Thank you. Let's talk about colors. You know the things you use to make your pages less bland, unless you're building a site for the Guild of Grace Gay fans. So say in your CSS you want to choose something different instead of the two frequently used papaya whip. There are three cool new features and dev tools that make that way easier. The eyedropper that's used to pick a color from the page has been around for some time, but it was always on. Paradoxically making it harder to discover. You may have accidentally found it when your cat's been walking with your laptop, you know, one of those delightful discoveries like finding the retocrump in your belly button, right Paul? Because so many people couldn't discover the feature, the team went all the way back to the drawing board. They thought long and hard, debated the personas, they wrote storyboards and facilitated focus groups, and if you look in your canary, you'll finally see the result of all that engineering effort. Observe, the Ike. Moving on, there's a small but loud crowd of peach buff aficionados out there. I know, because I'm one of them. Now if you need to take that name color and turn it into Hex, HSL, RGBA, CMYK, MUNZEL or PANTONE, you now can. Now go ahead and find out which of these I made up. But first, let me tell you about the biggest new feature in New Color Picker. Say for some reason you're not happy with your standard go-to palette consisting of blanched almond and mint cream. Or maybe colors aren't your thing, but you still want to embrace your artistic side. Either way, DevTools get you covered with the new palettes. The custom palette allows you to store and later reuse your own color swatches whenever you need them. But the palette isn't just useful for storing your own colors.  That's where the auto-generated palette comes in. It shows you the parsed colors from the current page, sorted by how often they appear in the CSS. And finally, the material design palette gives you a set of colors that look great out of the box. The colors you see in that list are all the primary colors of material design, but there's some nifty billion magic with this one. Long press on one of them and you can pick a shade instead. Now go and make your life more colorful and let me know what you think in the comments below or on Twitter and subscribe to hear more about what's happening in the world of DevTools. From me, Paul Backers, and the rest of the Chrome DevTools team, we wish you a good evening and good debugging.


Biochar has been shown to be effective at removing both tetracycline and hexavalent chromium, CR-6, two contaminants that pose serious threats to human health. Cassava stock, rubberwood, and sugarcane bagasse have all been found to be effective materials for making biochar, which can then be modified with potassium hydroxide, KOH, to increase its efficiency. The modified biocars exhibited increased porosity and redux capacity, allowing them to more effectively absorb tetracycline and CR-6 through electrostatic attraction, reduction reactions, pi-pi stacking interactions, hydrogen bonding, porfilling effects, and surface complexation. This research provides valuable insight into the mechanisms behind the simultaneous removal of these two contaminants from wastewater and could lead to the development of more efficient and cost-effective methods for treating water polluted with these substances. This article was authored by Qingxiang Wang, Yan Yu, Wenfei Lu, and others.


Well, we're here in Kamloops at Royal Inland Hospital doing the groundbreaking for phase one of the Royal Inland Hospital redevelopment plan, which is about four hundred million dollars in total. Phase one is about eighty million dollars and will involve the construction of new parking facilities, new access to the hospital and also clinical services to help with education, training and some other clinical and diagnostic services. People of Kamloops in the region have been looking forward to this day and it's nice to see it going forward. It really is a great day today. It's been a long time coming and certainly it's taking a lot of conversation. It's taken a lot of hard work. Certainly Terry and Kevin Krueger before him, Minister Stone have all been very supportive of this project from day one and it's partnerships like that that's made this happen and certainly Frank, thank you very much for the support from IHA. In particular, thanks to these two guys, Minister Stone and Minister Lake, who really is at the end of the day that we guy we need to thank and of course our Premier. So it's a great result for us and let's just enjoy this project. Thanks.


We're kicking off this Tuesday edition of the Sportsman's Zone with a football. Things are intensifying as we draw closer to finding out who will lead Jamaica's football for the next four years. Come Sunday, incumbent Michael Ricketts and his team will seek to stave off a challenge from his current vice president, Raymond Anderson. Ricketts, the GFF president since 2019, will reveal his manifesto on Wednesday in his home parish of Clarendon. Anderson released his plans in December last year. But even as we look ahead to Sunday's election, there are some prevailing issues with Anderson's team contending that there have been a number of procedural breaches in the handling of the election process. Their concerns were brought to the Christopher Samuda-led Electoral Committee and having not gotten favorable responses, they took their grouses to the Royal Gibson-led Appeals Committee. It is our understanding that the Appeals Committee has responded and now are awaiting further documentation from the Electoral Committee for them to make a final ruling. It is also our understanding that the issues must be cleared up at least four days ahead of the election for it to go ahead. Well, we told you it would be a riveting election buildup. A man who knows a lot about what has been happening is Wayne Thompson, president of the St. Thomas Football Association and campaign manager for Raymond Anderson's real solid action team. They are calling him Raymond the Builder. Wayne, it's a pleasure first of all to have you on the sports mic zone. How are you doing days ahead of what we expect to be a hotly contested election? So, ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to be here. We are feeling good and I must say to you that I was encouraged by the preamble, the preliminary conversation you were having. I just want to put on the table the reason why you will have this kind of environment when there's an election. You're talking about billions of dollars investment, not just directly in relation to JFF itself, but right across the world because we are impacting not just local investment but overseas investment. You need to understand also that the picture may be painted that with us dealing with the JFF in terms of the headquarters. But the JFF headquarters have no vote. Just check that out. It is really delegates out there and therefore even as we speak, we have to recognize them and I'm here to speak on their behalf while I'll make my own contribution to the process. I think I'm gifted enough if I may say that because I'm sitting beside you, I just want to use those words because I would have been part of the system for a while. I may not be visible, but you guys would have known that I'm there. I'm trying to make a difference under the Michael Ricketts administration. But you would observe also that I've never been part of a state of school because years ago I would have voted, I would have supported Ambassador Stewart Stevenson and I'm supporting Rearman and I'm not doing it because I have any issues with personalities. Yes. I'm doing it because I realized the investment is so big that we have to keep changing and probably part of my training and I just want to ask people to forgive me if I've been like that because I've been very consistent because I do believe we're not representing ourselves, we're representing the parties who are struggling. Some of them can't find the way at all to support and compete in a global environment. So we have taken it seriously and which is why when I sit at the board and when I have the conversation with anybody, it is about the stakeholders out there. Yes, it is easy for you to think about yourself, but you have to manage yourself if you really want to get the return on investment and to support all the stakeholders out there. And when you talk about the investment and you said that part of the reason why there is this great push for office is because of the millions and billions of dollars that we are talking about. From what standpoint do you make that comment because quite often sporting administrators right across the Caribbean will say, well, this is a volunteer job. There isn't anything much in there for us. We're giving of ourselves, but you get the impression that there is a lot there for the persons who are pushing for office. So we have to recognize that football started out through volunteerism and it is still affecting us now because many of us have not made that paradigm shift and certainly persons would have volunteered their services, recognizing the importance of it in their own local space. But I think what would have happened over time is when we start to have the conversation and we look at the fact that this is a blessed organization, it provides you with the opportunity to meet with people locally and overseas. It can help you personally because networking is key in anything you do it and nothing is wrong with that. But I think there are times where we have to, and it is easy, by the way, for you to forget why you would have gone in the first place and that is why you have to constantly be checking yourself. And you think change is an important part of that. Change is very important, but I'll tell you from my experience, I'm not one to say that change is easy to happen and which is why companies have invested so much in soft skills. And that is one of the reasons why the change is so important at this time because the truth is we would have taken the football, because I'm a Paris president, we would have taken the football to where it is, but it needs a lot more, it needs a paradigm shift, it needs a total revamp and it's not that we're saying that all persons are focusing on self-perceive at this time, based on the point I make you know. What is the fact that globally it is getting more competitive, it's a business, you know. And if you look at countries who have done well and you want to benchmark because you have to do it in this business, then it means you have to do the things that they do. So if you look at how countries have done it, even Canada here, they have encouraged a lot more professional clubs into their environment, so there are a lot of vote, that kind of thing. I don't think we are there yet, because just based on the evidence of what is happening here, you suspect that the mindset is still there and persons, even though they talk about it, we talk about it, you're not seeing the change that is needed. Again, because change management is needed, maybe we would have failed somewhat in kind of looking down the road where we want to go, because there's a road map and we knew it was coming. But clearly we did not invest heavily in change management and it's not just a problem with the JFF by the way, it's not a problem with sports, it's a problem with business generally, we tend to focus on the hard skills, feeling to recognize that you have to create the change in people's mind before. Before we get further into that, let's talk about the build up to this election. A lot of what I know of you, you are a man for procedural efficiency and there has been a cry from the Raymond Anderson led real action team that procedurally the Michael Ricketts led Jamaica Football Federation has not been efficient in the way that they have gone about their business in the build up to this election. In fact, I'm looking at a release here that came from the real solid action team in December of 2023 saying that you condemn the disenfranchisement efforts by the JFF under the Michael Ricketts leadership. We are talking about here the RSA team that they have come in possession of irrefutable evidence showing the JFF's repeated attempts to prevent legitimate voter organizations from exercising their right to vote that they have created shell companies competing bodies and you have over time called for immediate action. The real solid action team has gone to the electoral committee as I pointed out in the build up to this, these issues are known with the appeals committee and as far as I understand it you are awaiting a ruling from where you sit, where has or essentially where has the JFF gone so wrong with how they have dealt with the build up procedurally? First of all I think we may have forgotten when we were having the discussion with FIFA. In fact we got a template from FIFA in terms of how this thing should work and it's part of a continuation of work we would have done. We would have done a lot of work with FIFA when we started out in support of the Michael Ricketts because administration which we are part of we felt it was in our best interest to all support the organization in whatever way we can. So part of it was not only the statute by the way, the statute was won but we also developed a document which I think is also affecting us now. It's a governance document, a consultant who came and worked with us while the previous general secretary was there and it highlighted some very important points. That's why Dalton Wint was there. For example, one of the things it spoke about is the fact that you shouldn't spend a dollar more than you earn and in fact I can hear the consultant repeating that and it's not that we didn't absorb it and recognize how important it was. Governance, the train of the board, that kind of thing. I think what may have happened and as I look back, if we had completed the process in relation to installing the members, the members have already been installed actually, I want to say installed, they were documented in the statute. They are documented in the statute. What is needed and in the wisdom of all of us, it was a recognition that if we're going to be working going forward, it means that there are some minimum standards that must be met by the members as we won't be able to compete. The game now has changed and we welcome politics because politics is good. It helps you to think but when you start to move the rules of engagement, it becomes a problem because you have to ask yourself at that point, do I want to be part of this? Is the example being sent to St. Thomas is what I sitting there would love to see. I have a professional life also. So the difficulty and the challenge is to recognize that an organization that is established with so many passionate persons start to create additional bodies. If these issues are so glaring as the RSA team has outlined over time, why is it then that you are not getting traction from let's say the electoral committee? You're all the way now at the appeals committee and personally I wouldn't be surprised if I wake up tomorrow morning and hear that there is an injunction out for this election not to go ahead on Sundays. So why are you finding it so difficult to get traction from these independent bodies? I'm starting to think and probably this is just my personal view. When you look at the people who are sitting on that committee, for example at Mr Samoda, Mr Samoda is one who would have given his support to the JFF over time. But if you're working with a Samoda or a committee like that, you have to have people. Which is fine as a GOA president, isn't it? Well, I don't have an issue personally. OK. And I want to make that clear. I don't have an issue personally. But Mr Samoda will do well if there are persons around him, just like anything else, that is able to provide him with information when it is required and to guide the process along the way. Every single committee must have a secretary that with competent people who are able to provide guidance because he doesn't have the time really to sit and look at every single integrity. And this is just my personal view. Because when you look at organization being formed, I am prepared to say that goes against the Constitution. There's a June 30th and there's the clause in the Constitution. And by the way, quietly, I was sharing the Constitution with every single media personnel. You know why? It should be a secret. It shouldn't. It should be a secret. And when I hand the documents to persons, I said to them, advise anybody who asks, I give it to you. Because I suspect if we all understand and treat with the Constitution as it is, Eritrea, clause Eritrea, we would have realized that there's a transitional process. And the transitional process is not for us to use our creative minds to do the wrong things. It is for us to adhere to what is written there in terms of the transition. The disappointment for me again, as I've said, it should be very clear to everybody because we actually had conversations around it before it was tabled. I had some challenges. Other members had challenges. And which is why when some changes were made, we, some of us did not agree to it at the Congress that was held in Manchester because we figured too many changes would have been made. And it's kind of contradict the original template and the guidance that FIFA would have provided. But not to stand in that if we're just adhered to what we would have created. No matter how imperfect this is, we wouldn't be having a problem. And we talk about these things not because we're spoiled. We do it because, and deliberately, because we want the public to be part of the process. Because the next time we come to you know, we want to share our plans with you so that you can be part of the planning process. The football will never move if the media is not involved, if others are not involved. So if you're locked out, it becomes a problem for the quality of the product that we're trying to achieve. A couple of quick questions before you go in because you referenced earlier on your training in explaining the posture that you have with. Could you just say exactly what your training is? So my training, first of all, is in terms of governance. We started out in Aleco Club up by hearties somewhere in Yalas. Yes. I will invite you out there because the roads are good now. Yes. Right? I've always said to my colleagues that is 60% of my training. I've had other formal training and I've certified in areas that I'm speaking about. So I don't generally communicate these things, by the way, because sometimes in football you find that when you start, when people start to know you that way, they may look at it differently when we should all be equal. So I have a master's and I have my degree and I've certified training, project management, change management and those things. Okay. There appeared to have been a little bit of a surprise from the President Michael Ricketts that he was being challenged by Raymond Anderson, which he said openly that it didn't appear as if he expected a challenge. At what point in this entire process did you, Wayne, as a St. Thomas President, feel as if you would go in Anderson's direction as opposed to Michael Ricketts' direction? Right. So it was not about Anderson's direction. It was about, we started out very well, you know, and I had said to a couple of persons in media, we're going to miss Dalton Wint. Because we miss Dalton Wint and I've said it to him that when you come and talk in the media, you can't be talking down to the people. That's the only problem I have with Dalton and the stakeholders. But Dalton understands his weaknesses and was prepared. And he always asked questions. More than a year ago, we had said to Mr. Ricketts, let's, because we have supported him 110% and we said, based on where it is going, more than a year ago, we believe that we need to have a different kind of leadership. And it was done in a malicious way. It was just a recognition that if we're going to be competing and based on what we say ahead of us and the fact that the restriction was there in terms of the financial restriction, we had to find a way to get more private sector people being part of us. It's important to know because what the private sector person, what they do is not that they're brighter than us, you know. But what they do, they add to the mix. So when you start to have the conversation, there are different perspectives that you can look at. So more than a year ago, we had sent the signal. And Rayman has not said to persons that is not me putting up myself. We wanted a leader. We know couldn't get a leader from outside. Because if you had gone for a leader outside, it means that you would not have learned the lessons. So we recognize that Rayman was the most suitable. Why? Because he would have anything that Rayman touches. It works. For example, you would see the PFJL in terms of the execution. Rayman is always the end support of the body. So we recognize that we needed to have a team of persons with different skin sets. If you look at the team, you can match it with the issues we're having at the JFF. Communication and marketing. Finance. So if you look at how we would have positioned ourselves in doing the selection, you can say that we're heading somewhere. And this is where Rayman must take credit for this. And it tells me that he knew what he was doing. I did not make any recommendation to Rayman. And when I saw the team that he brought, I thought it was very strategic because somebody like Dave, Dave assisted us. And I wanted to make it public. Dave assisted us when we were having serious problems. You would have heard the reggae boys. Dave came in. And the payment issue. Right. And he used his own style. And no persons have this thing, those who don't like him, to say that, boy, it must have cricketed. But Dave was able to use his own experience to drive that conversation. We were hoping that the same mix could have been done to treat the girls. It didn't happen. And you would have seen the result. In five seconds. Who wins on Sunday? Rayman. You're that confident. Yes, Rayman. Because Michael Ricketts says he has 110% chance of winning. And I'll tell you, elections are one on the day. The delegates are listening to me. And I'll ensure that the audio which is produced here will be sent to all of them and video. You know why? Because they need to understand. And I don't think we probably would have done a good job over the last four years to have them understand what is happening. We shouldn't be paying a tier two and the clubs are struggling. The environment is too conducive for development in terms of football.  Wayne Thompson, we're out of time. Thanks very much for joining us on the Sports Mag Zone. It's been a pleasure speaking with you. And we'll be there in Hanover on Sunday to witness this election process. Thank you very much. We'll be back with more on the Sports Mag Zone.


