Lecture 28, As-Salaamu Alaikum. Welcome to the virtual university's course on business and technical communication. In today's lecture we will look at progress reports. We are going to look at the typical writing situations which demand a progress report to be written. We will look and also we look at why is it that progress reports are written and they are basically written to deal with the reader's concerns with the future. We will also look at the questions that readers are most likely to ask, the most frequently asked questions of a progress report and we look at a superstructure for progress reports. This superstructure includes an introduction, a section on facts and discussion which will include answering your reader's questions. It will provide the appropriate amount of information. It gives the organization of the discussion and emphasizes the important findings and problems. Then there is a conclusion section and a recommendation section and finally a note on the location of conclusions and recommendations. We will also look at the tone of progress reports. We will be showing you some sample outlines. We will look at a planning guide and have a look at a sample progress report as well. Now, typically progress reports are required in two types of situations. In the first you tell your reader about your progress on one particular project. As a geologist employed by an engineering consulting firm Lee needs to do this. His employer has assigned him to study the site that a large city would like to use for a civic center and large office building. The city is worried that the site might not be geologically suited for such a construction. Lee is a geologist who works for an engineering company. His company has assigned him a project where he would like to use the site that he would like to use for a civic center and large office building. The city where the civic center and office building are located, people are worried that the site might not be geologically suited for such a construction. The land is not geologically suited for such a big building. Lee is a geologist who studies the land. He has to send a progress report for the construction. Every two weeks Lee must submit a progress report to his supervisor and to the city engineer who is the main engineer in the city who is planning. He also has to send a progress report to him and to his company as well. Lee's supervisor uses the progress report to be sure that Lee is conducting the study in a rapid and technically sound manner. Now because the supervisor is getting a report every two weeks, he can be sure that the work that Lee is doing, the study that Lee is conducting about the site is actually on time. It's technically sound and he is not wasting any time or material. The city engineer who uses the report to see that Lee's study is progressing according to the schedule that is planned for it. She will also look for preliminary indications about the likely outcome of the study. The progress report will give them an idea of what will be the final conclusion and outcome of the study. And according to that, whatever findings are found in the progress report, of course the entire report or the entire study will be published in the end. But the progress report will periodically show how progress is being done in the study and according to that, the decisions to be taken together will not be easy. In the second type of situation, you will write progress reports that tell about all the work that you're doing on different projects. In the first situation, we see that one project is being given a progress report on how the project is being done or a study that we saw that Lee was conducting, so they gave a progress report on how the study is being done. In the second situation, it is possible that you are working on more than one project or you are supervising more than one project. And you have to give a progress report about all of them. Many employers will require their workers to file progress reports periodically over the year, every year. So there will be maybe every two weeks, every one month, every week, whatever the requirement is. The workers will be filing reports on the work that they're doing as normal routine. They won't wait for a particular project and then start filing progress reports. Let's have a look at the example of Jacqueline, who is one such person who needs to write these regular progress reports or periodic reports, as they're also called. Jacqueline works in the research division of a large manufacturer of consumer products and she manages a department that is responsible for improving the formulas for the company's laundry detergents. The responsibility of that department is that the company that is selling detergents or washing powders, how to improve their formulas, how to make better detergents. The department is responsible for making them clean and smell better, making them less expensive to manufacture and making them safer for the environment. These are three basic things that the department deals with so that these three things are kept in mind and the formulas can be improved for the detergents. Now at any one time, the people working under Jacqueline, her staff, is working on between 10 and 20 different projects. Obviously the department is looking at many different things. There's a lot of work going on in order to improve the formulas for making these detergents. So there are a lot of people and they're working on many different things simultaneously. As part of her regular responsibilities, Jacqueline must write a report every two weeks to summarize the progress on each of the projects. These reports have many readers including her immediate superiors who want to be sure that her department's work is proceeding in a satisfactory manner. Other people who read her report could be people from the marketing department or a marketing agency that the company works with and they are looking for any discoveries that they can use in the products that they are responsible for selling. For example, if dishwashing detergents or whatever it is that they're selling, they would want to know what discoveries have been made so that they can use that information to market those products better or her readers could be her corporate planners who will want to anticipate changes in the formula that the department is working on so that if there are any alterations needed in the production line, then they can start working on those or any changes in advertising campaign, etc. to market the products. So there would be many different readers of the progress report and keeping that in mind, Jacqueline will tailor her reports. As the examples of Lee and Jacqueline indicate, progress reports can vary from one situation to another and they can have many different purposes and many different types of readers as well. They may cover one project or many projects. They may be addressed to people inside the writer's organization or outside it. As we saw in Lee's case, his progress report was addressed to the city engineer who was not part of his company and they may be used by people with a variety of interests for reading them. Some people could be reading them to learn things that they need to know. Some people could be reading them to learn how to manage things differently or better and some people would be reading them to make certain decisions. So progress reports have different purposes and different types of audiences and different types of readerships. One thing that all progress reports address is the readers' concerns about the future. Despite their diversity, almost all progress reports will have this in common. The readers are primarily concerned with the future of what needs to be done according to the progress report. Even though most progress reports talk primarily about what has happened in the past, most of the progress reports tell us what has happened so far but from the previous information we find out what will happen in the future. The readers usually want the information so that they can plan for and act in the future. They want to predict what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past, what has been reported in the progress report. Now, why is it that progress reports written in the past stands are basically concerned about the future? You need to consider the responsibilities that your readers will be fulfilling by reading your progress reports. You need to consider the responsibilities that your readers will be fulfilling by reading your progress reports. From your report they may be trying to learn the things they need to know how to manage your project. They will want to know for instance what they should do, if anything, to keep your project going smoothly or to get it back on track. So, the reports written by Lee and Jacqueline that we saw are used for this purpose by some of their readers. Also, from your report, some people may also want to be trying to learn things that they need to know to manage other projects. This is because almost all projects in an organization are interdependent with each other. Most of the projects in an organization have a certain connection to each other. So, the way your project is progressing, the same way the progress of other projects will be fast or slow or it will have some effect on it. So, if your readers, supervisors or managers are your readers, they may have to make some changes or make some decisions in other projects. For example, other departments and other people in the company may need the results of your projects as they work on their own projects. For example, when we were talking about detergents in Jacqueline's company, they may also need the results of other departments, because when they want to manufacture their products, they also need to know what changes will be made in the formula and what improvements will be made so that they can follow their procedures. Maybe you're conducting a market survey whose results the other departments need so that they can design an advertising campaign or maybe your company can install some other equipment according to the market survey that you're conducting. If your company changes its marketing campaign or decides to make a decision on the product production, it's not necessary that they wait for the entire project to be finished and take their decisions based on their findings. They can take the same decisions on the basis of your progress report. If your project is going to be late, the schedules of those projects, of other projects may have to be adjusted accordingly. Similarly, if your project costs more than expected, then money and resources will have to be taken away from other activities to compensate for the cost of your project. The higher-ups in your company might need to reallocate resources and they will be able to do that based on your progress report. So because of interdependencies like these, your readers need information about the past accomplishments and problems in your project so that they can make plans for the future. So that is really how the readers are concerned with the future based on your report of the past. Similarly, your readers will often be interested in learning the preliminary results of your work. Suppose, for instance, that you complete one part of your research project before you complete the others and then your audience may very well be able to use that part of your research immediately instead of waiting for the other parts. Now coming to the questions that readers are most likely to ask, the questions that readers ask most often. The readers' concerns with the implications of your progress for their future work and decisions leads them to want you to answer the following questions in your progress reports. So if your report describes more than one project, your readers will ask these questions. They will ask what work does your report cover to be able to understand anything else in progress reports. Readers must know what project or projects and what time period the report covers. Also, what is the purpose of the work? Readers need to know the purpose of your work, the project you're working on, the report that you're filing to see how your work relates to their responsibilities and to the other work that they're engaged in present or future, the work that has been done in the present or that is going to be done in the future in the organization. Another question that readers will ask very frequently is, is your work progressing as planned or expected? Now this is a very important question that comes up when people are reading progress reports because obviously progress report, as the name suggests, it talks about the progress that has been done so far. So readers want to know that. They will want to determine if adjustments are needed in the schedule. Do they need to make any adjustments in the budget or the number of people assigned on the project or project that you're working on etc. They will also ask what results did you produce? The results you produce in one reporting period may influence the shape of work in future periods. Also, even when you are still in the midst of a project, readers will want to know about any results they can use in other projects now before you finish your overall work. You are giving any results if you have anything to say, any results to give, if you've made any discoveries, if you've made any conclusions, you need to give those in your progress report so that other people can use them according to their need. Readers will also want to know what progress you expect during the next reporting period. Your readers' interests will focus on such management concerns as schedule and budget and on the kinds of results that they can expect. So once they know what your expectations are before the next progress report, that is how they will plan and they also need to know how things stand overall and this question will arise especially in long reports. Basically, readers will want to know the overall status of your work because that is something that they may not be able to tell readily from the details that you provide in a long report. You might be providing a lot of details but at one glance or reading just by reading that report, they might not be able to grasp the overall conclusions that you draw so you need to state those separately. Also, as we talked about infeasibility reports, your readers want to know what you think they should do. Is there any course of action that is planned for them based on the work that you are doing? Do you need them to do anything? Then you need to spell that out. If you are experiencing or expecting problems, your readers will want your recommendations about what should be done. If you have other ideas about how the project could be improved, they will probably welcome those as well.  If you feel that they are going to make the work easier and better during that project. To answer your readers' questions, you can use the conventional superstructure for writing progress reports and this has the following elements. It has an introduction, it has a section on facts, a discussion, conclusions and recommendations. Now let us see, as we have seen before, the superstructure for our report corresponds to the questions that are in the reader's minds, the questions that readers ask most often. Let us have a look at how these relate to, these questions relate to the superstructure of progress reports. In the introduction to progress report, you should answer two questions. What work does the report cover and what is the purpose of the work? You can usually answer the question, what work does the report cover by opening with a sentence that tells what project to projects your report is concerned with and what time period it covers. Now sometimes the second question, what is the purpose of the work, will not need to be answered. Sometimes you will, sometimes it doesn't need to be addressed because all your readers will already be quite familiar with the purpose of your work. So if you feel that the purpose of your work is familiar to your readers, then you don't need to answer it. At other times however, it will be crucial for you to tell your work's purpose because your readers will include people who don't know or may have forgotten it. So if you feel that that is the case, that your readers may not know the purpose, they may not know why the work was being done or if you feel that it was commissioned so long ago that they might have forgotten the purpose of the work, then you need to remind them in your introduction. You're especially likely to have such readers when your written report will be widely circulated in your own organization. Also when you're writing to another organization that has hired your employer to do the work, then you will also give the purpose. You can usually explain purpose most helpfully by describing the problem that your project will help your readers to solve. Let's have a look at an example where the first sentence shows how one manager answered the reader's first two questions. In the first sentence, he talked of the project. This report covers the work done on the focus project from July 1st through September 1st. Now the purpose of the project. Sponsored by the U.S. government of energy, the aim of the focus project is to overcome the technical difficulties encountered in manufacturing photovoltaic cells that can be used to generate commercial amounts of electricity. Now obviously this is very clearly the purpose of the report that it says who it was sponsored by and what the aim of the report is. The next section of your report after your introduction is the section on facts and the discussion of those facts. In the discussion section of your progress report, you should answer the reader's questions. Is your work progressing as planned or expected? Another question that you will deal with is what results did you produce? And a third question that you will deal with is what progress do you expect during the next reporting period? In many situations, the work for each reporting period is planned in advance. It is decided that in these two weeks or in the next ten days, what will happen and what will happen in the next time period. And the report will go along with it. It is planned in advance. And in such cases, you can easily tell about your progress by comparing what happened with, by comparing what happened with, what was planned. Obviously, if it has been planned in advance that we have to work till this date, till this date and till this date, then when that first date will come, which was your first deadline, then when you will write the report on it, then you will talk about what has happened and compare it to what the company had planned. If you are going according to the schedule, then you will write that these are our targets, we have met them. Or if you are going fast, then you will write that. If you are going slowly, then you will tell your progress. Where there are significant discrepancies between the two. If there is a very big difference between what was planned and the progress, then you readers will want to know why. Obviously, if a planning has been done and if you are not going according to that, there is a very major difference in that plan and in your progress. So, your readers will want to know why there is so much difference. Was there a problem in the planning? Or was there a problem in the work? If there are discrepancies between the planned work and the progress because you are facing some problems, then the information you provide about those problems will help your readers in finding a remedy for them. Obviously, you are writing a progress report for your superior or for your company's people. Then when you will tell your problems that these are the reasons because of which our progress is not as we had planned, then when the answer to those problems is clear, then you will be able to find a solution for them. It will also help you to explain any recommendations you make later in your report. If you will do any recommendations in your report, probably when your report will be finished or your work will be finished, then referring to the problems you faced you will be able to make any necessary recommendations. When you are discussing preliminary results that your readers might use, be sure to explain them in terms that allow your readers to see their significance. If you have any results that you have received in the beginning in the progress report, then you have to test that you should tell those results in such a way that the readers should know their significance that why they are important. Do not tell them casually that you are mentioning or that they do not have any significance that they should not be taken into action or that they should not be registered by the reader. In research projects preliminary results are often tentative. There are many times that preliminary results are not final results but they are tentative results. And if this is the case, then you need to let your reader know how certain or how uncertain. You need to let your reader know that. Because this information will help the readers decide how to use the results. If you do not have this clarity, that your results are uncertain then your reader will not know how to use the results. But for example, if your results are uncertain there are tentative results but you are mentioning them because it is important to let the reader know that maybe they have some work to do and then you have to mention them that these are tentative results. Because if the readers understand those results and take some action, then that decision may be wrong. Obviously when you are giving any information in your progress report, you need to consider how much information to give and what type of information to give. You need to give the appropriate amount of information. When preparing progress reports, people often wonder how much information they should include. Generally, progress reports are brief because readers want them that way. It happens that because these reports are going on periodically they do not need to be too long. Even the readers want a brief summary of what happened in the last few days. While you need to provide your readers with specific information about your work, do not include details except when you feel that the details will help your readers in deciding how to manage your project. Or when you believe that your readers can make some immediate use of those details. If you think that the details you are giving do not have any foery use or if you do not have any management decision then you do not need to include details. When you are engaged in projects, in many projects, you will learn lots of little things and you will have lots of little setbacks, lots of little triumphs along the way. There is no need to include all of those in your progress report. Avoid talking about these because they might be very interesting to you. There might be triumphs for you. There might be setbacks for you. There might be personal experiences that you have gained but your reader is not really interested in reading about them unless they contribute significantly to the work that you are doing or to future decisions about the work that you are involved in. Stick to the information that your readers can use. Now this will talk about the facts and how much detail you will include in your progress report. Now what about organizing those facts? You can organize your discussion section in many ways. One way is to arrange your material according to the around the time period. You will be answering questions about what happened during the most recent time period and what is expected to happen during the next time period. These will be two things that you can focus on. What happened during the last time period and what is expected to happen in the future. You will find that this organization centering around the time period is especially well suited for reports in which you discuss a single project that has distinct and separate stages so that you are only working on one stage at one time and then you are reporting in that particular stage in one report. However, you can also expand this structure for reports that cover either several projects or one project in which several tasks perform simultaneously. You can then organize it according to when you are talking about what happened during the most recent time period then you can talk about project A or task A and then project B and if you are talking about what is expected to happen in the next time period then also you can talk first about project A and then about project B. When you prepare reports that cover more than one project or more than one task as we just saw you might also consider organizing around those projects or tasks it is not necessary to organize your discussion according to the time period you can also organize your discussion with regards to those projects and tasks when you are talking about only one task or only one project then your only classifying feature will be the time period but if you are talking about more than one project then either you can classify them according to the time period you can organize your discussion or you can classify them with regards to the time period you can talk of work on project A then what happened during the last time period and then what is expected to happen during the next time period and after this you can talk of work on project B what happened during the last time period with reference to project B and what is expected to happen during the next time period with reference to project B this organization works very well reports that are more than a few paragraphs long because it keeps all the information on each project together and it makes the report easy for the readers to follow. Another important aspect is that you should emphasize all important findings and problems. As mentioned, your findings and problems are important to your readers. Why are they important? Because they help them in making decisions about the future, they help them in making decisions about how the project is going to progress. They may involve information, your findings may involve information that can be used right away by others. Your problems are important because they may require your readers to change their plans. Because your findings and problems can be so important to your readers, be sure that you devote enough discussion to them to satisfy your readers' needs and desires for information. No matter how important your findings and problems are, they are important to your readers. Also place these devices so that they are easy to find. The emphasis that you are giving is to use devices to emphasize and make these emphatic devices obvious so that it becomes clear to the reader that these are points that you are trying to emphasize. Once you've talked about all your facts, you've organized your discussion, you've emphasized all the important points, you will come to your conclusions. Your conclusions are your overall views of the progress of your work. In short progress reports, there may be no need to include conclusions. A small report that is going to be read can draw conclusions. But if your report covers many projects or tasks, a conclusion may help your reader understand the general state of your progress. Finally, you will come to the recommendations. If you have any ideas about how to improve the project or the work that you are doing or the work that you are involved with or how to increase the value of its results, your readers will probably want you to include recommendations. Your recommendations might be directed at overcoming problems in the future or they may be directed at refocusing or altering the time period in which you are working. In this lecture, while we looked at the typical writing situations that require progress reports, we also looked at the reader's concerns and the questions that readers ask most often. And most importantly, we looked at the superstructure of progress reports. We looked at the introduction, the facts and discussion section, how to answer the reader's questions, how to provide the appropriate amount of information, the organization of the discussion and how to emphasize important findings and problems and why it was important to emphasize them. We also looked at the conclusion section and what role that plays and the recommendations. We also looked at where it was appropriate to provide conclusions and where it was not appropriate. We talked about the fact that in long reports, it was necessary to provide conclusions to give an overall view and in short reports, it was not that necessary because the readers could actually infer the conclusions from what you were saying. So that's all for today about progress reports. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us. The address is as usual English at vu.edu.pk. Until next time, Allah Hafiz.


In this video, we're going to talk about BFT and some recent updates that have happened for the PaySafe stock, some recent partnerships that have happened with a big company in terms of they've extended their partnerships and are continuing with those partnerships, which is a good sign for the stock. It is a massive sign for the stock, actually. And I think, actually, this stock has got the potential to 3X very easily on its current level, certainly over the next coming months. So let's have a look at this news. So PaySafe has actually enabled online cash payments for Microsoft customers. Okay, I've got to say, obviously, I'm not a financial advisor. I teach business in my daily life, but I'm by no means an expert on the stock market. So just to go through this press release that's on the PaySafe website, and this is just recently. So PaySafe enables online cash payments for Microsoft customers, a leading integrated payment platform, PaySafe, today announces that has extended its longstanding relationship with Microsoft that will see the tech giant offer an online cash payment option to millions of Microsoft customers by enabling PaySafe Card as the payment option to Microsoft's store in 22 countries across Europe. PaySafe Card available in 50 countries for a distribution network, 50 countries for a distribution network and 650,000 points of sale enables consumers to cash out to shop goods and services online. So there is this partnership that's been extended and it's really good news because ultimately they're reaching a high number of customers through working with such a massive partner in Microsoft. This just enables and enhances the credibility of the company here. So the collaboration between Microsoft and PaySafe integrates PaySafe as a payment option and this is in terms of digital goods on the Microsoft store and you'll notice that a lot of people are now moving towards buying the games and the transactions digitally rather than having the disk based game, that sort of transitions being made and that's only going to seek to benefit PaySafe more and more as more people buy Microsoft store transactions on the Xbox store. This is massive, this is huge because it just adds credibility to the stock, it improves the fact that they can reach a high customer base within this particular sector and it seems that they are announcing partnerships all the time. It says here December 21st I covered this, they actually announced a partnership with the Melco to plug US sports book into unfilled payments platform, PaySafe launches PaySafe cash to US to enable online cash payments on the 15th. So they're making announcements on a weekly basis and sometimes they've announced two partnerships within the space of a couple of days, two massive partnerships. So this stock has run up a little bit so far, I think it has run up about 10-15% but this is just the start, I think this stock is going to triple, I'm actually going to buy more of this stock when I get chance so I'm going to actually double down on this stock and buy a lot more than I currently hold, I think that this is going to be massive. So what did the CEO say about this particular development, so it's working with a technology giant like Microsoft that offers such a vast variety of hardware and software products that millions of people use every day allows us to reach an enormous new customer base and as Microsoft's mission is to empower every person in every organisation on the planet to achieve more, having this simply cash solution as a user friendly payment option makes them even more accessible, absolutely so having that accessibility there is a good mutual benefit for the relationship between the two companies and honestly I think that this stock is going to be huge in the future, I think that this stock is trading very undervalued at the minute even at a 15% increase, I mean I've been talking about this stock when it was at $13 and it's now increased a lot recently and it's only going to increase further so if you haven't already, again I'm not a financial advisor, if you haven't already I would consider looking into this stock and holding a position, a decent position as well, you know I would extend this to potentially be one of the dominant parts of your portfolio, again you have to have that diversification but if this stock has got massive things happening for it, all these strategic partnerships happening within the space of a couple of days you're having the increase in enhancement in the revenue that will be continuing to happen, it's in a fintech revolution, fintech industry which is a growing industry, this is massive, this is absolutely huge and I'm surprised that this stock has not shut up past $20 yet, I'm really surprised but I think that's where it's going, anyways if you enjoyed this sort of quite you know direct video getting straight to the point then leave the video a like, it helps out as a YouTube channel and our channel's been growing massively so thanks for all the support so leave the video a like and I'll speak to everybody in the in the next video


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Are you happy that the Yankees didn't get Machado because if they get Machado and do horse probably traded somewhere at some point in a short story? Yes, I'm happy. I want to see this kid play and I want to see him develop and I know that our organization is all the time trying to better ourselves. I do get attached with some of the players. I've been to Pulaski, I've been to Charleston, I've been the stat I've been everywhere to see our players and so I do get you know emotionally involved with him. I certainly am that way when it comes to Andy Mandukar and I've known him since he was 16 years old and now he is in a place where he is now and he's still a bit tentative in the field. However at the same time today I was watching him for about 45 minutes when he was taking his ground balls with Mindy. He's definitely getting past that getting over it and I want to see him become the great player that he can be. He's got a lot of athleticism Mike and he's going to get past his struggles in the infield. Now when I played I don't think they made or paid as much attention. There wasn't as much media to talk about my shortcomings. I struck out a lot. I had to work on defense etc and I did work on it but it wasn't talked about so much. Last year in the year before last year I remember him talking to me about why do they talk about my defense so much. I'm getting better and so it's part of adjusting it's part of growing it's part of development. Michael Kenny I think he has a chance to be as good with the bat as Adrian Beltray. I don't say he's gonna get 3,000 hits but this guy's gonna contend for a batting title on a good year. He's gonna hit 40 home runs and certainly the ballpark we play in you know helps but the thing that I would say I like most about him Mike he's gonna post every day he will come to the ball and when I say that it's it's a player's term will say you're not posting what's wrong with you you stick you hurt you blah blah blah this kid will post every day he'll be ready for Aaron Boone to insert in that lineup every day.


Coming up on DTNS how to keep your phone screen virus free oppo's hot new phone and watch and There is an afterlife for gadgets and Nicole Lee has been there This is the Daily Tech News for Friday March 6 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang We are joined today by Nicole Lee senior editor at engadget.com welcome back Nicole Hello, happy to be back. We were just talking about home remedies for getting gum out of your hair We were talking about dog etiquettes all kinds of good stuff at good day internet become a member and get the wider show at patreon.com slash DTNS let's start with a few tech things you should know Microsoft Google Facebook and Twitter have all confirmed that they plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages Whether their services can be used or not the companies have encouraged people to work from home But many hourly workers do jobs like drive shuttles or housekeeping the office or being part of the kitchen staff And those cannot be done remotely Samsung says it will temporarily move some of its smartphone production from South Korea to Vietnam After another of its Korean staff tested positive for the coronavirus at its Gumi factory Which is close to the city of Daegu since last month a total of six workers have tested positive at the factory Samsung does say that operations will resume at the Gumi factory on Saturday. It's not like they're trying to do a big clean sweep It's not not a very long time to be down short form video streaming service Quibi is giving people a 90-day free trial if they sign up for the service before launch day Which is on April 6th the service will cost $4.99 cents per month with ads and 799 with without after the trial Four independent iPhone developers told CNBC that Apple rejected their apps related to the COVID-19 virus outbreak Because they aren't recognized institutions like governments or hospitals One developer claimed an Apple employee told them over the phone that anything related to the virus must be released by an official health Organization or government a source told CNBC that Apple is evaluating the apps related to the coronavirus to prevent The spread of misinformation so they're cracking down a little harder than they might otherwise it sounds like All right, let's talk about something that isn't a virus an Oppo phone Indeed not a virus Oppo announced its find x2 pro smartphone featuring a 120 Hertz 6.7 inch quad HD plus ammo led display Qualcomm snapdragon 865 chipset 12 gigs of LP DDR5 RAM 512 gigabytes of storage an in-display fingerprint reader the find x2 drops the pop-up camera from the original find x But offers a three sensor system on the back with a 48 megapixel main shooter using suit Sony's new I am x 6 8 9 sensor that supports phase detect autofocus and 12-bit raw capture a 5x optical zoom telephoto and a 48 megapixel ultra-wide camera These are nice cameras the phone also supports a 65 watt super Vooc 2.0 flash charging providing a full charge of the 42 60 milliamp battery in just 38 minutes The phone comes in black ceramic or orange vegan leather with a rose gold frame and starts at 6991 or about 1199 euros available in Europe this May Yeah, so they took took out the the fun little pop-up camera But they replaced it with a really crazy good side of of cameras here and sensors And and for a pretty reasonable price. I mean you're talking about a few hundred dollars here for for a great phone It's gonna come to Mexico. It looks like we don't have a date on that But that's the indication so it'll get close to the United States In Alpo is just kind of slowly rolling out around the world really focus on Western Europe right now and Nicole What do you think of this phone? I mean, it's really impressive and you know the Chinese makers have always been kind of at the forefront of that because they kind of Not say copycat, but if they can I guess they're inspired by their competition elsewhere to make these phones and I was I mean the upper pop-up thing was kind of cute But I don't know I always thought it was a little touch on the gimmicky side But this seems like an actual like really sleek look nice looking phone Yeah, I I agree that if you're going to replace that pop-up camera With something better like you know that then I don't think too many people will complain They also oppo itself said they wanted to make it IP68 dust proof and waterproof And they couldn't do that with the pop-up camera. So that's another legitimate reason there as well But this is a this is a nice little phone. Let's talk about their watch Oppo also announced the oppo watch as you might have guessed it would be called it's a 46 millimeter and 41 millimeter Version of a watch the 46 millimeter version features a 1.91 inch OLED screen with 402 by 473 resolution Fitness and sleep tracking music playback heart rate monitoring It doesn't have EKG stuff, but it does have heart rate monitoring water resistant up to 50 meters includes NFC E-SIM cellular connectivity claimed 40 hour battery life on the 46 millimeter one can achieve a 46 percent charge in 15 minutes with the VUK fast charging system It runs a version of Android called color OS watch It does not appear to be based on Android where it's a it's which is an interesting choice Launched in China for a thousand four hundred ninety-nine Yuan. That's about two hundred fifteen dollars Also, the 41 millimeter version has a 1.6 inch screen with 24 hour battery life that one is a Little bit cheaper. I think this this number I've got in here may be incorrect but a premium stainless steel 46 millimeter version cost two thousand four hundred ninety-nine Yuan all three models go up for pre-order March 23rd shipping March 24th Well, I The sort of buzz around this was like wow this looks great and it also looks a lot like an Apple watch Like Right It does seem like that's you know, they're going for something that's pretty comparable The prices are a thousand nine hundred ninety-nine Yuan for the 46 millimeter and a thousand four hundred ninety nine for the 41 millimeter That's stainless steel one still much more expensive 24 ninety nine But yeah for something that looks like an Apple watch. That's a good price Well, that's the thing. I think that's kind of like my overarching question about these like non-Apple watches non-Apple watch watches and Like does it does it really behooved them to look exactly like the Apple watch? It wouldn't like if you were if you were a consumer who didn't want it Who didn't want an Apple watch you wanted something different like with this I don't know. It's just wondering like is this supposed to be it is supposedly like very Deliberately, yeah, yeah an Apple watch clone or if you're an Android person, like do you want something that looks exactly like an Apple watch? I mean, I don't know I Think it's just it's it's kind of like early days of the form factor, you know Like once the iPhone arrived in the world's well a lot of Android phones looked a lot like the iPhone at first You know now we have so many that you know Everyone's trying to do you know pop-up cameras and be different, you know Which is I think speaking to your point Nicole, but I think oppa was sort of like well, you know I mean even my my verse of two I mean no one's gonna think this is an Apple watch, but they all have the pretty much same form factor at least right now Yeah, the negative side is this is just a knockoff without originality the middle range is to say Well, if you don't want to live in the Apple ecosystem, but you like that style Here's an option for you, and I guess the overly positive one Would be this is just the convergence of a good design and and that happens a lot where people start making things that look alike Because that's the design that works the best it also really speaks I think to like the The fact that Android wear is falling out of favor Because you know, this is this is a really nice looking watch, right? It's an Android watch, but it doesn't use Android wear What does that say about Android wear? What does that say about? Yeah, you know, what that's going? It doesn't seem like a good sign So it's it's harder to use Android on a watch without Android wear Theoretically so yeah, right not not a great look for Android wear that oppo didn't choose it The New York Times reports that Clearview AI facial recognition database marketed to law enforcement was also beta tested by people not in law enforcement for personal reasons such as Finding out who was dating their children That is actually an anecdote that the New York Times added in the story Clearview co-founder Juan at ton thought said that the trial Accounts were offered to potential and current investors and other strategic partners Yeah, this happened before the launch of Clearview AI it doesn't it's not clear to me that all those accounts have been ended though And again Clearview AI doesn't freak me out as much as it seems to freak out other people because it's taking public images and Helping you figure out who those people might likely be. Well, it's it's a tool and and tools can be used for ill or good I totally get where Clearview AI trying to drum up money would let potential and current investors And strategic partners like hey, you want to partner with us on this here. We'll let you try it out That's totally normal for most products is to let your investors try them out It's a little weird when you're talking about a product with this much controversy around it Yeah, I mean I think for for all that the flak that Clearview AI gets, you know There there is it an example of you know, somebody dating the children is like what what happened what happened was somebody saw his daughter at the same restaurant, but in you know, who was with somebody that he didn't know But in order to use Clearview AI he had a waiter go take a clandestine photo of that's where it gets weirdest, right? I mean that's bad behavior on on a user's part It doesn't really say anything about the software itself Yeah, because you can do other kinds of reverse image searches Figure it out. So yeah, I guess that's my point is Clearview AI Just need some safeguards not to be used by creepy people Whether they're in law enforcement or not creepy uses creepy people abuses, you know, that's all that's the thing with facial recognition It's so new that we were not comfortable with The rules about how it should and should not be used. Well, it's kind of like, you know, someone saying well You shouldn't stalk people on Facebook. That's just not ethical, you know, but Well, there's a lot of you know There are a lot of tools that you can use for reasons that other people would find unsavory, but they exist Yeah, and it could be used for for not Actually, that's you.  You should clean your phone once a week or so You don't have to clean it all the time, but this is the Consensus health recommendations out there once a week or so or after you travel or after you let someone who's not you use your phone You should use simple soap and water and a microfiber cloth more powerful disinfectants can and will damage the phone So turn your phone off remove the case Make sure nothing is plugged in Begin by just wiping the phone with the cloth without any water or soap and then If needed a low amount of warm water can be used You don't want to stop it, but just first just try cleaning it and see if it if it gets pretty clean if you're like No, that's not good enough for me. I want to make sure I get it super clean You can use a little warm water and regular soap. That is probably enough. You don't have to overdo it Don't let any water get into any open ports. Some phones may let you dip them in clean water for cleaning You may be able to use an alcoholic solution or something stronger on it But don't attempt that unless you are confirmed from the maker of the phone Not just some guy on a message board But like from the phone makers support website that that's okay because some of these coatings will come off Even if you're using a low amount of alcohol an ultraviolet light sanitizer will kill some but not all germs But again, most health organizations say really just wiping it down Maybe using a little warm soap and water is going to get your phone clean For keyboards and laptops different methods apply including compressed air You don't want to use compressed air on the phone they say but you you know You do want to use it on your keyboard You can use a little bit of alcohol there a lot of monitors you can use a little bit of an alcohol solution Same thing you might clean your glasses with but You want to you want to not overdo it the temptation is like I'm gonna get this thing clean I'm gonna dump it in alcohol. That's a bad idea Don't do that. So I've got microfiber cloth is if you've been watching the video version of this You've seen me cleaning. I've got a terry cloth not ideal because it's got some fibers and stuff that can get loose But it's better than nothing Sarah Nicole. You guys clean in your phones, too well, I I Realized that I should be cleaning my phone more but this discussion got me thinking my phone is again for the video folks My phone is Incredibly cracked Mostly on the back although I've got some cracks on the front This is just sort of the way I live my life, but I was thinking, you know This is actually an interesting bacteria thought because even if I clean my phone as it should be cleaned Well, first of all, I have to be a little bit more careful because the phone is already more fragile But I wonder how much the cleaning is less effective because I have cracks in the phone that aren't supposed to be there Doesn't mean I'm gonna freak out I'm not too much of a germaphobe about this whole thing, but it did get me thinking about hmm Yeah, you know, you're walking around with a phone in a state. It's not supposed to be in I wonder how much that affects this beatmaster says what I don't get is what you get out of this phones are personal devices How many times do other people put their hands on it? It doesn't matter if you touch a surface that has the virus on it and the virus gets on your fingers And then you touch your phone that virus could stay on the phone for up to a week So you if you want to make sure that you're not getting anything off of your phone This is a way to do it. Normally. I would say it's probably not that big of a deal And that you know, you clean your phone when you think you need to clean your phone But if you're in a situation where you are extra concerned about picking something up Maybe you're working in an airport or you're a hotel or something like that This is something you want to take take account of and start getting in the habit of cleaning that phone regularly And think of you know, the last time you were at a restaurant for a birthday party and someone says Will you take a photo of us? That's somebody else touching somebody's phone. Yeah That's why they say if you do let someone else touch your phone You want to clean it after that because you don't know who knows where their fingers have been they do maybe they don't Well some some better news Removed the recycle mode on older devices that was previously tied to its trade-up program Existing customers are still eligible for the 30% trade-up discount on new devices But originally opting in in the trade-up program would grant customers the discount except give legacy devices only 21 days Before entering recycle mode, which would erase all data and permanently disable the device So once you once you once you went up the old thing was bricked And now users can choose to keep it or give it to somebody else or recycle it or send it back to Sonos for recycling So the options are there for the customers who were not super pleased about this program in the first place Yeah, this this it is tempting to say what took them so long, but at least they got there Good job Sonos. Nobody likes the thing they own to be bricked Even if you are giving them a 30% trade-up discount that just comes off as adding insult to injury at that point So yeah, I they are also committed to continuing to do safety updates for the old Sonos They want to be adding features It will continue to be a problem if you try to run these on the same network as the newer ones They're working on a solution for that but they are going to keep patching them So they won't become security vulnerabilities and that's the most important thing Considering they're really expensive devices and yeah, this is a really good thing Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines comm Now we just talked about Sonos doing the right thing and not breaking an old device But Phillips is not gonna brick But they are gonna limit the functions of the original Hue bridge That's the round one if you have the square one, you don't have to worry But if you got the old round one as of April 30th, it will be limited to local use It'll be shut off from online So you can use the app to control it when you're in the house on the same network But that's it the circular bridge was introduced in 2012 and replaced by the square one in 2016 so we have two stories here that kind of you know remind us that gadgets don't live forever They do go away and we've all got drawers probably filled With with some old gadgets and wires and things like that But Nicole, I love that you looked into the afterlife Of these gadgets that have been discontinued by their companies and found some hopeful stories Right and I think in almost all of the start all of the cases that I have researched It's always sparked by a really beloved gadget that has like hundreds of thousands of fans and the passionate sort of passionate really passionate community really and one of them is the pebble You know, that's one of the most successful Kickstarter for all time just tens of thousands of fans or who actually bought the pebble Years and years of just building up this community of people who just love their pebble And this is despite the fact that the Apple watch came out like You know a few years later and right where it came out So it kind of survived this like influx of all these, you know wearables Except it kind of didn't because as we all know pebble kind of died away got bought out by Fitbit in 2016 um, and officially it officially It officially was shut down the servers were shut down in 2018 So if you don't have servers and don't have apps Your pebbles kind of useless, right? Um except a community I guess I mentioned that it's a developer community that it really cultivated from very beginning And they built up this site called rebel rebel.io. I believe is the url for the site and rebel spelled r e b b l e like pebble, right? Yeah, that's right. That's right. Um, so these people like when they first heard, okay, Fitbit's buying this company out That's pull out resources and they just like downloaded everything they could the stk the documentation Like everything they could get their hands on they downloaded everything in like two days And in two days, they had this build this whole new website And uh, they said I hadn't had everything ready just yet But they were like we have everything now we can just reverse engineer from from here And it took them a couple years to do so But right now if you go to like if you if you have an old pebble Lying around your house somewhere and uh, you still have that the connecting plugs and everything You can't actually get it up and running again by going to rebel.io Following really simple instructions. That's a link. It's a link. You can click and learn learn about all the afqs and stuff They have uh, I was really impressed They have a customer service team They have a discord chat channel. They can go for like help questions It's a full-on organization run by volunteers and uh, Yeah, there there is hope yet for all of you pebble lovers out there That is one of the greatest stories, uh Of a gadget that no one who loved it wanted to see go away And so they banded together and made sure that it didn't go away I mean, they're not making new pebbles, but the pebbles that are out there can still work I was more surprised however, because I know how much people who have pebbles love their pebble I was more surprised that the chumby still works That's the that was a surprise for me too. So the chumby, I don't know if anyone remembers the chumby It was like a small little like what do what do you mean? It's like a like a personal internet device I guess you could call it. Yeah, it was like a small echo show that was also a beanbag. Basically It was like, yeah, it's kind of squishy. It was like a squishy small little alarm clock almost Um, if anyone is short you could you could use it to show like your facebook feed and little weather widgets Like think of it as a as a widget screen like a screen full of widgets essentially rather than I guess a traditional smart display that you wouldn't know of today So it was, you know, it was again founded in 2006 and The the founder bunny huang he made the hardware But he the whole idea behind the chumby was that the the chumby harder was supposed to be the The seller for the os like they were they really wanted to sell the operating system to like tvs and pieces and things like that but um And they even sold they even sold off their their os to the sony dash I don't know if anyone remembers the sony dash and that was kind of like a fancier more elegant chumby, if you will And unfortunately, uh that too because because with the I would know with the iphone and all of these other gadgets coming along Just didn't really stand a chance really, uh against all the the the oncoming smartphone revolution But the cto of a chumby, uh, dwayne maxwell He was like No, um, I will keep it running myself So he essentially bought out chumby from the shareholders Like just with his own money and you know, I kept it running um with his own time and by by himself And if you go to like, I think I can remember the exact site I think he the the company's called a blue octi and there's a company there's a site you can go to to Look at it and you if you have an old chumby lying around you can still go to this website And you know plug it in everything and it will still work. I mean he said that he told me that he had to like Re-engineer everything because the old widget framework used adobe flashlight which nobody uses nowadays So he had to like rework everything like you use use javascript html 5 and all of that so But it's up like it's running and if you have an old chumby lying around It will still work and they do have a customer service team which again Which is is amazing to me that they have a customer service team And they have like a still store and if if you if your chumby sort of like breaks a little bit You can actually send it in and they'll try to fix it Um, so that's really interesting that this this like small little Yeah, yeah fan community Well because you would be forgiven if you heard this and said so wait a minute the cto bought the company and just kept it running How is that a story of life after death? That's not exactly what nicole was describing. This was a company in bankruptcy, right? It was it was going out of business and what the cto did was for cents on the dollar. He bought the ip He didn't buy the company. He just bought the parts that would let him maintain the servers And basically is doing this as a labor of love. This is not a startup That's you know doing rounds of series b funding This is just the cto trying to make just enough money off of people who want to keep their chumbies running So that he can keep the servers up and keep their chumbies running, right? Right and well, that's the other thing was that you know, obviously it takes money to run this thing by yourself And he was like, okay If you would just want to use this chumbie as just a good dumb alarm clock, you know, that's free That's fine But if you want to use any of the widgets that will cost like three dollars a month and which is fine I think it's very cheap very reasonable Um, so yeah, that's how that's kind of how he's keeping it all going I should say the rebel website uses patreon For to support it as well Before we wrap up, I know there's you there's a few others out there including one that that just got another life There's a there's a crowdfunding campaign started this week for numaz tag round two or three. I guess depending on Yeah, right. That's a little wi-fi bunny wi-fi connected bunny into that. Yeah, that's being fraud funded The little printer that uses the little receipt printer. That's being sort of there was resurrected last year a little bit And they're all kinds of smaller stuff. I'm sure that I haven't even looked into Yeah, yeah, uh, but yeah, it's nice to know that if if there's enough people who love a gadget That we have the resources for people to kind of rally around and keep it going. So cool. Thanks for looking into this The goal. I'm glad you did the story for gadget. Yeah Joining the conversation in our discord if you haven't already It's a rock and good time and you can join by linky to a patreon account at patreon.com Slash d t n s let's check out what's in the mail bag Oh, let's uh, we got a response from chris christensen our amateur travelers Note about remote work yesterday. This person wanted to stay anonymous But said just wanted to respond as somebody who's been using those sites plus more without any success for over a year Wouldn't want anybody to think that this is an easy cure all plan on submitting dozens of applications without any responses And even more before talking to anybody Maybe i'm doing something wrong, but i'd like to let folks know that they may be ignored or rejected or dismissed regularly So go into such a process with a strong disposition because it can be extremely demoralizing I think chris was just trying to give us, you know, something to shine a little light in there. Uh, but but yeah This is this is the norm when you're looking at applying uh places even if they are, you know, working on a beach Uh and chris himself wrote back after yesterday's show and said tom is so right that this is not a great time to be a travel blogger Or travel podcast for that matter although it's a lot worse to be a travel company airline or cruise line Fortunately chris says i still make my living as a software engineer My company actually just went into limited beta at bodeswell.io in the personal finance space So if you want to help chris out you might go check out bodeswell.io And make sure you you keep him employed so you can keep doing amateur traveler stuff I also got an email from marcus who says greetings from this week It's spring in golden colorado sounds nice mark Just thought i'd mention that the first time i recall the concept of a phone screen that scrolls out to whatever size Is convenient was from the earth final conflict tv series from way back in 1997 It featured heavy mci product placement, but otherwise demonstrated the practicality of this concept Other factors took the series on a very steep decline after the first season But somebody in the props department was top notch. 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What percentage of the population has issues with mental health that can get in the way of their day-to-day functioning? 100% 100% we all have mental health. We don't all have Severe mental health issues. We are not all clinically diagnosed as something But there are times where I have an ADHD moment and I'm not diagnosed with ADHD There are times where I am feeling more anxious than others. There are times where I'm a bit obsessive about Oh my gosh, did I turn the stove off? I wouldn't classify those as like clinically treatable issues But certainly that is a mental health issue if we're talking about symptoms. I am a 24 years old I am 21. I'm 29 years old. I'm 24 years old. I'm 36 years old I am currently single. I am a divorced single mom of two little boys. I've been in a relationship going on two years I'm currently not in a relationship. I'm single. I am in a relationship. I am married. I'm in an interracial marriage I have ADHD and I deal with anxiety and depression and I am Bipolar with borderline personality disorder. The body does more if you have been battling since a young girl Being a sexual assault survivor. I have borderline personality disorder and I have major depressive disorder I have bipolar to disorder PTSD. I have postpartum anxiety I have diagnosed OCD and panic disorder and I am diagnosed with ADHD and dysphymia The last time that I saw you first of all your first YouTube video 2017 you came to my apartment you taught me how to take sexy photos of my ass Which I don't have one but you taught me how to create one with a pose a lot has happened since then a lot for both of us Well, I want to hear about you. Okay, what's happened to you since then? What's been your experiences? Oh my goodness I think I met you. Yeah right around the time where I knew I wanted to go into sex education Sexology I went and did that's a similar or the same exact program that you did with the Institute of Advanced Study of Human Sexuality And yeah, I was just kind of Strutting down the path of sexuality and Things were starting to take off for me as they have done for you, and I'm so proud of the work you've been doing I really mean that I really do feel that and You know what my life kind of I had a website and then it was like yeah Instagram's blowing up and then I'm doing a podcast. I had a clothing line Doing events. I'm sure you're familiar but with all of that and it was just a lot on me mentally and I kind of had to take a step away from work in my career to go focus on my mental health. I Was just literally losing my mind. I was very suicidal. I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping like I really just wasn't functioning So I knew Like no career is worth this I mean, I'm not gonna have a career tomorrow if I'm not gonna be around tomorrow So I decided to take a step back and I took time off of work. I entered a outpatient program at Columbia in New York City and I went to therapy literally in outpatient five days a week Group therapy for four hours a day. Had you never gone to therapy prior to that? I had gone to therapy I actually had a therapist during this time And I felt like it wasn't helping me like I wasn't really able to manage the anxiety or the stress Public speaking was really hard on me And I was touring and speaking at high schools and colleges is speaking at Columbia And I spoke at Brown and doing all of these things that I knew I I love doing but at the same time I was so nervous or so scared and had a lot of Like imposter syndrome I felt like I was struggling with Why me? Why is this my life? There's other people who deserve the success more than me like it was really hard on my self-esteem and I just knew I needed to take a moment and reevaluate my life and what I wanted and so that's what I did What was your diagnosis when you went to the outpatient center? I have borderline personality disorder it's a technically a personality disorder, but it's like nine criteria and Criteria in the DSM and it's like fears of abandonment it's Like impulsive behavior, so that can be sexual that can be gambling a lot of Suicidal ideation really high rates of people with borderline personality actually attempt or commit suicide And it's it's funny because the more and more I talk about this online And I'm really trying to open up the dialogue around mental health I meet other people who are like, oh wow my partner doesn't know I have a personality disorder my partner doesn't know I've tried to commit suicide before and It really speaks to intimacy and building a bond with someone they need to know who you are You know for you to be able to give and receive love Well, the problem is that people because they maybe are high functioning They think it's a part of themselves. They have to tuck away and keep a secret. Oh, I mean that was me for many years years and years and years Yeah, I always felt like I had a mask on literally like Yeah, I couldn't show I didn't want to show anyone the crazy sides of me Because you have a lot of these reinforced ideas of oh if I show them these things that I struggle with they're gonna leave me or They're I'm unlovable.     You want to put me through a CAT scan you can look at my brain It will look different than like an average healthy person your point about making the comparison to physical we understand that Physically certain people are not able to do certain things. Yes, like I cannot dunk a basketball It doesn't matter how much I want to do it or how much I will myself or how much research I do it just more than likely is not Feasible for my body type and accepting the same thing that for you Mentally based on what you are born with it more than likely these things that seem like we'll just do it or just feel it Just accomplish it. You just can't exactly and I think I put pressure on myself because of some of my values or views of like you know, I Don't want to have a partner who cheats on me. I wouldn't stay with them I wouldn't tell my girlfriends to stay with their boyfriend yet. I'm so Freaking out of them abandoning me or going through a breakup that I will stay in this relationship that I know isn't working for me Mm-hmm. How freeing is it to get the diagnosis to know like so freeing like the biggest weight off my shoulders It was so freeing. I mean, yeah, at the same time though I don't want to be defined by my diagnosis, you know So that's a fine line and actually it is very treatable, which is awesome. Let's talk about bringing your Mental health illness into the bedroom into the bedroom and into a relationship. Yeah, a lot of people want to leave it outside I had this conversation with somebody about God actually in interestingly enough that they felt like in order to have sex They had to leave God outside of the bedroom, which it's a big part of their life Their religious beliefs But so it never sex never really felt complete and full because a massive part of them was always waiting outside So they started to invite God into the bedroom sex just got so much better So I'm wondering if you relate to that. No, I definitely relate to that um Yeah, I think there was a lot of fear of Oh man, I don't want to appear a certain way I hope this relationship doesn't get to the point where I start acting crazy and then they leave me So yeah, always putting on a facade. I think I had a real fear of intimacy So I had pushed people away or I've been in relationships where I've cheated on partners because I was afraid of that intimacy like almost self-sabotage and so now with everything that I know and And also not wanting to continue that Spiral or the way my life was going Yeah, I have these conversations with my partners I mean my boyfriend that I'm with currently I told him I was like I struggle with borderline personality disorder And that was that was the first time I had ever told a current partner that bring it up Tell me set the scene for me Oh, I'm really even trying to remember because I feel like it was so casual That's amazing. It wasn't like a like sit down To have your favorite meal. Like it's just something that rolled off the tongue Yeah, and I think also I was looking for a different type of partner after I got out of the hospital I wanted someone that I could communicate with I didn't want to play games or Yeah, try to seduce someone like I came out of there being so much more comfortable with who I am that I wanted a partner who solved me and can accept me for Who I am do I still have issues with my boyfriend?  Hey when you're liking other girls photos or if you're texting other girls It makes me feel incredibly insecure Which I think is actually kind of normal But specifically with my vulnerabilities. It makes me feel really out of control and kind of crazy And I've had ex-boyfriends be like well. Why do you care so much? So why are you why are you looking at whose photos I'm liking?  Yes, because really just laying out Here is how I can enjoy being with you and when I'm an enjoyment being with you I have the highest chance of one looking after your needs and two you feeling fulfillment being with me as well Oh 100% if I feel comfortable, then I feel like sexy and I want to have fun And I want to get freaky or like do all these things, but bottom line. I need to feel comfortable Hi, Nedra Glover-Tawab author of set boundaries and find peace and just overall Everybody's favorite online therapist now. I'm trying to think through the process because if I for example identify as somebody who is depressed and I find somebody who I feel like I have a good connection with and there's a sense of trust there And then I tell this person that I have this personality disorder I've got an issue and they accept me How do I then go to that person who I feel like is already taken on a lot and say Okay, now can we also go to therapy together to ensure that we keep a good thing going? Don't buy into to the belief that you're too much Because what I what when you were saying that it sounds like I'm all of this and someone has to take me We're all too much where we come with our own stuff. We have our own stories We have our own preferences. We all have a lot going on So what I have going on is not bigger than what another person may have going on So not assuming that this is going to be a deal breaker In a relationship. It is a healthy thing people without Mental health issues may want to proactively go to couples counseling So it's not a thing that you're asking someone to do out of Nowhere. I think if you want to be in a healthy relationship It might make sense at some point just to go to counseling It might make sense at some point to read a few books about relationships Whether there is a mental health issue present or not How do you unsubscribe from the belief that you are too much? That you're that we almost have to essentially Dole ourself out in select doses because all at one time it's just way too overwhelming for for folks with mental diagnosable mental health issues and I'm making that distinction because I think we all have mental health issues We have to normalize having mental health issues We have to normalize using mental health language. We have to normalize Discussing naming talking about feelings if we did that more we would feel Less isolated if we did that more we will understand that everybody Experiences so many of these things you do not have to have A diagnosis to have two sleepless nights because you're worried about something that happens to humans And so when someone shares that you can understand it because you're a human Um, there are so many things that we experience. We just don't talk about those things and that is the bigger problem It's not that there is this, you know mental health thing that's happening Is that there's this secrecy around mental health because everyone has it and I wonder if you know the people who Were brave enough to go to therapy and say hey, I'm having this issue a little more than other folks or at least I think I am if They just happen to be a little more willing to talk about it than the general population but talking about it certainly Takes the sting out of it because I'm sure if we you know talk for an hour We have a lot of things in common as humans that we have felt that someone might say oh, that's a mental health issue Well, that's to me a human experience. That's a that's a feeling That's that's what happens when someone dies. We you know, that's how we respond to to certain things.  Is there a separate conversation that has to be had around boundaries and triggers? If you know what your triggers are there are times where Particularly with sexual health issues. I've seen people try to pretend that they don't have any this is the first time this has ever happened Okay, it would be better if you could just be honest that you're having an issue with arousal or an issue with Performance it makes sense to talk about that and not to pretend that there is no issue present And to talk through again strategies because vulnerability increases Sexual experiences, you know, it's a huge reason why why women can orgasm, right when you are comfortable With a partner because you trust them you've been vulnerable You have a higher likelihood of actually having a pleasing experience so it makes sense to talk through these things and If the thing is impacted by mental health that can actually change the sexual health issue I love this and I think that you have just shared so many gems in this conversation And I want to close out just by the person who's listening to this right now Who maybe hasn't gotten a diagnosis but knows that they do have particular triggers and those triggers lead them to feel out of control over their mental health And they're wondering if this is a barrier for intimacy for them So I want to talk about strategy because that's a word that you use so beautifully If you were to give that person a strategy To coming to terms with and then being able to share this knowledge about themselves with somebody else What's a common, you know, couple steps you could offer? I would say Think of the words you want to use and don't focus on finding the perfect words Oftentimes we don't say anything because we are looking for the perfect thing to say this does not exist There is no perfect way to say that I am anxious and sometimes That impacts my ability to perform in the bedroom. Now, of course timing matters But this is an issue that many adults commonly deal with and I think the challenge is that Is not talked about and again, you think it's you and perhaps not this situation No one is taking ownership. So really own it Own it and talk to your partner about the issues that you're having Talk to them about triggers and strategies that you've used in the past that might work And explore some strategies that could work now I think, you know sex is really about exploration and figuring out what could or could not work So this is a wonderful opportunity to explore And the million dollar question of when When is a good time to start these conversations?  Have you ever talked about sex? No Well, uh Just like you would tell a waiter a waitress how to prepare your burger you have to tell people What is pleasing and not pleasing to you and typically you do that before somebody brings the burger out You don't wait until you have the burger to say oh, you know what I didn't want onions You say it before you talk to people about these things before we can talk about everything under the sun Salary where we want to retire how many kids we want to have but there's Something about talking about sex before having sex that many people are like Oh my gosh, I can't be honest. I have to make up these stories or play into a fantasy and it's like hey tell the truth So both of you can have a wonderful experience and I think by being honest it takes some of the pressure out of the situation it can decrease the anxiety


So we're going to try a couple of problems that combine enthalpy with stoichiometry. The first one will be one involving enthalpy of solution and we're going to use an enthalpy value for a dissolving reaction, also called a dissolution, to work out how much energy is absorbed or released when something is dissolved in water. And in the second problem we'll look at an enthalpy of combustion and we'll use an enthalpy value and an energy value to work out how many moles of a fuel were burnt. And then we'll use stoichiometry to work out what mass of oxygen was needed to make this reaction happen. So let's try a problem to do with enthalpy of solution. I have a reaction equation here. On the left you can see we've got ammonium chloride solid and on the right of the equation I'm showing the two ions that the ammonium chloride is made up of, the ammonium and the chloride, and they're both shown with the subscript aqueous, meaning that the ammonium chloride solid has dissolved in water, the ions have separated, and we now have an aqueous solution of ammonium chloride. And you can see that that has an enthalpy associated with it. It's 14.78 kilojoules per mole. So if I dissolve one mole of ammonium chloride then the energy change will be 14.78 kilojoules positive. So that means that it's an endothermic process. And the question we've got is what will the energy change be if 45 grams of ammonium chloride is dissolved in water? So our strategy is this. The first thing we have to do, we have a mass of ammonium chloride and we have to convert that to moles. So we're going to calculate the moles of ammonium chloride that we have present. And the second thing is we will then use the relationship that enthalpy equals energy over moles to solve for energy because we have an enthalpy value and we will have a moles value. So let's try that out. So first of all, we know that we need to convert mass to moles. So we use our molar mass equals mass over moles relationship. And because we're looking for moles, we're going to rearrange that to make moles the subject of the equation. And we know then that we have 45 grams, so that will go on the top. And we need to calculate the molar mass of ammonium chloride. And you'll find that it is 53.5 grams per mole. And when we do that calculation, we find that that gives us 0.841 moles of ammonium chloride. Okay, now we know the moles of ammonium chloride. And we also have a value for the enthalpy of dissolution. So we can use the delta H equals delta E over moles relationship and rearrange it so that the change in energy delta E is the subject. And we find then that all we have to do is multiply the enthalpy 14.78 kilojoules per mole by the number of moles that we have present, which is a little under one mole, 0.841. And when we calculate that out, we find that it is 12.43 kilojoules. Now 12.43 kilojoules has four significant figures. We should look back at our calculations and find the value that has the lowest number of sig figs, that's the 45 grams, the mass of ammonium chloride. And we need to round that down to sig figs. So that gives us 12 kilojoules. We also should note that the original enthalpy value is positive. And that means that this energy change will be plus 12 kilojoules, which means that the system, the reaction is absorbing that much energy from the surroundings. So that means that it's an endothermic process.


First of all, sorry, I've been talking a lot, but I haven't introduced myself. I'm Ewa Takouk, co-founder, CEO of Feedback Foods. Also in the call is Irmak, she is our head of marketing that arranged everything around making sure that I would be able to pitch here. What I'm going to tell you about today is something that it's a it's a R&D project of Feedback Foods. So it's not a product that Feedback Foods has or is selling. It's an R&D effort that we did in collaboration with the TU Delft and with MITx. But before I dive into that specific project, I just want to tell a bit about Feedback Foods. So Feedback Foods is a spin-off of the Technical Diversity in Delft. Our core mission is to improve the learning designs and learning experiences institution for higher education. Because we believe higher education is this pedagogical transition and where for the first time the monopoly that universities used to have is being challenged because companies are starting to hire based on skills more and more compared to hiring on just only diplomas and there are other companies starting to compete with universities as well. Why do we care about this? We care so much about this because the university is so much more than just creating soldiers for the workforce and creating these skills to get people into the workforce. It's a fundamental element in our design of democracy in our social design. It's the only institute that also prepares future leaders with the mental tools and the morality that is needed to drive basically our societies forward in the right direction. We care very much about that. This makes us a bit of a different type of company where 80 people now operating in US Scandinavia mainly in Europe and of course in the Netherlands and also in Australia. However we always wanted to maintain our independence so we're bootstrapped because we really want to focus ourselves on solving this problem. Hence the fact that we have an R&D team working on technologies that I'm now also going to share with you is because we feel that there is so much that we still need to discover that plus we shouldn't only build a tool that sells we should build a search engine that is continuously looking at how we can improve these learning designs such that will lead to those cultivating of these skills that we need for our democracies. Well this is maybe a bit of a fake story but I think everyone I hope it resonates with the people whenever it's talked about like that. So Peabock Foods we build tools to support engaging learning designs but we are a mission-driven company and we have an R&D team and what I'm now going to show you is one of those mission-driven elements because and I don't think I'm preaching to the choir here but the role that publishers have in education is definitely something which I think is part of the past should be part of the past. There's a lot of good content out there very high quality however there's still this gap between this high quality content and a student that is now studying for an exam and needs to pass it and has just another couple of days to study. It's this sort of sweet spot that we tried to solve for so what I'm going to do is I'm going to share my screen and well I'm doing that I want to give you a bit of context so this is a project that we've worked on two years ago as I said before with MITx and TU Delft so unfortunately because we weren't able and this is the full-provoking element that I would like to discuss with everyone in this call later because we weren't able to find a product market fit for this product we sort of have put it on the shelf so we do not continue we are not investing in development anymore which I think is a big shame because it can be of value so is it correct that you see a YouTube video here sorry that I have to use a YouTube video here but I said it's on the shelves so we don't have it so okay so this technology what it does the core idea is it takes the 100 accredited sources of open online open course from taking MITx as one of them Harvard all those ones that we know the material is at least curated and good enough to be shared and then the type of material it's videos explanatory videos but it's also exercises and well everything so the use case here is a student that has a learning linear algebra exam that uploads this exam to this system and then the system automatically extracts the topics out of this exam so here you see okay we automatically see it's about linear algebra factor space system of linear equations abstract algebra etc and then it searches through these sources in order to suggest open courseware that is explaining these specific elements so for example now you get this lecture six of MIT in linear algebra spring 2005 so it and our next the next version that this video doesn't capture also shows you the video and then exactly in the video tells you okay this is when it is talking about for example linear algebra so if I think I have that yeah so it jumps right away at the moment of this video and when it starts talking about specifically for example one of the core features that sorry the the the topics that it has so what it does how we how we the technology works here is as follows so we what we do I'm making sure that I yeah so we have we built this engine that first of all our break breakthrough has been the ability to build build a knowledge graph so understanding not only how our topics connected but what is the hierarchy between those topics and that's what we refer to as a knowledge graph then what we do is we take these repositories of material and we map them on this knowledge graph so where is it and then what we do is we take that examine this case extract those topics and then map it as well on that same knowledge graph and there where we have the most overlap that is the that gets the highest search results so what you see here is a design that allows for different types of use cases so the use case that I just showed you is an actual standalone website and where a student uploads it but what we've also built is an integration into existing management systems well we copy that from our sort of normal tool suite because we have this integration available but then it goes into this course it analyzes the information that's already there in the course so for example how are weeks structured what what are the types of the weeks is there already material out in those weeks then we scan that material in order then to suggest online open courseware for that specific course where the use case is a teacher wants to create more learning paths not just one because well this is a trend right we want to have more personalized learning but how is this teacher going to find all that material well automated through this through through this system as well as a browser plug-in and where you could you know you're you're here you're in a plane geometry geometry in Wikipedia and you have this plug-in saying hey explain me what is here because I can read it but I still don't really understand and then it suggests this open course rather actually explain the looks that are described here so this has been a project that we've as said worked on quite intensively with quite a lot of people however we've never been able to really build something that sort of this this way has been really a technological endeavor us being more an engineering company coming from Dewey Delft working with MIT hence the big pitfall that that we could make is you start from the technology perspective that's what we did so I think we've made quite some technological breakthroughs but we've never been able to really find that product that could that actually took off so yeah I guess that's where I am and I guess the open part of this session is I would definitely want to hear your thoughts on on this and also on the fact that it's now actually laying on a shelf getting dusty instead of actually being used for where it has been designed for so yeah well back to the studio I would say thank you yeah wow I hope this is thank you yeah yeah no I think it's very interesting the way as I put in chat the way that both searches a curated collection in this case the MITx material and then enables you to quickly jump because of course the thing about all the repositories is that it takes a huge amount of time to sift through all that stuff to find something that's relevant and useful for you and it feels like this is a tool that's helping you quickly access curated materials and then find the relevant things that pertain to what you're trying to learn I guess it's it was a bit of a jump for me though to go from the MITx material to wikipedia so I got you sorry so can you explain how that works like because I think that's also very interesting in terms of drawing on additional content right beyond just the curated collection of MITx with your poll so I think and I did not explain this very well so we're able to tap into all types of resources right but what I wanted to highlight here is the big breakthrough has been this this technology so this knowledge graph and the way that we able to map it but then in the front end so the use cases that we support they can be very variety of use cases one of those use cases is that browser plugin that I was mentioning where it does exactly the same thing instead of analyzing a document it analyzes this web page in order to suggest your material to explain it in this specific scenario and here it analyzes the document that you drop here in order to explain it and this other scenario is a plugin into the learning management system and then takes the information from that course in the learning management system to do the same trick so this is actually what I wanted to show there's a lot of different types of use cases that we could think of however for us it's hard to understand we didn't we did not succeed in actually getting to that use case which took off in the market and therefore we did sit and we continued with another AI project which is now taking off like crazy so yeah also interested in seeing if we could help others out with this technology can can I ask um so what's been the stumbling block uh from sort of I might have missed it but um uh from putting putting this out there at the moment like why are you sitting on a shelf gathering I got I got you well there's a couple of reasons to this uh our sort of go-to-market strategy was replay so if you go to MITx open course website as I think 100 000 unique users every month our core our go-to-market strategy was replacing that search engine with this one however I think I have to be polite here in saying it the right way but I hope no one feels offended there was more to it than only technology to get that uh landed and unfortunately it didn't therefore so we sort of lost that that battle then we tried another way which was actually having it as a as a a browser of a learning management system plugin but then we just saw that teachers didn't so we have our logo is sweet so I'm sorry a fruit basket and we have a lot of different types of fruits and we'll check which fruits do people pick this one wasn't just a lot by teachers and then I guess it's sort of it drained our basically it is r&d it was in an r&d phase so because we couldn't find that product market fit we jumped on to the next thing and hence this is on the table however we still love it there are engineers in our team that still sort of have a big heart for this but yes we're just um our distraction goes too much away to that new project that actually is taking off can I can I ask if um because I might have an idea for a funding solution for you um is the software that you're building it on is are you happy to have that is there the reason why is because grant for the web is giving out some big grants that you could kind of put their monetization tool on this so that if people wish to you know monetize like you know to to sort of give back to the project they could um and I'm I'm wondering if um I don't know if it would fit or not but but there's been some pretty huge grants they've given out to some companies that are that are creating you know open tech yeah I'm with you yes we're open for this for sure it's it's it this is not something that our core business model is relied on relying on so it's and it's it's a way as if it's on the shelf and there's a lot of effort going into has been going into this to see if in some sort of extent we can make this ready for to be open sourced and then open source it yes there are already some sub libraries of this project already open source if you go to our GitHub page of feedback foods um but please let yeah let's let's let's get in contact I'll make sure I'll connect you to our lead engineer um and we'll take it from there I should specify I'm I'm not with grant for the web but they've given me a grant recently so I can I can pass you along all the information on how to get it to get in touch with them that that that I already understood yes okay good no no don't worry don't don't worry about it yes yes yes I'm I'm not sure exactly Erica where but what your background is um I'm a storyteller and an educator and kind of a self-taught um tech geek uh I I don't do the level of things that you do but uh but but I I I do sort of dabble and and build stuff