So, my name is Monika, once again, very happy to be here. And today I would like to talk not just about the check drug monitoring system, even though that's something we do in our work and that's something that's powered by Python, I would like to say, but also and mostly about my journey, how I even came to the coding in Python and how it was for me. And hopefully it would motivate those of you who might be the beginners or maybe a little bit lost in the tech world to, you know, navigate through all of that and find possibly our path to not necessarily becoming a developer, but becoming something else which you can use Python or coding for. So let's dive right in. What is this talk is going to be about? So as I mentioned, you don't have to become a developer to code for a living and actually have fun. This is what my case was. And you don't have to be scared if you don't really enjoy all the technical details. You still can do amazing stuff. Because you can sneak up to some other industry or research and really connect the coding with something you love or you find yourself passionate about. And you don't really have to be a tech guru to do this and to be really helpful to some scientific team or industry team that just needs somebody to help with the coding. And you know, maybe with some good practices to bring from the developing world. And you can still do pretty amazing stuff which I'm about to show you as we do in the Czech Republic. And you don't ever have to be scared to show off what you have learned so far even if you don't feel like it's a match because it was also my case. So unfortunately, there is some things that are not in this talk. So this talk is definitely not about some super advanced Python state of the hard coding. I'm very sorry for that. If there are some tech gurus in the area, please run away because you would probably be terrified with what are you about to see. We are also not about newest technologies. To terrify you even more, some of our code still runs in Python 2.7. Nobody is running away. Okay. Great to see that. And it's not about Kubernetes, whatever it is that. But please somebody tell me what's that because I really need to know. Everybody are talking about it. I have no idea. I'm just laughing and nodding. And please find me at lunch because I need some information about this stuff. Thank you. Now, to the talk. Nobody has left still. So a little bit about me to start the journey. As mentioned, my name is Monica. I feel myself to be a mediocre Pythonista and I decided to use this title a few years ago when I realized I don't have to Google how to slice a string. I just did it and it was right. I just got the part of the string that I needed for the first try.  I'm a mediocre kind of Pythonista now. I'm also not very smart. I mean, I got into Dublin without any troubles at not the major ones.  I'm just sitting there watching learn something new now and then, but not so very brilliant. Keep this in mind during the presentation, please. I'm also, as already mentioned, want to be a PhD because I decided I will do my PhD in climatology in my 30s after for several years of saying that I would never do my PhD. So that's also say something about me. I'm a GIS analyst. GIS stands for geographic information systems, if you are not familiar with that. And I'm also a very junior researcher. And to sound at least a little bit fun, I am also a winter and winter sport enthusiast. So you can usually find me somewhere cold or at least somewhere far from the sea level. Now when you get to know me a little bit better, I can start with my journey to coding. Also known as how I learned to code even if I didn't want to. I also tried to illustrate this path with a piece of art of mine, the crooked line. I did myself yesterday in the evening. So just saying, not only the coder and the researcher, but also maybe a graphic designer. We will see. We will see. So my path to coding started actually at the university. I did my studies at Masarik University in Brno, which is the little red thing in the Czech Republic. It's not Prague. It's Brno. Please, just mentioning it because it's a big difference. And I did both of my bachelor's and master's in cartography and geoinformatics. And don't make me wrong. I loved my studies. It was amazing. I learned a lot. There was an amazing group of people. It was like seven of us in the program, so it was pretty small and cozy. But there is a little bit of confusion with the informatics part of the name of the program. So most of the time, we felt like this is a monk on the image. We learned a lot. We learned a lot about the physical geography. That means how the atmosphere works. What types of soils we have and why is that? How did it come together? We also learned a lot about the history, about old maps, how and why they were made, and who made them, how the geographical names went to the world, and stuff like that. We also did a huge amount of regional geography. And that's why I know that Pidro Tawagawa is the highest peak of Sri Lanka. And I will never forget it for some reason. But we also did some GIS. That means clicking in the software that specializes in somehow analyzing the geospatial data. And they also enlightened us by the fact that the databases exist. Some databases, I don't know what it is. They are somewhere. You can have data in them. And that's about the informatics that we got into. So really, we felt quite a bit like the monk on the picture with this quill, trying to map the world, even everything is already mapped, being coached by some other guy who is pointing somewhere totally different. More or less, we felt like this is not really what the job market expects from us after we graduate in geoinformatics. Because from what we got, this was maybe the picture that job market had about the geoinformatics. And we didn't quite look like that at all. So we got nervous. And that's why, when the bachelor's thesis came, I decided I will go a different direction. For some reason, they let us do non-research thesis and they let us do applied thesis. So you could actually make something. You didn't have to discover stuff. And what they also let us do for some reason was choose our own topic. So guess what I did? I went for that. I did an applied thesis with my own topic. And for some reason, I was surrounded by photographers at this time. All my friends were doing something about photography. So they gave me this idea to do the web map application that photographers could use. To share those spots, to take pictures in, everything. There was an interactive map. There was logging. There was like doing stuff with the map, actually, making it interactive, putting points of interest into the map. So I figured that monk from the picture in the last slide, oh, he suffered a lot with this little quill. So it somehow went through. For some reason, it was 2013. So I chose PHP because it was how we were old in the time. And I felt like it was coming together somehow. I was not happy about it. I quite a lot hated the idea of coding. And there was some crying and stuff like that. I somehow put it together and you won't know what came next. Yeah, this bad guy. I was suffering a lot, a lot. And I hated it even more when I had to do this part in JavaScript. Which was basically everything from the map interactiveness to logging. You know that you are developers mostly. So it was terrible. But somehow I made it through and I gave the thesis in. And I also got into my masters. Because on the other hand, I really loved the studies. I loved to learn. So I went to my master's thesis. And you know what? My advisor somehow remembered what I did for my bachelor's thesis. And suggested that it would be a great idea to help another guy with another web map application. And I went for it again. This time it was something that already existed. But what was needed for me from the old little monk was to do the advanced geospatial stuff and figure it out. There was this huge portal for hikers to plan the routes, plan their trips. So I had to think about how to even do a route planner. How to do the elevation gain maps. And stuff like that. So nothing too great. I was totally in the dark. Thanks to my friends and a lot of good advice. I somehow managed through. The other thing was that the portal already existed and it was written in something. And it was Ruby. And I was suffering again for some reason. And at this point, I wasn't even sure that coding is something that I would like to do. Because I had this PHP behind me. And I didn't like that. Then the JavaScript part. I hated it totally. And then this guy also didn't speak to me that much. But again, somehow things got sorted out. I went through. And since I was at my master's, I got the time to get a part-time job, which I got. I got the part-time job as an IT specialist. That monk was an IT specialist now. I actually applied for a GIS job in the company that figured out how to do flat management points for the cities, municipalities. And I applied for the clicking in GIS and doing those plans. Actually putting them together and communicating with the majors. But my upper level heard about my great success with those map portals and coding and stuff and offered me to join the IT team. And I said yes, because I don't know. I mean, now I am happy about that. But at this time, I don't know what I was thinking. But I went for it. I finally learned a little bit of Python because the company was based on Python coding. And things started to make sense a little bit. I discovered Python. I liked it much more than what I have seen before for some reason. I don't know. Maybe it was just a better collective, whatever. I had more time to do that. It doesn't really matter at the end. And things started to turn out a little bit better. Because I realized that Python and GIS technologies are actually very good friends. And that I could do a lot of stuff that I did manually in GIS in Python. The question is, why didn't they tell us at uni? Why didn't even, why they didn't have a Python curse there? We don't know till this day. But whatever, we found our ways. All of us are doing just fine. Nobody is monk. So yeah. Also a very good thing to me, thanks to the fact that I was in the IT department, I landed in the coding social bubble. So now I was surrounded not by the photographers, which was also great, but not so helpful. But by people who do code, and they actually enjoyed it at some level. So I joined PiWadies at first as a trainee. And as the time went, I also became a coach. But that's another story. So I started to get around a little bit better. I finally wrote some decent code. And I also gained some view on how it should look like. What are the good practices? I'm not saying that it was something amazing, but it started to look like a code, not like a mess in some kind of language. But I also realized I still don't like the hardcore technical stuff, the things that guys were talking about by the coffee machine, all those little bits and pieces. I wasn't interested in that still. So I thought it might be a problem. But I figured out it might also be a not. Because by the time, I actually went for my first 3.0 job interview. It was just when I ended the uni. And I got into the great place, the scientific world, which I also didn't know by the time, but now I see it. And I became a part of the scientific team, because lucky for me, I was successful at the interview. Again, I don't know why, but I was. And I finally realized what can I actually code and enjoy it. So I landed at Czech Globe. That's the long name of the institution that you have already heard. A little bit about that, because it's my home for six years now, and I still really dig it. It's the research institution under the Czech Academy of Science. We are quite big. There is 350 people. Most of the people are scientists. The focus of the institution, oh, OK, is the global change impact on ecosystems. It's pretty wide. We have lots of teams. And my team is focusing on the climate change impacts on agroecosystems. That means we are focused on agriculture. How does the climate change impact the yields, the pests, outbreaks, et cetera, et cetera? On the picture, you can see one of our experiment when we are torturing the plants with different CO2 levels, which each one of these greenhouse has a little bit different CO2 level. And we are searching what is happening to the plants that are living inside of the greenhouse. So most of our work is just a torture, some plant, basically. But yeah, that's what we do for science. So the flagship of what we do in our team is the Czech Globe monitoring system. You can find it online at the website that is right here. The English translation, it's not very good. We are currently developing a whole new website, but it will take a year, maybe. So bear with us. It kickstarted in 2014. In 2015, we had a pretty severe drought in the Czech Republic. And we needed some tool to monitor it, because the impacts were huge. The yields were dropping. There was no wheat at all, et cetera. I joined in the half of 2016, so quite at the beginning of the system. We are monitoring soil drought. That means we are interested in how much water is in the soil to be used by the plants. The portal was made for the farmers, basically, because that's a group that's the first who is hit by the drought. And also for the general public. We monitor in Czechia, Slovak Republic, and also Central Europe. And it's a life product. We have daily fresh data. We have three main data or parts that we build the system upon. One is our soil moisture model, which takes the ground measurements. And at the end of the model, it gives out the estimation of soil moisture in the 500 by 500 meters pixel. We also use satellite data, of course, earth observation from many, many providers. And last but not least, we have our farmers who are reporting us the current state of drought and the impacts on the crops. So as you can see, it's quite a data heavy system. We have all of this model data, earth observation data, which tend to be quite hefty. We have the reports, the pictures, the predictions. It's a lot. And I realized that besides me, and I just joined this, there is the one GIS analyst who was clicking everything in the GIS software. So to be honest, I felt I was a great fit. I had some experience with automation and coding from my previous career, or how do we want to call it. And I also felt like I can really help, even if I don't know a lot, because the other GIS analyst had no time to do stuff and automate, because she was buried in the research and the papers. Because you have to realize that the system is developed by scientists, which is pretty much something a little bit different than the commercial developing software. You don't have the product itself in your focus. You are focused on the research. And you get to a system like this just when the research papers are published and grants are, you know, granted. And it's basically a free time project for you. You have no software development habits. You have no version control. The scripts are running at the random notebooks and PCs somewhere at another city on the guy's lab. And you don't care how the code looks like. Which was new for me, because, you know, I just wanted was on the top of making things pretty and functional at this time. But this is what I realized. And I also realized that's my time to shine and also learn heavily, because I could actually start to code to make something better. And I decided I will focus on getting rid of all the manual labor that we had that I saw there. And that's because I had what I called a newcomer luxury time.   They just point you to the coffee machine. And nobody expects anything from you for the, I don't know, first three or four months. You can just sit there and look if you are not very into it. And I decided I will use the time to watch and learn, but also to find out the things that I really don't want to do when I had my place in the team and get rid of those. And I identified three of them. First was daily data downloads. Somebody was downloading data daily by hand, going on some website and getting the data and putting them in some directories. That was terrifying. Not as terrifying as daily production of map layouts when you did the map in the GI software, also by hand, by clicking and putting things together. Also terrible. But the most terrifying is that somebody processed data weekly in Excel by hand, by copying things and doing the basic calculations. So at this point, I was pretty terrified too, because I don't want to do these things when I get into the team, because these were the first things that I would have to do. People would like to get rid of it, right? So about the daily downloads. My task was to add the daily soy water index data to our website. That's not really that important what the data was, but I figure out that if I automatically download these data, I can do it with whatever data we are actually using and get rid of those manual downloads. Just FYI, if you would like to get your hands on some spatial data, there is a Copernicus data store, which is ISA covered project. And you can get free EU and global satellite data at this website. So just note for you if it's something that interests you. So I went through the daily downloads. How do I download the data? There was a lot of questions. Don't make me wrong. Even if I was motivated, I still didn't know a lot. How even get into the data formats? How do I manage projections in Python? Basic geostatistics. Nothing learned at the uni yet. How to get maps from the data also had no idea about that. How do you get maps to our website? Also no idea. But you know what I found? This one. All the answers at the one website. And you know what I found else? Somebody has already done this. I am not the first who is approaching these problems. Surprise, surprise. So that was great. I took this one down. Another one was the production of map layouts. Weekly, daily map prediction layouts. Terrible to do by hand, because you have to produce all those little maps and then put it into one map and then put it somewhere. So again, I went for it, had my questions, a lot of my questions. Again, I found out that somebody already did that. And in my career, I didn't find anything that somebody didn't already do. So that's a great thing. And I realized I love it. The job was just opening the doors for me. And there was a lot of options which way I would like to go. It was not boring. And I enjoyed coding for the first time. And I didn't know what is about to come, because there was the Excel sheets data. Excel sheets? OK. Just to give you a picture, about 1,500 farmers reports weekly processed by hand, copying from one Excel to another, semi-manual calculations, one-week day dedicated to this, and one colleague on the edge of losing her mind, because she was doing it for two years now. Terrible. And I decided I don't want to do this when I'm done. So what do we do in the Python community when we see this bad boy? Yeah. We go pandas. And I have to say that this specific task was something that I got caught on. I fell in love with data science, not when I was doing this, but as the time went. And I found my calling in some way. And that's just because I went away from the developing world and went somewhere else. So maybe that's my message here. So what are we up to now? We have implemented some software development tools, actually. I went through and learned about Git, learned the teaching guys at our team about Git. So now we have that. We also have some code reviews if we want them. And mainly, we are still focused on science. We have lots of Python-powered science. We are predicting yields using artificial networks. We are modeling the wildfire occurrence risk. We are getting together with firefighters to find out what happens with the wildfires if they are happening near the drinking water reservoir, which is super important thing to have a look at. We are also predicting the pests outbreak to give the heads up to farmers. And a lot of more, lots more. You can find everything at our website if you are interested. And yeah. So we went back to science, but now the science is powered by Python. And I would like to take a little bit of credit for that because, as I learned a lot, I also had the opportunity to teach others, which is great. So this one is something that I'm particularly proud about because we went global. And you can find our global model of drought at this website, which is winnie.com, which is amazing tech company from Czech Republic. And the portal is just amazing. Check it out. We joined forces, and I think it's really great. And to wrap it up, what to take away.  If you're feeling like you don't know a lot, you know. And you can take it and make something better with at least a little bit of skill. If you are scared of the developing world, don't worry, it will go away. Or you can go to another world in another direction, and you don't have to do all those hardcore tech stuff as I did. And don't stop exploring. If you don't like one technology, go to another. Or you can do something completely different. It's up to you because you know much more than you think. That's about it. I would like to thank you for your attention. Thank the organizers for a great job that they are doing and having us here in Dublin. And also one personal note. I would like to thank all my friends who in the years tried to explain me how the cycle within the cycle works because I was stuck on this for half a year. And thanks to all those explanations, I finally got through. So thank you very much. And I'm here open for questions. Yeah. Thank you very much for your talk and for the experience. It was very inspiring, at least for those people who are working at companies that could do the same approach to the manual tasks that they are doing. Are there any questions in the room? We still have time for a few. And also we have the opportunity for the remote viewers of this to ask questions as well. But at the moment, I don't see any of the remote questions coming in. What we did is we also have a special room in the Liffey section. That's the Liffey boardroom to where Monica will be now for a few more minutes. So if anybody like from the audience here would like to ask a direct questions or if anybody watching the YouTube stream would want to ask a question directly for the next minutes, then that would be the place where you would find Monica. So thanks again for sharing all your experiences in introducing Python into your life. And let's have another round of applause for Monica. Thank you.


