Coming up on DTNS, Ford gets more autonomous. Baidu leaves the partnership on AI and Google takes on Pinterest, sort of. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, June 18th, 2020. From Studio Redwood, I am Sarah Lane. And lovely North Olmsted, I'm Rich Strafilano. From Oakland, California, I'm Justin Robert Young. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Before the show, we were talking about dog etiquette, shocker. We were also talking about all sorts of other stuff. And you can get the wider conversation on our expanded show, which is Good Day Internet. It's a lot of fun. Become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS to get the expanded show. Let's start with a few text things you should know. Google released the link to text fragment extension for Chrome. They have a way with names, which lets users create a link to a specific portion of highlighted text by right clicking on a highlight. Google says the link will work with all Chromium-based browsers from version 80 upwards, but note that Firefox and Safari teams have not confirmed they will support the feature. Earlier this month, Google released the ability to navigate to search results based on highlighted snippets. Trying to search giant Baidu has left the partnership on AI, which is a US-led effort to solve ethical challenges raised by artificial intelligence. Baidu cited the cost of membership and recent financial pressures for the move, and in a statement said it, quote, shares the vision of the partnership on AI and is committed to promoting the ethical development of AI technologies. We are in discussions about renewing our membership and remain open to other opportunities to collaborate with industry peers on advancing AI. However, everybody declined to say what Baidu's cost was for membership in the first place. In a regulatory filing, Tish disclosed that it will close on the acquisition of Boost Mobile on July 1st. In terms of the deal, we're not disclosed, but it was estimated to be worth about $1.4 billion. As part of its acquisition of Sprint, T-Mobile was required to sell Boost Mobile and provide seven years of network access to Dish in order to create a fourth national carrier. Several publishers, including Square Enix, withdrew games from Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service soon after it launched after Nvidia listed purchases made on Steam as available to play without publisher permission. Now Square Enix has returned 14 PC titles to the service, including entries in the Dave's X and Tomb Raider franchises. Square Enix told the Verge that this was due to Nvidia's new opt-in policy, where the company would only list games after getting explicit publisher approval. Several Square Enix titles included in that original GeForce Now launch are still not available on the service, including the Batman Arkham series, Final Fantasy XV, and Octopath Traveler. Researchers at Awake Security speaking to Reuters report that a series of Chrome extensions available through the Chrome Web Store were part of a spyware campaign to obtain browser histories and also gain access credentials to internal business tools. Awake estimates that these extensions were downloaded 32 million times and were mostly positioned as tools to either convert files or warn of questionable websites. Google was alerted by Awake last month and said it removed more than 70 malicious add-ons, although it's unclear who organized the campaign at the first place. And Facebook took down ads run by US President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate speech. The ads featured an upside-down triangle, which was used by Nazi Germany to classify political prisoners in concentration camps. In a statement to CNN, Facebook said, We removed these posts and ads for violating our policy against organized hate. Our policy prohibits using a banned hate group symbol to identify political prisoners without the context that condemns or discusses the symbol. All right, let's talk a little bit more about autonomous vehicles. And specifically what Ford is doing, the company revealed how its hands-free driving feature will work on the upcoming Mustang Mach-E. To use this Active Drive Assist feature, customers will have to purchase the Active 2.0 prep package, which options the vehicle with a forward-facing camera and also radar sensors. The Active Drive Assist feature will launch later in 2021 and will require a separate purchase to activate it, although no pricing was announced. So you don't really know what you have to pay in order to get this. Until then, though, Mach-E owners will have access to lane-centering, adaptive cruise control, Active Park Assist, Blind Spot Assist, through Ford's existing co-pilot 360 driver assistance program, and Active Drive Assist will work on highways mapped by Ford. The company also plans to have 100,000 miles of highway across all 50 US states and Canada available at launch. Ford will also use an infrared camera installed on the steering wheel to ensure that drivers are paying attention when they have Drive Assist activated. You know, it's funny. We talk a lot about how this is going to be a thing at some point, you know, autonomous vehicles completely. Well, that's sort of another conversation, but having assisted autonomy for drivers sounds great. Everything that Ford laid out that's coming next year also sounds great. Everything that it's like, well, but for now, here's what is available to our customers. I'm like, my Volvo does all that. I mean, it's cool. It's great. I mean, it's actually really cool technology. And if you understand how it works, fine. But it's not like this is somewhat of like a, what, what am I excited about right now? You're excited about paying for an additional skew on your car so that you can have the opportunity to pay for a software, you know, for a software license effectively later. It's interesting to see Ford take this very Tesla approach to this. While at the same time having a fairly conservative approach to the actual autonomy, right? Be limiting it to highways, you know, having a much more aggressive way to monitor that drivers are paying attention and pre-mapping essentially all these highways. I wonder if that's part of the delay too. I wonder if the software is there and they're just waiting to get to that 100,000 mile mark. I have no context for how much of U.S. highways that is. That seems like a big number. I have no idea though, like, you know, I guess how comprehensive that could possibly be. But yeah, it's, I mean, to me, the story is, you know, Ford kind of having it both ways where they get to be this forward facing tech company and hey, we're going to sell you this license Tesla style, but also being like, we don't want to get sued out of existence. We're still an old car company. Let's not go crazy here. Well, on the infrared camera on the steering wheel, you know, which will in some capacity know if you're there and paying attention kind of thing. That's interesting because the way that my car works now is if I have Drive Assist enabled, I got to tap at the very least. I have to just like tap the steering wheel every so often or else it just shuts down as like you're not paying enough attention. But that's not a camera, you know, and there are times where I'm like, this is a bad way to do this. You know, it's like, I was here, I'm totally paying attention kind of thing. So the more that we can sort of go forward in the senses is interesting. By the way, 47,432 miles of road in America. So I think there's about 28,000 of the Internet Interstate Highway in Canada. So that's a lot of road. If it's 100,000, that's that's the vast majority. All right. Well, next up here, the UK government announced that the National Health Service will no longer use a centralized coronavirus tracing app back end and will shift to using Google and Apple's Exposure Notification API. The agency has been testing both models with the centralized model providing more accurate distances between users, but only detecting about 4% of iPhones and only about 75% of Android phones. The Exposure Notification API offered weaker a distance calculation, but better device recognition across both platforms. According to the head of the UK's Trace and Test Program, Baroness Dido Harding, releasing the app will be dependent on solving the distance calculation issues. While the government says the app is on track to be released in the fall, Harding has said that there are no guarantees the distance issues could be resolved. It's interesting that the UK is not the only country in Europe or across the world that we've seen kind of say we want to get the centralized approach. We want to get all that information to our health services that we can by having that centralized approach and running into privacy or functionality issues down the road now. They're certainly not the first country. Yeah, but although it is interesting to see that Apple and Google are the faces of where people want to go. Yeah, definitely. What's interesting to me is holding out that idea that, and this may be a regulatory issue, this may be a case of covering your liability or something like that, but holding out that possibility that, hey, we may never get this working, it speaks to the degree of issues that they're having. Essentially, one of the findings of their report was saying that they couldn't tell the difference, the Exposure Notification API, the Google and Apple one, whether someone had a phone out or in their pocket, which is a matter of a meter or two in some instances, and that was having a major impact on how practical it was. A meter or two, that's a large pocket. That purse is far away from you, sir, but no, I think that that's the interesting thing here is saying, okay, well, we need to know, we have to have information on devices, and distance calculation also really important, but when we've crunched the numbers, it's better that we have device recognition, and that's why we have to move over to the API. A lot of people are being like, this is crazy about face by the UK government. It's like, I mean, they were testing both, it doesn't seem so crazy to me, they just were like, this one seems like it will give us the data that we want in a better way. Well, because there's no reason to roll it out if it's not going to recognize devices, which is the entire point of contact tracing is that you are blasting out saying to everybody that you were around that you now have this thing, it'd be better if you went and got tested. So my question here with any of these programs is, are we going to get a contact tracing app at a point where contact tracing is not quite the same a burning issue that we need to have it probably now? Like is this going to be much in the same way that vaccines historically, you wind up getting the vaccine after the virus has kind of run its course? Are we going to see a similar situation with some of these apps? And at that point, how mandatory will they be? Moving on, Google's in-house incubator called Area 120 launched a new project called Keen to help users track their interests. It's sort of like the Google Alert service meets Pinterest and lets users monitor the web for specific content. I set up one for Jeb Bush. It then surfaces results using both machine learning and human collaboration. Keen is available on the web and Android and starts with you entering a topic you want to research, Jeb. Then you get a pinboard of images linking to content from Google that's supposed to match your interests. I indeed got pictures of Jeb Bush. Well, and if that's what you wanted, great. I actually found this whole thing very interesting this morning because I don't pay that much attention to Pinterest even though I know it has a huge user base. It's sort of like, I don't know, the pinboarding culture just, I never figured out why it was right for me, but I think it's cool. And the idea that Google's like, oh, we can replicate this, but just using AI based on all the data that we already have, I set up a board as well, not for Jeb Bush, but for Boxer Dogs this morning because I think about dogs a lot. It asked me right off the bat, what do you want to know about Boxer Dogs? Breed, information, where to buy them, rescue centers. It was pretty well propagated. I chose a few things and I got my visual board and I was like, this has some legs, especially if you're one of the people like me who still does use the concept of Google Alerts, which is like an antiquated, crappy way to follow things, but I still do that because that was just my option with Google. This is a nice step forward. The Google Alerts lets me know whenever the Strafalino Bridge in Connecticut is under construction, but what's interesting to me is that this kind of solves my issue with Pinterest, which I was kind of interested to check it out in that after a while, I love the idea of getting started on Pinterest where it's like, oh man, I'm really into this vintage design thing and I'm going to pin all this stuff and then you kind of get exhausted with it and then keeping up with it with fresh content almost feels like, to me, it always feels like a chore. I was like, oh, if I can just, if Google can just feed this to me, my results were a little bit more mixed. I did one for like film photography or something I'm kind of into and it really brought up like the most surface level. I mean, it was really like just googling for film photography and auto-filling what that was. To me, it didn't really, and it wasn't clear like what I would dismiss and what, like, if I dismiss something, is it like, okay, is it going to take that entire category away? Is it helping to filter it out? So I like the idea. We'll see if the implementation still goes. I mean, the thing is that the results aren't going to be any better than Google results. They're just trying to give it to you in a, you know, more pleasant modern way type thing.  And so I'm supposed to like click through, but it doesn't really click through to where the couch would be bought. It just, you know, a lot of that stuff is, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. So Sarah, what you're saying is Google Keen, please clap. Perhaps. Speaking of clapping, Amazon announced it will stream four Premier League matches on Twitch as well as making them available for free on Prime Video. The first match will be Crystal Palace versus Burnley on June 29th. And Amazon worked with EA Sports to provide the option of watching the matches with synthetic crowd noise through EA's at Stadium Atmosphere Tech. I hate that part of it, but I did pull a couple of people that I know who care about Premier League a lot more than me and said, is this a big deal? And they were like, yeah, it is. Well, look, I mean, the Premier League is something that is tremendously popular throughout the world. I believe that the most, I mean, certainly in professional soccer or football, as it's known, around the world are the most followed and valuable franchises. The Premier League certainly has a few of them. What is interesting here is, or two things. Number one, we are coming into a world where Apple and Amazon specifically are going to be big rights players as we go along, especially now that we have kind of this massive adoption of internet technology. I think that places like Twitch will be more of an attractive place for major sports leagues to think about putting their content. Amazon has already done this with NFL games for Thursday night sports. They obviously have struck a deal here. I'm curious. Two things. Number one, is Twitch the place where they want to put live sports? Do they not want to build out a live prime video product that is specifically dedicated for this is where you can see live sports? If that's the case, it's very interesting, and it really adds a whole new pillar to what holds up Twitch beyond just video games and chatting and mobile live streaming. For me, this really kind of leads into something that a lot of sports leagues and I think a lot of broadcasts and trying to solve that kind of a nut to crack is adding that kind of live engagement to sporting events. We've seen all sorts of follower hashtag on Twitter and tweet about the Super Bowl or whatever you want to do. Having it on Twitch gives you that immediate platform where you can have that kind of interaction. Depending on how that's done, I imagine that could be quite chaotic, although Twitter can be that same way. I think that could provide a really meaningful way for possibly even some additional revenue. I could just think like advertisers just drooling with super engaged fans engaged in chat and interaction on that platform going forward. Don't even think about chat. What they're allowing here is co-streaming. Okay. Now you will be able, if let's say, and I know that the three of us have long talked about it, becoming commentators for Premier League Soccer and we're all looking forward to Crystal Palace versus Burnley, we can unite as a three-person booth on this Twitch channel and we can co-stream that and do our own commentary on top of it. Now that right now is a novelty, but in a world where Major League Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Football becomes something that is on Twitch and they do allow co-streaming permanently, that's a career possibly for some people. That's a whole new genre of entertainment. Well, the whole idea of podcasting, what we're doing right now is there are some limitations with what we could do. Do we all want to watch a movie together? Well, we can't do it on the show. That's a takedown. But if there's a certain kind of genre that you're interested in, like you said, Justin, want to be a sportscaster? Well, you have a lot more options with something like this than you ever had before because of the licensing that the company already has. Yeah. Now the question then becomes whether or not these leagues are going to be happy with the idea that their products will have whatever voices at whatever language that they, and I mean that in terms of course, like bad language and not like English or French, but it'll be interesting to see. Well, folks, to get all the tech headlines in each day in about five minutes, subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. All right, so this story, it actually kind of broke right in the middle of yesterday's show. So we wanted to give ourselves a little bit of time to kind of parse it out and figure it out. Twitter has rolled out an update that allows people to record and tweet sounds. This is iOS only for now, but you know, they say that it will be available to other platforms soon. So each voice tweet captures 140 seconds of audio. How cute of you, Twitter. Ah, bring it back to 140, which is sort of silly because 140 characters doesn't even apply anymore, but that's what it is. The company also said it would continue to work on accessibility and work for anybody that the problem is that accessibility is going to be an issue for anybody hard of hearing. And that's where some folks are taking the company to task, saying you rolled out a feature and the first question was well, what about people who can't hear anything and what are you going to do about those people? And the company says we'll get there. Vice also as well as several other publications made the point that audio is more labor intensive to moderate than texts or photos. Somebody's got to listen to this whole thing. You can't just like glance at it, right? It requires moderators to listen to the audio. They have to act on it. Typically, moderators are asked to make a decision on whether content violates a platform's rules in a matter of seconds. Well, when you have 140 seconds of audio, you can't do that. So there's sort of this moderation issue. The company doesn't have a really good stance on that either. And so you get a lot of pylon of oh, here we go again, Twitter. You know, you're offering something that's going to be exploited and you haven't thought it through. Again, limited rollout. If you have access to it, you'll see a new waveform icon beside the camera icon when you're composing a tweet, which would allow you to add an audio tweet. Audio can only be added to original tweets. And I think that that's something that a lot of people are being like, you know what? If somebody's going to stalk me, now they're just going to give me a death threat via audio on Twitter based on something that I wrote. That's not actually how it's going to work, at least according to Twitter. So you can't include audio, replies or retweets with a comment. You can add them as your own original tweet, but that's not a way to be able to harass people. So I think some of that might be misconstrued. The company says, quote, your current profile photo will be added as static image on your audio attachment and will not refresh if you update your profile photo. That part of it is a little weird, because I don't know, I guess the company is just like, let's keep it visual. Let's just, let's make sure that some sort of profile imagery is attached, but it won't be updated based on your actual profile photo. I don't really have a huge problem with this. I don't feel like as a Twitter user, I am in danger of getting these horrible audio replies. Again, not even a feature, but there's not a huge way that I feel like I would be harassed more than I normally would. But maybe I'm missing something. What do you guys think? I mean, look, it's not audio. It's video. They're just processing your audio and making a video out of it. And that's the reason why your image won't change. If it were an audio player that they were building into this, then they would be able to dynamically change your thing. But they are effectively creating what is a totally similar thing to what people have been doing forever, which is uploading audio clips with static images or finding a clip from a song or something like that. And you have to usually have to go through a video editor and then upload it as a video. This is an internal way that now you can generate these short videos that are essentially audio. That being said, Twitter should have known that they were updating a feature on Twitter. Like this is not the this thing is innocuous, right? And but at the same time, they should have known I'm shocked that they didn't roll this out as a beta for some country first so they could understand what some of the issues were and catch a little bit of the blowback and at least have the safe position of saying, Oh, no, when we roll this out to the US, of course, we'll have closed captioning. Of course, we'll have all these other things for accessibility. Instead, they roll it out. Twitter does what Twitter does, which is complain. And it's it's mind blowing to me that Twitter doesn't realize who they're changing this platform for. You know, Justin, it's I didn't even think about that is they're literally just doing audiograms for. Yes, for Twitter. At this, you know, like they contact the folks at Headliner and they're like, OK, we're just going to we're going to put this on the platform. Now, I do think it has, I guess, outside of that moderation at you, which is really the same moderation issue that they do have on video. And it's a valid conversation to have, but it's it's a conversation we could have been having. We have been having for quite some time now. The accessibility stuff I do think is important. I don't understand it. It would be fairly simple to integrate a, you know, a caption API, I'm sure, on the back end. Now, would they be laughably bad almost certainly? And I'm I'm sure part of the reason is the reason the reason why is that everything's programmatic right now. And if you if you do a programmatic closed caption, because again, this isn't an audio thing that can be updated. There's a reason why it won't change because they're creating video. That's why. Well, and that that also answers a little bit my question of why because at first I was thinking like, oh, it just auto cycles, right? It just goes through and, you know, and kind of in a very viney kind of way, I guess, or just like a gift, an audio gift that makes no sense. But that kind of raises or answers the question because their video does the exact same thing. And it's just basically video with a static image. I do think it has some fantastic potential for some completely unlistable Twitter rants, which I'm really looking forward to seeing. I am as well. You know, it's funny. It's when you when you talk about like, anytime a company like Facebook or Twitter, Google to some extent or Apple, release something, you know, you have, you know, the mass of people saying like, this is a terrible idea. You haven't thought this through. And and and one thing that we didn't even mention is, you know, people saying, you know what this is, this is big data. And Twitter knows that voice information is really, really important. And, you know, look at this space. There there is so much. And I'm not saying that that's, you're necessarily being like conspiracy theorist, but there there's a lot of if a company like Twitter releases something where they're like, hey, new feature. People are like, oh no, how could you, you know, look at what you did and the timing of it. You know, you get a lot of that. And so it's like, it remains to be seen if this is even going to be like a feature that anybody uses, because that happens too. Yeah. And also it does bear mentioning that they have had a almost identical similar feature with audio cards for certain sites that they support it for like a sound cloud, where the ability to have this kind of audio there is an actual audio player and not a, you know, a video. Well, the conversation always continues on our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. And thanks everybody who does that. We really appreciate your support. Rich, what's in the mail bag? Sarah, I'm glad you asked. Jeff wrote in, he said, I heard you all talking about putting your desk facing the middle of the room versus facing a wall. I hear you, but the problem I always had was all that cable ugliness you see coming into the room. How do you handle that when your desk is facing the middle of the room? Yeah, this was a GDI conversation, but I felt like, you know, Rich and Justin, Roger, Tom, myself, like we all have gone through this. And Justin, I wanted you to weigh in because I know that, you know, one of the rooms in your house is the room that is dedicated to doing this. Indeed. Indeed. Yeah. We took our studio apartment and made it a studio plus studio apartment in that one room apartment. We made it a studio plus studio. So yeah, the one room that I'm in, my desk is in the middle of the room. Now I will say this, I don't know if it would be, if it weren't for the fact that both of our walls, there's only one wall that actually is a wall. Everything else either has a doorway or a closet or windows on it. So that's part of why it's in the center of the room. But it does, it is extraordinarily helpful from a studio perspective where you do need to upgrade things and get behind and unplug wires and plug wires in sometimes on the fly. So it is very helpful.  And the thing you can get decorative power cords, right? These are the big new hotness. You can get them in all pretty braided colors, make it a feature, not a detriment. No, it's true. But Jeff, to answer your question, it is something that you kind of have to just get used to. The back of your situation is going to be in the middle of the room often and not always the prettiest. Yes, you have options to dress it up and everything, but it kind of, I don't know, at least for me, it's sort of like, what's best for my day to day operation rather than like the person who might walk in here once a month and be like, oh, look at those cables. 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It happens a lot with some startups that I've worked with that most of the metrics that they have have to do with likes and posts and stuff like that. And what I believe is that when you're at a starting phase, what you need to do is to sell. So I think that as long as you have a very clear objective what you want to do with that, then you need to map out every touch point that you need in order to achieve it. So you might start with social media or any other kind of publicity activity, but you have to have a very clear idea of what are the next steps after that. And if you're trying to build traction for your startup, then you have to have a very easy to go funnel that has to do with selling what you're selling.


