Coming up on DTNS, more of what tech companies are doing to fight COVID-19, what part of Sony just got spun out, and everybody's using Zoom, but is it safe to do so? Shannon helps us figure out. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, March 27th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Studio Colorado, I'm Shannon Morse. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Colorado, Shannon, congrats on the move. That's amazing. Oh, thank you. It's pretty cool to have Colorado represented more often. You occasionally get like a Brian Hibbit or something, but this is good. We were just pitching a show called Lockdown about the lock family under lockdown. It's our brand new sitcom from DTNS Studios. It's going to be fantastic. If you'd like to find out the details, you've got to become a member of our Patreon and get good day internet at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Instacart workers led by the Gig Workers Collective Plan to strike in the U.S. Monday demanding Instacart provide personal protective equipment, $5 extra per order, hazard pay, change the default tip to 10% and extend sick pay qualification to people with preexisting conditions. Bleeping Computer reports a security consultant in the Proton VPN community found a vulnerability in the VPN in iOS 13.3.1 version that may leave some traffic unprotected. Connections to the internet made before the launching the VPN will remain outside of the security tunnel. Apple is aware and they are working on a way to fully mitigate the problem. In the meantime, users of the VPN on iOS are advised to use Always On VPN or turn airplane mode on and then off after initiating VPN to kill all the connections which will then reconnect them within the tunnel. Google's Threat Analysis Group says it sent account holders almost 40,000 warnings of targeted and government backed hacking in 2019. Attacks, really, down 25% from 2018. Government officials, journalists, dissidents and geopolitical rivals were the most often targeted. Countries with residents that collectively received more than a thousand warnings included the United States, India, Pakistan, Japan and South Korea. A Yelp and GoFundMe fundraising program to help local businesses affected by COVID-19 has been paused after people complained, at least business owners anyway, that there was no easy or quick way to opt out of the fundraising without providing a driver's license or business ID verification or other ways kind of a complicated process. Not everybody wanted this, turns out. Yelp now says it's working with GoFundMe to create a more seamless approach where businesses would have to opt in. Facebook launched a coronavirus community hub for Messenger that will offer authoritative information from organizations like the World Health Organization as well as recommended activities for users to do remotely. Slack CEO, Stuart Butterfield, made some waves when he told CNBC that Slack is working on integration with Microsoft Teams for calling features. I mean, Slack will integrate with pretty much everything, so I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that they want to integrate with their direct competitor, Microsoft Teams. Butterfield, however, did not mention a timeline for that development. Google announced it will resume updates to Chrome with plans to release Chrome 81 on April 7th. A new version was scheduled for release on March 17th, but the company suspended updates on Chrome Browser and Chrome OS to avoid disruptions as people started working from home. An official Chrome 82 release has been canceled with features rolled into Chrome 83, which is expected in mid-May. And Google increased the maximum number of people who can participate in a Google Duo call from eight people up to 12. Google increased Duo Group call sizes from four to eight in May of 2019. Cisco reports that spikes in internet traffic seem to be concentrated now between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. The normal peak time of 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., that's usually when everybody gets home and watches Netflix, has increased slightly but is not the primary driver of the overall increase in internet usage. However, the traffic load from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. while being the biggest increase is still below evening peak hours. So that's good because the entire internet is tuned for peak hours. Streaming video still happens in the evenings, turns out. Amazon confirmed a recode report that its shopping algorithm gave preference to some of its own non-essential items like sporting equipment and office supplies over third-party sellers with faster ship times. Amazon says it's working as quickly as possible to resolve this issue. And several food wholesalers that sell to restaurants are now developing online delivery features as restaurant orders dropped by 70%. Couple examples, Cafe Deli Wholesale in the U.K. has launched a website overnight where anybody can order delivery from them. Fresh Pastures, which supplies dairy and bread to governments and schools, has lost 90% of its business because all the schools are closing, now offers delivery to the public from its website. So if you're looking for groceries, you might look around for some wholesalers. All right, let's talk about what's going on with Sony Corporation. Shannon. All right, Sony Corporation announced that it plans to create a holding company for its, quote, electronic products and solutions business called Sony Electronics Corporation, which is effective on April 1st. So this would include imaging products and solutions, home entertainment and sound, and mobile communications. Sony Executive Vice President Shigeki Ishizuka, who headed the unit under Sony Corporation, will be the CEO of the new company. Semiconectors, financial services, game and network services, music and pictures are all not included under the new holding company. And in related news, Sony also says that its PS5, the PlayStation 5 launch, is still planned for the holiday season of this year. Yeah, there have been some rumors kicking around that Sony might have to delay, and that would be understandable with supply chain issues being what they are, but Sony's still sticking to it. They're saying we haven't delayed it yet, so that's good to know. This is the spin-out story that you mentioned, Shannon, is confusing a lot of people because it's imaging, meaning cameras, digital cameras, SLRs, things like that. It's not the image sensors that Sony makes because they make a lot of money off that. So this is just Sony's consumer electronics getting packaged up into a wholly owned company to make it easier to sell if they decide to do that. Doesn't mean they have decided to sell it, but it's certainly one of the first steps towards saying if we did want to get out of this business, the way they got out of Vio, they got out of the Vio business a few years ago, they could get out of this business of the stuff you find in a Best Buy or a car phone warehouse, the stuff you find on the shelves, that's your home consumer electronics stuff. It does roll off the tongue a little bit better, electronics rather than electronic products and solutions, which would cause people to be like, okay, what solutions? I think some of the gaming stuff, I understand that Sony wants to make its gaming its own category, that makes sense. So I guess that would be the only category you're like, well, that's electronics, but okay, gaming is separate. Otherwise, this seems just like renaming that makes sense. Yeah, PS5 is separate from this. All of the gaming software services that they offer, that's separate from this as well. Something that is included is TVs, any of the audio kind of technological information that they have out there like headphones or like audio players, those are going to be included under the electronics corporation. So it does sound like it's everything that they offer consumers at Best Buy except for video games, gaming. Yeah, and there's been an activist investor pushing Sony to do similar things to this. I imagine that giving the downward guidance that all electronics companies are facing going into the end of the year, it may have forced their hand a little bit. Daniel Laib, Loeb, LOEB has been trying to get Sony to make these kinds of changes. So I don't know if it's a result of the virus in the disruption, but it certainly could have been. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously released a note predicting that ARM-based Macs could arrive as early as Q4 of 2020, that's this year. A new note from Qo predicts that Apple will adopt a, quote, aggressive processor replacement strategy throughout 2021, including desktops. Qo predicts the CPU switch could save Apple 40 to 60% on the component cost. Other changes caused by this would be the need to source a USB controller, since Apple uses the one integrated in Intel chips currently. Qo believes that Apple might go with AS Media's USB controller in ARM models, and the note also predicts that Apple will adopt USB4 in Macs by 2022.  This is just more of the plan. He seems to have found some more sources to tell him a little more of what Apple's thinking. Apple's thinking probably has evolved since he first talked about this, and it does make sense that Apple would want to do this if they feel like these ARM-based Macs are powerful enough, and just kind of slowly work their way up the power chain as they develop these chips themselves. A lot of questions about whether they will be powerful enough, whether there will be bugs and things like that, but ARM increasingly is a perfectly reliable chipset for laptops. I don't see Apple putting this in, say, the iMac or even the Mac Pro, probably the Mac Pro for sure, maybe not even the iMac, but for laptops ARM-based, my question is, will you get a powerful enough Pro laptop model out of this on ARM? And I guess we'll see. And is it too much of a pipe dream to hope that saving on the component cost could pass savings along to the consumer as well? Oh, Sarah. I just want to know. What?  All right, pipe dream it is. I don't know if it's a pipe dream or not. I am curious if, same thing, if the laptops are going to be powerful enough, I for one know a lot of YouTubers who do their own editing on Apple laptops, everything from regular errors all the way up to pros. And I'm not as familiar with ARM processing on laptop machines other than a Chrome bug, basically, as I would like to be. And I am not familiar with any of them being able to run something like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Premiere Pro in a way that is useful enough that somebody could still edit in 4K, for example. I still feel like in a lot of cases, you still need a desktop for that kind of machinery or you need something that is very pro, pro line, like top of the line laptop. So I don't know. It's going to be interesting seeing them switch over to ARM if this does happen in Q4 of 2020, like they're saying. Well, I don't think they're going to move their entire product line immediately over to ARM. But that's not what he's saying. He said that they would slowly change it over the course of 2022. Right, starting as early as that. Yeah, so they'll probably just test the waters and then go for the course of 2021. Yeah, aggressive processor replacement strategy throughout 2021. He does say including desktop. So I guess that includes iMac. And before we get off the story, the other thing, Sarah, that you were mentioning is people complaining like, oh, this is going to be just as bad as when they switch to Intel and we're going to have incompatibilities and all that stuff again. Yeah, and I have seen some. Again, it's a little hard to say. Somebody who has PTSD from going to x86 back in the day, there are definitely going to be certain programs that, I don't know, but there might be some incompatibility issues as switchovers make sense. I'm excited about the USB 4 stuff. Right up about it a little bit this morning. I mean, Apple's not the only company that is going to be able to take advantage of this. And obviously it depends a lot on how components are built that would daisy chain all sorts of things. But it's the future and it's going to be backwards compatible. A lot of stuff I already have. Yay. And they could go USB 4 if they stayed on Intel. That's a part of this. I think Quo mentioned that if they do use AS Media, they'd start with current USB controller, but adopt USB 4 by 2022. So that kind of just puts it on the roadmap. All right, let's do a roundup of some of the things that tech is doing to help fight COVID-19. We talk a lot about the effects of it. I'm sure you hear a lot about what the effects may or may not be in all kinds of arenas, but on this show, we kind of want to focus on the fact that there are also efforts to help stop it, to help cure it, to help ease it, to help slow it. Apple, for instance, has launched a COVID-19 screening site and app in the United States in cooperation with the US CDC and FEMA. It provides tips and advice. So basically, you go in and you can ask questions, you can self-diagnose and see if you need to contact a healthcare professional. It's just an informational resource. It's not a diagnostic app, per se. Alphabet's verily health technology, however, has more than 1,000 volunteers from across Alphabet companies, including Google, working on its drive-through COVID-19 screening and testing for at-risk people. Testing locations are up and running in California, in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Riverside, and Sacramento counties. More test sites will open based on where the state says they are most needed. C3.AI and Microsoft are launching the C3.AI Digital Transformation Institute, dedicated to funding collective research efforts on AI to help government, businesses, and society use them to best advantage. It's a generalized AI initiative, but the first call is for research proposals to fight COVID-19 and tackle other possible future pandemics. The Institute will be jointly managed by the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Proposals should be submitted by May 1st, and selections will be announced June 1st. A team at Singapore's Nanobiolab, at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, have developed a test that can tell if a person has COVID-19 in 5 to 10 minutes based on a swab collection. So they swab probably your throat, and they can turn this around in 5 to 10 minutes. Faster testing is very important in being able to test more people, obviously, and the team has conducted clinical validation and hopes to be able to submit it for approval in Singapore in a month. Yeah, I mean, I only have heard about testing process because I have not been tested myself, but it was a lot longer than 5 to 10 minutes.  Exactly, exactly. The UK's Dyson has designed a ventilator. It calls CoVent using Dyson's current digital motor technology. This design was specifically for patients who have COVID-19. The United Kingdom's NHS has ordered 10,000 units from Dyson pending regulatory approval. Dyson also plans to donate 5,000 ventilators to organizations around the world. A lot of good technology going on in the ventilator category. Good on you, Dyson. Sky reports the UK's National Health Service is also preparing a platform to track movements of critical staff and materials. This was developed by the US company Palantir. The platform will track accident and emergency capacity, calls to NHS's 111, the number and location of open beds, ventilators, and active NHS staff. UK tech firms have created COVID-19 Tech Response, an organization at code for the number four, code for COVID.org to coordinate available talent with the ability to solve problems that need solving. Coalition is working closely with the Coronavirus Tech Handbook and initiative by Political Technology College Newspeak House as well as COVIDMutualAid.org. This is similar to one we talked about earlier this week that is happening in the US that says, hey, if you guys are product managers, engineers, developers, we've got problems we need you to solve. Let's put you together with the people that need those problems solved. Similarly, 400 volunteers from 40 countries have joined the COVID-19 CTI League. CTI stands for Cyber Threat Intelligence. The top priority of this organization is to help defend medical facilities, health organizations, and other frontline responders from cyber attacks. It will also work to defend communications networks, leverage contacts in the internet infrastructure to combat phishing and other financial crime that's taking advantage of COVID-19 fears. The four coordinators of the group include Mark Rogers. He's a Brit who lives in the US and also the head of DEFCON. There's also an Israeli and two people from the US running this, but it's basically Shannon trying to get people who are in the cyber defense industry to help defend healthcare. Yeah, and honestly, I've seen a ton of hackers and white hats on places like I'm a part of that community, like on Twitter, talking about ways that they can help. So I've seen a huge initiative from the hacker industry in ways to do this. And Mark Rogers, who again, he's the head of DEFCON security, being all the people that run the security at the convention. It's smart that he's getting into this because he's one of the people that already knows how to coordinate a large group of hackers. So he understands what needs to go into that and what kind of goals and how they can plan it over the course of several weeks probably, but also across several different timelines and several different nations. So this is something that he's familiar with working with that convention for a very long time. And I know that having him in charge as well as the other three people is definitely an initiative that we need right now. So I'm really excited to see hackers coming together in doing this because I think a lot of people don't give hackers credit and we are a very tight knit community that has a lot of empathy. And it's really nice to see us, you know, pulling for this to happen. Hey, folks, if you get all the tech headlines in about five minutes, it must mean you're subscribed to dailytechheadlines.com. All right, folks, as we know, video conference usage is soaring for both business and just cocktail purposes, all kinds of purposes. According to Aptopia's estimates, downloads of House Party, the one that lets you have eight people together, has some gaming stuff in it, that's gone from 24,795 downloads per day on February 15th to 651,694 downloads March 25th. Discord also fly in there, 219,585 downloads February 15th, up to 443,480 on March 25th. Marco Polo, a friend of mine back in Greenville, introduced me to this one. It has gone from 12,674 downloads on February 15th to 73,395 downloads March 25th. Marco Polo could let you do a live stream, but also leave video messages for each other, kind of interesting. But dwarfing them all is Zoom. Downloads of Zoom have risen from 171,574 on February 15th to 2,410,171 on March 25th, just skyrocketing. And it seems like every celebrity you hear of, every business you hear of, they're all using Zoom to do their conferencing. But Zoom has a checkered history when it comes to security and privacy. There was a vulnerability which led an attacker remove attendees from meetings, spoof messages from users and hijacked shared screens. Last year it was found that websites could use Zoom to activate a max webcam without asking permission. And all of those have been fixed. And of course, every tool is going to have a history of vulnerabilities.  For instance, Motherboard did some analysis indicating Zoom's iOS app uses the Facebook Graph API to notify Facebook of app opens, device details, model, carrier, time zone, city, even if the Zoom user doesn't have a Facebook account. Now, Facebook lets you do this as part of the API, but Facebook says it requires a developer to be transparent with users about the data their apps send to Facebook. In fact, the terms say if you use our pixels or SDKs, you further represent and warrant that you have provided robust and sufficiently prominent notice to users regarding the customer data collection, sharing and usage. However, the Zoom privacy policy does not mention the Facebook API by name. It just talks about using third party tools in rather vague language. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has pointed out that there are also other privacy issues that you may not be aware of. They're transparent, they're known, but the end user might not know that the host of a Zoom call can monitor the activities of the attendees while screen sharing. You can see if your window is active or not to tell if you're not paying attention. Administrators can see detailed dashboards of users activity, including a ranking system of users based on total number of meeting minutes. If a user records a call, the administrator can access the contents of that recording that you made on your side. And during any meeting that has occurred or is in progress, administrators can see operating system IP address, location, data, device information, etc. In a corporate situation, this may all be expected, but a lot of situations are not the normal right now. So, Shannon, how much do we need to worry about using Zoom given its history and these current privacy policy issues? So folks might disagree with me a little bit when I say this, but honestly, these are very similar issues that you see with a lot of these platforms that are used for work environments so that people can collaborate, they can talk, they can converse. In that sense, I would say that you don't necessarily have to worry about what is being shared with Zoom or with the company that you are working for, especially if you're in that kind of corporate environment, like you said, Tom, where it's expected and it might even be a part of your employee handbook already. So that's something that you should be aware of and make the assumption that anything that is happening on a Zoom call or any other platform is going to be publicized. And that's kind of a rule is trust no one, just assume that whatever you're putting out there, whatever you're saying or whatever is being shown behind you is going to be publicized in some way, not just to the people that are in the same conversation with you on that conference call, but also maybe to Zoom if they have the ability to do that, but also to anybody else who might inadvertently get access to that call, even if it's screen recorded and uploaded to YouTube as a unlisted video, you never know who's going to get access to that. There are some ways that you can circumvent what Zoom is doing. They do have security issues, so you can turn off your computer and mic during calls whenever you're not the one talking or you're not the active user, you're just listening in. You can totally do that as long as the company that you're working with is comfortable with you doing that and allows you to do so. Again, you have that issue with a corporate environment. You can also just need to be aware of what's in your background image. Make sure that you're not recording against a whiteboard that has usernames and passwords written on it. I've definitely seen that before in my own environments. And be aware of what is behind you, whether it's just a bookshelf like this with nothing in particular back there or if it's a whiteboard with stuff written on it. You want to make sure that it's not something that you're sharing that should be secure. Use unique email addresses for Zoom. Check other accounts and make sure that you're using, if you are checking separate accounts, make sure you're using a different device like your phone. So if you are in that corporate environment, your boss doesn't necessarily know that you're checking your email at the same time because if you want to avoid triggering attention trackers, that might be a way around it. Not saying that you should, but it's a way. And make sure that you're opting out or blocking any kind of trackers or cookies that Zoom might be initiating on your computer as well. But of course, Zoom might not be the best option for everybody, especially if you are in a environment that shares proprietary information, for example. So you might want to use a alternative. So luckily, there are a couple of different alternatives. My favorite is Signal, which I absolutely love. I use it every single day for years and years. They have disappearing messages that you can set to different times just for texts, encrypted end-to-end signal conversations with other signal users. So your friends or family or colleagues need to use Signal as well. Video calls are also encrypted, and you can verify who you're talking to if it's just over text with something called a safety number. I won't go into the details, but Signal is free. And the only con I would say with that is that it's one-on-one calls with people. The other one is conference calls with wire, which the pro is it's open source, encrypted end-to-end. You do get conference calls. The cons is it does require a pro subscription. So it is like four bucks. Yeah. So if it's worth paying for your privacy, I guess wire would be the one for you. If you only need to do one-on-one, Signal.org. Good alternatives. Thanks, Shannon. No problem. A lot of security and privacy conversations happen all the time in our Discord, and you should join. And you can do it by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash dtns. Let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. We're going to call this person Stealth. Stealth is from two damn sunny Los Angeles, used to be anyway. And this is why. Full disclosure, Stealth is on the technology team at Disney Television Animation, says I don't speak for them, but writing in anyway. Deadline, deadline.com, had a story on how while traditional video production is shutting down due to coronavirus concerns, animation production is adapting to a new remote work reality. The article talks about the challenges of moving artists and animators from a high bandwidth office to home internet connections. And just today I was part of a 40 plus person Zoom call. That sounds fun. And this is, thank you, Stealth. The article goes into some detail on just stuff that the production world, which has largely been affected. I mean, any of your late night shows, they're either not doing anything or they're streaming from home. But you know, folks in the voiceover industry, the stuff that can be done remotely that just doesn't require some of the big studio setups and large crew that that that other productions have had to just just not be able to accomplish is really interesting. So thank you for that. Yeah. So in other words, about four to five months from now, all of our new television shows will be animated. Got it. Because everything else is top down. Yeah. Anybody has voiceover work for me? Just send it on over. Yeah. Shout out to patrons at our master and grandmaster levels, including Andrew Bradley, Justin Zellers and Tim deputy. Len Peralta, what have you been drawing today? Well, you know, I too have jumped on the zoom track and done some not meetings, but recordings as well. And I'm always afraid of that. I've been using Google Meet for my stuff. And, you know, privacy is a thing of the past, folks. And I know one of the things is I feel that this image is it all comes down to the Zuck, right? Because the Zuck is going to get any sort of information, you know, and I seem to draw I draw Mark Zuckerberg a lot as this sort of like tentacled creature like alien guy. And this image is it shows that Zuck's tentacles can go into all kinds of places, including where you are zooming from. So just as a as a cautionary tale, just be careful what you're sharing. Know what you're going into and know that privacy is a thing of the past. This image is available right now at patreon.com slash Len. And I also want to mention that if you have, you know, there are birthdays, there are anniversaries, there are, you know, things happening in the next couple months that would need greeting cards. And I have a special at my shop right now. It's a custom drawn quarantine greeting card. You can you can go ahead, you can order one, and you can send a special meeting, a special message to someone who is on lockdown or quarantine right now. And if they can't, you know, have a birthday party that they want, at least you can give them something that is that is different and new and interesting by me. So go to lennproutstore.com. Excellent. Thank you, Len. 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To our Army friends and family, we want to wish you a happy Army birthday. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Army. On that same day, they also established the infantry. And just two days later, they established the Adjutant Generals Corps, Quartermaster Corps, Corps of Engineers and our beloved Finance Corps. In fact, our Finance Corps has been in lockstep with our Army from the Revolution to the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and to our current engagements around the globe. All while building readiness in our Army, one transaction at a time. To celebrate this tremendous occasion, we thought we'd show how each of the Army branches come together to support our Army's birthday this year. Many of our teammates here in Yusuf Mcom served in other Army branches outside of the Finance Corps, so let's check in with them and see how they're celebrating. Hey, check the meat. Rock and start. Happy birthday, Army. Happy birthday, Army. Happy birthday, Army. If it flies, it dies. Happy birthday, Army. I'm here for the balloons. Hi. Eight dollars. Thank you. Eagle Cash, what's inside your wallet? Happy birthday, Army. Let's see now. Let's see in pi, r squared. So this is round and it's a cake. I won't figure it out. Let's see now. What is the density coefficient of cake? It's got to be somewhere between cotton candy and concrete.  Happy birthday to the United States Army. Good times. Thanks for all those who stepped forward to help us celebrate our Army and its people. People are the Army's top priority and the theme for this year's birthday celebration is honoring the courage of the American soldier. In fact, the entire month of June is Army Heritage Month and we want to thank and honor all those who served our Army and our nation either in uniform or out over the past 246 years. Looking back at just this past year, our Army soldiers and civilians were challenged like never before but they stayed the course and worked together for our nation as one team united. Their efforts are just another example on our Army's rich history of coming together to get things done which is woven into the very fabric of America's legacy. So, from all of us here in Yusuf Mcom, have a happy Army birthday and a happy Finance Corps birthday. Service the soldiers, Army strong.


Our fourth inductee is Anthony Fitzgerald. Anthony was a four-year starter in men's basketball from 2003 to 2006 and led the Mustangs to their first NCAA birth as a senior. He is the program's all-time leading scorer with 2,103 points. The all-time leading rebounder with 1,496 rebounds. Anthony led the country in rebounding in each of his final two seasons. To me, when you think of Villa Giulia basketball, Anthony Fitzgerald is the first thing that comes to mind, you know, without question. And again, you know, beyond the statistics, gosh, this is amazing. You know, he was always around. Everybody on campus knew who he was. Everyone knew who Fitzgerald was. And, you know, not just because of basketball, you know, he, you know, crowds flocked to him.    He's one of the only guys that's one of maybe two or three guys that's ever done what he's done in the history of Division III basketball, you know, 2,000 points and 1,500 rebounds. You know, that's two careers for some people. So statistically, you know, you have no choice but to respect him. But again, for a guy that has those type of talents and capabilities, you know, he's very approachable. He brought everybody together. Like, I think it was him, but he rubbed off on everybody around him. More things came together, you know, more people came together when he was around. It's just, you know, when I look at it now, and I look at the first day I saw that kid to watching him, you know, the man he's been come.  You think of Villa Julie basketball, Steven basketball, you're thinking of Anthony Fitzgerald. From the class of 2006, it is my honor to welcome Anthony Fitzgerald into the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame. I think I left my cards in the cup. No, I didn't. First given honor to God. This is just a, this is just a blessed opportunity to be here. Thank you for my parents and all my family support. I got a lot of family here right now. A lot of moms, a lot of dads. But first, I would like all my guys that I'll play with to stand up. Let me thank you guys for missing a lot of shots for me. But no, I missed a lot of shots for myself as well, though, so I can get a putback. But it's just an honor to be here. I mean, not a big talker. I don't like to talk a lot. But my best friend is actually funny because I had the opportunity to go play Division I basketball.  Let's do this. I don't, I mean, I like education, but not that much to do high school for a fifth year. And so I decided to come to Villa Julie, which has been an amazing experience. I got to meet a lot of people. Like my guy Kenny said, I like to eat. So I had to be friends with the cafeteria people. And you know, you broke in college, so. I'm thankful for my managers and especially my coach over here. He's my guy. He made a lot to me, gave me the green light. I know you used to get on me all the time. You used to try to be tough on me and I thought it was funny. Before every game, I had the best match up in the gym. I was like, coach, it's fine. So what I used to do is before coach talk, I don't think he knew this. I used to dip off and go to the restroom somewhere before we started talking. He was like, where you going? I used to bat from coach because I know you're going to say I got a match up for the night. Didn't even matter who it was. And another person I wanted to definitely give a shout out to is my guy coach Teddy. He thought I was the best player in the country. Division I, Division II, Division III. He thought I was the best in the country. And, you know, it made me feel good because I felt like I was the best. Like, coach should be like, we just had an open gym up here and we invited Carmelo and Anthony and everybody into the gym. But I told coach, I said they can come up here, but we knew who ran this gym. Regardless of who they was, the guy, George Moore, just came off a national championship. He walked in the gym, hid high. Like, all right, that's fine. He can get it to you just like everybody else. And I try to tell people, and I coach high school now and I try to tell people, it's really not a separation from any level of basketball. And the biggest thing that got me over the hump was my heart. I was a 6'5", 4", but it didn't matter who I played against. And it was a blessing that I was able to come here and do something special. And not too much more to say, but I'm still close with a lot of the guys that's here right now. At least three of my best friends and y'all seen Kenny. He the one that got me here. I don't know why, but we was here. But Steve, Chris, Phil, I don't mean to leave anybody out. Got a lot of guys here, Mike, Hub, a lot of guys here that's here for me now. Miss Rouse, Miss Noia, I could go on. But it's been a blessing to come here and do something special and share this occasion. And I would like to thank my brother, told me a lot of tough things. He thought he could beat me when I was younger, but it was cool. Special shout out to my beautiful girlfriend that's here with me today. Yeah, I know, I know. This is a little weird. I had to, I had to. It's been an honor, my God, saying what I coach with now. We're trying to take over Baltimore City and basketball. Coach at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute came a long way. We won our first city championship in 132 years for the first time last year. And the biggest thing that I've learned is we have a lot of kids on scholarship. You know, in the last five years, these kids are going to school for free. I said, use this as a tool to get where you need to be. And I use it to get where I need to be. I'm very successful, thankful, and I'm blessed. And I just want to thank everybody that came out tonight. It's been an honor. Thank you, guys. For someone who doesn't enjoy education, he spent the next two years helping our second NCAA tournament team as a coach and a grad assistant. So he spent two more years in education. He followed that up working for our federal government and social security. Today I received this from the Senate of Maryland, Thomas D. Mike Miller, a president. And it is a citation resolution. Be it hereby known to all that Senate of Maryland offers its sincerest congratulations to Anthony Fitzgerald in recognition of your induction to the Stevenson University Athletic Hall of Fame. He has had success in his undertakings, for the Lord was with him. Thank you.


Why don't we start by me having the pleasure of welcoming you all to Sida. My name is Charlotte Petri Gonitzka, and I'm the director general here at Sida, and I'm very, very pleased to welcome you to this today's development talks on aid and our changing environment, and very honored and very pleased to see all guests here today. I know that many of you have traveled long distances to make this meeting today to participate in this joint event with our partners, UNU-Wider, Danida, and the researchers of the RECOM program. I'm also pleased to acknowledge that we have our development minister from Denmark, and we will have our development minister from Sweden here today joining this afternoon and for a panel discussion, so we know from before there's been a meeting this morning that there will be messages to our ministers, so it's going to be a fantastic afternoon. And many people from all over the world will also follow this meeting through webcast, and you are all very welcome. We are gathered here today because we care about global development, we care about global development, and we realize the strong links between development and our environment. To achieve sustainable development, we need knowledge not only on environmental change as such, but also knowledge on how the role of aid can and should be played in making the linkage even better and working for us. We are here today because we want to know more of what actually works. How should we develop our operations, our aid structures, the institutions, our international system overall? Research on aid is needed to form future policies, and we want to bridge the science on one side, the policy on the other side. We want to bridge the gap, make use of knowledge. To be of use, the knowledge generated by researchers must be shared with policy makers, aid officials like us, parliamentarians and other practitioners. And the support that we give to the RECOM programme is a means to this end, and please use the knowledge RECOM generates. There are plenty of ways to do that. The challenge of achieving sustainable development is urgent. We know that humans are the prime drivers of planetary change. We know that we are putting extreme pressure on food, energy and water resources. We also know that we need to act to protect the earth. We are risking the sustainable development goals for people. All people, rich and poor, and the planet, and the people living on the planet, and the planet, and the people, it goes hand in hand. Environmental sustainability and human wellbeing are linked and need to be tackled on a global scale through global partnerships based on integrated inclusive knowledge. We are pleased to see that another meeting we had today with Swedish Development Minister and our minister from Denmark around the Millennium Development Post, Millennium Development Goals report that's just been delivered to Ban Ki-moon, has an integrated approach to this as well, which was, as I understand, not a given when the process started. But more important for the work that we do, the implementers, is what happened here this morning. For those of us who couldn't join this morning, we should know that there has been a meeting with leading experts who have shared their in-depth research studies on aid initiatives that aim at achieving sustainable human development. They have shared their research on what has worked in aid, what has not worked so well, and what makes aid work. And how can aid be structured and implemented most efficiently in relation to environmental and climate change? And CEDA, being an implementing agency, we need to be able to draw conclusions from this research and use them in our operations. We need to be the experts on what works. We are expected to be an agency to go to. What does this imply? Well, it implies dialogue with the research community. It also implies facilitating the production and dissemination on research-based knowledge. Easy to say, much more has to be done. It also implies self-reflection and self-criticism. What can we, as donors, learn from research? And are we doing the right thing? Based on research results, how can we, together with our partners, contribute to efficient governance and support environmental objectives in our partner countries? Important for us. With these words, you are waiting there, aren't you? I once again wish you very welcome to this meeting, and I leave the floor to our partner and co-host, Professor Finne-Tarp. Wait a minute, because you have a title here. Director of the World Institute for Development Economic Research, UNU-Wider, as a research institute, part of the United Nations University. Finne will tell you more about the RECOM programme and the particular topic on aid and our changing environment. Welcome, and thank you, and over to you, Finne. Okay. Thank you very much, Elada, for these warm, welcoming words. I first have a duty and a pleasure of saying welcome, first of all, to the Danish Development Minister. I appreciate very much your coming. We're supposed to say honourable minister and so on, but I think you understand that I mean that very warmly. Then also, welcome to all of those who were not here in the morning. I hope that we will this afternoon be able to bridge the gap, bridge the gap between what we did in the morning, and then point in towards what Elada was exactly referring to, namely the policy arena. Also, a very warm welcome to those of you who have been sticking with us throughout. Make sure that you correct, if we do not synthesize correctly this afternoon, and what will happen is that Sharon will continue to moderate. Channing and I, we will first give our understanding, our take on a number of the discussions that we've had. We have tried to stick out our neck and say how we think, how we read a number of these debates. That's why we do call it a draft position paper. It is to suggest that this is maybe not the final say, but we have been working on trying to come out with a number of messages. And they are now put out for debate, for interaction, for discussion. And today is the first time that we will present that, and we will then be working on refining that as the coming months pass. So welcome everybody.


I can't move. What's wrong with me? Am I dead? Something really weird happened this morning. I can't stop thinking about it. Do you want to talk about it? Do either of you know what C-Process is? Well, it's like waking up except you can't move. It feels like you're being crushed by the weight of the world and it's hard to breathe almost like you're suffocating. You're trapped, you're defenseless, and then all of a sudden there it was. A tall figure in the corner of my room appeared. He slowly walks towards me and towered over me. Trying to bring Dip and I? You're not that convincing. You guys really don't believe me, do you? It's a great story, but I don't believe I can't think. This is not a joke, guys. That's cute. This is real. Really? We're not kids anymore. The Panama Canal was originally built by the French in 1880. They were not able to complete the project. Man, are you okay? What's been going on? You guys wouldn't believe me, even if I told you. But I haven't slept in a week. My mom forgot to bring coffee again. Basically, we're really on fumes here. That's not healthy, man. You need to sleep. I can't. Donovan Piper, please stop talking. Just call me Dipper. All right. The Panama Canal has been named one of the seven wonders of the world. Liam, no sleeping in my class. Liam, did you hear me? Go to the office. What are you staring at? Do I need to call security? It's been a month since the incident. Things are very different now. Mr. Johnson quit and moved to Las Vegas. Most of the class is now in therapy for seeing delusions. And more importantly, I can't sleep. I haven't since that day. But I'm not scared of that anymore. What scares me is the urge that I've developed since then. What I want more than anything is to sneak into someone's room when they're sleeping and watch them. A person at their most peaceful state and the scariest feeling of them all is my newfound understanding of that poor creature. I know now why he took it from me. Because there's nothing that I wouldn't do to regain that feeling.


I thought it was a really good opportunity to experience university life with a lot of other Aboriginal students. I don't tend to spend that much time with fellow Indigenous students unless they're my family back home in Alice Springs or Darwin so I thought this was a really amazing opportunity to spend time with some really interesting people and do really interesting things. My favourite session probably would have had to have been the languages session we had earlier in the week. I was able to you know learn about different exchanges that ANU does and figure out how by studying a language I'd be able to use that for my passion for travelling. I loved the law moot because I found that that was so fun and interactive and not only did you learn things as well but it was so entertaining and like everyone was there together which I thought was great. I've been speaking to a lot more people than I expected. I thought I was just going to be very on the down low and stick to myself sort of thing and just make it through the week but I think I've managed to speak to every person here and get to know at least one thing about them. Laws stood out to me a lot. The law moot it gave me more insight into what it would be like at uni I guess and that's really all I wanted. I probably am leaning more towards going to uni now after this week so that's cool. To the Jabal Centre about potential options I know it's kind of become more realistic. I've done other summer schools in the past but I honestly think that ANU has been the best one so far.


So, as Mike said, my name is David Kramer. I'm fairly new to NDSU as a whole, this is my first year here. But I have been in the GIS side of things for about 25 years. I'm fairly certain that if I asked each one of you to divine what precision agriculture is, I would get, you know, different answers from everybody. It's pretty broad. So at the CREC, one of the things we're doing in terms of precision ag is using UAS to support a lot of the field trials. So you were out today, you were talking to people about fungicide or herbicide applications. And a lot of what we're doing with UAS is collecting imagery that we can then use to correlate against that. And so we can look at how the electromagnetic spectrum interacts with the leaf structure to give us information about the vegetative health, if you will, of the plants. That's just one aspect of precision ag. I mean, when we talk about precision agriculture, we have variable rate application technology, variable rate herbicide application. We have LIDAR data sets that we can use. But I think the one thing that holds true about all of it and what we're trying to work on here is how we manage the data that comes out of this. Without question, one of the biggest driving factors of precision agriculture is data. How many of you all have yield monitors? How many of you actively use the data from your yield monitors? There's a lot of neat information we can get from that. If you want to look at inner field variability in terms of profit or loss, you can use that yield data, couple it with market conditions, and come up with profit maps that show the rate of return per acre across your fields. That's just one small application. All of the GIS data that you use for variable rate application comes out of a GIS or a geographic information system. So what we're trying to do here is figure out how to use this technology to improve, for example, prescription maps. The higher the resolution data, the more accurate the prescription maps can be. If we use typical aerial imagery, we might be getting about a 1 meter ground sampling distance or a 1 foot ground sampling distance. When we start talking about UAS, we can get down to sub-centimeter ground sampling distance. In some cases, I've done applications where we're identifying individual blades of grass, individual species of weeds at sub-5 millimeter pixel resolution. But all of these types of data can feed into our prescription maps. And so one of the projects I'm working on with colleagues at NDSU is how do we do this? These data are massive. Some of the images we get are 3, 400 megs apiece. It's a lot of data to work with. It's a lot of crunching of numbers. Out of curiosity, how many of you have just a consumer grade drone that sits on a shelf that maybe you bought for ag but never used? Does anybody have like a Phantom 4 Pro, a P4P? There's quite a bit of information you can get without actually going out and specifically targeting something like the M600 that has a 10-band multispectral sensor on it. Even with the P4P, you can scout your crops. There's a number of vegetation indexes that utilize only the red, green, blue portion of the spectrum. You can get meaningful information out of that to look at crop health, chlorophyll content. The list goes on and on, frankly. Moving out of the UAS side of things, one of the focuses I've been working on here is that data management issue. Taking a lot of the spatial data we have, the field outlines, the trial outlines, integrating them into a geographic information system so that we can take our maps and put them online.  What are the dimensions? What is the crop? How big is it? When was it planted and information like that? Suffice to say, as we collate these data into these data sets, these databases become pretty big, right? Managing that is going to happen better from a centralized server database or some type of application where we can do that. From an individual standpoint, you don't need that.  Drone deploy has free trials. A lot of places will process smaller amounts of imagery for no cost.  We actually got out this morning and flew a field like 8.30 this morning before the field day started. But really in what we're doing here, the precision ag component of the CREC really supports pretty much all of the trials going on here. We really do. We're collecting imagery across the board on everything from hemp to canola to cereal grains to soybean, to corn and utilizing that information to make decisions regarding nutrient application or herbicide application or something like that. Moving forward, I expect we're going to see a more targeted effort towards things like weed mitigation and Rex who's going to go after me is going to talk a little bit about that. We have unmanned aerial sprayers now. The person talking after Rex is going to be talking and discussing about a robotic rock picker to go out and clear your fields because nobody likes going out in the fields and picking up rocks. I did that as a kid. It wasn't any fun. So the precision ag program here is evolving and it's coming along. It's moving a good direction I think in terms of how we deal with all this data. And more importantly, not how we deal with, but how we utilize it.  What is your return? How are you utilizing it? You know, more importantly, we can take a lot of this data and start looking at things like above ground biomass. Start calculating out and understanding above ground carbon which feeds into a carbon market and carbon credits. So I want you to kind of think about that just in terms of your own fields and what you're doing because there's a lot of opportunity to use this type of data. Even if it's not directly towards precision ag, you can use this for things like carbon credits. You can use it to understand yield. You can use it to relate back to profits as I've mentioned.


Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which is a tag that I created last year and that is the gingerbread house tag It would be a fun tag to do the day before Thanksgiving because Gingerbread houses are some things that we do around this time of year whether it's for Thanksgiving or Christmas or other holidays And I had a lot of fun doing it last year So I thought I'd just do it again this year if you are interested in doing this tag go ahead and do it Consider this me Tagging you to go right on ahead. I will have the questions down in the description below So it'll make it easier for you if you want to otherwise feel free to just answer any of these questions in the comments below I would love to know what your answers are for some of these So the first question is construction or walls. What is a book that had a good plot or a good Beginning but ended up being kind of plain and so I went with Wilder Girls by Rory Power. I thought the concept of this sounded really interesting But then as the book was going on it just seemed like it was missing something Kind of like when you put up the walls and you haven't decorated them yet So I think this is my walls of the gingerbread house this year question number two is the door What is a good book to serve as an entryway to one of your favorite genres and for this one I am gonna go with lovely war. I love historical fiction. I haven't read it near as much But I've been wanting to hence why I recently made a video of historical fiction that I want to read I think this is a great gateway into the genre because it takes place during the world war Which a lot of historical fiction does but it's also romance and it's a war story But it's also told from the perspective of the Greek gods So there are so many elements to it that just intertwine really well together So there's bound to be something about it that someone would like who doesn't read a lot of historical fiction And then the third one for the construction section is the roof What is the best final book in a series to top it all off and this year for me? It is the dragon tapestry. This is the third book in the tea dragon society series I'm pretty sure this is a trilogy It's not been confirmed if another book is coming out So as of now to me, this is the final book in the series and it is Beautiful in every way both the artwork the story the characters. I love it all So this is this is my roof and it is a gorgeous gorgeous roof All right moving on to candy and the fourth question is the peppermint swirls What is a book with a lot of twists and turns and I have to go with the final girl support group by Grady Hendricks This book just kept me guessing. It was twisty. It was turny. It was like. Oh, here's this solution Oh, but wait, it's not what you expect. There is more. Let us now switch over to here Oh, but wait, remember that one thing like it just it was kind of all over the place Which can be a good thing, but also can be a little bit of an annoying thing But no matter what it fits these this world of twisting and turning so I And I did enjoy it for the most part. I very much did enjoy this book Number five is the gumdrop. What is a book that is very generic or has a lot of tropes in it? and the book I've chosen may cause a little bit of controversy, but I Have chosen pumpkin heads by Faith Erin Hicks and Rainbow Rowell Just cuz I felt like this book wasn't anything Too unique like okay, I can't even say what the trope is Because that'll be a spoiler for the book, but there are just so many things in here that was just kind of like Okay, that's kind of playing Okay, yeah, no, okay, that's predictable. Okay, that's kind of tropey Okay, so like obviously it's still a beautiful book and I love the artwork And it's just such a sweet read and it's like it's a graphic novel. I enjoyed it But I just it just seems like a gumdrop to me Number six is licorice and that is the longest book on your shelf And I'm pretty sure this hasn't changed from last year I don't think I've bought a book that is longer than this one because it's a chunky fella said Grimm's complete fairy tales edition. It's it's tall. It's wide. It has how many pages like It's over It's over 650 pages. So I don't think I have anything page-wise that is longer than this so It's a job and I wonder if this will be the same answer next year Because I I'm I'm intimidated by chonkers now Unless it's an audiobook they intimidate me which is such a bummer because when I was young got used to love thick long bucks but Yeah, so it's still a complete fairy tale then moving on we have frosting and that is what is a book that holds One of your favorite genres together or the most underrated book You know something that is just kind of everywhere, but you don't really truly appreciate it And actually I'm gonna go with a deadly education by Naomi Novak I think I think a lot of people think this book was good, but I think it's great Like I feel like people appreciate it a little bit, but I don't think they appreciate it quite enough So it's a dark academia, which I think pretty much just is a subgenre I think but it is fantasy. It's got magic. It's like a whole different It's not a take on Harry Potter but it's the whole idea of going to this magical school and learning spells But it's it's so different And so I think this is my frosting like it just it holds together every element of dark academia and I think it Should be more loved than it is And I am so excited to read the last graduate. Oh my goodness And then finally the last question on this tag question number eight are the gingerbread men So even though we build gingerbread houses and that's kind of the point and they're fun and they're decorative Sometimes we still bake little gingerbread men and those can be fun to really accompany the houses and so the prompt is What is a book with great supportive characters and this year? I am going with the labyrinth lost which is part of the Brooklyn Bruja trilogy. It's the first one and this is by Zoraida Gordova and The the fun thing about this book so it centers around a family so you very much get like the family supportive characters But it's just such a fun Family like the three sisters are hilarious and you definitely Get that feeling that there is that sisterly bond there in just as much the teasing But also the love and it's fun because each book in the trilogy follows a different sister so Like you have a great main character and then the next book they become a great side character and vice versa You have great side characters and then they eventually become great main characters so I Cheating a little bit but I mean come on and I loved this series Like late last year early this year, so That's what I'm gonna have to go with and that's the end of the tag So thank you all so much for watching click subscribe if you want to see more videos by me I post every Sunday and Wednesday It is a new schedule that I am posting to so hit the bell to be notified when I post it You don't miss out Otherwise give this video a thumbs up if you liked it or if you want to do the tag again I tag you go ahead do it if you want to otherwise comment down below any of your answers And until I see you all in the next video. 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Hello everybody, welcome to my channel. It's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and today I'm coming to share with you my date. I made a swap with Marley Designs, with Marley's from Marley Designs YouTube channel and this is what I have received from her. I'm waiting to open it for many days now because my package had huge problems to just to get there. So I said I'm gonna wait, but I had loads of things already now to lean from her stumping and amazing layering of those stumps. Just that I stuck for a few days just on that package, look that look that package. I'm gonna cover our addresses, but look how beautifully it came to me. So I was so amazed and I've been studying just you know flipping and looking and touching. This one is so gorgeous and all those stumps so I can't wait to open it. I know she's wonderful with layering stumps and that's why I'm so excited to have this one. I'm gonna keep it like my learning book because you know I said that many times I'm not using my stumps so many times, so because I'm not too comfortable with that, oh this is so beautiful, just perfect, look at that, look at this beauty, oh this is gorgeous, I'm gonna go step by step.  So I think here I do have yes here I do have the note, that's so cute note thank you we chat together about our issues that she can't stop to put layers of you know stamping and layers of papers and I wrote there I'm same with pockets so oh that's all that was so cute thank you and I I I'm so excited to have this one this is so gorgeous by the way wow it's very soft paper it's something like you've got in one of those uh those ledger papers oh I like this but this is beautiful look at those lines I think it's yeah it's gonna be flipped up and we spoke about theme so I said I'm gonna do probably secretary which you will see in the video of with the tutorial what I made for her that I chose secretary is secretary so Marley agreed to do secretary and this is perfect signature day oh that's perfect look at that beautiful paper this is fantastic okay we do have this gonna yeah may I may I may look at that beauty so we have a first flip here and this is additional envelope and in this first flip here are two pockets and yes oh my this is so gorgeous Marley's stamping look and I know she made this herself and this is this is ticket that's perfect so she has like it's for her it's so easy to put all these layers and I'm pretty sure she made this stamping as well I need to see her tutorial we decided to do tutorial for our creation as well so it's spectacular wow this is so gorgeous and washi tapes look how beautiful background she made with washi tapes wow this video will be probably very long this is so awesome team holds stacks I guess I don't have them but I guess it's team holds uh team holds stacks I do have these actually no they are not saying oh this is so cute look at that I don't have this one yet good look at that stamping and this is so perfect so she made three pockets here here it's beautiful paper I'm not sure if it's team holds paper I guess so I'm gonna flip it this way and again washi tapes stamping so many sewing oh my god this is so gorgeous I guess I should open it here look at those beauties her stamping is spectacular and that layering and all those things around oh there is something more okay oh banners look at that beauty this is from team holds as well I think from those snippets or you know from those appameras I will have to have a look on her YouTube if she does have already video how she made it so to know this is perfect so much work wow look look at this so easy stamping you know that like now I'm always struggling with my stumps I have to lean that this is totally will be my learning book Julie Julie Juliet Cerviette Cervian hey look this is Czech language this is my native yes that's my language oh that's perfect thank you Marley thank you that's so awesome okay well it's beautiful wrapping by the way easy easy easy and we have another envelope it's on all around it's beautiful look at that and team holds stumps I know this one I saw Marley's to use it this is so gorgeous and ledger paper yeah that's for secretary names and nice tax and they are matching with color with those banners so I placed everything back hopefully the way it was not sure but I hope so and I'm gonna move look I think here she used index card and how beautifully she decorated and you can flip it this way and this way and this way oh my god girl oh my this is so gorgeous wow okay where to go here is paper clip here is paper clips so okay this is clipped to the pocket here this is fantastic work oh and we have here ledger paper and this one what kind of paper is this and again plan the paper is this no no no I can take it off I don't want to ruin anything so this can be flipped down Cuitante wow it's when you own someone money right probably I think wow this is so beautiful and look another index card and beautifully decorated so I'll play that back and are you ready for another oh this is so beautiful good good good I can place it back easily so this is flipping up and flipping down wow she added here so many goodies and look at that stamping again all over the heat she used some label label hip tuck to decorate it wow look at that stamping here and all those colors how they are nicely matching all together wow and so many layers this is perfect and I've got some goodies here labels these are perfect wow white labels I never saw something like this those circle I will have to google everything wow and stamping here as well this is so beautiful oh girl look at all that stamping I will have to be sitting here and watch everything you did many times so I really love how you're making all those layers like you know put together two different kind of like ripped papers and make a tag or closure and with pocket here that's so amazing and again washi tape stamping now I'm not sure if I can take something off from here or if is it glued you don't want to ruin anything okay this is like a pocket that's perfect he used a photo of this beautiful couple like a pocket here and look at all these goodies here wow and this is from Tim Holtz I know this this one I don't remember I think it's called uh typewriter snippets maybe and look at all this awesome writing here all right once this is beautiful wow this is masterpiece this is so gorgeous and I can close it and I'm gonna use this okay and we can move here we hope I didn't miss something we will see I will have to have a look to Marley's channel if she does have already that have already on her her video how she made this because it's spectacular this is so beautiful really your layering is amazing amazing and I watched your tutorials you you put already on your YouTube channel with how you think when you do those layers that's amazing when you do explain you know your thoughts how to put it together give it time that this is so beautiful that paper just look at the those lines I can't find anything like this here in UK and ledger paper beautiful okay easy easy go there and here we've got this beautiful like this and I'm gonna open it I'm gonna go with this first this is so perfect it's perfect vintage I'm not gonna take off this one I know I can and probably I can open it fully but I'm not I'm not gonna do that for me this layering is wonderful I love these papers they are so beautiful we're gonna open this one I'm telling you I'm gonna be sitting here and I'm gonna study all that book step by step because it's just amazing not sure if that memoranda was already there or if you stamp it with something beautiful and flip oh flip to the side look at that okay uh-huh I need to move this one a little bit more okay now I can flip it easy good look at this this is so gorgeous so many layers and this looks like here it's envelope is there envelope yes there is envelope wow mama this is so beautiful oh I can take off okay okay see that stamping and washi tape and mini there was dental mini sticker and all looks freakishly awesome wow there is lots of work and we do have pocket here have I missed something here I'm not sure I will have to watch her video first so I do have mini pocket here mini envelope here with some goodies oh these are cute these are so cute beautiful these are perfect it's nice paper okay should I flip something somewhere or I can I can like a pocket and look at all these layers this is freakishly amazing girl wow here is that banner she sent me that those banners so here is one I'm not sure if I haven't missed another one over there and again those team holds thingies those snippets oh I hope you saw that because it's so gorgeous and here we've got some epimera I'm gonna slide it there I'm gonna open it easy and it's everything is going together really well look at that it's so beautiful yeah you know this video will be wow only wow because I'm beautiful papers here is so much work put into this one it's so gorgeous and I love how she made this this you know this tap it's like peeking out it's wonderful okay this I'm gonna make it maybe this way yeah it's kind of creepy from me I'm gonna move it there and we do have this pocket here on the bottom it's kind of thick don't want to break anything so I'm gonna oh it's mini pockets okay yeah one and two and again I'm gonna show you I didn't show you closely so she does have layer of wash tape underneath then it's that all stamping paper oh here is something more see stamp label it looks so amazing and all stamping all around and everything is matching so nicely oh girl this is my kind of like university to to to study your work because it's really really gorgeous really gorgeous like you hear me all the time to do whoa so I can't find another word it's just coming look at that did you stamp this one it's so beautiful oh this labels looks amazing with that stamping I will have to also have a look what kind of this blue one this one if is it look in china I will have to have a look what kind of color you used it's beautiful look at that so I'm gonna give you one more time a little bit closer look to this beauty I received from Marley's thank you so so much for this swap this was amazing to have a look on your work your work is spectacular and I really hope Tim Holtz will notice you and he will take you to to his team because you will be perfect demonstrator for his stamping I mean for his stamps not stamping you know for a person like me who is not feeling comfortable with stamps your videos are perfect because you explain also your thinking why you put that stamp in there and there and it's amazing to watch it and I never felt really comfortable with stamps so this will be my university book my learning book thank you so so much for for this swap I hope to all of you you did enjoy my video same like me and I hope my wow and I wasn't too annoying because I had it was just him so this is my sharing for today there will be video from me today and video from Marley on her channel I will link her channel in that description down below and there will be also tutorial for book I sent to her that will be tomorrow around 12 long time I think and Marley's will upload her video how she made this gorgeousness tomorrow as well so for all those who are interested to see this work please go to have a look on her channel because her stamping is such a gorgeous work and for me it's very helpful to watch her that's all that's all I'm not gonna repeat myself if you watch me you know that I'm not too strong with stamping so I'm not gonna repeat everything thank you so so much for visiting me today I hope you had a good time like me have a beautiful day take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye


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Wow, what's up everybody, once again it's Brandon and Shawn and we gotta talk about what you can learn from Metro Boomin's not all heroes wear capes album rollout strategy. Now if you've seen my Metro videos lately then you know that I talked about him using the pullout method and for all of y'all folks that doubt it just take a look at these billboards that dropped on October 26th and because of the effects of the pullout strategy when he was away from the game it created an energy so many people said what happened to Metro Boomin where is he did he really retire a lot of people kind of knew buddy was too young he wasn't going to retire but it created a lot of articles videos wondering where he is he took that energy played off of it and then drop these billboards and just to drive through how effective a pullout strategy can be when people actually care about where you are let's look at the comments because Nav actually posted the billboards on his IG page and that post created a lot of chatter people were saying stuff like perfect timing to is there gonna be another one what's happening to Metro is there gonna be a without warning to and a lot of people actually wonder if Metro was really missing for some reason people believed it people were putting up prayers for him and everything and of course you had the few that knew that this was all album promo so let's get into that part right here now this was a week long album Sprint October 26 was when the first billboards were posted in Atlanta and New York and then six days later is actually when the project dropped on November 1st and in that time not only did you have Nav post on IG about the missing billboards on October 30th 21 Savage Offset and Metro Boomin all tweeted 21 Savage said 11 30 Offset said don't trust you and Metro Boomin just posted three Jack-o-lanterns these kind of cryptic posts are elusive they keep fans guessing trying to figure out what the puzzle really is it's coming together but at this point with the billboards and 21 Savage Offset Metro Boomin and Nav all posting in this short period of time it's pretty clear that something's coming in the next day on Halloween Metro Boomin post his album cover art on IG the caption read not all heroes wear capes drop some flames if you're ready of course all kind of people just dropping flame flame flame flame flame flame flame flame all throughout the page but you get the point folks were ready for whatever was coming at this point you got a lot of people who are just excited to see Metro back in the spotlight and then on November 1st Metro Boomin drops the track list for not all heroes wear capes now it's not completely clear to a lot of people at the time that not all heroes wears capes was the actual title because so many people were still guessing was it gonna be perfect timing to without warning to but he continues this theme at the top of the track list posting where he says 10 a.m. save the world he's coming back to save y'all folks his caption read tonight we eat so he lets you know that it's coming tonight and of course he says drop some flames if you ready once again flames ensue flame flame flame flame flame flame flame flame flame all throughout the post but the album drops now let's bring it back what exactly can you learn from Metro Boomin's rollout of not all heroes wear capes well there's three main factors first and foremost is the fact that I actually do not believe he necessarily said I'm gonna retire did that whole thing and plan to do this as an album release he stepped back for whatever reasons he stepped back minding his own business but at some point he probably realized that hey there's this whole thing about me not being there was happening to Metro and he used that energy as in the marketplace to amplify his message played off of it to keep things rolling and that's a strong lesson I can't reiterate enough whatever you do you don't necessarily know how the market is gonna react what people are going to receive what you're doing as but if you can figure out a way how to positively spend that for your own benefit then you're gonna be able to figure out a market more effectively again and again because you'll just be accelerating narratives and spending narratives that already exists versus trying to create a narrative and that takes a whole lot of effort that might not necessarily be worth the money and in a day and age where you can really almost quantify so much of the conversation that you can keep a pulse on through social media it's very easy to see what the energy is out there and you don't necessarily have to use energy that's about you you can use energy that's about another subject another topic or another you know celebrity or whoever the person is and take that and figure out a way how to insert yourself into that conversation to bring attention back to your project number two this was a six-day album rollout strategy that is a very short sprint when you consider that sometime especially back in the day people might do a whole month long or two three weeks worth of album rollout as a matter of fact people still do that to this day but in this day and age once again there's so much information that people are taking in within a short period of time it's hard and expensive to monopolize a lot of people's attention for a long period of time so the fact that they were able to create the momentum pretty quickly and then go ahead and drop it while it was still accelerating and the tension was still coming in their direction it was highly beneficial because not only does it cost money to continue to get back in front of people and to continue to push the hype a lot of times but you also just never know what else is gonna happen in the marketplace you know something wild might happen in the real world news or Kanye might be doing something or some other artists that you had no idea what they were gonna do is about to do something real wild and decide to drop the same day that you dropped there's so many factors when you try to hold people's attention and do these long drops it can be risky let's just put it that way and if you could apply that to someone at the level of Metro boom and you could definitely apply the same thing to a smaller artist you might want to just go ahead and drop some things and a rather quick cadence so then you can go ahead and get the project out and then everybody else they just have to catch up and then as you get bigger more people will get that and number three when it comes to that it also goes back to resources if you don't have a lot of money if you don't have a lot of different people that you use again and again to continuously get back in front of people then it's to your advantage not to elongate your album rollout and just get the project out there or get the single out there or the EP and mixtape whatever words you want to use show people the content and it doesn't hurt that the project is dope I haven't got a chance to listen to it again and again and again yet but the ten freaky girls followed up by up to something followed up by the interlude with Travis Scott that's my favorite back to back to back so far I'm sure others will grow with me but I haven't got a chance to listen to it all yet anyway as always I want to know what you guys think what did you guys think about the whole album drop strategy what do you think about him using the pullout strategy and how he actually played on the missing what are you possibly going to do when you drop your album next want to know all your thoughts but other than that if you like this go ahead and like button if you like it you might as well share it and if you are not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe