Thank you for joining us today for How Can We Trust the News, an event jointly sponsored by the Librarians Association of UCI and the UCI Libraries. Information, its veracity, accessibility and effective use is at the center of what the library is all about. And judging from the size of the audience, I think we are in for a lively discussion about the future of the news industry, journalism, and the information of information. Our special guest speaker, David Folkenflick, is someone whose voice is familiar to those of you who listen to National Public Radio. As NPR's media correspondent, he is featured regularly on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. He has covered a wide range of media-related topics. In recent weeks, he has been jetting between Great Britain and the United States to cover the ongoing story of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and the allegations of phone hacking. David is a Southern California native who grew up in Laguna Beach. And we are lucky to have in the audience in the front row his wife, journalist Jesse Baker, who also works for NPR, Slate and ESPN, and also his parents, who are both faculty members at UC Irvine, Roger Folkenflick, Professor Emeritus of English, and Vivian Folkenflick, Humanities Lecture. So it is a distinct pleasure to have David as our speaker. When David was an undergraduate at Cornell University, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Daily Sun. Continuing to follow the sun, he began his professional career at the Herald Sun in Durham, North Carolina. And from there, he worked at the Baltimore Sun for nearly a decade, covering higher education Congress in the media. David has received many awards and honors during his career. They include the National Press Club's Arthur Rouse Award for Press Criticism, which he has received four times, and the Monverson Award for Investigative Reporting on the News from the University of Virginia's Center for Governmental Studies, as well as top honors from the National Headliners Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. David has just edited a timely new collection of essays entitled, Page One, Inside the New York Times and the Future of Journalism, which expands on the themes from the documentary film The Same Name by Andrew Rossi. Thanks to the UCI Book Store, copies of this book will be available for purchase, and David has graciously agreed to sign books after the talk. We will have plenty of time for questions from the audience after David's presentation, and then we will invite you to continue the discussion and join us for light refreshments in the plaza. I should mention that David's talk is being videotaped. In a few weeks, the video will be posted on the library's supporters and friends website, as well as on the UCI Open Courseware website. Please feel free to share this with friends who are unable to attend and who may wish to view it later. So now, without further ado, I give you David Folkenflick. Well, I want to thank Lorelai for that very warm, perhaps I could turn this off, for that very warm introduction and for the ability to come here to a place where I think it was my home. I grew up in the Munimete, as she said, and I felt the campus to be a second home for me over the years. I've certainly bothered enough people on this campus and squandered there time enough that I'm sort of astonished on a day as beautiful as this before the start even of the academic year that this many people would come endorse on the afternoon. So thank you to all of you for coming and joining us today. As she mentioned, I have edited this book. It's a collection of essays from some of the, to my mind, most interesting thinkers in the journalism business. It was prompted by a new documentary of the same name by filmmakers Andrew Rossi and Kate Novak, husband and wife team, who were able to get surprisingly good access to the New York Times through the keyhole of the guys who knew what I knew for a living, the media desk, people like David Carr and Brian Stelter, to sort of understand the moment of a real challenging crisis for journalism and to one of its exemplars, the so-called paper of record if such a thing still exists. And I'm proud of what we did here and certainly I hope you take an interest. A lot of it deals, not all of it, a lot of it deals with the sustainability of the news business, how its finances have become a couple from the creation of news. And I think that's an interesting dynamic that actually increasingly is something of interest more than just the people who are in the business itself or in the worlds of finance because I think it very much has an effect on what we see and read. Today, however, I'm going to talk more about something that strikes me that people who do research for a living and people who do scholarship for a living think about it in different ways in different disciplines and that's the question of trust. So for me the question is how can we trust the news? And I guess a way to start is who do we trust in the news? Who do we trust in terms of where we go to get the news? Do we trust the Los Angeles Times locally? Do we trust CNN or NPR to major national and international gatherers and providers of the news? We try to in their own terms and in their own minds play it down the middle. Do you trust Mother General's crusading and operating publication that comes from the ideological left? Do you prefer to go to Fox or MSNBC to see some of the most dynamic we have an answer to in front of? To see some of the more dynamic figures offer supplemental commentary and sometimes that can actually substitute for the news itself. Even though both news organizations do have many journalists who do an excellent job. Do you go first to Ariana's Huffington Post?  Do you rather tune in at 11.30 at night to Stephen Colbert to see what the news really means? These are all choices that people are actually making right now. There's a truism which I think is fair to point out which these days increasingly people are not so much finding the news as the news finding us. So for those of us like myself who sign on to Facebook you may see stories posted by other people. You may see little trench at one liners on Twitter as I do.  We have what we like to call an NPR the NPR driveway moment. A story so captivating, so compelling that even though you've arrived at home or at the office you stay in the car and the engine turned on because you want to hear about what that last thing is going to be. Well, at work in New York I don't drive around. I had what I would call an elevator moment. The guy riding up to the 19th floor with me would not get out of the elevator car because he was so interested in this little screen on the upper left-hand corner of the elevator. There's this thing called Captivate. It's out here as well.  There was something happening. The markets were collapsing a few weeks ago in the wake of the argument over the debt ceiling limit and this guy did not want to leave until he saw the last third sentence on that Captivate screen. So people are finding information all over in new places that are a little bit surprising. So this leads, I think, to a couple of fair questions. They're questions like not only where do you get the news but do you care where to get the news? Do you care how they got the news? Do you even know how they got the news? And as readers and listeners and as viewers, as consumers, I think those are pretty important questions because that leads you to the next question which is are we getting the information that we need to act as citizens?  But in reality, you still need information in a way that helps you operate as a citizen. I think that's important. I think about the L.A. Times, which despite the presence of the Register, I grew up thinking of it as my hometown paper. And there's some terrific people who've done terrific work over the decades. My old employer, the Tribune Company, upon acquiring it, cut it back significantly. We thought they were bad. Sam Zell took over with his cohort in Chicago, and he cut it to the bone. And yet the L.A. Times has been able, if you look at the small, very gritty city of Bell, California, and not so far a drive from here, to do some astonishingly capable, smart, insightful, and muscular accountability journalism there. I mean, they were able to expose, as most of you all well known by now, not only in city as corruption, but corruption that really had a stranglehold on every possible institution in that small city. And it wasn't done by the community papers who covered the area. I talked to a guy who does a lot of the coverage for community papers in that part of Los Angeles County. He says, hey, I cover 11 communities. There's no way I could have done something like that. It wasn't done really by blogs which have been offered to us as having the great promise to replace major news organizations. There was a guy who was blogging about this anonymously because he feared for his own job because of the managers in that community and around that portion of Los Angeles County. But he didn't have the muscle power to follow it up. He didn't have the muscle power to force government agencies to be accountable. He didn't have the lawyers to defend him. Had he come under attack. And he didn't have the audience to make it have an effect. And it tells you that Los Angeles Times reporters told me that at times they relied on tips from the guy behind that blog, who still has not been willing to be named publicly. But they needed sort of these layered approach reporting. You can't do it without each other. And I found it very moving to see what the LA Times was able to accomplish with its attention. So that takes us to question of trust. In 2009 the Pew Research Center and the Projects for Accidents and Journalism, which are part of Pew, did a study that found that trust in the news media, however one finds that, was at all times historical since they started measuring it. They released that and I believe it was September 2009. I touched base just this morning to say, hey guys I know you do this every other year. What are the chances that next month in a couple of weeks you release a report showing that trust is up from those historic lows. And the head of the project said not a chance. I'm not sure if it's lower than it was. I just know we can use the word historic and distrust. Not so good. Not so good. One thing I did after that study two years ago was that in 2010 I went to the city of Atlanta and I used it as the backdrop for a case study to say how do people think about the news media? And so I went to Atlanta for a couple of reasons. There are news organizations Tiny, there are regular size metro regional news organizations and there's CNN, a global news organization. I thought pretty good backdrop. So I walked around and talked to people. I talked to guy named Cliff O'Connor. He's the top fiscal official for the agency that oversees child welfare in Georgia. And he said this is a direct quote. I'm a big newspaper fan. I subscribe to three newspapers. The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are real high quality. The Times from the left, the Journal from the right. I talked to an executive chef by the name of Glenn Law who works downtown. And he said I came up in the monthly Brinkley Walter Cronkite issue. There's a big difference between then and now. Did I believe everything Walter Cronkite said? He said absolutely. I talked to a 26-year-old music student who went to Georgia State Downtown and I said how much do you trust the news media? I said well, you know, you've got to take into account everyone's got to slant one way or slant another way and you've got to kind of figure it out. Now the interesting thing was in every single question I would always ask about trust and in almost every response I got a response about bias, about perceived and cloaked ideology. That was pretty interesting because while it's been an element of discussion about the press, it has been the overwhelming dominant element of discourse I think in recent years. When I talked to folks at CNN, I talked to a Vice President there named Richard Griff who is a distinguished guy known only to people inside CNN. But integral to how they gather, acquire, disseminate the news. He said I said what's your number one issue when you think about viewers? And remember CNN, which defined cable news, created cable news as badly lagging compared to Fox News and often against MSNBC as well. It's sort of a real struggle for them. Why do you turn to them this day and age? People have alternatives, they don't have to turn to a TV news version of the Associated Press. And he said trust is our critical issue. He looked at conservative critics like Fox News and said you know these guys have been chipping it away at us saying that we ought to be trusted and there's a certain portion of the public in which that's resonated. There were others who talked about CNN and a number of other major news organizations failing to hold, say for example President Bush's Administration Accountable some key issues. And they say why bother? You may not be ideologically conservative but you're not doing your job. This is a road in their standing. I talked to this tiny news site called the Atlanta Progressive News not surprising their self-identified progressive liberals. And they say we can hold local officials accountable in a way a lot of news organizations care about issues of poverty of economic justice, we care about racial justice, we care about sexual orientation and we're going to be relentless on those issues. Totally honest about where we are. That's how our very small leadership knows how to trust us. The Atlanta Journal Constitution which is at one time was one of the larger regional newspapers in this country and has a storied history of both reporting on racial segregation but also crusading against it in the United States. And I think it's important to note that the liberal editorial pages it took the decision that year to dump the liberal editorial pages. So forget it. This isn't useful for us. We've done focus groups, we've talked to readers. They don't want us telling them what to think. They want us to serve up a different varied and often in opposition points of view. And they were pretty honest. They said we need to reach out and chase down the oppressed. In this day and age also you have to evaluate a lot of new players that ten years ago you might not have had. So you think about Politico which a lot of people go to online I sure do. It's sort of almost like the sports pages of politics. If you think about ESPN the magazine it's one of those rare examples where a broadcast outlet has come up with a print product that's been a success and they've hired some of the most wonderful reporters and writers in sport that you've heard of including the Los Angeles Times. One of my favorite sports writers from Baltimore and the New York Times, Buster Olman is a writer for them. A wonderful place that takes a different approach to covering it. It really worked for them. Online you can think of Talking Point's Mellon, liberal outlet, The Daily Caller, a new conservative one run by Tucker Carlson. Gawker as I mentioned before which sort of combines a very snarky take on gossip, politics, finance, computers, whatever you want. And then there are ones that have been around but have suddenly emerged as new players. So if you think about Bloomberg News it's a very serious news organization with global reach that is expanding simply beyond its financial element that really pays its bills. There's NPR which I think has gone from a good to listen to to probably a must listen to for a lot of people who really want to be informed about news and about context. There's The Guardian which has done very successfully in expanding on this side of the Atlantic, its readership with clearly liberal outlook. And there's The Daily Mail which has taken a very tabloid, very gossipy approach, not always a de facto approach to drawn larger audiences and is sort of one of the, I believe one of the largest English language news sites in the world. And that's through an exceptionally aggressive approach to aggregating others news and putting it with its own web pages just as a side note, one of my colleagues did a story for our Planet Money team that covers finances which suggested strongly that part of the reason there was a battering of European stocks was because a French banking company had been written about in The Daily Mail as having its shares plummeting to almost zero and there being a crisis of confidence inside the company. It appears they may have been inspired by fictional, basically a novel that was being published in a serialized form in a French newspaper and that the Mail may not have registered initially it was fiction in satire. Take that for what it's worth when you think about what you're trusting. There are also new kinds of players in the news business. You're seeing universities building out their own reporting efforts. Walter Robinson was the leader of what's called the spotlight investigative team at the Boston Globe. He now oversees journalists I believe at Northeastern University in Boston and oftentimes in helping to edit, curate their work, he shepherds their work on the front pages of his old newspaper, Boston Globe. It's a very interesting dynamic that you wouldn't have seen. Similarly New York University has attempted a sort of micro blogging effort on Greenwich Village and The New York Times has sort of had a dalliance with NYM trying to figure out is this news that we can put together and offer to our readers who might be interested in that neighborhood approach coverage of New York City that the Times itself may not have the horses for all of its wanted reporting newsroom to do on its own. There are not-for-profits like Voices of San Diego a few hours drive south of here and you're seeing these small not-for-profit newsrooms seeking to eat out financing through foundations through membership gifts, much like those given to public radio stations to find a way to be viable, a very lean newsroom, but providing some vital reporting that often major city newspapers can't provide themselves because San Diego Union Tribune which has also been cut back significantly I think public radio newsrooms including KPCC, KCRW and the Los Angeles area are becoming more muscular, trying to pick up a bit of the slack, they can't replace what news japers do, but they can complement it. I think that's important. And you're seeing some other approaches too. A friend of mine named Jim Bangkok created a collection of passionate blogs from different markets over the country. All the major markets from major sporting leagues and he's created sort of whole cloth a network of passionate, fan-driven websites about each major sporting team in the country. Now they're not run by the teams themselves although Major League Baseball has actually better sites than ever for each team and same with the other professional sports teams. I think the Kings hired a hockey rider who had written for the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily News because those newspapers were diminishing what they did in terms of coverage of professional hockey. You're seeing different players have to fill the gap for information and readers are going to have to figure out can I trust it if the guy is employed by the team? Is he giving me ways to evaluate what he's saying? And yet I think it's an addition given the financial troubles what we used to rely on for that kind of coverage to have them at all. Just yesterday as a small example I got sent a Twitter direct message to be precise from Gary Schwitzer he's a former network correspondent he's been a professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota and he sort of back checks coverage of medical developments and healthcare issues. He sent me a link to a daily mail story from last Friday I think it was as the 19th and the headline was raise a glass to the red wine pill every thing from obesity to cancer again I just underscored the daily mail he also sent a link to a blog that basically very carefully and methodically shattered that plan what interested me was that was a blog written by somebody who had been a professional medical writer but the blog was operated by the National Health Services that is the British public health system and they were providing information that people could use in a clear way. You can find things on the FDA and you can find things on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services here as well but you're seeing new players provided at times helpful, mediated information that might possibly at one point have come from professional news organizations before and you can find those in a variety of ways if you come across it there were old values in journalism that were always underscored you wanted to be authoritative you wanted to be competitive you think of big name brands you could trust in the old days, CBS, ABC, NBC New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post you know yet there have been so many lapses which I alluded to before I think that since Spiroag, before that since Joe McCarthy pick and date you can find it the conservative movement in this country has seen the mainstream press as a political player or even in the modern era when there's this aspiration anyway toward even handedness and objectivity I think that the left from my sense John Heter can speak to this as well has very much sort of taken on the same degree of disgust and of disagreement and of skepticism about whether or not the American press is a political player rather than an arbiter after the weapons of mass destruction coverage in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq there were other moments you could talk about certain moments in the sixties you could talk about the Iran Contra or the Reagan I really think that was a signal moment when a lot of liberals these guys are not applying due diligence for us they are not addressing opposing questions that need answering they are not scrutinizing the assertions and see if it holds up to the most rigorous critics conservatives however almost within a year or two of that felt affirmed in their views there was the 60 minutes to report on