Okay, I'm going to go ahead and share my screen. No, I thought I was going to share my screen time on. At least some sort of technical. Um, Hi, everybody. You are seeing the presentation right? Yes. Okay, cool. So hey everybody, my name is Kendra Meyer, as Gail said, my pronouns are she or her. Thanks for having me. I'm the Shelby White and Leon Levy digital archivist at the American Museum of Natural History. One part of my job is to work closely with the systems librarian to implement and subsequently manage a new digital asset management system that we have on this first dams that's being administered by the library. And because of this, we finally have the resources to realize a working digital program. So another part of my job is to guide policy and programming for digital archives and to handle all digital archive processing. So today I just wanted to briefly talk a bit about my experience trying to get the program grounded. Prior to this, I was the AM and H field book project archivist and I was also the digital libraries, the library's digital lab manager. And I was very familiar with the collection, the institutional history and the department dynamics of the library. And knowing these strengths and weaknesses was really helpful coming into this grant project, because I could anticipate roadblocks and issues with open eyes. But on the other hand, I anticipated all the blocks and issues with open eyes. It's really challenging to try to be objective and suggest that there's a lot of evidence or changes when you're kind of like already in the groove and in that cycle. So, challenges always happening. These were some that just started from the beginning. Like I mentioned, this is the library's first dams. Before we had no central storage repository, we had no consistent access and delivery solutions. We were pretty customized for each different type of asset format. So, requests for films and images were handled in completely different ways. It was piecemeal, it was time consuming. And discovery on the public side was somewhat limited and spotty. We have a pretty small staff in the library and archive here for what seems like a big institution. There's 12 of us, two of us are based grant based, two of us are part time. And I'm currently the only digital content administrator in the library. Because we had no resources to manage them, we had no real born digital collecting process in place. We were really aware of the growing need. And so, we were able to do that. Literally, we had born digital collections from other departments that were sort of waiting in the wings for a transfer until we could properly accommodate them and steward them. We had some born digital content in our accession backlog that we were just avoiding. Another challenge is that digital preservation is really intimidating. I think you're starting from scratch and you don't have a lot of dedicated resources. It's overwhelming to even know where to start. And it's easy to think that it would be easier to just wait until you get some sort of one stop shop solution in a system. Honestly, with my colleagues and I, like previously, like you said, digital preservation and like chills went down our spine, you know, everybody cringed should we change the subject because we were just embarrassed by our lack of engagement with it. That we thought, but it ends up, we were better. Just some other thing notes that I just always bring up is that one of the challenges was requiring a mental shift in our thinking between recognizing the difference between digitized from analog and born digital collections. There's like really different, they're related, but there's a different method to collection management for each of them. And their needs are different. What we previously had called digital special collections was an image database with analog surrogates. And this is different. So, and lastly, we did have these existing systems that we needed to integrate with. We were starting up this brand spanking new dams, old builds and whistles. But it's not the golden ticket and answer to everything. It doesn't solve all the problems. So we wanted to make sure that we were complimenting our other applications and letting each system do what it does best. The beginning of the grant, we had about a five month wait period between when it started and when the contract was finalized. And at that point, we knew we'd be able to begin onboarding. We suspected that once that began, it would be all systems go and there'd be no time for anything else, which was really good foresight. It was pretty intense. The systems librarian who's my boss and I, we took the opportunity in those early months to review our existing digital assets, metadata, resources, and we developed a timeline for the project. We anticipated growth and we selected very strategic collections to include as proof of concept to demonstrate how our digital program or new digital programs would be expanding and what services that the library would be able to support and offer on the enterprise level now for the museum. This projected expansion and transformative shift in the digital landscape and our programs was the primary justification for this entire grant project. So we realized that without increased capacity and features, we would need foundational guidance about how the dams and the digital archive would now govern. So there were a lot of decisions about policy, workflows, standards, and permissions that were in order. Luckily, my aforementioned boss is really awesome and she let me front load these early months before implementation with a lot of like archival research and anticipatory documentation and planning.  But first it's, this is a grant, it's a term position. And I did want to make sure that the structure would have a life beyond the project. Second governance is system agnostic. So having principles, standards, methods, and goals work no matter what platform you use. So if at the end of this grant all the funding drops out and we have to switch to like a plan B system, we can still have this framework. And third, I did want to be as transparent as possible for senior management and funding reporting. If we're going to do the thing, let's just show them exactly where their money is going and where our steps are. So I worked on workflows and policy mainly. I began with workflows because having previously been managing digitization projects, I would say it was like my comfort zone. And I modified and created, I'm just going to pull up this document. So I modified and created research based digitization projects. And then I made a request workflows project based digitization internal board digital transfers, external donation guidelines. And I really regret putting all this effort into this. For me, it ended up being pre presumptive, preliminary to actually having the system. And I'm actually currently going through and kind of rewriting most of these. I guess intellectually it was helpful for me to be able to communicate with people as we talked it out, but I really did put like a little bit too much effort into this at the time. So then I tackled the digital preservation policy. Next, I attended some, I had already attended some really amazing digital preservation training classes. I was about halfway through my DAS, my digital archive specialist certificate from the society of and archivist. I knew having such a policy was one of the more important ways to guide us. One of the things I had learned in all my education was that there's no such thing as when I neglect with digital archives.  So even if I drafted a preservation policy and it ended up showing every pain point and everything that we were lacking it would be a valuable tool for us. I began with a self-assessment tool I found online and I did an assessment based on the NDSR levels of preservation and after this I'm going to send an email with a bunch of links to some sites that I found very helpful and I still do and helping figure out how this program was going to work. So I was pleasantly surprised when I did the self-assessment to find that we were or once we had the dams in place we would be doing basic preservation measures already and I found policy examples and templates that I bounced from. There are lots as I said of really fabulous resources to take advantage of. So at the onset of drafting this policy I did want to get stakeholder input especially from my colleagues in special collections in the library but on a practical level I kind of knew that wasn't going to happen. Everyone is overstretched as I said we're a short small staff. I'm the only one with digital in my title so it's kind of like fell in me and as I mentioned we were a little digital preservation shy. No one seems really enthusiastic about writing policy but I kind of just went rogue and started going for it. Once I had a preliminary version I shared it with some of my colleagues to get feedback and full disclosure that didn't go very well for me. It was there was a little bit of pushback I think there was a fear of shining a light on areas that needed growth a fear of there was concern because some of our other current library policies and documentations were in revision and that this would counterman those. And also mainly I think just you say policy and people immediately think it's going to be like written in stone and it's not it's a very organic fluid thing. But I just kept going and set up another meeting to get people involved and we ended up kind of going through it and eventually the systems library and just put this posted this onto our website mainly for transparency sake. I think the most important there's a lot of components to this and again I'll share some of the resources I found that helped me figure out which categories to do but it seems very redundant but each section kind of helps figure out what you're doing and it gives you a framework to work from. To me the guiding principles are really important and the scope and the collection development priorities this to in my experience was the hardest part to get in engagement with my colleagues and it's the weakest area in our policy so I'm overdue for a review and revision of this this year and I really want to try to flesh this out a little more concretely. I put purposely vague language in here but again that's the beauty of it is it's iterative and it's constantly going to be reviewed and changed as we be. And the here the levels of preservation this is based on the national digital stewardship alliance they have a set of levels of preservation and this is where I actually was able to get the most engagement or buy in from my colleagues because I think just because it's visual and it was easy to see that this was a progression it wasn't like I was trying to solve all of our problems at once. So then that's that's about it like how did it all work out yeah preservation we were actually doing a lot better than we thought we were. We you know there's it's it's very iterative it's very baby steps so even things like having standardized vocabulary and metadata schema is a preservation tool like it's a good thing that having inventories just having an excel inventory of something is good. It doesn't have to be fancy bag it you know dropping things with you know OAS you know workflows and stuff. So being transparent about it actually wasn't as scary as we thought like you know just talking about where we're good and where we need to go is helpful. Workflows like I mentioned I have to revise those all together but it's just knowing the system now it's better. An organization I do wish we had spent more time with this. We discussed the collections management system organizations and relationships a lot and we we planned it out but we didn't visualize it much and we recently realized that we needed more documentation about this. So I do feel this is something that we probably should have done earlier in