fed up with the everyday grind Tired out from the summer heat Want to get away from it all we offer you escape Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure You are prisoner in the magnificent mountain retreat of the richest man in the world While haunting you terrifying you is the knowledge that the ultimate escape Will be death Tonight we escape to an isolated Montana Plateau and the strange secret of a stranger family as f. Scott Fitzgerald told it in his Fantastic story the diamond as big as the writs I've been going to st. Midas prep school for a couple of years. This was my second summer vacation I'd met this fellow Percy Washington during the winter got to be pretty good friends with him Only I didn't know about his family or where he came from or anything like that Of course, I knew he must be rich all the fellas at st. Midas came from wealthy families So when he invited me to spend the summer at his home out west someplace that was okay by me We'd been on the train overnight when he first mentioned it I don't even remember now what led up to it We've been talking about first one thing and then another Percy Exactly, where is your home? I mean you bought the train tickets in Montana sort of Oh, yeah Pretty wild country, isn't it some of it is now you take Hades, Missouri where I come from It's been settled for a hundred and fifty years one of the first towns on the Mississippi River indeed. Oh sure That's very interesting I sure do appreciate you're not making jokes about it the way some of the fellas do and I say I come from Hades Why you know my father John Asian, huh? Do you know that my father is the richest man in the world? Oh? By far the richest I Read about a man that paid taxes on a five million dollar income small fry if my father paid tax on his real income He'd disrupt the whole economy of the United States. No kidding. Oh I like rich people the richer a fellow with the better I like him my father could buy out all of the millionaires in the country and not even know he'd done it is that a fact I Visited the Schlitzer Murphy's once they're plenty rich Why their daughter Vivian's got rubies as big as hands eggs and sapphires that glow like headlamps I like jewels always have I used to collect them instead of stamps and diamonds the Schlitzer Murphy's had diamonds as big as walnuts Oh, that's nothing. Huh? Nothing at all My father has a diamond as big as the Ritz Please I'm not joking But you mean as big as the Ritz Carlton hotel exactly my father has a diamond as big as the Ritz We got off the train about dusk at a little whistle stop called fish Montana There wasn't anything there not even a station just a broken down old buggy and four or five sheep herders lounging beside the track And I suppose wondering who we were Anyway, Percy and I climbed into the buggy and without saying a word the driver cracked his whip and off we went I Don't know how far we traveled. We didn't seem to be following any road though and After an hour or so it got dark, but the driver kept right on never saying a word. I Hope you'll pardon this inconvenience John, but we have to take certain precautions, you know, no, that's all right Anyway, we're almost there your home. You mean oh no to the place where we consider it safe to transfer a Transfer of what do you mean? Oh, there's the signal now headlights well up the horse absent Here we are an automobile, but but how there's no road. Oh, this car is special built doesn't need roads Good evening gig some Come on John, let's get in Christ is this car what they've made out of silver. No platinum. Those are emeralds in the hubcaps and the upholstering it It's fur mink. You're ready master any time gig some Probably notice the exceptional brightness of the headlamps the lenses are cut from diamonds boy. What a car This old junkie we use it for a station wagon Hey, why did we stop Percy? This is just a deserted canyon. Oh, we're not yet there yet John Wait, you'll see They sent down the hooks while we were coming from the station the hooks Yes to attach to the wheels, you know, that's what gig some is doing now Incidentally gig some will look after you during our visit Look after me your personal valet Of course, there'll be other slaves available to whenever you need them Do you have a lot of slaves three or four hundred I suppose? Oh Already gig some yes master Hello We're leaving the ground yes There's a hoist up there on top of the cliff has cables about a quarter of a mile long But what for oh, it's the only way in Imagine hoisting an automobile a quarter of a mile up the side of a cliff It's really nothing as you may have guessed John This is not going to be like anything you ever saw before in your life Well John there it is that's your home It's magnificent Palatial, it's not bad. How big is it? I think it's around a hundred and forty rooms The father may remember exactly then of course there are other buildings slaves quarters and things Why hasn't anyone ever found out about it this place? I mean well for one thing It's the only five square miles in the United States that have never been surveyed Hmm why not? Oh what things were arranged. I don't see how that's possible Believe me it hasn't been easy. I understand grandfather had to bribe three government bureaus a vice president and half of Congress Wants to keep the place off the maps, but somebody surely stumbled onto it to prospectors people like that Oh, yes, that happens occasionally then of course we have to arrange things You mean not always usually we just take them prisoner and keep them like the aviators Plains come here once in a while. They fly over of course. They never get away We have nine anti-aircraft batteries around the hills you shoot them down. Oh, yes great sport it does upset mother a bit and There's always a chance one might get away. That's father's greatest worry This place is this whole thing it is. It's fantastic. Oh come now, John I picked you for a fellow with his feet on the ground and You haven't seen anything yet, you know This is only the beginning and it was only the beginning We crossed the acres of lawn and entered the great Chateau and From that moment on vision upon vision tumbled together in a gigantic kaleidoscope of color symmetry and exquisite harmony There were corridors lined with gleaming crystals lit by lamps cut from emerald and great halls carpeted with chinchilla fur and ermine And there was a white haired man Pink-faced and very pleasant who was Percy's father and Percy's mother a Lovely lady with dark hair piled high on her head like like a fragile queen Soft music came from hidden places perfumes fill the air Exotic foods and and wines more rare than pearls. I Thought they could be no more nor greater wonders. I was wrong There were many more and greater ones and one of them. I discovered the next morning in the garden Hello there. Yeah, yeah You're lovely. My name is kiss mine. You're John Unger. You're a friend of my brother You from the east. Oh, no, at least not exactly. I I'm from Hades.  Oh? Yes, sure. I would I'm going east to school this fall Just both. I like it. I think so Of course, it'll be different from all this. That's what Jasmine says. She's me now I've never been outside Who is Jasmine my sister? She's older than I am. I Hope you won't be offended, but You're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Yes, I know What I surprised you didn't I a year ago? I would have said thank you father says it's very necessary to learn to take Things for granted Now I just take it for granted that I'm beautiful you see You're pretty sophisticated aren't you? Oh, I'm not at all. I Believe girls should enjoy their youth in a wholesome sort of way. Oh, so do I I Like you John. I Wish you'd spend some of your time with me this summer not all with Percy. I Will kiss mine. I will you may be in love with me if you'd like to I'm absolutely fresh ground, you know, I Am in love with you. Of course. We'll have to meet secretly my parents wouldn't permit it if they knew then that's what we'll do I Have to go now. I'm supposed to be with mother at 11 Aren't you going to ask me for a kiss? Jasmine says boys always do nowadays Some of them do but not me We don't expect nice girls to do that sort of thing in in Hades It was a funny thing Percy's family were polite friendly always smiling And yet all the time I had a feeling that some terrible and golden mystery lay hidden just around the corner Few days after I admit kiss mine Percy remarked casually that an unusual event had occurred a Man had escaped from the cage I didn't know what he meant then But the next morning I was walking with Percy's father on the grounds of the estate Mr. Washington Percy said something about a man escaping from the cage. I didn't quite get it the cage Well, perhaps you'd like to see it most might prove interesting just as a novelty. It's over there these trees a 60 feet tall and they have roses blooming all over. Yes. Yes. It's a rather interesting development by a Swiss botanist These are the only ones in the world I'll be down Although I suppose you'll see them all over the country in a few years. No, these are the only ones that was arranged Here we are the cage It's a pit dug in the ground a Grading on top. Oh, yes, it's it's not really a cage except in a certain sense Well boys, um, how are you getting along? How many men are there down there? About 50 as I recall who are they? Aviators we've shot down Wandering prospectors many of that