Okay, and we are being recorded. So welcome to the UIX HeartFest and welcome to the last meeting of the UIX HeartFest. So today is June 1st and we will summarize the key achievement of the project, talk about them and talk about what's next for the project. So that's our main objective and this is just a summary call. So we will be publishing the recording. My next step doesn't work. Okay, so first of all, I would like to thank all the contributors. Thanks for your participation during the event. In total, we've got 53 contributors. As you may imagine, I cannot put names on this slide, but if you want to see more details, there is a link above. And here you can find actually all the information and links on our UIX HeartFest site. So you can find more details here. We are still processing late reports for the contributions. So maybe the final number, yeah, it may change a bit, but yeah, anyway, we've got a really good number of contributions and thanks to everyone who participated. So yeah, we've got a lot of people working on documentation, on UIX testing, on patching Jenkins and also on sharing the stories. So it was amazing for one week during the working week. So thanks to everyone who was able to dedicate some time and help us to move the Jenkins forward. And thanks to the org team and the special interest groups who helped this event to happen. So there was a lot of overtime work, a lot of late night fixes and reviews to keep this event going. So it's a much appreciated thanks. And of course, thanks to all the sponsors who will be helping to spark and these prizes for the events. We'll talk about them later, but yeah. Again, thanks to everyone who contributed to this event. Let's spend some time and discuss how the highlights you've had. So first track we had is about user interface. So if you see this slide, it's not a definitely a reference user interface, but yeah, it's just a quick summary. So what we've got during this hard first. So first of all, we had done the Jenkins integration preview release and we've got a lot of distributions, bug treatise and just your testing and reliability testing there. We've released a preview of the dark theme and there were many improvements in various components like credentials management plugins, script security, Jenkins core and many other components. So there should have been links to the demos. As you may see, I forgot to put it on the slides, but I can show you how to find it. So during the event, we were using Jenkins online in order to record all the sessions we've had and we're recording today's session as well. And if you want to find a recording of the session, you can just go here and you can find all the sessions here. If this list is too big for you, you can also go to the Jenkins UI UX hard first. Here we have a presentation stuff where we aggregate presentations from all sessions we had today. So for example, here demo sessions and you can find a link to the recording here. So while we're here, we'll just put the link, but yeah. Thanks to everyone who presented their demos. I will just show a number of key stories, but yeah, there is also a lot of improvements and later we will be following up with a blog post, with a full list of contributions. So the first story, as we said, read-only configuration. So now it's available. So everyone who manages Jenkins's code, now you can switch your configuration to the read-only mode so that you can occasionally change the settings. And we will keep working that in order to make more diagnosability analytics tools available for read-only admin instances. Another achievement we had is Jenkins dark team. So we started basically from now where there were a number of teams, but we created a new one, shout-out to all contributors and especially to team Jakob, who was driving this project. So now we have a dark team in preview. Right now that is Jenkins weekly release, which is going to be released, maybe in a few hours. Starting from this release, this preview will be official, but even now you can try it out on your instances and if you watch the recording, you'll definitely be able. So it wasn't just creating a new dark team. It's basically considering how Jenkins theme extensibility works. We switched the Jenkins code to CSS variables. So now themes take just dozens of lines of definitions instead of hundreds of lines like it used to be before. And we also spent a lot of time on the UX testing and capability testing for this team. So for example, if you go to the repository, you can discover a lot of reported issues. And this is just issues which haven't been fixed yet. Many issues have been fixed during the hard first. And if you're interested to contribute, you're welcome. So this will be released just in a few hours after this recording. The next thing we will be working on was migration of configuration user interface from our tables to these. So it improves visualization of narrow screens and especially on mobile devices. It also just makes Jenkins look better for configuration pages. This feature hasn't been integrated yet, but we are working on that. And again, we invite all contributors to participate, but still doing this hard test, we did some testing and now we have much more confidence about this change. And hopefully we'll be able to integrate that in a few weeks or maybe in a month. So let's see about that. And another major improvement we had is script security plugin. So if you have ever managed script approvals today, you may know that it's extremely difficult. So now thanks to Wadi Kholangier, we have a new web interface. There you can manage approvals, you can define them, you can see usages of script approvals and manage them. So it's a major improvement for Jenkins admins who allow custom scripting from the main instances. What else did we had? For example, there was improvement in auto grading plugin by Uli Hofner. Now it supports Excel screens. So many reports, many study analysis reports and summary pages are even more extensible than they were before. If you participated in a knowledge transfer session on Monday, you may have seen how it can be developed in practice and now US plugin developer can also adopt that. And we definitely got a great foundation for building the dashboards, writing these Jenkins plugins without creating any additional tool for that. And I guess that's it regarding features. Again, this list is not full. We were still working on particular cases and your UX, I mentioned some names, but in general we had more than 30 contributors working on this area. So thanks to everyone who helped to improve Jenkins user interface and to deliver improvements and plugins. Let's switch to the documentation. Documentation is also a great part of the user experience. We have good news to share there. Yeah, the documentation, thank you very much to everyone who contributed the documentation. All like that slide was a perfect one. Is it okay if I share my desktop to show the slides the rest? Great, let me do that. So what I wanted to highlight was that we've had wonderful contributions to the user documentation. One of our beginning points was that we have lots of information that is in the Jenkins wiki that would be better suited and better presented if we moved it to Jenkins.io. And we've succeeded in moving over 40 documentation pages from the wiki to Jenkins.io. In addition to that, it's now actually 30 or more plugins that during the last week advanced their motion from using their documentation on the wiki to instead putting the documentation right inside their GitHub repository so that it can be managed as code. We love that transition, both the wiki and transition from wiki and the transition from wiki for plugins to documentation as code for plugins. Excellent result. In addition, we did documentation updates using various sources of content. The Docker Solutions page has been improved. The many sections have been added to using Jenkins to managing Jenkins and a substantial improvement to the Jenkins system property list. There's a summary recording available. The link is there. And what I'd like to highlight further is some additional changes. We switched to using GitHub issues instead of using the Jira system for our documentation issues. And that has been a major positive. We identified a number of issues out of good first issues. And new contributors picked up these good first issues and did great work with them. Six of the 11 open good first issues that are currently open in our issue tracking already have someone working the issue. Great progress. Nine of the 12 closed first issues were closed during the Hackfest just last week. 26 of the 57 closed issues that have been closed in the lifetime of our time on GitHub. Issues were closed last week during the Hackfest. And 16 of the currently open pull requests are from Hackfest. So we're getting great results by using GitHub issues and great results from contributors like you. Thanks very much. Now there's still more to be done. We have over 200 pages on the Wiki that need to be migrated. We've triaged roughly one third of those and need more people to help us triage them. The triage process needs someone to look at the Wiki page, decide where it belongs in the Jenkins documentation set and then to create an issue in GitHub to track that. So we need more reviewers. We're looking for those. I'd like to highlight some of the pages that have come as a result of last week's Hackfest. So first thing to note, 36 pull requests were merged last week and there are 16 new pull requests still to be reviewed. In the managing Jenkins documentation, we've got a number of new additions. We've got additions in the using Jenkins, including using local language, including how you use fingerprints, including how you reference another project page. Those things added by new contributors as by transferring content from the Wiki into Jenkins.io. Thanks very, very much. Now, in addition, we're grateful that Devon Nussbaum, one of the experts on pipeline, extracted the pipeline CPS method mismatches documentation from the Wiki and placed it here, doing a serious and significant rework to be sure that it was current and correct. So the Wiki transformation process is not just copying content. It's thinking very carefully about is this the correct thing to say? Is this current and accurate? Similar happened for the Jenkins CLI. And we're especially grateful to Daniel Beck for his work on Jenkins features controlled with system properties. This page describes many of the properties that are in Jenkins that are controlled by various special flags. And it helps users to know what those flags are so that if they have to control something, they can. Well, this one is worth noting for me because Daniel had to clean up a mess that I had left behind and he did a brilliant job of it so that when I hover over this link, it just works. When I click links here, it just works. In addition to the benefit of what he did there, the glossary now has the same exact capability so I can point to one of the terms in the glossary and the links work and lay out beautifully. Special thanks to Daniel and sorry that he had to clean up my messes. It was wonderful. Grateful also for the plug-in migration progress that over 400 plugins have now migrated to documentation as code and there are pull requests pending for another 90 plus. Really great results from the documentation portion of the one week long hack fest. And, oh leg, I think that covers mine. Do you want me to continue showing slides or do you want to take the control back? I can take over the control. Okay. Thank you for the summary mark. Okay. So our third track was spread the word. Basically it was about promoting Jenkins and recording content, recording user stories and we actually had some. So during the hack fest, we recorded 10 knowledge transfers and demo sessions for Jenkins users and Jenkins developers. I've already presented this link. You can find the recordings there. Also, we were promoting the Jenkins stories on Jenkins in the way portal. We had eight stories fully submitted there and there are some stories in progress. So hopefully they will be finalized and thanks to everyone who shared their success stories about Jenkins. Then there was a number of tweets, LinkedIn posts and blog posts about Jenkins. If you're interested to find them, please use the Jenkins the way hashtag on our social media platforms. And last but not least, we also launched the Jenkins