the stage but recently my colleagues and I put together this which is just sort of like a little roadmap for all the different systems that the library uses and what they're each good for so this is on the website so researchers can find it and say oh I you know this is what I'll find here this is what I'll find here and somebody made a cool graphic um and I probably just talked really fast that was it and that's it and just thank you. Thank you Kendra that was a lot of good information um so folks if anyone has um any questions feel free to either you know unmike or unmute your mic and shout it out you can put it in the chat or you can put it in the shared notes document I can read them out for you which whichever you're most comfortable comfortable with and I'll wait a little bit to give folks a chance if you have any questions. Yeah I I really like talking about this stuff so it's it's um any question if you want to reach out please do. Hi I have a question. So I just quickly looked at at the what's on the website because I couldn't really read what was on the screen but it looks like really well developed and yeah wow I'm I'm very impressed having looked at these or tried to look at them what's available online is pretty limited um but I noticed that you you named it like digital preservation policy but in fact you have digital collection development in there as well and I was just hoping that you could discuss that a little bit um it was it was something that I found in a lot of other policies as well um that it's I feel like the preservation having preservation in the policy title is actually more of a misnomer because it is more about like overall collections administration um but I did want to put preservation in there like it's like the whole thing is about the preservation um and the collection the collection development is um is part I'm sorry I'm trying to um the collection development is sort of part of the what we can what we're committing to trying to preserve so like we're all we're not taking certain things or we're we're gonna avoid taking certain things that we don't have the capacity to retain on a long term stop you know on a long term basis so that's part of what that is um and yeah but that's a good question I know it's it's a lot in one policy um and my boss and I have talked a lot about like coming up with more like just like a digital asset management system defining governance as well and I'm like it's not a bit much but you know it does there's these little details to it that um kind of um make it necessary to really granulate it um or we're learning we're we're learning as we go like what people are asking us and we have not come up with something to give them we're like I have to write that um thank you yeah great thank you so much so it looks like there's actually a few questions in the chat uh trying to clear up which digital asset management system yeah we went I'm gonna write it in there and I'll send the link for our system but um we went with our um Cortex by Orange Logic um it's well it's it's managed by Orange Logic it's um pricey it has a lot of dancey dancey stuff um we went from having nothing to like you know a Ferrari and so it's been a huge learning curve for us we we love it we're really happy with it but it it was it was like a huge jump um in our awareness of what we could do um but it's good because we're actually getting um some interest and um collaboration from other departments earlier than we didn't we thought we were gonna have to like really sell this to the museum but people are like no no no we how can we get involved so it's good that it's really scalable and that it's it's gonna be able to um grow to meet the different needs but yeah we went with Cortex so our um digital systems we have um the the dams um we also have archive space for archival collections management um previous previous to the dams we had um an instance of a mecca for um our image image collection database um we also have d space which is a digital repository for institutional um literature um digital and our our catalog um which is wms um we just switched over we we did have um Sierra and we just switched to wms which i honestly don't even know what those letters stand for world share world management system um and so we're we're trying to get them to all work together okay soon Laura and you have your hand up hi thank you for this great presentation so we're in the process of um oh i've added an extra reaction instead of lowering my hand but it's fine um so we've started a kind of fledgling digital preservation programs here that is mostly um we have a dark archive where we've been ingesting digital assets too but we're also in the process of implementing a dam and I was wondering if you could speak a little more to kind of the process of using a dam for digital preservation because it's been my understanding that we can't use something like rolling out netx um something like netx wouldn't provide kind of that level of digital preservation um that we would need um yeah um and this is actually going to answer or help answer a question I think in the in the chat um honestly the the dams does most what we're prodding ourselves on with the digital preservation other than redundancy I mean like we we the way they built the system and our IT department was um involved in figuring out that architecture there's um a lot of redundancy and we're also keeping local copies of everything because we're like afraid of the cloud because it's all cloud so we're we're just like okay we're keeping stuff still um so we have that built in um already and then the the the cortex does actually um generate checksums on ingest um and there's a lot of reporting tools that are available with it um I do any kind of metadata extraction ahead of time and create um we haven't really got that many um collections for me to do but like I've been um creating document um records inventories of that kind of data and saving it um either in the dams or externally we're working on trying to get a share point integration um for some things that are more like um administrative or working docs um but we don't want to put in the dams yet that we're um so yeah I mean it is baby steps and I yeah I was very self-conscious about our lack of doing a whole lot of formal digital preservation with capital dp on stuff um but you know there's a lot of um any kind of groups that I've met with um the cortex we have a um there's a slack channel for cortex users and like in cultural institutions and um you know having met with some of them and we've brought up digital preservation and they they pretty much do the same thing I do like they and these are people that you know have been around and really know what they're talking about and I'm like oh you don't do it either like you know I'm thinking I was missing something but at this point it's like what I said like anything is better than nothing so um you know we're we're hoping to eventually move into something um more robust and I know some of my colleagues just really want like preservica or something solution like that that um and I just kind of am fearful of bringing in another system at this point because you know we we're struggling to manage all of this so um yeah yeah we have the same issues so I appreciate that feedback thank you and I think you sort of touched on this a little in the last answer but there's a question in the chat do any of these systems include digital preservation steps like checksums migration tools etc yeah um they yeah they do um that well the the dams does the dams um creates a checksum I think dspace also does to be honest um and it does dedupe on migration so that's helpful um and um but but that's so far all we've explored with it I'm sure there's other features that are there but we haven't wrecked our head around it yet um redundancy needs yeah we built that in um when it's uh it's with amazon I can never remember the name of it it's like cloud and so we have three copies being like one in the dam and then there's like one Canada and one and you know like three cloud-based ones and then um thank you yes and then um we also do have local storage we still have the servers that are um our um assets were originally stored on which were just a kind of like a hot mess um but we still have them and my boss won't let it sunset them until we have like something to a secondary tertiary quarter-ary backup um on site um and we also have hard drives here like we have a um that we use for anything new that's coming in that we just back it up to there so we we do um lots of copies yeah and I know there's a whole debate over like cloud versus on-prem we kind of just went with what our it direction was going I mean we do have a pretty well we have a strong it department at the museum and once you get your their ear you you know just sort of go with it so and they're they're ultimately supporting us and helping us with all of this okay do you want to make sure I didn't miss any questions from the chat or anything um I yeah the the DAS certificate I did it it I disclosure got um compensation from here for professional development because it's ridiculously expensive um so um but I got like part of it um giving back to me from from museum so they paid for part of it so um I there was a lot of it that was um maybe redundant um honestly I've gotten I I took a I took like a one-day seminar from the digital power institute um I think that was and it was like digital preservation for small size institutions I was someplace else at the time and um and it it like was really compact and amazing and I still pull on those resources all the time um so like if it's a matter of you know spending over a thousand dollars or this was like fifty dollars and transportation it was um you know like that's really like I would suggest something like that um but the DAS certificate was um really great it went into nitty gritty and I was able to um because it's like electives and so you can kind of like customize like I knew I wanted to learn more about like pdfa and so I took that class and there was like one specifically on audio visual archive which we have a heavy AV archive here in the library that I wanted to learn about so um it it was valuable yeah it was but I don't know if I would have done it if I had to pay out of pocket myself to be honest I think Carly had their hand up first uh yeah I I don't know how much you want to um go into this Kendra but um I did sort of like raise my eyebrow when you said that your position is term limited um just because I think all of us here will agree that like digital preservation kind of is ongoing and requires like you know stable staff to be able to like continue this work so I wonder if you could um talk any about your experience of like having to think about for instance your documentation um without necessarily knowing like who is going to be doing this work in the future or have you had conversations about who will do this work after um yeah term position yeah it's um I mean fingers crossed we're making an argument that they can't continue having this system without having me or having someone in my position so so there is a lot of um talk with um senior management um and we're also in the process of uh a second round it's the levy foundation that we have our funding from and it was it's the archives initiative and there's like three projects that they funded for our library um so we're preparing proposals for more projects um so like kind of a loophole in there is like to write me into a next three-year grant if if need be but um yeah it is a little um hard so that's why I like trying to like I'm very conscious of not keeping things in my head as much as I maybe would if I had the job security knowing that five years from now I'm the one who's going to have to remember that so I try to document a lot of things um but yeah it is it is a little um I I think this was this started as like an experiment and they wrote a they wrote a digital archivist position for the grant um and that was kind of like getting the foot in the door to get like digital awareness um and now we're just trying to hang on to it grant grant work is hard yeah it's interesting when um grant like grants are used yeah for like preservation oriented positions because it's like there has yeah there has to be someone doing that work for the for the preservation to be occurring so it's it's good to know that you've been able to like um yeah try to lay some groundwork for creating a more uh like either an extension or like a position that could um be doing this work hopefully that you could do yeah hopefully we'll see it's over at the end of the year or so um but everybody keeps telling me just act as if I have this job continue it easy for you to say I have bills to pay you know like whatever um there's a couple of us it's it's a very this um you know libraries and archives are you know it's a lot of grant work it's a lot of grant funding and so you just kind of roll with it I just keep telling myself I didn't switch professions to make a lot of money so Amy Amy you've had your hand up and we'll sort of have you close out the questions um and then we'll have a few announcements before we uh break off show I think skill um Kendra I was going to say just before my question it looks like you set a really good foundation for for future thinking so I really hope that that's successful um my question I don't know if this is entirely fair it's really about institutional context and I'm asking it partly because um there's a lot of people from art museums naturally in this group today so in an art museum context part of um what makes or you know creates the texture of our digital preservation efforts or attempts is that there are digital objects in the art collection as well and so a digital preservation policy may or may not sort of incorporate the whole museum situation is that possibly the case in a natural history museum or does it not make sense in the same way and if it is then is that like a hook in terms of integrating what you've led really in the museum to have a sort of wider applicability that's a really good point um the most of the collections and in our institution have nothing to do with the library I mean like they they are but there there's collections management on every scientific departmental level and they have their own concerns with their physical objects um we're trying to sort of step in and make ourselves available for their digital their digitized and digital content so we um so like anthropology has a really strong image database um and we're talking to them about possibly integrating it with us so their images could we could help manage those but you know like we and we're trying to get the the data about their actual collections um but there's like they have separate concerns about theirs and so that's one of the things that we're we're kind of like realizing now is that we can take that load off of them you know this is what we're we're good at we can describe images and we can describe um digital assets and so it's something that we're gonna we're trying to provide for different departments within the museum that have their own collection management issues and systems and which is not universal throughout the institution we um they there's a lot of different systems in place I know we said that would be the last question but I think we won't we're in the chat are you are your collections using a different dam like your non-library museum collections um yeah there's a bunch of different systems in use um throughout the institution a lot of the scientific collections use KEMU for their collections management some use uh collective access and then um some just use like an access database um there's the communications department has a couple instances of extensive portfolio for their um sort of production dams um and um but other than that I don't know of any other digital asset management systems in the across the institution I mean ideally we want to try to you know make it more centralized um but that's something we're working with IT and we're trying to get you know upper senior senior people to have an awareness of it so you know because it you know everybody uses these assets and so I well thank you so much Kendra for presentation and thank you everyone for uh asking such uh uh thought provoking questions I think it was a really great conversation today so thank you all for joining us


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So that's what we're doing today We we try to come up with a new alliteration depending on the day the first time we ever did it was Friday So fan mail Friday made sense. I'm thinking your thoughts Thursday for this one because they're your thoughts What do you think? I think that yeah, no your thought Thursday is It's almost avant-garde, right? You know, I feel like I feel like it is it is indeed your thoughts That doesn't mean there isn't stuff in the news Amazon said Thursday plans to create a hundred thousand full-time jobs in the US over the next 18 months A lot of those are in previously announced new warehouses Google's updated google maps to show where uber drivers are and let you book an uber ride without leaving the google maps app That's handy We're going to cover the nintendo's 11 p.m. Eastern Thursday night switch Announcement the announcement of their brand new game console on tomorrow's episode of dtns And in uh satyr news the crowdfunded autonomous quadcopter camera lily has closed after failing to secure financing for a full-scale production Refunds will be delivered within the next 60 days startups Are hard indeed Now here are some more top stories Wall Street Journal reports apple is talking with veteran tv and movie producers About commissioning high quality scripted series netflix level stuff even some movies The journal sources say the projects would start with a handful of carefully selected shows and movies no deals have been made yet And according to the journal one of the hold-ups is people wondering well How are you going to Distribute this you're going to put it in apple music or you're just going to sell it through the itunes store You're going to start your own streaming service apple has some original content already carpool karaoke documentaries an upcoming series based on the life of dr. Jay and distribution is either through apple music or just in the itunes store so far you know this is in in Simultaneous ways uh kind of the best and the worst of apple within the last three to four years right number one Probably the best new thing that apple has done in the last five years is apple music They hired the right person in jimmy ivy and it's continued to steadily grow It seems like its business model is relevant to the field that they were getting into Apple has had a fairly cruddy record in terms of internet services. This is a bright spot You would think that bringing in especially High end very polished kind of content is something that apple wants to be a part of and yet It is indicative of apple's problems of where does this go and anybody who's tried to navigate The itunes store over the last you know three years can realize that if there's one problem Is that the solution for everything over the last 10 years for apple was well jam it in itunes the store It's an itunes how to manage your device. It's an itunes Everything is in itunes. I hope that they can figure out a way to give these projects the kind Of oxygen they're going to need yeah My initial thought is they've got this brand new tv app The home button on apple tv takes you to that tv app the tv app is Eventually hopefully going to get integrated with netflix and other services so that it becomes the place at least apple hopes that you go to if you're using an apple tv to watch stuff And that is the perfect place for apple to say hey, we've got our own shows just like they do when they have these These itunes sessions right and other original music. They just put it in itunes alongside the other music You put it in the tv Show app and you can make it available for free. You could say yeah, you don't have to pay You just get access to it as long as you're using an apple tv or maybe an ios device And then if you want to buy it for using on other platforms like windows, etc You can pay for it that way if you want My suspicion is that the hang-up isn't so much about that as a distribution method but How much the production company should get paid Based on that because they know how much they should get paid based on A tv series that's going to air on a certain network and get a certain amount of ratings And then they get to keep the syndication rights. They know how much they're going to get paid by netflix Who says we're going to stream this forever, but we know about how many people that's going to mean We're not going to tell you that number, but it's worth this much to us Whereas with apple it's a distribution method. We're like Okay, so it's tied to one device and you don't know how many people are going to watch it We want to pay want you to pay this much for it and apple probably doesn't want to pay that much It also seems like the easy way for them to do this Is to do what amazon has done what jeff bezos has done is and just fund some some series right funds some movies that gets you you know Like jeff bezos was there at the golden globes There's no reason why when something wins best picture something wins best foreign documentary or something like that at the oscars The producers are the ones who walk up. You want tim cook to be the one that says I am now a purveyor and therefore apple is now a purveyor of high end content And we are continuing the legacy of steve jobs who You know was was obviously so influential in owning pixar and bringing that company along to where it is today Down to the fact that they wound up, you know dominating disney at the end of it. So like This is I think where they could start doing it, but you're right There is a question because unless they You know hashtag apple rumor were to buy a streaming service And then make it their own in the way that they did beats to apple music I don't know if this has in in in where we have now There is a clear a to b. This is where we buy it. This is where we show its solution I forgot I forgot who I was talking about and when you were talking about tim cook coming up on stage When a when a movie funded by apple wins an award It clicked with me and the way that the movie is distributed the way amazon distributes it 90 days in a theater So that it gets the qualification to be considered for awards and then for sale Now with amazon they also make it available for amazon prime video But like you said apple doesn't have that apple's probably going into these meetings saying yeah um, so here's what we do a production company you make this movie and or Or tv show We split the receipts for the theater if it shows with the theater and then we give you 30 percent of every sale period Right like that's how apple approaches this stuff and the production company is like no We need like a budget that's this level and i'm sure apple's not being so stringent that they they wouldn't give them a budget But I bet they're saying yeah, and what you'll really get paid is 30 percent of every sale If it doesn't sell if you make a crappy show, uh, you don't get as much money But here's the question To do music apple needed ivy Who is that for movies? Who is that for television? Well, yeah, and the rumors go wild about apple buying netflix because apple's got enough cash to buy netflix I still maintain that reed hastings is not in any hurry to sell netflix Uh at this point, so I don't think that happens at least not yet. I'm not saying it would never happen in which case Jason collars out there kicking around vessel, uh, didn't end up doing what he thought it would do You could probably get him for cheap to come in and create something from from scratch The knock on apple is cloud services ain't so good there, but they are still pouring lots of money into data centers They applied for permission in arizona to build their own machinery to put in their own data centers They are committed to cloud services They may have enough hubris to say yeah, we'll just roll our own hire the right people You want to know what I would almost say the the apple playbook at least if we're going to follow the ivy and hire Is to look for somebody That has ran a network, right or who or has ran a movie studio? That you then say or has run a successful streaming service. Exactly.  Yeah, the usfcc issued a report on wednesday saying that at&t's direct tv now video service and verizon's free db data 360 video service Violate open internet rules because of the implementation Of zero rating the report claims that the telcos charge competitors too much for the exact same zero rating The companies give their own products t mobiles binge on service, which does not charge Participants was not found to be in the same violation FCC chairman tom wheeler will step down next friday Yeah, so This is very interesting because I think This is top wheeler Just kind of denying reality and putting his head down and Because he was a former lobbyist He put himself in the situation where he's like no, I have to do what is always right no matter the realities of the situation That that's how we saw him play it out. I'm going to put into effect open internet guidelines that try to satisfy all stakeholders I'm not going to prefer anyone i'm going to work against my own biases And he's still doing it because man this is not going to be enacted when when agit pay or Whoever steps in as interim chairman next friday comes in This is over like this this this will have no effect Except for precedent and and going forward who knows whether or not it will be value valuable But I think that is something that he wants to say hey look we set up these rules Here are things that go Past the rules. I want it as long as these rules are here and these are being enforced I want it to be known that this is what this means. So I mean, you're right This is him kind of railing against the dying of the light, but at the same time He's holding to it Yeah, good for him Sure. Cheers. Good job. Good sure Uh htc announced the 5.7 inch u letter u ultra and the 5.2 inch u play phones Both phones have an all glass exterior. They're very glossy. They come with the sense companion htc's version of a Of a virtual assistant both use usb c for the headphones So no mini jack carrying on that trend the u front facing camera Uh the u ultra has a two inch second screen at the top to the right of the front facing camera for notifications and shortcuts music controls stuff like that Also comes with a micro sd card I know a lot of you guys uh care about that and that can work with up to two terabyte cards 3000 milliamp hour battery So not huge and the u play the smaller one only has a 2500 milliamp hour battery The u ultra with 64 gigabytes of storage is up for pre-order right now for $749 You can get it in blue black white or pink It ships to taiwan starting at the end of january and the rest of the world starting in march The u play will be available later this spring no price announced yet And there is a limited edition sapphire screen version of the big one the u ultra that'll have 128 gigs of storage They didn't give us any price or release date on that On a side note to this htc announcement. Let's just pack in all of uh our little cell phone news here together The korea herald has sources that say samson's working on a fold out phone for release this autumn That would turn into a seven inch tablet when you unfold So both of these are kind of uh, uh the the next evolution of phones I think the htc one is probably uh, uh incremental enough to not necessarily warrant much more Conversation except to chastise them for not bringing out war and sap to extol the virtues of the u But as far as the samsung rumors go Is this I mean like do we need like we're on the grand scheme between gimmick And awesome step forward Is a bendable flexible phone like this I don't think anyone knows anymore phones have become such a commodity People don't really want to replace them if they don't have to as much Especially in the stronger markets of the world and So you see lg display saying hey, we've got an 18 nine aspect ratio of phones You've got more screen space to do stuff you see htc saying we've got a second screen built in So we don't even need your 18 nine screen lg We can do all this cool stuff here and isn't that cool you can get all these controls And then you have samsung maybe doing a fold out phone for the first time and that's been those kinds of phones have been rumored forever Everybody's trying to figure out what is the thing that will make people say? Oh, I do need to replace my phone because I wanted that and it's it's There hasn't been anything in 10 years that really overturned how phones use other than size Yeah, and even then it it piggybacked on and we saw a lot of the tributes with the the 10 year anniversary of the iphone The big innovations then a decade ago Which was the real internet in your hand pinch and zoom not mobile web pages not crappy little placeholders This is the same web page that you would see and now obviously we've had things optimized now But those are better experience as opposed to what we had before which was crappy placeholders Uh, so now a wider phone a bigger phone a faster phone A phone with more battery gives you better access to those still those fundamental elements I don't really have a whole lot of faith for a flexible phone Uh, particularly because the problem that everybody is facing right now is not only do you have to differentiate yourself In a very very very competitive market that is increasingly becoming commoditized, but you also can't sacrifice Anything else that we've already gained you can't sacrifice the battery life You can't sacrifice the the screen sharpness. You can't sacrifice The the connectivity to to to your phone to make sure that you always get the best signal So anything that you do even if it's avon guard even if it's cool Even if it's something that you've never seen before Has to still do what every other phone is doing right now, but better and that's the problem If you advance into things that operating systems on laptops can do that phones can't you run into well That really doesn't work well at this screen size or that's something that only tom merit cares about and most people Don't give a crap. Uh, and so they're fine with the way their phones work now Like I I think it's a really good point. There there is a there you you can't sacrifice the things that phones do well that people like right now So far no truth to the rumors that samsung is considering adding minor league updates for the uh, st. Louis cardinals farm system, uh, you know in in their in their drive to only make phones that tom merit cares about Hard coded in exactly apra has released an experimental browser called the opera neon for windows and mac built on the blink engine Tabs of here is a round bubble on the right a sidebar to the left has audio and video controls A screenshot button and access to downloads if the screen is widened up You can put two browser browser tabs side by side in the same window The new tab page serves as the bookmark page and shows the desktop background image As it's background, uh, you know, this seems like a thing that has really sort of uh, A bubbled up again yet another field in which everything is kind of Incrementally better, but now you've seen this this a web development push to like hey Let's rethink email with inbox like like let's rethink stuff with with uh, you know All these different new ways to tackle it and some of them are more successful than others and ultimately the best features Get rolled into other stuff is the opera neon Something that grabs you tom It does and the reason it grabs me is because it's an experimental browser opera is not saying this is our next version There's I like what they're doing here. They're they're essentially Supercharging the beta and saying let we put out a full browser It's not it's not just a beta version of the next version of opera Because we want to try some stuff that's really different and we want to see if you guys like it So go try using this. We're taking a desktop metaphor We're we're trying once again that decades-long dream of the browser overtaking the desktop We're we're gonna play with the metaphor. We're gonna get rid of the bookmark tab. We're gonna get rid of the task bar We're we're gonna see if all of these ideas flop Or succeed and then that'll help them make a better opera browser and opera has often led the way God love these people like opera vivaldi brave All these other browser makers who who are pushing the big guys like chrome and safari and firefox By like starting over fresh and saying, you know what the problem is with browsers They're got too much legacy code in there. So let's let's try something fresh and see what we can do when we don't have those constraints anymore I kind of feel like opera opera kind of has like this like team mobile vibe about it lately Where it's just like, you know, they're just doing stuff that people like it's just like, you know, it's it's it's cool It's it's interesting. It's refreshing. Yeah Facebook page businesses and brands can now go live with video streams from desktop and laptop computers Or at least they should very soon. I didn't have it for daily tech news show, but it should come Previously facebook page users could only go live from a mobile device or by using the facebook live api So now you can just log in on your laptop to your facebook business page and go live right from there using your laptop's camera Also page operators can designate live contributors. This will be big for newsrooms So that someone can stream to the page without having to access other administrative functions So your social media manager doesn't have to give his account to the reporter They can just assign the reporter say you don't need all the admin functions But here stream live on our page profiles with more than 5 000 subscribers now get access to metrics things like views time spent viewing engagement That sort of thing I am Flummoxed by facebook's live video because it seems to be in this very very weird mushy middle of We want everyday people to use it or We want to pay brands to make top of the line first run awesome live content And and I I have no doubt that their goal is to attract both But they put a ton of advertising into What even in their advertising examples I was walking through sfo over the holidays They've got these gigantic ads that are about Do a live stream for four people you see like the number four people watching In in the top like and and that's the same exact product That is supposed to be there like in the image. We just showed which was like one if the moon landing was on facebook live Here's 600 million people watching it and that's what they want to do with these Like these these page streamings and now it's like okay What this really is is okay if you're a business if you've got a bustling facebook page Hook up a tricaster Let's make sure that you produce studio quality Content because now it's easier to do you don't have to hack it by running it through a phone or get some secret Facebook blessing to do run it. You know through your browser I mean honestly the facebook live api if you just make that more widely available does exactly what you're talking about If you're going to the trouble of hooking up a tricaster Then you should be able to just plug the api in there. It would be easier than having to go through the facebook page So it's it's striking the middle like you say of hey We want to make it easy For you to make higher quality So we're giving you another way into doing live rather than having to use the phone if you haven't been working with us closely on live Yeah, anyway, I I totally blanked on the fact that yeah, like you could run it through wirecast and stuff like that And and that's that's been available for a while. I I don't know I mean I think that Obviously video has a place on facebook and live video certainly has a place on facebook Uh, I would love for them to kind of step up their chat game Uh and make it a little bit of a better place for people to hang out for longer periods of time and not necessarily make it So tied to the comment system Uh, but you want to know what? I would also like that in our next story because youtube has replaced its fan funding option And uh replaced it with something called super chat that lets viewers Pay to have their chat messages pinned to the top of a chat stream for up to five hours It's rolling out to select creators today and then all creators in 20 countries and viewers in 40 countries starting January 31st this again focused on live streaming fairly specifically tom Uh, well, what do you what do you think? Okay, when I saw this and by the way my wife no longer works for youtube. I just want to disclose that Uh, I I thought Uh, first of all, I think selfishly probably not something I'll use I usually keep the youtube chat off so that everybody focuses on the diamond club dot tv chat And also it just was filling up with spam Second thing I thought is if I turned this on that's what would happen Is someone would put their viagra pill Advertisement and pin it to the top of my chat and it would be another thing that I would have to pay attention to To try to figure out Uh, and the but the third thing I thought is hey, you know what if you're lamar wilson with a million subs And you want to go live This is a great way to make some more monetization and and treat your fans And then I looked at twitter and I saw that Justin rubber young Said that this Is bad. Why is this bad? This is bad not because it's a bad idea Uh, although i'm sure that there's plenty of people in purple hoodies Uh, one of which is my wife who works at twitch that will probably say yeah, I liked it better when it was called cheer crystals Uh, but that's not a bad idea, right the idea of recognizing people You know giving somebody a monetary way to support a streamer that also gives value to them is good And I think that there are going to be people that have gigantic Followings on youtube That are going it's going to be worth it for them to have more live streams And give people a reason to give them whatever amount of money it takes to pin A comment up there at the top My larger problem is that if you do not already have a massive install base If you don't already have a massive subscriber base for your youtube channel I just don't know how effective youtube comments are as chat Uh, they they they don't have great moderation tools They they are not focused on keeping a chat community and it to be fair It is something that twitch has done well And when you talk about the difference of a standing community for twitch live streamers and youtube live streamers Which makes people want to go live more a large part of it is for twitch. It's easy to mod people It's easy that they now have auto mod, which is a constantly Refreshed way to keep stuff out of uh chats before they even get there at least the easy to Strain easy to catch kind of stuff. Uh, it's easy to uh to unmod people to ban people It's only a click away. You can do it on mobile and those are the kind of rounded edges That I think Differentiates those two products. So yeah, it's a good idea I just think it's a better idea when you already have a rich chat culture Which youtube I think has failed to do I I think that's fair and I would say you're not really saying it's bad You're saying that the product that it is that it is being put into is not good enough For this to to make much of a difference and I I agree with that if that's what you're saying, which is like This isn't gonna save anything The fan funding before just was never really promoted. It was never pushed in front of people And so that's why it probably didn't work. So giving something for participation probably has a better chance But and like you say unless you've already got a vibrant youtube chat community, which some channels do have This isn't going to change thing but also What's easier to schedule more live content to write outside of your comfort zone so you can do live chats Or to just look for another sponsor That's probably going to make you the exact same if not more amount of money that you can more easily leverage You know that that cash the reason why fan funding failed for youtube is because And we know very very well as independent creators You are very nervous when it comes to a flow of money like you need like There's a reason why you don't see a ton of new banks popping up, right? Like like the new banks that we see are usually just rebrandings of of other places that have a history Of taking in money loaning money stuff like that Yeah, we don't it's not really exciting to be like. Oh, here's a renegade bank that might go away tomorrow That's that's uh, you know the opposite of what you want Patreon has worked very very very hard to be as stable as possible for a long time They're not going to change their algorithm. They're not going to change Uh different stuff. It's a very simple proposition come here instead of a page plug it on your thing We'll give you the money and we're working hard to get What you're saying is you you as a creator don't want to spend time promoting something that you're worried is going to get shut down or go away Absolutely, and that's the problem is that for youtube a you have an inherent problem Where you're also the gatekeeper and the fact that well, why do I want to give you a cut of my money? I'm a creator if I believe you're screwing with the algorithm that now devalues My videos which has been a consistent problem for them over the last two years And and you know might go away which you just did so now you have you have inherently Well it went away because you people didn't use it because you were afraid it was going going to go away So self-fulfilling prophecy or however you say that Uh, no, I I I think it's yeah I I think that if youtube had made a bigger deal out of the fan funding and put it front and center That it might have had a chance, but It was hidden and you're absolutely right creators already have Reliable revenue streams this would they weren't going to throw all their efforts into promoting that and and even more than that Revenue streams that they could continue going If they left youtube Oh, sure. You just want to get everybody off of youtube. I get it. No, no, no, no, no, no, but that that's it That's a that's a platform Agnosticism has its perks. Yeah, absolutely. Believe me to get all the tech headlines each day in less than 10 minutes Subscribe to daily tech headlines dot com available on amazon echo It's because we just talked about platform independence. That's a look at the top story All right, uh, it is your thoughts thursday folks and we got some really good emails from some insiders some anonymous sources Uh, let's start talking about amazon echo with jeff Who said I was very close to buying an amazon echo as a gift for someone probably because I really wanted one myself But I realized that until the key feature of customized and personalized wake words is addressed I will not be buying or using any voice activated assistant products from anybody for anyone I consider it absolutely ridiculous that someone else on the television radio phone or in person can accidentally activate my Assistant only I should be able to do that It should respond only to me and with whatever wake word I desire to me This seems like a bit like making a car but not worrying about the braking system This is not just an amazon echo issue as far as I know None of the other voice assistant products and similar features on smartphones have customized and personalized wake words either So I get that it must be a hard problem. However, whoever gets this feature to work properly first We'll begin the next generation of voice activated assistant products And until then I will wait and laugh at all of the silly things that happen to people with the current generation of these products So I I think it's not nice to laugh Jeff, but yeah number one. That's not exactly polite number two I think that the market has decided that Jeff's priorities are secondary to the priority of it works Even if I'm three rooms away. Yeah, it works Even if it's my daughter saying it instead of me and we don't have to go through 15 minutes of training The the the device to recognize another voice right and mark it as approved so I think he's right and I think that as we go forward Absolutely the I would expect in the next five years that there are going to be smart solutions to it And now that we've all bought into the idea of having always on microphones in our house and having many of them So we get as much surface area as possible that will be more interested in spending that 15 minutes for it to learn our voice So the tv doesn't accidentally operate it Yeah, I don't know if it needs to be 15 minutes Uh, I I think I think and I think the key is not creating customizable, uh wake words Although that would be interesting but more Training it like a fingerprint sensor to say oh, I'm going to recognize your voice And that's a machine learning problem that I I don't know where it is But I think if it was easy it would already be in there. So Uh, it involves some cloud processing for sure. It is something that is doable though. Absolutely doable Uh, it's it's just a matter of making it easy. And I think like you said the trade off has been Okay, we hear about the san diego news announcer who causes a bunch of people to accidentally order dollhouses We hear about the one guy who Cancelled his patreon for daily tech news show because veronica laughed about saying the amazon echo wake word Those are rare instances We're we're falling for the for the uh, the psychological trick where because we hear about something happening We think it happens more widespread than it does the fact of the matter is people with uh, google homes and amazon echoes They don't have this happen all that often when it does happen. It usually doesn't cause a big problem but also It works and if the problem is it works too well That is the trade off amazon and google and everybody else who does these will take every The rest of the time it works, right? And so even as a consumer You don't mind like oh, it woke up that one time and that that was weird And if nothing bad happens or even if you can you have to go cancel an order Maybe once out of the year that you have and also i mean listen you you much prefer that over Talking to it and having it not understand what you're saying and and because that It's like get three of those three of those it didn't hear me three of those It didn't understand me that things out the window, right? It would have never taken off Uh moving on coral from wet and miserable memphis the home of jerry the king luller I added editorially wrote in to say that he thinks the reason carriers aren't paying as much For free tv spectrum is that it's the lower frequency 600 megahertz range He writes from everything i've seen and i freely admit i haven't seen everything 5g is going to require a higher frequency bandwidth to achieve this potential The longer wavelengths of lower frequency spectrum will hinder its performance as a result Higher frequency spectrum will be in demand and 5g rollouts will rely more on micro cells Than macro cells a case in point at the recent aws 3 