This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listener, thanks to all of you, including Chris Allen, Chris Smith, Mark Gibson, and Adam L. On this episode of DTNS, Amazon brings ads to Prime Video. How mad should you be? We'll tell you. A foldable phone with a circular cover screen is making an appearance and Shannon Morse helps us understand why Apple has so many vulnerabilities these days. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, September 22, 2023 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio, who even knows anymore? I'm Sarah Lane. From Studio Colorado, I'm Shannon Morse. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Do you think you'll ever settle on the name of your studio? Well, I don't know. I kind of feel like, you know, being like a fluid studio is kind of fun. Superposition. You're all studios. Right. At once. Yeah, exactly. Indeed. Well, settle, collapse into some coherent position because it's time for the quick hits. Microsoft is closer than ever to finalizing its merger with Activision Blizzard. To catch you up, the deal has been approved or at least not blocked pretty much everywhere except in the UK. Friday, the UK competition and markets authority issued a statement saying that Microsoft's agreement to sell Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft for the next 15 years, quote, substantially addresses previous concerns and opens the door to the deal being cleared. End quote. This EMA will now take feedback from third parties until October 6, after which it will likely approve the deal before the October 18 deadline. So the merger will happen in time for them to toast each other with pumpkin spice latte. Still good to know. It's a beautiful life. Back in 2009, some of you may recall, I discussed on CNET's Buzz Out Loud podcast that the EU had fined Intel for violating antitrust rules. Intel said, or actually paid, PC manufacturers, if they agreed to delay, cancel or not sell products with AMD chips inside. Intel made these payments to HP, Acer and Lenovo, possibly others, but those are the ones named in the suit. Intel appealed that fine, and at the time, we noted it could take years to resolve. Well, 14 years, to be exact. After wending its way through the courts, the EU has reimposed a smaller fine than the one they assessed in 2009, 376.36 million euros. And this case isn't even fully done yet. There's another aspect of it regarding rebates rather than direct payments, which is still in the courts. Wednesday's Android 14 QPR one beta one beta update update includes an upcoming feature to use your phone as a webcam. If you might be saying, well, why would I want to do that? It doesn't rely on third party apps or software, but it does require physically connecting the phone to a laptop or a desktop computer using a USB cable. The feature was first spotted in the charging this device via USB option that appeared in the notification tray after the phone was first connected. The UK confirmed it will essentially adopt the EU's agreement with the US over how to handle data transfers between two areas. Data transfer agreements make it easy for a company to operate in two governmental areas while storing data in another. So you can, for instance, operate in the European Union, but keep all the data in a data center somewhere in the United States. Now those agreements between the EU and the US have been struck down by the EU Court of Justice twice for insufficiently protecting the privacy of EU users, thanks to lawsuits pursued largely by Max Schrems as well as a few others. And this latest version of the EU-US agreement also is going to face legal challenges in the European Union. However, the UK is not subject to the decisions of European courts, so it's possible that if the current EU agreement got struck down, the UK version with the US could continue. The social network X, formerly known as Twitter, some people use them interchangeably, we'll figure that out at some point, announced its sunsetting its circles feature on October 31st. Ooh, very spooky. Circles launched in August of 2022. It was initially designed to sit somewhere between a public and a private account, where as a user, you could designate certain tweets to be viewable only by Tom and Shannon and Roger and Joe type thing instead of everybody without being private. You had 150 followers maximum at the time. Now users won't be able to add people to their circles after October 31st. They won't be able to create new posts either, but they will be able to remove people from past circle shared posts if they feel like it wasn't, you know. Yeah. Happy Halloween. You've been removed from a circle. Well, let's talk a little bit more about what's going on with the Amazon Prime video because you'll either be mad about this or you won't care. Ads are coming to Amazon Prime video unless you pay extra. So Amazon Prime video is included with Amazon Prime at no additional charge. Amazon Prime gets you lots of other things. You get free shipping. You get, you know, either cost $14.99 per month or $139 per year for that. And if you get a lot of stuff that is shipped to you, it might make out, might not, but for most people it does. You can also pay for Amazon Prime video on its own for $8.99 per month. Now starting in early 2024, Prime video subscribers in Canada, Germany, the UK and the US will see a limited advertisements thing. Australia, France, Italy, Mexico and Spain are going to get this later this year. In the US, you'll be able to pay $2.99 per month extra to go back to being ad free. A lot of people say, okay, I like ad free. Oh, you know, what else? No prices were announced yet for the other regions. How many ads are we talking about here, you might say? Well, Variety says that Amazon plans to run fewer ads than broadcast TV or other streamers. When you say other streamers, it's like, oh man, estimating that the lowest ad load right now would be about four minutes per hour. Are we outraged, Shannon? Yes, everyone's outraged. Right, Shannon? I'm not outraged, but I am very annoyed by, especially by like how they're marketing this.  I'm, I don't really like how Amazon is doing this change where they're saying, okay, now you have to increase to a different tier to get the thing that you were currently paying for. So instead of saying like, hey, we're going to introduce a new tier that's cheaper and you can just like downgrade to that one, they're saying now you have to upgrade to a new tier to still get the ad free experience that you've had for the past like umpteen years. And we've had Amazon Prime Video for a very, very long time without ads. So this is somewhat, I just, I don't like how they're advertising it. I don't like this one either. And, and usually I'm not bothered by this stuff. Personally, when I don't like price increases, but I don't get offended by them like some people do. If somebody thinks that their service is worth a certain amount, then they should try charging for that. And if I think it's worth that amount, I'll pay it. And if I don't, I won't. Like to me, it's that simple. When the ads come along, if they do what Netflix did where they're like, hey, we're going to have ads for cheaper, you can stay on the tier you're on, or you can pay less, you can switch and pay less and get ads. That's perfectly fine. That's my choice. I can decide to do that or not. Disney Plus did a different thing where they're like, we're going to put ads in your, in your tier that you're at right now, or you can upgrade to a more expensive tier to get rid of them. To me, that's just like a price rise. They're saying, instead of forcing you to pay extra, we're just going to put ads in it. And if you don't want to pay the price raise, that didn't bother me either. This bothers me, I think, because it's Amazon Prime. And what they sold me with Amazon Prime was you get all these things as a member of Amazon Prime. You pay for Amazon Prime. I pay my $140 a year. I get all this stuff. And now they're saying, oh, but to keep the benefit of Amazon Prime, now you have to pay a little extra. And there's something about that that rubs me the wrong way, because I don't want to have add-ons to my Amazon Prime membership. It just feels weird. The simplicity of Prime was so nice for such a long time. So I really enjoyed just, it's just a big, fancy, happy bundle. And you don't even have to think about it. You just pay the membership once a year. Yes, that's exactly right. I just got a notification from Amazon yesterday, I think, of Amazon Prime annual subscription coming up, which actually threw me for a loop last year when I was like, what is this? Because I forget. I forget that I do pay for Amazon Prime, but once you do, a lot of the stuff is just sort of seamless, right?  