the way comics. So just let me show you these comics first. So thanks a lot to Comet Street for creating that and thanks a lot for everyone. So we'll have more of these comics soon. Also, thanks a lot for your posts. I've just put a number of them on the page. They do a lot more. So thanks to everyone who shared the experience from the hard fest experience from using Jenkins or information about new features. It helps us to promote the project. It helps us to talk about more contributors and finally it helps Jenkins users because the project gets a lot more features and visibility can. So thanks you and we appreciate this feedback. So let's talk a bit about what's next for the hard fest participants and for those who would like to participate in such events in the future. So first of all, we said that there would be Schwark and prizes and there would be. So we are processing the hard fest results. We'll be contacting the participants soon. Yeah, there will be t-shirts. There will be other goodies we will be distributing soon. So stay tuned and we have your contacts. So it will just happen in a few weeks because we still need to analyze some details but we will definitely do that. We will also appreciate your feedback about the hard fest, about how we could improve. Again, it was our first experience of doing online hard fest like that. We had a few events before but they were rather focused on a particular topic or they were part of October 1st or other wider events. So if you would like to share your insights, please fill in the feedback form. This feedback is full anonymous and we will appreciate any suggestions and feedback about what we could do better. And of course, if you have something positive to share about your experience or something we could repost, it would be also much appreciated because we could use this information for the future. Hopefully it won't be our last event of such kind. We have already started discussing having more events. So your feedback would be very appreciated. Now we will share links later in the email to all the contributors but if you want, you can find it here. And after that, we invite you to keep contributing. So hard fest, it was just an event but Jenkins project is open 24-7 any day, any time of the week, we appreciate your contributors. We have documentation which describes how to contribute. For example, if you want to code, if you want to help with documentation on piece design, we have some stories for you. If you want to help using infrastructure and other things, we also have some documentation. So we will appreciate any kind of your contributions to the project and we invite you to keep contributing to the Jenkins project type of event. There are some programs happening now. For example, there is a Google season of dogs for those who are interested in documentation and there will be other events for hackers, for example, October 1st and October and maybe organize more events. But if you see an issue in Jenkins which impacts your user experience, if you want to contribute to fixing that, not by writing code, but just helping to plan this issue, helping to find proper solutions or to facilitate contributions to this event, we will appreciate that. And if you need any help, if you cannot find a way to contribute, there are two channels. One is from newcomer contributors, another one for advocacy and outreach team. So if you have any idea how we could improve Jenkins as a project, we will appreciate your contribution even if it's not a code one. And we will be happy to help to make it happen and to find the proper venue to discuss this change and to make it deliver. So, and that's all for me, for me. Again, thanks to everybody who contributed to the Jenkins project. Thanks to all the first contributors and thanks to all thousands of contributors who work on the Jenkins project during the EM. So for example, last year we have got 5,500 contributors and this number keeps rising. So thanks to everyone who helps to implement these features, review features, deliver them and the same information so that we can help users to use all these new features we deliver in the project. Thanks all. Okay, are there any questions? Okay, are there any feedback or comments? We can discuss them. Sumit just posted, thank you very much to the organizers and reviewers saying it was an amazing experience. And I agree it was a, that was quite a treat to work with people across so many places in so many ways has been just a lot of fun. Yeah, and for us, so this fun doesn't end because we still need to review all these pull requests. We have a bell clock, we've managed many pull requests that you think hard pressed and if your pull request didn't get managed please stay patient and you will definitely get to that. So we track all the feature pull requests or the documentation pull requests whether it's change to your own like insights. So we will do our best to help them to get rendered. I was truly impressed and number of the new contributors chose issues that I thought and actually had described was, hey, this is a more challenging topic. They picked them and they started working on them and they made great progress. It was, it was quite surprising to me. I thought, oh, this is going to be a very hard issue. No way will we get progress on this during the hack fist. And I was wrong. We got really interesting progress on some what we're challenging and daunting issues not just the good for first time contributors impressive from both fronts. Yeah, so yeah, for example, there was some unexpected developments like dark theme. Yeah, dark theme is just a part of their story but real story that we completely reward Jenkins internals to make it happen. This help of multiple contributors and later it will help any thing developer whether it's a theme hosted on Jenkins CI or whether it's an internal theme you create for your company you will be able to benefit from this story. And there are already follow-up developments. So for example, team Jack on he started working on a better way to select themes and to get them adopted including user defined themes. So you as a Jenkins user would be able to choose themes without asking your admin to change the theme globally. There were some experience with marketplaces with discoverability of the plugins. So there is a lot of stories which will still happen or have already started happening. Also, yeah, we didn't talk about pipeline as Yamal which was one of the major points of feedback but again, there are some changes happening there. So, and we will definitely get there. So now one of the questions is can the timings in the meetup be shared in IST and I'm not sure what that means. Oleg, do you have a guess on what that's saying? I guess I esteem in Indian standard time. So it's definitely something you could provide as a feedback in the feedback form. So yeah, we just shank everything in UTC. There are online time converters but we didn't use them on the website because for example, the limitations of platform. For example, if you go to online meetup it's even more challenging than just UTC because the meetup is located in London time which is UTC plus one at the moment and even people who are located in London are sometimes confused. So, but unfortunately, we cannot easily change it without changing the platform. At the same time, we could make it better on our side because there are services. So if you see things like that, please just share that in your feedback form. Okay. Any other comments, feedback, whatever about the event? Okay, if not, we will just process this recording for publish it online. And after that, we will start working with other contributors synchronously to get more information and to publish summaries. I have already started working on a blog post for your improvements. I guess Mark has already started working on a blog post for documentation. As always, it will take a while but we'll do that and stay tuned. We'll publish that. Thank you very much Oleg. Excellent, excellent work organizing and what a pleasure it's been to work. You've been great. Thank you, thank you. The community thanks you and I thank you personally. Thanks very much. Thanks for the feedback but yeah, I wouldn't be able to do that alone. There are so many people who are hoping to organize the things including planning for the stories, documentation, et cetera. So yeah, okay. Any feedback before we stop the recording? Yes, just wanted to, this is what just wanted to thank you again, Oleg and Mark for organizing this in perfect manner, I guess. And so allowing everybody, including newcomers to contribute in any possible way to this event. It was nicely organized and I hope that you will have a very good results for everybody. Just on a quick note and this is, I guess, more related to Mark, our results of this hackfest going to be somehow considered for Google Season of Docs applications or it's separately. So if I understand Google Season of Docs correctly, one of the ways that they assess participation is participation in things like this. So my expectation is that this would be, contributions to this would be considered valuable and viewed positively as part of the evaluation process for Google Season of Docs. Now, Oleg's got more experience in this field than I do, Oleg, your comments. Yeah, you're to the right. Moreover, we referenced this hackfest as one of potential ways to get started with contributing to documentation. So, yeah, we will take revisions into account and it's already a way to do some community bonding. There are a lot of discussions about the documentation and yeah, I think we can keep working on that. Thank you very much again for organizing this. Yeah, thank you. So, if I recall correctly, the application phase for Google Season of Docs starts in two weeks on June 13th, right? So, yeah, I think we have to actually read. Okay, yeah, I think you're right that we're not there yet but it's coming soon. And yeah, June 8th and the conclusion is July 8th if I remember correctly. So yeah, if anyone is interested to contribute to documentation and to spend a bit more time with the Jenkins project working on documentation, you're welcome to join the Google Season of Docs program. And we will see what will be the number of contributors supplying because yeah, Google Season of Docs has limited number of slots but we still have other options like community bridge, like maybe hosting another program. So, if you're interested in documentation and the Jenkins project, please contact us and let's see what we can do there. Okay, any other comments or questions? Thanks to everyone for joining this call and thanks to everyone for participating in the event. So, there is a question about how can I contribute to documentation. Mark, would you like to speak about that? I think I may have frozen. Oleg, can you still hear me? Yes, I can, but yeah, you definitely froze. Okay, so the documentation contributions are welcomed and encouraged. You can go to Jenkins.io and you can see on the contribute page, on the participate page, there's a documentation link. There it gives a number of places and ways that you could help documentation. And they include things like revisions to existing pages, migration of Wiki pages, converting plugins from using Wiki to using GitHub as their documentation source, all sorts of different ways that you can contribute to documentation. Yeah, and basically we will welcome any kind of contribution if you're active user of Jenkins. Just I think what is missing in the documentation, try to improve that. If you're looking for something new, newcomer stories, in a way, you can basically find different tickets and I guess we still need to put the link to Jenkins.io here, but I mean, to GitHub issues, but in general you can find all the information here. Right, and we'll be creating, I expect to create several new first time issues this week because the good first issues process and the GitHub issues has worked so well that I'll create some more this week based on the triage work from the Wiki transformation. Yeah. So thank you for this question. Okay, I'll probably stop the recording and see you again at Jenkins online meetups or at other events. So the next online meetup is scheduled to Thursday. It will be a story about the defined builds with captain and Jenkins. So if you're interested in clouding different environments, please feel free to join us. Thanks a lot, bye for now. Thanks a lot. Bye.


Hi and welcome to the session, I am Deepika here. Let's discuss the question for the following APs write the first term and the common difference. Part 1, 3, 1, minus 1, minus 3 and so on. Part 2, minus 5, minus 1, 3, 7, so on. Part 3, 1 by 3, 5 by 3, 9 by 3, 13 by 3 and so on. Part 4, 0.6, 1.7, 2.8, 3.9 and so on. Let us first understand how to find the common difference of a given AP.  This is a key idea behind our question. We will take the help of this key idea to solve the help of question. So, let's start the solution. Solution, part 1 in part 1 given AP is 3, 1, minus 1, minus 3 and so on. Here first term that is a is equal to 3 and common difference that is d is equal to a2 minus a1 which is equal to 1 minus 3 that is minus 2. Now to obtain d in a given AP we need not find all of a2 minus a1, a3 minus a2 and a4 minus a3. It is enough to find only all of them. Hence the answer for this part is a is equal to 3 and d is equal to minus 2. In part 2 our given AP the first term equal to minus 5 and common difference that is d is equal to minus 1 that is a2 minus a1 which is equal to 4. Hence the answer for this part is a is equal to minus 5 and d is equal to 4. In part 3 our given AP is 1 by 3, 5 by 3, 9 by 3, 13 by 3 and so on. The first term that is a is equal to 1 by 3 is equal to a2 minus a1 which is equal to 5 by 3 minus 1 by 3 and this is equal to 2 by 3. Hence the answer for this part is a is equal to 1 by 3 and d is equal to 2 by 3. Move to the part 4. In part 4 given AP is 0.6, 1.7, 2.8, 3.9 and so on is equal to 0.6 and common difference d is equal to 2 minus a1 that is 1.7 minus 0.6 which is equal to 1.1. Hence the answer for this part is a is equal to 0.6 and d is equal to 1.1. I hope this solution is clear to you. Bye and take care.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Pilly Glendale, Dr. X17, Adam Green, and our new patron, Adrian. Thanks, Adrian, and welcome. On this episode of DTNS, Apple says, try our product, you know, the existing product that we have already that you should buy. EVs are also having a marketing or pricing or maybe both issue, and we break down what OpenAI announced at its very first Dev Day. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, November 6th, 2023. From Studio Secret Bunker, I'm Sarah Lane. From Columbus, Ohio, I'm Rob Dunwood. And from close to your nation's capital, your boy, big Chris Ashley. And the show's producer, Roger Chang. Chris, Ashley, so good to have you on the show again. And I seem to recall having a pretty fun show the last time you, Rob and I were on the show together. Definitely had a great time. Yeah. Yeah. So let's do it again. Shall we? Starting with the Quickets. Meta announced it has one million paid subscriptions to creators on Instagram, which is a relatively small portion of Instagram's two billion monthly users. Meta will also start adding subscribe buttons at the top of applicable posts, and creators will be able to offer 30 day free trials. And Instagram is adding a tool to let creators DM new subscribers in bulk to chat with them. Elon Musk announced Sunday that his artificial intelligence startup XAI will be integrated into a social media platform X and also be available as a standalone app. Musk also said XAI released its first AI model about called GROC, which was released to X premium plus subscribers on Friday. XAI is working on AI tools that assist humanity in its quest for understanding and knowledge. And GROC has been designed to answer questions with a bit of wit. Epic Games was in court again on Monday in San Francisco. This is the latest in the case of Epic School to do away with Apple and Google taking a cut of sales through their mobile app marketplaces. In Epic's case, specifically Epic's sales. Previously the company was unsuccessful in most of its claims in a similar but different case against Apple in 2021 and also failed that appeal earlier this year at which point it petitioned the Supreme Court. Discord tells bleeping computer that will start marking links to hosted files and they're going to refresh every 24 hours. So and that's going to happen by the end of this year. Discord says this will fight the spread of malware on the platform since that gives it more ability to restrict access to flagged content. Media Tech announced its latest mobile processor, the Dimensity 9300 with flagship performance AI power and multimedia capabilities. High end Android smartphones and tablets are the target market for the 9300, which includes a new all big core CPU design for faster speeds, a reengineer GPU for on-device AI and boosted media engine for cinematic video capture. Media Tech says the chip will show up in smartphones before the end of the year, which is notable because it's around the same time for Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to also show up in devices. All right, y'all. It's not a big secret that electric vehicles aren't selling as well as the automotive industry thought that they would. So manufacturers like GM, Ford, Honda, and others have lowered some estimates on the number of EVs that they expect to produce in 2024 and the amount of money that they will invest in EV research and development going forward. One of the main reasons for slower than expected EV adoption is prices because EV prices are typically higher than what some consumers are willing to pay. But Tesla, according to Reuters, is addressing this with plans for a 25,000 euro or 27,000 US dollars Model 2. Right, Rob? Absolutely. So in a visit to Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory Friday, where the Model 2 would be initially produced, Elon Musk reportedly told staff about the plans. He did not say when production would begin, but Tesla has briefly hinted at production coming potentially in the next year, as early as 2024. Currently, the cheapest EV Tesla sales is $39,000, and that's on the Model 3. So, Chris, you purchased a Ford F-150 Lightning last year, and I'm betting it costs significantly more than $27,000. So my question to you is, do you think that an EV this inexpensive would get any traction more than they're getting right now? Well, to find significantly more. Twice as much? Let's start there. Three times as much? That's a little closer. But as a person that definitely has his eye open for a second EV vehicle for the house, my daughter's turning 16 in the next couple of years. So definitely, I'd like to get her a vehicle. I would love not to buy a gas vehicle for her. I think this is a great move by them. They've been talking about it for a while to get these prices under control and get something out there for mass adoption. And it's kind of shocking to me, actually, that they would be the first ones to do this, because you would think the other manufacturers have the capacity to create a loss leader, even if they wanted to. But yeah, I would definitely look at anything they created in that price range for sure. Yeah, I wonder how much Tesla being the company that let's just say this comes to fruition. I can buy a $27,000 Model 2 sooner than later. Does Elon Musk have anything to do with this? Probably not. I don't know. I mean, I think if you like a vehicle, you trust the company behind it, and you maybe look the other way when it comes to the person who's at the helm. And by the way, not everybody hates Elon Musk, so I'm not speaking for anybody except myself. I might have some pause. I also know that there have been other companies, in fact, we talked about a couple of them last week, who say, we just can't figure out how to make an EV that is in this price range work for us on our assembly line. So we're going to go back to the drawing board and try again, but no soup for you. So there's a couple of things, and one of the points I always make when talking about why don't people buy EVs? They're readily available is because they cost more. And there are a lot of people who buy automobiles because they need an automobile. But no one, at least in North America, has ever bought an electric vehicle because they needed one. They bought it because they wanted it. And the reason I say that is because the electric vehicles are there is substantially more expensive in most cases. I mean, we've been getting better, but they still cost significantly more. So that's a big deal when you're talking about cars are already expensive and it's like, OK, well, this one's going to cost nine grand more, 13 grand more just to have batteries in it. And I don't know that I'm going to be able to potentially resell it for the same amount that if I were to buy an automobile with a fuel combustion engine in it, those are a lot of factors for people who need cars are going to look at. So I'm thinking that the $27,000, they're probably going to move a bunch of these because, you know, as you said, Sarah, there's a lot of folks who if Elon Musk wasn't at the top of Tesla, they wouldn't even be considering them, you know, that whatever company he was running, that's what they would look at because there's just as many folks who like them as dislike them. So I don't know that that's going to affect a lot of people on the low end one way or the other. But I do think that you will see more people start to look because now this $27,000 cars to say $27,000 or $25,000 Euro car doesn't cost significantly more than something in the same frame. And just one last point on the Chris's point. Cars, we've been making cars on assembly lines for over 100 years. The margins are really, really tight. So I can see Tesla doing this because they just don't have all of that baggage that a lot of the, you know, the traditional GMs and Ford's, they have that, you know, they are making these cars on such tight margins that they just can't make any money. Tesla can still do that.  I still get asked tons of questions about my truck all the time. But quite a few times and obviously this is anecdotal, but quite a few times people are like, yeah, I'd love to switch. They're just too expensive for me. So, you know, it's definitely a thing that that is a barrier for many, many people that want to switch because oftentimes we think that people are just in one camper, the other right there, combustion or electric and that's it. But there are certain people that are stuck in one because, you know, it's just not in their budget to go the other direction. What about the second market? I mean, I know it's not totally what our conversation is about. But Chris, if you were to sell your F 150 Lightning, I know you're not going to, but have you have you kind of dipped your toe into what sort of resale market is out there? I have not because it is absolutely unequivocally never crossed my mind. But I will say this, when I bought my truck and I was about to leave, the general manager of the store came out and said, if you don't want it after a week, bring it back, I'll give you 10,000 more than you paid for it. Whoa. And I don't know if that's still the case today, but, you know, I imagine that there's probably still a good markup availability there and a resale because the F 150 Lightning, even though I'm seeing more and more, they're still not as prevalent as I'm sure Ford would like them to be. Well, moving on to Apple, another company that likes people to buy their products, Apple PR Rep. This is kind of unusual story. Told the Verge over the weekend that the company will not be making an Apple Silicon version of the 27 inch iMac that would replace the Intel chip model that it discontinued in 2022. You might say, but don't iMacs already have the, you know, M3 chip? Apple says it's focusing the iMac line on the 24 inch model. It released early 2021 initially, updated with the new M3 processor this fall. The rep who spoke to the Verge, Starling Mesa, says buyers who really want a 27 inch model should consider buying the studio display and Mac Studio or Mac Mini. Though, obviously, if you do the numbers, that option is a lot more expensive than the all in one design of the iMac and also just, you know, has more components overall. Now, Apple doesn't normally respond to rumors. This is unusual. Has a lot of folks wondering, making some bets on whether this means Apple's working on some other size of iMac with Apple Silicon that it hasn't announced yet. I think that's a pie in the sky or just wants to move some merchandise after a bit of a lack. What do you all say? So here's the thing. I paid attention to Apple's quarterly earnings call last week and the quarter before that and the quarter before that and probably the six before that. And if it's not called an iPhone, they're not selling a lot.  So a problem the Apple is having right now is excess inventory. They don't want to put out new hardware that is going to cannibalize existing hardware that they have. And they also don't want people who are looking to buy something today to have that, oh, maybe I should just wait until the M3 version comes out. They want you to go ahead and buy what they have on their shelf right now. So they're letting you know, we're not going to have anything new on the shelf in a few months. This is what you have if you want a 27 inch. And if you really want to have an iMac with an M3, you're going to get the 24 that we have in the M2 and the M3 variant that they just announced a week or so ago. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. You'd love to beat companies up on stuff like this, but the reality is why make something or even have the hint of something coming out that's going to stifle the sales of what you already have, especially if you truly don't have any plans of developing that size. So as much as people may want to that in between size, if Apple's not feeling it, it's just not going to happen. So it makes perfect sense to me to just nip that in the bud. I mean, I've got an ASIS monitor I'm looking at right now that is 28 inches. I don't think it's 27, it's 28. I would not be able to go smaller for this particular setup that we're doing right now. What what does everybody else have? I'm using a 32 inch monitor here and a 15 inch monitor there and a 29 inch monitor turned vertical right here. I've got all kind of radio activity coming into my eyeballs. But what Apple doesn't want to do, they're not really moving those big displays, they're not really moving the minis right now, they're not really moving the studios. They want to move the hardware that they have. So they know if they come out with that 28 inch device, the one that people are really into, they know that's going to sell, but it's just going to catalyze what they already have on the shelf. Yeah, I'm staring at the Samsung Odyssey G9 and this thing is absolutely disgustingly awesome. And what is the size of it? Oh, it's a 49 inch. It's the curved monitor. All right, y'all.  What about everyone else? And they're like, Rob's like, I have four. Chris is like, I have the largest monitor you've ever heard of. Yeah, I want to get that Johnny Minam to display it. Or I just have a wall of TVs and monitors, you know, pumping radiation into me. Oh, totally. Totally. I was like, oh, that's cute. Those monitors are cute. This thing is awesome. Oh, boy. Yeah. Well, all right. So, you know, Apple's, yeah, Apple is entering, we'll see what happens in its next earnings. And Rob, I know you will be following that as well as will we all. But yeah, it seems like a bit of a, you know, it's a it's a trough quarter. And yeah, the company says, hey, yeah, if you want to buy more of our stuff, buy the expensive stuff on the shelves. And we'll talk later. So what do you want to hear us talk about on the show? One way to let us know is on our subreddit. So submit your stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Well, news moves fast on a Monday today on Daily Tech headlines. I passed a long news that OpenAI was readying a new chat GPT update. This was according to some leaks and some rumors. According to screenshots and videos seen by the decoder, OpenAI would have a new marketplace where users can share their chat bot or browse those made by others. SEO tools developer, Tibor Blajo shared a video of the UI for the feature demonstrating a GPT builder option, letting users enter a prompt. An example, red, make a creative who helps generate visuals for new products to create a chat bot. And it sounds like Rob, this is this is a real thing. It is because now we know more as OpenAI officially announced viable GPTs as its first ever Dev Day conference in San Francisco accessible through the GPT store. The company says eventually it plans to pay creators an unspecified amount based on how much their GPTs are used. They'll be available to paying chat GPT plus subscribers and OpenAI enterprise customers who can make internal only GPTs for their employees. OpenAI has also announced a faster, cheaper GPT for lower prices for developers using its models in their apps and shared that GPT has reached 100 million weekly users. Chris, where do you stand on all this buy someone else's GPT spectrum? I actually love the idea of that and I think it makes perfect sense both from a customer standpoint as well as a just a product management standpoint. Oftentimes when you've got a group of people that are kind of deep deep inside technologies that they're developing, you start to develop this group thinking you start to develop this tunnel vision and it's natural but it prevents you from seeing some of the fringe cases that could you know that or issues that people don't know exist but everybody has and so those are like the gem scenarios that you try to come across where it's like oh there's a problem that's out there. People didn't even realize they had it but now that it's been exposed and we can solve it with this chat GPT now everybody wants to use it. So when you start expanding the capabilities for folks to develop on the platform and then you'll give them the incentive of making money from whatever is to develop now you have opportunities for all type of scenarios to come out and you know some of them will be trash but other them will actually be pretty exciting. So I find that aspect of it to be pretty cool. The other thing is the more adoption you drive you know the better uptake you'll get because I was actually in the story the other day and I was just talking to somebody about you know automated sales and using these cash registers and they brought up AI and clearly they were novice to the scenario but they were actually kind of more scared about the what you know what they think AI is going to do for the world going forward. So when you have other folks that give them some cool reasons to use it and leverage it you probably dissipate some of that some of that apprehension that some people may have embracing tech this type of technology. So I think from both of those angles this is actually a pretty smart move. Yeah I mean looking forward and I know we're in early days here I mean this was all just announced but the idea that there would be a store for an AI bot to help me live my life better but I don't know I mean maybe would be free maybe would be you know for pay much like any app stores right now. You know what do app stores do for us right now. Well apps games you know photo stuff I mean there are a variety of things that you do end up paying some money for maybe some in-game purchases type thing. The idea of having a GPT bot that is in the marketplace that's let's just say because I'm kind of in the market for a new apartment right now let's say there is a way you know for me to just apply for that apartment just better than I would otherwise like this is the way to do it you know it just hits all the marks. Again I'm going forward a few steps but I can see where in many aspects of life this is something that we're all going to be used to and you know sooner than later. Yeah definitely. Yeah I think back to just like digital assistance we don't really think about saying hey keyword and then getting an answer. It's going to be like that with you know these you know these large language models you know eventually we're going to just get used to asking them questions and expecting that the questions that we ask are answered accurately and correctly and the more people that are using them the more data is going there's going to be the more data there's going to be the better the outcomes are going to be based off of that data. So I think that you know there are reasons that people should be concerned and they need to think about how am I going to use these things in the future how could it potentially affect my service related job in the future what skill sets should I maybe you know look into but ultimately I think you know for the most part this is probably going to be good for you know for humanity as a whole. Yeah you know just the complicated scenarios that could probably be I use Siri all the time when I'm cooking and I'm doing barbecue you know especially when I have you know three or four things on the smoker and I got two things in the oven and I need to keep track of times and I you know I'm scatterbrained sometimes I'm just hopping all over the place and so I will definitely have Siri set reminders for me so when I know when to go check something I want to go salsa you know the chicken or the ribs that are in there so being able to but I usually have to do that individually so you know somebody comes up with a chat GPT that allows me to set these more complex alarms and reminders as those are type of things that come off the top of my head that I would definitely love to leverage. Well at Open AI's again inaugural Dev Day conference in San Francisco the company also launched a Dolly API Dolly 3 API rather with moderation designed to help protect against misuse also a text to speech API that offers six preset voices and two model variants Open AI also announced something called a copyright shield meant to defend chat GPT enterprise users and Open AI devs if they end up facing copyright infringement claims related to Open AI apps that get built in the future. So yeah you know a lot of stuff a lot of stuff today and you know we'll be we'll be delving through a lot of it and if there's anything that we haven't talked about today we will certainly talk about on the show tomorrow but I want to ask you Chris what you think about Toyota's new steer by wire system it's calling the one motion grip because there's no mechanical link between the steering wheel and the wheels also has a 200 deg ratio instead of a 150 deg ratio that I had in the past these are car terms so of course I don't know anything about it designed to give the steering a smoother and more natural feel steer by wire will be offered on Toyota electric cars just a couple of them to start Toyota BZ4X and the Lexus RZ which is more of the luxury model. Yeah so I actually always find things like this super interesting I don't know if anybody needs that tighter that greater turn radius that could potentially be developed by this but in the end I don't know if I know anybody that's ever had an issue with the with the steering word that you know the I guess the steering column just stops working but clearly this probably would allow for some more space inside of the engine compartment where they can probably do some other things because you usually have this long rail that goes from you know from the inside of the car down to the axle so I don't know I find it kind of interesting Roger brought up a great point when we were talking earlier about this where you know it would be interesting to see if you lose the feel that you and the feedback you get from the road by not having that direct connection to the wheel so that's interesting wouldn't people say that about power steering is it different than that you know if you don't have power steering then you know how to crank a wheel but when once you get power steering you're like is this real gosh I'm not even trying anymore I will I'll jump in real quick and say sorry didn't mean to cut you off Rob that even though you have power steering you still get the feeling of the tires from the front so whether it's the left or the right through through whether it's a solid axle it's four by four or if it's like independent it still transmits into the steering column so even if you have like a land yacht and you can drive with just a single finger on the steering because the power power steering is like over boosted you can still feel the road you will not have a physical connection it's like if you were driving a car with just push buttons on the dash right you wouldn't feel other than like you know the suspension under your touch so they're gonna they're probably most likely adding artificial feel into it I would suspect that as well because it's really dangerous not to be able to know where your tires are pointed yeah because you would have to or you just develop the muscle where you just kind of more pay attention to you know how the how the car is moving verse where the wheel is oriented what do you think Rob I think I agree with the you know that people can feel it even if you lose your power steering but I think that the angst is probably overstated Roger I fully agree with you I think that they're going to probably add some feedback to this just so that you at least feel like you feel it but these are issues that they need to fix we've been flying planes you know fly by wire for the better part of the last 40 45 years I think they can figure this out in cars as well and yeah I will add real quick this technology has been has been in development since the 80s like the early 80s since they developed fly by wire for cars or planes it's like be great if we could develop it for cars as well and the original control was a joystick like on a plane and so people all that there was a there was a show called beyond 2000 it's an Australian show and the the news of the the correspondent they had that drove the car was like really interesting because you don't get the feel of the road through a through a stick it's literally just like a giant joystick and she was felt very unsettled by the entire experience because normally when you drive at least when we drive as humans currently when you drive you feel everything you feel it through the steering wheel and you feel it in your body but if that becomes disconnected then you might that's that's when you have problems yeah I'm just just getting used to driving without the use using my brake took me a probably a good two months to finally develop a the muscle in my leg for it and be just to kind of feel for it and the ability to kind of feather your stops and all those things so I gotta imagine something a bit more drastic like that would you know would take a bit of time so yeah feedback makes sense and hopefully you something like that well Rob you and I we yeah jinks you and me but I'm gonna go ahead and thank Chris Ashley because I know you're not going to Chris Ashley thank you so much for being on the show and I'm just joking because you and Rob do a show together but you do a lot of stuff so let folks know what then keep up with your work yeah definitely check out this episode of barbecue and tech that just went live yesterday because man if you like a good comeback story you can hear how I came back from absolutely almost destroying two briskets at the same time oh you you came back with meat yes I came back with meat going to break a destruction and came all the way back so it's a pretty pretty fun story but yeah come check us out on barbecue and tech also I really enjoy reading big cashly when I read your mastodon dot social account big cashly yeah appreciate Ashley just with cash you know yeah good stuff all right patrons stick around for the extended show because we have more of it good day internet we're going to be kicking around the idea of trust and safety protect companies as a service rather than as an internal team pros and cons there are many but just a reminder you can catch this show live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m eastern 2100 UTC because we are now in standard time in the U.S. for most states and you can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live we're back again tomorrow talking about shore sensors with Dr. Nikki Ackerman's and by the way if you have a biology or science question you would like Dr. Nikki to answer send them to us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com and we'll see how many Nikki can answer on tomorrow's GDI good times talk to you then this show is part of the frog pants network get more at frogpants.com Bob hopes you have enjoyed this program


I thank you all for coming and stopping this important day for those of us who are getting baptized. This is no small thing, it's not a small event. We're celebrating a powerful, regenerate work of the Holy Spirit in our lives who open our eyes to the truth of His Word and the gospel of Jesus Christ. So here's my testimony. So, returning to the US for my roughly half year study abroad in Spain in fall 2018, I thought everything was on an upswing. I had just gotten reused to speaking English and had gotten plugged into the two churches, got re-plugged into the two churches I was attending at the time. And one of them was a Hispanic kind of gospel church that I had previously attended. Neither one was a biblical church. I think I'll make a second week back in the country. So on a Thursday in January of 2019, I left the networking event for an engineering group on campus and ran a class of two men walking to their cars. These are my two wipers. The wife walking to their cars after meeting at some sort. These two men will pass for Mike. That's my wife over there. And they're returning from their Tuesday night Bible study at UCF. They looked heavy-birded, carrying a couple pizza boxes. And from leaving the college too, I thought I'd help them out. And I asked them for a piece, not knowing what I was getting myself into. So yes, I am the infamous pizza guy from Pastor Mike's evangelism, Justin Bunny. So I asked him about the cross he was wearing on his neck. And I said that I was also a Christian. So we talked about that. I can't remember all that we discussed, but two things stuck out from that conversation. And they were, who has got it? And is God angry? I was originally taught, and this is the only thing I knew about God. In a conversation with Pastor Mike, I mentioned a statement. God's crazy about you. How can God be wrathful and loved at the same time? That's what Mike helped me understand. The love of God in the context of the justice of God. Because God is a just, holy, and lovely God. He hates sin. God is a holy and just wrath toward all men and women who have sinned against him. This is why the word of God says in Romans 6.23, for the wages of sin is death. This means that the same way you get wages for 40 hours of work, if you have lived your whole life sinning against God, then God will pay you what you deserve. That's right. And your earned wages will be death. So therefore, because God is just, holy, and loving, anyone with sin will not enter into heaven when they die, transgressing God's law. Sin is not a slip-up, not being perfect because nobody else is perfect. Sin is an undeniable part of our fallen nature, speech, and actions. It is an attack on God's holiness. After a few months after the conversation with Pastor Mike, this truth became more evident in my life. While I was living in Spain, I had been a slave to sexual immorality and pride. I had blasphemed the name of God and demonstrated a complete disregard for his holiness with a superficial zeal for him. For God served as a cover for my sins. I used his grace as a credit card that I could swipe at any time without ever having to worry about the death. But this was not just limited to that time. This was a pattern in a practice of my life. That went back years before going out of the country. My pattern of life had nothing to do with Christ. And I'd like to show that with what John 1-6 says, if we say we have fellowship with him, Jesus, and yet walk in the darkness living in and practicing sin, we lie and do not practice the truth. In chapter 2-6, the first John says, the one who says he abides in him, Christ, ought himself to walk in the same manner as he walked. John also commands us do not love the things of this world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. So if you're consumed by such things as work, money, school, then you're not consumed with living for the glory of God. These truths show that what I clung to as faith was worthless, completely vain. I saw that my life was not found in Christ, but in my love for sin and the pleasures of this world. The God that I worship was a false God that allowed me to do what I wanted to and not feel bad because I was told that the grace of God covered all my sins. Last summer, the Holy Spirit eyes, and I noticed a growing hatred toward my sin. By the grace of God, the Lord showed me that when I faced my judgment day, because I have broken all of his commandments, I deserve to be punished eternally for every single one of my sins. Understanding this reality, I respond to the gospel by repenting that my sins of turning to Christ went to the cross and died to pay for the sins of those who would repent and put their trust in him. So I have an admonition and encouragement for those of us who are here. I'm very happy to see my friends and family who support me on this very special day. I would also like to direct the following to all the friends and guests of our church family. Maybe you claim to be a Christian because you grew up in a church and even when one point asked you to send your heart, and maybe you can send yourself a good person compared to others. The real question is this.  Would you say that you deserve to go into heaven because you asked Jesus into your heart? Would you say that you deserve to go to heaven because you live a moral life in comparison to others, you know? Or would you say to God that you should enter into heaven because overall you've done good works and you've tried your best? Notice, if God would let you into heaven for any of those reasons, then Jesus Christ died in vain. Why do I say this? Think about it. If you do any work that will get you into heaven, the death of Christ would not be needed for the forgiveness of all your past, present and future sins. The reality is that no one can go into heaven based on their good behavior or good works. The only people who will ever enter the kingdom of God are those who place their trust in Jesus Christ by responding to the gospel in repentance and faith. Amen. Dear friends and family, if you think you are saved because of everything, because of anything you've ever done, let me say that you are deceived in the danger of the judgment of God. Praise God that you're here today. God wanted you to know that your only hope is in Christ Jesus. He lived a perfect and sinless life. The one that you and I, the same Jesus Christ later went to the cross and died between two guilty thieves, though he was without sin. This Christ who died on the cross paid the penalty for those of us who time and time again have sinned against the holy God. The only biblical response to this message of love and hope is to turn to Christ in repentance and faith. If you have any questions, please come see me or any one of the brothers or sisters here. Don't leave that clarity on that. Your eternal life is at stake. I love you and I thank you for being here and have a special thanks for a couple of people in particular here. I'd like to thank Pastor Mark. Pastor Mark, thank you for faithfully preaching God's work Sunday after Sunday which the Holy Spirit used to convict me in my sin and show me who God truly is. Thank you for that pizza pizza. Thank you for the pizza. Let's get to him. Chase. Chase, there you go. Chase. I've been sharing all those Paul Watcher sermons with me which the Holy Spirit used to convict me in my sin, God's holiness.  Jesus Christ. I can't begin to describe how Lord has used you to shape my understanding of the gospel for me in Christ. Just that the church has encouraged me to pour it into my life. That the Lord may lead me to salvation. I'm going to take this line because I think it's important, but don't let me stray from Christ and go back into my sin including to preach the gospel. That time you praised the Lord for your salvation having turned from your sin to put your faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and based upon your commitment to follow him as a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church. We baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Very good. Very good, Christ. Amen.


This is the first day of April 2001. It was normally called the April 4th day. Here I am in the city of Davis in California, United States of America. There's so many things going around here and this is what we're going to be covering today. Pauline and I are doing our field practical in film shooting and we are right here at the city office and we'll be driving around town to bring to you all the activities and all that's happening within the city of Davis in this April the 4th day. Stay with us. Okay, I think she's tired. Alright, who's first? You are. You're close. Come on over here. Okay, it's real easy. Alright, what is April Fools? What is April Fools? It's a practical joke day. Okay. Thank you very much. See? Easy. Yeah, that's it. Got it. What is April Fools? April Fools Day is starting out in Oakland, trying to get to Napa and ended up in Davis. That's April Fools. Let me tell you. That was good. I think you're out like national or something. Not ever going on to meet. Come on over. Okay, what is April Fools? Hi. Hi, how are you doing? I grew up in Michigan and April Fools back in Ann Arbor is a hash bash day. Hash bash day. What is a hash bash day? It's a University of Michigan likes to celebrate it every year. What do you do? I don't want to know. Okay, thank you. Alrighty, that's fine. I need five more. Come on, lady. Come on. Ginger. That's a great name. Come on over here. I'm not ginger. Who's ginger? Well, still, it's a great name. That's ginger. Should I not use the ginger? No, no, no, no. I just heard the name. Stay here. Stay here. Okay, you heard the question, so it's real easy. Okay, David, hook up. What is April Fools? April Fools is anyone who's at home working today when they could be out riding and having a good time? That's very good. Thank you. Okay, what is April Fools? First day of April? Enough. Thank you. All right, we need three more people. Come on. No, three more. Three more. Three more. These are too good. Oh, okay, I'll call him over here later. Come on over here. You heard the question. You had time to think about your answer. All right, so what is April Fools? April Fools is today. It's a practical joke day. Okay, good enough. Okay, thank you. All righty, David, you listening? Whoever wants to, it's great. You get good answers. Come on. Now, all right. I think we have enough. Wait till Eric gets there. She wants to ask. She wants to get real personal. You don't look bashful. No. Okay. Is this a speaker meeting? What is April Fools? What is April Fools? Oh, good question, dear. You got me on that one. Be creative. Be creative. Ah, let's see. My mind went blank. She's a good one. She's got all the good answers. Yeah, come on. You're supposed to help me. What? Yeah, big bad bikers having lattes at the coffee house. Okay. Thank you. Good. All righty. Thank you so much. What is April Fools to you? It's a day that you get to be a little crazy. Do something off the wall and have fun and laugh. Sometimes at the expense of others, but hopefully with them. Good answer. Thank you. I heard my daughter's pacifier in my hand, bucket of flowers. Okay. I'm trying to do this with my kids. Okay. Okay. What is April Fools to you? April Fools reminds me of a joke that was played in high school on all of us. And it basically said that our city was out of water. And for some reason all of my friends in school, they started filling up their bathtubs. Everyone fell for it. So every time April Fools comes around, that's what I think of. That's a great joke. Thank you. Come here, Hunter. Good boy. Good boy. Okay. Hi. Don't pick us down here. North Star, the question of the day is, have you ever known an April Fool? And we found some folks who have. Hi. Hi. I'm David. This is my son Noah. And our April Fool is Hunter here, who is two years old today. All right. What's some of his exploits that make him a such an April Fool? Well, actually now and again, he loses control and tries to run out after a duck. Standard poodles were bred to hunt ducks. And so he's usually under control. But now and again, he goes nuts and jumps in the water. So he's handy to have around Christmas time and Thanksgiving and say hello. Yeah, absolutely. Actually, it means I have to go bathe them right away because once you've been in that water, you need to be cleaned up. All right. Well, thanks very much for your time. Sure. Okay.


Well, for me, there was never any question in my mind. I always wanted to have two of them. We had Oliver about 18 months before we found out we were pregnant with Benjamin. Well, he's just living proof of the personality in the human being that comes out of a loving support of home. When I found out, I remember saying to Tamara, I didn't know this feeling could get bigger, but it just has. So when we got pregnant again, it was like, we could build on that. We could make that bigger and more beautiful. And that's what we thought was going to happen. We were fairly certain that we would have to have another Caesarean. We were surprised to discover that the UK protocol is to have a vaginal birth after Caesarean, a VBAC. That's the course of action we took. But at 42 weeks, we went in for just a regular checkup. Just to hear if his heartbeat was all good and there was a deceleration in the heartbeat. At this point, we are two weeks and a day post-term. The obstetrician on call said, we are here, it's 42 weeks, we should make a decision. And we said, absolutely, let's do a C-section. Another emergency C-section had come in and we got knocked. We got bumped. And unfortunately, that's the end of the day. And we will reschedule you to tomorrow morning. We went home. We went to bed. And at four o'clock, I woke up with a rock-hard belly. So they rushed her into an emergency procedure. And Benjamin was severely deprived of oxygen. So he was suffering with apoxia. But he was alive. And I had some hope. No matter how your baby is born, when there's a chance for life, you take it with whether they're an incubator and you can't touch them or hooked up to machines. They ordered another MRI. And this would be the one that determined really what the extent of brain damage was. And when we got that back, after the initial oxygen deprivation, I don't think that there was much hope that he could recover from that. And so after that last MRI, we made the decision to pull him off of life support. And we got to hold him for the first time without all of his wires. And he stayed with us for about eight hours. And they just said, now you just wait. Had we delivered him on May the fourth when we were in hospital, everything points to the fact that he would be with us today. It was fairly conclusive that the decision to allow us to go 42 weeks plus a day was against the guidelines. If you're a VBAC, if you've had a cesarean, you're meant to only go five days. And it was on day two of the inquest that started to come out that the discrepancies between the statements that had been given and the evidence that was been given was very different. When asked about that, she said the legal team representing the hospital redacted it. The biggest weapon anyone who's in power has is making sure that people don't know what's going on. So the media telling the full and nuanced story is incredibly important. Our biggest fear was not to sensationalize the story. We wanted to share his story as a way to alert other mothers who might not realize they are at risk and maybe should just proceed with a little bit of caution. I feel like if I would have read a story beforehand, I would have just had maybe a flag that go up. The way that they covered the story, it was pretty instrumental in helping me to realize that it wasn't me versus them. It was the system failing everyone. We only get to correct mistakes when we're honest about what happened. So much of what is at play in the current system is fear. There's a guarantee that everyone will make mistakes in every field and every day and everything that they do. We need to have understanding of how to deal with that so that they don't feel that they have to hide their mistakes. Because I think villainizing anyone is detrimental. There are some great lessons to be learned already. There are recommendations in place. We know that there was not a single woman who will go into hospital in the UK at the level that I was at, the category three emergency C-section, and she will never be knocked down to elective. Yeah, and there's another guideline which is great, which says that if there are concerns of the heart rate and you've been in an ambulance in the morning, you will not be sent home within a 48-hour period. Because if either of those two things were in place, in our case, we wouldn't be here talking to you today. I feel like we do have two children. This is our way that we parent Benjamin, whose Mark Twain says the two greatest days of any person's life is the day that they're born and the day they figure out why. And this is the why. This is that why.


Joining us on the news tonight is Justin Higgins. He works at the U.S. Department of State as a director of the Office of Press and Public Affairs, East Asia Bureau. And we also have international affairs expert Paul Ejime. Gentlemen, you're welcome to the news now. Thank you for having us. Well, thank you for joining us. Justin Higgins, let's start with you. Why did the U.S. withdraw at this time? Yes, so, Maureen, thank you for having me. I actually am a former congressional advisor. I do not currently work at the State Department, but the United States decided to withdraw at this time because the agreement was made under President Trump, like your clip with Secretary of State Lincoln, so eloquently demonstrated. But also because of domestic political considerations, the war is not popular here in the United States. It's been going on for over two decades, and the time had come, the Biden administration had decided that whether or not we withdrew now or in five years from now, there wouldn't have been a material change on the situation in Afghanistan after U.S. forces withdrew. So those were the calculations that were made, and that is why we withdrew right now. How and why did the Afghan-Italiban gain ground so quickly, would you say? Because billions have been spent, over 20 years of investment, casualties. Why and how do you think they moved in so quickly? Well, it's a very sad day for the women and children in Afghanistan after so many civil liberties have been made, so I do want to highlight that. This cannot be lost in the quick advances of the Taliban. What we're hearing is that ultimately the Afghan government was extremely corrupt. It was a kleptocracy. The number of forces that were listed in the security forces and the military and the police on paper obviously did not bear themselves out in reality. It was more used as a laundering scheme for U.S. funds, the billions of dollars that you're talking about, and lastly, the government didn't have the requisite support of the people to stay and fight. So those were really the main factors here that led to the fall of the country within six or seven days. OK, Paula, Jimé, let's come to you. Yes, Maureen. Yeah, so the Taliban have entered the country's capital Kabul. How do you interpret this regarding, well, in view of how the Afghanistan people have fought the government and the military? Would you describe it as failure on their part? Well, on whose part now is it? The government and the military. Yes, the Afghanistan government and military. I think if you classify it as failure, I think the American strategy has failed. There was failure of intelligence, failure of strategy. And what has happened was that the Biden inherited what you can call, you know, a poison chalice. And then he didn't know what to do with the sudden decision by that administration to withdraw. And so when he took over, he was really do you proceed with it? Or do you? I mean, so it was a 22 situation that Biden found himself found himself. And this is the catastrophe that has them evolved now. Imagine 20 years ago when American special forces were in Afghanistan, you know, sacking and then putting the Taliban's on their feet. Today, it is almost as if American forces are NATO. This is what is happening. They have all these acts as it were. They started them, you know, the Afghans and then leaving them with the Taliban's from whom they had tried to. They will tell you they went there to send them. But they haven't done so. And that is the danger with, you know, invasion. That is the danger with imposition of foreign forces on them or the sovereign to leave. Perhaps this is an opportunity for Afghans, Afghanistan to pick up the pieces. And then the Taliban will also know that. Hello, it looks like we lost all more. Yeah, I think I've lost Mr. Jamal there. No, if Afghanistan can. Can you hear me now? Yes, we can go ahead, please. OK, so I'm saying that perhaps this is an opportunity for Afghanistan to pick up the pieces for its life and the void of foreign interference and foreign forces. Because America went there because of, you know, 9-11, 9-11. Well, yes, Osama bin Laden was killed and all that. But after that, that is the issue. You begin a war or you go somewhere, but you never prepare for the aftermath. That is always the issue. So you're saying America didn't know when to leave and. That happened in Libya, that happened in Iraq and now Afghanistan. OK, let's bring this back home to Nigeria. Does it give any pointer to Nigeria's fight against insurgency? No, the lesson that can be learned there is that nobody can love you more than yourselves. If foreign forces or intervention can come, you leverage that. But the fights, the real responsibility for the security of any nation lies with the citizens of that country, lies with the government, and then all the apparatus of government. You can get support from outside, but do the heavy lifting yourself. And that is when it will be real. It will be authentic. It will be sustaining. And then it will be long lasting. All right, Justin, let's get back to you. The attack of the US mission in Benghazi years ago was politically damaging for Hillary Clinton. Do you think this latest move will affect anybody's political future in the US? I do not. I think that this was a consideration of the drawdown in the timeline that we are now having for everybody who's watching. We have elections coming up in November of 2022 that will be vital for the Democrats. That's why these headlines coming out now. And this is really one of the reasons why it was a consideration, rather than delaying it six months or a year. I believe that ultimately, Americans are of the mindset that forever wars are not what we should be doing. And that this will ultimately be largely forgotten by the voting public. And if it's not forgotten, they will praise the fact that Joe Biden ultimately brought back America's sons and daughters out of harm's way. What do you think the international community can do to check the Taliban advance in Afghanistan and the region? Well, I think that the United States, along with our partners abroad, will need to work very closely to maintain some type of special forces footprint in the region. And then other experts say that we need to work very closely with Pakistan to ensure that extremism does not well up more so in their borders than it already exists. So it will really be a community led effort to ensure that extremism doesn't really prop up in Afghanistan now that the very repressive, very draconian Taliban regime is in power, who will likely slam down on civil liberties for women and children. And it's a very depressing state. But now we need to manage it from the outside and hope that terrorism does not come back to the West. OK, well, Paul, let me get back to you. Yes. Should Nigeria and Africa be worried about this development in Afghanistan, knowing the security situation in Africa? Very much so. You see, you don't start a war that you know you cannot finish. America has gone there. The NATO, they have gone there. They will tell you they have achieved what they went there. But will you really, in honesty, say that anything has been achieved? They drove out, drove away the Taliban's. And today the Taliban's are now you saw them in pictures, images of how they took over the office, the presidential palace of President Ghani. Is that victory for America? So what I'm saying now, and that should be the lesson that governments in Africa should govern in a way they respect the rights of their citizens, govern according to international standards, respecting the rights of citizens, you know, cater for the well being, be inclusive and, you know, engage so that you have the benefit of democracy. Because if you don't do that, you will always leave room for insurgency, like that is happening now. First thing all over and nobody knows how it will end. Today it is a kidnapping, terrorism, insurgency, jihadist extremism. All are coming because of, you know, this contentment. Let governments make sure that those as much as possible is not likely that there will be without that is a war that you have a space with that conflict, but it's to be minimized. Take care of the root causes of some of these insurgencies and insurrections. I think by the time you do that, the world will be a lot more peaceful and, you know, go about the economic development and then taking care of the well-being of people. That is what government is all about. Thank you so much, Paul Ejima. Paul Ejima is an international affairs expert. Thanks for your time. I also had Justin Higgins, who used to work, former at the U.S. Department of State as a director of the Office of Press and Public Affairs East Asia Bureau. Thank you so much, both of you gentlemen. Thank you for having us. All right. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Hello everybody Andrea Trawski here with dental tutoring. So you are almost in clinic So whether you are still working on your student partners and then seeing patients you are probably extremely nervous I remember when I was in school thinking oh my goodness It was nerve-wracking enough to work on my student partner now I have to work on a natural person and you know what you're nervous because you want to do Well, you do not want to look like an idiot You know in front of your patient in front of your classmates in front of your instructors But at the same time you probably feel like you you just haven't simply learned enough But there's a lot of pressure because in clinic depending on this the School that you go to you might have to get perfect You know basically if you do something wrong you Fail a patient and then you have to find another one and depending on where you you you live If you don't have any friends or any family close by it might be hard to find a patient to begin with When I was in hygiene school, I lived two hours away from my friends and my family So I didn't see any of them because no one would want to take the time to come up and be my patient for like six different appointments When you start off Again, depending on the school you are at We receive patients for at least six appointments because if you're new you're just new with the whole thing, right? So things take longer Then as you're closer to the end of your program, you might see them in four appointments So it just sort of depends, right? It depends on your comfort level But the I'd say the best advice that I can give you is be as organized as possible and just keep in mind that Everyone is nervous and the instructors are fully aware that you are nervous very very nervous But you still have to get past it You still have to get past it and you still have to do a good job But also keep in mind that every single person started off where you are now. I did too. I was a nervous I couldn't imagine I had nightmares for like months, you know But then as soon as you're in clinic the first couple times, it's not bad Your first time, okay. Yes, you're you're nervous, but even the second time you're like, okay At least I know what to expect now, right? But then by your like after your first week I'd say things get so much easier and you're not that nervous anymore Then you start to think about okay, I need to get good patients because I need to get good marks It's normal to not be perfect. So please keep that in mind. So when you're in clinic, you have the Assessment phase first which will take you the longest initially because you're new at everything And you have to write every little mark down, right? Right you guys every little thing. So that does take time But then your first time, you know saying okay now I have to probe somebody. Oh my god So the first time you do that that will take forever because you knew it the whole thing, right? But at least your first time should be working on a student partner, right? So they understand that you're nervous and they're probably saying to you hey, I Understand, you know, don't even worry about it, but then it gets easier, right? And then you have to think about okay. Well now I have to plan the appointments I have all of the assessments down. So now I have to plan everything and then implement, right? So then you're at the point where okay, so now I have to actually clean the teeth Oh my goodness. How am I going to do that now?  Just get in there you guys get in there with your instruments You know how to get in there, but keep in mind the typodons that you have in school Their gingiva is a lot more loose and flexible on a real person on a healthy person even it's not So I don't want you to go in there and like you know Go in there and be firm, but act but be careful But be firm not just kind of a little bit like this Be firm, okay, but not like this either because it's not like a type of not so I Guess what I'm trying to say is that I totally understand that there's so many nervous Things you're thinking of things can be very anxious Depending on the steps that you're in you know initially it's like okay I'm I'm nervous to go through them the medical history because now I have to like talk about the medications I I have to know about the medications So it does help to look them up ahead of time if you if you can and then you're thinking okay I have to go through the assessment phase. So I I have to mark down every single Mac you will Pap you will everything if I miss something. Oh my gosh, right take your time It's okay, and then you're thinking okay. Well now I have to probe somebody. Oh my god How much pressure do I put on am I not putting on enough pressure all of that? But then you have to plan the appointments properly, and then you have to actually clean the teeth So it's a lot, but it's normal to be overwhelmed. It's normal to feel stressed But just take it a clinic at a time and just keep on thinking it does get easier because we all had to go through it We all had to go through it and we all survived So please keep that in mind be as organized as possible know what you're doing I Guess before you're in clinic, you know, there's no sense looking through your chart saying okay What am I doing again today? Is it the assessment phase? Is it the cleaning phase? I can't remember now always know what you're doing and take notes It doesn't hurt to take notes like when I started seeing patients I would always have a notebook and then at the end of clinic like like I would take notes on what I did on that patient and How I felt everything went so like I could have said something like oh It took me a little bit longer to do the medical history today because I didn't know two of The medications so I had to look them up, you know So then look at that and then say okay, how could I have made that that easier on myself for next time? Well, look at the medications ahead of time, which means you have to ask the patient ahead of time What the medications are right? So it does help to take notes and then you can look at the notes afterwards and say okay What did I like in clinic today? And what did I not like? You know, how can I make that easier for myself for next time? so Try not to be nervous Everybody's nervous you will get over it and then by your First week or even second week you'll be like oh that wasn't so bad So now I have to focus on actually passing right, but that's another story all together So good luck. Try not to be nervous. If you need anything, please just let me know