Russia says destroyed Ukraine's last warship. Russia's Defence Ministry said it had destroyed what it claimed was Ukraine's last warship. The landing ship Yuri Oleforenko was struck by high-precision Russian Aerospace Forces weaponry in the Black Sea port of Odessa on May 29th. The Defence Ministry said it was not immediately possible to verify Moscow's assertion and Kiev has not yet commented on the claim. The spokesperson for the Ukrainian naval forces declined to comment to the AFP news agency. The Yuri Oleforenko is a medium-sized landing ship for troops and vehicles. First named Kirovorod, the ship was renamed in 2016 in honor of a Ukrainian Marine killed near the southeastern port of Mariupol in 2015. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky decorated its crew in June 2022. Ukraine's military said that heavy airstrikes had ignited a fire and damaged infrastructure at the port of Odessa, which is a key grain export hub in addition to its naval base. The Ukrainian military's southern command said it was determining the extent of the damage at the time.


Eric and all of you guys. And if you're here in the last session, you know we're going to be talking about all of you. And if you don't, you won't tell me. Perfect. You like that? Hi, I'm Aaron. So I'm a community engineer at Elastic. And I met a couple DevOps groups in Connecticut as well. So I'm one of the organizers for DevOps Days Hartford and the DevOps Meetup that happens around that area as well. So I wanted to talk a bit today operating human systems. So if you were here for my last talk, I sometimes take inspiration from words bots. So this is sort of a backwards application of studying how we operate complex computer systems and how it sort of applies to our interpersonal connections that operate those systems as well. So some definitions and level setting will happen at first. And then I'll kind of dive into some more practical things you can actually do. So does people know MTBF and MTTR terminology? Cool, I'll go through it. So this is what they literally mean. When you're dealing with computers, is mean time between failure or mean time to repair. So basically metrics for how your operations are doing, either the time between actual failure cases or how long those failure cases take to resolve. Depending on which version of the abstract I have altered them to say mean time between fallout or mean time to relationship as it applies to people. So if you were fine with your mother for the past year and you had an argument and speak for three days and then you're okay again, that year was the mean time between fallout and those three days were your mean time to relationship. So we also want to wrap some definition around complex systems because words like complex and complicated and simple are everyday vernacular. But there are some specific terminology as we start to think about complex systems theory and how people and machines interact. Has anyone ever seen this graphic before? Awesome, I'm really excited that I get to share new things with people. So this is the Kinefen framework and how it relates to complexity. So these lines between it aren't really quadrants, they're not hard barriers between things, but they're a little bit soft. They're more about categorization of either a situation or a system or whatever you're working with. Simple are really simple. They should be understandable by pretty much anyone. So a Lego set that's disassembled might be a simple problem. You look at it and say, all right, these are Legos that are disassembled. You categorize it, this is the Batman Mobile Lego set and you respond. You follow the instructions to put it together. So even a child with appropriate motor skills can put that together. You don't need any specific knowledge in order to do it. Complicated things require some domain knowledge to be able to figure out. So maybe your parents house, the internet is out and you need to go help them because they can't figure out the problem. You have to apply some domain specific knowledge and figure out, okay, in looking at this, I can see the SSID isn't being broadcast so now I know to go check the router and I can see it's not plugged in. Let me go, we plugged that in and everything's resolved. So it might not be hard to fix but it required that specific domain knowledge of how to, where to look and where to actually resolve the problem. Another example for complicated is like car issues. The front right corner is making a noise. You might not know what to do to resolve it so you bring to an expert to look at it and fix the problem. So complex issues as they're different from complicated. Live in a world that's pretty much unknowable as a whole. There's no way you can look at a complex scenario and actually figure out where all the moving parts are. Some of them might be concealed to you or more often acting inside a complex system causes the system to change. So increasingly this has to deal with the actual computer systems we operate. We're building microservice clusters on hardware that someone else owns in places we're not quite sure where it is that have unreliable internet connections between them or virtual networks. We can't really conceive of the whole thing as they grow more and more. Or if you saw Noah's talk earlier talks about how any simple Ruby on Rails app might involve a ton of different libraries and dependencies that you just can't conceive of everything at once. So usually in a complex scenario you have to do something first to figure out where you're at. You can only really understand the effects of actions in hindsight. So this is a place where you're usually doing new things. You might build a prototype, see how it works, respond to that behavior and iterate on that again. Build a new prototype, see how that responds and so on and so forth. Chaotic are usually incidents, right? Like something went wrong, houses on fire. So the first thing you do is make fire not there, right? Like there's a problem act first, then go back and figure out what caused it and try to resolve the situation. There's sort of this like fold between simple and chaotic because one of the easy ways to end up in a chaotic situation is miscategorizing something as simple. I know what this is, I will do this, now everything's on fire, right? So there's that quick terminology. That's why problems don't sit specifically in each quadrant but can move around. As developers and programmers and technologists we tend to flock towards the complex domain. Usually when we solve a problem even if it requires domain specific knowledge like how do I configure this server? We then get really bored because we already solved that problem. So now we automate that. And now the problem is how do I maintain this automation process? Or how do I control a fleet of servers? Or how do I, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. We constantly move towards the new and novel. Or new emergent. A novel is I did not expect that to happen and you end up quickly in chaos. So I would argue also humans exist in this complex problem space. Largely even to ourselves we don't always know what's going on. We often go to a doctor who might be able to deal with some problems and not others. There's a lot of maybe this will work, maybe that will work. There's differences in how we act day to day. The same like input doesn't always give the same output in complex scenarios. So, yeah, I think there's a lot there. There's stuff that goes on behind the scenes in our heads that we still don't really fully understand. And I think our relationships are even more complex because now we've got a bunch of complex systems. We're interconnecting. We might not even quite talk on the same level. So now we've got all of these different barriers that we either see or don't see that we have to traverse. Kind of an example of this is I could say to someone one day, hey, that's a great shirt.  And the next day I might say, hey, that's a great shirt. And it caused them to be really sad because, and they didn't expect it because that shirt was actually given to them by a really good friend who passed away a year ago and they haven't thought about them for a long time, right? So there's lots of moving parts with people in our relationships. Okay, so does anyone know RCA as it pertains to incidents and computers? Root cause analysis, awesome. So don't do it anymore. So it's not really valuable in complex systems. There is no root cause in complex systems.  And even now that maybe you've got a problem and you analyze it and you've seen a complex systems phase, but even that analysis and the problem occurring has pretty much changed the system. You can't say, oh, this will definitely cause the problem every time. More importantly, there's so many things happening. You can't prepare for every root cause. So it's not really valuable. Root cause is often a search for closure, not a search for the actual problem. You wanna say, oh, this was the problem, now we can move on. For instance, the root cause to every plane crash is that gravity pulls stuff down. But drawing that conclusion from analyzing the crash isn't really useful. It just lets me say, now I know why the plane fell. Consequently, that means there's no root cause to problems in relationships. We don't always know what's happening, so you can't pinpoint one specific thing that might cause a relationship to fall apart. So the challenge here is when we think of root cause, we think about preventing failure and trying to extend that time between failures. We often build really rigid systems that don't allow for a multitude of problems. We say, oh, we're gonna avoid this failure case, we're gonna avoid this failure case, we're gonna avoid this failure case. There's a lot of, you can't do it this way or you must do it another way. And when we have emergent behavior and we have novel things occur, these rigid structures aren't able to adapt to that because they haven't prepared for those scenarios. It's better to have resilient systems that can kind of adapt to their environment. One of the other things about resiliency is it tends to get better the more often it experiences these failure cases. So you know now what makes it break and you can start to address ways to get around that. One of the problems with complex systems is it usually takes a lot of different things to go wrong to cause catastrophic failure. So when you wait to take care of problems because it's not quite broken all the way, you're not ready to experience that problem case. You build a lot of tech debt and debt like anything else eventually has to get paid. Whether it's tech debt, you could have systems failure. If it's relational debt, you could break off from someone and never talk to them again. If you never pay down that debt from an interaction, it can cause problems because anytime we interact with someone, some sort of transaction takes place and it's not zero sum. You might both walk away enriched from a conversation. You might both walk away upset at the other person or maybe one person has no idea what's happened and just passed by but someone else has heard by that conversation. So something happens and if we just always transact and take away, it's eventually gonna be a problem that the debt comes due. Experience with failure is necessary. That's what helps us understand where the edges of our systems are and what helps us improve those. So with our computer systems, we kinda wanna know how far we can push it before it breaks so we know when to stop and we know how to expand those edges. And for people, it applies too. If I understand when pushing you is a problem because it's gonna damage whatever it is, maybe it's gonna cause some undue stress on your part. I need to know when to step back. But I also need to understand when some discomfort might help us grow together. Whether it's in a relationship or you as an individual, it usually takes some amount of discomfort to grow. So understanding where that edge is and how far you can be uncomfortable before it causes problems is important, which means we're probably gonna cross that threshold accidentally now and again and we need to address it. Okay, so this is sort of the level setting portion. I wanna get into what we can actually do to start addressing relationships when we have these failure cases and we have problems. Sort of required operating conditions is a blameless culture. If you're in a group of people that really doesn't care about fixing it but is really seeking that root clause or that blame to say, oh, this is what the problem was, now we know what it is, we can get rid of that thing, you're gonna have problems ultimately. You need to be seeking the restoration and the learning from that failure rather than seeking what's a blame from that failure. There's a whole other presentations about just culture or a blameless culture but I don't have time to dive deeply into it but if you don't have that, most of the rest of this won't matter. So a few more lessons from computers. So the first thing is sort of about distributed systems and how they interact and one of the things about the company that I work for at Elastic is we're distributed not just in the software we build but our company is fully distributed as well and strangely enough, one imitates the other. Abstractions are really hard to deal with that is to say when I say, oh, I don't know if this solution gives us the best bang for our buck. Most of like half of my colleagues on the community team don't actually know what I'm talking about because they don't have that turn of phrase in Austria or Japan or India. So I have to explain that, right? There's some calendars just in communicating from the fact that our systems operate differently. There's also problems in the abstraction of asynchronous text communication when you're trying to talk to humans who use more than just the actual words to communicate most of the time, inflection of voice and facial expressions play a lot into how we communicate with each other. So one of the things we do is we always make a point to assume good intent. Usually when someone does something or says something that hurts us or offends us in some way, it's most of the time not intended. Most people in the community act together for the betterment of the community with the exception of specific bad actors, but that's not what we're talking about then in this case. So starting from that frame of mind can really help you shift into that blameless mindset of, this person probably meant to do something good but something bad happened. How can we learn from that and improve it?  So if you're having a discussion, you recognize like, hey, we're not seeing eye to eye. I've learned to recognize it for me is when I start typing a really long thing, trying to explain a lot, I'm like, you know what? We probably need to see face to face and talk our words directly to another person's ears to figure out where our disconnect is. So that's an important aspect too, to remove abstractions as much as possible. So some lessons in relationship networks from computer networks. Two-way communication is usually better than shouting into the void. I think almost always when dealing with people, which I recognize sort of defeats Twitter's entire business model, but nevertheless. A really good turn of phrase I've heard is what you're saying is X and what I'm hearing is Y. This is sort of like the human TCP handshake. You're acknowledging that someone's delivering a particular message verbatim should be what they said, but what I'm hearing might be all of the other things you're interpreting out of that. So if you're having a really rough time with someone because your pull request got rejected again, you might say, you know, what you're saying is, I need to limit my code better when it through whatever product. But what I'm hearing is that I'm not really good enough to be part of this team and I don't have the skillset and I'm not really wanted, right? So you're acknowledging the other person that you've heard them, but then explaining where you're coming from. This tends to prevent that like everyone talking louder, saying the same thing back and forth to each other, because even though you've technically hear each other, you're not communicating. So this isn't always successful either. And there's a whole framework for problematic conversations and difficult conversations called nonviolent communication. This is generally where one party has been hurt by someone's actions and we're trying to bring that back and rectify that relationship. I sort of think about it like incident response for humans. We've got a problem and we need to fix it. And much like incident response, you usually wrap a framework of behavior around that response of do these steps or check these boxes as you respond to an incident, just like firefighters of specific steps they go through for how they deal with a fire. So the nonviolent communication framework breaks the conversation to four specific pieces. And this is again, like troubleshooting. We wanna break down the problem into specific parts so we can address where we're not getting the behavior we expect. So I will go into each of these a little bit more. So observations first are observable data. They're not evaluations of someone's behavior and they're not judgments on that behavior, just what actually occurred that you'd be able to observe like what a camera or a microphone would pick up, not what you're adding on your end. So for an example, I'll actually go back and give an example at the end because I realize it works better at once. So then there's feelings that come from that because try as we might, we are still squishy things controlled mainly by emotions and hormones. So when something happens, you probably have some sort of visceral reaction to it that caused the relational problem. These aren't thoughts, they aren't things that happen up here as you analyze or think about it over and over again but there's sort of that visceral body emotional reaction that you have right away. It's easiest to talk about feelings if you sort of simplify the spectrum. Language is very colorful but when you're trying to communicate it's hard to have all these different floaty meanings that describe lots of different things. So if we can kind of paint with fewer colors we can make a more valuable image. And generally we wanna avoid qualifiers. You're not necessarily very or a little bit in emotion, you just kind of wanna talk about what it did. I found this sachet acronym really useful for sort of painting a short small spectrum of feelings. And it's just these four. So sad, angry, scared, happy, excited and tender. Sad is usually like a loss of something. Angry is usually either you wanted something and didn't get it or someone violated a boundary that you have where you say, you shouldn't do this and they didn't. Whether or not you're explicit. Scared is usually uncertainty of the future who usually is what makes you scared. Happy is usually contentedness. So it's sort of the opposite of loss you sort of have. You're pretty content. Excited is sort of the opposite of scared. You're looking forward to the future. It's probably more certain about what's gonna happen. And tenderness is a connection with other people. It's kind of like I'm feeling really empathetic. Someone might share a story that hits close to home and you're feeling tender for them. So great. Once feelings are defined needs are the next thing. These are usually basic human needs. Connection, wellbeing, honesty, play, peace, autonomy, meaning or purpose. This isn't an exhaustive list of your needs but they're kind of a good starting point to think of, oh, it's not what did I need in a specific scenario but what is it and I'm after like at a human need level that I'm not getting from this interaction. And then finally a request is made. So what do you want? This isn't a I want you to not something but it's a positive request. Cause it's harder to not do things than it is to do do things. Because when you're not doing things you're always successful until the one moment you're not. You can never achieve not doing something. But if you ask a positive request that's an achievable goal. I can do that thing. You kind of want to think of smart goals in the request form as well so that someone can actually achieve the request you make. But it is not a demand and it's not guaranteed to happen. You can't demand someone do something and they're not obligated to follow through. It is a request or else it kind of shifts the power balance the other way especially in this case we're usually communicating as peers. So NBC framework in a nutshell. An example for instance is an observation. I asked you for help. I have a deadline on Friday. I asked you Tuesday afternoon for help looking over my code. You said you'd get to it in five minutes. It's now Thursday morning and I haven't heard anything. There's no judgment of that behavior. There's no evaluating what happened just simply what occurred. Feelings. So I'm feeling angry cause I requested something from you and you haven't done anything to make it happen. I'm feeling scared cause I've got a deadline coming up and I still need help and I'm not getting it. I'm scared that I'm not gonna do good enough work. Maybe you're sad because I thought we were closer than this and I haven't heard from you so I feel like, you know I'm not as close to you as I thought. Doesn't have to be all those but as an example you can see this sort of a spectrum of what a person's feeling in a situation. And the needs here might be, you know I need, I do need that certainty that like I'm producing good work. I need that certainty. And I also need to feel like my requests are being heard. I haven't heard from you. I need to know that you're hearing it and I'm prioritized in your course of the day. So my request is, you know I ask that you do help me out in the next two hours if you can or we make another time. And I request that I totally understand there might be something that came up that you just communicate with me communicate with me whenever you pass a timeframe if I request help and you say I can give it in an hour if you can't in that hour just communicate with me so I know what's going on. Then it's up to the other person at that point to either accept that request or not and so on and so forth but it breaks down all this complex interaction of my uncertainty of my quality and not feeling heard and not getting what I need into sort of consumable parts that lets another person know that their action whether they intended to or not upset me had all of these consequences that you know happened from that. So the big thing I want to sort of leave off with is the goal for goal setting and all of that is to seek success not avoid failure. If you're avoiding failure you can only do it so long and you're gonna always have problems. There's no like the success condition on mean time between failure is the number infinitely goes up which is not a real possibility, right? You can't have no more failures in the future. So rather than doing that we should make goals to actually fix things when they go wrong seek positive conditions out of it. Fix repairing the relationships not avoiding problems. And then I have a bunch of sources and if anyone has any questions I would love to answer them. Yeah. So one of the problems that I have at my work doing this sort of thing is a lot of people in a profession lack emotional intelligence. So when you have people lacking emotional intelligence communicating it can get yucky. So how do you deal with that? So I found that those really specific frameworks of only use the spectrum for emotions and don't say very or little and this very specific like nonviolent communication process for instance, which if you plan on applying I definitely encourage you to look in too much more than just the crash course I went through. Because they provide very specific like actions and responses to those actions it helps when you don't have the skills to express yourself yourself to have this path to follow and say, okay, this is what I should do next. This is what I should do next. How am I feeling? Okay, well I have to pick from these six so let me see where it fits best. I think it helps provide a tool set to make the gap that you might have in emotional intelligence and eventually you kind of get the hang of it and you can branch out a little bit more from there. Other things as well but that's one of the things I've found. Anybody else? Yeah. So I guess. Just trying to understand. So. Thanks for the feedback. I'll repeat the question afterward if I. No, I'm not. So my question was is this something you've applied to? Like you said you manage teams is this something you've applied successfully to your team? Like how I guess how many success stories from this have you seen so far? Are they specific examples I guess? Yeah, so different different techniques use different places and successful in different environments for sure. So for instance, our team does deal with all the initial stuff that's sort of baseline of assuming good intent and removing abstractions from conversation whenever we have problems works for us really well at Elastic and in my team on community specifically I even recently had an issue with someone on the team we clearly weren't communicating at the same point you could tell both of us were annoyed with each other and it was just like you know what we need to have an open discussion on this and talk face to face so we can figure out where we're missing like have the opportunity to respond and not read in your own emotions to all the words that are coming at you. So that's always been really successful. I've used a version of nonviolent communication in really their high trust like blameless groups. It's pretty much like a group therapy kind of thing but it's really really successful in that case where you might be in close quarters for a long period of time and being able to talk honestly to people that are willing to hear it and not pass judgment right away is huge for resolving those conflicts quickly especially in a group that might be like working together on a really important project in a short period of time it lets you so I've been to, we've used that on we do weekend retreats basically that are kind of about emotional intelligence at base I can talk more about it maybe off the mic and things like that but that is a technique that we use there to deal with inter-conflict while we have a very intense emotional like 48 hours together, so yeah. Do you find having elastic being remote? If you're a partner that sometimes having two people in the same group makes one more intense? Yes, it does make it easier or harder. So yeah, it depends on the problems it is nice in the way that I can step back and sort of process something and recognize if I respond right now it's not gonna be good I need to go take 10 minutes and come back to it without like a weirdness in the conversation you don't have to like explicitly state that you can just walk away from the keyboard but it does make it harder to actually communicate and get through things you have to for instance say you're three hours behind me I really need to talk about this but you're not available so we can't talk till Monday and now I've got to deal with the burden of carrying this conflict until Monday, right when we can actually sit down and have the conversation so some of one some of the other, yeah. So at elastic you guys at least have told everybody else and I believe to be true that you are like truly blameless or like the company believes in this blameless for a company that might believe less than that how might they transition and either from like a top down or from like more grassroots type thing. Yeah, the blameless and just culture which are totally worth looking into the resource here I think is about patient safety like there was a talk last year at DevOps Days Boston that talked about the just culture at Brigham and Women's so that's a really good place to understand this a little bit more in depth. Applying it is tough because it's cultural change like anything else so you run into a lot of the same problems when you say how do we do a DevOps initiative at our group that hasn't never done that before because there's a lot of changing hearts and minds that comes into place. I would recommend starting at something practical so thinking of blameless postmortems for instance and you can apply that specifically to that condition or whatever you wanna apply it to but being able to start at that practical non-personal level might help move into the more personal side of things and say hey, we do this for our incidents can we do this for this argument we're having right now and try and retrospect what's going on. I hope that answered and maybe we can. I got another question. Yeah. So you said that you didn't like complex systems don't have the process. Right. Yeah. All the companies that may not have the same blameless culture you have and we do blameless proponents but in those first part of this area we're going to call them we're often looking for root cause in complex systems so that is like what would you say to somebody that says hey but I think that there is a root cause to your complex system. So what would I say to someone who says there is a root cause in a complex system? First study a lot of John Olsbal who is one of the biggest and most prominent proponents of there is no root cause and furthermore human, what was it? Human error is a myth is the other side of it too as far as how we study reactions of systems. So there's again a lot more where I would probably start having that conversation I think is to address what you're actually after when you look for the root cause. I think like I said earlier when you're looking for root cause you're more often looking for closure on the incident rather than how can I fix the problem? You just want something to say oh this is what caused it now we no longer have to explore or learn from it. So if you can get to the point where that statement is explicit in the group and you sort of understand that collectively I think gives you the best way to move past it from there. I think that's it. Great, thank you.


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Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a box of 2022 Tops Chrome Baseball Update Edition. Hobby box break number one, doing the whole box. At the end, we'll re-randomize everybody's names. In the top three, we'll get into that triple-threads random number block randomizer, which ultimately unlocks the triple-threads break. Those will all be in separate videos. A very big thanks to this group for making it happen, and all the baseball teams are in. Now let's roll it and randomize names and teams. Six and a three, nine times each. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. Six and a three, nine times. Nine times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and six and a three, ninth, and final time. All right, there's the first half of the list right there. Excuse me, and there's the second half right over there. No trade windows. Let's just print and rip. Top's Chrome update series. I think Jason Jaspy on Instagram Live at Jaspy's Breaks has personal boxes of this if you wanted to get into that. Nothing hiding underneath. All right, and there's the final print out. Thanks for spending a bit of your hump day with us, ladies and gentlemen. You're Brandon, right? You have Reds, Twins, and Rangers. I think you should be able to... There's a DVR function on YouTube. You should be able to rewind a little bit to see the results and the randomizer. But don't forget to click live.  I guess it's just a good time to just remind everybody, hey, don't be a lagger. Some of you may be behind the conversation, which means you might miss trade windows, or you might miss the hits or the jokes or whatever the case may be.  Always click that live button, everybody. The main guys we're looking for here, Julio Rodriguez, Bobby Whit Jr. and Wander Franco. And away we go. No vet common ships. So these cars like that won't ship. That's a refractor, so that will ship. Obviously, that's a purple parallel, that will ship. And it's a rookie anyway. Jorge Soler will ship, so on and so forth. Those are Julio Rodriguez. Nice. That's for Martin and the Mariners. And another Julio Rodriguez. This one's a rookie debut Julio Rodriguez. There's a couple of these right off the bat. Top's chrome update. Oh, for four on the debut, but turned out to be okay, I think. And an autograph. I don't know if these are... The photos are guaranteed one per box. I think it's auto or relic. Let's see what the box says. Well, I don't know. I think it's an auto box. Anyway, still nice. Jared Solomon, rookie auto. For the red legs, that's going to go to Brandon. You got a Wander Franco generation now insert. For the Tampa Bay Rays, that's going to go to Martin and Bobby Whit Jr. Rookie card for Andy and the Royals. Alright, not a bad filler box. Got some nice names out of there. The whole point of this though, the three biggest hits are going to be those triple thread spots. So let's gather everybody's names again, one through 30 for the final dice roll. And it's three and a five, eight times. Top three after eight, fingers crossed. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. After eight times, let's see.  You're in hopefully? Well, you don't have to hope, Jilo. You're not a rookie. You know where the schedule is. The worst spot is spot four, Andy. Sorry, man. Very close, but no cigar after eight. Sad times for four through 30, but happy times for the top three. Daniel is happy, Adam is happy, and Martin is happy with the top spot there. Congrats to the top three you are in. I'll see you in the next, I'll see you in the next video, jaspyscasebreaks.com.


Welcome to Frankfurt on the third day of Intergeo 2018. Today we are high above the roofs of the city and Messe Frankfurt and look back for you on Wednesday, the second day of Intergeo, when numerous international visitors flocked to the Geo event of the year. An important date was the Intergeo press conference, at which representatives of the industry from business, science and administration came together to talk about the importance of geo-information in the context of digitalization. The panelists roamed seamlessly through the topic clusters GISS, BIM, Smart City and Artificial Intelligence. The participants also attached great importance to the further development of professional fields in the geo-IT sector and emphasized the topic of connectivity. We see a change in the occupational fields of all those involved in construction. Digitalization is one of the key points of digitalization. We see the change away from selective solutions to networked environments. For Dr. Jürgen Dolt, digitalization mainly consists of three stages, whereby stage number one, the digital capturing, results in a networking of processes, from which in the third stage new business models emerge, which are consisting of information consumption. I believe that this is an important element of digitalization, that there will be solutions with which new occupational fields will not only be easier to measure and easier to adjust, but there will be also services that are designed differently and form new business models. Andreas Sinning, representing Trimble, said that digitalization is at the heart of his company's digital data capture. But of course we also see a change in the users, a new generation that deals with technology in a completely different way. They have a completely different understanding. As a manufacturer we must of course also consider how we will implement this in future digitalization products and that is where we are very much in the area of services. Professor Dr. Gerd Butzik, representing the Digital Association BITCOM, sees geo-information as having arrived at BITCOM. In the working group geo-information, in digitalization is networked with many other working groups at BITCOM. It is active in the digitalization of agriculture for example, but also in questions of intelligent mobility. However, he is restricting... If the political will is for Germany to become Europe's number one in digitalization the basis must be laid, the broadband and connectivity are huge issues. Another topic of the geo-spatial community is of course artificial intelligence. Professor Dr. Hans Jörg Kutterer, president of the organizer DBW, emphasized that artificial intelligence in the geo-industry is not about science fiction, but pure analytics. Simulation digital twins that is wonderful in the context of digitalization, dealing with it, making forecasts for environmental scenarios and the like for example can be done with common sense, can also be done with extensive expertise of many years of professional experience, but that will not do justice to these amounts of data and the coming requirements. And to find an algorithmic support will be the next mandatory step. The panel guests agreed on the role of inter-geo as a networking platform for an international industry. More international, more colorful and with the technologically sound offer, this is how the future of inter-geo is perfectly oriented. Next year inter-geo in Stuttgart will celebrate its 25th anniversary and with the entire geo-community. And apropos celebrate, the second Drone Pioneer Award was eagerly awaited at the inter-aerial solutions. A drone that transports blood from an island in the Victoria Lake in Africa to a hospital 60 kilometers away. The jury was impressed by this development and decided the company Wingcopter is the winner of the Drone Pioneer Award. The award focuses the story behind the technology. On the second place is drones per hour that detects vermin in the agriculture. And the third place goes to third element aviation that detects land mines. And here are your dates for inter-geo Thursday. At 9.30 am the conference starts with a keynote of Joachim Diaz. As chairman of the Federal Association of Construction Software he reports about the challenge in digitalization. Subsequently Harald Simon discusses when will Germany's housing market turn. In the inter-geo forum host Wim van Weegen from Jim International will ask his guests what's next in so weighing and mapping. That is at 11 am. In 2018 the Wichmann-Verlag once again awards the Wichmann Innovation Award in the categories hardware and software. The public was asked to vote for the best products on show at the fair. The award ceremony is part of the closing event of inter-geo at 5 pm in the inter-geo forum. So have fun, network and enjoy the last day of inter-geo. See you!


A new study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that adding more shoulder strengthening exercise to current nonoperative care protocols for subacromial impingement does not improve outcomes. Nonoperative care including physical therapy is the first line treatment for subacromial impingement, also known as shoulder impingement. Although shoulder strengthening is important for recovery, the current exercise protocols don't always provide sufficient relief. In addition, decompression surgery is no longer recommended for refractory cases, leaving patients with fewer options and increasing the need for better nonoperative care. To determine whether more shoulder strengthening exercise might help patients achieve relief, the study's authors randomly divided 200 patients with chronic shoulder pain due to impingement into a control group and an intervention group. The patients in the control group receive normal nonoperative care. The patients in the intervention group receive the same nonoperative care but were also prescribed an additional shoulder strengthening regimen. This regimen was intended to at least double the dose of shoulder strengthening compared to that in the control patients. Outcomes were assessed after four months. The primary outcome the patient reported shoulder pain and disability index improved in both groups. However, the degree of improvement didn't differ between groups. Early outcomes related to shoulder pain and function didn't markedly improve in either group or differ between the groups. Only about half of the patients in each group achieved a patient-acceptable symptom state, meaning that half still considered their symptoms unacceptable. Notably, outcome data were missing for over one-fifth of patients because of missed follow-up appointments or censorship due to a revised diagnosis or surgery. In addition, despite completing their add-on exercises, the patients in the intervention group tended to spend less time on their usual care exercises than the patients in the control group. However, statistical analysis indicated that this likely did not affect the study outcome. Overall, the study suggests that adding a large amount of shoulder strengthening to current nonoperative care over four months does not improve chronic shoulder pain caused by subacromial impingement. Moreover, increasing the exercise burden can reduce patient adherence, confirming that it is in a viable strategy. Nevertheless, the low rate of symptom acceptability achieved by the patients in both groups emphasizes the need for continued research to help bring relief to patients with chronic shoulder pain related to subacromial impingement.


I just really felt the urge to talk about one of the most compassionate loving caring genuine rescue stories I think I've ever seen like you could basically call this guy the mother Teresa of animals beautiful beautiful Genuine legendary kind-hearted animal lover this guy. Let's have a look last week So I fetched the sheep in for slaughter. Whoa must be rescuing animals. Hey, I checked it out I said I wasn't gonna kill it because I could see she was in love so I bought The sheep off the owner. He didn't want any money didn't want responsibility Beautiful by lamp you can see that the compassion just oozing out of him They meet lucky named it lucky to named it lucky it name the mom Irish Escape death yesterday realistically it should have been a lamb chop and hung on someone's plate this morning But it's reprieved. Well this guy must be dabbling in a bit of animal rights activism like rescuing lambs rescuing mothers from slaughter Like wouldn't want to see animals slaughtered on a plate. Would he? That's what he sounds like. Hey, so the beautiful boy lamb. It's mom.   What do you mean? What's going on here? Killing lambs and murderers here at slackies. We're not about killing all about killing lambs and murderers. We do about We do have a heart We have got a heart Wait, wait a second, are you trying to hoodwink us here, mate? You're trying to hoodwink us with a nice little story here We have got a heart as you can see by this one story right here You're gonna leave it alone are you and what is actual slackies? Let's have a little look. Oh, wow Slackies is a slaughterhouse and a butcher. Wow.  Oh, this one's snowy. This is a different one. I thought this was lucky Wow pork chops look at this love for animals this guy has wow Stuck a knife and all those animals throats did just show them some of that British farming love Look at them beauties.   Wow Snowy's cousins chopped up in a fridge. You really do care for these lambs.   Look 0.0001% of the year.  He is It's weird usually you don't have a bottle in your hand usually have an electrode where you're tutoring people on how to execute lambs like in this video We don't like the animal stress And then he has the audacity to say he's all about animal welfare I'm a bit of a hypocrite, but I'm all about animal welfare, mate Well, I didn't think welfare included electrocuting animals in the skull to death Getting sent to a local reputable butcher by British by the best. Oh, mate We've seen some local slaughterhouses, mate, and they ain't no better, right? And these animals have all had their rights violated their right to life violated and they've been chopped up into pieces, okay? Local does not mean anything just because something is local to you It doesn't absolve you of the moral crime of chopping off an animal's head lamb chops Donnie chops Distant relation to this pet line yet. He loves to make fun of murdered animals, doesn't he? He loves to mock these baby animals with their chopped up family members in the fridge next to him He just loves it. He's sick.


Ahead of presidential primaries of the all-ruling All Progressive Congress, APC and the People's Democratic Party, PDP, for the emergence of a flag bearer, former Senate leader Senator Alindoume, APC Bonneau South, has said that it will be unfair, an injustice, and a betrayal of trust, and a gentleman's agreement if the APC zones the presidency to the North. Meanwhile, the Northern Youth Leaders Forum has said none of the Southern presidential aspirants on the platform of the People's Democratic Party, PDP, has the political will to tame Nigeria's current challenges. Well joining us to discuss this is former President Ohaniz Ndebo, Odozi Moodozi and political commentator Mosa Idris. And Juna Idris, it's good to have you join us. You're welcome. Yes. Can you hear me? Yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you. Okay. Let's start with your thoughts on the power rotation agreement. Some people will call it a gentleman's agreement. Some other people would say that it's not necessarily constitutional and that at this point in time Nigerians need a good leader, not necessarily somebody from a region or a zone. What are your thoughts? Yeah. Thank you for having me. Two issues there. You can say out loud the issue of this is it's not constitutional, you should be able to say you want to rotate it's not constitutional. But the other one is the issue of a gentleman's agreement, which of course you know that that's what has been played out in Nigerian politics. What the politicians normally do, they try to play in the federal character into the affairs of a portioning political office. So as it could be, the number of political people who are present in the political domain are saying that power will shift. Others are saying power will shift. You should say power will shift and it will shift. What are you really saying? It's like you're not starting a particular session or a particular political party to deliberately speed power in the session of the country. As it is today, we all know that there are a lot of clamor for power to go to the south. Not only going to the south, but going to the southeast. If you now see that power will go to the southeast, how will you get power to go to the southeast? You see if we follow that, we ask that the southeast cannot begin from their political leaders. The governors here, for instance, have to come up together and begin to look for a political party of choice. They cannot come together and see how they need to get power to come to their room. But South Easterners belong to all political parties. I don't know which political party does not have a South Easterner. Whether it be a leader of thought or a leader of that party, we do have. I'm not sure that there is any political party that does not have a South Easterner or anybody in general from the south. You know, I can't really get you, but the point I was trying to make is that you see, there are two major political parties in Nigeria. The PDT and the ATC. As it is today, you can see that even if they have a loud party, you know, to go any part of the country. Which simply means that the high bidder will eventually take it. If the people of the north are able to get their act together, they will get the other party of country to support another candidate. If they are repressing from the south, they will be able to put their act together and play the normal politics that everybody will understand. Then of course the power will shift to the south. But as it is today, everybody wants to take a club out of the whole system. Not necessarily allowing, you know, part of the literally shift. I think that's the problem we're having today. These two major political parties are just watching the steps the other party will take. They are saying that, especially the PDT, they are saying that it is the turn of them not to actually take it. Because the Ubersunds have done it, the United States have done it. So it is not again to come back and take the ticket. What the PDT is saying is that, still the present players, the last ATMs have been done by the APC, that it will naturally go to the south. But one very serious issue here, that normally people will not want to play easily. Which of course, you know, eventually is going to come out. If the APC is going to take a candidate for instance from the south, where is it going to come from? From the south-west? Is it going to come from the south-east? It is coming from the south-west or south-south or south-east, means the entire south are going to produce a presidential candidate. By this I mean that the Christian candidates will naturally come out from the south. If that happens, then where is it not going to take their back presidential candidate? These are the issues. So that means that the North will have to decide, the types of decision have to take to actually play a buy. And if you go to the northern minority, of course, the Christian, you should not do what they call pedakaraka, because I have had other sections that claim that Muslim-Muslim ticket is not going to play out. If Muslim-Muslim ticket is not going to play out, it apparently means that a Christian minority from the north will have to come out to buy with the southern candidate now. So these are the issues. That is where real politics is going to play out. For PDP, as it is today, we know that they are clamoring for another candidate. Which, of course, is apparently going to be a Muslim candidate. And of course, the south now, either south east or south west, will not be looking for a candidate that will buy for the northern candidate, which of course will be a Christian. So these are the issues. But what I'm saying in effect like in all of this, what are we looking at? We are looking for a candidate that has electoral value, a candidate that can apparently get literally every, at least, 45 to 50 percent or 2,000. So I'm sorry, Mr. Idris, I just, I need to come in there. You seem to be talking about the mathematics of, you know, and you're talking about the votes here, which is very important. Don't get me wrong. But then at the core of all of this is the issue that Nigeria is facing. We have so many issues, whether it be insecurity, ethnic divisions, religious crisis, we have it all. Should we at this point just be looking at the mathematics of who can win votes as opposed to what Nigeria needs and who can unite us? Because if we have a uniter, then we can have half of our problem solved. But then again, the question is, what should we be prioritizing now? The votes or who needs to lead this country to where we want it to go to? Yes, at the time, I think Nigeria now should be looking for a candidate that can, I mean, that can be able to be passionate. A candidate that can, I mean, you know, carry virtually everybody, at least a total majority of people alone, not necessarily looking at ethnicity or religion. I'm only telling you that the salient point that I'm telling you, religion and ethnicity has to play out. For instance, most of the candidates who have come back from the North have actually come back from the North. They're not right now at the peak, because of part of the central. We know that these attitudes today have been unable to produce the presidential candidate anywhere. So you can see ethnicity is really going to come out. But on the larger, on the larger platform now, what you are looking at is probably a candidate that is still equal across both. So not necessarily ethnicity. These are the salient points that will eventually come out. That's why I was telling you that if APC is eventually going to get a southern candidate, then where is their vice presidential candidate going to come out from? Is he going to come out from the Christian minorities?  By this, I mean, with the station we are talking of, you cannot do a Muslim-Muslim or a Christian-Christian ticket as it is today, because most sections will not agree. I had a particular religious group saying that they will not allow for a Muslim-Muslim ticket. But if that is the case, it may mean that you have to cut across both and begin to look for a candidate that could match up religiously, that could match up ethnicity-wise. Not necessarily putting this candidate away from one section of the country. That is what I'm trying to tell you. But I know that at the end of the day, you will be looking for the candidate that has electoral value. A candidate who can build bridges across both. Who can go to the south is known. Who can go to the east is known. I mean, politically now. These are the kind of candidates we are going to look for. Now, give us a very big country. And then, of course, after you take a look at all of these political considerations, then you have to look at the economic and security aspects of what is currently playing out today. Which candidate is going to come out to the world party and look at the present security issues of the economy that we're having today that you can really come out and begin to look at and turn the economy around. You know, once a candidate is able to play out like this, it simply means that they may likely take the ticket. But for today, as we are speaking, we are trying to get the country, we are trying to develop a political party through their primary to get a party that they feel that once they lift somebody up, they can actually, I mean, they can be sellable to the majority of the people. I just want to look at this today. You made mention of the fact that both political parties are watching each other to be able to make up their minds as to what they want to do. But then it looks like the People's Democratic Party is going to have its primaries before the All Progressive Congress, which means that whatever is the outcome of the PDP's primaries will determine what the outcome of the APC's primary is. I'm guessing. But then let's look at the people and what the people need right now. We've seen before now that the Southerners have continuously said we want power to come to the south. And you also rightly mentioned that earlier on. As we know that we have tensions already, how do we seal these gaps? If political parties are there to serve the people, shouldn't they be listening to what the people want? And the people here are not necessarily just members of their political parties, but people in regions, elder statesmen, leaders of thought. These, I mean, for example, PANDAF, Afeni Farah, the Middle Belt Forum, all of these people have come out to say that they will not support any political party who brings out a presidential candidate from the north. Should that not be a clue for political parties to rethink their position if they really want to win as you have started with the conversation? You talked about the numbers. Who's able to, who's sellable and who's able to win votes across boards. And I'm guessing that every political party should have that person, I'm guessing. Yeah, I didn't really get to you, but I understand what you're trying to say. Probably the view of the political zone, you know, the position of all the social cultural groups that are playing the theory, the Northern Elders, the ACS, and all of that. If you look at it, these groups are playing correctly. Afeni Farah is handling for his part to win the presidential candidate. While the Northern Elders, and of course the ACS, are probably looking for somebody to come from the north. But again, from section, and from between the big week, are saying that power should shift to the south. They have not really covered the terms to say exactly where they want power to shift to. Should power shift to the south, should this shift to the south, as it is today, I know that they will not support the presidential candidate from the east, going by the current political or situational event happening currently in the south. In one breath, the south east is calling for dismembering of the country. In another breath, they are calling for inclusion of the political arena in the country. And then again, they are talking of that. It is their thought. They begin to wonder what the day will be like. In my own take, I want to say that the south east should come up to play political games in this country, try to belong to the party of their choice, not necessarily playing actually original politics as they are doing currently today. But what they should do is to look at the party that they feel that they can belong to, and then begin to, you know, angle for political permission. One necessary thing that they have to take it, they have to start it, they have to be killing, they have to be burning, I make offices and none of that. I do not know if that is what the south east is really saying. Maybe this is your interpretation. I do not think that the south east is saying give us the tickets, they are saying zone it. And I think that that conversation, I am guessing that conversation should be between people from the south, whether it is going to go to the south west or the south east, that should be a conversation between people from the south. But the way you sound, it sounds like well we can't vote for the people from the south east because they are fighting. But can the south east or the south nests also say the same about what has been happening in the north? We had elections hold in the north even when there was fighting and killings. Is that a very good thing to say about people in the south east because of the uprising or whatever confusion you think is happening there? Should that be something that should write them off? Well, you see for me, if I take the information, I think when the south east, there was a time they met in Lagos. They included the south now, cutting across south south east and south west. They tried to look at the situation where they may have a common candidate. But most of the things that they had, didn't really get to the lack of the, to assuage their feelings of producing a common candidate. When they met in Port Harcourt and sometimes again in the south east, they had to try to attempt to get a candidate, a common candidate now. Rather than look for a way of bridging and trying to build bridges across the device, they were talking that power must shift. So these are some of the languages that they were using that we think is not political. A good position would not be talking of power must shift. But there have been all kinds of, there have been all kinds of rhetorics also coming from the north in previous elections. I don't think that the rhetorics would be a determinant or should be a spanner in the will of things. Should this not just be conversational and then let the people who want to do or who have the powers to decide, be the deciders and not necessarily the rhetorics. We've seen all kinds of rhetorics. It's in the heat of campaign season. People would say all kinds of things. But should that be a deterrence for people who want to support them or people who are asking for that support to be given finally? When you're understanding what I'm saying is that it is, as it is today, it is a party affair thing where we have not come to this general election yet. We have been talking of Europe's political party trying to now produce a candidate that could set his little energy of the people. But today, even because we're trying to get a candidate from the primary, they are now trying to sacrifice by trying to pull themselves together and make promises and shift ground and none of that. I'm saying that in the course of shifting ground, both the South East and the South South, we haven't played the relevant policies that people from the other device would make it look relevant for them to begin to say it is not time for them to support, you know, if it is Southern or if it's South East candidate. They are not even talking of South South candidate for this and like South South or whatever. They are talking of the South East candidate. That is what I was telling you that if you are talking of the South East candidate does not, as it is today, believe in Nigeria. If you believe that, look at what is happening with the canoe and the killings that are currently going on today. The thing is that we are on the side of two. What do they want from Nigeria? Do they still want to pull from Nigeria one? And if they really want to remain in Nigeria, then they have to come and play politics. I don't think you have to rule here that the South East candidate today, President Kennedy, is not right enough for them to begin to argue for. What they could get easily and that has to be also an articulate task. They have to be able to get narrowly a presidential candidate. All right. Mr. Idris, unfortunately we are out of time. I would have loved if we had Mordo Zihia. Unfortunately, we could not connect with him. But thank you so much. Musa Idris is a political commentator. Thank you so much for speaking with us. Unfortunately, time is up. All right.  I am Mary Anna Cohn. Enjoy the rest of your evening.


to them because they didn't have a voice. Emotional, just know that that is because of what happened in the play. Also because of all the support that we're getting from the community. Because of you and all the students here at UGA. And without his role that he's playing has played as, you know, the filmmaker and his voice. But thank you all for coming out today. And as I read the names, if a person would come up and just pick up a piece. And just hold it until to all the names. Okay. The first name I'm going to read and these are all that they were all homeowners in Linnertown. Susie Simmons. Lily Bell Hunter. Jake Phillips. Bessie and Dave Branham. Essie and Roy Crook. Emma Davis. Lois and Robert Hunter. Marie and Joseph Smith. Gertrude Johnson. Johnson. Favors. Mary Alice Johnson. Matilda Lyons. Lynn and Lois Taylor. Nancy and Roy Williams. Ashley Wright. Kendrick Diller. Gertrude Clark. Kendrick Lyons. Davis Johnson. I want to thank the class, doctors, men for all the work that you've done, all your students, and everybody who has supported the Linnertown Project. I love you. Thank the mayor and everybody that has Jerry Shannon, your class, Michelle, your research. Thank everybody for all the support that you have given us. And hopefully one day that we will have a mosaic where it won't be removable. It will be stationary at some place in Linnertown and it will be a mosaic of what it will take. Thank you. So what we'll do if you're willing to help pick up more pieces, if you want to kind of sit down on the edge, we'll bring a bucket with that collar. We're trying to keep the collars together because that way when this gets built, they're organized the right way. So if you're willing to get out on the ground, that's what I'm saying. Come on and get down. Get me help. Get me help. Get me help. Get me help. Get me help. Yeah, any of those clay medanians, that's probably used to come out. We'll use it. Thank you. I'll send stuff to you. Alex, I'm getting her to go. Yeah. I'm getting her to go.


Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Mistress of the White House, Harle's best known authors, the distinguished novelist, Mr. Ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton. Tonight on our hallmark playhouse we tell the love story of Dolly Madison, the wife of America's fourth president. And for this charming story we're indebted to a book by Helen L. Morgan called The Mistress of the White House. This White House incidentally wasn't the same building as the one we know, and in those days it was more often simply referred to as the president's house. But wherever the president lived, whether New York, Philadelphia or Washington, has always been a landmark in the history as well as the geography of our nation. And tonight, by the way, is a bit of a landmark for our own hallmark playhouse, for we've just reached the round figure of our hundredth performance, something of an accomplishment which we're all very proud of and happy about. We're equally happy tonight that on this, our anniversary show, we have in the starting role of Dolly Madison that charming and gracious actress and an old friend of ours, Teresa Wright. And now a word about hallmark cards from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of The Mistress of the White House. At Christmas, as on every memorable occasion, you'll take special pride in sending hallmark cards. Because just as for hundreds of years the word hallmark has been the distinguishing symbol of quality, so today the hallmark on the back of your greeting cards is your assurance of finest quality and perfect taste. It's a symbol of quality all who receive your cards will quickly recognize and realize you cared enough to send the very best. And now hallmark playhouse presenting Helen L. Morgan's Mistress of the White House, starring Teresa Wright. Halo won in the executive mansion and the parlors and colliders were crowded with the most distinguished people in the government and in Washington society. Late in the evening the Marine Band played the President's March and the assemble company in the East Room turned towards the door. President James Polk stood in the doorway and on his arm with her head proudly erect was an 81-year-old lady wearing white satin. They started slowly around the room and the old lady's eyes filled with tears as she saw the people bow before her and through those tears she saw other faces long gone and long beloved. Tall young man bowing. Surely that's Tom Jefferson. No, no, Tom has been dead for more years than I can remember. But that's Aaron standing next to him and Alex Hamilton. No, Aaron killed Alex in a duel and Aaron is gone too. They're all gone. Only I am left. The memories that were beautiful are almost unbearable now. Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, if only I could for a moment see your face, your smile. You push back sorrow and loneliness for me once. If only you were here to push them back again and yet your voice is only a memory away from me. Good evening. My name is James Madison. Yes, only a memory away. I've only to push aside the mist of a memory to be young again and see you smile as you did the hour of our first meeting. My name is James Madison. Forgive me, Mr. Madison. I'm afraid I almost knocked you down. It is slippery out. May I help you to your door? Well, my door is right here. I hope I shall have the pleasure of meeting you under proper circumstances some day. I'm afraid that's impossible, Mr. Madison. I'm in mourning. My husband died during the fever epidemic. My sympathy is mistress. Thank you, Mr. Madison. Good night. Good night. Oh, Mr. Madison. Yes, Mistress? Perhaps it's only fair to tell you. You and I have met before. Oh, that's impossible. If you and I had met before, I would remember. We met in Alexandria. I was there with my parents. I was 15 and I sat by the fire and watched while my father spoke with you. And for a long time after, you were the prince on the white horse that rode through my dream. Good night, Mr. Madison. Mistress, wait. Please, wait. I thought you'd never come. It's dinnertime. I'm sorry, Mother. Well, you look tired. I hate to see you working as you do. Oh, well, I can't imagine anything more interesting than running a boarding house for some of the most distinguished young men in Washington. The Secretary of State, Mr. Jefferson, Senator Burr... Did I hear my name spoken? I hope so. I'm lonesome. I saw you through the window talking to Jim Madison, darling. Didn't realize you'd do it, ma'am. We didn't eat. I slipped and he caught me. Oh, did he indeed? Well, I'd say that that was a fortunate accident for both of you. A brisk old night. Well, indeed. In a short time later, Jimmy, you sat opposite me and I watched your face in the candlelight and listened to you speak. And nothing that you said was as important as the things you did not say and nothing that I said was as important as the things I felt inside me. The months that followed were the happiest of my life. My heart lifted slowly as a bird lifts into the universe in singing... Calm and peaceful, doesn't it? No, but it was far from calm those weeks we locked ourselves up to carve from our own ideals a declaration of the rights of man. You know, I'm seeing Philadelphia with new eyes since we became friends. I used to walk by buildings like this and scarcely see them. But now they're like monuments to me. I talk too much. If I'm not careful, you're liable to end up thinking of me as a state building instead of a friend. We are friends. Aren't we, darling? Of course we're friends. Well, out here, isn't it? You've been so quiet all afternoon. What are you thinking? I was thinking how good it is to be young and alive. What were you thinking? I was thinking how good it is to be young and alive with you. President Washington's coach in front of our house. President Washington's coach! We must be a message for Mr. Jefferson. Mr. Storn? Yes? I have news for you, ma'am. Thank you. What does it say? Mrs. Washington wants me to come to tea with her tomorrow afternoon. And she wants me to come alone. Well, one certainly doesn't decline an invitation for Mrs. Washington. Dolly, the president and I both think that Mr. Madison would make you an excellent husband. You know, I married Mr. Washington before the first year of my widowhood was passed. My son needed a father, just as your son needs a father. And if you're worried about people gossiping, put that right out of your mind. The president and I would let it be known at once that we approve the match. But Mrs. Washington, Jimmy, Mr. Madison has not asked me to marry him. He will ask you, my dear. Dolly, have no fear about that. I'm sorry I kept you waiting. Well, that's all right. I've been browsing through your books. It's a most pleasant evening, isn't it? Yes. Except for the rain, of course. Oh, the rain. I quite forgot about the rain. I was looking through the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Now, if a man takes the time to study this book, he can learn a great deal. For example, you're looking exceptionally attractive tonight, Dolly. Thank you, Jimmy. I've always been meaning to read the decline and fall of the Roman Empire myself. But I never could find a free afternoon. The Romans had an amazing civilization. Now, take their architecture. Their architecture has a purity of design. The blue of that gown is the exact blue of your eyes. Thank you, Jimmy. Yes, I'm sure their architecture was quite admirable. Their architecture? Oh, yes, their architecture. They were great architects and the writers. Now, when their writers wrote, they... Yes, Jimmy? Their writers? What was I talking about? The decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Oh, confounded, I didn't come here to talk about the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. I came to tell you something quite different. But my good intentions seem to have declined and fallen, too. Dolly, I'm trying to tell you that I love you. Jimmy?  I swear it. Dolly, could you love me? Do you love me at all? Jimmy, before you came in, I was reading my Bible. I brought it down with me. See, my finger still holds the page I was looking at. Let me read it to you. And Ruth said, For wither thou ghost, I will go. And where thou lodges, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people. And thy gods my gods. Dolly. Dino Club. All well, then. All's well, my darling. All's well. Turn to the second act of Mistress of the White House, starring Teresa Wright. This Christmas, you have an opportunity that is truly extraordinary. The opportunity to send the paintings of Winston Churchill in glorious full-color reproductions as personal Christmas greetings. For on Christmas cards this year, on Hallmark cards, you'll find paintings by the right Honorable Winston Churchill, the world's most famous amateur painter. Chartwell in winter, his own country estate, deep in drifted snow, Jewel with evergreen trees. The fox hunt bright and merry as Christmas day, the mill pond in cottage with its message of peace. And in these paintings somehow, you'll feel the magic quality of greatness that has made Winston Churchill belong to the world and to all history. Winston Churchill's paintings appear only on Hallmark cards, and there are several ways to buy them. If you prefer to buy them by the box, you'll find several selections to choose from, with the cards either assorted or all alike. Twelve cards of assorted paintings cost only $1. Boxes of 25 cards all alike are only $2. If you would like your cards imprinted with your name, ask to see the Churchill Christmas cards in the Hallmark Gallery Artist album. I know you'll enjoy sending these unusual Christmas cards, for they carry both the world-renowned name of Winston Churchill and the Hallmark on the back that says, you cared enough to send the very best. Now back to James Hilton and the second act of Mistress of the White House, starring Teresa Wright. He moved slowly, circling the floor before the bowing guests in the East Room. On his arm was an 81-year-old lady who looked at the assemblage through a mist of tears. It's to walk like this many times on the arm of a president. When Tom Jefferson was in office, a widower, many was the time he asked me to preside with him over some social function. And the day you became president. Oh, Jimmy, the glory of the day you became president. Well, Dolly, the day is here at last. I've only to push aside the mist of remembrance to be young again and before you. The wife of the President of the United States. I'm very proud of you, Jimmy. This is your hour, your era. I hope I'm big enough for the hour. Of course you're big enough. Why you fought all your life for the principles that are the foundations of this government. From your words, men have learned the level of patriotism and the worth of valor. From your life, men will learn what it is to be a truly great American. Welcome to history, Mr. President. Aren't those mirrors magnificent, Jimmy? Yes, they are. We're going to call this room the oval power. I didn't watch to see it until I had it completely furnished. There isn't a room like it in Washington. Aren't those yellow satin chairs magnificent? They are very nice. All my life I've dreamed of having chairs covered with yellow satin. I'll try one. Try one? You aren't going to sit on them. Well, isn't that what they're for? No, they're to look at. Then what do I sit on? Well, if you want to sit, you can go in another room. All right, darling. Well, at last I've made you smile. You've been so solemn these past weeks. I've been worried half to death about you. The situation abroad is getting desperate. We can't tolerate a foreign power seizing our ships and forcing our sailors into their service. We protested. They laugh at us. We tried an embargo. We only crippled our own industries. Left to do. War. War. Orcane. An unrest in sorrow and fierce doctor land. The weeks and the months became more and more critical. And I remember the time passed so swiftly it was bewildering. Before I knew it, it was 1814. And my son, Payne, was 22. And he went abroad with Henry Clay. And in August of that same year, we heard rumors that the British fleet was coming up the Potomac and that we might lose the city of Washington. The situation is critical. Commodore Barney has decided to abandon his ships and bring his militia to unite with General Windsor near Baddenbury. I must go there at once for a conference. Do you mind staying here alone? Of course not. I have the servants and French John is a worth a whole army himself. I must go. Jenny. Yes, my dear. Come back to me. I'll come back. Mr. Smadison, a messenger has just come from the president. He says you must live immediately. The enemy is already at the outskirts of the city. There are those cannons again. John, put these boxes in the carriage. Call the servants to help you. They're very important. I packed all the government papers and records in them. They mustn't be lost. Paul, call some of the other men to help me get these boxes into the carriage. Yes, sir. Come along and help the militia. Mr. Smadison, please, you must hurry. The enemy will consider you a prize well worth capturing. I'm coming, John. I haven't dared take time to bring one personal thing. We'll probably never see any of our things again. I wish there was room in the carriage for my yellow chairs. I can't go yet. Mr. Smadison, we're in the minute to spray. I must... Mr. Smadison. All the pictures of Washington, they mustn't get the Stuart portrait of Washington. My dear. I need dynamite. I can manage it. It's fast on to the war. I cannot do it, John. Here, take this. Break the frame. Take that, kid. Now pull the picture loose. Be careful. Watch your hands. Oh, careful. Oh, that's right. That's fine. No. Come on, please. You will be captured. Now, John, you have your instructions. Lock everything. God keep you.  God keep us all. Above all, the country. Don't you want to rest in the carriage? There's no reason for you to stand here in the cold and the night just watching. It looks like the whole city is burning, doesn't it, Pa? Yes, ma'am. It does full effect.  Even if they do burn the city, every man and woman alive in this country carries the spirit of that city inside of them. They can burn the buildings, but they can't strike the word liberty from our hearts. And as long as one American lives to defend that word, America will live. I'm a pacifist. My husband is a pacifist. But we learn that mighty truth, not from peace, but from war. Oh, Jenny, just look at our house. It's in ruins. Yes, my dear.  The executive mansion is burned to the ground. The treasury buildings are gone, too. Washington is in ruins, but the British have evacuated the city. It's ours once more. We'll build it again. We built it once, and we'll build it again. And this time we'll... Don't cry. You've been so brave up till now, as they did indeed. I'm sorry. I can understand why they'd burn the state buildings. I can understand even why they'd burn our home. But even a barbarian should have had their taste to save those yellow chairs. Why, dear, you're telling... It's a beautiful evening, isn't it? When you look up at the sky, you can forget the desolation all around us. We're going to win this war, and we're going to rebuild this city. Of course we are. No man could fail at any task with you beside him. No nation could fail with women of your caliber to tend the hothfires and raise the children and teach them the things they must live for and die for, if necessary. Dolly, you have faith, and because of that, you inspire faith in others. Jamie. Eight o'clock, a mile clear... You hear, Jamie, that voice is like a sign from heaven, isn't it? All's well. All's well with a present. All's well with a future. There are things but a moment since we spoke those words, Jamie. But it has been year upon year upon year.  But I've known for far more years a president who never knew you is paying tribute to you by this honor he's showing me. Mrs. Madison, is there something you might say to us? You've lived a long time. You've been close to some of the greatest men in our history. Is there something you might say to us about the present, about the future? Oh, President Polk, I'm afraid I'm not much of a speaker. I've had a very happy life. But as for a message, as for the future, all's well, Mr. President. It will return in a moment. Mr. Hilton, just before the show, I started to tell you about a picture in this week's Life Magazine just out today. That's right, Frank. I remember. In it, you'll see a remarkable painting of the right honorable Winston Churchill, together with an announcement about the new Hallmark Christmas cards featuring the paintings of Winston Churchill for this Christmas. Mr. Churchill's paintings of the delightful English countryside reflect the spirit of peace on earth. This is the boundary of time or place. These cards are featured in the new Hallmark Gallery Artist album, Hallmark Christmas cards for imprinting with your name. You'll also find cards featuring the paintings of Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, and many other celebrated artists. So when you buy Christmas cards, first of all, choose the fine store where you buy Hallmark cards. Then you'll enjoy two pleasures. You'll enjoy looking at the Hallmark collection. It's something to see.  Here again is James Hilton. Theresa Wright, you've just brought to life for us a great American woman. On behalf of the makers of Hallmark cards, our gratitude for that and for your charming presence here this evening. Thanks, Mr. Hilton. It was a privilege to play, Dolly Madison. I've always admired the courage and devotion she displayed for her husband and country. And it's a pleasure to be back on the Hallmark Playhouse. You know, Mr. Hilton, Hallmark is playing an important part in my family life these days. In what way, Theresa? Well, my little girl, Mary Kelly, celebrated her birthday in September. Now we're all looking forward to my son Terry's birthday in December. These days are certainly highlighted by the many Hallmark cards which they receive from their friends. Hallmark has wonderful cards. And you have wonderful stories, Mr. Hilton. What is next week's selection? We're proud to dramatize one of the world's classics, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. And for our star, we're equally proud to welcome back that sterling young actor, Richard Todd. Our Hallmark Playhouse is every Thursday. Our director producer is Bill Gay. Our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray and our script tonight was adapted by Jean Holloway. Until next Thursday then, this is James Hilton saying good night. Very enough to send the very best. Two weeks from tonight, Hallmark Playhouse will move to an earlier broadcast time on this same night. Starting with our program of November 16, the week after next, you'll hear Hallmark Playhouse one half hour earlier every Thursday night. Theresa Wright can currently be seen in the Stanley Cramer production United Artists Release, The Men. The plot of James Madison tonight was played by Ted Osborne. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at this same time. When James Hilton returns to present, Richard Todd in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. One hour earlier, Elizabeth C. Enchanted April, starring Joan Fontaine. And the week after that, Eileen Hamilton's home to Thanksgiving on the Hallmark Playhouse. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.


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Yeah. So that day, um, he brought my car to me Wednesday. So keeping my, he got killed at 408 AM on Thursday morning. And so Wednesday about noon, he brought me my car. That's how he ended up in the cousin's vehicle because I needed to use my car for something. And we sat in the yard for about 30 minutes, hugging, looking up in the sky. Wow. And Snoop told, we were just talking. And I don't remember the details, but what stuck out to me was he said, mama, you're going to go. He said, and you're going to spend thousands of dollars. He said, and people are going to change on you, mama. He's preparing you. And that's what he said. He told me he said, it's not the people with the money that's going to change. It's going to be the people without the money that's going to change. Yeah, we on boss talk one on one. One on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. So now you get to the police station. What, what do they say to you? What, what are they saying? I don't remember details.  Because how is the Louisiana justice system? Let's be real. I would just tell anybody stay out of Louisiana. If you plan on getting in trouble, that's not the place. What I think my frustration comes from the police, the chief telling me, like trying to assure me he's going to do the best he can do. I think that's the first because you sat in my face. And I think the worst thing anybody can do to Deneisha is play on my intelligence. Right. And so, you know, he was, I'm going to dye my teeth, cross my eyes, make this and that. So when results start happening, I was on him.  I don't even look at him because you this was my son's life. Like y'all play with this. And the thing about it was he wasn't even relevant when we were going to court when the guy did get the time I made him relevant. I did a video and made them play his video because this wasn't no drug deal gone bad situation. And I think that's what they tried to paint the narrative because the police told me, he said, no, the district attorney said, well, you know, your son had marijuana and Pementazine in his system. I said, did that kill him? He said, no, I said, well, don't mention that to me. Right. Before this happened, what was the last time that you spoke to Snoop before that? Um, well, what was that conversation like? Let me tell you, huh? So that day, um, he brought my car to me Wednesday. So keep in mind, he got killed at 408 a.m. on Thursday morning. And so Wednesday about noon, he brought me my car. That's how he ended up in the cousin's vehicle because I needed to use my car for something. And we sat in the yard for about 30 minutes, hugging, looking up in the sky. Wow. And Snoop told, we were just talking and I don't remember the details, but what stuck out to me was he said, mama, you're going to go. He said, and you're going to spend thousands of dollars. He said, and people are going to change on you, mama. He is preparing you. And that's what he said. He told me, he said, it's not the people with the money that's going to change. It's going to be the people without the money that's going to change. And the reason why that hurt is because that was so true. It happened and it happened. And so we talked and talked and talked and, um, he took my charger and then I called him again. No. Okay. So then because I was supposed to go find like a double, he wanted to buy a mobile home just to have. He said, we're going to buy this mobile home and buy some land. So whenever we want to come back to Louisiana, we have somewhere to stay. Right. And so he told me to go shopping for one. I said, what's the budget? He said about 50,000. I said, OK, so I go and I find a nice one, like 69, you know, and by the time you do this and that, it was going to knock off. So it was going to be pretty good. So I called him on my way back. There had to be about three. Um, and he said, mama, I don't know what type of trailer you went and he said, my grandmother didn't pay that much for her. She paid about seven to 10,000. He said, that's what we need to do. And then we just going to put about 50,000 worth of work into it. And I said, what? I said, boy, you know what? You go look for what you don't. Because that just didn't make sense to me. And we hung up and then I called him again about seven thirty because he was getting ready to go on a trip and meet up with me now. And so I let him know, you don't have to buy your hygiene stuff. I already got it. Yeah. But when I called him, the killer answered. OK. And he says, knew one of him, the answer to see what I wanted. And I said, he said, he's playing the game. So I know if you're playing the game, you're gambling. So I said, OK, well, just tell him to call me back. And that was that was it.


Administrators can now configure schedule tasks from a new screen in the admin settings. Tasks can be run in parallel, but each task will only run once. And Cron can be run much more often, meaning, for example, forum posts could be sent out sooner. Here's the schedule task screen accessed from Site Administration, Server, Scheduled Tasks. For each task we see the component, when it last ran, when it will next run, and the current scheduling. As an example, let's change the badges task. We just click the edit icon to modify the timings. At the moment it's set for every five minutes. We'll change this to every three. This would be every hour, or every day. Adding a five here would mean the fifth month, which is May. A five here would be the fifth day of the week, which is Friday. Sunday is Day Zero. And it's also possible to disable the scheduling completely, or revert it back to its original setting. If we now save the changes, we can see them reflected on the Scheduled Tasks screen.