Yes, sir. It's a lot of mobile topics. I don't have a ton of in-depth and depth knowledge I won't be as super talkative during the the main line stuff. All right. Yeah, then that's fine as always whatever whatever you have to say Here we go The Daily Tech news show is entirely supported and funded by voluntary Contributions from listeners like you if you want to chip in and support your daily source of tech visit patreon.com Slush is detect This is the Daily Tech news for Thursday August 13th 2015. I'm Tom Merritt our Intrepid Thursday co-host Justin Robert Young had an unfortunate incident with a pair of keys So he will Hopefully join us if he can before the end of the show But thankfully we got Michael Wolf host of the smart home show at technology FM and creator of smart kitchen con With us today Michael it's extra good that you're here. Thanks for joining. Yeah. Yeah, it's a likely story on Justin I'm not sure I'm buying it really. No, you think there's something behind it. Huh something more nefarious Well, we could ask him. Hopefully he'll make it before the end of the show But we're gonna talk about smart kitchens, which I've been I don't know if I've talked about it much on DTNS but I've been doing a lot more kitchen work a lot more cooking and I have some ideas about what I would like to see and things that I don't want to see them try Any more and and Michael's been on top of this industry now So I can't wait to talk about that with you, man. Yeah, and are you gonna share any recipes? I might if you're if you're not lucky Let's take a look at the headlines first big day for Samsung CNET rounded up all the announcements They made in New York this morning the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 has a 5.7 inch 25 60 by 1440 display with a more responsive s-pen the Galaxy s6 edge plus has lots of words in the title and a 5.7 inch screen 3000 milliamp hour battery and a 4 gigabyte RAM 4 gigabytes of RAM in there That's what differentiates it from the Galaxy s6 edge not plus both phones are coming to the US and Canada August 21st There's also a few other things they announced a keyboard cover case That slides the keyboard on the front and then you could slide it off and just turn it into a regular case by sliding it on the back The ability to live stream directly to YouTube is going to be added to the operating system Sidesync for OS 10 is coming and the new Samsung pay System which has an advantage on other systems because it works anywhere a normal credit card is taken it can work with Maddy magnetic stripe swipe Magnetic stripe swipers that's coming to Korea August 20th The US September 28th with more countries to follow They also tossed out a little teaser about a new watch called the Samsung gear s2 To be revealed at the EFA conference in Berlin on September 3rd. So loads of stuff there Michael But I'll be honest I don't know if any of this gets you excited at all, but the Samsung pay thing I think is probably the most significant well That's interesting because my initial reaction to that is do we need another payment system? You seem pretty bullish on it and it's because of the the ability to use it anywhere Yeah, if you remember they acquired a company called loop pay, okay? Which has a system that allows you to just hold the phone near the magnetic? Stripe reader and be able to emulate a magnetic card, which means it's going to be accepted everywhere And except overseas it'll be a little bit of an issue in places with chip and pin But here in the United States where we are still flying less secure It can come in and really make a difference for people The limiting factor on it obviously is the fact you have to have a Samsung phone Yeah, I think eliminating Friction around having to require NFC or some of these other kind of radio technology said not every one has working Well, it's probably good idea. So I think the magnetic strip thing probably is this biggest thing going for it, right? Yeah, I think it's really interesting these phones are very much Incremental improvements over the other phones. So that's Samsung pay thing is to me the most significant advance look who is Jumping in under the wire Justin Robert Young. Are you all set up? We're getting there. Hey, look at that All right Well, meanwhile PC world reports that Apple has updated boot camp to support the 64-bit version of Windows 10 on max running OS 10 Yosemite Windows 10 and boot camp can use the USB C port. That's kind of cool An Apple keyboard trackpad or mouse. That's normal for boot camp the Thunderbolt port and the SD XC reader and the Superdrive Yeah, not much else to say except hey folks who use boot camp you can now officially be supported using Windows 10 I've never had a need for it But my son is taking a programming class for game programming on Windows and we're an Apple house I'm actually thinking there might be a use case. Yeah to program on boot camp in Apple That would make sense I Eventually switched to virtual machines because I didn't like having to reboot to switch back and forth between the operating systems But when I first did boot camp with Windows it was best Windows machine I ever use I Think that's that's kind of been even the word with with Windows 10 is that Windows 10 has been largely very Very very, you know praised with some upgrade issues aside But that still MacBook Pro is your best Windows option if you would like to have a Windows experience Xiaomi launched its mid-range redmi note 2 and redmi note 2 prime handsets in Beijing according to the next web the 16 gigabyte Dual SIM at redmi note 2 has a 2 gigahertz media tech Helio X 10 octa core processor 2 gigs ram and 16 gigs of storage that one runs you About the equivalent of 125 dollars the redmi note 2 prime Boost that chip up to 2.2 gigahertz and 32 gigas of storage and they'll sell for around the equivalent of 155 dollars both will be available online in China starting August 16th When you put this next to the Samsung phones, which didn't have a price, but you know, they're gonna be more expensive These are pretty compelling You know, I almost wonder with with these, you know, again, we there's so much had been said about the rise of the Fablet in the Chinese market Was there a tablet boom or or or did we just go from phone to fablet in a way that we'd never really that like in in the West we kind of had the rise of the iPad No, I think Michael you may know this. I'm not sure but I feel like tablet sales were pretty strong in China Tom I'm gonna say I don't know this. Yeah, okay. You're in the same boat as I am Which I know they have sold a lot of tablets in China, but I don't have any actual numbers on that So it's an interesting question Reuters reports at the European Commission granted Google's request to extend the deadline for its response to antitrust charges Google has now until August 31st the Commission claims Google distorted the web search results to favor its shopping services The company could face a possible Billion Euro fine Well, I mean they're playing nice enough to give them an extra two weeks, so it can't be all bad, right? But wow is this dragged out I almost I believe that Google probably isn't guilty of antitrust in Europe even with their 90% plus market share But I almost feel at this point they would be in their best interest to just give up and admit something just to get it over with Well, there's only so much that they can do when when you are that big of an elephant in the bed There's only so far that you can roll in any direction without falling on something And that's the the situation that Google has found themselves in Europe Europe has proven to have a track record for punishing American companies who have tech dominance in their jurisdiction, so That you almost just wonder whether or not there is a different way to do this wherein Google understands their role in a way that satisfies some of the regulators and it isn't just you know fine fine fine Regulation regulation because for the European market It's not a favorable look for people to expand with new and exciting ventures out there Well, it's it's it's more it's a different market to navigate You have to expand with a different sensibility. I think Google is learning that lesson right now If we were a network broadcast I would have never admitted that I didn't know China's tablet sales and I would have waited for my producer Jenny Josephson to have whispered the number in my ear But we're trying to be more transparent than that However, Jenny did find the numbers at e-marketer Nearly 80 million tablets will be sold in China this year according to estimates from 451 research They expect a 26 increase in tablets over 2014 levels and they even expect a 20% rise in 2016 So tablets are booming Justin. I should have been happens are hot I should have just said in an authoritative analyst voice that they were doing very well and we yeah Yeah, that is what they do too. Yeah, I think they're doing very well The one at times reports that Russia's media regulator Ross come the door has lifted the ban on reddit after briefly blocking the site because of a two-year-old post on how To grow psychedelic mushrooms site was reinstated because it quote complied with the government's request to restrict local access You know, I think for reddit great headline Like they are very excited that their name is in a headline and it's not in some sort of internal Embryolio or some gender politics think-piece. No, no, no, no, no They are now available in Russia great time to be reddit upvoted I've been looking to grow psychedelic mushrooms. So I'm actually excited about this. I didn't know about it before Yeah, make sure your VPN is appointed to Russia Our Stegnic reports that HTC and Lenovo both announced layoffs today HTC plans to cut 15% of the company's workforce Approximately 2,250 people in order to reduce operating expenses by 35% Lenovo plans to cut 3,200 people about five percent of its global workforce HTC says it wants to increase efficiency as it moves into new product lines the cost of the Lenovo layoffs and restructuring are estimated at 650 million But the company said the moves will achieve savings of more than 1.3 Alien Lenovo is trying to stay in front of a declining PC market while staving off competition in mobile I Feel like this is a bit of an instructive lesson here HTC Didn't see it coming And you can argue whether they should have or not and now they're trying to cut cost while they pivot into some other markets And we've talked about you know, maybe the Vive Will be a big seller for them. Maybe it won't Whereas Lenovo is trying to do this in advance. They're saying look we've been winning the PC market But that's not going to save us forever We acquired Motorola and that they're getting beat up especially in the Asian market So let's slim down now while we're still making money while we're still profitable You know, it seems it seems smart and also it's just you know, you you got to wonder where Where we're going right now I mean like the the the commoditization of the PC market for as long as my adult life has as extended has just been The the rule, you know Like things got cheaper and cheaper and cheaper and more and more commoditized And now it feels like we've just sort of hit a breaking point kind of in the global market for it Now Samsung's more exciting announcement in my opinion came at the flash memory summit in California the PM 1633 a NAND flash hard drive uses 256 gigabit NAND flash dies to create a 16 terabyte Two and a half inch solid-state drive that appears to be the world's biggest drive magnetic or not The trick is climbing 48 layers of 3 bits per cell 3d v NAND the v stands for vertical into a single die Then you pack 480 to 500 of those together and you get an actual capacity of 15.36 terabyte still big Usual this is meant for enterprise and we don't know how much it will cost, but it will be thousands applies But solid-state drives still more expensive than magnetic drives, but now passing magnetic drives in capacity Tom I take issue with your use of the word exciting announcement. Oh, it's personal, right? I don't expect anyone else. There's a few other digital hoarders like me. I'm going to the digital of the flash memory summit for years now I wish they'd invite me to the flash memory so I I don't know why big hard drives are And I always want a larger hard drive. You'd like big drives. You cannot lie the other brothers won't deny Did only say it was more exciting. That's a qualifier It's a good point. Thank you for getting me off the hook there, Justin Hey, a lot of these stories come from our subreddit daily tech news show dot reddit dot com and you Should join in if you haven't already and help us vote on the stories We talk about every day gold kick posted the arse technical story from Peter Bright Detatling the little bits of information that Windows 10 still Sends over the internet even when you disable it from sending anything over the internet without your permission They range from a rather innocent network connection status indicator that just pings a server To see if it's on IPv4 IPv6. It doesn't send any data Then there's the requests for data that bypass proxies Even if web searching and Cortana are disabled apparently even when you just want to search for files on your desktop Microsoft servers get pinged with a machine ID attached even though they don't attach any search query data It feels like these are little bits and pieces That developers didn't think anyone would notice and weren't a big deal And it's absolutely the kind of thing that drives people nuts If I need control over what gets sent out of my computer and I need to be able to turn it on or off Well, I mean that and that is is baked into the the DNA of what it is to enjoy Windows Is is that element of control especially in our new age of increased privacy awareness? You need to have Absolute knob control on making sure that when it is off it is capital o ff It seems though with these that they are little elements to to maybe You know get feedback on the experience to continue to update, you know, like sure if I turn that on I'm fine with that Yes, don't be pinging your bing servers when I turned off web search though Don't ping your bing unless I say something that sounds like please but rhymes with ink Yeah, I could think of it either SP Sheridan posted an article by Harvard student Aaron Khanna Or yeah, Aaron Khanna who had his internship at Facebook? Cancelled because he wrote a browser extension that scraped Facebook The Chrome extension was called Marauder's map and used geolocation data from the Facebook messenger app to map the locations of the Users when the messages were sent Facebook has sent disabled location sharing for desktops When Arana's future Facebook manager asked Khanna to disable the extension He did but posted on medium that Facebook made him Facebook then rescinded its summer Internship offer this is surprising to me It's like the difference between Facebook and Google's Google would have embraced this guy It's like the old adage keep your friends close, but your enemies closer Facebook Cancels it that's strange me It feels like they didn't like his attitude. It's it. Yeah, I don't know if that's true But yeah, it's like the tone that he wrote the medium post just didn't jive with the internship Coordinators idea of the way it should have been disclosed or something because this is actually kind of counter to sort of the reputation the Facebook right now has in in the valley that they are kind of the place for the hackers that This is the safe space to tinker and and do big bold things in a way that maybe the Suffocating bureaucracy of Google has kind of proven frustrating to somebody, but maybe you have to tell the company line I mean I've seen Google Pretty senior Google guys and even not so senior guys rip on their company in blog posts Say there's the the famous blog post by one of the the product managers who said the nest protect thermostat is an awful piece of Crap and he didn't get fired. I mean, could you imagine what Facebook would have done in that situation? Oh, yeah He would have been unfriended Aaron Kana did get another internship in Silicon Valley So this didn't ruin his career. Also Facebook hosts several hacking events that invite people from outside Facebook to show up like I don't know people with internships in Silicon Valley So I'll be curious if Aaron Kana ever shows up at one of those events and how it goes down That's as gossipy All right, let's talk smart kitchens man Tech in the kitchen for most people to date. I would suppose means a tablet Maybe an all-in-one desktop some kind of touchscreen Sounds Michael like most often it's been an iPad And then we have the the famous LG digital multimedia slot side-by-side fridge freezer with LCD display that I believe is that either CES or Comdex back in 2002 that sort of set the template of oh the smart kitchen means you put an internet Connection and a screen on a fridge. Are we finally moving past those to something more helpful? Well, I think you're right The smart fridge has become kind of a cliche and almost kind of a laughing joke because there's been so many bad attempts I think going back to 2000 I remember one where Java suddenly was trying to put Java on a refrigerator But there's actually a lot of innovation going on in the kitchen and one of the things I'm really excited about is just being able to try new ways of cooking And also just having technology make you a better cook. We're seeing lots of different technologies Good example is a sous vide cooker that I've been using. These are products that largely have been restaurant-based Chef-oriented types of ways of cooking but with the advanced and internet things and lower-cost processors I can now try things like sous vide cooking, which is really exciting It's interesting just to hear that because I've read some articles with chefs where they're saying I don't want a bunch of tech weighing things or telling me what temperature it should be For instance, there's smart pans. It'll tell you essentially Oh the meat is at the right temperature it should be cooked now and they they disdain that they say look as a chef I should be able to look at a piece of meat and know whether it's cooked or not because I'm trying to get it to a particular type of doneness, but that's that's an interesting Contra example to that which is there's a lot of high-end chef Devices that do have processors and the price may be coming down I mean if you're artisan if you're a craftsman, you're gonna defend by and large the old way of doing things And I think we're gonna continue to see that that's not exciting But look for example a pico brew which is and some of these other beer brewing appliances I mean if you look at the vast majority of us, we're not gonna take the time It's it's an art to learn how to brew beer at home But if I can use technology to make really great beer at home use use it to make it Probably a lot better than if I didn't use the technology then I'm gonna use those types of technologies so so let me Ask you this is there a an advancement in the sphere beyond cooking like there There was a lot of stuff that happens in in your kitchen from right To organizing stuff What have we seen beyond just ways to cook your food? I think that the way I describe it to people is we're With regards to food the kitchen delivery the kind of entire food ecosystem We are where TV was about a decade ago. Remember how exciting it was when we just started to see these Connected TV devices. We thought about oh could we possibly get internet to the TV? It was really hard to do in 2004 now It's really easy and it's shook up a Whatever you want in a 50 billion dollar ecosystem. Let me tell you the food Market the food ecosystem is a much bigger. It's probably a 10x market compared to TV. Everyone eats If you just look at every part of the of the ecosystem from delivery You're seeing that being shaking up with folks like blue apron plated if you look at the way to order replenishables Amazon's trying things like the Amazon dash is going to put intelligence into our Devices that consume consumables and say hey, you're out of this. Let's just reorder it now There might be some people who say that's scary I don't want Amazon auto reordering stuff, but the fact that this stuff is happening and they're Experimenting with it. I think it's pretty exciting Yeah, because that what I want as someone who is doing more cooking than I used to is You know, okay a cutting board that can weigh my ingredients seems nifty I'm not sure if I would really use that Because I don't know that I'm that geeky that I want to measure things out that exactly or whatever What I want is something that says we know what ingredients you have on hand Here's what you could make recipe-wise with that and here's what you could make recipe-wise with that if you had a few extra Ingredients and we'll add those to your shopping list or even better You you know click here and we'll have those ordered and delivered to you doesn't seem like anybody's really connecting all those dots They're trying to there's a couple exciting things. There's 3d or there's robot assembly and robot Cooking devices that people are just starting to put in so you could say I want to cook like this chef Or I want to cook like this chef and these guys are talking to the food delivery folks like blue apron or plated Say you wanted if you had a food subscription to certain level ingredients You had it delivered to your house and you said I want to cook like this this type of flair, etc That's they're starting to think about that another good example is a company called teforia They're making a next-generation tea brewer and you know tea's been made for a thousand years pretty much the same way But the teforia is going to say okay. It's nighttime. Do you want this tea with or without caffeine? By the way, do you want more antioxidants in this tea? We can do that So just think about the fact you can start actually playing with them molecular level Food at the molecular level it gets really interesting.  Sorry go ahead. Go ahead No, I mean I just think that people with technology now We're doing things with food that we haven't been able to do before I think to your point earlier Tom There's gonna be the purists to say I don't want technology in the kitchen and you don't have to have technology in the kitchen But there's so many of us who want to do different things with food. We want better Information about our health and if you could tie all these things together it becomes exciting. There's a lot of possibilities So a lot of these innovations are putting technology or connectivity or the internet into Existing devices that we already kind of use or at least there is an analog for do you think that we're going to see? Maybe even a kitchen specific Device or a tablet or something that is that is very much its own element of a new Interconnected kitchen when all of these things sort of exist Maybe either as a hub or as just a compliment Maybe I mean I think there is an argument to be made that sometimes technology can take two things too far It can make things more complicated. That's what we don't want and that's the case with the smart home That's the case of the kitchen, you know Tactile devices and tactile knobs are really great So but I do think there are people thinking about how we can maybe connect all these things together Almost like a kitchen operating system if you will I don't know if this can be purposeful built tablets But I think you're going to see intelligence go into things like ovens You guys probably saw the news about the June intelligent oven That becomes really interesting as a connected device things like cameras going into the into the oven itself and doing image recognition That can automatically set your temperature and time So I think what we're more likely to see is ingredient technologies going into existing devices And not necessarily kind of whole new categories of vices like maybe a command center or touchscreen That's kitchen specific Yeah, one of the things that I read today pointed out that bringing the software To bringing the burden of this to the software is probably a better approach than trying to just stick a lot of things Into existing devices, you don't need Bluetooth added to your knife necessarily and I I feel like this is the same problem that the internet of things in general has which is What is the platform that allows us to bring all of the stuff together in a way that's useful for us? Instead of you know, I think it's unfair to criticize companies for like Oh, they just throw processors and connectivity into everything and see what sticks. Well, that's how we figure out what works Right, let's try a bunch of different things, but I know for sure like I have a tablet. I have my recipes on it I actually rewrite recipes in my own sort of flowchart in simple note. I Right there. I want something that's not gonna be all getting all sticky because I you know Just chopped an onion and I got onion juice when I'm trying to use it I would like that to be able to connect with my refrigerator or whatever to know what ingredients I have on hand ahead of time. So if I say I want to do those kinds of recipes I I have to buy this kind of ingredients at the store or order these to be delivered and then potentially the oven that can tell me when the roast is done or the meatloaf has finally reached the right temperature Can ping that same tablet and that's useful to me I don't have you know something that alerts me like hey We're not telling you what to do, but meatloafs at that temperature You might want to check on it see if it looks brown enough for you all of that sounds good It's just which of those things are actually useful and how do we tie them all together? How do we get one system where it's not all of these little pieces that don't talk to each other? Well, I think the big White goods manufacturers like Samsung and LG probably you're gonna try and tie everything together I think we're in the phase with the smart kitchen like much like we are with the smart home that there's a lot of early Temps some of them are going to be clunky But what also is exciting to me is quite honestly attempts at recreating core cooking technology If you look at what free skills doing they have what they have an RF cooking division and they've said microwave cooking technology is from the 1940s Why do we use that still you can use technology that we use in our cell towers and our cell phones in the mic in a Cooking box cook a segment of the steak while keeping the other part of the steak at a different cooking level You can cook vegetables at a different level and it could tell you when the cooking is done That type of stuff is actually really pretty interesting So you say now we don't have to have the thing rotating all the time and it'll still cold now You might you might be talking to my language you might get cancer a lot earlier, but but your steak will be done at a better level so Your steak will mutate to be bigger and juicier. Yeah, and I have three eyes. So yeah, hopefully not. Well, excellent We'll tell you a little bit more about a conference of Michaels involved with where you can find out more about this Or a follow smart kitchen con on Twitter. Let's get to our pick of the day Peter wrote us a lovely note about why he's still using DVD RW. We actually Mentioned this as part of the Lenovo laptop that it has a DVD RW and Patrick Beja and I were like hmm Who uses that? Well Peter helped his 86 year old father pick out a rechargeable electric shaver and the manuals print was so small that he went to the to the web and printed out a PDF with large print So his dad could read it and while he was there found three tutorial videos that he then burned the DVD His dad has a DVD player was able to watch the tutorials to kind of help him get a little more out of the razor So that's our pick to the Phillips power touch shaver Peter said look, it's actually a really good shaver Model eight eight nine one for all of you inquisitive Shavers out there. Yeah, I will read it's rechargeable. It's waterproof Will not operate While plugged in if it's if it's got an unsafe condition works for both wet and dry shaving You simply flip the shaving head up run it under the tap to clean it and that's why you have that safety feature And so if you forget to unplug it, you know, it doesn't cause a problem He says look should be within the capabilities of my 86 year old father who recently purchased this item Shaving head dismantles for more thorough cleaning, etc. So there you go Phillips power touch shaver model eighty eight nine one I've never used it, but Peter says he really likes it. Send your pics to feedback at daily tech news show comm You can find my picks at daily tech news show comm slash picks Got a couple of emails before we get out of here Russell said on yesterday's show We were discussing the usefulness of Twitter. He says Twitter is probably the strongest social media platform for our business Although LinkedIn is geared for this. It does not have the social and interactive components of Twitter We use Twitter to engage with our clients and members of the related business community on both a firm level and the individual level It has been the go-to tool for getting the word out about what is going on at an individual level We use it to personally connect at the local level with business colleagues The actual value and results are hard to measure But we know that it is part of the world in which we live and we need to be there And a direct correlation may be hard to find Michael do you have a Go-to answer if somebody asks you what Twitter is good for I Tell people it's great to get real-time news and information from a group of respected peers In fact, I've never said that since in my life, but that's what I would tell them Tom But I mean I use it for that I mean I I follow people like you if all people in tech and that's how I know before it's on CNN or Or whatever news site fall. That's where it breaks for me It was that a good answer. I don't know that's a good answer I think that well, that's one of the answers we mentioned yesterday was news. So I think that's a very legitimate portion of it I mean, I think the big question is is Twitter is as useful as the internet is for you depending on your relationship with the Internet it is a great and ever-expanding way that you can kind of dive deeper into it If you are a new sound you can find breaking news if you're in the commentary and discussion It is the natural successor to bulletin boards, you know, it's it's a broadcast platform It's just not exactly equivalent to any broadcast platform. We've had in the past. It's it's not the telegram. It's not radio It's not newspapers But it is that place where you can see information quickly and in a stream I'm interested to see I'm interested to see now that they've removed the 164 limit on direct messaging how much more people use it for a replacement for email or just messaging I find a lot of people just message me on Twitter now without that hard limit I'm wondering how that's going to change maybe more people and golden age golden age for DM fails upcoming Popcorn ready is gonna be great. Actually it might help DM fails By saying oh, you're over the 140 character limit and then a lot of you that you weren't actually typing a DM at that point Just make sure all the dirt that you're gonna say is a starting at character 141 Wait a minute. So DMs over text message are one of the greatest sources of DM fail DMs over text messages are still limited to 140 characters, but they will break it up into 140 character chunks Yeah, so when you wait for that first 10,000 word DM fail that just spams Yeah, just put your business plan in the DM and just hit it and see what happens Yesterday Anthony Carboni suspected that the same person behind the website redirect of ABC dot WTF to Bing was the guy behind screw gold But Brian points out that the guy behind the screw gold campaign was Mark Penn who left Microsoft in June Anthony also suspected the person probably popped his collar Brian says that is unconfirmed We're not sure if mark Penn ever wore his collar popped I'm on top of a story colorful colorful political history and Then Josh wrote in and said today's Samsung unpacked event featured a significant amount of stage time to women and specifically women of color This has been a huge turnaround for Samsung after the disastrous GS4 launch They have constantly had a lot of women presenting their keynotes He wonders is too little being made of this by the tech press who applaud Apple for bringing two women on stage for less than five minutes Is it just because it's Samsung or you know, what is it? And I think it's probably a de facto part of the The way that Apple is over covered generally and Samsung generally gets less coverage than Apple Oh, man cold cold comfort for the feminist commentary class that finally these Android iOS wars have found yet another front and it's who can be more inclusive of the female executive But thanks to Josh for pointing that out because I don't think Samsung probably gets enough credit for realizing how bad that GS4 announcement was and and taking strides to counteract that in future announcements and the problem the problem with that announcement was was how Like every other announcement things were you know like that that it is it is a general Industry-wide problem and it is one that it is nice to see women on stage and women getting credit for it And hopefully those women are you know, just as empowered behind the scenes You know for their work. I think Samsung has learned not to do skits. That was That was the underlying fault of that GS4 announcement. I think was that was the Broadway one, right? Yeah, yeah Hachi machi That is it for this episode of Daily Tech news show big Thanks, Michael Wolf for joining us as I mentioned host of the smart home show technology fm and tell us about smart kitchen Con that's coming up in November. Yeah smart kitchen summit. You can find it at smart kitchen summit calm I'm bringing together the who's who of everyone Innovating and creating new technology in the kitchen and I have a special gift for your listeners Tom Really a discount code if they want to come hey if you're gonna be in the Seattle area November, yeah DTNS is a discount code 10% off and but more generally if you're just interested in Kitchen tech where it's going you could just go to smart kitchen summit.com where we're talking about it there Excellent. Thank you for that and it really is he has got an impressive lineup if you're interested in this segment Of the industry you're gonna see some smart people talking about stuff wait one more thing can I mention one more thing? Yeah, of course We're also having a startup pitch offer people creating smart kitchen technology If you are a listener and you are creating that next cool device and you want feedback from highway one or Lemnos labs to the biggest hardware accelerators in Silicon Valley The guys running those shows will be at my conference and you can pitch them Excellent, you can find out the website. Yeah, so remember that code DTNS to Hey Justin Robert Young glad you made it and What are you up to these days? Oh? Tom you know me on the campaign trail That's because the contender dot us a card game that I invented with John Teesdale and my friends at cuts and glory Megan Faun is Now in the official Second half we have been buoyed by your support. 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Yeah All right going with that My statement on the Reagan presidential library as I've been there before for the for the funeral And I'm familiar with the area, and there's this really great kitchen so does it have to be like does it have to be on Reagan's Air Force one playing the contender game or You know In in these backer achievements, it's really the enthusiasm that counts I don't think that we're gonna go really really hard fact-checking So it's kind of want everybody to get excited about the game and do something fun Air Force one here I come Okay, so Miss your Neshcom hello, I have taken over the post just so you know to put that title in And Michael You're welcome to stick around. We just kind of leave the stream on while we will we do the show? But you don't have to if you need to go go people do all the time. It's not a problem Part of it is I just never know how to hang up from Google Plus, so I may be here till All right, that's fair enough now But hey Tom always a pleasure. Yeah, I don't know if you guys know this but Tom is like you guys know Tom is the nicest guy in podcasting. That's a you should get a t-shirt that says that so That's why I'm Tom doesn't like to be complimented either, but I just know I don't Was gonna deflect that he does okay. Thanks, Roger He eats it up. Oh, thank you Michael though. That's very nice to say All right guys had a lot of had a lot of fun and hope to be back soon. See you guys cheers. Bye No sad face Maybe your cheeks are too fat So Neshcom Yeah Do you need me to walk you through what we do post show or did that all make sense in the check in the instruction instructions or Okay Because I put the title into the post just now To and then I use level later to do to level the show, which is what I was just doing But you can do whatever you want. I'm sure you've got your own process. Okay good and then I make the I do that in audacity and Pretty much I start recording when we start the show and stop it as soon as I'm done with the Diamond Club thing So I don't do any actual snippeting But if you need to do that you do that and then the mp3 goes to SoundCloud and archive.org Okay, did we get from the SoundCloud password? Yeah, I was just about to say you might need to send me those credentials. Yeah Hey Justin, well, can I ask you a quick question? You can ask me all the questions. Okay, one quick question Jesus go on Next Thursday, you were talking to someone. Did you hear back from that someone? Yes, he's in great excellent Can we say who it is or is it sure? I just didn't want to say it unless it was Is Somebody that I'm very excited to finally get a chance to talk to about technology It's been a long time coming He is a published author Uh Andromaine will be on the show never heard of him. Well, you should Gosh darn it Never heard of him, but I don't trust that him Geez when I go by his book. It's really good book both of them Many of them go by all the books So now all I need is a person for Monday the 17th with Ms. Veronica Belmont, which has been oddly tough to lock down Crab apparently thank you the contender was featured in the Kickstarter better today So Bryce Bryce. Yes, sir. Yes. I got that. Okay, and then it's feedback at daily tech news show calm Okay, so Veronica you need it in two weeks No Veronica in four days Ellie Ellie's volunteer Okay, she's eating the microphone Well, they told you they told her on that particular model You need to eat the microphone and she took a little literally that's all yeah Roger you're still I'll I'll hear from you one way or the other regarding that when I do you but I was looking for someone else I'm still looking for someone else with 70 We wager but yesterday All right guys, I'm gonna go take a shower. All right Okay, sir plus one for hygiene. Yeah, thanks for making the effort to and like getting there in time for headlines That was awesome. Oh, man. I was That was yeah, a lot of things. I'll tell you all about it one day You're impressive. That's all I gotta say. Oh, stop stop. All right. I love you guys. Bye He took a uber pool, right? I was gonna ask him about that. I Wonder how that went. Yeah. Yeah, I've always been curious about uber pool I almost took it today, and then I was like nobody else is going to Tom's house Well, but that that's fine you still get the ride. It's just you get it alone That's true.  I Just feel like uber it's already hard enough for me to like have a new relationship with each driver And I just don't want to have a new relationship with each driver and There's levels of relationship that you make it seem like you're trying to date everyone There's a social contract whether you're either silent or kind, but certainly not rude That's come. Were you able to get into SoundCloud?  Yeah, unless they're awesome. Hey, I'm a chatter. I like I don't know why I think it's cabin fever Like I've had the best conversations on planes like the last one I had was a great conversation with this Israeli tech Support guy who got flown out of Tel Aviv to San Jose to work on like a poor person like Most of the people I sit next to just fall asleep start snoring and clearly haven't eaten any breakfast Hmm. I Just get really interesting people maybe Then in case you sit next to my wife, and then I'll be just silent Yeah, no, I was raised in New York City where you don't have to talk to the taxi driver But every once in a while you'd get a cool taxi driver and you say that one more time You were raised in New York City where you weren't aren't supposed to talk to the taxi driver Have to talk to the taxi Not a social Patrick told me Patrick Norton. Yeah, it was very adamant like when you're in New York because he's I guess he said He was a taxi driver for a short time.  It's what you do in New York when you drive. Yeah, talk Sure, I suppose so or you just like hold on for dear life. I don't know. I was you know, I'm 1976 New York, so It's different New York Patrick was New Jersey and then he went to New York for clubbing or something. Yeah Patrick From wherever I'm hearing it. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you hearing a fan noise? No, I'm hearing my king noise. Nope I'm hearing dramatic musical noise from somewhere I'm not hearing it But I'm in the same house So Neshcom you have a way to do ID three tags, right? Yes, okay, so even if it's just to the web you should be able to get the drop box. It's not The link is trying to get me to accept the shared folder not just view it Let me see if there's a way to send it differently All right, I changed the permission see if that helps. Oh my god, I'm maybe right back I'm gonna go investigate that strange music coming from just behind me Did Alexa turn on or something? It's my house possessed Alexa, I don't know what it was. Oh, I just did it again She was playing music. Yeah, that's hilarious Started playing music Playing song for you now Come I am lonely come into the kitchen and talk to me. I'm right next to the knives open open the kitchen door Alexa, yeah Participate in the smart kitchen discussion I'm in the kitchen and I'm smart I'm the smartest thing in this kitchen. I'm still adding show no links Correct. Yeah, they embed. Yes, okay, correct Okay, so we're gonna take this party offline, but thanks everybody for watching We'll talk to you soon


So, what I'm going to present here is a bit about a pilot project that we've been doing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Elsevier, and it's on a product that Elsevier had called in pilot. They called it Data Lighthouse, but it will eventually become a production product called Data Monitor. And Rensselaer Polytechnic is one of four institutions that have partnered on the development of this product. But I want to start by giving you a little bit of the genesis of why we went down this path. So there we go. So what I have here is a list of research objectives. This list is probably no different than the research objectives of your own institution if you're a research institution, research university, whether you're a public or private, the objectives here are basically to grow research, establish a wide amount, a number of partnerships, whether they be private or public partnerships or corporate partnerships. If you're a large research institution and you have global connections, you're looking for international partnerships as well, you want to make sure that you're getting the highest quality level of faculty or research faculty. And your administrators want some metrics and assessment tools associated with the research output and research activities. So the trend has been for many research universities and the libraries associated with them to build a research and institutional repository. And as I quoted Cliff Lynch here from his article back in 2003, the notion was to build some kind of centralized storage system that would allow for the depositing of not only research but published research. So if you're involved with open access or pre-prints, those types of activities, this might be the model that you've pursued at your institution. But rents layer, we are not a large research institution, I've seen some of the other sessions this afternoon, places like Penn State that have campuses all over the state. We're not in that kind of situation, we're a school of about 7,500 students, but we do have a lot of research that's going on, a lot of federally funded research from DOE, DOD, NSF, NIH. We have ROTC programs, so we do a lot of aeronautical engineering and there's a lot of federal funding that comes from the military. Our largest corporate partner is IBM, we do a lot of research with IBM Watson. So we already have a vast amount of activity, research activity that's going on, even though we're a small private school. So at a small school and for our library, which is a staff of about 20, can I really start building a research and institutional repository? Is that really feasible for us? And so the considerations that we had is we looked at people process and then technology on the people side of the house. I don't have a large number of staff, we don't have a research data librarian. The ecosystem for scholarly communication and scholarly research has become increasingly federated and highly decentralized. So we know that there are, as was indicated in the plenary this afternoon, we already know that there are a number of discipline specific repositories that exist out there. So if we started to build something, are we duplicating efforts? Or are we creating a workflow that requires a researcher to duplicate efforts? We also know that a number of the large STEM publishers are also starting to build systems that will, they will deposit research data associated with the publication on behalf of the authors. So the proposition that I put forth is that maybe there's a different model for us to be looking at, particularly if you're a small research library. So the first two, they're no different whether my large research library or a small research library. We want to have, we want to be able to archive research data in some method. And as I've seen in other presentations, we want to be able as librarians or informationists to be able to put metadata and ontologies around the research data sets. So that you can go find them. The goal, of course, is to try to foster cross-disciplinary research. Because in an increasingly competitive funding environment, the fund, the proposals that are going to win awards are those things that are unique. And if we could create linkages between disciplines that are seemingly disparate from one another, you actually have a better chance of receiving funding. Now, at Rensselaer, the libraries are considered part of our centralized IT for the institution. So I report to the chief information officer. We don't report to, say, the vice chancellor or vice provost or provost for academic affairs. So I see the library and having some kind of inventory and knowing where the intellectual capital and intellectual property of the institution the output is, I see it as contributing to part of cybersecurity strategies, tech transfer, intellectual property. But the difference here is I am not offering to become, nor is my central IT, offering to become the repository for all of this. So in the pilot project and as a development partner with Elsevier, what we wanted to do is still have an ability to track where the research data is being stored and where is it available? Is it openly available? Is it private? Does somebody else own it? Because it's a multi-institutional collaboration. So what Elsevier proposed working with us on was to check what's the publication output of our faculty, of our researchers. And they use their tools, such as Scalix, and check out in things like Mendeley data and Scopus. And the idea is if with those tools, we can't find that data associated with the publication is already existing, we would then go out and solicit information from the actual author's researchers of published research. We also verified some of this against the data site tool. And all this is collected in a dashboard that I, as director of libraries, can go look at. And I can share with my administrators that says, here's an article. And here's the research data set that's been deposited that's associated with that published research. So what I have here is an example of an email. And Elsevier calls it an email campaign. Basically, the tool will generate a series of emails. And the email basically says here, congratulations, Professor So-and-So. Here's the article. And you can see the article in the italicized text up on top. And we're saying, as a library, we're encouraging you to deposit your data. We're not specifying where you're depositing your data. We're just saying that we encourage you to deposit your research data. And you can see that there are the two big buttons, yes or no. Depending upon which button you click, you then get sent down another chain of logic that asks you another series of questions. So if you say, yes, I have data, we then start to ask you questions like, what kind of data is it? Where is it stored? Are you the owner of the data? Can you give us some description about the data? And you can see some of the questions here. You have some fill-in-the-blank boxes. You have some buttons that you can choose from multiple choice. And so basically, what happens is if you respond, that's the end of this. If you didn't respond, we send you an email reminder saying, please respond to the survey and provide us with some more information. And that's what the diagram here just shows you. Thanks for responding, or you didn't respond, we send you. We poke at you again and say, please conduct the survey. So what you see here is the results from a campaign, the test that we ran at Rensselaer Polytech. And you can see the first block here. This was a researcher who said, yes, I actually have data for each one of these publications. And we can see that it's linked over in the far right-hand corner of this screenshot. And then we also have a no at the very bottom there, where somebody said, yeah, I've got an article, but I don't have any data associated with it. And the very last thing, you have an option if you get too many emails and you're tired of responding to this. You say no. Now, the reason I make note of too many emails, the way we did this analysis, if you were a co-author and not the primary author and you were a co-author on multiple publications, you received multiple emails. That's part of the learning that we discovered as going through the pilot. So what we did is we asked Elsevier to run an analysis of publications from our faculty. So we have 406 faculty that were included in this survey tool. And we ran an analysis of publication output from Rensselaer researchers and faculty. And we started at January 25th of 2017. And publications that were published between that date and May 10th of 2018, those were the publications that were captured. And those were the triggers that allowed us to send out the email. We ran this campaign for 15 days. We actually ran it at the end of the semester, which was also something else that we probably shouldn't have done. But the way timing worked out, that was the best time that we could actually get it all approved by the provost and by our VPR and campus council, et cetera. You could see a number of individuals opened the email that was sent to them. We also sent a number of reminders. And you could see on the far left-hand side, there was one faculty member who received over 70 emails. That's because that individual was a author or co-author. So needless to say, lesson learned, don't send that many emails to one person. So here was the goal, is to run this test. Now, of course, this was testing to see what's the viability of this particular tool that Elsevier is working on. But it also gave us some feedback as an institution about what are the current practices for our research faculty at Rensselaer. We'll understand a bit about how this prototype works, and whether the email messaging, whether you've flooded somebody's inbox with too many emails, or whether they're going to respond, whether they get four or five, et cetera. And then validate what other recommendations we could come up with that actually makes sense and would be acceptable to a researcher. So you could see, even though we sent this out at the end of the semester, right up against study week and finals, we still got a pretty good response rate back of 19%. So of course, there were a number of faculty that didn't receive emails. And that's because during that particular time, that snapshot of publication output, they didn't have anything. So if they had something that was published as an abstract, but not as a journal article, we didn't capture them. They weren't going to get pinged with an email. But you can also see what the responses were here for those that did respond. And a number of people said, I don't have data. I have data. And that includes what Elsevier found by doing some initial analysis in addition to what researchers responded, saying I do have data. And then you could see there are four individuals who said, I've had enough of these emails. I'm not even going to bother responding. Or one email is too many. So from doing this analysis, what we discovered is that even though we don't have an institutional repository, there are researchers that are actually depositing research data sets in other existing repositories. Now, the large black pizza pie segment slice on the bottom is Google Drive. So we might want to say you probably don't want to be depositing stuff in Google Drive. But this is a lesson learned. We actually have some feedback about what some of the practices are. So you can see here, it's a wide variety of practices. But when we got done with running this campaign, we also ran a series of interviews with some of the responders, which was pretty interesting. So there were individuals who said, I don't have research data. But then on some additional verification using tools like data site and looking at Mendeley, we could see that there was actually more than what a researcher said. The researcher said, I don't have data, but actually, they do have data that's deposited someplace else, which raises some other questions about, well, how much do our faculty actually know about where their data is ending up? So here, again, is the summary of the numbers of what basically the results of running this test campaign were. So you can see we have a large material science program. So you can see there are a number of people already depositing stuff in a crystallographic data center. And then even though some people said, I don't have research data, they actually have. So we interviewed a number of faculty to find out some more details. The survey gives you some initial data. But when you actually sit down with a researcher and find out what are the research habits, what kind of experiments do they run? Do they rely on postdocs? Do they rely on undergraduates? Do they rely on graduate students? Is this a collaborative, a multi-institutional type of research? We discovered quite a bit of interesting information. The main point that I want to bring out here is that most of them don't see the value of having a data management plan. And the reason is they see no consequences, no penalties, no repercussions of not having it. So they may write it into their federally funded proposal, grant proposal. But at the end of the day, since nobody's checking on them, what's the consequence? But when you start discussing with them, what do they do for research data? We had one faculty member who said, I had this postdoc. They graduated. They moved on about four years ago. And I want to go back and find that data from that experiment. But I can't find it, and I can't find a postdoc. So maybe you do need a DMP. Another faculty member indicated that they were less interested in the DMP than they were in the notebooks. And the question came up about, well, I have all these lab notebooks, research notebooks, that are all handwritten. Is there a way that I can digitize all that stuff and start to research that? Another faculty member described their research process, what they considered to be part of research data management. They said it includes from the point where I sent the text message to the postdoc and say, run the experiment on the spectrometer this particular way. So this individual considered research data to be this incredibly broad spectrum of information, basically capturing the processes, as well as the raw data set, as well as graphs that were generated using SAS or SPSS or Tableau or R. The other thing, of course, is research, what you describe as research data, is all dependent upon what your area of research is. It may also depend upon instrumentation. So there's a wide variety. And if you're in the humanities, what you describe as a research data set is obviously different than what you describe in engineering. But I was just at the Research Data Alliance meeting last week and there was a session on engineering. They were trying to come up with standards for engineering data. And of course, they discovered, well, if I go through the subdivisions of engineering data, that's all different. So civil engineering data is different than mechanical engineering data, which is different than electrical engineering, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So our next steps on this is to revise some of the questions that we asked in that email campaign and survey. So we're going to reword some things because we understand that some people didn't respond or didn't understand how the question was laid out. We also discovered that we need to educate faculty and researchers about what research data management is all about and why it would be a good thing. We want to encourage people to actively deposit their research data. Again, the model here is that we're not building the repository. We can make recommendations depending upon your discipline. You might want to deposit an archive. You might want to deposit a med, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And then give them some sense of how that depositing can be done. Now, I should note, I started by saying we were one of four institutions that are working on this project with Elsevier. We're the only one that's saying we're not building an institutional repository. The other three either have one or are in the process of building one. So the way that they're going to use this tool is different than the way that Rensselaer is intending to use this tool. So with that, I thank you.


My biggest and most unpopular homeschool opinion is that I honestly feel like your kiddos can get behind in homeschooling. Hey you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my YouTube channel. You guys in today's video I'm going to share with you all about my unpopular homeschool opinions. So you guys today I really didn't know what I wanted to film so what I did was I put a poll on my YouTube community tab and I asked you guys what you wanted to see from me in today's video and you guys absolutely wanted to see about my unpopular homeschool opinions and I am going to go ahead and give them to you guys today. I'm not going to lie like I am a little bit nervous about sharing my opinions on you know today's video but I'm going to be honest we're just going to have a little chit chat and hopefully we can have a discussion within our comment section below about some of my opinions and if you agree with them if you disagree I would love to have like a really good chat with you guys so we definitely are going to keep this video like open dialogue form so my first unpopular homeschool opinion is I truly believe as homeschoolers we need to stop saying that you can homeschool for free and just with a library card I really feel like you can homeschool affordably you can use a lot of free resources to lower the cost of homeschooling however homeschooling is not free if it's free you are utilizing your time and I really feel like we just need to stop saying that homeschooling does require a bit of financial sacrifice when it comes to your household and your family and you definitely need to budget out those particular things especially when it comes to extra curriculars if you need tutors extra resources for your interest let learning overall homeschooling isn't free it is a sacrifice that you and your families have to make or will be making in the long haul or you know however long your homeschooling journey will be I definitely will say when I started off my homeschooling journey you guys all I had was $150 to start off my homeschool and I really feel like I was able to get a lot with $150 and starting off our first year of homeschool I was able to utilize a lot of free resources I was able to homeschool successfully with that small budget in my first year of homeschool however homeschooling in our first year wasn't completely free so I really feel like we need to stop saying that homeschooling is free because it really isn't you do have to put some type of investment put forward but you can you know utilize free resources and it can be budget friendly for your particular budget in your household so my second homeschool opinion is that I really feel like it is okay to start off your kiddos academically at a younger age I feel like a lot of homeschooling families especially here on this platform always say they don't do formal learning or education until the age of six and while I feel like that's perfectly fine to start your kiddos at age six when it comes to formal learning I also feel like it is okay to teach a younger child who is willing and ready to learn formal academics that's perfectly fine especially when you have bigger households I have a 10 for and a two-year-old you guys and my two-year-old she is like tagging along with my four-year-old especially when it comes to learning new and different things she is learning just inadvertently being in this homeschool environment and I definitely feel like it's okay if she wants to pick up crayons with her older sister it's okay if she wants to have her own pencil and crayon box with her older sisters like I will allow that I'm not forcing her to sit down at a table and write and you know do formal instruction she is doing this because she genuinely has a joy and a love for learning and I'm going to nurture that and if you have kiddos that are under the age of six that just wants to learn and discover and and you know figure out this world around them please allow them please don't allow an age to stop their learning so my biggest and most unpopular homeschool opinion is that I honestly feel like your kiddos can get behind in homeschooling if you intend for your kids to graduate your homeschool by the age of 18 I really feel like they are certain benchmarks for each grade that you do want to meet especially in reading writing and arithmetic if you do want them to be done with high school by the age of 18 and that's just my personal opinion I know you are constantly hearing your kiddos cannot get behind in homeschool the benchmarks that public school has set is just for public school and while I particularly agree with the benchmarks in public school how it is made for public school I do feel like as homeschooling parents we do take on that responsibilities of our kiddos education and we do want them to reach benchmarks within our homeschool as they go through each year of their studies so if you don't have a particular age you want your kiddos to graduate homeschool they definitely can't get behind but if you do want them to graduate at the age of 18 I feel like they can get behind especially in middle and high school I feel like elementary school is your buffer especially when it comes to learning those things like reading writing arithmetic phonics like they are really learning the basis of education in elementary I feel like you know you can't learn anything if you don't have those three basic Rs middle school I feel like it's like your second buffer when it comes to homeschooling getting your kiddos a wording to be aligned and especially if you decide that you don't want to homeschool when it comes to high school I know a lot of people do choose to send your kids to high school rather than homeschool them so middle school is like a second buffer to get your kiddos prepared for that higher level of education and I feel like once you get to high school I feel like those four years they really go by really fast and that's just my personal opinion I know I only have three years of experience when it comes to homeschooling however I do see you can get behind pretty quickly if you don't continuously have goals and benchmarks you have that you want your kiddos to reach now two subjects I feel like you can't get behind and is definitely science and history I feel like you are going to touch on science and history again in high school as long as your kiddos can read comprehend and write they're going to be fine that's just my personal opinion if I had it my way to really be honest and I didn't have a state requirement to teach science and history I probably wouldn't teach science and history in elementary school just my personal opinion but because I do live in a state where I am required to teach those subjects I have to so yeah so my third unpopular opinion when it comes to homeschooling is I really feel like a trendy colorful popular curriculum sometimes may not always be the most solid and foundational curriculum and I'm going to give you guys my personal experience when it has come to like trendy and popular curriculum in my first year of homeschooling we did a becca arithmetic three uh when it has come to uh like math goals and I knew I didn't want to continue with that series uh Brielle was having like a few stumbling points with a becca especially because of the pace that it goes and I was seeing like Brielle doesn't necessarily struggle in math but she does need additional practice when it comes to math and uh the next curriculum that I was looking into to do with uh Brielle was Saxon math and I was hesitant to do Saxon math because I was seeing so many bad reviews about Saxon on YouTube how it was dry it was boring it was too much work and I strayed away from a curriculum and I second guessed a curriculum that actually works out very well for her just because I was seeing a lot of other people's opinion about it a Saxon is a old school curriculum I definitely will say it's tried and true and definitely while it is black and white and it's you know you know it's straight to the point it's you know a little boring for some I definitely will say it was the great fit for my daughter and I really feel like I wished I would have followed my gut instinct when it has come to uh doing Saxon math in our second year of homeschool because I really feel like we wouldn't have had so many curriculum fails if I would have just followed my gut and I wouldn't have been looking for like the next trendy and popular curriculum out there um and what I will say is what works for you in your homeschool especially when it comes to curriculum if everyone is not using it be okay with that be firm in your foundation and in your uh I guess your views and your opinions about your kiddos you know them best you know what works for them best and uh you shouldn't care if you know Johnny across the street is using something different from you you know uh one thing I definitely will say uh as a homeschooling mom and learning uh sometimes you have to put your like how the horses have their uh rears on where they can't see uh they can't see on their sides I forgot what they're called what are they called you guys you know what I'm talking about but I really feel like in homeschooling you really have to keep your head down and you really have to just focus on you and your kiddos uh while I love Instagram and YouTube as a platform of sharing and being able to see inside of other people's homeschoolers uh their lives what they do experiments all the fun things I really feel like sometimes it can be a distraction to you and your home and if ever you feel like uh you are distracted by all the noise around you just silence that noise and really figure out and tune in what is going to work out for you and for your homeschool and I really wish that I would have did that sooner and uh on to my next unpopular homeschool opinion is I really feel like it is okay to ditch homeschooling curriculum when it's not working for you but I definitely will say be wise in your decision to ditch because you definitely don't want to create any unnecessary learning gaps when it comes to your kiddos education a lot of the curriculum that I ditched in my second year of homeschooling it was within my first month of homeschool um I really was scared after that point to really make big curriculum changes because I didn't want any gaps in my daughter's foundation when it comes to like her learning uh that is really important to me I know uh learning and uh knowledge gaps they are going to happen but if I can keep them as minimal as possible I definitely want to make sure that I will do that for my kiddos and my household and I definitely think by sticking with one curriculum especially for at least two years um max it definitely will uh limit those learning gaps within your kiddos um education so uh on to my next unpopular homeschool opinion I definitely will say uh homeschooling is not always fun I feel like you're going to see like all of these you know cute videos these day in the lives where kids are just like doing their homeschool work and they're happy and everyone's having a good time you know the mom has written the uh the read aloud and all the kids look like they're you know quietly playing toys homeschooling is not always like that you guys like you know you're definitely going to deal with attitudes pushback uh character building you're definitely going to uh deal with the parenting aspect and the home and the school aspect are definitely going to countercross over each other especially when it comes to your homeschooling days you're definitely going to have to keep that balance of parenting and school at the same time and it can be exhausting and frustrating because it's like you know I can't finish this lesson unless I you know talk about this you know disciplinary disciplinary action that you know my kiddo is doing right now like I cannot finish this without addressing this and you're going to have some some of those days where it's just going to be hard and you know while I do respect my kiddos privacy and I will not share all of the nitty gritty details about like just different disciplinary things they do have to go over with them I will let you know my homeschool is not perfect I do have a lot of struggles when it comes to particular things like still raising and rearing my kiddos in the right way um but they do happen here I try my best on my day in the lives to give you guys a glimpse of like some of the hardships that I do have and I do try to share those things while still respecting my kiddos privacy um but I will say homeschooling is not always easy um you are definitely sacrificing a lot of time and energy and sometimes by the end of the day you guys like I'm exhausted my brain it's fried it's done I just want to take a nap uh and that's okay uh while we do have the joys of homeschooling uh we do have that uh other part of homeschooling where you know you are tired um you are constantly pouring into your kiddos and if you aren't careful about not pouring into yourself you will just end up in this like spiral downhill uh battle so it's really really important in homeschooling as you know mom you know to really take care of yourself now that's a completely different video but uh yeah another one of my homeschooling like unpopular opinions is that I really feel like you cannot do it all every single year I really feel like you do have to pick and choose uh which areas you do want to spend heavier years on focusing uh like this year for me you guys it really is a heavy history and writing year I know science I may not get to all the experiments all the fun things and that's okay because I know my past two years I did have heavy science years and I really feel like it's unrealistic for us to like really hit every subject hard every single year and to put those expectations on ourselves you know we're just setting ourselves up for failure so I definitely will say when it comes to homeschooling it is a a given take type of pool but as the years combined I really do feel like your kiddos will have a good solid and well rounded education especially when you have those focused years and you guys my last unpopular homeschool opinion is I really feel like when you are having a hard homeschooling days that doesn't necessarily mean you need to quit homeschooling or quit school for that day I really think by allowing your kiddos to quit lessons or stop doing homeschool just because they don't feel like it or just because they're having a hard time understanding the concept I really feel like we are not preparing them for the world ahead I mean when your kiddos get older they cannot just stop working on a project because they're tired or they don't get it or they're frustrated I feel like we are setting them up for unrealistic expectations when it comes to work and work ethic and when it comes to like my household if my daughter is having like a harder time when it comes to school what I will do is we will go ahead and take a lunch break early we will go ahead and go outside we will do some of those things however by the end of the day my daughter will have her lessons complete and that's just something that I do in my household you guys Rachel from 7 and all she made a really really good video just talking all about this particular topic and I definitely enjoyed watching it and I definitely agree with her when it has or when it comes to really preparing your kids for the world by not just allowing them just to quit or give up whenever they're just having a hard time because that's really is unrealistic now while I do believe in relationship over you know school work that definitely is important and it is the priority in my home school I'm definitely still going to teach my daughter you know you do have to complete what you started and I know you're having a hard time understanding this right now but we're going to take a break we're going to eat a snack you know we might even bake some cookies after this because I know how it is having a hard day but we are going to finish what we started and I really feel like that trait is going to help her just in life in general so you guys these are like all of my unpopular home school opinions I really hope you enjoy just like chit chatting with me and talking with me let me know in the comment section down below whether you agree or disagree with some of my opinions and I will love to chat with you guys in the comment section below thank you guys so much for watching today's video and I look forward to seeing every button in my next one bye


But also here, it is my pleasure to welcome Jihan Aghiti, sorry for the pronunciation again, and who is working at OCP. And OCP is a well-known company in Morocco, as we all know, notably working in the fertilizer industry. And you will show us how a large corporation can contribute as well. How much you are committed to this as well, as you know now my question. And so thank you, go ahead. Good afternoon. My name is Jihan Aghiti. I'm 35 years old, born and raised in Marrakech. So I hope you're enjoying your stay while here in this beautiful city. I'm head of business development at OCP Africa. So OCP is a world-leading phosphate fertilizer company based in Morocco, but operating... weather, but operating throughout the world. So personally, my background is very far from agriculture or fertilizer sector. I'm a business background. I used to work in a strategy consultancy firm for several years, working for different clients across the world. But at some point, I really wanted to reconnect to my continent, so I took a long leave. And I went traveling in East Africa when I did some volunteer work. And this is where I really first encountered the effect of climate change on real people. In the orphanage, they had the farm and every day at the end of the school, the kids, we gathered and we went to fetch water. I used to do that so well when I was kid at my grandparents' house, but the river was generous. There was plenty of water. I was shocked when I went the first day to go and fetch water to realize that actually the river, what I thought was a river, was only one meter wide and not even a meter deep. The water was brown and it was because the dry season was too long and it's getting more and more frequent. The rain season is short and the dry season is getting too long. So this is when I really decided to make a shift in my career and this is what also pushed me to join OCP in Morocco. It was mostly for the vision that the company had for Africa. So let me share a bit more on that. So yeah, let's start first with the setting this year and the situation. Let's imagine ourselves in Africa in 2030. If nothing is done to really change dramatically the way we consume and the way we actually address the climate situation, we will be facing almost 100 million hectares of land that will be unused for agriculture. And this is because of urbanization, desertification and also the water scarcity, sorry, for certain reason. Also we will have almost 200 million people living in really extreme poverty suffering from water scarcity as well which will lead obviously to important movements of population. Almost 3.5 million year of Africans will be moving displaced from the home countries or the home cities because of the climate change or because of unrest in the different countries. And also we will be considering that Africa is struggling to feed itself. Today already we import almost 35 billion dollars of food mostly from the US and Europe and it's estimated with the growing population and the changing in the diets to increase to almost 100 billion dollars. This money can be used for infrastructure so it can be used to build ports, for example, that are really lacking in the continent. But we can also try not to see this catastrophic kind of scenario and we hope that we can see also a different Africa. In Africa there is green. In Africa there is self-sufficient. In Africa there is, has a water natural resources management policies that is connected and attractive for investments and that has a growing economy. And this will be possible if we change a bit the way we view Africa. And let me here share an example with you. Especially in the context of the climate change. We have a growing population. We will be hitting almost 9 billion people in 2050. To feed those growing population we will need to increase our productivity in agriculture by almost 77 percent. That cannot be used only by using extensive arable land. We also need to increase the way it yields. And Africa in particular has one of the among the lowest yields in the world. Almost, let's give you an example for the fertilizer. We use, we talk in kilogram per hectare, the quantities that we're using. The word average is 130 kilograms a hectare. In Africa on average we are below 15 kilograms per hectare. Leading at a very low yield that's barely sufficient to self-sustain family in Africa. At OCP we try to change a bit of the narrative about Africa. Not seen only as the cause of the problems but also as a source of the solution. And let me also invite you and look at the map to review just the continents and the land that we have. Africa is as big as the United States, China, India and Europe combined. We don't usually have that sense of the how big is the continents. We do have a lot of fertile land. We have abundant water resources that are not well distributed and we do have them. And we have more specifically a labor force, a young and attractive agriculture labor force that can help Africa get into to feed itself. But we have a problem again. One of the major sources of CO2 emissions is deforestation. It's said that deforestation around the globe accounts for almost 20% of the CO2 emissions around the world. But what is causing mostly deforestation? It's partly and especially here, I'll give you the case of Côte d'Ivoire. And just I'll invite you to see the map. In the 1990s, the forests were almost covering all the land, all the country. This is the image in 2000 and this is today. Today we have almost 11% only of the land discovered by forest. And this is mostly due to the lack of modernization of agriculture. In Cacoa, a sector, for example, the farmers, because they don't have the means necessary to buy fertilizer or to have a proper and modernized way of agricultural practices, when the soil are depleted and poor, they go and cut trees to benefit from the fertility of those really rich nutrient soils. And this is actually what's really leading deforestation here in Côte d'Ivoire. So let me, before going to that, share then the perspective of LCP as a fertilizer producer. We are promoting a balanced fertilization. Africa needs to increase its yields to be able to feed the growing population in the context of the climate change. And to be able to do that, we need to support the agriculture value chain throughout the continent to be able to invest and modernize the agriculture. And this can be done in so many different ways. Myself and my role as LCP is in the business development. But the business development, the way we see it, is really oriented towards the farmer in Africa. And we have launched the really first farmers initiatives where we started doing awareness campaigns and recommendation and providing farmers with decision tools that could help them know and assess how to invest and where to invest and how much fertilizer do they need not to over-consume and not to consume in us. There is a motto, what we say, is more with less. And the idea is really to be able to only give to the soil what is really needed. And since the beginning of the farmers initiatives program, it was three years ago and today we're very proud of that. We supported almost 500,000 farmers across the continent trying to provide them with innovation and technology and digital and break the distance that we can have with them because of the remote areas and the lack of infrastructure. But OCP has also tried to start first with its own industrial assets and turn into a new ecological transition. We have launched a very ambitious program and actually now it's a dedicated executive direction within the company. It's for a circular economy direction. The idea is to be able to really lower our footprint, our carbon footprint by trying to work in a closed system. First, for example, with electricity, we're very happy to have almost 70% of our energy, is a clean energy within all our industrial assets. And let's say for Morocco and especially we have one of the biggest industrial complex in the world. We're also in terms of, sorry, the conception of water. We've tried to have a closed system where we only use and recycle the water that we use in our industrial systems. And we also try to rehabilitate the mines where we mine phosphate by replanting trees and a lot of other different activities and our lunch to be able to support this ecological transition to the company. And last, we also try and know the importance of R&D and the importance of innovation. So OCP is really working very hard to build bridges between the research and the academia to transform the agriculture, especially with the focus in Africa. We've launched a university, University Mohammed Six Politechnique that is based in Banguir that is also trying to invest resources for the research in areas are not always covered. For example, how to do agriculture in a desertic climate, in a desertic, how to grow specific seeds that will adapt to the climate changes. But also we have a specific master that has been launched also to be able to support new young coming generation. And lastly, again on the digital, we have launched an incubator to support startups. It's based at the university and the idea is to be able to incubate startups that are oriented into the Aztec and Biotech. Sorry, it's better. So to finish, let me just quote a quote from Nensel Mandena to emphasize how it's important, especially in looking at the context of the climate change. There are few better ways to show one's love for one's country and the well-being of one's nation than by working on the soil. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation of the OCP evolution to address climate change. But you told us at the beginning that you left, took some sabbatical, came back because you wanted to do something with a purpose, with impact. What have you personally achieved through this? Because I understand the industrial program. I'm not sure I see Gian into this. Now, Gian is, as I said, is in the, in the farmers initiatives programs. OCP is to not work directly with the farmers. We are more B2B oriented company. And it's actually what actually drives me to OCP is the launch and the inception of a program that is oriented to smallholder farmers where we give them supports. We have mobile laboratories that goes to the, that goes to the remote areas and provides free soil analysis to the farmers to be able to guide them on the quality and the health of their soils and how to better use fertilizer in good agricultural practices, training and also the use of digital tools to be able to help them in the assessments of the PNL of their farm, for example, just the basic thing. And there is another program called Agribuster where we try to connect the farmers with its ecosystem. And the idea is to be able to de-risk for the farmer his investments. So we go and find an off-taker or aggregators and secure markets for the farmer. So that's when he invests in the fertilizer or in any seeds. He's able to sell, to secure the sale of his harvest. And thanks to that, we have a collateral and we go to the banks. And with the banks, we are able to provide micro-critics to the farmers so that he can pay for the loans. And the idea is to support him to move from self-sufficient, sorry, agriculture to more modernized and commercial agriculture. And again, from three years since we launched the program, we almost supported and helped, I hope, and had impact in the life of 500,000 farmers. And we hope to, yes, yes. So I'm very proud. I think the company is very proud as well. I let you recover. Thank you.