Hi there, my name is John Tran and I am ST Application Engineer for NFC and RFID products. I'm here to show you a quick demo tutorial of the STM32 Cube MX NFC for firmware package. Before we start, let's quickly discuss near field communication and what it means for the world around us. NFC is a short-range wireless technology that is becoming widespread. As a matter of fact, in the year 2020, more than 60% of mobile phones come with NFC. And ABI research estimates that by 2024, NFC-enabled devices will reach 1.6 billion units. This application range from mobile payment to appliances, medical and industrial automation. ST recognizes the growing potential of NFC in vast number of applications. So we have built an extensive NFC product portfolio. Within the ST25 product family, we have the ST25T for tags, ST25D for dynamic tags, and ST25R for transceivers. You can explore our NFC product portfolio by navigating to the links shown here. What you see here is a demo consisted of the ex-nuclear NFC04A1 shield board with its circular antenna on top of the nuclear STM32L476RG. The boards are stacked via the Arduino connector. It demonstrates the use of ST25D dynamic tag IC with STM32 microcontroller and how RF field coming from an NFC phone can be used as an interrupt source. This diagram shows the components and how they are connected to complete the demo. So the ST25DV detects an RF field and interrupts the STM32 via its GPO pin. The microcontroller subsequently turns on the green LED. To complete this demo tutorial, you will need two pieces of hardware. The nuclear L476RG board and the NFC04A1 shield. You will also need to install STM32QMX and STM32QIDE by navigating your web browser to the last two links of this list. Let's quickly go through what we are going to do in this short tutorial. First we will install QMX code generator in QIDE debugger. Once we have done that, we will proceed to set the correct GPIOs and needed peripheral. There is also some setting of the XCube NFC4 package that we need to pay attention to. After all that, we will proceed to project export and run the project. Once you have successfully installed STM32QMX, select the application and run it. You will need an internet connection at this point to install necessary package such as STM32QL4 and XNUCLEAR NFC4. Locate the install and remove embedded software button at the right side of the screen. The embedded software package manager will open up and you can see if you need to install the STM32L4Q package. Here the green box indicates install package, while clear blue box shows all the relevant package that could be installed for working with the STM32L4 microcontroller. Notice that in this particular example screenshot, the STM32QL4 is already installed at version 1.16.0. Next we will install the XCube NFC4 by clicking on the STM32L4Q tab. Notice that in this particular example screenshot, we already have version 2.0.0 installed. Now start your project by clicking on the access board selector button. We will choose which board we plan to use. You will see a list of boards navigate to the NUCLEAR L476RG and click on start project. A dialog will open and you will click on no. A 64-pin package will then be shown. You will notice here that some pins are already assigned to certain features specific to the NUCLEAR board. Reveal the list on the left and set up additional GPIO assignments. These pins will connect to the XNUCLEAR NFC4A1 shield board. For example, if you click on PA10, a dialog box will open and you will select GPIO underscore output. Under connectivity, select the I2C1 peripheral, then enable it for I2C operation. Under parameter setting tab, inspect the I2C1 configuration and make sure that it matches what is shown here on this example screenshot. Next we will enable the external interrupt and configure it. Under the system core tab, select NVIC, then check the box that is corresponding to the EXTI line 9 through 5 interrupt. Next you will navigate to the software packs drop-down menu bar. This is located directly below the clock configuration tab. Then click on select component. You can also select this item using out all key combination. Click on SD Microelectronics XCube NFC4 to expand it. Then click on board extension similar to review the NFC04A1 checkbox. Take the checkbox. Finally you click on device to expand it. Only one item application is in this drop-down menu. You will select general purpose output, then you click OK. One last thing before we compile and debug, navigate to software packs at the middle left of your screen. There should only one item that you can click on. Check the box next to device NFC04 application and board extension NFC. Under platform setting tab, assign the correction hardware to the pins. For example for the yellow LED, select PA10 under found solution. Essentially duplicate what you see here on the screenshot. Now navigate to the project manager tab and give your project a name. Here we name it QMXGPL. Then select SEM32CubeID under to change slash IDE. Generate under root checkbox should be ticked for win 10. Click on generate code and then open project when the dialog appears. Here is the project in cube IDE. You can browse through the project file structures and examine the code. Now you can add or change code at this point. Make sure that you run the code first to confirm its operation. This screenshot shows the correct configuration for the debugger. Make sure that you have the board connected via a mini USB cable before running the code. Using an NFC phone near will light up the green LED showing that SD25DV detects its RF field. Thank you and we hope that you enjoyed this short tutorial with NFC and SEM32. Feel free to exercise our example within XCube NFC4. You can also complete this tutorial with all the SEM32 variants that are available in Nucleus 64 hardware format.


At first, I'd like to say thank you to the organizers that have given to me the opportunity to discuss without you about the lombards, that is one of the migrant population present in Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages. As you know, the approaching to the study of Bunsen population is never simple. And as we are so far, this challenge can be fought using the interdisciplinary. So I'm here to present you how the population on the move arrived in Italy and changed the Roman political structure. Especially, I'll introduce you to settlements maybe the less known, from the north of Italy, Povigliano-Veronese, and from the central Italy, La Cervicciola. The bio-archeological investigation that we are running out in Sapienza University of Rome with University of Catholic and Milan has the aim to explore the lifestyle of these two lombard communities as they arrived in Italy. And to compare eventual biological changes in the passage from a migrant to a stationary population, changes that are clearly shown from the material culture. So from their mythic origins in south of Scandinavia at the beginning of the first century BC, the lombards left their land and started a very long migration through the north of Europe along the hunger of the so-called Pannonia, the Roman region, where they have been spent 42 years before to move to Italy. When lombards finally arrived in Italy, their Germanic traditions were very strong as we can see in the dead's grave goods. From these moments in Italy, the use of burying the dressed dead starts, and especially, a lot of weapons start to be present in warrior's grave goods. At the end of the sixth century, who has taken part of the battle to conquer the peninsula, was buried with typical Germanic weapons and a wooden structure called Trotembrette, or the Houses of the Dead, where we can see four holes where the pales were located to support the roof. Anyway, during the next generation, this habit changed underlying a preference for the Byzantine or Roman style, as it is shown in the picture here, where the belt is composed of more pieces and new weapon is introduced, the scramothax, a single cut knife. The crucial point that starts during the second generation of Lombards in Italy, and that becomes more evident in the next generation, is the representation of the power. It is necessary to specify that with the Lombard invasion, the central control guaranteed by the Empire, the Roman Empire ended. So then, with the third generation, the act of burying the dead is the key moment where all the community is present and the transmission of the inherited status to the dead's group is clear seen and approved. The ritual of the funeral is administrated by the parental group without external forms, lasting in time. The variable appear to sometimes objects in the Germanic or Byzantine style shows that the elements of the funeral items were not chosen to underline the ethnic belongings, but to show off the social prestige achieved. So the grave goods started to be even more rich, up to contain golden stuff for the horse riding, clearly not used, but only given to the dead. On the other hand, female grave goods had to reflect the man's high status. So if during the first phase, the Fibulae recall immediately to the Germanic style made in precious materials, during the following generations, the Byzantine influences were even more present, that is, from the first generation and then the next ones. Especially the realization of the brutes, as we can see here, where the shape is completely modified, moreover, a new object become even more common, the wearing horse, even if there are some academics that interpret these words, not as a tool, but as a kind of hoarding the metal. So now the message is clean, the power or the high status is shared among a restricted number of people. But how can we understand if in this period of transition of people and traditions, the man was really a horse rider, as suggested by the presence of the staff? So we'd aim to answer to this question to scatter collection from necropolis in object I hear presented from the countryside. So let's start with Povellano-Veronese. This necropolis was discovered in 1985, 15 kilometers of the city of Verona. During the Roman and post-classical periods, the site was along via Postumia, one of the main ancient Roman roads of Northern Italy, that he's hearing red on the map, used by German population to get into the peninsula. The tombs appear to be organized in large nooklin, and within these are aligned on straight lines, even if often on short segments. Seen the distribution of sex and age, it seems very likely that each group may represent an extended family group. Even if in other Italian recovered disease, the organization of the space seems clear because each space and generation occupies a confined zone. On the contrary, at Povellano-Veronese, all sector of the large necropolis are used for the whole duration with progressive development, without changing the area of immigration that is the pattern shown here in C. So from the analysis of Strontium, 26% of the sample population belongs to the group of non-locals, probably migrated there during their lifetime. All these individuals show an ancient grave group that imbued to the first phase of Lombards in Italy, so around 568. It is interesting to note that these values are compatible with those of the Lombards buried in Hungarian necropolis of Zola, even if these kinds of that has to be very, very controlled. Finally, a low range of isotopic values of the group of a laxoness does not show correspondences with the other groups. Likely they were individuals integrated to the Lombards... Sorry. Do the Lombards own their way to Italy to become warriors or to join marriage or because they are prisoners of war? Moreover, further analysis on carbon and nitrogen will help us to clarify the diet. It seems clear that the old hygiene was not so common among the Lombards in Povogliano-Veronese, especially all the people show high percentage of caries, especially from the first generation. These can maybe be explained because of a carbon-hydrate-based diet not followed by the Lombards before they arrived in Italy. Indeed, the percentage of caries in the two following generations matches very well with a new diet. This change of life can be seen also in the musculoskeletal stress markers and pathologies. 34% of the odors shows clear signs of the osteoarthritis on the back. High rate of the generative joint disease in the hips and tarsals and metatarsals reveal a heavy stress of the lower skeleton. Moreover, it is, in one case, it's clear the so-called night syndrome. And, moreover, a man exhibits several skeletal defects that can reflect changes to the amputate, to an amputated forearm. So, over the surprisingly findings, his survival shows a very deep knowledge of medicine in apriantibiotic area. Finally, from the analysis of the epigenetic traits, two groups of individuals pop up from the east of the Necropolis. In the first group of three burials, two of them have an equal set of epigenetic traits. The second one, composed by four individuals, shows two individuals with a type of burial that is called the tontembrat and epigenetics in common. So now let's go to the site of La Selvicciola in central Italy. The exhibition, still ongoing, revealed the existence of a vast rural villa complex with a well-defined funerary area. As you said, with the Necropolis, it was found at Christian Church with a single laser. The rural villa around the 5th century was abandoned and then testified by collapsed oil and black soils into the walls of the buildings and so indicating the use of the inner part of the villa for farm purposes. Moreover, the poor population that remained there after the villa abandonment started the funerary area. When the Longobar group arrived on the ruins of the villa, there is a modest living presence witnessed by post-holes in the Cochi Pesto floors of the villa. So the lombards started living there in wooden huts and burying their deads in the same funerary area. Here, the smallest rectangle that we can see here, we can see Longobar groups, formed by all our men with the richest grade goods are shown in green circles. It is interesting how parts of them was buried in the church as to imitate the burials as Santa near the holy part of the church. And another part remained very well separated in another area of the Necropolis. So the value of ontological analysis has underlined the high presence of Cribra of Italia and hyperostosis in children and adults. A survey based on the consumption of plants and meat showed a low isotopic variability of animal proteins indicating a good supply of meat, milk, and products derived from this. However, a study conducted on the hilt of the oral cavity showed a high percentage of caries suggesting an important serial consumption confirmed by the hyperostosis. Specifically, this pathology seems to be related to the high consumption of cereals. And moreover, a certain difference in diet, specifically about the consumption of fish and C14 plants was in favor of older individuals over the age of 50. And this is also evident in the difference between men and women. So guided by the archeological division of the burials between the first and the following generation in Povelliano-Veronese and the differentiation between Roman and long bar quarries at La Selvicciola, we have performed a first set of infos about the stature. And with this analysis, the individuals of the first generation of Povelliano-Veronese appear to be taller than the ones from La Selvicciola. And then the slightly decrease in stature at Povelliano in the subsequent generation is statistically significant. Anyway, all the individuals from Povelliano and La Selvicciola are taller than Roman Herapidans in Italy in the post-classical period. So how can we proceed now? At the moment, we have tried to answer in part to the questions about mobility, lifestyle, and diet. But it is necessary to extend the example to other individuals from the same necropolises, especially to understand the relationships between lombards and locals. Moreover, other necropolises can be taken in consideration like, for example, San Mauro, near Cividale del Frierelli, to focus on the first lombards arrived in the peninsula or like Castell Trusino, near the center of Italy. A very rich necropolis, very strategic and in clear connection with business, with Rome. It's clear so that DNA analysis among the German population and the Roman ones can help to understand the speed of integration and how the ethnicity was not so crucial in the migration period in Italy. As the successful example from Collegna has demonstrated with the integration among Romans, lombards, and Franks. That is, at least here, there are all the collaborators of the project and I want to thank you for listening. Fantastic. Next up is that Cattin Muller from the University of Freiburg who's looking at challenges and theories surrounding settlement in internal burial sites in southern Germany. And this work is from her master's thesis, but she's just started or just about to start her PhD. Okay, I want to welcome you. I will talk about the settlement in internal burial sites in southern Germany, as you heard, and with that, the transition of burial behavior in early medieval times. The settlement in internal burial sites, better known as palm yard, burial grounds, with a theme of master's thesis, as you heard. And today I want to present some challenges and theories surrounding them. First I want to give a short introduction into different burial forms, as from the Marrowville-Wingard period. In southern Germany, different style of burial grounds can be observed from the late 7th century on. During that time, the usually used rogue grave yards or I never felt a start to decrease while other forms came up like the separation on rogue grave yards or totally separated small groups which seemed to be created without references to any other structures. We can also observe circular trenches or burial mounds and at least we can see a shift from outside of the settlement to the inside. Next to the upcoming church yards, also burials without any relation to churches come up and these are the settlement internal burial sites. And by the end of this transitional period, the church yard has established as the only burial ground. So burials at churches are not part of this type, even if they are also located inside the settlement but another background is presumed. So now how can burials be determined as settlement internal ones and which conditions have to be given to be able to work with them? First there are prerequisites. The graves have to be located inside the settlement and the settlement has to be documented and both of them, the settlement and the graves need to have existed during the same time which is not always easy to prove. And secondary requests, requisites have to identify whether the graves date approximately the same time as the settlement or not and indication therefore can be if the graves show any relation to the settlement structures or if they're orientated west east. And third point is that the research conditions that have to be given to be able to analyze this phenomena that means that on the one hand that the excavation techniques have to be modern or at least the settlement itself has to be documented. On the other hand, the data and research have to be accessible. So some of the most famous sites with graves inside settlements are not yet published. So a real source criticism can hardly be done. I followed my criteria and was able to identify 30 sites in Southern Germany so far. Here you can see the examination area. It includes the regions, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. The red dot marked the places where the burials were found. 23 of them are located in Bavaria, only seven in Baden-Württemberg. This doesn't display a real distribution but also the intensity of archeological research. And that's about the location of Lauchheim, my next example. This is, it is one of the most popular grave groups in Germany. This group can be called a prime example. Seven graves are situated close to a farmyard as the different stages of the closure show. The second and third state date the same time as the graves. So over the time, graves were included to the farmyard. That makes it obvious that they belong together. As I said, this is a prime example. In Lauchheim, there are many graves and grave groups that are less known. Yes, yeah. The group I just showed is down there in the east, proud east. Here you can see the whole plan of the excavation. The size of the excavation is of great importance but most of the time there are then just one, more than just one grave group can be observed, like you can see it. But there are a lot more groups which are less known. One reason is the amount of grave goods, as we heard before, they were found rich goods in the southeastern part group and the others were less rich. Yeah, so the investigation on these other graves were not that intense like on the southern group. So they were never really considered so far. As I said, this example, the first example was a prime example. Usually, the grave groups are less systematic. So with a closer look, several forms can be observed. That's one example. This grave group five has a triangular form and is not included through trenches. The analysis of Valerie Schoenberg, the excavator, point out that this group could be orientated on a pathway that can be observed very often. Also, it is unsure which structure of the farm or farm they're following, so that's usually the case. It is not possible to say whom or which farm to whom these graves belong to. The term of farm yard burial grounds implicates the belonging of the grave graves to a farm. Different forms and belongings brought me to the point to choose the term of settlement into a burial site. So now I'm going to present the previous chronological reconstruction of the transition from the railroad yard to the church yard during the Merovinge period, the second half of the fifth till the beginning of the seventh century. People of the settlement or from several farms that used one big railroad yard. At the beginning of the late Merovinge period, the second half of the seventh century with several other burial forms came up. Like I said at the beginning, beside the railroad yard, it was possible to bury it at other places like inside the settlement or especially at the church yard. At the beginning of the eighth century, this phase is ending with the degrees of the different types until the Carolingian period from the mid eighth century on, which displays the last phase of the transition. The church yard was established as the only burial ground while the other forms abandoned. This leads me to the main problem we have to solve when studying the burial practice of the Carolingian period. In Germany, we have grave graves started. In Germany grave graves started to disappear from the seventh, eighth century on. So there is a grave grave. If there's a grave group with grave goods and without grave goods, the whole group will be dated by the goods. Here, there you can see how many graves were buried with goods of mine. The 30 sides include 883 graves. 305 of them are hard to determine. That's 35%. 247 burials or 28% do have goods while 331 burials and 37% do not have any goods or signs of them left. So the dating of the whole phenomena of graves inside settlement was accurately made by a few like these 28%. That makes it obvious that the end of the burials inside settlements is similar with the end of the practice to bury with grave goods. By archaeological way, typology and stratigraphy, at least one side point to a longer dating phase of the phenomena. Bad Cotsing, Glöckliwów, one of the graves was snagging into the side wall of a cellar and a feminist posquame of the ninth century is given by Pottery founder, The Filling. But here, only at two of the 30 sides were graves dated by radio cavemen analyzers. Both indicate a longer period of the settlement into grave groups till the ninth or even 10th century. One of them is Kielham Canal I, as you see here. You can see the whole excavation area. The red circles mark the graves. The data displayed shows the Sigma II range. For one of these graves it's possible to be created in the late 7th century while for the others it is likely to be created at the time between the second half of the 8th and the 10th century. This date must be at the beginning of new investigations to determine the runtime more precisely. Now I want to change the point of view to now I present some challenges when studying the end of the transition. Now I want to discuss the beginning of the origin of the phenomena which reasons let the people to bury their relatives. Within the space of the living there are three theories why the people started to bury their relatives inside of the settlement. I want to present and discuss them in a simplified form. These theories are based on religion, on vertical social diversity and on horizontal social diversity. So the theory about radical change in the religious beliefs which affects the burials in an elementary way while the church and Christianity are evolving more and more is the first part. The people did not want to bury on a pagan rogue graveyard anymore so other burial sites needed to be created. The best way would have been at a church. Churches were not located in every settlement yet so they had to bury somewhere else. And on the other hand the theory was turned around so that only the burial at the church is Christian while the other forms like the farmyard burials are pagan. Today we know about so many counter arguments for both of them. This theory cannot be the answer. First the rogue graveyards are already established in a Christian context and some of the burials on rogue graveyards and inside of settlements have Christian grave goods like gold foil crosses which demonstrate the Christian surrounding. Another point is that we do not know any prohibition of other burial grounds than the church yard. The only prohibition we know is by Charlemagne at the end of the eighth century. These are directed at the sections and within their context they are limited in space and time. They do not allow any generalization. Special grave constructions or graved goods are used as a microphone upper social class. They can be started long discussion about graved goods and what they can tell us about the status of the buried person but here I don't want to focus on that but what can be said is that as you saw only 28% were buried with goods. Only 16 burials of these do have an extraordinary furnishing. That's around 1.8% of all burials found inside of settlements. And Rea Charlemagne did some more logic studies and nitrogen isotopic analysis to find the quality of the specific diet of the births of the site of Kalaheim as the example you saw before. The results of a comparison within the graves and the graves of a closed row graveyard show no differences. So an upper social class cannot be proven here. It seems like there was no restriction of who is allowed to be buried there at least in term of vertical social diversity. Another theory why this burial form came up is the consolidation of land. Did the owner try to legitimize claim on farmstead and land? We can hardly reconstruct the ownership of this time so this thesis can hardly be verified. As Pantheos said or showed, the creation of an anchorstall order could be a way of formulating such a claim. This order can be created by the founding of a grave group with rich equipment or rich-equipped grave of a male on a farm yard. Looking at the single graves and assuming that it was not intended that they should remain single at the time of their formation but should form the beginning of a group, we see that this model does not apply to Southern Germany. Less than 40% of all single burials are male and only about 30% do have grave goods but not especially rich ones. So first summarizing the current theories are not convincing enough to explain the phenomenon. However, it seems like the people have the free choice where to bury their relatives. What can be said is that there are too many of these small burial grounds to be considered as unusual. Questions come up, did the family become more important during this time? At least death was more integrated into the social society of the living. Did this lead to the change in the form of burials? And second, the transition of burial grounds was already declared to be explained but as the possibilities of archeological research move on, the death data shows a long lasting development or continuity rather than a break and radical change. More of the graves should be dated by radiocaven analysis, lysis or dendrochronology if possible. This will have to fulfill the gap of the ninth and 10th century. The problem of missing dates is not only a challenge when studying the settlement into burials but also of the other ties of burial grounds. The still used but outdated model of transition from the photograph yard to the church yard needs to be redesigned. Thank you. Thank you.


SWAG was created in 2018. The birth of SWAG really came about from a few individual women who felt marginalized within the agriculture sector here that exist to provide women growers and farmers of Samoa with opportunities for business, networking, training and education. We use the term grower because when you say farmer, there's often a gendered aspect to that. There's a notion that already this is a man's job and that you have a lot of land in which you're farming. And for a lot of women, they don't have access to large amounts of land. So they're growing things around their home to feed their families, to earn a little extra income on the side. And we just wanted to remind people that if you're growing something, you actually are farming. There was no organization that said we are keen to advocate for women, to make sure that women's issues are actually incorporated into policies, incorporated into strategic plans, and to make sure that women are actually involved in the decision making and involved in the design. We're also seeing that they're changing what are the requirements for those women to participate. You don't have to all of a sudden have to have five acres of land or have this type of equipment, etc. And that's the way to guarantee that women who want to become more involved in the agriculture sector can now start slowly transitioning into becoming more experienced growers. The COVID pandemic affected Samoa in March of 2020. So this dramatically affected the agriculture sector in terms of our local market. It also made it very difficult for export. Our members came to us and they said, look, we don't have the Sunday market anymore. It's been closed down because of the state of emergency. So the COVID reality caused us to create a space that we hadn't anticipated creating. But because of it, we're so grateful that we have because we have such a broader wider family now because of the swag market. We're keen to actually do a workshop where we train up those who have just stepped into the formal space, are just practicing what it's like to be a business owner, but then learn about how online marketing can expand dramatically not only the type of clientele they have but also the way in which they can share their products with others. So that's the next step for us, getting these women who created all these amazing products to be known to the world.


France withdrawing troops, recalling diplomats from Niger on humiliating terms. France's erroneous policy in Africa has driven Paris into a desperate situation where it is being compelled to recall its diplomats and withdraw its troops from Niger on humiliating terms. Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally Faction in the Lower House of France's parliament said, It was not a solution. She said in an interview with the France inter-radio station when asked to comment on French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to recall the ambassador and withdraw troops from Niger. Actually Macron had no choice. This is sad because the way this is unfolding gives the impression that we are being forcibly kicked out of Africa. But there was no other choice. We are recalling our ambassador and withdrawing our troops on humiliating terms. This is a serious fiasco for French diplomacy. According to Le Pen, the French leader had apparently been calculating that the Nigerian military rebels would not succeed in holding power this long and that the economic community of West African states would eventually intervene militarily in the country to restore constitutional order. But nothing like this happened in reality. An analysis of the situation shows that he had no other option but to announce the withdrawal. She said, In late July, a group of military rebels in Niger announced the removal of President Mohammed Bazoum. The mutineers then established the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland headed by General Abdulrahman Chiani to run the country. In early August, the Nigerian rebels denounced military agreements with France and demanded that the French military contingent be withdrawn from the country. Thank you for watching.


Well, as subtle Francis, very, very laxadaisical there, and Alonso is luckily not able to take advantage of it, as Wilson is trying to pin David Louise, and he's turned away from him there, and he finds King in a bit of space, looking to release Rico on the left-hand side, which he does now.  Chelsea, Neil Bournemouth feel, Terry's with their second corner of the afternoon. But their first at their favourite shed end of Stanford Bridge. It's like attacking the north end at Dincourt. And it comes from Rico. Swung in towards Steve Cook and cleared away. In fact, it's put over the bar, I think, for Wilson. This is the only man of the big six the shows have got in the next five games as well, as they come forward now with Pedro. Chelsea, Pedro to the ear, little one, two with Giroud. Pedro, great drop of the body, and Pedro off the substitutes bench makes the difference. Fine footwork on the edge of the penalty area, and it came back to him on the 18-yard line, and he drilled it into the bottom-left corner past Begavitch, run for Wilson. He was caught from behind. Now Frazer might be in. Ryan Frazer, inside left-channel, wide. Again, heads in hands on the Terry's bench and on the field. He's coming off as well. Rico to depart in a second. This is Chelsea on the attack at the other end, Alonso, just inside the penalty area. Back to Azar, once more! The goal's been coming for me to Azar, that is for sure. He's been at the heart of most good things that Chelsea have done this afternoon, and he has surely put the game even beyond the combat kings here at the bridge. Five minutes left, Chelsea 2, Bournemouth.


back again with another Dez update and he said again today that he tested negative so this whole thing with Dez Brian continues to remain a mystery some people say again Jerry Jones made a call to the league and he said oh no I ain't dealing with Dez this game nope take them out other people feel like the Ravens it may be a sort of doghouse type of thing and there's some people think the Ravens are just proceeding on the side of caution because of the previous outbreak that they had and all three are reasonable ideas and they could all be true but the bottom line is that Dez status right now is super up in the air but something that I wanted to share with y'all that I know a lot of you guys on Twitter have seen already is Sarah Ellison's tweet that she tweeted actually today and let me read it word for word she said I'm curious if there's Brian is asymptomatic because if he is and if he really received back to back negative tests separated by 24 hours there may be a chance that he could be cleared for a return before the Browns game that's based on the current rules as I understand them so she also screenshot it a picture of the current rules so let's take a listen to what they are says asymptomatic players cannot return until ten days have passed since initial positive test or five days have passed since initial positive tests and two consecutive negative tests are completed separated by 24 hours within a five day period the return is approved by a team's physician after consulting with the ICS and the NFL's chief medical officer and I believe that's Alan seals I believe don't quote me on that though because y'all know I'll be getting a lot of stuff from anyway so he and he's been saying that he hasn't been feeling any type of way I mean besides getting drunk on that on that Tuesday night football game but besides then he said he ain't been feeling bad he ain't been feeling anything and he's been he's been giving us updates like we've been getting more updates straight from Dez more than anything so he ain't let it leak through any reporter he ain't let it leak through any website he ain't leak let it leak through any news anything like that there's Bryant has been dropping his information before anybody else did now let's look at the timeline because we played the Dallas Cowboys on December 8th and that was when that's the infamous dad's Bryant day that's when everything went down initially so if you take the 8th and that's when he initially was positive he got placed on the non-team keeping clean list well he hadn't got placed on it yet but that's when they say he was positive so Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday or unless unless it's five days starting on Tuesday see because with that oh wait a minute let me go back to her three cuz she said oh yeah five days have passed since the initial positive test so five days would have had to pass so yeah Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday so that would be five days and you know what when I was initially counting off the days I was thinking oh man well I guess he really can't come back for the Browns game because the Browns game is on Sunday but then it just clicked in my head the 5th day would be Sunday and the Browns game is on Monday so it is still possible that he may be able to return for this matchup against the Cleveland Browns and one of my guys JT shout out to my guy JT because he always be dropping gyms on me all the time he said a good point he said from a psychological standpoint it may end up being a good thing that there's Bryant didn't play versus the Cowboys and I know initially if a lot of people hit at what like what why would that be a good thing that there's Bryant didn't play against the Cowboys like this dude wanted revenge against the Cowboys this dude had that game circled on his calendar next to his glass of wine he was ready for that game that's that's probably the game he was looking forward to the most now of course I'm sure he probably was thinking the Super Bowl but I'm I think Super Bowl was even below that this dude wanted to go against the Cowboys and prove them wrong say hey y'all made a bad decision a bad decision but anyway he said that would have been a pressure valve release for him and he could have lost his edge after that game so and right when he said that I was like that's a good point and that's a big possibility because you know Dez was amped up for this game he was so hyped for this game and it's like when you looking forward to something for so long especially when you've been preparing for something you've been just it's been on your mind heavy it's been weighing on you for a long time when you finally get the opportunity to do it and you conquer it it's like yeah let's go all right I did it cool all right so well what's next what's next so you may not even be stunting anything else like that so and not not that that is a guarantee that's that that's how there's Brian would have felt because I'm sure with him being out of football for so long and not having seen the field in football for so long just him being back he's appreciating the moment appreciating every game appreciating every snap but it is a possibility that that could have happened because that was the moment that not only there's Brian but so many there's Brian fans so many Cowboys fans so many Ravens fans and just so many NFL fans it's the moment that a lot of them were waiting for but it got literally taken away like that and it got taken away like right before it was about to start right before it was really is literally getting ready to start it's about 15 20 minutes before it started and it got taken away so this really if if theirs wasn't humble before oh boy like this is like mmm and he's continued to get so many reminders of how the game can be taken away from him like we talked about in the previous video about there's Brian it against it when he's got signed to the Saints yeah I think he was getting ready to play the Cowboys and boom his Achilles toys Achilles and then of course we're just nobody giving him a look for years nobody gave him a look for years and you know oftentimes when when a player is out of the NFL for years it takes a lot for them to get back and enough times a lot of people don't even give them another chance like it's hard enough for players that sit out that sit out the NFL for one year alone but those players that have been out for multiple years oh it's 20 times harder because teams are looking at you especially if you're older too like y'all remember y'all remember the big Percy Harvin come back y'all remember that because I just remembered about that a couple days ago because I was thinking about some different wide receivers and whatnot I was thinking about just this this season as a whole and I remember before the season started Percy Harvin he was trying to come back but Percy Harvin hasn't played the game in a long time he hasn't played the game in years and did he get signed by anybody no nothing I don't even think there was even a visit so when you're out the game for a while people move on they move on and they go forward without you and that fail does not wait for anybody doesn't matter how good how great you were how good how great you are I mean even look at Antonio Brown now he of course is getting another opportunity right now and he he'll even have another opportunity next year too because his whole case got pushed back to December 2021 so he's straight for a while but even though like when he got released from the Raiders then released from the Patriots he was out of football for the rest of the year did the Raiders stop everything that they were doing I say oh no no no Antonio Brown guess we can't do anything that no did the Patriots stop everything they were doing I say oh man no Antonio Brown guess we can't know and did the Steelers when they release him I mean well when they they traded or whatever did they stop everything they were doing I say oh man no Antonio no and this dude was one of the best receivers in the league if not I mean some people called him the best receiving the league and nothing stopped so the NFL goes on with or without you they it's a business and that business just keeps on trucking and you will get left behind quick so there's Brian he's more than aware of that he knows that situation he knows those circumstances so yeah I do still what my guy JT said is is still a very valid point still a very valid point he also went on to say if and when he comes back to the team hopefully that's sooner rather than later but he said if and when he comes back to the team he'll have to prove his point to the Cowboys through the Ravens remaining competition so yeah Cowboys he ain't gonna get to play them anymore this year he's not gonna get to do anything against the Cowboys now one thing that's very interesting and I know it's kind of jumping ahead and hopefully as Ravens fans we don't have to look to the future after week 17 hopefully we'll still be in the present meaning we'll still be playing but it's looking ahead a bit but it's fine with there's Brian one thing that I would pay attention to if he decides to continue to play after this year which I could see him doing I would think that he would definitely only be interested in teams that play the Cowboys I really do I whether it be Washington football team whether it would be the Eagles the Giants or just anybody who has Cowboys on this schedule because you know how important that was to me yeah he'll be another year older might be a tad bit slower but that's something that you know he still wants to do because it's one thing like you you could face again you could face off against all these other teams you could look good you could look great you could look like you still got something left but it just it wouldn't hit the same as if you were playing a Cowboys it wouldn't be the same and you know like if he walked in especially if it was a Cowboys stadium like playing a Cowboys that's that's good enough but if it was a Cowboys stadium too oh that would make it that much sweeter for him that much sweeter for him you know it would and then if he did get signed to a team that played the Cowboys you know NFL that there's is not the name that he used to be obviously but you know the NFL would at least think think about okay there's got he signed with that team because the schedule comes out far after free agency not a way after free agency but like a month after the initial wave of free agency because the free agency starts at March and the schedule usually comes out in April usually like the end of April the middle end of April so most of the big names they will have already signed with their teams and there's Brian hopefully if he still continues to play hopefully he'll be signed with a team by then but you got to think that the NFL depending on the other games and stuff but you got to think that if whatever team he signs to if they do play the Cowboys that the NFL will want to make that a primetime game whether late after no primetime game not even late afternoon on a Sunday not no 4 o'clock no a primetime game and probably a Thursday night football game and they didn't do that with the Ravens in the Cowboys because that game was already set before there's was even a thought of being on the Ravens that game was already set but I do really think that they they will consider that because I'd be nice little boost for ratings and it'd be fun to see like how will theirs do against his old team and of course you know they got them videos ready they'll probably recycle the videos from this year next year they gonna say oh no we ain't wasting this video nope and they'll just edit out all the Raven stuff if he's not a member the Ravens which is a good question some people have questioned that we'll with a Raven signed there's Brian after this year and my honest answer to that question is it's too early to tell even though it's very late in the season but it's too early to tell if the Ravens would hold on to him for another year if everything remained as is as it is right now I would say no and that's not anything against there's Brian it's not anything against the Ravens not anything against anybody but I just do not think that with there's Brian that for as much as he has contributed to the Ravens or as little as he has contributed to the Ravens so far I just do not think that he would be in their plans for the future I don't think that they were really making investment on there's Brian for the future and again that's not a bad thing it's not a good thing it's just a thing that's just what it is right now so we'll see we'll see how this whole thing ends up working out so anyway Team Keep It Clean I appreciate y'all I love y'all thank you for always listening and I hope you all are having a really good Friday make sure you check out the new Team Keep 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girlfriend. How y'all doing? I look kind of different, don't I? What is it? Uh-uh. Yeah, I mean, I'm just wanting to cough in a minute. It's a girl. It's my glasses. I switched to black glasses and I got my nails done. I do them myself. Aren't these cute y'all? Let me see if I can be still, so I can see. Yeah, I shared the picture on Instagram.  You really can't see this. I dreamt of rain. I don't know what that means. You country folks, tell me what that means. I dreamt of rain. Did it rain last night? I have to look, but I dreamt of rain and I woke up this morning and it looked like it's about to rain. This color is called Canadian Maple. I used to get this at the nail salon. Now, T9 Tom are open buying going over there. Hell no, girl. We ain't doing that. So today is Friday. It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. And I'm on my first week of working the... girl, what do you call this schedule? I don't know what you call this schedule, but basically you work nine days. You'd work nine days and get one day off. So, heck yes. Our symptoms have been lingering for weeks. And like a lot of... this is what I did say in the video. Like a lot of upper respiratory illnesses. The cough is the last to go. And sure enough, we are still coughing. Like, it's July 31st. I tested positive on the 12th. My husband tested positive on either the 8th or 9th. Now, check this. This is...   I'm just gonna go right out and say it. I'm not gonna say it. I'm not gonna say that. So, my husband was scheduled to return to work on the 20th, right? He started showing symptoms as early as the 8th. Let me back up. He started showing symptoms as early as the 7th, actually. He tested positive on the 10th. So, they were like, okay, he was doing really well because the job kept calling him job every day they were calling him. So, for about four days into it, his symptoms were very mild. But then what happened, his allergies were out of control. And then the fever came back and he felt horrible. He felt the worst out of all three of us, honestly. And so, until he got his flu shot, which was not flu shot, his allergy shot, which took a good, a good number of days. But catch this. They still wanted him to return to work on the 20th. He refused because he said, no, I'm still coughing and my fever goes up. He said it stays around 99 in the daytime and then it peaks around 100 at night. So, he felt that. He went to the urgent care on the 20th. We just, Phoenix is out of control. There is a serious delay in receiving your result because of the number of cases. And I'm pretty serious like this in a lot of other states, too. He just got his results from the urgent care yesterday, which is the 30th. 10 days later, he still showed positive. Now, and then, no, so I'm glad. I'm so thankful that he said, because again, this is about preventing other people from getting at you guys. This is about ensuring that we slow down the spread. Okay. Like I said, we felt on the man's and felt good. Excuse me. Look, I'm gone. Like I said, we had very amount symptoms. We could have easily been out. And the hardest thing for me is with JB because JB has felt okay. JB has not been anywhere enough. Hey, you guys, we are in our office. I wanted to show you real quick our setup for homeschool. I organized this about two weeks ago now. So over here, I'm not going to go through all of this. Over here is just where I'm having a lot of the supplies. These are all of the books we will be utilizing. We will be doing time learning. Yeah, this is a record player. But I have sorry behind him. I have the gold math series, geography stuff, world history along with African Atlas and African American history, basically your office slash workout room. So I'll be coming back here with my laptop. I do have a desktop available. I need to get I need to contact my company to get connections from my laptop. So this is JB's desk. I purchased this desk and shared through Wayfarer. Sit down, Donald, so they can see how you look. It's cool. It's cold now. Just got it yesterday. Yeah, this is his work caddy. We have supplies up here along with Stapler and then it into these drawers. I got this container through Amazon. Those bottom ones are not that great. Oh, you know what? This one's hard. I see why. This one is really just hard. I see why.  See? So these labels, y'all, I just purchased. I didn't purchase. I just found them online. We have Bible. I'm glad this one's just nothing. Yeah, Bible handwriting, history, math, reading. These are just all the different subjects we have. And then we have Stapler and again, some of the supplies you'll be using on a daily basis. So what I plan on doing is the week before whatever he has, this is what he has going on through either throughout the week or the day. My goal is to have everything here for the entire week. Okay, so anything that he has to do history related going here, anything that has to do with handwriting going here. Yeah, we're going to do for the entire week. Oh, Lord. So these are the different some of these posters I've already had. I already had these. These three, excuse me, the Africa poster world in US map. I've purchased these inspirational through Amazon.com. I really do like this one. Be the change in the world. Be the change you wish to see in the world. And of course, we have Malcolm X here with a great quote education is the passport to the future for Tamara belongs to those who prepare for it today. Awesome, awesome sauce. So I'm going to show you guys a little bit of the other curriculum we have. Again, a lot of it is book led. I'm a reader. I love books. So yeah, 9am every morning. We should be done by noon. Excuse me by noon every day. And look, my expectations are it will be a bit of a struggle, power struggle, honestly, for the first two to three weeks, I'm expecting that. So I got a little child pray for my patience. So I purchased this teachers planner through Amazon.com. It basically allows you to list the subjects going to Crock and the days of the week going to the bottom. As far as record keeping, look, no, I will be using just a spiral notebook and writing down everything that he did for the day and everything in a regular spiral notebook, nothing fancy just writing everything that he did, I will even be tracking his behavior, you know, so this is what our calendar looks like for the academic year I went ahead and put in our quote unquote school closures along with any holidays that we are acknowledging. Sorry, my nose is all of a sudden running. And these are the goals. Second great goals. ELA second great goals map. I got that from teachers pay teachers. I excuse the background. I do apologize. I mapped out a curriculum for history of technology slash science. This is stuff that JB requested. He wanted to know a little bit more about old school technology. So this will be a part of our social studies curriculum. And I've mapped out history curriculum for us using utilizing many of the books that I have in the back here. Oh my god, JB, we will be doing a composer of the month or you know, every two months or so. Look, this is messy. I, I included all of the well known composers into one month, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, you're okay, girl, whatever. And then we're going to be highlighting some black composers. I think that's really important. For you guys, I'm gonna show you it's been a while since I show you cooking, right? So I'm gonna show you what I'm cooking for my husband from lunch today.  I'm the type of like to keep my stove clean while I'm cooking. Hold on y'all. Definitely with the outbreak, I try to make sure that he has lunch at work. I don't even want him going into the cafeteria, like eat within the lab. They have a break room in the lab. I don't even leave. So zucchini, I don't know, girl, zucchini. Yeah, zucchini that I've chopped up. I'm likely sauteing with some spices. We have corn in the back here and couscous. Now couscous is very easy to make y'all. I'm gonna fall down if you climb up there. You have to excuse the living room. This is his play area. Now JB's is in the class, right? So, so it's a family of three and and there's a and there's a meal. Hey, you guys, we're in the back room. I'm gonna finish this one story for JB. I got put my moisturizer on first, baby. Let me show y'all what I'm going to be using to blow out my hair here in like two more weeks. Like, now I'm hungry pizza. I'm getting hungry. No, pizza. I should be supposed to be doing my hair. That's a miracle. So, y'all, I just got this in the mail from Amazon. This is can't to shave but a thermal shield heat protectant. Less than five bucks.  And some shears. I'm gonna make some phone calls. Both Angel and my sister call me back. Call me today. Nessie Nips. Yeah. She called me. I've been really busy. I just became a influencer. Well, I am an influencer. I became I have a partnership now with Design Extentials. I don't mind telling y'all that. Um person walking. Someone else contacted me. They wanted me to review their products. I can't remember if it was Korea or if it was what is the other one y'all. I can't remember if it was Korea but tentacles are kinky tresses that contacted me. You know what? I've had good relationships with brand owners. Um and one thing I forgot to say in my video snowflakes. One thing I forgot to mention in that video where I was discussing the situation between my yell organics. Excuse me. My yell cuz she took out the organics because she changed the formula on some of her products. I could have been petty and brought that up. I could have been petty and brought up the fact that people had issues with their Black Friday. I could have been petty and brought up the fact that people had issues with their May order and even you know I could have went there and brought up the fact that she had made some excuse me some shady remarks in regards to the main choice Courtney y'all y'all who don't know Courtney started here on YouTube So anyway, this is a expensive base. Got it for $4.99 at the Goodwill. favorable comments in response to I'm saying something in response to Jane Carter products and also Mish Beauty is a brand. They both were very open to the feedback. Um and it charade basically called Juanita products. Her clay washes one of her clay watches trash. I will she she Juanita is cool though. Juanita is the owner of chocolate kinks and curls. Mish Beauty was very over. I was surprised. I wasn't surprised but I was surprised because I was less unfavorable in one of my reviews. Y'all know me. I don't call back and she she's a YouTuber. Also, I forgot her YouTube name but she came under my my video was very, you know, grateful for reviewing it was positive and yeah, that's how you supposed to be. Okay, so y'all let's get into the story time. So let's get into the story time baby about Jasmine who works at the old Wilson Plantation and had the encounter with Quentin, the mysterious man who just so happened to be albino and the interactions he had with Mr. Joe, the old caretaker of the plantation. So I'm gonna put the camera more on him y'all. So quit all that dang all bouncing. I was thinking about the rest of the story. So you ready for it? You ready to hear it? Okay, baby. Things slowly returned to normal and she slowly forgets about the altercation between Mr. Joe and Quentin, right? So one morning as she was getting ready for her first, I think she has like a nine o'clock tour, right? One morning as she was getting ready for her nine o'clock tour, she receives a phone call from her grandmother. And she's like, that's odd. Her grandmother knows that her first tour starts now. So why is she calling her now? So she quickly turns it off and put her phone on silence so that she can go ahead and get to work. So the first tour went well. Everything went great. She had a great crowd. She got some great tips. She's like, Oh, with these tips, I'll be able to go out later on tonight with my friend. So in between her, you know, break, she goes ahead and turn her phone back on. She sees that she now has five missed phone calls from her grandmother. That's very strange, right? Not only did she have five missed phone calls from her grandmother, but she also got one missed phone call from her from her cousin, Monica. So she's like, Okay, what's going on? Not the doll, Monica child. Look, this is my, my thick old Barbie doll, Monica. Her child. Yes, come through a Monica with the pooch. So she's like, I'm the voicemail. On the voice message, her cousin was like, Mina, can you hear me up and call me right away? It's about your it's about on Papa. There's something something happening to him. So she calls. She's like, what happened? You know, she calls her cousin Monica. She's like, what happened? Can you let me know what happened?  She's like, you know, I'm at work. So I turned my phone off. She's like, Okay, well, Papa had a stroke. He's in the hospital. She clicks before hearing anything else. She goes outside runs outside. She sees Mr. Joe. Mr. Joseph says that she's where she's Mr. Joe. My grandfather just had a stroke. He's like, Oh, okay, baby, I hope everything goes well. She's like, I'm gonna take off for the rest of the day and I'll I'll give y'all a call and let y'all know she gets into the hospital room.   They're like, what happened big mama? She's like, Oh, honey, your grandfather was in he was in the he was in the garage going he was in the garage looking for my old pressure cooker. I was wanting to make this make these pot of um of beans and the pressure cooker. And all of a sudden, I heard a crash and when I'm like, yeah, he was on the floor.  And so she holds her mama's her grandmother's hand. And then that's when her big mama tell her she's like, Well, baby, can you stop by the house and make sure that everything's turned off? I'm gonna stay with um I'm gonna say with your cousin Monica for the night and for probably the next night. So Mina says sure. So she she already still had a set of keys because she's still live with her grandparents right? She's still she still has a set of keys. So this is where it gets good. Are you listening? Yeah. So Mina decides to drive back to her grandparents house which is only about 10 minutes away. So when she arrives there, you know, she makes sure you know, she opened up the door her grandmother did remember to lock the door. But when she goes in, she see the kitchen is in a disarray and she sees there's a the door leading out to the garage is in the kitchen. It's slightly a door. So she goes in there. She proceeds to turn up the lights. She goes in to turn up them. No, these are these are black people. I don't know that but that's why she's investigating. She investigated. She turned the stuff off to get the house ready for her grandmother returning a couple more days. So anyway, Mina is in the garage. She sees where her grandfather possibly have fallen. There's a box with a bunch of old photos that have stills out. So she starts organizing the photos and then she sees one photo that catches her eye. She looks in the photo is a group of old man. It looks very old like early 1900s. But then one man catches her eye and she looks at him and it's the albino man quitting in the photo. But she's like, everything looks old.  So she flips the card over. Excuse me. She flips the photo over. And it has the date 1908. And then the initials underneath the date n o a. And she's like n o a. She's like, how is this possible? The band that she saw quitting couldn't be no more than 30 years old. But yet there's someone on this picture looks like it looks just like him from 1908. So she she stuffs the rest of she stuffs the rest of the photos in the box, takes a photo, the old photo with her and quickly turns off the light shuts everything off.  So her grandmother is very distraught. She eventually makes her way back to the house. So one Sunday while they're all together, Mina decides to ask her grandmother about the photo. So she's like, big mama, I found this old photo in the garage. Can you tell me about it? Do you? Do you know what it means? So her grandmother looks at the photo and Mina could see that a very concerned look on her face. She's like, Mina, where did you get this photo from?  So do you know what it is? She's like, No, I don't I don't know what it is. She said, you know, I don't know what it is. You don't worry about it is nothing. I don't know what it is. Mina thought that was kind of odd.  So why would she lie to her about this old photo? So she didn't think anything of it. She didn't think anything of it. She put the photo back in her pocket. They continue on the rest of the evening like everything was normal. And so Mina decided to spend the night over her grandmother's house. And she goes to bed. As she's sleeping, she hears some noises. She's like, What is that noise? She sees noises. She looks at the window and she sees something that looks like fire. She's like, What is going on? Why is there a fire? So she gets out of bed because she's concerned. So Mina opens up the curtain. She pulls back the curtains, which leaves and she goes, I don't mean no sound effects sound effects. She pulls back the curtains to where she can see the backyard. And there is her grandmother standing in the backyard tossing old photos and papers into a fire. So Mina goes out into the garage in the backyard. She's like, Big Mama, what are you doing? She her grandmother is startled. She turns around. She's like, Oh baby, I thought you were sleeping. She's like, What are you doing? Why are you burning all the Papa House stuff? She's like, this is stuff that he really shouldn't be looking at anyone anymore. This just brings back so many bad memories. She's like, What type of bad memory? She's like, Baby, it's stuff that we don't want bring up anymore. We just don't want to discuss it. Maybe one day I will, but right now it's not the time. So she's like, Why is everyone keeping secrets from me? This is what Mina is thinking. So she lets she lets it go. She lets it slide. She allows her grandmother to continue burning all these old photos and documents or whatever. And so as she's heading back into the house, she sees all the boxes that her grandmother is preparing to burn. She decides to steal. Well, I still, it's a hard word. She decides to take a few more pictures that she saw and documents and she runs back into her room. She hides stuff and she decides to steal. Okay. She's decides to steal. Okay. So she runs back into her room and she hides the stuff that she took. Child, her grandfather made a miraculous miraculous this recovery. The doctors can't explain it. He returns home after two weeks of being in the hospital and a week after being in an induced coma and he's well now. He has a hard time walking assistance of a walker. Excuse me. He's a little slow at things and so Mina decides to hire a caregiver to help her grandmother and grandfather on the days that she's not available. That's it for now. You good? No. So she's again, she decides to use her good tips. Remember she got all these tips up from the other day at her job and so now she's gonna go hang out with her friend Courtney at the local at the local bar and but Mina doesn't drink. Okay. But her friend Courtney. Oh yes. So anyway, give me the beer. Give me the wine. Oh god. So anyway, an hour into it, guess who walks through the door. The mystery man, Quinton, walked through the door. This time Mina is not gonna hold back. She excuses herself from Courtney. She goes outside because she's pretty sure she left that old photo. She goes through her car looking for her. She doesn't have it. She left it at home. So she decides to approach Quinton. She's like, hey, um, I don't know if you remember me. He's like, of course I remember you. She kind of, she kind of, it was a little flirtation. So he's like, what are you drinking? Let me buy you a drink. She's like, I don't drink. So you can get me an iced tea. So he's like, okay, iced tea it is. They give her, he orders her iced tea. They sit down.  After you had love, I noticed that Mr. Joe was very upset. You know, I know it's none of my business but I've just never seen him that upset before. And that's when Quinton kind of smirked at her. He's like, what? He's like, you know what? I'm sorry that that happened. Sorry y'all. He basically, I'm sorry that that happened but I was asking him questions about the old well. She's like, hmm, okay. And so Mina then took it upon herself to ask him questions and she's basically was like, so are you from around here? Because I've never seen you before. He's like, no, I'm not but my family's from here. And you know, he was born up in Chicago. She's like, oh, okay. She's like, so your grandparents were from here? He's like, yeah, my grandparents are from here. So she's like, so what do you do? He's like, I thought I told you before that I work in, I work in the history department. I'm a professor at the college outside of town. She's like, oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that. She's like, you know what? I'm sorry. I'm a little bit I'm a little bit out of the place. My grandfather is recovering from a stroke. He's like, oh, I'm sorry to hear about that. She's like, yeah, it's been it's been challenging but we got him some help at home and he's made a full recovery and I think he's going to be fine. She said, but you know what? I did find while I was in my grandparents' garage, I found a bunch of old photos and in one of them there was a man that resembled you, Quentin's eyes. That's the thumbnail. Quentin's eyes kind of deepened when she said that. He said, oh yeah? She's like, yeah. I mean the man looked just like you. She's like, if I believe in time travel I would say that was you. Hold on, baby. She said, well then I flipped over the photo and it had the date 1908 and the initials in OA. He's like, well the man in that photo was my great-grandfather. If it wasn't about my great-grandfather it wasn't about no man. She's like, wow, y'all look interesting. Does she know it's actually him? Jazzy knows it's not. She looks over at the bar and see her friend Courtney is really throwing back drinks shaw. So that's when she tells Quentin, you know what? This has been nice. Thank you for answering some of my questions, but I got to go back to my friend because I came here with my friend Courtney. Quentin was like, you know what? That's cool. It was nice talking to you and I'm really sorry to hear about your grandfather, but it's good to know that he's doing well. He's like, you know what? I would like to get your number and maybe we could do this again sometime. So she kind of looked at him like, that's cool. You know, typically she'd give me a different number, but she decided to give Quentin her real number because she was really curious about that photo in her grandfather's garage. If that was the trauma, the traumatic event that made him have a stroke. So she gave him her number and she walked over to her friend Courtney and her friend Courtney turns around. She's like, girl, I didn't know you like them like bright. She's like, girl, whatever. The girl, this is someone I saw at my tour. It's really not like that. She's like, the way y'all were talking, it seems like you met him more than once. She's like, well, yeah, that's like the third or fourth time I've seen him around, but it's nothing like that. She's like, oh, okay. So she ends, you know, the night with her friend Courtney.  The next morning she has to work like she normally does when she gets to work. There are cop cars at the plantation. She is like, what is it now? Cop cars all at the plantation. They get there. Yeah, they get there. Mr. Joe is there. There's an ambulance there, Mina thinks to herself, what is going on now? That's it for part two.


The Cavalcade of America, presented by Dupont. The Story of Amirigo Vespucci. Adapted for radio from material suggested by the noted American author, Carl Carmer. With Burgess Meredith, star of stage screen and radio, as Amirigo Vespucci. Welcome to a new series of The Cavalcade of America, brought to you by Dupont, makers of better things for better living through chemistry. Our historical advisor is Dr. Frank Monahan, professor of history at Yale University. A writer on American subjects, as well as a noted analyst in the fields of historical research, Dr. Monahan is now ready to tell you about tonight's drama, Dr. Monahan. We begin this new Cavalcade series by asking a question. Who first discovered America? Was it Columbus? Was it John Capet? Or was it Amirigo Vespucci? It was certainly named for Amirigo Vespucci, and that fact ought to have something to do with the answer. One of the first lessons of history is this, that few things are either as simple or as certain as they sometimes seem to be. Historians have spent years in the study of our problem. They have debated it fiercely. Even now, some are doubtful. Of course, if we could go back to the closing years of the 15th century, we could see and hear for ourselves and thus happily settle the matter. Well, perhaps we can. Perhaps we can go backward in time by going forward in space. You know that the sound waves set in motion by each and every noise travel on forever. If we could travel faster than the speed of sound, we might somewhere in the remote fringes of time and space catch up to the very voices of Vespucci and his friends.  Here at last we have something. The day, the 9th of March, the year 1451, the choir of the majestic cathedral in the medieval city of Florence, in nominipatri, et chili et spiritu san. America, I baptize thee in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. America, meaning the work ruler, the designator of tasks. So, on March 9th, 1451, a child of medieval Florence is christened with the name destined to be given to a part of the world as yet unknown. As the boy grew, travelers visiting the family's stately mansion fed his dreaming mind with tales of mysterious lands on the edge of the world. Tales of Marigorito to his playmate Piero Sodorini when the courtyard would be deserted on bright summer afternoon. I swear by the Virgin it's true, Piero. The ship was doomed. The sailors saw strange wonders. And one day the sea bubbled in hissed. The steam shot up into the air. And then the waves raced up like mountains and burst into whirlwinds of fire. I don't believe it. It's true, I tell you. They were sailing for the land of the Grand Con, but they didn't reach it. Only Marco Polo has been there. Piero, listen. I'm going to the land of the Grand Con someday. You a medical? They'll pass all those monsters and whirlwinds of fire. Then I'll come home with bags of gold and flowers as big as pomegranates. And I'll tell you all about the far away world beyond the sea. Oh, you'll be afraid. Afraid? Marco Polo wasn't afraid?  Make way for America, this foochie! America!  She heard you. What are you boys doing out here during siesta? You should be upstairs sleeping with the others. America was telling me about a ship that was lost in a sea of fire. And Madonna, Elizabeth, they were big monsters. You have too much imagination, my son. It's sinful to make up lies. It's true, every word, Madonna. Fire Georgina and I talk much about men who sail away on great voyages. You go to your uncle's school to study diplomacy. Not to daydream about far away places. Now there's the tower bell. You see? You've had no siesta today. Good day, Elizabeth. Good afternoon, cousin. Good afternoon, boy. Good afternoon, uncle. Well, I see you've risen early from your siesta. Cousin Georgino, why do you enchant my son with dreams about voyaging and sailing? I've just learned he's been... We do but discuss the topics of the day, cousin. In developing your son's mind, we sometimes examine the theory of a great philosopher who holds the unusual opinion that the earth is round. As a churchman, you should have him burned at the stake. Who is this heretic? Paul Toscanilli, right here in Florence. That's right, Madonna. Who is it, Paul? Be silent, Amerigo. I blame this on you, cousin Georgino. First thing, my third son will wish to leave me and go on one of these voyages to the end of the earth. And I will not have that. I'm not willing to grow old with nothing to love. You. Come with me, Piero. Yes, Madonna, Elizabeth. I'm afraid, Amerigo, we've upset Madonna, Elizabeth. Uncle, take me to see the wizard, Paul, will you? Someday you shall see him, my son. But not until you've studied these things very hard. And I mean study, Amerigo. Not badry. In the lavish Florence of the Renaissance, Amerigo grows to manhood. He steeps himself in the wisdom that prepares him for acquaintanceship with the learned Paul the philosopher. And after years of intense study, he finally is permitted to meet and study under the great medieval wizard. One June day, Amerigo, now grown to manhood, is standing in Paul's study, watching the old man. He works over a curious chart. There. There, that's the last line. I finish. Yes, you have, master. It's wonderful.  Hey, that chart proves it conclusively. Thank you, Amerigo. Now only an imbecile could deny your theory. Why isn't it plain to everyone that the earth is round? Someday, master, the world will know that you are right. And I will prove it. If I ever get a ship, I will sail the sea of darkness. You've been my best pupil, Amerigo. It's another thing to be the best mariner in the world. Ah, but I know I could do it, master. Or if I had a chart like this, I suppose it's for Lorenzo de' Medici. Why should he have it? He's more interested in playing with gold and dockets. This sea chart is not for my patron Lorenzo. Not for Lorenzo? Then for whom? Ameriner in Spain has written me asking for measurements to the west across the sea of darkness. He too believes the earth is round and is determined to prove it. Who is he? He signs his letter. Your servant in the holy name of Christ, Christopher Columbus. Columbus. Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. Italian born in the same year are drawn by the hand of destiny with the same beliefs and convictions. But as the years pass, Columbus draws closer to the realization of his plans while luxury and the indulgence of a fond doting mother dull the initiative of Amerigo Vespucci. Then, when he is 38, the misfortune occurs which hurries his steps up the marble stairs of the Medici Palace and is the throne room of the sergeant. Lorenzo de Medici, the lofty, gilded chamber with its brilliant tapestries, is throng as Lorenzo is entertaining his guests. Ah, at that poor time you choose for your appointment, Mr. Amerigo. Can't we postpone it until tomorrow? Well, if you could grant me a moment, my lord. Why? Why should I grant anybody anything? I've brought these musicians from Padua and I detest distraction. I cannot believe my ears. Is Lorenzo graceless? I have heard of his charm and now... Do you find me without grace, countess? Oh, come, Lorenzo, let's hear this Amerigo and then I shall answer for your charm. Very well, proceed, Mr. Amerigo. I am grateful to you, countess. My lord, my father has lost almost all his fortune. He is very old now and I have come here desiring to prove my value to you. No, if it's a physician in my banking house, Mr. Amerigo, so be it. No, no, no, not in a banking house here in Florence, my lord. I have heard that you are planning another venture in Spain. Send you to Spain? I thought you desired to prove your value to me. No, no, Amerigo, I need men of initiative there and your reputation in Florence is not of that sort and furthermore, what would your mother say if I took you away from your maps and charts in Florence? I am 38 years old, my lord. My mother will impose no objections. I promise you. It is a serious promise he gives you, Lorenzo. Try me, try me, my lord. I am told that you have lent large sums to some shipbuilders in Sevilla. The Berardi, is it so? Yes, it is. Well, send me to them, my lord. I have knowledge of banking. Let me supervise your dealings with the Berardi. You will never regret it. I promise you. You may regret this fervent desire to go to Spain, Mr. Amerigo. No, my lord, no. I shall never regret going to Spain. It is his earnestness, Lorenzo. Such earnestness has moved princes. Will it not move Lorenzo? Oh, yes. Very well, go to Spain, if you will. My lord, I promise, I promise I will not fail. Countess, they're playing that music for me. Come, let us down. In Spain, as Amerigo Vespucci sits dreaming at his desk, he hears disturbing rumors of Christopher Columbus. All the great Mariner has been commissioned by the Spanish sovereigns to embark westward across the Sea of Darkness on a new route to the land of the Grand Con. Amerigo dispatches a messenger to Palos to bring him further news. Minutes become hours, hours, days. And one night, he hears footsteps in the streets. His messenger is returning. Mr. Amerigo! Yes. The madman Columbus has gone. Gone to be devoured by monsters and great waves in the seas of the West. I did not send you to Palos to bring back your opinions, Louis. Tell me only what you saw. How many ships sailed? Three. The Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. Two were fast ships, easy to handle. But they gave the madman himself the imposing but unfit vessel, the Santa Maria. He never knew the difference. A large was it? About a hundred ton burden and 90 feet long. It was terrible to see them sail, master. They're all going to certain depths. They say those monsters are...  Why is the world played with stupidity? Mr. Amerigo, I... Enough! I want you to do this for me. Take ship for Florence. In my home area, you will find my collection of sea charts, clothes and instruments which have grown dusty too long with its use. Bring them to me when Columbus has sailed. Through the sunlit plazas of Old Madrid, we take glittering pageants. The streets re-echo with a tumult and enthusiasm of a proud and friendly populace. High over the city's bells are peeling in the soaring towers of Madrid's ancient cathedrals. Passing before the glory and majesty of the Empire of Spain is a glamorous pageant of bronze sailors on foot. Lumbering wagons loaded with strange plants, stuffed animals no man there had ever seen before. Screaming parrots, copper-colored savages in line cloths with spears and arrows. It is the beginning of the cavalcade of America, the triumphant return to Spain of Christopher Columbus. Wedged in the crowd is a medical vestucci. Today he is not in his shipyard. He is trying to look over the heads of the throng across the plaza where the pageant has paused before the thrones of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. What are they doing? I can't see. You're pardoned, senior. You're pardoned. There he is! C'mon! C'mon! C'mon! C'mon! Where is he? Well, would you let me speak? The king will let him heal. He's raising him to his feet. Pardon, senior, pardon. I can see if you'll step to one side. What's the tongue, senior? Carden is about to pray. That by means of God's grace, Christopher Columbus has been permitted to go and return from that promised land for two years. Why is this ridiculous? What did you say, senior? Any fool with a sea chart drawn by Paul the philosopher could have done it. Could have done what? What are you saying? I said nothing. With shipyards and counting-house in Seville goes Amarigo Vestucci to console himself for the affairs of his firm which suddenly receives an order to equip Christopher Columbus with a fleet of ships for his second voyage a month passes and then one day the streets of Seville are lined with eager citizens assembled to see Christopher Columbus for in velvet and sword the grand admiral of Spain has come to the home of Amarigo Vestucci. On his Moorish patio, Amarigo bows to his distinguished president. Your Excellency more than honors me. I am grateful for this favor. I have come for two reasons, senior Vestucci. Yes. First, what of my ships? And second, I am told you do not estimate as I do the importance of my voyage to the lands of the Grand Khan. We are constructing the fleet as fast as we can, Your Excellency. As to your second reason, it may be that your Excellency has been misinformed. Let me say only this. This time I shall not merely reach the lands of the Grand Khan. I shall go to his capital an ambitious project. Excellency, I have heard of the wealth of the Grand Khan. I look not for gain. I have a solemn oath to equip a force of 4,000 horses in 50,000 foot for the recovery of the Holy Sepulcher. I shall keep that oath should I reach the land of the Grand Khan again with all deference to the importance of your recent voyage. I deem it by no means certain that your ships touch the land of the Grand Khan. That is hardly consequential. Oh, it is very consequential. I believe you have discovered a new world. A new... Come, come, Vestucci. You must be thinking of the paradise described by Dante. I don't know the paradise, but I believe it's a new world you have come upon without knowing it. When I sailed to the islands near China where the land of the Grand Khan is, I know where I went. The basis for my voyage was a chart made by Paul the philosopher. I studied it. Vestucci, you'd better remember, you build ships. I failed them. And I not only studied Paul's charts, I worked under his direction in Florence. I know the chart you refer to was drawn with the knowledge of Marco Polo's accounts that generated the size of the lands of the Grand Khan so that they seem closer to Europe than they actually are. I think you discovered a new world that lies between us and those lands. I have heard you are a scholar, Signor Vestucci. You have time for dreaming, too, I dare say. Again, your excellency has made a mistake. May I remind you, my friend, it is one thing to sail the sea of darkness and another to chart an imaginary voyage on this desk. Vestucci, I bid you good morning. Imaginary voyage on this desk. The years pass. Christopher Columbus and Emergo Vestucci will meet no more. It is the year 1504 and we go to an upstairs room in an old inn located in Seacoast town in Portugal. It is late at night.  It is Emergo Vestucci. In the corner of the room, at a small desk, quill in hand, a recorder smoothed out a fresh sheet of parchment. Now then, Francisco, I want you to write this for me to his excellency, Piero Sororino in Florence. Are you ready? Most excellent, sir. I will always remember you in the time of our youth when we were playmates. And I would tell you fantastic stories of violent seas and mysterious worlds beyond the leech of man. At this date I am induced to write by a desire to impart to your excellency the description of things seen by me during the course of my voyage of discovery of new lands in the great western ocean. We call at one time the sea of darkness. We sail from the port of Cadiz on the 19th of May 1497. Because of strong fortunate winds we sail so rapidly westward that as dawn came on the morning of the 27th... Emergo! Emergo! Awake! Awake! What is it? What is it? Land is in sight. Land, you say? Land! Look to starboard! Do you see it? Do I see it, Giovanni? Rising like a long, high, dark cloud from the sea. Mr. Vespucci. Mr. Vespucci. Are you from the land discovered by Columbus? No, I am far past the little islands discovered by Columbus. I have come upon a vast new world. And now, Frenchess, go write this. So our ship anchored. Cheered by the sight of many people ashore we cast off our boats. Filled them with men in arms and proceeded to land. After a time we concluded to leave this place and go onward, we journeyed on finding traces of gold and pearl and many friendly peoples in a harbor where we repaired the ships for our return voyage. After 13 months we set sail for Spain with 223 prisoners arrived at the port of Cadiz on October the 15th, 1498 where we were well received. There, I think that's all, Francisco. And sign it, if you please. Sign it, the humble servant of your excellency. A miracle! The letter is finished. The man at the table rises and crosses to a casement window where he stands silently gazing upon the western ocean. In a moment he is alone the scribe and the sheets of parchment gone. By ship and carrier the letter reaches Piero Sodorini in Florence. It becomes the sensation of the hour. It is translated into French, then into Latin and then it comes to the attention of a mathmaker in France, Martin Valsimil. One morning early in the year 157 in Valsimil's study at the University of San Die. Here it is, ringman, a map of the entire world. It is wonderful beyond my dreams. It's the perfect illustration for your manuscript, my friend. Here, let me spread it out. Oh, well. Here, here are the three great continents. I've indicated each land with its symbol. The Roman Imperial Eagle for the middle of Europe. The Crescent for Africa. The Red Cross of Prestigian for eastern and southern India. It's truly a masterpiece. And over here is the newly discovered fourth continent. Wait, what is at the top? That is the likeness of Amerigo Vespucci. Of course. The first man to visit the fourth continent. That is why I'm going to put his name on a map of the whole region. That will be the name of the new world, America. The voices of the past are once more fading into the past. The echoes of those scholars, mariners and dreamers. The voices of Paul the philosopher, Columbus, Valsimil and Amerigo Vespucci are still somewhere in the universe. Out beyond the stars. Beyond the world we know. Saint Whispering. Coming through the silence of centuries. Grand con some days. You're America. Those monsters and whirlwinds of fire. Begs of gold. Grows as big as pomegranates. World beyond the sea. Why isn't it plain to everyone with tears in round? If I ever get a ship, I'll sail the sea of darkness. Any fool with a sea chart drawn by Paul the philosopher could do it. Could have done what? What are you saying? Vespucci, you'd better remember. You built it. I failed them. A dreamer.  May I remind you, my friend, it is one thing to sail the sea of darkness and another to chart an imaginary voyage on this disk. Imaginary voyage? On this disk and far past the little island you discovered by Columbus. I have come upon a vast, new world. The voice of Vespucci has told us his story. But did he tell us what really happened on that disputed voyage of 1497? Did he actually make that voyage? What do you think, Dr. Monaghan? If he did, then he was certainly entitled to immortal fame. But during the years other voices have said that Vespucci did not reach the American continent in 1497. It is possible that he did, but it seems probable that he did not. Perhaps he merely dreamed of a great voyage. Possibly his act of imagination lost sight of the distinction which other men make between a dream and a reality. Even Volcimula, the map maker, came to have his doubts. In 1507 he was enthusiastic in naming the new world America. But when, nine years later, he made another important map, he tried to rename the continent, which he first called America. It was too late. But had he been successful in renaming the new world, I would now be addressing you, not as fellow Americans, but as fellow illiterate millions. And so, in taking our leave of the voices of the past, I say thank you, Martin Volcimula, thank you, Amerigo Vespucci, and thank you, Burgess Meredith. Thank you, Dr. Monaghan. Before asking you to give us news of next week's drama, we have a short story from the wonder world of chemistry. Christopher Columbus and other early explorers braved the terrors of the unknown world to find new sources of raw material. In their search, they created new frontiers for the world of their time. Chemists, too, are explorers, seeking new material, new product, or better living. And when chemists set out to create something for your use and enjoyment, they nearly always discover other things along the road. For example, the discovery of rayon led to the development of cellophane cellulose film. A chemist, experimenting with acetylene gas, opened up a line of thinking that led to the creating of man-made rub. Research in extracting nitrogen compounds from the air gave rise to the crystal-clear plastic lusite. Later, the same research led to the amazing new material nylons, which, among other things, is going into the making of beautiful, sheer stockings for women. You'll hear in weeks to come strange facts about commonplace articles you use every day. And you'll hear about products so new that even their names are unknown to many people. Another thing that will interest you is the way American chemists have met the problem of supplying all the important needs of our nation, making it unnecessary for us to rely on lands across the sea. Like the explorers of old, modern chemists are discovering entirely new sources for vitally needed raw materials. And finding them right here at home. This is a real protection for your pocketbook, not to mention the protection that affords all of us against the emergencies of wars, blockades, or monopolies. You'll hear too how chemistry creates new jobs, how it makes wages grow where there were none before. No matter what your own job is or where you live, as you listen to these weekly adventures in chemical research, you'll come to appreciate the full meaning of the DuPont place. Better things for better living through chemistry. And now, Dr. Monaghan. As we close this first evening of the new series of Cavalcade of America, I feel myself falling into an old classroom habit. I give you a question, a charming question, because you don't have to answer it. This question will be answered next week when Walter Euston will be the guest of Cavalcade of America. It's about the pilgrim, a subject familiar to you all. But I wonder if you can answer this. How did a kidnapping English sea captain contribute to the successful settlement of the children's fathers in Massachusetts? Thank you. The 14 Burgess Meredith tonight are cast including the following well-known radio performers. Kingsley Coaten as the Boy America, John McIntyre as Paul the philosopher, Carl Quentin as Lorenzo, and Stefan Schnabel as Columbus. Musical effects and orchestra as usual were under the direction of Don Borey. Next week, our guest star will be Walter Euston in the story of a strange friend of pilgrim. This is Ted Dewitt saying good night and best wishes from Dupont. This is the National Broadcasting Company.