Dude, that's... Oh, Mischief. I've heard of you. You're cringey. Yeah, I am. I was nice beside his camera, man, if you know who he is. Meet my friend, uh... Maya. Oh, what's up, Darion? How you doing? Huh? Huh? What are you guys doing? Uh, we're eating. Weird. What do you think? We're painting. Wait, this is not a hollow? Yeah, this is real. Last time, it was holographic. Yeah. Yeah, it was great. It was PSA-10. Nice. So, wait, I can be your waiter. Okay. You gonna pay me? No. What are you... All right, what are we doing? Uh, we're just playing hand games. Yeah, we're playing hand games. Do you want to play hand games? Oh, you two should play friendship games. This game, you're the fourth wheel, dude. Oh, I'm third wheeling. Let's go.  I thought we were playing WoW. I'm third wheeling. No, we're playing a friendship game. Oh, this is... Ready? Okay. Okay. So, how friendship game works is I had to put my hand on your leg, and then the higher up you go, then that means you're the better friend. Yeah. Where did I come into? Where am I? Yeah. Do the grinding, do the grinding. Hold on, my apple juice. There's a grinding. That you two did. What grinding? You two did it on the Thanksgiving. No, we were grinding on each other. You guys are grinding. No, we were grinding in WoW. We were trying to level the 60. No, never. Shadowlands had just come in. No, I was talking to the character. That's why I look like that. Yeah. Oh, wait.  No. I'd watch your man. We're just friends. Nice. No. Yes. Thank you. Where did you get this? It's tier three. Nice. All right. Well, I would be a cook for tonight. Would you guys like anything on the media? Did you like some red ginseng? Yeah. I'm the waiter. This is good for erectile dysfunction. Oh my. I'm okay. You know what? You can't blame me for what Chad says. I actually gave some to Ginny and said this is Raspin. Which I don't know why your mom did that. No, it's because we're the immune system. I don't know why your mom did that. Because that's weird. Is your mom a shipper, Ginny? No. You don't have ED, right? What? I don't think so. What am I? Why? What? I'm a waiter tonight. So welcome to America. What number? Okay. So he's a regular here. So what would you like to eat tonight? Okay. We have, we have kimchi.  No, I don't know what these are, man. Do you know what kimchi is? No. Kimchi is Korean food. Oh, by the way, McConnell is narrating this. And I can't hear him. So what stream can hear him? But I can't hear him. I can't hear him. I can't hear him. I can't hear him. I can't hear him. So what stream can hear him? But I can't. Wait, McConnell can hear us right now. Yeah, so McConnell can hear us. Dude, I used to live with that guy. And I haven't talked to him a lot since. McConnell, you were there for me when I needed you to go.   Did you shave your eyebrow here? I shaved it, actually. Yeah, he did. Really? Yeah. You should do it to S-Fan because it could be a groom. No. S-Fan, you're supposed to go back in two days. Uh-oh. You should shave your eyebrows, too, like that. Okay. No, I'm not doing it. Why not? That looks, that makes you look strong. No, it looks dumb. No, that makes you look like gangster. No. Well, it's not him, though. What's up? What happened to you, Jenny? What? What happened to you? What? No, you have changed so much. What? I've changed. Jenny, you just look at you. What has happened to you over the course of a year? She didn't realize. She didn't realize. Oh, you don't think she realized? She didn't realize. Oh, yeah, you like it in America? Yeah. I was talking to S-Fan. That's great.  Huh? Oh, yeah. Your gun is still out there from six months ago. Okay. Yeah. Let's go see Jenny's gun from six months ago. Yeah. Little Russ never hurt anybody? Your? Your. It's fine, Jenny. Look, it's just a little dirty. It's garnish. Yeah, like spider eggs. Actually, that's a roly-poly. Ew, that's actually. Oh, save that. That's your protein. There's actually a roly-poly on here.   We can get juice. We can go to Juice Lens with Mitch J. The Jones, bro. The Jones. Jonesy.  Me and Miz are coming to Korea. When? In the future? Future, yeah. When an odd future tours there. I mean, I think it's... Why'd you? Why'd you plug it in? Finn. It's my job. Yes, it's my job.  It's my job. That's why... Listen. No, it's not. It's supposed to be for Jenny. That's why it's all for 30 minutes. It's because Jenny's trying to do it. Just delete the vibe. Jesus Christ. Wipe it. Chad, at least give me a one at Chad because it's better than what you thought. Never mind. This is sexy. No. Never mind. It's been 90 seconds since I showed the shoe. I didn't realize you were still here, Miss Kiff.  They really did. It seems like yesterday when we were watching the stream and... Am I? Whose channel is this? I am so sick of seeing Lily Pichu to fight them. I don't even know what she is. I want to see Jenny. Well, it's okay because... What are you guys doing? Who's Lily Pichu? Where am I? Where's my wife? I'm confused. Let me take out white cheese. Old man from Donkey Kong. Let me help you with that. Just go ahead and place your dentures in here.  I'm drinking my best for you. Her trip we went on with Eric. What? Do you remember? I don't really remember. It's like a skit. I heard his daughter graduated from college yesterday. Oh, his daughter is... Which wife was she with? Was that his first or third wife? I'm pretty sure his wife left him long ago for some guy in a bus. Eric is just... Is this skit going to end? I want it to stop. You want to stamp, like... Oh, from TK. Dude, what is that? Just take it and just... No, they use it on kids. Yeah, brand or like Jordan. So it's like, you find out... What's your homeroom? Oh, 4A. It's not what you're 4A for. What happens is then the kids skip homeroom and they go to the other classes and then it's a huge mess. So they just... That's what we do in Texas. Do you just ignore everything he says nowadays? Yeah. Smart. Oh my God. OTK has a sex called client. Jesus Christ. What do you want to say?  Bacon press. Bacon press. Same thing now? Yeah. Fight me. Yeah. I think it's a big...  Yeah, that's right. That's right. That's right. Now I'm huge.  Yeah. Oh, my buff right now. Yeah. Alright. Jump, jump, jump.


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mine 318 here's the key no you open it Steve just a couple of personal things of mine that's all mm-hmm all right I'll open it well there you are see for yourself want to take your things out of the locker son you can see what's in there can't you my gym stuff couple of textbooks how about digging back in the corner left hand side there where no I mean come on Steve dig them out back here you mean these joke books that's right have a look why just a couple of joke books kid game to me bring them out Steve okay just a couple of them kid came to me there looks like more than a couple that's what you call a joke book Steve that's what the kids call them yeah some of them are a little dirty not so bad though they're filthy Steven you know it now where'd you get them I told you kid came to me who what's his name some kid around school I don't remember right now gave you these books for nothing sure I had a couple he wanted we traded off a lot of the kids happened they trade them around that stack you got there they look pretty new couldn't have been passed around much maybe not I don't know matter of fact they look brand new don't they don't even look like they've been open yet how come you're rousing me on this thing what about the other kids I got them too they're buying them Steve they're not selling them I'm not selling them anybody says that's a liar no good son we talked to the fellas here at the high school some kids over the junior high school too they all say you're the one who's selling them they're liars both the fellas in high school and the kids down the street in junior high they say you've been selling this stuff for months now how about it they're lying that's all they don't know what they're talking about you've been selling these 35 cents a piece three for a dollar last couple weeks you've been peddling pictures two dollar a piece you got any of them in your locker Steve a couple I got them off another kid what other kid what's his name what's his name some kid I don't remember it's not much of an answer son what do you want from me anyway I told you I'm not selling the books I don't care what those other goofs say it's my word against theirs now maybe you ought to get this straight son we're not out to get you you're way down the line we want the people at the top the men who print this jump the wholesalers the big distributors so why ask me I don't know anything about it nothing you don't want to cooperate is that it what am I supposed to cooperate about I'm not mixed up in anything we think you are son we know you are who you're selling this for what do you get your supply all you see is what's in my locker I ain't selling I don't have any supply you got to go far to prove I have not very far Steve what from about here to your home 1138 a.m after picking up his supply of obscene books and photographs to be booked later as evidence Ed and I drove the subject Steven Banner to his home approximately a mile from the high school his apprehension and our theory that he probably kept the bulk of his supply of books and pictures at or near his home was no accident for weeks we'd known that a steady stream of pornography was being fed into a half a dozen high schools and junior high schools throughout the city books photographs pictures and pamphlets of the worst kind because of embarrassment on the part of the curious teenage kids who bought this stuff it wasn't easy to pick up a solid lead after weeks of observation and questioning we finally narrowed down the principal source of supply to a single teenage boy Steven Banner even then we knew he must be only one of a hundred small time distributors working for the persons directly responsible for manufacturing this sort of thing our only hope was that he'd be willing and able to supply us with the names of the persons responsible when we got to Steven Banner's home where he lived with his sister and brother in law we searched it thoroughly but we found nothing both his sister and brother in law were at work we went back and started checking through the garage at the rear of the house Joe back in the corner yeah have a look Steve want to tell us about this yeah these books here these pictures case full of them yeah well how about it son your sister and brother in law know about this no they don't know anything I didn't think you'd find them are you ready to tell us about it my sister gonna have to find out I don't know Steve it's gonna be pretty hard to keep it from her yeah I guess so who's the contact son where'd they come from Charlie Charlie Freiburg only the books though pictures came from another guy it's a long story we got the time son who is this Freiburg met him downtown one Sunday penny our kid on Broadway me and this other kid were in there bud Spencer Freiburg came up started to talk to us all right go on he finally took a couple of these books out of his pocket gave him to us he wanted to know what we thought of him although he had plenty of them we knew any other kids who wanted him you knew you and your friend bud were in high school yeah that's right what else Steve that's about it he asked me and bud if he wanted to sell for him around school his friend of yours bud Spencer he's selling them too yeah he goes to a different school though both of us did pretty good with the book sold real fast the pictures are even better so you say you didn't get the pictures from Freiburg there was somebody else a man by the name of Jack I don't know his last name Freiburg put its on him gave us an introduction set up the deal we got the pictures for 75 cents most of the time because a dollar dollar and a half a piece but not did pretty good you know any other fellows working for this Freiburg Steve any other kids in school and no just budding me that's all I know it wouldn't be so bad if it were just the books that lousy Charlie had to go and promote the party routine get everybody mixed up in that how do you mean what's that all about Charlie he stays at this place out on Sepulveda it's a motel that's where we always contacted him yeah after a couple of weeks when we got to know him he asked me and bud out to this place that he was going to throw a party for us to bring our girlfriends along turned out we were the only ones at the party me and bud and the girls and Charlie Freiburg party lasted pretty late I should have been smart enough to figure it out I wasn't what do you mean Steve figure out what why Charlie be thrown parties just for us the first two times there wasn't anything wrong we just talked dance with the girls drank some beer Charlie told us to have a good time he threw a party every Friday night never broke up till after three o'clock how old are your girlfriends yours and buds 17 they're both 17 they've been around though no use kidding you they weren't very smart I can tell you that none of us were I guess next couple of parties Charlie had whiskey there dumb girls drank right along with them so did we Freiburg serve the whiskey didn't he yeah that's right he loaded the drinks kept handing the girls a lot of stuff about how he used to be a director in pictures he had a lot of connections in Hollywood the last party I was at he said he was going to get the girls screen test a lot of malarkey like that mm-hmm what else Steve I don't know I had a beef with Charlie about it I walked out I haven't been back since she still throw these Friday night parties do you know maybe I don't know number three or four after the last one I walked out on dumb girls think Charlie's just great got so I can't stand the guy how about the parties you didn't show up for Steve you get a rundown on I heard a couple of things yeah sure glad I wasn't there how do you mean dumb girls never fails the oldest line in the world they still go for it what's that tell them you're going to get them in the movies we continued questioning the subject 17-year-old Stephen Banner he gave us a full description of the man who'd been selling in the books Charles Frybird and also a description of the man known as Jack the one who'd been supplying him with pictures and photographs in addition he gave us the addresses of the two men a fair description of Fryberg's car no license number and the names and addresses of the two girls he and his friend had taken to Fryberg's parties 1 20 p.m. Ed and I took the case of obscene books from the garage loaded in the backseat of our car and Stephen Banner directed us to the high school attended by his friend bud Spencer we picked up the Spencer boy and drove him and Banner downtown of Georgia Street Juvenile where we booked them in on 700 B welfare and institution code lack of supervision we drove to the motel out on Sepulveda but the suspect Charles Fryberg had moved out five days before no forwarding address it wasn't a dead end though from his motel registration card we got the description and license number of his car on the way into the office we checked out the address of his confederate the man known as Jack he'd moved the same day as Fryberg no forwarding address back at the office DMV got a make on the license number for us the car registered in Fryberg's name 239 West 92nd Street we went down to our and I and pulled the package on the suspect 340 p.m. last address on this three years old how's his record read well he's been in the business before a couple of ag charges the 311 charge to possession of obscene literature served eight months in county jail mug shot there yeah here close enough the way the boy described him I'd say so there's mo2 same pitch the last time they got him working the high school trade passed himself off as a studio man movie director how about the other man Jack you had anything there no no Chad I gave the information on him to the stats office they're gonna make a run for us well I guess we better check on the kids girlfriends get their stories I suppose so it sure gets me Joe what's that very young girls like that out at motel parties with 3 a.m. drinking yeah 17 year olds no reason for it no reason at all I think a one that might do their parents we checked out the suspects address furnished just by DMV and also the information from the R&I package they went nowhere we had a second interview with Steven Banner and his friend bud Spencer we showed them Fryberg's mug shot and both of them identified it we got out of broadcast and an APB on him 4 12 p.m. together with policewoman Doreen Statesle Ed and I drove out to interview the two teenage girls involved a Dorothy Ryan and a Laura Osborne we stopped at the home of the Osborne girl first but she wasn't there and neither were her parents an older sister told us that both the mother and father were working and that Laura was at a neighborhood school for models taking her weekly lesson we checked at the modeling school a converted second floor social hall where we finally located the girl a tall brunette dark eyes fair complexion the heavy makeup didn't do much to hide her age while the modeling lesson went on policewoman Statesle Ed and I talked to the girl off in one corner of the hall your friend Steve Banner he took you to those parties at Mr. Fryberg's place that's right very nice man he was always nice to Dorothy and me Dorothy Ryan she came to the parties with bud he's a friend of Steve Banner's you have no complaint to make about this Mr. Fryberg he never caused you trouble of any kind Charlie well no I told you before that business about Steve getting mad just because Charlie told us he'd get us in the movies well it was silly that's all plain silly Charlie was just helping us how do you mean Laura well he's in Hollywood you know Charlie Fryberg he has lots of connections he just wanted to help us get some good modeling job that's why I took our pictures there was nothing wrong you continued going to these Friday night parties without the two boys is that right yes Dorothy and me there wasn't anything wrong with it we knew Charlie as well as they did by that time a few bathing suit pictures that's all there was nothing wrong in that did you ever see prints of any of those pictures either you or Dorothy Ryan no but Charlie's going to get us some he promised he would you know where he is now no we moved I have any idea where he is when's the last time you saw Fryberg miss about 10 days two weeks ago what's this all about officer you're looking for Charlie how does he usually contact you Laura by phone yeah usually calls has he called you lately well I don't know why are you looking for him can't you tell me routine investigation miss oh I'm sorry I don't know where Charlie is why can't you tell me why you want him we want him why can't you give me a reason this is one of the reasons Laura would you look at this picture Charlie took this it's his business Laura that's the way his police record reads I can't believe it that's one reason we want Fryberg there's lots of others you're willing to help us Laura he said they'd be beautiful glamorous they're not you know where he stays now no I'll find out though how do you mean I've got a date with him supposed to meet him out on Wilshire Wilshire and La Brea when's that eight o'clock tomorrow night you are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police force in action compare Fatima with any other king size cigarette one Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection two Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection three Fatima's length gives you those extra pups 21 percent longer than standard cigarette size and in Fatima you get an extra mild and soothing smoke plus the added protection of Fatima quality to show our confidence in Fatima we make this money back guaranteed to every king size cigarette smoker buy a pack of Fatima's enjoy Fatima quality extra mildness and superbly blended tobaccos if you're not convinced Fatima is better than the king size cigarette 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keeping besides promising closer supervision of the girls they told us they would notify us immediately if the suspect Fryberg made any attempt to contact their daughters 6 25 p.m. we got back to the office put in a call to Stephen Banner's home and notified his sister and brother-in-law that the boy was being held for further interrogation we also notified the parents of bud Spencer the following morning Ed and I went across the street to the district attorney's office presented our case and the warrant was issued on Charles Fryberg for 702 WIC contributing to the delinquency of a minor at seven o'clock that night Ed and I staked out on a cocktail lounge near the intersection of Wilshire and La Brea the place where the suspect had told Laura Osburn to meet him 7 30 7 45 we waited I think maybe we're in business Joe what on a corner there waiting for the signal to change dark suit dark hat yeah could be across nowhere now heading for the bar all right let's go no mistake hey fella hold it up on my way how's that police officer your name Fryberg what no that's not my name is your identification please yes I've got my identification why can we see it please why what do you want your identification before I haven't done anything let's go mister talk about it downtown wait a minute just a minute I don't want any trouble I'll show you there driver's license the rest of my stuff Charles Fryberg it's an old address and yeah I haven't had time to change it just got back in town what's the matter anyway where you stand Fryberg no place I just got back in town I told you that not staying anyplace yet no connections at all where's your car I don't have one I've met one for a year I sold it look how about filling me in what do you want with me you want to step over here Fryberg out of the way all right just like know what's going on that's all like to see what you're carrying in your pockets take everything out please one pocket at a time what is this a shakedown you can start with your coat pockets all right there okay all right now the other one okay we said you don't have a car Fryberg well of course not I told you that what are you doing with that parking ticket we walked the suspect Fryberg two blocks to the parking lot listed on the claim check that he had in his coat pocket he had black hair streaked with gray looked to be in his mid 50s we questioned him on the way but he'd admit nothing we located his car in the parking lot and searched it in the glove compartment besides a half a dozen photographs and small books we found a key with a metal disc attached to it stamped on the disc for the words west side studios number 23 Fryberg refused to identify the key he refused to admit a thing we walked him back to our car and together the three of us headed out for the old west side studios just off jefferson boulevard on the way we tried again to question the suspect but we got nowhere he refused to answer even the simplest questions one look at the west side studios and you knew right away the place had seen better days it had been fairly prominent in the early days of motion picture making but all that was left now was two square blocks of broken down scenery one dilapidated soundstage at a roll of weather beaten cottages the tar paper peeling off the ropes we got out of the car and started up the walk the faded sign over the main gate read west side studios founded 1920 and down in one corner admission by pass only the guard shack at the gate was boarded up no sign of a night watchman we kept walking how come they don't keep a watchman at the gate friberg don't they make pictures here anymore you bet they do place been going downhill for a long time it's coming back though then you do know the place is that right yeah i know it i should know it what do you mean by that nothing you're at an office here is that it friberg yeah that's right straight down the way there college 23 what's your job you in some kind of movie work yeah i've been for 30 years morning 30 years that's so you an actor friberg haven't you ever heard the name i'm a producer oh i see why don't you tell us that to start with want to know different reasons i don't like to throw my weight around i have a lot of connections in hollywood you know that's so in the trade 30 years i was one of the first you can make a lot of friends in 30 years yeah i guess so how about those books we found in your car those pictures i explain them this studio will be back on the speak the year i'll bet a thousand dollars on it this whole block here sound stages i get the cleanse firm in my desk that's so you have an interest in this lot not exactly not right now anyway i did have an interest though i will again i was one of the original owners you know still haven't got an explanation how about the books and pictures we found in your car all that nothing to explain is there just a few gimmicks i picked up you know a boy by the name of steven banner banner no i don't think so why how about bud spencer you know him no i knew a george spencer once actor i was back in the old days though how about laura osborne dorthy ryan you know them no it's pretty hard to say you know sergeant over the years in this business especially you meet an awful lot of people ways are fairly recent you ought to remember them they're just a kid 17 year old no great i don't recall the names sound stage bell we got a company over there doing some shooting tonight television films they make them too fast trades not like it used to be quality that's what we went after gone now it's all gone west side will do it again though you can bet on that we're coming back look how about leveling fryberg you know why we picked you up you know why we're out here just did i don't know why oh say look across the road that's said over there the old greenhouse there colonial mansion weather's faded the colors a little typical old southern mistake now you know we shot some beautiful footage there pictures of classic in its own right maybe you remember moonlight magnolia i changed the title later love than the moonlight beautiful thing you ever see it well i don't think so i couldn't tell you how many beauties we turned out that year i was a young fella then song and strife moonlight magnolia's little art and girls sweetheart of the campus at your cottage there mr crabber what's that just down the way there number 23 oh yeah please you forgot about it i hope you excuse the way it looks i haven't been able to find good accommodations in town i've been staying at the office we have a little couch there i sleep on that we have a hot plate too good enough to boil a coffee in the morning how come you couldn't find space in town hotels i've had a rush journey i'm the one time used to staying out yes i just soon camp here at the studio and stay at one of those places downtown jay uh wouldn't you like to see the rest of the lot pretty interesting if you've never seen a real movie lot i mean a high class one we've seen them mr crabber we'd like to check your office oh all right this is it cottage just need a good coat of paint of course it'll all be done pretty soon west side is going to come back strong you can bet on that yes oh oh watch it on that first step there it's loose have to call maintenance and get that fixed yeah it's all right here we are well didn't you see the opposite very much what if you want a gentleman you want to check that cabinet there and i'll take a look through these cases over here okay this picture here on the wall that's the cast and the production staff of my first film here's the other one me and ours even aren't the autograph picture for me bernard himself those were the days all right quality that's what we went after in pictures real quality not like today gone the good days fine pictures it's gone all gone i'm out at fryberg these cases of books here in these photographs not my fault believe me i had to make a living i had to make money how do you think it feels to get cheap like that i used to be young i was big i was talented i made big pictures how do you think it feels to get cheap all of a sudden cheap enough to do this kind of thing nobody forced it was your choice mr it wasn't my choice you're wrong all i want to do is make pictures there isn't a chance anymore not like the old days you need hundreds of thousands millions gone it's all gone had to eat had to put clothes on my back you'd make you responsible for this books pictures working in the high school trade kids like steve banner blood Spencer after 1935 i couldn't get a job i didn't want this i had to do it i'm ashamed who wouldn't be i had to eat was the only way i had to live there's honest jobs to be had how about this man named jack he was in with me he was my cameraman back in the old days you can't blame him either he had to live too you want to come downtown with us give us a statement yeah all right anything how about the party with the two girls laura rin dorthy ryan i took some pictures that's all i i didn't farm them nothing anyway that is wrong fiber you know that yeah i know just to have the kids there made you remember the days in your life the best days in anybody's life but so when you used to have money when you used to be young the story you have just heard was true the names were changed to protect the innocent on january 29th trial was held in superior court department 87 city and county of los angeles state of california in a moment the results of that trial and now here is our star jack webb thank you george fanon friends won't you do this for me compare fatima with any other king-size cigarette you'll find fatima's length builders the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection cools the smoke for your protection fatima's length gives you those extra puffs 21% longer than standard cigarette size and you get an extra mild and soothing smoke plus the added protection of the team of quality that's why i'd like you to buy fatima the suspects charles eamon fryberg and his accomplice jack l labray were tried and convicted on four counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors both of them served full terms in the county jail contributing to the delinquency of minors is punishable by a fine if not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for one year or by both fine and imprisonment you have just heard dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files technical advice comes from the office of chief of police w h parker los angeles police department heard tonight were barney phillips virginia gregg and ralph moody script by jim mosey music by walter schumann howl give me speaking fatima's cigarettes best of all king-size cigarettes has brought you dragnet transcribed from los angeles now it's counterspy on nbc


Steve! Hey! What's up? How you doing? Good, man. How you doing? I got your text. You want a video chat, man? How's Nebraska? Oh, it's great. Omaha is awesome. Derek, I actually don't really have time for that, okay?  Hi, my name is Steve Berg, and today we're going to sk- Oh, my God. My name is Steve Berg, and today we're going to be discussing the history of the absentee belts. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers, mate. So our story takes place in 18- 18- 1864. The Civil War is raging. Limbs are being lost. There is blood, being a pound everywhere. So it's election year. The president at the time, Abraham Lincoln, he knows that he's unpopular with the soldiers. They're like, that dude is the Widowmaker. He's the Widowmaker? What does that mean?  In this whole Emancipation Proclamation thing of 1863, that's a bit too radical. And so entering into the race is General George B. McClellan, who the soldiers know they respect him.  This is an unwinnable battle. People are dying. Let's just make peace with the Confederacy. Let's come to some kind of arrangement. And they all kind of dug and felt like he gets it. Oh, ouchie. That burns. So there's a word I invented called integrity. And Abraham Lincoln had that in a big, big way because he was like, look, the election doesn't look good for me. But what is more important to me is that there is a fair and democratic election where all legal voters had the chance to vote. The thing is, though, there's quite a quandary because how are we going to count these votes?  So the Secretary of War at the time, Tilda Swinton, but it's not. It's Edwin Stanton says Abe, babe. What if we created an absentee ballot, right? Or every soldier, anyone who's not able to be there at a poll to vote physically in person can send in their ballot and it will be counted. And Abraham Lincoln is like, Edwin, that idea just booked. Greenlight it. Go, go, go, babe. So the absentee ballots go out, right? And General George McClellan is like, dude. Oh, honest Abe just handed me the election on a silver, gold, brass platter, whatever you want to call it.  But cut to September of 1864 to the Battle of Atlanta. Much to everyone's surprise, this is a monumental victory for the union. They block off supply lines to Confederacy. And all of a sudden the tide has turned. Soldiers are like, wait, hold on a second. We actually could win this thing. We're in the red zone. We're on the 17-year-old line in its first and goal. Why would we stop now? I mean, I got an absentee ballot. Maybe we should vote for Lincoln. Oh my God. Wouldn't be drunk history if I didn't hiccup, right? So due to this whole situation when November came, Lincoln ended up winning. 78% of the military vote and 55% of the popular vote. That is a decisive victory. Helping him in helping the union crush the Confederacy and winning the Civil War.  And protecting this right to vote is the utmost important thing, period. And I'm drunk. And even I know that, okay? The absentee bells won the Civil War and saved democracy. So that's pretty sweet. Democracy, dude. Let's not let it die. Cheers. To America. How's that?   You've got to vote. Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote, vote.


Dear students, in this topic we shall discuss the mechanism of lung ventilation in birds. The birds respiratory system consists of lungs and air sacs. The number of air sacs in birds may be 7 or 9. These air sacs include two posterior or abdominal air sacs, two anterior, thoracic or cranial air sacs, two posterior, thoracic or cordal air sacs, and two cervical air sacs, which may not be present in some birds. And they include one intra-clevicular air sac. Dear students, now we shall discuss the respiratory cycle of a bird. In birds, it takes two ventilation cycles to move air through the entire respiratory system. In this way, the inhaled air remains in the respiratory system for two complete inspiratory and expiratory cycles before it is fully used and then exhaled. During the first inspiration, the inhaled air enters through the nostrils and passing through the larynx, it enters the trachea. From the trachea, air does not directly enter to the lungs. Air rather travels to the posterior abdominal air sacs. Simultaneously, a small amount of air passes through the posterior air sac to the lungs through the ventro bronchi and dorsal bronchi. So, this is a difference in the bird's inspiration, that the first air that is inspired goes into the abdominal air sacs and during that inspiration, through the abdominal air sacs, through the ventro and dorsal bronchi, a portion of the air is sent to the lungs. In the lungs, the ventro and dorsal bronchi divide to form small diameter para-bronchi and air capillaries. Para-bronchi, they are supplied in a large number of blood capillaries. These air capillaries are the sites which are the sites of gas exchange where oxygen is absorbed and carbon dioxide is absorbed from the blood for the outgoing air. Now, the next cycle is the first expirations. The spent air in the lungs flows out of the body through trachea, which is used for the first expirations, and this air from the lungs is replaced by fresh air which is present in the posterior air sacs. The first air entered in the abdominal air sacs enters the lungs during the first expirations. This way, even during the expirations, the lungs get fresh air. Here, students, after the second expirations, the fresh air enters the posterior air sacs. Lungs also receive fresh air from the abdominal sacs, replacing the used air. That which is displaced air from the lungs does not go directly out from the trachea because it cannot exit through the trachea because fresh air is flowing inward. This is why the spent air moves from the lungs and enters the anterior thoracic air sacs. Now, the second expirations, the air moves out of the cranial and anterior thoracic sacs and moves out and goes out and the air in the lungs also goes out. This flows out through the trachea. Fresh air, which is present in the posterior abdominal sacs, again enters the lungs for gas exchange. This way, even during the second expirations, fresh air supplies the lungs to the students. Now we shall see how the air flow is maintained during these inspiratory and expiratory cycles. Air is moved in and out of the respiratory system through pressure changes in the air sacs. The mechanism of movement is the pressure changes in the air sacs. The birds do not have a diaphragm that they keep giving movement in the lungs to create some kind of negative pumping pressure in the lungs. This is not the case. So, due to the pressure changes in the air sacs, the air is in and out of the respiratory system. Cranic muscles, which cause the sternum to be pushed outward, this creates a negative pressure in the air sacs causing the air to enter the respiratory system. Similarly, expirations are also not passive. It requires certain muscles to contract, to increase the pressure on air sacs and push the air out. Dear students, birds' car, your respiratory system head, that is more efficient than mammals. It transfers more oxygen with each breath. Second directional air flow of fresh air ensures that our fresh air passes over the respiratory epithelium during both inhalation as well as exhalation. It enables near continuous state of gas exchange within the lungs and this is why the lungs absorb about 90% of the inhaled air in the lungs.


Residents and indigents of the ancient Jeba community, where the red boat of Mongopak and first locomotive chuckle-heared train, allocated, have raised concerns over the state government's refusal to pay the salary and all the personal amendments due to the traditional ruler Abdul Qadir Adib Barra over the past 21 years. This was disclosed at a press conference by one of the community leaders, Chayola Omotosho, who described the treatment as unfair, calling for the immediate constitution of a separate traditional council for moral local government area and settlement of all entitlements of the centenary in Jeba Monarch without further delay. According to the people of Jeba community, the 103-year-old leader has not been paid any entitlement for the past 21 years and this has demoralized not only the leader but the entire community. It has become very imperative to bring to the story of public discourse the opportunity issue of non-payment of the salaries and personal amendments of Jeba by the Barra government for the past 21 years. We are convinced that some disgruntled elements are out to sabotage the good intention of the government. We therefore request Governor Abraman Abrazaq to direct his searchlight on the state ministry of local governments until this appears by questioning the Honorable Commissioner over his role in this subterfuge. As a corollary to Jeba, we further implore the government to please implement in full the two aforementioned court judgments. So aggrieved people of Jeba community however insist that the state government should honor and implement the court judgments by paying always held salaries of the traditional ruler. The Commissioner for local government until this appears has failed or refused to back back to the government while the subject fine has suddenly disappeared from circulation. It has affected the community tremendously in negative way. If the soul of the above Jeba is being given a recognition which is contemporary in the state or in the nation at large there are a lot of the meaningful development that will be injected to the community. Efforts to have the reaction of the State Commissioner for local government and Chief Transit Affairs Abdullahi Bata were frustrated despite giving ample time as he walked out on journalists when visited at the ministry. While the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of the state Suleiman Ibrahim said he could not speak on the matter despite being the number one legal officer of the state. Find about fresh news updates.


This is a great treat to follow up from Raul Zoe Dodd is I love to watch and listen to you speak. I'm really just a fan girl Zoe. But Zoe is a longtime harm reduction and drug user advocate who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She's a co-organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society and helps to coordinate the Moss Park Overdose Prevention site, which ran unsanctioned in a park for nearly a year before finally receiving minority of health funding and then moving indoors. The Moss Park OPS was successful at helping to change the overdose response in Ontario and the general public's understanding of the overdose crisis. In addition to all of that, Zoe is a graduate student currently enrolled at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. So you just do that on the side, right? So she's focusing on people's experience with the drug treatment system who have been mandated to it. So you're really in for a treat Zoe, please join us on stage. Weird setup. I'm going to show a series of photos over the last year, sorry the last two years in Toronto. I don't know why it's blank on the screen. It's weird, no. So like tell me what do you want to do? Oh well, this is getting ready. I just want to say today is a workers' holiday and it's May 1st and in the country I live we do not celebrate this day, but I don't have it off, but people's working conditions and capitalism are intrinsically linked to the overdose crisis, the war on drugs. And yeah, so power to the workers. They moved it. Sorry? Because I moved it? I don't know. This should be timed. Thank you to the organizers of this amazing conference and for the opportunity to speak today. This has been like a fabulous last few days and for the experience to be in Portugal. I always had different visions of what the Portuguese model looked like and I'm going home knowing that it isn't completely the model that I would want to have. I think what I would like to see in the lives of people who use drugs is less police in people's lives. As the overdose crisis has escalated and taken the lives of thousands of people, people across Canada in big cities and smaller communities have taken action to respond. From distributing the lock zone acquired underground to supervising injections and responding to people's own homes to putting up tents and alleyways and parks, street patrols, sticker campaigns on doors and bars, training each other on overdose prevention, providing support groups, organizing healing circles and memorials, actions and demonstrations. People, predominantly people who use drugs and their allies, have been organizing and responding in the face of devastating loss. My name is Zoe Dodd and I am a co-organizer with the Toronto Overdose Prevention Society. We are people who use drugs, harm reduction workers, advocates, nurses, allies and who come together in solidarity to respond with direct action to address the overdose crisis in the summer of 2017. I'm going to talk to you today about some of our recent efforts to break rules and save lives, what we won, what we lost and what we all need to do next. I live in Toronto on the traditional lands of the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, the Huron-Wendat, the Patoon and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Canada is a settler colonial state with a long history of oppressing Indigenous peoples. Some of the first policies of prohibition exist in the Indian Act with the prohibition of alcohol. Indigenous people have been deeply impacted by colonization and in recent years the overdose crisis. Given the historical nature of the state and its relationship to marginalizing and oppressing people, I am never not surprised by its lack of action and the state's willingness to allow thousands of people to die from preventable death. Canada as a settler state has always amassed casualties in its drive to exist within the prevailing system. I also recognize that Canada seems to be ahead of many places when it comes to the treatment of people who use drugs. Although we aren't where we'd like to be and harm reduction is inconsistent across the country, in Toronto we have for decades been able to slowly push forward a harm reduction agenda with the creation of a city drug strategy, distribution of safer supplies, which include condoms, naloxone kits, needles with different gauges, sizes, and from different companies, safer crack kits, foil, crystal meth pipes, testing strips, and information from 50 organizations in a city of 3 million. And where the majority of the harm reduction workforce are people who use drugs and where they hold positions from managers to coordinators to outreach workers to satellite workers to harm reduction and overdose prevention and supervised consumption site workers and please do not come up to me ever and ask me again how do drug users get employed and how do they work? They have jobs in all of these different areas and if they don't at your organizations then you're just depressing the shit out of them. Direct actions responding to the overdose crisis created a community of people who identify as harm reduction workers who are willing to see harm reduction and drug use issues as their professional and personal responsibility that they have ethical obligations to stand up for drug users. There are classist and prejudice distinctions of expertise that continues to pervade organizations and service delivery and it is why organizing grassroots gives opportunity for people who are central to their own struggle to be part of it, to fill positions and organizations and to be seen as the real experts who should be paid for their labor equitably. In the face of this crisis we have lost more than 10,000 people in less than three years, indigenous and racialized people, people living in poverty, women, youth, young men and although the crisis can impact people of all walks of life it is not the wealthy who are dying of overdose at high rates. If it were the response to this crisis would look very, very different. We often talk about this crisis as a public health emergency that needs an emergency response but that response hasn't come. It is not one created by over prescribing, it is one created by prohibition and the drive for greed and punishment, governments focused on prescribing will elicit fentanyl took over the drug market where you can't easily find heroin or pills. They didn't listen to us when we begged them to stop and that prescription drugs were safe and we needed them. Instead the response has been window dressed as summits where reports are made acknowledging the need for decriminalization, legalization, a safe drug supply, ending the war on drugs but our current federal government has no desire to substantially change policies, call a public health emergency or respond appropriately. They talk, we die, has become the mantra and instead we are forced to reconcile that we cannot do everything, that people will die and we are forced to fight for very basic emergency services that are downstream that we barely have time to fight for what we really need. What we really need, what we truly need is a clean supply of drugs, safe supplies of heroin, prescription pills and an end to prohibition. In August 2017, after a spike in deaths, we set up tents in a park both for injection and inhalation and created Ontario's first overdose prevention site. We were inspired and informed by the Overdose Prevention Society in Vancouver, which had begun the year before. Shortly afterward, the Ottawa Overdose Prevention Society did the same thing and we worked to pressure the provincial government who were entering into an election to act. Community Looxone distribution increased, a provincial overdose task force was formed and the supervised injection sites people had been working on through formal channels for years in Toronto and Ottawa finally opened. There hadn't been a site indicated for the neighborhood we set up in the tents. Organizations from across the city haven't asked if they wanted to set up a site formally and only three said they felt ready or had the capacity. We had to challenge each other and the organizations to respond. This is really hard work. Organizations that were once too afraid are now running awesome drug user led small scale sites. We showed them how easy it was to save drug users lives and we stayed organizing in the park not wanting to leave because we knew we would lose our political power and we didn't want to abandon people. We were first intense with union support, we brought in a trailer and then moved inside with government funding. We also received an enormous amount of public support. People dropped off donations of food and supplies. Every day we crowdfunded over $250,000. By the time we left the park 11 months later, we had over 9,062 visits and reversed 251 overdoses. We fought to get the funding, the laws changed to approve the sites and help the government create their application. But July of 2018, one year later, there were eight sites operating in Toronto. But then in August, two months after they were elected, a new conservative government declared they were putting the sites under review and stop their expansion. A rash of overdose deaths in the west end of the city forced us to set up tents again and operate another illegal overdose prevention site. While a fully stocked trailer sat empty and staff were told they weren't going to start work until the review was finished. In September, we staked 1,265 crosses into the lawns of Queens Park as a symbol of those who had died in 2017 from opiate overdoses most legally linked to fentanyl. This was a 46% increase of deaths from the year before. Since August of 2017, all nine sites in Toronto have had over 100,000 visits and reversed more than 1,800 overdoses. Our rule breaking helped to create a harm reduction workforce to respond to overdose as well as community of harm reduction activists and organizers and nine sites instead of slated three. But like everyone who are not safe, we are not safe from changing political powers and we are currently fighting within the context of new and deep cuts to social services, education, healthcare and right wing free market ideology at the provincial level. There are three sites across the province have recently been told to close despite continued service use and escalating overdoses. We continue to fight with direct action in the forms of fundraising, protests, disruption and solidarity. We cannot abandon people to die. SCS has become an essential service. We have reversed almost 2,000 overdoses and prevented many, many more but this is not normal. And we cannot continue like this and we cannot bank on small scale pilot projects of safe supply that won't reach drug users equitably. People should be able to use alone in their own homes. People also need homes, which is a large challenge people face in a city where the average rent is out of reach for many, where thousands of people are staying in emergency dome tents or on costs or on floors and where overdoses have risen and deaths to not only in the shelters but also in the prisons, jails and detention centers where if we decriminalized and legalized drugs and offered safe drug supplies, we would see a massive reduction of not only prisoners but of overdose deaths. Constantly fighting for an adequate response to the overdose crisis has limited our views of possibilities. Although OPS and SCS are necessary, they should just be extension of our harm reduction services, not a solution to a crisis whose causes are much further upstream. They also fall into traps of being sites of surveillance, paternalistic, over medicalized and do not always respect the ways in which people use drugs. Rules of no sharing, no passing, no talking, no assisting are imposed to set a clinical experience for something that is not a clinical experience. Sites should be created with respect for the ways in which people use drugs. They need to be hygienic, not sterile. People using the sites have expressed that they, like the camaraderie, the social aspects, the ability to be part of the spaces they want to work in them, they go to them because they need a break from the burden of constantly responding to others overdosing, knowing we won't have to take off for fear of arrest if they OD. Working at Moss Park has both been rewarding and hard and also a dream to see a drug user resource center with an injection site come to fruition that we're in this together offering respect and kindness and fighting for lives. Research has been most helpful and necessary but also a hindrance to our response. Everything should not be a research project. We don't need to do ethically problematic RCTs or pilots. We can implement practice-based evidence that is responsive to not only the crisis but people's needs. Sometimes it literally feels that drug users are being researched to death. To the government representatives who are watching this or here in this room, it is not too late to help us end this crisis. Health Canada, we need you to implement five years of secured funding resources and bulk buys of safe drug supplies that we can easily access and so we don't have to fight province to province. You need to change our exemptions to operate SES so they are not time limited and you need to be prepared to directly fund them. You have only a few months left before the election where we could see a right wing conservative government win. We need you to invest to change laws and access to safe supply and we need you to do it quickly. Leave a legacy where you actually responded to this crisis with real political courage, something you are currently lacking. Our movements are inspiring. We are showing how you organize and how you hold those of power accountable and we can't stop. We need to continue to fight for a better world. This fight needs to be continuously rooted in racial, environmental, economic and social justice. This isn't about behavior change or service delivery. This is about liberation. To quote Rafi Balian who died in February 2017 of an overdose while attending a meeting in Vancouver about supervised injection site who was a winner of an international harm reduction award that he received in Lebanon some day soon. An enlightened society will look at those names as victims of war crime. The enlightened society will regard the politicians, the judges, the police, the doctors, the reporters who perpetuated this war as criminals. I am deeply proud of everyone who has stepped up and stepped in. Some of you from our organizing efforts are actually in this room. We have been working together in solidarity and we will win. We are responding and fighting in the face of so much loss, the loss of our leaders, our mentors, our coworkers, our lovers, our friends, our family and we can't give up. One day the drug war will end and we can be really proud of our contributions to end it. We have honored those we have lost in the most powerful of ways and don't forget that we are power. Fight to win.


So what is a clear coat? The top clear coat portion of a base coat clear coat paint system is a transparent layer of paint that is designed not only to create gloss for the base coat, but also add a layer of protection to that base coat. While clear coats certainly add vibrance and protection, they are also very sensitive to abrasion and can magnify the appearance of swirls and scratches. So it's very important that you always use products that are designed for clear coat technology. Along with clean and fresh accessories like car wash mitts and microfibers to minimize any chance of creating swirls.


Hello everyone, welcome to the Pictoblox machine learning environment tutorial series. In this tutorial, we are going to learn about image classification. It is one of the machine learning model types which can be trained in Pictoblox. Image classification is used for classifying images into different classes based on their characteristics. For example, whether the image has a cat or a dog, classifying whether I am wearing a mask or not. In this example, we are going to make a mask detector in Pictoblox in the Python coding environment. Here Pictoblox will identify three conditions. Person wearing a mask, person is not wearing a mask and person is wearing the mask improperly. Let's get started. Open the Pictoblox and select the Python coding environment. Go to the machine learning environment by selecting the open ML environment option under the files tab. As we are training our models in Python, it is important that we have the required dependencies. In order to download these dependencies, simply click on the gear icon on the top right of your screen and select the download dependencies option. This will download and update the dependencies required to train the model. Click on the create new project option to initialize your project. Type an appropriate name for the project and select the image classifier as the model type. Click on the create project button and you will see the image classifier window. When you are greeted with the image classifier window, you will see two classes, class one and class two made for you by default. Let's understand what a class is. A class is basically the category in which the model classifies the images. Like for dog images, you have a different class called dog and for all the cat images are added under the class name cat. Now coming back to the project, edit the first class name to mask on. There are three ways in which you can add data to your project. Using a device webcam to click email samples, using the upload button to upload images from your device and by using the upload classes from fold button to import a dataset. For this example, we will take the image from the camera. Click on the hold to record button to capture the with mask images. You will need at least 20 images to train the class. For this example, you can take 200 photos with different head orientations. If you want to delete any image, hover over it and click on the delete button. Once uploaded, you will be able to see the images in the class. Rename class two as mask off and take the samples from the webcam. Click the add class button and you should see a new class. Rename the class to mask wrong. As a thumb rule, you should try to add an equal number of images in every class. Large variations in data can be a problem by training the model. Training is where the classifier extracts features from the added data and trains a model to recognize the images in the classes. This way, the model will be able to classify unseen images as per the classes provided. Use the advance tab to alter the hyperparameters of a model. In the image classifier, you can play around with epochs, back size and learning rate. Do note that learning rate is an extremely sensitive hyperparameter and can greatly affect the performance of your model. Click to blocks gives you an option to train the image classification in both JavaScript and Python. Just flick the switch on top of the training box to cycle between the two. Training the model might take some time. Keep a check on the accuracy graph while training is done. You can view a comprehensive report of your model performance in the trained report. The trained report consists of the accuracy and loss curve of the model, the confusion matrix of the model, the true positives, false negatives and false positives for each class. Once training is complete, it's time to test our model on alien data. The model trains itself on the images we provide, but a model is only useful if it can classify alien data just as well as it classifies the training data. This is where model testing comes into play. You can test the images here. Much like training, testing can be done either by using a device's webcam or by uploading data from your device. Start the camera and test the model. Click on the export model button on the top right of the texting box and pick two blocks will load your model into the Python coding environment. Observe how we have a boilerplate code already. This code uses cv2 to capture images and displays the class of the image in the frame. Let's run it and see the code in action. Now we need to edit this code to make Toby respond to the classes. Use the sprite function and declare Toby as the sprite for this project. Now we need to add conditional statements to a project. To do this, we will use the if, lf and else statements. The if statement is used to give out our first condition. The lf statement covers the else if conditions and the else statements gives the condition to be followed in case none of the if or lf statements are triggered. Add an if statement with predicted class set to mask on. Use sprite.say under the if statement and write thank you for wearing the mask properly. Add an lf statement with predicted class set to mask off. Use sprite.say under the if statement and write please wear the mask. Add an else statement and in the sprite.say block under it write please wear the mask properly. The script is now complete. Click the run button to run it. There you have it. You just use image classification to make your own mask detection project in python coding.