No good. Yeah, look speaking DTS logo swears But it's why I See it But yeah, if you uh, you know if you like I don't I don't even I don't even know I'd explain it really wasn't even about food They didn't really talk about food really This is the CNN one parts on yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like Debbie Harry was in it Like like like New York people that you'd be like wow, you know that pipe ready But everybody's fly Right, but yeah, I know it was um It was kind of a you know like an acid trip of a episode. There's a there's a holiday episode of Of his travel channel one which was No reservations, yeah, there's a holiday version of no reservations. It's all all kind of weird and What's her face from the food channel it shows up Well, that could be a lot of people Rachel Ray. Oh And Samantha Brown is in it and they play like evil versions of themselves What I know like every once in a while you watch one of these episodes and you're like this is a bit of a fever dream Yeah, yeah, you know like this seems like a fun show to work on Or was anyway, but um, yeah anyway, so if anyone wants a fever dream watch the Lower East Side episode of parts unknown Patrick Beja That is me. Are you prepared? I Came into this world prepared Yeah, too good already Shall we then begin? Sarah, are you ready? I am. Yeah me. We're all support. All right I will I will count us in then if everyone in the chat room is ready and everyone in the discord is ready Here and then we go in five four three two one Thanks to everyone who supports independent tech news Directly if you're not already a member become one at patreon.com slash DT and s This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday December 4th 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feel I and I'm Sarah Lane and from the Finnish countryside I'm Patrick Bejo And in for Roger Chang I'm associate producer Anthony Lemmos. Thank you for joining us Amos A lot of folks reached out and we're wondering if everything was okay with Amos up there in Alaska with the earthquake It was very kind of very very nice of you. I know Amos you appreciated all of that I really did everything is fine for the most part I don't know of anybody that got seriously hurt in a local community and definitely not in my in my home in my family Well, we are gonna talk about an epic adventure for epic games in developer Revenue sharing let's start with Facebook announces annual F8 conference will be held on April 30th through May 1st 2019 at the McEnnery Convention Center in San Jose, California Registration for the event isn't open yet, but developers can go to the F8 website for updates and more information Might be an interesting one Announced Monday that quote a malicious third party and quote gained access to its systems and CEO Adams D'Angelo says that the hack has may have compromised a hundred million users names Email addresses and encrypted passwords data imported from other social networks such as contacts and demographic Information could also be compromised the hackers may also have records on both public and private Actions taken on core So every developer out there Who's ever had a supervisor look at the plans to secure things better and said? Is that really gonna be a problem? Yes, and there's yes Yes, it will will absolutely become a problem IDC's estimates show that Xiaomi has taken over as the leader in wearable sales in the third quarter Thanks to the me band three fitness tracker Xiaomi's sales rose in India Europe and the Middle East Even while their home market share fell a little bit Apple fell from the lead in the wearables In IDC's estimates to second place. All right, let's talk about a crazy crazy set-top box Patrick So French telecom Iliad announced the free box Delta set-top box It has six devia led speakers Amazon voice services six Fox IOT service Zigbee smart phone smart home connectivity and more it has gigabit internet port ethernet port, sorry a Terabyte hard drive and can raid up to four drives to create an ass It supports airplay Bluetooth and Spotify connect and a suit of apps like YouTube daily motion and twitch Subscribers get the cheapest Netflix Netflix tier for free and new subscribers get a connected camera door sensor and motion detector For free as well the box costs 10 euros per month over 48 months on top of whatever service You're paying for it is as tanker TechCrunch writes a bowl of chocapique What's chocapique mean it is a delicious brand of cereal Chocolate flavored cereal as you might act so so meaning that this is a good deal It kind of is so that company Iliad is actually better known by the name of its ISP free which is the one that brought the triple play type set-top boxes to the world and the reason why in France set-top boxes or internet TV Boxes like the Apple TV and such took a while to get in because we essentially already had all of those things free is an ISP that is very geek centered and brings Innovation where other incumbents are very happy to not do anything new or different The drawback of that ISP is that it has very often had Spuddy service and has been fighting with YouTube and Netflix for peering agreements I'm guessing that by now given that they include a lot of those services in their offering They have worked things out probably with the commercial partnerships. I would guess Yeah Wow, so so if I have this right Patrick Xavier Neal is a big in the startup scene in France And so he's taken that Connectivity, you know that that that sort of knowledge and and got a bunch of startups to throw Everything they could think of his way for this box as I don't know if it's a last-ditch effort But it seems like you know sort of emergency effort to stop the erosion of freeze market share Um, I guess that could be seen like that Xavier Neal Xavier Neal or Xavier Neal If you want to pronounce it the American way Neal He's the guy behind the school 42. I guess you've heard about that one It's also being implemented in the valley if I'm not mistaken And it's not the first time that he's done something like this actually free has been known You know since the early 2000s when they launched the ISP they have always innovated and had interesting set-top boxes I think the recent issues have been Caused more by the quality of the service which I was referring to then by the quality of the Offering, you know of the the the thing they provide the hardware This seems to fix basically every problem they've had if the service the network improves and It also allows them to actually increase the price of the subscription to their To the ISP which had been stuck at 30 euros For a very long time and now it's 10 or 20 euros more expensive defending on the on the box you choose Which might help in turn? improve the service and their peering agreements and network and Be a tasty bowl of chocolate stuff Something today Windows central sources say that Microsoft's Edge web browser which I don't know I don't know what you guys think about it But I have lots of grumbling to do is going to be replaced with a new web browser built on the open source chromium platform And it's blink rendering engine which is the same as Google's Chrome Code named Anna Hyme the new browser for Windows 10 would replace Edge as the default browser on the platform Although if you if you don't like Edge, it still might be called Edge But maybe a better version of Edge. Yeah, so a lot of I think opera uses the blink engine If I'm yeah mistaken right so this would not be the first time that another browser has used this engine Although the way Windows central wrote it and I'm not sure if this is a misinterpretation or not They would actually be using chromium not just the blink engine I would be a little bit surprised if they actually used chromium and rebranded it as Edge Although it's an open source platform. They there would would be able to do that if they wanted They're just using the blink rendering engine. That's a little more normal I do think it's really interesting to see an open source project that's owned and run by Google Having Microsoft jump on board in a major way That could be very good for things if that forces that open source project to move a little bit away from From being dominated by Google at the same time if they were going to do that I really wish they would have jumped into Mozilla and and use the Firefox engine Which is also an open source project that is operated by an independent foundation I think it might have had other I think it would have seen Mozilla might have been seen to be tainted by Microsoft more than chromium for some strange reason, you know my Mozilla is super independent and seen as one of the Non-influenced by the big tech companies entity I'm wondering if they're gonna be calling it Edge I think they might need to change the name if only to get a feeling of newness, maybe they could I don't know go to something to explore the wonderful world of the Internet like the Internet Explorator I think it's just gonna be all that I think it's just gonna be the Just To the blink engine that didn't re-name opera why would you're moving off of edge HTML? because because one of the issues is that edge has is carrying a negative image So, I don't know. Maybe maybe I think that's giving edge too much credit I don't think And keeping the name I think actually helps the edge brand rather than Microsoft being like oh now We got a whole new browser because edge was a failure a new image Hmm CB did there alphabet will launch its wing drone delivery service Patrick in Helsinki Finland this Oh Wings spent 18 months in southeastern Australia testing delivery of food drinks medicine and household items And now wants to expand that to the Helsinki area Meanwhile Ghana has signed an agreement with zipline international for the delivery of health supplies nationwide Zipline already does this in Tanzania and Urwanda although Ghana's parliament Deferred the finalization of the agreement while it completes regulatory checks There's also some debate about the cost of the program. So It's it's not going into effect yet But zipline is very successful in Tanzania and Urwanda and if it does Navigate the political obstacles here in Ghana. This would this would be a big win for them These are actual your own delivery operations from actual companies in both cases You may be thinking hey, what about Amazon weren't they supposed to do this? Well as a matter of fact five years ago December 1st CBS is 60 minutes did its famous story quote-unquote About Amazon's promise to deliver packages by drone and in that story as Reuters points out. Oh, actually I'm sorry AP AP news points out Amazon said yeah, we'll be delivering packages by drone within four to five years I don't know. Maybe they didn't mean we as an Amazon. Maybe they meant we as the human race Which case they were right Well, it's not as if Amazon isn't Practicing this whole thing. So yeah, I mean might be a little romantic argument But it's not as if Amazon isn't trying to make this happen and certainly Test using it how Patrick is is there anything? I don't know You know as far as drone delivery in in your neck of the woods where it would make more sense than than other topographic areas You know, I live about two hours away from Helsinki So literally my neck of the woods is literally my neck of the actual woods So I don't know what range those drones have but I'm guessing that Helsinki means, you know, probably Helsinki I don't I don't think I would have great use for it in a very rural area. It's almost faster to go by car It probably is I never really thought about this But I'm guessing it's a little bit more useful in urban areas. I mean, I'd love to I guess it's not practical Right its zipline is doing this in Irwanda and Tanzania because it's difficult to drive medical supplies and of course Of course, you know over the mountains of terrain Or through jungle terrain in some cases So I don't know if your roads are frozen and you want to order some stuff and it could come to you by drone That might that might if they deliver pizza pizza then Yes, I Mean yes, man after my own heart Brazil's who box robotics it has created the wheelie seven that uses AI to recognize 10 facial expressions That can be used to control a wheelchair Users can assign expressions like raising an eyebrow or sticking out your tongue to movements like forward rotate and stop Who box partnered with Intel to create a combination of deep depth sensing camera robotics and sensors to work with facial recognition software 60 people in the US are testing the system. I Love this story now Intel is trumpeting this as an example of using Intel technologies But I want to give who box robotics the credit for assembling all this stuff And granted Intel is a big part of this with the development of the technology behind it But who box is is implementing it? So so I don't know if they're getting as much of the credit in some of the stories that I saw So I kind of wanted to tilt it their way But what a what a great situation to be able to For for you know for folks who who have to rely on sensors especially and can't even operate a joystick This could be this could be revolutionary Right that that's really the kind of thing that is not going to be useful for a lot of people on this planet But those who will have a use for it Because I'm guessing they can't really make any use of their limbs. It's gonna be super useful I'm guessing yeah, yeah Well, and you know in the sense of and of course, it's very case-by-case, but you know some folks who are quadriplegic have been able to to to to make use of their wheelchair by By their tongue, but that means something that is in their mouth that their tongue is actually touching So if there's something that's in front that gives you a little bit more freedom To to use the technology to to get around but it'd be less invasive personally than physically I can imagine that that is a real win for accessibility folks. Yeah, it really feels like People that had an issue that they know they knew were an issue that looked for a solution Rather than something that often happens in tech a solution that then looks for an issue To solve well said a New study by duck duck go claims that Google Personalizes search results even if users are logged out of their Google accounts and using the private browsing in Cognito mode Google responded by saying that search results can change by the minute sometimes even by the second Especially for news topics the company also says that personalization is done Only a fraction of the total number of search queries and location and recent queries are often used to help understand the context for a search However, Google also says that it doesn't personalize Results for incognitive searches using signed-in search history, which is something that people are a little worried about Well, I guess that doesn't sound like a straight answer to me Right now, let me just say something here.  I love their business model I love their way of approaching things. This is This is a little bit of self serving. It is very self serving And what duck duck go go built their reputation on is we don't track you We just look at your search query. And if you are typing in, you know DVDs will put up ads for people who sell DVDs, right? We'll just base on the query I mean, google could create a study That shows the duck duck go is is tracking you even though they don't say because they serve ads related to your search query Which would be similar to this because I do believe what google says, which is that they take into account location Which comes from your ip address. It's not your gps location But it's your region and they take it into account previous queries Which duck duck go also does and then comes up Search engine results and I do believe that google is changing those results Every second because of the way their algorithm works and it would appear Difficult to create the same results twice in that situation. So I'm not letting google off the hook Maybe there is some other stuff and it's worth investigating to find out But just on the information we have from duck duck go. I don't know that this is a smoking gun Hmm, I'm I think They google could have stated it a little bit more plainly, which worries me whenever a company doesn't Explanation though. This is as plain as you can state it if this is the truth well I'm I it seems to me that What What duck duck go is saying is well, it personalizes your site search google could have said yes, we use Uh, uh, you know, we use location and that's it. What else like let's give a list of what they use to personalize Doesn't personalize results for incognito searches using signed it search history period. Yes I know what duck duck go What was saying Okay, maybe you did the main contention outright. I don't know man Well, yes, okay, that is the most important thing like if you if they were using your signed in information When you weren't signed in that would be a huge concern and they do refute that so I take your point Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines Dot com now you may have been wondering about the epic game story Well, yeah epic games announced it will launch its own digital game store for mac and windows version of android will come later in 2019 you'll be able to get it online or through the epic games launcher Uh, which if you play fortnite you use the epic games launcher, uh, epic says it will not require drm Uh in order to be in its store. They'll allow drm free sales and here's the big point developers will receive 88 percent of revenue from sales Users of the unreal engine who usually have to share a percentage of their sales In order to use the unreal engine will not have to pay that five percent engine royalty on sales through the epic store It'll just be part Of the 12 percent that epic assist keeping now that goes against the usual 30 percent That most stores like steam take in fact steam recently instituted tiers lowering the cut it takes to below 30 percent But only if your revenue tops 10 million dollars More information on the epic games store is coming probably december 6th at the game awards. Patrick. This is kind of a big deal It is a huge deal, especially since this announcement is coming Like three days before steam announced that they would graciously lower their percentage from 30 percent to 25 percent if you top 10 million and then to 20 percent If you topped think of a number what number do you think you have to top to get to See if I remember it right is it 50 million 50 million which only two games in the history of steam have reached And this seemed like a pretty big deal when steam announced it a couple of days ago and epic is essentially destroying the This that announcement ridiculing it with their own announcement I'm pretty sure it's so close together that they can't have planned it. I doubt they did To come out so close so so close to one another, but this is really significant because the PC game store Ecosystem has been kind of stagnant for years now ever since ever since valve Launched their steam store and it's been over 10 years It took a few years to to gain traction But it certainly has been the main way that people get their games on pc for a long time And this is in the context of more and more developers and publishers big ones Creating their own platform their own storefront For people to reach their Subscriber their customers directly With that kind of revenue share It almost I don't know how much it costs to put up and maintain that kind of store But i'm guessing for many of the publishers It doesn't really make sense to have your own store if you can keep 88 percent of the revenue that you're getting from the epic store So i'm guessing a lot of them Might decide maybe not the big big ones But a lot of the middle tier ones might decide, you know what let's go with epic um That being said Steam still has the majority Of the player base as their customers. So it's still, you know, the familiarity of it is important epic Does have they recently announced 200 million Fortnite players 200 million steam by comparison has 100 million users Of course a large part of those 200 million fortnight players are playing on mobile So it's probably a fraction of that that play on pc, but it's significant It's a lot of people that you can insight to come to your pc store. So It is massive for the the gaming world on pc already for sure Yeah, imagine we've talked about with discord opening its store The idea that well with so many people using discord chat while they game What a perfect thing for discord to do to say hey, why don't you just buy your games here since you're already here while you're gaming Imagine fortnight, right? I mean discord as popular as it is is not as popular as fortnight Uh, and and if you could start a game store on the front of fortnight Why wouldn't you now granted? I imagine this is a question I have patrick I don't know if you know the answer Is it costly to publish to multiple platforms that seems to be the wisest choice if you can do it to say Yeah, I'll make my game available on discord on steam on epic And maybe I'll promote it to epic more because I keep more of the revenue But why not have it in all the places? Well, traditionally there hasn't really been many places There's been right. Yeah, there's been steam. Maybe good old games if you want to publish there as well Now there is also discord, which you might want to go to But this one is really significant because if you get to keep 88 percent You might even be able to price it a little bit lower And still get more money, especially if you don't have to pay the five percent If your game is an unreal engine game and you don't have to pay the five percent on top to epic Because if you sell on steam and it's an unreal engine game You have to pay 30 percent of valve and then five percent to epic So the the the amount you get to keep is significant and I think This is a massive incentive for companies to put their games on on on The epic store And sure, you can put it on every store if you want to but I'm guessing that some developers might want to put it first on the epic game store And then maybe put it to steam later and if it's a game that is highly anticipated They might want to put it, you know to they might want be enough to drive people to the epic store and pay a little bit less maybe even and one other thing I wanted to add is in the context of the potential Arrival of streaming technology, you know video game streaming The it's we've talked about it a lot. It might be coming in the in the next few years Um More and more developers are not beholden to a to either steam or Sony or microsoft for the consoles they can reach their Customers directly because they can they only need a small app on a setup box or a tv or something like this or even a mobile device um Steam is getting Not attacked, but you know, there's danger everywhere right now Valve is looking at the five year ten year future and thinking You might need to change things And the last thing I want to add. I'm wondering if this will have an impact on the general model of Stores take 30% that's the way it is. It's like that everywhere and that's the standard It might potentially have an impact on Stores in general potential. Yeah, right and and consumers Does it matter to you? If you have a few different icons on your desktop where you've got things bought at different places or Or is this bothersome and you will really just want to have one place That holds all your digital games or are you like nah? I'm just going to buy physical copies forever forget it Not even going to be part of this unless I got a coupon. Let us know feedback at daily tech news show.com Also, thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddit You can submit stories and vote on others at daily tech news show reddit.com if you hang out on facebook a lot Well, we've got a group for you facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show And we love your emails. We do we do we do keep sending them. What do we got today? Oh nick actually wrote in he was talking about our our conversation about 8k broadcasts And do we need them and where's it all going? Nick says I work at one of Australia's largest department store chains Among our many other lines. We carry dvds blu rays and 4k u hd blu rays Despite most tvs in the market these days being 4k including the ones that we sell dvds are still the most popular optical disc that we sell I'd estimate we sell about 20 dvds for every blu ray that gets sold 4k u hd blu ray sales are so rare I almost want to stop the person buying and ask them about their purchase Personally, I feel if the tv industry wants to push higher resolutions They're going to need to work with movie studios to phase out lower quality media and force an upgrade To people's viewing habits That's a good point and it's good to get those boots on the ground perspectives I imagine the reason you see more dvds sales is that more people have dvds players than blu ray players And anybody who's not in the market for dvds anymore just streams And hasn't bothered to buy a blu ray player Well, that's me for sure And I think that's where it's going and and to nick's point that the tv industry wants to push higher resolutions They need to get those 4k streams up They need to get bandwidth up so that people feel comfortable that they're not going to go over their caps if they have a cap Or they have enough bandwidth to stream a high resolution Stream and we've already seen the stores like play store and the apple store both automatically upgrading you to 4k content Because the they convinced the industry like hey, you need to do this you need to get people used to it So they're willing to buy the 4k movies if they have the 4k tv Well, thanks so much for the feedback nick and thanks for everybody for their feedback And also thanks to patrick beijer for being with us today patrick Where can people keep up with all of your fine fine work? 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So we push his voice Gotta save it For the next ritual misery Um, but yeah, if anyone could fill in for roger, I mean who better than amos. They're both sick It's really the coughing side of things as well Uh, hey, uh, sarah Yes, what should we call this episode? Well, I'm glad you asked tom I am um Yes, uh, so We've got uh, some of our top, uh ideas are google says go duck yourself I feel like it would be more Dr. Go says google yourself, but we're kind of Uh, um chrome chrome on the edge Interesting, uh deliveries from a to z Uh chrome and edgy clothing Okay, you guys are really getting Very creative, um Opening up the valve Uh, unreal amounts of money unreal amounts of money that one's not bad Uh, I vote for it and I disappear into the night Ah Like a finished vampire Essentially Uh, I'm sure they there are there's a lot of goths and metal heads, which aren't the same thing Now, uh, where are you in relation to romania, right? Yeah, we're not very close. No, I mean it depends. We're closer to romania than we are to the us So I don't know that or than we are to romania Yes, exactly That are americans. All right. Well, good Oh, keep on it patrick. Thank you very much. Uh, next week I will be in paris. I I hope I don't uh, get accosted by myriads of yellow vest people I just bring a bring a high vis with you and I'll just think you're part of them Yeah, I'm I'm not sure that would be a good thing either. So I'll try to be uh Invisible like a vampire. I have training here. Yeah, so your vampire skills with you. You'll be fine. I hope I will see you again in two weeks. Okay. Yes. Be safe Bye Patrick safe Keep yourself safe against those vampires. You know, they're in finland They got you you know, what's going on in paris right now with the uh, the big protests and everything, right? well, yeah I Hopefully patrick will not be uh in peril In peril, right. Yes, or otherwise Is So What else is new? How's otis? Otis is good. Otis is um, he's uh, let me move this. Um, he is Sleeping soundly. He snored. He he sawed some sawed some logs throughout the show. Um, nobody apparently heard It was really funny. Um We uh, I had a real busy morning And so, you know, I I I like to take him out for like a good hour in the morning And we just didn't have time to do that this morning. So I kind of every time I would go outside to, you know Get something from my car or whatever, you know, I'd take him with me just so he could have a little A little bit, but I think it it tuckered him out enough that he's he's having his afternoon slumber as usual but um When we came back from like the third time in our, you know, darting outside to do whatever we were doing Lo and behold lucy was in his crate Uh, which is lucy is a cat. Um, and she noticed get along fine. Yeah, but she's never gone into his crate before What was she doing in there? She was just she was just chilling in there During a certain time of day a little bit earlier than this because I'm I'm looking at a window right now Um, the um, his crate gets like direct sun And so she obviously has been like monitoring this and while we were out She was like this is my house and so she got in there and was just like very pleased with herself You know and Otis kind of like came back in and because he likes to he likes to hang out in his crate Most of the time when we're at home.  I was like, I don't know man She's in the crate She's I mean there's room for both of you. It's a huge crate and he was like, mm-hmm won't do it Uh, as much of a good instagram moment as that would be for you mom not gonna do that not gonna do it Um, finally, you know, because I sat in here, which is you know, the crate It's right next to me right here and he was like, maybe I'll try and she was like, okay I'm out of here But it was I was like we're getting to the point where those two are gonna be in the crate together I see it happening by Christmas mark my words Bad story for that picture. I'm already pre-liking it I am too No, they're they get along fine. They get along fine. So you haven't met Kai? Have I met him? Oh, Kai's in Amos's lap Oh Oh my gosh, Kai is so much bigger than I thought he would be at this point Oh, look at those ears I mean Kai is looking a lot like Ray. Am I right?  Um, he comes from a line of very large dogs.  Oh my gosh 140 Yeah, he's uh, he's he's about 40 pounds right now And he's what what you'd like 10 weeks He's he's right at right at 15. I think 15. Okay. Well, yeah, he's gonna be big At least 100 Oh, look at Kai. What a cute heart I know the audio listeners that this is, you know, torture Well, you know, if there's any incentive to watch video, you'll see all of our pets At least Kai I keep Ray and Sawyer away because they will start barking at the mailman Dude, are they mailman? Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, like every day without fail type thing. Yeah, we had a package delivered earlier and and That's how I know a package is coming the the amazon notice comes well after the package is delivered But the dog notice comes in in advance for sure Ray is right at the door just like Just ready. Yeah, I remember A dog that we had as a kid who was she wasn't a german shepherd, but she was sort of a Well, anyway, she was she was a mix of something that did not like postmen post people And yeah, it was a whole thing When when the mailman came It was a whole thing to make sure like not only was she sort of subdued but that she wasn't out and about Because she might have Launched herself at him. It's it's a it's not a uh, it's not particular to the mailman It's it's anybody that isn't me or aileen coming to the door right stranger danger Yeah, although in our old she's doing what she thinks she's supposed to do In our old place and and and you know if it was a burglar then you know, she's right. Yeah uh, so we're used to Not only bark at the mailman in the old place, but he knew the mailman smell So when we were out on a walk, even if we were Blocks away and he saw the mailman.  Is it you know, what is it? Oh, no, because when we moved to this region I keep them in a back room while I do the show So they can't get up to the door. We see the mailman when we're out walking now in the new area He doesn't bark so ours doesn't know the mailman here from anyone else Not that the mailman smelled I just mean like, you know sure just well Yeah, I mean dogs sniff each other's butts. Yeah, so you need a dog a dog can hear your particular vehicle from like a mile away as you're coming home Um, Kai has gotten he spends enough time down here in the office that he actually can tell when david is walking in the kitchen upstairs Because he'll start getting really antsy but only for david anybody else walks upstairs. He doesn't care But when david does my son he gets really antsy and I gotta let him go so you can go up there and play with david Oh, that's so cute. He mentions david's footfalls They know when I open the drawer that has my workout clothes in them From across the house and come running because they think maybe he'll take us on a run You know this morning I live across the street from an elementary school And they were you know, no kids actually really show up there until about 8 a.m I don't know when school is in session, but it's like it's a ghost town until about 8 And I'm up earlier than that doing whatever and this morning because there's like a You know loud speakers where you know, they talk to the kids or whatever But at 7 a.m. It was sort of like this is a test of the emergency you know one of those things where they were they were testing basically like smoke alarms or whatever And um, it was disruptive You know, whatever it was obvious what was happening I wasn't actually worried because I I heard the you know the warning beforehand But odis was just like he wasn't even upset. He was like he just was looking at me like What is this sound? What is that? I don't understand. I've never heard this so before. What do I do? What do I do? Yeah, just like, you know kind of just like I'll sniff this corner Um, and oh no, it's still happening. You know, maybe I'll pick up one of your shoes Okay, that won't help either And it's just sort of like you kind of have to laugh because it's so like you can see like the wheels in motion of him being like Why why is this happening? This does not happen at 6 30 a.m. Ever. Yeah 6 30 a.m. Oh Well, I mean I was up so it wasn't the end of the world, but It feels illegal Like you can't you can't do construction that early you have to depending on the neighborhood It's 7 or 8 a.m. Before you can actually start doing construction. I mean, this is a very big elementary school I mean it takes up a whole city block So who knows maybe there maybe there was a fire Safety issue where they just had to do it before the kids got there this morning. I don't know I was up wasn't the end of the world, but odis was just like What's this noise? poor kid Well Yeah What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Yeah I have found that kai loves going outside and getting in the truck. He loves getting out of the truck and coming inside He does not like to drive very much So he just basically sits in the back in In wimpers instead of roll the window down everything else and he'll just sit in the back and just like i'm not having this This is not good I know uh Sawyer doesn't really like To be in cars Oh, what else loves a good car ride? He's actually really good in the car. I mean I took him on a you know seven hour Yeah way road trip, you know early on in our in our union and he was great He slept the whole time, you know politely waited for us to you know Stop at our little rest stop and did his thing and he's really good in the car So I I think my lucky star is because I know some dogs are not um but uh We had a uh a friend's dog who just freaked out in the car like wind and and and stuff. It was just Yeah, right or some dogs get like carsick right or um Yeah, we're just sort of don't handle the bodily stuff that they would normally because it freaks him out Mm-hmm I mean, you know Otis has his moments, but at least in the car he can Keep his ish together Folks those are your last dog stories today. Thanks for listening We're watching and video or audio folks stick around who knows we might change topics. We might not You'll know in a minute


Hi today on Typical Books, it is the end of the bookshelf tour. Episode 10 of the bookshelf tour. Now I have gone through basically every book in the house. There are a few shelves here and there that have books on them, like here and there, but they're not really, yes they're books, they're books, but they don't fit into booktube. Although I have covered like the art of Diablo book, stuff like that, they don't really fit in. There are also stacks of books upstairs that aren't featured in this mostly because I forgot about them or they're books that are to be read and my to be read pilot doesn't end up on the shelves yet. With the course I noted exception of the V.C. Andrews shelf, which you'll see today, most of which I have not read, because I've read a lot of V.C. Andrews as a kid piecemeal and I was very young, some of it I reread as a teen and fell totally in love with and one of those isn't even here on the shelf. And of course the Anne Rice shelf, which I'm not going to go through book by book. There are many, many booktubers. If you know a booktuber that does specifically only V.C. Andrews or specifically only Anne Rice, let me know in the comments for sure. But yeah, I'll skim over those and as promised I'll go back to that little stack of extreme horror fiction and the little bit larger stack of graphic novels. So without much more time to waste, here is part 10, the final part of the bookshelf tour. Okay, so here we are with some of the V.C. Andrews paperback. You can see some books are upside down. They're not really in order and this is quite disordered because basically aside from Garden of Shadows and I think I'd started reading secrets in the attic, most of these I have not read. These are V.C. Andrews that I haven't read, especially these small series here. Very fascinating and something that I will get into when it's a rainy day reading day. Moving up one level, we have the second row of the hardcover collection. They're all book club editions from what I can understand and they were wonderful copies that came to me from my husband who had supplied me with the bookshelf and this wonderful collection. There is one V.C. Andrews book not in the series that you'll see at the top and it is Flowers in the Attic, oddly enough. And here we are with the top row starting with Seeds of Yesterday, Fallen Hearts and into some of the Castile books. I really love this collection and it is in order by section to a certain extent but yeah there are some editions missing which I do want to flush someday that's for sure. And some are in the midst of being read so hey what do you do? They really are in lovely condition though I will say. They're all book club editions. Some are stamped with the library of the person that had owned them. Fashioned after the paperbacks with the step back covers.  They're all really quite plain, slight foxing on the dust jacket. Just beautiful classic V.C. Andrews cover art. My gosh I love this collection. I don't know if the embossing is going to show up here. This is a BVR and I can't make it out in most of the books. Yeah I'm not sure I'll try and take a rubbing of it or something like that if I can. I don't know who this collection came from but they were well loved that is for sure. This one's a little more clear I don't think it's showing up on there but B Vondell Roddy V-O-N-D-E-L-L-R-O-D-D-I-E is what the embossed mark says. So that is it for the V.C. Andrews collection. We're going to head upstairs and wrap up a quick panning of the Anne Ray's collection. Okay here is a wonderful Anne Ray's collection that belongs to my husband and he's just got an eye for collections and great locket seams. We start out in order here with Interview with the Vampire and onward into some Mayfair witches and things like that. Taltos has got to be one of my favorite Anne Ray's collections that isn't directly like Lasher and Taltos together that isn't Interview with the Vampire that isn't specifically Lestat's tail. Lasher may be being my runner-up to the original two Interview and Vampire Lestat. Not pictured here of course is one of my other favorite Anne Ray's books via Lynn. Okay and as promised we are going to go through these lovely graphic novels. There's a lot missing. I'm not that ardent of a collector. Chris is definitely the collector out of the two of us so his collections are typically in a lot better order and mine are piecemeal at best. Clyde Barker's Book of the Damned Hellraiser Companion. That was a gift from an ex as was this Book of the Damned II. This is something I picked up at Ron Sutton's table at a Comic-Con. He does a story in this. The tell-tale heart on page 113 fittingly enough. More out-of-order Hellraiser volume one Clyde Barker's masterpieces. Lovely artwork in this. I had to find a more level spot to place these. Hellraiser is a dark watch. More just absolutely beautiful barely spine cracked splendor. More Hellraiser. Are we sensing a theme here? Yeah some standalone so we're gifts here and there from other people. Yeah just beautiful stuff. Three lock and key. I thought I had more lock and key but I don't so I am an active collector of lock and keys. We've got number six three and one and I know I had two somewhere I just don't know what happened to it but I do love the art of these and I watched the story like the Netflix version. I believe it was Netflix or Shutter. I like the books better. The Crow special edition James O'Barr of course the classic Crow. Beautiful stuff and we're into some 30 days of night so this is all here 30 days of night. I'll put it in order later because I see it's out of order a little tiny bit here but we had gone on a bit of a hunt for 30 days of night because I've never read any of this at all. I saw the first one in the store like I mentioned in the previous and the vampire video that I've done. I've never read it. I saw it. I was too broke at the time to buy any of it so here we are. And you may recall from Halloween Thon this is crossed. We don't have a lot of crossed. It's hard to come by and there's more of it I believe downstairs but I'll have to look. And just for curiosity's sake I'm going to just flip through this collection really quick. The cover of Despumation if you didn't get a chance to see it before. Edward Lee's Carnal Surgery. Edward Lee's Mangled Meat. These are not for the faint of heart. Gentle Grinder. There's two copies here like Porno for Psycho's Wrath James White and Bullet Through Your Face Edward Lee. So that was fun huh? You can see here I've rearranged stuff since you know and there have been books added and and detracted from the piles since I started this bookshelf tour. I've kind of tried doing like a rainbow order here. It's nearly impossible with like this particular mess of a collection. You can't really see but it does go into white so I posted like a small white stack because I was surprised I had that many white books on Instagram. Anyhow I enjoyed that a lot more than I thought I would and I'm glad that I'm done it. You know 10 episodes in bookshelf tour. Now I am going to get some more Billy bookcases because I really like the look of those over these piecemeal cases. So who knows our bookshelves may change very much so I may revisit this let's say when I hit a thousand or two thousand or five thousand subscribers or whatever whatever milestone or just having pretty bookshelves. Maybe I'll redo the tour someday in a way but it won't be as long drawn out. So as it stands here we are 10 episodes of bookshelf tour. I hope you enjoy it very much. As a bookend no pun intended to that I am going to do a tag. Over at Minx Laura's 123's Wacky World she has a brand new bookshelf tag that I could not resist and I am a new subscriber of hers definitely and I really enjoyed the questions for this bookshelf tag and like she says in her video she made it because she wanted to make a tag and because she's nosy and hopefully I appease a little bit of that and I'd like to follow up some of these videos. I've watched a lot of bookshelf tours but a bookshelf tag specifically if you're looking to do a bookshelf tour but don't want to invest the time or whatever reason this tag might be for you. So thank you again for the 10th time watching my bookshelf tour and enjoy the upcoming bookshelf tag or if you've done a bookshelf tour recently of your own let me know in the comments and of course have an oaky spooky day.


What's up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebakes.com. This is our last and only filler guys to unlock eight spots in hip parade, multi-sport jaspys exclusive with this 2023 certified football one box break number one, sorry. No, it's not gonna count. All right guys, so let's do the break first. Here's the names, teams, and then at the end we'll re-randomize the original list and top eight get in three times. One, two, three. Tristan down, Matt Arnold. One, two. Commanders on the cowboys. All right, again, so no trading guys because it's just a quick little filler box. D-Fest has not caught up yet. That was convenient if you don't match that effort on D-Fest. To an officer, we've asked me, it's a key job to tell the stress when we cut to like six, they would tell you about it a little bit. They gotta be precise with the capacity. It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. It's okay, it's okay. We're gonna go a minute plus play, the jack-in-the-box kind of thing. We're gonna start with whatever it is. Eat big, spend small, eat that big. All right, guys, here we go. First one, Rashawn Johnson for the Chicago Burrs, to $2.99. Michael with that one. We got AJ Brown to $1.99. And a Grady Jarrett to $1.99. Oh, redemption. Whoa, Jalen Carter. Flag was flag, who has my Eagles? Michael P does, there you go, man. Jalen Carter, potential defensive rookie of the year. Stinson Bennett, you got a little Pacheco. And we have A.E. Jets, Canton certified Joe Cleco. Jets going to Tris, James and William 250. And we got a Jameer Gibbs to $2.49. And Anthony Richardson to $3.99. That's kinda cool. Kev, a little Anthony Richardson rookie coming in with, number to $3.99. You guys, there you go. Nice little filler box there, not too shabby. Now let's switch things and let's do the giveaway for these spots in the break. So you got top eight getting, guys, top eight. Roll it. Six and a one, lucky number seven. Top eight are in after seven times. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven times, seven, seven. Top eight are in. That's missing almost Tris, but you did have a handful of spots, which I figured you'd have to have some of them top eight. First one out, first one in there. Tris, Matt Arnold, Jimmy, Michael, Kev, Michael, and Michael. There you guys go. So there you go. Top eight are in. And again, we're just missing those last three full spots, guys. Then we can get this going. Appreciate you guys. Jasperyskatesbreaks.com.


So we're very proud in British Columbia to be hosting the Canadian leg of the Women's World Rugby 7 Series. We expect about 6,000 people to spend the weekend at the Langford Tournament, May 27th and 28th of this year. I know for a community like Langford, having the Women's Series come there and to bring it into the community on to Vancouver Island has got so many benefits. And we know that sport is the foundation of communities. I'm delighted today to be able to continue our support for the HSBC Canada Women's 7th Tournament and today we're delighted to announce $130,000 in funding for the Women's Tournament. I've got to thank the provincial government here today announcing that funding, $130,000 is amazing for you guys to show that support and thank you for your support that you've given us all the way along. We wouldn't be there in Langford with Rugby Canada centred there if it wasn't for your guys' support. This funding has made a huge difference. We're very, very proud of the tournament. It is the best stop in my mind and I know the feedback we got from some of the female players. They love coming here to the Victoria-Langford area. I can report to you that the attention, what we talked to the ministers about activating, getting fans and families to come here and visit, providing opportunities for our athletes and growing an event that is truly world-class, that is happening. I'd just like to say on behalf of my entire team, the funding that we are getting from the BC government is amazing and it's just something that's going to help get us to where the smaller we need to be and that's winning. This women's team is one of the leading teams in the world and this tournament brings the best in the world here and we're on that stage both as a hosting province but also as a competing country. This is great opportunities to be able to have these events supported by the province. Thank you Minister Bond and Minister Fassbender for the support. This is a very, very exciting time for the game and we're really looking forward to the end of May in Langford and we'll be there to cheer you guys on and wish you the very, very best of luck.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. I'm bringing you another video today about the wonderful OBS PulseFX, I should say, program on Ubuntu Linux. It's kind of the best equalizer that there is on this platform. I'm going to talk through it today. Now I did a video about last year in which I kind of went through PulseFX as well, but I went through like every setting and everything in that program and I wanted to record a slightly snappier update just to kind of get to the key things that might change the audio. Now just want to firstly say what I'm recording with. Ubuntu 2204, 2004 LTS, I think 2004. I must admit I've become a lazy Ubuntu user. I just upgrade whenever there's a new LTS release. I'm recording into OBS Studio. I'm recording using the Audio Technica 802020 which is an XLR studio microphone. That is going into the Beringer Euphoria UM2 audio interface. That is connected via USB. In terms of levels, 60% gain about on the audio interface. I think that's the sweet spot where I don't get clipping because this isn't a Ubuntu video. I'll show you guys quickly my setting here in Pulse Audio. It's actually 100% as in 0 dB as in there is at the level it's supposed to be. And if I can unlock the UI for a second, I'll show you guys the audio mixer. I'm applying a minus 4.3 gain in OBS and that's just to try to stop it clipping, clipping, clipping. I'm speaking intentionally loud so you can see it's getting up to the level, the yellow area when I'm speaking in a normal voice. So, let me just put my audio mixer back where it belongs. What I want to do for today's video is to show you guys Pulse Effects and how to use it and what you might want to change. The first thing to say is if you are using Pulse Effects as an equalizer, that means it can change the different volume of different frequencies. You can apply effects and Pulse should give you a clue that it's related to Pulse Audio. So, it's part of that. It works with Pulse Audio and it's a really nice program. It's in the default repositories so you should be able to do a sudo apt apt install Pulse Effects and it should just install. So, as installing a bunch of programs goes pretty easy. Now, by default you're looking at, you can see, look up here in the top left where my mouse is. You can see by default it's editing the output, right? So, think about it. If you had your computer hooked up to an iSync system, this would be pretty useful. You could be playing music and equalizing the output but obviously when we're talking about equalizing microphones for recording, we're talking about working on input. So, other sides. So, the first thing you want to do is click on to microphone. Now, the way this works is pretty useful. The best way to explain this is by, I'm just going to bring myself a bit smaller is by thinking of, you know, perhaps a pancake or something or like a little row of layers. So, you have your microphone connected to your computer and then that microphone is going to be sending its sound off to different applications. So, rather than apply changes to the input to the microphone, it's going to be applying changes and getting kind of between the program. So, in this case, I'm speaking into my audio technical microphone. That is then recording into OBS. So, OBS is taking the microphone stream and what we're going to do here is put the pulse effects between OBS and the microphone. So, we have the microphone coming into the computer, then we're going to apply some effects in OBS and then that input stream with the effects will go into OBS with the changes. So, I'm not sure that's clear but that's kind of the way that this program works. So, in other words, not to belabor, not to belabor the point but if I didn't want to, if I just wanted to change my microphone to OBS and not in another program, I could do that. So, the first thing to say is while I'm recording in OBS and now, the microphone you're listening to is running through pulse effects and you can see that the different frequencies have started to appear there. We can see the whole across from 20 Hz all the way to 10 Hz and as I speak, they're going up. So, it's pretty cool. Okay, so next thing we can do here is we can say, okay, well, where the effects are going to be applying, we can just turn down the microphone a little bit. So, 100% and watch as we go down. You can't hear me. You can't hear me. You can't hear me. Now, you can hear me and I'm just going to kind of leave it there at about 90%. Now, I'm going to just show you my OBS for a second. I'm going to turn off the preview window so we don't get the, this is what it's looking like. So, okay, back to this. So, now we've got our little offset here a little bit too high actually, 89%. And now we can apply some effects, some effects that we may wish to apply. So, the very useful one I would say is equalizer. So, you can click into equalizer and until you actually click on this, you're not going to be, but now once I've clicked it in the left menu, we can see our equalization is beginning to apply somewhere. So, I needed to click on the settings thing, click on the presets and you can also apply presets.  So, these kind of more bass and treble. So, let's just go for more bass. I'm going to apply this now. So, as you can see, we have now applied a preset and if all is working correctly, my voice should sound a little bit different. Now, let's go up to dance and apply that preset and we've done it again, more bass. Now, you can also start at a preset and then change things. So, you can see the 60 hertz frequency here is currently increased by 10. I can just push this up. So, I can start with the preset and now that you can see, I can see I'm clipping rates on my level meter and then play around with the preset. But so, the preset can kind of be a good starting point and you can work from there. So, now, watch what happens. I'm going to take off the equalizer. So, I just need to on tick there on the left and now we don't have that equalized. Now, I said I was going to keep this, trying to make this simpler than my last video. So, I'm going to not really skip over the ones that are not so useful here. But for example, here's a nice one. You do have a limiter. So, these are also available as effects in OBS. I'm going to assume a lot of folks watching this video are looking to use it as I am doing in conjunction with OBS. So, yes, there is a limiter as an audio filter in OBS. On about two, there is a compressor. There isn't any an equalizer. So, if I said that I'm mistaken. So, you could do both. You could have audio filters and this, but I think it makes more sense to work in one application. So, I'm going to take off the limiter. There is a compressor here as well. And just as in any compressor as you'd expect, you can change the attack. I'm going to make myself small again. Release, threshold, ratio, knee and makeup. I'm going to take that off. Multi-band compressor, pitch modification, which is kind of always a good one for pranks if you want to increase yourself. But you can do that. Stereo tools will allow you to change between the balance of left and right on a stereo matrix here. What you can do is mute one channel. So, I'm actually recording as a mono input. But what you can do is mute one channel if you wish to do that. And I'm not going to go to rest. I think that's going to be enough. So, those are basically that's how you can use pulse effects in conjunction with OBS Studio. If you don't like the way your microphone naturally sounds, this is a good way to change it up a little bit and try to get a setting that makes you sound better. Of course, the best thing to do is put on some monitor headphones that I've got another video on this and monitor. So, obviously, you can actually hear what those changes are sounding like. If you want to watch that video, search for OBS Studio Audio Monitoring. And I explain how to set that up. So, you can monitor in OBS once the equalization is passing into it. So, you don't need to actually monitor in pulse effects. Hope this video is useful. Thank you guys for watching. If you want to get more videos from me about all things related to Linux technology marketing and more, please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel.


The different types of technologies that are evolving, and as I had said, they're certainly not being adopted at a wide rate, but it is interesting to see what's coming out, because our smartphone will continue to play a significant role. DNA taggons, which is a very interesting technology, they can actually embed a DNA molecule into the product or actually even into the material itself. This would require a special reader, but it is something if there's a high value pharmaceutical product moving through the supply chain, that is a potential where it could be used. Or a chemical taggon could be put actually even in a pill itself with some of the oncology drugs now being at such a high cost, this is an area where pharmaceutical companies might move to in terms of authenticating and verifying that those drugs are the ones they produced. And certainly the place of being able to see if a label has changed color, then it might have moved through the supply chain and it wasn't kept at the right temperature, so that we as consumers would be able to begin to recognize some of these things, and even at our pharmacies as drugs are delivered that they would be able to see that that drug moved through the supply chain safely. And another interesting technology we ran across was the smart labeling, where when a label was put on a package, it actually acquires authentication. If that label were to be removed and reapplied to another package, if something was being diverted in the marketplace, it would actually indicate that it has been tampered with. So there's so many different new technologies now that are occurring and developing because of this rampant problem of counterfeiting and diversion and fraud occurring, so it's certainly some new technologies that are emerging. The whole Internet of Things, the industrial Internet of Things is really demanding a greater level of tracking and data collecting, so sensors and indicators and optics and smart labeling are certainly growing, more accurate and readable vision systems are occurring. We did hear that a lot of the vision systems have some very sophisticated capabilities now, so that's an area where the adoption rate is growing, and four out of five pharmaceutical companies are already using vision systems just to verify that their coding and marking and labeling is all on the product correctly. We're only half of the food companies are at that level of technology now, and that will continue to grow. And we really only heard a few companies who are really using any covert or smart technology and the majority of those, like I had said earlier, were pharmaceutical companies. So while a lot of this technology is available on the market and available to manufacturers, it's not being adopted at any rate of speed, but it will continue to evolve as the supply chain continues to grow. And we heard that one of three participating companies talked about their using temperature sensing technology now, and it's really at the pallet level, is it moves through the supply chain to assure that that product has moved through at the correct temperature. So if we really look ahead, what's ahead for the whole systems integration process of this is some of the end users we talked to suggested integrating vision and print systems into one unit and making smaller coding equipment so that it can be actually integrated into the machine, or making a robot more mobile that is able to authenticate and look at the printed codes and markings as they're going down the line. So some interesting innovation that they're looking for as well in their own manufacturing process. And if we look at the cloud, the usage of the cloud, there were some companies we talked to that were using the cloud. For the most part, there's still some skepticism in terms of the security that they will find in the cloud. So that's again, that's an area as data continues to increase and storage continues to increase and the supply chain continues to grow longer and more complex. The cloud will begin to be used more to be able to transfer that data more easily between the manufacturing and as it moves out of the manufacturing into the retail market, into the distribution market so that those codings and markings can be trapped. But what will be needed is going to be a centralized database. One of the questions we got during the presentation last week is does this database exist now and it does not exist now, but it exists within each company's supply chain. So looking ahead at data integration is to have an architecture or a platform that allows this data exchange to happen seamlessly and certainly very easily so that those codings and markings and numbers and any kind of covert marking that's used can be trapped and traced throughout the supply chain. And now if we look at the spending on equipment, two out of three brand manufacturers will continue to spend on brand protection in the next 12 months. And a third of those companies predict they're going to spend even more. So that's good news for the industry. And what's really driving this is there's continued increase in product demand. I think in every research project that we work on increasing demand and increasing throughput and production rates is the number one reason driving the need for new equipment, updated equipment, and as they're producing more skews, that's more product track and trace that's occurring. And as lot runs get smaller in the pharmaceutical industry, again, that there's a need then for greater track and trace for that as well. And when we look at where they bind their equipment from, two out of three companies we interviewed are buying majority of their brand protection equipment in the U.S. So if we look at what kind of attributes are they looking for, there's no surprises here. They definitely need repeatable quality and reliability. They need speed and accuracy of marking the product as well as reading and verifying that product. They need data exchange between systems. And print clarity is certainly a given in terms of being able to mark that product so that all through the supply chain it can be read clearly. We had talked about some of the changes that the retailers are demanding at this time. And we didn't include that in this report because it's certainly something that's on the table but not really been determined. So print clarity though is very significant in being able to track a product in the warehouse and finding that product in case there is any type of a recall. So when we look at what's the outlook for OEMs and suppliers and where are the opportunities to work more closely with your brand manufacturers? Certainly as more technology evolves, each company might have a very customized solution that they're looking for. So really collaborating with the customers, looking at what their needs are specifically, how are their skews increasing, how is that affecting their manufacturing, how the marking and coding equipment can be made simpler, easier to operate, easier for connectivity is something that they're looking for. And as we talked earlier, integration is something that's very significant in terms of being able to have layered solutions and being able to retrieve those systems easily. And the use of QR codes is growing. Excuse me, getting a direct link to the QR codes is important. But it was interesting when we looked at some of the statistics, only 9% of the people in the U.S. are actually actively using QR codes. It's higher in Europe and it's even higher in Asia markets. They have less access to computers, so they're using their smartphones more than we are in terms of QR codes. And we did an informal study, just a raise of hands in the presentation last week. And it was surprising, many people had at one point downloaded and used a QR code. But for the most part, it did mirror this lower statistic here in the U.S. There weren't a lot of people who are actively using QR codes, but it is something that will continue to grow if companies can embed even more information about the safety of that product and how it's been tracked in the QR codes. We as consumers would continue to use those. So anytime there's a new technology, it certainly does take a while for adoption to occur. In looking for data standardization, a methodology of how the data is collected, how it's documented, how serialization numbers are assigned, how they're maintained, how they're retrieved, the pharma industry is looking for that type of standardization so that we're using the same processes around the world. And that is certainly not available right now, but when we look towards moving to the future, something that we'll want to move to as a global economy. And I talked about an international database being able to have this information globally. So if you've got product that you're manufacturing offshore and that product is being re-imported into the United States, that there's some way that we can authenticate either us as the consumers or the patients of these products or the pharmaceutical chain of supply through the pharmacies they can authenticate products. So that is definitely a pretty large goal to look at, but certainly something that's going to be needed to close those gaps in the supply chain. And there will be one of the industries to look at is the fish industry. I won't get into any of the details here, but fish is something that is not highly regulated at this point. We talked to quite a few fish distributors and they're not really manufacturing. They're processing the fish and listening to some of the problems that they're having and some of the solutions that they're looking at now to really track where fish is coming from and authenticating that it is actually the fish as it is labeled. And as I've said several times in our presentation, the rate at which social media is moving is very quickly. So if there's any type of bad press or a recall of any type, it can be very damaging to a brand. They want to be able to respond quickly, remove that product from the shelf so that their own name and integrity of the product is not damaged any further than it would be during a recall. So if we look at here, I've given you a quick snapshot of what you'll learn in the full report. And one of the VP of operations and food said that the biggest challenge is really just staying informed and being aware. And that really relates to us as consumers as well of being aware of products that could potentially be fraudulent or counterfeit. One thing we did learn is buying over the Internet, particularly for pharmaceutical products or even other food or other related products. If the cost is so low that you're like, that is amazing, I'm going to have to buy that. I pay four times that much when I go to the store. It would likely be a fraudulent product or a product that's been diverted and diluted. So you really have to kind of pay attention as consumers to protect ourselves in terms of what seems authentic and what seems too good to be true. So in the full report, we really look at the entire supply chain and what's happening at every aspect of that supply chain. And there are other resources that you can go to. The PMMI Media Group has serialization playbooks. They have a playbook specifically on the healthcare industry, packaging development, labeling these all touch on the track and trace and the issues that are at hand now. So again, as I started the presentation, I looked at the press to just see in the last couple of weeks what were we hearing about. And in the last couple of weeks also in the news was the advancement of e-commerce, retailers, consolidation, and the use of drones. And we did a little bit further research and we looked at the port authorities and they are reporting flat import and they're changing and altering their supply chains to adjust to this as retailers shop more online. Container shipments, there was a study done that there is some significant industry consolidation going on with container shippers and that could definitely affect the long-term supply chain as well but they're feeling the effects of that as others are. And the use of drones, certainly the regulations that are going to take place, we don't even know yet as we all hear in the news, this is something that's a growing technology. But Walmart has announced that they are testing drones in one of their distribution centers to inspect labels and inventory and it's a process now that would take a month for a person to use a handheld scanner and they can do it in certainly far less time. And that's an inventory or that's a technology that would be very disruptive technology in the distribution centers. And if we look at how fast online shopping is growing, Walmart is taking this on as well. They just bought a company called Jet.com and they have expanded, they started in 30 markets, they are now expanded to 60 markets. So depending on where you live, this might be something that's available to you. So these are all technologies that are going to continue to drive the need, even a greater need for track and trace in the future. And Walmart is at the leading edge of some of this technology as well. Amazon is also emerging into this drone market and we even heard all different kinds of drone usage in terms of trucks moving into a neighborhood and delivering off that the drones are on the top of a truck and we could have packages delivered that way as well. So it's just all technology that is driving a greater concern for track and trace of our products. So that brings us to the conclusion this morning. I do encourage you to download the report and share it with your staff. But I'll field some questions now at this time. And Paige, did you want to jump back in here or should we just look at the questions here that are available? Yeah. Well, thank you for your insight on the latest report on brand protection product traceability. Very, very useful information I'm sure for everybody that has attended for us. So yes, I will open up the field for discussion or questions. I do have a couple that have come in throughout the presentation. First question here is, is blockchain technology used or planned to be used in track and trace applications? Very good question. It's something that it's an emerging concept. So we didn't really hear much about it. Unfortunately, I can't really get into the details of it. So that would be something that we would we would certainly want to look at as we update this report. Okay, wonderful. I do have a second question here and it asks, who decides on investments in track and trace? Is it packaging, operations, logistics, IT? Could you kind of explain who decides on the investment side in track and trace? Certainly. And right now it's a team approach, but we do hear more companies are actually creating positions for safety inspection, supply chain managers. It's a growing field. So your larger companies are certainly adding on departments and people to manage this. Your smaller companies, in most instances, are still relying on their suppliers to help them make these decisions. They don't often have the specialty in-house. So it's a collaborative decision as we had seen as one of the opportunities to engage further with your brand manufacturers is really to collaborate with them because this is something that is still evolving at the brand manufacturing level of who takes responsibility for this and who actually monitors all the data and what departments are evolving is also occurring. So it's a very good question because it's something that it will help you to look at in an area where you can engage with your brand manufacturers more thoroughly. Thank you, Donna. I don't see any other questions. Feel free before I end the webinar to jump in and type in the chat box down in the lower left if you just had a question or maybe I missed you or something to that extent. But on behalf of PMMI, I do want to thank you for participating in today's webinar. Just as a final note, you will receive an email to complete an evaluation on today's webinar and ask that you complete it as soon as possible and let us know how we can improve our webinars in the future. Again, I do want to apologize for the technical difficulties there. I should get it up and running as soon as possible. So again, my apologies on that end. But I don't think we have any other questions. So I hope everybody has a wonderful day and we'll see you at the next webinar. Thank you. Bye.


Russian kamikaze drone obliterates British-designed Howitzer. A Russian Marine unit fighting on the frontline of the Ukraine conflict has used a land-set loitering munition to destroy a Kiev-operated British-designed FH-70 Howitzer. The Russian Defence Ministry identified the targeted gun as its shared footage of the strike. The attack was reportedly launched by the 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade, part of the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy. The clip included footage from the drone's onboard camera and from another aircraft, presumably a reconnaissance drone, which filmed the engagement from above. The hit appeared to detonate artillery shells stored at the site, hidden inside a windbreak. The video had been circulating on Russian military-themed social media for several days before the Ministry vouched for it. Some outlets suggested that the land-set was of a newer model equipped with a night-vision sensor that older variants lacked. Ukraine's Western backers have been sending FH-70 155mm Toad Howitzers to the conflict since last year. Estonia pledged its entire stockpile of 24 pieces, while Italy provided an unspecified number of guns, estimated at 10 by some defence analysts. Land-set drones are reportedly one of the primary threats to Ukrainian heavy weapons on the frontline. The Kalashnikov-produced system has a distinctive shape thanks to its two sets of X-wings and comes in two principle versions, with payloads weighing one and three kilograms, respectively. Designer Zala Aero is said to be improving its products as it gets feedback from the conflict zone.