President Bush's military service record well I had mentioned Walter Robinson before from the Boston Globe he had punched holes in then governor's Bush's military service record back during the Vietnam era what the CBS report did was essentially use clearly disputable or probably fabricated documents to make their case and thereby eroded what credibility one could attach to their questioning of his military service record if you look at the New York Times I think under Bill Keller it has fairly pretty well given the financial distresses and given a lot of the a lot of the challenges facing it a lot of what we know about what kinds of domestic surveillance inspired that occurred a lot of the what many people would consider to be torture that occurred of detainees have been revealed by the New York Times among other news outlets however you know people think about the New York Times and a lot of them look at the Duke lacrosse case which was not the incidental story for the times but really almost a crusade in its coverage and it was very clear over time that its reporting had dovetailed too neatly with the now discrediting prosecutor who sought to put those college students in jail for clearly very discredited allegations later on my own network NPR took a hit when it recorded that Congresswoman Gabby Giffords had been killed we had been the first to say that she had been critically wounded and shot we did not use our own and we were right to do so we did not use our own safe cards and our own rules in reporting that she was dead and it was both terribly traumatic for the family for people who cared about you know doing her job but also a terrible failure in our part and so that's you know that's the way in which we take hits we took hits after the long-awaited termination of the firing and you know there are some people who say also that Fox News took a hit for making that a new crusade that seemed to be opportunistic and hyperbolic in its tirades against our network so the new values seem to be more about transparency and about collaboration if you think about transparency you know it can be transparency as in when NPR got something wrong we acknowledged it we apologized and the next day we came back and said here's how we did what we did wrong and we made sure to apologize not only online but in exactly the same time of day that we made the first time around as well as live the day that it occurred transparency also translates more interestingly to what's called a familiar term for many I'm sure the link economy on the web the reporters in linear in the last week have been doing great work for Sky News, for NPR, for the New York Times, for the Times of London, for the BBC and so on but there's a stellar example of this link economy and it's done by my friend and colleague at NPR, Andy Carvin he's the social media editor for NPR he sent out over this past weekend I believe in a 24-hour period it could be getting that wrong more than 1200 tweets that is 1200 little instant messages or less in which he was linking to reports about what was happening Libya almost live time, most with links they were curated, he tended to take them from sources he knew who were or knew their organizations they were attached to, he raised questions about sourcing of assertions as in how do we know that both sons of Momar Gaddafi have been arrested turns out one of them cramped through the streets in Tripoli the yesterday, maybe not so much in custody he sounded skepticism but he was an incredible source of aggregation about this, so much so that online you'd see this parade of people from other news organizations saying follow Andy Carvin on this he's really good that was an interesting example of the link economy, similarly today the earthquakes that hit I'm here visiting home on the west coast meanwhile an earthquake hits my company's headquarters in Washington in my apartment on the Upper West Side of New York the earthquake was centered I think about 75 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia the fact of it was conveyed through Twitter before the aftershocks were felt in New York City so people in New York City were aware of the earthquake and then felt it that's pretty cool it took about 40 minutes for a lot of news organizations to be able to convey that on the air my own apparently they stayed on the air as the building was shaken and it was made with all the solidity of a re-box shoebox so they were a little concerned but they stayed on the air for talk of the nation and they provided updates meanwhile, if we think back for giving me Olivia CNN got into the game a little late all this tweeting was happening Sky News did extraordinary reportage there BBC did very good reporting NPR had reports on the air MSNBC wasn't even on the air it was simply airing these reruns of Dateline, NBC and all these true crime programs as a way of, you know, that's a financially viable model for them because they don't have to pay journalists actually to do much work on the weekends so that's a question who do you trust, where do you go it's also clear that transparency translates for a lot of people in and out of journalism into clarity for where are you coming from so if you think about the British system there's kind of an inversion of the American journalistic system so the newspapers are highly opinionated, boisterous brash, brawling we'll talk a little bit more about that brawling in a few minutes and Sky News the Rupert Murdoch news corp owns Sky News and the BBC much more calm down the middle, bare-minded all voices respectful plays a different style than our series these programs do here but it's a much more temperate approach if you were to compare BBC and Sky News to say Fox News MSNBC I went and did a story about that I guess I went in December the story aired in January of this year because I wanted to explore this kind of mirror image inversion of how our system works I spoke with among other people Nick Boles, he's a conservative MP very thoughtful and funny guy and he said he was talking about different examples so the Guardian is a place that's more clearly on the left the telegraph is clearly a conservative newspaper he said if a Guardian journalist were to interview me I would definitely assume they would be trying to penetrate into areas of weakness of what the government is doing or particular policies they're very worried about whereas with the telegraph they'd probably be more likely to be looking for ways in which the government was betraying the conservative cause he doesn't expect any of them to give him a free ride he expects all of them to slap him around but they do it from very different perspectives because they've got a different point of view that they're not exactly advocating but that they're coming from and that they're open about I also talk to people in the American Journalistic campaign I talk to a guy named Len Downey very distinguished former executive editor of the American Post and he's a guy so scriptulous about his beliefs and his vision of impartiality recognizing that as a human it's impossible to obtain perfectly that he didn't vote when he worked for the Washington Post he said that could possibly tend to compromise me even though it's a secret battle so not only did he not register for a party he didn't take part in his most fundamental right as a citizen that's a tough approach he didn't insist that his journalists follow his example so I said what do you think it would be if you were to take make it clear sort of identify where you were coming from as a news organization and make that clear and he said this is a direct vote I believe the Washington Post does make it clear where we're coming from where we're coming from in our news reporting it's no partisanship no ideology of any kind our reporting is not for itself it is not coming from a point of view I was relating to him in part at NYU Journalism professor named J. Rosen's belief that news organizations adopt this thing called the view from nowhere which is actually taken from the philosophical term that you guys are probably more familiar with than I am but the idea was that there's this desperate attempt to blur or erase any belief system whatsoever and it interferes with journalists to really interact honestly with readers, listeners and viewers so when I played that to him he said look you make it seem as though it would just involve admitting what we already are in fact it would involve changing what we are well on cable we have guys who are ish about what they are Fox News says look we're pretty conservative when you get to prime time in evening hours but there's a line between news and opinion, a clear line I think it's fair to say there's often not always but often straight news with a wink a clarity of story ideas that are selected because they might be more of interest to a conservative or hopefully conservative audience and at times just an edge to it that you wouldn't see in straight news organizations Shep Smith I think for example is one of their main news anchors I think he's very fair often passionate, takes up various causes and very passionate about New Orleans but I think pretty fair minded I think Brett Bayer, the political anchor is similarly inclined and yet about a third of his program is constructed about these panels he calls the panel of Fox News All Stars and they have a good conversation there and I've got to say it's a civil conversation and it's often an informed and smart conversation but there are always three people in that panel and almost invariably they are two conservatives whether clearly conservative journalists that's in opinion columnists or people who work for the conservative weekly standard or things like that or former Bush administration officials and then the last and third person is occasionally a democratic strategist or clear liberal or often a straight journalist from the Washington Post or Politico or some other news outlet and what that does is it puts the journalist in the position of being the liberal which that journalist may or may not actually think is the role that they are performing I think it's a splendid marketing move by Fox when I asked Brett about it he said I understand what you're saying we're just interested in an intelligent debate when you reach out to the rules all the time all of which is probably true but I think it loads the deck a little bit and I think it's interesting to see that in other programs on MSNBC I think it's fair to say they only found success when they allowed Keith Oldman to take the ball running in an anti-war direction, anti-George W. Bush direction and Ali Fine himself would be likely prospect of not certain of the Reverend Al Sharpton as possibly being one of their evening hosts and the main hosts I think that's a pretty interesting notion and they're a prodigy journalist watching to see what happens without I think transparency also translates into how we know what we would know and I think there's the question of the transcendent sharing with readers and listeners and viewers that element I remember there were a couple of projects the Wall Street Journal did when it was in its most sweeping