Welcome to another edition of The Leader's Room. The Leader's Room is an initiative of the E. Cliff Leadership and Governance Center, and it is a venue for bringing leaders together to talk about their philosophies, their values and their purpose in life. Today, we have a very special guest, and that guest is Jennifer Bricker, an absolutely amazing young woman who has succeeded, despite some limitations, that you will learn about in a few minutes. While Jennifer has an extensive vocabulary, it does not include the word can't. Where others in her position might have given up, she has pushed forward to become a successful gymnast, acrobat and aerialist. She is an inspiration to anyone who faces personal challenges and a pure example of personal leadership energy. Jennifer, welcome to The Leader's Room. Thank you. Welcome to be here. Thank you. Jennifer. Tell us a little bit about your story. The camera is on you now, people are seeing all of you. Tell us a brief story. Well, I was born without legs, just like this, and put up for adoption. I was left in the hospital. My biological family was from Romania, and I lived in a foster home the first three months of my life. My parents, Gerald and Sharon Bricker, the ones that raised me, they adopted me when I was three months old. My mom had always wanted a baby girl. She prayed for a baby girl for ten years. She had three boys, and after the last boy, couldn't have kids anymore, so she wanted a baby girl. And one day she heard there was this baby girl that needed a home. And she knew I didn't have legs, but I think she just heard baby girl needs a home, and I want her. Didn't care. Didn't matter. I didn't have legs, and she talked it over with my brothers and my dad. My brothers were 10, 12 and 14 at the time, so it's fascinating to me that they were so excited about having a baby sister at that age, and everybody was on board, and the adoption went through a miracle record time very fast, and they raised me without the word can. I mean, the amazing thing about them is they didn't just take some stand like, we're going to be such awesome parents, look how awesome they just, it was just how it was. There was no other option of, why wouldn't we raise her the same as we raised our boys? Of course we're going to raise her that way, and we're not going to let anyone else treat her differently because she's not different. In fact, she's really capable and really strong and really athletic, and they just filled me with self-esteem, encouragement, confidence. I was beautiful. I was strong. I had a purpose. I had a reason, and God made me without legs, totally on purpose. This wasn't some tragedy or a mistake or some sadness. So there was no empathy. There was no sadness. There was only happiness and joy because I was their miracle.  The entire situation was a miracle, was a series of miracles that you believe that. It was the perfect environment, tiny town, so teachers, peers, coaches, no one treated me different because they grew up with me, and I loved gymnastics. I did all sports. I came out of the woman athlete. I did softball, basketball, volleyball, all against able-bodied athletes, not using my wheelchair, and my favorite sport was power tumbling. We were in such a small town, they didn't have full-blown gymnastics, which means gymnastics, there's four events for women, bars, beam, floor, and vault, but in power tumbling, it's just the tumbling part. And so that's what we had, and I watched gymnastics from six years old, from as young as I can remember, and Dominique Mociano was who I happen to be the most fixated on, and that whole year, the 96 Olympics was just an iconic year, it was in the U.S., we won gold, huge deal for everybody, and so I was fixated on her, and then I started competing in power tumbling, and I did really well. I was the first or only handicap person, if you will, to compete in power tumbling, and I went to Junior Olympics, I went to nationals, state meets, and actually won the state championship one year in my division and went to Junior Olympics in my division, and placed fourth place all around in my division, and at the time I didn't think it was a big deal, I was just simply doing what I loved. I didn't have to do it to prove anybody wrong, I didn't have to do it for someone, or because someone was making me, it's because I had the drive and the passion.   We actually were related, full-blooded biological sisters. What was that like finding that out? Part of me knew without knowing, and the other part of me was completely 100% brick wall in the face. This is a movie, this doesn't happen, this is a one in a million. But then I, obviously on some level I was drawn to her, clearly, but it was, it's information overload. I mean, when you find something like that out, how do you, it takes a while to process. To process it through. It'll take a lifetime. It's never, I'm never going to wake up one day and be like, yeah, that makes sense. No, it's always going to be amazing. It's always going to be over the top. This is why I speak about my whole entire life, from the adoption to now, to, you know, and the irony in all of this too is that, you know, she was a gymnast and I grew, I was a tumbler and now for the past, how, eight years, I've been performing professionally as an acrobat and an aerialist and now a speaker the past several years as well. So very grateful to do what I love, to get paid to do what you love. That's pretty awesome too. But to travel the world, doing what I love, and really, it's just following my purpose and what I was made to do. But it's an honor to do that. Great. Well, let's break that down a little bit, because as we were talking before the interview began, I mentioned that at E-Cliff, we look at leadership energy as consisting of three things, values, purpose and mind or mindset. You've already indicated that one of the values that you hold pretty closely is not using the word can't or cannot. What are some of the other values that have guided you through your career so far? Well, so many. But my parents, you know, I was raised in an environment where I knew that, like I said before, I knew God made me this way for a reason. And so that's huge. Your identity being rooted in faith and being rooted in knowing that I didn't, you know, starting from the beginning, if I would have just thought that this was a mistake, it would have completely changed the entire my whole life, the way I think about my life, myself, what I'm doing, my whole identity. So having being rooted in faith and knowing that this was for a specific reason. I mean, I didn't have legs and yet I had all of these athletic abilities. The opposite of what you would think, right from the outside, you might think I'm confined to a wheelchair or maybe had a sad childhood or this or that. But my life was made to do all of these things. I was born without legs, yet given talents so that I could have an impact on the world. And it's not about me and my agenda. It's just that I'm being used so that other people can, their minds can be open, their boxes can be opened up, the worlds that they live in. They can realize that everything is possible. They can realize that they don't have to say can't or focus on the negatives because there's always going to be can'ts and negatives, right? But if you can focus on the things you can do or the positives and realize, you know, that you do matter, you are significant and your gifts and talents are equally as important as anyone else's that they have the power to change someone's life. And you can do that. You can change someone's life through your passion, through your gifts, through your talents that you were born with for you. And to me, that's just very special. So you said earlier that you knew early on that athletics would be a passion of yours. What would you define or how would you describe your purpose in life now? Is it to be an inspiration to other people? There's a lot wrapped up. I mean, I love performing as an aerialist, as an acrobat, and a speaker. So I think, and also I'm very into fitness and health and nutrition and fashion and cooking and eating healthy and clean. So I think I can use, I think all of those are vehicles. Like I said, anyone's passion can 100% be used as a vehicle to touch someone's life. 100%. And I think that's how that's how God's using me for other people because I'm so when I'm passionate about something, I'm passionate and I'm going to talk about it. So so it's it's just being in any of those fields. I mean, I've had a crazy weight loss journey and a fitness journey and kind of a cleansing of how I eat my weight, my fitness, my performance, my speech, every one of those has had an evolution of whole journey of gotta start somewhere. And then, you know, so I think it's being okay with the process, no matter what it is. It's not gonna, if you want it to last, it's not gonna be a magic pill and happen overnight. Being okay with the process. Would you say that your purpose has changed over time? No, it's just got different vehicles, different vehicles, different vehicles as I got as I've gotten older. Okay. I never thought I'd be a speaker until I was old and gray and retired. And here I am speaking. So you never know. But I'm open to that. I'm okay with things kind of changing. Well, you've mentioned that your parents, your adopted parents and your siblings were all very, very supportive of you. You said you grew up in a small town where it sounded like you got a lot of support there. But when you started to emerge into the broader world, you had to have run into some type of resistance. He had talked to us about the types of resistance from either people or circumstances that you've had to deal with and how you dealt with it. Actually, traveling has been one of the most interesting slash life lessons learned kind of thing where I've really had to swallow my pride and really had to learn that those are the teaching moments. For example, when I'm getting on a plane, okay, I'm gonna, you know, ride my chair up to the plane. I would just get out of the wheelchair, walk to my seat. That right there, that concept to most people, baffling, but you can't you can't do that. You can't walk. How would you do that? And it causes this huge commotion where everyone really just I mean, they freak out. And of course, this is not everyone, right? But this has happened a lot. And so instead of me wanting to be like, wow, and that's very condescending, you realize I'm an acrobat, right? That doesn't I don't have to say any of that. You know what I mean? Because if I reacted like that, that would be the that would be a moment lost. Those are teachable moments.  That was really hard, really hard. You're exhausted. You're jet lag. You just want to get home. And then you have someone in your face being really condescending. But they don't mean to be, you know, I realized they're just mean they're just trying to help. Okay, so that has been, you know, I've now been traveling for eight years, you know, pretty consistently. And that's been an evolution. That's that's been a journey of really like, Jen, you just have to talk to them and communicate, don't get irritated, just explain to them use it as a teaching moment. So that's been okay, that's been different. Anything other than travel? I mean, has that been the biggest? Well, because that's my life. Sure. So that is a very big hurdle because it happens all the time, multiple ones all the time and multiple situations where, you know, you really have to keep yourself together when you really don't want to. Or when I was younger, I was working at Disney World. And, you know, some people would come up to me and literally just say, wow, it's it's so good that you have a job. I was so stunned. I mean, this is when I first left home. I was 19. Right. So I had never I didn't know people would even I never thought of myself like that. I was never treated like that. I was known as strong, capable and an athlete, my whole life.  Too bad. You know, so that's a tough break. Literally saying these things to me. And I'm like, I'm so baffled. I almost can't even respond. On one hand, you want to kind of yell at the person because you're like, are you seriously speaking to me this way? Again, on the other hand, it's not gonna it's going to set you back from what you really would want the person to take away from if you reacted that way. So just those instances happening all throughout, you know, the years that I moved away when I was 19. That's been very challenging because I don't want to react to somebody. I don't think it's right to yell at somebody. I don't think it's right to to have attitude. Okay. Because I don't think that's going to get anybody anywhere. Right. Right. So that has been one of the biggest all different situations. But in a nutshell, that that's it. Yes. Yes.  You're a look forward type of individual. It sounds like you've coped well. But has there ever been a point in time where it was a dark moment for you where you where you did experience either some despair or has your faith always been so strong that it's consistently carried you through? I had a really dark time in LA when I was first there. I got really caught up in body image like being really skinny right I was on this whole fitness track and I never had a funny thing is I never had an issue about not having legs yet I completely derailed myself by by being so obsessed with being a stick figure. I just I got completely obsessed with it. I got a very dark, very low kind of place and my faith is what got me out of that. I mean, that's that was a, you know, looking in the mirror and not actually seeing what really is there, you know, seeing yourself as bigger than you are. And and it's it's an issue that so many women deal with. I just was so strong and I was never affected by peer pressure. I didn't think it could affect me. And it really I mean, for like a year and a half, two years and there are still remnants of I know I have things I have to set up I know I have to protect. Don't don't look in the mirror too long, don't judge yourself, don't pick yourself apart. And especially because I do speak to women sometimes I do speak to kids. It's very important to be authentic for me that if I'm going to speak about it that I'm going to be doing that in my life, I will be living that way. So that that that was probably one of as an adult, the darkest times was just getting through that whole because it's your own mind. So you have to get through it. And my faith is what got me through it. Okay. All right. So you're an inspiration.  And when you were younger, your natural sister was an inspiration for you. Is there anybody today, anybody else that you draw inspiration from? I would say as I get older, I probably draw my inspiration from my parents, because I really want to emulate how they raise me when I have kids.  They're not city people. They're not business people. They're not traveled all over the world.  Of course, they just get it. I say they have a PhD in common sense, but they just do. And so that's why I thrived so much, you know, they allowed me to blossom. And so I'm constantly appreciating more and more and more as I get older, because you know, your mindset changes, and you think about getting married one day or having kids. And so I definitely draw inspiration from them all the time. So normally at this point in the interview for the last question, I'd be talking to somebody that has a lot more gray hair than you looks more like me. And I'd say so what do you want your legacy to be? Let me reformat though for you. You know, what does the future what do you see for the next 10 to 20 years for Jennifer Bricker? I would love to get married, have kids for sure, have a couple more books coming out. And I think eventually have a talk show. I think that's kind of where my my future is leading, or either that or some acting sitcom. So I think all of those and very involved in the fitness industry as well and some fitness magazines. And I think that's kind of some of the major goals that I want to hit. Okay, well, we at E-Cliff wish you much success in reaching all of those goals. Thanks for joining us in the leaders room. Thank you. Thank you. And this is Michael Kosser signing off from the E-Cliff Leadership and Governance Center's leaders room. We'll see you in the next edition.


Hello, everyone. I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate a scenario based on APIC trigger and test class. Let's understand the requirement of this trigger scenario. So when an opportunity is created on any account, we need to put the latest opportunity amount on the account in the latest opportunity amount field. So basically, first of all, we need to create this field latest opportunity amount on the account. And whenever on that account, we create any new opportunity. So that opportunities amount should be available in this latest opportunity amount. And then if you create one more opportunity later to that existing opportunity, so the newly created opportunities amount should be populated. And if it is null or blank, in that case, existing should be there. So to accomplish this, we need to create a trigger on opportunity. Then to implement the business logic, we need to create a trigger handler class. And then to cover the code, we need to write the test class for it. So I will be demonstrating trigger implementation, its business logic implementation and the test class implementation. So let's jump to developer console. And here I'm going to check whether any opportunity trigger is implemented in my org or not. So always remember if trigger is already there on particular object. So you can reuse that. Don't create new trigger for different, different scenarios for one object. If you already have any trigger implemented, so you just need to reuse that. This is part of best practice because if you implement different, different triggers and different trigger handlers, so in that case, order will not be guaranteed. So here I am going to open opportunity trigger. And here you can see one method is already called that is in before insert context, right? Now I'm going to write after insert event because when opportunity will be created. So we need to update the related account. So in that case, like we need to use after insert. So here I'm going to use these context variable like trigger dot is insert. If trigger dot is before, so I can just cut and paste it here. Then I need to write else part trigger dot is after.  So I need to call the function. So I'm just going to open opportunity to trigger handler. Right. So here one method is already implemented. I need to implement one more. So public static void, populate latest opportunity amount. And here we need to use list of opportunity and OPP list. So I'm just saving this copying this function name and I'm going to call it here. So opportunity trigger handler dot then populate latest opportunity amount. This is the function name and here I need to pass trigger dot new, right? So here you can see trigger is one, but it will be performing these two operations. So update description will run in the before insert context and the populate latest opportunity amount will run in after insert context. If you have more than one function, so you can just maintain their order of execution as well. So it is suggested to use always one trigger for one object. Now we need to fill the definition of this function. So here I'm passing trigger dot new. So as in every video I'm demonstrating like whenever you create new records, so all those records will be stored in trigger dot new automatically and this trigger dot new is a list. So if you create bulk records, so those bulk records will also be stored in this list, right? So this trigger we are implementing as a pulkify a process as a part of bulkify process. So it can handle more than one records if they are inserted and trigger dot new will be passing the list into this OPP list. Now here, first of all, I need to create account list because I need to update account records and those account records which I want to update. So they will be available in this list. So after creation of this list, I just need to iterate a loop on this opportunity list. So inside this loop, first of all, I'm going to check whether this OPP dot amount is not equals to null if it is not null and OPP dot account ID is also not equals to null. So what does it mean? Like amount is not null and opportunity is linked to particular account. If it is not linked to any account, then there is no need to update accounts latest opportunity amount because if your opportunity is not connected with any account, so in that case, there is no account to be updated, right? So if these two conditions are satisfied, then only this business logic that I'm going to write inside this if will be executed. So here I'm going to create an instance of account then ACC dot ID equals to OPP dot account ID. So through opportunity, like I already checked whether upon opportunity of count ID is null or not. So if it is not null, it means we know like which account is connected with that opportunity and that account ID we are passing in this ACC dot ID. So it means this account will be updated and what we need to update is so here we need a field. So let me just go here under object manager and I'm searching for opportunity and I think I already created our latest or recent. Okay. I need to search it on account. Sorry. Okay. It should be with name or not opportunity. So here that field is not available. So I'm just going to quickly create that. So it will be of type number. So I'm labeling it as latest opportunity amount and then I'm clicking on next visible to all the profiles next and save. So this way on account object that latest opportunity amount field is created. So I'm copying its API name. Now I'm just going to save this code because I need to refresh this developer console if I need to use that or maybe what I can do. I can just use the API and where I will be saving. So it will be reflected. So ACC dot latest opportunity amount equals to OPP dot amount. Right. And then inside ACC list. I just need to add this newly created instance. So this way what will happen one by one opportunities will be available in this OPP and this condition will be checking whether OPP amount is not null or account ID is not null if it is true. Then that opportunity amount will be copied into this ACC instance and we are adding this instance into ACC list. So after completion of this loop. We just need to update this account list. So what I need to do I just need to apply a null check because what what can happen like if you are creating any opportunity and whatever opportunities you are creating maybe they are not connected to any account or they their amount is null. So in both the cases this if condition won't be working and your account list will be null. So you can check it for null if it is not null then only you can write update ACC list right. So this way our business logic is implemented. Now whenever you will be creating any opportunity on account so that opportunities amount will be populated on that field. So I'm just going to open any account record. So here you can see two opportunities are available. If I go to details so we have. Okay, I just need to refresh because we need to search for latest opportunity amount field. Yeah, here it is. Now if I go to related list and try to create new opportunity putting a closed date then populating a stage and then amount as well. So I'm populating 10,000 as of now and clicking on save. Now if I go to details. So here you can see latest opportunity amount is populated as 10,000. Now if I go and try to create one more opportunity so that amount will be updated automatically. So I'm populating 20,000 this time and populating a closed date and then stays and then save. Now if I go to details. So here you will see 20,000 is populated as latest opportunity amount. So this way I hope you understood like how this logic is working. So after implementation of trigger and trigger handler class now it's time to implement it's test class so that we can cover the code. So what we can do I am just opening the existing test class which is already implemented. So again, if test class is already implemented. So try to implement one more method in that test class only so that all the trigger handler methods will be tested through one class. Right. So here I'm going to create one more method. So we need to test populate latest opportunity amount. So I'm using it here test populate latest opportunity amount. Now here what we need to do first of all we need to create some records. So I need to create account records and then opportunity records. So for both the purpose I will be requiring lists. So first time creating account list and then I'm going to create opportunity list right after creation of these lists I need to iterate a loop so that I can create some account records. So here for in teaser I equals to one I less than equals to five I plus plus and here I'm creating an instance of account a cc equals to new account and inside so after the bracket a cc dot name equals to test plus I and then I can add accounts into the list right now after completion of this loop I can just write insert a cc list. Now after this I need to iterate on this account list and then I need to create opportunity records. So all the newly created accounts are available in this a cc list. So I'm iterating on this a cc list one by one account records will be available in this a cc and now inside this loop I need to create opportunities. So if your test classes having any other method already implemented and in that you find some code that you can reuse so you can just copy that code and you can reuse it. There is another way like you can create test utility or data factory classes where you can have a common method and you can call those methods so that you can reuse that particular code and the number of lines will be reduced. So here opportunity name should be a cc dot name. This is the opportunity instance then name stays close date and amount are populated then opportunity is being added to OPP list. Now after this we can write test dot start test and inside that we can write insert OPP list and test dot stop test. So here you can see we have two methods. So here also I use this test dot start test and stop test and in the second method also I'm using this test dot start test and stop test. So basically when you will be running this test class so both the methods will be having separate governor limits. So that is why it is suggested to have these two statements whenever you write DML in your test methods. Now after this what you need to do we just need to query the account records because on account record we created latest opportunity amount field so it should be having this amount populated because we created five account records and for each account record we created one opportunity. So whenever opportunity is being created related to that account so that account should be having that opportunity amount populated on that latest opportunity amount field right. So we will be comparing that field with this amount if that field is having this amount it means your code is working fine but one more thing we need to add here opportunity account ID equals to ACC dot ID so that account and opportunity will be linked together. Now here I am writing list of account updated account and then select ID. Then this field from account where ID equals to ACC list of zero dot ID so I'm just squaring the first record that is available in this ACC list that we inserted so if that one record is having the updated value so it means the rest of the records are also having but randomly you can query any record and you can just apply system dot assert equal so here system dot assert equals than expected and actual so expected is available here 20,000 so maybe you can use it directly or you can use it with the help of this OPL list of zero dot amount and then updated account of zero dot latest opportunity right so this way you can write your system dot assert equal okay so what you can do you can just copy and paste it so here instead of writing 20,000 you can write OPP list of zero dot amount as well so in both the ways it should work fine right so I am going to run this test class now so here some tests are also available so now I'm going to click on run test and here you can see test is passing nothing is filling it means both the asserts are passing properly right and if I go here and if I show you like whether code is covered or not so you can just click here and select all tests so you can see all the lines are covered properly right so I just executed both the methods so do both the methods this whole opportunity trigger handler is covered anytime like if you want to run a particular method of this test class so what you can do just click on test then new run and from here you can select your test class it will give you names of available methods in that test class you can select particular method and just click on run so now you will see only one method will be executed so here you can see above two methods executed if I expand this so it will show you only one method right and if I go here and check so only one method executed test populated populate latest opportunity amount and with this like both are covering so it may happen like through one test method your whole trigger is covered so it may happen but if you have two methods so you should implement two different test methods in your test class so this way I hope you understood like how we can implement the solution for this trigger scenario so I just created trigger on opportunity then I implemented trigger handler so that we can have business logic and then I showed you how you can implement test class for code coverage


Hello and welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 18th of October and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 21st of October and it's been a broadly positive week for global equity markets. The S&P 500 has retested the 3,000 level while once again struggling to really maintain a foothold above it. European markets have been broadly positive though the FTSE 100 has underperformed largely due to the fact that the pound has gone for a significant move to the upside. Now I talked an awful lot about sterling a week ago and particularly against the Euro I suggested that we could be in line for some significant sterling gains given some of the indications that we saw on the Euro sterling daily chart and I'll cover that in a minute but for the here and now I also talked about significant resistance levels in and around the 200 day moving average on the cable chart and we've certainly seen a significant move to the upside in the past few days and a large part of that is obviously down to recent events the announcement of a Brexit deal between the European Union and the UK and the fact that a no-deal Brexit has become much less likely. So does that mean the end to the troubles for the pound? Well by no stretch does it mean that? Does it mean that we're more likely to get a deal passed in the UK Parliament? Again the mathematics of that remain very challenging and that's certainly something that I'm going to be focusing on with respect to this video because as I record this video in around about 24 hours time on a Saturday for the first time in 40 years the UK Parliament will be sitting to mull over the merits of this latest deal from the UK government but let's not also forget that Theresa May also had a deal and her deal was voted down three times only in managing to get 286 votes on the third attempt Boris needs 320 and with a DUP opposed he will need a host of labor MPs to break ranks if we are to move on with this sorry saga. So what happens if MPs vote it down what happens next? That's really the big question the numbers do look tight I think there's an awful lot of what I would call voter fatigue, Brexit fatigue, general fatigue with the entire process and I certainly think there is on an awful lot of people's parts a desire to move the debate on from the withdrawal agreement and on to the political declaration and the new relationship. So Jean-Claude Juncker has ruled out the prospect of an extension there is a deal on the table and he's pushing the narrative of is this deal or no deal. If I'm honest I think it's unlikely even if MPs do vote this down that the EU or countenance and no deal they will probably grant the UK an extension but the question then needs to be asked to what end will it be will it be for a confirmatory referendum on the actual deal itself or will it be for a new election there's a whole host of variables at play. So whatever happens at the weekend it's unlikely to be the end of this saga. However if MPs do hold their noses vote for the deal at least we can move on to phase two which is negotiating the new relationship over the next 14 month transition period. So what does this mean for Cable? Certainly in terms of the move higher I think there's certainly we're into the realms of a new range I think the downside there's probably a there's probably a flaw in on Cable now certainly in the short term with 200 day moving average likely to act as a decent support level of around about 12670, 12720. We've managed to hold above that the 50 day moving average is starting to move more positively but the slow stochastic is looking a little bit oversold. So that suggests to me that we could get a little bit of consolidation now with a new range of between 125 and 130. Now I talked about Eurostirling last week and Eurostirling I suggested that the rules were aligning the stars were aligning for a move lower a stronger pound and certainly that has played out. It's played out much quicker than I anticipated but the catalyst was a move below that 8780 area which was also the 61.8 Fibonacci retracement level of the entire move from the lows that we saw this year to the highs that we saw in August. We've broken lower if we zoom in we can see that the last two days trading has been fairly choppy even though we've closed fairly close to pretty much where we opened and we are now like starting to look a little bit oversold. So the narrative has shifted to a much more positive sterling story we could get a rebound back to 8790, 8780 but I think while we hold below this level here and the 200 day moving average the narrative has now shifted to a slightly stronger pound and potentially a retest of the lows that we saw in March and May of around about 8470. So in the short term we could see a bit of a rebound after finding a little bit of a base around 86 probably get a short squeeze in the short to medium term maybe back to 8750 or even 88 this this corridor here but overall certainly the momentum has shifted more towards the downside in euro sterling and further sterling strength. Looking further ahead to the coming week we've also got the ECB rate meeting that's due on the 24th of October and while no changes are expected at this week's meetings it's going to be a totemic meeting in one particular respect and that is it'll be ECB president Mario Draghi's last meeting as head of the governing council as well as his last press conference before handing over to Christine Lagarde. Now in comments recently Mr. Draghi has been doing a little bit of a victory lap boasting about saving the euro while also saying that the ECB can also do much more. Well now it's justifiable that he would want to highlight his successes but I think he's being a little bit premature given that the European economy still remains frighteningly brittle and no better is that illustrated in some of the PMI numbers that we've been seeing coming out of the euro area and we've got flash PMIs coming out also on the morning of the 24th of October and the last manufacturing Germany PMI came in at 41.7. Very very weak number in September now we could see a rebound in October. Manufacturing activities remains very very depressed in the German economy and it is quite likely that we could we'll see German Q3 GDP come in in negative territory putting Germany potentially in a technical recession. So certainly going to be looking for improvements in the flash PMIs from not only Germany but also France because in the September numbers we did see a weakening pretty much across the board with some evidence that the weakness in manufacturing was starting to trickle down into the services sector. We've also got the latest German IFO business climate for October. That's due out on the 22nd and at its last reading the German IFO expressed widespread pessimism about the prospects for the German economy. In September the Institute warned that the weakness being seen in the German economy could start to infect the services sector and as such cut its outlook for the economy over the next two years. So the IFO remains a very very pessimistic about the outlook for the German economy. So that could potentially weigh on the Euro. Having said that the potential for a Brexit deal has boosted European assets over the course of the past week or so. We've certainly seen that born out in the performance of the DAX which we've seen break out towards the upside. Now this chart that I showed you last week we hadn't actually broken through this downtrend line now we have and we've broken higher but quite significantly yesterday we saw what I would call potentially a gravestone doji. Now that's not necessarily a bearish signal but it's certainly not bullish. Now at the moment we've managed to hold above 12,600. We have broken towards the upside. We've hit the highest levels for the DAX in over a year but there does appear judging by the price action to be some element of caution around this particular breakout and with the S&P also struggling around about that 3,000 level and with US earnings coming in a little bit mixed some are better than others but ultimately the earnings outlook is looking a little bit tricky. We've had the US banks out this week JP Morgan Bank of America City Group Wells Fargo.  We do have to be a little bit cautious about the outlook going forward certainly in terms of the central banks as well. So let's have a quick look at the S&P because I think that's worth having a look at. Once again I talked about a potential move back to the 3,000 level. We've certainly seen that but what we haven't seen is a significant move above the highs that we saw in the middle of the summer. That's not to say that we won't get there but certainly I think there is an awful lot of nervousness vis-à-vis with respect to trying to push it aggressively higher and actually if you look at the Russell 2,000 which is the US small caps you can see here with this particular chart that that particular chart is not really giving us an awful lot of encouragement with respect to the state of the US economy because I think if you look at the US economy in the round there is evidence of a little bit of a slowdown. Certainly seeing that in terms of retail sales that was slightly weaker than expected but overall I would suggest that it's probably trickling along quite nicely but it's probably only going along in around about third or fourth gear as opposed to the rest of the global economy which is struggling to get out of first. So still doing okay but certainly not going to pull the world out of a recession particularly if there's any further weakness in the economic data that we've seen over the course of the last few weeks. Also big week for UK banks it's UK banks earning season coming out and we have got three banks that I'm going to be focusing on this week which could prompt quite a few trading opportunities. Let's start first and foremost with Metro Bank been in the news for all the wrong reasons I'm over the course of the past 12 months and it's not difficult to see why when you look at that chart it looks pretty awful. It still remains a bank in serious trouble it's just raised 300 million pounds at no watering yield of 9.5%. There is a silver lining the departure of chairman and founder Vernon Hill may well be the catalyst required to turn the bank around after the 900 million pound accounting error that saw account holders pull 2 billion pounds out of the bank in the first six months of this year as doubts grew as to whether or not it might survive. The share price is down over 85% year-to-date and even lower from a year ago it is over 26 pounds a share. It's now just under 2 pounds so you could argue that potentially there is potential for further upside but I think the big Tesla Metro Bank is whether the worst is behind them and trust is a big issue if you're dealing with a bank and I think trust remains fairly brittle in terms of the management structure of this particular bank so hopefully this coming week's Q3 earnings announcement will restore some of that trust. Certainly in terms of the price action it's likely to continue to remain volatile. It's also been a good week this week for UK banks we've got RBS with its latest numbers for Q3 coming out on the 24th of October it's going to be a very busy day on the 24th of October with the ECB PMIs and we've got RBS as well and the prospect of a deal a Brexit deal has really boosted UK banks in the past few days we've seen it break above the 200-day moving average for RBS and I think if you actually look at the numbers from RBS it's actually the underlying business has been doing okay. Alison Rose has recently been announced as the new replacement for Ross McEwen and there's no question that the continuity for RBS will be welcomed by investors as will a slightly more certainty around the Brexit environment but this improvement in trend in terms of profits needs to continue in Q3. The flying the ointment continues to be PPI now it's here we could see further significant provisions given the late surge seen in the lead-up to the August deadline so any profitability in terms of this week's earnings announcement could be tempered by larger PPI provisions because of the surge towards the August the 29th cutoff date that we saw in Q3. It's going to be a similar sort of story if you look at Barclays numbers as well similar sort of move higher on hopes that MPs will pass the Brexit deal and we're coming to the close of this particular stage but what is significant about this and I've drawn this line here so that you can see it is big big resistance on Barclays share price at 170p £1.70 so I think you could argue that this week's trading update for Q3 some of the good news could well all be priced in mortgages remain a key profit center for the bank so the slowdown in the UK housing market could well act as a drag costs are coming down management of stated they expect four-year costs to come in below 13.6 billion so if that if if on the cost base this continues to be improvement that could be a positive but again as with RBS further PPI provisions could be a headwind for the bank other things to keep an eye out for which I don't really have time for in this particular update will be Amazon's Q3 numbers also on the 24th Microsoft on the 23rd Q1 Boeing Q3 on the 23rd of October so a fairly important week for earnings a fairly important week for the ECB and another important week for Brexit and certainly in terms of sterling volatility we could well see quite a bit of volatility there three days this week we have seen 200 point plus ranges in the cable that is likely to continue over the course of the next few days particularly if MPs decide to vote down this new Brexit deal let's hope they don't that's it for this week thank you very much for listening to Michael Houston talking to you from CMC market


When I was younger, I had two natural places that were sacred to me. Northern Michigan and the Gulf Coast of Florida. I knew the Michigan woods behind our house and the shorelines along the lake so well that I could mark my location by a tree or sand dune. Along the Gulf Coast of Sarasota, I'd let the wet sand filter through my fingers to reveal coquinas, or I'd pick up fiddler crabs and sea stars. Now that I have a kid of my own, I encourage him to be curious about and feel a connection to nature. I take him to the shores of Lake Michigan to look for rocks, the waterways of Florida to kayak through the mangrove tunnels, and on trips big and small to explore our world. Being in nature allows both of us to know ourselves and each other better, to be curious about the world and to feel a connection to and concern for nature. Because having these sacred places is fundamental to my memories of childhood and to the person I am today, I am always surprised when my students in American studies at the Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, North Carolina tell me that they don't spend time in nature. When I began thinking about ways that I could introduce the benefits of being in nature to my students, I naturally thought of transcendentalism and the writings of Emerson and Thoreau, keeping the National Geographic framework in mind. I also wanted to get students outside to inspire a new perspective in the way they thought about nature and to inspire curiosity about their relationship to it. Emerson is a residential high school for academically gifted students from across the state of North Carolina. The focus on STEM means that many of my students are skeptical of what they call the old writings. You can hear this in the following question a student asked during our class discussion. I have any basis for what they're claiming that I'm all connected or they're saying they want to. Because of this skepticism, during our study of Emerson's nature in Thoreau's Walden, I wanted to connect the author's philosophical musings and the benefits of being outside to contemporary sources that show scientific evidence of these claims. To do this, I chose to use the 2017 National Geographic article We Are Wired To Be Outside, which is an interview with Florence Williams about her then-new book, The Nature Fix. After reading and discussing Emerson and Thoreau, I distributed a set of We Are Wired To Be Outside and divided it into sections for students to read, discuss, and connect to Emerson and Thoreau. They also had an additional reading of a longer excerpt from The Nature Fix. Having them read from these works fit in perfectly with the curiosity framework. The blend of philosophy with science resonated with many of the students and allowed them to make connections between philosophical texts extolling the benefits of being in nature and contemporary research that supported these rather esoteric claims. You can see in the following clip from our class discussion that reading the article and relating it to Emerson and Thoreau allow the students to deepen their understanding of the importance of our connection to nature. What are our connections then between Walden and Florence Williams, The Nature Fix?  Yeah, and he says that he's so thankful to be hearing ones that the villager cannot hear. So then what's the connection to the Nature Fix reading? That hearing birds makes you happy. After our discussions of Emerson, Thoreau and the National Geographic article, I wanted to get my students outside so that they could see if the claims about nature held true for them. I also wanted to assess their understanding of the ideas in a non-traditional way. To do this, I designed an assignment that required students to create a three-dimensional sculpture that conveyed transcendental ideas. To get outside, we headed off campus to a nature trail that is about a 10-minute walk from campus. While we were walking and while we were on the trail, I asked students to not talk with each other so that they could spend our time activating all of their senses. The walk outside definitely connected them to the natural world, specifically on a local scale because we were walking in the neighborhood in which our campus is located. Many of the students picked up trash on our walk, an unintended but lovely connection to our ecological footprint. Sitting still in nature was a connection to spatial awareness and to the flora and fauna, another ecological connection. We also discussed the personal value of being in nature to the larger question of environmental protection and restoration, which moved our discussion to the cultural, ecological and political scales. On the last day of the unit, students spent about 90 minutes building their sculptures from random supplies and items they brought in from outside. Many of them created fantastic pieces that clearly conveyed the ideas of our discussions and readings. The final part of the sculpture assignment was a paper in which they had to write a formal analysis of their sculpture and how it conveyed transcendentalist concepts. Having students create a visual representation of a complex idea and write an analysis of the piece allowed them to work within the National Geographic Communication Framework, specifically creating and publishing content across a diverse range of media. To engage with the material on a personal level and I think in part because of that it really impacted me personally because I've always really been a kid into nature and I've loved spending time outside but after this I began keeping a journal and writing more poetry. Transcendentalism Unit as a whole helped me better understand the importance of my relationship with nature. It fostered a greater appreciation for experiencing the meaning of life by forming deep connections with the outdoor world and being one with it.


This review covers the history on biological nitrogen fixation, BNF, and graminaceous plants grown in Brazil. It describes research progress made over the last 40 years, most of which coordinated by Johanna Doberreiner. The role of these diazetrophs in association with grasses, mainly with cereal plants, has been studied. This article was authored by Jose I. Baldani and Vera LD. Baldani.


Hey there chameleons, it's Camille and today's video I'm showing you how I did this hairstyle and a super easy makeup look That's perfect for festival season and any other time you're feeling a little sparkly. I Love glitter so I'll wear this on any occasion, but it's definitely great for festivals I'm starting off with a blank slate washing my hair and getting out any build-up Conditioning it and then doing a really good detangling job And it's super important for the style because we'll be braiding it so detangling really well We'll definitely make that a lot easier and it look feels good on your scalp So that's another perk then I'm running my fingers through my hair to help add volume and define the curls and This is what it looks like when it's drying but still damp Which is the best time to braid curly hair in my opinion And I'm using a spray bottle of just plain water to keep the hair damp while I'm braiding it to make it easier to work with and then using a comb to make a zig-zag part down the center and I couldn't find any of my regular ones and for some reason I have this wavy comb so Whatever, it's a bit offbeat, but it works for what I need it for Then I'm sectioning off the hair at the crown of my head Which is where I want the braids to go Clipping the other hair out of the way and making the sections a bit neater the first product I'm using is the new Aussie gloss over glossing cream that just came out and I'm always really excited to get my hands on new Aussie products So thank you Aussie for loving me and sponsoring this video Love you too by the way This is one of my favorites of the new launches because the cream is Perfect to use when braiding my hair to keep it smooth and incredibly glossy is crazy And it's infused with Australian jojoba oil. So it's moisturizing strengthening and has vitamin C Once everything's sectioned out I'm doing a Dutch braid down the center of the section ending at the back of the section and Continuing into a regular braid It's so much easier when your hair is damp Detangled and have the gloss over cream in it and it also lasts a lot longer without frizzing When you do it this way which I love because I spend so much time doing my hair and I want it to Look good for as long as possible Then I'm using a clear little rubber band to tie off the end of the braid So it doesn't come undone then I'm moving on to the other side and doing the exact same thing I did on this side Wedding it detangling parting and glossing that baby before going in for the braid I think I'm better at the pink side because every time I do this style It's always so much easier, but with practice it gets a lot easier once the braids are finished I'm grabbing a section of dry and fluffed out hair that I'm using to create volume for the buns Twisting it into a bun and then wrapping the braid around it for that cool braided texture with the added size of the fluffed out hair To make the buns bigger all these techniques are totally made up by the way because I know my hair and what it likes and how it behaves So I think experimenting with your own hair is a great way to come up with creative ideas So never stop trying out new ideas The rest of my hair dried while being stretched back, which I don't usually do but for this look I'm using a tiny curling wand so it doesn't really matter how your hair dries first But if you prefer no heat feel free to section off the top and then let all of your hair air dry and curl up to its Potential then wet the top and braid after but I like the way this tiny wand makes ringlets and gives me a different type of volume So I'm switching it up today I have it set on low heat since I don't need it to be high which is worse for your hair and also depending on your hair type You can use a different size to curl make your wavy or straight at this point Whatever you think looks best on you Then I'm using some bobby pins to pull the hair back from my face little which is optional But I decided to do it this day and this is what my hair ended up looking like For makeup I have my regular foundation and brows on and I'm adding a medium pink blush that looks good on my skin tone Adding a little bit of bronzer to contour and warm up my face and then finally an excuse to use my purple highlight Which is so fun and perfect for festivals or spring and I'm putting that on my cheekbones on my nose and under my brows Of course, it's not a festival look without glitter So I'm using this gorgeous purple glitter liner on my inner corner to make it pop And then doing a warm nude lip with just liner so it stays on longer Of course, I'm throwing on some lashes for drama and the makeup is done to finish off the hair I'm using the new Aussie glitter sprays to bring some glitter up there as well They come in blue violet and pink and I've played with each one and I love them all so I'm just layering all of them for some multicolor action First you got to shake it up And then I'm spraying it all along the part in the braids area and around the buns for sort of glitter root effect Then I'm doing the same thing with the pink which is a delicate beautiful glitter and then the same with the blue Which is a deeper kind of sparkle and don't forget to let it dry between layers of spraying Lastly, I'm just laying my edges a little and cleaning up around my baby hairs And then topping the whole look off with some clear gloss to add some shine At this point the only thing left to do is fluff out your hair take some cute pics and smile at all of your Hard work paying off. I really love this look and I've done it a couple of times now I also definitely recommend checking out Aussie's new line of products Everything is certified cruelty-free and they use quality ingredients that are good for your hair health I hope you guys enjoyed this video Don't forget to subscribe if you did and follow me on all of my socials linked in the description box down below I wish you all a happy healthy life, and I will see you in the next video kisses


We're going to look at the pH of a number of buffer solutions and see how the pH changes as we add acid or base. We're going to start out, however, looking at a solution that is not a buffer, which is pure water. I've calibrated a CBL pH probe and I'm going to put it into some distilled water. Our solution starts out being relatively close to a pH of 7. We're going to add a drop of 1 molar HCl. Notice that the pH drops rapidly. Pure water is not a buffer. If we add a strong acid to it, the strong acid ionizes 100%. There's no buffering capacity in the water. The pH drops rapidly. We'll repeat this experiment with some more distilled water. Notice that the starting pH here is a little bit less than 7. This is not unusual if there's a lot of dissolved carbon dioxide in the water, which forms carbonic acid. What we're going to do is add a drop of 1 molar NaOH to the solution. Notice that the pH rises rapidly to a pH of almost greater than 12. Pure water, again, is not a very good buffer. If we add a strong base, the pH rises rapidly.


Hello and welcome to the session. Today I will help you with the following question. The question says write down the decimal expansion of those rational numbers in question one which have terminating decimal expansion. These are the rational numbers given in question one of these. This is terminating. This is terminating. This is terminating. This is terminating and this is also terminating. These six rational numbers have terminating decimal expansions. Now we are supposed to write their decimal expansions. Let's move on to the solution. Consider the first rational number given that is 13 upon 3125. This has terminating decimal expansion. Now we will write the decimal expansion of this rational number. As you can see this is of the form p upon q. Now to write the decimal expansion of this rational number we will convert this p upon q form in the form a upon b where b is the power of 10. This is the prime factorization. As you can see this is the prime factorization of 3125. So the number 13 upon 3125 can be written as 13 upon 5 to the power 5. Now we are supposed to make this denominator as the power of 10. So for this we will multiply the numerator and the denominator by 2 raised to the power 5. Thus we get 416 upon 10 to the power 5. That is this becomes equal to 0.00416. So the rational number 13 upon 3125 has a decimal expansion 0.00416. Next rational number which has a terminating decimal expansion is 17 upon 8. This is also of the form p upon q. Again we will convert this to the form a upon b where b is the power of 10. This is the prime factorization of the denominator 8 of the rational number 17 upon 8. So we can say 17 upon 8 is written as 17 upon 2 to the power 3. Now we have to convert this denominator to the power of 10. So for this we will multiply both the numerator and denominator by 5 to the power 3. Thus this is equal to 2125 upon 10 to the power 3. That is this is equal to 2.125. That is the rational number 17 upon 8 has the decimal expansion as 2.125. Next rational number is 15 upon 1600. This also has a terminating decimal expansion. This is the prime factorization of the denominator 1600. So the rational number 15 upon 1600 is written as 15 upon 2 to the power 6 multiplied by 5 to the power 2. Now again we have to convert this denominator to the power of 10. So for this we will multiply the numerator and denominator by 5 to the power 4. Thus we get 9375 upon 10 to the power 6 which is equal to 0.009375. That is the rational number 15 upon 1600 has the decimal expansion 0.009375. Next rational number given is 23 upon 2 to the power 3 into 5 to the power 2. We have to convert this denominator as the power of 10. So for this we will multiply the numerator and the denominator by 5. So this becomes equal to 115 upon 10 to the power 3. That is this is equal to 0.115. Thus we have the rational number 23 upon 2 to the power 3 multiplied by 5 to the power 2 has a decimal expansion 0.115. Next is 6 upon 15. This is the prime factorization of the denominator 15. So the rational number 6 upon 15 is written as 6 upon 3 multiplied by 5 or this could be equal to 2 upon 5. Now to convert the denominator as the power of 10 we will multiply the numerator and the denominator by 2. So we get 4 upon 10 that is 0.4. Thus we have the rational number 6 upon 15 has a decimal expansion 0.4. Next rational number is 35 upon 50. Now this is the prime factorization of 50. So this can be written as 35 upon 2 multiplied by 5 to the power 2. We have to convert the denominator as the power of 10 so we will multiply both the numerator and the denominator by 2. This gives us 70 upon 10 to the power 2 which is further equal to 0.70. Hence the rational number 35 upon 50 has the decimal expansion 0.70. Thus this is the final answer. For the first part it is 0.00416. For the second part it is 2.125. Fourth it is 0.009375. For the sixth part it is 0.115. For the eighth part it is 0.4. For the ninth part it is 0.7. So hope you enjoyed the session. Have a good day.


