And, where is it? Cocaine Bear. Cocaine Bear. What did I give it? I gave it a rating on Gilded. Yeah, my neighbor's practicing. My neighbor's practicing downstairs. My neighbor's practicing. Yeah, piano man's playing Sunday afternoon. Nice. I like it. We'll probably get a what do you call it copyright notice on sensor tube. When I was doing the cooking live stream, good copyright notice. Hilarious. Must be negative. I kind of says, Nagushka. Nothing to discuss about this. Me movie. Zero out of ten. Nagushka gives zero out of ten. What? What? Holy God. Loved it. Go fuzz. One hundred out of ten. That balances it out. Oh, my God. Thanks, Chichou. My pleasure, brother. My pleasure. Dancing with you. This 80s movie aged well. Hilarious. It could be. This could have been an 80s movie. For sure. For sure.  I agree. I agree. Stupid but funny. Is it as good as some of the other sort of animal B funny slasher movies like Lake Placid or Eight Legged Freaks? Not as good as Eight Legged Freaks. Eight Legged Freaks is amazing. Spiders, giant spiders and stuff. Lake Placid was funny. Really funny. Same type of funny as this, but I give Lake Placid a higher rating, right? I say in this genre, in this genre, I'm going to give you guys my rating right now because people are giving zeros and hundred out of ten. I say in this genre, I give it a six point five out of ten. Okay. Elder God said in 1985, but had all the wrong social constructs. Yeah, I wasn't looking at it for social construct. It was, I like one of the things I liked about it. It wasn't woke. It didn't do woke at all. Like there's no woke in this movie, right? Which is rare on that front. Not that I remember anyway. And some of the scenes were so funny. What's the bear just going insane on it? Just the beginning part where the guys throw in the cocaine bags, how he's like, boop, dancing, doing his thing, goes to jump out and knocks himself out. It was a slap. It was a slapstick. You weren't expecting it. I kind of, do you have an English name for a movie that are so bad they become classics? Do we have a, what would the English name be for that? That there is, right? Dancing visual. I can't, I ain't watching non-spider movies. I can't watch spider movies. I saw so much woke. I almost went, did you? I didn't. I didn't see too much woke at all. I didn't see any woke. Not that I remember, right? Califia. I got to check out both of those movies. Lake Placid, eight legged freaks. Thank you. Oh, my pleasure. Yeah, yeah. Lake Placid is super fun. And eight legged freaks is hilarious.  Like really, so good. Nagushka, for sure. Lake Placid had the advantage of being released at the turn of the century, which was arguably Hollywood's final golden age. Not a fan of Oliver Platt, but it was still enjoyable at the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like the Lake Placid icono. In French, we call it nanar. Nanar, really. It's so bad. It's good. Like, oh, here, one movie. It's so bad. I've seen it three times. It's called Life Force. The original name of the movie was Vampires From Outer Space. It is so bad. I've watched it three times and I might watch it again. That's how bad it is. That's a nanar movie. Cheryl, call classic to some extent. Yeah, call classic. Call classic would be the word for nanar, the French version. Call classic. Chee-ha, how are we doing? Salute Chee-cho, loving the streams. Any snackers? Yeah, yeah, yeah.   Really good. Really good. It doesn't want to focus because there it is. Really good.  Love eating these together. Slayer dot. When I saw No Time to Die a few months after it released, I was surprised by how quickly the sideline bonds black successor as 007 after everyone made such a huge deal about how a black woman couldn't become 007. They probably did that just to rile up the anti-woke crowd to drum up interest and to get the woke camp interest. Was it? Yeah, I wrote off, you know, sorry, sorry, our British, British community, people from UK and stuff. I wrote off 007 years ago. I just don't enjoy them. Haven't watched one for at least 15 years. It just, the last one of the last ones I saw was that this was actually the last James Bond one I saw where whoever the James Bond character was is running down on a dock into the ocean, I guess, running along the dock and helicopters bent like this and his propellers are breaking up the dock. I'm like, like at least an effort to not be so ridiculous. Like if you made it a funny show, if you're selling it as a humorous, like something like cocaine bear, okay, but you try to make this serious, it was garbage. Anyway, that's a different movie than to get the woke camp interest. Samurai Cop is a cult classic Samurai Cop. I can't remember Samurai Cop. I remember. What's that movie? Oh, man, it's a, Oh, God, you'll notice the, it's a Chinese guy who it's a tribute to Jackie Chan movies, who's has flour and they think it's cocaine and he's trying to get it from one place to another, but it's Chinese flour. What's it called? I can't remember index, index gunder, the judge of executioners. Hi, Mr. Oh, dude, boo, Ludex, boo on censor tube clown. We got a clown on censor tube. Elder God somewhere. Elder God cocaine bear was about motherhood neglected by a father and how it creates criminals. What? That's what you got out of that? No way.  