Russia may attack another European country. President Volodymyr Zelensky is convinced that Russia will continue to spread lies regarding Transnistria, unrecognized breakaway state that is internationally recognized as a part of Moldova and does not rule out that Putin may attack another European country. Zelensky said, unfortunately, yes, I believe that Russia's attack on another country is possible and it may happen. I can explain why. At the moment, Putin has to be presented with gains and victories. There will be no advances on the battlefield in Ukraine. There will be no massive comeback. At the very least, we will fight and if there is a supply of weapons, we will be stronger. Therefore, Putin will have to be presented with gains and everyone understands that it may be where there is a weakness and preferably in those states where Moscow had had influence in Soviet times and also where there are certain problems, certain conflicts, certain separate institutions. This is what is happening and this is Moldova. You know the example of Moldova. Zelensky recalled that Ukrainian intelligence had intercepted the Kremlin's plans to take control of Moldova, which he immediately reported to his Moldovan counterpart, Maya Sandu and the EU. Zelensky states that Russia wanted to change the leadership of Moldova despite the fact that the aggressor country does not border his country and therefore there could only be a landing possibility. One such that could have taken place, for example in Transnistria. The president also added that Russia continues to prepare lies to destabilize the situation. In particular, after the intelligence interception, it took Russia only two weeks to launch another information attack. Now they are throwing in information regarding the situation on the border, on the contact line between Transnistria and Ukraine, that there are some misunderstandings and shots fired. And they are pushing this information through the media that Ukraine is going to enter the territory of Transnistria. Why are they doing this? They clearly understand that we respect the territorial integrity of Moldova and we believe that the territory of Transnistria is the territory of the independent state of Moldova and the Russians are constantly making provocations. From the very beginning of the war there were shots fired in our direction from the territory of Transnistria. They wanted us to come in. And I said that Moldova should think about this and think about how to solve this issue. Russia acted from different sides. I believe that Russia will try to make some progress and they will persistently take such steps.


Today, Monday, January 18, 2021, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received confirmation of 35 new cases of COVID-19. This is from a batch of 126 COVID-19 tests conducted at the Azure Long Laboratory, from which 35 positive and 91 negative tests were recorded. This brings a total number of cases diagnosed in country to date to 656. All of these cases are St. Lucia Nationals, ranging in age from 14 years to 66 years. They are from Castries, Vufort, Ansleray, Dennery, Babanomiku and Grosoli districts. These individuals were all seen at community respiratory clinics where they were assessed and tested for COVID-19. They were placed in quarantine by health practitioners pending their COVID-19 results. Upon receiving their test results, arrangements had been made to place all of these individuals into care. The Ministry's contact tracing team is undertaking the necessary follow-up of these contacts. The Ministry of Health also reports seven recoveries for today, Monday, January 18, 2021. Currently, there are 310 active cases in care, with one of them requiring critical care and the others are all stable. The Ministry of Health once again, we encourage everyone to practice the recommended infection prevention and control measures to reduce the spread of the virus. Frequent hand washing with flowing water and soap, wear face masks when in public and ensure that it covers the mouth, the nose and the chin. Maintain a distance of six feet from others. Use a bleach solution to sanitize frequently touched surfaces and frequently handled objects. Avoid contact with other people who have flu-like symptoms. If you are experiencing flu-like symptoms, it is important to keep away from others and to seek medical care at your closest community respiratory clinic for assessment. We also remind the public that treatment and care for COVID-19 is free of charge. The Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue providing updates to the public as new information becomes available.


Around the world, millions of people are migrants, or descendants of migrants. Most of them maintain links with their home country, and we refer to them as diaspora or transnational communities. I am one of them, born in Russia, worked or studied in various countries and married to a German. Persons with multiple migration experiences and identities enrich our societies through cultural, economic or social capital. Transnational communities connect to their countries of origin through regular phone calls, visits, but also by transferring parts of their income or savings, often to support families or friends, but also assist with concrete development projects such as construction of a road, infrastructure upgrade in a hospital or support to a business. In my past, I helped one school friend to start her local shop, but also sent money last year to another school friend whose house got burnt in an unfortunate accident. Among policymakers and international professionals, one tends to only think about migrant remittances as the main contribution to development. Recording this message around 16th of June, the United Nations International Day of Family Remittances, we cannot but recognize the significance of these monetary transfers of migrants. Despite COVID times, remittances did not drop drastically as initially predicted, but remained resilient, outpacing direct investment and the official development aid. When celebrating together with the UN and other partners the International Day of Family Remittances in 2021, I am would like to use the opportunity to also draw the attention to all other economic types of contributions that migrants are bringing to their societies, such as investment, philanthropy or knowledge transfer. These are similarly crucial, yet uncounted and hence understudied contributions of migrants that one easily forgets. As a coordinator of the United Nations Network on Migration and the longest advocate on linkages between migration and development, I am decided to fix this unfairness in presenting migrants' contributions and elaborate a technical guide on how to start more consistently capturing those contributions in national accounts. In collaboration with DMM Global, we developed this very innovative methodology of both advocacy and data collection titled contributions and counting. We hope that this guide will be useful to countries and international partners in becoming more consistent when describing and calculating migrant economic contributions to development. This is a direct objective of the global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration to continue empowering diasporas and to harness development benefits of human mobility. Please do not hesitate to approach I am across the globe and us in Geneva with feedback, suggestions or offers for collaboration around this new guide and the new methodology. Together we can make a difference. Together we can start telling a more balanced story about migration and human mobility, the one which is not about destitute and risks but also about empowerment, mutual benefit and prosperity.


What's up everybody Jason here for jazby's case breaks calm. We just sold out a brand new release today guys 2021 prism baseball Six box break pick your teams number one and again We're giving away two prism boxes if you buy two or more teams also the remaining I think there was like 12 teams remaining were 15% off tonight guys So again how to get entered into the free box giveaway It does by two teams if I do to this break You get one entry by 14 to get two entries six teams to get three entries, etc If you only buy one team you will not be entered a win, but the top two names will win a box each ship sealed All-card ship as well. Here's the customer names Johnny a last two teams raise and a is to sell it out and let's open up this case So again, we can do the second half tomorrow But the cool thing about prism baseball that I think it's it's a lot cooler than obviously Basketball and football is of course, you know that baseball is always unlicensed But I really think that baseball has the coolest cards in prison though They always create really cool inserts that you can only find in prism Baseball to kind of help out with the unlicensed product of it. So As you can see on the cell sheet, there are some really cool prints Really cool prints you could potentially get Short prints and all that So let me try to make some room here So again, it is a three box or six box case break so one two three for the left side four five six for the right side Six one two three four five six. So these three or this six over here. Sorry will be for pick your teams number two Again, if your teams are also still remaining on the second half, please definitely try to get them if you can Just because it is a half-caser. All right, let's try to get to that old Tony And again ultra-new rare lava flow, which looks like a very cool insert. You got a blue Freddy Freeman Tier two So it looks like the blues are probably not numbered and here's our first autograph Andreas Jimenez That is for Cleveland Jonathan India's Silver Rookie we got Nolan Aaron Otto to one ninety nine fearless Logan Gilbert Starling Marta to one forty nine Francisco londor Joe Adele rookie Walker Bueller to 100 Joey Gallo little slugger answer looks cool Max Scherzer And rookie autographs Debbie Garcia John and stevia And a Mike trout looks like a stained glass, but is that just a base now? It's awesome Jonathan with the angels feel this right here to make a little green Ramon, Laryana to 125 Feel this red Chris Bryant Whoa, there's a lava. Damn. I look so cool Ronald Acuna, Jr. Lava flow Damn, it's awesome Jonathan Justin Verlander. Sorry Trevor Rogers rookie autographs And oh look at that another Mike trout, but this time the stained glasses are refractor silver looks sweet I'll take a Mike trout stargazing Nolan erinado All right, there you go All right, so there you go. There's the first box for what break Hollywood All right, good luck next one Chris Bryant Dalton Jefferies, I know you're joking, right? Debbie Garcia It's okay though if you don't want those If you don't if you don't want those trouts, I'll take them off your hands. So when they're missing in your package, it's okay You'll know they'll have to be saved Why it green? Mike Schmidt the things you think of Hollywood. That's why you are Hollywood Nice Alec Bohm to 99 rookie autographs Santander Lumber, Inc. Judge My name is Chata your member said is Did he officially retire after? Randy Johnson blue and Braxton Garrett to 1 15 Rookie autographs Andrew Vaughn rookie silver They Andrew Vaughn's a rookie We got like a checkerboard coming up We're do go number to 75 Joey Bart illumination jazz judge Quen young Kim our pools Austin Meadows Adonis Medina. Oh, it looks nice Alejandro Kirk. I love the color It's like a very dark blue out of 25 Shane beaver The Bebes uh I would think that they put out at least one series a month So at least 12 different series because they're burly like on some of them But they're burly like on 44 and they've been doing them for like, you know, well, hold on. I guess Hold on me maybe twice because I think at the end of the year they always end up around the 40s and You would have to think that if they do twice a month Times 12 months, then, you know, they got at least like 40 series around there, you know 24 plus 24 Anyway, I don't know. I don't think they do that much though So I was trying to think up like some series are in the 40s some series are in the 20s But then again, I forget that they I don't know if they carry over the series from every year So like they say they end at 44 and 20 21 then do they start 20 22 with series 45? 20 21 or 20 22 sorry But they do put out a lot though But I think what they'll do is I think they put out at least 12 to 24 of a specific series a year Then they'll do sapphire 24 of them, you know limited edition 24 of them, etc. Etc. At least that's my guess All right, next box guys Johanna Viedel, Carol Loveris to 35. Oh nice. Look at that snake skin. That's awesome Kansas City What a David Baker Blake's now silver Paradis or him a tail Illumination Joey Bart Tanner hood Ian Anderson Trevor story out of 199 Mike Trout and Luis Gonzalez at a 125 Clark Schmidt Brandon Woodruff Nick Madrigal Ricky autographs Alberta Bray you Cal Ripken jr. 25 out of 75 Luis Garcia Mookie David Peterson Dane Dunney Jose Berrios Jose Garcia Lucas gilito and a Randy Arosa reina. That looks awesome last by Mojo John they went down when that is 47 out of 50 Looks pretty sweet Tell you guys they really make prison baseball like pretty fun to rip Affordable price and I get you know, they don't have logos, but honestly man. These are some beautiful stuff beautiful cards Like I said, they got a lot more to work with would not pay them. I'll be licensing. So Some good stuff here guys Garrett crochet, of course eager. Oh and look at this Monte Harrison tiger stripe. Damn. That's sick as hell Miami Marlins going to Chris parent Joey Bart to 60 Great box man. This would have been a great person rookie autographs for the Giants Jose Nate Pearson See Jose doesn't matter that you bought early. You got a nice Joey Bart coming your way Spencer Howard to 99 John Hyam Dylan Carlson and a Joey Bart green Alejandro Kirk, Mark McGuire. I don't know Hollywood to be honest. You could check out the checklist though Yeah, I mean you got a nice stained glass Trout Bryce Harper Edward or Edward Colina Brian Castellani Yeah, Hollywood, I would check the checklist unless rebel did Check it out. I mean, I don't know if Altoni is now Exclusive to tops, but I don't think so though Yeah, he was signing last year with I doubt it Maybe he just didn't make this product Modrigal rookie autographs Guzman Mike Soroka Jose Braille Salvo Perez Luis Gonzalez Chicago White Sox Quang Young Kim Mark McGuire. It sounds like a great deal Intended like HGA got a custom grade like giraffe print around it To be nice Pro chef out of 75 Reese Hoshkins Daniel Lynch out of 60 Punia Slugger Mike Trout All righty guys. Well, we're winding down to the last box now. All right last box So that's one that we haven't seen giraffe. Is that a case hit? I know lava was like a new answer I don't know if that was a case hit, but like I said with prism I mean in general just it's always loaded for baseball. See how this is right now at the end of this last box Yeah, we can run back that second half tomorrow. Hey, gotcha man Stevenson tonight, you know Cincinnati in Anderson and emerging gold Oscar Golas that is a International so that'll be randomized. Wow nine out of ten. So that might be randomized everybody So if that's the case if Oscar Colas doesn't go to anybody We'll randomize that card and any Oscar Colas card in general to that one lock. I Didn't realize it was like an international and the same thing to like everybody else if there's any other players Casey Meis the 99 William McCovey Well, they're kind of treating it like in basketball the Ruby wave Except here they do it in two colors Killer off to 50 Comfort all Brady's singer Tucker Davidson Shane Bieber and Monty Harrison Silver Tristan McKenzie Mike Yastremsky number to 149 for heaven tail and a young Leo de Tavares No longer an auto and Leo de Tavares actually numbered just 60 last little stack right here Kyle Lewis number to 199 Freddy Freeman All right, so we did get a lava, but no color blasts or no Giraffe looks like so there could be that hiding in the second half who knows I'll do a quick recap of everything And I'll look at the checklist on this Oscar quality. You guys can see it on this on this video here But a lot of nice stuff coming out here guys here's all the number cards. There's an autograph there on to Harrison Stevenson Toic Madrigal Gonzalez Little zebra or sorry, I guess right Render rules arena Pro Shat Joey Bart Kirk Edward Oliveris Tanner again Madrigal again Heminis Debbie Garcia Trevor Rogers Mike Trout silver Stinglass there's the lava looks cool Jeffery's Alec bone Garrett and there you go So again, this one we here was a gold out of ten Oscar Colas, which is international So that is the case everybody's gonna have a shot at that I Want to quickly put this over here to the side Yeah, a lot of those look really nice All right, so let's quickly go to cardboard connection. That's more official and we'll go prism baseball Yeah, Colas is the only international, right? So let me make sure Yeah, international. He's the only one emerging and the fact is we hit a gold so That's gonna be randomized to everybody and what we'll do is any Oscar Colas besides the gold will all go to you in one lot as well So Let's set up a dice roll here So everybody's gonna have a shot at the Oscar Colas and we'll just go by team Whatever teams that number one gets it and then what we're gonna do in another dice same dice roll But another list is gonna be for the two boxes So two boxes, right? So Murdoch you got two spots. That's one entry Bennett with two Chad doll with two that's an entry each Chris Miller Chris parent. That's an entry each David Baker with four. That's two entries Fred with two Jens Jonathan with six. So that's three entries Jose with two Nick Stover with two and Robert with two So there you go. So out of the possible 15 I think we got 14 Alright, so let's roll the dice to be for both and it is a three and a six nine times Top two names here for the two boxes get a box each ship sealed after nine times one two three four five six seven eight Nine so Chad with a number one you're gonna get a box and Robert you're gonna get a box congratulations and Then for all the Oscar Colas cards nine times team a number one gets it one two three four five six seven eight nine Tampa Bay Rays, which is Jonathan last bomb mojo So there you go. You're also going to get any Oscar Colas card including the gold out of 10 So I appreciate you guys. This was a prison baseball six box picker team number one On number two is the second half potentially some big hits hiding in there as well Appreciate you guys. Jaspy's case breaks.com


Why is the Modi-led BJP government not taking any action on HLL biotech limited, the HBL, to make its integrated vaccine complex functional even after continued demand from Tamil Nadu? The integrated vaccine complex was started in 2012 and in 2017 itself they completed all their work. Not only the infrastructure but they imported all the machineries required and they were ready to go. Only thing they wanted some fund for something called the initiation process they required some funds and they asked for this 100 crores in 2017. It was not sanctioned. At a time when there is a crying need for more and more vaccines to tackle the raging COVID-19 pandemic, India's very own vaccine making facilities are lying idle, crying for attention from the union government. Tamil Nadu's integrated vaccine complex, a plant that could have massively helped in manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines, has been lying idle for nine years. The plant, located in Chengalpat, an hours drive from Chennai, has stayed at facilities. In 2008, during the UPA-1 regime, the government mandated HLL to establish a state-of-art vaccine manufacturing unit. The UPA-2 government in 2012 gave the nod for the facility to be set up in over 100 acres of land. HBL, a 100% subsidiary of HLL Life Care Limited, a government of India Enterprise under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, was tasked with setting up and running the IVC. Members of parliament from Tamil Nadu, starting from TK Rangarajan, they started approaching the central government. They met the Prime Minister, they met the Health Minister and finally, on January 8th of 2021, he visited the unit. He was really amazed as per his own statement and he said immediately, funds will be provided. That was not provided. Instead of that, they were trying to have some alliance with some private players. When they had plotted to enter, nobody was participating in the tender. They extended the data for the tender. Again, nobody participated. Whereas this public sector undertaking, they were only requesting that initially 100 crores. Now they are asking 300 crores because cost escalation has taken place. So, small amount when you compare to the amount we are spending on vaccine, but this has not been sanctioned so far. There is a reluctance on the part of the central government to initiate this process in Tamil Nadu. And there is a reluctance to use the public sector undertakings for production of vaccine. Instead of that, they are again and again going to the private sector undertakings. This is the basic mindset because of which it has not become operational. The facility was meant to be the nodal centre for research, manufacturing and supply of vaccines at affordable prices under the Universal Immunisation Program of the Government of India. It was to produce vaccines against rabies, measles, Japanese sensibilities and hepatitis B, among other diseases, with a total capacity of 585 million doses. However, the facility never became fully functional. Chengalpet HLL, which is a story in itself, has been languishing for the past almost 9 years after it was started. And it has not produced a single vaccine, no other vaccine has been produced. After public interest litigation was put in the High Court, they started manufacturing sanitizers with that. This is a completely ridiculous situation. You have some 800 crore investment with 100 acre land, which is just lying idle. And the people who are working there will try to get attached to other places. Obviously, what should have been done in January 2020 or that period itself, that HLL should have been made to produce these, in the Chengalpet facility, the integrated vaccine complex. They should have been made to produce a co-vaccine and the CoV sheet. That's quite possible. And even though it's possible, all that the federal government has to do is do what the state government is asking. The state government has very rightly, first they try to have an expression of interest floated. And then they said, look, you give us a lease, so that TITCO, which is part of the Tamil Nadu government, I think can, Industrial Development Corporation can take over the HLL and make use of the HLL facilities. And use it to, they can even use it to subcontract to other state governments. They can use it to subcontract to other companies to make vaccines. So if the facilities are there, you just need some additional amount of money that money can be put in by the federal government, by the state governments and by even other participating people who are willing to use the facility. So the request of the state government to allow the central government to make, lease this to the state government is a very good request. And I think the central government should just hand over, forget about the lease also or even lease. They should hand it over to the Tamil Nadu government and ask it, give it all full freedom if needed to go in for subcontracting the facilities to other parties. And only ensure that the vaccines that are made are supplied free of cost to the public. I mean the governments can pay for them but the public should get it free of cost. The employees, trade unions, left leaders and many other personalities are demanding for long to make it function but no steps has been initiated by the union government. Now the Tamil Nadu state government has said that you give it to us. We will run it without any old liability but even the old liability we are willing to clear it over a period of time. This the civil society appealed to the chief minister and the chief minister visited the unit himself. Then he deputed the industry minister Mr. Tangam Kanna Rasu to Delhi, he made a presentation to the health minister and the health minister said that yes we are seriously looking into it. This is two weeks back but till now nothing has happened. There are some people from the private sector coming and going meeting the ministers, officials but no concrete action has been taken and it's a crime to the people of this country, people of Tamil Nadu also. When we are suffering for vaccine, see in Tamil Nadu the vaccine awareness is so good that in every vaccine camp there are 300 doses available but 1200 people are assembling at 6 o'clock itself in the morning. People are ready to take vaccine but you are not providing vaccine and you are not providing this facility to be started immediately. If IVC is allowed to operate there are three units out of the five total units. Three units have a technology which is same as the COVID-19 vaccine technology like which vaccine is using. Immediately they can start production maybe some small works will be needed a month or so or little more days but they have all the capability to produce this vaccine in three of their units and if all the three are put into functional use the production will be almost one crore doses per month but this government, central government is not acting it is a process it is a crime they are committing against the people of this country.


Just being able to walk around and like a school just go to class You make new friends join new clubs do all this new stuff even with everything that was going on really just like Help me get a visual on life that no matter what like you're doing or what's going on you can still accomplish other things Second half of my junior year I played the cross I eventually got hit pretty hard win in and they found my spleen was enlarged from there It's like a couple blood tests probably three days in a row this test after test and then finally we got admitted and got the diagnosis leukemia You know you hear the word cancer. You never really think it's real, but it was All he wanted was to continue being a normal child I honestly think it affected my friends more than it did for me They would come to the hospital like I'd stand to look at my window and I'd see them just down on like the street But the biggest moment was when I lost my hair And I wasn't even the first one that shaved my head through my friends went before I did because I was still scared to do it But uh after that we all were balled together. We all flocked around. It's actually kind of fun now looking at it Same with like the pictures So like coming in college decision. I knew Purdue was definitely one of the top choices Growing up we always came to like basketball and football games always had huge tailgates with the families Having all three of my children here has just been amazing I learned pretty quick that not only was like everything a lot harder But also like in my own mind things weren't working the same as a boy the record you always keep pushing can't let anything really stop you All the beta kids really just like made me feel welcome They kind of just treated me for the person I am and that really like helped they have been amazing Their philanthropy is for the Tyler Trent Foundation and it's called buzz a beta and they raise money And if they raise enough then they shave their head in support of children with cancer All the like the brothers in the house go out We set up a stage and then I'd say a good 80% of how shaved their head the buzz a beta really I mean made me feel like they actually care. I Was actually here the first Tyler Trent game against Ohio State. I mean everyone there knew something special was going on Obviously Tyler was like exactly what a border maker is his mindset really is also something I like look at as like motivation Really is just like the you always got to keep going There's light at the end of the tunnel and my tunnel really is coming pretty soon the lights there


So, about nine months ago, I shared this crazy life experiment I did on doing manifesting practices for a hundred days. Now, I had some pretty amazing revelations and pretty amazing experiences come from that. But since then, I've continued living that way as part of a longer two-year experiment that I'm trying. Now, in this video, I want to share my updated revelations I've had and how I now approach this whole manifesting thing. What's up, guys? Alex Hine, author of the book, Master of the Day. Now, also, that first link in the description is a free goal-setting worksheet. It's the exact worksheet I use every year to set my goals to literally make them manifest in my head before I begin taking action. So, if you want, click that first link in the description. You can download the worksheet and it will also give you a series of emails to guide you through. Now, really, there are three practices that I'm still doing and that I'm using to live my life differently. More in the flow zone or manifesting or whatever you want to call it. More of an intuitive, heart-based approach to life that feels good internally and works, not just one or the other. The first thing is that intuition is absolutely crazy in the cool things it'll produce in your life, including synchronicity. For example, I actually met my current girlfriend on Craigslist where I posted an ad for a photographer for Instagram and I had a ton of people respond and I had actually already filled the position but I got this one email in about a week or week and a half later and the girl just so happened to be going to my exact school even though I posted an ad and didn't say that about myself. Now, we met up and when we met up to speak about the project there was like an instant connection for sure but she had a boyfriend so I kept it professional and it just so happened that about two months later after our first photo shoot I was in LA for spring break just because I needed some sunlight and by pure coincidence she was down there too and she actually just broken up with her boyfriend and that's how everything started with us. Think about the level of insanity, that level of coincidence, meeting on Craigslist. Another story is in how I rebranded my YouTube channel so my brand really was about fitness and weight loss but that wasn't my passion at all and I was really afraid that if I rebranded it the whole thing would come crashing down because basically all my products on my website and my company are related to weight loss so if I have all these people viewing my stuff about personal development none of them are going to want to buy products about weight loss but sure enough I rebranded my channel about what intuitively was more exciting personal development how to improve your life and I ended up launching newer products more related to journaling and goal setting that have helped a lot of you reach your goals. So the crazy thing is that intuition when you follow it it always works out. We just don't know how or when and that's very difficult for the human mind to deal with because how do you know you're going to reach that goal with intuition it's non-linear you don't know if it's one year five years ten you don't know the timeline it's not controllable and that's the thing you have to release the reins on control that is so difficult for someone like me but also I think for all humans. Now the second realization I've had about manifesting is that the but part is that intuition is insane it will help you reach your goals grow your business get fit find love whatever it is the but is that but I don't think things will just happen and your goals will just reach themselves I think this is an incomplete belief and reality you know wishing for a raise praying for it visualizing it without ever doing anything different at work is not going to work you can't be someone who's doing a 30,000 level skill job and get paid $200,000 a year it just doesn't work it's not reality it's not even quantum reality you can't wish and pray to lose 30 pounds and then not go to the gym and not change how you're eating it's just not going to work ever you can't pray to find love and then when the universe puts that person in front of you not ask them out or not talk to them because you're too afraid so wishing wanting praying all the attention stuff the manifesting part we think about is only half of the equation it's missing the law of action that goes with the law of attraction so to me it doesn't mean that I just wish and want and like I wait for it to find me even though that's partially true a lot of amazing opportunities like my girlfriend like rebranding my business those all just showed up but I still took the action in both cases and that's why things have really improved so let me tell you about my new daily practice this is the three-part approach that I'm really taking to following the intuitive more quantum approach to really building my life and improving it and feeling good on a daily basis so the three things that I do now are number one I follow my intuition which in other words you can think of it as my excitement I'll tell you more about that the second thing is I still plan what I want to have happen and I still visualize it twice a day by going through the emotions the third is I try to live like everything is happening to make my life even better and more epic which means I surrender and allow the things I don't like so as for the excitement part the intuition Susie Bates is the founder of Pupuri and her story is absolutely incredible on how she was like a lifelong failure with just multiple divorces had tried to commit suicide tool bankruptcies and now she has a four hundred million dollar company that came from intuition and it was all like a flow enjoyable based business where she didn't study business skills she followed this idea and then built the path as she went along and she has a saying that energy is the new currency let's get rich as shit I put that on my mirror in the bathroom because that's the way I'm letting my business guide me now I want my business to be so enjoyable as I go through it that it doesn't matter if it has this wild success I want or if it crashes and burns or if I have a low income for the rest of my life because ironically it's the same pursuit that feeling is the same thing that often makes you wildly successful so what that means is in life I try to move towards the things that intuitively feel good it may mean you could apply that to dating where you're like I don't know I feel like that good feeling about this person or I feel that bad feeling even though they check the boxes I feel this good feeling about this career even though I don't know if I can pay my rent I feel this good feeling about going to this location to travel the second thing that I talked about is I still do write out like the three goals I'm working on or the new little things that come up in my life that I want to change for me I still have a financial goal that I want to reach to help retire my mom and my parents I still have these goals around improving my life and my own fitness I still have goals around just being happy and trying to make myself more other centered and help people in daily life with their own lives so I take the time each morning no more than 10 minutes to go through the goal and for example the goal of really exploding my business so that I can retire my mom I see and more importantly feel the emotion of when I have an unlimited amount of money writing my mom that huge check every month seeing the look on her face being able to help my sister, my brothers being able to step my parents out of debt out of credit card debt, pay off their house seeing my parents being able to do work they're passionate about because they don't have to work a job if they don't want to for me to be able to take my girlfriend out to any experience on earth and it's so much fun and I feel no stress or anxiety about my wallet or looking at my budget that week I just go through this and you want to feel different is the whole point, not just see it it has to feel different and worst comes the worst, even if that doesn't work they're going to be in a good mood for a while the last which has been the most hard for me which is the ability to surrender and I feel like sometimes the bravest thing the most right thing the most critical thing is the ability to let go and it's an easy idea to just surrender when life's not going well right, but what happens when your mom is dying and she's saying I want you to just pull the plug tell the doctors I don't want to live I'm in too much pain and you know this is the last time you're ever going to see your mom on earth, ever, your whole life can you surrender can you let go literally in this case what if it's a breakup and it's the same deal can you really let go can you let go if you're doing the breaking up or if you're being broken up with a lot harder in reality what if you just lost your job and you don't know how you're going to pay your rent and you're terrified you have night sweats all night you can't sleep can you really let go and trust the universe that God has a plan for you so it is a lot harder to surrender which will make you feel good remove anxiety and stress it is a lot harder to do in life when things are not going well or you're experiencing a serious trauma in your life or you're living in a war zone it's a lot harder to do than it seems but it's the ability to let go and just for a moment play with yourself the game that everything is happening exactly as it should and it's all going to be okay it's going to be better than okay that's a hard game to play when things are not going well that ultimately is the belief that will allow you to relax the surrendering is what allows you to relax and pull the plug and just let everything be okay good or bad so that's the way I address my daily practice now I'm doing that for the next two years so I will let you guys know how it all works out and I'll keep you updated on that for sure but definitely the way that I began with the manifesting and setting this vision was through goal setting and I've included the first link that's that free goal setting worksheet you download that it'll give you some prompts on how to approach going about your day and your year to reach your goals and of course you'll also get some weekly emails that'll help you work through that process so check that out and again you can check out my last videos right there and right there


Welcome to the weather forecast for the week beginning Wednesday, May 3rd. Welcome to May. This is Chief Mural Justice John Innsworth for Longmont Public Media Friday, May 5th is a full moon Rising at sunset setting at sunrise Sunspots are kind of tilted away from us right now. It's up for the solar cluster up here So a little quieter geomagnetic environment looking over the last week. I can't detect any change in drought at all So holding pattern Looking nationally a little bit a change in Montana, but not much just nothing really changing Let's go through my quasi animation of snowpack We zoom up through the entire winter season There's the peak date there and Well, should have stopped right there So yeah, it is definitely dropping. We're not up in this Way over normal but getting back kind of closer to normal, but it's still there So we're still way above the your median fantastic under 35% of normal snowpack And we did get a good amount of water Was bought this last storm would have been a lot wetter up north and it shifted to the south But you've got two to three inches rainfall rates around probe below and down here and that's great Those are some drought Crunchy areas so fantastic news there. Here's my severe weather Climatology animation and you can see it's getting quite close to us now We are definitely entering severe weather season. So like Thursday tomorrow We have a chance of thunderstorms and rain right now. They don't have a marginal risk for severe weather, but I'm kind of what watching for to see if that happens. So it won't be in the maps today, but it may be real So that is Wednesday Chance of convection you can see some convection happening someplace in the state But nothing big the nearest severe weather is down here in the panhandles slight risk and Big Bend area Then going to Thursday. We see chance of convection over most of Colorado See this little tongue of marginal risk into Colorado. That's kind of pointing at the front range I would not be surprised if that gets drawn a little closer if not get to the I-25 corridor tomorrow So we'll see Friday starts move out as dry air comes in Looking at Wednesday quite dry Thursday chance of showers Rain and thunderstorms a little bit of snow mixing the mountains Friday the Showers and thunderstorm chances pull up in the northeast part of the state We do have some fires up in Idaho, Montana and Western Canada and some smoke is now coming down So you probably noticed the sky looking a little more milky recently We had the cloud cover come in on Tuesday night from the convection the mountains and that mixed with smoke kind of knocks Stuff out. There's a pretty good fire in northern Arizona too, which I don't know how that can be They've had so much rain Over the next 10 days our normal high rises quite dramatically from 67 to 71 low from 38 to 42 And we have these chances of pulse thunderstorms in the afternoon Little dry early week, and then we have some chances of showers Into next week. So here's Tuesday's water vapor satellite with above normal precipitate Water vapor period perceptible waters coming up in a minute Then lots moisture up here got some dryness in the southeast and thunderstorms and activity in New Mexico, Texas For Wednesday the low doesn't move much and this actually has a name. It's from mega block We have east coast west coast trough and a big ridge in the middle This one's quite tilted so it's going to break down soon But these can anchor and not move east or west for a long time. So the air just flows through them and they stay Looking at Highlights, so that should be Thursday. I don't know why I have Wednesday. So this is Thursday with our storms sitting there and There's some hidden frames Okay, well Chances of showers then for next Friday We have another low coming by and next Friday we have another good chance and in between it's just a chance of some showers and thunderstorms Okay, so the next 10 days right the graphic being this was showing you the omega block But here is a low kind of pulling in the ridge starts to move out. So it all does become progressive. It gets moving On Sunday Monday, we have this little trough passing by to the north There's a ripple from Tuesday But looks like it'll stay kind of the north By Thursday this digs down to the south and then pulls up over the state Giving us our Thursday Friday chance of showers and storms next week Look at heat. This is red Temperatures are above normal for that spot on the map and blue or below normal We have the two troughs on the two coasts. So the two coasts are most part cooler and for most of this time We stay pretty warm east of the Rockies and out of the plains It really doesn't change much There's Tuesday and a Wednesday a little cool front comes through with that ripple passing to the north But it washes out pretty fast some thunderstorms down south We get a blob of cool as that storm comes out of the Southwest for Thursday Friday next week For most part above normal warmth. Let's look at water vapor. I got these reversed Perceptible water the greens are above normal atmospheric moisture and the browns are below normal There goes the storm on Friday into Saturday taking moisture with it So I'm wrapping around in the northern Rockies. There's some moisture returning Monday Not much it's all in the Northeast Then we get real dry air for Tuesday Wednesday. We have this River moisture way down here in Mexico and then that pulls some moisture in and really Moistens up the atmosphere for the end of next week Did you show a new map here? This is dew points surface dew points So the higher dew points greens and above are very moist for at least for Colorado and the blues and below are pretty dry Down here in northern Mexico. It's extremely dry air. So this is at the surface It's not just whole atmosphere. You can see we had moisture around for Thursday Friday I'm just gonna back that up and start because I had to do all that describing. So here's our Thursday moisture and Friday So very moist dew points and that pulls out a little bit into the weekend still moist still some showers possible Northeast corner, then we get dry air And at the surface moisture is never far. It's over here, Nebraska and Kansas and Northeast corner of the state Tuesday Wednesday the dry air at the surface moves in a little further and Then by the end of next week that Moisture comes back from the Gulf Extreme amounts of moisture out here. That's typical for the spring time and that gives us a chance of rain then All right, so let's look for these thunderstorms starting with Thursday Friday morning Shower is pulled through and each day. There's a little pop-up of activity in the mountains Just because there is some moisture around doesn't take much for a daytime heating to kick off from afternoon Stronger to but going to Monday Tuesday Passing to the north Wednesday, and then we get our next big shot Thursday Friday Right there and there It's away So for the next five days, it's the northern mountains may get some good water Very little on the plains here less than a quarter inch. Maybe a little bit more around Boulder Denver Snow is highest elevations in the mountains For the next 10 days mountains may be get much better moisture. We may get half inch maybe an inch nearby that would be nice and Snow just whoever gets snow gets a little more snow and that's it so 80s on Wednesday dropping down to the 70s and then lower 70s as the end of the week strong goes through Be keeping some chance of a wandering thunderstorm now and then that's below the resolution of that map Each afternoon just watch the West see if this guy gets dark. Remember lightning is dangerous So don't don't be excited about tornadoes and floods and things like that lightning can Ruin your day pretty bad. So, alright, so this is the beginning of a new month. We had our outlook for May April 20th See all the above normal below there and above normal here and then 10 days later they came out with another May outlook and It's quite different with more above more below there and it was strange for the May outlook April 20th just in the southeast us was at above normal chances of Presentation and dry in the Great Lakes and northeast and then they've 10 days later added the West Coast A lot. It's crazy and much expanded the Ohio Valley and upper Mississippi Valley dry and believe it or not over the next 14 days Places in the Sierra Nevada's with that cool trough are back to getting 20 to 30 inches of snow in the highest elevations So winter keeps on going out there. Yes. This is a new map. It's incredible Longmont leader broom food leader have frequent weather updates and great local news This has been chief meteorologist John insworth. Keep looking up