spectrum auction bought in uh less Around 45 billion dollars when the fcc was expecting between 10 billion and 20 billion This is the auction that sprint sat out of some people speculated that they couldn't afford it While others noted that they already own a nationwide swath of 2.5 gigahertz spectrum And didn't need the hundred and seven or sorry, uh 1700 Uh megahertz spectrum or gigahertz 2.5 gigahertz spectrum didn't need the 1700 megahertz spectrum being offered the carriers are willing to pay a lot more Two years ago for higher frequency spectrum than they are willing to pay for lower frequency spectrum today Yeah, so if none of that made sense to you, uh, what carl is saying is the reason That the fcc is having a hard time selling off that freed television spectrum We were talking about yesterday is that the carriers don't need it for 5g. They need a higher spectrum And they are definitely willing to pay for that higher spectrum And pay more than the fcc expected Uh A lot what did you have something else on that before we no no no no I mean like I what what i'm interested here is there's got to be some kind of really interesting use for that spectrum And and yeah, absolutely and there will be but right now it's just not as valuable. So until that that newer use comes around Maybe it is best left for broadcasting over the air for the time being for now Yeah, we had a lot of people write in about their own personal needs for over-the-air broadcasting or not bill in huntsville, alavama Said hey in april 2011 tornadoes took down the power grid in north alabama. We were without power for two weeks at my house I was able to power my own home But comcast service was down over the air communication was the only source of what was going on most broadcast stations seem to have emergency power I have voip phone service and it was down But my neighbors with pots and dell and dsl a plain old telephoto telephone service and dsl Had landline and internet service the power outage from hurricane katrina in louisiana mississippi was more widespread and lasted longer Long live over the air But then we also got daniel who said in regards to your discussion of emergency alerts alerts over fm radio And speculation about having emergency alerts on phones I got this exact kind of alert yesterday due to heavy flooding and flash flood warnings in the san francisco bay area A very loud alarm sound went off on my phone and a message popped up Seems like what you were imagining already exists So there is some emergency alert going on and then kimberley in houston Said we get weather alerts over our phones and tablets My sister actually packed all the devices into a box and locked them into a car one night Because of eight devices going off one after another meant no one was sleeping Back as far as 2008 I was using my phone to get news during and after ike hurricane ike while power and cable were still out This was actually one reason I cut the cord i'd been keeping cable because what happens if there's a hurricane Well after the storm my tv was useless without power or cable But I could charge my phone at many of the stores and restaurants that had power And opened as charging and cooling facilities even though they couldn't conduct regular business The businesses were often either near critical infrastructure like hospitals or critical junctures in the power grid The mobile network near me worked fine through the storm and after and last spring when we had back to back major floods And damage to the dam near my home I again used my phone and tablet to get news for a while I was getting the most relevant news from two stations using facebook live After they went off the air for broadcast due to damage and had to evacuate I've added several battery packs to my emergency kit And if we're expecting severe weather they're charged and ready to go to get me through the storm for exactly this reason I mean The more solutions the better right especially when you are dealing with something like a natural disaster That can leave you out of power for weeks on end. I mean I I grew up in south florida when hurricane andrew hit And that was something that thankfully Missed my family where it was originally slated to hit But did devastate homestead which was to the south of me and there were people out of power for Weeks if not months in some neighborhood, so you We are in in a in a blessed era where we can have the option that whatever we have Be it a generator that can power a television and an antenna that can bring you Uh, whatever you need, you know, uh, whether you have cable or you do not have cable Whether or not those cable lines are severed You can still go to the water burger and charge your phone and make sure that you still get Some kind of announcements and you have some idea of of what's going on and specifically when Uh in in non hurricane situations, which usually you have at least Days if not weeks to kind of get your head around and prepare for In in the situation that tom was saying where there is a her or sorry a tornado And very often those happen In clusters or an earthquake which happens with no warning whatsoever. Absolutely Well, I'm just saying that a tornado can come through and then another tornado can come Right afterward that that is the moment when Any kind of information as fast as possible can literally save you and your family's life So I I think over the air certainly has a place I've been using it a lot more as a cord cutter for dumb stuff like, you know, college football games and and the golden globes but I think it certainly is is is a valuable tool in the gigantic war chest that we need when it comes to keeping ourselves safe I'll be honest Using saying that we need to keep over the air because of emergency broadcasts Is really just saying we need to keep emergency broadcasts going at the channel where people can use it And what these emails show is for bill that was over the air for kimberley. That was a smartphone There isn't one answer one isn't better than the other You have to look at the conditions on the ground in katrina There were places where telephone service went out and they set up mesh wi-fi networks to help people get cell phone service so There there really isn't it isn't we should keep over the air for emergency It's we should keep over the air if the people are still relying on it for information And when they're not then we should make sure that we have emergency services that can be delivered on the devices They are using like phones And I think it's great that we had these examples from bill and kimberley because they're both both very compelling of Why both of these things are true. It's not just one of the other Personally, I think we should keep over the air for a while and if you want more Reasons why that is uh, if you're a patron at the five dollar Month level there's a post out right now in our weekly update where I go into more details about it Uh, someone who wishes to remain anonymous wrote in to say that the user research about the upgrade to windows 10 indicated The two big concerns were the ability to roll back to an earlier os and reassurance that files would be exactly as they were before the upgrade Due to a bug or misunderstanding and requirements the quote your stuff is exactly where you left it quote text message Remained even for future updates The customer doesn't interact with such as going to the initial windows 10 release to the first major fall update so Text which was intended to be used to reassure people about something they explicitly chose to do and which worked Well for that purpose was inadvertently reused in a different context Which clearly led to massive confusion and unnecessarily unnecessary concern Luckily the text was changed so that by the time the anniversary update came out. It was no longer there There you go Uh, I had a couple other people, uh, let us know that hey in the anniversary update that text went away So scott won't see it again. Hopefully when the creator update comes out nice Uh, and then in our slack channel, which is the analyst level on patreon ams at b Was talking about yesterday's discussion on gaming revenue and the indie gaming renaissance We seem to be seeing he said I kind of feel like video game creators are now experiencing what music creators Experienced in the early 2000s back in the day musicians needed a lot of resources to produce and distribute their work As advances in home recording equipment progressed and the internet began to blossom suddenly anyone who could play an instrument Or sing could record produce release and distribute an incredibly polished finished product to an audience of millions The same is now true of video game development where once it required a mega studio and scores of developers and engineers to create a successful game We now see indies popping up all over the place some like star new valley even garnering critical acclaim This is presumably due to the wide array of open source and distributed development tools and the modern ubiquity of relatively powerful systems on which to develop Mr. Red Sun mr. Red Sun I said I think the larger reason why there's been an influx of indie game development is the lowered barrier to distribution Steam's early access solves two problems. It provides an influx of cash during development and It provides free game testers It's also now way easier to publish a game on the three major consoles Microsoft's experimental xbox live community games a few years back I believe says mr. Red Sun may have been the first time indie dev teams could self publish on a major console And then mucow from a from the ai e-gild wrote in uh, because I asked about hey if you've been directly Affected by this reduction in game developer jobs. Let us know Mucow says you could say my life at the moment is extremely on the nose in regards to that story I was a veteran of the games industry until summer 2016 when the bottom fell out of the industry and layoffs hit hard A typical stint at a games company could last one or two years depending on the company and your role So when I got my layoff after three years at the last company it was considered a long run What really changed however was the lack of new positions waiting for those like me that needed a new gaming home After three months of getting no job prospects in the gaming industry I had to look outside the industry to get work Amusingly enough I started using indeed.com which had the data from our story to search for something new And even more amusing is that I ended up finding a great job at indeed.com itself That's great as you mentioned in the story There are a lot of non gaming industry positions that need those talented people And I think people like me are getting the memo and moving in that direction It may not be as glamorous as a gaming job, but there is definitely more stability outside of that area Well, and and this is the the gift and the curse of the democratization of Of any industry and we're seeing it in so many of them right where The idea of putting a ton of money into the concept that you could have the big payoff With capital letters bi g Are now replaced with base hits, you know that that if you get You know as the tools to make these games get cheaper and the distribution becomes easier thanks to places like steam Uh, you are now easier. It's now a better idea Than it was before to do a game with three developers It is now less of a good idea to do a game with 300 Right, uh, or at least the prospects are kind of going in different not to say that Everything is everything right but just in general and that's I think what we're seeing And and that's you know, that's true at a big game developer like ea Yeah, it doesn't make sense for them to hire a bunch of extra people to do a job That can be done more efficiently with a smaller number of people using these more powerful tools now and save money to boot So hey, thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit.com Uh, another member of our audience that I want to give a shout out to today is mike range Who's been posting hilarious commentary movie league mike. 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Hey, by the way The breaking news here uh And especially for any um south florida residents listening to us Uh effective immediately the wet foot dry foot policy is no more you will need to be You will need to legally immigrate from cuba If uh if you want to come here for those of you who are not aware Uh previously if you made it to america from cuba You could stay uh and that led to All through my childhood, uh people on rafts. Uh, it would just yeah, yeah You'd break into live television To watch people on rafts try to make it the coast guard would try to stop you Getting there, but if you make it to the beach You're in and it's but not anymore Who's that policy that was at the the backbone of the ilian gonzalez? Uh debacle interesting That's yeah, that's a big change wet foot dry foot Uh, so what what do we call this? uh Well, um, I like uh died thoughts thursday Or your thought I like i like thine thoughts thursday thine thoughts thursday is is is is is i think the perfect uh Levels at the show So is your natural So I knew someone from I had a uh ex co-workers from florida and he said the whole whole state's very flat So whatever hurricane or whatever storm comes in it. There's really no stopping. He just goes straight through Is that uh, is that an accurate? description of the landscape Well, it is very flat. I believe the highest point in florida is mount dora in central florida Which is not a mountain. It's really just a hill that they call a mountain But it's a mountain there so Yeah, no, I think that that in in general that that this is also Uh, you know florida is also not very large Or at least like wide so when hurricanes come in unless they are Uh, you know riding the coast all the way up Uh, in which case they're almost just as likely to be half into the ocean Uh, no matter what the eye wall could could be in the ocean Uh, in general, you know, it really only takes from from where I used to live Uh, we're getting real local here in in tamarack florida to marco island, which is on the other side Uh, it only takes about 30 minutes. So so, you know, a hurricane Crossing the threshold of florida really is not that big of a feat in general Hmm How wide is the state like? Like 100 miles shorter than that 200 miles. Well, it'd be alligator alley before it turns north Oh, so many someone so many local been so much cool dualism Alligator. Oh, why is it called alligator alley because it's you because you go through the everglades, you know You know the alligators there. Yeah Uh, but yeah, no, so so you uh You come off the straw grass expressway Head in south you get right on alligator alley. You punch that right through and then either you're taking a northward turn to uh Sarasota and bradenton and tampa and everything Or you are right there at like marco island, which is on the other the other side into the gulf of mexico Well, I guess the important question for me is is wall disney world protected from these storms It's hard to hit no Well, I mean it it's protected in that it it it understands that it will get hit with them Uh and and periodically You know, I think the last time that hurricanes did major damage to south florida was hurricane francis and hurricane katrina that came in the same year Uh And uh, yeah, it hurricane katrina really did damage, uh, especially to south florida into into central florida So, uh, who's excited for the chargers moving to la I seriously is anyone actually excited about it. I don't I don't know of anyone who is Excited about that. Well, san diego cheese that they're losing them Yeah, so people are upset I get that but is anyone actually pleased by this Other than the owner of the chargers perhaps. Yeah, but did the rams come back to la? Yeah, but people were happy about that because they had been here and there was that's what I mean like I don't know. So there's there's no reason for the chargers to come to los angeles Nobody cares about them The people who do care about them are in san diego and will now not care about them Well, they're gonna play in a soccer stadium for two years So they're not expecting anyone to come show up because the capacity of that stadium is less than 30 000 So the other thing is uh dean spanos Of the san diego chargers did not want to move he was he was uh, uh as as as as the the kids say but hurt about the fact that uh, his proposal Which was fronted by bob eiger and and co presented with the oakland raiders They wanted to build another stadium that they would be co-owners of They are now going to be moving into Uh the ram stadium as tenants. They will not own Any part of it. They are but they'll only pay a dollar a year rent Sure, so uh, you know, there's there is that well No, the other thing was you know, the the city of san diego offered them a 99 year lease for a dollar a year at qualcomm stadium Oh, I didn't know about that. That's yeah, but they wouldn't give them they wouldn't give them tax subsidies for a new stadium They would not give them a new stadium, but he still had to pay 650 million to move in a franchise move fee It just doesn't make any sense. I don't understand Who benefits Well, there's there's an article on espn.com that basically paints the picture that this is a massive failure for the nfl And if you are looking for a sign that the nfl is a league and decline, this is an early indicator. Obviously there's no uh there's there's no Doubt that the nfl is the largest Uh, you know the the the big dog when it comes to american sports But when a team that has a pretty happy fan base and is you know Understood to be reasonably well run and contending on a fairly regular basis has to move Because their hometown would not approve a bond to build a new stadium uh That is that's a sign of weakness like they they moved because they kind of because everybody called their bluff The the other owners called their bluff about building a new stadium and they said well, we believe in stan cronkey more And the city of uh, san diego called their bluff and said whatever either you're gonna stay here.  I mean granted they are corporate entities, but like why have Why have those loyalties? Why have that fan base? I don't know that's just Here's why there are two teams in la Because there are enough businesses in la to pay for ad revenue and to pay for private suites That's why there are two teams in la and because now you can have a stadium that during football season will have activity Every week of the season. So that's that's why you do it as to why the raiders are not there. No bs Part of the reason is because the other owners were worried that the last time the raiders were in la gangs adopted their their uh, the color's logo which is I mean A kind of dubious thing considering the fact that the people that adopted the raiders logo the most was nwa Yes, you know it was who by the way Certainly probably from areas in which gang activity is certainly prevalent But last I checked ice cube dr. Dre easy e and yellow not an actual gang apple's dr. Dre Who is an employee of apple? Yeah No, you're right. No the the the move that would have made the most sense Was the raiders first and maybe the ramps I can see cranky not wanting the raiders to move to la because they'll be more popular than the rams yeah Now the raiders in las vegas is a A cluster hug waiting to happen because Not only is it going to Immediately take out So now there will be no nfl teams in the actual Bay area market Right because the 49ers are down in the south bay are down in the bay area market But they're in the san josea and not in the san francisco oakland it It's annoying to get to and nobody wants to do it unless the team's good, right? It's easy to get to I mean as much as Uh, the the oakland coliseum especially when the raiders play there is a literal prison uh, you know It's uh, it's close. It's easy to get to you know, whether you're in san francisco or you're in oakland It's it's a bart ride there. You can just walk off the bart and get to the stadium. Oh, yeah No, it's fantastic. I used to go as a season ticket holder of the a's playing the same stadium It's great Where by the way, it just feels like a charming baseball stadium for whatever reason when the raiders are playing there It's like the barbed wire shines brighter. You know, there's just like it's it's a totally different atmosphere. It's very very weird it's uh But get this now. This is something that broke over the last week the nfl Wants an agreement with the with the the city of los vegas That they will ban betting in los vegas on oakland raiders game Well the raiders ain't going to los vegas What? Yeah, geez. Hello portland raiders. I don't know But that's the other problem is that uh california in general in the bay area specifically and specifically the cities of san francisco and oakland will not Pay for stadiums. Yeah. Well in san diego wouldn't either. So good on them I don't think they need to I mean the giants showed that you don't need to if you do it right And in fact the warriors the warriors are going to show it too, you know totally. Yeah Uh, well, I went to that rams cardinals game on january 1st. Uh, just out of the perverse willingness to see the two former st. Louis teams play against each other in a coliseum built for the olympics in the 30s and Uh, it was interesting. I was surprised how many rams fans there were there were there were thousands of people in rams gear And the people I was sitting up way up in the nosebleed seats, you know I was three rows from the very top Level of that stadium were into the game And this is a team that was out of the playoffs Yeah, they they had only won four games this year and these people were into it.  So Uh, you know, there is there is that, you know, they have somebody like eric dickerson who is a Person who lives in los angeles and now can be an alumni figurehead for the team and and be a sports talk radio Guests to get all the locals excited But you know, you're right It is it is the raiders that belong there if anybody is going to move to los angeles. Did you all see the chargers new logo? So apparently that is not the new logo No, but it is for marketing purposes and my favorite tweet about it. Did you see the tampa bay lightning tweet? No The tampa bay lightning tweet is uh, you know, it's like wakes up checks mentions So just so everybody knows Us and the Dodgers are just friends If you're not getting that folks It's because the logo which is just being used for marketing purposes. Okay. It's not the official logo of the team Is the la that looks very much like the la that the Dodgers wear on their cap And a lightning bolt that looks very much like the lightning bolt that the tampa bay lightning hockey team uses With almost the exact same color scheme that the lightning used the the the dark blue stark white Uh, uh color scheme so as if perhaps they had had a child uh And also by the way If part of the reason Why you are deciding to not let the raiders move back to los angeles is because of gang affiliation I'm very excited that now they have not one but two teams that feature blue jerseys Right blue and yellow both of them do. Yep So Congratulations krips and latin kings Uh, go ahead and get your your gang affiliated jerseys Oh my we got ranged that is a ranged uh after show we we showed a lot of mastery of of immigration policy gang affiliation Deep dive on nfl ownerships and oh, yeah, yeah, that's what they keep in things tax subsidies Dude that's strong. I like that. Where are we we? Bring it bring it. That's all I gotta say bring the topic. We'll make something out of it All right. Thanks everybody for watching. We'll be back tomorrow to talk about the nintendo switch switch Switch it up.


Welcome to SwissModel. In this tutorial we will go through all necessary steps to build a model using the SwissModel services. Before we start I'd like to point out two things. First the web page has extensive documentation which you can find in the menu on the top. Question marks on the web page link directly to the help page 2. Secondly we are going to build a model of superoxide dismutase from Drosophila melanogasta which can be found on the example page. Prior knowledge about a protein can be very helpful in modeling. In our case we know its function is to destroy radical byproducts within the cells. Furthermore we know that in its native form the protein is a homodimer with two metal binding sites per subunit one for copper and one for zinc.


I think we pushed him to try to get in the paint attack. We thought we took care of the ball in the third. But we got into the paint, and that gave us, I think, not only rim opportunities, but also opened us up for some threes and shot the ball well. But the defense was key. Mentality, how has it been contagious throughout the group, and how has that helped the team for all that mentality? That's true. That's awesome. Ever since Blake joined us, he went from an all-star player for the most part in his career to a role player with us. And he accepted it, and I think attacked that role. And so it's been amazing to see him. We saw it against Milwaukee in the playoffs. But his ability to throw his body around, take charges, rebound, set good screens, do all the little things, has been outstanding. I think we're recognizing that our group has to be that way this year. We're not just going to outscore people. So I think the guy's willingness to fight and compete and do it together has been very key to our season thus far. Christian, on Zoom. Hey, Coach. You had six players in double figures scoring, and then you also played strong on defense. I think you had 27 assists. Is this kind of an embodiment of the way you want this team to play? Just fluid on offense, competitive on defense. And then when it comes down to it, having your two stars hitting shots, that matter? Yeah, I mean, take away, I think, three offensive rebounds in the first quarter that led to layups. The defense was really strong. In the first, second, we had some slippage. I think that was down to turnovers. They got out and ran, got easy baskets. So the turnovers and the offensive rebounds again were an issue. Offensively, there were pockets of play where we were really happy with it. We still have to push to play that way naturally and from start to finish. But that was a team that makes it very difficult to play the way we want to play. They're long and athletic. They can jump up the game. They can switch everything. They can go zone. They can match up. They can trap. They're great at scrambling. And so yeah.


Hi Eileen, this is this homework problem you sent me an email about and it has to do with solving a contingency table and in this case they're asking for relative frequencies or a percentage for a intersection in the table of I think they're looking for employed but not a high school graduate so we've got our count is 8.1 and we want to know what is the percentage and you can do it of course using Excel the long ways but statcrunch makes it very easy let's first of all click on the icon we're going to copy that data into statcrunch and now we've got our our data we've got our row labels employed unemployed not in the labor market and then we've got our column labels not a high school high school some college associates so let's go to stat tables contingency with summary now this is a summary this is raw data this is the summary data so we bring up this dialogue and we need to pick the columns that we're interested in and we're going to pick all four just by clicking on it holding on the shift key and we're going to hit all four of our columns that we're interested in because we want to get the entire contingency table our row labels are in that first column called status we can ignore the column labeling group by and you've got a lot of options here if you're doing the complete contingency table you would pick more of these right now I'm just going to pick two I'm going to pick the percent of total which is what they asked for well let's just do that begin with and I'm going to go ahead and leave the chi square just for the heck of it the hypothesis test pick and we click on compute we got to expand this in order to see all the data I gotta go some more there we go I don't know why it's stretched oh you see why I had that big long title there and we're looking for the percentage that is both employed and not a high school grad and it gives us right there 4.42% and I think if we looked at their answer yeah what did you come up with you got 9.9 I'm not sure how you did that unless you manually calculated these things but anyway that's that's how you get the percentages if they asked you for the expected counts just go back into your options edit and this time let's click on expected count click on compute and we'll get that data come up and it tells you here in this little legend the actual count and the expected count and in that employed not high school the actual count was 8.1 but the expected count was 16.93 that's a big difference and if you look across here we've got quite a few big differences and that will take that tells you why the chi-square hypothesis test is significant which tells you that there is a difference in the actual and the expected so that test is significant and we would reject the null hypothesis but again you can go back and forth we edit this and we can get our row percent I'm gonna really junk it up here and compute and it may look like it's unintelligible but you can actually get all this information there by again looking at the legend we've got the count the row percent the column percent percent of total which is what this question was and the expected count so you've got all the data you need to answer any contingency table problem that you might have hope this helps


For a Western Systems Officer or WIZO on the F-15E, we are a multi-role, so we can do air-to-air or air-to-ground which is kind of the beauty of the strike eagle. You can have the pilot focusing on an air-to-air mission or thread out there and keeping essay on that, whereas the back-seater can be focusing on the air-to-ground portion. So you can have moments where the front-seater maybe fires a missile and training and then immediately switches to the air-to-ground packs, drops a bomb at the same time. So that's something that's very unique to our airframe in comparison to other fighters out there. On the F-15E, my main job is for the air-to-ground roll, it's going to be to drop designations, put them in the system, whether it be the JDAM, so it's coordinate-based designation or an LGB, laser-guided bomb, that is going to be lasing the bomb into the target that we have. Additionally, working with CAS, so close air support, that's going to be guys on the ground. As a WIZO, we figure out what they want a bomb, what is their goal, what is the ground force commander's intent, and then we will give a weapons recommendation for weapon-eering to destroy or neutralize as needed, and then from there we will drop a DES and clear the pilot to release the bomb. They can trust what we are doing in the back seat, just like I can trust what they're doing in the front, and then we have TCC, so tactical crew cord, and that is certain words or phrases that it is standard among the entire community, and that's how we'll communicate with each other, just to limit that amount of talking in the cockpit. It also makes sure that it goes seamless with whoever you fly with, you know what you're expecting to hear or say. I am Captain Lacey Sonic Hester, and I am a Weapon Systems Officer on the F-15E.


UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Sudan's generals to reverse their takeover of the country. This is coming in the wake of the largest pro-democracy protests since the military dismissed the transitional government and arrested civilian officials. Mr. Guterres said the military leaders should take heed of Saturday's protests. He wrote on Twitter, quote, time to go back to legitimate constitutional arrangement, end of quote. Guterres was referring to a power-sharing deal that established joint military civilian rule following the removal of President Omar al-Bashar in April 2019.


Paravskite solar cells have recently achieved 15% conversion efficiency for small area devices, but the fundamental properties of their active absorber layers are largely unknown, and they are semiconductors with direct band gaps at the first Brillouin zone boundary. This article was authored by Federico Brivio, Allison B. Walker and Aaron Walsh.