While there were many Super Bowl parties over the weekend, of course, yesterday for the big game itself, and one in Park Rapids, though, decided to have fun without alcohol. Our own Cheryl Moore takes into the big game party with a twist for this week's community spotlight. Super Bowl Sunday is a day to hang out with family, friends, even pups, and enjoy some football, commercials, and a big musical number at halftime. But for some, finding a place to party without pressure can be tough. It's a neutral place, and everybody is very friendly, and the food's been great. The staff at a better connection in Park Rapids came up with the idea to throw a sober bowl party from a newsletter sent out by the Hazelton Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies. They created Hawke to help those in the Park Rapids community. We're still pretty new. We just had our open house a couple weeks ago. When a person looks at a lot of events that are held in the community and when we actually start to identify those that have alcohol served and those that do not have alcohol served, that it actually is a lot of family events that have alcohol served. Now, the sober bowl party had everything that pretty much any party would have.  But there's absolutely no pressure to drink. I think it's really important to have someplace where you can go where there's no pressure to use narcotics or alcohol. If there wasn't places like this, then I wouldn't be able to connect with people in the community that are wanting to be sober. I know that from working and living in this area, my whole life, that it's very, it's needed a lot. Door prizes were given to attendees during commercial breaks to add to the big game excitement. And while this was the first sober bowl, organizers say it will not be the last. In fact, they're hoping to throw even more sober events in the future. If, you know, the community members have any suggestions, we want this to be taken over by the community and run and be motivated by what people want. Reporting in Park Rapids with this week's Community Spotlight, Shaw Moore, Lakeland News. And if you have a suggestion for a better connection, they can be reached through Facebook. We have a link on our website at lptv.org. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


Coming up on DTNS, it's apparently going to be called Windows 11. We'll let you know what else we know so far. Plus Apple plans to become your primary healthcare provider and how game pass one E three. This is the Daily Tech news for Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane in Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. Oh, we were just talking about Sarah's no good, very bad contact experience. And also my no good, very bad IRL experience with the app. If you want that wider conversation, get good day internet. You can find it by becoming a patron at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google updated messages on Android to now use end to end encryption on all one on one RCS chats previously available in beta. The company also announced that the Android earthquake kit system or alert system rather will come to Turkey, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Research from McAfee's advanced threat research team shows that Peloton bike plus and Peloton tread exercise equipment contain a vulnerability that would let attackers gain remote control access to the Peloton touchscreen that could allow things like malware that intercepts traffic accessing of your personal data, even controlling the bike plus or tread camera and microphone remotely or recording your workout.  McAfee team notes an attacker would need access to the machines at some point in the supply chain and then have to insert a USB key with a boot image file containing malicious code that would grant them remote route access. And Peloton has issued a patch in the latest version of its firmware. Yesterday we talked about Razer's gallium nitrate charger for $180 and mentioned that there were similar and also cheaper products, one of which is made by RAV Power. But if you're looking to compare these products, do not go to Amazon to do so. A month after Amazon removed products from accessory makers Aukey and MPOW, RAV Power products have disappeared. Amazon hasn't explained any of these removals except to say that it generally suspends sellers who violate its rules. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about RAV Power offering gift cards in exchange for reviews, which is something that Amazon does not allow. Germany's Fraunhofer Institute announced the IBM Quantum System 1 went online a few weeks ago. The company's first quantum computer built outside of its New York based data centers. The system uses a 27 qubit Falcon processor and German organizations will now be available to arrange monthly contracts to use the computer for research, education and training. Bloomberg sources say that Sony plans to use Samsung OLED displays on its next generation PlayStation VR, which will be reportedly released for the 2022 holiday season. This comes as many VR headsets have pivoted to LCDs which provide higher resolution at a cheaper cost. All right, well, there's all we got from Sony this week. We got a little more from Microsoft from this week a little later in the show. But first, Scott, there's a new opening in New York. Yeah, get your tickets ready. I guess we don't live there. Or if you live there, just go check it out. Google will be opening its first retail store at 76 9th Avenue in New York City. This is on Thursday at 10 a.m. So tomorrow it's on the first floor of the building. This is the building Google bought from the Chelsea neighborhood for its New York headquarters or in that neighborhood. You'll be able to buy Google hardware like pixels, nests and Fitbits. Don't forget they just bought them as well as get accessories not made by Google like phone cases, headphones, that sort of stuff. If you're into Google branded merchandise, they have t shirts, hats, dog toys and the like. And the store will offer tech support for Google products and everything from help with troubleshooting to repairing a cracked screen. For more involved repairs, you can schedule drop off and pick up though Google wants to do as many repairs same day as possible. And Google will take advantage of your visit to show off technology like Google translate and night sight photos in various spaces and kiosks within the store. One of them is dedicated to Stadia. So, you know, you haven't given up on that yet. You can check that out. And just like Apple, there will be instructional events in the store as well. Yeah, this this they've done pop up stores before, but this is their first permanent location. And it reminds me, especially that stuff about the kiosks and the, you know, like go into this dark room to take night sight photos and see how amazing it is. That reminds me of the experience stores. There's a few of them out there. I went to a Samsung location in Tokyo that was not a store. They would help you buy their products online, but it was simply five stories of demonstrations of Samsung stuff. So they had an Instagram room where you could take photos with this and they made you take a Samsung phone with you through it. So you could try out a say, you know, the Galaxy phone as you're walking around. There were all kinds of other things. So it looks like Google is like, well, we're actually going to sell stuff in the store. But we're also going to provide these kinds of experiences. And we're going to do a little the Apple genius bar stuff and the and the instructional events. So it's a mix of all of those ideas in one. I wouldn't be surprised if they never open another one. This may be just a tourist attraction of when, hey, when you're in New York, if you're a big fan of the Google products, come by that Google store and you can get all this cool stuff. I feel like I would go, at least just out of curiosity if I were in the New York neighborhood at some point in the future. But yeah, I there are plenty of people who are like, yeah, Google makes hardware products. Everyone knows that. But a lot of people don't or at least they don't think of Google as, oh, that might be the company that I think of first, you know, when I'm deciding to, you know, buy a next, you know, flagship smartphone kind of thing. And sure, maybe you go in there because you need some repair stuff on your pixel.  Maybe I'll, you know, while I'm waiting to pick up something, I'll give this a whirl. I mean, all of that is doesn't really, it's like a win-win situation for Google. You have potential customers learning about stuff that you want to sell them. And yeah, it's a there-there for Google thing. I think they've kind of got, it's like Microsoft stores a little bit. They're companies known for mostly services and software. And so people don't automatically think, I want to go play with some hardware at a, you know, software company. But providing this there in such a cool location may end up being just a great flagship place for people to go when they're in New York. Whether or not they plan on rolling this out like a regular chain, I think has got tons of questions attached to it. Not only is like kind of the retail world sort of changed a little bit and we don't quite know where it's headed next. That's a whole issue, but, you know, they haven't said. So my guess is they're going to make this one store super rad. I would totally go in there and hang out. And I hope it goes well for them. It seems cool. I also feel like because it's part of the sprawling and already existing Google campus, not that they're going to be like secret Google employees in there, you know, like writing down your every move, but it's a great place to kind of have there where you're like, oh, and then real people off the street are in there. So you can get a little bit of a sense of, you know, what might be gaining traction or what people, you know, gravitate to in a store or have questions about. Yeah. Totally. Yeah. No, I was thinking, I was thinking they would use this as a bed of data to decide whether they ever want to open another permanent location or not, but you're right. It's not even just that. It's also like how people use phones and what catches their eye. They're going to get all kinds of data out of that. That's so true. So true. Speaking of a company trying to use your data to make a new product, Apple has been pushing into health technology as have Amazon and Google. Last week at WWDC, you may remember Apple announced the ability coming in iOS 15 to send data from your health app to your doctor's medical record systems. And in fact, Tuesday Mayo Clinic announced it will now support Apple's health records feature, which is the existing thing where you can connect your health app to the records. It doesn't involve the sending until you get iOS 15 yet. That's all expanding and Apple's getting a lot of credit for, for kind of plowing ahead in the technology space for health. But apparently Apple has loftier ambitions than just hooking your records up with your doctor. The Wall Street Journal has sources and documents that say starting in 2016, Apple began developing a way to offer primary care. The plan was to develop a subscription-based personalized health program using data from devices like your Apple Watch combined with virtual and in-person primary care visits. This is, there's big business. There's, there's a lot of companies doing this kind of thing like carbon health, but none of them make the devices and Apple does. Apple created the service for its employees as a test with the idea of eventually franchising it out to health systems. So Apple didn't want to run it, but they wanted to create the platform that they could then give to actual health systems to use. So Apple took over some health clinics near its headquarters and in 2017 hired Stanford's Dr. Symbol Desai to run the effort, which they codenamed CASPER. But it hasn't been terribly popular. It's one thing to dog food a new iPhone and use it out in the world. It's another thing to put your health in the experimental product. Uptake from employees appears to be spotty, not just for the clinics, but also test apps. An app called Health Habit from Dr. Desai's team was launched six months ago to encourage healthy habits like exercise and diet, but half the people who downloaded it internally didn't enroll and engagement among those who did enroll has been low. Of course, that could just mean it's a test product that isn't working and that's why you test products to find out whether they work or not. Apple, of course, responded quite a lot to this report, sometimes specifically to things the Wall Street Journal posted, but in general said that some of the assertions in the report are either incomplete, outdated, or just inaccurate information. But in their responses, they did sort of tacitly admit, yeah, we're developing health technology products like this. I mean, we're headed this direction, so someone's got to be fiddling around in the space. I'm sure they're not the only ones, but the more we are all tethered up to something, the more our healthcare and our shopping habits and our anything else will be tied to this stuff, to your phone, to your device, to your records and having those records with you all the time and being able to get to those records quickly, either whether it's your doctor or you or an employer or whatever. I think it's going to become some tiptoeing toward that, obviously, because like they say, the uptick hasn't been great here, although Apple maybe asserts that this isn't complete information. All of that aside, I'm on board, man. I'm all for this idea of I walk into an office and they go, oh, here's your stuff. Okay, cool. Looks like you're all good here. Let's do a quick blood test. All right, that's been added to your stuff. I don't got to wait for a phone call and I have to try to call in and get voicemail. Like that whole process could be so much easier and therefore ultimately I think cheaper for everybody, although the healthcare system doesn't seem to care about that so much sometimes, but I would love to just see that process be more efficient. I'm all in. Yeah, I definitely saw some hot takes around the internet of like, well, you know, employees at Apple don't seem to be very excited about this and that may be true on some level depends on the employee, but it's more of, if I was an employee and there was, you know, this product where it's like, hey, we're building this thing. We're going to test it internally. Please, you know, give us your information. It's not, well, you might be like, no, I'm totally not down with that, right? This also wasn't mandatory, but you also might be like, well, I mean, it's a test. So they might be scrutinizing the data a little bit more than normal and I already have healthcare and that's kind of working for me. I like my doctor. I don't really want to participate. This sounds messy. I mean, it's sort of a lot to ask to be a guinea pig at a company like Apple that I'm going to presume has pretty good healthcare benefits already, you know, for regular employees to be giving a lot of data because, yes, the company is working on, you know, backend software that works with the devices that the company makes also. So it's a lot of control to have. Yeah, it's one thing to be able to swap your SIM card into the test iPhone and try it out and then swap it back. It's another thing to switch your doctor, right? Like I could see if you've got, like you said, I think that's a really good point. If you've got really good healthcare from Apple, you might be like, you know, I'm just going to keep going to the doctor. I know I'm not going to try out this clinic, whereas and some of them will and some of them did. It's not as easy of an of an ask, I think, but but Scott, you're right. This is coming and you can, all of you outside of the United States, you can go ahead making your, you know, making fun of our healthcare system here if you want. But I think it's not just the United States that could improve medical records sharing and access and making it really easy and simple to see all of your medical records, all of your test results, all of your past appointments and medical history and everything in one place. I mean, that that that is not done as well anywhere as it could be. And so I am not against technology companies coming in and trying to create a safe and secure emphasis on safe and secure way for your doctor to be able to see all the medical information that you want them to see in order to help you improve your health. I think that's good. It's good stuff. And we're collecting more data than ever before now. Yeah, I have something that's old. I mean, it's, it's sort of on the cusp. I have Kaiser Permanente, it's a big healthcare plan provider. And for the first time, you know, as an adult, I can log in and there's so much more information in, in my, you know, in the general, I don't know, whatever you call it, the portal, you know, when you log in, that's all arranged. I mean, it could be arranged a little bit better, right? You know, there could be, you know, sort of a better app going on. But, but yeah, this is a great direction for us to go in. But yes, ways to go yet. Well, speaking of whether or not it has a ways to go, perhaps you like it as it is, the Verges Tom Warren reports that the entire Windows 11 interface has leaked online after first appearing on Baidu. And this is ahead of Microsoft's announcement on June 24th. Warren got ahold of a working version of Windows with the new interface, which calls itself Windows 11. Yep. It uses rounded corners. It has centered icons in the taskbar and a redesigned start menu. Looks a lot like what had been planned for Windows 10X. You might remember that was originally meant for dual screens, later for Chromebook-like devices, and then just kind of got retired overall. The new start menu is simplified from Windows 10. It has pinned apps, recent files, and shutdown and restart options. If you don't like the idea of a centered start menu, you can move it back to the left. So you have some customization there. There's also a taskbar icon for widgets, widgets appear to be coming back. You'll be able to have things like weather, calendar, or news slide out from the side for quick access, stuff that you need in general throughout the day. Snap controls are available from the maximize button to let you quickly put Windows side by side. You can arrange them in sections as well. And if a new app store design is coming, it wasn't leaked in the version that Warren got, although there is a new startup sound. So it might yet be updated before June 24th. That's the startup sound, by the way. Do you like it? Do you not? Yeah, do that again. Let me hear that again, Tom. Let's hear that. Oh, I don't know. It's fine. It's fine. You know what? The reason I don't like it is because it sounds like a notification because nothing's starting up when I hear it. I'm like, stop bothering me. I guess it won't repeat like I just did, obviously.  You'll associate it with, yes, I'm beginning that thing that I want to do right now. I don't know. I got to say, I don't want to say I'm underwhelmed with how it looks because I find nothing wrong, although I don't like the center and start menu. I don't like center aligned anything. But again, you can switch it back if you want. It's so Microsoft to be like, we made what we're pretty sure is going to be a highly unpopular choice. So we gave you the option to set it back yourself later. Yeah. So underwhelmed maybe isn't the right word, but I thought it was going to be a more dramatic update. And it still could be. I mean, the 24th, we could see something totally different. But it doesn't, the science aren't pointing to anything that's dramatically different than Windows 10X. What I'm seeing here is that they took Windows 10X, which never released, right? It only looks familiar because we've seen all the leaks. And they said, you know what, it doesn't make sense to have a separate product. That causes problems. At least Microsoft finally learned, like that causes problems. Let's just take what we learned there, put it in Windows 11. And then under the hood, we can adapt the OS to whether it's on like an ARM processor or something else, but just make Windows look like itself. Now, I expected them to do that and just call it Windows 10 because they said Windows 10, the last Windows you'll ever need whenever we're ever doing another one. So I'm very curious what the story is to explain why this one is Windows 11. There's a little like 8% chance in my brain that Windows 11 and Windows 10 will continue side by side for a while. That Windows 11 won't be exactly like Windows 10. I think it's more likely that it's just, hey, if you're on the update cycle, your next update will be called Windows 11. Because this one goes to 11 or some other spinal tap joke like that. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of questions I have about this, this version of Windows, most of it's UI based. But for the most part, I'm excited to see the change. You know, I was talking earlier in the show or in prep about how I'm nervous, always nervous about updates, particularly Windows ones. And I think Microsoft would earn themselves some huge cred if this just goes smoothly. So I for one, I'm really hoping for just a smooth, nicely done, you know, roll out of this thing so that we all can just pleasantly move on to the next version of Windows. Well, if you want something smooth and nicely done, all next week will be Accessibility Week on Daily Tech News Show. Each day, we're going to feature a guest to talk about accessibility and technology across all different kinds of topics. From testing products to developing UIs, it all starts Monday, June 21st. So make sure to be here. The headlines about Microsoft coming out of the E3 gaming conference are all about Xbox Game Pass. If you're unfamiliar, here's the rundown on Xbox Game Pass. This isn't new, but this is how it works. Subscribers get access to 100 or more games that they can download and play. Microsoft promises that games from Xbox Game Studios come out on Game Box Game Pass the same day they release. And at E3, the following games were announced as coming to Game Pass Day of Release. And this is what was grabbing a lot of the headlines, Psychonauts 2, Back for Blood, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, Starfield, which, you know, it'll be 2022. But when it comes, it'll come to Game Pass, same day it's released, and Stalker 2. Hades and Among Us are also coming to Game Pass, not Day of Release, of course, but they are coming. It cost you $10 a month to access Game Pass on your Xbox. That's $120 a year. That's less than two top quality games. A separate plan costs $10 a month if you want to access it on your Windows PC. Instead, that plan also includes EA Play, which gives you the whole EA library of PC games. However, that plan doesn't work on your Xbox. If you want it on both your Xbox and on your Windows PC, you got to pay $15 a month. That's still cheaper than two or three games. That also includes Xbox Live Gold for multiplayer and Xbox Cloud Gaming, which lets you play games that stream to your Android phone or tablet, but you can still use your Xbox controller. And that will eventually include more than just Android. Xbox Cloud Gaming is invite-only beta right now for your Windows browser and your iOS browser as a browser-based web app. Microsoft also plans to bring cloud gaming to smart TVs and streaming sticks, as well as the Xbox One. You'll be able to play new titles that wouldn't run on the Xbox One through cloud gaming on Xbox One. Sony set out E3, as I mentioned earlier, so it's unfair to compare, but Microsoft certainly dominated the headlines and the path towards subscription cloud-based gaming, Scott, seems clear. Yeah, no question about that in my mind in terms of the future. It's all just a matter of who's going to get on board first and who will have the dominant hand and all that. And you kind of got touched on that a little bit in your info here. But it was clear to me last week covering all the E3 stuff. We did live coverage of everything. By far and away, the one event that looked like it really had a handle on things was the Microsoft event. And that is not always true of Microsoft in the past. And the last couple of years have felt like sort of rebuilding years, or years that they're building up to what they're finally starting to talk about now or show or actually deliver on now, which is the massive value proposition that is Game Pass. And it's very hard to deny that value proposition. They're basically saying for a very low fee a month as low as 10 bucks. If you're just console-only or PC-only, or if you want both an extra five and you've got everything ultimate, you have cross saves, you have cross play, you have games that will play on the cloud as well in these traditional ways. And you have their version of the hardware to say, look, we've got the X and S. They both serve different reasons or different kinds of clients, but here they are. We have great consoles. Oh, you don't want to play there. You'd rather play on your PC. Fine. We got you covered there. And we're doing day and date on those as well. And oh, you're somebody who just wants to play our games, but play it on Steam while we're selling it there too. It's also on the Epic Store. It's also on itch.io. And guess what? You can get it on gog.com. Like they seem to be saying, I think very clearly, their interest is the games as a service and being able to play it anywhere to the point that they're saying, even if, I mean, this is all behind the scene stuff, but they've said in some interviews, look, if Nintendo or even Sony or others were willing to let us bring game pass to their platforms, we do it. Like they really want to do this. And I think because they're so out in front of it, it's going to be hard to compete with that for a while. I think Sony has some catching up to do now, even though the last generation, it was the other way around. And I don't know if Sony's got anything up their sleeve, but because they didn't present during this crucial week of exposure, you can take a couple of things away from that. One, you could just say, well, Sony's going to do what they do and they'll have their own thing to say, and don't worry it's coming. Or you could say, they put their head down and kind of ignored this because they don't have a good answer for this yet. And I bet it's kind of a mix of the two. If I were to be asked, but overall though, the big take is not only Microsoft do really well for this E three. They really pounded home the case. The game pass is going to bring what they promised and buying all these developers and acquiring Bethesda and all of that stuff is starting to yield results, actual games, actual release dates, actual expectation on the part of the player. And that's a big, big deal. Microsoft pulled a Netflix Netflix developed streaming at a time when everybody's like, who wants streaming DVDs, man? You have solid, yeah, I have solid DVDs. And then now everyone thinks of Netflix as a streamer, even though they actually still have the DVDs. Microsoft is doing that right now. They're saying like, yes, consoles, of course, consoles are important, but they won't always eventually device independent gaming will be the future. And we are already there, bringing you along slowly by letting you download it now instead of streaming it because streaming isn't quite there yet, but it will be. And eventually you'll, you'll be getting your games from us through a service.  We'll have a premium device, the console go from being a loss leader to like just being like, here's the best way to play your Xbox games, but you can play them anywhere on anything through cloud gaming. That's where I think it's going. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. We'll see, we'll see how things go. It's going to get interesting real quick. All right. Tell us about what's going on with this quest VR headsets. Got all right. We'll check this out. If you're into the quest, this may be interesting to you in a blog post about the V 30 update version 30 update that is for the quest VR headsets, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said play space will be expanded 15 meters by 15 meters and we'll also be adding a multitasking to Oculus home, which acts as sort of a virtual monitor. So there's some interesting technical advancements there. Zuckerberg also mentioned that the ability to wirelessly stream content from a PC using the air link system is coming soon to the original quest. That's good news for people like me, but it's unclear if that will be part of this version or not, but that is something people have been begging for. So that'll be great for streamers. Anyway, Microsoft also announced it started testing Facebook. I'm sorry. Yeah. What'd I say? Microsoft? I'll tell you that Facebook. I don't have no idea. I did that. They also announced they will be starting testing of advertisements in Oculus quest headsets that don't hang up yet. Everybody after previously announcing it in May. Okay. So they have already talked about this. Uh, they said that and now they're going to do it. They're going to run ads in the Oculus mobile app ads will first appear in the shooter game Blaston from resolution, excuse me, restitution games, no, resolution games right ahead that and Facebook says ads will come to two other Oculus apps over the coming weeks. So they didn't say what those two apps were. So advertising in your Oculus quest, Sarah, you own one of these. I own one of these.  So, so just tiny clarification in May, the company said, yeah, we're going to run some ads in the mobile app. And at the time I was like, Oculus mobile app, how often do I open that? Not very often. Don't care. Uh, do I care if ads run, you know, in my headset itself, which I use pretty much seven days a week for something or other. Yes, I do mind. I, I mind very much. I do not play Blaston. Um, although it sounds like it is going to be the first of, of many apps that will eventually see ads. Um, like other apps that I pay for in various other app stores, I would assume perhaps incorrectly, but I would assume that something like supernatural, which I pay annual subscription for would be exempt from something like this test. I don't know. Uh, I, I, I will get very upset very quickly if something like that, um, is something that I can't somehow opt out of even monetarily. But, uh, yeah, it's getting a lot of attention because people are like, Oh, ads so close to your face. Everyone knew this would happen eventually. This is Facebook. This is where all their money comes from. And yeah, I can't see I'm surprised. I don't like it, but I can't say I'm surprised. Wow. Yeah. I do this TV company that relies on ads would put ads in the other products that they put out, like, you know, like, uh, same with Facebook. Facebook relies on ads. What did you, I say ads in the apps is not surprising. You don't, don't get those apps. I actually think the apps is maybe better than putting it in the interface where you couldn't, uh, ignore them, but expect that to come at some point too. I would be shocked if very well, maybe whether the backlash will be as hard in the VR world as it was in some gaming circles and other stuff. When ads started to appear in premium products, time will tell, but I'm not excited for the backlash gaming. Yeah, it'll happen. Yeah, probably. Probably happening now. Just as we said, those words, it's already happening. Oh, look, there it is. Let's check out the mail bag. Oh, let's do it on yesterday's show with our guest Christian Cantrell. We were all wondering how well razors Hazel, led and 95 mask was going to sell, especially given the timing of mandatory mask requirements easing in general, certainly in some places more than others. Mike wrote in and said, I'm only an occasional user of mass transit. Mike lives in the Bay area and says, I'm not sure when, if ever, I'll be comfortable again, writing on Bart or Muni without a mask. I would certainly see the value of wearing one during flu season, especially if I was the daily commuter. I suspect public trans transit will eventually drop the mask requirement, but it will be fascinating to see what the percentage of voluntary mask wearers will be a year from now. There's certainly some risk that the mask market will completely disappear with the end of the pandemic, but I've seen much more foolish business bets succeed. Yeah, you're right, Mike. It may be more than just out at the club. We will find out how many people decide to just keep wearing masks for whatever reason, just because they feel more comfortable or they're like the rest of the world trying to stop themselves from infecting someone else, which is very polite. And I think that would be a great reason to wear a mask, whether they need to spend money on a razor led laden one or not. I'm still a little skeptical on, but these are very good points. Thanks, Mike. Yeah. Well, you know, fashion doesn't always make sense, but it does. It does help you express your individuality. If you have thoughts on mask wearing fashion or anything that we talk about on the show or anything that we may talk about on a future show that you'd like to hear about Facebook at daily tech news show.com is where to send all of your deepest, well, I was going to say darkest thoughts. I guess you could send those, but, you know, any thought will do. We like to shout out patrons at our master and grand master levels, including Paul Boyer, Brad and Kevin today. We'd also like to extend a very special thanks to Mark Gibson. Mark is one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. So thank you for all your years of support, Mark. We appreciate you. 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