Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It was a big Saturday on FIFA Ultimate Team with the Langley, SBC, and the market sell-off that is happening, and I wanna talk about that and all the market movements that you can expect to see today, heading into Sunday on FIFA Ultimate Team. So we'll talk about that, look a bit ahead, and also take a step back and look at what happened yesterday in this game of FIFA. And we're gonna start off by taking a look backwards and then looking to what could come today. Of course, we got the long-awaited Barcelona center back, French man himself, Langley, 93 rated. They gave him the juice stats, medium-high work rates. Again, a center back with 89 pace, EA Sports, FIFA. Can we please get that plus one pace?  Happened on Dava Louise and now Langley. But of course, this is a really good card. Probably you throw a shadow on him? Maybe a, I don't know what you throw in this card, honestly. But this is a card that a lot of people are gonna do today, and that was obvious by what happened on the market. We also got a party bag for batch number two. This SBC, where's it at? This SBC finally, finally came out. We've been waiting on this thing since it got released into the code like three days ago. And finally now we have our party bag batch two SBC, which is by far the best value SBC of the day. 81 squad with 50 chem, and then 82 squad with 40 chemistry. This is very good value. This is like, I was expecting maybe two 83 squads for this, which would have been a bit, you know, iffy on the price, but this is a dub, honestly. This is a dub. If you have not done this yet, I would consider waiting because starting to look ahead, just a quick peek of maybe what we could see and what we could be questioning today for content. The 84 plus double upgrade and the 85 to 92 upgrade are going away in 14 hours when I'm recording this, AKA Sunday at 6 p.m. UK time. These upgrade SBCs, arguably some of the best two we've ever seen are gonna be going away. So last week the upgrade SBCs re-upped themselves and this is the biggest question that I have for Sunday on foot is, are EA going to re-upt these for another six days or whatever until batch three comes out? Or are we gonna get different upgrades? Are we gonna see the return of the 81 plus, the 82 to 88 or whatever SBC? I hope that they re-upt these and put in the 81 plus and the 82 to 88. Now that would make a lot of demand for non-rare golds and rare golds and that would make that piece of the market pretty interesting, but I would rather have both of those SBCs out because again, if we take a look at high rated SBC fodder, it is insane out here. 82 rated cards are 4K. That is what 83 rated cards go for most of the year when they're super inflated. 83 rated cards are six to seven K. 81s are two K. Literally, anything and everything right now in this game is inflated in price if it is a fodder card, if it's a fodder card that people are not using in their teams. You know, 86s aren't that expensive, 85s are pretty expensive still. 87s are high, 88s are high. Some of these high rated are actually dropping down a decent amount. That's fair play. Fair play to a lot of these. 94s are in the 70s. 92s are in the 50s. So a lot of the highs here fodder is kind of coming down, but a lot of this low rated fodder is going up because again, why is that the case? Because people are getting to 85 to 92. They're filling up their clubs with those intradables. They go and do an 84 or an 85 rated squad and they end up buying 81s to 84s even mostly 82s and 83s to finish out those squads and that's why they are so expensive. So that's why I'm really hoping for the double 81 plus or the 82 to 88 to come out today because that would help these prices go down because it would supply people's clubs from doing those upgrade SBCs. And it would just provide for more craftability of all of these SBCs that they keep releasing in Feeve Ultimate Team. Now I want to go and take a look at the market because yes, it is weakly sell off time on a Sunday and I'm looking at some of these prices right now and it's kind of getting interesting. It is kind of getting interesting. I think what you're starting to see on some of these Team of the Season cards is part of the sell off as people know that batch three could include Team of the Season cards, should include Team of the Season cards. Now again, let me preface this by saying, are we guaranteed a batch three by EA Sports? I don't think we are. No, we are not guaranteed a batch three. The thing that kind of scares me about a possibility of batch three not coming is this, right, the season ends on Friday. On Friday the season ends, as you can see, up by my face, by the face cam, season seven ends in five days, 14 hours right there. That is also when batch two goes out of packs. This promo could technically, based on what we're seeing in game, if they wanted to, they could just cut it cold turkey and end summer heat this week and not do a batch three.  I feel like what they're gonna do is they're gonna release a batch three, they're gonna have a new season for probably another like 28 days or something like that to take us just into August. And I think they wanna try to carry this game into August with the summer heat promo or at least as close to August as they can. Cause if they do another two weeks for batch three, throw the Tots cards back in packs, that's gonna take us up to August, which in August, of course, is when they're gonna start releasing FIFA 21 info. So I feel like what they're gonna do is try to keep this game somewhat hype, somewhat enjoyable as they have been with the arguably best promotion ever in foot history, this summer heat promo. Try to keep this rolling until another two weeks until August, then they'll start releasing FIFA 21 stuff. And then you might see some of the FIFA 20 stuff start to slow down after this promo. Do I think there's foodies coming after this? No, I think this is foodies because it is exactly what foodies was. We'll talk about that more later this week. But I think we are seeing the effects of the weakening sell-off right now on this game, a bit accentuated because people are expecting a batch three, which I would still expect coming on Friday. You're starting to see some of these cards sold off a decent amount because of people thinking that they're gonna come back into packs next week. So if you have team of the season cards, of course that are out of packs right now, I might take the safe route and they're already down a little bit. There's possibility that they could go down even more. Like we just looked at Neymar, this guy's 4.3 million coins. He was 4.5 million coins. This guy fluctuates a lot, man. What was he on Friday? He was 4-8. This guy's down 400K, 400,000 coins in one day. Some of these cards are dropping a lot because people are expecting them to come back into packs. And that is a bit scary if you're somebody that owns a Tots card, tradable, and the possibility of that card coming back into packs is a bit scary. But I do wanna take a look at again what kind of market movements that Leng Lei had today. I think we called it with the Ramos and the Veran. Now these cards have bounced back a little bit, but there was a lot of panic selling on these today because of the Leng Lei SBC. Ramos was 1.2 million just yesterday and last night. Went down to a million coins flat, bounced back to almost 1.1. He's right now 1.05. And then Veran was actually like 1.55. I think now he's down to 1.3. Is that correct? Yeah, 1.55 earlier this morning. Dropped down to 1.3. And then down to 1.1 million coins a couple hours after the SBC release. Now he's back up 150K back to 1.3. I would expect this to drop down a little bit more coming out of the weekend. And as we possibly see more people selling off these cards to do because they're doing Leng Lei and also because of these cards coming back into packs supposedly this next weekend. Benzema is still high. Some of these cards are still inflated, right? D'Yong is up, where's Ter Stegen? Ter Stegen is inflated if you bought some of those yesterday in like the 210 and under range. That is a W, I would take the coins on those. And again, this is a Sunday, right? If you wanna get a bit risky with it, if you wanna get a bit risky with it, you could probably pick up on some very meta cards. I would say stick to La Liga and stick to French team of the season items that are still out of packs for now. There's a possibility that some of those very meta items could get low on Sunday and still pop up into Monday, Tuesday timeframe because of the links around the Leng Lei card. Again, I would watch a guy like Ter Stegen. I would watch Carvajal. I would watch Lala. I would watch even as Marquinhos, man. This Marquinhos earlier today was like 120,000 coins. These guys are fluctuating all of the time on the weekends. Yeah, he was 127K, went up to 135, even back down to 127, now he's back up to 140. So a lot of these guys are fluctuating. This is still a card that a lot of people use because of the PSG links, the Brazilian links especially. So a lot of the centerbacks on the market today did get hit and there was just selling off in other areas as well. I do wanna check some of my other French icon centerbacks that I mentioned earlier this week. Oh my goodness, 390K for just IE. This guy was 500K last night. That's crazy, what about Blanc? I'm assuming he's under 400K as well. He looks like he is, yeah, 389, bang, 390 for Mr. Laurent Blanc Prime, who was again 450,000 coins just a couple days ago. So a lot of these French centerbacks are going down. Could the icons pop up? Desai, Blanc, maybe Amaka Lele. Could these guys kind of pop up later into this week a little bit as we head on through the week? I think that's a possibility. I like icons, man. Icons at this stage of the game, since we have so many different summer heat cards that are out, all you need, a lot of people do this, is they sit an icon in the midfield, whether it's a Moments, Maka Lele, a centerback, a lot of the midfield and centerback icons actually fluctuate around a decent amount because people have to link cards somehow. This Maradona is 1.8 mil, man. This guy was selling during the week at 1.9. That's getting interesting. So what I'm gonna do today on Sunday is if you're wanting to make some coins, what I would do is just watch the sell-off on some of the team of the season cards and some of these icons because it always happens every Sunday, especially at this stage of the game, where you have some panic selling on that Sunday and you see these cards just get too low because they're still rare enough that a couple people undercut each other at the same time and then all of a sudden, bang, you have a situation where these cards have gotten too low and it's flippable, right? So it's kind of tough to read that exactly, but if you wanna try to mess around with that and make some coins, you can absolutely do it. Just pick a meta card that is very, very usable like LaLiga links because a lot of people are doing the Langley SBC that will be crafting that SBC and they're gonna need links to those cards. So that's still kind of why I like Carvajal. If this guy is in the low 190s tomorrow, if I see this guy at 190K, maybe even a little bit lower, if we don't get some sort of right back SBC, I would get pretty interested in that. If Ter Stegen gets again back down to like 210,000 coins, I would get pretty interested with that as well. As he is 237 at the moment, he was earlier than that today, he was like 210, I think Sunday or Saturday night actually. So just kind of watch the sell-off and some of these Tautz cards as they could bounce back up because people are really gonna use Ter Stegen again this next week with the Langley SBC. Now, one thing I do have to mention is this is your last call. If you do wanna get Vinicius or Machis, because the game for these guys, wow, four hours remaining. So if you're watching this video and he's still out, if you wanna do Darwin, Machis or Vinicius, you gotta do it fast because today, Sunday is not when Real Madrid play, but they play on Monday, I believe, right? Today's a big day though, because it's North London Darby.  My boys Spurs are playing today. Real Madrid, yeah, Real Madrid play on Monday. This is like the longest wait that we've ever had for a summer showdown SBC. So we do see Real Madrid and Granada on Monday, but these SBCs do expire a little bit beforehand. I don't know why these were out so long. Honestly, it's crazy, I don't understand it, but the biggest thing that we're watching for today is the upgrade SBC situation. Could we see another summer heat card released as an SBC or an objective? I guess it's possible. Is there anything else expiring today though? That's kind of my question. I feel like we'd need something else to expire before they would put something else in. The summer heat vote should probably come tomorrow, and the only SBCs that are expiring tonight are Machiz, and then we still have Wijnaldum and Origi that are out for a couple of days. So nothing's really expiring except for the upgrades and Machiz. So maybe we get another player today as an SBC. That'd be kind of like a bonus, I guess. I wouldn't expect it, but that is something that we could see on the market today. And of course, if that does happen, that could be something where you are watching the market as well for maybe some extended sell-off in certain areas because of that SBC that comes out and some panic selling. Now, last thing I wanna talk about in this video today, we're gonna keep it short and sweet for your Saturday, or excuse me, your Sunday, is this fella right here at Jal Felix. Last night, I made the shout on this guy at like 270, 280,000 coins. He went up to like 315, 320K today. So that was a G, Brickin' G. If you got in on that one, he's back down a little bit now. But again, we've seen this happen twice now. If it's a popular meta card that people like to use in this game, if they do not win, the vote, right? The SBC vote, if we have a vote player pick, if they do not win, happen with St. Maxim and now Jal Felix, two votes in a row. If the player that does not win has another special card in the game, even if it is in packs, if it's meta enough, if it is valuable enough and has enough demand, you will see a rebound on that. So this guy went from like 260, 270,000 coins to over 300K, so that was a nice moneymaker, as well as the Terstegen today. The Gold Terstegen was somebody else that I mentioned to you guys, and I haven't checked in this guy. What's he doing? What is Gold Terstegen doing right now on the market? Ooh, he's down. Possibly a little bit of over-investing here, maybe? 45K? Oh, he's under 40, yo, this actually could be a re-entry point because this card is out of packs. If you see this on the Sunday sell-off, if you see this today on the Sunday sell-off around like 40K, if this guy gets down to 40K, because he's 90 rated, what's the cheapest 90 rated card? 40K. So if this guy gets down to the lower 40K range, like 40, 41, 42 on the PlayStation and on the Xbox, let me check really quick. On the Xbox, if you see him like in the high 30s maybe? Yeah, maybe probably about the same range. Like 40,000 coins flat on the Xbox, maybe like 41, 42 on the PlayStation. What I would do is, I would start to get pretty interested in this card again. It is out of packs because right now the 92 is impacts for batch number two. And again, a lot of people are going to want to get themselves a Terstegen card. And some people still think Gold Terstegen is better than the team this season. So that's something that's a bit interesting. So maybe you watch this card as a possible investment rising up into the mid-week because I think some people got their leg lay. Some of the mindset around this leg lay card is, all right, you know what? This is the last card that I really need. I got my Usman de Bele, I got my leg lay. I've got all my other team in the season cards and I'm set and I got my summer heats. This card right here for a lot of people was like a squad finisher. So some people's end game teams might be honestly like set, done. Of course other peoples are not, but this was a card that a lot of people were like thinking as a final piece for their squad. So I feel like people are gonna build some teams around that Monday, Tuesday, maybe even into rewards on this week. So just kind of watched some link investments to this rising up quicker during the week this week and especially icons as well. But again, just a short recap at the end of this. This SBC today did drop a decent amount of the market. Not a crazy amount, right? Fair price I think, craftable. I would wait and see what comes out for upgrade SBCs today as well if they re-up the 85 to 92. And if they add the 81 to 82, that could be like, that could be a pretty crazy grind actually if you wanted to mess around with some of that. But I would wait and see what they do with the upgrade SBCs before doing this because if they do put out an 81 plus again or some sort of low rated SBC for an upgrade, it'd be a lot easier to craft the 82 and 83 rated squads that are a part of this because they do have high chemistry and if you could just open some packs for that, that would be a W. But we'll see what happens with the upgrades. We'll see what happens if we get a new SBC and we'll see what happens with the rest of the week and the sell off boys. Again, I would probably focus on icons and really, really met a team of the seasons. But if you have a lot of team of the seasons that are tradable in your squad, you still might wanna take the coins and a decent amount of those because a lot of that market's probably gonna fall except for the really meta stuff for most of the week this week. Kind of like what happened with foot birthdays, just for a quick example right here. Kind of what happened with foot birthdays last week before they went into packs right here. You can see the week that before they went into packs, people knew they were coming 326 for Lacazette and just kind of trickled down, stayed the same in price all week, and trickled down a little bit, mostly on Xbox, but then they came back into packs or actually no, they came into packs right here. So he started trickling down all week. That's the section of the graph that I wanna look at. The week before the week in league sell off was right here and they just kind of trickled down all week before going into packs, then they really knows dive. So I would expect to see some of a similar movement with some of the team in the season cards, just maybe a steady decline, but they're gonna see a decent hidden price kind of like that Neymar just today on Sunday with the week in the excel off. So watch out for that. Maybe cash out on some cards if you've got them, because I think batch three is gonna come. If it doesn't, obviously we're gonna see a big bump up in price. We'll talk about that later this week, if applicable. So if you enjoyed this video, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel for new. It's been Nate with Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace, out.


So, scrubbing our canvies was something we did every week or after we got done doing a field exercise, getting dirty, getting muddy. It's just something that we did every day. And something felt different about it. We went out there and we were just scrubbing canvies like we usually do but my mind after the reaper was just, it's something you can't explain.  I'm here. These are the canvies I wore during the crucible. I don't have to wear the, I don't have to get these muddy for another couple of weeks. There's just a lot of things going through my mind, you know. Today is finally going to be the day that Mr. Groot becomes a Marine before my dream, my goal, despite how hard it is, it's a goal worth pursuing. And even though I was going to sweat, bleed, in the end it'd be worth it. So every step I took, every sweat about dropping sweat I lost was all for a purpose and it was all worth it there. Not really anything like when, when I first received my Eagle Globe and Acre from my senior drone instructor, it felt like it wasn't happening at the time. Like it was happening to someone else. And I was just in a movie watching it from a different perspective. Perspective. Yeah. I, I received it and I was like, I looked at it and I just, I thought I like, I made it. I'm finally a Marine.


So now we can see how to add vectors using a graphical technique. As we move through physics, there's going to be several different applications where we need to add vectors up for various reasons. First one we're going to start with is the concept of motion along a series of paths. For example, you move along path A, then along path B, etc. In the end, you want to find your final position. Where did you end up after you did all these little paths? Well, the graphical method, sometimes called the tail-to-head method, involves tracking along your first vector A, and then from the head of that one, you move to the tail of your second vector along path B. The addition of those two vectors ends up being the side of the triangle here, or connecting from the first tail to the last head. Let's take a look at some examples of this now. Now we can do some examples of using this head-to-tail vector addition. I've got two vectors here, A and B. If I want to add vector B to vector A, graphically, all I need to do is place the tail of vector B on the head of vector A. And now I've gone along path A, followed by going along path B. The end result of this, or what we sometimes call the R vector, is A plus B equals R, going from the first tail to the last head. One of the beauties of the head-to-tail method, though, is I can use it for more than just two vectors. If instead of having just A plus B, I added in a third vector. Let's call it C. And then took a fourth vector, D, on and on and on as much as I can. Go along path A, then along path B, then along path C, then along path D. The result is a new position defined by moving from the very first tail to the very last head. This is our new result vector of the addition of A plus B plus C plus D. So here's another example where I can take an A vector plus a B vector and find the result of that using our tip-to-tail method.  Let's say I had two copies of this vector B and two copies of this vector A. Well, the top here shows me A plus B equals a result, while the bottom shows me B plus A equals exactly the same result. This is the same thing that if I add 2 plus 3, it equals 5, but 3 plus 2, swiping those two things around, gives me exactly the same value. This also gives us a new method of looking at the vectors called the parallelogram method. If I have two vectors A and B, I form those into the size of a parallelogram, and the diagonal forms the result of adding those two vectors together. So we summarize the parallelogram method of graphical addition by recognizing that it's really the combination of using the tailed ahead for A plus B and B plus A at the same time. And since those two vectors add up to give us the same thing, no matter which order we place them in, the diagonal of our parallelogram is the sum of both A plus B and B plus A. Remember, graphical vector addition is just one method that we're going to use, and it gives us an overall picture of what it is that we're trying to do when we add two vectors.


Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of Likeable Science here on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Ethan Allen. Thanks for joining us. We're usually a likeable science. We talk about sort of fun, interesting kinds of topics. We're going to take a little bit of a sidestep today, but it's a topic that has a lot to do with science, actually, and with really everyone's daily lives. So, we're going to be exploring the topic of sexual harassment, and here to help me today is McConaughey. Welcome, McCona. Thank you, Ethan. McCona is an attorney, author, speaker, coach, all kinds of good things she does. Has written a number of books, including a book on sexual harassment, right? Represented people on both sides, guilty and not guilty, men and women, been a victim of sexual harassment. Been had inadvertently sexually harassed someone. Given trainings to companies in, what, 38 states or something on sexual harassment. So, a lot of great experience in the field, and so let's just jump into it. But before we start, I want to do one of my little campfire stories here. These are stories typically from the world of nature that have seemingly marginal relations to the topic at hand, but this one is funny, I think you'll see. So years ago, I used to work in a laboratory that studied reptile reproductive biology. And we in particular were working with some of the strange games that reptiles play with their reproductive systems, which are many and varied, but this particular one was temperature dependent sex determination, or PSD as scientists call it. So unlike people and mammals, some reptiles, whether they're male or female, is determined by what temperature they are incubated at in the egg, you know, during some part of the incubation if they're, in the case of leopard geckos we studied, if they're incubated warm, they turn out male, if they're incubated cool, they turn out female. Now of course, being curious scientists, my lab boss basically said, what happens when you put it right on that sort of borderline temperature, right, where you're not really going to get the males, you're not really going to get the females, what's going to happen to those animals? And those animals that were incubated, just that narrow midline temperature were very interesting. They appeared physically to be females, but their brains had been masculinized. They thought of themselves as male basically.  Because they would then, for instance, approach females to breed, and of course the females took this as some other female being hyper-aggressive to them and didn't respond very well at all. Conversely, males would approach them to breed and of course they would respond very aggressively back to them. So these were very unsuccessful animals, reproductively. But you can see in a sense they were both being harassed and harassing, you know, so in that sense it does tie into today's topic. But moving out of the world to be analyzed into the world of people, let's just start with some basic definition here. I mean sexual harassment sort of has some clear meanings, right? It does and it doesn't. So there's actually three meanings and I like to show an upside down triangle to show that there are actually three definitions. There's the legal definition, a company policy definition, and a values definition. So from a legal perspective, first of all, it's important for everyone to remember that harassment law only applies in the employment context. So for example, Harvey Weinstein did not employ most of the women who he assaulted. So they couldn't sue for sexual harassment, but they could sue for assault, personal injury, and they could file criminal cases if the statute of limitations hadn't run. But harassment law only applies to the employment context. It could be a employer to employee, two co-employees, or it could be an outsider coming in and harassing an employee. So given that context, there are four factors in order to be illegal. The first is it has to be either sexual or gender-based. So gender-based could be things, for example, we've seen women scientists say that they've been told by other scientists, women don't make good scientists, or you're not going to get that grant because you're a woman. So that would be sexist or gender harassment.  The second factor is that it must be unwelcome by the victim. So most behavior is presumed welcome. So there are some behavior, the court's presumed is unwelcome. What would you think would be the kinds of behavior that a court would assume women don't welcome or men don't welcome? Being groped. Being groped. Excellent. Yeah. So kind of the big three areas, here, here, and here, those are presumed unwelcome. But most other things, like I asked this question recently in a training, and someone said, oh, well, sexual innuendos, those are not presumed unwelcome. Swearing is not presumed unwelcome. Even calling people names is not presumed unwelcome. So what that means is that someone has to say, I don't appreciate that, either to the person or to their human resources department. Then the third factor is it must be so severe it interferes with the person's ability to do their job. So for example, on my website, we have a feature called Ask the Lawyers and People Sending Questions. And I just got one from someone who asked, is it illegal if my boss on one occasion in front of someone else calls me an FNB? And the answer is no, it's not illegal. So the law prohibits a very narrow range of behavior. If they did that repeatedly, that would be more of an argument. But a court would really want to see even more things happen. What's the real impact? What's the impact on their job? Right. And then the fourth factor is the company where the employer knew or should have known and did nothing. So if a supervisor, manager, owner harasses, that fourth factor is met. So that's a legal definition, but again, it's a very narrow definition. So that's why we talk about companies setting a higher standard. Why do you think a company should set a higher standard? Well, yeah, if it's so hard to prove and it allows a great deal of unwanted, crude, unnecessary counterproductive behavior then to occur, but still not meeting the definition of illegal. So that's not in the company's best interest. They're going to have unhappy staff. They're going to have people who don't feel safe in their workplace. Exactly, exactly. So you want to set a higher standard culturally and then also you want to fail safe because you don't want to wait till someone does something illegal before you terminate them. You want to, usually people, harassers, bullies, test. And they test lots of people and they test in lots of ways. So they start off usually very simple and then they go further and further. So we want to have a fail safe. And then at the top are our values, but actually values go all the way. So Harvey Weinstein have values. They just happen to be beneath the law, right? Okay. But some people, their values are way above the law. So a company doesn't necessarily have to honor those values. They may choose to. But they don't necessarily have to. So for example, I had a client who an employee after a couple days of work said she was being harassed because the men got too close to her. And when they asked, well, what do you mean by too close? She said she wanted the men to stay at least 10 feet away. Whoa, okay. Yeah. So maybe in some environments or some jobs they could have accommodated that. But they said, this job, we can't do that. So you have a choice. You can either stay or leave. And she ended up leaving. But she can't claim harassment just because it violates her values. So that's why I think it's so confusing. Because people say, I've been sexually harassed. And it includes everything from a date gone wrong to assault. And not all of those things are sexually harassed. And there is very, because it does involve personal values. There's very different personal values about, some people do have very different personal distances that they're comfortable with. Exactly. People from different cultures may be more or less comfortable touching people differently. Yes. Who can forget that great picture of George W. Bush and the king of Saudi Arabia walking hand in hand.  Like, huh? Exactly. Yeah. For the Saudis, that's a perfectly normal thing. Perfectly normal. Exactly. Yeah, in fact, when I talk about harassment, I spend a lot of time talking about values. And I'll ask people to say what their values are. And people always say respect. Well, different cultures define respect differently. And men and women can define respect differently. So for example, in the Middle East and India, it's very disrespectful to look someone in the eyes. But the way I was raised, my mom would say, look me in the eyes when I'm talking to you. So that's very respectful. So if you get one person from one and one from the other, they can feel very, I mean, yes, exactly. Yeah. And I mean, some of it gets to be pretty clear. You read some of these cases in the world of science. And sexual harassment has been making the news in science these days. In 2017, Science Magazine listed sexual harassment as one of its breakdowns of the year, one of its three major bad things that happened in science. Sexual harassment is here and there. It's in the Honolulu paper here, just after Christmas. But in the world of science, it's been rocked by some very bad cases, particularly this past year, of people particularly out at field sites, particularly with senior male researchers and their younger graduate or postdoctoral female associates. One in the article, particularly with this person, apparently this guy, multiple times, shoved this woman, pushed her down off sizable cliffs, harassed her verbally, blew volcanic dust into her eyes, which was potentially blinding, made all kinds of sexual innuendos, apparently including that she sleep with the other guy in the team. He is out of his position by the by. Good. He conflicted with somebody's values and some employer's standards, for sure. Well, I mean, that's clearly illegal. Once you start shoving people off cliffs, you've got to lie in there. But it happens everywhere. Probably, and please correct me if I'm wrong here, I think it would tend to happen more in workplaces that are more dominated by one sex than the other. The minority sex probably gets experiences more harassment. Right, it's definitely male-dominated professions where women tend to get harassed. And female-dominated professions, where men get harassed by women. And I did represent a man who was sexually harassed by his, he worked for a women's organization. And they put him down for being a male. They said that he wasn't a good person, because he was a man, he wasn't a good person. And all kinds of, I can't even say on television what they did to him. But there's kind of a group mentality or... It seems so needless too, right? I mean, it's funny, I was thinking back in this, and when I worked in this reproductive biology, I've actually, most of the people in this, these two associated labs, most of them were women. And I used to regularly find myself out on a Friday evening, drinking a few beers, and realize that I'm sitting there in a group of 10 or a dozen women. I'm the only guy. And they'd get to a little bit of male bashing and all. And then it periodically turned to me and said, you know, no offense, right? And none was taken. But it was all fine. But yeah, I can get, or herd mentality can be very corrosive actually. Yes, exactly, exactly. So the other thing that we touched on this is culture, right? I mean, different cultures view male-female relationships very differently. And what is appropriate behavior in one culture may be very inappropriate in another culture, right? Yeah, I've been talking with some friends about France because Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve have come out and talking about sexual harassment and the claims against Weinstein. And they've kind of taken a different perspective on it, especially Brigitte Bardot has said, well, women always use their feminine wiles to get parts and that's the way it's always been and what's the big deal. I'm not sure that we would necessarily agree with that but it reminded me of some research that was done some years ago where they asked both women in France and women in the United States a case study. They said, your boss tells you he has us a weekend home in the country and he'd like to invite you there for the weekend to discuss a promotion. Is this harassment? And basically, 98% of the American women said yes and 98% of the French women said no. Intriguing. Let's follow up on that when we come back but right now I'm told we have to take a quick break. You're here on likable science, McConaugher research allies with me.  I'm your host, Ethan Allen and we'll be back in one minute. Hey, hello, I'm Stan Energyman here on Think Tech Hawaii where community matters. This is the place to come to think about all things energy. We talk about energy for the grid, energy for vehicles, energy and transportation, energy and maritime, energy and aviation. 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McCona is an attorney who has dealt with sexual harassment issues and studied them, spoken on them, trained companies around the country on this. And we were just talking about sort of cultural differences, different groups who perceive male-female roles differently on what's okay and what isn't okay very differently. But fundamentally this really does get down to sort of the psychology of it, right? What's going on?  Right, yes, it often is about control or power. So when psychologists have studied harassers, there are a number of categories. There's narcissists who basically are all out for themselves. There are psychopaths. Psychopaths have jobs too. Bullies who may not necessarily fall into either of those categories. But the bully men and women equally sometimes. And some of those three, as well as others, may have been abused or bullied as children. So they're using that experience to bring into the world and that's how they've learned to relate to people. So I like to think of us being on a bell-shaped curve. And the saints on one end who are never going to do anything. And then on the other hand are the flawed people that we've just been talking about. But most people are in the middle. Their hearts are in the right place. Brains maybe not so much. So that's why we need harassment prevention training to get their brain in the right place. But I don't think there's a whole lot that we can do about the bullies and the psychopaths or the narcissists except empower victims to speak up, make sure companies respond appropriately, and empower allies or bystanders. If somebody sees something, not to just stand there or walk away, but instead to do something. Yeah, because it's very important that we establish these norms and what is OK and what isn't OK. If you experience something that's not OK why you've got to say it. And you put this on a very nice little article. It's up on our web page. And just sort of talk about this. One of the best things is immediately to come right back to the person and say, hey, I'm uncomfortable with that. That was, I found that an offensive remark or whatever. Just let him know right off the bat. Like, hey, there's no mistaking this. I'm not going to let that sliding him back at you three months later and tell you I didn't like it when you did that. You go right away. Yeah, I have had the experience of someone coming back later where I had hired a young man to work for me. And after a couple of months, it was right at Christmas time. And we went out for lunch. And at the end of lunch, I said, you don't have to come back to work today. He was on his way on vacation. Merry Christmas. And I gave him a hug. He came back a week later and said, I felt sexually harassed. So I immediately, of course, am thinking, is this harassment? Is this severe? I decided, no, it's not harassment. But what I said is, I am sorry. I am so sorry. It wasn't my intention. And it'll never happen again. And then I walked around at eggshells for six months. But then after six months, he said, you know what? I realized that I misinterpreted what you did. And it wasn't. So he apologized to me. Well, that's good. But often what happens when people try to say to someone that's offensive is they get an argument.  You're being emotional. I do this with everybody. And in that situation, you then have to realize, OK, this isn't working. And then talk to human resources or their supervisor, your manager, to resolve the situation. Right, because people will try to invalidate your feelings as, again, the sort of classic bullying technique, right? Exactly. And you can't let that happen. Or at least then you become a doormat, right? Right. And then the other hard part of it is when the person is in a position of power and you feel powerless.  So housekeepers, for example, are often victims of harassment and other people in that service workers are in those positions. And for them to say, I find that offensive, could mean the difference between them going to their home that night or being homeless. So in that situation, they have to go to human resources and they may not be able to speak up. Yeah, it's a very, very awful choice to face that. Whereas in the classic casting couch scene in Hollywood, there's almost more of a, at least from the harassers viewpoint of a quid pro quo kind of thing, right? I'm asking you to do this in return. I will give you this. Right, and of course, quid pro quo harassment is illegal too. But it is and it isn't. I mean, what we see with Harvey Weinstein and Louis K. the comedian was that a lot of women who were just starting out were going to see him. And I actually found a video clip of Courtney Love being asked, what advice do you have for young women getting into acting? And she said, if Harvey Weinstein invites you to a hotel, don't go. Really? OK. So he was, and this was in 2005 when she said this. So it's amazing how long some of this takes. And again, a lot of these cases in the world of science are things that happened years ago.  And right after she got tenure, then she turned right back around. Now she was safe, basically. She was protected from anything he could try to do against her, basically. And she had not felt safe before. And people have been asking, why is this happening now? Why did me too movement happen now? And one article I read by a psychologist that made sense to me was that during the 2016 election, the Access Hollywood tape came out with Donald Trump saying that he had grabbed a woman by the private parts. And I know for myself and a lot of my friends what came up for us were things that we had repressed for decades. I actually was raped in 1978 by an ex-boyfriend who I hadn't seen in six months and broke into my house. And I completely repressed it. I had completely forgotten about it. And when this tape came out, I remembered it. So then when he got elected, despite that, and then there was the women's march the day after the inauguration, women started talking to each other. And one of the things that we know historically that happens in countries all over the world is that if people can't fight the person at the top, they'll fight their supporters. They'll fight their people who are like them and try to undermine that person or get their revenge in the essence against those people. So I don't know if that's why it's happening now, but it certainly was an interesting psychological theory. Yeah, yeah. There is, you're right. There's a sort of, in some sense, our president has made it okay to verbalize feelings opinions that for a long time, basically, it was not okay for leaders to do. And so whether that's more of it just now coming out. And times do change, values do change, our cultural norms change. I mean, this whole thing's made me look back on my behavior and there are instances, many years ago, I did things that today I wouldn't really think of doing. I would certainly think twice about it before doing. Just seemed perfectly innocent and fine at the time, but, you know, yeah. I was just thinking this morning, you know that famous picture of Times Square, the sailor kissing the nurse on V.E. Day? Right. That could never happen again. That's right, yeah, you can't just approach a stranger and do that one out. Right. Slap the lawsuit immediately. That's very peculiar or peculiar, yeah. So what can be done? Well, from a company perspective, they have to make sure that their policies are in order. A lot of companies' policies are just direct quotes from the law so they wanna make sure their policies set a higher standard than the law. They wanna have training and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now recommends that companies not only train not to do harassment, but also train on how to create a respectful workplace and how to empower bystanders to intervene. I've been teaching that for decades, but the EEOC finally caught up. Good, good. So from a company perspective, that's what we can do. Oh, in terms, I did wanna mention about Aloha because we live in Hawaii and so often we embrace when we meet each other and some men can take advantage of that. So for example, I recently met a man and I stuck out my hand to shake his hand and he pulled me in to hug me but I really didn't wanna hug him or you'll hug them in a nice Aloha hug and they'll kinda snuggle or they'll thrust their pelvis at you or they'll force you to kiss them on the lips. So none of that is Aloha and let's not do that anymore. And then I suggest that women and men when they meet each other for the first time indicate what they welcome. So if you hold open your arms, that means you welcome a hug and if you hold out your hand, that means you welcome a hand, Shagan. This trumps this. Yeah, and there are very, very, you have to be more attuned, I guess, these days than what you used to. It's quite a, so do you see the situation changing, getting better, getting worse? Well, you know, I was interested in the amount of sex offenders who have been registered keeps going up. Whether that has to do with the availability of pornography, whether people are being reported more often, but just in general, we know that sex offenses are going up. So I imagine that there's going to be some period of time where we're like this, that there's gonna be a lot coming up, that women are going to be bringing up things that happened in the past as well as things that happened yesterday and it's gonna take some time to work through it. Okay. Well, I told you before the show I was gonna ask an off the wall question here and so now is the time. Here we go. Right, here we go. So if you could have a superpower of either being able to fly or being invisible, which would you choose and why? I would choose invisibility. Really? Yes. And why? I don't like flying. Interesting, interesting. And I would love, I mean, there's so many situations where I would love to be in the room when something's happening and be able to observe it, without them knowing that I'm observing it. Excellent, well wonderful. Thank you, McCona. It was a pleasure having you here. I enjoyed our conversation, learned a lot as I had my previous conversations with you and I hope we'll get together again soon and I hope you will come back and see us here on Likeable Science next week. I'm your host Ethan Allen, signing off from Likeable Science for another week.


First question is from Nina Worgen. How do you know if you have metabolic damage or if you have a healthy metabolic rate? All right So first off to be clear the term metabolic damage was a term coined by the fitness industry Really to kind of illustrate or explain a slow metabolism, right? So somebody who'd metabolism naturally doesn't burn a lot of calories You know, I could say hey your metabolism doesn't burn a lot of calories But I could probably sell more stuff if I say you have metabolic damage. Okay, so that's that's an important thing feel bad about it Yeah, it's an important thing to and we've said it before I was gonna say I'm just as guilty It's a simple.   It's doing what it's supposed to do Yeah, you have a healthy metabolism It's slowing down because you've you've told it to you've taught it to slow down Through maybe reducing your calories for too long going on diets not being active Maybe training in a way that tells your body to have a slow metabolism lots of lots of Cardio no strength training for example can do that. So how do you know if you have a healthy metabolism? Well, if you're if you're unhealthy in other ways, then maybe something's going on But you're probably okay with your metabolism now if your question is how do I get my metabolism to speed up or Should I get my metabolism speed up? It's a very personal question.  Or do you find yourself feeling like you're starving eating your your daily caloric? Let's talk about so let's talk about some examples of where we've seen the most metabolic damage in other words Like what types of clients so what I feathers or ultra marathon right? So so what I what I see what I see this most common in like the clients that I would get that had this the most Severe metabolic damage and really what that is and I do that in air quotes because like Sal saying that it's not really damaged It's doing what you've told it to do But why is your metabolism so slow the people that? That tend to be the worst for me that I would get Our clients that were really overweight So they were beyond 50 pounds overweight and they had gained and lost weight for many many years up and down and many times It looked like this really hardcore restrict They they went on some crazy weird, you know lettuce or cabbage diet a lot or they would just eat way less or fast or Yeah, exactly They would do some really low calorie ways of losing weight and they would lose a bunch of weight that way And then they would go back and they would binge and they would do this yo-yo dieting for many years and and over time You know it went from they were 50 pounds overweight to 60 pounds overweight to 70 pounds and eventually a hundred pounds or so Overweight and they had been doing that to their their body That's case number one that I'd see that's most common with like somebody who has a really really slow metabolism The other is like what Justin was alluding to like your athletes or your competitors that are on lower type calorie diets And they have a lot of stress whether it be exercise running for a very long time Or just eating really really low calorie for a very very long time Those tend to be the most and with lots of stress those two things tend to be the most common like offenders for me as far as clients Yeah, especially if it's a lot of endurance type training That's where you start to see the metabolism Adapt really that's what's happening your metabolism is adapting so if you are doing an activity that requires very little strength And little muscle and you're doing a lot of it and doing that activity burns calories Then what will happen is your your body will start to adapt and the way it adapts is it says okay? We're burning lots of calories during this activity. We need endurance. We don't need a lot of muscle and strength Let's learn how to conserve calories. We pair muscle down We slow the metabolism down so that this person can continue to do this and become a more efficient better Endurance machine and so you see this with people who do like the cardio fanatics who come in and I would see these in the gym I'd manage gyms and there would be those members that would come in and they do the same thing every time They come in five or six days a week. They'd get on the elliptical for 40 minutes They'd get on the treadmill for 40 minutes They've got another piece of cardio for 40 minutes and they do that every day and then they'd be but they'd still be 25 or 30 pounds or so almost impossible to convince them otherwise because they've like conditioned it in their brain that whatever they eat They look at the calories of what they're eating and they want to equate that to the amount of calories that they're burning in the gym Not knowing that over this long period of time that they've been doing the same exact thing They've actually been slowing their metabolism down which now brings you know any excess of their Their maintenance calories was their maintenance calories goes down ends up starting to stack up against them Dude, there was a sky that used to come in and you guys probably because you guys were in Santa Teresa, too Black dude would wear sweater and do cardio and just sweat through the whole sweater Yeah, and he come in every morning every single morning this guy We used to have to tell him to put towels underneath his yeah underneath his bike. Yes So he did just that's all he did did cardio come in and do a ton of cardio. That's it And he was probably 20 pounds overweight So not like super overweight about 20 pounds But did cardio cardio cardio never touched the weights never touched the machines and I ended up striking up conversations with him Asked him what his goals are. Oh, I just want to maintain it So we'll do you know at the time I was trying to see if you'd be interested in training because I could see that he was doing the same thing all the time and I said well if you could have another goal, what would it be? So I'd like to get a little leaner.  And he goes oh I track my diet and we talked about diet and he did he had a booklet and he wrote everything down had all His calories now and this guy was consuming under 2,000 calories a day. He wasn't a small guy He was as tall as I was Probably, I don't know 200 pounds could you know stand to lose about 20 pounds eating under 2,000 calories a day would come in And do routinely an hour and a half of cardio Every single day and that was really one of the first times that were dawned on me It was like man this guy His body has learned to burn so few calories that he could literally 1800 calories is how he maintains 20 pounds overweight. Yeah, and so I talked to him about lifting weights I wasn't able to get through to him. He continued to do what he did But again, this is what your body does It just how you train your butt when you when we use the word workout switch that with the word train You are training your body when you're working out and the reason why you're training your body is you're training your body To get better at what you're teaching it to do or what your workouts are doing And if your workouts are high calorie burning require very little muscle Then your body is going to learn to adapt to that workout by slowing down its metabolism If your workouts don't necessarily burn a ton of calories, but require a lot of strength and muscle Well, now your body's like let's build this big. Let's build this muscle and we can be Less efficient with calories and speed up our burn I think this is so nuanced because it's this big spectrum You have like extreme metabolic damage on one side and then you have everything in the middle Like, you know, you have a healthy metabolism You have a metabolic like really extreme metabolic damage and then you have this everything in between and so it's so nuanced and Individualized that it's like where am I on that and it's all about what how you're training it So you can you don't have to be this extreme marathon runner to feel your metabolism slowing down You don't necessarily have to have metabolic damage to feel your metabolism slowing down If you eat less and less calories and exercise more and more and more Especially if you're doing things like cardio, which doesn't demand a lot of muscle You're teaching the body to become very efficient and not need a lot of calories


It's official the Seattle Seahawks are bringing back their incredible 90s jerseys as throwbacks for this season. They'll be paired with the old school silver helmet. I know I'm not alone in saying these look absolutely incredible. Their look here it looks like they'll be wearing them week 8 October 29th against the Browns. Just incredible seeing the Seahawks back in these colors it's been over 20 years since this was their primary uniform so can't wait great job by the Seahawks.


In previous videos, we've talked about how to determine the percent impedance. In this case, we've got two transformers here with a percent impedance of 2.5%. In this video, we're going to learn how to take that percent impedance and calculate what the fault current is for each transformer, as well as the fault current for the entire bank. Now, as I've always said, the first thing we want to do with our ratings here is calculate out what the rated current is. So I have a 480 to 120 volt transformer, 10 KVA. So what that means is each winding is going to be able to handle 10 KVA. 480 is on the H side because that is the higher voltage, which means this side is 120 volts. So when we're determining fault current, we are going to be basing it off of the secondary side because it is the secondary that draws the current, which means that the secondary side controls the primary current. So oftentimes, you'll hear us say that the secondary is the source of current for a transformer. Therefore, we're going to use that current to determine fault. So 10,000 divided by 120 volts gives me 83 amps for this transformer right here. Using the same idea on the second one, I'm going to take 5 KVA. Watch for that. So each winding can handle 5 KVA. 5,000 divided by 120 volts gives us 42 amps. Next up, we're going to take these currents and use the percent impedance to calculate fault current. So we're going to see here that the formula for fault current is fault current is taking your I rated divided by your percent impedance. That's just a fancy way the cool kids write it this way, percent Z or percent impedance. So again, it is off of the rated current, not the actual current, because what will happen is if we get into a short circuit situation, it doesn't care what the actual current being used is because it's in the fault condition. So we use the actual highest current that it is rated for, which is that 83 amps that we calculated. So the same thing, 42 amps on this side. So therefore, we're going to take the 83 amps and divide it by 2.5%, which is 0.025. Don't take 83 and divide it by 2.5. Take 83 and divide it by 0.025, which means that the available fault current on the secondary, guy through or somebody through a wrench across the whinies here would be 3,320 amps. We do the same thing on the other transformer. So I'm going to take 42 amps, divide that by 0.025, because that's the percent impedance. And I end up with an available fault current for this transformer of 1,680 amps available to us if somebody went ahead and threw a wrench across this transformer. If I needed to calculate out what the total fault current was, say someone came along and threw a bar or shorted it out the secondary bus, the whole bus, all you have to do is take your current because they're being paralleled of 3,320 plus 1680 amps and you end up with 5,000 amps. And so there you go. You've got your fault currents figured out. You figured out the rated current for each secondary transformer, divided it by the percent impedance and you've got your fault currents. To get your secondary bus fault current, you just add the two of them up. There's another quick trick to double check your work for the secondary bus. What we can do is we can add the KVA's here because we've got a 10 KVA transformer in parallel with a 5 KVA transformer. And we can figure out what the total KVA is. In this case, it's easy enough. It's 15 KVA. We can divide that by the voltage to get the actual secondary bus rated current. And we can take that bus rated current and divide it by the percent impedance. Let me walk it through with you. So right now I took that 15,000 divided by 120 volts and I end up with 125 amps. That means at full rated current, both transformers on the secondary bus will draw a total of 125 amps. We take 125 amps and we divide that by percent impedance of 2.5%. Remember when you're paralleling transformers, the third rule is that you have to have the same percent impedance. This is one of the reasons why we're going to take 125 amps divided by 0.025. And we're going to get an answer of, boom, 5000 amps. So it's the same thing. You can go ahead and double check your work. Again, you can calculate the percent impedance for each transformer and then add them up together to get the secondary bus fault current. Or you can just go ahead and add up your KVA's divided by the rated voltage. Get your current. Current divided by percent impedance will give you the secondary bus.


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Hello, and welcome to CMORES World Commentary on Think Tech Hawaii. You can find all my commentaries and CMORES World episodes on the Think Tech Hawaii website. I welcome your comments by email, text, or phone, and you can reach me at CMORES.CASAMERSKI at gmail.com or<PHONE_NUMBER>. Our topic today is, the pressure is off. I just returned from an extended trip to Canada and feel like I need a vacation. Why? Because I put so much pressure on myself to do what I have to do. You can stop trying to get everything right. Is the pressure getting to you? Do you try to make everything work only to find that your best efforts are largely ineffective? Does this happen to you sometimes or always? Do you always feel there is constant pressure on you? Well, I have decided that from now on, that's not going to happen to me. While pressure drives me toward success, it also can drive me to the point of exhaustion. It doesn't lead to the path of least resistance, which I believe is the best for taking more efficient action. For me, it feels like a constant pushing feeling when I am caught in a pressure trap. As if there is an inner pressure pushing out of my head, and the pressure inward that tries to push me forward. I constantly feel like I'm not doing enough. Not uncommon when you are growing your business that is a common feeling to have. No, don't cry any tears for me, seriously, I am fine. But still, I am talking about something different here. This is a feeling I've had most of my life. This pressure beneath the surface of always needing to be doing something, changing, moving forward, and progressing. Believe it or not, I love that about myself because it makes me challenge myself to keep learning and to go for what I want. I think it makes me push beyond the status quo. That's the story I tell myself, at least. And yet I also hate this ambitious, pressuring drive because I will inevitably burn myself out. Take actions that are unnecessary and waste energy. It prevents me from taking right aligned action. Though I'm a big believer in helping people bust apart limiting beliefs and mindsets, our bodies have limits, clearly. This takes its toll. Energy gets depleted. I'm not saying that putting pressure on oneself is always the primary reason. I am taking this as a slice of life that could be a major player in feeling overwhelmed and or exhausted. Diet, exercise, sleep, and other factors certainly play a role too. So what can we do to take the pressure off? It's quite simple. Chill, sit, wait. That is right. Chill out, turn off all your electronic devices, get a glass of water, a cup of coffee or tea, and sit, and wait. Don't act on that pressured feeling. Let it run its course and then act after it subsides. We have to untrain this pressure do, do, do response. Otherwise, we keep rewarding ourselves for acting on it and keep the cycle going. Look for a better way. By better, I mean more relaxed, more efficient. Think that stop you from spinning your wheels or doing extra busy work. Call a friend. Ask them to come help you out or talk to you so you can chill out. You see, your time in vitality is important. Just as hell. Lastly, go with the flow. Surrender to it. When all else fails, succumbing to your tiredness, stop working for a while. Clear your schedule. Surrender to the overwhelm.  This even rubs me as I type this because I help people shift their perspectives in order to gain more personal responsibility and yet so much is out of our control. Yes, it is a Zen paradox of letting go of control to have more control.  Your life vitality is important and the pressure to produce and get things done is just chasing the dragon. And your life suffers from it. When the pressure is on, stop the chase. Let it go. Each of us has to choose one of two paths in life, the old way or the new way. Reflect on where you are. Take time to reflect and be honest about what is happening in your interior world. Recognize the fork in the road that is always before you. Choose to talk to someone. Maybe it's God or a good friend. When something goes wrong in your life, instead of trying to handle it yourself, seek the new way. Refocus your goals. Instead of being angry, be more humble. It requires the swallowing of pride and self-sufficiency and the beginning of openness and confidence. Wow, I feel much better now that the pressure is off. I hope this helps you as well. My name is Seymour Kazimurski. You're watching a commentary of Seymour's World. You can find all my commentaries and Seymour's World episodes on the ThinkTech Hawaii website. I wish you a wonderful week. Aloha.


Hi, this is your host, Upinaparthia, and we are here at Open Source Summit in Vancouver. And today we have with us Lisa Noble, Distinguished Engineer at Discover Financial Services. Lisa, it's great to have you on the show. Thank you so much for inviting me. Yeah, it's my pleasure to have you here. First of all, tell us a bit about yourselves. What do you do at... And also, I would actually love to know a bit about the company also, because if I'm not wrong, this is the first time... I've been covering Open Source Summit for a long time, but this is the first time I think I'm seeing you folks. So I have two full questions. First of all, talk about the company, and then you're all there. All right, yeah. I'm here on behalf of Discover Financial Services, and it is our first time here at the Open Source Conference as a sponsor and as a contributor. We have been a firm believer in Open Source for many, many years. So we know the value of Open Source, and we've certainly been consuming Open Source for a long time, but this is our debut in contributing Open Source and sharing the Open Source that we are working on with this community. The thing that's kind of unique about this Open Source project that we're working on is we are encouraging both developers to contribute, but also for designers. So UX designers, visual designers, accessibility designers, any type of designer to get involved in this project. I would love to know a bit about for the community that Discover Financial Services, what you folks do, and then we'll talk about what are the areas because you folks are big. You do a lot of open source, you do a lot of propriety, but I want to understand what you folks do and what are the expect where you engage with Open Source. I myself am a distinguished engineer at Discover. That is a new initiative at Discover to introduce the idea of distinguished engineers. It was important them to identify distinguished engineers in regards to their digital transformation. So Discover's in the midst of a digital transformation, really understanding that they need to be a tech company as well as a financial company in order to move effectively and to scale and respond to customer needs quickly. So we're in the middle of that transformation. It's a really exciting time for Discover and that's really why we are here today at Open Source Summit to share our commitment to open source and digital transformation and to share and collaborate with people and share some of our ideas. And it's not just you folks are in your digital transformation, your clients are also in the early stages of digital transformation. So talk a bit about when you folks are embarking on the journey, what are the challenges that you saw or your team's face where you felt that, hey, open source is the right way because you don't have, there's so much code to be written. There is, yeah. Well, first of all, in terms of, all financial companies have to balance innovation and risk together, right? And we don't have to do that alone. Actually, one of the things, one of the initiatives that we have right now, this Open Source project, we actually paired up with Finos to sponsor a hackathon around the theme builder, which is the open source project that we're doing because we recognized, as a company, we have certain challenges that other companies and industries can relate to as well. And rather than at trying to champion these changes ourselves, we work better when we collaborate with other people. So, we have to pick and choose the areas where we can innovate fast and quickly and those where we need to take it a little slower. But certainly in regards to making user experiences for our customers more accessible, more consumable, and more customer centric, is definitely one of our goals. And that's something that is low risk and is a great place for us to contribute. You mentioned Finos, which is once again, you know, Linux Foundation. Talk a bit about your involvement with Linux Foundation. Well, in the past year, we've really started to engage in a lot of collaborative communities. So, we've just become very involved in the Linux Foundation to become a sponsor as well as becoming a sponsor of Open Source, so, of the Open Source Summit. So, you know, this is again sort of our reckoning or like a revolution for Discover. We're really entering this space of innovation and collaboration. And it's really a transformative time for Discover. So, it's a super exciting time. Can you talk about your engagement here, you know? Of course, you know, since you're part of the sponsor, any sessions that you personally are excited about that Discover is presenting here? Well, I, for one, am presenting, so I am very excited. I'm presenting on the concept or on the issue of design in Open Source. And we will also be presenting our debut project, Open Source project there, which is an integration of design, engineering, and accessibility. And we're super excited about this because as I mentioned, we're not only encouraging engineers to get involved, but we're encouraging end users and designers to get involved in this Open Source project. And so, I'll be talking about Open Source and design in its current state and, you know, talk about some of the reasons why we don't see a lot of designers engaging in Open Source, some of the pain points that are associated with that, and then talk about how beneficial it would be to bring designers into the field of Open Source because there's a lot of magic happens that happens when you intersect design, engineering, and collaboration. And of course, the ultimate platform for collaboration is Open Source. Can you talk a bit about the importance of design when we talk about code, you know, to the end user, you know, UX, especially if an end user can be developer, end user can be someone like me who is leveraging your services or using the service. So talk about the importance of, you know, UX and design in general for, you know, and then we'll talk about Open Source. Well, UX is incredibly important and impactful and I think, you know, people are beginning to understand that more and more. I do wanna emphasize, however, that, you know, user experiences are things that we as individuals encounter a hundred times a day, right? It's checking into your hotel, ordering a cup of coffee, registering at the conference, right? But more and more those experiences are becoming digital, right? They don't have to be digital. They don't have to be tied to a user interface to be a user experience, right? And you can apply things like design thinking to investigate how those user experiences are for the end user. Where are the pain points? Where are they having a hard time? Where is their space to improve? But more and more those experiences I mentioned are becoming digital and when they are digital, they often have a user interface and then a user interface becomes a very important part of creating an exceptional user experience. So, you know, my passion is that I am both an engineer and a designer. So I sort of have that unique perspective from an engineer's point of view as well as from a designer's point of view and creating experiences and digital experiences. And it's so important that we work effectively together in the creation of user experiences. And that's when you see beautiful products come out and it's rarely when the intersection of design and development are working seamlessly and effectively together. Perfect, thank you.  We are seeing a lot of cultural changes happening with the cloud which was like devos, we have devs across. What kind of cultural changes you are seeing in terms of UX and developers? So that was again, these are not two different silos? Yeah. Well, I think that there's lots of cultural changes going on and I mean, there can be cultural changes. So when we talk about ethnicity and race and all sorts of things, but also one thing about design that I'm super passionate about is inclusive design, which includes being considerate to people's different backgrounds, but also being very aware of people's accessibility needs. And this is becoming more and more important to companies as they're creating digital experiences. And so that actually is the focus of the product that we're debuting, the open source project that we're debuting. It is a product that helps teams move from, you know, design to development to deployment and creating better experiences that are more inclusive and not just meeting the minimum criteria that's out there, but rethinking what it is to create accessible experiences. Let me look at financial services. First of all, as you said, you are in your own stage of digital transformation, which means you have room for UX development, you know, kind of rehauling it or modernizing it. At the same time, you also start global audience, which also means once again, you get to the point of, you know, it could be China, it could be India, it could be Africa, which means that, and UX is where people interface, it should take into account where they are coming from. Yes, absolutely. So let's go back to the same point of, you know, diversity is not just diversity for the sake of, diversity has a lot of business value as well. Well, I think when you were saying diversity, I think the key in understanding your customers and the broad ranges your customers really starts with empathy, right? You need to understand that your customers, who they are, what their needs are and how you can better serve them. And as you were mentioning, they could be from anywhere in the world, their cultural habits and things like that may very much affect the way you wanna deliver a message, how you wanna create an experience. And so that's why I'm so excited that Discover is in the midst of a digital transformation and they're embracing things like design thinking and really focusing on the end customer and creating the journey. Now Discover has always done a really great job at identifying the needs of customer service and it's been super committed to creating great customer service like when you get on the phone. And now I think Discover has identified we need to do that same thing digitally. And so this is an incredible time to be at Discover and to be creating these digital experiences that are quite transformative and really are gonna be designed to be inclusive for everyone. When we look at UX in general, and when we look at software and open source, open source makes a lot of things easier because once again, you can collaborate but it also makes sometimes things difficult also. So as you are kind of getting into this, what kind of challenges you are seeing when it comes to engage me in the open source committee where you see, hey, you know what? There are a lot of gaps that we still need to fill or you see they have taken care of everything. All we have to do is just bring in more value. I guess I can say that there's a couple of areas that I identified that I think could bring value to open source right now. And truly, one of the biggest things is that there aren't more designers and open source, right? And there's a reason for that. If you look at the history of open source, open source software, if you look at just like the definition of open source, it says that it's open for everyone, for contribution, consumption, for modifying and using how they see fit. And in that definition, it does say anyone. So it should be open to bringing designers into the fold of open source. I think there are some reasons why we don't see more designers in open source, although designers are very comfortable, very comfortable in collaborative spaces, right? Sort of design thinking is foundational to what we do. And the cornerstone of design thinking is collaboration and transparency. And yet you don't see designers in open source. And I think if you look at open source, there's a couple of reasons. Design is definitely, open source is definitely developer led and therefore it tends to be about commits, right? Like bug fixes, new features, and engineers are recognized for their contributions. So designers who are interested in collaboration are often not even aware that open source exists, right? Or that it's a space that they can play in and contribute to. If they do know that it exists, there's a little bit of fear that exists there, right? And for an engineer, you might say, well, what is there to be scared of in regards to open source? But the terminology and the tools are quite intimidating for a designer, just as our terminology and our tools may be intimidating for an engineer. For example, like words like kerning and the golden ratio or white space or skeo morphism are big words that might intimidate an engineer. And the same can be said for a designer who doesn't know what cloning and batching and stashing and all those things are. And so if we could open the tooling and the technology and the terminology to make designers feel a little bit more included, you also don't see a lot of our design tools incorporated and used in open source. You don't, for example, see things like Figma files being used. So I think if we could bridge some of those gaps and we could identify that design is of great value to open source, then if people vocalize the need and start bringing designers in the fold, I think everyone would reap the benefit. Do you see any trends? Linux Foundation, they folks are involved with, Hollywood also, they have the whole foundation for motion picture, you know, academy, you know. But do you see any either projects are there or do you see some kind of movement is happening where designers are kind of moving towards these and we talked about cultural aspect in the beginning as well. So it goes back to the same, you know, it used what kind of either road back, maybe road block may not be right, whatever hurdle. Do you see any kind of hurdles for UX designers kind of embracing these open source practices? Or do you see, yeah, things are moving in positive direction slowly? Yeah, I think things are definitely moving in a positive direction. You know, you see things like Figma, for example, is a tool that is foundationally open source because people can create plugins for Figma, which allows, you know, a community to collaborate and add and that's what open source is about. So designers are seeing the value of open source, right? First hand, and so I think that it's sort of an awakening like UX designers are starting to realize and all types of designers are starting to see that they, there are these opportunities for them contribute. And I think it's far reaching beyond, you know, web interfaces. I think you could see it in things like gaming, which we heard about today and all sorts of things. And I also hope that accessibility gets brought into the fold more and more into open source as well because it is a challenge that we all struggle with. Every company across the globe is having to create digital experiences and take into account accessibility. And yet the complexities are greater and greater and greater. We have desktop, we have laptop, we have tablet, we have, you know, wearables, we have interfaces in our cars and on our fridges and all of those should be accessible experiences. So it would be much better if we all work together in this effort because I think we should really reimagine, you know, what we can do for people who have accessibility needs. Excellent. One second. Thank you. When we do talk about UX, it's more like I'm a bit of a wrong user as you gave example of refrigerators or cars. It's kind of interfacing with that thing. So of course, text is one input, touch is one input, voice is one input. What kind of, you know, evolution that you're seeing in text stack where you see the once again, that it's moving more towards accessibility? Well, I think there's so many exciting things that can be done, you know, in accessibility that even taking consideration things like mobility. For example, let's say you are using your Google Maps and you wanted to know how to get from point A to point B. If it identified that you had accessibility needs, it might give you a path that's easier for you that's not gonna get you a point where you have to take stairs to get to your final destination.  So I think there's all kinds of things that we can do to elevate accessibility. You know, certainly I think one of the biggest areas of accessibility too that's not being touched is the area of cognitive accessibility needs. There are over a billion people in the world who have accessibility disabilities, but the biggest population of that are people with cognitive disabilities. I myself am dyslexic. I was identified as being dyslexic when I was in sixth grade and I'm very grateful for that because I was given the tools that I need to be able to, you know, get back into the mainstream and contribute to society the best of my capabilities. But I also know that technology can provide such a gift to people with cognitive disabilities. You know, for dyslexia, for example, we could render a dyslexic font. We could increase line height. We can increase contrast. And that makes content more consumable for the end user. There's all these things that we can do for people who have mobility, emotion sensitivity. And like there's more and more apps and more and more desktop apps too, have a lot of motion in them, which is great, it can become really overwhelming for users and it can prevent them from actually completing their tasks successfully. So I feel like we can reimagine the way we approach accessibility and customize experiences for people with accessibility needs. Lisa, thank you so much for taking time out here. Thank you so much and I really appreciate you telling me about your interest in your passion. No, it was, I was more interested in learning about you and how you are bringing your experience. Yeah. The note may not point out the word, but to once again improve it for everyone else. And thanks for those insights about diversity is not just about a few things. And how we should become more accessible, technology should become more accessible. Absolutely. That was a great discussion and I would love to have you back on the show again. Oh, thank you. I so much appreciate your time.


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