This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. That's you right now. Thanks to every single one of you, including Mike Cortez, Degracia A. Daniels, Erwin Sturr and new patrons. Somebody new patrons. Welcome Matt, Chris and Glenn on this episode of DTNS. VR at work could be bad for you. Authors are very cross with AI. And despite that, NVIDIA launches a more powerful chip to bring down the cost of AI. Read the room, NVIDIA. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio, I don't know what it's called yet. I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Roger, is that the official final name of Sarah Studio? Studio, I don't know what it's called yet. Subject to change, I'm sure. Why are you asking Roger? I don't know. He's I was looking for produce serial advice on whether. Get some lettuce while you're while they're cheap. That's right. Good advice. We'll have more advice on produce from Roger. He doesn't understand the title after the show. Netflix just released an iOS app that says it will let you play Netflix video games on your television. Let's get to the rest of the quick hits. Nick, Asia reports that Apple, Samsung, Intel and NVIDIA will all invest in soft soft bank groups. UK chip design unit arm, you might have heard of it. Next month, arm is expected to announce a 60 billion dollar IPO or thereabouts on the U.S. NASDAQ stock exchange. The participating chip makers will each get a few percent at the launch of the IPO, becoming medium to long term shareholders, which should stabilize the stock price once it's listed. And the chip makers will then have at least some sway over arms management going forward. Speaking of chips, TSMC announced it's agreed to build its first chip factory in Europe. It will be located in Dresden, Germany. This was known to be coming, but it's now official. TSMC will receive government investment, some subsidies to bank the plant happen that is subject to EU approval, but it's expected to get it. Bosch, Infineon and NXP are also chipping in. They will jointly own 10 percent of the plant in a joint venture. This comes a week after approval for an Intel plant to be built in Germany as well with production expected to begin at the TSMC plant in 2027. Now, some analysts believe TSMC may face a shortage of skilled workers in Germany, as it has in the United States. TSMC had to delay its Arizona based plant production date because it's still looking for qualified workers. Meta owned Facebook Messenger has started notifying Android users that as of September 28th, SMS messages will no longer be available once their Messenger app is updated. Facebook Messenger has a pretty large Android user base, and presumably some portion of those folks use the SMS MMS integration. Now, with Meta already owning WhatsApp Messenger and Google pushing Android users to switch from SMS to its messages app, which supports RCS communications, SMS does not seem to top of mind for Meta these days. I know it's it's hard to it's hard to wrap your head around Meta killing a messaging app on Android when it's usually Google doing it. But, you know, different different times. The UK's Electoral Commission announced that voters physical and email addresses were accessible to hostile actors as far back as 2021. The Commission discovered a breach in October and reported it to both the Information Commissioners Office and the National Crime Agency. It delayed notifying the public while it removed the actors access to the systems. But that seems to have taken quite a long time. The Commission says the attackers had access to the electoral register systems and email systems, but that it does not know conclusively what files had been accessed. The Las Vegas, Nevada City Council approved the boring companies plan to expand its tunnels in the region. The plan now calls for 81 station and 68 miles of tunnels throughout Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County. A reminder, if you're not familiar, the boring company system moves passengers in Tesla vehicles through a system of tunnels underneath surface streets. Currently, the system includes three stations at the Las Vegas Convention Center and an offshoot open at Resorts World. Construction of the rest of the system is planned, but not yet scheduled, at least not publicly. All right, that's look at the quick hits. Seagraph is happening this week and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicked off the conference with a keynote. Here are some of the big announcements. Sarah, are you ready? I'm ready. Big new chip, the GH 200. Did you see what the GH stands for? I didn't know. Legendary computer scientist, Admiral Grace Hopper. That's cool. Shout out to Grace. OK, that's nice. The GH 200 uses the same GPU as the current H 100, but has 141 gigabytes of memory compared to 80 in the H 100 and a 72 core ARM CPU. It's coming in Q2 2024. Now, GH 200's big advance will be in running inferencing fast. There's training and there's inferencing. Training is computer intensive, but you do it once. And then you've got the model more than once.  Inferencing is what the models do all the time. So when it generates an answer to your question or an image to your request, it is using inferencing to generate that. That is also computer intensive. And Wong said this chip will drop the inference cost of large language models. The two GH 200 chips can be combined to run as one. If you want to do even larger models. This means models would not need multiple systems to run. This is Nvidia's answer to AMD's M 1300 X, which has a hundred ninety two gigabytes of memory and is also designed for inferencing. OK, so dumb question. No such thing not to be confused with the interference with that actually kind of tripped me up earlier. Yeah, it's I'm inferring from what you said. And so inferencing in the AI sense, and I'm probably stepping outside my bounds here when I say this. But from what I understand, it's the it's inferring at what an what a proper response to your prompt would be based on the model it has. OK, so second question based on what you've said about the GH 200 is, you know, is the fact that it's packing more of a punch. Does that mean that data can just be crunched that more quickly? Is it does it mean that the physical model of this is a smaller model or maybe both? I feel like it's not so much about the size, but it's about the amount of data you can do in a particular chip, right, because you've got more memory. And I think they've tweaked the performance better. That's why they say you can combine two GH two hundreds and one machine and then not need another machine. And as soon as you don't need to spread out, you know, distribute your your task across multiple machines, that makes it more efficient on its own because you're not having it is kind of saving space. You know, yeah, yeah, I guess that's not really it's basically that this is just more powerful. Yeah, it's not that the chip's actually smaller or anything. But yeah, it would save you space in that you would need fewer machines, which uses less power, which means that you need less space in the data center. So if you're renting the space, that saves you new money, etc, etc, etc. It just it's going to be faster and cheaper to run these these these kinds of models. At least that's what NVIDIA is promising. I am these also promising that it's not like NVIDIA is the only one. But NVIDIA kind of the leader in this stuff. Jensen Huang in the keynote made a point of talking about how they sort of bet the company on the future of AI before it was clear that this was going to be as big of a future as it is. And gosh darn it isn't he glad they did because it's bringing in the biggest amount of growth for NVIDIA right now. Well, and NVIDIA has a huge AI chip market share at this point, right? So, you know, 80 percent, right? Is that lots of other companies doing this as well. But NVIDIA is poised to become sort of the industry leader. Yeah, a couple other things out of this keynote. AI workbench will let you create, test and customize generative models on a workstation before having to deploy them to the data center. Available models include Hugging Face and GitHub. That's meant to speed up customization. So it'll still pull in cloud nor cloud resources if you want it to when necessary. But they noted that Gartner suggests close to 85 percent of big data projects fail because of infrastructural roadblocks. So being able to do it on a workstation before you deploy it and have it fail is a big benefit for companies. And NVIDIA also partnering with Hugging Face on something called training cluster as a service. So this is training software to train people up on working with data. It's powered by NVIDIA's DGX Cloud and Hugging Face's training models and data sets.  And then, you know, whoever is running the city council, right? Co is we can't possibly deploy something like this. I feel like that that is that's probably a I know people are working on it and companies are. But that would probably be like an area that seems to be like a middleman thing that we don't hear as much about. Yeah, I think a good example of this would be I'm working at Schwab and I've got a project I've been working on that I think is going to crunch a bunch of financial numbers and make it easier to get some insights on the market. But I have to deploy it. And then I deploy it. It's costly because we don't have those G H two hundreds yet. And it fails because I wasn't able to run it. I had the idea, but I wasn't able to run it until I put it in the data center. Those are the 85 percent of big data projects that failed those kinds of things. And so being able to do on a workstation just saves you all kinds of stuff where you can say, oh, it looks like this isn't going to work, but now I can tweak this and I know what to fix before you ever push it out and and put it in the data center, at least if I'm understanding this. I think so. Well, postdoc researcher in ergonomics at USC, Alexis Sushay, has an article on the conversation called virtual reality has negative side effects. New research shows that can be a problem in the workplace. Some of the negative side effects you might expect include headaches, eye strain, neck pain, you're wearing a thing in your head, things happen. Things you get from a computer monitor also, if you're not careful these days. But some of that is more specific to VR specifically, like dizziness or nausea, even muscle fatigue. The scientists have some ideas for how you can reduce the problems if you decide to use a headset as your monitor for work, maybe part of the time, maybe all of the time. These include taking regular breaks from the headset, limiting immersion to 20 to 30 minute increments and just stop using them all together if you feel sick, because nobody should feel sick while they're working. There are a lot of guidelines for a lot of different possibilities. There's no clear consensus about exactly what they should be because we're all different, especially when it comes to kind of that inner ear situation, you know, where some people feel sick and some people don't. So more research is needed to know which risks are the greatest and which methods are the most effective at dealing with those risks. Long term studies are just in the beginning stages. Yeah, because we haven't had these headsets for that long and we certainly haven't had them in situations where people use them for work for very long at all. So you can't do a long term study if you don't have a long term to study. I was very excited when I saw the headline of this conversation article thinking like, oh, so these papers that they wrote are going to have lots of great recommendations and they do. But there are like 90 individualized risks and some recommended guidelines for study for each specific for each one. I was imagining like, oh, we're going to get a list of, you know, five to ten things that are best practices when using a headset as your work monitor. And basically what Sushay is saying is we're not there yet. We don't know enough about the downsides to give good quality guidelines on how to avoid the downsides. We barely even know what all the downsides are. It's very individualized because different people have different downsides. So we don't know which ones are the most common. That's why there's 90 of them because they're like, we can identify when they happen. But we don't know which ones are the most frequent and the ones that most people will deal with. This is all something that could mean nothing if headsets never catch on and work or could be extremely important in a year if suddenly everybody's using the Vision Pro 2 in their workplace. Yeah, no kidding. I was just looking at apartments the other day, you know, and I'm always I'm always sort of like, well, I can do everything in my bedroom, but it would be great to have, you know, the the the office. Yeah, impossible, impossible. Yeah. You know, doing a VR thing kind of negates that need. If everything is going as to plan, you just sort of put it on. And now you're at the different room. Yeah, exactly. And that's great. I I do VR, I've talked about it ad nauseam on the show, mostly in physical for physical exercise, I love VR workout stuff. So the whole kind of like feeling sick, I is not working. I mean, I wouldn't say that when I put on a headset, I'm, you know, it's like full 2020, everything's totally in focus, but it's good enough. But that's like also me, you know, writhing around and doing stuff. If I were to be putting together DTNS in the morning, for example, that would be much more sort of, you know, it would it would matter. Like, can I see text, you know, am I copying and pasting in the right places? Am I feeling a little sick because of, you know, that sort of I don't know where my feet are type thing because because they don't exist in the sphere. I think that's all that's all really important stuff that we should be asking ourselves before we try to push this on a bunch of people who might not want it. Yeah. And I think it's important for it to be studied for for people to actually do workplace studies to say, OK, if you wear it for for eight hours, but you take a break every 30 minutes, does that mean you don't get the neck pain? Like this is the kind of stuff we never did with computer monitors. We all learned whether computer monitors and mice because we all got RSI. Yeah, because everybody just got RSI. And then something like, huh, my shoulder hurts and, you know, maybe maybe we need ergonomic mouse. Let's walk it back. Yeah.  Yeah, you don't want that. Yeah, how many people are going to drop out of meetings because they had to puke because they had vertigo? Like that's that's a new one. You don't you don't have that. I mean, the answer is zero. So if it isn't, let's talk about it. Well, folks, on an entirely different topic, Android aficionados have a show of their own from Ron Richards and Huantui Dao. It's called Android Faithful, devoted exclusively to Android news and information. And it's great. It's fifth episode is coming up. I can't believe it's been around for five episodes already. If you have not already signed up, go sign up. You can catch it live right here on our YouTube channel and our Twitch channel, or you can get it on demand Tuesdays at 8 p.m. East Coast 5 p.m. Pacific or at androidfaithful.com every single day of the week. On Monday's extended show, we were talking a lot about A.I. and copyright in relation to Dungeons and Dragons. If you didn't hear that show, Dungeons and Dragons stated clearly that it would not let its artists use A.I. related tools to make art for the Dungeons and Dragons books. Now, we suspected in our conversation that might be in a large part because of issues of intellectual property. We don't really know whether training on data is a copyright infringement or not. A lot of people have opinions, but it hasn't actually been settled in court or legislation yet. And there's a couple of stories that bear directly on that today. Yeah, OK, so let's start with some good news. Open A.I. announced its GPT bot, which will crawl the web like a search index does and filter out paywall restricted sources as well as sources that violate open A.I. policies and also sources that gather personally identifiable information. Open A.I. hopes that other websites will let it crawl their sites in order to make its products like chat GPT work better. But if a website doesn't want to participate, it can disallow GPT bot in its robots.txt file, just like sites can already do that to stop being indexed for search. Sites can even customize directories to allow GPT bot to access some, not all, but some of its site. So that's good news. But a lot of folks are so wondering if Open A.I. has the right to use web information for training at all. Even if sites have left it open to be crawled, did they do that on purpose, which leads us to our next story? Yes, there's a lot of abuse of these generative models going on out there. One recent example, author Jane Friedman discovered that someone was selling generated texts under her name on Amazon. And it took her story going viral to get Amazon to remove them. That is just one example of the kinds of things that cause people to get very upset and people getting upset has now affected Benji Smith. Benji Smith launched something called Pro'scraft in 2017. It's good to note, especially if you see headlines about this, that Pro'scraft has been around since 2017. It had scanned more than 27,000 books and used an algorithm that is not AI, not a generative algorithm, but used an algorithm to rank them by various statistics. Those statistics included things like word count, occurrence of passive voice, the percentage of adverbs, and a measure called vividness. These are all things to help writers evaluate a text. The only sections of a book that were shown to customers were the most passive and the most vivid page of a given selection. Benji Smith, who created Pro'scraft, thought it was a useful tool for new authors to upload and compare their own work. He did not mind their work. He was just using the algorithm that was drawing from published texts to say, hey, you're about as vivid as Herman Melville or something like that. It was a way to improve the writing and it was incorporated into his Shakespeare with an X word processor so that writers could use it while they were writing. Smith said because he only published small pieces of text alongside summaries of statistics, he thought it was a fair use of the texts and so he didn't seek permission. Hmm. OK, then Monday, the Internet noticed and backlash commenced because that's how the Internet works. At which point, Smith removed Pro'scraft and said, quote, your feelings are legitimate and I hope you'll accept my sincerest apologies. End quote. He also noted that Pro'scraft never made money. He was never he didn't take VC money for Shakespeare. He was working on other jobs to pay his bills. He also said, quote, I would love to rebuild this library with the consent of authors and publishers. I truly believe these tools are useful for creative people. But now is not the right time. I understand and I am sorry. End quote. Smith's algorithm was not generative AI. As Tom mentioned, nobody noticed Pro'scraft for six years. But the sensitivity to such things has been ratcheted up by situations like Freedmen's, which we talked about just a few minutes ago. So do we think that Smith deserved the ire, Tom? Yeah, my my immediate thought is that. No, somebody noticed this on Monday and took it out of context, which is all too frequent. Somebody, you know, the mob mentality, all grab our pitchforks and our torches and go after the thing. And the reason that works is because there are bad actors who do things that look like Pro'scraft like Freedmen ran into. And people are tired of having to deal with them. So they just jump to a conclusion. Frankly, I think they really picked the wrong example here. It sounds like Smith was very sympathetic. The fact that he just took Pro'scraft down and wrote a heartfelt apology, didn't try to make excuses.  