guy in the 80s. No, no, the same. He's the guy with the the mutton chops. He used to get his own movie. Oh, cable to Larry the cable guy. I do not know who you speak of. Your old buddy Ernest. He died. We had your dice clay. Oh, yeah, he's still around. He made a comeback. Yeah, he's gone for beers or out of the public spotlight for years. He made it. He made a concerted effort to make a comeback. Now, he looks like a scone with appendages. No. Goan scone. What flavor? Shatner probably. How can you look like a scone is like lumpy flour? Yep. All right. Yes. Yes, ma'am. I'm referring to now he's whatever. We all get old. I'm not complaining. It's fine. No, I'll get lumpy and flour like. I love a good scone. I like a good scone as well. I do too. Cherry scone. Honey on it though. So good. Warm honey. The chainsaws are back. Oh, no. Oh, we can't chop the trees. You can't hear it. I'm leaving the window open because it's too stuffy in here. But it was really loud this morning. I needed to come up with a word for pie in an alien culture for a book that I'm working on for nano RIMO. So I called actual pie like pie like a fruit pie, right? All right. So I called them stuffers. Okay. Let's see if the language or is that just no, no, it's all it's it's it's all English. It's not going that deep. It's just, you know, everybody's speaking English. We're not even acknowledging that. But this guy who knows them as pie in in the translation of his language shows up and calls them pie. And in this culture, they're like, pie, what's that? Like, oh, you mean stuffers? Or of a cultural difference, linguistic difference. Do we care if Peter teal sold all of his remaining steak and Facebook? Yes. It's 130, though. I know. I'm sorry. All right, this came in six minutes ago. I will toss it to you because I have learned to pay attention to these things. I will talk if you want to just put a link on line. Well, hold on a second. The Reuters article says most of most is very different. Most is three quarters of his remaining steak in the social network.  What's the link on line 13? Okay. And then I'll just I'll start us. Let's start off with a few tech things you should know, including what did Peter teal do, Sarah? Right. Yeah. Yeah. All right. You guys ready? Yep. Yeah. Darn you news breaking at 130. You stop that. Here we go. Three, two. That's not right. Here we go. Darn you, Tom. Three, two. Hello, all you beautiful people. The Daily Tech News Show is brought to you by you. You can find out more at that dailytechnewshow.com. And we thank you for your support. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, November 22, 2017 from DTS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline, I am Sarah Lane. From the Rocky Mountain headquarters of I Wish I Knew I Was Playing Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Players, I'm Scott Johnson. Wow. That's a hell of a name for your headquarters there. You know what? I installed Animal Crossing and then forgot about it. So I'm kind of the opposite of you. Also with us today is the birthday boy turning 21 yet again. Mr. Roger Chan. 21. Thank you. I've been 21 for the past 21 years. Okay. That's kind of a giveaway if you can do math, but none of us can do math. So you're safe. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. What's Peter Thiel doing, Sarah? Well, he's selling most of his Facebook steak, turns out. This is news from just a couple of minutes ago. So we'll probably get more information in tomorrow. Well, we're not going to have a show tomorrow. Okay, we'll save it for Monday. But apparently he sold three quarters of his remaining steak in Facebook as part of a previously established trading plan. Which is basically worth one billion worth of money. Now, he's on the board of Facebook. So it remains to be seen whether or not that signals him leaving the company entirely. Is he losing confidence or just cashing out? That's the question. One does not know. Demand progress, fight for the future and free press action fund have called for people to protest at Verizon stores on December 7th about the FCC's proposed changes to the Open Internet Guidelines course, December 7th, also Pearl Harbor Day. But the reason they picked it apparently is because it's exactly a week before the FCC is scheduled to vote on the changes on December 14th. California Department of Motor Vehicles has given ride hailing company Lyft, a permit to test self-driving cars on public roads. The California DMV previously granted permits to Uber also to Waymo, who's sort of a rival and a partner of Lyft at this point. And then some car makers like Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Ford. Apple scientists posted a research paper with archive spelled A-R-X-I-V. Yeah, I know, I thought that too. Detailing how much an approach called Voxelnet helps self-driving cars identify 3D objects like cyclists and pedestrians using fewer sensors. I love that cyclists and pedestrians are considered 3D objects. Anyway, Voxelnet improves the ability for LiDAR systems to detect objects from a distance without help from a camera. The experiments were limited to computer simulations and not actual road tests. How many 2D pedestrians do you know? I know that we're all in 3D, but to be referred to as a 3D object instead of just a cyclist or whatever is a little weird. Because it can identify all 3D objects, right? It's fun. They can follow what they want. Here's a more top story is Uber told Bloomberg that hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from the company back in October 2016. I was a problem calling this stole. It's more like they copied it. It's not like they took it off and now it's not there, but they have it. And that's bad. Uber fired its chief security officer Joe Sullivan and one of his deputies for keeping the hack a secret, including the fact that they had paid $100,000 to delete the data and keep it secret. Names, email addresses, phone numbers of users were divulged. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and drivers licenses of some drivers were part of the breach. Uber says that no social security numbers, no credit card numbers, and perhaps most importantly, no trip history data was copied. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation into the attack and a class action lawsuit is being pursued as well. We talked about this like right at the end of the post show yesterday because it was just breaking right then. So I got a question. It's a rhetorical one. Is there now a worst story that can come out about Uber? Because, you know, we had this like story after story after story and it seemed like it was never going to get any better and it would only get worse. And then after a while, you're like, OK, well, we're probably good. Then this thing drops and admittedly it happened at a time when all the other stuff was having its own brand of fallout. But man, this is a bad, bad thing, like maybe the baddest of things that have come out of Uber lately. Let me tell you why this is a good thing. OK. It's a good thing because Derek Ozerashahi hired someone to investigate security at Uber once he took over as CEO. They found out about this hack, divulged it publicly. This is Uber turning the corner. And this is them saying, you know what? We're looking into our bad laundry and we're going to find it all. We're going to get it out there. We're going to make it public. We're going to make it transparent and we're going to do better from now on. So this is an example of Uber fixing something, even though back in October 2016, it's an example of of Uber once again doing something horrible. You know, well, we're not wanting to have so much bad press because they had so much other bad press. Also, I mean, it's not a good company to be like, OK, we had an issue a couple years ago and we didn't say anything. Certainly people are less likely to forgive something that seems kind of underhanded. Yeah. And Yahoo, I don't think paid anybody a hundred thousand dollars to keep it secret. They sort of just forgot to say it. So I I do think this this is this is nasty. But but again, the person involved has been fired. They're cleaning up their mess. So I think it's a good thing for Uber going forward. Well, you may or may not think this is a good thing. Facebook were a new tool for US users to check if they followed or liked pages and accounts on Facebook or Instagram, which, of course, Facebook owns from Russian organizations like the Internet Research Agency that are believed to have links to the Russian government. The company announced the tool on Wednesday and it'll show if a user directly followed an account or page. But if you're looking at your news feed and it's something that a friend liked or whatever, you can't use the tool. So it has to be something that you were pretty in direct connection with. So I'd like to know. But yeah, I mean, I guess I'd like to know. I don't like very many things on Facebook, unless it's friends or family. And I know they're not associated necessarily with stuff like that. But I'm trying to think what this does. I think it just tells people that you.  Well done. It's Facebook responding to so many people saying, Facebook ruined the election. Facebook's, you know, changing our minds and behaviors and we don't know what's going on. And so it's kind of a goodwill thing more than anything that's going to change the way Facebook works, at least in my opinion. I can see that. I just I just wonder if it wouldn't be better data or maybe they're already working on giving us this or maybe this will help them give us this. But I would be nice to see how many likes and how many three shares and all that kind of stuff happened on the links we know are verified to come from those sources. Like that is a more macro piece of data is more interesting to me than knowing that my mom clicked on one. I mean, this is this is not about you knowing about your mom. This is about I think what you nailed it first, which is this is about you being a person who's not as conversant with this stuff as you are being told like, hey, you may not have realized it. But that thing you liked, yeah, it comes from here. So you might want to reevaluate that or not. That's up to you. Well, actually, now that you say that, maybe I do.  But it turns out it was coming from one of these things that we're trying to lull me into sort of following that feed. One of the cats was Marco Rubio and the other cat. We're sure. So yeah, I'm coming around on it a little bit. But I it does seem like a strange. It's a it's a little weird, right, to say here's all this stuff. I don't know. I worry that people might even be afraid to use this tool because they don't want to be. Well, I think that's that's a good point. It's something where I can say, well, that's, you know, why not have the tool? People should be more informed.  