narrative journalism phase and they told this incredible story I think it was Tony Horowitz I might be getting that wrong about injustice and working conditions and all this and in a box two-page story inside in a box inside instead of pluttering up their narrative with according to this guy and this report on this day talking to this person they had footnotes I hadn't seen that in a new story before they had footnotes and instead of coming across as stuffy and instead of coming across as being listening to someone as though we're doing an academic paper it came across as just sharing information making it very easy for people to read the story and yet see precisely where the sources were and I think in this day and age now that it's all not online we could also then link to the original sources on important things I think that's hugely important is the idea of transparency in the last week you've seen the New York Times do some reporting on Darrell I may be mispronouncing his name but Issa I said well it was both of them he's doing more reporting on this congressman from San Diego one of the wealthiest in all of Congress and it's been some very interesting allegations some media texture reports about how he has blended his personal business interests which are significant with some of his efforts as a lawmaker Mr. Take a bit Issa has challenged the veracity of those reports initially he asked for a correction starting from the fact that his office didn't overlook a golf course and getting more serious from there he then asked for a retraction saying the story didn't stand up and most recently he invoked Jason Blair the famous fabulous and plagiarist and saying well you know have we gotten over one of those situations the reporter involved this guy named Eric Leashblow he's a Pulitzer winner he was involved in some of the times his most delicate reporting on domestic surveillance and what Leashblow told Politico which was reporting on this flap was that look some of these things that are substantive that he's challenging were facts that I pulled from documentation provided by Mr. Issa to the IRS and to other federal agencies and attested to under penalty of law if they're misleading it now that to me is pretty convincing on the other hand it suggests to me that New York Times might have done well somehow to convey that to readers as a way of saying here's how we know what we're telling you political figures in both of the major political parties in the UK the Labour Party and the Conservative Party you've seen chuminess with the police force at Scotland Yard both high and low that is on the lower level there seems to have been substantiated allegations of giving money to police officers for clearly private information that is illegal to share and also chuminess with the top levels for example one of the assistant commissioners was given a five-figure contract immediately upon leaving Scotland Yard to become a columnist for the Times of London one Murdoch's more prestigious upscale newspapers Andrew Henry and he was astonished in being interrogated during testimony at Parliamentary Committee to be challenged on the question of well don't you have a tie to them is it possible that your decision not to be involved in promoting a wider investigation of the news of the news corps was in any way affected by your closest with them as reflected with your contract the moment you walked out the door he says that's outrageous how could you question that well we didn't know until this interval came up that there was a payments there then news corps newspapers in the UK particularly the news for World Tabloid and the Sun Tabloid appeared to have published to reward and punish political and business figures as well as to inform and entertain their readers now I think it's worth pointing out in a different culture in the United Kingdom there's an official secrets act which does not exist here in fact you know in a sense the Pentagon papers at the Supreme Court level made clear there would not be here there's libel law there that's exceptionally favorable to plaintiffs to people suing news organizations and in fact people often shot their cases around if they can figure out how to sue in the UK rather than the US against news organizations they'll do it they have a regulatory body for newspapers there it's a self regulatory body it's the news organizations themselves kind of do it but I can't see in this country there being a culture where we all say yeah you know well we're happy for there to be this other entity that can overlook our coverage and tell us how we did or not or whether we shouldn't do that in the future you know our feeling I can tell you having been in a lot of newsrooms is stay the hell away from our editing table and if you've done something illegal sue us for it you know that's the problem and they have a tradition there relatively newer one but a kind of prior restraint that is private citizens can seek for injunctions against news organizations from writing about legal troubles or other news developments affecting them you know you can we have to face the consequences reputational and legally for what we publish here but you can't put that as a publishing and that's kind of a nice thing actually in the US so that's a different culture but I think as a result there their feeling is there are what they call dark arts in the eternalism there that they are much happier to be involved with if it's slipping somebody money for information our tabloids here do it but our tabloids here aren't seen as part of our mainstream press they're seen as outside TNZ does that you know the National Inquirer the Boston Globe does not do that well there it's a little more ambiguous celebrities are free game the royal family is sort of a tax subsidized sport politicians are open for almost any claim with hypocrisy and there's no no privacy and I think as a result you've seen diminished credibility from all the revelations of recent months in news of the world in the press more broadly in the UK particularly in News Corp and how it handled things from their baseline reporters to their top editors to their top executives to the Murdochs themselves and you see time and time again assertion of innocence assertion of ignorance assertion of good will being knocked down overcome by the facts and yet I think it's really important that this only really became an outrage in England and I noticed this on July 6th when Prime Minister David Cameron gave remarks from the capital of Afghanistan when he's at press conference supposed to be addressing the question of the British military presence there Cameron Karzai is there waiting to talk at the podium too when he first had to address the question of this young girl who had been abducted and murdered whose voicemails had been hacked into by the reporters of this tabloid and he hadn't talked about his outrage that said to me this was a crisis for the British political system that he did that from Afghanistan and it was only an issue when the non-famous got involved when victims of violent crimes when war dead, when terror targets and when they're survivors of all these people were shown to have been the targets that readers asked whoa what happened here how do we know this but prior to that when you're scooping up information about Hugh Grant his various girlfriends or you know Prince Wills and what they're doing with Prince Harry readers didn't ask how did the paper know what it knew how can they be so omniscient why do we tolerate this degree of an invasion of privacy and I think this takes us back to our original questions do you care where you get the news do you care how they get the news and are you getting the information you need to be a full citizen of the country in which you live anyway those are my thoughts about trust and about the media and I appreciate you guys being here and I hope to take your questions if you have any


Today is Monday, the 8th of December and I'm going to talk about what happened over the last week and what we will expect in the second week. I'll start by giving a general overview of the dynamics and the processes involved in the two weeks of each year's conference parties. We start on a Monday and we go through to the end of the first week with the negotiators looking at the text that's available and negotiating text. And then in the second week, the ministers start arriving on Monday and then they take over at the higher political level to try and resolve anything that was not resolved at the negotiators level. Many people feel very disappointed at the end of the first week because of lack of progress. This is inherent and built into the system. The system is not geared to having progress in the first week for several reasons. The main one being the fact that negotiations take place in parallel tracks and the negotiators for one track only have authority to make some minor compromises but not major compromises and they cannot make compromises across tracks. They cannot trade off, we will give you something here if you give us something somewhere else because they're not in charge of what's happening in the other track. Only the minister can do that when he or she arrives. So once the ministers come, all the tracks come together and the horse trading starts. So one country says alright, I'll give you something what you want on track A but you have to give me what I want on track B. That's how deals are done and everything is a deal and a compromise and everybody giving something and getting something in return. And so that happens when the ministers arrive. The negotiators can only do a few things. Having said that, the negotiators have actually done a fair amount. They've wrapped up the number of items including gender. There was an important gender item here and there was quite a lot of fight about whether or not gender equality should be included with the Saudis in particular objecting to the worst gender equality. In the end it did get mentioned once, not several times as it was in the original test. So that's a good win. There are several others that have also been resolved on adaptation and loss and damage. I won't go into the details now. But to mention how the dynamic shifts from week one to week two from when the negotiators are negotiating detailed texts to when the leaders and the ministers arrive and they start doing political deals. And that's where we are now. The Minister for Environment of Peru, who is the president of this group in Lima, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, invited a few very select senior informal friends to dinner last night to consult with them. One of them was the former president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, who shared his experience of how he successfully managed the Cancun agreement in POP16 in Mexico. A very important agreement at a very difficult time. It was immediately after the fiasco of Copenhagen, politically sensitive, so we learned lessons from him. And I'm very sure that the Peruvian presidency has things in hand and will get us a deal by the end of next week. I'll talk about that in my following gloss over the next weeks.


