Hello and welcome to our briefing on the Future of Jobs Report 2023. I'm Kirsten Zyer from the World Economic Forum and I'm joined by an esteemed panel to discuss the future of jobs in an age of economic uncertainty, advancing AI and the green transition. We will be discussing this evolving and shifting jobs and skills landscape and making proposals for how people, employers and governments can come together to prepare for the future of work. It is my great pleasure to introduce our panelists. We have Sadia Zahidi, Managing Director at the World Economic Forum, Sudu Kedav, Global Public Policy at LinkedIn, Svenya Guddel, our Chief Economist at Indeed and Shravan Goli, Chief Operating Officer at Coursera. Welcome and thank you so much for being here today and for your collaboration on the report. Sadia, if you could please start us off with some of the key findings of the report and what they mean for people around the world. That's great. Thank you. Thank you, Kirsten. And also thank you to the partners that collaborated with us on the data and also to the very extensive team at the World Economic Forum that put this report together. First off, let me just say a little bit about how this report is constructed. So we gathered the views of hundreds of heads of HR, heads of strategy and CEOs of companies and tried to understand that these people that are really at the front lines of making decisions about the future of jobs, about where to invest, about what all these global trends actually mean for the workplace. What are they really thinking about what the future of jobs will look like over the next five years? And then we combined that with a lot of hard data as well as data from our partners and what they're able to tell us in very specific areas. So that's what we try to do and overall what that captures is about 673 million workers in the workforce and we're able to say a little bit about where things might be headed. We also try not to limit ourselves with looking to just technology trends. So we actually look at some other macro trends. We look at the green transition. We look at shifting supply chains and we try to understand what these things together, what that's going to lead to. Now one key finding, that combination of trends together is going to disrupt about a quarter of jobs that currently exist. So 23% of jobs will be disrupted in some form or the other. But the key word there is disruption and just a little over a half will be declining and just a little under half will be actually growing. And so overall the picture is yes complex, yes affected by many trends but also something that seems manageable provided that we focus on the reskilling and upskilling of workers. So that's one key point. Let me just say a little bit more. Not surprisingly given where we are today relative to the current number of jobs there's a specific set that are rising and a specific set that are declining. So for example, AI specialists will be in high demand. Big data specialists will be in high demand. Sustainability specialists and environmental protection specialists and business analysts will be in high demand relative to where they are today. But when we look at the absolute number of jobs that will be created and what will be growing, actually those tend to be in sectors like for example agriculture or education. So agriculture is expected to create four million new jobs. Education is expected to create three million new jobs. Green jobs roughly speaking, about a million more of those. So that's where some of the growth will come from. And then finally in terms of the declining side perhaps unsurprisingly these are roles that are at the lower skilled end of the white collar workforce and are now getting disrupted by technology. So for example, those that are bank tellers, people who are working as administrative assistants or as secretaries, those are likely to be the roles that will be the most disrupted. And I will stop there Kirsten and pass it back to you. Disruptions a key theme here in the findings and I'd like to go to you Sue from the data from LinkedIn what have been some of the trends you've seen in labor markets and in particular let's look at the opportunities. What are some of the fastest growing roles? With nearly a billion members across the globe, LinkedIn has this truly unique view of the world's labor markets and the trends that we see are very consistent with what's set out in today's report and with what Sadiah has just set out. We have seen enormous disruption in the world's labor markets over the past number of years, not least throughout the pandemic. And we continue to see them change at this unprecedented rate. And it's those twin transitions of digital and of green that are the two biggest drivers of change and of job growth on our platform. Fully 40 of the top 100 fastest growing roles on our platform over the past five years have fallen into those two categories. First, that digital transition continues year after year to push those digital roles to the forefront. Just in the past 12 months we see roles like cybersecurity engineers, business analytics managers and AI engineers really coming through strongly with a particular surge in generative AI. So just in the past 12 months, we have seen jobs mentioning GPT surge over 50% in that period. The second very clear trend, the future of work is green. The company's surveyed for today's report said it loud and clear and we see that coming through just as strongly on our platform. Hiring for green jobs is outpaced hiring generally for four straight years in a row now and three of the fastest of the 10 fastest growing roles on our platform over that period are core green jobs. And while we see this tremendous growth in those core green jobs, there is an even bigger transformation happening in the broader economy. Traditional jobs, not green jobs per se, not in the green sector, those jobs are going green too. Over the past five years, jobs requiring green skills have grown 8% every year. And the vast majority of that growth is coming for jobs again, not traditionally thought of as green, some of the ones most in demand, jobs like fleet managers, data scientists and health workers. And while we see workers responding to that demand, so the share of green talent on our platform is up 40% since 2015, we are nowhere near where we need to be to meet the scale and the speed of the demand that's coming our way. Today, 13% of the workforce has green skills. That means seven out of every eight workers has no green skills. And that means we need to start investing now and heavily to put the reskilling and upskilling programs in place that are going to equip workers with those green skills that we're going to need if we're going to meet this climate challenge. Thank you, Sue. So we've been talking about digital jobs, green jobs. I can turn to you, Svenja. What are social jobs and what role are social jobs in this shifting labor landscape? Certainly. Yeah, so when we looked at social jobs, we really considered three large categories, care, education and health care. And we really tried to dig in there and we saw some really interesting trends. Looking at indeed data, we have job postings in many different countries and we looked at 20 plus countries and really tried to see what are the trends coming out of the pandemic, even during the pandemic and then coming out of the pandemic. And interestingly enough, the initial growth that we saw in a lot of these social jobs, particularly in health care, extreme booming in terms of demand. So postings in a lot of countries for these types of jobs were up. And then we didn't see as much of a coming down of those jobs. So a lot of job postings still require or still listed for these care workers, health care, education and on the care side, you know, it could be child care. So still a lot of daycare type of jobs or elderly care jobs.  But for these social jobs, we're finding the demand is still quite elevated compared to pre-pandemic levels. And we do expect that to stay with us as, you know, we're an aging population in the US and a lot of other industrialized countries. And that's going to require a whole lot of care jobs and of course social jobs, particularly as we think about reskilling and what type of jobs the future holds for us. And then interestingly enough, despite that heavy demand for these types of jobs, the amount of time it actually takes to fill these jobs is quite high. So looking across the board, none of these social jobs are among the fastest to fill.  And that, and of course, their wages aren't always the highest either. So I think we've quite some work to do on that front, looking into the future to make sure these are good jobs, paid well. And as an employer, you're able to fill them relatively quickly to meet your needs. Thanks, Anjad. That brings us to a theme that's been in all of our discussions so far underpinning this, which is the need for the skills that lead to these jobs. Shirvan, if you could tell us a little bit more about this skills gap. The report found that the greatest barrier to business transformation is the skills gap. What is Coursera's data revealed about how we close that gap? Sure. First of all, Coursera is honored to partner with World Economic Forum and the esteemed partners here to work on this report, so we appreciate the opportunity. So when I think about the specific question around the skills, in general I think while people without college degrees have been most impacted by these labor market disruptions, an interesting finding that we uncovered through Coursera data is that learners without college degrees are able to learn these critical skills required for some of these jobs to the future in about the same timeframe as those with the degrees. So this is based on the learning data that we're observing, especially as it relates to these entry-level professional certificates that we have on our platform. And so to me, I think this unlocks a massive opportunity because now you can actually really focus on skills-based training and then also skills-based hiring to a large population of people that are getting disrupted. And so specifically when I think about the call to action is the coordination that needs to happen between the private and public sector to