I guess I'll take it down. Was like, no, I understand. I agree with you point just saying, I'm sorry, it was supposed to be fun. This was a labor of love. Yeah, I'd like to do it right. If that's at all possible, which, you know, I've already seen other people reacting like he's lying. That's what these startups always do. And it's unfortunate because I feel like not only is Pro'scraft a really interesting and potentially helpful piece of software for people, but could be made better with generative AI. If we can all figure out how to navigate the difference between responsible uses and irresponsible uses and more and more, it just sounds like people are like, yeah, I'm tired of trying to tell the difference. Get rid of it all. Yeah. Well, I don't know. I don't have a solution for that. I was I was not familiar with Ben G. Smith and Pro'scraft. I, you know, I have to say, I think that he handled it the best way that you can in a situation like this saying, hey, listen, you know, the technology six years ago when this launched was not what we're talking about today. Today, I am sorry, and I will not, you know, go forward using the same method. And, you know, I hope that people who enjoyed what he put out there maybe have suggestions for, you know, how this does not, sorry about that. My microphone got very upset about that. It took a dive. Yeah. Yeah. So it's it's a brave new world. You know, we're kind of right now as we go along. That's how I feel about that. It strikes me just now, just as we were talking about this, that there is a this is a great example of the difference between the attitude in the 90s and early 2000s, everyone would assume that Smith was an independent developer, the words like shareware were still in existence and would have would have rushed to his aid and said, like, how can we make this work better? Let's let's donate text. Let's, you know, fill him up with Gutenberg stuff that's public domain. Let's help him out. But we are so far away from that world of technology to the automatic tech. It must be bad if you say you're independent, you're probably lying. Big tech companies are behind everything and they try to pretend to be small people to fool us. That that seems to be the general attitude towards this. And that's a shame.  Actually, I don't know. I think this might be also another could be a shame, depending on who you are going to Evo 2023. If you're not familiar, it's the biggest fighting game event of the year. Also a big deal for eSports took place in Las Vegas over the weekend. It's also run by Sony. So take that into consideration when I tell you the rest. Some of the competitors play Station Fives running all the games through various matches, which took some time. You know, you're you're kind of you're you're going hard for a few hours. They were melting their controller connectors so hot that they fried their USB adapters and a handful of posts seen on X and also Reddit lamented similar heat issues. The PS five only has one USB port on the front of the console. Two more on the back. If you have one, you already know this, but a lot of people still don't. So it might kind of make people wonder, is it the positioning of all the stuff that's making the heat exhaust not work correctly? Or are we just running these things too hard? Some players said even the connectors seem too hot. Yeah, the point being, there's two USBs on the back right next to the heat exhaust, right? So that that has melted at this game. We're again, they're pushing these things to the limit. This is not regular daily use, but also it's run by Sony. So their own equipment should probably be up to the task.  Let's just see. Because they have to know that this is a potential. It's not only melting cables. It's also like causing the USB assembly to come out because the parts around it have melted, you know, like that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, it's it's. I mean, listen, melting hardware, anything is usually a bad idea. No, it's a bad thing. Yeah, I'm not going to I'm not going to fight you on that one. I'm trying to come up with the upside to melting hardware. Unless you kind of do it, I'm so good at this. I melted my PS5. Hey, that's what Sony should say. It's like it's just how hot our event was. Yeah, just everybody was so enthusiastic. You were playing too hard. Yes, you were playing too hard. Yeah, why don't you take it? Take a step back, y'all have a milkshake later. And of course, this kind of thing does get confused because now you have a bunch of fanboys like, see, you should have used an Xbox or a PC. And I'm like, OK, maybe. But it's a Sony event. I think less than that. PS5 shouldn't melt USB controllers in any particular. No, no, yeah. Or if that's possible, Sony should say just a warning. Yeah, six hours in, things might get weird. They won't. They don't want to say that. You don't burn down your grandma's house. They don't want to say that if they're the sponsor of the evil event, though, because it would mean they couldn't use. Of course they don't. But they should. Yeah, I know, yeah. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. This one comes from Oblo. This was in response to our conversation. We were talking about ice cream on last week's show. I think it was last Friday. Oblo said here in Thailand, durian ice cream is a real thing. I think we had all sort of like chuckled that. Why would anyone have durian ice cream? Because durian is a Roger brought up durian ice cream. Particularly aromatic fruit. Oblo says the real stuff, not bad. The artificial stuff they have at Dairy Queen is horrible. Apparently Dairy Queen has durian milkshakes, at least in some regions around the world. Oblo says, by the way, I love the real durian fruit. Yes, durian. I think my reaction to Roger is we were trying to come up with an ice cream that everyone would love. Not everybody loves durian. So maybe not the pick if you want widespread acceptance. As Roger's saying in our chat right now, it's pungent. Pungent, yes. That is a good way to describe it. It is, I think I said last week, it's an acquired taste. And someone was like, if you don't like it, it's not going to be acquired. You're not going to acquire. You may never love this. But people say that about, I don't know, kimchi, too. So, you know. True, that's true. It's the more you know, the more you know. Well, techno mentioned in our chat notes that today is National Custard Day.  Indeed. Thanks to our patrons again. You make the show possible. So excited that we have new patrons coming in the door. Everyone make them feel welcome. If you haven't joined yet, now's the day.  Should journalists just stop covering everything related to Elon Musk or everything he says? What we think and our own policies on such matters, stick around. Just a reminder, you can catch our show live because we do it live Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. Eastern, 200 UTC. You can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We are back doing it all again tomorrow. I was God Johnson joining us. Talk to you then. This show is part of the frog pants network. Get more at frogpants.com. Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this program.


Those are medieval robots. July 25, 2005. Tommy and Katie were watching SpongeBob SquarePants when a commotion was heard.  Tommy managed to escape with Aaron reporting the kid missing. As more and more pieces started to fall, it started to become aware that both Judy and Aaron's relationship was in shambles due to Aaron's drinking and Judy's depression. Judy argued with an unknown detective and stabbed said detective 10 times before being sent to the psychiatric ward for psychotic help. For jobs, Aaron worked as an intern at Nickelodeon Studios as an airing technician and Judy worked as a cartoonist in Cartoon Network. To this day, this couple remains dead. That was the story during the events of July 25, 2005. What could be called as a missing person turned manhunt? Police from California and Florida both tried to find the couple, but the couple had since died in separate conditions with Judy dying of a freak accident due to too much shock therapy. Ironically enough, the mental hospital shut down on the day of Judy's death on October 14, 2005. Aaron, however, died due to a police standoff ending with him shot in the head. It was reported that Aaron was driving on I-275 radically and hitting 10 trucks and cars. An in-law of Judy's side of the family decided to create interruptions of SpongeBob episodes because one of the uncles wore the TV airing technicians who purposefully edited most of the SpongeBob episodes. Now, because of the success of the story that started it all, July 25, 2005, more and more versions of interruptions were shown with varying dates and years. What's the grand theory have I conducted? All of the events from July 25, 2005 up until the last post were all edits from the uncle who purposefully interrupted every episode of SpongeBob. The uncle, who goes by Eric Kingsley, would go to the airing room, take the episode and heavily edit each episode.  The way it's written makes it sound like Eric is sharing his disdain for when Judy told the parents what happened to the kids and the in-laws exploding on Aaron. Another example that the uncle might have had something to deal with the events is the very first screenshot. I wish I can hear your funny voice again. Eric must have missed hearing Katie's voice. Now, where is Tommy?  How he died isn't known, but most people guess that Tommy was shot by gangsters or creeps. Who knows who shot and killed Tommy? In the end, July 25, 2005 was the pinnacle moment where a certain SpongeBob episode started a snowball of events that ended with a tragic story of a broken dysfunctional family and spawn duplicates or similarity videos. Would there ever be another video about this when July 25, 2024 happens? Who knows? Would I return to this again? I'm hoping not. Is there a truthful end to this story? All you'll need to do is to go back and start from the beginning. There's a saying to this. This may be the end, but this is just the beginning.


Tarzan of the Eighths, from the novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with Mr. James H. Pierce as Tarzan, and Mr. John Burroughs as Jane Porter. This is an American gold seal production coming to you over the World Broadcasting System and its associated stations. Professor Porter's party had been trapped in the sacred temple cave of the cannibal tribe. But Tarzan and Jane, acting upon advice from Lieutenant Darno, one of the trapped party, has successfully dynamited a section of the cave and freed the white man. The native witch doctor, however, incites the cannibals to attack. And before the whites can make good their escape, the howling natives are upon them. Tarzan and Professor Porter's party are fighting for their lives. Now, are you ready? Hold your breath! Well, we've beaten them off, temporarily at least. At the frightful cost, Mr. Clayton, men off. Clayton, let me say to you that you are a very brave man. Oh, no, Donna, if it hadn't been for this beastly fever, I'd have given a better count of myself. Is Jane all right? Yes, Jane, her father, and Mr. Filandier are all back further in the hollow. Goldman and Gennie are only gone for a few minutes. You mean, do you think they will come back? Yes. Is it all over? Tarzan says no. He thinks that they will come back. Yes, they will come back. I must find the witch doctor's body. What good will that do? I will take it into the trees, throw it down among them. That, I think, will stop them for a while. Well, I'll go out with you and show you where I left him. All right. Quickly. They may return at any time. Where is Tarzan and Clayton going? I have to find the witch doctor's body, and I hope they find it too. Is that altogether safe? What do you mean, Daddy? Nothing here is safe. But I don't think they are running any particular risk just now. Oh, you mistake my meaning, dear. The absolutely unreasoning hatred Clayton has shown for Tarzan. You know, it seems that... Oh, Tarzan certainly is capable of looking after himself. And Clayton, fever-ridden as he is, would hardly attempt murder. Well, no, no, no, no, no, but... Well, yes. After all, Mr. Clayton does carry a rifle and Tarzan... Oh, no, no, no. Cecil is... is... Jealous, my dear? Yes, I suppose it is jealousy. But I agree with you, Mr. Philander, that even jealousy would not drive Cecil to murder him. I'm not trying to frighten you, but I am really sorry that I let them go out alone. For, after all, we are not dealing with Clayton's jealousy. We are dealing with a man, and not quite in his right mind, due to the ravages of fever. How long, Tarzan, before they return, do you think? See, all our fears are groundless. I cannot say how long. No one can say what Gomengani will do. They do not attack without feeding drums and shouting. Well, that's a help source anyway. Did you find the remains? Yes. I have tied them in a tree. Ready for the attack. You feel sure that they will attack? Yes. We must climb the rocks at the end of this hollow. I'm ready. We can't stand another attack like the last. How many men have you lost, Arnaud? All, mademoiselle, except Francois. But they're not all dead? Yes, Monsieur. Those poisoned arrows, they work quickly. I don't really see how we can escape that way. I mean, if it is possible, we should have done it to start with. No. If we had tried that at first, the Gomengani would have caught us before we could climb the rocks. But, Tarzan, they can still do that. No. Now I have plenty of arrows. I will stay and kill. You're not going to stay behind, Tarzan? Yes, I stay. Well, that's not why that's a downright sacrifice for us. I will not accept my life under such condition. Merci. No, thanks, old fellow. You cannot do that. Do as Tarzan tells you, Tarmengani. Before you came out, put the Gomengani alone.  Kayla? Who, uh, what was Kayla? Kayla was the great ape that mothered Tarzan. Tarzan told me that one of the blacks killed her. And ever since he has killed them, whenever he has messed up. Tarmengani, talk too much.  Tarzan, I can't leave you here. I will stay or kill. Go. Then you suggest that M. Zellshain, P. S. Porter, and Philon there go ahead and Clayton, Francois and I shall come last. And you will cover our retreat until such time as you can follow. Better send Clayton with the others in case any of the lions are still there. I don't know what to say. Undoubtedly Tarzan's suggestion is the only solution. But I very much dislike leaving him here to fight alone. Tarzan fights Sutter alone. Be quiet and go. All right. I'll lead the way. Come, Jane. And I shall follow with Francois. All right. Tarzan. Oh, Tarzan. Goodbye, Tarzan. But goodbye. We will see you at the rock. Yes, Jane. I will follow very quickly. Come, Jane. Tarzan, I think you are what the English call a good sport. A good sport? I do not know that word. Maybe not, but that is what you are. Tell me, do you really expect to get out of here or will you be killed? I'll get out. Somehow, even if the situation does seem hopeless, I still believe you. If I did not, Monsieur, believe me, I should not leave you. Oui, I too would stay. To the finish, if I did not think that Monsieur Tarzan would do exactly as he predicted. Get out. Miss, do I hear drums again? Yes. When the drums get loud, they will attack. I go now into the trees. You follow Jane and the others. No matter what you are doing? Yes. They will not be able to find without you. Yes, I suppose that is right. All right. Come, Francois. Monsieur Tarzan, permit me to shake your hand. I too, Monsieur. One chance. Monsieur, what he gives a very important from your thought. C'est vrai, Francois. Never a misstep. Always so sure, so perfect. Look, already has disappeared from view, and nothing seems to be disturbed. Why, Monsignor Francois? Where? C'est que ça. Oh, I see. Blacks moving behind the bamboo. Oui. I can take one off. Yes, I can. Yes, you take the first one off the tree, and I shall catch the other when he jumps. See, may we? It's deadly with the bow and arrow. I've seen many fall that we have not charged. That was a resum, Monsignor. Quickly through the air. Yes, and look at the natives. What I would not like to be on the opposite side from Monsieur Tarzan in a fight. No, no, Monsignor. I mean, he maybe is a savage, but he has brains and uses them. I can only hope he is not foolhardy and does not delay to go. I do not think he will. Look ahead, Monsignor Francois and the others. Almost at the wall of war. Yes, yes. With the help of luck, we shall get out. It seems to be waiting. Go ahead. Do not wait. Tarzan is coming. Onward. Now. Thanks to you, I think we shall get away. Hurry. If the Gomen Ganna get in here before we find the rock. But in a very short time, it will be dark. They will not be able to follow us in the dark. No, but when it is dark, Numa walks. And this is Numa's home. Well, as for me, I cannot work up any fear about lions, not after the past few weeks. That is because you do not know Numa. One lion, true. That is nothing. But a whole lion family, perhaps six, maybe more. The pack is afraid of nothing. No, not even. Tantor will face more than one lion. Tantor? Elephant. Here they are. Well, we made it, Tarzan. Yes, I think so. We must climb at once. I will go first. Let's down the rope. You can come up quickly. Oh, what? Oh, Tarzan. Oh, dear. I completely bloomed. I think that is the word. Come, professor. You go first. I'll help you up. Yes, Daddy. Take a good grip on the rope. Yes, right here. Now. Now, up. Up you go. Tarzan. Yes. I do not think we can press on any farther tonight. I mean, not any farther than the top. It is dangerous. Here, Jane. Up here. That's it. What are you two talking about? That's your father, Memoiselle Shane. And click on it. I am afraid that if we try to go any farther tonight... Yes, I think the same. To press on will be fatal for both Daddy and Tarzan. That is what I mean. Not one lion, but many lions. Then Tarzan, while the others rest, you and I shall keep watch. Is there anything to suggest? Daddy, you haven't got fever. I don't know, but yes, I... You're up, Memoiselle. Quite right.


So Kate Orff is a, she's like literally a genius landscape architect. She's done some managed retreat in like the New York area after Super Storm Sandy. But one of her first projects was in Lexington, Kentucky, and it was basically going in, you know, Lexington, like a lot of cities built up along a river and then had been basically built over the river. And Kate's project was to go uncover the river and some of the other green space. So it was fundamentally a subtraction, right? It's like you're getting rid of human built stuff and restoring some of this area to make the whole place better. But she never obviously uses the word subtraction. Speaking of things that computers can do that maybe we don't need. But you can go and computers, they can classify the valence around words, right? And so you look at how different words are used and whether they have a negative or positive valence, most words have positive valences. Subtracting obviously has a negative valence. It's not as bad as moist, but it's not, it's not, it doesn't have a great feeling when it comes off the tongue for people. So Kate, or if she's got her, her four, you know, words that she uses to describe the design and one is clean, one is carve, one is reveal. And I'm going to blank on the other one, but they're all essentially synonyms for subtracting and but they all have much more positive connotation. So number one, that makes you feel better about what connect. Thank you. Thank you, Johnny. And so that makes you feel better about what you're doing. But it also when you're communicating this to other people, they're like, why are you charging me money to subtract something? Right? Your brilliant idea is to subtract. So using some of these these synonyms can can be helpful. And it also kind of directs the attention towards what you're what you're getting as opposed to what you're losing, which, as we know, is a really surefire way to make things more appealing. Absolutely. For me, the concept of leverage is how I view subtraction. Interesting. So how do I leverage having less space? How do I leverage having fewer things? How do I leverage my time? What are ways that I can bring leverage into my life? And often that involves subtraction that involves deleting the extra meeting that involves shrinking things down so that we can get to the point. We go in with an agenda instead of open ended. And that is really stood out for me now around whether it's investing financially, what's the leverage? It's my time within the business. What's the leverage and its property? What's the leverage? Like, how can I make this the best use of the resources that I have? When I talk to a lot of friends and family members, they start to feel because they've added, added, added, added, added to their lives that they're removing freedom. They feel imprisoned by all of the addition. And it's like, well, you added the three extra rooms thinking you're going to grow your family into that. Was that the right time to carry that mortgage? Well, that kind of traps you in a job that maybe you don't like. Or, well, I had to move to this area because I'm close to my core group of friends, but now I can't get on the plane and travel or I can't actually live in the city that unlocks more income for me. And it's very easy to build a prison for yourself around adding, adding, adding and much easier to break out of the prison by using the tool of subtraction.


Welcome to this course on planning and budgeting in DHS2 implementations. This course was created because implementing DHS2 as a software platform is actually quite complicated.  There are a lot of pieces that are involved that can be technical based on the country's infrastructure, based on the people involved in the system. And so it requires a fairly detailed approach to planning. Also in many low and middle income countries, there are actually several different organizations that are involved than using DHS2 that may be working on it separately. So it's useful to have a coordinated framework in which to understand DHS2 projects so we can facilitate a common understanding and a common plan for them. And finally, as the HIST network, we've accumulated a lot of knowledge about DHS2 over the years, especially having worked directly with many countries and implementing it. So this course is a way for us to share our knowledge with the broader community. So what will you learn in this course? First, you'll learn about the context in which DHS2 is most commonly used, which is the health context. It is the world's most widely used health management information system, but it can also be used for individual health programs and for a context outside of the health system. You'll learn about the different roles, responsibilities, and capacity building needs of the people who work with DHS2. People are essential to ensure the system's governance stability and long-term relevance in a context. And you also identify the main activities and best practices for planning and budgeting for large-scale DHS2 implementations. So this course is for people who are responsible for working on DHS2 plans and budgets. That could be public health and monitoring and evaluation specialists. In the context of the Global Fund Organization, that could be health product management specialists or similar roles in other organizations, program officers, or anyone else with that kind of work responsibility. And this could be either for writing or creating those plans and budgets or assessing them to make sure that they are relevant and complete. And as I mentioned before, while this course does focus primarily on the health context, it can be applied to other kinds of contexts in which DHS2 is used. As for the structure of the course, we've divided it up into three main parts or modules. First, we'll look at DHS2's capabilities as a software platform and the demands in which it's used, looking specifically at the health sector, but also some applications beyond health. Second, we'll look at the people who work with DHS2 and how that work can be structured. This includes governance of a system, capacity building, and support for DHS2 implementations. And finally, we'll look at implementation considerations for DHS2, ranging from everything from infrastructure to hosting to planning and budgeting and how our best practices were carrying out those activities. So let's look at that in more detail. In part one, DHS2 capabilities and demands, we'll start off by explaining a bit about what a health management information system is and how it's used. So what its purposes, what its characteristics are, what a basic architecture of the health management information system is. And we'll also look at the kind of data types that go into this. And you might have learned some of this already in the introduction to DHS2 course. We'll give you a refresher and expand upon that information. And we'll also talk about how the DHS2 software platform can be extended both within the health system and beyond it. We'll look at standards-based configuration, which is an approach to applying global standards to a DHS2 implementation. We'll look at how DHS2 can be used in a logistics and supply chain context, which is another area of information that is commonly needed to have a robust health management information system. And then we'll explore topics of data use and data quality and how DHS2 can support those. Part two is working with DHS2. And here, again, we'll be talking primarily about people. So people are really at the heart of DHS2. It's not just about software. It's about the people who set up, use, and maintain that software. We'll talk about principles of governance, and we'll introduce our three-part governance model, which you can see here, including a governance committee, operational management, and a core technical team. We'll then talk about how to define and build that core DHS2 team. We'll also explore health programs and the data users in those programs. A key part of building a DHS2 system is configuring it for those users and making sure they have access to it. Related to that, we'll talk about capacity building, both for the core technical team, health programs, and other users of DHS2. And then we'll talk about the role of the HIST network in supporting DHS2 implementation and capacity building and other activities. And in part three, implementation considerations, we'll go through a range of topics. Starting with readiness, and here it'll be introduced to the concept of the readiness assessment, which you can see an example of here on screen. We'll also talk about privacy and security, which are important considerations with DHS2 since we're dealing with health data. That also includes a section on security and risk management, which is also an important consideration when using any enterprise-level software system. We'll talk about devices, infrastructure, and hosting, and what the different considerations are for DHS2 systems, including differences between aggregate and tracker systems, and the use of mobile devices for mobile and offline data capture. We'll then explore how you can update the DHS2 system, including the DHS2 roadmap process, which is how new features are introduced to the software, and options for extending DHS2, including various means that can include developing and maintaining custom applications and what the long-term considerations for that are. Then we'll talk about long-term considerations in general, what needs to be done to effectively monitor and maintain DHS2 systems over time. And we'll wrap this up with a summary of budgeting considerations, introducing a budget framework for DHS2 implementations. So budgeting is a particularly important part of the planning process, and to help reinforce the knowledge in that area, we've included special slides throughout the course that specifically list considerations for budgeting for the different topics that are being addressed in different sessions of the course. So as you go through, you'll see these slides that say project management, impact on project budget, and they'll list different considerations, cost drivers, ways to think about that material for different implementation types like aggregate versus tracker, and reminders to help plan for recurring costs and not initial costs. Throughout the course, we've also included various learning resources to help reinforce some of the topics that we're addressing. These include links to additional information or resources such as the readiness assessment tool or the budget framework. They also include regular knowledge check questions for each session of the course. These can be multiple choice, they can be drag and drop interactions. The goal is to reinforce the material that you've learned in that session. At the end of each module of the course, there's a graded quiz. And there are also summary checklists that you can download and use as work guides. And finally, we have a special discussion forum just for this course where we can go and interact with other students and help share ideas and learnings across countries and across domains. And this is also very important for us that this is a course in development. All of our courses are designed to address the needs of people actually working with DHS2, and it's important for us to know whether they're relevant and whether they are complete. So we really appreciate as you go through the course, if you take the few minutes to provide your feedback to us and help us improve the course for future versions. Thank you for joining us on the DHS2 Online Academy. We hope that you enjoy this course on planning and budgeting DHS2 implementations.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jazzynskatespricks.com. We just sold out Spectra, baseball, round number, blockchain number three, that includes the Rays, Blue Jays, Astros, Nationals, Reds, Mets, Giants, Indians, A's, and Rockies. And again, you get a piece of all of these teams for a fraction of the prize. We go by the first number on the left side of the serial number dash. There you go. And of course, all red entry cards go to spot zero. And if there is any non-numbered cards, they'll be randomized to the group. Here's the dice roller. Here's the customer names. Often down to David H and one down to nine. So let's roll it four to six, 10 times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Often down to Travis. 10 times here. Great, thank you. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, one down to three. Austin Crawford at spot one, any one of ones. Aaron with eight, Austin Crawford with four and any redemptions are yours, Austin. Aaron with five, Mark with six. Aaron with nine, Danny with two. David H with seven and Travis with three. So there you go, guys. Now, coming up next is another R&B randomizer and then after that, the break. So really appreciate you guys, good luck.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft. Thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this really pretty cracker style gift box. I have made other ones on the channel before. I actually have one that's a jumbo. It's huge and it will fit a jumper or like a larger piece of clothing in. I'll link that one up here along with the playlist because there's other crackers. So if you want crackers for the dinner table I have three or four styles and then these are more for gifts to go into the tree I guess. So this one here what you would do is I'll open this side actually so you can see I'm not going to open that end but it opens up and then you can pop your gift inside. I always wrap mine in some tissue. I mean it's not going to fall out because once you put you know the sides together the triangle there is much smaller than this triangle. So you know your gift will be much larger inside there but these are really easy to make. Some people make them using the envelope punch board which will do all the notches for you but I'm going to cut all this by hand so you don't need any fancy equipment. You actually you could get away with not even using the scoreboard. You could score it with your ruler but I'm going to be using the scoreboard today and some scissors so let me show you how. So today's one I'm actually going to make slightly bigger in terms of this space here. So this is three and a half I think I'm going to make the next one four because the gift I've got a gift for this one already which is fine but the other gift is just a little bit bigger so I'll give you the score lines for this one. It's like I said it's only an inch difference but it's going to work better for me so this is the papers that I'm using and the the collection has all of these accessories to go with it and it's the Duffcraft Winter Sparkle. It's gorgeous look at it literally is sparkly so I'm going to be using that for quite a few other things as well. Okay so this is a piece of 12 by 12 and if it's directional make sure it's facing the right way out for these score lines I'm about to give you. So I'm going to do this one at you're going to score it two three four and then eight nine ten and that will give you a four inch middle section here. If you want to do that one where it's slightly shorter you want to score it two and a half and then three and a half and four and a half and then you will do seven and a half, eight and a half and nine and a half and that would then give you a three and a half middle section. I don't think too many of you are going to be you know mine too much I would probably do bigger. All it's going to do now is give us the side this side piece here is going to be two inches rather than two and a half which is what this one is okay. So that's the score line there then pop it on the side and you want to score at three and three quarters, seven and a half and 11 and a quarter. Okay so I know the pattern paper is obviously you know it's got a lot going on there but hopefully once you now fold and burnish your score lines you'll be able to make out what we're going to be doing. Okay what you want to do now is where you've got I'm going to flip that over because it's much much easier where you've got that tab here you'll have this rectangle and then you'll have these two and you'll have a long one and then you'll have two and then you'll have another one. The ones where there's two together you want to remove that completely so I'm just going to cut that away. I'm using a paper because it does kind of strengthen once you put it into its 3d shape but if you're using plain paper you could once you add some mats and layers that would also add strength but this is going under the tree and it's all going to get ripped open so I'm not too worried but now if I just flip it over that's what you want so you'll have these pieces and that one so all you've got rid of is those kind of squares that were there then what you want to do is where you've got if I do it this way so have those facing towards you you'll have this section here ignore that score line there I scored that wrong at the very beginning just ignore that so you'll have your two inch score line here this one's your two there's your three there's your four fold the three so it's a mountain and what you want is to have the two here this is the three and then you've got the four inch score line there on the back and have it folded like this okay make sure you have one of these score lines here and what you want to do is take quite a chunk off up to the corner there and then here I'm going to come in quite a chunk up to that corner here and again you take quite a bit and then this one and then again here you can take even more if you want basically there's no reason why you can't come right in as long as you've got a little bit attached on each of these sections but I mean I will I'll just come in even more I don't don't be afraid to really hack into this bit because it's all what gets covered with the ribbon the more you take off I guess the easier it is to fold you can see that I've really kind of gone into it like so and what's going to happen now you can see is when we bring it all around this is our tab which is going to stick it all together you can see now straight away you get your cracker shape and that's what you're going to tie up with the ribbon and we're obviously stick these pieces all down because these are the tabs so again at this end all right fold so you've got the so there's the two the three and the four you want the three to be a mountain fold that three inch score line so you've got the two inch score line here the three inches folded and then the four again have it facing you it doesn't matter if this tabs on that side or it's on that side it really doesn't matter but either way you just then again I'm going to really come in don't worry if they're not exact again it's not really going to matter and again I'm going to come all the way up and then all the way up to this one if you're using a cardstock then you'd be able to put something much heavier in this what I'm putting in is lightweight so the paper's fine but you can definitely do this with a cardstock so I mean if you want to use like a 300 gsm you want to maybe put like some miniature bottles or something you could do that okay so now we've got this I'll do it that way you can get it all in shot there we go so you can start to see that that's cracker shape all right now you want to add glue onto all of these tabs so I'm just going to use the color blue here so and then this one here you just want to bring it up into a triangular shape so I'm just going to get that middle one stuck down just line up the school lines so they all meet up these are easy to line up so the same width and again this one here you can't lie this flat obviously because it's three sides if it was a four-sided one which you can do and again I've got those on the channel and you can just lie it flat and put it into place but this is fine now you'll see there like where that's joined you see this one's kind of slightly come that's where I've obviously cut into one more than the other but you can just go in there and just trim it if you want to tidy it up so if you do see any like that I mean that's the only one actually all the rest are okay but I'm just going to give that a minute just to dry before I start putting the ribbon on and kind of putting a bit of tension on it okay so I'm going to keep the join on the bottom you can see I've got all my images facing the right way up there because of how you would have had that paper to start with make sure those all fold in there we go and you can see now you've got your cracker then um before I add the ribbon I'm just going to stick this on so what I've done here is these are some of the matching embellishments that you get so I've just used some of this this is the dovecraft rose gold glitter card gorgeous glitter card and then I've just used my oval dies and I've cut one of the matching papers with the smaller oval there and then these are these little stickers from this one here this is the eight sentiment oppas so I've used the merry christmas heart on that one and I've just put foam adhesive on and I've just popped some foam on the back of that one and this is going to go and pop my hand in there because I've got enough room I just want to get it nice and centered in that middle section there okay looks really nice already and then the tags I've just used here you get 12 printed tags and I've used the stag head which is here and these are just wooden shapes I've just used my hot glue to stick that one down so I'll do that one first so what you do now is you could tie one end and pop your gifting okay like I said wrap it in tissue or if it is big enough to stay in there then you know you don't have to but if you wrap it with a bit of tissue then no one can like peep in the sides and see with the gift that's in there so I'm just going to tie a knot with that one there and then feed through the gift tag here so this is all ready for me to be able to wear it on and then I'm just going to tie a bow on this end and then like I said pop your gifting and tie this end like so this organza ribbon I've had for a long time it just so happens to kind of match a lot of things I did use it a lot actually with the happy you collection which was by dovecraft which was very similar colors to this one okay so there is the finished crack it takes no time at all I'm going to tidy up the ends of the ribbon there but look at that but you can see now the difference in size so can you see if I hold it up there so this is got now a four inch kind of section plus you have one inch each side you know there is still that kind of length there as well so if you've got something a bit longer like I said a miniature bottle would probably fit quite nice but you can see that one there is the three and a half so I'll pop both measurements in my blog but yeah I think they look really nice and they're perfect for obviously the gifts now that I've got to go in them so those are going to go under my tree so I hope you've enjoyed it I'll link everything as always below and I'll be back again soon with another tutorial bye


YouTube man Madden 21 is here super excited to access is out right now man If you guys have EA play go to your Xbox store go to your PlayStation store EA play You can play 10 hours for free right now if you have EA play, so that's what we've all been doing That's what we've been got going on the real game comes out on Tuesday I already probably have 20 games put in my team is at 86 overall I wish I could show you guys my team right now, but I ran out of trial time Trying to get it on other counts access it and honestly, I can't really do it right now I mean so when I want to talk about my players and also beginning of the year, man I'm changing players left and right everybody's coming out everybody's moving I'm trying as many cards as I can so you guys can watch them Maybe think if you want to add them to your team or not super excited to share I'm going to stream every single night on my twitch channel that link is below you guys know that Because you've been checking these games out live and I've had a ton of good games already now I'll be honest don't really know what the best offenses don't really know the best defense Just playing just having fun and so that's all so not everything's gonna be pretty not everything's gonna look crystal clear Not everything's gonna be top notch, but by the end of the weekend I'm probably 20 25 games in by the end of the weekend I want to have a much better idea of what I want on offense defense and everything I want to do with my Team as well, so if you want any ebooks any guys I would suggest the premium membership on Madden turf that link is also below man That's going to give you everything I put out all year ebooks on offense defense same with Clef and same with CC So there's tons of opportunity for you to get better at Madden and that price is really low right now Before the season starts a hundred and ten dollars for the entire year You will not need another ebook from anybody else in the entire world if you get that deal You will be flooded with content all year, but let's go ahead get into this gameplay. This was my third game Now I want to talk about in another video about how much money to spend how much money I spent before the game drops on Tuesday, but this is my third game the first two They quit in the first quarter didn't last very well, but this is my third game So the third games are already getting sweaty. Let's get into it. I hope you enjoy Madden 21 content Hit the like button if you do Here we go boys now the first thing I want you guys to realize I think the game looks really clean I think this new scoreboards awesome all that stuff, but you know I don't even want to talk about that because I'm