Oftentimes, people don't really want to hear that. Well, I still think it's better for them to know than not know. That way, they may not make the same mistake next time. Totally. I like to be ignorant. Just kidding. Hey, TechCrunch reports that Apple acquired Canadian startup, Ver, sorry, Verana, Vervana. What'd I say? Vervana with a V. Oh, Vervana. Okay. Even worse than I thought. Anyway, makers of an AR headset called Totem, which has never shipped. I remember hearing about Totem a while back. Apple declined to comment or deny the sale, but some of Vervana's employees have joined Apple in California and Vervana social accounts. And news went dark back in August. Their camera-based AR approach differs from Microsoft's HoloLens by using several forward-facing cameras to pass through vision of the real world to OLED displays while overlaying fully opaque true color animations on top. Who knows if this ends up in Apple's hands or not, if all this stuff can be confirmed. But that does sound like a thing Apple would want. They would be sticklers for not wanting the kind of weird, transparent HoloLens thing. After using that, I think it's cool as heck, but I'm not so much down with the effect that it uses. This seems like a very Apple thing to be looking for in whatever their AR strategy is. So who knows? That's a small thing, but I'm very interested to see if they are A, buying this, and B, they do anything with it. Yeah, it does sound like they're buying it, even though, you know, Apple a lot of times does not reveal their acquisitions anyway. So I think Cut Crunch usually is these days really good at verifying this before they report it. So I'm going to give it a 90 plus percent confidence that this has actually happened. And I think it's exactly what I would expect from Apple, which is we've given you a headset that's not AR or VR. It's both. And this is where I've seen AR going. This is what I've been talking about for years, which is I think we end up with AR winning because AR has the possibility of doing VR. And this is the kind of technology that can give you the sort of deep blacks that can turn your AR into VR. Their big challenge is getting the lag down. Can you make those camera pass through less than the amount of perception in your brain of lag? Right now, I think they say they've got it down to about three milliseconds, which is small, but it still could be enough, especially if you're using it in an enterprise situation. Forget about gaming and lag there, which is also a problem. But, you know, I'm doing a really precise maneuver here and the AR is guiding me. I need to have had my hands pulled out of the thing at exactly the right moment and all of that. Well, and I know people like to overanalyze everything Tim Cook says, but it would kind of make sense that he's been critical of AR and VR technology, but also excited about AR and VR technology as far as the future of Apple is concerned. And I can just hear him on stage being like, true blacks, no one else can do that. Yeah, it's very Apple of them. Yeah, exactly my point. And I think that this from what the description is, that's the kind of tech they'd be interested. But I 100% agree with agree with Tom. I think that AR VR mixed reality, whatever you want to call it, is the future. It's more, it's just more practical, like straight up. There's more you can do with it. The idea that AR by itself or VR by itself are going to be the big winners here. If anything, if it was, if we lived in a vacuum, we could only have one or the other. I think AR wins out anyway. So, you know, this is a step towards something in the middle. And I think that's probably Apple's best bet. Breaking news once again, and the continuing story of what will Peter Teal do with all his money. Beatmaster sent us this link in the chat room just now. Lawyers for Peter Teal filed a motion in court Wednesday to challenge a provision that prevented him from buying the assets of Gawker.com.  Well, okay, maybe there's more to it now. There's an ongoing sale process for Gawker as part of the bankruptcy proceedings, and he has been excluded from the bidding assets as part of that situation because of what you said, Sarah, about him suing them. And so they're filing a motion. So maybe that's what he needs the money for. I don't know. Weird. Yeah. That's weird, isn't it? It's like me. I don't know. What's that like? That's like, it's like me having a bad experience at McDonald's and then I go buy that franchise just to spite everybody. I don't know. It also, I mean, Gawker had plenty of criticism from people rightly so for being mean spirited. But I read it, you know, it was gossipy. And, you know, there were sometimes breaking stories there too. Peter Teal owning Gawker would be a very different Gawker. It wouldn't be like, oh, we've resurrected this blog that people used to like. Don't forget it's io nine and life hacker. I mean, we're talking about Gawker media. It's not just Gawker site. We're talking about Gizmodo, like all of, you know, he would run all of those. Um, and I still love io nine and life hacker quite a bit. What if he started a new wrestling federation? Hold on. Hear me out here. He starts it with Hulk Hogan. So we branded around Hulk Hogan. Since that day, he's got the Hulk Hogan experience where he backed his, uh, his lawyering to win that case against Gawker, which put Gawker in the toilet and made them have to do bankruptcy proceedings. Like maybe the whole plan is just to live out his dream to be the next runner of a very successful wrestling federation. I mean, that theory is no weirder than anything I can come up with. So yeah, no, right. Exactly. Uh, news website, VTM reported that Belgium's minister of justice, Keene Geens says he will try to ban the process of blind, randomized loot boxes from being used in games. The same story also quoted the Belgium gaming commission as saying that, uh, money plus addiction equals gambling, which for some reason, a bunch of people took to mean that the Belgian gaming commission had decided that loot boxes were gambling. That's not what they wrote in a translation or not, but what is true is the Belgium gaming commission has been investigating whether loot boxes are gambling. They've said, here's what gambling is. And they've said, we're looking into loot boxes. They have not said, and we think loot boxes are gambling yet. We're waiting on them to make that decision. Uh, however, this is a common issue. Uh, it came up in Hawaii where there's some legislation that's being pursued. It's come up in the Victoria state in Australia, uh, because the gaming commission there said, yeah, loot boxes do look like they're gambling. That doesn't mean they're illegal gambling. And it's not for us to say, uh, there's a senator in France who wrote a letter about this. So this is becoming something that's getting a lot of attention worldwide. I don't think loot boxes are gambling. I personally define gambling differently than some of these places, apparently differently than Australia. To me, gambling is money that I bet. And if I win, I get more money. Loot boxes are like blind box toys. Like I spend something to get a thing. And maybe I get a thing that's more valuable than another thing. But that to me isn't gambling. Is that, that feels like a raffle or something. So loot boxes in, in, uh, and I know everyone's probably loot boxed out over the last, last couple of weeks, because this has been on the minds of many people in tech end gaming, obviously, but, uh, loot boxes are a little bit weird in a couple of ways.  If you are earning them through gameplay, no one's questioning that. I don't. Yeah, we're not talking about that. We're talking about real money. But it's when you spend, let's say I spend 10 bucks and I get five loot boxes and then I go to open those loot boxes, that should be no different lawfully anyway. Then like you said, me walking into a store and saying I'm going to buy five of these Futurama, uh, figure packs and I don't know which Futurama character is in them, but boy, I sure hope I get Zoidberg this time and I go home and I open them and all five of them are things I already had. Well, too bad. I spent my money. I bought a product hoped for something that was in them and it wasn't in there. How, if they ever get to a point where any of these investigations and it's important to note, these are investigations, not actions against anything. This is just people looking into it. I think that's fine and good. Why these organizations exist. You know, they, there's no harm in that, but I don't think we ever get to a point where somebody goes, no, hold on a minute, this must be gambling because, because if that happens, then you're slippery sloping down to everything else that's like this, that you'll now have to call gambling in the real world and the digital world and beyond. So we'll see. All right. Intel issued a security alert that management firmware on a number of its recent Intel PC's and servers and Internet of Things processor platforms are indeed vulnerable to unauthorized access. So most of these vulnerabilities discovered require actual physical access to a machine, but one could be conducted remotely if the attacker gains admin privileges. So that's obviously pretty dangerous. The vulnerabilities affected several chipsets going back to 2015, including core processors from Skylake forward, multiple Z Onlines to Adam embedded platforms and mobile processors. The company posted a detection tool on its support website for Windows and Linux to help people identify if they have a vulnerable system. The company also those directing users to check for firmware updates from the computer's manufacturer itself. Yeah, several of the manufacturers have said they've got their firmware ready for update. So keep an eye on that. It's a bad vulnerability, but it's not a panic level vulnerability like somebody has to get physical access for most of this to work. Even the remote one, they'd have to figure out how to hack in and get admin access to your computer, which at that point they've kind of owned your computer anyway, but it's not good and you want to patch it. So to do that, nobody nobody likes system level security and vulnerability issues because they they make they're a lot harder than just a Windows update being pushed to your to your mom and saying you need to update Windows because of security flaw or whatever. This is very different than that and takes some real hoop jumping and what you end up with is so many more computers that are just out there that have never been updated. You can't force this kind of firmware change in a lot of cases. So yeah, this one's a real bummer, but I'm surprised actually doesn't have more often. I'm surprised we don't have chip level problems like this in the news. But folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com. All right. Yesterday, right before the show, was it right before the show? Yeah, it was right before the show. We discussed one thing to talk about HQ, the trivia game show app hosted by Scott Roggaowski, because there was a story, Sarah, that he was going to be fired because he got interviewed by the Daily Beast. Yeah, we actually had a full show yesterday, but it's getting enough attention that we decided to talk about today. HQ is a wildly popular app. It's a trivia app. It's also live and it's hosted by this guy, Scott. We'll just call him Scott from now on. And he's you know, a comedian and he's funny and it's really him saying, here's a question. Here are your three options. Pick one. So it's it's like any game show. There's nothing super novel about it, except the fact that it's live and it also pushes out a notification about 10 minutes before each show to to a day on weekdays one on the weekend. So like 12 shows a week, which for once I was watching it, I was like, you know, this doesn't really have to be live, but there it is. And I guess that's why people like it a lot. It's pulling in more than 100,000 simultaneous viewers each episode. So that's pretty good clip. Now, if you get every question right, you split a cash prize pool that they tell you beforehand. So I played a quiz at noon today and the cash prize was $1,000. So you're not going to get $1,000.  But if you connect your PayPal account to the app, you get money. So you get real money out of this thing. That's a difference to your earning money rather than giving money to the app. And this is where this whole thing gets interesting because there was an article on Daily Beast that was profiling. And hey, this is really popular app, blah, blah, blah. Now, this app was founded by a guy named Russ Yesapov and Colin Krell. They co-created Vine back in 2012. So they've been at this app thing for a while. Daily Beast profile Scott, that's the host, you know, talks about like how happy is to be, you know, the host. And apparently a couple hours later, Yousapov who's also the CEO called the reporter's cell phone said, you can't run the story. You can't talk about Scott. You should have gone through our PR channels. Daily Beast says, well, it's done. We did it. Then Yousapov says, specifically, that he took issue with the quote that Scott, the host made that said, despite the attention, I still want to walk down the street and order my favorite salad from sweet green without being accosted. Sweet green popular chain here in LA. And maybe beyond. I don't know. I've had it here in LA. It's very good salad. Apparently in New York, too, because that's where Scott. Oh, yeah, I guess so. He said he was from Bakersfield in the app today. I guess that was a joke that I didn't get.  There was a subsequent phone call where apparently the CEO and then the host both said, we never claimed that Scott would be fired if you ran that story. But Daily Beast says, no, that's what the CEO said several times, and we have it on record because he didn't say off the record until too late. Now, it's kind of interesting to me because on one hand you go, oh, this is just like a, I don't know, a passive aggressive weird CEO who doesn't like his host to do stuff without his knowledge. But it says more light on how HQ wants to make money because they don't want somebody dropping a brand name sweet green salad place would be an example of that without having some integration where HQ is getting money from the brand to be a cash prize that people get. So it's kind of an interesting and, you know, it's it's sort of a it's a story sort of about a crazy CEO who went off the rails. Yeah. But it's more about how apps are being creative about generating revenue. So the Vine co founders have an app that has a really like niche celebrity in Scott Rogowski, who can walk down the street, but occasionally is asked to do selfies. And he's not allowed to say where he eats a salad. Do I have the story right? HQ takes issue with that because they don't have a brand deal with sweet green. Yeah.  I'm curious about that. But also, how do they give away giving you money when there's no visible advertisements, you don't pay for the for the app. The app is free. It would have to be some kind of product placement or or question placement. You know, once the once the questions for Chipotle start showing up, then I'll understand like, oh, OK, I get it now. It seems to me, I was thinking about this, too.  They may have said, OK, let's bleed out some money to get people super into this app and then gradually everything turns into a product prize more like Wheel of Fortune. Well, I guess Wheel of Fortune has changed its stance on that. But the way that they used to, you know, give away a mattress or something certificate stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I have my problem with HQ is that I don't like to have notifications on for things. So I by default, I just say no. When I said no to this, that meant I never got the notification 10 minutes before it came because I don't know how often this thing is going to notify me or whatever. And so I missed the 12 test. I didn't get a chance to experience it. And there's not another one till six o'clock. And yet this has become like super popular in certain communities, mostly in the developer community. What's interesting about two things you said there seem counter to where all of this has been heading for years. The fact that we seem to not care so much about live events or we haven't in recent years, everything's sort of on demand, whether it's television outside of sporting events that's kind of across the board on demand is the way to go. And this flies in the face of that. It's like, nope, it's set times.  So that already is weird to me. And then the second thing with sort of the point of the story, why they're being so fishy about his ability to say what he's doing or where he is or walk out on the street or any of this stuff also seems counter to just the kind of fun loose sort of thing they're trying to make here where it's a good time, everybody. And these like weird things to get hung up on. So I find the whole thing a little bit of cognitive dissonance kind of coded in the whole thing. And I don't know why that's happening. But hey, congratulations. I wish I could tune in at the times you're doing this. But it's kind of hard for me for the same reason Tom mentioned. And I still I just think it's a little bit weird. So apparently these guys have got their finger on the pulse and understand that the society is swinging back to live events in a way that none of us would have predicted. So I guess it's the pocket. I only participated in one go go around today. The questions are, you know, about pop culture and actresses and, you know, TV shows and stuff where it's like it's a certain kind of trivia. It's a fun let's all play it at work, you know, at noon when we're about to take our lunch break anyway type thing.  Just just a couple of reasons. Just a biocow in the chatroom says there's a group of Diamond Club people who meet in discord to play each game together. So there's already like some groups gathering around it. Yeah, there's some frog panthers doing that. There's a lot of people doing it. I feel like I'm missing the boat somehow, but I don't know. Maybe our discussion today will drive me back in there. Now I'm just really curious about why they're so weird about their people like that. That part still is a little bit of a mystery to me, but I am. I really don't think the CEO cared that he didn't want to be accosted walking down the street. He cared that he dropped the name of a restaurant that they don't have a relationship with. Yeah, I get. But to what end like I don't know. So what they ate there. It's fine. Everyone eats everywhere. Well, no, not if you're paid to eat somewhere else. Well, okay. All right. In that case, yes, I'd like to know where they're paid to eat then. Yeah, not anywhere yet, but they don't want to. They don't want to wreck any potential deals. Thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at Daily Tech News Show dot Reddit dot com and in our Facebook group, I put up a little poll today about which topics are you not tired of hearing about at Facebook dot com slash groups slash Daily Tech News Show. Sarah, what do we got in our mail bag? This is from someone who signed the mail bag person who works in the industry. So we'll just leave it at that. And this is in reference to gosh, was it yesterday's show? We were talking about, you know, whether or not the internet is broken and what we can do about it. Person who works in the industry says what people don't understand. This is all about the local loops. The backbones don't give preference to anyone. It's the homes. The fight over who gets to lay fiber or copper or coax to your house or work. The internet isn't broken. The way you get it is. Yeah. So it's, it's, it's not the internet. It's those people who deliver to your homes, which goes to my opinion that if we had multiple people for you to choose from delivering it to your home, that might help take some of the pressure off. Hey, thank you, Scott Johnson for joining us as always. What do you got going on these days? Oh, man, I don't know. There's just all this holiday stuff coming up, but I am part of the annual Cover Thon that Brian Ibbit does every weekend or every weekend. He wishes it was every weekend on the weekend of Thanksgiving where he earns money for a charity he does for Alzheimer's research. And once again, we're part of it this year. 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He's a mental block. Titles. Hashtag free Scott. Roger knows the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Uberly Bad Press again. Uberleak. Peter let it go. That'd be great if he was in the dress. What's her name?  I'm totally having a brain fart. The Frozen Girl. No, but there's a... Is that the name of the song? Yes. And is there sister? Elsa. Elsa. How could I not? I see that every day. Probably another mental block. Toss began because of salad. Peter Thiel loses face. AI gets a lift. How many 2D pedestrians do you know? Uber gives hackers a lift. Feel the heal. I like that one. Firing by popular demand. Helsinki Accord's question. Though. The internet isn't broken. Surprises are broken. $1 billion worth of money. Not an AR or VR. HQ's Trivia's CEO. Crazy executive officer. HQ Trivia is a fad. I forgot. $1 billion worth of money. It makes it sound like a lot more money than a billion. $1 billion worth of money. $1 billion what? $1 billion. When $1 billion Zimbabwe dollars. Which is like $20 us. I don't think they have their own currency. Who's using. For currency. Mostly US dollars. Not a long term plan but no. In Turks and CACOs islands. With them were so small. Those are tourists in the US. us. Yeah, that's what it is. Because Turks and Caicos is a UK dependency. You think they'd use some kind of version of the pound, but British Virgin Islands, they also use it. I mean, I think they co-used the US dollar, like they accept it. Because, well, where are you closer to? Uh, any, any one of you folks? I mean, we did break into the show twice to talk about Peter Thiel. So Peter Thiel loses faces. Okay. I like Peter Thiel loses face if we can put book in parentheses. Down. Because, well, that's good. Do I? Okay. Did he lose face though? He didn't lose anything yet. Yeah, he doesn't really lose it. He doesn't lose face. Peter Thiel sells face. And then out of context, you're like, he sold his face. What? How about Peter Thiel? Su high by low? I mean, it's not in there, but that's, yeah, no, it's kind of what he might be doing. We don't know that that's what he's doing. That's what he's doing. You think that's what he's doing? Based on my uninformed opinion, Tom, that's what he's doing, which we don't have enough of on the internet these days. I agree. Too much factual information and carefully referenced data points. I mean, pretty much everybody is just pointing to that one BuzzFeed article. So we don't really know what's going on. And Enth Mike says that according to the BuzzFeed article, it's only docker that he would be trying to buy, in their opinion, not Gizmodo Media Group. Because Gizmodo Media Group is part of Univision. Oh, I would explain why it's that the content hasn't, which really makes it seem more like a, you know, I'm going to get you back, because God was what he took issue with because they ran a story about him that he didn't appreciate. No, for sure.  I was, I was wrong to bring in all those other names because they're not part of it. Jeez, Tom, how dare you? I know how much money for spite. How much money for spite? Yeah, it does feel spiteful. I mean, I don't know. He may have other reasons, but it's weird to me. I mean, Gawker is one of those, I mean, I've read stuff on Gawker in the past, you know, where I'm like, God, what are they doing?  So it's like, on one hand, it's hard to side too much with Nick Dutton and his crew, but Peter Thiel is, you know, I like Thiel and books his face. Where's that? That just got submitted by Nth Mike.  It doesn't say it, does it? It does not, but if it's three quarters of what he has, and that three quarters is worth about a billion dollars, more math. Okay. Yeah, that's a lot of money still. I mean, he'd still own a lot of money worth of Facebook stock. Yeah. Enough for any normal person to just live their whole life out. He's not a normal person. Yeah. I mean, whether or not he stays on the board is significant. And also, you know, Facebook has been pretty sort of like, you know, we're sure he's a board member, but we're not really getting involved in this whole thing of the news that he was involved with, with the whole Gawker and all that stuff over the last couple of years. It would seem that, I don't know, we'll see. Maybe they'll have to say something. Now that I know that he's just after Gawker and not Gizmodo Media, which I was like, didn't they get bought by Univision? I thought that was all done. So yeah, that makes more sense. This is the danger of breaking news. If you're a billionaire and you buy, if he just wants Gawker.net, I mean, it would be kind of funny if all he did was, let's say he spent a hundred million on it, because that's nothing to him. And he just made like a parked URL with like a mean face on it or something. You know, like he could totally just troll these guys if he wanted. Yeah. But what's the point? Like at what point, like, it's like such, it's like the log diminishing returns. I mean, I guess, I guess if you hold a grudge that long, but well, that's the question. If he does, then I get it. If he doesn't, I think this is weird. It's weird if he has that kind of grudge. I'm not saying that that's a great thing to have, but at least it would just be a weird way if he's got it. I just want to just go to Disney World for like a couple of weeks. We spent too much more time talking about this. We're turning into the grudge report. Full of puns today. Pretty good. Today. His lifetime. More than usual. What are we going with? Oh, I already put it in. Theo and books his face. Theo and books his face. Yeah. Face space. Hard face. Facebeat gawking. The question for you, Scott, about the 28th, but I can ask later. You can ask now. What's the 28th? Is that Wednesday, right? Oh, no, it's a Tuesday. Oh, hold on.  What was that sound that sounded like the sound that the voice recognition software makes when I'm on hold? Yeah. Let's see. Oh, I have a full thing that goes up till about three. Ooh, perfect. What do you have at three? Well, three my time, which is an hour. Two is our time. Yeah. Two your time. Wait, no, that's not right. Hold on. 12.30. That usually goes till about three. Yeah, about three my time, which is about an hour later than you would want me here. I could Hold on. No, I don't think it is. Roger, you're asking him about something that's at three our time, which would be four. Oh, oh, what is it? Like the prediction thing or something? Yeah, for 28. I would want to know if you wanted to be part of it. The 20. Oh, totally. Yeah. I can do that because this thing ends right when that would start. So we could do that. Cool. Thank you. Right now, not for me as well. One of the questions. Oh, I meant to tell you guys, one of the questions in HQ was what animal is illegal to have as a pet in California? And I got it right. The answer is a cat. No, the answer is a ferret. Tom, ferret was what we were looking for. I said ferret three times. Do I not do I not get a nickel of the thousand dollars? I have to get all the questions right. And you have to play the game because I got one wrong. And so many other people were getting all of them right. So I just had to like watch the rest of the game and not play. What if Watson became self-aware and this is what he did on the spare time? Yes. What then? What then? We've created the ultimate in artificial intelligence and it plays game shows. I still can't figure out why it's so important that the show is live. If it's pushed out to everybody at the same time, it's because it's going to feel live and everyone's going to see it at the same time anyway. I have a thought on that. Okay. My thought is if you make it live, it becomes an event. It's different than every other quiz. Otherwise, it's just like every other quiz app that's ever been. And you have an engaging host that people like, then they want to feel part of something. It's like, well, I'm competing against somebody right now, right? That's the element of it. It's that competition, that feeling that you're in a real thing that's happening right at that moment. And you can't go back and replay it later. Like you have to be there live to play it. Because that was the part that hit me is like, there's nothing to do in this app if the show isn't live. But I think that's what they're going for. It's like, yeah, that's why you have to be here live. No, I get that. I mean, why does the company have to do it that way?  I think, I see what you're saying. I wonder if maybe- Because I was listening for like, I'm sorry, Roger, to interrupt. Go ahead. Oh, no, no. I was just saying maybe they had some plan where he would interact with one or a few of the- He doesn't, though, at least not right now. He also, there were a couple of times where you're like, oh, he stumbled on the teleprompter. Okay, this feels sort of live. But he also, I was listening for specific references of like, something that happened today where it like proved that it wasn't pre-recorded. But there wasn't really any of that either. It's said in the Daily Beast article that he gives shout-outs to people in the in the street. That's true. He did. But it's like, there's like, there's thousands of people in there. You could kind of just like, fake it. You could fake that, yeah. I don't know. Stoic squirrel. I wouldn't know what that's like, being part of a live event online. Right. Who likes live stuff anyway? Yeah, that's what we're saying. Never heard of them. No, I just, I just, I don't know. Maybe it's just because I'm a producer. And so I know sometimes it's easier to do a bunch of things at once and then roll them out slowly. Oh, no, no. I'm very familiar with that. Bet you are. Gang shooting and then rolling them out as needed. Actually, it's really weird with TV when you, like, when certain things happen, you kind of, you kind of guess why it happened. I was watching this music video and I was like, oh, they probably inserted that scene in there because whoever shot it either lost that bit, didn't shoot it or something happened to it. And they just needed to cover a jump cut or something. And so there they are. As soon as you said the words gang shooting, a siren went off in my neighborhood. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. My goodness. What's better than you saying I, I remind, you were reminded you have an appointment later or something like that. Reminded me. I have an appointment with a guy who owes me money. Yeah, a gang shooting may occur. Or maybe. Only money, see. Oh, I need to run upstairs because my mouth lasagna might be burning and start a fire. And then you see, see, I used to get that way when I would leave, leave like a slow cooker on at my apartment. Like every time I heard a siren, I was just like, oh, is that my dinner just caused a fire? I know you're not supposed to catch fire, but you never know. Never know. Cows fall from I-84 overpass onto southbound I-15 after semi-trailer rollover. Oh no, it's horrible. Geez. Save the cows. A cattle truck. How many cows? And are they survived? The driver was not injured. Aw, some of the cows didn't make it. Other cows were corralled by crews on this. I'd be surprised if a cow survived. About a dozen cows. That magnitude. Some of them made it. Oh dear. The other cows probably broke their skull. They can just cook. You know? Like don't waste that meat is all I'm saying. What's your beef? They normally don't. You'll notice if you go to the local butchers and they have a sale on ground beef. Fresh chuck. What does that mean? The local butchers? The cow died tragically? Well, ground beef is what you do with meat. If you can't get any decent cuts left, you just take the, take the ground beef. Got it. It's like when you go to the supermarket and sometimes you'll see them sell a cake but it's like two halves of two different cakes, right? Or a pie they sell that way or they sell pies by the slice in the little shrink wrapped containers. Usually because that whatever the cake or pie originally didn't sell. For some reason it's getting either towards or at its shelf life and they need to get rid of it and so they repackage it. Supermarket secrets. Well, somebody just wrote in and said it would have appreciated a Thanksgiving show since the rest of the world's still working. So which they say, we take very few holidays here. So try not to begrudge us this one. B, there also isn't a lot of tech news because so many companies are locally based so it does slow down a little bit. We will do headlines for you and see, you know, maybe we'll just make Patrick do it this year. He doesn't sort of do things. Yeah. He doesn't have Thanksgiving. He doesn't have anything to be thankful for. I don't know what a cheese plate with scarf around his neck. He doesn't talk. No. I mean, that is an option though. We could just have non-U.S. people. We'll think about that. I don't think it's that people expect us to be actually doing a show 365 days of the year. It's just like, well, that's not my holiday. Yeah.  We do a holiday on a U.K. bank holiday. People in the U.K. are like, cool show today. That's awesome. Yeah. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us. Have a lovely Thursday and Friday unless you're one of those usans, as I call people in the United States of America, usa. What is that? USA. USA. Usa. Oh, usans. Got it. We'll be taking the day tomorrow to remember how the pilgrims first played football with a turkey in the founding of America. Yep. That's how I remember it. Complicated holiday, really? Yes. It's our holiday. Don't try to understand it. It's just, it's an usan thing. We'll see you on Monday.


In this video we provide the solution to question number nine for practice exam number two for math 1030 And which is a scheduler is building a schedule for a project with six tasks and The six tasks are listed down below a b c d e f they have their various Processing times we have a six b seven c two d nine e five and f twelve And there's gonna be two processors in this consideration We're asked to compute the decreasing time priority list Which honestly the number of processors doesn't matter. We don't need that information to find the decreasing time priority list We're gonna take the biggest priority We're gonna find the biggest processing time that goes first. So amongst these options six seven two nine five and twelve F is gonna be the first one there. So I can actually rule out a lot of possibilities anything that doesn't start with f is Wrong. So that leaves me now options c d and f Next the next highest priority would be then D Which has a has nine there? And so honestly those two observations already tell me that the answer has to be D itself But let's just finish it out here after D would come B because that's the next highest processing time then would come a And then would come E. So that's the fifth one and then the last would be C Six right there. So looking at my marks there the the highest priorities would be then F Then D then B is in third A is in fourth E is in fifth C is in sixth Choice D is the correct decreasing time priority list


So, last week we spent a lot of time importing data into all of our different tables and then building that thing known as a relationship, making sure that my data sort of relates to other data. For example, my visit table has a connection to patient ID. Notice I have this patient ID field inside of my visit table. Well, that should directly correlate to my patient ID inside of my patient table. So one of the reasons why we want to do this is now things have become attached. We've set the foundation for my database and I can't have any problems come in. For example, that first record we have, 1527. Say for example, I wanted to delete that record. Well, I could click over here to this yellow square, right click, delete record, except notice that error I get. The record can't be deleted because invoice table has a related record. Oh, well that's actually referring to the fact that if we kind of link to this, we can actually click on that little drop down there. You can see that the invoice table, the invoice again, if we come over here, the invoice table, there it is. My ID is inside there. Again, remember, one of the things that we had selected when we were building our relationships was this idea of having referential integrity. I can't put something inside of the invoice table if it doesn't exist in the visit table. I can't bill someone for not showing up, basically. I can't bill someone for a visit they never did is the way we can think about it. So how do I tackle this? If I want to delete that visit, again, they didn't show up and we're not going to bill them, I first have to delete the linked data. I have to come in and I have to delete the invoice record first. Then now that that's removed, I can come in and delete my actual visit record.


The power of great storytelling, I think, from a leadership point of view, can't be underestimated. My name is Karen Flugh, and I'm the Chief Sustainability Officer for Inca Group. Most people haven't heard of Inca Group, but it's IKEA's largest retailer with 400 stores around the world in 32 different countries. We need to show that living sustainable and healthy life can be affordable as well, but we provide tools and solutions for millions of people around the world to make better choices without having to be worse off for it. We have an advocacy role because our voices heard. We partner and collaborate with others to drive transformational change across policymaking, businesses and helping individuals with their choices. I would like to be a voice for those that don't have a voice. I think honesty and integrity and leading by example are really important, and sticking with your own moral compass and your gut instinct too. I think the trust part, to be a strong leader, that's both trusting in your team and trusting others to deliver and letting them be, but also creating trust by delivering on those promises. It's not just the vision and the knowing where we want to get to, but it's about creating an emotional connection for those you're trying to lead as well, so that they're not just doing it because it's been dictated to from above. It's because your communication is so empowering and inspiring that people feel galvanized to take action and just, oh my gosh, I need to move this with you and I'm here, I'm with you, let's get going. Inspiring storytelling isn't just rigid scientific facts, power of great storytelling from a leadership point of view can't be underestimated. I've had to teach myself to stop, listen and learn more in order to make wiser decisions and really to be more inclusive and take in totally different opinions as well, rather than sitting in your own echo chamber. And then I've also been in organizations where I've been stretched out of my comfort zone because I've realized that my moral compass and my values are not in line with that.  And I've had to then realize that being a stronger leader comes from not knowing all the answers and actually turning to others who are much wiser and more informed on different topics. It's okay to not know all the answers. If you're not careful, the temptation when you need to make decisions and move things in the business is to talk to your friends who are already on side, so you're talking to yourselves essentially. So for me, the most surprising and strongest allies are those where actually you know they're going to have an opposing opinion and they're not going to agree with you. And then I deliberately sought that, I suppose you could say provocation, because I've learned that diverse views are so important. And also, if we're going to move things across the business, we're not a separate sustainability team that's setting up a huge department that is then trying to drive things on our own while the rest of the business carries on as business as usual. We must anchor it in the business. So those people that maybe have been driven usually by financial metrics before, whether that's the CFO leadership team or country managers in the case of IKEA or apartment managers where their KPIs have all been around hitting growth targets, profit, bottom line, return on investment. And you're going in there saying we need to spend X many millions and invest this in order to turn around sustainability such as renewable heating and cooling in our stores, for example. You really need to get them on site first before it goes to a board for approval. And then externally collaborating with people you may have thought of as competitors in the past. We're all realizing we can't do this alone. Make choices wisely based on what matters most to you in terms of your own career path, if you're with businesses or any situation where you don't feel it aligns with your values.  It sounds cliched to say that women don't back themselves as much as men, but back yourself more. Don't think that you have to be a sustainability expert. There's so many things that everybody can contribute towards if you have the passion and the inclination towards it. So it's also how do we lift each other up and support people who are more perhaps risk averse or don't have the self-belief yet to help give them that self-belief. I've really enjoyed both the online course and the residential that I was lucky enough to do. It's really opened my mind to new perspectives and meeting people from completely different sectors and industries and completely different backgrounds. I have learned so much in both courses. It was things I was perhaps familiar with but I didn't know how to articulate it and how to pull it all together to then also share that with my team. So being able to articulate the networking as well and the exposure to brilliant minds and the more practical business-related solutions to take back with you. So it's been fantastic.


The INCB has become quite controversial in Latin America. I think it has clearly overstepped its bounds in its criticisms of Uruguay. And I'm particularly talking here about the director, Mr. Yons. It's very clear that the INCB under his leadership has overstepped its mandate in terms of complying with the role assigned to it in the conventions. And there is a very serious need to rethink what the INCB should be doing, how it should be working with member states, and to remember that it really is a tool of the member states. It is not there to chastise member states when those states do something it doesn't like. The other issue is transparency. It is the only UN agency that I know of that has absolutely no transparency. We don't know what happens in those meetings, and even members are not allowed to talk about what happens in those meetings. And that has to change.


CHAPTER 27 The Summers' Story After this, Louis Anstead steadily failed. It had seemed as though he summoned all the strength left in his worn-out body for that one interview wherein he had resolved that his mother should know the truth from his lips. After that, the lamp of life burned lower and lower. He rallied again two days afterward and was locked in with his lawyer and gave critical attention to business. I imagine that he made important changes in his will, Mr. Chesney said to Claire. I do not know of what character, though I was called in as a witness. I hope he made special provision for his sister Alice. I think that she is likely to disappoint her parents in their schemes and it might be greatly to her benefit to be independent so far as property is concerned. But Louis kept his own counsel. His lawyer told me that he might be failing in body, but he had never seen him clearer in brain. So there will be no trouble about carrying out whatever he has planned. I did not know, Claire said, that he had property to leave independent of his parents.  It is what has helped to ruin him. How good it would be if he could make his money undo so far as money could, some of the mischief he has done. How could money undo it, my friend? Oh, it couldn't. Still, it might relieve the misery which comes from want. I was thinking just then of poor little Mrs. Simpson and her fatherless baby. I have heard that her husband drank his first glass while in Louis Anstead's employ and that Louis offered it to him and he did not like to refuse for fear of giving offence. He died with the delirium tremens and his wife sold her bed clothes and her shoes to buy food for him at the last. Perhaps she would rather starve than take money from poor Louis. But I heard that he was connected with one of the distilleries. Some of his property is invested in that way. Mr. Chesney answered, startled with the remembrance. I had not thought of it. Poor Alice, I am afraid there is great trouble for her in whatever direction one looks. If Louis leaves his property to her, her father and mother will violently oppose what her intense temperance principles would advocate. I wish Louis had felt like talking these things over with me a little. Well, the day came when they followed the ruined body to the grave. It rested in a costly coffin and the funeral appointments were such as became large wealth and the habit of lavish expenditure. Later, when the will was read, it appeared that the poor heart had taken counsel of one who makes no mistakes. He had done what he could do to undo wrong. The income from valuable investments was large and was left in trust to his sister Alice to be used at her discretion in relieving the woes of those who had been brought low through the influence of intoxicants. As for the distillery from which half of his income was derived, its business was immediately to cease, its stock was to be destroyed, and its buildings to be made into tenement houses for the poor. The poor boy was not in his right mind when he made such a will, the father said. Why, it is a sinful waste. It is simply throwing thousands of dollars into the river. It is all the influence of that Benedict girl, the mother said, in bitterness of spirit. But the will stood and its directions were obeyed with all the promptness that the sister to whose trust the work was left could force her lawyers. She seemed in feverish haste to have the work of destruction go on. And when her mother accused her of being hopelessly under the influence of that Benedict girl and having no mind of her own, her answer was, Mama, you are mistaken. At last I am under the influence of one who has a right to own me, body and soul. Poor Louis found him at last and yielded to his power and followed his direction, and it was through Clare Benedict's influence that he did. And Mama, if he had known Clare Benedict a few years earlier, we should have him with us today. Mama, the time has come for me to speak plainly. Religion has been nothing but a name to me until lately. I have not believed in its power. It is Clare Benedict who has shown me my mistake and helped me to see Christ as a sufficient savior. I belong to him now for time and eternity, and Mama, I will never marry a man who does not with his whole heart own Christ as his master, and who is not as intense and fanatical on the temperance question as my brother became. She had always been strong-willed. The mother had been want to say, somewhat boastfully, that the oldest daughter resembled her in strength of purpose. Human nature is a curious study. What Mrs. Anstead would do had been a matter of extreme solicitude to several people. Mr. Chesney believed that she would make Alice's life miserable and that she would become Clare Benedict's enemy and injure her if she could, and that she would withdraw her younger daughters from not only Clare's but their eldest sister's influence and from the church to which they had become attached. I do not mean that she will do this in revenge, he said to Clare, or that she will really intend to injure anybody. She is one of those persons who can make herself believe that she is doing God's service by just such management as this. I am sorry for Alice and for the young girls. It gives me a sense of relief and joy to remember that Lewis is forever safe from pitfalls, and yet sometimes I cannot help wishing that he could have lived for a few months longer. He had great influence over his mother. She tried to manage him, and his indolent will allowed himself to be influenced in a wonderful manner, but when he did really rouse he had great power over his mother. Mrs. Anstead did none of the things which were feared. Instead she turned suddenly and with apparent loathing from the life which she had heretofore lived. She sent for Clare one morning, greeted her with a burst of tears as her dear child, and declared that she had understood the feeling between Lewis and herself, nothing would have given her greater joy than to have welcomed her into the family. Clare opened her mouth to protest and then closed it again. If this were the form of cross that she was to bear, it was peculiar certainly. But why not bear it as well as any other? Of what used to explain again what the son's own lips had told that she had utterly refused the honor offered her, that she had never for a moment desired to be received into this family? If the bereaved mother had really succeeded in making herself believe such folly as this, why not let it pass? The grave had closed over the possibility of its ever being realized. It was a strange part to play. To accept without outward protest the position of one who would have been a daughter of the house to hear herself mentioned as Lewis Anstead's intended wife, to ride and walk and talk with the mother and help her make believe that she would not for the world have thwarted her son's desires. But Clare, after a few attempts at explanation, dropped the effort. The mother did not wish to believe the truth about this or many other things and therefore closed her eyes to them. She wished also to impress herself and others with the belief that Lewis had been in every respect, an exemplary and indeed a remarkable young man. She withdrew her connection from the church in town and united by letter with the one at South Plains, avowedly because dear Lewis was interested in it more than in any other church in the world. She imagined plans that he might have had for the church and called them his and eagerly worked them out. She adopted the minister and his wife and his children because she had often heard Lewis say that he would rather hear that man preach than to hear Dr. Archer.  She turned with something like disgust from the very name of Van Martyr, protesting that poor Lewis had had a great deal to bear from their advances and that she had no desire to cultivate their acquaintance further. In all these strange changes in her mother, Alice looked with bewilderment. She frightens me, she said to Claire one evening. I don't know what to think. She contradicts every theory of life I ever heard her express. She attributes to Lewis graces that he did not possess. She accuses people of injuring him, who really tried to help him, and she adopts as plans of his things of which I know he had not even thought. I do not know my mother at all, and as I said, it frightens me. Is she losing her mind? Claire had no ready reply to these questionings, for she, too, was puzzled. But Mr. Chesney, as they walked slowly from the house on the hill, discussing once more the strange change in the woman of the world, advanced a theory which Claire adopted, but which was hardly the one to explain to Alice. I think, said Mr. Chesney, that she is hushing her conscience. It would like to speak loudly to her and tell her that she is responsible for a ruined life, and she does not mean to listen to it. She is imagining a life she believes Lewis might have lived after the change that came to him on his sick bed, and is making herself believe that he did live it, and that she was and is in hearty accord with it. It is a strange freak of the bewildering human mind, but unless I am mistaken, the woman will not find the peace in it that she is seeking. I think she will have to cry, God be merciful to me as sinner, before her heart will find rest. And then he added one sentence which set Claire's heart into a strange flutter. Claire, when I see the energy with which she carries out one of her imaginings connected with you, I am very grateful that Lewis insisted on my being present at that first interview between you and him, and that I heard the truth from his own lips, for the mother is succeeding in deceiving everyone else. And I do not know how to help it, Claire said with troubled voice. It seems a strange thing to be living a falsehood, but when I try to explain to her, she puts me gently aside and acts as though I had not spoken, and others have no right to question me about the truth of her theories. Except myself, have I the right? Was it as emphatic or refusal as poor Lewis understood it? Believe me, I am not asking merely to satisfy idle curiosity. There never was anything in it, Mr. Chesney, and there never could have been. The passage of all these and many other events not chronicled here consumed the greater portion of the summer vacation, for Claire Benedict was letting the summer slip from her without going home. Sore had been the trial at first, but a few weeks before the term closed, opportunity had been offered her to teach a summer class of city pupils at prices that were almost equal to her year's salary. What right had she, who wanted to bestow so many luxuries on her mother, to close her eyes to such an opportunity as this merely because she was homesick for a sight of that mother's face? It had been hard to reconcile the sister especially to this new state of things. The gentle mother had long ago learned the lesson that what looked like manifest duty must not be tampered with, no matter how hard to bear. But the hot-hearted young sister refused to see anything in it except an added trial too great to be born. Many letters had to be written before there was a final reluctant admission that two hundred dollars more to depend on, paltries some though it was, would make a great difference with the mother's winter comforts. The letter in which poor Dora admitted this was blistered with tears, but the sacrifice was made and the extra term had been well entered upon. There was much outside of the class and the life being lived on the hill to occupy Clare's thoughts. I hope you do not suppose that the work on the part of the girls had been accomplished during a sort of spasm and that now they were ready to drop back into inaction. Nothing was farther from their thoughts. If you have imagined so, you have not understood how thoroughly some of them had sacrificed in order to do. We never forget that for which we sacrifice. Besides, the habit of thinking first of the church and the various causes which are the tributaries of the church was formed, that the work was to go on was demonstrated in many ways, not the least by the random remarks which came so naturally from the lips of the workers. Girls, had Ruth Jennings said, when they lingered one morning after prayer meeting, when we cushion these seats we shall have to send somebody after the material who can carry the carpet and wallpaper in his mind's eye. It will never do to have a false note put in here to jar this harmony. When we cushion the seats, Clare heard it and laughed softly, who had said that the seats were ever to be cushioned, but she knew they would be and that before very long. On another evening, Mary Burton had said, look here, don't you think our very next thing, or at least one of the next, ought to be a furnace? I don't like those stovepipes if they are rasha. A furnace would heat more evenly and with less dust, and Bud could manage a furnace as well as he can these stoves. How naturally they talked about their future sacrifices, what would have utterly appalled them a few months before, were spoken of carelessly now as next things. Ruth Jennings readily assented to the necessity for a furnace, but added, I don't believe we shall have Bud for engineer. He wants to go to school, did you know it? And what is more, Mrs. Anstead intends to send him. Fanny told me about it last night. She says her mother thinks Louis intended that Bud should have an education, and she wants to carry out all his plans. I did not know that Louis Anstead ever had any such plans, did you? And Netty Burdick after a thoughtful pause. Oh, well, girls, if we can't have Bud for engineer, perhaps we can have him to preach for us some day. He told me last night that if he lived he meant to preach, and I believe he will, and preach well, too. Just think of it, Bud, a minister. CHAPTER XXVIII. A FAMILY SECRET You are not to suppose that during this press of work the moving spirit in it did not have her homesick hours when it seemed to her that she must fly to her mother and that at once, that she did not have her anxious hours when to provide as she would like for that dear mother and that beautiful young sister seemed a dreary impossibility, that she did not have her discouraged hours when new carpet and frescoing and stained glass windows seemed only vanity of vanities, and the sharp-toned cabinet organ seemed to wheeze loud enough to drive all other improvements out of mind. But there was always this comfort. She was much too busy to brood long or often over thoughts like these. And another thing, weary and disheartened as some rainy evening might find her, there was forever an undertone of thanksgiving about Bud and Harry Matthews, not only, but about others as well. Not accepting several of the girls, who, though Christians before she knew them, had stepped upon higher planes of thought and action, been revitalized indeed in their Christian life, and would never go back to the follies of the past. Then came the trouble in the Anstead home and the weeks of waiting and watching and the final defeat which was still a triumph. During the salemnities of those hours things which had seemed like trials sank into trivialities, and life grew to her more earnest and solemn than ever before. In all these ways the summer waned, and now changes of various kinds were pending. Harry Matthews was about closing his engagement with the telegraph company to enter upon a secretary ship under his uncle, a position involving grave responsibilities and conscientious stewardship. What joy it was to remember that the new young man was equal to the trust. Bud was to be regularly entered as a pupil at the academy, and his face was radiant. The Ansteads were to stay at South Plains all winter, and the girls were happy over the prospect of uniting with the little church at its coming communion. Mrs. Anstead had subscribed a hundred-dollar addition to the minister's salary, and told the people that they ought to feel disgraced for not each giving doubly the original amount. That her son Louis, she felt sure, would have taken the matter up had he lived, and she could not rest until she sighed accomplished. Meantime, there was more or less gossip in the town, of course, about affairs with which the people, if they had really stopped to think, had nothing to do. Among other things, there was wonderment as to why Harold Chesney came to South Plains so often. What business was there in this direction which could require so much attention? To be sure, he was one of the directors of the railroad, but this branch of it had not here too far been considered so important as to need constant looking after by its chief. Also, there were some who thought it very strange that that Miss Benedict should receive so many attentions from him, and she was as good as Louis Anstead's widow. Of course that was so, for Mrs. Anstead herself had as good as said so dozens of times, and see how intimate she was with the entire family. Yes, they knew that Harold Chesney was a very particular friend of Louis Anstead, but they should think that would hardly account for such a degree of intimacy when Louis had only been buried a few weeks. Meantime, the central figures of this anxious talk went their busy ways and seemed in no sense troubled by the tongues. Harold Chesney came often, and always visited the Ansteads and the Academy, and the intimacy between all parties seemed to increase instead of diminish. It was about this time that Clare received an unusually lengthy letter from Dora, a letter over which she laughed much, and also shed some tears. Dora had some family perplexities to ask advice about, and indulged rather more than was her want over four boldings in regard to the coming winter. Then suddenly she launched into the main channel of her letter after this fashion. Oh, Clare, my dear, you are good! If I could be half like you, or even one-third, it would be such a relief to Mama as well as to myself. But, Clare, this next that I am going to say is mean and small, and will serve to show you that I have a correct estimate of myself. I cannot help thinking that it would be much easier for me to be good if I were a way off in south plains, or north mountains, or anywhere else than here, right around the corner from the old home. Do you have any conception of what a difference it makes to be around the corner from things instead of being on the same street with them? I think it possible that I might throw myself intensely into plans for that north mountain church, you know, if I were there, and forget this one, and these people, and the old ways. Clare, part of the time I am pretty good. I am indeed. But really and truly it is hard. The girls tried to be good too, some of them. Occasionally I think if they did not try so hard I could get along better. You see, they stopped talking about things when I appear, for fear I will be hurt, and I am hurt.  Do you understand that? It reads as though there were no sense in it, but I know what I mean. It is clothes half the time. Clothes are dreadful. I find I had no conception of their cost. Not that I am having any new ones. Don't be frightened, dear. I am not so lost to a sense of what has befallen us as such a proceeding would indicate. Why, even a pair of gloves is often beyond my means. Neither am I complaining. It is not the gloves. I am quite willing to go without them. If Mama could have the things which we used to consider necessities for her, I would be willing to go bare-handed for the rest of my days. Well, what am I talking about? Let me see if I can put it into words. The girls, you know, are always arranging them for this and that entertainment. I meet them oftener, now that you have insisted on my going back to the music class. To some of these entertainments I am invited, and to more of them I am not. I never go on account of clothes and some other things. Imagine a party of girls gathered in the music room or the hall in full tide of talk about what they will wear and how they will arrange their hair and their ribbons and all that sort of thing. And imagine a sudden silence settling over them because I have appeared in sight, as though I were a grim fairy before whom it was their misfortune to have to be forever silent about everything that was pretty or cost money. Now I am going to make a confession, and I know it is just as silly as can be, but sometimes I cannot help rushing home and running up to my room and locking my door and crying as though my heart would break. I am thoughtful though about choosing times and occasions for these outbreaks. I generally select an afternoon when Mama is out executing some of your numerous commissions, but even then I have to bathe my eyes for half an hour so that the poor, dear, sweet, patient woman will know nothing about it. I never do let her know, Claire. She thinks that I am good and happy, and occasionally she tells me that I am growing self-controlled like you, and then I feel like a hypocrite, but all the same for her own good I don't enlighten her. Claire, dear, don't you suppose it is the silly parties to which I do not go which trouble me. I have not the slightest desire to go, and I don't think of them often. I don't, really. Well, that about having no desire needs qualifying. I mean I would not have if I could go. I mean I should like to be perfectly able to go if I chose, and then to choose to remain at home.  If the girls would only be free and social and talk with me as though nothing had happened, I should learn not to care. But it is so hard to always feel that people are saying, Hush, there she comes, poor thing. Don't talk about it now, or we shall hurt her feelings. I would rather have them drop me entirely, I believe, as Estelle Mitchell has done. She doesn't bow to me any more, even when we meet face to face. Doesn't see me, you know, but she does even that politely. I don't know how she manages. Claire, do you remember the time Papa signed that ten thousand dollar note for her father? Well, never mind.  I haven't written so to you before, have I? I'll tell you what has stirred me so lately. Everybody is in a flutter about the house. Claire, it is sold. You know what house I mean. The dear old one on the avenue, every separate stone of which speaks of Papa, that Mr. Chesney bought it, who spends half of his time abroad. There is a rumor that he is to be married sometime, nobody seems to know just when, and bring his bride there to live. It is well for me that I shall not have a chance to move in her circle, for I feel almost certain that I should have to hate her a little. It is very absurd, of course, but the girls are actually beginning already to talk about the possible reception, though they don't even know who the prospective bride is. Some have located her in Chicago and some in Europe. I cannot discover that there is an absolute certainty about there being any bride, and yet some of the young ladies are planning what would be pretty and unique to wear. Estelle Mitchell is sure of being invited because her brother Dick used to be quite intimately acquainted with one of the Chesney family, and Dora Benedict is sure of not being invited because she is not intimately acquainted with anybody any more. I wonder who will have our rooms, our dear old rooms. Yes, that largest blot is a tear. I couldn't help it, and I haven't time to copy and could not afford to waste the paper if I had. I don't cry very often, but I was foolish enough to walk by the blessed old home this morning and look up at the open window in Papa's study. Oh, Claire, darling, I wish you could come home if it is only for a little while, and we could go away from here. Don't you think Mama might be made comfortable in south plains for the winter?  Tomorrow I shall not care anything about this, only to be dreadfully ashamed that I sent you this wicked letter. I am going down now to make tea and a bit of cream toast for mother, and I shall be as bright as a gold eagle and hover around her like a mothmiller in the gaslight, and tell her all sorts of pleasant nothings and never a word of the house or the sale or the possible new mistress for the old home. I am learning, dear, though from this letter you might not think it, but I live such a pent up everyday life that I have to say things to you once in a while else what would become of me? Claire laughed a great deal over this letter, pitiful as the undertone in it must have been to a sympathetic heart. The tears came once or twice, but after all the predominant feeling seemed to be amusement. It was not answered promptly. In fact, she waited three days. Then came Mr. Chesney for one of his brief visits, and she read the letter aloud to him. What Dora would have thought could she have seen that proceeding passes my imagination. What would she have thought of human sympathy could she have heard the bursts of laughter over parts of it, albeit Mr. Chesney did once or twice brush away a tear. What would she have thought could she have heard the conversation which followed. Now, my dear Claire, I hope you are convinced of your hard-heartedness. Poor Dora ought not to have the strain kept on her during the autumn, especially when it is so utterly unnecessary. The house will be in complete order in a few weeks time, and Dora's reception is just the thing. I can write to Philips and put every arrangement into his hands, and we can appoint Dora, manager-in-chief. Claire, I have a plan worth a dozen of yours. Let us have the mother and Dora here for a visit. They want to see the little church which they have helped to build. Nothing could be pleasanter. Then all your girls and all your boys could be present at the ceremony. Think what it would be for Bud. He would never forget it. Neither would the struggling minister. It would afford an excuse for doing for him just what we want to do. The law does not regulate the amount of marriage fees, you know. Mr. Chesney was an eloquent pleader, and Dora's letter, it must be confessed, pled against the delay that Claire had thought was wise. Of course she demurred. Of course she hinted at the plans that she had formed for getting ready. But the party on the opposite side had an answer for every argument. He was sure that the way to do would be to get ready afterward when she could have leisure and his invaluable presence and advice instead of being hampered with music scholars, and he miles away alone, waiting, and Dora waiting and suffering, and the mother thinking her sad thoughts. Happy surprises were all very well. They were delightful. He was entirely in sympathy with her desire to tell Mama and Dora the story of the new home in person. Only he believed with all his heart that it would be cruel, and therefore wrong, to burden that young heart with the question of ways and means a moment longer than was necessary. As for Mrs. Foster, she could supply Claire's place quietly, and thereby make some poor music teacher's heart unexpectedly glad. Of course Claire was overruled. She had really not one sensible reason to offer why she should remain exiled from Mama and Dora any longer. There was a little feeling of pride, it is true, about the getting ready afterward. But as she looked it over carefully and prayerfully, it seemed even to herself a mean pride unworthy of the woman who was to be Harold Chesney's wife. Then there was a fascination in the thought of Dora planning for that reception, really being the one to invite whom she would among the girls instead of being the one left out in the cold. Also it was pleasant to think what an event it would be to her girls and to bod, and her cheeks glowed over the thought of the marriage fee that would find its way into the lean pocketbook of the overburdened minister. I would like to tell you the whole story in detail, what Dora said when the letter came imploring her mother and herself to come to South Plains for a few weeks' visit, how the mother demurred on the ground of expense, and yet confessed that it made her heart beat wildly to think of getting her arms around Claire again. But I cannot think what has become of the dear child's good sense, she would add with a sigh. Why, Dora dear, she did not come home, you know, because the trip would cost too much, and here she is planning for two of us to take it. Never mind, Mama, would Dora reply, for Dora was desperately determined on this trip to South Plains. Claire has planned away and we shall save our food if we stay two weeks, and that will be something, and she has sent us the tickets, so the money is spent. Oh, Mama, let us go, anyway. And of course they went. Yes, I would delight to tell you all about it, what a sensation there was in South Plains, and how full the little church was, and how well Bud looked walking down the aisle as one of the ushers, and how people said the Ansteads certainly would not come. They would feel it a family insult, but how the Ansteads not only came, but took almost entire charge of everything. Above all, I would like to have you look in with me at the parsonage in the study where the minister and his wife stopped to break the seal of that special envelope after it was all over. How he rubbed his eyes, and looked, and looked again, and turned pale, and said huskily, There is some mistake here, Mary. He has given me the wrong paper. And how she came, and looked over his shoulder, and said, Why, it has your full name. How can there be a mistake? And then she read, Pay to Reverend Henry Ramsey, or Order, $1,000. Whoever heard of such a marriage fee as that? Oh, now I have. There have been just such marriage fees as that, really and truly. There had been such before Harold Chesney and Claire Benedict were married, and there will be such again. There are poor ministers and grand rich men, and there will be, I presume, while the world stands. More things than some people dream of are going on in this world of ours. There is one thing which it gives me great pleasure to record. There was a reception given in the old home. It was after Mama and Dora had been established for several days in their old rooms, and it was the evening after the arrival of the bride and groom, and Estelle Mitchell was invited to the reception. Not because her brother Dick had been intimate with one of the Chesneys, but because my brother Harold gave me the liberty to invite whoever I pleased among my classmates, and it would give me pleasure to see you there. Dora spoke truth. It really gave her great pleasure to see Estelle Mitchell at the wedding reception of the Chesneys and to realize that she was her guest. Oh, you wicked, wicked Dora! some of them said when the excitement caused by the reception cards was at its height. There you heard us talking about the new furniture and wondering as to who was the bride, and you never gave us so much as a hint. Dora laughed and kept her own counsel. She did not choose to tell them that during those trying days no hint of it had come to her. That was their pretty family secret with which outsiders were not to inter-metal. They agreed, every one of them, that Dora made a charming young hostess, and Estelle Mitchell said she was glad she was back in her old home for she just fitted. There are but two things which remain to tell you. One grew out of Ruth Jennings's farewell address to her beloved music teacher, spoken while she was half laughing, half crying, and wholly heartbroken. But the organ does squeak horribly. You know it does, and it is always getting out of tune. Mr. Chesney heard it, and during their wedding trip he said to his wife, There is one thing I want you to help me select. I have not made my thank offering yet to that blessed little church where I found you. It must have an organ that will keep in tune, and that will worthily commemorate the harmony that was begun there. Imagine, please, for I shall not attempt to tell you the delight to say nothing of the unspeakable wonder of the girls and of the entire community when the beautifully finished, exquisitely toned bit of mechanism was set up in the church. Accompanying it were two organ stools, one for the church, and one for Ruth Jennings's home. So she sits on dictionaries and patent office reports no more. The other item can be told more briefly. It is embodied in a sentence which the gentle mother spoke one morning at the breakfast table. By the way, Claire, the committee about the mission-band entertainment was here yesterday while you and Harold were out to see if you would help them. I told them I thought you would. The face of the bride flushed deeply into peculiarly tender light shown in her eyes as she said. How very strange that is. It is the same band which was preparing for that exercise about which I told you. We were to have had it on the day in which Papa was buried. It is the same exercise, Dora said, speaking gently. The girls dropped it entirely and could never persuade themselves to take hold of it again until last week they voted to attempt it. You were only interrupted in your work, you see, Mr. Chesney said, smiling down on eyes that were filling with tears. Interrupted that you might set some wheels in motion that had been clogged. Now you are called back to finish the other, and I am here to help you. End of Chapter 28 Recording by Tricia G.


Next question is from Jalen S4.   It's got to be one of the hardest things to do. Gaining muscle without gaining fat is really a process of just... Am I eating the right calories? Am I sending the right signal? You can do this. Boy, losing fat without losing muscle can be really freaking hard because it requires a calorie deficit which sends this overall signal to the body that says you probably shouldn't speed up your metabolism. You probably shouldn't add this active tissue that is burning more calories. In fact, we should pare it down so that we could offset this calorie deficit. So in my experience, that one's really so much more hard, so much more touchy to go. Now, if you're talking about a beginner... Well, you're less motivated too in that direction. Yeah, I don't fully agree. I don't fully disagree either. Alright, let's hear the other side. Well, the other side to me is that this is where the genetic factor plays such a huge role is that I think that the grass is always greener on the other side. I think, and this is where I remember I talked a while back when we talked about semantotypes and I said this is one of the things why I like the semantotype conversation still is because I do think that for certain body types, it's much easier to put muscle on and it's much more difficult for that person to, you know, lose body fat and vice versa for the other person, right? So I think it just... like my clients that were endomorphs, man, we touched the weights, we had a little bit of calories and they just piled on the muscle.  It's just so hard for them to do that. And then the other... the opposite is true with my skinny guy who was trying to build muscle.  So I feel like I can make the case that both are equally difficult based off of your genetics and where, you know, where you see this. Well, here's a strategy that I've always employed for gaining muscle without gaining body fat. It's a very easy one. It's just get stronger.   Now, the more advanced you are, the more challenging this gets. Yeah, as I said, that's less likely when you're being advanced. Yeah.  Wow, that's hard. That is really hard to do.  I get a new client. In the first three months, I would always see muscle and fat. You know, muscle go up in fat, come down simultaneously. But later on, that is a really tough thing to do because cutting calories is telling your body to adapt. Slow down your metabolism. The most effective way to do that is to pair muscle down. Definitely not gain muscle while you're doing that. So that's the one that I would say has got to be the most challenging because I've done it many times with clients to get them to gain muscle without gaining body fat. The lose fat without losing muscle, oh man, that can be really, really hard.  What's happening is they have a couple of days in a row where muscle is being built because they've ate the right amount of calories in order for them to build. And then they have a couple days where they're actually probably a little bit in a deficit because they moved a little more or ate a little less. And so then the body pairs down some body fat. And so it looks like the building muscle while not putting fat on is easier. But the truth is you're never really doing both of them at the same time. It's just, again, it goes back to behaviors, which one's easier for people. And that's why I feel like I can kind of make the case for, it really just depends on what body type you are that one is probably harder than the other based off of that. And I'm sure there's people that are listening right now that can identify with that. I don't know about what Sal's saying. I definitely feel like this is much harder. But I would bet a majority would be what I said. But yeah, there's always going to be variances. But that's yeah.