sort, but why are they kept there? And they've all had the common misfortune of having discovered El Dorado gentlemen Gentlemen gentlemen, I am sure you would like to know that your companion who departed without my permission Has been taken care of Yes, yes, yes, he was shot by some of my agents in in 14 different places Golf mr. Runger They found him then The man who got away. No those places were towns my agents were over eager none of them could offer a positive Identification I I'm afraid the man may still be at large You see it's not all utopia here. No, we do have our difficulties Isn't it a little unnecessary? Holding them like that not at all. It's the only way to keep this place hidden Yes, I guess that must be important. Oh A Percy was telling me something on the train. I thought he was kidding, but He said you had a diamond as big as the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Oh, yes Yes, indeed as a matter of fact, it's much bigger than the Ritz much bigger Well summer went on I Was more and more in love with Kismine She was priceless exquisite like no other girl in the world After a couple of weeks, I kissed her of course and I was really in love for the first time I Should have known should have put two and two together when Percy's father showed me the cage But I didn't until one morning late in the summer. I slipped off with Kismine to the Rose Gardens Kismine, I think we ought to elope. I don't know It would be much nicer to be married here Then it'd be more romantic to elope Yes, all of a sudden these supplements would write stories about fabulous eras elopes I knew an eras from Omaha once But I don't think you'd like her She visited my sister here. Oh You've had other guests then Well, yes, we've had a few Wasn't your father ever afraid they might talk outside? Well to some extent Let's talk about something more pleasant. What's so unpleasant about it? Well, I I grew quite fond of some of them You mean they told And your father they didn't get a chance to father had to be sure But that's murder. What else could we do? The cage they'd have been a constant reproach to us Father does it so nicely They're always drugged in their sleep and we tell their families. They died of scarlet fever and butte I'm not sure how that affects the statistics there. I'm all the horrible It is not drawl would be terribly boring here without ever having anybody My father and mother have sacrificed some of their best friends.  Be nice to me until Until you're put away. It's only for two or three weeks.  You're not. I won't have you saying I kissed a corpse. That wasn't what I said I did not you said that just a moment Father who kissed a corpse?   You don't really love me kiss mine you What's the use? What if you are rich and have this place? Why would it be so terrible if anyone found out about it? Well, it's on account of the diamond of course diamond. What is this diamond all of you talk about? Well, it's You better ask Percy. I'm always getting things mixed up. I will ask him and another thing I'm getting out of here tonight if I have to dig through the mountains. I'm going back east. Take me with you No, why not your father wouldn't permit it. You won't take me. I'll go tell him I want to marry you you can't do that it bumped me off this afternoon Oh, please take me darling And we'll be terribly poor And very happy And I'll cook things for you herbs and berries and stuff. Would that be fun?  Oh my head was really in a whirl this whole thing was fantastic And so was the family Even kids minor I Couldn't think of anything to do, but I rushed to see Percy But John why didn't you ask me before because I thought you were kidding all the time. I Know you wouldn't believe me if I'd told you I'm ready to believe anything now Well, it was my grandfather who started the whole thing purely by accident He came out here from Virginia after the war between the states and stumbled on to it Under what the diamond of course that's what made all this possible Grandfather spent two years going around to different cities of the world selling bits of it Then he started building this place He put his money into jewels, but father found that radium took up much less space But but why the secrecy? Oh, it just wouldn't do if anyone found out ruin the whole economy of the world The thing's too big this has been going on for three generations When the the cage and and this thing of inviting friends. Oh, yes You see there wasn't really any danger before airplanes They are what worry us and you knew when you invited me here. What would happen? Please John I thought you'd be more sensible about it. After all you can see my position. Yeah Where is it? Where do you keep this diamond that's called so cock-eyed much trouble? Oh, I thought you'd guessed You've noticed the hill the Chateau stands on yes It contains a cubic mile and except for a thin covering of dirt. It's one big solid diamond It was nearly midnight I Didn't know what awakened me But all of a sudden I was staring across the patches of moonlight spotting the airman carpet of my bedroom Staring at three slaves. I'd never seen before They just slipped inside the door and stood there each with a vicious length of shiny copper wire The official Executioners I Lay there on the bed watching them counting heartbeats not daring to move not daring not to move They didn't know I'd wakened they began edging across the room Come on. All three of you. There's no time now for this all hell's broken loose, hurry. I Took one long deep breath The first one has several moments Then I was out of the bed in an instant throwing on my clothes and dashing through the long crystal corridor to Kismine's room Kismine are you awake? So they woke you up to if you mean three of your father's slaves airplanes airplanes so that's what it is At least a dozen. I saw them crossing against the moon. Look. They're circling way over there. You think they're here on purpose Oh, yes, they dropped warnings to father It's that man who got away from the cage, you know good for him. It wasn't you clever I think we'll open up on them any second now open up. Yes, our anti aircraft. Oh, this is going to be thrilling thrilling Well, look they're in range now And get away from that window You see that yes, and we've got to get out of here.  There's a little grove of trees across on the side of the mountains. We always keep one of the cars there We'll have a nice view of everything a nice view Kismine you don't seem to understand they mean business. They're out to finish off you and your whole family When you come right down to it, they've never even met us. Oh, I've lost my watch She's beginning lighter. All right Quieter to Your guns They're knocked out Every last one of them won't be long now Seems such a shame Family put so much work on the place Everything's always been so pleasant.  I'll come back at the edge of the wood. I stopped and looked out across the valley Toward the wrecked Chateau standing on its diamond hill And then suddenly three men appeared bearing a heavy burden among them It was mr. Washington and two of the slaves. All right. All right. This is far enough We'll stop here now Hold it there both together now easy now the burden they held up to the heavens was an immense diamond You out there you there. I could see no one else anywhere in view. Oh you about there. I Want you to understand this is only a sample. I'll give you a thousand cut as fine second pedestals of platinum, and I Build you a temple a thousand feet high cast of solid gold and On the top of it. I'll put one diamond Hundred feet across a thought began to dawn on me. I couldn't believe it I'll let your name in the temple in In emeralds, and I'll see that the whole world worships at its base All you have to do all you have to do is make everything the way it was before Mr. Washington was offering a bribe To God He stopped talking and waited and then Out of the silent heavens Blossomed the white puffs of parachutes The man who had tried to bribe God looked up and saw them He became old in an instant Turning with lowered head Walk down the path toward the chateau With sudden premonition I've whirled and headed for the spot where I'd left kids mine kids mine and the car that needed no roads Haven't we gone far enough John? I suppose we're 10 miles from the Chateau It's all so hectic just rushing about and losing sleep and everything hand me those fuel glasses You see anything Oh wait, what is it? It's your father and mother and Percy They're going into a tunnel down below the Chateau They've got an underground escape No, I remember now The mountains wired some kind of an Adam bomb Adam atomic bomb Father's had it for years He always said it would disintegrate the whole works diamond and all Of course, he only regarded it as a last resort So he'd rather have it like that They're all inside the tunnel now. I Can see the troopers moving in I Don't suppose there's really anything to be done about it now and there wasn't Thinking about things the way they were It was all so pleasant I Don't suppose it'll ever be exactly like that again not ever kiss mine and Maybe it never was Youth is a time for dreaming Dreams die, too. I'll probably have to take in washing Of course, we'll be very happy What will we do John? do oh We can love a while underneath the stars That's a form of divine drunkenness we can all try and then there There may be other diamonds in the world who knows and Even though it's a shabby gift there's always disillusion Turn up your cover kids mind before you catch pneumonia Let's go to sleep Escape is produced and directed by Norman McDonnell Tonight we have brought you the diamond as big as the Ritz by f Scott Fitzgerald adapted for radio by Les Crutchfield With editorial supervision by John Dunkel in tonight's cast where Sam Edwards Peggy Weber Danny Merrill John Daner and Don Diamond special music by Ivan Dittmar's Next week each time you fall asleep you find yourself dreaming the same strange dream one in which you live out your life in the distant future and Always a hideous fate moves closer to you a fate from which you cannot escape Next week we escape with another great story by one of the world's greatest authors Good night, then until this same time next week when once again we offer you escape This is Roy Rohn speaking for CBS the Columbia broadcasting system


You know increasingly we're using automated technology in ways that kind of support humans in what they're doing rather than just having algorithms work on their own because they're not smart enough to do that yet or deal with unexpected situations so we're interacting more and more with these systems and so you need an interface that it makes sense for a human to interact with and so a lot of these systems have you know an interface that is personified and that will talk to you. The effect that I'm so interested in the the psychological effect of us treating these systems like social actors is actually we achieved that in the 60s like in the 60s we had this chatbot called Eliza that Joseph Weisenbaum made it's a really famous example of a really simple chatbot all it did was answer everything with a question like a psychoanalyst would so if you were like oh I don't like my mom it would be like why don't you like your mom and people would just open up and tell it all sorts of things even though it was very primitive in how it behaved so it's useful that we will engage with these systems on a social level because it's engaging for people and you can get people to actually use the systems more but I do wonder whether there's any effect on our behavior on our long-term behavioral development. It really gets interesting when we start talking about kids you have these systems like Siri and Alexa that kids are interacting with and if these systems are simulating life-like behavior or a real conversation then that could actually influence kids behavioral development and the way that they start to converse with other people. There are some examples of this just anecdotally that we have so far like there was a an article in the New York Times a few years ago about this kid this autistic boy who had developed a relationship with Siri and the mom was like this is the best thing ever like this Siri is infinitely patient will answer all of his questions also the voice recognition is so shady that he's had to learn to articulate his words really well and it's made him a better communicator with other people because of Siri but then on the other hand you have stories like this one guy wrote an article a few months ago about how Alexa was turning his kids into assholes because she doesn't require any please or thank you or any of the standard politeness that you want your kids to learn in conversing with others so you know I think it is an interesting question the more we're able to simulate like a real conversation with these systems the more that might get muddled in our subconscious in some way one of the things that I think is really necessary is is that we need to study more what impact this can have on our behavior so we definitely need to be studying these interactions and studying the effects of these interactions it's it's you know a similar question to violent video games or pornography or these are questions that have come up again and again but I think that these systems bring them to a new more visceral level in our psychology so we need more research and then depending on what the answer to that specific question is we might need to think about design and use and maybe even policy for regulating these agents part of the problem is also that like this is such an interdisciplinary problem or all of the questions that are coming up are so interdisciplinary you need technologists you need policymakers you need users you need researchers who understand psychology who understand technology who understand sociology like all of this is coming together and you you need people talking to each other I would really like us to in the next few years to lean into the positive effects of the technology and develop structures the way that we have in other fields like medicine to ensure that we're using the technology in a responsible ethical way


Good evening everyone, we're live tonight from the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in downtown Baltimore. This is the institution that pioneered the idea of the golden hour in emergency medicine and in the 50 years since then the helicopters have gotten bigger and faster surgical techniques have improved and now the focus is shifting to what else can be done to improve survival in accident cases and other types of serious injuries. The focus is on what individuals can do before the paramedics even get there. It's a program called Stop the Bleed. We're going to have a demonstration coming up with some techniques you need to know about. There'll be no blood, maybe a little bit of plastic, but stay tuned for that in a few minutes. Also tonight we're taking your questions by email the email address live questions at mpt.org. Joining us now is Dr. Thomas Scalia, who is the physician-in-chief at Shock Trauma for almost 27 years. Tell me about the patients that you see here. What types of situations are coming in? That's evolved some over the years. If you ask me about our current profile, about a third are vehicular crashes, defined that as you know in all ways. About 35 or 40% are actually older people that have fallen and about 25% are people that have been injured with interpersonal violence, largely ballistics, largely gunshot wounds, and then a little bit of industrial and recreational injuries. If you watch the evening news around Baltimore, you frequently hear Shock Trauma in the context of a shooting victim being transported here to have their life saved. How many people, what are the trends that you see in that? We're seeing this year probably seven or eight hundred, I would guess, gunshot wounds, another several hundred, three hundred people stabbed. So it's a lot. It's a substantial number, well over a thousand people a year that are injured by what we call penetrating trauma. You were telling me about a 12-year-old patient of yours that you saw recently with penetrating trauma from an assault weapon. Indeed, certainly one of the things that has gotten a lot of attention appropriately so is the real spike in injuries, particularly gunshot wounds to young people, to children. And the last numbers I saw, there were 10 deaths so far this year and another 50 or 60 non-fatal shootings in kids, which is a noticeable difference for us relative to the last few years.  Well, it's a complicated set of circumstances, particularly young people, older people as well. There's a huge emotional toll to being injured and being injured violently evokes a whole set of issues that require longer term often therapy. And even though we save almost everybody that comes here, that doesn't mean that they don't have sequelae of their injuries, physical sequelae. And so we certainly do our best to try to be as holistic as possible. We try to treat the body. We try to treat the psyche. We try to treat the mind. But it can be a problem. No question. You've also tried to venture outside the hospital in terms of violence prevention. What have you tried? What have the results been? Well, we had the first hospital-based violence intervention program 2006, if I remember correctly. And it is one of the few to date that has randomized prospective data that says it actually changes behavior. And so it was very discouraging for many years. We were unable to get it funded. I'm happy to say we now have obtained funding, and we are trying to amplify that up to make that as evident as possible. The new area where we're really concentrating is we just opened as of May 1st, so not even a month ago, the University of Maryland Baltimore Violence Prevention Center. And we have our new executive director, Dr. Nadine Finnegan-Kar, and we're just getting going. But the idea is to make this community-based prevention, what we'd like to do is not have to fix them after they get here, but prevent them from ever coming here. Now, that's a tall order and is a set of issues that is going to take a generation to really affect. We have to sort of dig in and make the long-term commitment to getting that done. That's not a quick fix. Reminder viewers, do you have a question for Dr. Scalia or broadly about shock trauma? Send us an email livequestionsatmpt.org. I mentioned at the beginning it was Dr. Cowley's concept of the golden hour. How radical was that 50 or 60 years ago, and has it really spread beyond Baltimore? Oh, absolutely. This is a well-established concept. Injury is the quintessential time-sensitive disease, and it's a disease. And so the clock starts ticking at the time of injury, not at the time of hospital arrival. So what you need is a system, right? You need a system to deliver the right patient to the right place in the right amount of time. That slogan that we use was also the slogan adopted by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan. Right person, right place, right amount of time. And so whether you believe that the golden hour is 60 minutes or sometimes for terribly injured patients, it may be six minutes, the clock is ticking. And our job is to get the patient to care, define that as you like. It's different days and for different people, but get the patient to the right care as fast as we can. And the right care may not be a shock trauma. There's a whole system around the state. It's not just you guys and your helicopters. No, it's a very sophisticated system. It's five EMS zones, a helicopter in each zone, a regional trauma center in each zone, four trauma centers in the city. So it's a big system. We stand at the top of that system being the principal adult resource center for the state and the Neurotrauma Center for the state of Maryland. But certainly if every injured patient came here, we'd be crowded beyond belief. It's the right person that needs to come here, not every person. You mentioned the military's approach to trauma care. You train military doctors here. Yeah, we started that in 2001. And we have been proud to be the Air Force training site for whatever that makes it, 22 years. We will be the Air Force training site as long as the Air Force wants to stay or at least as long as I'm here and hopefully long after I'm gone. And I think there is great synergy between us and the military. We taught them a number of lessons from the experiences we garnered in the 90s when crack cocaine came to the United States and there was literally war on the streets of America. They have brought back many important lessons from the war, including new ways of using blood and plasma. And so it goes back and forth and in my mind then everybody wins. If you were named Bob says how do you process all the trauma that you witness psychologically and emotionally and not just you. If people saw the video from the resuscitation unit they're going to be 20 people in there. Yeah, it's a great question. If I can't do that I'm not very good at my job. I would be pretty ineffectual and I think when I'm on right I don't have the luxury of grief. I have to put that in a different place because the radio is going to go off, the phone's going to ring and the next person that comes in deserves my A-game not me going oh I'm sad. And so I think each of us has a way of doing that of putting the feelings in a different place and then each of us has our way of dealing with them when we get to not be clinically active anymore. My way is to go to the gym. You teach. We Dr. Henry coming up, Professor of Medicine, when you're talking to students of surgery and trauma care and preparing them for the emotional aspect of what they're going to see, how do you set it up for them? Well this isn't for everybody and I think people need to make at least a certain level of decision in medical school or in residency and some people want to be outpatient doctors and that's great because we need a whole bunch of outpatient doctors and some people want to be very directed in their practice, have a little niche and become an expert at a small area. We need those people. We are the doctors and the nurses for the sick people and to a large extent it doesn't matter how you're sick. If you're really sick, we're your guys and we're happy to swing in and help. We talked during the pandemic by Zoom of course and at the time things were really different because nobody was driving anywhere. I imagine the number of crash victims was declining and you moved into a different role. We did. We really reinvented ourselves. It says shock on the building before it says trauma so it's about the care of critically ill or and or injured patients and what we did is we became the center for respiratory failure from COVID. We set up a 32 bed biocontainment unit we called it and we offered the highest level of support for respiratory failure. We put almost 90 people on heart lung bypass ECMO as we call it for respiratory failure with a survival over 70%. It's a sort of a staggering set of results and you know the men and the women of the shock trauma center led that fight in every discipline. Doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, techs, everybody really leaned in and said here we are. We're gonna we're gonna save lives. It doesn't matter why you're sick. Last question. You were practicing medicine in New York City 27 years ago when this job opened up. What brought you to Baltimore? The job. I never intended to leave New York City. I was going to live and die there and when this opportunity became possible I hesitated about four milliseconds and said yes this is this is the analogy is like playing center field for the Yankees or the Orioles depending on your your current geography right it's um this is the best job in trauma care in the world and I would say it's the best job in academic medicine in the United States for sure. So when this became a possibility I I was all in and I still am. It's always an honor to talk to you. We appreciate the time. Your health segments are a co-production of Maryland public television and the University of Maryland Medical System.


Thank you very much. Thank you. My goodness, if they had done this for bedtime for Bonzo, I never would have left Hollywood. Well, thank you all very much, and a special thanks to the members of the Army Band and the Harold Trumpeters. They thank them for the spirit and energy they contribute to this event and other events throughout the year. Well, it is 1988, and before saying anything else, I'd like all of you have been part of the administration since 1981 to stand. Well, I think we owe these battle veterans a special round of applause, and you already did that. Thank you. Words can't express my appreciation to each and every one of you, whether you've been on the team for seven months or seven years for the contribution that you're making. Everything we've accomplished can be traced to your hard work and professionalism. Your willingness to work the extra hours and to make the extra phone calls.  When we came here seven years ago, we pledged to the American people that we were not here to conduct business as usual, that we intended to bring about a fundamental change of direction for our beloved country. First, we turned around an economy wracked by inflation and uncertainty, and an economy that was headed into an abyss. We put America back on the high road to growth and expanding opportunity to hope and improving living standards. And now over the years, there's been a lot said about so-called Reagan luck. Well, being a Irish extraction, sometimes I'm inclined to believe such things. However, I can assure all of you that the great economic expansion our country has enjoyed has had more to do with low tax rates, deregulation, and responsible federal policies than with leprechauns. In fact, the only people who still seem to believe in tooth fairies and leprechauns are those who've tried to tell us that if we only raise taxes, the budget deficit will disappear. Well, luck, as it is said, is where preparation meets opportunity. And for the first two years of our administration, we've prepared America for better times. We cut the tax rates. We streamlined government and cut useless regulations. Through our block grant program, we returned power and authority for a number of programs back to the states. But most significant, we turned to the people themselves. We left resources in their hands that others would have taken away. We took the yoke of over-regulation off their shoulders. We looked to the entrepreneur instead of the federal planner, the free enterprise system instead of the bureaucracy. And they proved something I've always believed in, and that is more often than not, the best thing government can do for a free people is get its hands out of their pockets and get out of their way. I think we can be proud that our policies, based on an abiding faith in the people, have worked. America is still enjoying the fruits of the longest peacetime expansion in history. The real gross national product, which is the value of all the goods and services produced in the United States, has risen more than 21% during this expansion. Inflation running a double-digit killer rates in 1979 and 80 has averaged some 3.3% since the recovery began. The prime interest rate, which was 21% just before we got to Washington, is down to, last month, 8.75%. What does all this mean to the American people? It means that more of them are working, and a higher percentage of the population is employed than ever before. It means the median after inflation income of the American family, which was dropping when we got to Washington, increased 4.2% in 1986. Homes again are again affordable to the average citizen. In March of last year, America built its 100 million home. You know, I wonder sometimes where certain candidates for an office of the other party, why they haven't found out all these figures. Don't let anyone tell you that this expansion has excluded the poor and the minorities, as some of them are saying. The poverty rate, which was rising precipitously when we got here, is now declining. The tragic, that tragic trend we inherited has been reversed. Among minorities, the news is also good. Teenage black unemployment, for example, though still far too high, has been cut dramatically in recent years. And the percentage of blacks in the group of Americans who make over $50,000 has almost doubled since 1982, something that seems to be popular of latest suggesting that greed is characterized the 1980s in America. Well, I don't happen to believe that pejorative word is appropriate. We should applaud people who are trying to better their lot, not put them down. One cover story, which seemed to be saying the 1980s had been a period of selfishness instead of self-improvement, contained a poll which reported that between 1982 and 1987, there had been a 66% increase in the number of people who answer yes to this question. Are you involved in any charity or social service activities such as helping the poor, the sick, or the elderly? And furthermore, we know that between 1980 and 1986, charitable giving shot up 77%, so much for the so-called era of greed. This has been a time of people getting involved and helping one another without waiting for government. It's been a time of increasing hope, of rising standards of living, of economic expansion.  We were told it couldn't be done even before we started. The doomsayers then claimed it could never last, yet it has been one of the longest, as I said, peacetime expansions in history. On the network news, we saw story after story that would lead one to conclude that poverty was increasing. And when the statistics finally came out, we found there had been a significant decline in the poverty rate. We heard the professional pessimists telling us America was being deindustrialized.  And now we even hear highly touted analysts telling economic movers and shakers that a report heralding the good news that unemployment is going down is actually bad news. I don't think the American people believe in this kind of Alice in Wonderland economics. I don't think the American people believe good news is really bad news. We can be proud of what's been accomplished. The doomsayers who can't make the front page or network news unless they've got something bad to say, they've been wrong for the last seven years. And in 1988, we and the American people are going to prove them wrong again. In the year ahead, we're not going to be on the defensive, shoring up problems and answering our critics. We're moving forward. And I have no doubt that when we look back, 1988 will be a year of great accomplishment toward our goals. This is the year when Judge Anthony Kennedy will be confirmed and the Supreme Court will again be brought up to full strength. The federal judiciary is too important to be made a political football. I would hope, and the American people should expect, not only for Judge Kennedy's confirmation, but for the Senate to get to work and act on 27 other judicial nominations that have been left in limbo for quite a while now. This is also the year that the United States will strongly affirm that democracy, not communism, is the future of Central America. In a few weeks, Congress will determine if we're to provide the democratic resistance in Nicaragua what they need to survive. The Guatemala peace plan can succeed, only if the Sandinistas have reason to compromise and institute democratic reforms. We must have the courage to stand behind those who continue to put their lives on the line for democracy in Nicaragua. We've learned on another front that standing firm, that strength, not weakness, is the best way to achieve results with our adversaries. Nearly seven years ago, I proposed the zero option, suggesting the elimination of an entire class of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear-armed missiles. Many of our opponents called for the so-called nuclear freeze, which would have left Soviet intermediate-range missiles threatening both Europe and Asia. Against great outcries, we and our allies installed our crews and perching two missiles. It was this determination which finally convinced the Kremlin to bargain realistically. I believe we can all be proud that at last month's summit, we signed the first agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States that actually reduced our respective nuclear arsenals. The Senate will begin its review of the INF treaty next week, and while there will be a thorough examination, there should be no reason to delay ratification. Let us note that one stand we took in this arms reduction process concerned our commitment to the Strategic Defense Initiative. SDI will give us the possibility to base deterrence increasingly on defenses which threaten no one, rather than on the threat of nuclear retaliation. I would hope that Congress does not, in the months ahead, take away in the committee room what the Soviets were unable to get at the bargaining table. We must push forward in the SDI research and testing. Progress continues to be made as well toward strategic nuclear reductions, and another summit may occur in the near future. But let me note arms reductions cannot and will not be pursued in isolation from other areas of deep concern to the American people and the other free people of the world. If relations with the Soviet Union are to improve, if we are to enter into a new period of rapprochement with our adversary, we must see greater respect for human rights. We need to see more freedom and a further opening of the immigration door. We also need to see a peaceful resolution to regional conflicts which Soviet weapons personnel and policies now help to prolong. In particular, the Soviet government needs to realize that relations with the United States cannot be expected to flourish while Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan. And I can promise all those who love freedom and whose hearts must be with those freedom fighters who struggle for their national survival, that the Soviet troops must leave Afghanistan and the United States will never agree to any steps that would put the freedom fighters and Afghan hopes for self-determination at risk. I am optimistic about the chances for better relations between East and West. Clearly, the people of the world are bound and rounding rapidly into a new era of technology and enterprise. Tremendous advances are being made that are opening up vast new potential. Communist societies, in contrast, stagnate under the heavy hand of repression and the failure of socialism. They must change relations with the West, must improve, or communist governments will simply be left behind. It's that simple. And here in this continent, we're about to undertake one of the most truly visionary steps of the 20th century. Early this month, Prime Minister Mulroney and I signed and I fully expect the Congress to approve an agreement that will eliminate the tariffs and tear down the barriers that have frustrated and taxed trade and commerce between the United States and Canada. What we're putting in place is the largest free trade area in the world. This historic step will be a source of growth and prosperity on both sides of the border for years to come and be a lasting legacy of which we all can be immensely proud. The only thing that can keep America back is an unwillingness to do what needs to be done, to do what is within our ability to do. Congress, for example, needs to act to make good on the second year of its agreement to bring down federal deficit spending. Nothing could give greater confidence to the investing community than responsible action by Washington to bring down the level of deficit spending. And finally, I'd like to discuss with you personally something that's been of utmost concern to Nancy and me during our stay at the White House. Of all we've been able to do, I'm perhaps the proudest of what we've done to change attitudes in America about the use of drugs. It's no longer fashionable to use drugs, and by the end of this administration, I'd also like to be able to say that it's no longer tolerated. We've spent much time and money on interdicting drugs, on arresting the traffickers, and stopping the flow of drugs from their source. Yet we cannot ignore that as long as there are users, the problem will persist. Progress has already been made. The number of daily marijuana users among high school seniors, according to some reports, has dropped from one in nine in 1978 to one in 30 in 1987. In the time left in our administration, I would hope that you'll do everything possible to eliminate drug abuse from the federal workplace. The federal government is the nation's largest employer, and it should be an example to the rest of the nation. We've got to make it an example. Can I count on you? I don't know why I asked. You've never disappointed me. You've changed and are changing the direction not only of American history, but of world history. We have been revolutionaries, and for seven years the so-called sophisticates have at every turn said our revolution had failed. Well, again and again they've been wrong because they've forgotten our secret weapon, the human spirit. Yes, ours is a revolution for the most powerful yearnings of the spirit. Yearning for opportunity, for a better life for your children, for freedom, for true and lasting peace. The yearning of the spirit in all the history of humanity no force is stronger or more blessed. So when you leave here today, remember one more year, not for the Gipper, but for Americans and for all mankind. Because I had something else to follow my speech, and that is I'd like to introduce to you some of my small friends from the young Americans for America who have a big message for you.


Hi, everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com, coming at you with 2015, Panini Black Gold Football, four box, half case, random team break number four. I think Jason or Nick did this break and marked that four right there on there, so we know it's from the same case. That's all 2015 stuff. There's also an early bird special, one of the first 18 spots picked up. We'll have a shot at an extra spot in this break. So let's grab those 18 names, put them in the new list right here. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Seven times, name on top, gets the early bird spot. One, two, three, four, five, six. I said seven, right, I said seven, yeah, one more time. And again, seventh and final time, Ryan, there you go, Ryan. After seven, you are the early bird that catches the delicious, delicious worm. And now let's do the randomizer itself. All teams are in, let's roll it, let's randomize it, nine times, five and a four. Ninth and final time. We are booked for the night, folks, so, but Jason Jaspy just popped on. He'll be on for a couple more hours. So if you wanna go to Instagram at Jaspy's breaks on IG, he's live now for personal boxes. He's a lot of mosaic though, FYI. Nine times for the teams. And ninth and final time. After nine times, we've got the 10 big buccaneers, down to the shy town bears. Duh, bears, so bears, so bears, so bears, so bears. Carter, buccaneers, Sanford with the Cowboys, Brian with the Lions, Jeff with the Patriots, Anthony with the Saints, Jason K with the Steelers, Michael with the Titans, Gary with the Eagles, Brian with the Niners, Josh with the Rams, Ryan with the Browns, Bradley with the Dolphins, Ryan with the Falcons with your early bird spot. Congrats again, Kenny with the Cardinals, Kevin M with the Bills, Craig, you got my Raiders, Tony with the Chiefs, Scott with the Jets, Serenity with the Ravens, Rob with the Panthers, Tony with the Broncos, Adam with the Bengals, JC with the Seahawks, Anthony with the Giants, Brian with the Chargers, Jeff with the Jaguars, Chris with the Texans, Diane with the Colts, Ellie with the Vikings, Robert with the Redskins, Chris with the Packers, and Craig, last Bob Mojo with the Bears. All right, there, any trades? We're gonna pause the video and allow for a little bit of trade time, and then we'll come back and allow for the breaks. Stick around. And we're back. A little bit of trade chatter, but no deals were done. So we're printing out the list right here for a random team four. Black gold football, 2015 edition. I like they were like, oh, there's now 10 cards per box. I guess maybe 2014 edition didn't. Paperwork here. All right, good luck, everybody. Jeff says, pull him a Brady. Is it that easy? I wish it was that easy. We'll try. Never know. It's just been a Brady marinating here since 2015. Gonna be pretty wild. Blank card right there. Peyton Manning, base card to 199. That's a Broncos edition. That's gonna go to Tony. We got Tyler Lockett to 49. Draft logo for the Seahawks. Put that in a separate box there. That's gonna go to JC. We've got franchise gold. 172 out of 199. Jerry Rice, Tim Brown, and Mari Cooper. Those Coops rookie year with the Raiders. We got James Winston. Mother load triple relic, 38 out of 99. Be interesting to see if James Winston kind of revives his career a little bit. Ricky Williams is your autograph. Gold strike autograph, Dolphins edition, 39 out of 99. That's gonna go to Bradley with the Finns. There's Joe Flacco. Where's Flacco gonna end up? Is he gonna just be a backup or in Denver or has he been released? I don't know what the deal is. James Winston to 149. Draft gold. We got franchise gold to 199. Franco Harris, Terry Bradshaw, Big Ben going to Jason K. and the Steelers. Carlos Hyde, he's your golden ground game relic to 99. That'll be for the Niners. That's gonna go to Brian S. And we've got Matt Jones, Redskins. That's your sizable signatures, Jerry's in and out. I really like that idea to 199. That'll be for Robert and the Redskins. Next box. Next box. Brain box. Black hole. You wouldn't want, I don't think we'd want Bain doing this. We got the Buster Ombetis to 199, going to Jason K. and the Steelers. We got Brian Urlocker. Kind of loose on that medallion a little bit there, two to 49, but that's for the Bears.  Last spot, Mo Joe. Odell Beckham Jr., gold stars to 199. That will be for Anthony Pickett and the Giants. I think I saw Anthony a little bit earlier. There's Todd Gurley, 147 to 199. Rookie Jersey, Golden Ground Game. Rams Edition, going to Josh K. The redemption, which will probably be expired, is Aryan Foster, Texans. And you probably can either just try to redeem it or they've been pretty good about giving you points in return if it's not a redeemable card. Houston with that one, Chris Hale. Mr. Mike's Daddy. Joe Montana for the Niners to 99. Brian S. The medallion is Peyton Manning. Got the Broncos logo there to 149. That'll be for Tony. Devin Smith to 199. There's Ohio State Gear too. That'll go to the Jets. That's gonna be for Scott J. The Packers logo peeking out of there. That's Mother Load, 90 out of 99. Ty Montgomery, two-color triple relic for Chris Hale and the Packers. And we've got Duke Johnson. The Duke, Jersey and autograph to 199. Browns, that's gonna be for Ryan.  I like the design of this. If they kind of tinkered with it a little bit, I think it would look really sharp. Justin Hardy, Falcons. Ryan, that's the early bird spot. We got, see the problem was like the manufacturing, the ideas were great. The execution kind of was not as sharp. 001 out of 149. Like every year there was like a different sort of manufacturing difficulty, difficult problem there. To 50, Todd Gurley, but I like it. I mean, aesthetically it looks great. I think people really liked it too, but a little bummed about that. But by the way, there's JJ Watt to 99. Devin Funches, 68 out of 99. Where did, I feel like Devin Funches went somewhere. Packers? This goes to Rob and the Panthers. You know where the Packers? A little help for Aaron Rodgers. All right, Dan Marino to 99. And we got a nice big Falcons logo right there. Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Tevin Coleman and Devonta Freeman. Ryan Reven says Packers. Is that interesting or are we not thrilled with Devin Funches? It's Cam Newton, Golden Arms to 49. We gotta end up somewhere too. We got the famous James Winston, massive materials. 32 out of 49. Big rookie jumbo relic for the Buccaneers. That'll be for Carter. And the autograph is Eddie Golden. Big Eddie Golden, 49 out of 49. Gilded signatures for the Bears. Craig Barney, last spot mojo. Tried to trade, couldn't trade mojo. Last box. Yeah, Ryan Redmond likes the ad idea. Things will work out pretty good with Adams, Marquez Valdez, Scantling, Devin Funches. Who's been around since 2015? So he's got some experience. I like the, you know, give Aaron Rodgers some weapons. All right, last box, Ranham Team 4, 2015. A black old football to 199. We got Matt Forte, Bears. Kevin Johnson, football player Kevin Johnson to 149. That'll go to, that's Texans edition going to Chris Hale. Tom Brady, Golden Days. Are we getting warmer? Goes to Jeff and the Patriots. This wasn't the auto spot though. Walter Payton, relic, shadow box swatches to 149. Another bear for Craig. And we've got, speaking of the Packers, there's Taya Montgomery, 53 out of 99. Another Packer for Chris Hale and Otto this time, Chris. It's Mr. Mike's daddy in the chat. We've got 44 out of 49, Broshad Perriman. Ravens, Serenity with the purple birds. Nelson Agalor to 149, Seal of Approval. Eagles edition, he's on the Raiders now. Levion, Steelers edition to 199. That'll be for Jason Kay. We got Colin Kaepernick, two color relic to 25. That'll be for the Niners, Brian S. And the auto is Shaq Thompson, 12 out of 149. Gilded signatures for the Panthers. Rob Carruthers with another Panther. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com. That's the break. I'll see, am I giving anything away here? It was just the early bird, right? No, that's it. Nice break. Thanks, everybody. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Hello, I'm Tom Hopkins. I'm a technical fellow at ST Microelectronics. We're here at ST DevCon in Santa Clara, California today, and I'm going to talk about the PowerStep 10. PowerStep 10 is an integrated motor control driver for stepper motor drivers. It's a system in package, meaning that it is a IC with eight discrete power transistors in the same monolithic package. We also integrate into that device a digital power control and a digital motion engine. So it takes the burden of controlling the micro away from the main microprocessor and puts it into the PowerStep 10. If you look over here, this is an example of the application working. This is the ST Step 10 down here, and we've got the nuclear control board in there, which is a development system. So what we have, as I say, in the PowerStep 10, the PowerStep 10 is a device like this. It has the control IC which includes the current control, the digital motion engine, and its SPI interface to the microcontroller. This integrated device is on the board here and it replaces a board about this size. This is approximately the right size proportion. So it's about one fifth or one sixth the size of the board that it replaces. When you use this device you're going to use it with a microcontroller, and it communicates with the device across a simple SPI interface. In this case you can communicate with multiple axes either in parallel, or you can daisy chain the axes together so that you have one daisy chain of SPI to control multiple axes. So on this, for example, a 3D printer would have three axes to control, and you can see I've got three motor controls on here. One of the things that really makes this product interesting is we've integrated the digital motion engine into the device. So the microprocessor only has to give some very high level commands to the device. Instead of it having to count all of the steps and keep track of the speed for each step, it sends only a single command that says move from point A to point B at this speed. Once it starts that, then the PowerStep10 will follow this algorithm in here and move from point A to point B at that speed and then come back down and stop. The great thing about having the daisy chain configuration is you can then synchronize multiple axes because all of the commands will start at the same time that you have at the end of the SPI command. So here we have a very new integrated device and we also have then the support system that goes with it because we have the nucleoboard here and we have the nucleoboard for the STM32. We have the ex-nucleoboard for the PowerStep10 and we have all of the software that goes together and integrates in the open development system to give you a very quick rapid market development. Thank you for joining me at STDevCon. Thank you.