really focus on creating pathways because it doesn't have to be a degree anymore. So you can start with a microcredential. This is what we're observing. And you can start getting into a job and then ultimately continue to build on that career and advance in your career. So if the industry can work together to build these pathways, that would be great. Secondly, I think we also see a great opportunity between governments and higher education institutions to partner on the same. So instead of just saying it's only start with a degree, you start with a microcredential and create a stackable pathway through the academic programs. That's on one side of the equation. But the other side of the equation is to actually, when I think about what degree teaches you, it's the breadth of the skills. But these microcredentials actually give you the specific skills required to do a specific job. So if you can actually combine these two, you're complimenting what learners are learning even in these academic institutions, right? And then the third piece to me, I think is around the skills-based hiring. So businesses can now truly embrace skills-based hiring. When you think about the data that you're pointing about is the gap in terms of the available talent, which is a supply. And in terms of the gap, in terms of what these companies need to hire and be competitive in the marketplace, it's huge. So if you can become more of a skills-first organization to start with skills-first hiring into these entry-level jobs and then continue to invest in up-skilling these populations so you can actually create a continued pathway for these individuals to get onto bigger jobs in their firms. Thank you. I think I'd like to take us back a step to the broader theme that we're here discussing at the summit, which is, of course, jobs and opportunities for all. Another one of the findings of the report saw that these economic shifts that we're experiencing are not always equal, both within different segments of the population, different education levels, and different economies around the world. Sadia, could you speak a bit to how do we create inclusive jobs and opportunities for all? Sure. A couple of things there. One of the questions we asked companies was how much they plan to invest in diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and why? And one piece that's very clear is that most companies now see that the value of DEI is one, of course, the social outcomes it creates, but also they need the talent and they need to be thinking very differently about getting that talent from parts of the population that they traditionally wouldn't have thought of. So for example, 70% of companies were planning to focus primarily on gender parity, primarily on women. About 60-ish percent, just over 60% were planning to focus on youth, and just over 50% were planning to focus on those with disabilities, and then there were smaller segments of those companies that were looking at other forms of diversity. A second element there is this skills-first approach, and we actually launched another report today in collaboration with PWC. And what we found there is that if companies were to take a skills-first approach and look at that mismatched population where the degree that they have studied for or the certification that they have doesn't actually reflect their real skill set, there could be a win of over 100 million people whose skills could be much better deployed in the workforce. And those are the ways in which companies are going to have to think about diversity and ensuring that inclusion is a big part of the future of work, looking at the actual skills and not at poorer signals for skills, which are often degrees or your previous experience, and second, looking at parts of the population that they traditionally would not have looked at. And this applies, of course, very obviously to advanced economies that have very tight labor markets, but equally so applies to developing countries that many of which are in sort of a stalling of growth at present, and they're going to need innovation and creativity and ideas from all parts of the workforce if they're going to grow again. So for all those reasons, I think diversity and inclusion will have to be key for the future of growth. Thank you, Sadia. Let's now open it up to questions from our audience. If you could please just share your name and your organization. Hello, Julia Hobsbaw. I write the Working Assumptions column for Bloomberg, and I run the Nowhere Office Research Project. Really very, very interesting. Suzanne, I had a particular question for you really about the impact this is having on employee confidence and the levels of churn you're seeing in relation to what people assume job stability or job movement needs to be. Are people applying for more jobs, less jobs, different jobs, as well as the, you know, are they aware that they need to get green, or are they just feeling that their jobs are actually a little bit imperiled? One of the really fundamental shifts that happened during the pandemic was what we saw workers asking themselves was not just questions that the pandemic put in front of all of us, which is where do I work and how do I work, but also why do I work? And we saw this real shift, particularly amongst younger workers, to focus on the purpose of work. And green is right at the heart of that. They are highly motivated to work for companies, to work for organizations, and to find companies themselves that prioritize the environment. We completed a survey just in the last couple of weeks of European workers, and over one in four workers across Europe say that their number one non-negotiable when choosing a company are the green credentials of that organization. So the appetite is there, the willingness to upskill and reskill is there, the pressure on companies to show that they are taking their green commitments extremely clear is there. Our job is to accelerate this transition and to put these reskilling programs in place to make sure we're getting those workers the right skills to do those jobs in a more sustainable way. If I can weigh in on that. We also, for a joint report that indeed did with its sister company, Glassdoor, looked at how important DEI was to employees, and you could split that data by race, by are you married or not married, or whatever categorization you choose, the one that was most important was age. And we really found that particularly younger workers have a strong preference and make decisions. So they choose to either accept an offer or not even apply to a particular job based on how strong of a DEI presence a company has in the very fiber of that company. So do they have a diverse management or a set of managers or the executive suite? How diverse are they? Do they care about in their decision making who they hire? Do they have certain rules when it comes to hiring around DEI? So all these things were particularly important for the workforce of tomorrow, if you will. And so I think it's not only necessary from the employer side of things, but also for the employee, not only green jobs matter, but I think being socially conscious in general really matters. If I could just add to that, I think on top of it, when you're thinking, the question you're asking is ultimately, are you able to retain the talent and are you able to attract them and also keep them? I think one of the most recent reports from Deloitte talked about 98% of the employers are retaining better when they're offering these upscaling programs and especially when it comes to high-performing talent. The other data point from that report was 55% of the companies are better equipped to deal with this rapid change and transformation that every company has to undertake now to face these disruptions but also help their employees grow and demonstrate towards these newer jobs as well. Any other questions? Yes, please. Hi, my name is Projol Khattak. I run a company called Onloop. Then we use generative AI to drive manager and team effectiveness, especially in a hybrid world. And my question was around what the data shows with regards to geography of jobs, especially through a combination of remote and hybrid work as well as the fact that we can now use generative AI products to quickly upscale remote workers purely with English skills and not so much with programming skills. And what do we think that will do to the relative composition of jobs in developing countries versus developing countries? Thank you for the question. Sadia, this reminds me of a line from your op-ed published today that the future job will be disruptive but not dystopian. So if you could tell us a little bit about what you've seen in terms of the geographic spread and what AI means. I think one piece that's definitely affecting the geography of jobs is the shifts in the nature of globalization that we're seeing currently. And the localization of production of supply chains is going to create a lot more jobs in certain parts of the world. But it's really those economies that actually grab that opportunity over the course of the last year. A lot of Western companies are, for example, looking at having a China plus one strategy. It depends on who the plus one is and how they've been able to attract that investment in that capital. But even in those places where that has occurred, there's still a mismatch and a lack of skills. That is still showing up as the number one issue across all geographies. Businesses are most concerned that they don't have access to the right kind of talent, that they don't have access to the right kind of skills. And as more and more of this localization essentially happens, there's going to be a bigger need than ever. Many countries that have previously been competing on the basis of simply having cheap labor, they will no longer be able to do so in this new economy. And they're going to have to think very, very differently about how they invest in building up the right kind of education systems and how they do a massive boost of skills in the current adult workforce. Because that's what they're going to have to do. Both invest for the future and make some changes right away if they want to continue to grow. We do look at about 45 countries in the report. There's a very diverse picture across all of