not a cosmetic person. We're here for the action We're here for the gameplay. We're here for these sweats So I'm playing another Eagles fan now. I told you those guys are kind of body right there I have the Isaiah Simmons card now if you want to do a collection I suggest this Isaiah Simmons by getting every rookie in the game Um for me that would probably be the number one as we get a pick on the second play by Denzel Ward I had Denzel Ward because he's 88 speed So definitely one of the faster corners you can put out there. So I love him for that That's why I think Denzel Ward is one of the best players you guys can get these really not super expensive As you see I have Russell Wilson right there behind the center I Don't I never really liked Russell and Madden I feel like they always give him bad throw power and everything and right there We fumble because they switched the controls and now it left trigger is automatic Don't touch the left trigger. You want to do a celebration. You want to fumble like that? The one thing about controls is really frustrating But I feel like you'll get used to them instantly within a couple days of playing Madden. So don't overreact to new controls I always thought like as we get up. Oh, we don't get a picky through right at me But I said I always feel like you get used to the way the controllers are the way the controls work as the game goes on So you don't have to overreact to that I must that I have Russell Wilson on good mobility I think the one thing about this game as compared to last year is that last year You could not run if you didn't have escape artists this year. They let you move around a lot better That's the one reason why I have Russell Wilson But pretty much all you guys could get a free Lamar Jackson I think that's a great thing to have in the game as he tries to go back across the middle field incomplete coming up with a big third and 10 But he hits the running back wheel on me right here a nice little dot to say Kwame Barclay I said they are giving away a free Lamar Jackson So either whether it's a presale or you can get five touchdowns and superstar knockout and you get a free Lamar Jackson So I think that's a pretty good deal as you see Jamal Adams making a tackle He's been a stud for me so far early in the year Jamal Adams probably has the most interceptions on my team. I have Jamal Adams I have Derwin James as he throws a dot right there in front of Derwin James the Julio Jones now Since this video who Derwin James has certainly been replaced. I wasn't happy with the way Derwin was playing on my team But in this video, I have Jamal Williams that boy Patrick Peterson the best corner in the game I know you guys really is 84 speed love Pat Pete will always be on the team. It was still Russell Wilson That's what I mean. I feel like you can move a lot better without escape artists The abilities I have my Russell Wilson I'm trying as I go to ball to Odell Beckham junior right there I have roaming that I in this quick draw ability that lets him get rid of all of his hands right there I hit the wrong button Too much playing PlayStation X and square on PlayStation will always drive me crazy But we get the fourth down with a little dot to mr. Julio Jones Or next play boom Odell Beckham right there I think my wire receivers this game Odell Beckham Julio Jones and I maybe I had Tyree kill by here But I do have Tyree kill now as we hit this post route doubt to Ed McCaffrey How could I forget Ed McCaffrey? That is the guy that won me my Madden belt Ed McCaffrey You guys don't know Madden 17 Ed McCaffrey was one of the best cards in the game as most there is my running back Cuz he's the fastest. He's the fastest running back, right? So we tied a game 7 7 But like I was gonna say Ed McCaffrey won me my Madden belt I have a Madden championship and he was the wide receiver that helped me be problem It helped me take down the belt. So glad to see him back in Madden. So they asked me man What's him captain you get for me? It's Ed McCaffrey. He's an absolute stud in this game Don't be fuelful about a speed or anything like that route running gets his hands on it So we're at halftime boom just like that 7-7 feeling okay Just like I said still learning the game spin move is weird because you can't hold a left trigger anymore to spin So that's a little bit lighter. Oh, Del Beckham underneath Beckham is performed for me Now since then I've moved on from Beckham, but I'll tell you guys These are really good cards. I dump it off the Julio Jones And of course it wouldn't be a video without a fumble from me, you know, that's just it's what we do We've already fumbled with Russell now we fumble with Julio It's getting rough Let me see Jamal Adams just lurking Pat Pete. I told you guys it's something glitchy about Pat Pete It's something in the water gets him going. He's just he's tall. He's fat. I just my favorite corner I have two Patrick Peterson sign jerseys hanging in my room right now as we get that sack out of field of range Probably and honestly was crazy about Madden now that you guys can comment on this Does Madden make you a fan of anybody else because I really wasn't a Patrick Peterson fan until it came to Madden As we see Russell Wilson getting out the pocket right here picking up no yards, but no negatives I like the mobility to quarterback. That's one thing. We've always had a complaint on as Noah fan I have in this game Noah fan making that play breaking the tackle moving on up running a little spread right now Like I said, I really don't have a base offense I don't have one or two plays that I like right now I'm just mixing it up and trying to find something that I get comfortable with as I dump it off with Beckham But like I said, I really wasn't a fan of Pat Pete until I started using them in Madden Man, is there any player that you became a fan of because how well they played in Madden? Pat Pete is a good example of that for me And McCaffrey for sure as well But we get a nice little third and four right here. We're able to oh, no We overdo that corner out right there Fourth and four we're in the fourth quarter got to get this got to make it happen Drag her out right here Tyree kill boom right there catch now as we run a little then there it is right there A little jet sweep to Odell Beckham inside the 15-yard line clock is running out We want to get to the two-minute one. We want to score most third Almost takes it to the crib Inside the five-yard line. We're gonna run dive and he hits sticks me.  We're inside the two-minute warning. We're gonna run some clock right here I like how dive is looking right now another dive the most dirt fights Fights right there gets in touchdown now one thing this kick meter is ugly They made it like thermal imaging bright glowing kick meter and I I missed the extra point So now when you miss the extra point you're thinking the whole time Wow, I hope I don't look like a fool and lose this game just cuz I missed the extra point, but I feel good About my defense right there. I have all these abilities on a defensive line The way you can set up abilities now with with points. It's kind of like salary cap So if you have one as he throws a dot right there We're inside the 21 inside a minute left. He is one time out guess who GG's GG's in the chat GG's in the chat Mr. Patrick Peterson as we hit this little out route to Maccalfrey. That's gonna take all the clock That's gonna be GG's in the chat Patrick Pearson made the play so that was my first First first game that actually went four quarters Actually took the whole time actually did they didn't quit out? So I wanted to bring you guys that game just to show you that what it looks like my first game playing on it And on top of that man, I just there's things I really like about the game And I'm really excited to keep exploring it like I said about those abilities man You can have six people with an ability if it's only a one at what ability point That's what it's called ability points You can have ten ability points on either side of the ball now something like enforcer costs three ability points Or something like edge threat or pass rush elite costs for ability points So that's gonna kill your ability salary cap now if you want something like secure tackler That's one ability cap. I kind of want to say that you can have I know I've had six I don't know if you got a more than that But you can have at least six people with an ability so you can have six secure tacklers If you want if it's one of the lesser abilities or something like that So that's one of the great features they put into the game this year to try to balance out those abilities You're not going to see two enforcers or three enforcers all with lurker all with universal covers No, you're not going to see that you want to see way more balance in the in the ability like I said I have four more game plan plays already from the first week in a madman So I'm gonna put them out every 500 likes we're gonna put out another gameplay I'm getting better and better as the game goes on and hope to catch you guys live in my twitch stream soon


US Olympic Marathon Team Trials 2020. We did it. Absolutely unbelievable.  If I look tired, you know why. I got home at about 1 a.m. last night. Oh, slept well. But now it's time to break down the US Olympic Marathon Team Trials 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. I can't believe I was able to be there to witness it in person.  And I'm gonna go through the results, go through the predictions, and then pull apart some of the interviews after the race as well. But I think Jared Ward maybe put it best as far as how the day unfolded for both, I'm gonna say the men and the women's side. Listen to what Jared said afterward. He said, this is unbelievable. We have 50 guys running 211 pace on this course. I think basically he was thinking that in his mind around like mile 13, 14, 15 before that main pack at the front started to break apart. And it's so, so true. The depth of American long distance running continues to improve every single year. And for the really dedicated track and road running fans across the United States, remember the 90s, especially the late 90s and even the early 2000s to a certain extent, the depth at all of these longer disciplines in running for the Olympics and for the world championships. The teams just, we just didn't have this depth. And now like Jared said, 50 guys at 211 pace on that course, in those, I'm gonna say horrible windy conditions. Okay, it wasn't raining, it was not sleeting out but it was just, it was really, really tough day as far as the wind conditions were concerned. And as I said in yesterday's vlog, if you haven't seen the race vlog, go check it out, upper right hand corner. I said like the marathon is merciless. And yes, I'm gonna list the results right here officially. By the way, here's my Eugene, Oregon, 2008 Olympic Trials T-shirt that I went up there and spectated. So, oh man, I didn't, I couldn't find a T-shirt yesterday. I should've picked one up, but if anyone found one, let me know. I might, I'll buy it off you because I love collecting these old Olympic Trials T-shirts. Okay, here we go. Official results starting with the women. Oh my my. Okay, and forgive me on the names, okay. First place, Alaphine Tuliamouk from Hoca. Sorry, I'm the name, 227-23. Molly Seidel from Soccany, 227-31. Close finish. And third place, Sally Kipiego who runs for Nike and the Oregon Track Club, 228-52. There's the results there. Fourth place, oh, remember I thought Dez was gonna win it. She runs for Brooke. She ran 229-03, not that far off. In fact, it was a close finish. And she said in her post-race interviews, there really wasn't a flat spot out there on the course. And I confirmed that in my shakeout run the night before, like this course is unrelenting. Like it just was always either up or down, even just ever so slightly. So Dez confirmed that. She said it was a grinder of a course. And then I do have to say fifth on the women's side, Laura Thweet, my old teammate at the University of Colorado. She ran, she runs for Soccany and she ran a 229-08. And she would, oh, I can tell she like was so happy with the results. But again, the depth of field, it's just, it's tough, it's tough, but she was happy with the race. So who knows, I think she's gonna keep fighting for that Olympic spot in 2024. And she agreed on the crowd noise being unbelievable, the entire course. We're gonna come back to the crowd here in a minute. And Jordan has to say, I did hear like she had some back issues. So maybe that explained, I think she finished, oh boy, I'll put it on the screen. I think it was around like 27th, but there's Jordan has to say, so that's tough to have back issues. And then again, I just didn't see what happened with Sarah. But okay, jumping to the men's. So there's the women, top three going to Tokyo. Here we go, men's side, Galen Rupp runs for Nike 209-24. That time on that course is, it's very, very, like, it's amazing, everyone. It just, it's really amazing. It speaks to not only aerobic endurance, but I would say being in control, like of your stride and having a really strong stride for those hills. And you can see it in his form, like he and his foot strike and his, he just, oh, it's like seamless, quick turnover. He is in control of his stride, which I'm always talking about. It's like 209-20 just affirms that. Okay, second place, Jacob Riley of Boulder, Colorado, runs for the Boulder Track Club, an unsponsored athlete. I do know he ran in the Nikes though, the Alpha Flies yesterday, but he ran 210-02. So about 42 seconds behind Galen. And that is huge.  That is, and I've never met him, even though he lives, you know, 30 minutes from here. And he's got an interesting story, just like his journey in, in running over the past like three to four years. So, okay, third place, Abdi, Abdi, oh man, Abdi, Abdi Rahman from Nike, 43 years old, 43 years old, 210-03. Oh, three, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? On that course, as a 43 year old, it just goes to show you, I think everyone that, oh man, should I make a crazy, crazy prediction, just like a crazy one? I think that, I think the age, age is just a number. We hear that cliche that's saying all the time, but I think long distance runners are beginning to realize that there might be more in the tank, than we may think, meaning our bodies are not gonna break down. Or, I often hear the number like 34 is the year that you peak, as far as like your aerobic capacity. 34, is that what it, yeah, 34. I'm wondering if that number is starting to be pushed further and further and further, especially with like a guy, like a Kipchoge, who I think he's 33, 34, he's my age. And then, let me just jump down real quick to Bernard Legotte, 45 years old, finished in 18th place with a 214, 23. I think this is his third marathon, and he did confirm after the race, he's looking for a race in April or May, so he's hungry. You could tell in his interview after the race, like he is ready for more. So 45 years old, and yes, Abdi is the oldest Olympic marathon trials, or Olympic marathon qualifier ever for the United States. And, okay, fourth place, Leonard Carrere, he runs for Nike and Army, 2106, and then Augustus Mayo, 21047. So there you go, men's side, there we go. There are the men's results, and the top three are punching their ticket. I should say Sapporo, but you know, just to keep it simple, they're running 500 miles north of Tokyo. And here's the deal, everyone. I love America. America is the land of opportunity, the land of hard work. We work hard here. And I think the land of, you know, we have a lot of good universities and colleges, and we have a good athletic system in the United States at the collegiate level. So a lot of these runners, yes, Alaphine, the winner on the women's side, is from Kenya originally. Sally Kipiego, third from Kenya. On the men's side, Abdi Abdaraman, third from Somalia. So it's like, that is the American dream. Coming over to the United States, becoming a citizen, getting an education, running in the NCAA, and punching your ticket to the Olympics. Does it get better than that as far as an American story? I don't think so. And so I just could not be happier for all six of these athletes going to Japan. Okay, one of my biggest takeaways from yesterday, I can't, it feels like it was weeks ago, but from yesterday is what everyone continues to talk about. The crowd size. On the course, the runners, and off the course. The crowd size, yes. 700 runners on the course. I think it was a little under actually because of injuries. Some runners were unable to participate, but that is an incredible number. About 700 runners, and it felt like it. Like, they were coming at us in a, just in a, you know, a crowd of runners coming at you. It felt like a big number out there. And then, off the course. So cheering. Ben Rosario, the coach of the women's champion, said this afterward. He was out there, of course, cheered on his runners. He said, it felt like there were a half a million people out there cheering. And I don't know if they did a crowd count. I don't know how you do crowd estimates, but again, I couldn't move around. I, and security was pretty tight, but I couldn't move. I wanted to do some more filming for all of you in different locations. No, no. And like, I couldn't, the sidewalks were packed. It was a, it was at four, five, six people deep. I had to dig my way through the crowd to get to the front so I could get those shots for you right on, right when the runners were coming by. So that is one of my biggest takeaways is that American long distance running is back. And it's been back. I'd say the last Olympics, it was back. But I think there's an increase over the past four years for overall enthusiasm. And you see it at all the major marathons, Chicago, Boston, New York, like the crowd sizes continue to get bigger and bigger and bigger. And when you have competition like we saw yesterday where a, you know, where a Jared Ward, and I have one more note here. I want to mention where a Jared Ward who qualified last Olympics ends up, I think it was 27th place. So it's just goes to show you again, that depth is unbelievable in the US. And you, young runners out there, like if you're in high school, if you're in college, like keep dreaming. And yes, maybe you won't make the Olympics, but just to make it to the Olympic trials and listen, the 10K is tough, 5K is tough. Like those shorter distances, they don't, they don't accept as many runners. So like that marathon distance, I think it's a great distance for all of you young runners out there, men and women to strive to shoot for because again, these, and yes, the times will get tougher. I predict the next 2024. And yeah, the next, I think, okay. I will say Jared Ward, he's like, I'm ready. Like 2024, brilliant. Like he's, he was already talking after the race. He's excited to train for the Paris Olympics, which makes me happy. Like, I don't, you'd hate to see like this to be the last race for a very talented runner who just like gets very, or like a Jim Walmsley. Like I think a lot of people rooting for Jim Walmsley, 215, I believe, here's Jim Walmsley time. That is, it's his first road marathon. Correct me if I'm wrong. Like I know he's run many trail marathons and everything else, but like, it takes time to master the road marathon. And I think he looked good out there. But again, it's, you know, the wind, he got into no man's land there for a little bit and it's just tough. It's a tough day for a lot of runners out there. But, and it was really difficult for Reed Fisher. Remember, I was talking about Reed Fisher as a little bit of an outsider looking in, but I thought he might have a chance to mix it up at the top. He fell twice in the race. Once at the four mile mark, he got tripped up with some other runners. And then a mile later in the fifth mile, he fell again, he stepped into a little pothole, I guess, on the road. Oh, that is a tough break. But guess what? He finished the race. So kudos to, kudos to Reed Fisher for not giving up despite having a little bit of a brave heart look out there on the US Olympic Marathon's course. A couple more, and a couple more points before I lose my voice and get you that question of the day is you better believe my goal, and especially, oh my goodness, especially with Avi and Bernard. And who knows, I hope Ritz keeps fighting too. It gives me hope that I can qualify for the Olympic trials for the Paris Olympic round. I'm gonna keep fighting for it. It's like with a 45-year-old and a 43-year-old, age is just a number. So you better believe I'm gonna keep fighting. Those guys are inspiring me, a guy that's basically 10 years younger than them. So it's just amazing. And also the looped course, one last point on the course, is that the runners were like, right where I decided to post up, they were crossing, like the lead men and the lead women were basically crossing right in front of me, almost at the same time. So it was really interesting. Made the filming a little difficult. I hope you enjoyed the shots. And you just live and learn. You just keep testing out different ways to film these marathon races. And I'm realizing I filmed road races and I filmed mountain races, but I don't know if I personally filmed a marathon race. I don't think I have, because I'm always racing. Like New York, I was in the race racing. So it's interesting. But oh, epic day. Thank you for watching. Question of the day, what was your biggest takeaway for American long distance running after witnessing the race, whether you were there in person or maybe you watched on TV or maybe you're getting all your information from the vlog from yesterday or from social media. But what did you learn? How were your eyes opened over the past 36, 48 hours? All right, sound good? I can't wait to read your comments. Thanks for being here. Thanks for breaking down the race with me. Epicness, I'm gonna go rest my voice. Rest the legs, cause training continues for me. Onward and upward, butter the bread. That was a butter the bread. Kind of day everyone. All right, we're gonna tie this back. Of course, to yesterday's race vlog. Right there, yesterday's race vlog. And if you could spread it around, I would appreciate it, share it on social media. 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