And also the House today has called for active measures by the federal government to mitigate the effect of flooding in the country this year. The motion was brought on by former Speaker Honourable Fermi Baljabiamila on the day for the federal government to proactively act and put measures in place by putting in palliative intervention to prevent the worst social economy consequences for Nigerians in affected areas. The Nigeria is yet to recover from the 2022 flood, which affected more than four million Nigerians, displaced over two million people, cost the death of 665 people, damaged about 355,986 houses and destroyed an estimated total of 944,989,000 hectares of farmland. We are also aware that the experience of the 2022 flood caused the federal government of Nigeria to constitute a presidential committee to develop a comprehensive plan of action for preventing flood disasters in Nigeria. The action plan proposes structural and non-structural measures, land and water management systems and better coordination among stakeholders across the federal and state governments to ensure effective flood management in Nigeria. Now the House is convinced that with sufficient preparation and collaboration between the federal and state governments, we can mitigate the loss of life and the social economic hardships caused by these recording flooding events.


Hey everyone and welcome to a welcome back to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida. If you're new here, I'm Yoshida and I am a self-employed hairstylist who is basically trying to get my life together and my finances together. So here on the channel, we do mainly a lot of budgeting, sometimes cash stuffing and definitely some planning of my life. Sometimes the planning is functional and sometimes it's minimal, but I do try to keep it minimal. So if it sounds like something that you're interested in, please stay tuned. So today we're going to be doing our monthly budget for February. I know I'm behind. For those of you who are new, I do have a subscription box of budget items that are curated just for your planner each month. So I've been working on that and kind of focusing on that. So I've been lacking over here a little bit, but I have done me a content calendar. So I plan to get back consistent. So real quick, let's go over, excuse me, January. So in the month of January, I guesstimated that I would make $3,500. I guesstimated $600 in Norris Cove. And Etsy wasn't there, but the 100 envelopes, I do sell those in my Etsy. They will soon be moving over to my website because Etsy fees are killing me. It's not making it worth the work. Actually, I'm printing envelopes now as we speak, trying to multi-sass. But my variable expenses was gas, products, and miscellaneous. I did way more than this in products and probably about 120 in gas. Everything was paid. And I actually gave my state farm more. And I was just kept saying it all month, like, where's this money coming from? I don't know. If you're not a believer, I am. I believe in God. And I just kept saying, well, he's done it before you'll do it again. And he did it, y'all. He did it. This is what we made in here, $4,628.35. Norris Cove, I guesstimated six. We did 840, 57 in January. A lot of that is the budget box. But the budget box is kind of dying down. We're losing subscribers, which is, you know, this is typical. And I'm okay with it. I thought of stopping it, but I'm like, no, it's going to get better. I just got to keep going. Something just won't let me stop. And then Etsy, like I said, it was a surprise. So we made $108 in Etsy, and we're already like over 100 in Etsy for the month of February. So like my last month, we're going to do February. I'm going to probably, to make the video short, I'm going to probably list everything out. I'll probably try to do my monthly calendar on here. This was January, monthly calendar. You can find these inserts on my website. And these are just monthlies, dated monthlies. And I was trying to track my income this way, but I kind of lost track along third week. And then let's get into February. Well, I'm going to use kind of January to see what I have going on. Let's make some room. Okay. And also you can find this task card, finance task card on my website as well. It comes a little bigger. I just trimmed it down. So we're in the month of February. Um, my sources, my first one is here. That is just my main job. Norris Cove is my second main job. Also this month, I'm starting back doing nails again. I know I was counting and I have like five streams of income. I'm trying to mump it up to seven. I really think I'm at like kind of four and a half, but any who, we're going to do Etsy because I know I made some sales this month and then nails. For the month of February for here, I just, I got some old clients come back. Let's just make it 4,000. Oh, I forgot a zero. For Norris Cove, like I said, we've lost some subscribers. We have a good amount of three month subscribers. So they're kind of paid up. I don't know if anyone's going to be renewing. Did anyone renew it 90 something? I don't think so. So I'm going to bring Norris Cove to 400 plus we have some new releases Etsy. I'm putting that 100 because like I said, I already know I'm working on some February orders and we're already over $100 nails. I'm leaving that at 40 because so far I just have one person, but I'm going to do a little advertising, trying to clutter so I can get that area together to welcome clients again. So off the break, $226.30. Not bad considering the cost of stuff that I'm paying. So let's do a total on my income. So my income is at $4,540 and I was not including Norris Cove, but I've been paying out of pocket for the products, which I'm well over 400 at this point. So what I've been doing is just kind of saving it and then if I need it for something like the other day when the numbers came in, there were some products I was waiting to get. And I just went ahead and paid for that and then maybe paid myself back if not. So and like I just leave the majority of the money in my account until I need it. So yeah, I don't know. Anyway, we have $4,540 and we're subtracting $3,226.30. That leaves $1,313.70. So anyway, Sinking Funds. I want to do a hundred so far. That's part of the cash envelope. Variable expenses, I'm going to put that at $200. So we're going to subtract $100, subtract $1,113 over my savings. So I was wrong. Wait a minute. Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. So that leaves us with a total of $924. I'm just going to put that over there. I think that's supposed to put that. So Anywho, so that's where we're going to stop our monthly budget. I'm going to just kind of stick that back in. So this is what we have for the month of February. I think we're doing pretty good. We're left with $924. There's always something. I have a surprise bill every month. So there's always something. These totals aren't always right. And again, for those of you who are new here, I'm a self-employed hairstylist. And sometimes this may not be my income. So I like having this slight buffer. I don't know if I told you guys in the last video, but I have opened up a high yield savings account right at the end of the year last year. And I try to just put like $10 a month. I got to do a video on my digital envelope. So I'll probably just fill out my monthly here for February. I think I'm going to probably do that offline because I don't want to hold y'all.  I did do my weeklies. I've just been doing them off because when I want to do them, I look up this Thursday, okay? But I have a new content calendar. So hopefully I'm going to be able to stick with it. But maybe I'll just speak through this. Let's speak through this. How about that? This is my February finished. I like to just do the basics. As you all can probably see, I just write down what to do first. Then I go back and maybe put stickers where I want to just make sure that I know. I know pretty much when everything's due. And let me point out something. So these corner stickers, these indicate my busy kind of weeks. So this is my busy Saturday. This is my busy Saturday. This is my busy Monday. This is my busy Monday. So these days are important to me being self-employed because if I'm busy on this Saturday, like Chase falls here, I know that I can schedule Chase to come out and it'll come out. I'll have the money for it. And then it lines up. It's almost like a payday. So it's almost like my paydays. And I can see what bills I can pay. Like this falls on a Monday. Luckily, this week, only thing to do is, oh, I forgot Canva. Canva and Chase. Also, I need to put down that I'm getting an oil change. And I'll put a little thing here. And I need to get gas. So I know that what I make from Monday will cover these things. If there's anything that I scheduled last week, like credit one, that is scheduled for today, which is Sunday the 5th. It'll probably not come out until Wednesday. But I'll have the money from here. It'll come out. So I like to use these corners to indicate these. And these came in our sub box. These little bill do stickers, script stickers with the dots. They are in the shop. And then these are, I'm working on these, but I have some of these in the shop, but they're just a smaller form. And I just wanted to kind of use them. But that allows me to see kind of like my quote unquote, paydays or busy weeks where I know I can kind of float something or it will cover something like this week. Coming is going to be the busy Saturday. I have to go ahead and save that money for all of this is coming here. This Monday, this week, even though there's not a lot of bills due, all this money pretty much covers next week. Even though I make money this week, it just, it's not my busy week. So I know I need to hold on to some money from this week to help cover next week in cases slow, quote, unquote, slow. And then I just use this washing strip just to, I was looking for my little new things. I still got some, hold on, I'm gonna switch that out. These were in a sub box and they should be on the website. I have some open, but then I have plenty. I'll just use these. I'm gonna take this out because it really doesn't match. But I was trying to use something to define a line. Oh God. It's okay. So I think I'll use the brown. It goes a little better than I'm just going to kind of overlap and cut it. But let's switch it this way. And that lets me know that subs were going out on this week. So also I can see ahead, like in my business planner, which I'll do a complete flip of over here, I have everything categorized, like what goes out, what I need to order, and whatever. So boxes like in my business planner, I'm supposed to get boxes this week. If I need boxes that way, if there's a delay, I definitely have them this week. And I can start to pack the boxes. So all my calendars kind of flow, but this is my, of course, budget planner. So if I feel like decorating on me, but I very seldom decorate decorating this one, I mainly try to do that in my little everyday carry. But thank you all again so much for watching. Again, if this was your first time here, and you enjoyed today's video, please leave me a favor, hit that subscribe button, also hit that notification bell, and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


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A new SAR dataset has been created consisting of 43,819 shipchips of 256 pixels in both range and azimuth. The dataset was labeled by SAR experts and contains ships with distinct scales and backgrounds. Additionally, modified state-of-the-art object detectors were trained and tested on this dataset. The results showed that these object detectors achieved higher main average precision, map, on the test dataset and had high generalization performance on new SAR imagery without land-ocean segmentation. This article was authored by Yuanyuan Wang, Chao Wang, Hong Zhang, and others.