them. In some countries, definitely there's more of a demand for the AI and broadly speaking, technology related talent. In many countries, it is really about the green talent that's going to be in demand. In many countries, it is very much about those social jobs and probably in the largest numbers. Maybe I'll just say one more word about this. Why the future of work need not be dystopian, just to go back to this point around proactive policy making. Governments will have to think very, very differently and that's across advanced and emerging markets. Businesses will have to join forces with them. It will no longer be enough for businesses to each think that they can set up their own very expensive reskilling and upskilling. They will have to partner with other companies and partner with various governments and people will have to think differently as well. So the younger generation that is still in school will have to think very differently about developing technological literacy, about developing leadership and social influence, and about developing analytical and creative thinking, which comes out as the top two set of skills that are in demand. And those that are currently in the workforce, some part of that burden is falling on workers themselves and to an extent which may not be manageable. The reskilling and upskilling that they will have to do for themselves. In other cases, they have very supportive employers that are providing some of that help, but I think overall we will need a much better structure that goes beyond purely online reskilling and upskilling and expecting that workers will be able to take that forward themselves. There are many parts of the world and many parts of the workforce where more support will be needed and that will come in the form of income security as well as jobs and career centers that it can actually help people make that shift. So I think at least for the next few years, it will need to be a combination and then hopefully that sets up a system that lasts. Yes. I don't want to be greedy, but I'd love to ask one more question, please, about the skills and the differentials of the skills. Two parts, really. One is, am I right that there isn't, at the moment, maybe the WEF can facilitate it, a sort of global dashboard of where to go to find the latest information about the movements around skills. So that's the question. First question is, what am I missing? And the second question is the literacy around the skills because there's really a difference, isn't there, between the technical skills you're describing, some of the AI, you know, a heat manager, and a different kind of skill, which is the soft skill. So who's handling that difference? Who's teaching that difference because they are really not the same? Sadi, would you like to take the first part of that question? Happy to come in, but I think you've got your hand up, and I'll come in after. I can take on one part of the question at least. I mean, from the report, we have definitely discovered the individual learners are prioritizing technical skills because that's where the job demand has been over the last few years and continues to be. So that means networking, programming, cybersecurity, operations and resource management, et cetera, and so on and so forth. But what we found through this survey from the employer perspective, with the rapid change and disruptions that are happening, they're looking for skills that are gonna sustain the individuals through this change. And so that's where they're talking about human skills, kind of falling back on the things that AI could not essentially disrupt. And that's where resilience, agility, and leadership, analytical thinking, creative thinking, these are the ones that employers are starting to prioritize. Now, but if I think about it differently, which is I think the skills that individuals are prioritizing are definitely foundational at the end of the day to do some of these jobs. Think about if you don't know reading, writing, and math, you won't be great in the sort of communication, and that's an essential part of influencing on social side of the equation. If you're not good at that stuff, you're not gonna get to those in-demand jobs. You talked about AI and big data jobs, right? So I think there's a real opportunity to actually think of it as like, how do we balance this? It's not just one or the other. And to your point, Nadia, I think you have to go all the way down, all the way from the individuals that are going through different programs. But also, I think the opportunity for campuses to start thinking about employability as a big part of it, and so that's technical skills. But look at this data, what employers are demanding. It's not just pure technical skills, they're also demanding these social skills. And I think the government has to kind of think of it the same way. I think there's a real opportunity to converge all of these different avenues. And actually, to your point, I actually, providing this sort of the insights, what's in demand from the industry, what are the kinds of jobs emerging, is industry participating in actually creating some of these micro-credentials to teach those skills, as well as the academics really enhancing that, can actually provide pathways for governments to create employment on a wider scale. Maybe three quick points. One, I think having a dynamic dashboard sounds like a great idea, rather than doing this every two years. So we'll certainly look into that. But I think that would have to be a combination of information that comes from various countries, various international organizations, and from employers, some surveys such as this one. Second element, I think in order to be able to do anything like that, you actually need a common skills taxonomy. Right now, the way people talk about skills is completely different around the world, inside countries, even inside the same organization, it can mean different things. So one of the things we've tried to do is put together a global skills taxonomy for the adult workforce, and what we call an education 4.0 taxonomy for the K through 12 learners. And just to simply have a common, what we're calling a universal adapter around the language for skills. So that's certainly something you could look at. And then third, if this is going to happen at scale, then you need sort of a platform where very rapidly the information on, so how did some of those softer skills actually get transferred, or very rapidly the information on, how did we take somebody from this profession to becoming a big data specialist, that needs to be pulled together. And that's where the forum has set up the reskilling revolution platform, where between 2020 and 2030, we want to get to a one billion learners having, being equipped with the skills of tomorrow, and we've reached about 350 million at present in partnership with many of the people here in this room. So as a key takeaway, people are not here to have to figure out this future of jobs on their own. We've got public, private cooperation coming together, a skills first approach, putting people at the center of economic growth. Thank you very much to all of our speakers. Thank you to those of us in the room and to those watching at home. See you next time. Thank you. Thank you.


Well, hi there, I'm Sandy Unlock and I thought I would try and see if you can draw on toilet paper Let's try it.  I have room for more pens Oh Yeah, I know now I have to buy more pens don't I well I'm gonna use my twizby eco for this one because it's got the biggest nib out of all the ones I have it's a medium But it's still bigger than the others and it might poke through the toilet paper a little bit less. I Don't know. It's it's a wild hope Decided to get the toilet paper out I did put a piece of paper under it because I believed it was going to bleed through and it did and I just started it sketching flowers I had to keep the pen kind of hovering over the surface of the toilet paper because it was going to catch At any given point and it bled like mad. So Yeah, it's that kind of thing toilet paper is not really all that great for drawing on But the reason that I decided to do this right now is because everybody's hoarding toilet paper If you're watching this video off in the future, this is the period of the coronavirus pandemic and We just are at the point where the United States is starting to close down schools and everything and do social distancing I did this little meme that I created for the The time period we are in and if you'd like to spend time reading that and share it It's over on my blog just a little bit of silliness to add to the world right now because you know if we don't laugh We're gonna cry So why not draw on toilet paper? I did find out when I was watching the news that There actually is a reason why people are collecting the toilet paper I thought it was just an urban legend that you would need a lot of toilet paper for this particular virus But apparently in some cases There are issues for which one might want to have extra toilet paper I bought a brick in December, which was like a couple months ago and that is enough to last me forever Because I'm single and it's you know Not something that you go through all that fast when you're just one person So I'm fine with having plenty of toilet paper and I had it before everybody else started hoarding it and buying it all up and That sort of thing is just taken over our world right now I know the area that I live in is just gone nuts. Our schools are closed for the next six weeks so While everybody is kind of excited right now about the idea of having a Stacation of some kind Depending on your job You may be working at home But a lot of people who have service jobs or that sort of thing are just not able to work and some of You are getting paid and I'm sorry that some of you are not. I hope that legislation gets passed so everybody gets taken care of There are people like me though that this is really not a staycation at all This is just my life. This is just what I do and for me. It's just time to get more work done and Which is a good thing right now because I'm not gonna be eligible for all of those government programs and stuff So I have to do my own thing to make some income and one of the things that I want to share with you is that I have Gotten some of that done already. I have two classes that I'm launching right now One of them is called Copic wildflowers. It is available at this moment There's a link in the doobly-doo at the time of the launch of this video There are five different types of Copic wildflowers that you'll learn to draw in the class They're gonna be a lot of fun and make really pretty cards You can add a stamp sentiment to them and I have some ideas for different layouts You can use with them and then you can just do all kinds of flowers Once you have those skills and do lots more and it'll be really fun So why not it's a nice inexpensive mini course that you can take and learn how to do flowers The other one is not available at the time of this launch because I'm not quite finished with building the classrooms yet But it'll be done this weekend. So keep an eye out for storybook scenes This one I can really picture a lot of the stamped images that everybody uses on cards right now being able to be used with these scenes and I'm making them really simple clean types of Color saturated images. They're gonna be so much fun to play with So if you're interested in taking that one that I'm gonna pop the link into the doobly-doo as soon as the class is Ready and launched and I'll also post it over on my social media So that you are aware and also send it out to my email list. So there you go. All right The rest of this video is dedicated to a crazy project that you might like to try at home if you're not interested in drawing on toilet paper and this one is Starting by creating a background Mine is a big one You could do it on a smaller sheet of paper and I have a couple different paint colors that are mixed up one this one is Phthalo green blue shade and you'll notice it's kind of on the bluey side And I thought I would do the yellow shade as well so that you could see the difference between the two of them make it a little bit of an Educational art lesson and you can do this in any colors you want since March 17th is around the corner and that is St. Patrick's Day And we're all gonna be doing online celebration since all the parades and things have been canceled I thought it would be fun to do something with a little tiny bit of a nod to St. Patrick's Day So that is the phthalo green yellow shade You can kind of see the difference between the two colors right there But you can also see it a little bit more as it dries Then you can right now because the paint is wet now if you're going to Kind of blend out some of the colors like this don't blend everything you want to have some hard edges You can do this with watercolor you can use upo and alcohol inks You can use all different kinds of things anything that's going to create an interesting background Where you'll have hard edges that you can trace Because I've had a lot of people asking how you do really loose types of doodling and Something like this is going to help because if you have all those hard edges You can take a pen and trace around those edges and you're just making shapes And that's what I struggle with because every time I try to draw I tend to draw I try to draw a thing an object And I want to learn how to just draw from instinct draw from just the way my hand wants to move and Doing something like this is really helpful in creating something like that I've done this a little bit on Instagram TV videos But I thought I would do it here on YouTube on this project now I happen to be using one of my fountain pens, but if you're not going to add any more water to this You can use any kind of pen you've got in the house use a sharpie use a micron use a ballpoint pen Whatever you want to use will work just fine You could also do a sheet like this and get it all dry and then cut it up into quarters And give one to everybody in your family and give them a pen and just sit around and draw together Be kind of fun Mine is going to have a little bit of a St. Patty's Day theme because in and out between all of the doodling I'm going to add some shamrocks into mine So I'll have something to share on St. Patrick's Day So it's kind of a bummer that St. Patty's Day is going to be in the midst of the coronavirus Time away our little timeouts that we're having so we're not going to be able to go to parades and Go out and celebrate and have you know green drinks and green foods and green tacos and green whatever's Hopefully you've got something that you can celebrate with at home because it's a fun holiday for lots of people My birthday also is coming during this time period So I'm kind of a little bummed that I'm going to be spending my birthday locked in the house And yeah, not getting to see people so that'll be a whole lot of not fun But if you would like to send a birthday card over on my Website there's a contact page that has my PO box and I am going to sneak out to the PO box periodically Because I have to get out of the house at some point. I can't just always stay here I do take the dogs to the park even though we're supposed to all be staying in the house And staying away from people but I figure the dog park is kind of an open area and I just don't talk to people I just kind of steer the dogs off to a corner of the park where there isn't anybody so That we can have our little playtime outside and then I'm going to swing by periodically to check the PO box as well So if you want to send something and make my day You're welcome to do that because It's gonna be a stinky birthday. So there you go But one part of it that's not going to be stinky and that is also Something I'm really grateful for is that I was exposed To the coronavirus a couple weeks ago And I never came down with it. Fortunately, I didn't know until I was pretty much past the 14 days that they say that you should keep yourself away from people And I'm really glad because I would have spent 14 days just panicking that I was going to be sick And all that sort of thing. I never did get sick. So I'm fine I hope that I wasn't a carrier.  Don't go given it to anybody else I know it's hard. I know we're all going to start going stir crazy When the time wears on, you know, the first couple days is not going to be bad where everybody's going to think it's a vacation And eventually it's going to get stir crazy. So just be careful be safe And keep your friends and family safe too I hope you got a little something out of this silly little random video There are links to at least one of the classes in the doobly-doo and there will be another one very soon So I hope that one of those will be entertaining to you and teach you a little something about art And get you excited to go make things and maybe you'll paint one of these backgrounds and start doing some doodling too Thanks so much for tuning in for this video. Leave me a comment if you wish And I will see you guys later on. Take care. Bye. Bye


Bob Lorenz, Jeff Flaherty, Jack Curry with you, game one of four between the Yankees and the Blue Jays. And the Blue Jays win at three to nothing. And Jack, the Yankees coming up with some of those empty at bats and some of those at bats where they couldn't come through when they had opportunities to cash in. Right, it was a dismal night for them offensively. And Alec Minoa was the main reason why. We talked a lot about offense on our pre-game show. But we also talked about how Minoa can be an intimidating presence, an aggressive pitcher, and a pitcher who has already shown in his short career that he is going to go after hitters. And that's exactly what he did tonight. Six scoreless innings against the Yankees. They were 0 for 7 against his fastball. They were also hitless against his slider. Coney just mentioned a lot of swings and misses. The only time the Yankees did have a hint of offense against him was because of three walks that loaded the bases. And then he broke Stanton's bat to get out of that inning. So just a dominant pitching performance for the 24-year-old. Yeah, it's ironic that we talked in the pre-game show about the Toronto Blue Jays and their lineup, how they can slug, how they can do damage. It was pitching in defense tonight. You think about the seventh inning, the double play with Donaldson that was swiftly turned. You think about the third inning with Bichette making the play on stand. The ball that he got jammed. And it was pitching in defense tonight. Minoa is a guy that we talked about, has got to take it to the next level. I didn't expect him to go six innings with first start of the year. He protected that bullpen for Toronto. That might be a little suspect. They were a little shaky in the seventh inning, but the defense for the Blue Jays picked them up. That and George Springer, the difference in the game.


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So the LSE really provides a mag tap commander the ability to take everybody out to the field and deal with the friction of a live fight. Deal with frictions all the way from an enemy that is a near peer competitor all the way down to the friction of getting your headquarters set up and getting Marines out to the field and keeping them supplied with the chow water and ammo and fuel and everything they need to fight. From MSTP we've come out from Quantico to support in terms of exercise design. We bring the modeling and simulation systems out here, mag tap tactical warfare simulation allows us to fight the constructive forces, also model engagements, model consumption so we can test the logisticians by saying this is how much fuel you've used, what's your plan to get it to the forward forces and have them execute that plan in the model to keep everybody supplied. What the combat center allows us to do is to actually maneuver units on the ground where we can get two live battalions out here this year, one three and one seven fighting under first Marines as the regimental headquarters with supporting artillery, tanks, AVs, trucks, engineers, all the elements they would have as part of a regimental combat team. They've got the training of getting real people out in the field and then we continue on with the staff learning of follow on plans and keeping the maneuver going north. We can set this up for any mag tap headquarters, a MEB, a MEF-4 or a MEF, any of those headquarters and tailor the exercise to them.


Okay, so hello, my name is Pedro, I'm a lead designer at Colabora. You can also get ahold of me on Twitter, there is my handler. So let's start it. As the topic of my talk says here I'm going to talk about consistency, visual and how code and design interface and the structure actually live together and they are kind of cyclic in this in our workflow to improve Colabora. If like today is the last day, so probably you know what is Colabora online, but if you have any other question how to get the code, how to contribute, how to or where are these things or how to even build Colabora online for your particular distro, you can go ahead over colaboraonline.github.io and you will see some nice posts there, of course you can visit FAQ, but also really cool is our build, how to build Colabora online post where I recently updated and also Mohammed Karah also helped here with the instructions from other distros so if you want to add additional instructions there or if you see any problem feel free to report and we will you know make it easier and easier to get and even overall more friendly right, so we care about easy to use not only in the software itself but even the whole workflow in and out. So visual consistency normally we might think about consistency being just visual, but I will try to jump between code interface interface and code and also mention that actually this division can be quite blurry and that's okay and you can even benefit from that. So on one side we might have some code structure or some changes in the code and on the other side we have interface decisions, design decisions that we need to take and more often than not when we need or we want to work in a specific component, for example, I wanted to make sure that some specific components in our toolbar but also across other sections were more consistent between each other and these actually generated quite nice discussion and let me kind of motivate a clear CSS and so we start this whole process of cleaning this up making this visual consistency not only in the end result but even within the software itself right, so we try to split in many different files, these files then become easier to hack, easier to style because they start to correspond to the components itself themselves not only in a logical way but even in the visual manner. We try to reduce any resident rules across all files and I also started to feel the need and my anxiety started to be through the roof because I really wanted to enforce some consistency and consistency in terms of the formatting itself but also the rules we should follow in terms of linked so we also and a little bit more on this later, we also try to avoid guessing or at least trust 100% in CSS media queries because we encounter many problems right, we start to see many phablets with very diverse resolutions but also many tablets with weird not only even weirder form factors from different you know different manufacturers and on top of that we had these two little guys fighting each other yeah sometimes CSS would say one thing sometimes JavaScript say one thing and we really made effort to soften all these corners and rely mainly in the JavaScript size and this proven to be a win situation in many cases not only for mobile but also for tablets. Then I basically tried to have it in an automatic way so using style linked which there is many other ways to help in linking your code but style linked is one and I try to have it automatically checking online at each make run so not only I went manually to each file we have checking all the rules but also it was important to exclude third party files first we have some not that many but we have like one two libraries that they have their own CSS files and it was important to exclude them because in the future if we want to keep it light and flexible the update of those files we don't need to worry so much about their formatting we can just update them and take the upstream formatting that they use yeah big thanks of course for Henry that kind of helped me out in this final process of including the make run and for instance this one example now not only the JavaScript is checked but also the CSS side is checked and in here we see that we have a duplicated selector that we probably forgot about maybe we declared in at the beginning of the file and then we declared again at the end and we forgot so it's this really helpful to keep the things tidy and even easier to bug fix and overall to improve the the visual and the whole interface so by making it this side of the question crystal clear it then looked back and benefit back the the interface because suddenly things were easier easier to work and with that next step was being sure that maybe a couple of things on the JavaScript side was also were also clean and so for instance and we tried to decrease the redundancy especially in the dialogue side so for instance we have here our insert comment that uses vex and also here on mobile also uses the vex library so it's not something that remarkable but it has really a remarkable impact then in maintenance and even in the individual side of the question so big thanks for Pranam that really hunt these beats down and made sure that everything was consistent so now we can just deal with these things in one place instead of multiple places and again it looked back to the interface that this allowed me and motivated me to even go further and really check every single state of our component be sure that all states are accounted for and here you see that not only we are using for instance comments and notations and of course the tracking changes components they are also notations but they come from tracking changes and thus they do look different they do have slightly different components on them even though you can even comment in in in these tracking changes you'd in a LibreOffice on your desktop but it was important to make this this clear you know when when are you typing when are you not typing when you are viewing what's the difference between these hierarchies and these so we are just going to talk about really I really like this this this positive kind of coincidence a little bit a bunch of coincidences but really positive because you see since we work so much in in this collaborative way Pranam starts to work on one side I go I I started to work on on the other side and I listen to someone yeah I'm hearing yeah thanks and then there was this opportunity to bring more features to mobile so for instance we have here how we were displaying comments on mobile and it was quite tedious because you need a special on a phone you need to use you need to drag and pan to see your comments and now there is this possibility now we are using the same vex library now we are using the same code we can share not only the code but also the aesthetics of it and the same rules and of course this is a work in progress many things are still they still need to be improved but it's awesome effort initiated from pranam and now we get benefits not only in the code itself and for instance there were there will be many easy hacks and other things that you can help with so a very really easy hack and it's quite a good first issue to get your feet wet is simply to you know replace our trigger that was that were that were signifying insert comment to something that doesn't have the plus that simply signifies that you are going to trigger the comment section the comment panel um a lot a lot of great work from shimon on on this front on the javascript front and if you see other talks you already saw and and and listen to him going through all the technical bits but the cool thing is that this lat this all all the things you see here that was cyclical improvement right so even though it was something came from javascript and all it was something actually that then encompassed css design and it was something that started from a necessity or a motivation far from the design realm but then it benefit uh that design uh side um and of course fixing and unifying uh units used uh in input fields spinners all these controls uh were also quite uh these this there was an opportunity that was enabled uh by all this uh effort um so then we try to make sure that the user knows which units is working on which type of components is working on even without reading so because they don't read they really just scan it um and even feedback from users who users and customers were uh taking to account so for instance even though we uh cyclical will we frequently save the document um and we used to have a back uh chevron a back arrow to to leave the app people were quite afraid to press that icon um and so uh because they didn't know they wanted to be sure it was saved even though it even if it was already saved so they were always going to unbarger menu be sure that it was saved and and then press the arrow uh icon uh so we just replace that with the check mark and we even uh in we even in fact decide we even increase uh its importance uh by means of you and colors so they can be quite uh comfortable that this is not a destructive uh action and it's quite a positive action it will just save the document and leave the app um now and there is many things I I want to talk here but maybe I will go fast because I really have many slides so but for instance inactive states was also a big a big section um not only not only in the visual side but also in the code side so for instance I I noticed that these these uh states were not being communicated that well so I wanted to improve that and then I found out that actually the javas there were many javascript javascript pieces uh that were still uh listening and active so then it forced me to fix those parts and then go back to design and then finally have the states I wanted uh you know so every so then every side benefited even though in this case it was a motivation came from uh design so it's really interesting and at least for me it's it's quite curious to see these two sides uh they are actually not two sides they are or at least they are two sides of the same coin um now opening pdf it's an amazing effort uh especially from quickie um and he already presented the technical bits of this but it I wanted to take a moment and let's sink in the the challenges and the awesome results we got from this um so it was important to provide a clear um interface um to view a pdf with collaborate online and there is many ways to do it depending on your uh storage service um but in here we are not editing anymore we are not modifying per se the document structure we are here mainly to view a document so we really clean everything that was useless in this case and we let up we we let up front actions like search rename the document or and of course uh navigating through uh either existing uh markers existing annotations or uh newly created annotations so for this in here and of course they are still a long way to to make this even better and I have uh at least my mental roadmap things to make it much better but um it was nice that I can I could be uh watching or listening a car representing taking my notes um or it doesn't it doesn't need to be even like in that form factor if you have uh a for it lost all work um and you can then just let these these main action uh up front uh which is viewing uh and taking notes now the workflow doesn't start or end uh within uh collaborate online it was quite important to know what happens after or before the pdf um gets to collaborate online so there was a lot of of testing um to to be sure that okay these annotations are uh properly uh possible to view uh in different uh pdf viewers as a matter if you are um on windows linux they should be be able to to to view them and navigate and of course import them so again it was really interesting uh demo uh shown by quickie uh I think yesterday um and it again there is room for a user experience in improvement here right uh maybe a way to uh to to show the user which pieces uh are actually pdf incorporated in your odp um and there is a lot of ideas going on so I just I'm quite motivated to to to just have time to you know to improve it even uh further now um something I also focus quite a lot is this action reaction um pair so what is the trigger and what's the result does the result um is somehow uh connected or gives you any idea of what it was the trigger and vice versa so initially uh we have some troubles uh with uh with the cloning uh for instance styles and we really wanted to to to use the respective cursor for this um um uh before uh we were using some kind of legacy uh icon the problem is that this icon uh was uh resulting in many reports some some reports not many because many when we compared to other reports we received but some reports um that people were getting confused wait but am I going to like change the feel of my cell or what is going on here I didn't press this um even though it was like functional functional wise it was actually working uh quite well it was just something about the disconnection between the trigger and the result and so a very easy uh solution just swapping the the icon um again uh result in a remarkable positive uh feedback from these initial negative reports now there were many features enabling viewing and editing documents online be that on iOS or Android but without this enabling there were many challenges that were needed to be uh solved so for instance in in here we see uh ODT um and we started to receive some requests and some worried requests about the missing word count uh feature uh and initially we thought it could be simply inside of the view sub panel but we start to notice that uh many people uh using mobile and not only uh of course not only uh phone but also tablet uh we're trying to find some kind of a easy shortcut for this word count uh not only for the selected text but the whole text and they wanted to to see these with the less uh with the with a little effort possible so in here we kind of enhanced that position that plays to a more upper level position in the hamburger and this is a small change that actually uh result in in happy users and and again it was these little reports these little comments that uh previously uh Candy was talking about that we we are receiving a lot of comments for instance in the in the play store but even in the emails and you know we try to answer all of them we even try to not only read but really think and try to get together how many people are are saying the same thing um you know because at the end it's for them that we are uh doing these they are they need to be able to use it in the the easiest possible way um another big challenge was for instance in calc people do not or at least the people that do use the the app on mobile do not remember specific or might not remember specific the function that they want and they really wanted a way uh not only to insert a function but a more exploratory way to learn about the the the function and it's it was not uh a plus b report that we received this but it were many reports of people that were inserting the the function that wrongly that it was not that function they wanted so they always need to go back and insert multiple times so in here um still in one handed uh interface we we managed to have there some little helper that they can always press that uh that icon and they get to know more about the the function uh and these and there is a lot of room so even if the function has uh not only a text but if we managed to even bring not only text but even other things that are already available be that images or even examples suddenly these these little section can be quite educative of course it's always a balance between how much you can show until it's too much so it's it's important but we we notice that more people start to appear uh i'm not sure if it was because uh it you know it was the leap year but it they were quite happy with this uh nice little uh change um and it's always uh you know it's it's always really nice to hear uh nice you know positive words uh from from the users from the final users uh then i also made tried to make a a couple of uh videos that do show the average uh joe that that uses for instance google docs that many times they are um they are complaints or they are requests are uh without uh reasoning yeah or maybe they didn't really look that further so we have for instance here three examples the copy pasting scaling images or even apply master slides and idario try to apply master slides on for instance uh google docs or try to scale images on the go what i mean on the go i don't mean tablet i mean really a phone try it or even copy pasting it's it's it's it was just very very funny even to go through this process and and both and we are here talking both on android and even on ios and on ios the the some of the scaling uh just scaling an element was really really i don't know you just need to watch it or even try it maybe try it will be even funnier um but of course uh so we are always here at least i'm here mentioning multiple times consistency yes consistency is is is the key yes consistency is is what we are aiming for but at the same time we really do not want to lose our flexibility and with this we also we are we also uh keep an open ear for for all the requests or even suggestions so notebook bar was quite a high as a request we were receiving um and yes it's now shining in all its glory and there is many little pieces that needed to be solved specifically for online not only because online has specific limitations but also has specific context um and there are things that are they have still and thanks god they have still um quite a room to for improvement and that and that's nice because it keeps us you know in our toes and we want to do it uh keep it doing it better but i call your attention for again the amount of functionality that we were able to bring uh upfront and many of these things were also um coming from uh the the feedback we we keep receiving also from the customers and from all the users that they do have uh and maybe they are the necessity of those users sometimes they are different from the necessities of the same users when they are using a desktop app and not on a browser or on the go or on a tablet etc but of course all many of these things still need to be accessible even if they were not the main goal of those users at least not their main necessity so for all these they are still able to reach be that via a second layer or a left click but they are still there so we want to have it flexible but without leaving any power in the table in the calc side um it was quite uh it's it was quite a challenge to know uh which which of those things were uh were important in this case and of course uh we need to be very thankful for haiko and all the the the good discussion that is generated not only now but even along all these years because there's many things that were already uh be concerned already uh thought out very well uh on on the desktop and of course we are not blind blind to this um but i also call your attention for the status bar the status bar um we started to see uh people that were complaining about something that actually that actually it exists exactly like this even in other office suites which was when nothing is selected there was nothing was saying that nothing was selected simply in the status bar was empty um and online and online and because people sometimes use different um you know uh interfaces i mean physical interfaces sometimes they use a mouse sometimes they use a finger and they were really wanted to have a good feedback if anything is selected or if something else is hidden but it's selective and even about insert mode uh so it was also a good little touch that we did there now of course this takes some room for small factor um screens and of course we had this uh in mind and from these you can very easily uh just tab just press click your tab uh hide your sidebar and you can see now your whole big slide even in a small screen um when i mean flexible i also uh do not want to forget the the friendliness the friendliness um so many people still prefer classic and the classic store toolbar is still there and it's still rocking with all this functionality the the ruler got also revamped in a different size we also work closely with for instance next cloud on cloud to to make sure that everything is nice and tidy in their own um you know a solution because again we need to account for the workflow in and outside of uh Collabra online and of course make it yours so i did uh talk uh well it seems that it was last year and i guess many things happen uh this year so last year uh how you can uh customize uh your uh Collabra online you know even if you don't want to contribute uh which of course i advise against and but you know if you if you have your own uh your own family you just want to do some funny thing or maybe you want to do uh you want to customize icons or something for your kid or something like this you can do it and in this talk i try to guide you uh through that so so i advise you to to watch this uh but i want to spend too much time talking about this right now but what you can do is take along and help and we do need help uh but we have been receiving some really uh positive feedback and i will go there in a moment but for instance uh styling um um there were many things that were fixed uh i uh introduced uh css vars finally on um and you can see it upstream and of course there's still room and we use it already in many places uh you know so it's very easy now to use the official uh library office uh color branding um and it's it's it's nice it's tidier and it avoids it avoids uh for instance problems that can come from newcomers that want to contribute and that that's nice um and of course it improves overall consistency not only in the colors but also fonts etc and even easier to to to hunt where where it's where it's the bug or what where is the the place that needs fixing um but this is only getting better um and i'm uh really happy um to say that we have we have been receiving uh really nice feedback regarding this this this page i try to make it uh as easier uh to find uh information i could uh so we have up front to build collaborate online but you also have built for android you have the easy hacks if you enter the easy acts you will also see consistently showing up the last three easy hacks and you can go to github then um but also how to report bugs what about translators uh you know how to to to do these things for with web late etc and of course all the channels for communication but of course if you have any feedback even in this uh in this side of the the things like the the website i'm really here uh to hear um and and it's really amazing uh to see all the new contributors uh that we have and i say new i should probably say new old contributors right but they are new in a sense that in this collaborative online uh and i really wanted to save a couple of minutes uh to really express my gratitude i try to do i at least i try and i try to do my best uh trying to guide or trying to to either review uh but i you know i have only uh two hands and not that much time to all these things but it's really nice to see all the cool things that were already merged so uh special thanks to uh we sell for the syncing the colibre icon set uh of course big thanks to al and corleone uh batuhan i hope i'm not butchering all these names uh mukahit uh and also huge thanks to andria skeins and we are working now in really cool thing uh that you can even see there the link uh that hopefully in a not so distant future we can have again some some nice presentation unveiling some more cool stuff some more cool theming uh and even dynamic theming so yeah it's exciting times uh and i hope um i hope everyone uh is safe out there uh and uh thanks for uh listening i hope i didn't want to fast i hope i didn't want to slow um then again thanks no one else ask maybe a question to you that is not so easy to answer sorry for that i missed it before this uh shaman's talk about the sidebar pointers you pointed to the fact that you have the ability to to um change the aspect ratio and i wonder if it makes sense to place a sidebar that is on the button of the phone it's a um it's a vertical edge like a normal sidebar what do you think better yeah i think i'm just can you please repeat again i am not sure if i could hear i had some yeah sorry um the uh i checked the parallel a little bit of the app and it is amazing what happened there and pointers the sidebar is placed at the bottom of the application and you can make it larger or shorter and uh in your talk you uh you pointed out that the aspect ratio if it's a portrait or a landscape how you place your mobile um device makes matters for for these applications and now my question is what to do with this sidebar that is on the button of the screen it makes sense in in case of upside down and in case of a portrait mode but if you turn your phone uh being like a tablet in a tablet mode like in landscape yeah landscape okay i believe it is it has a different name whatever um but um make does it make sense to have a different appearance with the sidebar in that case and now i understand yeah thanks so um yeah that's yeah that's a really important question and we have been uh dealing with this uh you know with this challenge because it's it's it really is a challenge and it it becomes more of a challenge uh when you when you when you kind of forget the android and you start to look at other uh for instance ios devices some others devices that they have quite slim uh with right so so turning the phone it be that challenge just gets increased so it's quite uh quite a challenge like right now uh our goal is and because we are far from perfect uh we want to again be sure we are consistent in every single possible way and the idea is uh when we reach us when we reach a point where all these uh very high priority things regarding sidebars like for instance you listen to i think you listen to shimon talk but i also i think there was another talk yesterday about this there are a couple of things not only on mobile because on mobile as its own challenges but also on desktop and when all these things are solved then i think it's time we can start to think if it's if it makes sense to kind of um have a new component yet again a new component on mobile uh what do i see in the in the landscape of other uh productivity suite apps on on mobile is that they do they it doesn't matter which component they choose but they do not have different component depending on the orientation what they do they have slightly different configuration of that component per se depending on the orientation and i think that's i think that could be key uh not only because it would be easier to do some nice stuff at the end like some nice result uh but i think it would also encompass it will compass more uh more use cases plus and sorry if i'm too long uh because the problem is that i didn't i didn't take coffee so i'm quite much slower than normally i am with a lot with many coffees so i just want to say that we have also other features and other little uh things uh coming up for instance on android and uh and possible also on us but for specifically on on android where we also we are even going to use the the app sidebar on the on the shell so for instance when you are on android before you enter a document before you read the document you have this uh first interface and there is other things that will be able to to be there at at a glance like for instance switching to a dark mode you know so there is a lot of exciting things uh so then i'm so i'm i'm very careful uh in introducing uh new components to solve things that you know maybe it can be solved in a other way uh and you know and still be friendly to the people that already know the app i don't know if i answered the question maybe i run built a lot sorry you made me looking forward to your next year's presentation when you show it the result oh that and hopefully it will be physically and hopefully we can drink a beer yeah because uh yeah this online uh you know it's not that it's not as good but you know hey at least i didn't have uh hip hop videos at the end so i'm a little bit sad okay a fun question for the for as my last one why not use a floppy as icon for safe on android uh no it's basically again it goes back to the to the to that slide i was talking uh when i mentioned that it depends on context and it depends on which in which part of the flow we are we are actually using uh we are keeping using the the floppy disk as you know uh both both on desktop um collaborate on desktop but also as well on uh even on a hamburger you know so so your question actually no we actually are using uh but the the checkmark it has a slightly different meaning especially on android because with the google's revamped uh with the google's latest revamped of many of their apps they started to have all these inconsistencies with the uh back chevron uh even closed they even use close sometimes and they were supposed to have some nice rules for that but they actually even don't follow their own guidelines so then it becomes awkward not only for the users but for someone that wants to develop for android and on top of that the checkmark and the checkmark was it became to be quite widely used in these when we are talking about like documents you know not only like rich documents but any type of thing that you are editing uh you know be that typing or adding things uh so we we found that that was the best yeah so like so now if you ask me peter is that is that your ideal was that that your ideal plan no but actually found out that for the users and for the usability of people that are already used to android and all this ecosystem it was what it worked the best you know so sure and you want to support the younger generation yes yes sure i have a question every year there's the liberal office conference and all the collaborator guys shows us what beautiful things they did in the in the last year uh is there somewhere and and can ban or something like that to know before you show the results under on the conference or is it something like the conference presence and we didn't get some information before or can help there somewhere whatever sorry i i started to speak about because i'm very excited uh basically i wanted to share this that as you see we started to move uh not as with the speed that we wanted but we are trying our best to make uh to try to destroy every single sorry i'm just checking my time because i have the spanish uh talk so i'm just saying that um and i still need to walk my walk but basically i just want to say that um sorry i am lost uh wait a minute uh oh yeah so basically uh we have our own um internal uh for instance a fabricator and uh that is we are starting as you notice even on github we really don't want to give more and more things or more and more end points for possible contributors to try to keep tabs on so our goal is as much as we can to be as as as transparent as we can even in terms of speed yeah because there's so many things is we we can only do as much with the time that we have in our hands so but as you see there is many not only uh discussions going on on github but even uh true bug reports for instance even yesterday or before yesterday i just moved a quite important uh bug report that we need to work on on the pdf site and there is there is many other things so the goal here is that either the github or the community or both uh platforms will have all these things so for instance if you follow us there you actually will know all these things before or you or even if you just be in the in our telegram channel or irc you even don't need to follow the calls because you will start to see the the merging requests there so you you will get to know this and i that's why i'm quite excited because what did happen it's a nicely old story um so um before the the notebook bar or online was actually done and we we just started to work on that uh they were actually the the the check community uh was uh quite eager and really following our code and because we are always working on master yeah like even in the master is really development branch we really don't have nothing else a lot so uh basically they knew that before anyone announced so they they started already to talk about it you know so there is this funny uh funny situations uh even without all these github without all these platforms that we do have now so i think hopefully it will be just easier um yeah oh no i start to see many fellow jizziers so i think french hip hop is coming but i don't know if i answer your question i think we will see in the future if the question will be answered oh no man we are already seeing it it's we are already seeing in the present but i like but anyhow i like the touch it was very contractual touch in that in that sentence i should just simply didn't talk and just let the silent thinking okay thanks thanks so my friends uh was awesome uh i i was able to see a couple of your talks also uh some open to the talks so it was cool i also i i was quite intrigued by that talk from the italian group from that were basically they created these these repositories for people interested in sound and professional musicians so a lot of cool stuff uh it's just said that is online but hopefully uh next time it will be different okay so thanks and bye bye


This is FDA Patient Safety News. In this edition, a possible link between certain erectile dysfunction drugs and optic neuropathy, a recall of Baxter colleague infusion pumps, the importance of maintaining anti-platelet therapy with drug-alluding stents, and revised warnings on the anti-epileptic drug trileptol. These stories and more on this edition of FDA Patient Safety News. Welcome to the program for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. I'm Mark Barnett. And I'm Anita Reiner. Our first story is about a possible link between vision problems and certain drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction. FDA is alerting healthcare practitioners about a possible association between PDE5 inhibitors that are used to treat erectile dysfunction, such as Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, and a serious vision disorder. This condition, known as NION, or non-arturidic ischemic optic neuropathy, can cause a sudden loss of eyesight by blocking blood flow to the optic nerve. This possible association is reflected in newly approved labeling for these drugs. Thus far, over 40 cases of NION have been reported in patients using the drugs, and 26 of these patients experience continuing or permanent vision loss. While considering the very large number of people that are taking these drugs, 40 or 50 cases seems rather low. Well, that's right. The proportion of patients taking the drugs who are experiencing this is probably very small. Nevertheless, since NION can produce permanent vision loss, it is important for physicians and patients to be aware of the possible risk. Now, you just said possible risk. How certain are we that the drugs are responsible for these vision problems? Well, we're not certain. It could be the drugs, or it could be certain other known risk factors like diabetes, smoking, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, but in about half of the reported cases, there was a temporal relationship between taking the drug and the onset of visual symptoms, and that does raise some concern about the role of the drugs. So what's the message for the practitioner? First of all, to caution patients who are taking these drugs that if they experience a sudden loss of vision, either in one eye or in both eyes, to immediately stop the medication and seek medical attention. And secondly, practitioners should ask patients whether they've ever experienced severe loss of vision, which might indicate that they've had a prior episode of NION. These patients are at increased risk of developing the condition again. Baxter Health Care Corporation is recalling all models of its colleague volumetric infusion pumps because a design problem can cause these devices to shut down while a patient is receiving infusion therapy. Over 200,000 of these devices have been distributed to physicians, hospitals, pharmacies, and other medical facilities in the U.S. At least three patients have died and six have been seriously injured when their infusion pump unexpectedly shut down. These devices may also have two other problems. First of all, because of the way the pump is designed, it's possible to inadvertently press the on-off key instead of the start key when you're trying to start an infusion. Also, if the pump is left on while it's being connected or disconnected from a hospital's monitoring system, the device can fail so the infusion has to be restarted. Baxter is working on a permanent solution to these problems. In the meantime, here are the company's recommendations. First, if a colleague pump displays certain failure codes, remove the pump from service. These failure codes are displayed when the pump detects an anomalous situation. You can find the list of affected codes on our website. Review the event history of every colleague pump still being used. Any pumps that have exhibited one of the affected failure codes in the past should also be taken out of service. Once these failures may occur during an infusion, have a contingency plan to minimize disruptions of infusion therapy. For example, have a backup pump available. And finally, the company says that you should consider not using these pumps in situations where a malfunction could have life-threatening results or where a replacement pump is not available. FDA has received a number of reports of adverse events that occurred in patients who received drug-alluding coronary stents and then stopped taking their anti-platelet medication prematurely. These events included stent thrombosis, MI, and death. And they occurred in patients who received both of the currently marketed drug-alluding stents, the Cypher stent system made by Cortis Corporation and the Taxis stent system made by Boston Scientific Corporation. Sometimes these events occurred when patients stopped and I played with therapy early because of non-compliance. In other cases, practitioners asked the patient to stop the medication because they were going to have elective surgical or dental procedures or because the patient experienced minor bleeding. As a result, both Cortis and Boston Scientific have now changed the labeling for their drug-alluding stents to emphasize the importance of patient compliance with the anti-platelet recommendations and the risks of prematurely discontinuing anti-platelet therapy. The labeling also points out that physicians should carefully consider whether a drug-alluding stent is a treatment of choice if the patient is anticipating a surgical or dental procedure that might require stopping anti-platelet therapy. Now if a surgical or dental procedure is recommended after the stent is implanted, then the risks and benefits of the procedure should be weighed against the possible risk associated with prematurely discontinuing anti-platelet therapy. And finally, patients who must stop anti-platelet therapy early should be carefully monitored for cardiac events. At the discretion of the treating physician, anti-platelet medication should be restarted as soon as possible. In several previous programs, we've reported on the increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior in pediatric patients being treated with antidepressant drugs. FDA recently issued a public health advisory on the possible suicidal risk in adults taking these drugs. The advisory notes that several recent scientific publications suggest that adults being treated with antidepressants may have an increased risk of suicidal behavior. Even before these reports were published, FDA had begun to review all the available data to determine whether there is an increased risk in adults. As part of this effort, FDA has asked antidepressant manufacturers to provide information on all placebo-controlled clinical trials conducted in adults. This is the approach that was used earlier to evaluate suicidality in children taking antidepressants. This effort will involve hundreds of clinical trials and may take more than a year to complete. In the meantime, certain warnings are being re-emphasized. First, adults being treated with antidepressant medicines, particularly those being treated for depression, should be watched closely for worsening of depression and for increased suicidal thinking or behavior. Close monitoring may be especially important during the first few months of drug therapy or when the dose is either increased or decreased. Adults whose symptoms worsen while being treated with antidepressants, including those who experience an increase in suicidal thinking or behavior, should be evaluated. Public corporation has notified physicians about problems with certain of the company's implantable pacemakers that could lead to premature battery depletion without warning or periods of inappropriate pacing or other malfunctions. A seal within the devices can leak, allowing moisture to affect the electronic circuits. Although infrequent, these device failures have led to syncope in some cases and possibly to heart failure resulting from too rapid a pacing rate. The affected pacemakers are the Pulsar-Max, Pulsar, Discovery, Meridian, Pulsar-Max II, Discovery II, Virtus Plus II, Intellis II, and Contact TR. All of these models were manufactured between 1997 and 2000 and none of them are still being made. About 18,000 U.S. patients still have these pacemakers implanted. Patients with these pacemakers should be advised to seek medical attention immediately if they notice a prolonged rapid heart rate, experience syncope, or have new or increased symptoms of heart failure. And Gaiden advises physicians to consider increasing the frequency of follow-ups both in the office and trans-telephonically. FDA is not making a recommendation as to whether these devices should be replaced in patients who have them. Removing and replacing the device may pose some risk and so it's important that patients and physicians carefully discuss this matter before making a decision. This is particularly important for patients who may be pacemaker dependent. You can get more detailed information on our website and we'll also update the website as we receive more information. Serono Incorporated has notified healthcare professionals about additional safety information for the drug Novantrone, mitazantrone, which is used to treat some patients with MS. Novantrone's label now has updated warnings on the risks of cardiotoxicity and also of secondary leukemia. The boxed warning was recently updated to recommend more frequent monitoring of left ventricular rejection fraction, or LVEF. In addition to an LVEF measurement at baseline, it's now recommended that LVEF should be reevaluated in MS patients before every dose of Novantrone. The labeling continues to recommend that patients with a baseline LVEF of less than 50% should not be treated with this drug. It also shouldn't be given to patients who've had a drop in LVEF to below 50% or to those who've had a clinically significant reduction in LVEF during Novantrone therapy. The information in the labeling regarding secondary acute myelogenous leukemia or AML was also recently updated to provide risk estimates for MS patients treated with Novantrone. Back in 1998, FDA cautioned practitioners about the possible hazard of administering albumin to critically ill patients. The FDA notifications cited a meta-analysis which found that critically ill patients who received albumin had an increased risk of dying compared with those who received normal saline. FDA has now updated that information based on a large randomized controlled trial. The new study found that for ICU patients who require fluid resuscitation, those who receive albumin do not experience a higher mortality rate than those who receive saline. So in view of these results, FDA's Blood Products Advisory Committee decided that the new study has largely resolved the earlier safety concerns about giving albumin to critically ill patients. But several questions remain unanswered. For example, the relative safety of albumin in burned patients is still unknown since these patients were excluded from the study. And the study indicated that patients with traumatic brain injury who receive albumin may experience an increased mortality rate. Novartis Pharmaceuticals has alerted healthcare professionals about new safety information for the anti-epileptic drug trileptol or oxcarbazepine. The labeling has new warnings about serious and sometimes life-threatening dermatological reactions that have occurred in both children and adults being treated with trileptol. They've included Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis. These skin reactions have been reported at a three to tenfold higher rate than the estimated background incidents for these reactions. They've also recurred after re-challenge with trileptol. Therefore, Novartis says that if a patient develops a skin reaction while taking the drug, you should consider stopping trileptol and prescribing another anti-epileptic medication. The labeling also questions that multi-organ hypersensitivity reactions have occurred in both adults and children shortly after starting trileptol therapy. The signs and symptoms were diverse, but they often included fever and rash associated with other organ system involvement. If you suspect a multi-organ hypersensitivity reaction, trileptol should be discontinued and an alternative treatment should be started. FDA has alerted healthcare professionals about patients who have swallowed capsules intended for use with inhalers. We've received over 30 reports where capsules for the foradil arylizer were taken orally, as well as four similar reports for the sporeva handyhaler. The problem stems from the fact that these capsules resemble those taken by mouth and that their labels don't prominently warn against oral ingestion. FDA is working with the manufacturers on labeling and packaging changes that are going to minimize the likelihood of errors. In the meantime, FDA's alert recommends several precautions. Here are a few of them. First, try to avoid dispensing the capsules separately from the inhalation device. If it's necessary to dispense the capsules separately, affix a cautionary label that reads, for inhalation use with special inhaler only. And advise patients to store the inhaler capsules with the inhaler away from any area where oral capsules are kept. Well, that's all for this edition of FDA Patient Safety News. Remember, you can get more information on all the stories you've seen here today by visiting our website. We also urge you to use the website to report problems you've encountered with medical products. That's how we learn about problems so we can alert others. We'll be back next month with another edition, so watch for us. Until then, for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, I'm Mark Barnett. And I'm Anita Rayner. See you next time.