No, come on. No, you can't read that much into it. I would still pay to be watching you, watching cocaine bear with Cheryl in the room. We'd be drinking and watching you tear out your hair. Funny, funny, like us gone. Bond died with Pierce Bosna's final bond movie for me. Yeah, slay that. Oh yeah, the world is not enough. Was that the was that the one? So bad, so bad, Elder God. All the main male characters were suffering from loneliness after not committing to family. Were they? No. Then what about that? One of the best things in cocaine bear was the ambulance. When he came to pick up, see what's going on. The bear was chasing the ambulance. That was an amazing scene. That character wasn't that character wasn't. He was a movie with a male guy torn apart. Caliphia, not the out of the wedlock, crack mama bear. I love it. I was so enraged. Were you out of God? My God, you were like cocaine bear. Slayer died. I started reading the Jane's Bond books this year would highly recommend. Really? Really? Funny. Slayer died. I don't care about the racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc. in the Bond books. I care about the travel log elements and learning about history from them. Sure, okay, I must admit to yelling at my screen in the beginning of cocaine bear. Dumbass was literally dropping cocaine over his three count. I'm assuming they went, well in 1980s would they have little trackers on him? Probably. Who knows? But yeah, I loved it. It was so funny. It was so funny. They call me Bruce, Dancing Vigil. Yes, they call me Bruce. Gang, you want to call classic.  In any genre. They call me Bruce. Fantastic movie. Fantastic movie. Oh my God, it's all I saw. You've gone dark brother. You've gone dark. Funny, Cheryl. Jesus, oh my God, if that's why you got no wonder you think it was folk. I only got even the black cop got woke to that. I think I'm laughing more during this than cocaine bear, but there was some seriously funny cocaine bear scenes, man. No wonder. I was wondering why he didn't like it, man. I was wondering what was going on. Like why, why would you hate it so much? Alley, salutations. Hi, good evening. All salutations on the censor too. Hope you're doing good, brother. Hope you're doing good. Slayers, for me, the worst Bond film is Moonraker, but I think that's partly because the Bond book of the same name is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. Really? Wow, wow. Cheryl, oh my God, that was a wild scene to go. It wasn't easy. Seriously, one of the funniest scenes in cult classic, I guess it's not a cocaine bear cult classic, could become a cult classic. We see, we see, but that scene when they go into that whole scene from the beginning when the ambulance comes up and they're going, what's going on here? All the way to the ambulance crash, it's about a good 10 minute scene. Probably. I can't remember the timing on it. That was a laugh out loud, funny. That was hilarious. So funny. Elder God, you got to watch that scene. Elder God, I didn't get, what didn't you get? I didn't get the end of a movie. I cut out with Asian paramedics get killed. I was actually supporting them. Cheryl, that cop was so dear with that dog and then the badass hilarious Slaredar. They're going to allow your comment. Twitch locked it. Slaredar, Kerry, he never served in the intelligence service. Cheryl, as soon as I saw the actress for Ranger Liz, I knew it was going to be good. She's awesome. She was really good. The chubby one smoking cigarettes, right? That's the one. She's, I like her. Super funny, super funny. Slaredar, I got on my reading list the day of the jackal by Frederick Freuster, which is about a French Algerian terrorist hiring an elusive hitman to kill French President Charles. They made the movie. Did you like the movie? I've seen them and have been meaning to read some of the John LeCary book, like the spy who came in from the cold. I consider reading some of Tom Clancy's book, but he seems too pro-American to me. I haven't read any of that stuff. Cheryl, you missed Ray's death. Yep. I channeled that woman when I need to be mean mama. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. It was a good movie. It was a good movie. Yeah, it was a good movie. If you want humor, get, do not look at it through the lens of Elder God. That will distort, that will make life extremely difficult. They only got, they have the jackals, my favorite movie. Is it? The jackals, your favorite movie? Wait a second. Are we thinking about the same one? The black and white or the remake? I think there was a remake one, wasn't it? I might think about the right one. Slayer Darth. I haven't seen the film version of Dave Jockel yet. Wow. Dancing visual. Ray Liotta took method acting. I've seen the remake with Richard Gere and Bruce Willis, which was pretty terrible. I actually didn't mind the remake. I didn't mind the remake. The original I haven't seen forever, but from what I remember was brilliant. Peanut butter pumpkin party salutations. I dressed up as a bear once based the, based the movie off of me. You can do it again. You can do it again. Fun. What's your ratings on this gang? What's your ratings on this? I give it a six and a half out of 10. In this genre, six and a half out of 10, six and a half out of 10. And do not forget, do not forget. Free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. Something that we desperately, desperately need in our societies. For more information, see wikileast.org, defend.wikileast.org, or countless resources available online. Elder God, they're making a jackal TV mini series as we speak. Really? Wow, Cheryl, eight in cult classics, six otherwise. Really? You think eight called classic that good? Have you seen eight legged freaks and Lake Placid? Elder God, one out of 10. One out of 10, he says Slayerdarth. Oh, nice Elder God. Oh, funny, funny. The jackal TV mini series. We'll see how if it's if it's good or not. No, no, not yet. Oh, you haven't seen. Cheryl, eight legged freaks. Watch it. Dancing with your 10 out of 10. Just do it. