Welcome to remote versus in-person usability testing. Usability testing evaluates a website or an application by testing it with representative users. It helps us understand what users do, why they do it, identify any usability problems, and determine their overall satisfaction with the product. As a usability designer, you already understand how important it is to test early and often. Using a variety of testing styles and tools during project development ensures it meets or exceeds your users' needs and wants. Today, we'll focus on in-person and remote testing by examining the advantages and disadvantages of each. While there are many different methods of usability testing, they all fall into one of two groups, in-person or remote. Anytime you have a user physically present, it's considered in-person testing. Remote testing includes any tests that take place without a usability designer present. In-person testing is recommended because your moderator can observe and record user's body language, gestures, and non-verbal cues. Methods of in-person testing include contextual interviews, eye-tracking, and focus groups. Remote testing is ideal when it's hard to find the right test users, your budget is relatively small, or when you quickly need to know the results. Your remote tests can be either moderated or unmoderated. Advantages and disadvantages. While in-person testing requires more creative logistics than remote testing, it also provides the more accurate and in-depth feedback. Methods include card sort, prototypes, and focus groups. In addition to measuring basics, like where the user is clicking, in-person testing allows the moderator to take note of physical, verbal, and emotional responses, which are challenging to access remotely. During each of these tests, the designer can interact with the users and ask probing questions based on the results. Some of the challenges with in-person testing are time, cost, and logistics. It can take longer to set up and run in-person sessions, so your testing timeline needs to line up with the user's availability. Inviting users on site for in-person testing can be costly. Compensation may be required for the testing expenses, as well as for the designer's cost to arrange, test, and compile the results. Another challenge is logistics. If your participants are scattered across the country, it may be difficult to arrange travel to every location. Remote testing is a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to in-person testing. The tools include moderated and unmoderated tests. During a moderated remote test, the participants are observed while they complete the tasks. In an unmoderated test, the participants complete the test without any moderator interaction. Some remote tools allow interaction with the user, much like during in-person testing. The remote testing options track eye movement, record users' clicks when they navigate a website or mobile application, and record a user's voice. Some tools even track the cursor's path and the time it remains stationary. The disadvantage to remote testing is detecting user nuances. Capturing body language and emotions can be difficult, if not impossible, during remote testing. Nothing completely replaces seeing a user complete a task or navigate a poorly designed website. As a user-experienced designer, you don't have to choose between in-person and remote testing. You can use a combination of tests to get the necessary feedback and save costs. Take time to research available methods and find the ones that fit with your design specs and budget. Both in-person and remote testing provides crucial feedback to any user-experienced designer. You have completed remote versus in-person usability testing.


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the midst of the fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on ever greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and its peoples whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War. Here is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. The Pacific Story, presented by the National Broadcasting Company and dedicated to a fuller understanding of the vast Pacific Basin. This broadcast series comes to you as another public service, the drama of the past and present, of the millions of people who live around the world's greatest sea, where the east at last meets the west. New Zealand, sea lane center of the South Pacific. The mud is much in enemies, the Japs. Yeah, every guy looks the same. Looked as if they're getting near the loss of it. It's a terrific job. Moving up supplies in a place like Bougainville. I have an idea that we'll be getting the order to advance any time now. Yeah, I want to get going. Oh, it's probably a little while yet. Hey, you're with that New Zealand outfit nearest, aren't you? Yes. I hit the beach with the first American outfit. Yes, we came in right next to you. Oh, we've been doing it ever since we hit the beach. It's bringing us your supplies. Shells, gasoline, rations. Oh, it takes a lot of it. Yeah, but I'm all steamed up. I want to get going. It's going to be tough.  Ah, I've seen plenty of them already. You'll see a lot more when the order comes to move up. They'll probably all move up together, huh? You're outfitting mine? Yes, probably. You know, Sergeant, I never thought when I used to ride the manhattan transfer that I'd be out here in the Solomon's itching to get at those Japs. No. Uh, where are you from? Me? From Jersey. Jersey? Oh, that's New Jersey, isn't it? Yeah, but I miss New York. There's a town. Ever been there? No. Someday I hope to see it, though. Great, townie. You're great. Sure, I miss it. Oh, I miss Wellington, too. Oh, we're in Australia, huh? No. New Zealand. Oh, same thing, ain't it, practically? Indeed it is not. Oh, it's those islands right down there off Australia. New Zealand is 1,200 miles from Australia. That's about as far as where New York is from, say, Puerto Rico. 1,200 miles. Eh, but it's practically the same as Australia, huh? New Zealand is the Dominion, and Australia is the Commonwealth. New Zealand has its own government. Is that so? We've had it for quite a good many years. Hm. Had an idea England settled New Zealand with prisoners. Oh, no, no. Matter of fact, Captain Cook, you've heard of him, haven't you? Yeah, the fellow that sailed all over the Pacific and discovered the Hawaiian islands. Well, Captain Cook annexed New Zealand for Britain, but the government in London didn't want it and refused to take it. Hm. You mean Cook looked like a chump, huh? Well, it did turn out all right. There was a fellow named Wakefield. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, I believe it was, and he made quite a name for himself by organising colonies. Now, Wakefield was the kind of a... The old haphazard way of settlement is passed. Instead of founding colonies of undesirables, we should found colonies of our best stock. When you say our best stock, Mr Wakefield, what do you mean? Oh, just what it implies. People morally and physically worthy to become colonists. Well, but can you get people of this quality to cross the sea to a desolate wilderness? What incentive is there? There is the greatest incentive on earth, the founding of a new Commonwealth. I believe Mr Wakefield is right. If we send settlers of high character, we shall have a colony of high character. Yes. We will build with intelligence and purpose from the very first. It is my belief that there should be a careful selection of Anglicans. There should be inducements to workers of all kinds, even to capitalists. That is the basis of the colonies I organised in South Australia. But the British government has not given you official permission. The government hasn't the vision to see the value of this scientific colonisation. Then you'd best drop the whole thing, Mr Wakefield. No, no, I say go ahead with it. You can't go ahead with it if the government does not permit. The government cannot prevent us, who have organised this New Zealand company from buying land in New Zealand and moving over there and settling. Is that right, Mr Wakefield? That is my belief. It is my opinion that we should send an agent to New Zealand and buy land wholesale. And that we should then send a shipload of settlers, regardless of the government in London. But before Wakefield's ship had sailed with the New Zealand Company of Colonists, the British government learned that France had organised a company to get to New Zealand first. Or to throw out Wakefield and his settlers if they got there first. So the British government got busy. They sent Captain Hobson of the Royal Navy to New Zealand to annex the country by some peaceful arrangement with the Maori. Captain Hobson, in the HMS Herald, sailed into the Bay of Islands in January 1840. And some days later, he and some of his officials met with about 500 Maori chiefs at the mouth of the Watangi River. They drew up a treaty, and then they... I have never seen such an array of chiefs in all my years at sea, Mr Boswell. They are men of high character, Captain Hobson. In all my years here as British resident, I have found them to be people of intelligence and integrity. Has the Reverend Williams informed them all of the purpose of this conference? He has informed all the head chiefs and they, in turn, have informed the lesser ones. I trust they'll be disposed to receive our proposal favourably, Mr Boswell. That will depend on the Reverend Williams. Being our interpreter, he must communicate with them for us. You did an excellent job in drawing up the treaty, Mr Boswell. Thank you, sir. The Reverend Williams will be here in a moment now with his translation of it. It's well for us that the Maori respect our missionaries. They judge us by them. Oh, yes. Oh, here comes the Reverend Williams now. Good. Here's the translation of the Treaty of Waitangi, Captain Hobson. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Hmm. I'm gratified that you can read this, your reverence. Well, here. We start here by telling the chiefs why you are here as a representative of the Queen. And then here we assure them of the good faith of Her Majesty's government. Good, good. Then we get into the treaty proper. It says that as our Queen is desirous of establishing a settled form of government here in New Zealand, that we ask the Maori to cede all their rights of sovereignty to Her Majesty. That's right here, you see. Yes, yes. Good you. In turn, Her Majesty will guarantee the Maori full use of their lands and properties. Mm-hmm. Yes. And here, you see, we say that in consideration of these things, Her Majesty will extend her protection to the Maori and confer upon them all the rights of British subjects. Very good, your reverence. Very good. Uh, we're ready then, Mr. Basbe. Yes, Captain Hobson. Very well. Call the conference to order and present the Reverend Williams who will submit the treaty to them. Well, those 500 Maori chiefs sat there on the north bank of the Wachtangi River and listened to the Reverend Williams, asked them to turn New Zealand over to the Queen. There was a big discussion. Some of the chiefs were against the whole idea. But at last one of them, a famous Ngapui chief, stood up and made a speech. All the other chiefs listened to him. And some days later, they signed the treaty. And New Zealand came under the British Crown. The first time one country was ever taken over by another country, by peaceful agreement. You didn't have any trouble with the Maori at all, huh? Just, uh, took over the country. Oh, no, no. There was a good deal of bloodshed. Uh, uprisings, eh? Yes. You see, the Maori had fought among themselves for centuries before we came to New Zealand. The government tried to protect the Maori. But they traded many of their lands to the white settlers for guns and blankets without knowing that they were really selling their lands. Huh. Like us Americans in the Indians. Yes. Much like that. And the Maori fought stubbornly against the British for many years. It was in 1864, I think, that Brigadier General Kerry learned that a Maori force was digging in at a place called Arakau. About seven miles from his quarters. He surrounded the native poor, that's the sort of a fort, with 2,000 men. Then he attacked the people. Looks as though Chief Rewi has thrown back this attack too, General Kerry. Extraordinary courage that man has. We must have six or seven times as many men as he has. Rewi, can't have more than 300 or so? Yes. This is the third day he's held us off. They must be running out of water in there. And food. Well, General Cameron has pushed us up to the earthworks and asked Rewi when he's garrisoned to surrender. I shouldn't expect surrender from Rewi, General Kerry. He picked them under almost constant rifle and artillery. He can't hang on forever. Listen to their Maori war cry. But Maori war cry tells their defiant spirit. General Kerry. General Cameron? I have invited the garrison to surrender and this is the answer Rewi sent back. What does Rewi say? He says, peace will never be made. This is the word of the Maori. We will fight forever and ever and ever. Forever and ever and ever. And Rewi means it too, sir. Send him an offer to let the women come out. Yes, sir. Then we can storm the power gate. Word was carried to Rewi offering to let the women come out before the power was stormed again. But Rewi sent back the answer that the women would fight as well as the men. So the British attacked again. They used rifles and hand grenades. But the Maori repulsed every attack. At last the fighting stopped completely. And then suddenly about four o'clock in the afternoon Rewi and his men made a break. General Ferry. Rewi and his men are making a break for it. Is it keeping? Have you those field bosses over there? General Scott is trying to intercept them, sir. By Jove, they've broken out of the south side of the farm. Yes, sir. Scott is too late. They're streaming through the swamp. They must have taken so much by surprise they went right through one of our regiments, sir. Someone's intercepting them back there. A mountain crew in uniform. That's the forest rangers. The forest rangers. They've stopped them. By Jove, Rewi has escaped us. All 300 Maori were found dead. Strewed over the par and the field. But Rewi escaped. He escaped to live in peace with the pahika. Which means white man in the Maori language. His words, kawaii wai tonu ake ake ake, we shall fight forever and ever and ever have become more widely known than anything else in Maori history. After the Maori were defeated, they started to go down. They lost interest in their country under the pahika. And then the white man diseases came, measles, influenza, tuberculosis. For a while, we were afraid they would die out. But toward the end of the century, they started to increase again. Today, there are about 90,000 Maori in New Zealand. But only about half of them are pure blood. The Maori helped those first settlers that came to New Zealand. Oh, they had a bad time of it when they first came. But the Maori helped them through it. And a leader, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, with his ideas of scientific settlement, became one of the greatest empire builders of his time. You know, he really was the founder of New Zealand. And he helped to draw up the first constitution when New Zealand got representative government in the 1850s. New Zealand then became even more British than Britain. As the years passed, many remarkable men came along. In the early 1890s, a great political leader came along named Richard Seddon. They called him King Dick. And he was one of the most popular... You've always been Prime Minister since 1893. But he's done well by yours, ain't he? Thirteen years he's been Prime Minister. Been in there long enough to be King, he has. In New Zealand just as he likes. That's been all right with us farmers. Yes, but look what he's gone and done with this woman's suffrage matter. Oh, that business of female franchises wrangled over a long time before King Dick came in. Yes, both parties were for it. Right. So John Hall was for it and so was Bellens. They were for it, but did they ever give the votes to the women? No, they were too smart for that. They had opposition in their parties. Both of them. Tell it King Dick, till he got to be Prime Minister. Oh, now look, it wasn't King Dick that put it through. It couldn't have done it. Couldn't have done it if King Dick hadn't let him. I think it's a good thing. Votes for women? Where else in the world have women got the vote? Tell me. The trouble with King Dick is that he puts through any kind of laws that please him. Good laws. He's the one put through the laws for us farmers. And for you working people too, isn't he? Right, that he did. And if it weren't for King Dick, where would all business be? Ships are going out of here every day with our meat and butter and cheese and all in refrigerators. But King Dick didn't invent the refrigerator, did he? No, but I say, let King Dick run New Zealand any way he likes, long as he runs it as he's been running it for the past 13 years. But King Dick Seddon died in 1906 and the government of New Zealand passed into the hands of the conservatives. And the next year New Zealand became a dominion of the British Empire. This change was received by New Zealanders I don't see why they didn't leave us a colony. Well, Australia's a Commonwealth and Canada's a dominion. We're different. We're really part of England. It's a promotion for a nation to become a dominion. Say, did you see this in the paper? Sir Joseph Ward has offered Britain as a gift from us, one or two first class battleships. What? Here? Have a seat. Does that mean we've got to pay for them? Yes, everybody in New Zealand. Well, they're nervous Sir Joseph. What do you mean making a gift of one or two battleships from us? Oh, that's unconstitutional. He's only the Prime Minister ain't he? Hmm, might be a good idea though. What with Germany's navy now getting close to the size of Britain's? Germany's navy as big as Britain's. Sure, that's what the First Lord of the Admiralty said in London the other day. Yes, and don't forget that Germany's been getting mighty ambitious out here in the Pacific. She's up there in Samoa and that isn't so very far from us. Germany's got the Caroline Islands and the Mariana... Oh, you don't think that Germany's good to bother us do you? It would have Britain never went to war with Germany. Maybe it would anyway. I say it's a good thing for New Zealand to give Britain a battleship. But what does Sir Joseph mean, one or two battleships? Why not give them a small destroyer, two battleships? Oh, that's an enormous amount of money if you ask me. Well, Britain accepted the offer of one warship. And the HMS New Zealand, a battle cruiser, was built. It cost every man, woman and child in New Zealand two pounds. But it turned out to be a good investment. Within the next few years, Britain was at war with Germany. And the German navy was operating all over the Pacific. Eleven days after the outbreak of the First World War, a force left New Zealand to take German Samoa. They took it without firing a shot. But soon New Zealanders were in the thick of the fighting. And reports came back from the battle fronts everywhere, gelling of the part they were playing. New Zealand troops have repelled an attack on the Suez Canal. New Zealanders and Australians have landed on Kulipili. New Zealand forces have distinguished themselves at the Battle of the Somme. New Zealand forces are in action in machines and in flanders. New Zealanders have helped repulse the enemy in Palestine. New Zealand troops rushed up to fill a gap made by the advancing Germans and are today among the allied forces marching into Germany. Well, out of our eligible male population of 250,000 during the First World War, we had more than 124,000 New Zealanders under arms. A good many of them were Maori. When the war was over, Western Samoa was made a mandated territory of New Zealand and that satisfied most New Zealanders because we had felt for a long time that any other power in the island above us is a menace. For a long time, we asked Britain to take those islands or let us take them. You see, New Zealand has fought along imperial lines for years. Ever since it was founded, in fact. Well, that's what I can understand, Sergeant. Why is that? Well, because it had to depend on Britain for protection, being way out in the Pacific alone for one thing. But mostly, it's because New Zealand is the most British country outside of Great Britain itself. Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. Well, to begin with, the people who settle in New Zealand weren't driven out of anywhere like many settlers were. No, they left to come out in New Zealand of their own free will. So, we never thought of ourselves as exiles. We came out here for greater opportunities. But we brought as much of Britain with us as we could. British customs, traditions, things like that. We think of ourselves as part of Britain. Matter of fact, 95% of us are British. Imagine that. New Zealand is just about as far away from England as it can get, isn't it? Yes. We're almost exactly on the opposite side of the world. New Zealand, like Britain, has to depend on overseas trade. We are the sea lane centre of the South Pacific. And in almost any of our seaports, you can see... What are you taking back to England, Captain? Cargo of butter, cheese, meat. One of the most interesting things I've noticed in my visit here in New Zealand is the great amount of international trade. New Zealand has the highest value of international trade per head of any country in the world. That's because it is more or less isolated out here in the Pacific. Yes, and of course that means that all the trade out here is seaborn. That's one reason for the development of shipping on such a great scale between New Zealand and Britain. Then you operate almost exclusively between Britain and New Zealand, Captain. Yes. You might say that British and New Zealand shipping holds a monopoly on the overseas trade out here. British finance controls it. Of course there are lines to Australia and the United States, but most of the commercial transactions are made in London. I noticed that when you shipped out several days ago, Captain, you brought a number of passengers. Those were university faculty men. They came from the schools in Britain to take up staff jobs in the universities out here. They'll feel pretty well out of it. Being way out here, I should think. Oh no. The New Zealand newspapers have direct cables to Britain and they print immense amount of news from England. Actually, the university faculty men coming out here and the close ties in newspapers and books. Yes, even in music and art, has made New Zealand out here sort of a bit of England itself. That explains the greater influence of Britain on New Zealand than on Australia. That is true, but while New Zealand has always depended for protection on British naval power, now, since the war in the Pacific, it is depending more and more on American naval power. Well, do you take that to mean, Captain, that New Zealand is drawing closer to the United States? In a certain sense, yes. When New Zealand appointed its first minister abroad, it appointed one of its cabinet ministers to Washington, a Walter Nash. Yes, yes. He's now on the Pacific War Council. A very evil man. New Zealand dominates the sea lanes in the South Pacific and this is pretty sure to be a more and more important factor in New Zealand's foreign relations. Well, Sergeant, if you don't have many factories down there, how do you make 11? Well, more and more factories are being built, but we make a living off the land, most of us. Oh, on farms, huh? Yes, by raising cows and sheep mostly. We have about 30 million sheep and about 2,500,000 beef cattle. And we have about 2 million dairy cows giving milk. Do you know the biggest butter factory in the world is in New Zealand? Yes, well, but of course, we ship most of our products to the United Kingdom. Then most of the people in New Zealand are farmers. No, no. New Zealand is a country of many farmers, but it also has an industrial working class. You know, New Zealand has one of the strongest Labour parties in the world. Do you mean they have their own political party? Yes. The Labour Party really began about 1905, but it didn't come into power until the middle of the 30th. We members of the Labour Party have fought for our place in the government of New Zealand for nearly 40 years. Well, tell me, why was it that it took until 1935 before the Labour Party won any offices? Well, the way of our government is organized, had something to do with it. You see, we have no states in New Zealand as you have in America. Central government rules the entire country. Then the Labour Party could not win a little control in some section of the nation and then build up to the national government. No, no. We had to win offices in the national government at the very outset. I can readily understand the difficulty. But after we once got started in 1935, we've gone right along ever since. We won a decisive victory in 1938. We were elected with a two-thirds majority. Well, how did the Labour Party come to win this unusual support? We won the support of the nation with a program of social reform and state economic control. You Americans probably know that here in New Zealand we have government ownership of railways, of telegraphs, radio and hydroelectric power. Well, and we have municipal ownership of the utilities, hospitals and government fire insurance and life insurance. No, I didn't know that. Then your government has organized somewhat along socialist lines, hmm? No, rather along social democratic lines. We New Zealanders have taken all these things for granted for many years now. But isn't there a feeling that you're doing away with the private enterprise and ownership? Not at all, not at all. These things are traditional. You must understand that we members of the Labour Party draw support from the trade unions and from city workers and public service employees. I see. And tell me, what of the small farmers? The small farmers with the program of the Labour Party is so broad that we draw support from the small farmer too and also from the professional people. Most of the party leaders and members of the present Labour Government too are working men who have come up through the ranks of the trade unions. Well, how does this affect the New Zealand war effort? The Labour Party is behind the present war. All of us. The National Party is too, isn't it? Oh, yes. Actually, New Zealand was against Britain's policy of appeasement. We here in the South Pacific realized years ago that if war was to come, our policy could be removed. You see, Corporal, we have seen the changes coming in the Pacific. And for a long time, we've been concerned about what position we will occupy after the war. We are close to Britain, yes. But in the years to come, our destiny will probably be tied closer to that of the other nations of the Pacific than to Britain. I think you're right, Sergeant. Yes, sir. I think you're right at that. Oh, we're listen to that. Hey, that's our artillery opening up. That means we'll be moving up pretty soon now. Hey, are you getting nervous, Yank? I'm getting anxious to get going. All right, Lane! All right! All right! That's my outfit. I've got to go, Sergeant. I do too. So long, Sergeant. See you later. Somewhere. Good. Remember the war cry of Chief Rewey? About fighting forever and ever and ever? Yes. Ake, Ake, Ake. Well, let's use it when we go in. What do you say? Great. No buyer in my house will know what it means, but I'll tell him later. All in! All in, then! Don't forget it now, Yank. Ake, Ake, Ake! I won't! Jebs, here I come! Ake, Ake! Because of the way in which New Zealand was settled, because of its inspiring Maori history, because of its strategic location as the sea-lane centre of the South Pacific, because of its leadership in social advances, New Zealand has ceased to be two relatively small islands 1200 miles from Australia and is rising to take its place as a factor of greater and greater importance in the affairs of the Pacific. As a United Nations base in the South Pacific, New Zealand is undergoing great changes which promise to influence its character after the war and which in turn will help to shape the great Pacific era of development that lies ahead. You have been listening to The Pacific Story, presented by the national broadcasting company and its affiliated independent stations as a public service to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the cross-currents of life in the Pacific Basin. A reprint of this Pacific Story program is available at the cost of ten cents. Send ten cents in stamps or coin to University of California Press, Berkeley, California. That's University of California Press, Berkeley, California, directed by Arnold Marquis. The original musical score was composed and conducted by Thomas Paluso, your narrator, Gaine Whitman. This program came to you from Hollywood. This is the national broadcasting company.


Your Excellencies, Honorable Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Deputy Ministers, ladies and gentlemen, good morning, and thank you very much for joining us today. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the launch of the fifth edition of the ITU flagship report entitled Measuring the Information Society 2013. Sound indicators and internationally comparable data are the basis of shaping the world of tomorrow. The Measuring the Information Society report has become a key reference document to monitor information and communication technology developments worldwide and to track the access, use and affordability of ICT services. Let me share with you some of the key findings of the report. Over the last year, 250 million people came online. By the end of this year, almost 40% of the world's population will be using the internet. Mobile technology and services continue to be the key driver of the information society and the number of mobile broadband subscriptions is now close to 2 billion. Mobile broadband is allowing more people to connect to high-speed networks and benefit from an ever-growing number of applications and services. It's also opened up to new initiatives, such as the ITU Empowering Development Initiative, which will promote and leverage the use of mobile applications for social and economic development. While both fixed and mobile broadband speeds continue to increase, the price of services is falling and ICT are becoming more affordable. In the space of four years, fixed broadband prices has dropped by an impressive 82%. Those are very good and very positive developments. Let us all together use these positive developments to put a human face to ICTs. A human face where we will bring in the fingers and the hand of normal people the ICTs very strong and very powerful tool for development. This is what we call putting a human face to ICT. It should not continue to be a luxury. Let's put it in the end of normal people, in the end of young people, in order for them to really to use this added tool for development. The report features also an important international benchmarking tool, the ICT Development Index, or IDI. The IDI captures the level of ICT developments in over 155 economies worldwide and has become a key measure to evaluate progress and set priorities and targets. This year, IDI revealed two encouraging issues. First, we have a group of countries that rank highly on the index. And second, the IDI also identifies the most dynamic countries in terms of ICT growth. These are countries that have made the most progress over the last year, and they are mostly from developing countries, which is very encouraging for the global development of the ICTs in the world. Let me now talk to the safety world about the young generation. Young people are all over the world the most active users of ICTs. For the first time in the report, we have quantified the number of world digital natives. While we ourselves as adults, we are only digital migrants. Now we are measuring the digital natives. This group of young people who are born into the digital age and growing up using ICT in their daily lives, and they are the key drivers for the information society. Last month, IDI organized the Beyond 2015 Global Youth Summit, which was hosted by the government of Costa Rica. The summit demonstrated the importance role of young people in shaping tomorrow's information society and to confirm the unique place and role in the deeply transformed and interconnected world. The summit's global youth declaration highlights the urgent need for, I quote, measurable targets to monitor the empowerment of young people at regional, national, and international levels. This brings us back to the importance of reliable data and indicators that allow us to progress. An old management principle states that if you cannot measure, you cannot manage. This is why we are very proud to contribute to the development of information society through these reports. Ladies and gentlemen, as I close, I would like to invite you to the next meeting, the World Telecommunication Indicators Symposium. That will be held from the 4th to the 6th of December in Mexico. And this time, the symposium will have a full one-day high level for ministers, CEOs, of statistics at the country level and from the industry, international organizations to make sure that we put these statistics as a level it's required and the level it deserves for us to use them properly for development. On this note, I would like to thank you very much for joining us today. We remain at your disposal. I thank you.


Welcome back to another review and today I want to take a look at the Echo Show 5. So I had the Echo spot before and then I switched to the Echo Show even though I liked the Echo spot a lot because it looked so retro with that awesome round screen and speaking of screen you're wondering why would I have that and especially watching movies on there where the screen is so small and it's round and you can zoom in and it's kind of cut off and blah blah blah but that's not why I was using it. It wasn't just to watch movies because it was kind of useless. It was mainly to listen to movies. Now I used it for Alexa stuff, flash briefings for news and all kinds of things that have this here. I mean my review closet over there as I review it's over there technically. So as I do things in the office as I do some editing or something else I listen to the music or movies or ask about things but at the end I thought why not this one because the screen is a bit bigger the sound is a bit better everything just a bit better and it's not that much more expensive. That being said you're probably wondering how does this relate to animation to be honest not that much the thing is with the previous one because the screen was surround you can't really watch anything on it so to bring this back to animation with this you can technically watch it on the screen again why would you it's not gonna sit down and watch a movie on this but I wanted to show this because I love listening to movies especially movies obviously that I haven't seen before stuff that I haven't seen TV shows whatever I watch it on my projector and I you know I want to listen and analyze and all that good stuff but as I animate my personal stuff at home or even work from home because we can do remote login and working so as I work on Star Wars right now I can work from home and since no one is around I can bring up the music again there's better quality around this just comes in when I can just say Alexa play a lot of times it's demolition man don't judge me and then I can just listen to that or Ghostbusters or Indiana Jones or Star Wars or whatever and it gets me in a specific mood and helps me sometimes to animate to be in a specific mood or just kind of if you do some polished stuff or something that's kind of just going through a list and cleaning things up it's kind of boring and I want something to listen to so it's not that boring and this is why I'm showing you this again this is extremist objective and I don't know if this is something for you but maybe it is maybe you are kind of like me and you like listening to TV shows or movies or music and all that helps and I use this when I'm cleaning in the office or anything that I do in the office and I just wanted to listen to something in the background because I'm clearly easily bored then I use the Echo Spa and now I'm going to use the Echo Show so this is brand new unopened I'll show you what's in there just in case you're interested in this all right so you got this here it's a plastic strip already took out which when you open it up oh look at my face you have that in here let's take this out you got that and you got instructions what is all this here you got that Echo Show paper stuff gone and the box otherwise is empty out all right you got your power source make sure you take the plastic wrapping off in case this gets hot you don't just the melt trash oh it's gonna say there's there's probably like a zippy on there all right fairly long cable plug this in and then here is the actual thing of course more wrapping let's take this out trash and here it is very shiny you will see all kinds of reflections in there kind of interesting texture on the back fabric here you have if you have a base you can put the base on there and it clicks on there same thing with the Echo Spa so you can kind of swivel it up and down so it's oh you can see nice reflection on my camera all fairly simple you have a camera opening and closing function here you got your on off forget volume and mute that seems to be it on the back you have your audio connections and usp and your power source plug it in it's gonna load for a little bit get your logo and my reflected iPhone in there as it has to boot and i got to put in all my settings let's do a welcome sound i'm gonna set this up it's gonna take a little bit so i'm gonna fast forward that's right through all the boring bits as i'm waiting though it's a very clear screen welcome to jondany house this echo show five is registered to me if that's you tap yes and so on you got the instructions here i will say yes that is me camera off you got a little display here as you do this it's also displayed on there i'm gonna turn this off i am in north america yes i'm gonna continue dining room bedroom lounge study hall sitting room basement garden upstairs custom study it's in my study all right very boring name device updates available of course nowadays the moment you buy something updating this device it's updating it's telling me but anyway i was going to save you for alexa interrupted me rudely those bing sounds are almost like in the in an airplane you can take your seatbelt off now 51 percent complete as is updates one thing that the echo spot back in the day didn't do is you can't really upload your own things onto amazon maybe like an amazon locker like a video locker type of thing where you can just upload your own stuff so if you have any specific animation clips or something that you always kind of want to watch and listen and anything custom so far hasn't been there at the same time it's been a while because i sold my echo spot and i bought this and it's actually been sitting here because i wanted to unbox it and then use it for the review so maybe by now things have changed we shall see 95 percent almost there 98 99 100 this could take up to 10 minutes or more downloading system updates 100 complete lies lies you can't just sit on 100 percent for a couple minutes it's not complete as i install the updates this device will restart twice i'm back let's continue holy moly i made the mistake of holding this i thought it's going to be faster for a kind of a timelapse type of thing oh oh tired i'm clearly a very sensitive animator introducing this this brief video will highlight we're glad you're here it's time to get you and your echo show five off and running here are three things to try first number one use your voice you could say something like alexa play happy music okay here's a station you might like 80s pop on amazon music number two try using the touchscreen number three choose your perfect clock face to get started say alexa customize my clock this is just the beginning of things you can do with your echo show five for more things to try just ask alexa what can i say welcome to your new echo show five why thank you the touchscreen is pretty responsive this device is ready is it though all right that seems to be the default screen let's see if it just updated and it knows mean and is logged in like how would it know let's try it alexa play the movie demolition man here's demolition man so i listened to this movie a lot so i just picked up where it left off so before that you had a very minimal menu here i can swipe to the right and have this swipe down and you got your basic brightness let's change it a little bit do not disturb and other settings yes this is my network name you can change all kinds of things this is pretty much the same this time though because it's a different and bigger screen more options than i have before and it goes probably into your amazon library okay so the thing now with amazon and itunes and all the other ones they're all combined so you my itunes library shows up on amazon so these are actually the ones that i got yesterday five bucks what we watched last time so this is kind of an interesting mix there let's try it again alexa play the movie how to train your dragon there are multiple videos that match your request here's what i found that is true alexa play this here's how to train your dragon the hidden world turn on the volume here but you can say alexa volume 10 not bad alexa mute it does work and i'm muting this mainly because i don't want to get a copyright strike and all kinds of stuff but you can have this you can scroll forward you can see that loads pretty fast not too shabby screen is cool though nice and bright as a whole i think this is obviously much cooler than the round screen in terms of watching things because every now and then i put something on just kind of listen to it and i work and i go oh and then i end up watching it because i'm an idiot i could just watch on the big screen but i'm easily distracted clearly alexa home here we are i'm gonna customize this a bit more when you mute you got that red line there it's not listening alexa not listening i'm not listening alexa it's very rude i turn her off so you have camera off you have sound off and you will see this is a physical color this is the screen this lights up so i'm gonna set up all my flash briefings hopefully it should technically all load maybe try it alexa update jean denis here's what's new i'm not jean denis alexa from this day in disney history on september 28th in 1982 annual passports are officially introduced at walt disney world to provide yearly access to guests who find themselves visiting the resort alexa next from the walt daily hi everyone if you're a vintage epcot lover you probably have a place still left in your heart for the universe of energy this opening day pavilion was in future world alexa next good quality and i want the sound from this day in star wars history on september 28 2010 jet i pack but i can't play all kinds of stuff because copyright strike c synthesis shut down all kinds of things but as a whole so far so good size is okay really depends on what you're listening to that one flash one about disney the quality was actually very cool but again this is not to me a home theater thing where i'm going to put this on the table and watch it like that i mean my phone is same screen as this fast forward to june 2020 i've been living with the echo 5 through the quarantine a lockdown for you know as we've all been a couple months now and i've been using it a lot more because i'm constantly in my office here and it's the same opinion i think it's still really cool the screen is neat again it's not my home theater setup but i come in i work and i put on music and i mostly listen to either tv shows or movies and for that it's just really really cool i just like working with a certain mood and extra sound and music and sound effects and i just like that so for that it's really really cool and if you check online it's 6999 on amazon when i'm going to put a link in the description in case you want to check it out there have been no technical hiccups or anything with hardware i'm going to move it around it's right now right there sometimes you put it downstairs in the gym or something or or in the living room when my little one can play around and he likes to ask her all kinds of silly questions so it's fairly sturdy and works all the time as mentioned before my amazon and itunes library are combined from most of the movies and music that i have so it's been fairly useful speaking of useful i hope that i hope that this was useful i'm not sure how i can plug my workshop with the echo show five but just in case i have workshops if you work into animation then the tech review but either way if you're still watching this thank you so much feel free to subscribe so you don't miss any of my uploads and that's it from me and i will see you hopefully in my next upload


Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to a little pre-market prep webinar we're going to do here, a little special Memorial Day thing is May 31st, 2022. The way we're going to kick this off is we're going to walk through just scanning because a lot of the questions I get are, do you watch the same set of stocks? How do you get started trading large caps if you don't know which set of stocks to watch? What do you do? What's the process? Go through that. So first off, I'm always using Thinkorswim. I'm not paying for a scanner. When you recreate that in Thinkorswim, it's kind of difficult because you need all of this special little code right here, but all I'm really doing is grabbing the one things that have liquidity. I don't want to see everything that's got one trade of 10,000 shares and then I'm looking at that stuff. I don't want to see that stuff. I want to see stuff that's got liquidity. If any of y'all want to have that, let me share that with y'all. For those of you watching the webinar, if you type in that link right there, you can have it. Here it is again in the chat. This will be large. Amazing, y'all. If they copy this link, they'll be able to get the same scan. Exactly. I'm going to jump over to charts. Let's say I don't have anything. Let's say I don't have a single idea about what I'm going to be watching.  You need those on a chart at all times. You need to see them. You need to know what the market's doing. Really what I'm looking for is something along these lines to where at the open, during pre-market, this has been what we're working with here. Then at the open, what I'm going to look for is pre-market highs as a set risk, probably this whole $1.17 unless between now and then we start to jam through that and then the plan may change. What we could experience is a sell-off. At the open, we're looking for this little push, risk on pre-market highs, and as soon as it starts to top out, meaning putting in a wick and starts to get weak, we can get in on that with a risk up here for the wash back to $15. Within I.O., when I look at this, I immediately already know what this ticker is because of the electric vehicle run that it went through and now looking at it, I'm like, well, steaming pile of trash just like I thought. So again, I'm going to trade with the trend here. The market's gapping down, both markets, QQQ and SPI, and it's doing nothing but fading. We're coming from a holiday weekend, so I don't expect there to be a lot of follow-through today because we had several up days in a row. So if I bring these two charts over, I have these on another screen and I have these up at all times, the SPI and the QQs. I have them up at all times. I have them on a five-day, five-minute, five-day, five-minute, and I'm always looking for this. Now, for those of you that have not watched any of the webinars or attended any large-cap webinars, you're going to notice in this top left here, this bullish tag. If you don't know what this is, don't blindly assume it's just buy it because it's bullish. Okay, I don't care what CNBC says, I don't care what Wall Street says, no one will confirm we're in a recession because I think they don't want to scare everyone. So I could see NIO having this move at the open up to 18 and that being pretty much a top-out point for it. So I would be basing my trade on 18 and I'd be looking for any kind of push on AMC back into this 16-20 area. I'd be looking for anything back into 16-20, risking around pre-market highs to 17. All right, so Joe mentioned in the start of the webinar, if I've ever paid for a scanner or if I've ever done anything like that, I never paid for a scanner or if I learned about this on DOS. So the way you go here is you go to quotes and then you go to the top list and this is pretty much every stock that's gapping up or down on the day. So pretty much what I do here, guys, for me is to find the new stocks of the day, I just go through the top game list and go through the first like 15 or 20 of them, right? So TXMD, I already looked at it, that was like a buy-out, TXMD was a buy-out, JAN was another one, so JAN looks like a former runner, so what I'm doing is the same thing as Joe, right? I'm going to the chart, I'm looking at the chart. What am I seeing here? I'm seeing some resistance around 4, I'm seeing some resistance around 4.30 and some resistance around 5 bucks. So this is something that has the potential to be a hot chick on the day. So I mean, I just keep it on the side rate, all right? So I just go down the list, right? So this is why I don't pay for a scanner, it's because the scanner is right there for me free, it's already there for free. All you got to do is quotes and top lists, this way you don't pay for unnecessary costs. And I didn't figure this out until I already started making money from trading and then I was like, I'm not going to pay $500 a month here and it's free. And on top of that, if you have MIC, people already paid for scanners in MIC, so we just post it. So to me, having a scanner is useless, I just look at what's gapping up or down on the day pretty much. So also what I like to do guys is I go through the previous days watch list, right? So let me pull that up right here. This is the previous days watch list from Friday. So I pull up the watch list and I pretty much just go through the previous stocks on the day there. So let me actually, so I'm just going to go through the list and then we're going to pretty much build it together. Is there anything in particular about RDBX that would tell the new trader it's crowded or not crowded? I mean, you've got to watch it every day. So every day the price action has been. Now, guys, I'm going to jump in here as Alex is typing that. If you are a new trader to small caps and you are not using these watch lists like a Bible, you are at immediate disadvantage. Use these watch lists. What I'm telling people, Joe, is if they're watching a stock that's not on the watch list, chances are there's no edge on it. And that's why it's not on the watch list. I'm always thinking what's the best case scenario? This people are like, oh, best case scenario is going to go to 50 cents. It's going to go to $1. No, not on your timeline, not on your horizon. I could only make 20 cents on this stock. I don't like it. So I move on to the next one. So if it's a $1.50 or a $2 stock under three bucks, what's that ideal range that you're looking for? So here's where my potential top watch is. So this stock, guys, this stock was moving on the monkeypox virus. And as Alex is typing that, I'm going to tell you guys, if you don't know what SSR is, if you don't know what the tendencies of SSR are, then you need to go to the video library, type in the search bar, SSR. Watch all the videos on SSR. We will tell you every single little secret little tip that you need to know about trading when SSR is on. One billion million. GME and AMC. So AMC, guys, is some of the daily charts, some resistance in the 1620s. So something like AMC, guys, I would look to short the bounce right at the open, right? I want to short the bounce. So there's two possible scenarios here, right? The two possible scenarios are they tank it towards support here in the morning. Sort of wash out towards support and bounce. So for me, I'm looking for AMC, a bounce for 16, 1650 and 17 with stock at 17. And AMC has a sister stock. That sister stock is GME and GME is already red. So GME is already red. This has some relative weakness. So something like GME, I really like if it went to 138, 140 and maybe 142. And the reason why I'm scaling so much more loose on this stock is because of the range. Already pre-market has a $4, $5 worth of range. I need to use less size to be able to account for the range better. So these stocks will move together. Still going down the list. So these are oil stocks. So oil, USO is moving up like crazy. So these oil small cap stocks are going crazy. I mean, these stocks already made their parabolic move and now there's way too many long stock. So it'll technically never make a move back to 17. I mean, it's very rare.  But the problem is that everyone thinks it will do the same thing as last time. So that gives us these moves. But again, there's a better chance of me longing in the company not having an offering. Exactly, right? Exactly. So I mean, what do I see here, guys? I see a couple of scenarios here. So the next one is Husa. I mean, for Husa's sister stock is INDO. In terms of the watches, these are pretty much my top watches for the day. You know, if some people are asking about ADVL, let me set them. I mean, what I see here is maybe a 250 rejection with a 270 stop. And then if people have questions about sizing into the watches or how to scale into the watches, I always include this video in the watch list so that you guys could pretty much watch like a short two minute video that teaches you how to use a 30% size and the scale into the watches. So that's pretty much it. And in terms of the top watches on this watch list, I would do SIGA, actually no, I would do probably INDO and Husa first as top watches, then SIGA, then AMC and GameStop. So if somewhere to come in and look at the watch list, look at all the stocks that you have available, they have a small account. I was going to even say a small account. Let's say they have 30,000, right? They opened an account with Success Trader, right? They're new to it. They have a 30,000 on their account. They look at your watch list. How would you, what do you suggest a new trader do to avoid over locating and having unused shares? Okay. So this is a good question. So that's it. Let's make some money.


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Hanks was in Austin Saturday speaking to hundreds of listeners about his new book, Uncommon Type, Some Stories, and then suddenly Hanks just told the crowd that he was bored from taking their questions he wanted to ask a question himself. He then pulled out a piece of paper and said that a man in the crowd, Ryan McFarling, had a question for a woman named Nicky Young. Hanks said the question was, ***Nicky, will you marry me? While the couple went on stage, McFarling got down on one knee, gave Young the ring. Hanks then hugged the newly-engaged woman and offered his best wishes to the couple. This would have been a better story, though, if the guy's name had been Wilson. Wilson! Wilson! A judge in Hawaii has set in state defendant to write at least 140 nice things about his ex-girlfriend after he violated a protection order and began repeatedly harassing her by phone and text. 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Seems he was driving past a section of his property near Pilot Butt, Saskatchewan when he noticed, because it was hard not to notice, a grey house on a trailer just parked in the middle of a field that Mays rents to a local farmer. While he assumed this was a temporary thing and that the owner would be retrieving it shortly, but four days later he turned to Facebook for help with the mystery. Then he heard from Brenda Robertson who said, That's my house. She went on to explain that there had been a few issues in the delivery of her new house from neighboring Manitoba. Though the home had reached Saskatchewan, Robertson was told that it had to be taken back across province lines in order to have permits reissued. So it's quite a surprise to see my house on your land, she said. But the good news is everything is getting cleared up and the house should be off of Mays' property on Thursday, though he did joke that he might be able to keep it, you know, under Refiner's Keeper's laws. 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What are the things that the financial world can learn from the dating world to perhaps take a longer-term approach? I think with dating, I think it's because, again, when we're looking back to the narrative we've all been given, we might all, what a lot of us, a large majority, might expect at one day to be married or in a long-term relationship. And we see that as like a, we're ultimately dating to move towards that goal. Whilst I think there's a kind of get rich, quick, hustle or an immediacy that we want in our finances.


been Simmons Jimmy Butler JJ Boban I mean we really didn't take away there's no one there's no person on their team that had a bad game and because of that you know they can get you know all different looks so our schemes is our bigs are helping out so much and they're getting off into rebounds they're getting different looks on off the curls and so that's something we'll have to go look back and try to adjust and so good thing about is game less than 48 hours and to be able to try to to get it back go back in Philly there's been back and forth with you and Ben and the Sixers does that work in your favor how do you feel about the fact that it's kind of been a back and forth now we asked this time really is not supposed to be back and forth it was basically answering the question for that and I mean obviously media has a job to do and it's understandable but for us we have to find a way to get wins and so if it's been scoring 40 if someone else is we just can't have four or five goals four or five guys kill us so for me personally it's going to come in here and lead these guys and put them in the right direction and defensively we haven't done a good enough job offensively we have and we're hoping that at home their players wouldn't travel is going to shoot the ball as well but you know they shot the ball even well I mean you try to speak up for your team and sometimes the defense is on the other side and I think that just veteran players just know if you look at the game look at plus minus look at the defensive stats when our veterans are in there this is more of a physical game they're often to rebound they're getting so many more extra possession so when Ed and Damari myself for in there and their shot goes up we're hitting someone every time as you saw we made that run to get down by six myself Damari Ronde was in there's kind of more of a muddy grindy type game that you need in this and at the same time you still need your young players to play at a high level so credit them they play phenomenal they came in here they did everything right and so now it's for us to come back here on Saturday afternoon get a win to get back to Philly 2-2 the goal is kind of hinted at it it's about not allowing all five guys to get going but it's about maybe one or two for sure I mean a I mean if you know on any given night teams on score 110 115 so we only know someone's in the score the points for us game one was we got JJ and foul trouble I think only at 12 Ben Simmons only had eight we'll let Joel it's like you like you're saying when you have a five-headed monster them and how they are two or three gonna play well it's their shooting percentage they shot way too high they're getting to the free throw line often to rebuild so literally we didn't take one thing away but that being said is we had a chance fourth quarter eight minutes to go down six and we didn't play well they didn't have in B we don't know if he's gonna be able to play but for us is what can we do to slow them down because offensively I think we're getting good enough looks and guys are scoring at will cares play well the answer play where and eventually we get Joe going games you've had a few lapses in the third quarter the first game of course 51 points in this game you're down many as a team do you see anything going on that the team is doing differently is it just coming out of a sluggish at that's just something we've had no little trouble with all year I mean if you look at it it's one of our youngest line-ups up there we started rookie you know obviously D Lo and Jared Allen it's something that we're trying to and you know credit other teams and they're just playing well and then for us is we're trying to figure that out I thought we had a good start for the third quarters kind of haunted us even if they'll obviously the last game to in the square 51 so that's something that you coaching staff players where look yourself in the mirror look at film of which we're doing wrong when it comes offensively but the key for us is defensively may we've just been awful these last two games and if you want to seriously continue and get along like we expected to have Saturday to come ready no no banter right if you guys look at the whole quote if you look at it if me basically justifying his game of what you want to do it would you rather guard him in the full court going on a mouse I was rather going to half court so I feel real confident when I'm in there guarding against him but you gotta give him credit play phenomenal the whole team play phenomenal and they deserve this win


May is National Foster Care Awareness Month. Woodford's Family Services offers information and support for those individuals and families who are eager to bring a foster child into their home. Leslie talked with resource coordinator, Beth Simmons, about their program. Well, Beth May is Foster Care Awareness Month. Yes, it is. And what a wonderful thing for a family to do, to be a foster family. Absolutely. Tell us a little bit about what some of the needs are for your organization in finding foster families and why you dedicate a month to this very important subject. Because it's truly needed. You know, we currently have approximately 1,500 kids in foster care in the state of Maine at any given time and we always need families who are willing to take them into their home, into their hearts and to help raise them. And sometimes people are a little confused about what it means to be a foster parent, a foster family. You can be of any age. You have to be 21 or older. You have to be self-sufficient and able to support yourself. You have to like kids. That would help. And the greatest need right now is for teenagers. Right now there is a great need for foster parents who are willing to take in teenagers. That's the biggest need. And you have support for families who've decided to be foster families. Yes. Woodford's Family Services offers a lot of support to our therapeutic foster parents from case management to in-home support. We have a 24-hour pager. So you're never alone. We have behavioral consultants and a small team that we work with so you know everybody. That sounds wonderful. And you mentioned therapeutic foster care. Yes. Tell us a little bit about what that means as opposed to just general foster care. Right. There is two forms of licenses. One is family foster home where you take in regularly, typically developing children. And then there is therapeutic or treatment foster care where you work with children who have moderate to severe disabilities and have a higher level of need. And those foster parents have a specialized license and require more training hours and they have to connect to an agency to be able to have that support and like an umbrella that really wraps around them to help them with these children. That's wonderful. And when you say disability, it can be many. It can be emotional or developmental. It can be many. Oh, that's great. Now, if somebody really was interested in doing this, is the training difficult? What does one go through? Yes. You do need to go through an 18-hour training. It's called pre-service training that kind of prepares and gets you ready for this. And then once you get your license, you need to have ongoing training hours. And if you have a specialized license, that looks like 36 hours for a two-year period. And if it's a two-parent home, then it's 24 hours for the primary parent and 12 for the secondary parent. Well, that doesn't sound like very much. It's not. It's not. I did it to something very wonderful. I did a little bit of it myself several years ago in another country. That's awesome. It was awesome. And I still have contact with my little boy. That's very nice. It's very special. Now, you have a film coming up that puts a face to some of these children who are either out there looking for a family or have found a family and they tell their story. Tell us a little bit about the film. I work with the Southern Maine Foster Family Recruitment Team, which is myself and several other agencies here in Southern Maine who recruit foster homes. And we are going to be showing this documentary. It's called Ask Us Who We Are. And it's Friday night, May 18th at 7 p.m. at the USM Wish Camper Center. And it should be a very powerful moving film that was created in Vermont based on kids that are in the foster care system there. And then there's going to be a panel and a discussion afterwards. Oh, great. We thought that would be a wonderful thing to do to honor the fact that it's, you know, foster care month and really show appreciation. And to also give a forum there for people who may be interested but not quite sure. That's right. Yeah. That's right. And I think there are probably, how many children are available right now for needing foster homes? There are many children that need foster home placements. And I can't give you the figures. There are many that have been cleared for adoption, and they're looking for adoptive homes as well. There's something called the Heart Gallery. And there will be a display there at this filming of children who are currently cleared and looking for placements. That's wonderful. Beth, if people want more information about this, how can they find it? Okay. There are two different ways. The first one is, you could call your local Department of Health and Human Services and ask to speak to somebody in the foster family licensing division. Or you could contact myself, at woodfordsfamilyservices, which is woodfords.org. You can find us that way. And my phone number is 878-9663, extension 4160. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you.


Another action to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic began in the cities of Olinda and Jicife with the organization of the first training course of People's Health Agents. This initiative is a partnership of the campaigns, Hands of Solidarity and Periferia Viva, along with healthcare professionals and universities. The objective of the course of People's Health Agents is to train community leaders to accompany families with information about how to deal with possible cases of the sickness at home and correct cleaning procedures of homes and for people. The People's Health Agent is a volunteer from the community that has the task to take care of the community street to street, house to house. Before beginning the action in the communities, the future People's Health Agents must fulfill three sessions of the course. In these trainings, they receive information about what the coronavirus is, how to take care of the community and about the rights of the population. People's Health Agents are extremely important as a central part of every epidemic is the educational work, work that goes beyond purely information. The work of discussing with this population, the importance of washing their hands, of staying home, of taking care of at-risk people. So in this sense, the People's Health Agents are adding to and joining the work of the United Health System S.U.S. in primary care work. The first course was organized in Olinda with community members from Peixinos and 15 People's Health Agents were trained. In the coming days, the actions will be taken to the communities in Recife. Sr. Ina Joana, who lives in Peixinos, was one of the students in the course. She spoke about the experience of being a People's Health Agent. The people in poor neighborhoods due to their economic situation often live with more than six or seven people in a house, with one room or two rooms, which makes the necessary social isolation measures much more difficult. We participated in the first training of People's Health Agents of Pernambuco. We trained the agents in the perspective of doing work of education and prevention in our neighborhood.


So in end of August here PF Sense reached 2.4 release candidate. I know it's September I've been a little busy So I'm finally getting around to review the release candidate and the latest iteration. So I just downloaded it This the afternoon and so what is it today is September 14th? So it's the latest iteration as of September 14th I don't have a I don't know exactly when they're gonna go full release But this is fairly Comprehensive as to what it should look like in the end once it does go to full release I'm gonna do a full review Couple highlights of the two version 2.4 is New PF Sense installer and that's cool It does support ZFS in UFI which I kind of like that the ZFS is particularly because you can set up full ZFS support And I'll show you that when we get to the installer part support for necking arm neck gate arm devices the SG-1000 and SG-3100 I've reviewed the SG-1000 I've actually put it in a small client with only a few computers and it works really good I've actually not had a problem with that I probably want to do a follow-up video when I get a chance on it and eventually I might order one of these SG-3100s and take a Look at them. I like the arm devices They're low wattage and they seem to work really well they move to the latest open open VPN 2.4 stream Which is great VPNs are really really important and more popular than ever We install a lot of them for our clients is one of the reasons I like PF Sense because they have a very simple way to Deploy VPNs on Windows boxes for people that want to remotely access their network More languages that's cool Web GUI improvements such as a new login page. Yeah, we'll show you that tooth login page Definitely new new certificate manager upgraded wireless stack. I've not done a lot of videos on the whole the whole wireless stack works And PF Sense is pretty neat. You can attach directly US wireless devices to it But we usually recommend, you know an external access point. That's we don't use it a lot They are deprecating 32-bit and nano BSD versions So those ones are going to be deprecated and no more support for that So let's go right in and take a look the installer and talk about what's new So you're familiar when you boot the CD. It looks pretty much the same as it did before I got it in my virtual machine here We'll go ahead and run through the installer most of it looks the same But they've just basically added some more menus because it's a newer version So you still have your install and rescue ignore the error message at 12-portion mobile It doesn't do that in regular hardware when I was testing it only does this in my virtual machine Continue with default mate keymap auto manual shell Auto ZFS guided route on ZFS. So I thought this was kind of cool So you choose the ZFS here and you can choose the disk type pool name force 4k What or not you want encryption? I like this too Good and bad is every time you reboot pf sense, you're gonna have to type in the disk Password on there because it is full Encryption does have the option to encrypt the swap as well. We're not going to do any disk encryption Well, I guess we could do encrypt to show you what it works Then we go back up here pool type stripe mirror raid raid z3. Yes, you can build your Pfsense on a raid z3 triple redundant. I think that's pretty slick So me a lot of people may just go for mirroring on it, but definitely cool That's I like the way that they have full ZFS in here select the drive And proceed with the install Are you sure you want to destroy 80 zero? Yep We got to put the password in for the ZFS encryption. I Chose something simple because this is just a virtual machine. I Like this too at the end the installation is now finished before exiting the installer Would you like to open a shell and make any final manual modifications? So if you're doing some real custom stuff They give you an option right here during installer to add your custom things We're gonna go ahead and reboot and go right into pfsense Now because we put a password on this disk The first thing it asks you as soon as you boot up is needs a password to decrypt the disk So go ahead and throw the password in it decrypts and then goes into the normal boot settings that you're used to And here's our regular menu now Here's the new sign-in page and still the default is admin and pfsense and a fresh install And we can then run through the configuration Which pretty much looks the same.  This is my little lab that I've got set up So if I blocked certain networks, I wouldn't be able to do certain things on there And we reload and it'll bring us back into the regular pfsense So the menus look pretty much the same here It's not substantially different except for this right here net gate services and support community support only you can Register your support description upgrade your support. So they've made it a little bit easier if you Have a support contract with them to put it all right in here and have that, you know Really one click available on there and you don't have to keep this menu. You can just go I don't want it and then the menus are still right in here Right here's the neck heat server support firewall logs dynamic system information a lot of these seem pretty much the same nothing substantial there Cert manager pretty much looks the same. I like I said, I'll go in-depth once they have the full version release that way I don't have anything that's bad information here, but for the most part the package management All the features really look very much like pfsense except for you know, a little bit of a logo change and The interface seems a little bit faster Having you know me load the same machine with pfsense several times because it's my virtual box It it seems like a little bit snappier the way the interface dropdowns are but until I really get into it I'm not gonna know it's all those it's really hard to tell it was so fast before it's not like this was really a problem but most everything's in the same familiar place and I Can't nothing substantial. So there's no big learning curve to do this I am excited for once they do final release have been playing around with this and walking through all the VPN stuff and everything else and Nothing like said nothing substantially different than previous likes all these menus look the same, but they've added more things To it. So they've added more options more algorithms This was actually Ported in as well in the old versions the use of a TLS key so you can have a predefined TLS key prior to Then you've got see layer two layer two tap mode most this is all the same as it was in the previous versions So nothing and the outside appears dramatically different, but it's mostly under the hood where they changed a lot of things But hopefully I have that full review done as soon as I find out when the release date is for this but I want to give you guys an overview and Show you with the new PF sense 2.4 Just kind of give a quick look at it and the installer the big things are that ZFS support which is awesome so she because if you really are mission critical you're gonna want to put this on a Solid either a raid set or however you want to stack it at minimum a mirror and gives you much more availability Based on that supports the disk encryption pretty nice If that's something important to you that way if anyone ever took your box They wouldn't have your VPN keys and everything that were in the box, which is you know pretty nice feature I don't know how absolutely necessary it is from a security standpoint because if they walk off of your VPN and get the Keys, then they have their VPN and you'll reload a new one and reload your keys at that point So but they do have it now it is on there I do like the way they give you a net gate device ID and a sign there that when when you set up your support contract If you need support from them you have some unique identifiers I know they're working more into the support services on there and Being helpful with that and I'll do a review like I said once it's released So thanks for watching if you like to content here like and subscribe


The governor of the state has warned criminals operating in the state that it will no longer be business as usual for them. The governor was speaking at the Peace Park in Yanagawa, the state capital, when he commissioned newly acquired vehicles for the state-owned security outfit. Operation Du Akbo, our correspondent at JSA, has the details. The commissioning of 50 operational vehicles and 40 motorbikes is the latest step by the government to protect lives and property in the state. The move, according to the governor, is meant to strengthen Operation Du Akbo to be more responsive. He also speaks of new innovations to the security outfit and warns criminals to have a rethink. The program has been re-designed and refreshed to be more responsive and responsible in carrying out its mandate and duties. We will continue to prioritize the safety of our people and do everything possible to prevent crimes from occurring. Miscreants can be assured and no crime that is committed in this state that will go unpunished. The event witnesses the signing into law. The Biasa State Community Safety Code bill passed by the State House of Assembly last month. The speaker of the State House of Assembly highlights the essence of the new law while the governor uses the avenue to advise law enforcement officers to protect the identity of those who volunteer information to them. And for the fact that some of us have been in the system for a period of time, we know what we have approved in construction of the infrastructure and health sector. And yet sometimes our people believe that government-owned properties are owned by everybody, so they can go in there and vandalize the structures that are put in place, making it to be heavily underutilized. This bill is going to address all those challenges we are having. I wish to appeal to our partners in the police and other security agencies to prioritize concealing the identity of good citizens who volunteer information. Without the assurance that they are protected, fewer people will feel inclined to report crimes and give tips, tip-offs. The newly commissioned vehicles have been positioned as strategic locations across the state, and residents hope to see a decline in incidences of crime, especially in the state capital. For Plus TV Africa, I am Jesse Essay. Thank you.