Hello and welcome to a Department of Sustainable Development feature on issues and answers, a production of the Government Information Service. My name is Jesse Leance, Information Assistant at the Department of Sustainable Development. I'm joined by colleague Kate Wilson. She is the National Focal Point for the Escazoa Agreement and our legal officer of, well, the Conference of the Parties will be happening for the Escazoa Agreement, the third one in Santiago de Chile. I know Kate, you are preparing for that. So thank you so much for taking some time out to speak to us today. Wonderful. Thank you very much, Jesse. You know, it's always, always a pleasure to be sitting with you to continue our dialogue on the Escazoa Agreement, which full name is the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters, not only in Latin America but in the Caribbean as well. Thank you, Kate. St. Lucian and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean was initially recognized as a region that did not have too many mechanisms for transparency and access to environmental information. We have seen so far, since the adoption of the Escazoa Agreement, quite a bit of work that has been happening in the region speak to us about the extent to which the needle has been pushed where Escazoa is concerned in the region in terms of pushing its mandate, in terms of public participation, environmental decision making, environmental decision making and justice in environmental matters. Yes, wonderful, Jesse. Indeed, as you said, it is not just pushing the thread. We have now had a complete needle work has been done. During the first conference of parties, which took place under the Escazoa Agreement, when the agreement comes into force, one year after it comes into force, you are required to have the first conference of parties. The Escazoa Agreement came into force on April 22nd, which is very aptly named Mother Earth Day, and it came into force in 2021. So the year after, which was 2022, April 22nd, was when the first conference of parties was held, and it was held at the headquarters of the secretariat to the agreement, which is the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean UN ECLAC, and they are based in Santiago de Chile. So, what happened at the first conference of parties? Well, a number of things will endost and approved. First and foremost, we needed to create the subsidiary. First and foremost, we needed to create the rules and procedures of how we are going to conduct the conference of parties, and the modalities to deal with it, how it is going to work on a day-to-day basis. We also needed to put in place the subsidiary bodies of the Escazoa Agreement, which are committees like to support implementation and compliance. You needed to have the rules to support that. Before you can put any structure in place, you need to have rules by which they are governed. So, the first conference of parties took care of that. And then the second conference of parties came, and it was an extraordinary meeting. It took place in Buenos Aires, which is the capital of Argentina, and that was in 2023 last year. And it was an extraordinary meeting simply because it is a meeting which was called for the specific purpose of creating the members to sit on the committee to support implementation and compliance. And so, right now, as we are coming towards the third cup, and we will speak about that in due course, which is to be held in Santiago de Chile next week, from the 22nd of April through to the 24th, you find that the structures have been put in place, the rules are now in place. There are people sitting on that committee, and now the implementation plans for most countries are already in place now. Some countries are still working on them, but for St Lucia, St Lucia has completed its national roadmap. So now at this upcoming cup, the whole intention now is to ensure that we get endorsement of the national plans so that we begin the actual work on the ground. We have put in all those recommendations that are in the various national implementation plans from the countries that have worked on them to put them in place at the national level. And most importantly, the action plan for human rights defenders, and we will talk about that as we go along. Absolutely. And we're going to speak a little bit more about COP3 in just a moment. St Lucia, we ratified in 2020, December of 2020, and since then, speak to us about what has happened procedurally. I understand that after ratification, we would have had to develop a concept note, begin to prepare the way forward as you indicated, preparing an implementation roadmap. Tell us what we have achieved so far on the ground. Okay, wonderful. So St Lucia, as you rightly said, we were one of the first countries together with Antigua and Guyana who signed on the agreement when it was open for signature on the 27th of April 2017. 2018, sorry. And then a year after, two years after, we ratified. So after ratification, and you know the difference between signature ratification, ratification ensures that we are now legally bound to put the structures in place to ensure that the Eskazoo agreement is implemented effectively in St Lucia. So then what we embarked on doing, first and foremost, we had not, the secretariat didn't have all the procedures and the subsidiary bodies in place at the time, so when ratification was done, so what we proceeded to do was to have, first and foremost, educated the public about what the Eskazoo agreement is about, why is it important, what is the meaning of ratification, and you know, so we had to do that sort of thing. So we went on the ground in the schools, went all of the place talking, if you go down on YouTube, or you use the, on Facebook pages of the various media houses, or you look on the observatory, which serves as a clearinghouse for all things Eskazoo, which is on the Ecklach Secretariat website. There is a specific website for the Eskazoo agreement, which is called the Observatory, principle 10 Observatory, where we find so much information on the Eskazoo agreement. You can see the videos of COP 1, a ball-by-ball commentary of what happened on, at video of what happened at COP 1 as well as COP 2. So let's get into what happened, the integrity. So apart from the public awareness, we had, as I said, we went through, as St. Lucia sat on the committee to put, to work together with Mexico and Uruguay, Argentina to get the rules and modalities for the operation of the committee to support implementation on compliance, which is a very, very important. So St. Lucia was represented? St. Lucia was represented on that committee who formed the rules. You would recall at COP 2, or was it COP 1, that I presented it on behalf of that committee and it was adopted and endorsed. So we had the rules of that, we also had the rules of the conference of parties that was adopted and endorsed. So then the first thing we had to do was to put the committee in place. So we got, we had a call, you recall you and I worked closely on that. A call was sent throughout Latin America asking for persons who, and there was a set criteria to sit on that committee. We got at least 46 at the time, we got 46 entries for persons who obviously we had to do our due diligence and we had to vet it. We took it down to 25, it went down again to 10 and finally we had to take it down to seven. And there was a rigorous process and eventually, as I said, in Argentina last year, we finally settled on the seven members. And what I'm very, very happy to say is that we have three persons who have been elected for six years to represent. The two from the Caribbean, we have Justice Olivetti, Rita Olivetti-Joseph from Grenada and we have Carol Excel Stevens from Jamaica and of course we have Patricia Madudal from Costa Rica. These are the persons who are going to be serving for six years and that is very good because that means we now have Caribbean representation for a significant period of time on that committee. And the committee, as its name says, implementation and compliance to ensure that we implement what the Eskazoo Agreement says and also to ensure that the member states, when they ratify, they actually comply with their obligations under the Eskazoo Agreement. So a lot has been done but the real work, you know, anything to do with the environment doesn't, there's no time frame on it. It continues, the work must continue, the advocacy must continue, the public awareness, the training capacity building, the cooperation, developing cooperation with other countries, with agencies within the country, developing partnerships, putting out a voluntary fund, getting it on board because obviously when we do those projects, somebody has to pay for it. Absolutely. So St. Lucia has covered quite a bit of ground as you indicated in public education, public awareness of the Eskazoo Agreement. The whole idea of access to environmental information, the whole idea to justice for environmental rights defenders. So post, along with the continuation of the public awareness, speak to us about what else has transpired so far for St. Lucia towards its implementation and compliance of this agreement. Wonderful. So what we were doing very recently is that we were from as early as, well, from November of last year, we worked closely with a consultant and that consultant comes with a lot of experience. She was an elected representative of the public for Jamaica when we were negotiating the Eskazoo Agreement. Her name is Mrs. Danielle Andrade-Goff. She's a lawyer by profession, an environmental lawyer and as I said, she's familiar with the Eskazoo process. So she worked very closely with us. She was elected by the Secretariat, Eklak, to work with us, to work with St. Lucia. So we worked very closely with the Department of Sustainable Development to get our national implementation roadmap up and running. So first and foremost, the Eklak, Eklak as the Secretariat, they publish, they develop what is known as an implementation guide and that guide, again, I'm imploring members of the public. It is a free thing. You don't have to pay for it. If you go on the Eklak website, you just Google E-C-L-A-C-Eklak or C-P-L-C-E-P-A-L, which is the Spanish version of it, .org, and you scroll down there, you would see a line that says observatories. If you click on that, it will take you to four, I think there are four or six observatories. One of them is Principle 10, P10. You click on that, it will give you all, it will take you right there to the Eskazo agreement and it will give you infographics, it will give you publications. As I said, it will give you the videos of the various cops. It will give you public and now on PSAs, public service announcements. We have done anything that you want to find out about the Eskazo agreement. That page, that observatory is a clearinghouse for it. And what we do is we feed information. As information comes, as national focal point, this is what we are required to do. The Department of Sustainable Development houses myself as the national focal point and we feed as the information comes in, we feed it to the secretariat and they put it into the clearinghouse, into the observatory. So say, for example, we have our climate change bill that has gone through parliament. That would be something that would be there.  If you have a styrofoam bill to deal with plastics and to take care of the styrofoam and single-use plastics, that would be on the observatory. So everything to do with the environment, our national determined contributions, you would be able to click and find information on that. Our state of the environment report, you may be able to find stuff like that. So we have done that.  We were putting the structures in place. To get this implementation plan up and running for St. Lucia. So we are at the stage where it has gone to the printers. And this upcoming COP next week, which is April 22nd to the 24th in Santiago de Chile, we will be presenting the printed version to the conference of parties for the endorsement and their approval. St. Lucia's implementation roadmap. Yes. Understood. And with that, we will take a quick break. You are watching Issues and Answers, a Department of Sustainable Development feature, looking at COP 3 for the Escazo Agreement coming up. St. Lucia will be represented by the National Focal Point, Miss Kate Wilson. And she will be going over to Santiago de Chile to present, as she indicated, the implementation roadmap, how St. Lucia is going to put in place the measures that have been advised under the Escazo Agreement into St. Lucia and change our way of life as it pertains to access to environmental information. Do stay tuned. Fisher folk in St. Lucia are facing many negative effects of climate change. Life is difficult because it can go deeper. We can't buy more fuel to make our lives better, but we can buy more gasoline. That's why life is difficult. Part of this is because it affects our life. It affects our lives, it affects our lives and it affects our machines. It also affects the placement of fish. It's difficult for a fish to sit on a chair when it's hot, it's better to put it in place and adapt to climate change. Thank you so much for staying tuned. You are watching Issues and Answers, a Department of Sustainable Development feature. We're talking COP 3 for the Escazo Agreement. We will be soon having this conference of the parties representing us, representing St. Lucia, will be the national focal point, Kate Wilson, along with our permanent secretary at the department, Mrs. Anita Montout. Just before we went to break, Kate, we were just speaking about St. Lucia being able to present this year, this year's COP, the implementation roadmap for St. Lucia. Speak to us a little bit about what that contains. I know there has been extensive consultation in the lead-up to the development of this roadmap. Tell us what can we expect going forward. Yes, thank you very much, Jesse. You would recall a while back, after we had ratified what the Department of Sustainable Development, what we had done was develop a concept note. We had gone through the Escazo Agreement and picked out all the obligations and the things that we needed to put in place at the national level, and we developed a concept note. But what the Escazo Secretariat did, they developed, after we had developed this concept note, which was endorsed and adopted by our cabinet, the cabinet of ministers. But the Secretariat, having developed the implementation plan, and that implementation plan was a plan to be a guide to be used by all the countries, and that is open to all 43 countries that are eligible to be part of the Escazo Agreement. That is the 43 countries forming the Latin American and Caribbean region. So far, I think we have 15 who have ratified, and we have maybe about 22 or 23 who have signed on. But among those, we have those that a number of countries were developing the roadmap. And so we have moved past that concept note, and that roadmap, as I said, we're working closely with Mrs. Andrade, who was a consultant contracted by the Secretariat to assist us. And this comes with a significant consultation with the public. So the first thing we had to do was develop a baseline assessment of all our laws, our policies, our plans to see if they are in line with the Escazo Agreement. We also looked at our constitution to see, in certain countries of Latin America, they already have rights of nature, rights of the environment as part of the enshrined in the constitution. We do not have that. So one of the main things in the development of that roadmap, the National Implementation Roadmap, was to do the baseline assessment. The second thing they did was to do a stakeholder, to have what is known as a mapping of stakeholders. Who is the Escazo Agreement intended for? So you must know that. You must have a target audience. So we had to look, of course, you know, as I said before, and I keep saying this, environmental matters should not be handled by governments alone. They are cross-cutting in nature, and everybody should have a seat at the table, at the decision-making table. So of course we had to map out who those persons are. So we had, we looked at the youth, we looked at women, we looked at academia, civil society, government, you know, organizations like the National Trust, you know, the CYEN, the Caribbean Youth Environmental Network. So we had an extensive mapping of the stakeholders. So and then we developed the stick, we took it down to those that are closer to the agreement in terms of who is going to actually implement the, you know, because you will have a smaller core group of persons who will actually be involved in the access to information process, you know, and access to justice process, which is the judiciary. And then you have the wider body, which would be a consultative body where everybody is involved. So we had to strategically look at that, to map that out. So that was the second part of it. Then the third part we had to look at was the governance and organizational structure with everything, like a school. You must have a principal, you must have teachers, you know, who is going to guide the students. Well, it's the same thing with the implementation roadmap. We must have a structure in terms of who's going to govern it, who's going to be the advisory body, who's going to be, so all of that was done. And then of course we have how the, one of the main things is to develop how we are going to deal with human rights defenders. And let me go back to the Eskazo agreement. The Eskazo agreement is the only agreement in the world which has provisions for the protection, the promotion, and the, you know, to ensure and punish attacks against persons who are human rights defenders, when of environmental matters that is. So when they are in the course of doing their work, defending the environment, they cannot be arbitrarily killed. And you know our region, the Latin American region, is one of the most dangerous region in the world for human rights defenders. So obviously our roadmap needed to have, you know, an input in terms of how we are going to deal with human rights defenders. Now you may ask me, and I'm not going to preempt you here, but you, one may say, oh we do not have that issue in the Caribbean. That is not so, because you have in Jamaica, you have persons who are agitating against the box-site mining and some of those human rights defenders are being threatened. You have, you know, but it is worse in the Latin American countries. But in St. Lucia, for example, you have had issues where you have seen our persons on the beach lobly, and you remember that video that went viral about St. Lucia, we don't know anybody who was singing the song, Jack, don't want me to behave on my beach, where, you know, we were denied access. The public was being denied access to, you know, a beach that they were normally always using because of a project, you understand? And that's important because the, as you indicated, the Excalibur Agreement reinforces that connection between human rights and environmental information, environmental rights, and so on. But the line seems to be blurred for small island developing states a lot, I should say, because once you are a developing nation, you have foreign investment, you have all of these things happening, then those issues seem to be lost and displaced. So, I mean, you indicated about the beach and not having access to the beach, but in what other ways do we find ourselves? How can we reconcile that context for islands like St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada? Wonderful, Jesse, you are quite right because one must not forget that the Excalibur Agreement is not simply an environmental agreement on environmental treaty. It is a wonderful tool for the development of democracy, for transparency, for accountability, you understand? And if you want good governance, and it is also a good tool for the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, you understand? Now, when we talk about development, we are small island developing states and we are interested in developing our people and developing the scarce resources that we have. But we must maintain a balance. And how do we do this? We must do this in a sustainable way and to do this in a sustainable way to ensure that there is equity among the people, that the developers don't just get the bigger share of the pie, but that the public, their health and the health of our flora and fauna are not compromised.  The Excalibur Agreement is designed to touch the poor and marginalize vulnerable groups and persons and human rights defenders, indigenous persons, fall within that group. I understood. Just circling back to COP as we wrap up, speak to us a little bit about, well, this year's COP is going to be ordinary, but you've mentioned that we will be presenting our implementation roadmap, so I think it's quite extraordinary for St. Lucia. Speak to us about your role particularly, just briefly, at the COP so far. I know you've been a presiding officer looking at the Committee for Implementation and Compliance. Speak to us about that feat, because it's quite a considerable amount of work has gone into that. And, of course, what we can expect as we wrap up this interview. Okay, wonderful, Jesse. So this third COP, it's not, it's an ordinary meeting and as you rightly said in the usual context of the word, it is extraordinary because we are going to be presenting our, finally, our printed version of our national implementation plan. So to me, that's extraordinary. But when we talk about an extraordinary and an ordinary meeting within the context of a conference of parties, an extraordinary meeting. I understand. An extraordinary meeting, a meeting that is called when the parties, together with the Secretariat, feels that it is necessary, which was what happened last year when we needed to put the Committee to support implementation and compliance in place. So we call that extraordinary meeting. So what an ordinary meeting would be a meeting of the COP that we deal with, you know, the agenda as per usual. Okay, and that is to be at least once every two years, which is when the ordinary meeting. So the next one is coming up. And as I said, next week it starts on the 22nd of April and it will go to the 24th. But then we have the 25th and the 26th when you have a few other meetings being held. So you would have a meeting of the Committee to support implementation and compliance, as well as other meetings to deal with, you know, matters extraneous to the Eskazoo agreement. Okay, so one of the things, as I said, what is going to happen on the first day, which is the 22nd, as usual, for everything you'd have the registration of parties. And then you will have, later in the morning from about nine, you'll have the Committee to support implementation and compliance are going to hold their third meeting. And of course, whatever they are, whatever they have done over the, since the extraordinary meeting of COPS since last year, they are going to report to the Conference of Parties to see where they're at in terms of what they've done and what structures they've developed, the modalities of operation. And that was again done through a rigorous process of consultation. There were several different versions of the rules. We gave our input and we sent it to the elected members of the public and through the regional mechanisms, they got the feedback from the public until they finally came up with, you know, modalities which they are going to take to the Conference of Parties next week for their endorsement. So that is going to be done. Then we also will be having a meeting of the presiding officers. And you know, St. Lucia, we sit in the vice chair position. There is Uruguay chairs with Dr. Machelo Cusias. He sits as the chair of the Conference of Parties. And then there are four countries, St. Lucia included, who sits in the vice chair position. So this year, we are going to have around about 10 o'clock. We are going to have, at the same time that the committee to support implementation and compliance are having their meeting, we will be having a meeting of the presiding officers. Technically, we should both be at the same meeting, but because of space and time, you find we are having them parallel. But again, the presiding officers are going to be reporting to the Conference of Parties what they are doing, because this is the year when we are electing new, we are expected to elect new presiding officers. Because we have reached the two-year mark, and then it is now for a new speed of presiding officers to come on. Now, there may be one or two things. The presiding officers may continue, the current presiding officers may continue, or we may have an election of the other presiding officers. So let me very quickly tell you again. And then, of course, there will be the opening ceremony. And as usual, if opening ceremonies, you have the president of Chile, I expect is going to be there. And of course, we have elected representatives of the public. But on the second day, which is the Tuesday, that is when we will be presenting our roadmap. And of course, we will be giving a report on where we are at in terms of national implementation. So that's very, very important. Focal points are going to be telling what Central Asia is doing, and Tiga is going to say what Tiga is doing. So it's an exciting, exciting day.  You have lots of different discussions on access to justice, access to... So, thanks, Justine. No problem. For the sake of programming, we have to stick a pin in it. Certainly, we can continue on social media, engaging the general public on what persons can expect for this year's Eskizu COP. As I indicated, you can go on to our social media platforms, Department of Sustainable Development, St. Lucia on our Facebook, Instagram, and we will be following, while you are in Santiago de Chile, following what's happening in the Alie Eskizu Agreements COP. And we will be providing updates round the clock. Thank you once again, Kate Wilson, our legal officer at the Department of Sustainable Development. She's also the national focal point for the Eskizu Agreement. COP 3, an ordinary meeting. St. Lucia will be presenting its implementation roadmap for how we will see the Eskizu Agreement implemented here on Island. We're talking about access to environmental information, public participation in environmental decision making, as well as justice for environmental rights defenders here on Island. Thank you so much for watching. Again, the conversation continues on our social media platforms. We will be providing very some snippets on basic ways you can understand better the Eskizu Agreement and what it intends to do for countries like St. Lucia and the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean. My name is Jesse Leance, Information Assistant at the Department of Sustainable Development. Do stay tuned for more programming on this station. Goodbye. Thank you.


Nigeria's field subsidy debate dates back to the 1980s. For next year, the government plans to pay for petrol subsidy for the first time. This isn't good news to an analyst though, who was a guest on the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. Ngoziqa Ohechisi reports. Nigeria's federal government plans to fund petrol subsidy for the first six months of 2022. What will follow afterwards would be a total deregulation of the downstream oil and gas sector. That's according to the finance minister. A public affairs analyst, Nick Aguile, doubts that. He says the government has failed for close to seven years to deal with few subsidies, despite promises. The government has said in 2022 that we pay subsidies for the first six months and then there will be a total deregulation of the downstream sector. And I say, this is not going to happen. Why do I say so? I say so because the government has been thinking, in the community of this, thinking yet that they were going to deregulate the downstream sector, not pay any subsidies. The diesel that is used by mass competes by coal, used by generators in part-week, is only deregulated. Cozine that is used by the coal is only deregulated. The price of cooking gas has gone up in recent months, just like the prices of essential food like bread. How will the average Nigerian be able to pay for petrol if subsidy is removed in July? Nick Aguile advises that the government should take care of citizens by building good roads and providing quality education and health care. If this government's almost forage to remove subsidy, what it is going to mean for Nigeria is that about two to three million Nigerian activists, eight of these people that is conscious of the tax, and government will divert their money to education, to health care, to infrastructure, to security, to policies, that Nigeria has some people on very basis. Supporters of few subsidies say it is the only social benefit enjoyed by Nigerians. Critics say it's too expensive to maintain and at worst opaque. Nigeria is on a track to spending nearly three trillion naira subsidizing petrol this year alone. For Plus TV Africa, Nga Zika, Ohio Chessie.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Daniel Dorado, Howard Yermish, and John Atwood. Coming up on DTNS, Netflix says it wants to make games for your TV and PC, but it's not competing with consoles. Meanwhile, Microsoft says it wants to make a mobile Xbox app store and it is competing with Apple and Google. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Jerry Ellsworth feels bad. She had to back out because of some scheduling stuff. Don't feel bad, Jerry. We're going to get Jerry on the show, so we look forward to that soon. It's going to be a great talk. Meanwhile, let's start today with a few tech things you should know. The Quick Hits! The USB Implementers Forum published the official spec for USB 4 version 2.0. This is not USB 5, nor is it USB 4. It is USB 4 version 2.0. What that means is it lets you get 80 gigabit per second speeds over your existing passive cables. It's basically saying we're not really changing anything with the cables, we're just making a new port that can send more data over it. It can also allow for asymmetrical connections that can send 120 gigabits per second in one direction and 40 gigabits per second in the other. Probably best used for displays where you can send a lot of high quality data for a high quality display, and the display doesn't have to send that much data back to you. Devices with USB 4 version 2.0 ports aren't expected for 12 to 18 months. Well, they're always changing that, so get ready. Candlesticks estimates that smartphone sales have dropped 9% on the year last quarter, making it the worst quarter three numbers for the smartphone market since 2014. Even as the overall market shrunk, the leaders grabbed a larger share of it. Samsung grew its worldwide market share by 1.222%. Apple rose from 15% to 18% of the market, and Xiaomi, well, they held steady at 14%, followed by declining market share from Oppo and Vivo. The Blue Sky Initiative, you may remember this, it was formed by Jack Dorsey back when he was CEO of Twitter in 2019, has launched its decentralized social media protocol. It is called the AT protocol, or the AT protocol, you know, like the AT sign. Blue Sky has developed an interoperational framework called Lexicon that will connect apps and networks built on the AT protocol. A waitlist was created for people who wish to get the Blue Sky app, which will probably end up being the first piece of software to take advantage of the AT protocol. I'm genuinely curious about that. Excited to see what that ends up being. Me too. A couple of noteworthy developments in the autonomous vehicle space and department. IKEA has been working with Kodak Robotics on an autonomous truck delivering furniture from a warehouse in Houston to a retail store near Dallas. If the three month pilot goes well, it may be extended and expanded to other stores and warehouses and Waymo announced it will expand its autonomous taxi services to Los Angeles over the next several months, way already operates in Phoenix and San Francisco. Ooh, I might be able to get an autonomous taxi. That's not going to come to my neighborhood. I'm just going to give it to you rather. Vice reports that people in China are using Apple's AirDrop to spread images denouncing the country's leadership. If you're not familiar with China, denouncing the country's leadership is a risky thing to do and it's mild on there. A protest banner was hung from a bridge in Beijing last week and quickly removed and apparently a lot of these AirDrop images show pictures of that banner and its protest message. China's Communist Party is currently holding its 20th National Congress where it will select the party's central committee for the next five year period and President Xi Jinping is expected to get an unprecedented third term. China's government actively censors conversations on social media in the country, of course, but it's real hard to control AirDrop. Yeah, unless they devise the device. What if they go after Apple and say, hey, they can't sell phones here with AirDrop? I don't know. That's kind of the only thing they could do, really, yeah. The UK Competition and Markets Authority released a partly redacted version of a Microsoft filing that says it wants to build an Xbox mobile game store. The reason, of course, the CMA has Microsoft filing things is because of the investigation into Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Microsoft argues that Xbox currently has no material presence on mobile and that mobile represents the largest segment in gaming and therefore they should let them buy Activision Blizzard because Activision Blizzard will help Microsoft create a game store that can compete with the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Microsoft repeated in this filing its commitment to open App Store principles. Those principles were published earlier this year. They say they want to let developers run their own app stores on Xbox mobile platform, offer their own payment systems within those apps. Xbox cloud gaming is available on devices from Logitech, Valve, and Razr, but not on iOS unless you use the browser because Apple has policies that don't let you put a cloud gaming service into its App Store unless you make an app for each individual game on the cloud gaming service, which seems silly. It does to me as well. I mean, there's only another major player in this market who has even less of a footprint in mobile gaming and that's Sony. So on one angle of this that I've been thinking about today is how this is yet another effort by Microsoft to get out in front of this and do it before Sony does it and kind of put Sony on edge a little. I feel like they're just sort of like, hey, this going on with Game Pass. Do you have a Game Pass answer? No. Well, guess what? We're also working on cloud gaming in a major way. Oh, you don't really have a good answer for that. Well, we're also doing this and this and this and we're putting games on PC. I feel like they're always putting Sony at least in this recent couple of years, they're putting them on their heels a little bit and not giving them a chance to catch up. This is another way to do that. I don't think that's the only reason they're doing it. I think that they're right about it being an untapped area for growth and potential for the company for this division. But it does, in effect, make Sony at the very least go, do we need to be doing this? Should we have a stronger take in mobile? And mobile is weird. Mobile came out of nowhere and it pulled the rug out from under the traditional gaming world. And I think everybody forgets those long days ago, the Pippin days where we'd make fun of Apple and even later Google for not being companies that are great at video games. The truth is they own the biggest platform between those two companies, between Android and iOS. They own the entirety of the mobile platform. And they went from almost overnight, a couple of years, you might say, back in 0708. They went from not having a piece of it to having all of it. So I'm not surprised by Microsoft's motivations here. It does seem like it took them a long enough to get here. The bigger question, Tom, is what is this thing going to be? Will it be, hey, click here to get Angry Birds, Xbox Edition. You can dress your Angry Birds up like Master Chief or something. I honestly don't know what games they're going to do here. They're mobile. We know that. And they may say as much.   I've literally been in situations where there were two plans on the table and a press conference scheduled, and we weren't sure which plan was going to be announced. So when we on the outside of these companies go, well, what are they really up to? I try to remember that a lot of times, the companies themselves don't know yet. And especially when you're getting something that Microsoft had to admit in a filing that was partially redacted, so they were thinking, well, maybe this won't even make it out into the public. It's probably giving a vague sense of what it's going to do because it hasn't figured out all the details. When you look at the fact that gaming on mobile makes up 51% of the market by some accounts. When you look at the amount of money that is raked in by iOS on mobile, as well as Android on mobile, it makes sense that Microsoft is going to have a team working on a mobile gaming strategy. It makes sense that they would look at that and say, well, that can be pitched as competition to Apple and Google, which helps us make our antitrust case. This will help us reduce competition. But in the end, where is mobile gaming most likely to be favorable to Microsoft stuff? And it's on Logitech Valve and Razer. It's that kind of mobile gaming, which is Android in a lot of cases. So you could throw the Android in there and they can do an alternative app store like Amazon does for Android. But I'm thinking what they really might be targeting, which is less competition for Apple, is these kinds of mobile gaming platforms, not necessarily phones. Yeah. And you also just made a good argument for that Logitech device, which I think a week ago or so, or right around when it was announced, I sort of decried the high price given its capabilities. It's mainly a streaming device. This suddenly makes that device and devices like it, including the, you know, the Steam Deck, which I own as well, much more interesting and much more maybe closer to being as valuable as Logitech would have you believe, if indeed they'll end up being services on there like this one that may come from Microsoft, which would really push portability and gaming on that device, not just with streaming, but maybe some original content that's designed for small screen. That would really be a sea change for them. Is it enough to, I don't know, take whatever leadership position they want to take in that space and again, keep Sony out of the mix? I don't know, but it's going to be interesting to see this thing play out. I'm very curious about it. Yeah, me too. And I was getting all hung up. I'm like, how are they going to do this on iOS? And I'm like, oh, they're not. They're only saying that because it helps make their antitrust case, but they're probably not worried about that. Yeah. And the good news is like Game Pass or, excuse me, Game Pass X Cloud runs really well on iOS, but you have to do it through the browser. It's this janky method of getting it done. I know they wish they could do differently there, but you know, and maybe one day they will. Maybe somehow Apple capitulates, I don't know, but for now it's going to have to be creative. Well, that's the thing. They could do a web version of their app store potentially, although that's janky too. And they may be just saying like, we'll just hope Apple figures out how to allow other stuff in there someday. Maybe the pressure on them will. One of the things we noted related to the Apple iPad announcement yesterday was that the new 10th gen iPad has a USB-C port, but that new 10th gen iPad only works with the first generation Apple pencil, which uses a lightning port to charge. But Scott has good news for you. I do. So as of, and by the way, I was mind-boggling that they did that. But anyway, as you mentioned yesterday, you can buy the Lightning to USB adapter if you already have the first gen Apple pencil. And Apple is bundling the adapter with the first gen Apple pencil now. But Logitech has an answer for this, and they've had this answer for a little while. They've got an updated version of its crayon stylus that uses USB-C natively, no more lightning. So that's cool. You won't need an adapter. It's also cheap. This thing is still $69.99 or $95, which is $30 less than the Apple pencil. And that is the, meaning the original Apple pencil, the new one's a little bit more. Anyway, on the downside, the crayon lists seven hours of battery life compared to Apple's 12 hours. And the Logitech crayon does not have pressure sensitivity. That being said, I've used the crayon. It's a pretty good alternative, especially if you're like, Hey, we're getting the smaller iPad. We're going to have to have a pen, no matter what. You may as well get that one and use it, especially if it's just your kids, they're learning how to draw or whatever it may be. And pressure sensitivity doesn't really play into it for you. Note taking that sort of thing. This is a great little device. And I still think seven hours, I may not be as good as 12, but the seven hours is pretty strong. Your hand's going to cramp up in seven hours, right? Yeah. What are you doing for seven hours anyway on there? You really shouldn't even, even full time illustrators, if you're, if you're really hardcore in your iPad pro, you're not sitting there for seven and a half hours unless you get a hard deadline. And even then these things charge very quickly. And also the one, the one advantage the crayon has over say the newer iPad or excuse me, the Pencil 2.0, which comes on the big 12.9 inch pros is that you can plug it in while you use it if you were in a pinch. Oh, cause it's got a cable. Exactly. So you can plug right in the tail end of that thing and keep going. Whereas with the Apple pencil, your only option is to put it on the thing and let it charge for a while. Thankfully it's very quick. Take a 15 minute dog walk or something and you're good. But, but still there's some, there's some other reasons to like it. And I think maybe the money savings combined with you're getting the smaller model for this reason too. You're trying to shave a little money off it. You don't need the higher end. Bam, you've got a solution. Bam. Yeah. 97 X. I get it though. I still don't understand why the Apple to the to pencil to is not working on these things. While meanwhile, they got the horizontal camera yesterday added the better folio device, like the smaller iPad got bunches of upgrades. The pro does not have the horizontal. It's got chip in it now, but no horizontal camera and this disparity between the two models. My guess is there's a supply chain. Let's get rid of stuff moment happening here. It's definitely we can source these parts securely. So these parts are going into this model. We cannot support. We cannot source these parts in as high enough amounts. So we're limiting them to this model. That's absolutely what it is, including the support for the original Apple pencil because you need different display parts, right? So, yeah, I don't know all the details, but it's got to be something like that. I mean, unless so. So for those may be wondering, I come from an illustration background, I still do that half half of my professional time is spent doing art and I use the Apple iPad pro and a pencil very frequently. It's kind of my go to for digital art these days. And I love it for that. However, you might think, well, then, Scott, you're going to keep up on every update, right? Normally, I do when there's a big update when they went to M1. I did it when they went to, you know, faster or the new pencil and they required a new iPad. I did it. These were big leaps, in my opinion, in terms of their functionality. This M2, you'd think, oh, brand new chip, this much percentage faster. We know the M2 is a lot faster than the M1, blah, blah, blah. I'm holding off because these other things are a little bit weird. And unless Procreate comes out tomorrow and says, Hey, guess what? 5.3 or whatever the new version is, is going to be, you know, 900,000 more layers possible, and you're going to do it in this much time savings, unless they go crazy with performance increases on the actual, you know, production of content on this thing. I think this is the year to skip. I mean, M2 sounds great, but they're just weird on the other stuff. Well, that's probably why they didn't do a big live stream, right? They're like, yeah, these are just upgrades to make them look more competitive when you go into the store to buy an iPad for the first time or to replace your old one. Same thing as the iPhone, to be honest, although they've got more to talk about with the iPhone. Willie Scott in our chat asked if this had anything to do with the EU forcing a switch to USB-C. I would think not. In fact, if anything, it's surprising that they went ahead and switched it to USB-C when they don't have to yet. If you're Apple and you don't want to switch to USB-C, you're going to wait until the day that that law actually goes into force and you're going to put out as many products into the supply chain as you can with your older parts while you can because once they're announced, once they're for sale, you don't have to pull them for shelves even if they don't have USB-C. So I think this is just Apple deciding to get ahead of it, and they were going to do USB-C either way. Yeah, and I think phones are the ones you're going to see the quick turnaround on. That's the one you're going to suddenly see a USB-C in your iPhone 15s next year. Yeah, you can almost guarantee it. Folks, if you want to join in the conversation on this, you got some theories about the Apple supply chain. Do you work in the Apple supply chain? And you just want to like drop a few hints. Join our Discord. You can do that by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNS. Netflix subscribers rose by $2.41 million last quarter. $1.43 million of those came from the Asia Pacific region. That's where they continue to grow strong even in the downturn that they experienced. But all markets grew this time. Even the U.S. and Canada, barely. U.S. Canada had the smallest growth at 100,000 subscribers, but it was still growth. It predicts it will add 4.5 million subscribers this quarter. So basically double, just a bed, just less than double what it did last quarter. That is also going to be the last time we get a projection on users from Netflix. Well, I want to clear up a little confusion I've seen some people have. Netflix announced it's going to stop projecting subscribers every quarter, which means it will report its subscriber numbers, like here's what we had last quarter, but it won't predict what subscriber numbers will look like the next quarter. So if you take this quarter as the example, they'll continue to say, oh, we added 2.41 million subscribers. What they won't do in the future is say, and next quarter we think we're getting 4.5 million. They're just going to focus on money in the earnings report basis. This reminds me so much of when Blizzard stopped telling everybody what they thought World of Warcraft numbers would be, and then they stopped telling us what they were. And it's because things topped out.  Why get people too excited about tiny numbers, like relatively tiny numbers like 100,000? That's a good point. Netflix might do that. Well, Netflix also thinks it will get double the growth this quarter, because of big releases like the crown, a new season of the crown, as well as the seasonal upsurge from the holidays and a cheaper ad supported tier launches in November. You've heard that here on the show before, but that isn't expected to add much money right away. Interestingly enough, or subscribers, particularly subscribers. They're like, yeah, we're not going to get a bunch of new people just because of the ad support. Yeah. Not necessarily. Anyway, I think they might be wrong on that, but I, I think they're also safe to say it. My personal opinions aside. Anyway, the coming crackdown on password sharing won't go global until sometime in 2023. So there's that. So a lot of the armchair analysis has proven to be off. Password sharing and the ad tier are not desperation moves to save a failing company. Netflix is even saying like, yeah, these things are just long-term changes there. We don't expect them to make a material impact right away. And Netflix also isn't talking about cutting spending. This year it is spending $17 billion on content. And co-CEO Ted Serendost said, yeah, I think that's about the right level, but they're not going to keep increasing it, but they're going to keep spending $17 billion on content. Yeah, it's a lot. And they'll keep doing it. Separate from the earnings report. I thought this was really interesting. Fits within my wheelhouse as well. Netflix VP of gaming, Mike Verdu told TechCrunch disrupt that Netflix is, quote, seriously exploring a cloud gaming offering, unquote, and is getting ready to open its fifth gaming studio in Southern California led by Chaco Sony or sunny, rather, former Blizzard EP of Overwatch, which is also having a bit of a moment right now. Verdu said, quote, for us delivering games to your TV or to your PC, it's a value ad. Like we're not asking you to subscribe as a console replacement. So it is a completely different business model. Now, the future of cloud gaming has been, and forgive the pun, cloudy, since Google announced the end of Stadia coming in January. But Verdu specifically said he thought the problem with Google Stadia was the business model. And it seems like he's trying to say, look, we're not trying to get you to give up your Xbox or your PlayStation. We're just something fun you can add and also play games on. And 50%, he said 50% of them are going to be originals. I have no idea what this side of the Netflix business is intended to be. And I have learned in this video game thing that when I have no idea what Netflix is doing, it's probably doing the obvious thing that I don't think they're doing, which is they're going, they're going head to head with Xbox cloud gaming. They're going head to head with Nvidia GeForce. Now, like they, they are creating a full on PC cloud gaming business, no matter what they say about, oh, well, it's not really that big a deal. That's what they're doing. Don't you think I do, but I also think it's important to note where Stadia failed. And look, there's miles of Stadia conversation we could have and talk about all the reasons why it was weird. But one of the core reasons was they locked in on a business model that was this. We'll send you a dongle. It's basically a Chromecast and we'll send you a controller. And then you can use another controller if you want to, too, but those are the devices. And then we're going to stream these games to you and you're going to buy them and you're only going to be able to play them here.  The difference between that and Microsoft is Microsoft's like, all right, we have game pass. The way you get cloud gaming is you subscribe to game pass ultimate. And what that gives you is access to this huge library of games that are hours and third parties altogether, happily living in one ecosystem. And you can play those on your PC. You can play those on your console. Or if you'd prefer, or in addition to you can play them on your phone or via any other streaming, whatever a notebook or whatever, you can stream these games, these self-same games. That gave people a lot of options where they didn't feel trapped by one way of doing a thing. And also the fact that this is a subscription makes it easier than plucking down 70 bucks every three weeks or whatever on a new title, which you may or may not like. And it's a subscription you're already paying for 2.41 million more of you are paying for it than that we're paying last quarter, right? Absolutely. We're not, they're not asking you to sign up for anything new. They're not asking you to pay for anything new yet. Give them 10 years. Yeah. That makes perfect sense to me. Yeah. And that's, I think that's the key difference here. So will they be more like the stadium model or will they be more like, Hey, we've already got these games and you can play them anywhere, but also you can stream them. Like that's a big question. That's what NVIDIA does. NVIDIA is not doing anything special other than saying, Hey, games you already own, sweet, you can stream them unless the company told us we couldn't do it, which happens a lot. You can't play Blizzard games on there anymore, but it's different in that way. So whatever they're going to do, I'm pins and needles on it. I want to see what I know. This is clever. I recently did an episode to know a little more where I went back to an old insider secret script from CNET about streaming and noted that the top streaming services at that time, and I think it was 2007, didn't include Netflix. Yeah. It was all about like, well, you can stream on AOL, you can you can stream from Amazon Unbox, you can you can stream from some of the networks and this Hulu thing that's new. And then Netflix has this thing. I had forgotten that when Netflix added streaming, it was considered an inferior product. It was experimental. And it was not charged for extra. You got it with your DVD subscription. Notice a playbook there. Netflix saying like, Listen, we know there's lots of great cloud streaming here. We're just a little company. We're going to throw in some gaming. If you like it, you like it. Yeah, we've got five game studios. So some of these games you won't be able to get anywhere else. We're going to come right out of the gate with the original content instead of wait for a house of cards this time. But we're not a threat to anyone until we're totally a threat because you already have Netflix. And now you're playing all these games. Why not? You're already you don't have to pay anything extra for them. And then Netflix suddenly down the road says, Hey, we are going to have to separate the streaming video from the gaming for a while. But you can still get them both in this extra tier or whatever. If it's successful, I think that's totally what they're doing now.  But I don't know that I am more likely to use a Netflix cloud gaming service than any other cloud gaming service because I already have Netflix. Yeah, see, this is key. That right. Yeah. There are a lot of you, Tom. A lot of you. There are so many of me just inside this one head. Uh, Google AI has been shown off a project called I sim to real. So the letter I dash sim number two real built to react to fast paced unpredictable human behavior. That's that's a tough job for algorithms and robots. The project uses this simulation to speed up learning so they can do years of training in a few minutes and then tries the algorithm out in the real world so far. So it's been done by a lot of people. Here's where Google did something cool to keep the real world data in the mix. The team moves back and forth between the simulator and learning in the real world. So when it learns in the real world, it collects data and adds that to the model that it's going to use in the simulation so that the simulation is better. So you're basically training the simulation. It's a bit like again, uh, the data collected in the real world training is used to improve the simulation, which improves the algorithm enough to learn new things when it goes back into the real world and it got really good at ping pong. Uh, they use ping pong as a nice unpredictable but still relatively constrained demonstration. Uh, the result was a 340 hit rally, which let's be honest, I don't think I could do as a human. Uh, so the human who did this is just as impressive to me as the robot to be, to be frank. But yeah, uh, this this thing has learned how to do again, it's not trying to compete at this point, although they have some other parts of the project that are trying to figure out like, can it learn how to place things and all of that? But if it's, it's being taught, like just keep, keep the rally going and it can do it. Yeah. I feel like this, this maybe shows my, um, my lack of experience in the ping pong world, especially the professional ping pong world, but that sounds like a 340 hit rally sounds insane to me. It sounds like an improbable thing to happen. It's like four and a half minutes. Yeah. To me, this sounds like you're saying, Hey, that football game was a zero to 75, right? As the fourth quarter ended, but in a minute, they came back and won like that. So I don't know if that's really what we're looking at here, but it's, it's impressive. I think when you're not trying to win, it's easier to keep a rally going for a long time, but 340s, I'll be honest. I don't think I can do it personally. No, no, I'm not sure I could give you a one hit rally to be honest. I can do five. Yeah. I could probably promise five. I think I can't promise anything. All right. Let's check out the mail bag. Tim, the DBA wrote in and said, the GDPR cookie regulation misses a major point about user surveillance and tracking. I don't look at missed it, but here we go. Tim said cookies can be used to improve user experience like set, letting me stay logged in between sessions. Going to stop you right there, Tim. GDPR doesn't prevent them from doing that. Functional cookies that let you stay logged in are allowed. Those are not the ones that are, that are part of the GDPR regulation. So they can force those kinds of cookies on you. Anyway, let's get back to Tim's email. Tracking technology can be used to track my behavior across sites. Cookies can also be used for tracking, but I believe what Apple has shown is that people actually want to opt out of tracking, not necessarily opt out of cookies. All right. Fair point. You don't have to use cookies to track. Tim says, I subscribed to several news outlets because I want to support good journalism. Yes, I know their advertisers also try to track me, which I resent, but they can do this both with and without cookies. And I believe many people would like to opt out entirely of being tracked and are willing to pay for subscriptions if they replace ad tracking. That is a very good point. In that story we talked about, it was European news outlets, mostly in Germany and Austria, saying, well, either agree to let us set tracking cookies or pay. And then you can block the tracking cookies. I like what Tim's going after here is, don't just say you'll block the, you won't, you'll let us block the tracking cookies. Promise not to track us at all if we're paying. And that's, that's, that's a little added incentive to get me to pay. And I think that's fair. Yeah, it's interesting. And I didn't really, I'm glad he wrote in because your clarification and clarity on this cookies used to improve experience like staying logged in is not part of this. I thought it was part of this. So now there's always an option that says, that's grayed out. It's like, you know, functional cookies, cookies that are neat, that need to be set as a session cookie to make sure that you stayed logged in. That makes the whole thing seem a little less overreaching. Cause I was feeling like, oh man, they're really just the whole baby with the bathwater. Is that what we're doing here? And no, no, the baby is fine. The baby's like sitting in a cradle, keeping your session logged in the bathwater that's been tracking you. That stuff you can throw out. Yeah. Nobody wants that. Anyway, we can use that for it. Throw that dirty cookie blade in the bathwater. Anyway, thank you, Tim. Appreciate the email. Keep them coming, folks, feedback at daily tech news show.com and thank you, Scott Johnson for being with us today. What you got going on these days? Well, speaking of gaming, when I'm not completely hooked on Overwatch two, it's really got its claws into me somehow. 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Did you know that antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development? You have probably heard of antibiotic resistance before, but most people don't realise that it's actually the bacteria that become resistant to the antibiotics, not humans or animals. But what is antibiotic resistance, and why is it so dangerous? First we need to know what antibiotics are, so you may want to watch this video first. Antibiotics are a type of medicine that are used to treat and prevent bacterial infections, by inhibiting certain metabolic or chemical processes which occur inside the bacteria. They only work on bacterial infections and are very important for public health. Antibiotic resistance happens when antibiotics cannot interrupt the bacteria's life cycle successfully anymore, and so bacterial infections become harder and harder to treat. When you take a dose of antibiotics, there will be some bacteria in the population that remain unaffected by the treatment because of their genes. These bacteria are said to be resistant, the antibiotics cannot kill them. These resistant bacteria and reproduce passing their resistance onto their offspring. Whole new populations of bacteria are created that are unaffected by antibiotics, meaning there are bacterial infections and diseases which cannot be treated by antibiotics. This is where the problem lies. It becomes very difficult to treat infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria. Alternative treatments are often less effective and more expensive. So who is being affected by this antibiotic resistant bacteria? It's a global threat. It affects anyone of any age in any country. Without urgent action, the world could be heeded for a post-antibiotic era, which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill, and the amazing benefits of advanced modern medical treatments such as chemotherapy and major surgery will be lost. In some aspects, we'll be rewinding medicine by 100 years. So why has this happened and why is it spreading? Resistant bacteria would naturally evolve anyway. Survival of the fittest means the resistant bacteria survive and reproduce, but the spread has been sped up by our misuse of antibiotics. The current global antibiotic resistance crisis is the result of six factors. Have a look at these six factors. Number one, if antibiotics are wrongly prescribed for viral infections or for weak infections that the individual could naturally fight off without medication, bacteria are then being exposed unnecessarily to antibiotics and so the dreaded resistance ones evolve and breed. Number two, don't expect antibiotics to help you if you have a cold or the flu. They are viral. If you feel better, you must finish your full course. The full course kills off as many bacteria as possible. Number three, antibiotics aren't just in humans. Since 2006, the EU has banned antibiotics use to promote growth or prevent infections in healthy animals. Some other countries have also followed suit, but many more haven't yet. They need to. But all is not lost. Together, we can reduce the impact of the spreading antibiotic resistance. We need to all understand and appreciate that antibiotics are a precious resource that cannot be taken for granted. By changing how we produce, prescribe and use antibiotics, we can limit the spread of antibiotic resistance. Everyone can play a part. Complete your full course and don't think antibiotics will cure everything. Careful prescription and educate your patients. Keep searching for new antibiotics and other alternatives. Regulate the use and educate the public. We use antibiotics on sick animals with a vet's prescription. So that is why people are concerned about antibiotic resistance. It makes the treatment of some diseases much more difficult, but we can all do our part and slow the spread.


YouTube what's up? We're back with another game play mutt head-to-head I'm currently probably about 45 and one of my head-to-head at this point And this was against comfy door a ranked player that plays a lot of leaderboards A lot of my head-to-head leaderboards and I had just came off my first loss So I'm disappointed you want to get right back into another game when you lose So this is what the next game. I believe I got into after I lost So get the ball first when you get the ball first you got to be looking as a positive always go up seven You know, that's what you do. You know, I'm gonna love seven.  We will hit him underneath That's the speed why we use Evan Ingram maybe three speed for tight end is really fast He was a little covered to here with the wheel route over here to Tyree kill I thought he'd be better, but he took a bad angle that should have been a tutty But we get to have a little door underneath the Ingram again and we're making a couple three catches already on the drive We want to talk to Shady McCoy easy seven nothing I would take seven nothing over ball a half every day of the week and I was able to get it there Well first play we get a sack Justin Houston. I mean, he's a great player really good pass But hey, I'm gonna need to hit something champ Billy. Let's it go down a little post That was a tough catch by him.  He spins sake one Barclay I think it is a little more Miller just making huge plays right there to make the game two yards fourth down We go ahead and play man coverage in Ramsey. That's power up the randy not diamond Ramsey But there's the tier below diamond Ramsey just got scores by Randy Moss got q played cover one right there and gave up a touchdown Giving up easy touching or something.  He got his feet in nice play by him. We're into the second quarter now Throw underneath this little show McCoy got get busy with Shady, but he's able to tackle me on the spin We're driving really easy right now. Everything's feeling pretty good. It would hit underneath his Shady Get a couple yards. I feel real good on offense right now There's nothing he's doing always able to get that was a touchdown on the field He was able to get a shed third of seven. He got me at And I'm boxed right here third of seven. He gave me the flat. I didn't take it half to kick a three That's frustrating especially how well I was playing offense a couple bad plays a couple good a good shed It will go ahead and get him off the field hold me to three. So I go ahead and make a play on defense Throws in the covers Adrian Amos and a hook curl right there. They gotta make a play right there for me You know, I pay a lot for Adrian Amos Here we go Houston and clown Tag team duo We go again. He tries to throw this crossing route. Boom. I picked it off or I swatted actually because it's fourth down I want the ball where he was so I'm right back in the field range Throw the ball right here to Randy Moss avoid his stick try to get an ends on boom. I'm inside the fire feeling good I got blunt. I got Shady First run we go ahead. We get up here to the one yard line I should pound the ball, but I run toss again Get boxed back to the two and I run toss again I've never run tossed this much, but I ran it three times in a row and Actually able to kick my three like I said before first half man You always just try to accumulate as much points as possible You know to give yourself a better chance to win the game in the second half You really got 20 seconds left Probably put my pass rush on aggressive right here and you see clown even going to eat I mean great coverage on the field make them hold the ball a little longer and the boys will go get them Here we go again. We're sending three. They're able to he dumps it off underneath He has no timeouts left try to keep him in bounds, but he's able to get out of bounds three seconds left He's got to check it up. I'm just gonna cover two deep blue in the middle soft Why it's nothing big two man under something like that first play open and kick off takes it back to the crib So now a player that's completely bad I gave up one touchdown playing cover one and I give up a kick return two easy touchdowns You can't give easy touchdowns and let people stay in the game and that's what exactly what I did I've been driving all over my settle for field wasn't gave up two easy touchdowns. So now I'm losing Just like that. You let people stay around mad and we'll give them a chance to win Who I've done beneath able to have an ingram here and still in the drag do it real late, but still went in there Bang getting busy with Carson Wentz Carson Wentz been let me down, but you know, that's my guy It's my quarterback. So I'm gonna stay with him as long as possible underneath at this to Moss get a couple yards 11 for 12 right now. I'm feeling really good on offense underneath hit it to have an ingram I mean, if you want to play cloth lads as a great player, you got to take these little drags Really rolling out once and he throws one into the dirt.  Ah, I don't really want that one But once messed that one up pretty good. So once again hit underneath here to ingram Get it as much move ours make my fourth down a little more manageable So I go ahead and go for it here on fourth down, which is all the right play come back route and Wentz soars it and he sort of stands again. Once been let me down lately, but here we go We ran play actually we've been on it and everybody came and got to port it back there Runs play action again They were what hit this that was a good play by him No, and I lurk over the crossing route and he hit underneath even though I was in the area I was gonna give it up and here we go cam bam cam chancellor user safeties in linebacker positions And I get tripped up by my DB I hate that about the game your DB's always want to trip you up when you catch a pick patience in the pocket Able to hit Randy Moss on that cross and we're out great play Also, I'm really I'm really doing well on offense if we go hit the seam at the middle of play That I fumbled on versus Joel So there we go boom Got the lead I don't go for two there because it's early in the game I want to get the ball back a couple times stop this kick return. I feel good on defense now Won't be able to stop them Need a pick right here cam chancellor and tell them Smith comes up with a boom big play got a six-point league at the ball Back this one's looking really good here boys Carson ones. Once again, let's get busy. Let's get down no more fluke They're already trying to cheat me Everybody's open. This was I can't excuse this past that past was awful And the show McCoy you gotta go tackle them but there you go Lane Johnson clip Makes the play from a terrible pass by me to turn the ball over and here we go I got cute on defense again. He goes ahead and goes over top. I get bailed out there They didn't get a big play right there and we'll go underneath champ Bailey make a tackle got him to a third and a third In long as third and short and I get cute on defense play cover one again Play cover one twice in this game and get with two touchdowns. I mean cover one might be removed from my arsenal at this point So now he's got the lead again. Let's get the ball back door underneath have an ingrain boom keep it going and he fumbles The ball another strip animation Well, I fumbled a ball. So now I give it to easy touchdowns. I'm down one just gave a ball up Born right there champ Bailey gotta make him drop that gotta jump the ball. Well, here we go Shies to fit that ball in there and drops it here. We go. I gotta make it off the field here third and six Third and six and Justin Houston grabs some sacks and beautiful play right here fourth down. He goes for it Was a little slow right there with cam chancellor 83 speed nice play by him Nice thought now we got to stop him now. Now we got use our timeouts. He was a huge one on first down Come on boys. Let's keep fighting almost gets the first down there He gets the first down games over and boom with them through with his stick with Bobby Wagner I believe he settles for three he could have went to end the game right there But it's not a big call going up for no go got a money drive no timeouts Got the goons on the field. Let's go down the field and get a touchdown Here I'll get greedy right here. I should take the drag or the slant I wanted to cross him around he covered it do it out of bounds.   He doesn't call timeout, which I thought was smart You know, I would have called timeout, but it worked out for him or and cut the clock running pretty much That's what made it crazy I was rushing the clock was running and this was something mean skim will talk about a lot that I can run toss here And then if I don't get it I can run out of bounds to stop the clock and chuck the ball in the end zone But I run toss get the block right there from a coy and it worked out well for me You know, he made me rush. I didn't have any timeouts I would ran out of bounds if you know that the edge was sealed there from a coy So money driver there two big plays it would get down the field There we go, we're making some stops No big plays here the game is pretty much wrap get a sack right there by telling Smith I was gonna get two man on there everybody back. Nothing wrong.  Don't get cute Don't give up big plays make people work down the field. You see he didn't work down the field at all He wasn't killing me. He wasn't dotting me It was pretty much as him getting these one big plays with bombs and kick returns and stuff like that You're half to score touchdowns. We had opportunity that way it separates the score me kicking field goals made that game close I've always said man's about seven and threes and you've seen that game me kicking threes made it close Made me had to clutch with a money drive with two big plays to get down the field If you like these gameplay videos, please hit the like and please hit the sub Comment on who you want me to see who you want me to see play next for YouTube video. I appreciate y'all


There's also a number of folks that are wondering, hey, what about Hurricane Harvey? And what are we doing down there as a Navy to get after this? And I will tell you that we're involved, okay? We've got two helicopter squadrons down there that are just working like crazy. The Dusty Dogs of HSC-7 and the Ghost Riders of HSC-28. And together, those two teams have put together more than 220 rescues in the path, they're in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and they're continuing to work at it. In addition, we have P-8s from Jacksonville flying to provide overwatch and surveillance of the situation so that we can understand this crisis as it unfolds as best as possible. Those teams are from VP45. And then we've got the USS Curesarge and the USS Oak Hill, I think with the 26 Mu, loading out today, and they are standing ready to get underway and go down there to provide continuing to support and relief to the millions of people that have been affected by this just unbelievable record-setting storm of Hurricane Harvey. So our hearts and minds are with everybody who's suffering by virtue of this hurricane. The Navy's flowing assistance to the crisis and will stay there as long as it takes to alleviate that suffering down there in Texas and now moving over to Louisiana and other places.


Yeah, thank you. I'm I'm actually I'm not a techie. I'm a political scientist and I study security policy defense related issues for about 35 years and my role is to look into the future a little bit and to see what the future security challenges are because The better we understand them the better we understand customer requirements in the future. So that's a little bit the idea and Doing that of course you discover usually old things and new things things you have seen for centuries Millenniums either and other things that are new. So I try to put artificial intelligence a little bit into context History always is continuity and change so in a sense Many of the future wars we're gonna see and the challenges we know pretty well From the Roman times in a sense. We are Roman Empire plus cyber right things that old things that are new So of course sometimes New stuff replaces the old one. We have very little cavalry today Although horses could be useful in some areas in Afghanistan actually But when we invented long-range weaponry like bow and arrow, it was superior to the club But only as long as the archer didn't come within striking distance of the club Then he had a problem So we're gonna see in the future laser weapons cyber war everything but also Explosives guns and all that thing Trend extrapolation usually mean it's about higher faster further But sometimes there's something new When Henry Ford made this wonderful statement about the cars he's saying if I had asked my customers what they wanted They would have said faster horses So sometimes we have to explain well We invented the con question and gene and things are going to change and the big changes that we are going to face and nanotechnology biotechnology robotics and artificial intelligence and the interesting thing comes up if these four mega trends merge Well, we had a chemical evolution if you wish a biological perhaps one day we have a mental evolution Actually, I can't wait this to happen If you watch TV in the afternoon and you zap through the channels and you see these soap over us and Soul strip these shows and whatever I physically suffer after five minutes. I find it so Embarable, but this is Homo sapiens. Is it or is it not is this really the result of evolution so far or Can we move a little bit beyond that? So so let's see We are at the edge of completely going into the digital Production the economy 3d printing additive manufacturing and all that that's only a short step We we will move into the biomolecular production An endless amount of meat without a single animal you lose an arm in an accident that will regrow It's only a question of time because it doesn't violate the law of physics So we have interesting views like Stephen Hawking who says the biggest threat to mankind is artificial intelligence We have molecular biologists who say no it's a mutation rate of microorganisms that it's the biggest threat because they undermine all immunization efforts So let's look at computers computers are as we built them today and program them today our instruction Executing machines we write instructions and they do it. They do it wonderfully beautifully reliably But they do what we tell them even if they learn we told them to learn a little bit as we learn But what is it exactly that they do differently interesting enough so far? They do things very fast There is a competition in supercomputers Every year and three times in a row China one We are now at or last year at 93 quadrillion operations per second. It's pretty fast Actually, it's nothing if we move into quantum computer, but what it means in other words, it's Computing capability will not be the limiting factor But the question is what is it that you want to calculate actually the computers cannot do math very well That might come as a surprise But if I ask any of you what it's three plus five five you would immediately say it's eight the computer can't say that The computer has to do if this than that if this and that if this and that and does it incredibly fast But it's that is it what it does so Computer do many things better than human beings. They control complex production processes Perform dangerous tasks all this is very useful and we move on with the optimization and Autonomous systems at some stage we start with that they repeat narrowly predefined Actions, but they move of course beyond that.  We have to decide but if the computer decide will probably say well mr. Mayu are now 59 years old you have three adult kids the invoice for the medical doctors go slowly up We could use your retirement pension fund differently for other nice things. Here's a young guy Good genes good intelligence pays the whole life into insurances. I don't agree that the sketch will survive Well, even if I don't like it I have probably to accept the overall situation why because if we move into automatic or autonomous driving The likelihood that they enter into a deadly or probably very life-endangering situation is Millions times lower than if people drive So probably statistically I have to accept that no matter how I feel But actually then what is intelligence? We don't know I Think what we usually call intelligence is the result of an intelligence test you do a test and the result we call intelligence and Intelligence what is it actually does it do good things to us? Well, we think usually yes, but you know lots of the people in the Third Reich in Germany were pretty intelligent, but they were very evil at the same time So what is it exactly what we look at is it artificial intelligence or the use of Intelligence by artificial organisms or machines and what makes the difference well artificial. What is artificial actually? Human beings do something, but we are very natural I guess and at the same time we apply natural laws So it is so artificial actually The other thing is of course that we have these emotions and if I explain to my students a very rational Cold-blooded so to speak world view and they ask well professor my where are the emotions and it's oh, yes Good that you mentioned that emotions hate You know perfectly Bestiality no no no we mean love charity and and caretaking I say well So you have this tingers with your brain these emotions and other emotions So at the end of the day It's about us deciding things and how we value thing and that is related to culture and all these things So they start with the Automatization and autonomous systems and have liability problems household robots in Japan Let's say they take care of the household of elderly people if somebody gets injured or perhaps even killed by a robot What do we do? Do we put the robot into prison? Would probably make no much sense. Is it the software development? Is it the producer is that the guy who sold us the machine? Is it us who bought it? Is it us who switched it on who is actually at the end of the day liable? We have to discuss this very carefully as we enter into this game now last remarks right close by famous theorist of of artificial intelligence Had a nice article about 50 or perhaps 20 years ago and the title was the computers will convince us that we are superfluous Well, if we don't want to be superfluous we have to think what our role is in nature What is it that we can do better than computers? And it's not about that the human being at the end of the day should control the computers because who is it? You want mr. Hitler to be in control Starlene or a cold pot. No only good people, but who's good and who defines it? So it always comes back to us our culture to our value systems our preferences our priorities and We shouldn't just educate our children at the universities to come to become Computers in the sense of memorizing everything and they repeat it fully exams We should encourage them to think out of the box to challenge conventional wisdom to be innovative in all these things And that is what is I think now at the core and at the challenge And we will see that China is likely to program the tournament systems differently than us because it's an interesting Tension between collectivism and individualism and all these issues are so key when it comes to artificial intelligence. Thank you


How you feel is not my problem. People say, oh, it's my body. I get to do with it what I want to. No, it's not. It is a separate human being distinct with value and dignity.  But what I'm doing is I'm speaking up for that life that cannot speak for itself. And for all of you who understand abortion is murder, you need to speak up on this. Otherwise, who will?