We are switching lanes now to track and field the Sportsmax zone has welcomed many champions over the years and today we have another among our ranks this woman has captured world championship gold on two occasions eight years apart first in 2015 and then 2023 guessed it yet but it's the reigning 100 meter hurdles world champion Daniel Williams and she had a chat with Ricardo and Mariah earlier today all right so Daniel Williams is a pleasure to have you on our set today and you know I just want to start instantly by of course thanking you one for making the time to join us and to ask you about you know how was last season for you I think it's important that we reflect on what last season was because it was a really good season for you well thank you for having me um last season to summit up I would say tumultuous there was a lot of ups and downs but I think it ended on a very strong note and so I looked to that for inspiration for this year yeah and speaking about a very strong season last year talk to us a bit more um so it started off the indoor season we wanted to run a couple indoor races that's January through March and then I got injured I injured my foot so we really had to to back off a bit off that and then so we've turned our focus to the outdoor season and it started the outdoor season started very strong I started with what was my I think my third fastest opener in April and then it kind of went downhill from there I started running very slow times and really we really had to stop and look and and assess what we were doing in trading at that time to say hey what we're doing right now is obviously not working because we're not seeing the results and so we we shifted focus for a bit and then we started getting the results that we were looking for and um so yeah the focus for last years I was always the world championship um and doing our best performance at our best at that moment at that meet and we used the necessary meets the diamond league meets the continental tour meets uh to get us in shape for that championship how are you able to stay focused when things are not going your way my support system for one um I have a very close knit support system that keeps me grounded that they believe in me they push me they pick me up when I fall and I believe in God first and foremost and I believe that he will place me where I need to be and the things that I go through are really just stepping stones to get me to where I need to be and if I stay grounded it will work out for me yeah and you have been through a lot but you have consistently found a way to get through them and come out on the better end and we've we've seen that so often in your career 2024 will start with the world indoor championships being the first major event is that something that's on the cards for you it is not on the cards this year no my singular focus yes my singular focus this year will be the olympic games and that's because you've never been to an olympic games is it yes that is the only reason how do you approach this year given the significance of it for you clearly because you're a two-time world champion and when you're a two-time world champion you go well yeah definitely that person has also been to the olympic games but you haven't how does a year like that greet Danielle Williams I try not to make it bigger than it is I really treat it as another championship just so that I don't get too lost in the moments but definitely I have taken a much different approach than I have previous years previous championships and I sat back and I analyzed everything I did last year and I was like what can I do differently to make sure that this year goes smooth as smooth as possible and so I've I've taken stock of my training my recovery my nutrition my hydration every facet of my preparation I'm ensuring that is in the right hands and it's going forward so that I am in the best possible position come June in the for the national championships to beyond that team yeah and we definitely look forward to that I've always been interested because you're pretty fast right 725 for 60 um 11 2 for the 100 surprisingly and a lot of people may not even realize this 226 for 200 was there ever a part of your career and I remember as well you winning a 100 class two title at champs was there ever a part of your career where you went hmm maybe I'll think about the flat sprints no no why not um I actually think the 200 is is my stronger event to be honest I just don't want to do the 400 and the background for that but as far as the 100 I have never considered myself to be a strong sprinter and part of is probably because we haven't worked on it yet at all so the phases that I need to do I have not been good at it I mean even around a 60 meter last weekend and I ran two rounds the prelims on the finals the prelims coach said hey you're first you got up as if you were running for two hours the hurdles let's fix that for the finals and then I tried to fix it for the finals and I stumbled so it's it's never anything that I could get consistently yeah and so I've never thought that hey let me go and run the flat sprints so you're just sticking to what you know da yes yeah and it has worked out pretty well for you um the relationship with your sister shermane um you've both been in a world championship final together 2015 when you won your first world title so clearly that is memorable for you yes um personally I remember shermane on the scene before you were on the scene and I thought to myself this girl is going to be something special especially after she won the world youth silver medal and then you came along and people went oh there are sisters and this one is even better how was the relationship changed and matured over the years if any at all especially because she doesn't compete as much anymore um shermane was like the catalyst for me being an athlete I mean I saw her growing up and she was making teams and she was winning medals and she was really the driving force behind my success as a young athlete coming up and we got a chance to attend college together and returning together and we were really real competitors um she pushed me and I pushed her and you know she's always happy for me uh she didn't get to the heights that I got to but I'd like to think that you know she enjoyed her career and she got the best that she could get out of it and you know she's always there wishing me best of luck and congratulations and all that so it's it's definitely good to have her and my other siblings in my corner yeah is it the type of relationship where she gives you a lot of um competition advice a lot of training advice technical advice no shermane is a woman of few words so no not at all that I remember very much um here's a discussion for you I think personally that daniel williams is now the greatest jamaican sprint hurdler ever based on everything that you've achieved and and that is massive when you think about the hurdlers that jamaica has produced from michael freeman to delirene and bridget foster hilton to the current crop which is really really good and given your two world titles I think you are the pick of that bunch how do you see yourselves yourself um in the history of jamaican sprint hurdling you know I've never really thought about it to be honest I mean I've heard people mentioned that before but that's not something that I think about I mean I don't really know the accolades of the other hurdlers I mean a new bridget I think bridget has all three colors from the world championship yes and nobody except megan has an olympic medal there you go so I really the others I really don't know per se I mean I'd have to look at their body of work versus my body of work but um if that is really true then it is an honor to be considered to be the greatest jamaican hurdler and I know we have a rich history so that's definitely an honor for me to even be in that conversation yeah how's a day in training for you I know you're very busy it depends on the day every day every day is not the same for like Monday is the busiest day because we were coming off of a day's rest as coach would like to say so we don't practice on Sunday so we're coming off a day's rest so Monday is the busiest day Mondays are heavy running day Mondays when we do a lot of running right now we're in our background pre-season so we're doing a lot of over distance stuff and so that day is the heaviest day because we have a lot of running in our legs and then I have leg day at the gym and so and then I have treatment and all that so really a full day for me is training starts at 9 30 and I don't get home until 4 or 4 30 on Mondays so it's really a full day and we have days where it's just hurdles and we have days where it's just plyometrics and core days but every day is a different day Lenox Graham your coach and you've had a wonderful working relationship over the years I'm interested though did you go to Lenox because he had your sister how did that happen I tell him all the time that he really didn't give me a choice he didn't recruit me to go to his school I remember that I think it was probably a Jamaican international invitational meet yes way back then and I saw him in the stands and he came with Charmaine at the time and and Leeford and he was like you're gonna come to my school and I was like okay and that was just how it worked out and when it was time for me to graduate from high school and matriculate into college it's like you're coming to my school and I was like I'm coming to your school and so I just naturally and he had my sister and he had coached her when she went to alpha as well and so I'd known him for a very long time as a young girl and so it just felt natural and by the time you had finished Johnson C Smith you felt comfortable and confident enough that he was the man to take your career forward your professional career yeah because I mean I went into Johnson C Smith as a little girl who I didn't really do much at the Queen's school when I was an athlete there I mean I remember one of the first practice sessions when we went to Johnson C Smith and at the end of the warm-up I'm like is that the end of practice practice at Queen's lasted for about an hour and hour and a half max and here I am and the warm-up is one hour and we're just okay it's time to the workouts now so I was like okay so I came to realize that I wasn't really doing much as an athlete at Queen's and that the success that I had found there it was just really just natural talent at that point and then so he took me from that point and he took me all the way to 12.69 and a world championship birth in 2013 and I was like clearly you know what you're doing so why would I go anywhere did you leave high school early I did I did not go to class one yes why because I finished school I need to sixth form I did both years as sixth form and I finished school so it's time to move on okay so leaving on time but leaving the high school track and field see in early yes um here's possibly a tough one right 2019 was a tough incident at the national championships I can only imagine how tough it was for you as an athlete to to be involved with it right as a commentator it was tough for me and I could feel inside the national stadium that it was tough for the fans there as well to see you disqualified in that way and the emotions that followed four years on um how do you reflect on that incident do you feel any differently about it to be quite honest is something that I kind of put to the back of my mind I really try not to think about it I really try not to talk about it I mean every now and then we're at where I train it and it comes up when we're talking about things but I try not to think about it I try to move on from negative things and focus on the positive for me it was really a negative experience one that I wish that no athletes would ever have to experience for themselves and so um I try to move from it move on and not dwell on it and and learn from what happened in that moment and try never to to put myself in that position ever again and that's just my take on on that incident yeah quickly do you feel you got enough support but then from the people who mattered to me yes yes um I don't really pay attention to what's happening outside of that and so I really don't know what was going on outside of the people who are important to me and and they had my back a hundred percent and that was all that counted for me you know listening to you I could tell that you know you're very very certain about what you're doing it's as if nothing really affects you if it doesn't matter because I'm listening to your answers when Ricardo is asking how are you able to just be so sure about what you want to do and not get you know like get accustomed or you know become easy um I've always been pretty determined I've said standard for my life that I want to achieve I said goals that I want to achieve and I try not to let anything throw me off that path um at the end of the day this is my job and this is the thing that I've chosen to do and so I have to stay focused on what is the bigger picture and yeah that's really it for me I mean if I allow all the outside noises and the negativity to get in then I am going to be a sink it's just some kind of ship and so I try to stay afloat um I have to stay afloat in order to achieve anything in this sport you can't really let anything get to because you have to be hyper focused on what it is I mean you really have one opportunity to get it done and if you let the outside influences come in then you're you're not going to achieve what you're wanting to achieve track and field is a pretty difficult sport you outlined earlier what a training day could look like and how difficult that is generally for you because as a professional and it doesn't matter what you do sometimes it becomes a lot and you need a breather how does Daniel Williams get a breather I have all my friends we like to have our game nights or we just relax and like every Friday no not anymore we used to but not anymore um you know we hang out we go out we shoot the breeze I watch tv I play games on my phone or on my tv in the party I do not know are you a series watcher or a movie watcher a series watcher yeah which one are you watching now well I just started a typical um while I was on the plane sounds like something Mariah would watch I literally just watched episode one while I was on the flight last night but I'm more of like a master shift got a girl or a Hills kitchen I watched wheel of fortune in jeopardy every night so do you cook a lot I do yes yeah what's your favorite meal what could you chef up for us in a short time in the short time probably some pasta chicken pasta or something I hope it's better than the one I had with Mariah the other night it will be for sure for sure it would be yeah um so here we are in 2024 by the way you are in Jamaica for the RGR sports foundation um sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards um I want to get from you just how happy you are to be nominated again for that award and for the people's choice award as well oh man it's to hear that I was nominated for the sportswoman of the world actually took me by surprise I was like wow really yeah you won the world title yeah but I wasn't thinking along those lines to be honest and so when I heard I was like wow I got nominated and so to know that we have such a rich especially female sports history yeah and to be counted among I think this is my second nomination so to be counted among the worthy to be nominated I mean we women have been excelling in sports recently and so to be nominated is it's an extreme honor and then I saw that um I was nominated for the people's choice award as well and so that's definitely something to look forward to um I see the competitors that I'm up against and as a competitor you want to win but I see their bodies of work and I honestly believe they're as deserving as I am so it could go either way yeah and based on what we've learned um Mariah when it comes to the sportsman and sportswoman of the year award you or awards you have um specific criteria that is used to determine the winner but when it comes to the people's choice award it's all about how I feel about the performance and Daniel Williams is my people's choice winner for 2023 there is no gold medal that felt sweeter than a lane one victory or was it lane two on the nine lane track yeah lane two on the nine lane track um for me the upset of the 2023 world championships in Budapest so I hope you win that later on thank you um and if you don't you can consider yourself having a sportsman say that again I don't know why everybody seems to think it's an upset you didn't see it as an upset I didn't see it as an upset when I um going going into the world championships uh before I had a conversation on a coach and was like do we think we can win and say yes we can but it's going to be tough and that was like for a month out training session started we went into the camp we were training very well I was doing some starts with Orlando at the time and we were very competitive and I started getting more and more confident I went into the first round and I went into the first round to run 12-5 I thought 12-5 was good enough it's usually a good enough time it's going to be competitive fortunately my competitor was on a different time which it's fine so I was like okay cool I still know where I am everybody else ran 12-5 we are where we need to be I went into the semifinals and I ran the semifinals and the position I finished third in the semifinals as the fastest loser but I know the exact mistake that I made in that race because I was winning I was leading and I knew the exact mistake I made and I went around to the finals to the warm-up track and I told coach we have it don't worry and so I went into the finals knowing that I could win if I ran my race that I needed to run that's what I did you know what the amazing thing is every race I saw you run in 2023 in the build-up to the world championship final looked very similar you led to 60 to 70 and then you were third fourth whatever the case might be but in that final something was different can you quickly tell us what that something was well it was the finals everything was on the line I knew that my starts had been pretty consistent over the year over the the course of the year I knew where I was making the mistake and it wasn't a mistake that I could correct overnight but I knew that if I was just able to just fix it fix it in that moment and it still wasn't fixed but it was slightly better than it was they'd have to catch me because I was already going to be so far gone and so I know if I could just stay ahead of myself just a little bit in that moment then they would the only place they could catch me was at the finish line and so it just so happened that they were closing but they weren't closing fast enough and so it worked out in my favor and sometimes the pressure of the moment they just can't get back yes and no one got back to Daniel Williams in Budapest 2023 like they didn't in Beijing 2015 Daniel Williams thanks very much for chatting with us thank you for having me yeah an excellent chat there with uh Daniel Williams and a very very significant towards the back end of that interview Ricardo that she didn't consider her win an upset most experts considered it an upset most media considered it an upset and I think partly because is there a more competitive event in world track and feed than the women's 100 meter hurdles I think not no I think not as well yeah and I think it has been that way for a long time yeah where when you get into these major finals you have eight women who all believe if they get it right they can win the gold medal and I think that's what we got from Daniel Williams there because even though she hadn't won a major race for the entire season leading into that final she still felt if she put it together she could have won the gold medal and she did yeah and you know what they're like I think like eight women faster than she was in 2023 on on the top list and when you look at Kamasha Quinn Kendra Harrison Nia Ali um Tia Jones Amosan the world record holder you when these girls line up you have no clue as to who is going to win not the similar to 2015 when she won as well lands when she won in 2015 Daniel Williams it came out of nowhere nobody expected her to win that world title I'm not even sure if many expected her to be in the world championship final or to win a medal but I think as well sometimes in the women's 100 hurdles the athlete who comes through is the one who does not have the pressure of the moment and I've seen that time and time again I remember with Dawn Harper in 2008 when a lot of the focus was on Lola Jones and the Jamaican athletes as well um and and so many other races where you see the underdogs coming through in the women's 100 hurdles or the athlete who has garnered the experience over time and understands how to handle the pressure of yeah I think that's a very very good point and um it was what brought her through because I when I look back at that race at 80 meters Kendra Harrison to me looked as if she was just about to to edge ahead yeah of Daniel Williams and she had had none of that and there is one athlete you just mentioned lands who hasn't necessarily handed the pressure of the biggest moments well Kendra Harrison um but maybe her time is still to come yeah Bridget Foster Hilton the Jamaican for many years finished second and third and then finally won her world title in 2009 in Berlin in Berlin yeah and again she wasn't the favorite in 2009 when she won point well taken maybe the athletes in those moments that feel less pressured and less on their shoulders to beer maybe have the upper hand so Daniel Williams really great interview there and um I hope she wins a a good award tonight at the RJ Arglina Sports Foundation Awards and I hope she makes it to the Olympics this year Lance I really do hope she makes it to Paris I think she will I think she will we go to break back with one of the sports might zone out for this


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And I came out and decided I wanted to attack, you know, and just really get after it. And I found some rhythm in my delivery and just felt really good about it. We're getting 99 miles per hour in that first inning.  Really, I just kind of was working with my mechanics, you know, and found the delivery that I wanted to find. And this allowed my arm to come through and just being really aggressive. Who found that in the delivery? Was it you or was it a combination of you and Larry? I was just watching some video the other day and I was like, hey, that looks different. What's different about that? And I just kind of thought about it and saw the differences between a couple of stars I had against Boston in previous years and decided that, you know, this delivery that I saw was the one I wanted to repeat. And that's when I met my best. Is it good just to have that kind of performance or is it a bigger deal because it's against Boston? You know, it's a big deal because it's against Boston, especially being here. You know, we want to beat Boston every time. It's a big rivalry. But, you know, it's a big start for me just to get my feet under me and show myself that I can be here and do this. Did you know from the get-go you had your best stuff? I felt, not after that first thing, I was like, I've got some good stuff tonight. You know, I threw some good cutters, some good curveballs. And I knew that I felt the fastball was there too. How much is throwing a fastball like you were tonight? How much is that kind of like a foundation for everything else? It's big.  And, you know, because I was throwing hard, they had to cheat to it. And that allowed me to, you know, throw the breaking ball later in the game and get some chases on that because they're cheating to the fastball. And then when I'm throwing that fastball like that, just everything plays off of it. You were hitting 99 there in the last inning. That small change makes that much of a difference, even that deep into the game. Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's just I find that rhythm and then I feel like I can just go all night.  It just feels like it comes out pretty easy. You mentioned that you prove that you can do it here in New York. Was there any amount of doubt in your mind that you could get it done here? No, you know, I think it was just, I felt like I was searching before this.  You know, Romine did a fantastic job behind the plate, calling the pitches. We worked really well together. And the boys made nice plays behind me, too. You pumped your fist and sort of yelled at the end of the fourth, get it second and third, the line up on it and start going, what was the feeling like that when you finished that inning? Yeah, you know, I felt like that was a big spot in the game. You know, we were ahead of them, but I didn't want to let them back in at all. And I feel like keeping them, keep putting a zero up right there was big for the team and, you know, allowed us to keep going and out on after that. I'm not changing what you're wanting to be aggressive. Why isn't that, shouldn't that be like the mindset for every start? Like I need to be aggressive. And if not, why this start?  But I think that it's easier said than done.  And I'm my best to actually make better pitches when I am aggressive and attacking the strike zone. But yeah, like I said, easier said than done in some cases. I feel like a confidence back to the roles when you do feel like you have the good stuff and the mechanics are clicking or you can do that more. Does that, I guess, help with that aggression? Yeah, absolutely. You know, it helps kind of finding that in my delivery and being able to be aggressive in that delivery really helps. What was the end of the eighth inning like for you walking off hearing that ovation? That was awesome, you know, it was special. I think it's a little different than anywhere else being in Yankee Stadium and getting that ovation. The fans were great all night. We could hear them and just added a lot of energy. It was awesome.


I applied for it and fortunately I was granted, was given a test time, completed that. I think it was just the story I told that I'd grown up on a farm around machinery and had driven tractors and so on. That helped.


what's y'all up to huh this is another chit chat y'all today it's a Monday it has been a very busy Monday um so anyway y'all this is another chit chat video y'all know how we do this we talk about what's going on my personal life what I'm watching on YouTube and what I'm watching on TV now I didn't write anything down and I fix myself and I need to be careful with that because my body is completely off we're gonna talk about that hold on girl let me pull up my Hulu I got rid of Netflix we're gonna talk about that too girl huh personal life huh this move has been interesting the move is done girl get over it just getting things in order still baby we got a month left but no no no we have a actually like seven weeks left until JB JB starts school so we gotta start preparing stuff for school thank God we don't have to buy with school materials or anything like that because it's a private school they provide all that but I can make sure that he has new spirit shirts and uniforms together for school to start they start school mid-August out here it's his particular school I think anyway okay I got 30 minutes it's been interesting I have been trying to make sure that we get our doctors in order look I'm very very proactive when it comes to stuff like that I actually started looking for doctors while we were in Phoenix and because Dallas is more has more diversity I wanted to ensure that I get all black doctors this is not racist this is not being me being prejudice if you don't know anything about American health care let me inform you girl black people received a ridiculous amount of prejudice and bias when it comes to health care just to give you an example I remember when I was like 24 20 no not even that I was like 22 23 I was experiencing really bad abdominal pain I immediately went to the ER then my husband worked at I was in the ER for six hours with another elderly woman this particular area in Phoenix was known for senior citizens is del web out in Glendale and we were there for a long time that I was okay with they kept hounding me with questions on whether or not I was pregnant or you pregnant or you pregnant or you pregnant you black you young or you pregnant and I'm like no I'm not finally my husband came down from lab because my husband is a lab rat so I was smart I want to make sure I was there and he was looking at the doctor like uh-huh keep asking me of course they had to do the precautions and running these tests to make sure I wasn't pregnant blood plan or whatever did a vaginal ultrasound really was what it's called both or whatever I was in so much pain and I think I mentioned this I think I mentioned this in the last video long story short it ended up being a very insistent size 8 a Kiwi I almost lost my fallopian tube so stuff like that stuff like I would even hear nurses whisper she's never been like literally I once heard a nurse practitioner whispering with another doctor about me never being pregnant and I was to get that time I was like 27 28 they were shocked that I would never been pregnant so I made sure that I get an all black panel of doctors I think I already told you guys this I do apologize if all this information is redundant girl but again yeah example a so that's going on we finally were able to reach out to my EAP and so my EAP was able to give me six free sessions of therapy for JB because baby I had to stop doing the sessions of his previous therapist because it was like $400 a month y'all and then therapists was like I understand but sickness is trash she didn't say that but sickness horrible when it comes to insurance and so long story short I was able to find an EAP provider but catch this shit this lady was a godsend she said a matter of fact you could use the EAP for each one of you guys I said what do you mean she said let's say that you want him to continue it and Etna doesn't cover it for me we could say okay Mrs. Denza needs EAP services we can use yours for his let's say your husband you know perhaps me that we can use his for JB so she said basically so you good for the rest of the year Jacobs so we have our first therapy session tomorrow and I liked her because she was able to talk to me we spoke in length for a good hour a couple of days ago and she even gave me and I like the fact that she has grandchildren she has grandbabies I mean she's up there not necessarily but she's experienced I don't like to talk a lot about my job because I want to be careful what I say because you everything could come back but yesterday was the first no no not yesterday last week was the first time in a very long time that I actually got so upset with my job that I actually started crying I haven't I haven't done that in like seven or eight years because I'm a G and I'm a type of person that if I can't change it if you know what's the point of getting upset but I was really upset but not to get into any detail but it's time to make some changes and I don't think that they will be surprised once the changes are put in place and who knows you know maybe things will change at my job and you know things will work out but at this point I don't see it it changing on my end I just don't besides that girl what I'm watching on YouTube let me tell you something I don't know what it is but I all of a sudden started watching all of the old all of the old videos with the Real Housewives franchise baby I completely forgot about I used to watch the Real Housewives of New York the first season with Bethany that I don't know what she what she is I forgot she actually has a title Kelly y'all remember crazy as Kelly and then what is the other one they have the big eyes Rolando Rolando something child they were crazy then of course I watched the girls Real Housewives of Atlanta Real Housewives of Orange County I used to watch all of that stuff but after a while y'all it gets I think that the Real Housewives franchise has lost its peak and it's funny that I stopped watching the Real Housewives of Atlanta like years ago but I saw some pictures recently of Phaedra it looked like she's got her nose job her nose done was just nothing wrong with that but with the nose nose done in the lips done and something about her something she's had some type of sculpture or something then with the long blonde blonde hair I barely recognized her I knew it was her because her voice and everything but she's giving me like Kim little Kim like type thing so I hope everything is okay with her I know she's on another reality show but baby when I tell you Phaedra knew how to read the girls down and Phaedra would do that silent calculated read with southern passive aggressive type of read y'all know what I'm talking about watching those videos what else am I watching I'm I watched T net for the 500 600 time baby I love that movie y'all if there's a movie I really enjoy I will watch it multiple times especially with Tina that T net a tenant sprang out not Tina it's tenant I started watching the movie about the movie actually through YouTube and I started watching like a while back so that's I know I'm going through this really fast cuz I have something to do like so I got time so that's what I'm when you're watching on YouTube that's really not I try to watch some of lovely TI stuff and I do like her I'm really trying to be careful with the amount of information that I'm taking in there is so much let me tell you something we're in in times it's not even funny there's been so much violence and family domestic violence children killing parents killing their kids I mean it's like almost on a daily basis I'm hearing about family size I think that's what it's called whole families being taken out it is definitely a spiritual realm there's something going on in the spiritual realm that's affecting a lot of stuff I have a lot of class to raise not a lot but too many too too many that are losing parents at a very young age I think dying at sixty two sixty three is premature death that is way too young to be dying sixty two sixty sixty one sixty two you should be living a lot longer than that and it's sad for a leota died the other day a lot of so I was surprised about that he wasn't necessarily over either not to you know get off subject like that but just thinking of all the people that is just dying COVID numbers are on the rise if y'all don't sit your asses down let me tell you something with all of the violence that is going on they had what 4th of July when I was down in Longview when I heard when we saw on the news about that 4th of July parade and that boy going there and killing what six people so far I don't go anywhere I say my butt at home I go to the grocery store I go well now we do stuff and let me take that back we do stuff like I'll take JB to an indoor playground at like 12 o'clock but if someone is like oh I don't know let me give you an example oh we're gonna have a get-together in a popular place in Dallas and it's gonna be 200 plus people there I'm not doing it I'm not I'm sorry it's not being me that's not me being paranoid but given the climate that we're in I'm not gonna put myself and my family in that situation to where people are already crazy hell no I'm staying my ass at home so we are absolutely going out and doing stuff but we're being careful we really are y'all be careful too COVID numbers are rising I think I need a I need like a fifth shot or something I need something girl um I just feel that way nothing surprises me I hate to say that nothing that's going on there I don't even know when the last thing the last time I really got surprised by a random act of violence was the Sandy Hook shooting that should tell you something anything else that is going on is really not going to surprise me at this point I told you guys this I think I'm gonna tell you this again and I'm talking to so I feel like when I speak to people and we connect a message is gonna be transferred a message a message is going to be relayed take it I'm not trying to go deep but I am I've been meeting people and they have been reiterating you made it make sure you getting ready getting prep getting your stuff together so I'm telling y'all again listen make sure you have plenty of water have plenty of food have plenty of your medications that you or your family members take have plenty on hand I started back stop piling the water we have I'm starting back doing food and you don't have to go go all the way out like I yeah I got a waterproof purifier and crazy stuff like that I got seeds you know I got I got all sorts of seeds cuz I'm gonna replant the whole earth so that's what's going on personal life I know a person life and YouTube baby what I'm watching on TV what I'm watching on TV girl let me tell you something I started to watch on Hulu cuz I got rid of Netflix so I'm trying to save my money I started to watch on Hulu Shining Bell Courtney Cox it has like a comedy slash scary type of series I'm on episode 2 and I'm just not sure what's going on with that again it's called again it's called Shining Bell and it's on Hulu girl stranger things I'm not even done but the last spoiler spoiler alert the backstory of that stranger things demon thing was absolutely crazy I was sold that that gave me so much anxiety again I'm not up to the most recent episode but I did see how he became that thing in the other he was one of the um one of the kids I told you spoiler alert he was number one he was the first one and you know at that actor he's English he played in a couple of other cuz he has a very he's what you call a character actor he has a very eccentric look so he's always gonna be playing a certain type of character in a movie cuz he just or series because he just has that weird ass look which is working for him um we're gonna get to it we're gonna get to it we're gonna look get to it all right so I have old man on my list I told you I got rid of what's the name though I got rid of Netflix I have under the banner of heaven hmm because there's so much violence and stuff going on in the world y'all I watched the first episode of again under the banner of heaven and I can't do it I can't do anything else right now it's just gonna have to be there for a while so I have on my list though the old man with Jeff Bridges old ass it was why he playing the old man um the bear I don't know what this abides about food I'm greedy I'm gonna watch it the bear I stopped watching the last man because I don't know it just got a little weird have you watched that it's called the last man have you watched it it's what it looks like maybe I'll go back to it girl let's just go jump into it cuz we can talk about a good gang about this pee pee ass valley girl let me just go ahead and pull it up pee valley okay first of all I'm gonna say this I'm about tired of Haley and Obama's ass I'm done with Haley and the mayor's godson what is his name y'all Andre Haley and Andre I'm done with a storyline so again spoiler alert okay well I'm gonna talk about the very last episode cuz I'm gonna be back okay girl first of all when I heard Kia my neck my back coming on I'm like oh what the hell is going on here we got diamond and big bone up here doing a damn thing I'm like oh my god diamond you you swinging it like that yes and I think that he's really is he really in a relationship with the actress that plays big bone with a certain miracle watch miracle watch they're really they're together they're married or something in real life anyway so she has a nice body I'm like oh good yes come through sis girl but why he's doing her everything you know what I mean she starts turning into cash on K K she starts looking like K Sean and he's like looking the way because every time he looks at her he sees K Sean which he's mad at because you know things with her white savior he's mad at her but he still has to fill it he wants to save her he's in that save a whole month it is what it is he's in that save a whole mentality but K Sean ain't really a whole she ain't but she's like uh-uh so baby when they were done she was gonna say I want to why I don't know why you finishing in that oh I'm gonna be I'm gonna be very direct she's like I don't know why you finishing in that condom I wanted you to finish in my I'm a and basically he was like no man it's gonna be spilling his seed like that he girl he went deep which there's some meaning behind that which is true a man should not be letting his seed go everywhere cuz there's some but anyway she's like I don't wanna baby anyway I'm gonna get your big ass like her butt is out of control I don't know if she's had work or that's all her but she looks good regardless she looks good yes big body is all that so anyway you know diamond as y'all know from previous episodes diamond is into that who do stuff so you gotta be careful but big body was like she's like why you ain't working at the bank so she was clear and she knew that he has a thing or he he is somewhere else it's clearly he wasn't even looking at her why they were having sex so he his whole mind and body is somewhere else so anyway that's going on like I said I'm about done with Redbone Haley and Andre but finally girl finally she went ahead and let him have it so I guess they had some type of um what do you call it some type of event and after that she comes this is how she sound hey Andre cuz y'all know she's English but she pulls off a certain accent good she's like hey Andre what do you how do you want me sir he's like take off your dress she takes off the dress boom red bone yellow bone everywhere and so she's he's like crawled to me she's crawling and girl 10 minutes later they in it in it in it in it but I'm like this y'all know me the sex scenes it could be too much sometimes but I'm like we waited all these episodes for a sex scene and this will begin this is that was wack as hell I'm sorry but that was not what I was expecting for them to be because they they literally have been mine for each other for seasons and they even did phone sex and I'm like y'all have this much tension amongst it girl please I would have been so pissed off but she seemed to be okay about she seemed to be okay um we're gonna talk about little murder y'all trigger and they did put a warning up for this previous episode oh y'all real quick I just realized the girls with the big lips she played in um what's her name she played in snowfall right she was wander and snowfall so she's doing all these type of tricks on the post she was the one that gave the boy head and now when I they then we pulled it out I thought it was a prop I thought it was a prop so I had to rewind it a couple of years at times to make sure that there wasn't and it was really was his penis so anyway lips she's dancing with another red-boned girl I think she's actually white she white y'all she's dancing with her it's her name Harper so lips she's dancing with this life-skinned girl and he's like who was that he's like you know hook me up with your girl and she's like I don't know she's down like that he's like I'll pay you two sexes to go down on her just to eat her out what you gonna pay her for a treat that's her treat and so she's like what dang I could have got that and laid on my back but I had to get on my knees you know it lips that's your problem that's your problem I don't trust that girl y'all I think something bad's gonna happen I think she's even gonna trick old girl and that's gonna be like some rape and ball I don't want to say it too loud cuz YouTube let's get to this y'all little murder and his friend what's his name y'all life-skinned dude Trey little murder and big teak so sad by the second episode that I saw business big teak big teak I could tell that he was suffering from PTSD everything about his body language that actor that plays that I should should get an Emmy cuz he's doing a damn good job I can tell that something was all in it was hey it was trauma related most PTSD is but it was trauma old trauma it was more than likely passed down trauma generational trauma which if you don't know I'm not going to go there that's a whole another conversation generational trauma can actually start in the womb okay look it up baby this guy was suffering from trauma from a child and they show some bits and clips of it but I'm not gonna go into it because I was so upset and I felt so bad for little murder but big teak ends up committing suicide and I think he came to a realization that after so much time being locked up it's really it's gonna be hard for him to adjust into the new world it's gonna be hard to him to adjust to little murder having a thing for Uncle Clifford and so he's tired he was tired I could tell just the look of his they didn't have to say it he was tired so he had he committed suicide which is so horrible I'm not gonna get into old girls daughter ended up pregnant child when I saw that I was like you know what these kids I feel so bad for Mercedes so y'all but I could not stop laughing when that's that scene with her and and coach and coaches wife and coach look coaches wife has a thing for Mercedes because they've already had sex right they were popping pocket books and so why coach is giving it to Mercedes he noticed them really getting in he's like hold up well coach was like hold up I didn't know you'd like to eat at the seafood bar too what do you boy coach was upset he was like you all raggedy hold this four stacks to do that the wife was okay was supposed to be all free some thing but that was supposed to be for coach and the wife was like all this time we've been married I like I like women more than you do I'm like coach you a dumbass you you and not with it so he was so focused on his desires and what he liked that he was oblivious to his wife's desires and perhaps he just didn't care so y'all I'm talking for a long time that is it baby is just watching rambling I hope you guys have a good week take care bye


Hi guys, this is Christian from Swim2Fly.com. Today we are going to learn how to swim butterfly in three steps and only one lesson. So to learn how to swim butterfly is pretty simple. You just need to respect the basics and each skills on the right movement. And the butterfly is one of the strokes the most simple to swim actually.  But actually it's not true. A butterfly is something that is really natural. You need to feel correctly the movement in the water. You need to feel the waves going out of the movement like a dolphin. But it's very simple. So the step number one to swim butterfly is to learn how to execute the dolphin kick. A butterfly stroke is not like a freestyle stroke where the legs are kicking one after one like this.  Okay, so very simple to learn how to do this trick. You can just practice sitting here, over here. And basically you can sit and understand the movement.  The kicking needs to be up to the sky here and I kick. You see, I hit flat, my knees flat, I kick up, I kick up, I kick up. Okay, that's the kick. The freestyle is like this when the butterfly is like this.  So because you are on the other side, right, it's on the back, you will be like this. And kick, boom, boom, boom, boom. Can you really send that sound behind me? Boom, boom, boom. That's the sound of the tail, right? So listen to that sound because it's very important for learning after that. And one kick, boom, two kick, boom, three kick, boom, four kick, boom. Any time I kick, there is a boom. There is a boom because my legs are on the surface, okay? So don't forget to kick, kick, kick on the surface. So now, you need to practice inside the water. So I know how to execute my boom, boom, boom, boom, which is my kicking on butterfly, right? So I'm going to learn how to do it into the aro butterfly, which is the step number one, is the aro butterfly. So my hands far away, my head under, I blow my bubbles. I don't see my head here, it's kicking flatly. And I do boom, boom, boom, boom with my legs, blowing bubbles for something like five meters or more, okay? And nothing much, okay? You are learning, it's very basic, so take it easy. You practice again, try to feel the boom, boom, and you are moving forward, okay? Aro position, like this, with the boom. So very simple, this is the aro butterfly. Okay, last little tips. When you do your boom, boom, right, it's butterfly. Remember to try to kick not only from your knees or from your feet. The butterfly kick starts from the lower body, but the upper portion of the lower body. So it starts from your stomach, from your hips. Okay, the kick is actually starting from here. I move my butt behind, I kick, boom, I go forward with my hips. Behind, forward, behind, forward. So it's not something where you are just kicking like this. For me, it's not like kick, it's more like I kick with all my lower body. Okay, and I'm not only kicking with my knees and back. If you can feel it, then it's like this, then your kicking will be more effective. Okay, so now I know how to do my aro butterfly. So let's learn the step number two. You need to learn how to move your both hands together like freestyle. This is freestyle, only one hand, going back. The butterfly is both hands together, pulling to the end, then flying back on the side to reach the front again together. Double pulling until the end, and then fly back on the side to go back together. When you fly back on the side, don't bend your elbow. Try to fly with a big circle on the side, your fingers relax above the surface of the water. Try to touch the water as far as possible on the front.  So we're going to learn how to do the pulling, the double pulling. Executing the pom-pom, the pom-pom are the dolphin kicks. But you cannot breathe. The breathing is the last step. So we're going to learn how to do this movement. One dolphin, two dolphin, you move your hands together. And again, one dolphin, two dolphin, you move your hands together. One dolphin, two dolphin, you move your hands together. At the first dolphin, stretch your arms forward. At the second dolphin, you can double pull and go back on the front.  Remember, your learning is all about sensation. So, let's try. You cannot breathe, so I want you to keep your head under water, looking at the bottom of it. So at some point, you will need to take a breath, which is normal, so you stop under water. I repeat again. Don't focus on looking up. Simple. One dolphin, two dolphin, move your hands. Okay?  Okay? Very basic stroke for beginners. Now you have the motion. This is step number two. In order to do your double pulling and going back on the side. So the real butterfly is actually being able to do the same, but you can breathe. You can take a breath. Every two double pulling. So you're going to run now. You have to do the same things, but at the second time, you're going to move your hands. You can breathe up near to the water of your mouth and dive again with your head under the water to go back into the arrow position and continue the dolphins. One dolphin, two dolphins, move your hands, but don't breathe.  And again, one dolphin, two dolphins, stay down. One dolphin, two dolphins, go up and go down. Okay? So that's the last step. Step number three. Breathe every two strokes. Let's go. When you can do that, you will have a better notion of what is the butterfly. After you're going to practice more on your waves, you're going to practice more on your relaxed movement on the strength of your hand for the pulling, but that's the motion. One big dolphin, move your hands. Two big dolphins, move your hands. And every time you move your hands, you have another little dolphin behind you. That's why it's two dolphins. One dolphin, move your hands with another dolphin. One dolphin, move your hands with another dolphin. The butterfly is all about being smooth in the water. Okay? Relax your lower body. Feel it right. Feel you can fly. And then the butterfly will become very, very simple. Okay? So this is Christian from swimfly.com. This is our method to learn how to swim with us directly on the website. I hope this video helps you a lot. Thank you!


Minnesota's hockey culture is one of if not the best in America so it's only fitting that one of the best hockey camps in the world is right here in Niswa. Anthony Scott has a story on how this hockey camp has become world famous. I mean we've had probably 700 NHLers come through here now. And it's no surprise why. When you drive up to the Minnesota hockey camps, jerseys of former campers line the walls inspiring young players as they improve their skills. It's like they wake up in the morning at eight o'clock in the morning and they go to bed at nine fifteen ten o'clock at night and it's hockey from the time they wake up and it's hockey till the time they go to bed. Minnesota hockey camps offers one-week camps jam packed with 32 hockey activities and it has been producing professional hockey players since 1980. I'm a little surprised that this camp is still here. To be honest with you, we thought it would be about a 20-year run and it actually got better. The growth has been unprecedented with the camp now getting national notoriety. Despite its name being Minnesota hockey camps, the camp attracts players from all over the world and this year they have a 10-year-old from Norway. Minnesota hockey camps is based off a world-class camp in Finland and in Niswa they work on everything from strength training to puck handling and everything in between. I gotta be honest, I don't know if there's anywhere in the world I've ever seen it duplicated. The synergy, the work ethic, I think it's the top program in the world. The campers eat, sleep and breathe hockey when they are at camp but the lessons they learn can be taken with them for their entire life. If this place causes you to be productive, we've done our job. And who knows, maybe the next NHL star is practicing right here on Clark Lake. Reporting from Niswa, Anthony Scott, Lakeland News. Minnesota hockey camps have seen players like TJ Oshie and Scott Hartnell come through the program and the camp has the respective legends like Wayne Gretzky and Jeremy Ronick who have sent their own children there. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


One thing I don't respect is how vegans are very aggressive towards meat-eaters or... Was that being aggressive? Yeah. In what way? That we're wrong. Telling you that you're wrong is aggressive? What if you are wrong? Embracing you for rights, right? Do you think humans should have rights? Yeah, we do. Should animals have rights? They do. They don't have a right to their... even their own lives, these animals. They don't even have a right to their own bodies. They don't have a right to anything. You have a right to eat them, which is wrong. But you're saying I'm aggressive because I'm saying that you're wrong. I'm not saying you're aggressive. I'm just saying that community... What's more aggressive? I'm having this conversation right now. Me saying I don't agree with you. I don't believe you. Or do you think decapitating veal casts for cheese is more aggressive? That seems more aggressive to me. Just for a slice of cheese. Anyways... A slice of cheese, I mean, it's for a lot. Oh, yeah. Sorry. A little few more slices and it's okay. Yeah. Alright. Bless you. To young girls with no empathy at all.


The purpose of this study is to develop and test an electronic clinical decision support system, CDSS, to standardize the management of adults with atrial fibrillation, AF, or atrial flutter in the emergency department, ED. The CDSS will provide evidence-based recommendations to emergency physicians at the point of care, aiming to reduce variation in management, preventable hospitalizations, and stroke risk. This study will use a step-twedge cluster randomized pragmatic clinical trial design to evaluate the impact of the CDSS on hospitalization of adults with AF or atrial flutter presenting to the ED and on anticoagulation prescription ineligible patients at the time of ED discharge and within 30 days. This article was offered by David R. Vincent, Adina S. Rauchwerger, John Dewey Karadi, and others.


Hello, friends. I am Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how you can call Apex class in vocable method through screen flow in Salesforce. So I'm going to use this use case. So I will be creating a new opportunity from a countercard page through screen flow. And I have to add opportunity amount in annual revenue of the account record. So let's say this is the account record and here you can see annual revenue is 1000 and right now it is having one opportunity and its amount is also 1000. So if I create one more opportunity on this account record, so the annual revenue will be having the new amount added to this field. So now first I'm going to tell you how you can create your class that is having invocable method and then I will be using this class into screen flow. So class name is account action. It is having invocable method update account revenue. It is having one parameter as list of ID. So here I'm going to pass opportunity ID. And remember that the parameter should be list type because if it is not of list type then this class will throw an error. And return type should be also list type. So I'm returning list of decimal. So this return value will be the updated annual revenue of the account. Then this is a simple query. I am querying 0th ID opportunity record from the database and that will be stored in opportunity list having account ID and amount that are available on opportunity record. Then querying the account record in this account list. So on opportunity we have linked a particular account. So now I'm going to query that account. So select annual revenue from account where ID equals to opportunity list of 0 dot account ID. So this opportunity list is having one opportunity record on 0th index. From there I'm fetching account ID and based on this I'm fetching the account record that will be stored in this account list. Then I have created list of decimal that is annual revenue list. Then this ACC list 0 dot annual revenue is added with opportunity list 0 dot amount. So the opportunity record amount field value will be added to the related accounts annual revenue. And then I'm applying this dml update account list. Then I'm adding account list 0th record annual revenue value into annual revenue list and I'm returning that so that I can receive this return value into flow and I can use that to display the output. So this way this is invocable method and this is for demonstration purpose. That's why I use this 0th index but in real time you can iterate this over a loop so that if you have multiple IDs then also it will work. So this is Apex class explanation now moving to screen flow. So here I have already created two screens. So first screen is having opportunity name and stays and second is having closed date and amount. And remember here amount is required because we want that opportunity should be having an amount so that we can add it on annual revenue. If it is optional then in your Apex class you need to check that whether it is having some value or not. So you can apply if condition as well if it is having some value that you can add otherwise you can ignore that you can do. And I hope you can create these screens as your own and if you face any problems so you can go to description of this video where you will find a link of playlist that is how to use flow builder in Salesforce. So there I have also demonstrated from the beginning like how we can use these screens or how we can create them. So after creating these screens the values which we are going to receive from the users I am using those to create a coordinated record. So here you can see five values are set. So account ID is equals to record ID. So record ID is a variable that I created here. So record ID is a variable that will be receiving record ID of the account record where this screen flow will be available. So it will fetch input automatically you need to just check this checkbox as true and the remaining variables are used in screen flow. So close date will assign into close date opportunity name into name stays into stays name and amount into amount. And remember that here you need to use this say store opportunity ID in variable. So just after creating the opportunity record this create record element flows the opportunity ID or the record that you are going to create. So I am storing that ID to opportunity ID variable. Now we have opportunity ID that is the opportunity that is created right now. So now we can create an action. So I'm going to create an action. So selecting type epic section. So here you can see account action classes available. So call a picks class to update account annual revenue. So this is the label. Then here you can see we need to pass the input. So here ID is variable is automatically available that is here. So here I'm going to pass that opportunity ID as input. So the opportunity that is created that's ID will be passed. And here if you want to store the output that is returned to this apex class. So here you can create a variable. So here you can see output is all automatically having this number sign. It means you need to create a variable of number type. So I'm going to create a variable. It's API name is return value. And let's say it is off type number decimal places are two clicking on done. So return value will be stored in this variable. So this way it is created. Now I'm going to create one more screen. So in this screen, I'm going to use this display text component. So it will be display screen. So this is a screen name and API and display text. So it will display the message. So latest annual revenue. And here I'm going to fetch this return value table. So it is available here. I'm making it as bold. And if you want to apply any formatting, so you can do that as well and click on done. So apex class will be executed. We are passing opportunity ideas input and updated annual revenue that is on account will be returned and that will be displayed on this screen. Right. So I'm going to save this. So this way two things are implemented. One is class and another one is this screen flow. Now I'm moving to a countercourt. So now you need to place this screen flow on this account report page. So you need to edit the page so that we can place that flow and we can use that. So from left hand side, you can use this flow component that is standard component. So you can drag and drop it and it will be available on the record page and it will give you options so that you can choose which flow you want to place. So here you can see I have three flows. So I'm choosing this one create opportunity report. And here I am choosing this one pass record idea to this variable. So if you don't choose, so the current account report ID will not be passed. So you need to check this checkboxes to then click on save so that that screen flow will be available on the record page. So changes are saved clicking on back. So we will see how that account and well revenue will be updated. So here I'm passing test to as opportunity stage is prospecting. Sorry, I just need to activate this as well. I didn't activate it. So I'm refreshing this again. So always remember whenever you use your lighting flow on record pages, so it should be activated or latest version should be activated. Otherwise, it will show the existing version. So this happened with me. So now you will see amount will be there in second screen. So test two and prospecting. These are opportunity name and stage. Here you can see close date is available. Then amount let's say I'm entering 2000 this time. Clicking on next. So here you can see latest and well revenues 3000 and I already told you the existing one was 1000. So right now you can see 3000 is this automatically updated and it is having two opportunities. So I'm refreshing so that they will be reflected here. So here you can see two opportunities are available. First is having amount as 1000 second as 2000 and total revenue here in highlight panel you can see 3000 and on record you can see 3000 and our screen flow also displayed the output as 3000. So this way I hope you understood how we can call epics in vocable methods in screen flow and how we can use that on record page. And if you want to watch more flow related or Salesforce related videos, so go to description of this video. There you will find various playlist links related to Salesforce videos. So watch them. Thank you for watching this video.


I checked on board to my new command. A bunch of guys said that they were going to take me out. Kind of a new guy initiation, if you will. They drugged me. I woke up and I was sexually assaulted. The worst part is seeing their faces every morning. I can't even look at my wife now. I mean, who do I tell? I can't tell my command. What am I supposed to do?


I will bore you the next 20 minutes. Originally I planned for 40 minutes, but Italo decided that mentoring is only worth 20 minutes. So I cut all the funny slides and came down to the bottom of it. Two weeks ago when I prepared the final things for these slides, when I rewrapped it actually, I was told we need to see numbers. Mentoring is not at all about numbers, it's about people, it's about connections, but numbers is important. So I've prepared a little slide. What have I done last year? What is it that I have sort of brought into the foundation? Well, I've done 50 reviews every week in average, done eight commits on behalf of the contributors, not my work, but I've looked at the patches. You can look at all the numbers there, not very interesting. There's one number that is very important for me. 20% of our commits at the moment comes from non-committals, basically new people on their way into the system. That is a very good figure. The figure for open source in general is less than 10%. So we shouldn't complain in that respect. Now let's have some more interesting numbers. I've prepared a slide, I've been with the foundation for a year. So I tried to make some numbers and see how was life before we had mentoring as an official task and what is my goal for the next year. First of all, yeah, we have a number of developers who leave us for many reasons. I'll come back to that. But before September last year, we basically said, well, that's fine, you left us. We don't really care. But look at it like this. A developer that leaves us is the double the cost of a new one coming in, because a developer that leaves us has experience, whereas a new one we have to build up. So we need to catch those people. And at the moment, I mail approximately four old developers every week. It's again, it's an average number, I mail them actually every quarter. I want to bring that down to three. Not ambitious, but I want to do it. Then we have new people coming in. We have at the moment about three people every week sending their license statement. There are people coming in from other channels as well. But I take them serious once they send their license statement. That is for me, yes, we want to do this and not only talk. And three every week is, in my opinion, not a bad number. We can do a little bit better. Now comes my big problem, merge delays. What happens? My contributor sends in his first patch. He's like his tuna exam. He is excited. He wants to see, am I successful or did I fall true? Last year, it took six to ten days, in average, for a response to appear. Now we have a response within 24 hours where we say we have assigned a reviewer. But reviews still take, in average, three days. Many contributors are gone three days. After three days, no response. As a little joke, I had one contributor who sent in a patch. Two hours later, sent me an email. What is happening? I haven't heard anything. Okay, we won't come down to two hours. But we might come down in the range of three to four days, in average. Contributor prosent was 18, gone up to 20. Not necessarily due to my work. It can be just fluctuations. And I'll keep it at 20 next year and I'm happy about it. And I'll explain in two seconds why. Hackfest is also one of those where we haven't been so successful in the last year, in my opinion. Response to emails. Yeah, I saw when I went back and looked at the dev list for last year, it's typically more than a week to get a response. We are being very good as a community. We are below a week, one to five days at the moment. We should lower it a little bit. University projects, one of the most elegant ways of getting new people in. This year we had 86 applicants who wanted to join our project. We only got 12 slots, so we had to select quite hard. But it tells that there are students out there who wants to do it. My game is to come up and not only do Google some of code, but also do the capstone project. And maybe also a Spanish project, which I'm not sure it's an academic project that might come this year, might come next year. Another thing is feedback on patches. Well, if we can't review the patches, we can at least tell the contributors about was their patch good, was their patch bad, could it be done differently? We do that with a delay of one to two, no, we do that for one to two patches. I want to set it up to three to four patches. How am I going to do this? I'm not, I'm asking the community to help me. I'm just a mediator who have some ideas and then I can have all of you help me make the community even bigger than it is. One of the things I want to do is to catch inactivity earlier. At the moment we monitor if a person have not committed for three months, then we send him an eysmail. We miss you, what's happening? And a lot of them react very positively to that. So I want to set that down to one month because now I've had the catch up. So now it's more regular, so doing it one month will not be a lot of work. Then people who contribute more than three to four patches should have a direct feedback, I'll come back to that in another slide. This is actually my key point. This is our biggest problem seen from mentoring. We are too slow in reviewing. And I know it's, I regularly ask all the core developers, please help me review, but I know it's a boring job. But this is a place where we really need to do something. So to all of you who are developers at least, please help review a buck from time to time. Even if you're not committed but still can try to build it, see if it makes sense, it helps a lot. My biggest problem is not, I told you before we are about five days in average, but the distribution is very, very large. Some box or some patches are dealt with within one day, super. Some of them take two months, and that is not good. I'm planning on in the C meeting to come with a top five reviewer list. So everybody who does reviews get measured and the ones who really do it, we will mention them as an idea. HackFests is the next little thing I've attended. I think four HackFests last year, three or four HackFests. And I wasn't impressed. The HackFest was good. The people who were there, the core developers or whoever came in, we're a fabulous organization, but we need to do more in pre-work. We need to, for instance, if we do it in a university, we need to heat the university before, use the billboards, get the students attention, not the day we do it, two weeks before, three weeks before. And this is a very good, big point of mind. Once the HackFest is there, we need more formally to make blocks, to make photos, and sort of say, hey, this is the group we were there. Why weren't you there?  I invite you to do the same. Librov is not on the first page. It's not on the second page. It was on the third page. We should have it up on the first page. If you search on easy hacks, we're on the first page. And then this is a very important point in general for mentoring. We ask people to come and contribute to us, to give us their time, because we have a fabulous community, we have a very good product. What do we give them? In a moment, participating in Librov is the biggest public secret I know of. I want to be able to, whoever participates in a HackFest gets a certificate. I've just been administrating Google Summer of Code, it's actually was a job. I got a certificate from the vice director, wow. I don't need that certificate, but students do. A lot of the young people who are about to go out and get their first job, they need something and we can give it to them. Because we are one of the biggest projects. We are not the most known project, but we are very well known out there. So if they apply for, for instance, in the bigger companies, I happen to know Siemens quite well. Siemens check if their applicants have done open source work. And if they can say, yes, I have been working on Librov's complicated code. It's a big plus when they search for people. This is interesting. Yes, I think I found an in, but good thing is, I know what's on the last two slides. I'm not borrowing you that much. Slides will be uploaded afterwards. I don't know what happened there. Let me just be sure I have it here. Yes, I told you we have 20% of commits coming from contributors. And my intention next year is to keep it on 20%. I'm pretty sure the board was going to tell you, that's not ambitious. You need to do 25%. But my problem is, if I have contributors who really contribute, they become committers and that lowers the percentage. So I'm quite happy with 20% flow true. A lot of them only contribute one or two patches. I really don't waste too much time on them. We have a lot coming in. They solve what I call a certain replace hack and see, oh, it's complicated and walk away. When people come to their third or fourth patch, that's when they become interesting. They need a fast success, as I've said before. They need direct feedback on their patches, the quality of their code, a hint you could do this better, or have you looked at this patch? This is very similar to what you have already done. Then they need mentoring, mentoring saying, thanks for the patch. But not only thanks for the patch, take a look at this one. You have done this one, so this one is easy for you. People are lazy, they don't go searching for work. But if we tell them this is something you can do, they feel proud. Then I need to next year do some guides, and Mike has shown me how I can do videos, so my intention is to do a series of videos on how to use open grog, for instance. It's amazing how many people who doesn't know how to use that, and it's one of our best tools, actually. I asked a broad set of contributors, about 100, and the reply I got back was, it is a good community, very welcoming. But the code is far too difficult to understand. And I've heard this last sentence I've heard from nearly everybody, and I happen to agree with it. But that's where we can come in with guides. Last thing I'll tell you about is something for something, because I know it's not policy. I feel this is the best community of open source I've been in, and I have 59 years Sunday, so I've been in a couple of communities. This is far the best and far the most welcoming. But again, we don't give anything back. Busy students have many choices, why should they choose us? My idea is to send them a thank you after their first patch, as I told you, this was your first patch, could you have a look at, and then tell them about a reward scheme. What I'm about to tell you now is my idea, and it has not said yes or no to it. I want to, after 10 patches, give them an official PDF document signed by the foundation saying thank you for your valuable participation in LibreOffice, and by the way, a short note about how great LibreOffice is, so we get a little bit of marketing. They can use that for their CVs, but they can also use it to share it to their friends, so we can get the word spread by using mouth, the mouth-to-mouth or mouth-to-ear function. I already said it with a hack fest that for the hack fest, we should simply do it automatically. You participate in an event, here's a certificate that you participated. It doesn't cost us anything. The problem with these certificates is when I suggested it, I was told yes, why don't go ahead and do it, but you cannot sign it. What's a piece of paper if you get a certificate? I participated or your name participated in blah blah blah, but it's unsigned, it's worthless. So we need to make these papers signed, and that seems to be a challenge. That is the short version of mentoring. The long version will hopefully come in the year to come. My ideas at the moment is I use the first year to get things stabilized, to reduce the Garry backlogs, to reduce the Buxilla backlogs. That's more or less done now, so 2017 will be the year where I, seen from my dog perspective, do outreach with the help of the community. So you can expect quite a number of mails from me, more than usual, but with questions. I need to reach out to the local communities. We have too few developers from local communities. And that's something we need to do something about, because local communities know about local problems, and they are the best to solve it. I'm so happy that we have Cisco aboard now, also being Spanish. I'm Danish, but live in Spain. So we will do a lot to make Spanish hackfest and make Spanish meetings during the next year, again with the help of the community. So my last word before I ask for questions is, thank you for allowing me to help this community to be even better than it is.