So my grandmother is probably the weirdest, most amazing person that I know. She marched with Dr. King and she went to Paris to, with the treatment of Paris after Vietnam ended to help free prisoners of war. She is a now-Jewish, ex-Catholic, ex-priest, ex-monk, hermit. So she's eccentric but I love her and this is a letter that I wrote to my grandmother. Grandmother, I saw a little chickadee dancing in yellow leaves the other day. It felt as though it prayed, giving homage to goddess of cats who sits in the window watching or to god of autumn frost drops that melt and ruffle feathers or to no god at all. Do you remember the house on Idaho Hill Road? It seemed we could sit in your green-tiled kitchen for hours watching birds. You used to put pants and boots under your mom's habit to chase squirrels away.  Prairie girl to mountain woman. Whenever I felt lonely in that full prairie emptiness, I'd wake early to watch the morning grow. Some hand plucked Indian paintbrush to sweep it across the sky. Think of your hand like you used to pick bundles for the table. Yesterday morning, a cringey fog echoed my footsteps on the way to school. Trees strode past me going the opposite direction. One by one whisper by whisper. Have you ever tried to play your music in a bomb? I wonder which instrument feel perfect or maybe just voice.  Your fingers prayed above the keys like a vermata resting over a moment in time.


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Welcome, this is Melissa Armel of the Stock Swoosh. I'm doing a Golden Gap course holiday special to help people out to get ready for the new year 2020. Wow, less than three weeks away and it's gonna be 2020. If you'd like more information, you can email me at melissathestockswoosh.com or call me at 929-3200 Gap. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or Skype. So if you would like to sign up for the Golden Gap class for this weekend, which is December 14th, 15th, it's the last class for 2019, you would receive as long as you sign up by the 13th, you can do the class and you will receive one year free of the trading route. Huge, take you into the end of 2020. If you cannot do the class this weekend in December, I'm running this sale, this holiday special through Sunday, December 15th. If you wanna sign up by Sunday, December 15th and do the class in January. Class for January is January 11th and 12th. This is great though because it's perfect for anyone who needs the support system of the room because I call the live trades of the room every day. For example, like the A and F today. Really nice short, you wouldn't have gotten that unless you were in the room. I give the exact entry, stop, exit, everything in the room. So who is this perfect for? Anyone who wants to day trade. Anyone who wants my live calls in the room daily, anyone who wants to become a professional trader and wants the assistance and the mentorship and anyone that loves to short. So you learn the 26 points in the class. Again, class is December 14th, 15th, or you can use this offer for the January class, January 11th and 12th. The package price is 64.99, which is a normal price of the class, but you get the one year free, which is great because it's 39.99 for one year in the room. Money through Friday, get all my calls in the room. So happy holidays, everyone. Have a wonderful, wonderful, safe holiday season and enjoy yourself, relax, enjoy the holidays. This was a really nice short that I just called the other day. Oh gosh, I've called so many shorts in this have even lost track here now. I've called puts, I've called day trades. This is what you'll learn to determine that HD here was a short and here it was a short and you see the move that it made. This was, seems like a long time ago, but it was actually only November 20th. Stop close to your gap down. You'll learn in the class the 26 point rating system that tells you HD is a short. And again, we did it here, it was a really nice move. So you will learn the system, how to rate bearish gaps in the class.  If you're thinking about trading for a living, if you've been wanting to do this, but you don't know how to start, if you wanna work from your home office or from home, you can do it. You have to have a system to trade the market. I'm so surprised every time I talk to new people, how people will trade, have no idea what they're doing. Just, I mean, are clueless about why they're taking a trade or what they're doing, follow other people randomly, go to trading room trials, go to webinars, have no idea, and they're doing it and they're risking their own money. And they don't understand that person's system. Are they don't understand the system at all? I don't even know if the system works. In order to be successful in the market, you must have a system that works. If you don't, how are you gonna be successful, okay? So the nice thing about trading is you can do it from anywhere in the world, okay? All you need is a computer. And again, it's important to learn a structure and a system to trade. So I teach my class once a month. Again, last class of the year is this weekend. It's called the Golden Gap course class of December 14th and 15th from nine to five Eastern time. Cost of the class is 64.99 US dollars. Class is online. You can be anywhere in the world and take it. Email me at melissa at thestockswish.com if you wanna sign up. The trends course is December 17th, 11 to two, okay? You get a discount. It's a combo price if you sign up for both at the same time. You save two classes for one price of 69.99. If you sign up by December 15th, you'll get the year free in the room. But again, you have to sign up by Friday the 13th if you wanna do the class this weekend, okay? Again, January class is January 11th and 12th. As long as you sign up by December 15th, you'll get the one year free in the room, which you could start January first and do the class in January, okay? So 2020 is coming. It's right around the corner. It's very exciting. It's gonna be an amazing year. Good luck, everyone. If you're interested in more information and wanna learn my strategy and my Golden Gap system, email me and Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day, everyone.


Coming up on DTNS, Google and Roku are publicly fighting who's your money on, plus Lidar for Better Driving, Zoom's new virtual environments and texts that print themselves. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, April 26th, 2021. From Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In lovely Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Rich Strafilino. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. For the show, we were all talking about the kinds of salty snacks that we like and don't like and how well candy lasts when you've forgotten about it for some time in a drawer behind the silverware and all sorts of other things. If you want to get that wider conversation, because we cover it all on Good Day Internet, do so by becoming a member at patreon.com. DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. The short film Collette from Facebook's Oculus Studios and EA's Respawn Entertainment Game Studio won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject, the first project from the game industry to win an Oscar. The film was created for the VR video game Medal of Honor above and beyond and is available to stream on YouTube, Oculus TV, and The Guardian's website. The New York Times reports that the Indian government ordered roughly 100 posts critical of the country's COVID-19 response to be removed from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. India claimed the posts were misleading and could incite panic. The platforms complied with the order with Twitter blocking the tweets in India, but leaving them available outside the country. On Monday, Apple detailed its plans for US development over the next five years, including investing $430 billion, building a new campus in North Carolina, and adding 20,000 jobs in the US. Apple also pledged tens of billions of dollars for the development of next-generation silicon and 5G technology. Apple says the North Carolina campus will support at least 3,000 jobs in machine learning, artificial intelligence, software engineering, and other fields. Facebook rolled out support for a new Spotify mini-player in the news feed, which will continue to play content as a user continues to scroll their feed, part of a partnership that the company has announced last week. The feature is available to free and premium Spotify users who will now see a Facebook and Facebook news feed option when selecting the share option from within the Spotify app. In a separate blog post, the company also confirmed it's building its own in-app podcast player, which shows having to opt into the service and expected to roll out in the next few months. And Mac rumors confirmed that the Reval ransomware group removed all references related to an extortion attempt against Apple, which previously included images and schematics stolen from the ODM Quanta. The group had pledged to leak additional information through May 1st, if not paid a $50 million ransom, and it's not clear why the information was removed. All right, let's talk a little bit more about wake words.  Depending on what your assistant is, sometimes it works better than other times. If you've ever experienced wake word fatigue with your virtual assistant, and you're like, gosh, I'm just always waking up, Google might have something in the works for you. Android Central reports that an update to the Google app on Android shows a menu item called guacamole with a toggle to skip anything, to skip having to say the, hey Google, wake word to perform quick tasks. The toggle isn't yet functional in the app, but it has been seen. But the setting could reportedly be used for tasks, like answering a phone call or stopping an alarm that's already in progress. Rich, I don't know how much of a wake word fatigue you experience in your home. I don't know how many smart assistants you have. I have quite a few. I use Amazon's assistant pretty exclusively. I left some in my car and then it's a Siri thing. But I do find, because I use audio commands a lot, whenever possible. And I know how I have to stay certain things in order to get what I want. And if you deviate too much, it confuses easily. But the wake word itself, I know that you can't just expect a personal assistant to understand if you're talking out loud, just those specific moments where it now needs to know that you're talking to it without it being pinged. Like, hey, I have summoned you. The next thing I say is now directed towards you. But it is annoying and it never has felt very human-like. Yeah, even as arguably it's improved over time or like you can have different virtual students kind of learn your voice. And so theoretically, that it gets better over time. It's like, whenever that doesn't work, it kind of breaks the magic of that experience. So