According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Region 3, which includes Larisos, Richfaw and Denry, has registered the highest cases of diabetes and hypertension on Ireland. The Ministry of Health, along with assistance from the World Bank, in an attempt to fight back against the rise in non-communicable diseases on Ireland, launched the performance-based financing project, PBF, in 2023. The PBF project aims to produce positive outcomes for clients by providing incentives to both the receivers and providers of health services. Public Health Noticing Supervisor for Region 3, Ender Reynolds, reports notable success from the recently implemented PBF project. Reynolds says the Region 3 team hosted the February 17th activity as a means of motivating their clients to keep accessing the free services provided through PBF. We are very grateful to the PBF pilot program because right now our clients are getting services at no cost. This has really benefited our clients in the region and this morning we had that work, we had cheerleaders joining us, we had principals within the community joining us, we had faces of cancer and it was beautiful seeing people out in the community cheering on our diabetes and cheering on our efforts within the region. The health team of Region 3 also celebrated the community's participation in the event. We just want to send out a big message that walking and physical activity is very important in controlling communicable, non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Today we saw, we observe the huge crowd within the region and everybody who did not take part in the activity, we are asking them to join us in the future. Come and do the screening at the health center. We want to screen everybody within the region 18 years and older. We want to identify our risk of diabetes and hypertension for this region and have a better and healthier region free on the whole. The activity was hosted in collaboration with various agencies such as Faces of Cancer. President of Faces of Cancer St. Lucia, Dorothy Philip, commended organizers on a well put together event. So Faces of Cancer St Lucia, we do have a group called Faces of Cancer Marbuya Valley in Dennery and so today we partnered with the Ministry of Health, the Dennery Health Center in their Walk for Love. It was a very exciting walk, we were energized, we really enjoyed ourselves. I think it was a healthy walk for cancer patients. I brought some of our members from castries and we joined up with our dennery group and we walked with the health center. The day's activity also included exercise sessions and information booths. Ministry of Health officials recently highlighted key findings from the steps report which has caused concern given the association with undesirable non-communicable disease outcomes. In St. Lucia, the Ministry of Health reports that 82% of deaths are attributed to NCDs through common risk behaviors such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, unhealthy diets, and the excessive use of alcohol. From the Communication Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Early Affairs, I'm St. Justin.


Today I would like to introduce you to a new class of materials, so-called computing biomaterials that can help you to stay healthy, is by making medication easier, safe and more compliant, or by warning you from toxic and forbidden substances in your food. How can such computing biomaterials take over this job? Computing biomaterials have built-in nanosensors that observe what is going on in the environment. For example, they sense whether you need a drug or whether something toxic and forbidden is contained in your food, such as in milk. Once such computing biomaterials detect such a signal, they must start acting. How can they act? They can act by delivering a drug to your body or by producing a warning signal that you should not consume the food that you just tested. However, we want to be sure that this output action corresponds perfectly to the input signal. And that's why we engineered those materials in a way that they can perceive the signals, they process the input signals and then they compute the optimum output signal to give the optimum warning signal or the optimum drug dose to your body. And this computation of these signals gives the name of those materials. But what is so special about this? Any microcomputer can receive signals, process signals, produce an output. The key advantage of the computing biomaterials is that they are biocompatible and safe by design. So how can we achieve this compatibility and safety by design? Computing biomaterials are made from human-used, licensed, clinically-validated materials. The built-in sensors and actuators are energy-autonomous. They don't need any energy supply. And the materials are completely biodecratable. Once they are in the body, they can be excreted afterwards without leaving any traces. How can we make such innovative materials? We take the best from three disciplines. We take nano-sensors and nano-actuators from synthetic biology. We rewire them according to algorithms from computer science and then we embed everything into a matrix derived from polymer chemistry. In the next slides, I would like to show you two examples of how such computing biomaterials can help you to stay healthy and this research was realized in frame of my ELC grant. In the first approach, I will show to you how computing biomaterials can help you to make medication safer and easier. It's an example of vaccination. So in classical vaccination, as all of you know, you need multiple injections until you are protected against the disease. These multiple injections aren't only painful to children. They also require medical visits. This is expensive and often not available in developing countries where no medical doctor is around or the cooling chain is not available. Using computing biomaterials, we can overcome this bottleneck. We can replace multiple injections by one single injection and replace the follow-up injection which you would normally take by all the available tablets and you can swallow those tablets at home without the need of going to a medical doctor. We have done several proof-of-concept studies in mice using the single injection approach and we were able to show that the efficacy of the single injection vaccination is as least as good as for the classical conventional multi-injection-based vaccination and we have shown that with commercially available vaccines like a vaccine against hepatitis B or human papilloma virus showing that we can readily adapt our technology to marketed vaccine products. So computing biomaterials can only be used for drug delivery. We have also shown that you can use them for ensuring food safety for detecting forbidden or dangerous substances in this food and we started by detecting forbidden antibiotics in milk. And in order to have a very specific, sensitive and fast read-out of such a forbidden antibiotic in milk, we invented something which we called biological transistor and this we did by combining computing biomaterials with nanoscience and semiconductor technology. And we have shown that those biological transistors provide a direct electronic read-out of antibiotics in milk and we were able to show that we can detect as little as 4 nanograms of antibiotics per liter of milk. And the nice thing about this is that it's not only restricted to antibiotics we have shown that you can use such biological transistors to detect a broad range of possible molecules, other toxic substances, heavy metals and so on. So these are only two examples of how computing biomaterials can help your drug delivery and food safety. But we have studied ongoing and patent applications pending on the use in tissue engineering or plastic surgery. But these are only a few examples of how computing biomaterials can help to transform biomedical engineering. With this I would like to thank you for your attention. I'm very much looking forward to discussing with you as a question of where you see areas where such materials or other devices could help in diagnostics or drug delivery to generate some societal and economical impact. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward to the discussion. Thank you.


One of the really cool things on Linux is that we have a ton of really good audio players, music players, and one of the things that has really stuck with us through the decades is this fascination with the old Winamp program. Winamp was a music player that was available, of course, on Windows like 25 years ago. I remember using Winamp and Winamp was very popular. It was so popular and so many millions, hundreds of millions, probably computer users have used Winamp that it does, it has a soft spot in some people's heart. Like they really miss the old Winamp UI with the multiple windows that you could connect and you had some really fantastic cleaning options with Winamp. Well, there are actually some Winamp clones that are available on Linux actually, on more than just Linux. Well, some of them are cross-platform such as QMMP. So QMMP stands for the Qt-based multimedia player. So it's a Qt app, right? And of course, it's cross-platform, works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The UI is essentially a straight clone of Winamp. It even accepts Winamp theming, Winamp skins. And if I want to install QMMP, I'm on an arch-based system, but chances are QMMP is in the repository of whatever Linux distribution you happen to be running. So in my case, if I do a sudo pacman-s QMMP, it is in the repositories. I've already installed it, so I won't reinstall. And then once you've got it on your system, just launch QMMP. And this is what it looks like out of the box. Now QMMP, just like all of these Winamp clones that are out there, you can tell that it's from a different kind of era from computers because back in the day when Winamp was popular, standard resolutions on computer monitors was like, you know, 480p, right? Now everybody has at least 1080p monitors, if not bigger, so the fonts and everything really look very tiny.  What you could do if you click the little hamburger menu on the main window here and you go to View and Double Size, you know, it will make the fonts twice as big, which does make it a little easier, especially for purposes of this video. I'll keep it double sized, but this thing is very much a straight Winamp clone and just like Winamp, I've got the main window that I'm dragging around here, but these extra windows, the equalizer window, the playlist window, I want to, I can snap that to the main QMP window, right?  I can arrange them however I want and then just drag them by the main title bar. Now if I grab one of the other windows, you know, then I'm actually moving things around again, so I can actually swap the equalizer and the playlist now and then, yeah, we've got that working and because it's cube based, if I click on the title bars, you know, I can actually, you know, minimize these. I can actually collapse them completely and, you know, I accidentally played with the balance. I didn't want to do that on the equalizer and now I've buggered up the windows. I've got to go back and rearrange them. As far as the controls of the music player, it's, you know, the same as the old Winamp, so we're not going to really talk about that. Really what I want to do is to go back to the QMMP website and here at the top, if you click on plugins, you'll get to this plugins section for QMMP and there's some really cool plugins to allow you to extend the functionality of QMMP. I'm not going to install or show any of these plugins, but at least one of them I know people will be interested in. I'm not going to talk about it because what it does is search is a very popular video content platform because this video content platform often has large music channels on it and what it does is it searches and plays music directly from that very large video platform, but what I'm interested in is skins.  So they're archived packages and you don't have to unarchive these when you download them, but what I did is I download all of these and then if I go back to the, oh, empty workspace here, let me open my file manager PCMAN-FM and in my home directory, of course, you have .config and in .config, at least this is the case when I install QMMP on Arch Linux, you should find in .config a folder that was automatically created for you QMMP and then you have this folder here called skins which will be empty and you can see I just dropped all of those archived packages into that skins directory and once I've done that, let me go back to the QMMP player, what I could do, go back to the little menu here and go into settings and let me move for this window and now those are all of those archived packages which are essentially skins which are themes and these are very, very similar to like old school went out themes, some of them, you know, so this is Ergo which I believe was a default theme for QMMP some years back, then you've got GN AMP blue, then you've got the standard GN AMP which is green, then you've got the skin 9 theme which I actually like that, that's not bad, I can't move the window around while this one is open and then we have a zenus and that's a sexy little skin and then went out which as you can guess, you know, it's very reminiscent of went out and then the default theme and then the oxygen theme which I'm assuming was for the oxygen KDE plasma theme, then you have PAR skin, PAR skin is from for the Pardis Linux distribution, there's a Linux distribution called Pardis and yeah, this bear and the claw marks and everything that is theming from or branding essentially from the Pardis Linux distribution, that's interesting, somebody made that and there's another one also with Pardis in mind, then you have a black theme which is a black background with blue accents then black modded which is essentially just black and gray, then you have a sodium skin which yeah, that's not bad actually for really light skin, I kind of like that and then the sparrow theme which heck, yeah, that might be the best one, that might be the one I keep though, yeah, pretty cool and let me go back into view, check off double-sized, get these windows back, do a more appropriate smaller size although again, on modern resolution monitors, this is a bit tough right as far as on the eyes, the font's a little small but for those of us that like these kinds of things for nostalgia purposes, it really gives you that old school went out kind of feeling. Now before I go, I need to thank a few special people, I need to thank the producers of this episode, Gabe James Maxim, a homie's too bald, Matt Miment, Mitchell Paul, Royal West, Armored Dragon, Bash Potato Chuck, Commander Rangry, George Lee, Marshall Mettos, Nate Erion, Paul Peace, Archon Vador, Polytech, Rallytease for Lust, Red Prophet, Rowland Tools, Devler, Willian, Zenibot, these guys, they're my high-steered patrons, over on Patreon without these guys, this quick look at QMMP would not have been possible, the show's also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen, all these names you're seeing on the screen right now, these are all my supporters over on Patreon, I don't have any corporate sponsors, I'm sponsored by you guys, the community, if you like my work and want to see more videos about Linux for an open-source software, subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon, Peace. Of course these days, Emacs is my music player.


And coming up, we're going to dig into some unanswered questions facing the NFC South. Biggest questions? Let us know. Add up an Adam Show. Time to dig into some unanswered questions. We're going division by division. We hit the NFC North. Today it's time for the NFC South. Now this division is taking some dings, taking some lumps, taking some hits, but it's also very intriguing because I really do think it's anybody's game. Any one of these four teams has a legit shot of taking it home. And guess who else thinks so?  Okay, the Saints are the favorites right now after picking up Derek Carr, right? But all these teams have, you know, plus money. They've got realistic odds here. So I wanted to start with the top, the defending champions. It's like, who won the division? Oh yeah, Tampa Bay did, right? And I love Tampa. And I know that Tom Brady isn't there, but there's just something, you know, really special about being able to sort of watch them sort of rebuild and figure it out. What's the question? Get to the question. Oh my God. This is such awesome. I have Brian as the nicest producer ever. I'm telling him to yell at me. Could you guys yell at me a little earlier next time? That would be great. Can you just interject a little quicker? Thank you. I appreciate it. Yelling me. What is that thing? Is that a device of some sort? What is that on the table? Into the question. Okay. Here's the question that I have for the Buccaneers. My question is, who's the boss? Who is in charge here? Is your mom home? Is your dad home? Can I talk to somebody? No Tom Brady. No fornet. Devin White's demanding a trade.  So this team might be completely unrecognizable in some ways, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing, everybody. The Bucs have paired Baker Mayfield and the best receiver duos in the league. And if you want to talk about second acts, his offensive coordinator was the quarterback coach in Seattle during Gino's resurgence last year. We love people rewriting their narratives. We love somebody being counted out and then showing you what they're made of and digging deep. Tampa also did a little reconfiguration of their offensive line. They want to get the run game going. And they may be down a playoff Lenny, but you know, White, he's been getting rave reviews if you're really paying attention to what the organization is saying.  They did on every running back in the draft. They didn't grab one at all. And that says a lot. So, well, of course, you want to figure things out, please, with Devon, please figure it out with Devon White.  There are interesting things happening there. The Creamsicles are not the only thing making a comeback in Tampa. Light already made comparisons between his rookie D-Tackle and Hall of Fame and Warren Sapp. Okay, so lofty expectations to put on them. But watching with Vita Vaya should be pretty fun and I know this all sounds well and good. We still have no idea what this team is going to look like on the field. I am just saying, Baker, White, Kancy, they're all going to be able to take charge and to do not count Tampa out in the south just yet. What are you doing over there, Eric? Eric's literally practicing pitches right now. Next, let's get into Atlanta. And by the way, congrats to Donald Glover on winning the Peabody Award for his show. What's the question? That was high. Try to hit me, Eric. All right, let's talk about the Falcons. And my question for them is this.  The Falcons head coach. He's had a, I don't know if you guys pay attention to this, a pretty unconventional couple of weeks. He drafts a running back in Bijan Robinson, eighth overall. And he also, you know, has the Titans first round pick. Peter Skoranski put him on blast for allegedly calling him boring during his pre-draft interview. Do you guys hear this? Isn't that crazy? Is this all a sign of some against the grain, wild genius? Or is Arthur Smith losing his marbles a little bit? The jury is still out, but I have to say right now, I'm leaning more towards the genius tip of the scale here. Because when I look at, you know, what he's starting to do in Atlanta and what he did last year, it's hard to not be impressed, right? He inherits a total mess when he takes over the job. He has to transition away from a former MVP from 2016 in Matt Ryan, 2016, 2017, 2016, I think, dealing with the whole Calvin Ridley situation. That was dramatic and, you know, not expected. And a roster in a hellacious turnover, let's just call it what it is. He found a way though to keep this team relevant late into the year. That's the calling card for good coaches. Keep them playing for you.  He leaned into the run game hard, leading the league in rushing attempts and having the offense finish 15th and scoring, despite having the 31st-ring past defense. I always appreciate coaches who find the way out of making the most out of a mess that they have. And Smith did that last year. They won seven games with a completely unsettled quarterback group and a bottom 10 defense. And now you add a spark plug in Bijan Robinson into the mix. You've got freakish athletes like Kyle Pitts and Drake London, Twitter roasted me because I said, wow, I can't wait to see what happens when you have Kyle Pitts and Bijan. That's really effective. That might be great. Who's throwing the ball? Who's whatever? Their defense is always the question. They overhauled it. Guys, Jesse Bates is in the building. Kaleis Campbell's in the building. A veteran, a leader who's, that's all gonna work and make happen. So things are looking pretty spicy. So much of this does hinge on Desmond Ritter. But if he can just take care of the ball, if he can throw the ball a little better than Eric, who just did a miserable job of tossing a paper ball at me, just like a little better than Eric will suffice. Okay. If he can just manage the game, I think the team can be really dangerous with what Arthur has cooking down there. Go ahead. That didn't even make, okay, that's a little better, a little bigger. That was good. Okay, it's right here. Next up, did you know, let's talk about the Panthers guys. And I want to talk about the Panthers who we obviously had stats on and stats was saying, you know, Sam Darnold's not there anymore, Christian McCaffrey not there anymore. Get to the question. Let's go, Kay. I'm waiting for like Marissa to come and just like punch me in the face. Like that's what I'm waiting for. All right, let's get to the Panthers and their question. What is it? I don't know, I'm looking for it. Hold on, what did I have here? Okay, the Panthers, my question for them. Oh, this is it. Can the defense play up to its talent? I have been talking about this. I always say young feisty, if you took a shot of something every time I talk with the young feisty defense of the Panthers, you'd be wasted by six in the morning if you started at 5.30 in the morning. Okay, I know the offense is a muck. I know that it's in transition, but an offensive guru like Frank Reich, he'll be able to get enough out of them to at least be competitive and Bryce Young being there. They'll be fine if and only if the defense can actually play to its potential. Listen, I've been tantalized by this thing for years. They have four first-round picks out there. JC Horne, Brian Burns, I love them. They're so freaking talented. Another three-second rounders, including the talented and versatile Jeremy Chin, this group has the potential to be so special, but for whatever reason, they have not been able to find consistency, okay? 2021, this was the number two defense in the NFL. Nobody was paying attention to them because the offense was a mess, but it looked like the young squad was turning a corner and then last year somehow, how do you go from number two to 22? And listen, I know everything works hand-in-hand.  Bad field position because you can't, goffins can't get out of their own way, but still the defense with all of its talent has a chance to be one of the best in the NFL. And if this offense is mediocre, like Eric's throwing skills and their new defensive coordinator can help unlock some of that potential, I do think we might see the Panthers finally take shape. And that's why they are in the mix to literally take the division. All right, and I saved the best for last year, the new favorites in the division, the favorites are the New Orleans Saint. People were tweeting yesterday, talk about the Saints. Get to the question. And I'm a Saint's girl and I want to be there. And I think we should- Get to the question. Finish it, what was that? Who put installed a microphone on this desk over here? It's my favorite thing. Marissa, tell me about this. It wasn't me, I just showed up and it was there. I swear, I swear. But look, I just want Brian to speak into this with his great booming voice. Ryan, give me, say something really mean. Finish him.  Yeah, that was it. Okay, let's do it. Let's get to the question on the Saints. It is simply, can you maybe not get injured? Like fight, like can you like finally not get injured? The last two seasons have been like unlike anything I've ever seen the team go through. Last year they suffered the fourth most injuries in the league and it was the guys that are really important. Like the March on Lattimore, as Michael Thomas left tackle Trevor Penning. We don't even know what he's like out there on the field, key pieces on the team. And it doesn't even include Alvin Camara who only missed two games. He was clearly playing through something most of the year if you were watching. And this comes after 2021 where the Saints send an NFL record by starting 58 different players through the course of the season because of injuries. It's been one of, and I don't know why more people naturally don't talk about this. This is one of the worst stretches of injury luck in the NFL, in NFL history, okay? So if that luck evens out and we see this man on the field, remember this, it was so long ago. If he looks like this the way he started last year, Olavi on the other side, Der Carr running the show. March on Lattimore locking up every opposing and one wide receiver in Cam Jordan, living in the backfield for a full 17 or close to that. I don't really care about any of the stuff that I said earlier in the segment about any other team in the division. If and if, if, if, if, if, they can stay healthy, especially those guys I mentioned. This division runs through New Orleans. They are the favorite. It's nobody's ball game. There we go. Let's see the odds again. Fan dual sports book because that's everybody's ball game right now. They're all positive odds. We get it. I'm learning about odds to go. But yeah, I think the Saints are the favorite and they should be looking good. Health is the issue. All right, after this, how about the Lions playing in the NFL season opener against the defending Super Bowl champion? Chiefs, amazing. Want a bold prediction for schedule release? I got you. Oh, oh, nailed out. That feels good.


really love working with our students. They really value their, their skills and their abilities and their enthusiasm. And they're really, really grateful for what the students produce. That's not to say they don't have a lot of input and they don't ask for changes and they don't have a lot of say on what gets done. And I would say that last point is what's positive for the students as well. Because as they move into their careers, so many careers now are in new media and in new methods of content delivery and working on projects like this, really position them well as they move into really a completely new media environment. At least in our field, what's going on and what students are doing is going to change. And so what we can give them is this rich experience of working with a partner where they craft a message which will stay with them no matter what they end up doing, skills and getting portfolio pieces that they can use as they apply for internships or move into their fields, whatever they might be. We try to really stay on top of how the field is changing. There's been a mix of students who build websites from scratch for partners and inheriting websites that are already done in content management systems and that's more and more what students are going to be moving into. So just knowing that and acknowledging that and requiring that they all work in that realm I think will really benefit them. Every quarter I ask partners for comments and students for comments and the partners typically say how wonderful it was to work with students and how pleased they are with the outcomes and the students typically say how great it was to work with a partner, again this idea of a real partner in the real world. Again it's a project outside the classroom that really feels very useful and very productive and it's been interesting I've also had students say that it was very stimulating and very gratifying to get feedback from the partners because it made this particular student feel like what she was doing the skills she had were going to be really valued as she moved into her career and I thought that was a really interesting thing to say that getting that kind of feedback from someone outside the university was a very positive thing for her. We worked with the YWCA of Bellingham in a recent quarter and we did a video for that website among other things that was called Faces of YWCA Bellingham and I had students not on that team cry when they saw the video that the students had done. It was a very kind of innovative technique of just the women's faces and it was really a before and after of women who were really needed services and feeling lost and then what had happened after of feeling warm and of feeling like there were possibilities for them and it was a very moving experience and I think that's something that is really very gratifying to see students do things that really move them in a way that working on a class project just wouldn't. It's a really wonderful thing to be able to have these projects that our provost can show to university organizations or to the trustees. I just think it's just again such a fulfillment of what our mission is.