Good afternoon. Welcome to another episode of Kondo Insider, and my name is Jane Sugimura, and I'm your host today for the show. And the title of our show is Bill 96 Redux, which means we're revisiting Bill 96, and I have a very important announcement to make. I came, not more than an hour ago, I came from a bill signing, and this is what it looks like. This is what the original Bill 96, and there'll be flashing portions. There it is. There's a summary, and the next page is going to be the first page of the bill, and the last page is the mayor's signature on the bottom left-hand corner. And so you've heard it here. Now it's going to be on the evening news, because like I said, I just came from the press conference. The mayor was there, and I was there, and there was maybe 20, 25 fire personnel, fire department personnel. I felt I was definitely outnumbered, but I was very pleased to be there, because we worked long and hard for Bill 96, which is the clarification of the fire safety ordinance. And somebody, one of the reporters there at the press conference made a note that the original ordinance, Bill 1814, which was Bill 69, that was passed in response to the Marco Polo fire, that bill was passed, and there was a similar signing press conference on May 3rd. So May 3rd tomorrow is a one-year anniversary of the ordinance that started this whole journey that ended in the signing of the bill today. And it was really quite extraordinary, because in between Bill 69, which was the basic ordinance, and the basic ordinance for those of you who are just joining the conversation now, Bill 69 and ordinance 1814 requires all high-rise buildings over 10 stories. 10 stories are over to have a fire sprinkler system throughout protecting the building. That means in the units and in the hallways, unless you have open exterior corridors, and that means when you walk out of your unit, and there's just air. That means you have an open exterior corridor. In other words, if you open your door and you see across the hallway another unit or a wall, that means you have enclosed interior corridors, and so you would have to install a fire sprinkler system or do something called a life safety evaluation. And so that's in a brief summary is what that bill was all about. And one of the provisions in the original ordinance allowed a building to opt out, saying that they didn't want to do sprinklers and they had enclosed interior corridors. And in that case, you would have to post notices in the building and notify any new owners perspective or the unit owners in your building who were selling their units would have to disclose the fact that they had no fire sprinklers in the building to prospective buyers. And so that's where it sat. And then after the bill was passed, and it began the hard problem of trying to implement it. And because this bill is so comprehensive, one of the issues was what buildings does the law apply to? And so we've been going round and round, and the fire department keeps submitting lists. And the lists, when they appear, I would get calls, the council members would get calls, and they would say, why is my building on the list? Or why isn't my building on the list? Do we still have to comply? And that was one of the reasons for Bill 96 is because people weren't sure whether or not the law applied to them. And if so, what deadlines applied would be applicable to them. And the bill has got three very important deadlines. One is already passed. In other words, if you were one of the buildings that were subject to the law, you had to, by November 1 of 2018, submit a letter to the fire department, the Honolulu fire department, that you would comply with the law. And if you weren't one of the buildings who were on the original list, of course, you could not have complied with that requirement because you weren't on the list. And in this bill that just passed, Bill 96, and it's public information, so you can go on the city website and look at it, the list of buildings is attached to the ordinance, this new ordinance. And if your building is on that list, that means you need to comply. And this list that is now on Bill 96 is I think the fifth list that the fire department submitted and by all accounts, everybody who kind of looked at it said, well, that's pretty close. And the number changed. It changed from like 390. It went down to 367. I think it's up to 370 now. And if, for some reason, some other buildings come to the fire department's attention and they get added to the list, there is going to be a current list of buildings and you have to go to the fire department website. And that's where you'll find the most current list of buildings. And so let's say you were a building that wasn't on the original list, or maybe you didn't know you were supposed to comply with this law or that the law applied to you. And now you look at Bill 96 and you see, oh my God, my building's on the list. And it was not there before. What do I do? Well, the first thing you do is you need to submit a letter to the fire department saying that you're going to comply. And at this point, if you act quickly, the fire department is not going to take steps to find you in violation. And the second deadline in the ordinance is within three years of the initial date of the law, which would have been May 3, 2018.  One-year anniversary. So already one year has gone by, so that means you only have two years to do a life safety evaluation because the original Bill said that you had three years from the date of enactment to do a life safety evaluation. So now that we're hitting the one year anniversary, you have two years left to do a life safety evaluation.  The third deadline is once you go through a life safety evaluation and assuming you don't get a passing score, then what you have to do is you have to make all these repairs that was pointed out by the licensed professionals who did your life safety evaluation and you have to get them repaired or you have to install the fire sprinkler system throughout the building. And for that work, you have additional six years from the first three-year deadline. Now, what's a life safety evaluation? A life safety evaluation is an inspection of the building by licensed professionals and they are looking at 17 items that appear on a list that we've been calling the matrix. It's a spreadsheet and it is available to the public on the Fire Department website. And there's like 17 items on this list so that if you want to know what's being inspected, you go on the website and you look at it. And some of the things on that list, you can't change like the height of the building. If you're a 12-story building, you can't change that. And the reason for the height of the building as being a factor is the higher the building, the harder it is for people to get out of it, and the harder it is for first responders to get into the building to address the emergency. So the higher the building, the higher the risk factor. Another issue is mobility. And that's something that I'm going to get into later. But mobility is whether or not people are going to need assistance in getting out of the building. So if you have a situation where you've got a lot of people who need assistance, then it's going to be harder to get them out of the building. And that means that there's going to be more work for the first responders because now they've got to get these people who have mobility issues, which means that you have a hard time getting around out of the building before they can address the emergency. And so that makes your score makes it harder to pass. And then there are things like standpipes, whether or not you have standpipes in your hallways. And there are other things that you can change. Those things you can't change because they're structural. And then there are things that you can change like fire-rated doors. Some of you may have heard that with the Marco Polo, they had doors with louvers, which are not compliant with the building code because it allows the fire to spread. And so a fire-rated door does not have louvers in it, and it has a metal closure at the top of the door, which makes the door close automatically. And so if you don't have the fire-rated doors with the metal closures, this is something that the association can fix. And that's a lot cheaper than putting in fire sprinklers. And things like an emergency evacuation, do you have an emergency evacuation plan? And that can be as simple as having a graphic drawing with the floor plan and where are the exits and maybe a line as to how you exit the building. And if you have an emergency evacuation plan and it's maybe posted on the wall on every floor and in the common areas and on a bulletin board somewhere, or you pass it out so that every unit has got the emergency evacuation plan maybe posted in their unit, that would be that would be something that you can address and you can do something about. You don't have one, you need to make one. And so you have to look at the list and a smoke detector, smoke alarm systems. And so you need to look at the matrix to figure out exactly what things you can change and maybe start taking steps to address them before you contact your licensed professional to do this inspection. And when they come and do the inspection, they will use something called the matrix. And like I said, the matrix is on the website, on the fire department website. And it tells you what conditions you have to meet. And if you don't have those conditions, like the fire rated doors with the metal closures, then you get minus points. And the person who is doing the inspection will inspect all of the 17 items and come up with a score. And when they come up with a score, the score will tell you what repairs or how what upgrade you have to make. And then you would use that licensed professional to get that information. And then the association can make an informed decision as to what repairs they need to make because the person who did the inspection can tell you, oh, well, you know, you missed the passing score by two points or by four points. And that's the time that you would say to the licensed professional, well, what do we have to do to get a passing score? And that's when they can make suggestions regarding the repairs that you have to make. And then you can determine what the costs are for those repairs and compare them as to what it would cost to install the sprinklers. And that way, the association can make an informed decision as to whether or not they want to do the repairs that are suggested by the life safety evaluation or whether they want to install sprinklers. And we're going to take a one minute break now. And then when we come back, we're going to talk about what happened with Bill 96. Aloha, this is Winston Welch. I am your host of Out and About where every other week, Mondays at 3, we explore a variety of topics in our city, state, nation and world, and events, organizations, the people that fuel them. It's a really interesting show. We welcome you to tune in and we welcome your suggestions for shows. You got a lot of them out there and we have an awesome studio here where we can get your ideas out as well. So I look forward to you tuning in every other week where we've got some great guests and great topics. You're going to learn a lot. You're going to come away inspired like I do. So I'll see you every other week here at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. Aloha. Aloha and welcome to At the Crossroads. I'm your host, Keisha King. You can catch me every Wednesday alive at 5. I'll see you there. Okay, welcome back to another episode of Condo Insider. My name is Jane Sugimura. I'm your host today and we're going to be talking about Bill 96 that was signed into law. It was signed into law by Mayor Caldwell at 1.30 this afternoon and so you're probably saying, well, why, you know, so what is it with Bill 96 and how does it change the fire safety ordinance that was passed almost a year ago? In fact, it's going to be a year tomorrow, May 3rd. And there are some changes mainly because, you know, it was, there were a lot of questions by the licensed professionals and by the associations as to how this bill was going to be implemented. And because it's a new thing, it's a new requirement imposed by the city on almost 370 high-rise buildings. So this is a big deal. And you know, so the council members and Kobayashi and Carol Fukunaga introduced Bill 96 to get clarification. And one of the big things was, who does this law apply to? That's why it's really important. And if you didn't think the bill applied to you, I suggest that you want to look at the list of buildings attached to Bill 96 which is available on the city's website because there's a list of buildings there and there's a list of buildings on the Honolulu Fire Department website. And if your building name is on there, that means that the ordinance applies to you. And there were several lists of buildings that were submitted to the city. And this one is the most current one. And people were calling us, saying, how come they were on the list? They had fire sprinklers. They shouldn't be on the list. And the fire department agreed. And so they made those changes. They also made changes for buildings because the buildings are categorized as having exterior quarters or interior quarters. Exterior quarters means that you don't have to put in, you're exempt from putting in the fire sprinkler system in your building. You just have to do the life safety evaluation. What changes happen other than what buildings, oh, and with the buildings, there are these deadlines that apply to you. And because when you have to do the repairs specified by the life safety evaluation, if you apply for a permit and it takes you more than 90 days, and those of us who sit on condo boards know that applying for a permit, you don't get them back in 90 days. I mean, I've got one for my building. We're waiting six months. And we may be getting it soon. That's what I'm hearing. But anyway, 90 days is a really short time. And so the ordinance says that if you don't get your permit approved to do your repairs within 90 days, then the deadline, the six-year deadline for compliance, is extended for the time it takes the city to approve your permit. And at today's bill signing, Mayor Caldwell assured us that he had talked to his Department of Planning and Permitting, and they were instructed to expedite all of the repair permit applications from condo associations relating to the life safety evaluations, and that because they're relying on third-party evaluators, they don't believe that any permit approvals are going to take more than 90 days. Of course, that remains to be seen, and I will believe it when I see it. And so I'm cautiously optimistic that that will be the case. But now the bill has a provision in there that says, if the city doesn't approve your permit within the 90 days, you get an extension. And the reason why that's so important is the fire department, in the testimony on this bill, gave verbal assurance that that's what they would do, but because we insisted that we don't want to rely on verbal assurance from the fire department. I'm sure that in good faith that this is what they really believe would happen, but we don't know who's going to be in charge in the future, so we want it codified so that if a building needs to get an extension that they would be entitled to one. And so that's a change that is in the ordinance. And another change that's in the ordinance allows association employees to help do some of the inspections for the licensed professionals, and that would mean going throughout the building and reporting on fire-rated doors and metal closures and smoke detectors in the units. And so if you, in connection with doing a life safety evaluation, what you can do is, you can have your maintenance people do the inspection, make a spreadsheet, give it to the licensed professional so that all they have to do is do a random sampling of the information that's on the spreadsheet that's prepared by the association staff, and that's going to save you a ton of money when you do your life safety evaluation. And one of the things, too, that is very important with this bill is the fact that this is not a done deal. I mean, the way the bill is set up, because this is such a huge undertaking, we're talking about 370 buildings, at least 370 buildings that are subject to the law, and at least two-thirds of those buildings have interior corridors, and so they will have to do life safety evaluations and maybe do some repairs. And because right now we don't know what kind of issues are going to pop up, I mean the fire department may have issues regarding compliance and the associations may have issues regarding how the inspections are actually done and how the results are reported. So this council has indicated, has specified in the ordinance that there will be reviews every six months for the first up until 2022. And this is a good thing. I mean, it's a good thing for the fire department that has to enforce the ordinance, and it's a good thing for the licensed professionals and the associations who have to do the life safety evaluation. I learned at the bill signing today that five buildings in Honolulu have completed their life safety evaluation, and there are about 30 more, kind of like in the pipeline, who have started the life safety evaluation, so it's starting. It's starting, and we don't know what kind of issues are going to come up. And if they do come up, because this bill 96 provides for a six-month review for the first three years of the bill, then all the stakeholders, the fire department, the associations, and the licensed professionals can all weigh in and meet with the city and make further changes that may be necessary. And one of the issues when we were negotiating these changes that I raised with the city and the fire department, this bill, the fire safety pattern, is modeled after a bill that was passed by the city of Chicago, and they have a similar type of inspection, but in their bill in Chicago, and they have about a thousand, they have about a thousand high-rise residential buildings, they do not have a mandatory fire sprinkler component in their bill, although they do have something that's similar to a life safety evaluation. And in the Chicago ordinance, the fire department is required to post the compliance information on their website. In other words, what buildings have complied, which buildings have not complied, and what exactly are the compliance issues. And although the fire department, our fire department, the Honolulu fire department, was very lucky to include those provisions in the ordinance affecting the buildings in Honolulu, the fact that they are going to participate in the six-month reviews with the city means that everybody will know, you know, whether or not there's a compliance issue, because it makes a difference, because if nobody's complying with the statute, with the ordinance, then we have a problem, and we need to address that. And if everybody's complying, or if there's a huge number of people complying, then that is an incentive or motivation for other buildings in town to comply. And so it's really, really important. It's really important for the associations and the licensed professionals out there to know that for the first two or three years of this ordinance that there is going to be a review. So if something isn't going right, or you have some questions, you have an opportunity, and which means that you have an obligation, if you have a concern, you have to let people know, because after the first three years, there's not going to be this periodic review. And so for today, that's all I've got for Bill 96, but you know, you have to stay tuned, because in six months, we're going to have our first review of how the ordinance is being implemented. And I invite you now to join us next week for a very interesting program. Today is the last day of the legislature. Yay. I'm so happy. But anyway, today is the last day of the legislature. So next week, Richard, Emery and I will be telling you about the bills that made it out of the legislature. And we will know which bills they are by the end of today. And so we will be reporting on them next week, Thursday. So please join us for that episode of Condo Insider. These are the bills that pass the legislature. They still have to be reviewed by the Attorney General and signed by the governor. And that's going to take maybe another 60 to 90 days. But we will have more information about that process in our next show. So please join us next week, next Thursday, for our next episode of Condo Insider. Thank you. And mahalo. See you then.


Michelle Newell is a high school chemistry teacher at Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. Michelle helps her students consolidate concepts they're learning by creating checklists that provide students opportunities to reflect on their understanding of different learning outcomes outlined in the Alberta Program of Studies. I first try to make sure that it is in student-friendly language, so I do pair it with curriculum and documents, and our lesson, but I make sure it's in student-friendly language. And then I make sure that the kids know I am making some assumptions that you already know certain bits of information. So some of the information is there, but they may need to add themselves. So I do add class time when I first introduce it to make sure that kids know how to use it and how to reference their notes or their textbook to improve on the list that they're given. I find it really helpful because I took all three sciences and having all those workload at the same time. It helps with your time management a lot. It helps with just feeling that you just feel a sense of accomplishment, even if it's just one outcome that you achieved understanding in one day because then you know you're closer to your goals and having those like walking into class knowing today we're going to focus on this outcome and if I don't understand it I better know it before the next unit. Just knowing what you know and what you don't know and your strength and what to work on alone reduces a lot of the anxieties for tests. We can pull out this book. They've been taking notes along the way because it's really important they're adding to it. Key things that they got incorrect on their test or something they got right and they weren't sure why it was the correct answer. If they were guessing perhaps then they write themselves notes and it really gives them a little bit more independence in their studying. Eight lessons so you should have eight sets of notes. Any smaller outcomes that you see in your notes or that you notice on your first solutions quiz you want to be adding to the outcomes. I have written some for you. These are only starters.  One is evidence of any of these outcomes. What questions show that you have a strong understanding of the polarity of molecules or is this an area of concern? Would you say this is something that I need to work more on? In addition you're going to add some outcomes of your own, add some reminders and then same thing from your notes. Go through a couple of your notes in that 15 minutes if you're done with your quiz. Michelle built in class time for students to collaborate and build their knowledge together. They share their understandings and use information they discussed to add to their checklist for future reference making sure they're prepared to demonstrate thorough understanding of the outcomes they're learning. As the students review, collaborate and reflect on their quizzes Michelle is able to circulate and challenge her students thinking helping them understand the concepts they know well and the concepts it still require for the review and practice. So for chemistry because sometimes when you're in high school and you have chemistry it gets really overwhelming. Having those learning outcomes makes it easier for you to even plan your study because you think maybe I have seven outcomes to look for in the next test. I can split them maybe two today, three tomorrow and this makes everything a lot easier for you because then you can see the connection between different concepts and what kind of questions can be asked. In other area of learning it can... Since we learned this kind of topic or idea here in chemistry let's say biology for example or in any other class you have a bunch of separate topics or ideas that you need to focus on even though they may not be clearly split or they're extremely divided you can still have a general idea on what you need to focus on which is extremely important here. I actually specifically use it for biology because I find biology booklets and reading that amount of information sometimes are overwhelming for people and they think, oh I have to remember all this thing a lot of students think they have to memorize rather than understand biology I think because the biology notes they just find the outcomes for you at the beginning of the page I actually try to adopt something similar to this so I created a document for myself so I know this test we're going to look at the specific outcomes and whichever ones I don't understand then I ask questions about it in class. I use it because I did two biologies so when it got to Bow 30 it would really help that I knew exactly what happened in Bow 20 by having those targets and outcomes and going like, okay this topic from Bow 20 comes back up in Bow 30 like protein synthesis comes back up and that's really nice I feel like these targets really help for sciences and math I think the most effective way if there were time with your class would be to develop it with them so to start from the beginning going through a lesson and then at the end what are some important things that we should take away today and add them together when they develop it themselves it's much more effective I have found.


What's going on guys, Noah from Kickin' Their Bass TV and I've been getting questions from what type of rods you use, what's a good starter rod and all kinds of questions about rods. So today I'm pretty much going to talk about what is the best for you and what kind of rods I use, which most of you guys already know what I use, I use St. Croix Rods, as you can tell I have one of their new jerseys on, footage of jerseys. St. Croix rods, I've been with them for a while now, I've used their rods for a while and I absolutely love them and there's a few reasons why I really love them and not only are they great rods, they have a selection, they have a rod pretty much for everybody. So you're going to price range of $100, you can go with the Moodle Bass, so you're going to price range of $400, you can go with the Legend Extreme, and that's what I like about St. Croix rods, they have a rod pretty much for everybody. So I'm pretty much going to go through a few of the styles and what I would look for in a rod if you guys were looking to get one. This isn't only a video for beginners and all, this is a video for everyone as well, especially if you're looking to get some St. Croix rods. So starting off with the Moodle Bass by St. Croix rods, you can go check it out on their site. This is one of the most inexpensive rods that they make, it's around $100 and it's a phenomenal rod. I actually have a friend that went and bought, he went and bought one, because he knows I use them, he went and bought one Moodle Bass and he actually did a going back and buying six more and I'm not kidding, he's probably going to watch this video in common, but he went and bought like six more so he has like a whole deck of rods now. But the Moodle Bass, like I said, they're really, the cost of them, pretty much most people can afford them for what you're going to pay for a bass fishing rod if you're going to want it to be quality.   But the crankster is a Moodle Bass Blaster rod, I guarantee you it's the best cranking rod out there, like it's phenomenal and I'm not just saying that because I'm affiliated with St. Croix, I'm saying that because it is literally the best cranking rod out there, I've handed it all to some friends in the boat and you can't even fill the crank, like usually a big old crank big like a 10X get where you out, it will not where you out once the weather. So let's go ahead and jump into, like I said, it all depends on price range for the most part, especially with how people are with price nowadays. So people are looking for what's going to be the best deal for the Banger Your Buck. Here's a Raider rod by St. Croix, which is going to be more of a medium style range rod as in price range goes. That one's great as well. Honestly, I do not believe if they make that anymore, they said they're going to start making it, but you can still find them. I know my friends also know Dix and stuff that you can get. This is one of the more higher quality ones and this is my favorite one. So if you're looking for the best of the best, you're looking for the Mac Daddy, the best rod, most sensitivity and everything. This is a Legend Extreme, as you guys know, you see me recommend them in the videos. They are going to be a little more pricey than these, but if you're looking to spend a little bit more or you have a little bit more money to spend on a rod, I would definitely recommend going with the Legend Extreme. What I really like about it is not only is it really sensitive, the eyelets are a little bit smaller like the micro eyelets, but the handle, the handle I just love. I'm not the biggest fan of a full cork handle or even like split hair handles where it's just part cork. I'm just not the biggest fan of cork. That's when I really like the Rage Rod and the Legend Extreme because I really like this handle on there. It's kind of a rubbery feeling. I'm not exactly what that's made out of, but I really like that super light rod, it's really sensitive. So if you're looking for a really good, high quality rod, definitely go for that or a Christmas present anything. And here's the rod I'm pretty much going to recommend to all of you right here.  Not saying that the Modra Bass isn't going to last you forever, but saying that this is going to be more of the advanced fisherman's rod. This is the Legend Tournament by Sync for Rods. It does have a split grip handle. It is cork, but I still like it. If I could pick, like Legend Extreme is my favorite. If I could pick a second rod, it'd definitely be the Legend Tournament by Sync for Rods. These range from around $250, just depending on where you go, purchase it at. But definitely, it's going to definitely be worth the money. It'll last you a long, long time. If you ever have any problems with your rods, you can always contact Sync for us. It'll take care of you. But yeah, this rod is very light as well. As you can tell, I mean, I can't hold it on to you. I wish I could, but it's a very light rod. It is really sensitive. So I really like the Legend Tournament. So if you're looking for that rod that's going to be top notch and still has a grip, there is definitely a Legend Tournament. Here's one of their newest ones, this is the Abidex. I haven't got to use this too much to be honest. I did a review on it. Really like the eyelids on it, they're much smaller. It does have a split grip handle and it's a pretty light rod compared to the regular Abide which has a full cork handle. So that's the split grip. Childics split grip much more. Like I said, I'm not the biggest fan of corks. So the ones with the full cork handle, I tend not to use as much of this like the Legend Tournaments and the Abidex. But I hope this gave you guys a few tips. If it did, please give the video a thumbs up, but pretty much just going from this point. What I'm saying is, if you guys are looking for a great rod, definitely go check out Same Career Rods. And for more of the reason is they're going to have your price range. They're going to have the sensitivity wise. What are you looking for? Are you looking for a rod that's a 200 buck range? All right, how are they going to do this? You know what I mean? That's what I really like about Syncroids. And not only do they have all these styles, which just because the Modular Bass is cheaper and they're moving up to the Legend Extreme, that just means the sensitivity's going to get better and so forth. The eyelets make it smaller. They just do little adjustments to the wheels. They may have a split grip handle. So it pretty much fits everyone. There's a style for everyone at Same Career Rods. What's also good about them is they don't just have, I would say just an edge of power rod. Each one has their specific breakdowns. They have medium heavy. They have heavy. They have medium. They have medium light. So they have medium heavy. They have a seven eight medium heavy. Or they have a seven eight heavy because it's for a swim bait. Or they have a seven two medium heavy. They just have all kinds of selection. They have literally like 20 freaking setups or 20 different actions and powers for each one of the rods. So definitely go check them out. I'll leave their link below. If you have any more questions, try to comment below and I'll try to get back to you. You guys know I'm really busy but I try to get back to all the comments and I'd be sure to read them. You can also comment some of my photos on Instagram. I'll try to get back to you. Instagram, I emailed them. My DM has still messed up. I'm trying to clear it. I really want to just wipe the DM of all messages and just start over but it's not that easy. I'll have to go individually delete it but my DM's not working and I try to accept the DM half the time and delete some. I don't know why but I emailed Instagram like I said.  See you guys next time.


I was so disappointed and stressed out and underpaid in my last job at the systems engineer until one day I discovered product management career and literally it is the best career ever I can ever had in my life. It made me so happy, so relaxed, and even if I work overtime sometimes, but this is my true passion. I also get paid three times more than my old salary. I was so happy I discovered this profession once I became a PM and I also got a great mentorship, great manager, great resources and fast promotion and become a director product. And in this video, I love to invite everybody to walk into the realm of product management and share with you the top eight reasons why product management is the best career for everybody and how to become one. Make sure to stay until the end of the video where I share with you the number one reason that is going to increase your career satisfaction significantly. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nia Sidi, a director product and featured in Forbes. I have helped hundreds of people land a dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you're interested in product management course, go to pmaccelerator.io. In this channel, I cover free product management training and tech trends. Like and subscribe so you'll be notified every time I post a new video every Tuesday. If you've been in this video, let's remain happy. I'm probably going to lock through the entire video. Listen, this is like happy, happiest video ever made. First of all, let's talk about how I discover product management career. My very first job, I was a systems engineer working for Shell Oil and frequently I was the only woman in the room. People do not respect me. I literally do not like digging oil out of the ground. You can see those pictures me working on oil rigs and literally I don't like it. And I also discovered that companies intentionally slow down my green card and underpay me so they can hold me forever in the same company. I literally hate you so much. And until one day my boyfriend at the time and our husband told me that hey, have you heard of something called product management? And I was like boom, like ding dong, the like boom moment just came up. That's just open up the new opportunities for me to consider what is product management? Product management career is literally possible for everybody.  If you are fresh graduate and you have no clue what is the future can entail for you, you definitely need to start product management career because you're going to get paid as higher software engineer, but it's going to put you on a leadership track. If you're entrepreneur, you're very tired of running around and getting funding, but you're able to do the same kind of thing to building an amazing product in a big corporation. And then you want to take a break from entrepreneurship, product management career is definitely the best for you. So so many different reasons people want to become product manager, but now let me share with you the reason number two. Product management is in high demand and high salary category. In my last video right here, I talk about so many companies hiring thousands of product managers right now and some of them are getting paid at $900,000 per year. And this is like no brainer, it's a high demand. They cannot find enough product managers are qualified for the job. And also let's take a look at the salary product managers. Product managers, as I said, in Netflix, they're paying people $900,000 per year for AI product manager and Meta L7 level, which is most senior product manager, and they're getting paid at $800,000 per year. And now let's talk about entry-level product manager. Fresh graduate out of college with zero work experience, they're getting paid at $150,000 per year working for Microsoft and working for Google, working for Meta in those APM program. But do you know that someone who is a marketing director is only going to pay $130,000 per year? But entry-level product manager joined the fan company getting paid $150,000 per year. In this case, at least 20 years younger than those marketing directors. No brainer is definitely the highest paid job and with the brightest future. I had a more in-depth video where I talk about the six-figure tax salary breakdown. You can take a look right here. I'm also going to link it in the description of this video. The second reason product management is the best career ever is the leadership opportunities. Product managers are the CEO of product. You decide everything into and about product from working with engineers, developing the prototype, then working with sales marketing team to launch a product, and working with legal team to make sure they're actually getting protected from legal perspective. Most people will wait until the age of 30 or even 40 to become a leader start managing people. As a product manager, the first job you start your career, you can start to manage product and working a cross-functional team. Of course, it will take you a couple of years to become the director of product start managing people, but your first ever job is already a leadership position. This is a fast track to accelerate anyone's career. If you want to learn the end to end, what does the PM do? Feel free to check out this video and also click the link in the description where you can download the checklist of day-to-day roles and responsibilities of a product manager. Number three is the variety and challenges. Every single day is different. Every single team is different. Every single task is very different. As a product manager, we need to work with all different kind of stakeholders, sales, marketing, legal, customer success, everybody. And you're also facing a variety of different tasks. Not just, hey, let's do coding, let's code, let's do data analytics. Every single day is boring. But product managers, when you start the product, you start to work on more products, doing customer interviews. And then you're moving closer towards the end of product management life cycle. You design the go-to-market strategy. You work with the sales marketing team to design the value proposition product. So it's a variety of skills, variety of tasks, variety of people you work with. This is truly exceptional, very happy. And you're facing challenges all the time because the more people you need to work with, the more different skill set you develop, the more challenges you're facing. But those good challenges to have to push you to grow faster and better. Number four, big customer impact. Let me tell you the differences. If you're someone who just crunching data behind the Excel sheet and you go home, your parents ask you, what did you do? Or you launch a product that is something that was available on Apple App Store. What is a feature that has been used by millions or even billions of Google users? What does this feel like when people ask you, hey, what kind of product did you launch? What do you do? You're creating amazing impact to millions of people if you do B2C product. You can also create big impact to B2B product by creating enterprise product. And these kind of impact truly fill your human desire, feel like you're very satisfied about your job as a product manager. I told you to be smiling throughout the entire video because I love it. In my next video, I'm going to show you different kind of life case studies of different tech companies launching amazing product and impact millions of people's life, what methodology they'll be using. So therefore make sure to subscribe to the channel and turn on the bell button to be notified when I upload a new video coming soon. Fix the reason this best career for you. It is a fast paced environment. When I was a PhD student at Boston University, I asked my PhD advisor, how long it takes for my research from the lab to put into the hands of customers and become a reality. The answer is 15 years. Oh my goodness. When I heard the answer, I was like 15 years. When my son was born and 15 years later, he is in high school. Oh, finally, mom's product and research can hit people's lives and can start to impact people's lives. 15 years is really long. But if you are a product manager, your product development cycle can only be assured as three months to develop MVP and test out. And you have a flush out product within six months at the fastest and sometimes maybe takes a year. But it's much significantly faster, 15 times faster than any other industry, any other space, any kind of research out there. This truly makes everything so dynamic and happy. May people love your job and see the impact of your effort right away. Number six, everyone can become a product manager. This is also the main reason everyone should try to become a PM. Because in the past, product management has no traditional training. You take a degree, you can become a product manager. It's different because product manager has a very diverse skillset. There's no one set path to become a PM. So therefore, I have taught hundreds of students in the past and they came from very different backgrounds. From art student become product manager, educational background become a product manager, CPA accountant become a product manager, consultant become a product manager, soft engineer become a product manager, marketer become a product manager, investment banker become a product manager. Any possible domain you can think about, they all have become a product manager. So that's why everybody should just give a try because this career is available for everybody who like to put in the effort. Check out, I have more in-depth analysis regarding how can you become a product manager with nine steps, with no experience. Check out more videos right here. I'm also going to link it in the description of this video. Reason number seven, product management has the best income to work-life balance ratio. But there are some professions out there can probably achieve similar type of work satisfaction, such as customer success, people engaged with customers, but they're getting paid very low. Marketers can design the gold market strategy, but they're also getting paid very low. McKenzie consultant get paid well enough, however they're working 60 to 80 hours per week and literally the hair just falling off, then literally have health issues if they stay in their lifestyle forever. Software engineer getting paid about 10% higher than product managers. However, I think most people just do not like to become a software engineer. Software engineers sometimes also work in long hours sitting in front of a computer. If you're able to become a great product manager, join a fan company, you're getting paid even higher than any other software engineers out there. Product manager are getting paid the highest based on the income to work-life balance ratio. By the way, product managers are still getting paid higher than McKenzie consultant, even if we work half of the time on what they do. Reason number eight, which is my most important reason, I personally believe that everybody should consider becoming a product manager, which is the new era of working from home opportunities. So many people try to work from home after pandemic and so many people try to have the balance of hybrid opportunities or even fully working from home. Product management is a special unique position that enables you to work from home, work from anywhere, so that you're able to enjoy the work-life balance. Like me, I live in Miami for the winter and Boston in the summer. This truly made me feel like I can really get closer to my family and also have a perfect work-life balance. And even if I think new mom is difficult, but this type of job actually enables me to love my life much more and enjoy my family much more. So by now, you should be convinced that everybody should just become a product manager immediately. Therefore, you should go to this website and download the product management resume template, which have been used by 90,000 product managers to help them to jumpstart their product management career. I'm going to also link it in the description of this video and make sure to check out this video right here. And we are talking about the nine steps to become a product manager with no experience at all. This is Dr. Nancy Lee from PMX Surgeon Diome. We'll see you in my next video right here.


We began with the things that praises of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We say in every single prayer and we began with the kamdu l-tadim of the Al-Ali. Praising him and taking him subhanahu wa ta'ala. And then we call upon his name that he has chosen to be at the forefront of his book, Al-Wahman al-Raki. And so these names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala are the most merciful. The one who is expansive in his mercy and the one who selects specifically those who he wants to give mercy to. So we call upon these names of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala recognizing his mercy. And followed by that we say, Maliki Yalmini, the Master of the Day of Judgment. And who else would we want to judge us on the Day of Judgment except the one who is our Rahman and our Heir? And so for this reason Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gives us hope that we have mercy in front of us. We have mercy awaiting us. But only if what? If we only rely on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for help. And we only rely on Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and we only worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And so we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to make us amongst those people, because those who have been on this path have been given innumerable blessings. They have been covered and drowned in the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.  Those who choose to go astray. What do you need? And we ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to accept for us. One of the tricks of the Shaytan is that he wants to convince us that we cannot be close to him subhanahu wa ta'ala. That we are too sinful to be close to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and his messengers. But Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and this Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wasallam teach us something different. They teach us that every single one of us has the opportunity to be extremely near to him subhanahu wa ta'ala within the belief of Allah. That we do not need to despair from the mercy of Allah. We do not need to be scared of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. There is fear and there is a place for fear. But when fear comes such that it takes us away from Allah that is looked down upon. So we need to have a hope that we can be close to him subhanahu wa ta'ala. And we hear stories of those who are close to him subhanahu wa ta'ala. Of those who are close to the Habib sallallahu alayhi wasallam. We hear the stories of the Sahaba. We hear the stories of the Sadaf. We hear the stories of the great Awliya. Yet every single one of these people including the Awliya, including the Sadaf and including the Sahaba had flaws within them. The only one who was perfect on this earth were those who were given the category of the Awliya. Every single other human being that followed was flawed. They committed a sin. They could have been people who lost hope in the mercy of Allah and said, I have sinned and I cannot return to him. Yet those are the very same people who sinned in the night and who sinned in the day that they recognize the mercy of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and chose to be close to him. And so Allah brought them close to him. One of the biggest deceptions that shaytan will teach us one of the biggest deceptions that the shaytan will teach us is that we're not good enough. That we are not good enough. Yet our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ tells us something different. He tells us in a hadith that someone will both their entire life committing sin upon sin upon sin until they are so close to the fire of jahannam that they are only one arm's length away from it. And then a realization comes to them. Whether the demand of Allah and the power of Allah, what is written in the books, overtakes what they have done their entire lives. And they do one action that is good, just one. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala includes this person into the people of jannah. And on the other hand the person who spends their entire life doing good and good and good until they are one arm's length away from entering into jannah. Then Allah's command comes and they commit one sin. And they are thrown into the fire of jahannam. It is but one action, one moment, the blink of an eye that takes us from the people who are damned eternally to hell to the people who enjoy blissful paradise. Do not be deceived by the shayfah in thinking that you are too less. Do not be deceived by people who say it will take years for you to become good. Do not be deceived by people who say you need to spend 20 years on this path until you can achieve something good. It is just but one moment of sincerity in our hearts in which we turn to Allah that takes us from the worst to the best. And these opportunities present themselves over and over and over again to us. The month of Ramadan approaches in every moment in the month of Ramadan is an opportunity for us to turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. An opportunity for us to reach the heights of station. But those people who are waiting for Ramadan for this opportunity are also being deceived by shaytan. Because in this moment right now as we attend this beautiful gathering of believers surrounded worshipping the one Lord, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala He is giving you an opportunity that when you leave this gathering you are the most beloved creature on this earth in the eyes of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And that is His promise that a person will attend the Juma and then they will attend another Juma. And all of their sins will be forgiven in between. We can walk out of this Juma, sinless, devoted to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and His messengers, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We can be the people who you hear stories about. It just takes one moment in our hearts of turning sincerely to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And those people who say, oh no, I have too much sin in my heart. I have jealousy in my heart. I have pride in my heart. I have arrogance in my heart. To those people I give you the words of the masters of this tradition. One of them said that the sins of the heart are much easier to cleanse than the sins of your body. So do not be fooled into thinking that the journey of the heart is a difficult journey. The journey of the heart is an easy journey and you can switch it in a single moment. The heart of the believer is in between the fingers of our Rahman and he chooses to flip however he wills. The things that are most difficult for us to do is to change our outward, to change our body. That's where Shaytan is going to deceive us.   At least in worship. Sisters who don't wear modest clothing, put on modest clothing. These are difficult words to hear and it hurts us in our hearts. These are difficult things to abide by. Difficult things and it's like, why is this hurting me so much to follow the sunnah of the Habib sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We can do one thing to change our outward in the days leading up to Ramadan. Allah will switch everything that belongs within us, the state of our hearts. He will bring us closer to Him in an instant and we're going to look back before this Ramadan and after this Ramadan and we're going to drop in sujood to Allah crying to Him, thanking Him from the ignorance that He has saved us from. From this life that He has saved us from in which we do not have Him in it. It takes but one moment, one moment of sincerity to say I'm going to do this one action sincerely for the sake of Allah that He will bring us closer to Him. I ask Allah SWT to make us sincere, to make us firm and steadfast on this path to be able to say the best words that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us to say. When the Sahabi asked him, what can I do? That I'll never need anything again. He said, qul'a mantu bi'l-daa tum masdafim. Say that I believe and then be steadfast upon it. And of course we all say that I bear witness, I testify. Ashadu an-la ilaha illallah that there is none but Allah. There is no honor and dignity in this life except with Allah. And the best and most perfect example to follow is that of Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. So do I stand up to the challenge to be like him sallallahu alayhi wa sallam or will I continue to reject him in my life? I ask Allah to make us of those who are accepted, who turn to Him, who follow the surah, who are always underneath the shade and the mercy of Allah SWT


by the early 20th century. Hmm, cool. I like the underpinnings idea. That seems to make sense. Could be rhyming slang, but since it's an Americanism, I feel like it would more likely just be, you know, like the brass tacks are sort of like the essential things that really hold the furniture together. None of those tin tacks, they just fall apart. Right. Well, if you want a good couch, make sure it has some brass tacks in there. Right. The facts. It needs some brass tacks for my dog crate. My couch has a bunch of screws and staples. Mine, too. Yeah, my couch, I think, is mostly staples and some screws. I want to recushion my cushions, but get down to screws just doesn't doesn't play. As I have an alternative meeting and the staples are the less solid part of it. So that doesn't work for them. Look, there's a reason we have brass tacks. All right, we somebody's already gone through and done all this algebra to figure it out. I would like my couch to be made only with brass tacks, please. You know, the game of the throne. The iron throne, the brass throne, copper throne. In the way, it's uncomfortable and cold.  And apparently, in the books, apparently, it is very uncomfortable. They mentioned that it never gets brought up in the TV show. Yeah, the the blades are actually still sharpened. And yeah, when you sit in it, it actually digs into your skin. Yeah, well, because it's not like you use those blades, so they're going to stay sharp. Yeah. That rust, no, that's what was your your volume went back down again for those talking into my brain. All right, get that get that thing up in your face. Good girl, Lewis. All right, I think we're probably ready. Everybody. I. Well, I know I am. Roger. Yes. Dude. I don't know if you have any EQ on it, Amos, but if you can brighten it up a little, that might help, too. It's a little bit of Basie. Cocoa. All right, how about now? Oh, yeah, that's better. All right. Oh, OK, Miss Lane. Oh, I bet I know what this is. I prevail upon you to read line three today. You may prevail. Good. We shall overcome now. All right. Well, we'll begin in like 20 seconds. Here we go. All right. Fettle in for a good time and a great taste and a little history from Amos. It's going to be fun. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Thanks to everybody who supports independent tech news directly. If you're not already, become a DTNS member at patreon.com slash DTNS. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, November 28, 2018, in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And back at Studio Fila and I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm Roger with The Fate. Incredible. And producer of the show. What are you trying to say? I I I made a boo boo. And I said you would have never had to say anything about it. I just need to to to to to repeat. Yeah, all right. Today, sometimes the person in Roger's seat, our associate producer, Anthony Lemos, a.k.a. Amos joining us as a guest today. How's it going, Amos? I'm doing well. This has been been a long time coming. I'm proud to be here. Yeah, yeah. We had an idea from one of our listeners to talk about the tech that folks in the military use to keep in touch with their families back home. And, and, Anthony, how long have you been in the service? Creeping up on my twenty fourth year. So we're going to get a kind of a through the year's view of how it's changed and where it is now in a little bit. But let's start with a few tech things you should know. That would be me. Repent Google has added fast pair Bluetooth device syncing for accessories to Android and promised a little ride for Chromebooks in 2019, fast pair automatically pairs accessories to any device logged into your Google account, meaning your headphones can automatically be paired to your new phone. Nintendo reported Wednesday that U.S. customers spent two hundred fifty million dollars on Nintendo products between Thursday and Monday last week. Lifetime sales of the Nintendo switch in the United States rose eight point two million as a result rose to eight point two million. Adobe Analytics reports that the switch was one of the topselling products across all categories for the weekend. During a hearing yesterday, New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan said she believed it was time to investigate loot boxes. She asked FTC Chairman Joseph Simmons if he would quote commit to undertaking this project and keeping this committee informed about it. Simmons said, yes, I love all the headlines are like FTC announces investigation into loot boxes. And the only thing the guy said was yes. I will keep you informed. All right, let's talk a little bit more about Project PHY, which is no longer called Project PHY. Google has changed the name of the cellular service to Google PHY. And still PHY the service used to only let you activate a sim on a select number of phones that supported PHY's multi-carrier feature. Project PHY would run on T-Mobile, Sprint and U.S. cellular, as well as provide VPN for you if you wanted it over some software that Google had that worked on the Google phones or worked on the Motorola phones and a few other phones that you could buy. But you couldn't activate it on anything else except those phones. However, if you activated it on the phone, you could take the sim card out and put it in another phone. It's just that you would only get T-Mobile at that point. It wouldn't be able to take advantage of the multi-carrier. Well, now Google PHY will let you activate on most Android phones and iPhones. However, there's still that issue of you're only going to use T-Mobile. You're not going to get the multi-cellular service. You're not going to get the VPN service, but everything else is there. The low rate, the rollover minutes, the ability to roam without any extra charge.  And in fact, they're doing some sales to kind of help you with this. They'll refund the price of a device you buy if you're going to use it for Google PHY with a travel card. Either I think it's either a flight on Delta or some Airbnb credits or something like that to kind of promote the fact that they've got a really good roaming plan. But I think this will make Project PHY a little more attractive to people. Well, and it's called Google PHY now, Tom. I'm sorry. Google PHY. Gotcha. I'm going to keep that for a while. Yeah, I don't know. Google PHY makes more sense branding-wise. Projects kind of sounds like we're just trying something out. It's a little tinkering project that we're doing. Yeah. OK. Well, the company sounds like it's serious about getting this out to more folks. Yeah. And W. Scottus 1 is saying like, so basically in announcing a feature I could already do by working around. Yes, they're basically saying we'll support that now. But you won't have to do the little dance where you go try to find a phone to activate your SIM on before you move it, which that's going to let a lot more people try this out. Anthony, have you ever used Google PHY? I have not. But this is very interesting to me because a lot of people are overseas and would love to have something like this military-wise.  And a lot of times something just as simple as this that you'd be able to use on both sides of the ocean would be really helpful. So this is interesting to me. Yeah, just and it's pretty easy to sign up for. I signed up for it when I had a Nexus 5X. I just had them send me a SIM card. You popped it in, you launch an app and you activate. So I suppose you'll just have to get an app from the Android store or the iOS store now to do it. There may be a different way of activating. I haven't figured that part out yet. But the SIM card will work. So there you go. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that YouTube is planning to scale back original scripted programming starting in 2020. YouTube's Robert Kinkel says the company is shifting towards free viewing of originals. YouTube is also testing plans where premium subscribers get episodes early or with extended cuts. Yeah, this is interesting. I think it's clear that YouTube realizes the perception of them no matter the reality. You know, the karate kid spinoff is great. People love it, but the perception is I don't want to pay YouTube for original content. Yeah, I'll rent a movie from YouTube. Maybe I'll pay for YouTube TV service. I don't want to pay them for things to watch on YouTube. It just doesn't feel right to people. So this seems like a pretty smart move. I wonder what the what the user base of YouTube bread is these days because this this seems to be, I guess, Apple aside, even though technically Apple is still rumored to be launching a bunch of original programs. But this seems to be a trend cutting back on stuff that is more expensive for the company with with perhaps diminishing returns as far as as far as getting new users and having folks be paying money back. Facebook is another company that comes to mind. But but yeah, it's people people think of YouTube as this is where I watch stuff for free. And that doesn't mean they can't have originals. It doesn't even mean they have to get rid of YouTube premium. I mean, talking about premium and formerly YouTube red. Yeah, well, and talking about premium is sort of a way to give you bonuses, right, rather than a subscription service. I think that fits more into the YouTube ethos of like, yes, I can watch it for free. I will pay for extra things if those things are there. You see some major YouTube channels that will do that. Like they'll do early releases or maybe some some special bonus videos for their super fans that want to subscribe to a channel. But all of those channels still put out their main video for free ad supported. What excites me about this is that, you know, YouTube just recently started joining this whole TV craze and trying to get this original program and things like that going on. But now they're they're shifting their focus pretty early in the process. And that really shows that it's it's valuable. It's it's changeable. And they're recognizing that it's not they're not set in their way so much that they're not willing to change the direction as as they see the market change. And overall, this market is maturing. This is an example of the shakeout where it says, maybe another subscription service is not going to work for us. We'll leave that to Netflix, Hulu and Prime Video. You're seeing the same thing with Warner, where, yes, it has to do with the fact that AT&T bought them. But when you step back from that, here's another example of a company shutting down some streaming services, because for whatever reason, they they just can't compete as well with services. So the complaints about there's too many of these services. I've always said when the market matures, you'll that'll become less of a problem. And here's another example of that. LG announced that Brian Kwan, head of the profitable TV, audio and PC segment of LG has taken over as LG's head of the less profitable division of mobile phones, or at least he will take over starting December 1st. Kwan will remain head of LG's home entertainment business. He's not leaving that business that he has turned into a very profitable business. He's just going to take over the mobile phone business as well. LG's current mobile head, Huang Zhang-Huan, will lead the company's Convergence Business Development Office. And LG's president and CFO David Young will take on more day to day responsibilities, while the CEO, Joe Song-Jin, focuses more on strategy and planning for the future. These feel like parallel moves here. David and Brian Kwan being pushed forward, saying you guys are doing great. Whereas Joe Song-Jin and Huang Zhang-Huan say being moved into a strategy position, which I can't tell if that's just sidelining them. Or if it's like, well, you guys are really good at future stuff. You're just not good with the actual execution of things day to day. Especially when you have something called the Convergence Business Development Office. Yeah. Which is like one of the most meaningless titles. I'm sure it's very important. Sure, it means something to LG, but it's not very clearly apparent from the name, what that could mean. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like if Brian Kwan is any time an executive is doing great in some areas of a business and is thrown one that is flailing, I guess, for lack of a better word, it's because the company wants it to succeed. Yeah. They want to turn that around. Well, and that's a good thing. I think a lot of people thought maybe LG should just give up on mobile and get out of the phone business, even though they make really good phones. A lot of people have felt the same thing about HTC. They're like, look, you can't compete with Xiaomi and Huawei and ZTE. You might as well just fold up because it's either Samsung and the iPhone or these mid-tier companies that are eaten up the middle and you can't compete. And LG is saying, no, I think we can. We just need to put the right person in charge. It'll be interesting to watch and see what LG comes out with. Well, we might get our first look. I mean, it's pretty early in his reign, but LG is going to have a big press conference at CES on that Monday at CES. It'll be interesting to see what the messaging is, even if it's too early for any products to really be impacted by Kwan. Instagram announced new features for visually impaired people, allowing screen reader software to describe photos by reading custom descriptions that are added by users who upload photos. Now, if a user doesn't add a description themselves, Instagram will attempt to describe what's in a photo using AI and then read it. It's automated description of a photo out loud when the photo is scrolling by. Users will have to go into a photo's advanced settings to add one manually. So this is certainly an extra step, but if you've got visually impaired folks who are following you, it is really cool that the company is allowing this. And Facebook's been doing this for some time, too. Yeah, that's true. Facebook has been ahead of Instagram on this, and this is fantastic if you need that kind of accessibility. I don't I'd be curious. I know we have visually impaired people in the audience. So if you try this out and you can tell which ones are the AI descriptions, let us know how good they are. I'd be I'd be curious if you can't tell. I mean, I think that would that would tell you something right there. But I'm very curious to know how good this AI reading of it, because that's significant. I'm a little frustrated with Instagram burying the the alternative text in the advanced settings. A lot of people don't even know there are advanced settings in Instagram. It's almost grayed out at the bottom of the of the post screen where you pick your options. So not a lot of people are going to do this, sadly. I wish they would make that more prominent and say, Hey, you might want to describe this for people who can't see it. But that get that said, maybe these AI descriptions end up being pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I I I would be curious. I don't know if any of you have used green reader software. I have not personally, but I I have a mind to try it out just to see what what stuff I get back. But yeah, anybody in the audience feedback at Daily Tech News Show. Yeah, have you ever run into any any any friends or anybody who's needed this sort of thing? This is actually one of those things that, you know, Instagram, such a visual medium that I would never be personally never considered using it for visually impaired people. Like, how do you adapt that to see that they're using AI to do that? When the people the setting that they hide isn't being used. It actually gives me a little bit of hope for AI. So this thing, you know, one step further away than I thought it was. I mean, if you compare it to Facebook and and how good it has gotten at detecting faces of all of us or friends or suggesting, oh, do you want to tag this person? And it's pretty usually right. I I I'd love to know. It's like, is this is this a picture of Sarah Lane? Or is it more of like, this is a picture of a woman in a chair? Yeah, we're wearing a feather shirt or it's it's a yeah, I'm really curious. This is a cloud in the sky. Like, no. Possibly flattering, I guess. I don't know. But yeah, I'm curious about that, too. And yeah, if if folks like are like Amos and hadn't really thought of visually impaired people using Instagram because it's pictures, folks don't want to be left out of the conversation. Right. If if Instagram is where folks are are trading information and talking about things and commenting with each other, you want to be part of that, even if the picture is described to you. That that's still a good experience in a lot of cases and you feel part of it. Instagram is over a billion users. There are going to be quite a few visually impaired folks that can take advantage of this. Yeah. So good on you. AWS Ground Station has launched AWS, of course, Amazon Web Services having a big conference right now with lots of enterprisey stuff. You can check out some good resources out there like ZDNet to find out what's going on there. But one that caught our eye to talk about on DTNS is the AWS Ground Station, which is meant to make it easier for satellites to send data back to Earth. AWS CEO Andy Jassy says it's the first fully managed ground station as a service moving data from satellites into AWS data centers. So customers will pay per minute of downlink time. AWS has two stations that will be ready to go this week. They hope to have 12 operational by the middle of next year. And the idea would be you don't have to set up expensive downlinks. You just point your satellite at AWS and then you you have an AWS instance where your data is securely shared with you. And your data goes from above the clouds into the cloud and to your place to business. AWS is also partnering with Lockheed Martin on a network of low cost ground based antennas to help capture that satellite data and move it into the network as well. Well, the other day we sort of wondered aloud if there was anything Amazon wouldn't get into. And I think the answer is no. Alison Sheridan was joking with me on text message. She's like, so now you can send your your satellite all events on basics things into the cloud or into orbit and and start sharing your data over your Amazon web service instance. This this is crazy, though, right? The it's the natural outgrowth of, hey, we're a cloud service. What else needs to share data that's really hard that we can make easier? And then that's what AWS is doing here. This really brought to my mind how much we're still using satellites because I still had that stigma in my mind that satellite communication is so slow and so unreliable because of weather and this and that. But then if Amazon's getting into it to have these ground stations set up and partnering with Lockheed Martin and things like that, then there's probably a lot more satellite information out there than I'm aware of. And that's and a lot more satellites going up for experimental reasons, you know, not just communication, but also for for for other sorts of tests, CubeSats, stuff like that. So this could this could actually revolutionize satellite activity by helping make it easier to to use as much as CubeSats have revolutionized the ability to send something into orbit for cheap. This this could make it cheaper to keep in contact with it. Folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to Daily Tech headlines dot com. So a background Veterans Day, big Jim, host of tech and trade and a long running DTS patron suggested that we talk about how soldiers use tech overseas to stay connected at home. Anthony, aka Amos here is just finishing up his stint in the Air Force and generously agreed to talk to us that both about how it is now, but also how it was when he first entered the service more than 20 years ago. Amos takes through it. So I was thinking about this and going back into 1997 was my first deployment, which is probably before some of our audience was even born. Possibly, yeah.  Gotcha. Oh, my gosh. It was it would take three to four weeks for a letter to get through a package would take even longer. Most people didn't have email at the time. Again, this is 97. So AOL was really starting to catch on and in proliferate. And but we didn't have email accounts at work and couldn't get to a lot of the email servers at work. And we didn't have Wi-Fi or anything else like that going on. There was there was no computer areas that you could go to and use. And we had what was what's called the defense switched network, which is a telephone line that the Department of Defense runs called DSN. And we were limited to one 10 minute phone call every two weeks. Whoa. So it improved a year later in 98, when I when I deployed to the same location. Everybody had email by then we had a USO calling center and they would give us AT&T gift cards like the holidays where we call home. But it was still a long distance phone call and it cost like a minute or a dollar or something per minute. But it got a lot a lot better, even though the DSN was still limited to 10 minutes every two weeks. We're still just talking about voice. We're not even talking about data yet. Oh, yeah, we're just purely voice. Yeah, this is this is this is really a hard time. And from what I understand, this is a lot better than what it was before I came in, you know, 10 years prior to me coming to the military. It was mail only like if you couldn't write a letter, you didn't communicate. And there's a lot of people use that to their advantage because they didn't really particularly like their home life or whatever. Some of them were the opposite and you'd have people trading your 10 minute phone calls for packs of cigarettes and things like that. It sounds archaic, but it happens. Wow. And my next deployment after that was in 1999, we went to a bare base for Operation Allied Force. DSN and USPS were the only ones we had. And again, you're still limited to your two or your 10 minute phone call every two weeks. And at that time, I had a computer that we'd brought from our shop back home and talk to the com guys. I was like, hey, can we just go ahead and get a little connection here?  But we just had the one computer for 300 of us that were all deployed at this one location because of you.  Otherwise, you wouldn't have had one, right? I'm also the one that bought the cigarettes to con the guy and con the guy to the com. Because at the time, we also had just a little shop shop at and they'd only get so many, you know, supplies. So if you didn't bite on the open market there in Turkey, then you weren't going to get it. My next deployment was in 2008. We've been at nine years or so now. Yeah. Facebook and Twitter became allowed to be used on Air Force Networks. And this was a big jump. We go from DSN, which is phone calls and post office and maybe trading some cigarettes so you can hook up a computer you brought yourself to Facebook and Twitter. That's that's crazy. Yeah. And the problems with Facebook and Twitter were, especially in 2008, everything was on Facebook and Twitter. They weren't paring it down. So you'd have all these friends posting all these crazy things that you couldn't have on the government computer. Meanwhile, you log on just to chat, but some of this other stuff pops up and you start getting in trouble for what other people are posting their feeds. I personally never use Facebook at work. I just want to deal with it. Yeah. Just some of the groups that I have that are really funny groups, but they have crude pictures, things like that is not worth it. And then 2010 was my next big deployment and USO, as I mentioned before, it was a lifeline. They had an entire center built up where they had services where you could call home. They had phone lines that you'd be able to use. You could sign up and call for a certain amount of time. They had phone cards that you could use. They had computers set up to Skype back and forth to the states. It was a slow connection, but it was available. They had this one thing because I went during the holidays and they had this one thing where I was a volunteer there. And what I would do is one of my duties there was to go into this booth and we had a library of books and we'd actually record many DVDs of soldiers and airmen and sailors reading these books to their kids. And then we bail it out to their kids for free. That's really cool. And part of me, and this is getting a little sappy here, but part of me knows that there are some of those people that read those and then went off into the field. And that was the last communication they had with their family.  That USO, they had they had Xboxes and Play Stations. And it was just a great way you could hop on the Xbox, sign into your Xbox Live account and play with your kids back home. Yeah, that's cool. It was amazing. And then my final deployment last time I went overseas for deployment purposes was 2014. We had Wi-Fi in the dormitories, which were basically just trailers, but whatever, still better than living in tents where it was in 97. And the USO is still a big part of that because they not only operated a lot of the Wi-Fi locations, they still operated the the Xbox and PlayStation locations and the morale tent and things like that. And they had they brought in shows and everything else. But having Wi-Fi brought its own problems because now everybody has connected devices with low-fusion sensing and you can't have everybody turn it off.  Half the people don't do it. Yeah. So now, you know, you had to limit the Wi-Fi to just the living area because you couldn't take your phones to work and stuff because they didn't want people seeing how you were being tracked into work and putting your phones away and stuff like that. So it came with its own problems. But on the flip side, I could sit in the comfort of my own bunk and Skype my family or FaceTime my family back home. And it's been a huge difference in that, but 17 year span. Ridiculously easy. Now, if you're out way in remote areas, totally different story, of course. There's no Wi-Fi setup. You still get your DSM phone calls if the connections going through and we go back to the satellites there. But yeah, it's still it's gotten so much better and it really depends on your location. Now, when when you're in a remote area, I mean, obviously, if it's remote, it's probably not even going to have coverage in a lot of cases. But let's say there was coverage. Is that allowed to have your own cell phone? Or is it is it the problem of like, no, we don't want anyone here to have cell phones on the field because again, they could be tracked. So again, that's one of those things where they can tell you no, but someone's going to sneak away through and then we have some contractors that are allowed to go off base and they may live downtown and you can sublet a SIM card, which is one of the things that I did in 2010. And it adds an extra level confusion, but a lot of these places are so remote. There's no service. There's no civilian towns anywhere near it and they won't have Wi-Fi on the base at all. So you're basically limited to just DSN, your three week turnaround on a letter that you write back home and things like that. It's it's still it's not nice in some places. Yeah, I mean, it sounds actually really lonely, at least at times. I was actually I was kind of surprised that Twitter and Facebook, even though I know it's if someone's being inappropriate, then you're the one who gets in trouble. But 2008 is before a lot of folks were on Twitter or Facebook, at least if you think of the general population. So it surprises me that the the Air Force was was on top of that so early. I mean, I only started Twitter in 2007. Yeah, a lot of that was just pressure of people not being able to reach folks back home. And it was another lifeline that's very low bandwidth when you're talking about just chatting back and forth. And there's if you if you could break out your messenger into a separate window and close out the window, your chat would actually really be pretty quick. And it increased a lot of the connectivity for people. Sometimes on just during base exercises, you're not allowed to, you know, break out and talk in yourself on things like that.  But really a lifeline, just a little communication sources like that were just amazing. Wow, quite an evolution. Yeah, well, thank you, Avis for for sharing that with us. And folks, if you've got more questions, we can always shuttle on Amos's way at feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. Thanks also to everyone who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on others at DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com. I will be looking for yours tomorrow when I do Daily Tech headlines. And facebook.com. Slash groups slash DailyTechNewShow is another way you can be part of the conversation. And in fact, you can email us too. And then it goes in the mail bag and sometimes we read them like this one. Yaru in Malaysia weighed in really good information. We kind of kicked around the idea of does the world need physical cartridges anymore when we were discussing Sony's handheld patent story yesterday, Yaru points out that for consoles and dedicated gaming platforms, retailers still play an important role in supply and marketing. And as a rule, the companies try to placate them. This is one of the many reasons why digital games have the same MSRP as much as physical ones despite the lower cost as to not alienate those retailers. When Microsoft announced the Xbox Monthly Games program some months back, got a lot of pushback from independent retailers because software sales are important and those retailers threaten to not support Microsoft hardware anymore. On the gamer side, Yaru says, while I'm generally pro-digital, I'm against getting rid of physical sales entirely. We're still sort of in limbo when it comes to ownership of games. In addition to the option of being able to resale your games, we live in a world where DRM is getting tighter and tighter as the companies put more controls and restrictions in their physical media, despite it's downside, gives you that feeling of control and ownership. Yeah, we got a few emails from people who are wanting to have physical game cartridges pulled from their cold dead hands before they give them up. And if you are, if you are someone who feels that way, you can come up with all the reasons why physical cartridges shouldn't go away and they're great reasons. My only reaction is, and I'm curious, Amos, if you think about it this way too, is a lot of people just don't want to deal with them anyway. You can say like, hey, cartridges aren't heavy. You can carry them around with you, but people sometimes are like, yeah, but I don't want to have to remember to put them in the bag and maybe I'll lose them. And you can say that silly as the trade-off for the benefit of cartridges, but I think that's the way things are gonna go. Amos, what do you think? I think there will always be a market for cartridges because there will always be people that are using different systems in different locations, such as a deployment, you can take your games with you without taking your box with you. But I go personally almost entirely digital if possible, because mostly because I have two PlayStation 4, so if I buy it on my account that my kids can play on one PS4, while I'm playing upstairs as a guest on the other PS4, and we can play against each other, just buying the game one time. So there's, it's messy. 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Show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program. That was great, Amos. Thank you so much for that. Yeah, that was, so I've had this head cold for a couple of days now and I was hoping to really muscle through it and I didn't want to chew my gum because I've got my mic turned up so loud I can hear myself chew and I was like. Started coming back right as I was getting ready to start talking to him like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, Roger's been fighting a cold for weeks now, too. I don't even know what it is. This is kind of, you won't go away. My chest is less watery than it was before, so that's good. That's always good. So there's, IG can see FOMO. Get it, Instagram can see if you're missing out. Oh, okay, okay. There's also, what was it? Where was it? Oh, from snail mail, the video chat or stars and bites forever. Stars and stripes forever. That's kind of, that's kind of clever. From still, that's good too. And then Instagram can see for you, except see for you is the letter C for number four of the new. I don't know, what do y'all like? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Roger will play music while we decide. I like stars and bites forever. That one's not bad. Good, done. Benito complete. Cut it, bring it, done. Yeah, it's not funny. I find it interesting that even in the remote areas, they'll still do DSP, they'll still do the voice calls. I think that there would be a way to now do data that would be less costly and more efficient. Maybe there is. The thin line is essentially data, but because voice is so, it's controllable because you have to have a certain device to be able to use it. Yeah, yeah. So if you just allow data, then all of a sudden you can, it's a whole other. Security. Exactly, it can be breached, so. Yeah. Especially until the quote, unquote enemy, the adversary finds out where you are and how many people you have there and until there's enough information about your base, anything that you can control, you will. Yeah, sure. And then once that really gets out and it's kind of known, hey, the military's here, or the US military's here and they got this number of people, then things start loosening up because now the element is. Well, and the thing is, high level, properly implemented encryption is probably actually, even on the internet, more secure than that voice call. There are so many ways to go wrong in implementing it, right? Whereas the voice call stuff, they've been doing that for a long time. They know exactly how to do it right, right? So it's trustworthy for that reason. Yeah. Like the satellites are going up, they're still using 1960s technology because they know it. Yeah, satellites, I wonder if there's a good person to speak to what satellites are like now, because yeah, satellites are not Telstar anymore. They're a lot more sophisticated than that, I'm sure. It just struck me that they were doing the ground things and I was like, well, that just means that it's gone somewhere past where my perception is because my perception is still 20 years old. Yeah, it makes sense. You get what, 128K down and... Yeah, you can get satellite internet that's faster than 128K, right? Yeah. But down at least for sure. A lot of times the up is the hard part. With that and the lag, because you're dialing into the internet, dialing into an ISP to send out and then receiving by a... By a... By a... Yeah, I know some people who were doing that and go just a couple of years ago and they're like, what, we can actually get like fast and... Do you watch videos on your internet? Like, yes. You can get some Indiana, you can get some fast and... Well, we're losing you, Amos.  You're starting to lean. Your satellite's going out of orbit. Yeah, exactly. The date quill is starting to kick in again. Um, to do... So probably should take off in like four minutes, I guess. Okay, yeah. Well, let's keep... Hmm, we hadn't figured... We should have had me start the call, shouldn't we? Yes. Well, I think... I think about it. You can't stop the broadcast without... Yeah, you can stop the broadcast now. Well, we're going to stop a little early today because Roger has to go somewhere and we didn't plan well. So sorry, the video is a little shortened today. Thank you all for watching, though. Audio folks, stick around, though. We'll still have some more to come then. Yes. Go ahead and stop the broadcast.