You pay for this, what is it now? $119 per year annually, I think. That's fine with me. I'm down to do that. But yeah, all the extra stuff is going to, I don't know, anybody who would say, oh, that seems cool. No, it's complicated. It's not the first time they've done it either. Amazon Music is the same way. You get a certain amount in Prime, and you have to pay extra for other stuff, but that bothers me less, probably because they started it that way. This feels like it's taking something away, and psychologically, we never like it when something is taken away. But in the end, I think it's probably fair. All right, foldable phones. We've talked about how the new form factor trend, we're seeing more and more of them in the world. The prices are starting to at least trend towards affordability, rather than insane expensiveness. What should go on a foldable phones cover screen, though? That is the question du jour from smartphone form factor makers. And China's techno to ECNO has decided to try a circle. Not the first circle on a cover screen. Huawei did it, but it was a little tiny screen. It was a little preview screen. This is the whole thing is a circle. It fills most of the cover. Obviously, it doesn't fill all of it because the cover is square, and it's a circle inside of a square. It's called the Phantom 5 or the Phantom V. It's a clamshell foldable similar to the Razer Plus or the Samsung Flip. And it's a 1.32 inch AMOLED screen where you can access your notifications, your widgets, take selfies, all the things you can do on the other clamshell foldables. But it's a circle. What do you think? You like circle, Shannon? No, I don't like it at all. I'm so used to having like a Z Flip where especially the newest one that came out this year, it has this nice big rectangle on the front. And I have access to so much information on here. And if you download third party apps, you can even type on it. You can access entertainment and you can watch square YouTube videos right on the front display. So it makes sense to me to have something that has like a square or rectangle aspect ratio over having a circle. I have a friend. Her name is Issa. She does a lot of tech reviews of smartphones from Asia. And she did a little preview of this one with the circle. And to be honest, it looks like you're sticking a Samsung or a Google Pixel watch face on the front of the square phone. And you're leaving all this blank space around it. And it just seems like a waste of space to me. Sarah, I know you don't have a foldable, but do you like the circle? Does it entice you? It doesn't. No. And here's the thing. Having something on the outside that could give me something that I don't know would be akin to notifications that I would get on my watch. That is great. You could have a watch and also have a foldable phone. But let's just say that the foldable top screen kind of giving you weather, maybe a notification here and there, kind of the basics, right? That is fine. When Tweetbot, God rest its soul, first had its, I guess, probably the latest version was 2021? I don't know. Before things with Twitter changed significantly. One of the things was, do you want Shannon Morse's avatar to be square or circle? And I was like, why would anyone want circle? All you're doing is like cutting off parts of the original image. I don't get it. I don't get circular stuff at all. If your watch itself or if your phone itself somehow is circular, okay, you're constrained. Otherwise, no. No, thank you. I mean, you really aren't losing any important part of the screen, though. How much of your information goes into the corners? But it's like, but why cut off the sides for no reason? Why force everything into a box? Literally, a box shape. Let's think outside the box. Go circle. Come on, everybody. I mean, I get what you're saying, Tom. I get it. I know what you're doing here. Somebody had to speak up for Techno. That's just my best shot. I feel like if a form factor is circular, great. Okay. But otherwise, we should not do that. We should not do that just for the fun of style. Why not? Let us know. Feedback in DailyTechnoShot.com. Take him. You're taking pencils out. All right. Well, as you've heard, it alluded to on the show already a couple of times. Some of us have a problem with Elon Musk. I know nobody said his name, but we did mention X a couple of times. But how much do you really know about Elon Musk? Probably less than you think. Find out things you don't know about him. And this week's Tom's Top Five, where I share shocking and surprising Elon Musk secrets. You probably actually know a couple of them, but I bet you don't know all of them. So catch it at youtube.com slash Daily Tech News. A few bits of Apple news kicking around this week. Of course, the iPhone 15 shipping today went on sale. My wife got hers already. Some people are still waiting on there. Some people picking theirs up at the store. And in fact, in China, where there's been a bit of a backlash against U.S. companies lately, the lines were long. And the delivery requests, they use companies like JD and Dada to deliver your iPhones to you. Like, you know, you can order it and have it delivered up 253% over the iPhone 14 last year. Everybody loves that USBC connector. I'm kidding. Friend of the show, Brian Tong also interviewed Apple's VP of Sensing and Connectivity, Ryan Wang, and to find out why the USBC AirPods can support lossless audio, but not the existing lightning port versions. In fact, I was one of those people who said, but why? Turns out the H2 chip in the USBC version supports the 5 GHz band, and the lightning version of the chip only supports 2.4 GHz. And Apple has news. In fact, there's an update you want to keep an eye out for and apply to your phone, whether it's new or old, fixing three zero-day bugs in macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Apple's security advisory said it was aware that the patched vulnerabilities may have been actively exploited, hence the zero-day. Apple has patched 11 zero days since the beginning of the year. Now, we're three quarters away through the year, but that's still more than I think people are used to hearing from them. That could sound bad, but better to catch and patch than not. Shannon, how do you view this? Why do we see more zero days targeted at Apple, do you think? You know, that's a good question, and I think an even better question is, are we seeing more zero days now than we used to? And going back in like, I went down a rabbit hole looking at the news for Apple zero days and Apple zero click vulnerabilities for iPhones over the past couple of years. And this year, they've almost doubled. Last year there was about nine, I believe, nine different zero days by October. So this year, we've already seen more than that. And it's September. So chances are we'll probably continue to see this trend until the end of the year, where we end up having them patch a lot more zero days than they did last year. So then that leads on to the next question is, why are we seeing more like you asked, Tom? And it's really hard to say why, but my first inclination is that oftentimes when it comes to new vulnerabilities, we see these weird trends in terms of what hackers are specifically targeting, like going back to when the pandemic first started, we saw a lot of industrial control systems being attacked. A lot of like B2B type of businesses were attacked at the time too. And now we're starting to see a lot more like state sponsored attacks against consumer devices, but specifically targeting like specific people that are using these consumer devices, like we had the most recent one where it was targeting, I believe it was a president or something. So we often see these kinds of trends. So maybe because, and this is just my hypothesis here, maybe we are seeing these trends towards consumer devices because these attackers are targeting specific people and they're finding more vulnerabilities on these devices at this time. And we could see that trend completely change next year where they go back to ICS or they go to banks or hospitals or whatever. It's just, I think it's a part of this like ongoing loop of what we see attackers decide to go after at the time. Yeah. And there's always the possibility that detection got better. Maybe there were just as many that just didn't get detected in the past. So when you catch more criminals, it looks like crime went up, but it may not have. It may just be that you're doing a better job. So I imagine that could be part of it. Apple also is a much larger surface area than it used to be. Everybody's using iPhones around the world in large amounts. So it's a big surface area to attack. But I like where you're going, Shannon, and it feels right to me that with more international tensions, there's a war in Ukraine. There's a war in Ethiopia. There's a war in Yemen. There's, you know, there's all of these. There's more tensions between China and the U.S. There's China, Russia, North Korea. All of this stuff means there's probably a rise in espionage in general, I would guess, which would then make sense that you're seeing these some of these are specifically for spyware like Pegasus, which is usually targeted by state actors against significant individuals. It would make sense that they would go after that, and that alone could explain this. That's a great point. Earlier this month, I had reported on one called BlastPass, and that was, I believe, from NSO Group. That is another state-sponsored group that is specifically targeting these consumer devices. You do see those kinds of things happen quite often, and I don't think that's reason enough to be super concerned, but it is a really excellent standpoint of saying you need to make sure, especially in this day and age, that you're having really good security hygiene, like an all-encompassing idea of how to figure out how to protect yourself, because, yes, while Apple is rolling out these out-of-band updates and patches, which is a really good thing, we still need to depend on ourselves to make sure that we are auto-updating and that we are making sure that we know when these trends happen so that we can protect our devices and we don't fall vulnerable whenever these things come around. BeBastar asked a good question. Are the bad guys using AI, using co-pilot, chat GPT, et cetera, to find more vulnerabilities, to make more code? That's a good question. I don't know if I could answer that honestly. Yeah, I don't know if anybody could really. I would have to ask some red teamers. It'd be interesting to note, you would have to hear about it. You'd have to hear that's how they're developing it. I'm not sure if it would show up even in the detection of the vulnerability. Yeah, that's a really interesting thing to answer though. I would love to know if that's something that any of my friends in cybersecurity have experienced, like noticing that more attackers are using AI. Now I have questions to ask my friends next time I see them. Good one, BeBastar. Thank you for that. Well, obviously, if you are attacked, it can be a nightmare, a different kind of nightmare.  Hope you're sitting down. A woman was rescued from an outhouse toilet in northern Michigan after she climbed in to retrieve her Apple watch that somehow had gone into the ether, then got stuck. After dropping her watch at the Department of Natural Resources' boat launch at Tixon Lake in Ossego County's Bagley Township in Michigan, state police said Wednesday, the first responders were called when the woman was heard yelling for help, the toilet was removed, a strap was used, hold the woman out, and all as well. No, no, what happened to the watch? That's the key. That's the key question here. Tom, did she get it back? All was as well if she didn't get the watch back after going through all that.  I mean, it can handle. It can handle some stuff. I don't know if it can handle all that. You can wash it. It's what is it? IP6. You can wash it. Can you ever come back from something like this? I'm not sure. That is the question. I want to know whether they got the watch back or not. I feel like that is an important point. And ABC6 Michigan, by the way, to their credit, said we did not get confirmation whether the watch was found or not. They asked the question. They just didn't get an answer. And the only reason I'm laughing is because this is one of my worst nightmares ever.  But I have questions. Yes. So many questions. Can I ask what watch band she was using? So I know what not to buy. Like, does this thing just fall off? Was she taking it off? Shannon, I've thought about this. So I often kind of go like, I want it tight. But like, sometimes when I'm exercising, I want it a little looser. Maybe she was like, I'm about to go jogging. So I'm going to loosen it up. Whoops.   I don't know. I don't know. You know, honestly, like no, this is why you have insurance. But I do wonder if insurance would cover it. If you went to the insurer and you were like, it has, it fell in poop. Like, yeah, depends on the terms. I just, yeah, I don't think I would use it after that. The big question here that we want your opinion on feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. If you could get that watch back, would you even want it? Let us know. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. And on that note, let's check the mail back. We got a good one from Mohan who said, we need more of Chris, Ashley, and Rob Dunwood on at the same time because they were on yesterday's show. And you know what? I gotta agree with you, Mohan. They were on fire. Mohan says, love hearing them both. Thanks again, DT and us. Forgive me. Giving me a daily dose of tech news. 100% agree. And if you want more Chris, Ashley, and Rob Dunwood together in your life and you haven't already done this, go subscribe to SMR podcast. Just look it up in the podcatcher of your choice. Well, Shannon Morris, no show is any better without you. Thank you for making this the best show. And sorry that we made you think about diving into a toilet. But let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work. You know, it's okay. It's the weekend. It's fine. Time to recover. Yeah, exactly. YouTube.com slash Shannon Morris is my YouTube channel. 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Kim was a very jolly. She'd make light of anything. She was always there if you needed help, but she would be very... She'd always crack a joke. You know, Kaylee was... She was... They were like twins, they were like sisters, till she met that certain person. And Kim was your daughter, and she was a bit more than your daughter, wasn't she? She was a bit of a best friend. Yeah, well, we lived so close together, and when she hit teenagers, I tried to treat her like a sister, rather than as a mother than daughter, so that if she had any problems, she could talk to me. Now, you've said to me before, you thought that when Kimberly was born, and Kimberly was coming home, that brought about a change in Kaylee. Oh, yes. She suddenly realised she had to choose between him and the baby. I don't think she realised she had to choose completely, but I think she realised what it was to be a mum. Because when she brought that baby out of that car, she had a smile on her face, and women know this as the proud look of her mother bringing the baby home for the first time. And here there was no sign of him. And for him, the perpetrator, somebody else coming first, was the final straw. Oh, I think so. Yeah. I think he was jealous because Kaylee was down in the hospital with the baby for 24 hours. She wasn't under his control at that time. Looking back, that's why I think he'd done it. He cut the cables on the computers and all the fish tank and things like that. My daughter's partner found all this, and he told him she had to go to the police, and the social services knew as well because they told her she had to go to the police.  I mean, he threatened many a time he was going to bring us all out to come back, even me. But we all thought it was the bullstalking. Didn't think he really meant it. It's not till after that we found out his past record. So this is a big warning. He's damaged property, and he's made everybody anxious, hasn't he, by and the dogs now causing chaos. So on the day of the fire, what happened? Because the baby came home, didn't she? The baby came home about ten past four on a Monday afternoon. I last seen him about quarter to seven because Kim wanted some pillows because the baby couldn't lie flat. I went from there and her partner was coming up with some chips from the chip shop because she had nothing in for them to eat. And that's the last I've seen of him until I had a phone. I knocked on my door at quarter to four the next morning to state that Kim's house was on fire. I got dressed, I ran down there, which is two minutes away from where I live, and all I seen was my complete road was fire engine after fire engine right the way up to the main road. There was police cars, policemen, there was an ambulance, and all I could see was the windows were black and the smoke was coming out the roof, and I knew in my heart they'd gone. I knew it. If this film is going to be seen by people who run services, leaders in Wales, what would you say to them about what we should do to avoid and to protect families? Well, if you've got information on a certain person for other reasons that causes concern, let the family know. You don't have to go into detail. There's an exclusion where there's no way that person is allowed near them. And don't go buy books because books are only a guideline, they're not a human being, and everybody is different. Talk to people, ask them how you can help them, but also talk to other agencies. So they're aware and none of this, oh well we didn't know this, we didn't know that. My daughter would try it and try it and try it, and nobody put her on the right path. Nobody helped to say, well, we can do this or we can do that for you. If somebody had said that, they could stop it. Can I just thank you for doing this?   Well, it's all I can do for them. But I just determined to make sure it doesn't have to end with us. I know I'm realistic, I know it probably will happen, but it shouldn't.


The first step to really understanding how to play jazz on the bass is to really get a good handle of the note names on the fretboard and on the fingerboard. So the first assignment that you'll have is to know all of the note names from the open strings right on up the fingerboard. So I want to give you a couple of tips for learning that. In jazz, it's really important that we know the name and the placement of the root. That is the key note of every single chord that's played. So knowing the letter names of the fingerboard is really important. Now by now, I'm thinking that all of you know the open strings. The open strings on the bass from highest to lowest are G, D, A, and E. So our first start is just knowing those open strings. Now we need to start thinking about the names of every single fret going on up the on up the neck of the bass. I'm guessing that by now you've got all of the basics of playing together. I'll maybe mention a couple of things.  Right up behind the fret on first fret, we're going to use our first finger on all of these. Second fret, third fret. If we get too far back in, you get that buzzing sound and that's no good. We want to get right up right behind the fret. Third fret, fourth fret, fifth fret, etc. On all four strings. It's always the same. Now we want to relate the fretboard to a piano keyboard in terms of the note names. Now here's a good little trick to remember the note names. There's always two frets between each letter name, except between the letters E and F and the letters B and C. So from open E to F is just one fret difference or from open to one. But from F to G is two frets. From G to A is two frets. From A to B also two frets. But as I said between B and C, just one fret difference. C.  We can name the sharps and flats. I like to just go right up and know the essentially the white keys on the piano, the straight notes, the natural notes. So from open E open E first fret is F G A B C is one fret difference D. And then when we get to the two dots on the fingerboard, we're back to E again. So we get right on back up to E. We can do that same thing on the A string. A to B is a two fret difference. B to C, that's only one fret. Now C to D two frets. D to E two frets. E to F, one fret. F to G two frets. And G to A. And we're up to the two dots. We're at an octave. We've made it all the way up. We're gonna do the same thing on the D string. Open D. E. One fret to F. G. A. One fret to C. And D. To our octave. And finally from G. Open G. Two frets to A. Two frets to B. C. F one fret. Now a great way to practice this is just to put a drum beat on. We'll put a swing drum beat on. And we're gonna play four pulses on every single white key note. And we're just gonna play right up the neck on the E string, then the A string, then the D string, and the G string. So put a drum beat on. Here we go. Ready? E. F. G. A. B. C. E. A. B. C. D. E. F. C. G.


Hello, welcome to Toffy TV. It is my three things. Burnley, Nill, Everton, two tonight at taith. My brilliant win for the Toffys. That's four wins on the spin for them. Four clean sheets and the Michael King man of the match performance. That's not a bad way to to enjoy your Saturday night. Everton went there tonight and put in a really, really professional display. Obviously they were missing five players from the squad and that is a hell of a lot to take out of an Everton squad, which is all really thin. And we went to Burnley and we put in a good, solid professional performance. Got a couple of goals, could have had a couple more. Like I said, kept another clean sheet, which is brilliant. And we've moved ourselves way clear of the relegation zone. Just three or four weeks after receiving three weeks, is it? Something like that four weeks, maybe after receiving that points deduction. We are, you know, we're well clear now. And it is annoying and it's frustrating as the manager said the other day that where we are and where we should be, we should be chasing Europe in football at this. That should be the goal at this stage because you've done what you've done. Whether you've got there is a different thing, but that's what you should have been chasing. But it's irrelevant. We just got to keep getting the games and show them the wins. We won eight games of football already, which is incredible for Everton. We haven't, we haven't been this good for a while in terms of wins. And that is bringing me nicely onto my first point, which is John Deight. The manager, I think, deserves a huge amount of credit. He's been able to come through the door at a difficult time. And certainly away from home, he's got to grips with what is needed to win games of football away. I think he's a dose of reality, Disney, I think. I think we were used to gritty performances under David Moyes. Honest performances, we were used to players who would give everything. We had quality, there's no doubt about it. Moyes' teams 06-09 were absolutely brilliant. They had a bit of everything. He was just really a good centre forward shot.  Everton were excellent then. But we've moved away from that stability, the reality, the working hard values that we do all appreciate. Listen, we all want good attacking skill for footballers in our team. Everyone wants it, we want to see brilliant dribblers, we want to see great goals, but evertonians do like battlers as well. We like to know that that team that's running out there is giving their all for the football club, for the sheath, and we'll get behind her. You could hear the fans, and like the fans were brilliant, you could hear they were so loud, they got the message across to the Premier League, well done. And we love it, we love that, but we do also expect attacking football as well. We expect to get crosses in, we expect, you know, quick breaks, and I think the manager slowly but surely getting to grips with that now. Like I said, away, away from home, he's seen to get a grip on it. Wasn't, you know, he just went back to basics, which I think all the managers, for some reason, have moved away from, but he did that really well. It was at home, I think, where Siobhan liked to struggle them in between, it's to the expectation from Burnley and the expectation of Everton. But slowly but surely, he started to hit the right balance, and we have started winning our home games, a way we are, we've won five away games. And I think he deserves huge credit and he won in Steve Stone, and why he's got the players to buy in. And now, working with Kevin Thelwell, if we can get in some younger players as well, who want to battle and scrap and fight, but they've got talent and buy into that then. Who knows where Everton can go, but he's done ever so well a manager, and he deserves huge credit, he really does. And just thought it was worth mentioning. Second person I want to talk about is Amadou Ounana. He came back into the start on 11 tonight, was excellent for me. He showed tonight what it is we miss when he's not there. Not only is he good on the ball and he demands the ball and wants to be involved all the time, you could see how many times he came and got it off pick for the way he was in there. That position to get the ball to pivot. He's calm, in possession, he's comfortable. We know how good he is tackling. But he also showed today the physicality, the physical side of him. That goal, his goal, you know, the Duncan Fagusness, rising at the far post, the planter head up past the keeper.  But his energy and the way he carries the ball for us, is huge for us. I think that Drisha Ghanagayan, James Ghanagayan did a good job together while he was out on the court. He did a good job with Ghanagayan, but I think that when Ounana is in there, we do look so much better. Like I said before, he's so comfortable on the ball. He's tackling with those long legs of brilliant. And he is starting to boss games a lot more now. I think if we can keep using them in the right manner, because I just think he makes people around them better. He makes James Ghanagayan better around them. But he is the common person in that midfield. It is incredible given how young he is, just sitting in that midfield and will spray it. We always want it to get it in, he'll take it under pressure, he'll lay it off. But he is starting to battle as well. And that's what we need to see more of those performances from him. But I think he has gone up a level this year. And I think he's made the man into appreciating him, which is great. Just keep doing it. I was delighted at E-Sport tonight, because I think that's important that those goals do come from every other area. Michael Keane's waiting with one which is great, and Ounana's waiting with the other one which is really good. And that's what we're seeing with this team now. Dwight McNeill has been putting up on the net the last couple of weeks. We've saw Adelaide Acorae, he's had the great goalscorer on the other side. Last week Beto, you know, we are seeing it from all of them now. So that's brilliant. Final thing I want to talk about is the attitude of the squad players. And we've seen that tonight with Michael Keane and Ben Goffrey, called in. OK, Keane was doubtful earlier in the week. I'm not sure what it was, but I know the manager thought he was a bit such and go for this game. But he's obviously improved as the week went on, and will have been desperate to play, let's be honest. And with Michael Keane is, he always wants to do well for everything. I think he's always wanted to do well. He's just had moments where things haven't gone for him, or he's made mistakes and he's been costly. But it was brilliant to see him come in tonight and give everything, but have a really good game. And his distribution is very good, we've always said that. But as well as his distribution, I just thought he was very good tonight in terms of his defending. And we know from training videos just how good he is at putting the ball in the back of the net. We've all seen the training videos when he's bend and shot in left, right and centre. Well, tonight he got the opportunity to show us how good he is finishing wise. Good free touch, out of his feet, good strike, keep him at the save. He stays alive, it breakers you his back and he's on hand to sigh for to be on James Trafford. It was a key goal, it put us firmly in command. And I'm delighted for him, and Ben Goffrey as well. Ben Goffrey has had to wait his turn, he's been out to sigh for a while. When him and Keane have had games, it hasn't really gone to plan. But I thought Goffrey looked very good tonight as well. You know, we've solidly made a huge, huge clearance in this game, which made sure the game didn't swing in Burnley's favour. That's too little with that clearance. Cos if that goes into one at a time, then you've got the tails up. I think it's a different second half. Goffrey does really well, stays alive. Great clearance, and it's good to see. And again, that's testimony to the manager, to Ian Wong, to Steve Stone and to the other members of the staff, to the likes of James Coleman, James Tarkoffrey, for keeping them players on their toes. And testimony to Ben Goffrey and Michael Keane, who have obviously had to be patient and wait for their turn. Oh, Dobbin as well. You know, Lewis Dobbin has played his role last week, scoring a goal at the end of the game. You know, he's had to wait, played every week, last season for Derby. Come on to there at the time. Cos he's not had a great second half, but he's involved. But to stay ready to stay late, Nathan Patterson to another one, he'll have disappointed he'd been on the bench because Ashley Young's being preferred to more James Coleman. Come on last week against Chelsea, he was up against Mudrick. Done well. Done well tonight in a slightly different role, right wing back. Yes, at this moment, he's learning again, but overall great attitude, put a shift in and haven't won the game. So fair play to all of those players and long may it continue. This is what we need. We have to have this from everyone, the buy-in from everyone. And if we do, who knows, we could have a good season. We're doing really well at the moment and long may it continue. Right, that is me done. Let me know what you think in the comment section below. Subscribe if you haven't, give the video a thumbs up. And otherwise, have a brilliant weekend. See you later.


Hello everyone. I'm glad to see you here. So my name is Marek Marusin and I am a participant of one of many summer coding programs. Actually, this is Google Summer of Code. So I'm part of Fedora community around, I don't know, three months. And before I start talking about one great automation tool, I would just like to thank my mentors and their team who really helped me with a lot of technical stuff. And I think without them I won't be here. So I will be talking about releasebot.  Because as we know, we still need to do quite a lot of manually work and hard work. And actually, that's why we are working on releasebot. Because imagine that you just created some, you are working on some great project. You create some amazing code, push it, and merge some great pull requests. And then you need to do this hard work like clicking and making releases, uploading to PyPI or packaging and et cetera. So that's why we are working on releasebot. And at current state, releasebot can create releases on PyPI GitHub and we are working on Pagur. But actually, I believe that maybe some in the future, we can also probably help like JavaScript developers or Ruby developers and create some and I'll upload their packages online. So I think you will like the concept of the releasebot. It's working in five steps. Actually, it's four. So step one, US upstream developer can open an issue in your upstream repository, which basically trigger our releasebot. Step two, releasebot is triggered and it will look on our repository, maybe work with some change log. Change log is basically file which describe differences between versions and it will create a pull request. Then in step three, US upstream developer, you just check the pull request if everything is okay and merge it. And step four, releasebot just create a release on PyPI, on GitHub or Pagur. So that's it and it just depends what you set up in your configuration files. And step five, your users are just very, very happy, but who actually benefits from the releasebot. It's you as a maintainer because you can just put your legs on the table or just doing much important stuff. Today, I actually prepared live demo, but I'm not sure how Internet, I found out that Internet is really slow here. So you'll see how it will work. Okay. So here, I have like a clean environment, Python environment, and I will be working with our README file in our releasebot repository. There is quite a lot of text, but you will see that it's pretty easy to work with this README. So there are several modes, how you can run a releasebot. You can run it on your local machine. You can run it on OpenShift and to the future, we are preparing GitHub application to make whole process much more easier. But today, I will show you just this most easier way how can you set up your releasebot on your local machine. So let's install our releasebot. And while it's installing, I will create a new repository on GitHub. Let's say it will be our project where we want to create our release. So let's call it like most amazing presentation and create the repository. Okay. And actually, I will clone this repository into my workspace. So it's here. I don't know if you can see it. And I will go inside this project. Okay. Now I'm going to read me of the releasebot. And there are two ways how you can set up your this configuration files. One way is just run releasebot in it. But actually, I want to show you some manual configuration to understand what's actually how it works. So basically, there are two configuration files. One configuration file we need to set up into our repository because make repository like compatible with releasebot. And second configuration file we need because it will contain some sensitive data. So let's create our first configuration file. We have some examples here. So I will basically copy paste it into our project. So I will create new file, copy paste and save it as releaseconv.yaml. Okay. So now I will go from the button and I will explain a little this configuration file. So basically here we have some labels because releasebot is working with issues and pull requests in your GitHub repository. So we want to sometimes label it. So let's say we want labels like bot and flock 2019. For this demo, we don't want to publish our release on PyPI. So I will choose false. And basically, there is some information for change or we don't need for now. But we need one more flag. Actually, it's triggered on issue. And this flag basically means that our releasebot will be triggered when new issue will be open in our repository. So let's save it and I will put it to the master. Okay, fine. So now when I refresh our repository, it should be there. Yes, it is. And the last thing we need to set up is our second configuration. We have also some example here. So I will copy paste it as well. But there is one important thing. We shouldn't, as I told, the second configuration file contains some sensitive data. So we shouldn't save it into our project repository. We can save it into our local machine or into some private GitHub repository. So I will go to my workspace. Create a new file. I will save it like cons.yml. And it's quite intuitive. So I will fill all the flags. But actually, if you want to know more about these configuration files, we have two tables, one for each configuration file where you can know more about all these flags and what you can set up into your configuration. So repository name is this new most amazing presentation. Repository owner, it's me. And we will need also GitHub username. It's also me. And I will set up a refresh interval for 15 seconds. Actually, when releasebot run on your local machine, it's based on pooling. So there is some infinity loop. And every now 15 seconds, it will wake up and check the repository if there is some new issues, let's say. But when you run releasebot, for example, in OpenShift, it works on webhook. So you just create some webhook URL and GitHub itself will notify the releasebot that there is some new action and I want to create a new release. And the last thing I need to set up is my very secure token from GitHub. So I will set up here. And okay, I actually think this is everything. You can see that set up configuration files for releasebot. It's quite easy. Stuff up to five minutes. So now I will do last thing and it will be, I will copy paste the command how to run our releasebot. So I will go to our workspace. So I want to run a releasebot with configuration file const yaml and debug flag, which basically means that it will just show us some prints what actually releasebot do. So now I will run it. So now it's sleeping for 15 seconds. So let's go to our most amazing presentation and I will create our first issue which will trigger like creating a new issue. But before I have to know in which format I can create such issues. So let's create a new issue and in our readme there are all the formats you can use actually. So let's create a new issue in our presentation. Let's call it version 001 release and submit this issue. As we can see, there is our first release and our bot is sleeping for 15 seconds. So let's wait for a while. Yes, so now it's doing the hard job, hard work now. And yeah, now when I refresh our repository there is one closed issue. There are our labels like bot and flock 2019. When I open it, there is some message from our releasebot. I just made a pull request for release version 001 and here is the link. So I will open our pull request. There is actually again some message from our releasebot and there is no change provided. I will fix it in the next step. So let's match this pull request. It's merged. Now when I check our repository, there are still zero releases and our bot is sleeping. So let's wait for a while. What do you mean? Okay. Yes, I can see. Okay, so actually now we have our first release made by our releasebot. So quite easy stuff how to do this. For now, I just quitted the releasebot for a while. I will go to our project and I will create a changelog. I need to pull all changes from our project and I will upload empty changelog. At changelog it push origin. Let's push it to the master. And again, I will run our releasebot. Okay, let's type it. Okay. So now I will show you the last thing. Let's create a new my release. Let's go again into our project and create new issue. New issue, new my release, submit new issue and let's wait for our releasebot. Okay. So there is pull request and here we can see the commit and what's new in our changelog. Actually, we can also edit it when we want some changes. So add changelog from releasebot and commit and let's just merge this. Okay. Now again, let's wait for our releasebot. So nice. Now we should have like two releases and the second release also contain message from the changelog. So actually, this is everything I wanted to show you today. In the future, actually, this is my task for this summer. I'm working on the GitHub application so it might be much more easier to set releasebot on your repository and yeah. If you have any questions now, you can ask me or yes. Labels, you can use labels just just if you want to use labels like you know, when you have your upstream project here, you have a lot of issues and you just want to know which is from your bot. So there is labels from the bot actually and the same is for the pull request. You know, a lot of people using labeling just to find difference between all the pull requests and issues. Actually, you mean like project name. I specified yes because we need to do this actually because there are two configuration files. And I used a project name in the second one which is actually private because there are some sensitive information like GitHub token. So this won't be saved somewhere within my project actually. Yes, this is actually true. I don't know. I'm saying you don't need the lines. No, you need them actually because okay, so the thing is that you run already both like in OpenShift or in the container and you have this config file in your private repository and that private repository is not your upstream project actually. Yeah, so you just need or this is kind of getting at the same point. It's like, so how does ReleaseBot know where the project is supposed to be releasing is? Like is that in this directory? Like where do you run ReleaseBot from? To anywhere? So in this config file can I have multiple projects? Not yet, not yet actually. Now we are working on this GitHub application and we want to figure out how to use one ReleaseBot instance for more deployments actually. And there are two ways like we can hard code it in a configuration file or your repository is what you want to use or actually if you will run a GitHub application there will be webhooks so GitHub itself will notify you which project want new release. So then these lines maybe will be just deleted. I'm not sure yet. So basically, so you don't have to have a check out of the project? What do you mean? Can you? You are assuming that I have only one project in one major repository? At the current SDS? A use case. But I have questions. If Release actually requires add action like bumping version in setup.py, am I able to do that with this one? Yes, yes. Okay actually I'm here till Sunday so if you have more questions you can just find me here. And I just would like to invite you for two more presentation. One is here from Thomas. It's also about releases and how to bring your upstream release to Fedora in one step. So against some automate it is packet. Yes and the second one is I think it's tomorrow morning. It's Fedora summer coding showcase and meetup. So thank you for listening and enjoy.


Howdy how's it going? My name's Davy Chappy, and if you're a fan of this channel, then it's no secret that you're into bad boys.   He loved a girl who didn't love her back, became a fearless vampire killer, and his new form caused his love interest to eat herself off the balcony of Ravenloft Castle. It's a love story as old as time, but is it really though? There are those that think Strahd is a sympathetic character, someone who we should feel pity for, either because his wrongdoings were outmatched by the punishment that he was given, or that his wrongdoings just weren't that bad in the first place. Luckily, over time I've been seeing less and less people think that this is the truth, but I'm now seeing a new phenomenon of people who do agree that Strahd is evil, but really don't have a reason why they're just following the mold. So here is a new video from your favorite DnD Talkabouter, giving out all the reasons why, yeah, Strahd really is just the worst, so that you can then take my talking points and pretend that they're yours. As always, keep in mind that a lot of this is just my opinion, so if you ever had a vampire OC when you were a teenager in 2009, feel free to cringe at that memory however you want. But with that out of the way, let's begin. So if we want to talk about Strahd, then we have to talk about the lore crafted around him. The story of Ravenloft is told through the adventures that take place within the titular realm of the Shadowfell, most recently with the ever-popular Curse of Strahd. And while most people who come to play said adventure, or even most people who take a look at the cover art, can tell you that Strahd is a huge dick, the length of his dickishness is generally underplayed due to most people just not really getting it. In the adventure, heroes are called from their realm to the world of Ravenloft, where they are tortured, both physically and mentally, via being forced to survive in a dystopian horror movie world. Where the monsters are the winners of the story, and the ones who survive are the unlucky ones who get to live another day. Strahd's role in the story is being the man at the top, the leader of the evil, and the reason why all this madness is festering. Because make no mistake, he could fix it all if he wanted to, but he just really doesn't want to. All he wants to do is, among other more spoilery things, bring people into his devil's carnival and watch as they trip into every booby trap. This is because he is a sad man, moping in his self-loathing after the previously mentioned yeeting of his only love, Tatiana. The problem is, he really caused that yeeting in the first place. See, Strahd may have loved Tatiana, but Tatiana loved Sergei, Strahd's brother, because he was more beautiful and also not middle-aged like Strahd.  Because, you know, vampires work so well in romance. Regardless, the simple fact of the matter is that Strahd is so absorbed in the fact that he lost Tatiana and wants to get her back that he is in complete denial about A, any wrongdoing that caused her death, and B, the idea that she had any romantic feelings for him in the first place. So, let's get the creepiness and lustful suicide part out of the way early. Strahd's not a romantic. He's a sociopath. He never liked Tatiana for anything other than her beauty because, let's be fair here, Strahd is a creepy dude and she knew it, so it's reasonable to assume that she kept her distance. And Cliffs do give a lot of distance. Now, I've also seen people defend Strahd by saying that he's a tortured soul, a martyr for his own misdeeds, a good guy that just wanted love and the world is punishing him for it. But the reality is that he's just a host onto himself. Strahd isn't tortured by the dark powers based off of nothing. One of the key features of the Shadowfell is that realms like Ravenloft are created to punish one person for their cardinal sin. In Strahd's case, his lust for Tatiana. The truth is that Strahd isn't really trapped in Ravenloft so much as he has been given a situation where he never wants to leave. In Ravenloft, people who die reincarnate into a new body so that they can be miserable all over again. So Tatiana will just keep coming back for Strahd to try his nice guy routine and ultimately fail and have his private messages posted on Reddit. Because he thinks he can try again, he does, and his self-centered attitude is what brings him to never try to leave. Even though, per the book, he knows a way to get out, but the book also says that he'll never take it. He'll just always decide that in the end, he is the knight and he'll give up on the whole plan not because the dark powers are forcing him to stay, but just because they know how high he can jump and they built an exit ladder a few inches higher than that. Now, some people think that this means you can try to reason with Strahd, but this is the pitfall that starts the whole conversation of whether Strahd is a good guy or not. Yes, it's true that with a lot of self-reflection, Strahd could see that his problems are the only thing keeping him here and then he could pack up and go somewhere else, but much like your uncle on Facebook, he's been around for so long that the concept of right and wrong has just disintegrated in favor of what can I get away with and what can I not. And being the ultimate master of an entire realm of darkness, he can get away with a whole lot. Strahd finds himself to be completely beyond redemption because, well, he just sort of decided that. And because he's accepted himself as an edgy loner punk, he needs everyone else to understand how much of a punk he is too. So his MO is to lure people into a false sense of security, convince them that he isn't really all that bad, and then right when they think they can redeem him, he tears off the mask and murders their puppy in front of them and then brings the puppy to life to have it murder you.  To give an example in my own game, of course, of Strahd, the party had just arrived in a campsite with a bunch of Vistani people near the beginning of the game, and while they were getting their bearings and asking questions about why everything was using the inkwell filter on Instagram, who would show up but Strahd himself, the final boss of the game, the monster on the cover of the book, showing up at the beginning of the adventure and acting like a completely normal dude by just sitting at a log and asking for some wine. The characters were confused and scared, but Strahd remained calm, taking pity on the lost adventurers and asking if any of them would like to go home. Of course, he didn't want peer pressure over taking the group, so he passed out notes and asked them to write their answer there. One player in a fit of defiance threw the note into the fire, to which Strahd, ever the charmer, said, That was very rude, and you do not want to be rude to your host, you should retrieve the note from the fire. To which the player jumped straight into the pit and burned himself getting out. Once all the players had passed Strahd their notes, he looked them over and then said, It appears you have all decided to stay. Splendid. I shall see to it that you'll stay in Borovia. He's a pleasant one. He then thanked the Vistani for the wine and turned to leave. But as he did, one of the players broke down, pulled out their bow and aimed at Strahd. But before they could loose their arrow, another player tackled them and held them down. Strahd kept walking down the trail, completely unshaken by the would-be attack.  I just wanted to leave. Now, I got that idea from a Reddit post that for the life of me, I cannot find again. But holy hell did it establish the true nature of who Strahd is. Cold-hearted, sociopathic, imposing, and most of all, manipulating. These are not good traits. Strahd is not a good person. And any semblance of a good thing that he looks like he's trying to do is a lie.   But at the end of the day, you have to accept that they are an asshole with no redeeming qualities and that trying to find hidden messages within their behavior that make them secretly a little better so that you don't feel bad about liking them is really missing the point of these bad guys.  Maybe Strahd isn't a sympathetic character after all. Maybe I'm just a simp. But then I'm about to do it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to leave a like, comment, subscribe, check out my social media in the description below, and maybe support me on Patreon so that I can keep dunking on old men who flake up in the sunlight. But yeah, Davy out.


Well, e-commerce is a game changer for consumers and small and medium-sized enterprises because nowadays they can, well, directly contribute to global trading system. So this is very important that we make sure that facilitation of those trade, e-commerce trade, but at the same time, of course, that trade should be in compliance with national regulations, for example, for the safety, health, and security. So this is where customers and post-services should work together. And this cooperation between UPU and WCO is very important to make sure that at the international level it is insured and replicated at the national level. Digitalization is very important because it is, in a way, paperless trade and paperwork is so cumbersome and now with digitalization we can simplify the procedure. But at the same time, especially under the environment of COVID-19 or pandemic it can enable us to do contactless trade, contactless clearance especially for other borders. So this is important and, well, digital technology enables us to have access to data and with that electronic data, especially advanced electronic data, we can clear the goods quickly and based on our risk management, both post and customs. So this is why this digitalization is so important and also that will keep pace of customers and post to the wider community. Well, today I have been really honored to talk to postal or designated operators but I didn't have the chance to bring customs officers here. So by organizing this UPU-WCO conference, I would like to bring both customs and post, well, responsible persons so that at the national level they hear our communication, our message and work together so how to facilitate that collaboration is what we intend through that conference. I really appreciate this opportunity to work with UPU and its members and I'll make sure back home that the talk to customs officers bring a message that UPU is ready, therefore WCO members should also be ready to work closely with their partners, that is postal operators. Thank you.


I hope all of you enjoyed your meal, and we're glad you all could come. We apologize for no air conditioning, but have come back and see us again sometime. The President of the United States, thank you all very much, and it really is a pleasure to be here, and I think all of us owe a special thanks to the ladies of the auxiliary for the fine meal that they prepared for us today. Thank you all very much. Well, this has been a most informative visit, and I've appreciated meeting with you and having this opportunity to learn about how you were in your livelihood and about this unique area. You already know how I earn mine. And I've enjoyed very much breaking bread with you in this particular building. My father was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department in my hometown when I was a lad, and the thousands of volunteer fire departments across America symbolize, I think, the strong sense of community, which is such an admirable part of our American character. By getting involved and working together, we Americans have always been confident that we can do whatever has to be done. In fact, confidence is kind of an American trait. I remember many years ago when I was that high, and Americans first began kind of touring and going back to the old country to see where they or their ancestors had come from. At first, we weren't too welcome in those countries because we seemed kind of brash and maybe a little overconfident to the people there, and I remember one story of a farm couple from the Midwest who went back and were in Italy, and the guide was telling them about the volcano there and how much power was generated and the tremendous heat and so forth when this erupted and all of the things it did, and this old boy listened just about as long as he could, and then he said, we got a volunteer fire department at home, put that thing out in 15 minutes. But as I was saying about cooperation, that spirit of cooperation is certainly manifesting itself in the efforts to save one of the country's most precious national treasures, the Chesapeake Bay. I know that Mack Matthias, John Warner, Marjorie Holt, Herb Bateman, worked closely with the White House and along with Roy Dyson successfully secured congressional support for the Bay, and on the executive side, Bill Ruckel's house over at EPA has made this a priority project. I also want to extend a hearty word of congratulations and thanks to governors Hughes, Rob and Thornburg for their magnificent cooperation. Having been a governor myself, I know how difficult it is to do this sort of thing without getting bogged down in bureaucratic back and forth, but with their leadership these three governors have put their states in the forefront of a very worthy and productive endeavor, and this same goodwill can be found among all concerned, whether in federal, state or local government or in the private sector, saving the Bay has united a coalition of diverse interests and activated a broad range of individuals. I know for example the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has over 1,300 volunteer Bay watchers in the region, and this, there's also been much more done by groups like Ducks Unlimited and the National Wildlife Federation, all of us working together, not only can save the Bay, we're going to save the Bay and restore it. H. L. Menken, that spirited newspaper man from Baltimore, once labeled the Bay a great big protein factory, well Menken has known to have enjoyed oysters on the half shell and steamed crabs, their tales about the invigorating powers of the oyster known even back as far as the days of Thomas Jefferson, not that he told me personally, but many of you may be related to the people who provided Menken with those shellfish, this is more than an income for you, it's a way of life, and believe me we aren't going to let anything destroy it. Clearly the time for action is now, the oyster crop and the crab harvester down, other statistics like those concerning the decline of the stripe and bass are also cause for concern. This is not a question of environmental concerns versus economic development, we can and will preserve the Bay without hurting the economy or stopping growth, in fact much of the economic vitality of this region depends on conserving the Bay and its many resources. I made a commitment to do this in my State of the Union message, and the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of the Interior are fully behind our effort, I can promise you today the federal government will do its utmost to cooperate with all concerned in a balanced and effective program to protect the Bay. Something like this is not partisan politics, it's common sense, of course we're talking about more than a Bay, we're talking about a body of water that nurtured those hearty souls in the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, we're speaking of a body of water that served as a vehicle for commerce for the middle colonies, enabling our young country to grow and prosper. This body of water means a livelihood to many of you and is a source of recreation and enjoyment for millions of Americans. It's our responsibility to pass on to our children in America as free and strong as what was passed to us, and also to pass on to the next generation in America as beautiful and productive an America as the one that we were handed. We mean to do just that with your strong support, I know we will.  One is for the Volunteer Fire Department here, and the other is for a park that I understand is just across the way. Thank you very much. Thank you. Presidents, they're supposed to be a boost of crabs in here now, but it's something, anyway, we regret that Mrs. Reagan couldn't come with you, and we're sending back to the White House with you a burst of hard crabs and two dozen soft crabs, and we thank you for coming, sir. Well, I certainly appreciate that, and I want you to know if they're not here right now, it's because if I know those fellows of mine, somebody's intercepted and said, let's get them on the helicopter. There they come. Oh, yeah, they come. They bite you. They bite you. Oh, yeah. I'm not going after them bare-handed. That's soft crabs. The President has to leave, and if all of you will either remain in your seats or worry is standing until the President gets out of the building, please.