what we are also working right now is to focus on the future, and mainly on the use of the space seven, where we want to provide this compliance by default on the new this space version. So, this is the actual context we are working on the actual repositories we have and also work for a feature updates that will focus on that. So many implementations we have done on this repository is first on the way we will put the information into the repository. So, the biggest one is the way we can now incorporate authors as an entity of the repository so we can put a person with an identifier and a description of that. And also, we change a little bit some other fields and also other options that we have, based on this recent guidelines. Another aspect is to expose all this information in the new metadata profile. So basically, what we have done is, is a mapping of the existing fields we have on the repositories to the new metadata schema. With some fields, we managed to introduce additional information. And we also developed a mapping an automatic mapping of the project prefix to an entity. So, usually we use the new for rebel name, I will show you just after that. So, the functionality to have the new user as an entity is when you are on the this space form, you can put a name and search for an identifier regarding that person. So, we have two main data source in our repositories. One is orchid. And another one is the idea or see a VTI which is a national identifier associated with a curriculum system. So, we search for that name on these two systems, and we have the possibility to choose from the results list and then add this to the list of the authors on the repository. When we do this, we can also include additional information that is not visible there. But for example, if you have a sculpture ID, a researcher ID, or any other identifier in orchids, or in your curriculum. We include this at this level. So, this has been one of the main developments to allow the use of the author identifier. Another aspect is that we continue to manage the funding information on the repositories based on the prefix from open air that came from the open API. So, we have to manage an automatic way to disaggregate this information to create automatically an entity. Let's hear some examples of repository in production. And I will give you here some examples. So for example, when on your repository you have here, a person that is identifier with this little icon. And this is that this is an entity. And this entity on the user interface is show this way. But when we go to the way the image interface. So, we have the different forms of the name, and also the different identifiers that are available for that particular person. So, adding the prefix and the information from funding, what we do automatically is based on that initial prefix that we still maintain by now. And probably will change in the future but by now it's the information we already have. And we do expose that based on the different prefix we have so he see will be always European Commission and European Commission always had this specific crossref from their ID. So, these two information we put by default. And the funding stream you already know, and then we have here the project ID, which means the word, a word number, and we expose all that information to that by now automatically in the future. What we plan to have is functionality to search for a particular project and have something similar to this so instead of searching for a person we search for a project. Other aspects based on the existing information we have is for example we some some fields we get them automatically in this space for example. And then we have all the information based on the guidelines like the version the where else all the file, the different license and the dates of the license, the new rights access the new types also by now. So, this is what we have already done. Also, we made in some cases, a mapping of existing information for the new information and, for example, this table show us that we have fewer versions on the driver version vocabulary to the new one so it means that this new vocabulary is richer than we had before. And this is an example of the versions but it's the same for the document types, for example. Additionally, from the repository will also continue to manage this information later. So, by now, for example, if repositories not yet compliant with the guidelines, we already manage all the information at the portal level based on the guidelines so it means that every document types we map to the new guidelines, the versions also the right access also so the information that we expose at the portal level. It's already based on open air for guidelines and all this information we show it in two ways for the end user interface and then also through an API for integration with others. So, the idea this page is not yet in production but what we will have in the future is to put some identifiers regarding the authors on the search portal, or the license and the different types of information we already have. Another aspect that it's very important in this process is that we use the Arvester software, which is the Lareferencia Arvester to transform the information from the basic open air guidelines to this new one. So, we transform some fields, we make some validations to be able to show that information at the end based on these reports at the search portal level. So, we do this for all the resources integrated in the portal and not only for those we manage. Also, at the portal level, we use all these values, and you have here some examples like the core types to be able to show some statistics about the repository for example in this case. And we have a page that is based on that information, which is all this information we have show based on open air for guidelines. Additionally, we also work on a working group from this space to be able to implement the open air for guidelines directly into the new space, where we we try to incorporate the concept of entities into the space repository, and also have everything that is needed to be open for compliance when the space seven is released. So, this is the link where you can see all the meetings, all the actions we do, etc. And why we are trying to push this new guidelines for the repositories for the publisher, the aggregators, and also the repository levels. And it's because we need to be interoperable with all these systems and we need to manage the information the same way. So this is why we try to define like a semantic level that will be the same for all the systems, or at least will be more accurate than the information we had before. So, thank you. If you have any questions you can contact us regarding this. Thank you, Jose. So, if you have questions just type it in the chat. Let's hear now. Emilio, that will share some recent developments also in the several repositories in fact in Spain. Okay, perfect. Okay, you are already sharing the screen. Thank you, Emilio. I cannot hear you. Can you check yourself? Okay, perfect. Do you hear me? Yes. Okay. Okay, thank you Pedro. Good afternoon to everyone. I'm just putting this more informal, but each of us can. Okay, I'm Emilio Lorenzo from Abra Consultores. We work on the space repositories on the Spanish and Latin American market and we have made some options to open air for on several space installations. We are going to present some of the problems and suggestions that we can make to you about the open air for guidelines. How can some, the space 5 and 6 version can be adapted without many, so many problems, right? Okay, I come to yes. The presentation is adapted from a post that we present some five or six months ago on the Open Repositories conference on Hamburg and we can see the material on this URL and basically that in that moment we have, we only made one adaptation of institutional repository of Wilba University, that is the space version 6 and after that we have made some other four or five implementation on the space 5 repositories mainly in Spain, right? Well, some of the things that you have to take into account when you try to adapt an existing the space repository existing in because well, we have we have heard some moments ago about the space 7 but many of you are going to to co-exist with the space version 4, 5 or 6 on the next year, so probably you have to make some major adaptation efforts to comply with the new guideline. Well, the first thing is that one of the objectives of I think the space version sorry, Open A version 4 is to increase the association of authors to their personal identifier. This is a thing that many funder agencies and many other agents as Open A are looking and well, if this we forget about the driver guidelines about names and we have to improve the precision of the identification of authors. So many of you have probably are thinking or have already implemented the Orchid idea and the repositories for their own authors so you probably have to see on exposing that information on the OIP image interface. Depending on the version you are using and depending on the design or decision that you have taken in the past this information will be located in entities as the Portuguese example or in authority models or in other solution but you have to see on exposing that information as precise as possible. You have also to make some big efforts to improve the funder information that is available in your repositories. Now many of you are compliant with Open A version 3 probably you have the all the info European agreement syntax. Open A version 4 is much more extensive demands many more information in fact you have to plan for funder information entities to make a whole set of information about who is funding your paper your items so you have to make some big adaptation to fulfill this requisite and then you have to plan for new description and vocabularies you have on your repository the old typologies you have the version typologies and also the access right typologies you probably have to you have to be compatible with the new core vocabularies you have to transfer or to include or to add these typologies this vocabularies and also of course you have to to adapt the new schema it's an application profile it's called the name space and then you have to modify your interface for be compatible with these new guidelines well talking a little bit more into details well how do you plan or adapt your repository for for outside information mainly also Joao has talked about if she's exposing not only the architecture but also research and Portuguese CFAN identification well the normal solution or the basic solution is to expose the architect depending on where do you store your that information you have to take some technical solution depending on that information you have to expose that information in a data side contributor element with many attributes you can even expose the affiliation of your author etc on this space the normal way or the standard way of storing this information at least on more or less completing implementation is a new solar cord it's called Autonic Cache Solar well we have used that source as a generator of this identification but probably there are another design option to fulfill this as I told you before you have to plan for much more precise funding information instead of the grant agreement info or rapid semantic grant agreement information well there are now a lot of information about the award number, the funder information the ISNI or the DOI information of the funder just to be more precise on that information this is one of the aspects that we forget to take into account in the University of Wellow implementation we thought that some normal transformation will be enough but we have to take this information from open air service on the API or other possibility that Pedro has talked before yes you have to expose a different set of vocabulary the problem we found here is that if you want to keep the compatibility between open air 3 and open air version 3 and version 4 you have to expose a complete different set of typology and other aspects so there is a range of solutions from a double meaning to transformation to lose even compatibility we take the solution of only transform on the OI crosswall the driver vocabularies in the core vocabularies so we have some lose of precision on driver typology there is article journal but the equivalent of the corresponding terminologies on the core vocabularies is much more precise journal article a lot of variation from this vocabulary you have to think about it at the end you have to create a new point of harvesting we define a new context for this open air for compatibility and of course you have to define a new metadata scheme that is OI slash open air you can follow this link to have a look to how this records appears of course in another context of the OI interface still exists the compatibility with open air 3 and even the previous version thanks for your attention we will answer your question on the next minute perfect thanks for your details I think it's quite useful because these are the type of issues that others also have so Luntaro let's close this round of presentations with your presentation from the Latin America Referential Network thank you all I will not present exactly a use case but the actions that we are taking regarding Gailan version 4 I will talk about what we have done in Gailan 3 we had some infographic and provided that information to the notes as you may know we have a national note structure we do dissemination to the national notes and then the national notes do the same thing repeat the same actions to the repositories we have provided webinars for national notes and the La Referencia Technical Council represents that also webinars directly to the repositories in some countries that actions were about version 3 but we are moving now to in the past months to the version 4 our team is active and expert group and reviewers of the version 4 and we also we are finishing a review and a translation to Spanish of the guidelines and we will disseminate that document soon in the same format that Opener is doing we have and so we are planning and executing webinars for the national notes we started some months ago and we will continue that actions during the next year of telling to the notes about and the repositories about the core vocabularies and all the elements which is that involves the evolution to the guidelines version 4 in the other hand we are doing some actions in La Referencia software the national notes are using our platform and we use it also in our regional aggregator we are building a new version with the concept of entity and relation models sorry sorry sorry nothing, nothing, sorry so we are doing this with the software to push for the implementation of the next version we think that we can use the new version of the software to accelerate the adoption of the new guidelines by providing some services to the repositories to migrate the legacy metadata from version 3 to version 4 we will do a proof of concept of this idea in the next month and hopefully I can present some results in a call if you like so we will provide the version 4 Spanish translation in December I think that final revision is now so we will provide and publish the results, the document in December and we are also adapting our recommendation to the La Referencia notes including all the news on the adoption of the version 4 guidelines and we will continue the dissemination to the national levels and webinars to the repository during the next year so I think that's all the work in guidelines the person in charge is Paola Sulević she's connected she's our person in guidelines and she is the one that participates in the groups and also I think that we can ask questions if you like so thank you very much great, thank you thank you also Paola because I know that is a presentation from both so I hope it was useful for you to have these specifications of the guidelines in these use cases or to be aware also that we are behind Europe and we are close working with at least 10 countries from Latin America


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Hey Eric, we're really interested to talk to you about this organization that you co-founded and let's get right into it. What does the DFW Nonprofit Resource Group do? Well, that is still a journey that as I explained the story, you'll embrace that it's a journey that we don't know where it's going right now. Yeah. So I'll rewind. It was about three years ago and at that time, we still do. We serve about 40 of the North Texas nonprofits for their outsourced technical support. And collectively in North Texas, we have about 200 clients and what they all have in common is they blame us if there's not enough parking. They blame us if the commodes don't work and the coffee machine doesn't work. Yeah. But whenever we tilt the lens on the nonprofit space, they're the first ones to ask. Hey, do you know somebody that can redo our asphalt? Do you know a commercial plumber? Do you know a cleanup? And we've been in the market for 19 years. So we have at the time, a really good book of business and this is a world with decks if you will. I'm gonna take myself. Yeah. And it hit me that this world with decks that we had wasn't mission-friendly and those that are know what I'm talking about. So the founder of the company and I were talking, he goes, why are we talking? Go out and do a roadshow and start visiting all the C-sweets of our nonprofits and ask them. And I couldn't even get through what the vision looked like because I really didn't know what the vision looked like and they were handing me business cards of their mission-friendly partners. Fast forward, three years in North Texas, we have about 90 people that fit that bill in the North Texas group, the DFW group and we have another dozen in Kansas. So at first it was to provide more value to our nonprofit clients. So the next time they called us, hey, you know we had somebody. And the first milestone in that journey was we were meeting at whoever had brick and mortar once a month. And it was my turn to host. We were pumped up, we're in our new place. Now I get hit with a frying pan that our furniture's not put together, the artwork's not up. I start to panic thinking I was gonna inconvenience somebody to pick up the slot and one of our nonprofit clients calls me up. So I'm completely different. She doesn't know about the group.  So I say, hey Zarko, what's going on? What kind of highlander? Don't worry about it Jen, don't worry about it Jen. She goes, no really. So I share and she goes, duh, I have three conference rooms. We're like three miles away. Just change the address and I'll accommodate you. Okay, thank you. Just thinking one friend helping somebody else. We go have the meeting. She tracks me down in the parking lot. She grabs me. This is whenever it was acceptable pre COVID. She grabs me, she hugs me and she looks me in the soul and she goes, never have your group meeting within the group. All of us nonprofits struggle with getting different ears and different mission-minded people in the community to know what we really do. That was such a value to me to host because you gave me the platform that I could explain all our different programs because people driving past us think that we only do food and we don't do professional coaching and mentorship and I'm like, okay, dim and dawn. So fast forward, here we are March 2021 and the group is booked through the third quarter of 2022 with a different nonprofit that's gonna host us. So let me ask you this then. I'm really intrigued by this notion of community collaboration.  Were the folks showing up understanding and learning and understanding that this was a community collaboration? Because it seems like it revealed itself to you all. It was amazing. I'd like to say that the right people were on the bus at the right time. Yeah. There's so many people that and I carry it but they say, you're the chair, you're the founder but all I do is sometimes I drive with us but we rotate drive with us. What is unique about the community aspect is we found that different nonprofits didn't even know what each other did. Absolutely. And we are for the most part an outsider looking at that as insanity. Like why don't you know them and vice versa. Right. And then now there has been great collaboration at the perfect time whenever COVID and Care Act and whatever else is out there with the federal relief funds that these nonprofits knew each other and they had a running head start to help the community. And whenever people started to kind of share that back to me and that was because of a group. I got emotional, I never would have thought that. I want to question this and I warned you, we're very curious people, right? So this is just shooting from the hip but I too often hear from either individuals within an organization or another organization saying, oh, we can't talk to them or, you know, our board doesn't want us to talk to them, our founder. And that to me is ego, right? Maybe it's fear as well. But it sounds like your organization, the resource group there and the North Texas area has really got this figured out. So like what is the crystal ball for getting out of our own way to see these opportunities? That's a loaded question. Well, it looks like you've got a Nerf gun back there loaded too. And I want to know what resource that provides. So from my perspective, if we want to change things, sometimes we need an outside coach and an outside perspective. And another example of that is within my group, this group, we have three different nonprofits that provided business service. Yeah. And I've known them for a dozen years. And I would say this is insane that the other nonprofits in the community don't know that they could buy or get their services from them. One of them employs a special challenge and they do documentry. It made no sense to me that the nonprofit across the street is paying somebody else to do the documentry. So this group, it seems like each time that they get up and they do their run, Rob, and hi, we do document shredding, you kind of hear this, hang on for a second. Hey, Bob, cancel our contract. Hey, we're going to send you a contract. And so that's just, it happens. And it just, I think, took an outside person to go, I didn't grow up in a nonprofit space. I grew up in collaboration and from a technology perspective, we are better together. And the timing couldn't have been any better as our whole country was crippled by the pandemic and to see this share of resources who has closed, who has gatoried, who has this, who has that. And the group was a conduit. I never would have thought that starting the group three years ago. Right, if we were in church, I would have just stood up and said, hallelujah. I think that's so important that we see these opportunities. I love that, hey, Bob, we got, you know, like let's cancel ours, because that's often how it happens. And so I feel that when we are able to get out of our own ways, just as you said, then that's when the magic happens. That's when we're able to really support our community and come together for the greater good. You know, Eric, as you've been witnessing this, and I find it fascinating that it almost starts with the premises that you don't know what you don't know and that we're woefully untethered. You know, we don't know what everybody else is doing. So back it up a little bit. And what do you think makes a stronger relationship or a stronger partnership so that we can be working more together? There was a time, I'm gonna to date myself, that I've been in a technology space for 30 years and I was part of the original corporate sales group that sold cellular telephones. And my competition back then was the pay phone. It was crazy. During that era of my life, I had a couple of leaders that are rubbed the wrong way. But then there was also a few that meant to me and the story that I share is there are some people that get paid to think in the box. There are some people that get paid to think out of the box. The biggest compliment that I did not know that was a compliment 25 years ago, that Eric, you have in the box. So going back to a strong partnership, it depends on the person. You know, if their persona is in the box, they're gonna have a hard time. If their persona is outside the box, a little bit better at the time. If they have no box and you just work on intuition and what feels good and being a steward of the community, magic happens. I also call that the innovative disruptor, which I like to bring the caveat into this, but it's not always negative, right? Like disrupting, it's not always negative. It tends to have a negative connotation. I'm not sure why, but I do think and I mean, even Taco Bell did this great branding, your marketing, right? Think outside the bun. So when we can all think outside the box and maybe not even know that the box exists, that also brings opportunity for just greatness in your community. So kudos to all of that. It's really cool. Hey, I wanna have you revisit or dive in a little deeper on something that you mentioned, that you've got this really interesting hosting concept and that you have booked your group's meetings at these different nonprofits. Repeat what you said. You're booked at these different, if you will, venues or nonprofit sites through when? The third quarter of 2022. Of 22? Yeah, it's amazing. It's whenever the pandemic had our two sons really never go back to spring break, they said, Dad, could we build you a website for the group? And I'm like, I don't know what to put on the website. And then we started to think and I'm like, okay, I got this and I got that, but the most impactful part of the website is be a host. And then people drop me messages all the time. What does it take to be a host? And what's interesting about that is I have a post meeting with all nonprofits. And some of the more impactful feedback was part of a member of the group represents a very large bank that they have a division that only loans and men's money from nonprofits. They were the last host in 2019. They shifted their banking to this bank. The pandemic hit and they were the first nonprofit that they knew of, they got the PPP funding. So they could provide salaries and provide everything. Whenever I heard that, I was like, that just touched. And then I get feedback that they found new board members and new volunteers, new fundraising channels. So the word's getting around time. Indeed, in North Texas is very large, but it's also very small and the word's getting wider. You almost caught yourself there, or you could catch yourself. What a great resource and so many success stories out of that. I mentioned 240 plus episodes when I was thinking our wonderful sponsors when we began this, Eric. And sadly, we had a conversation with an alliance of a state in the Southwest stating that roughly 20%, maybe more Julia, nonprofits reported during probably Q3 of last year that they would not endure the changes and the challenges of the pandemic. So to hear that this is going so wonderfully and successfully, I think it's great for your community. It's great for the individuals. And I love that this hosting opportunity really provides that platform for the collaboration. It provides that platform for others to speak, just like your woman, I think it was with the food. And she's like, everyone thinks that we just serve food. And now we have this great opportunity to tell more of the story. So, what's up? It's part and parcel to that. For folks that might be looking at this and saying, wow, we could do this in our community. Could you give us some insight as to like when you meet, how long you meet, what time, what week of the day, I mean, or is it flexible? How does it work? We used to be flexible, we grew so much. And then the word got around that we agreed that we just had to have that one day a month, stand firm and that one day a month is the first Tuesday at two o'clock. We need for an hour. And we try to get through our Ron Robbins or our Chitty Chats, we try to get through that within 20 minutes, pass the baton to the host and it's up to them on how they want to showcase the mission. Wow, so you're doing it in mid-afternoon. Yep, yep. And you're finding that that's a good time and that people are participating and... That I have never been asked that before but recent conversations, I'm painting the picture of what the various members might look like. So we have professionals that have a service like us that we work with many nonprofits. Then you have people that have no service that will ever provide nonprofits, but they have resources. They might have access to this and that and this. And then there's this population of the group that they have neither. And they don't have a platinum checking account and they don't have all the time in their hands but they want to make a difference. So I think to your point of like mid-afternoon that kind of fits this demographic because they can't do it at night because they got three young kids. They might have to work two jobs or whatever the dynamics are. That's it's working. And it was something that's working. And maybe some of the success, I'm going to go out on a limb to say that now that you've set up, this is when it happens. This is the date, this is the time, this is the platform, the logistics, right? It's now, if this month doesn't work or next month or maybe even several in a row, I now know that this is when I need to find time to be available. And so I can then plug in or, you know, attend when my schedule does allow or I can make accommodations to attend. But great question, Julia, because I think finding the time for connection, for collaboration, for what works best, we all know that we cannot please everyone in all of the ways in which they wish to be pleased. And finding the best date and time. I mean, we had the struggle even with, you know, when do we do this show? And then with time change and how do we accommodate everyone's schedule? So I don't know, I would venture to guess. I wonder if that is an attribute of the success. I, there's one thing I can predict is in both respective cities, large cities that make up North Texas, there are certain times of the month that area fundraising professionals get together and they have their little think tank sessions within hours of that lunch being done. That's whenever the forms start to explode on the website. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. Well, I've got to, you know, we don't have much time left. And I've got to ask this question. How do you see yourself accommodating all of these nonprofits that are going to want to host and want to pull the resource, the nonprofit resource group onto their site? As of now, I think we're on a good pace with once a month. But as I'm looking at some trends, it could be twice a month. Yeah. And that's not like, I'm a professional here and then I run this group through my passion. Sure, sure. But I have to balance it myself and I've committed to the group that I'm gonna hold the integrity of the group first and foremost. And right now it's a good thing. Working well. It's really cool. I love that you're, I love your story. I love the process with which, you know, you have understood collaboration and partnership and communication. I think it's really powerful. I've got to say that during this show, we've had several people come on and ask, how do I get in touch with Eric Zarco because I run a nonprofit. So we're putting up, Eric's like, oh man. So we're putting up Eric's information here in North Texas. Check him out. You can go to their website, dfwnonprofitsresourcegroup.com. Really a cool idea that I think so many communities could adopt around this country. And I agree with you. You said something in the very beginning. We hear this all the time from nonprofit leaders. The community, they don't know what we do. They think we do one thing, but we actually do many, many more things. And so the opportunity that you're presenting to your community and to those other nonprofits, brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And to kind of springboard off that, those same nonprofit leaders, all they want to do is surround themselves with mission-friendly partners. And in this group provides that too. Yeah, makes it a win-win. It's really exciting. Well, you have really energized me today. Again, here's Eric's information. Check him out and see if maybe that might work for your community. On behalf of Jarrett Ransom, I'm Julia Patrick. We've really enjoyed having you here today. But more importantly, we've enjoyed having you with us for nearly a year now. Hard to believe. But who's counting? Yeah, but who's counting?  I swear to God, I really thought this was gonna be a two-week gig. That's how I wrote to Jarrett Ransom into this, who I did not really know that well. And I said, hey, sister, we can chit-chat for a little bit. And now it's been a year. So tomorrow is gonna be really an interesting show. We are going to talk about what it is that we learned and we want our viewers to join in on that. So come on onto the show and let us know what you've learned. You can reach us out through social media any way that works for you. Because we really wanna share that journey. It's certainly been a journey. And I think that the lessons that so many of us have learned will serve as a complete shift change for many, many decades to come and how our sector works. And so we're really excited to have that conversation. And so join us again tomorrow, 9.30 Pacific time where we will look at that. If you were with us yesterday, we launched a new series that was absolutely, I had to go to bed early last night, Jarrett, because I was like so overwhelmed with all of the things. So overstatuated with information. I was, I was just like, okay, I told my family, I'm like, I gotta calm my body down and I gotta go to bed. We kicked off a new series. We've never done anything like this. It's going to be twice a month. And it is brought to us in collaboration with the fundraising academy. And it's a very, very precise process to go about fundraising. It's natural, it's logical. It is relationship-based, relationship-based. And I think, Jarrett, and you're the fundraising expert, but I think it's highly sustainable. Absolutely, yep. Really excited. I love that Tony said relationship, relationship, relationship. That's what I say all the time. And yes, I think it's great. Check it out. Check it out. It's the series will have its own path on our Roku channel. You can certainly find it on our website and we'll be, you'll be hearing more and more about it. But this series is gonna run through basically until June. And so what's exciting about it is that your team can watch it together. You can jump in, you can jump off. If you had to go into the marketplace and buy this education, it's expensive. But the fundraising academy is coming on to the show and kind of doing an abbreviated version, but still super impactful. And yesterday we talked about the Madden approach to prospecting. And as Jarrett said, it would be very maddening if you didn't have this approach, loved it. I'd learned so much. So I just wanna let everybody know that we're doing that. Again, our presenting sponsors, we would not be here if it weren't for you. And so we want to definitely express our gratitude. And again, most of these sponsors, they have been with us from the beginning. 365 days. I'm like, what the heck? Didn't they get the memo? So I mean, we're really again, incredibly, incredibly grateful that they would be on this journey with us. And they support the nonprofit sector day in and day out. As always to our guest, Eric Zarko, thank you so much for being with us today. My pleasure. It was great. It was great. It was a phenomenal information. And you still didn't answer about that Nerf gun, but I'm gonna email you. Every four. I love it. Well, you know, we end every show with the sentiment that we mean from our hearts and we need to really listen to this, I think daily. And that is stay well, so you can do well. We're so appreciative for your time and we'll see you back here tomorrow.


Hi, I'm Leigh Deforth and I'm with the City of Columbia and I work as a comprehensive planner and I'm here with Leigh Smilgrove of One Columbia Arts and History and we're here to talk to you today about the cultural planning process known as Amplify Columbia. Amplify Columbia is a 12 to 18 month process that will help us to really dig in, learn a lot about the cultural resources Columbia already has and find ways to make that whole cultural community much stronger. The cultural planning process is about 12 to 18 months, it'll involve a lot of things like group meetings with targeted audiences, different interest groups that have a vested interest in cultural planning and it'll look at lots of different ways to connect and one of the first ways that people can give us input is through a online survey we're conducting right now, it's available on the website AmplifyColumbia.com. It's a short survey with a few questions about what people might know about the current cultural scene in Columbia and maybe ways that they can give us advice about how to improve it or ways that they want to see some change. The process for cultural planning really kicked off in late January where we had a public announcement that involved our city poet laureate and a performance by Indigo Sol and some key stakeholders like Councilman Sam Davis and Mayor Benjamin who spoke about the importance of cultural planning, planning together and really making our city shine as a hub of arts and culture. There will be other opportunities to participate you can certainly send an email to hello at amplifycolumbia.com if you have a certain comment you want to make or question about the process and you can also participate in some of the town halls that will be upcoming likely in March, late March or early April. As a city are always looking to identify what our vision is for for the coming years that the comprehensive plan is a 10-year plan and we're really asking folks to to think about where they want us to be in 10 years where they'd like us to you know how they'd like us to look how they'd like the built environment to look but also how they'd like cultural engagement to look so what are we missing what are we not missing in the city what are you most proud of that you want to see continue what what what do you think needs more support so it's a it's a good way for folks to get involved in really your vision for Columbia and we recognize that while we have to come up with one comprehensive vision that everyone's vision is going to be a little bit different and without your input we really we really may not be getting all the pieces of the pie. Columbia has been fortunate enough to have a lot of talent for a long time and organizations really have stepped out and they've started working a lot outside their own doors working with other partners creating really a vibrant cultural scene and now's a chance for us to kind of make a turn where we use that collaborative spirit and bring us all together with a strategy for how to make it grow even more and really get a lot more national prominence for the city for its arts and cultural scene. If you'd like to give your input to the whole Amplify process you can find more information at AmplifyColumbia.com and you can find the survey there where you can really share your thoughts and vision for Columbia's cultural community. Thank you so much for joining us today and we hope to see you out there as we discuss and plan for our cultural resources.


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Okay, let's go straight ahead. So, our last talk is by Minghao Kwik, who will speak about, well, title around the Motivic Monetary Conjecture for Non-Degenerate Hypersurfaces. Please go ahead. Okay, thank you for your invitation to speak. So, I'm a fifth year student, fifth year graduate student at Brown University, and today my title of the, so, so the title of my talk is around the Motivic Monodromy Conjecture for Non-Degenerate Hypersurfaces. So, this is the main theorem that I proved recently. So, the Motivic Monodromy Conjecture holds for non-degenerate polynomials in n equals to t variables. So, here all my polynomials are complex coefficients. And a remark is the conjecture is already known for all polynomials in two variables. This is due to multiple people. And the outline of my talk is first I'll introduce what it means for a polynomial to be non-degenerate. And then I'll introduce the statement of this conjecture. And then finally I'll motivate the proof of my, so the proof of this theorem via an example. Sorry, sorry to interrupt. Ming, please, please zoom out the screen. I'm only seeing part of the screen. I maximized the screen because I could see it. Okay, can you see this? Thank you. Sorry, thank you. Okay, so before I move on, I want to say this theorem was already known before, but these people kind of use some roundabout methods. And my proof is actually geometric proof. So, now I'll begin. So, first I'll introduce what it means for a polynomial to be non-degenerate. So, first fix our complex polynomial, such that it vanishes at the zero point. And we'll write the polynomial like this. And then the first object we're interested in is the Newton-Polyhedron of F. So, this is the Newton-Polyhedron of F. We'll define it as follows. First, you look at all the vectors in nn, such that the corresponding coefficient in F is non-zero. So, you take that vector a, and you add this upper half space. And then you take the union of all these things. And then lastly, you take the convex term. So, this sits in this upper half space. So, let me first use an example to explain this definition. So, first consider this polynomial here. Poinomial in two variables. As you can see, I've drawn the Newton-Polyhedron below. So, here is how it goes. So, this point you see here, it's x1 to the power 4. This point is x1 squared, x2. This point is x1, x2 cubed. And finally, this point is x1 cubed, x2 squared. So, these are precisely all the monomials that are appearing in F. So, what I do is I add an upper half space to these points. So, this is how it looks. So, this is the union of all these upper half spaces. And then finally, I take the convex term of this rate portion. So, what I end up with is precisely this non-compact polygon. So, this is precisely the Newton-Polyhedron of F. So, that's the definition of the Newton-Polyhedron of F. Now, I want to explain what it means for a polynomial to be non-degenerate. So, what it means is, first let's consider, let's focus on each phase of the Newton-Polyhedron. So, if vast sigma is a phase of the Newton-Polyhedron, then we shall consider the part of F that's sitting on the phase. So, these are precisely all the monomials such that the corresponding vector A is sitting on the phase, vast sigma. So, this is the vast sigma part of F. And we say that F is non-degenerate if, for every phase vast sigma, the vanishing locus of this vast sigma part of F is non-singular in the torus GMN, contained in AM. So, this sits in AM. So, that's what it means for F to be non-degenerate. And the fact is, almost all polynomials are non-degenerate. So, if you pick any generic polynomial, it's going to be non-degenerate. So, this was one example. This is one example of a non-degenerate polynomial. So, what it means to be non-degenerate is, for every phase, you have to check the condition. So, for example, if I pick this phase, I have to check that x1 times x2q plus x1 squared times x2. The vanishing locus of this is non-singular in the torus GMN square. So, the fact is, this polynomial here is non-degenerate. So, you have to check every phase, including this vertex and including the whole Newton polynomial. And another example, which will be the main example for today. So, this is a polynomial in three variables. And then, likewise, similarly, we'll plot the point. So, x1 square, x1 times x2 to the power 4, x2q times x3, and x3q. You add an upper half space to each point, and then you take the union of that, and then you take the convex hole. So, what we end up with is a Newton polynomial that's sitting above these six facets, right? So, three of these facets are standard coordinate planes, and we have three facets that are not lying in any coordinate planes. So, the fact is, this is also non-degenerate. So, now I'll introduce the equivalent characterization for what it means to be... So, equivalent characterization for what it means for a polynomial to be non-degenerate. So, in fact, there's a cleaner way of expressing when f is non-degenerate in terms of the normal fan of this Newton-polydron of f. So, let me define what the... So, let me define what this normal fan is. So, first you start from this Newton-polydron, and then the normal fan satisfies this following properties. So, it satisfies the property where k-dimensional phases of the Newton-polydron of f is in a one-to-one correspondence with n minus k-dimensional. So, n minus k-dimensional cones in this fan, and so in the fan sigma. So, here in this example, n is equals to 3, because f is 3 levels, and then in particular, if I take k to be two-dimensional, I get the facets of the Newton-polydron of f, and what this correspondence says is the facets of the Newton-polydron of f should correspond to the rays in sigma of f. So, what do I mean by rays? I mean one-dimensional cones. So, for example, if you look at this example, I've drawn the normal fan on the right-hand side, or rather a cross-section of the normal fan. So, this is roughly how it looks like. And if you focus on this facet, this facet has a normal vector. So, it's a fine span has a normal vector, and that normal vector is precisely this ray that we see here, this ray u1. And then likewise, if I call the normal vector for this facet to be u2, I get this ray u2. And then likewise, this facet here has a corresponding ray, not by u3. And then how do I recover the other cones in sigma of sigma f? So, for example, if I look at this phase of the Newton-polydron of f, this phase actually corresponds to this maximal cone of the normal fan. So, how you see this is observed that this phase is contained in four facets. So, its corresponding cone would be precisely generated by the rays corresponding to these four facets. So, that's how you define the normal fan of f. And then now I shall introduce the equivalent characterization for a polynomial to be non-degenerate. So, first, notice that sigma of f is a subdivision of the alpha-half of the alpha-half space. So, for example, in this example, it's a subdivision of the alpha-half space. So, by Toric geometry, you know that its associated Toric variety admits a proper vibrational morphism to an, like this. But this Toric variety here is usually singular. So, what Cox did is, this Toric variety has a quotient construction, for example, given by something like this. So, some GIT quotient. And then by Cox's construction, there's a canonical smooth step that's sitting above this Toric variety, which I shall denote script x sigma f. So, it's nothing but just the step portion of what you see on the left-hand side. So, by Cox's construction, there's a smooth step. This is smooth because this phase is more. There's a smooth step that's sitting above this Toric variety, whose good modernized space is precisely this Toric variety. And we'll let pi sigma f denote this composition. So, from here to here, and then finally to here. And then here comes the equivalent characterization. This is recently observed by me and my advisor. So, the following I could learn for f, for complex polynomial f, f is non-degenerate, if and only if this morphism is what we call a stachy-embedded resolution of the vanishing locus of f. So, what I mean by stachy-embedded, these singularities, stachy-embedded resolution of the vanishing locus of f is just this condition that the preimage of b of f under the morphism is a SNC divisor. It's a SNC divisor on the stach, script x, sigma f. So, this is one neat way of characterization of classifying when f is non-degenerate. And now I shall introduce the statement of the multibake monogamy function. So, two objects of interest when one studies the singularity of the vanishing locus of f at this point zero are the folding objects. So, the first is what people call the local multibake monogamy. So, the local multibake zeta function denoted like this. So, it's some zeta function that is known to specialize to other zeta functions, for example, the periodic zeta function. And then the second object is some eigenvalues of a monogamy action on a single cohomology of the muonafidal. So, this is some geometric object associated to f, which I have no time to cover today. So, today my main focus will be part one, this object on me. So, let me state the conjecture first. So, the conjecture says that for every neighborhood mu of the origin in CN, we have these two objects. So, the pose of the multibake zeta function, which is part one. And then we have the monogamy eigenvalues of f at points in this open neighborhood intercept the vanishing locus of f. And the conjecture predicts a relationship between these two objects. So, it says that the relationship is precisely given by this exponential map. So, this is what a conjecture says. It says that, given any point, if I apply that exponential map, I precisely get a monogamy algorithm. So, one thing I should mention here first is that this, as the name suggests, this is a zeta function. It looks like what you expect from a zeta function, but not only that, it's known that this zeta function is a rational function. So, once you have a rational function, you can study its pose. And moreover, one can compute a set of the candidate pose. Some candidate pose for this multibake zeta function using an embedded resolution of the vanishing locus of f. So, what I mean by candidate pose is some of the pose in this set could be fake. So, not actual pose. And what makes the conjecture so difficult is what people will usually do is you will take an embedded resolution of the vanishing locus of f, produce a set of candidate pose. But it turns out that not every candidate pole induces a monogamy algorithm. So, that's where the difficulty of the conjecture lies. So, now I shall talk about the conjecture in the setting of non-degenerate polynomials. Through this example that we have been discussing all along. So, first from Aliyah, we have this Stecchi embedded resolution of v of f. So, first from Aliyah, we have this Stecchi embedded resolution of v of f. So, using this Stecchi resolution of v of f, it's known that it's known that using this resolution, one can write down a set of candidate pose for the multibake zeta function of f as follows. So, one would draw, first draw its Newton-Polydron like this, look at all the facets that are not contained in a coordinate particle. So, in this example, there are three facets not contained in a coordinate, not contained in a coordinate hyperplane. So, these are three facets. And for each facet, for example, this facet, I'll write down its equation like this. And using this equation, one can write down a corresponding pole as follows. One would first sum up the coordinates of the normal vector. So, 9 plus 4 plus 6. Five minutes. Okay, thank you. And then one would divide by this number that you see on the right-hand side, 18. And then include a minus sign. So, this is how you produce a candidate pole from this facet of the Newton-Polydron. And then likewise for the other facets, you could write down a corresponding candidate pole. So, for example, for this, one would sum up the coordinates again of the normal vector and then divide it by 8. So, this is minus 10 over 8, which is minus 5. And this is one of the candidate poles that I've listed below. And then likewise for this, one would once again sum them up and then divide it by 1. So, this is minus 2. And it's what we see here. So, using these three numbers, one gets a set of candidate poles by just union it with minus 1. So, once you union it with minus 1, this set is a set of candidate poles. So, arising from the Stecchi resolution that I've written earlier. But actually, it turns out that this candidate pole does not induce a monochrome eigenvalue of them near 0. So, using this resolution is not enough to show the monochrome conjecture. But fortunately, the set of poles, so the set of actual poles of this multivix data function, turns out to be just this number. So, minus 1 and minus 19 over 18. And if you recall, minus 19 over 18 corresponds to this facet here. So, in some way it's saying that these two facets that you see here are inducing fake poles of the multivix data function. So, one could ask, this is the key question of my talk, can one possibly construct an embedded resolution of the vanishing locus of air that use precisely this set of poles. But does not see this two fake poles induced by these two facets. So, this is part of my ongoing work. So, the answer is yes for this example. So, here is the strategy for my work. So, this is the strategy I undertaken to prove whatever theorem they have in mind. So, one starts from the Newton-Polydian affair and then you drop the two bad facets. So, these two facets induces fake poles. So, you drop them. So, what I mean by drop is you consider the remaining facets. Each remaining facet cuts out an upper half space and you take the intersection of the remaining upper half of this four remaining upper half spaces. So, if you take the intersection of the remaining four upper half spaces, you end up with this new term, this new Polydian. So, we just went from this Polydian to this new Polydian and then using this new Polydian, one can associate a normal fan as before and then using this normal fan, likewise, there's a torrid variety. That torrid variety emits a proper variational map of A3 and then likewise, there's a canonical smooth up in stack sitting above this torrid stack and likewise, you consider this composition and the main claim is this map that we see here induced by this new normal fan and this new Polydian is actually a stacky embedded resolution of the vanishing local fan. And not just that, using this embedded resolution, it computes precisely the set of poles of the multi-big data function. Okay, and that's the end of my talk. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for a nice talk.


Should I get the gun up as soon as possible before I break the plane of the wall? Okay, that is the goal behind that is as before I break the plane of the wall, I already have my sight picture built. Make ready. Are you ready? All right, stand by. Are you ready? Yes. Stand by. Destruction goes, we don't really have much more to throw at you and-


Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and today we're playing Paper Mario Origami King. Very relatable game to me because just like Mario was paper thin, so is my self esteem. Let's jump into the game. And just like Terg, I am excited to play this game. Big fan of Mario and a big fan of paper cuts. So add my two loves together and it's gotta be a good game. Oh wait there's no voices, okay I guess I gotta do the voices. So this is Luigi. Isn't this great bra back on the road again together and heading to some kind of festival? That's how he sounds, right? Oh wait, Italian. Isn't this great bra back on the road again together and heading to some kind of festival? That's it, that's the one.  Mario and Luigi forgot about you know the whole lockdown thing. No one's at the festival. Okay this is hitting a little too close to home to be honest. I wanted to escape from reality Mario. Come on.  Reven his engine like that. I'm gonna pack the cart okay. I don't want to tip the van.  I thought that was an excuse to like get Luigi away and just play as Mario but no he came back. They were just like okay just to emphasize this heading into the game.  You know if I was made a paper and all my friends and family were made a paper I wouldn't light my castle up by candlelight. It seems like an unnecessary hazard because this this is demonic. They should have got me the voice peach. Yeah sure why not. Just go along whatever she says it's easier she'll just nag me otherwise. You know what peach is like she's a handful going around to different castles all the time and I'd be following her everywhere. And what of those doads shouldn't they be silenced for all eternity. Sure yeah that's grand as well love. Yes yeah you're right. Will you grease yourself and be reborn like me. Sure why not. If everybody else is doing it should be a pressure. Wrong answer right answer it matters not.  Okay how much he drops me down the trap door. That all seemed pointless to be honest with you. This guy's asking me to stomp on him. He must have a big crush. That is the ultimate way to get someone's attention.  Hammer. Great. I don't know how I can pick up this three-dimensional hammer with my two-dimensional hands but I'll give it a go. Nope I found an exit. Are you leaving. It sounds like you're leaving. Please help me. I'll just leave.  Let me leave. For fuck's sake. Okay I gotta free someone here. I want to look after me. Is that such a big deal. 1000 fold arms. What? Alright let me try. What is going on? What am I looking for? What? M.C.A. Alright no I should really try and solve this puzzle. I'm looking for someone behind this wall I think. There we go. What do we got here? Ah yes. Mole people. I got mole people in the wall. Whatever that thing was it just folded itself and put it inside my pocket and if Mario is anything like me it's gonna stay there for about a year and then I'll find it all crushed up and be like oh yeah well the thing's dead now. She's all talk please can I get some scissors someone please. I love the way they talk it reminds me of the SpongeBob meme. That was the last of them. Where's the mustache? Is that who they call me? Just the mustache? I'm Mario come on I'm like one of the most famous people in the world. Open up come get me. Oh look it's Bowser. Turn him into a paper aeroplane. Throw him off a cliff. Really solve a lot of the problems Mario gets himself into. There we go yeah just pull on him. Oh he almost went into the candle there. You see what I mean about candles? I did bring this up earlier. How come everyone else got like reanimated into origami and Bowser over here is like a pizza box. I imagine you got a pizza delivered and your pizza box like I used to be a king. I'm playing whack-a-mole with Bowser. I have a feeling like it's more fun for me than him though. Alright let me get out my mr. tickle arms and try and find a way out of this room. Alright so I guess Bowser is now my sidekick instead of Luigi where I don't even know where the hell he's gone to be honest. I'm walking with my face over here. Poor Bowser. Struggling up the stairs. Why are you still so flat? Stop body shaming me. Come we can reshape you. Are you a personal trainer or something? Because I don't think you're qualified for this. I think I want to break up with Peach. Join us yes or no yes.  I thought we were about to get a music video or something but no I think I'm just about to be attacked. Or maybe it is a music video. No no definitely being attacked. Oh my god what is this? There we go. Line them up and knock them down. Okay this was pretty easy. I don't know why I'm so scared of these things. Yeah I'm not really afraid of these things anymore. I seem to be just slaughtering them. This is actually just kind of sad. Now what? This is just awkward. Oh wait hold on. There might be something more serious going on.  The comb over. He's so misunderstood. And it's your brother? Can you just talk him out of this? It saved me a lot of time. Oh no he's summoning paper and the castles made a rock and paper beats rock. Or screwed. Or absolutely screwed. Did anyone bring a scissors? And has anyone seen Luigi? I fear and hope he is dead. I never mind. I'm getting saved by a random cop instead. Ah there's his hat. Okay Luigi dead confirmed. Mario just gave a little nod. Not like oh no my bro or anything. Just like yep he's dead.  He's the king. And he wants to live there? It's all about location, location, location. If you can move your house anywhere why would you put it up there? Sure he's king but at what cost? I'm just gonna leave Mario on this tree. He's just stuck and I refuse to free him. I'm guessing that twitching of his feet is gonna stop soon. He's just gonna suffocate. Oh yeah there he goes. Yeah he stopped wriggling. He's he's gone. He's dead. Alright come on Mario wakey wakey. Let's get going. Empty confetti bag. Okay great. I guess this is the thought that counts. I don't see how this is a useful gift. Okay I filled up with confetti. Can I fix the world now? It's kind of falling apart. Huzzah! My brother is dead.  There you are. Honestly you should probably sort out this whole problem. I don't really want to get involved with your personal problems. You know getting in between you and your bro. Perhaps this is a game for Dr. Phil maybe. Alright time to get handsy to progress. Oh my god Mario's strong. I think I'm upsetting the wildlings in the forest. I don't know who it is but someone's watching me. Imagine that. Someone watching me. That's the dream.  I'm playing a matching game? Okay I can try it. Oh yes. Star of the show. Luigi is gone. It's just parodying. My brother is dead. Wait what was that? Okay. Oh right. Okay yeah that actually that makes sense yeah. I figured out the puzzle. Oh no not that thing. I remember that from the Game Boy game. I don't want to bring that back to life. For fuck's sake. Don't don't please.  God this game is weird. What do I have to do? These trees look a bit suspicious. We can't go on together with suspicious trees.  Oh wait I can just leave the area. Alright okay. I didn't really wait what? It just brought me right back. Maybe things will change if we keep going alright. I'll just keep going around this path getting brought back. Oh dear. I knew those trees were suspicious. Sorry for you know beating the bejesus out of you like two seconds ago. I apologize about that. I need grand sappy's permission to leave. It looks kind of sad. I guess I'd be sad too if someone caught me above my ankles. I'd have no place on the internet then. Maybe just an only fans of just my feet. That seems to be popular apparently. For fuck's sake. Really? Today is a rough day. The only thing I got going for me is that my brother is dead. Mario seems really happy about that. He's throwing confetti up in the air and celebrating. Thumbs up Mario. Are you committed? Multiple homicides. Let's keep going.  Wait so when I've been throwing all that confetti it's been like the organs of my enemies? Mario's hardcore. Might as well collect those to throw around later. Yay! I'm wanted for numerous atrocities including but not limited to a homicide. I think I might be the bad guy. Normally I wouldn't suggest this but do you think we should try throwing something in there? Sure let's throw in a flower. I mean we already threw in a boombox. I think the lake's already ruined. Paper Mario. King of legal dumping. And I just realized look at all those trees that were watching me do it. Well time to start a forest fire. I add that to the list of crimes I've committed. I've lit the entire forest on fire and now Mario's realizing he cannot fly out of the situation so he's also going to die. But don't worry he welcomes death. Yay! Alright I think we're gonna end it there but this game seems really fun. I really really like it. I played a bit of Paper Mario on the Wii but I didn't get to play that much but I really really enjoyed that one as well. And I think this is a game I'm gonna continue. I think I might stream it. Blogging my own stream there. Yeah if you like my content I do stream over on Twitch. I've got a link in the description but I also post here every day so if you're not a fan of Twitch or you can't stand me for more than like 10 minutes at a time I understand. But there is more of me to see on YouTube at least. But I do hope you guys enjoyed the video. I really enjoyed this one. I thought it was a lot of fun. I do hope to see you next time as well. I really appreciate you watching and that's about it. Hope to see you next time folks. Bye for now.


for that. In the meantime, let's turn to the bond market, get a reaction there. We're joined by Simon Michelle from Fig Securities in Sydney. Simon, great to have you company on the show today. Just want to talk bond markets in terms of firstly the local economic data we're seeing, we've heard NAB today bring forward their expectations for a rate cut, also pricing in a 30% chance for a third cut in the year. So we would have obviously seen one and then another one to come in 30% chance for the one after that. In terms of what the bond markets are pricing in, is there any difference over the last couple of days, you know, with this political instability we've been seeing in the markets? Look, I think the key driver really was that announcement last week where we saw that rate cut and we saw the yield curve drift up. And currently today, our five-year Commonwealth government rates up about 20 basis points from the lows of last week and the tenure up about 30 basis points. So they're pretty steady around that sort of level. And, you know, I think the yield curve is very, very flat with only, you know, a few points differential between along the five and the tens over the official cash. So I think, you know, what's driving this is obviously we're still getting a lot of stimulus coming through Europe. That's looking for home. That's pushing global rates down. The US is certainly experiencing that. You've got Japanese stimulus as well. You know, the peak of both the Japanese and European stimulus is going to be about the same level or higher than what the peak of the US stimulus was. So on a global basis, you've still got a lot of money hitting the economy and providing stimulus. That money's got to find a home and it's doing a yield search. And that's why Australian and US rates are benefiting from that. Well, obviously you can't talk global without talking Greece at the moment. It's high on the agenda, growing expectations that Greece is on the verge of leaving the Eurozone. How is that impacting the broader Eurozone? Given the fact that they are in this deflationary environment, they are pumping money into the economy. Just put that in context for us in the wake of, I guess, the risk of Greece. Sure. Look, I think at the moment, markets don't like uncertainty. So they're sitting on the sidelines. You know, we're not seeing a huge amount of movements in yields. People are waiting to see what the outcomes are going to be, you know, after we get past these sort of political argy-bargy. And I think they'll react on certainty.  You know, I think that the markets aren't as concerned or building as as much volatility potential as we have in the past. You know, I think there's a little bit of, you know, a better situation over in Europe with the action by the ECB that I don't think the market would see the Greece situations causing a huge problem. It would be more sort of isolated to Greece, essentially. So I think it's just the uncertainty. People just want to see what the outcome is. You know, at the moment, you know, it's a little bit of a player words. We need to get a little bit more certainty of and, you know, around the action that that's going to lead to. Is that risk-flowing through to U.S. Treasuries or is U.S. still sort of priced in terms of Fed-high timelines going forward? Look, they're still benefiting from that money coming across looking for that safety. You know, rates still very, very low. Expectation is still around 59% for the September quarter of this year that we see an increase in the Fed funds rate. But look, they could be hampered if this quantitative easing keeps pushing lots of cash into their yield curve as well. We've seen some corporate starting to take advantage of that Microsoft AAA issuer over in the U.S. issued $10.8 billion U.S. of debt overnight. Right across the curve, they issued 5, 7, 10, 20, 30 and 40 year debt. So they're taking advantage of low rates. The U.S. government is pushing its issuance out to the longer dated Treasuries as well. So, you know, you're getting some activity or reaction that would be seen as positive by the corporate sector there as well. Is there still a lot of volatility though in the bond market over in the U.S. in terms of, I guess, any data that is released? Look, absolutely. You know, as we get closer to an expectation of a move by the Fed, you're going to see a lot more volatility and a lot more voices at play there as well. The other greater concern really is that, you know, as people, as corporates in the U.S. is pushing their investment out in the longer end of the yield curve, investors buying those longer dated bonds are going to see a significantly higher impact once those longer rates start moving up. So, you know, the longer you go, the higher your interest rate risk, those rates start to move higher. You're going to start to see a bit of a downward movement in the value of your bonds. So, you know, that push out to take advantage of those low rates does have consequences for investors as well. That's very likely to see some increasing volatility emerge as we get closer to that move by the Fed. All right, Simon, we'll leave it there. Thanks so much. Thank you and good. So, Michelle, from Figus.