like on its face, seems like a good idea, especially for something like an alarm, where when that is happening, it's a very specific event that I'm sure their data shows 99.9% of the times the only thing you say when an alarm goes off is stop the alarm or you tap the screen or something like that to do that. The one question I have, though, is there's been a lot of skepticism or concern over the last couple of years about what voice data is being collected, how soon, you know, what's being done locally on device, what's being sent back to the cloud and stuff like that. And when you start opening up more times when you're not actively activating, that made sense, when you're not actively turning on your voice assistant to receive a voice command, I feel like even if they do everything right, the perception may not be great for some of these voice assistants, unless it's in these extremely narrow situations. I do think there is maybe some way around that where you can program in routines, but I feel like the more you have to ask an end user, the more chance it's not going to be specifically tailored for a task, so then there will be less times that it works, and then again, it goes back to kind of breaking that magic. Yeah, I'm with you. The stopping an alarm, I use my Echo Show as an alarm occasionally, and exactly the same thing. It's like, what would I be saying, you know, over the alarm, and just like, yeah, keep their alarm going. I'm going to go talk to this guy over here, kind of thing. It's mostly going to be me either saying turn off the alarm or, I don't know, reset it for another time or something like that, answering a phone call, where it's the device is like, I'm engaging in letting you know that there's somebody who, you know, you want to pick up. It's like, yeah, that probably makes sense. So in those instances where I also get notifications when I'm cooking something, because I'm connected to my June oven, I can see where that could be of help, you know, and maybe having, because I have a few routines where I prompt my assistant to say something to me, and it's text that I've given it ahead of time, maybe in situations like that where you could have the device prompt you to, you know, prompt you with, Sarah, it's sunset. Would you like to turn the lights on? Kind of thing. Then that it's essentially, you're not using the wake word, right? Because you've already programmed it to start the conversation for you. So this feels like a little bit of an extension of that, which I love. But yes, you're right. I think the biggest potential issue or something that will need to be thoroughly explained is, because there's not a wake word, and we want you to speak as naturally as possible, so that you're more comfortable than ever with your with your assistant. We are not just listening to you the whole time, but in the early days, one would think that the company would have to do a lot more of that, get all the data, and then start getting better at filtering out stuff that for sure is not being directed at the device. Well, luckily, they're getting better neural processing, on-device local processing. So hopefully, all of that can be done locally and that minimizes, I guess, legitimate privacy concerns. Well, you probably think of The Washington Post as a news publication, right? We cite their stories and stuff and editorials and stuff like that when there's something breaking or they have an exclusive that we cover on the show. But The Washington Post also has other businesses, like they launched a software subsidiary ARC Publishing in 2015, a software as a service publishing platform that was sold to similar media organizations like The Boston Globe and The Dallas Morning News. Now, the subsidiary is making moves outside of the publishing world, renaming itself ARC XP and launching a second service, the e-commerce platform ARC Commerce, very creatively named. ARC now counts the Golden State Warriors, BP, Reuters, and Avalon Bay communities as large enterprise clients, with sales up over 100% in 2020 and counting on ARC Commerce itself to triple revenue over the next three years. The Washington Post is the first media company to try and figure this out and sell their internal tools as a service. Vox offers its own CoraCMS, Axios launches Axios HQ internal comms tool back in February, and even Gawker Media attempted a strategy like that with its KinjaCMS in the 2010s. I believe they abandoned that project in 2015, but it seems like the media industry has its own particular needs when it comes to CMS and tech platforms and that kind of stuff. So it wasn't surprising, I think, especially for a Jeff Bezos owned ARC Publishing to launch in 2015, but getting that that commerce side, Sarah, do you think this could take off as a substantial source of business like the Washington Post is planning here? Kind of, yeah. I mean, the idea of the Washington Post news publication, whether or not you read the post, you look at it and you go, news publication, okay, things are laid out, it's done as well as would be expected for an online platform. Boston Herald, Dallas Morning News, not small outfits either, but, you know, at some point the folks in charge there thought it made sense, all right, well, let's use this platform that's already working well and users are perhaps familiar with the layout and there's less that we need to recreate from scratch on our end. This is a good investment. The whole e-commerce side of things is also very Amazon-y and I feel like it makes a lot of sense. Now, as you mentioned, Washington Post, not the first media company to do this. I mean, as far as CMS platforms from various companies like Squarespace or WordPress or, you know, this goes on and on to be able to launch something that has e-commerce functionality built in, you've got a lot of choices and some things are more expensive than others, but yeah, we're talking like NBA basketball league, BP, Reuters, you know, those are big clients. If you're launching something that's on the e-commerce side that is associated with a client like this, I can see where ARC commerce and ARC publishing make more sense than kind of going, all right, well, here's this tool and then we're going to do a lot of customization and code on our end. It's already sort of done for you. And the thing that is kind of important to, as the background for this, is ARC publishing was kind of very early in using the public on Washington Post in general, has been very aggressive in using the public cloud for a lot of their IT, specifically AWS, again, not a surprise, considering owned by Jeff Bezos, but the fact that it's already kind of a cloud native eliminates, or it makes it a lot easier for organizations to kind of spin it up, give it a try as opposed to being something that needs to be installed on-prem, deployed that way. So that could be not to say that most of these are, again, as a software, as a service, it just makes it that much easier to kind of get your whole infrastructure kind of going with it when it has that kind of model. So we will see if that can make it take off the way they're envisioning. Indeed. Well, a new paper from the Journal Optics Express shows researchers at University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and University College London developed the first lidar-based augmented reality heads-up display for vehicles, which creates ultra-high-definition holographic representations of road objects which are beamed directly into the driver's eyes. The researchers scanned Mallet Street in central London using terrestrial laser scanning, which uses millions of pulses for multiple locations on that street. This was then combined with point cloud data to create a 3D model. The researchers then used separation algorithms to identify and extract the target objects like cars, trucks, people, signs, which were then further converted into computer-generated diffraction patterns. Those were used to project 3D holographic objects to the driver's eyes. The end result is the AR system can project multiple holographic layers, which can align with the position of the real object that's on the street or near the street, letting users see visually obstructed road signs and the like. Current tasks have been based on a stationary platform. The researchers are now working to miniaturize the technology to fit into a car with plans to test the system on public roads in Cambridge going forwards. This is neat. My first reaction of this, and there's a, in the article from fizz.org, and we'll have that in our show notes, there's a little sort of model video that you can play. And when I first played it, I was like, yikes, I don't, this is crazy. I mean, it's sort of like a strange infrared view of the area. And I thought, well, that's crazy. I mean, you would never want to be driving and be seeing that instead of the real world. But what I understand a little bit better now is this is very selective. This kind of thing is supposed to be selectively popping up as you're still keeping your eyes on the road and not being an distracted driver. And I can see where this actually comes in really handy. I have, in my car now, I have a heads-up display. Depending on how tall you are and where you're sitting in the seat, you have to adjust it just so you can see it. But it's pretty basic. It's 2D. It's just a reflection from the windshield. And it tells me how fast I'm going. And it'll flash if there's like a school coming up, kind of thing, like, oh, slowdown, 25 MPH kind of thing. So it comes in handy, but there's not a whole lot to it, what I would love. And what I think the researchers are going with this is, let's say I'm on a windy road and I'm about to turn a corner and there's somebody or something that's about to dart out in front of me. And there's no way for me to know unless I get around that corner and I either see it or my car at that point does the emergency like, you know, something's right in front of you to have just a little bit more of a heads up and be able to see motion, which would be obstructed otherwise until potentially dangerous moment. That's really helpful. Yeah.  It's been around almost, I think, decades now at this point in the automotive industry and never has taken off, I think, necessarily as a mainstream feature, certainly as like something nice to have, but not quite taking off. And this is obviously a whole new technological leap to take onto this.  I mean, what I don't know if we want holograms like beam directly into our eye, like I don't know what that experience is like as a driver. I'm assuming they're going to test that and make sure it feels fine. But it, you know, we have seen efforts like this. BMW, I believe, had their own kind of, I want to say it was Lidar based kind of mapping for when you're driving at night to kind of give you a sense of where the road is and stuff like that. And that never seemed to go kind of to the next level. So obviously, a lot of testing will still need to be done, but some really cool technology that hopefully can make people safer. Well, and let's say something like the Waze app, right? I've got CarPlay.  There's all sorts of little things that it's trying to help you with. Well, you're still kind of having to look at it, right? You might get a little beep boop here and there, but something that is kind of giving you just a little, hey, you got some information that you're going to want that does not require you to kind of be a little bit distracted here and there. That's, that's, I'm pumped about that. I would love that. Well, if you want to hear us talk about LiDAR or anything else on the show, one way to let us know is by submitting stories in our subreddit. You can submit them. You can also vote on other stories. So they rise to the top at dailytechnewshow.reddit. Well, Sarah, I don't know if you received one, but I received an email from Roku. They sent it out to all their customers Monday that said that YouTube TV app might stop working on Roku in the next few days because of Google's anti competitive and discriminatory terms. Like many big video providers, Roku and Google have an agreement to give each other a few extra things that you wouldn't get just by submitting an app to Roku's app store. That usually involves things like ad revenue sharing, extra promotion and placement in the app store. Last year, Roku added a dedicated search results row for YouTube for universal voice searches on the platform after it claims Google threatened to remove the YouTube app from the platform itself. Roku now claims that Google is requiring voice searches to only return YouTube search results when in the YouTube app. If it is open, even if customers have previously purchased requested content on other platforms or set something like a music service preference. So if you're using YouTube music, it would default to that if you were already in that app. Roku also said that Google is requesting customer data outside of standard industry practices and tying new hardware certification requirements to its YouTube TV license. This would sensibly make things Roku hardware more expensive as a result of these certification changes. Roku maintains it is not asking for any change in economic terms as part of this licensing deal. In response, Google called these baseless claims. Roku makes a lot of claims in this email. Are they all baseless, Google? Every single one? Google goes on to say, we've seen this pattern of behavior from Roku and contract licensing and stuff like that. Ordinarily, we don't talk a lot about these kind of carriage disputes. These are things that usually just involve two companies arguing over money. It does stink and consumers are impacted when services are cut off. A lot of the cable providers are very famous for a sports network or something like that would go off the air because there was some kind of dispute like this. But these are a very different set of allegations of Google really interfering with Roku claiming that Google wants to interfere with kind of core Roku customer experience. Yeah. A couple of things here. First of all, Roku really needs YouTube TV. That would be a really bad thing. I feel like Roku is there's some bluffing going on here, right? Making this a big public thing and saying, Google's strong arming us and this is so unfair. Look what they're doing. Google's saying these claims are baseless is, well, they can't both be true. Roku's either exaggerating or misunderstanding about Google's asking for or Google's lying. So that's one part of this and it sounds messy. But the other part of it is, okay, well, I know in, I do have a Roku, but I don't use it very often. I'm mostly an Apple TV person and a voice search will always launch something within an Apple, the TV or movie library unless I specifically navigate to a particular search button in a particular app. They don't all work exactly the same, but I have gotten used to that where it's like, I'm not cut off from searching the way that I want to search within a certain app or on the Apple TV in general, but Apple will do its very best to guide me to its own areas whenever possible. For Google to say no, you can only return something from the YouTube library when doing a search and you have no other option to do so, even if it's a little bit harder requires a few more clicks. Well, that didn't really seem fair. And especially if you've got something like another music service preference, it almost reminds me of when iOS just any time you didn't launch the dedicated Chrome app, for example, everything would surface in Safari, whether or not you were wanting to use Chrome that luckily changed somewhat recently. Same idea where it's just like, it's just extremely frustrating for the end user and who wins? Sure, some companies are having a little spat about shifting some money around, but I don't see how this helps anybody and certainly not an end user. Well, and I've seen this kind of portrayed as especially with the change in hardware certifications that oh, this is Google speculating that they're trying to make Roku's hardware more expensive to make Chromecast hardware seem more affordable or more competitive or something like that. I actually think Roku is increasingly an ad tech company that happens to have a very successful hardware business and Google is an ad company. So I think it's more about kind of dictating the terms on that. I don't really think this is about hardware at all from the Google perspective. Ultimately, I think this is Google saying, hey, we're the bigger ad tech player and we want more control over that experience and forcing stuff to our properties. However, in terms of Google saying that these are baseless claims, I will say this may be a situation where this is now the standard YouTube TV license and so it's baseless in that this is not special treatment to Roku in this particular situation. That's kind of how I might be reading that. We will see if the app disappears. I'm a frequent Roku user and a YouTube TV user, so here's hoping now. Right. I know. Get it together, everybody. Rich got to watch his shows. Got my programs. Well, this might be good news. If you do a lot of zooming and you like options, Zoom launched its immersive video feature both for free and paid accounts originally announced back in October. They're finally rolling it out. This will let you as a host arrange participants in a single shared virtual environment with support for up to 25 participants. Similar to how Microsoft Teams Together Mode works, that launched back in August of last year and supports up to 49 participants. So, Zoom's at 25 and I'm struggling, Rich, just because any time we do any sort of Together Mode on Skype, we all sort of who did that? We don't need to feel like we're all in a stadium. We're about to watch a movie together. But I can see as a teacher in an educational environment, this might be just one more step closer to making the students or whoever you might be giving a talk to, you know, or some sort of auditorium, sort of a feel, feel a little bit more like the real thing. Yeah, this definitely has a, feels like an educational focus for this. Certainly, I think a lot of, you know, people that do, you know, replacing conference or meetings basically can also get some value out of it. But the fact that Zoom emphasized in this announcement that, oh, you can rearrange the participants and stuff like that to exactly how you want them as a host, that to me kind of has, that seems like it would have a lot of applications as a teacher with your students kind of being able to establish some order in what might be otherwise a very unorderly experience that they're used to on, you know, whatever teleconferencing platform, Zoom, or otherwise. You know, it will be, I'm interested to see when we are, when these are no longer required and these are optional, how much of these modes, whether it's Zoom's immersive or Microsoft's Teams Together mode will actually be used, you know, when we can all have the choice to get together. That will be interesting to see. Yeah, well, you know, there's been, you know, the studies of, of how people's behavior in a pretty short amount of time for, if you do a lot of virtual video chatting, I mean, we do, this is how we do our show, right? It's like some of us are just kind of used to this. But other people have had to get used to it really quickly, quite often in a short amount of time.  So especially with the younger set, you know, with kids and trying to kind of get that comfort level up, I can see where at least just having some options and saying, you know, the kids were way better when I did it this way. That's a good thing. Well, Manuel Lucio D'Alo, a senior engineer for software firm Plastic SCM, built what he calls the Yah-Yah Gram. It's a switchboard, physical switchboard, to send and receive voice and text messages over Telegram, Telegram, the app, but in physical form. It's powered by a Raspberry Pi 4, runs on Python, uses some several third-party software libraries to make it run smoothly. As a user, you physically plug a cable in next to a recipient's name to send the message. Then they press, well, you press because you're still doing it, you hold a button, you record audio, there's an integrated USB microphone, then the message appears to the recipient's phone as a voice note. So they don't, you don't need two of these. You can just be like, analog person on one side, other person using Telegram, you get your note. When the Yah-Yah Gram receives a text message, it's then printed out with a built-in thermal printer, sort of similar to a receipt that a cash register would print out. D'Alo says he used Telegram rather than WhatsApp or another messaging service because Telegram is not only more open, but he also does not Facebook. Now, this is awesome. I love this idea. The execution is great. The idea is great. It's helping us. I think his grandma is like 92 or she's in her 90s. Yeah, she's his Yah-Yah, which is what, hence the name. Not that you have to be a grandmother to want something like this, but this is, it was actually built for a person that he knows. The one thing that's a little weird is like, even if you're 90, you might not necessarily know how a telephone switchboard works, unless you were a switchboard operator. I do wonder if it's like, if she still had to be trained to figure out how to use a switchboard. Well, I don't think Yah-Yah is doing that much texting, right? It's like, I get to talk to my grandson. There's like four or five slots to plug into. It's not like there's a ton of options, but just awesome. I want to see Manuel put this out there. I want to be able to buy one for my Yah-Yah. Yeah, it's really cool. I just think that just the fact that he made it work is, I love it. It's just great. It's like Maker Faire all over again. You know what? I love Sarah's What's in the Mail bag. Can you tell us what we got in there? Indeed, I can, Rich. I'm really glad that I have something for you. It would be so awkward. Okay, so we got an email. This is a quick one from Joop, or Joop. I hope I'm one of those. This is the proper pronunciation who says, well, deep fakes are becoming a thing. Links us to a story from the Netherland Times, and here's the context of the article. I'll just summarize it. So Dutch parliamentarians had foreign affairs conversation, a foreign affairs conversation last week, used Zoom with what who they thought was Leonid Volkov, the chief of staff of the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. However, it appears it was a deep fake imitation of Volkov, not actually the man. So this is last week. This is, I believe, last Wednesday. By Friday, the national newspaper de Volkskrantz in the Netherlands reported that the registry of the Dutch House of Representatives confirmed, yeah, that's the case. It was a deep fake. Reards Colds, chair of the Latvian Parliament's foreign affairs committee, had also a short video conversation with, he thought was Volkov, in March. That, too, was found to be a deep fake. So the Dutch parliamentarians, and there were some other people on the call from other parts of Europe, this is not the first time this has happened, but it seems that in a few cases now, this is something that has been discovered after the fact and has a lot of folks worried. You know, producer Roger Chang on the pre-show, and we were talking about this, said, you know, I think a lot of this could just be maybe we should have better Zoom passwords on some of our calls for some of this. But I do also wonder if this ends up being like Zoom bombing, where, you know, even though Zoom is not, I guess, responsible for this, it helps them out if they put in some sort of filtering to detect some sort of deep fake going on and kind of alert people to the possibility. I don't know if that's possible, but maybe we'll see that. Yeah, it's sort of befuddling how this is sort of continuing to go on. But yes, Joop, your point is made. We talk about deep fakes ever so often here on DTNS, and it's always sort of like, when is it going to get really bad? We see that technology can be very convincing. But what's that situation where it's like, oh, we're in for it now. You know, it's over for us. No one knows what's real anymore. And you get a situation like this, and you go, yes, that is concerning. You know, maybe nothing to, I don't know, under wraps was discussed on the call last week. I wasn't part of it. But yes, that's not something that you expect when you're in politics. Well, if you have any questions, comments, links to articles that we might want to know about, we want it all. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com is where to send your brain trust. Thank you in advance. 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Winston Edmonton here with Studio B, IBM Edge 2013. I've got Norbert Dallalibi from Glasshouse Systems. I understand that you were recognized by IBM today. Tell me about that. OK, Winston, we won the award for our performance in storage. And that is something that's very important for us because it is a big strategy that we have. What we realize when we look at the environment today is that data has become the most critical asset for enterprises. And that's what we're focused on. We are focused on large enterprise customers. And when we look at what they're doing right now with data, like there's been an explosion in the last few years in terms of the amount of data and the type of data that our customers need to deal with. And the approach that we've been taking is to work with those customers as consultants to look at what are their business requirements, understand the technical aspects of what they're trying to do, and come up with a solution that really meets the requirements for exactly what they need to do in terms of their business. Gotcha. And that has become very successful for us with our customers because they do appreciate it. Well, tell me, because I hear this a lot, and just for the folks that maybe are very interested in everything that's happening here at IBM Edge, tell me about this explosion in data. What is the root source? Why all of a sudden are these companies just now dealing with too much data that's more than they can handle? Where is this coming from? Well, it's coming from everywhere these days because there's been an explosion in the type of equipment that customers and users and consumers are using. So everybody today has smartphones, tablets. Everything has been digitized. So whereas before it used to be only the typical corporate financial transactions and so on, now you have an explosion of data in terms of pictures, videos, text from Twitter to social. And all of that data is coming together. And enterprises now are realizing there's a tremendous amount of information that they can action, that they can take advantage of if they understand their customer. What is he thinking? What is he doing? And taking advantage of that huge amount of data becomes very critical for them. So as consumers gain more tools and they're accessing their information in more ways, it's just creating this kind of build up of data. And that's only going to increase.  So you offer solutions that can help manage that.  And that's what we do. Like we take advantage of all the development and the R&D that IBM has done. They've created fantastic products. They do understand the enterprise. It's one thing to collect the data, store it, but also how do you manage it? How do you protect it? How do you secure it? How do you use it in a way that actually you can take advantage of? And from that perspective, we have a tremendous relationship with IBM and we leverage all the products that they've developed. And that is our expertise. We have people who have a long experience in the enterprise who really understand this environment and we work very closely with our customers in this consultative fashion to really come up with a solution for what they need. I like that. Let's talk to some potential customers that maybe they're in a situation where they're just realizing that, you know what, we do have a lot of data that we're not using effectively. Walk us through what a consultation or what that process might look like if they give you a call and you come out to help. Absolutely. The first thing we would do is to ask them about their business requirements. What are they trying to do? Who are they trying to find? Who are they trying to target? What kind of data they're collecting today? What kind of data they would like to collect? And then translate that into what we call a data infrastructure and really understand how you should put it together because not all data is the same. Some of it is very critical in terms of being absolutely correct. Some of it is making sure that you can collect it all and analyze it maybe not in real time or in real time. So we really spend the time to understand what are the business requirements and taking the time from there to build the technical data infrastructure for them and show them how they can migrate from where they are to this new environment where they can actually explore that data. It's like a strategic kind of data map that just shows them where they are, where they want to be and then you've got to help navigate. Yes. Interesting. Very good. Walk us through what may be a case study, maybe a business that you've helped, not a specific business, but a type of business. What were you able to extrapolate and how were you able to create some additional business opportunities? Okay, so one example was that where a customer already had a number of data, how would I say, containers, lots of different places within the enterprise and they were trying to see how they could put it all together and manage it in a way that was unified. So we sat down with them, we went through all the different requirements, all the different things that they already had installed and what they were looking for in the future and we came up with a solution that actually took advantage of what they already had but being able to manage it in much easier way, much better way and control it and build from there in terms of the future. Okay. And a very satisfied customer from there. Very good. Now, I would imagine the first hurdle that you might encounter are folks that are dragging their feet. They don't want to change, change is difficult but let's say you overcome that hurdle and then another hurdle sometimes is financial aspect. Sometimes organizations feel like they can't afford to make this happen. I noticed that you actually offer some financing opportunities that can help organizations that know it's time to get this done to somehow get it done. Tell me a little bit about that. Absolutely. There again, what we do is we leverage the IBM financing, IBM global financing offerings. So we do understand the environment and what customers need to do in terms of cash flows and how critical cash is. So we do leverage again some of the offerings that IBM has and we bring them to the table to the customers so we can show them quite often solutions where they end up spending less per month than what they were spending before and at the same time taking advantage of the new technology and building from there. Pretty exciting. For folks that are sold now, they've heard what we have to say and they're ready to move forward. What's the best way to get in touch with you and learn more? Oh, easiest ways to find us on the web at glasshousesystems.com and we would be delighted to meet with you and like I said, spend the time to understand the business and help you out in terms of a big data infrastructure for you. And there's no risk in at least having a chat and kind of seeing what it looks like so you might as well get that done. Absolutely. Fantastic, thank you. Norbert, thanks for joining us. Winston Edmonton Studio B, shining out.


If you are doing a big data collection project, you might want to use Word Forms. What do I mean by that? What I mean is that you might want to have your data collectors filling out a form in Microsoft Word Online, like doing Save As on the blank form, naming it some unique name for that experimental unit, and then typing the data into the form. Here, I'll show you what I mean. See this Word Form? This is intended to be typed into. I used features to make typing into it easy, like these tables. Let me show you what it looks like when it's filled in. See here? To fill this out about the patient, the data collector just had to click their cursor into each field and type in the data. And then they just saved the unique form as a file, naming it after the patient's study ID number. Want to learn more about designing data collection and data entry processes? Take my free online course, Understanding Research Forms, Surveys and Instruments. The link is in the description.


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The pioneer mother standing stock against the breeze, staring at her two sons. Two boys, suddenly strangers, standing over the body of a third-lying staffer. Death had come under the dark skies over Illinois. He's dead. Who done it? Them, fellas, Sheriff. Them Clay brothers. They was fighting with this here scrub white, and they cut him. There's the knife they done it with. Which one of you Clay boys done this? Me. No, me. I want the truth now. Which one of you cut him? I did. That ain't so. I done it. I tell you, it was me. He was going for Adam with a gun. One of yours, Lion. Now, which one is it? Anybody see it? I reckon I did. Who are you? Their mother. Well, which one was it? I'm not saying. Don't make no difference anyhow. Under the law, they're both equally guilty. Come on now, you're both under arrest. Palmer cares or appoints you temporary deputy. Help me get these two fellas down to the jail. Come on, you two. Let's go. Who are these fellas? Never saw them around here before. Strangest around here. Folks ain't got no right to come to town and start cutting people up. Two of them jumping for a scrub and stabbing them in the back, too. I said they ought to have a touch of rope. Rope? Yes, sir. That's the medicine for them. Hey, come on, fellas. Get a rope and hurry. Attention. Come on. No. That to my boys. They can't do that to my boys. Come on, ma'am. We have to hurry. Those fellas mean what they say about lynching your sons. Leave me alone. What do you want? Who are you? My name's Lincoln, ma'am. Abe Lincoln. I'm your lawyer, ma'am. Come on. We better hurry and get out of that jail. Open the jail door, Sheriff. Let me out of here. I can't, Palmer. They've got to break in.  They'll get us, too. Can't help it. They'll have to bust in first. And open the door, boys. The law's got to protect these Clayfellas and give them a trial. Me and Fat Ching, you will. That's better. Now, gentlemen, I'm not here to make any speeches. All I got to say is I can lick any man here hands down. We know you, Abe Lincoln. Come on, man. Let's get him. Hold on, Buck. I thought I'd find that big mouth of yours around here telling people what to do. I'm Buck, all right. A big buck on this lick. Then come on and whet your horns. What's holding you? Maybe some of you other gentlemen like to take Buck's place. Me.  Is that a fact neighbor or just your notion? Get away from there, Lincoln, and we'll give it to you, too. Well, well, if it's not Bill Gentry. First time I ever heard of you trying to break into jail, Bill. I thought you were too busy trying to break out.  Come on, let's get him. Hotty Clarence, last time I saw you, you were heading for the Rocks. Heading for the Rockpile for beating up your wife. Now, gentlemen, all joking aside, let's look at this matter from my side. You all know I'm just a fresh lawyer trying to get ahead.    I'm not saying you fellas aren't right. Maybe these clay boys do deserve to hang.  All I ask is to have it done with some legal pomp and show. Yeah, but what about our side of it? We've been to a heap of trouble not to have at least one hanging. Sure you have.  A little hanging might do many harm.  The trouble is that when men start taking the law into their own hands or just as apt in the confusion and fun to hang somebody who's not a murderer as somebody who is, then first thing you know, they're hanging one another from pure devilment till it gets to the place a man can't pass a tree or look at a rope without feeling uneasy. We seem to lose our heads at such times as this. And do things together, we'd be mighty ashamed to do by ourselves. For instance, you take Jeremiah Carter yonder. There's not a more decent God-fearing man in Springfield than Jeremiah Carter. And I wouldn't be surprised if when he goes home, he takes down a certain book and looks into it. Maybe it'll just happen to hit on these words. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. That's all I got to say, friends. Good night. Mr. Lincoln. Yes, Ms. Clay? Ain't one to talk much. But after what you just done for us tonight, saving my boys from them. Now, now, save your thanks. Here, I'll give you a hand with those mules of yours. Whoa, mules of all. Of course, you know, I'm just sort of a jack leg lawyer without much experience at this sort of business. But as long as you want me, I'll do the best I can. Still, maybe you'd feel a lot safer if my partner was here or you could get a hold of Steve Douglas. I hear that silver tongue of his can be mighty useful with a jury. We don't know nothing about lawyers and things like that. Well, I'll do the best I can. You know, my mother, Nancy Hanks, would have been just about your age if she'd lived. I have an idea she'd been a whole lot like you, too.  Thank you. Abigail Clay, which one of your boys kills Scrubwhite? I can't tell you. I can't. But I'm your lawyer. You can trust me. I don't want to scare you, but we've got a fight on our hands. I got to know what I'm doing. I can't tell you, Mr. Lincoln. It'd be like choosing between them. What do you suppose made them both say they'd done it? Matt said it because he's the oldest. And Adam said it because Matt's got a wife and a baby, I reckon. There's a lot of people who'd like to see those boys hang. I know. But I just can't. No, I reckon you can't. Take it easy riding home, Abigail, and watch out for ruts. Get up, mules. Ass, take the stand. You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth to help your garden. I do. What's your name? J. Palmer Cass. You knew Scrubwhite. Sure, Mr. Felder. I knew him. The day he was killed, you'd been with him? All day. Do you recall where and under what circumstances you first saw the defendants? Well, we run into him at the pie contest. Scrub kind of took a fancy to one of their gals, and her fella got sore. They followed us over near the tug of war and wanted to fight. What did Scrubwhite do then? He just laughed and asked them what they wanted to fight with, knives, pistols, or fists. How did he ask that, jokingly? Yeah, he was laughing all the time. Tell the jury what happened then.  Next thing I knew, I heard a shot and some shouting, and I run back and found Scrub lying on the ground with those two fellas standing over him. And the knife was on the ground between them? Yes, sir. And where was Scrub's pistol? In his holster. So it went off then while he was trying to get it out of his holster? Yes, sir. Yes, it did. Thank you, your witness, Mr. Lincoln. What's the J stand for in your name? John. Then why the J Palmer Cass? Why not John P Cass? Well, anything the matter with John P? No. Has J Palmer Cass anything to conceal? No. And what do you part your name in the middle for? I've got a right to call myself anything or please. All right. But if you don't mind, I'll just call you Jack Cass. I get it.  Mr. Lincoln's clownishness may win him a laugh from his friends, but I assure you his entire game of buffoonery is lost on this jewelry. Stick to the point, Mr. Lincoln. I'll do my best, your Honor. Now, J Palmer Cass, you say you and Scrubwhite had a little argument. What was this argument about? I'd rather not say. Oh, you'd rather not say? Well, J Palmer, suppose I told you I'd rather you did say. All right, if you want to know. We were arguing about politics. That's something new to argue about. What kind of politics? Well, I've learned different now. But I said that I figured that you had more sense about politics than Steve Douglas. And Scrubb, he got mad as a wet hen and said you didn't. Harder, harder. Yeah, it looks like I scratched up a snake then. I reckon we can allow all you said to go in. Step down. Your Honor, I'd like to call Abigail Clay back to the stand. Abigail Clay!  You would like to say their lives if you could. You were present the night Scrubwhite was killed, weren't you? I saw him fight me. Now, don't be afraid of me. I'm not a bloodthirsty man. I'm prepared to offer you the life of one of your sons, provided you tell a switch of your boys stabbed and killed. Scrubwhite! Yeah, I can't. Harder, harder. I can't. Mrs. Clay, you believe in God, don't you? Do you believe that if you take a solemn oath in the sight of God then on His holy Bible, you are bound to speak the truth? Yes, but I can't tell you. Your Honor, I protest against the prosecution's attempt to force this woman to decide which of her two sons will live and which will die. I have seen Abigail Clay exactly three times in my life, gentlemen, yet I know everything there is to know about her.  And I tell you that such a woman would never answer the question that's been put to her here. Never. I'd rather Mrs. Clay see both your sons taken from you than to see you break your heart by saving one at the expense of the other. So don't tell them. Harder, harder. May it please the court to spare the jury any more of these harrowing outbursts. The state will withdraw the question. No doubt Mr. Lincoln will be glad to hear that Mrs. Clay was not the only eyewitness to the murder of Scrubwhite. I wonder what it means by that. Harder, harder. Recall Mr. Jay Palmer Cass to the stand. Jay Palmer Cass. Mr. Cass, where were you at the time Scrubwhite was killed? I was about, well, 100 yards away, I reckon. You saw the killing with your own eyes? Yes, sir, I saw it. Why didn't you tell us this before? Nobody asked me. Have you told anybody else about this? No, sir. Why not? Well, I didn't want to help get anybody hung. And why do you tell us now? Because it looks to me like both of them is going to get hung. How could you see so clearly from a distance of 100 yards at 11 o'clock at night? It was moon bright. I see. Moon bright. And you clearly saw which boy pulled the knife? Yes, sir. The defendants will stand up. Now tell us, Mr. Cass, which defendants stabbed and killed Scrubwhite? That one, the big one, Adam Clayton. Your honor, the state rest. Quiet, quiet. This part is adjourned until 10th tomorrow morning. Take the business away. In just a moment, you will hear the second part of Academy Award. This is the time of year when a vacation tan helps to focus more attention on your smile. And that's one reason why Squib Dental Cream is an important part of so many well-made vacation plans. For this quality dentiferous, a member of the great family of Squib products helps to uncover all the natural brilliance of your smile. That's because the polishing agent in Squib Dental Cream is one of the safest, softest, yet most effective, known to dental science. And you like Squib Dental Cream for its refreshing flavor, cool as a shady bed of mint. 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What I mean to say, that blame it, is don't you think you ought to get some older lawyer with more experience to help you out tomorrow? Are you suggesting I retire, Judge, or just stick a back seat? I'm just suggesting that if you want me to, I'll speak to Steve Douglas. I'm sorry, Judge, but I'm one of those fellows who don't believe in swapping horses in the middle of the stream. Then at least change your plea, accept sentence for your guilty client, and I'll guarantee that the state will be lenient with the other. That's a mighty tempting offer. Mighty tempting. But I'm afraid it won't work. But, man, you'll send both defendants to the gallows as sure as the moon sets. Maybe, but just the same. That's the way it's got to be. Good night, Judge. Honor, the defense would like at this time to cross-examine the last witness for the state, J. Palmer Cass. J. Palmer Cass, take the stand. Mr. Cass, yesterday you identified Adam Clay as the killer of scrub white. That's right. He did it. You're sure of that? Sure, I'm sure. Well, I just wanted to know. Now, you say you were about 100 yards from the scene of the fight? Just about. Are you familiar with the land over there? Yes, sir. What's the nature of it? Well, there's a little clearing. Any trees? A few. Where are they? Between the clearing and the fairground. And you saw through these trees? No. I was already through the trees when I saw them fighting. Oh, I see. I suppose the clearing was lit up by light from the barbecue fires? No, sir. Then how'd you see so well? I told you it was moon bright. Moon bright? Yes, sir. That's what you mean. If it hadn't been moon bright, you couldn't have seen 100 yards, could you? No, sir. But you did see it. I told you I did. And then the only reason you're telling us this now is that you feel sorry for one of the defendants. I don't want to see them both get hung. Well, I guess you wouldn't lie about a thing like that. Step down. Oh, Mr. Cass, I forgot. There's just one more question I'd like to ask you. You needn't bother to come all the way back to the stand. Cass, what'd you have against Scrubwhite? Well, nothing.  I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, yes you do. Look at this book. It's Gowdy's Almanac. Go on, look at it. Look at page 12, The Night of the Murder. See what it says about the moon? That the moon was only in its first quarter that night and sat at 1021, 40 minutes before the killing. So it couldn't have been moon bright, could it? No, sir. Order, order. You lied, didn't you, Cass? You weren't trying to save these boys' necks, were you? You were trying to save your own, weren't you? Well, come on, weren't you? No, no. Then why'd you lie? I didn't lie. That's just as plain as a nose on your face. But why? Come on, tell us. What made you tell a lie about that moonlight? I don't know what you're talking about. Then I'll tell you what I'm talking about. You lied because you and Scrubwhite had a fight. But it wasn't about politics. You never mentioned politics. That was your first lie, wasn't it? It was politics. It was. I didn't know what you were fighting about something else. Maybe it was money. You owed him money or he owed you. No, no. Maybe he was getting a little graft here and there and you want to be in on it. No, sir. Well, what was it? Come on. It was one of those things, something that made you want to get rid of Scrub. You're crazy. He was my friend. Maybe, but just the same, you lied. Now why? Why did you say you saw what happened when you didn't see it? All right, I'll tell you what happened. You heard a row. You saw a fight starting and you ran over there and you saw that Scrub was still living. And right there on the ground, you saw the knife that Matt Clay dropped.  And your body hid what you were doing. And then you stabbed him.  And these two boys, Matt and Adam, each knew he didn't do it and therefore each thought the other did and their mother Abigail. She saw the knife in Matt's hand, but she couldn't say so without putting a rope around his neck.   The lie you can't deny now, can you? Answer me.  Didn't you? I tell you, I didn't mean to. I'd been drinking and we had a little fight, but I didn't mean to, Scrub.  That's enough.  Oh, I'm getting out of here. Why, there? But take your hands off of me. Let me go. I didn't mean to kill him. Well, I reckon there's nothing holding you people now. No, sir, there sure ain't.  You'll get yourselves in trouble. Goodbye, Matt. Take care of yourself. Yes, sir. I'm going to. Mr. Lincoln. Goodbye, Abigail. We ain't got much, but after what you've done. Why, thank you, ma'am. I hope all my clients will pay me as fast as you just did. Now, be careful of them mules going home. Watch out for rats. Get up, mules. So long, Mr. Lincoln. I had a heck of a time finding you. Oh, evening, Judge. Abe, I wanted to tell you. I thought you pulled a brilliant piece of strategy today. And I'm sorry about trying to talk you into taking on an older lawyer. But I didn't know you had that ace up your sleeve. Nothing to worry about, Judge. I might have done the same thing, Affar, in your boots. How did you happen to hit on Cass as the guilty one? Well, Judge, I. I got to thinking about Cass when he insisted on parting his name in the middle. Struck me, he might have reasons for wanting to be secretive about himself. And when I found a cop at the Almanac, that cinched it. Where are you heading, Lincoln? Oh, just thought I'd walk up the hill apiece, Judge. The boys will be looking for you. What'll I tell them? Oh, just tell them I got the smell of the country in my nose, and I think I'll go on a spell from here. Years when young Lincoln was practicing law, another young American was practicing medicine with the same hatred for all that was slip-shod and uncross-worthy. The young man was Dr. Edward R. 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Mr. Head of Government, it's a great pleasure for us to welcome you to this annual meeting in Davos. We are entering a decade of crucial action to ensure that the world can obtain a sustainable future and no solution that is not inclusive can be brought without the momentum and ambition of African peoples and communities. The youngest continent in the world with the fastest growth. The Kingdom of Morocco is a brick in the connection between nations of the world. And for that reason, Mr. Prime Minister, we are delighted to have you with us today. Mr. President of the World Economic Forum, dear Klaus Schwab, ladies, gentlemen, I am very happy to be speaking here in 2023 and let me wish you all my very best wishes for the new year. 2023 will be a year when our collective and individual duty will be to be optimistic. Our world has been shaken up by successive crises, the Covid pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the rise in energy and commodity prices as well as global warming. The relationships between states are deeply fragmented and the risk of fragmentation also strikes our societies where feeling of inequality and exclusion persists in many parts of the population. The development of new technologies and their ability to transform our daily lives is accelerating and requires from us adaptation that is both fast and vital. Ladies and gentlemen, as a person, as all of us as persons responsible for economic and political development, we have a duty and the media question us, of course, and the people's question us. How can we turn these challenges into opportunities? And in the longer term, what is the ideal of peace and prosperity that we can guarantee to our future generations? Because we must simultaneously note two things. One, globalization is not always a happy moment. It does not always keep its promises. And on contrary to the myth of the end of history, everything remains to be done. And Morocco and Africa more broadly must write their own history. Ladies and gentlemen, the huge task before us in this huge task, Morocco is an ideal partner to build a response as is both economic, political, environmental and social. We live in a multicolor world, the kingdom, under the enlightened leadership of His Majesty, King Mohammed VI, has become a regional model. We have built modern democratic institutions. Our constitution voted in 2011, proof so, the reform of the family code, a rule groundbreaking at the service of equality and human rights. Regionalization, advanced regionalization allows us to bring participatory democracy deep in the heart of our communities. We have built infrastructure in the best world-class infrastructure, connectivity, sea, land and air, 2,000 kilometers of motorways, the first high-speed train line in Africa, the largest Mediterranean seaport and very soon a very large port on the Atlantic Ocean, as well as 14 international airports which provide the ability to travel across Africa. These infrastructures have allowed Morocco to obtain a very attractive tourist sector, high-performance industry, a fantastic agricultural sector, industry in the automotive and aerospace sectors. We have also established relations of trust. The last establishing Morocco was a trusted partner in Africa, particularly where His Majesty King Mohammed VI has traveled across Africa extensively. 50 visits, cooperation agreements have been signed in a struggle against protectionism in Africa. The Slekaf, the greatest free trade area, has been founded. There are trade agreements with the European Union, the United States and this free trade area now opens access to 2 billion consumers. Morocco has also become a leader in sustainable development, economic and human development, huge challenges for our generation, renewable energies now account for 38% of our energy mix and our ambition is to reach 50% by 2030. We are working hard for peace and security in the region but also in the broader world by contributing to a dialogue between civilizations and working for rapprochement between cultures, religions and peoples which live together in peace across the Kingdom of Morocco. Morocco has all of the assets to work with its partners to turn challenges into opportunities at the crossroads of Africa, Europe, the Atlantic Ocean. Its strategic position gives it a place of choice in the value chains of the world. It has some of the most abundant and cheapest resources in the world which will help in the development of hydrogen, of green hydrogen. Morocco will also be a key player in decarbonisation of the world. We must offer a new ideal, a new political compact to the future generation so that they can project themselves optimistically into the future. Morocco, under the leadership of its sovereign, is now entering a new phase of its development through the edification of a social state. In one year our government followed the royal agenda with a regulatory framework for mandatory social security and rights open to two thirds of the population who have benefited, who until now did not benefit from this welfare state. We want to go further and also generalise family benefits through efficient targeting of welfare benefits. Our government has also faced with great determination the multiple crises of 2022, the energy crisis with rising prices, the climate with the worst drought in 40 years, the monetary crisis with the return of inflation. We have worked to support through budget measures and we've managed to preserve our macroeconomic balances and our priority reforms. Our government has guaranteed supply, has contained inflation and is continuing to work on reducing its deficits. We're also continuing to invest in the future. Morocco has a national health system that is entirely necessary for the reform of social protection in 2023. One third of the government's budget has been allocated to health and education, $7 billion dedicated to that. These considerable resources must be better used to upgrade our education system, strengthen its performance. Our objective is to rebuild trust in public education and strengthen the skills of old school children. All of these social reforms were facilitated by a major institutional advance because the government has chosen to strengthen social dialogue with the main trade unions. We listen, we negotiate and we move together. Ladies and gentlemen, in Morocco we are well aware of the place, the position we wish to occupy in the world and this is why we have a new investment charter, a new attractive and incentivising framework for international and national investors, be they large or small. That is also what we're aiming to obtain with our reforms, to simplify tax rules and place them at the best world-class standards by reducing the tax pressure on SMEs, which are, of course, key growth drivers. But we are also fully aware of the challenges that lie ahead that will require us to improve the future and the present with new opportunities, less grey economy, more creative industry. The new and old economy are coming head on and as you said, dear Mr. Shrob, in your book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the question of youth has become more than ever crucial in any consistent and inclusive development project in the image of what Morocco wishes to develop by 2035 by creating stronger links between economics and social aspects with as a guiding thread the environmental transition, which has become so very necessary. And this ambition, of course, poses many questions. How can the market release its creative energy while also protecting our countries from a new major crisis? These are the great challenges we're facing. We must streamline things for the economy, but we must also remain very vigilant in the face of risks that emerge from the new economy. I think the lesson to be drawn from this is that the world is no longer a well to be dominated, it is a well to be shared. That is what Morocco is striving for, an inclusive and sustainable society driven by the vision of His Majesty Mohammed VI, who is calling for an equal partnership with our various partners. And again, let me state my consideration, availability, as His Majesty's government members all are. And let me assure you that we are deeply committed to work with you in your investments through the acceleration of reforms, the continuous improvement of our investments, of your investments to create value together. Many thanks. Mr. Head of Government, I think we are all impressed by this project in Morocco, these reform plans. They are not just plans, they are delivering results that are already very visible. I am very happy that we now have time for a few questions. And I am sure you have already touched upon some of these points in your speech. But let me ask you, last year, Morocco entered the continental free trade area, the African free trade area, and I now believe that there are more than around 50 members now, and it is the largest free trade agreement in the world. What prospects do you envision with this new area, the capital? You talked about Africa more broadly in your speech. What do you think the true meaning of this free trade agreement is? Morocco truly believes in a positive future for Africa. Africa can feed the world in future if farming investments are made. Morocco has vast human resources. It is a very large market. Africa trades with the rest of the world, 60%, and intra-African trade is only 16%. This free trade area is a fantastic initiative, a transformative initiative for Africa to boost investment and trade. And I believe that Africa's potential, and in fact the importance that we grant to the continent, with His Majesty the King, more than 50 state visits in 50 African nations, and African nations, more than a thousand agreements were also signed, and that positions Morocco as one of the greatest investors in Africa, notably West Africa. Africa has huge potential for the future, and the free trade area will be a watershed moment in Africa's growth. Mr. Head of Government, usually countries or in general countries find it very hard to reach the targets of the Paris Accords in reducing the temperature by 1.5 degrees. But Morocco, I think, is on the right path. What is your secret?  Well, Morocco, just after its independence, His Majesty King Hassan II had already started a very ambitious dam-building policy, making hydropower very important in our country. There were adjustments after that with the desertification, but there was acceleration, thanks to King Mohammed VI, with a plan that imposed, that asked the various governments to invest in wind and solar power. We have now reached 38% in our energy mix from green energy, and the target set by His Majesty the King, and for which we're working on, is by 2030 to reach 50 or 52% of renewables in the energy mix. It is possible. First, because Morocco is very favourable to renewables, 3,000 hours of sunshine in Morocco. The sun is about 5 kilowatt hours per square metre. It's one of the places in the world where we can have an offering, where producing energy also through the speed and constancy of winds in Morocco, that will provide some of the cheapest renewables in the world for renewable power production. And then the government is also working, under the guidance of the sovereign, to develop an offering, an offering for power, a comprehensive offering, and we're going to try to find something to find God willing. Mr. Head of Government, you have been very successful in attracting foreign businesses, Oracle, Renault, Opal, and so on. You mentioned in your speech the importance of the fourth industrial revolution. What does that imply to attract foreign investments? Are you aiming to become a supplier of high technology in semiconductors, for instance? What is your vision of Morocco in terms of production? I believe that the most important thing is to set up a secure and framework for investors with great visibility. An investment charter has just been passed by parliament to provide visibility to encourage investment in Moroccan communities in the interests of sustainable development and employment. And there will be strong government support for these investments. There are multiple sectors. I named a few. Aerospace, the automotive industry, agriculture. Morocco has an agricultural green generation development plan, the transformation of fish and seafoods, electronics. When all of this fits and furthers the interests of sustainable development and job creation, well, Morocco will support these initiatives. First of all, through a powerful decentralization, regionalization so that decisions can be taken in the field to facilitate investment, but also to try and identify and pinpoint processes where investments can be made easier. Mr. Head of Government, Morocco was very good compared to other countries in managing the COVID crisis. It did very well. What could you tell us about that? What were the key learnings of your experience? During the COVID pandemic, His Majesty the King asked for appeal to the generosity of our people. We managed to collect around $3 billion, which helped to support the local population, which, of course, was finding that period very difficult. Factories were shut down, but also to work in fighting the disease itself, because $1.5 billion was dedicated to the consequences of COVID. It was an opportunity which we managed to seize. Major investments will be made in healthcare with the local manufacturing of vaccines, up to $1 billion a year that can be exported elsewhere in Africa, but also through our healthcare system. Our new legislation is deeply modifying our models of governance so that we can improve patient pathways, provincially, regionally or locally, and also increase investments in human resources and, notably, doctors. The whole world needs these types of developments, and we too are fighting to better train, to train more, and to try to retain our physicians by making their careers more attractive. And therefore, what took place with COVID generated opportunities for us to transform our healthcare sector. Mr. Head of Government has certainly many people in this room. I followed, with great interest, the World Cup. And, of course, we were all deeply impressed by Morocco's national football team. It's a symbol of what you were talking about in your speech and in your answers to our questions, because I think you were the very first African and Arab world team to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals. What do you think that means for Morocco? First of all, it is true that we were ourselves surprised. Morocco has always had a great football team. It's not by chance. There's been a lot of investment, a lot of supervision followed very closely by our sovereign. We have training schools, which we have professionalized nationally, notably the school that bears the name of His Majesty Mohammed VI, with some great players who play in some of the world's greatest clubs. So we had a good team. But in all of these games, there were multiple games, because, of course, the players were truly engaged with the fighting spirit. They went out there to win, to succeed. There was really this very strong determination to win, but all of that was done joyfully. They listened to the public. You know, every time Morocco would win a match, there were at least a million people in the streets of Morocco celebrating our victory. And that exchange was extremely important to us. And it truly expressed values of engagement, of solidarity, but also values of the relationship that we have with our mothers, with our wives. And it really showed how important women are in our society. There was not a single game that ended with the players going to embrace their mothers or their wives to share that victory with them. It was a fantastic moment for Morocco. And I think it really expresses values that all businesses and states wish to express. But what we felt deep in our hearts during that World Cup was that there was great sympathy for our national team, and many thanks for your sympathy. Well, Mr. Head of Government, I think we would all like to wish you, on behalf of all of our participants, to wish you every success and victories that are as great as the victories you have obtained in football, in your energy transition program, in your education program, which you mentioned too, and also in your industrialization process. So many thanks to you for attending this annual meeting in Davos. And we wish you all the best.


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I get up in the morning, I wake up my son, he says daddy what's happening, I say let's go for a run and on the road, I ask him what he want to be and Sus Maria Sapil want to be like me, to be a Pinoy, P-I-N-O-Y, I say Pinoy, P-I-N-O-Y My name is Don Magwily, I'm a Filipino American, my parents immigrated to the United States and had me. I was born in Oakland, California. I went to St. Joseph High School in Alameda and the University of San Francisco. I've had 16 years of Catholic education and I wanted to be an actor. It could have been worse. I could want to be a nun. Even so, I trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and came to Los Angeles to seek my fortune. And being an actor in Los Angeles encourages you to become a hyphenated artist. There's not a lot of work for you if you're an actor. And so to create work for yourself, you also become a playwright, a producer, a director, and in my case, a novelist. As a child of television, I didn't watch just the Howdy Doody show, but Hop Long Cassidy and Disney's Davy Crockett. And in the movies, I saw Steve Reeves as Hercules and Hercules Unchained. As I grew older, I also noticed that all these heroes didn't look like me. The closest I got was Peter Lorre as Mr. Motto. I did better with Bruce Lee and the Green Hornet. I did really well when Bruce Lee was in Enter the Dragon. But who else? I looked around. Pickings were meager. I mean, Mickey Rooney as the Japanese neighbor in Breakfast of Tiffany's. That can make you weep. As I got involved with Asian-American theater and Asian-American studies, I found historical heroes mostly ignored by textbooks, like the Filipinos who fought in the Battle of New Orleans with Jean Lafitte. The Chinese Feng Zhou Gui who flew the first motor-driven airplane west of the Rockies in 1909, and all the Japanese-American 442nd combat team of the Second World War. Just to mention a few. There were so many heroes. They were inspirational. I stopped waiting for permission. I started writing stories where people who looked like me saved the day. I wanted to create a swashbuckling adventure where Asian-Americans were heroic. This is the result of my effort. The legends from the first hemisphere, the infernal promise. Here is an excerpt. Waiting before them at the gap between the canyon and the field was a looming monster beyond their understanding. At first bones thought it was an ancient armored warrior atop a katabao, one of the water buffaloes from back home. It had a great barrel torso with lean shafts for his forelegs and great brawny hindquarters. The warrior was heavy with sinew and muscle. From breastplate to back it was easily forehandsband's thick. Brod hefty arms like tree trunks hung from his massive shoulders. Its skin was muddy, but beneath the grime was an albino hue. The thick neck supported what could be called a large helmet where two sweeping horns sprang from the sides.  And one great hand was an oddly formed sword wide in some places, narrow in others. It had six edges at its broadest width. It might have been a kind of axe. In the other hand was a heavy iron shield.  That's when to-dow realized the truth and the truth staggered him. The monster was not wearing a helmet of horns. These horns were flowing right out of its head. He was not a warrior mounted on a giant water buffalo. He was the water buffalo. Got in heaven, it's a centaur, said the priest, coming out of his amazement. Ah, half man, half horse. Eh, more like half carabao, cryptomanula man. And that's it. A selection from the Infernal Promise. You can find it on Amazon under that title. If you want more information about me, my website is www.dmagwilly.com. That's d-m-a-g-w-i-l-i dot com. Thank you for listening. More later.


Hey, what's up coach welcome back to my channel today? I have another success story from a basketball coach that we've worked with This guy his name is Ben Myers. He left an awesome testimonial on my website He talks about how he went from I think it was like three grand a month to $8,000 per month Action taker great coach cares a lot about the kids that he works with so what I'll do is I'm gonna share my screen here and I'm gonna go to the page where you can not only see his video his videos right here. All right It's on this video here. We have a bunch of other videos here from other coaches that we've worked with And essentially Throughout the year I add more and more videos here And then I also have if you aren't familiar with my Instagram page You can click on this link here and I have a hundred plus more results there So let's pull up his video here and sit back and watch the video and try to listen to what he says because I think What he says will absolutely help you. There is Ben Myers I am a basketball coach here in Miami And I would definitely recommend Ben neighbors to help you take your business to the next level if you are a coach Or a trainer for any sport. So before I met Ben I Was struggling with not only keeping clients for a long term, but I didn't have a structure in my business I was struggling with Reaching out to clients to have a system. I didn't even have the payment machine, which we call at Ben's program I didn't have an idea of how to To do anything honestly, I was just chasing clients and working hours Try to get out get to 40 hours a week sometimes and I was burning out and I'm young so if you are willing to follow a Step-by-step program with Ben you are going to see a ton of results and I took my business from I Would say a 3k a month coaching business to averaging an $8,000 a month business and that was Probably in seven months since I met Ben. I did a 30-day private one-on-one Program with Ben which I created a system for my business the payment machine I learned how to reach out to clients and How to be a salesman on the phone Towards potential clients and all that together took my business to the next level and I have a lot of knowledge When it comes to basketball To basketball coaching, but that has nothing to do at all with the business and the marketing side So if you are willing to follow a step-by-step plan and you are someone who works hard This is going to help you a lot and you're going to see results a hundred percent And I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is in the coaching or Trainer in any sport Yeah, do it. Have a good day All right cool, so you can see that testimony there so Ben started with me first We work together one-on-one for like a 30-day program then he ended up joining With our group coaching program that we have so if you are a coach you're looking to take your business to the next level You need help with marketing sales creating a process and creating systems in place All you need to do. All right. I'll go back here and show you All you need to do is go to my website and my website is build my sports biz comm all right And when you land on this page here, all right, I have a big blue button here It says click here to see results plus book a free console call. So you click on here You'll watch this video at the very top And you'll see a little bit about what's included in our program. All right, you'll book a call here So you click on that it pulls up into my schedule And from there you can pick a day and a time that works for you And from there we have a zoom call we talked for 15 minutes I learned more about your business I like to take that time to get to know you make sure you're a good fit to work with me and make sure that like I can actually help you So that call normally takes 15-20 minutes And if I feel like it's a good fit, then I'll send you a video that completely breaks down our program You'll watch that And then we'll have another call together and confirm everything and make sure that You have everything you need before you get started. Yeah, it's a pretty laid-back process pretty easy My program is certainly not for everyone If you're a tire kicker or you're not willing to put in the work My program won't help you And my program only helps coaches that are serious about Wanting to grow their business. They want to help a lot of kids. They want to scale. They want to Change their business, right? And if that's you, you know what to do go to my website buildmysportsbiz.com Click on that big blue button on the home page And go get set up on our process and I'd be happy to take that first 15 minute initial call with you to get to know you And tell you more about you know, how we can help. So that's it for today's video Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon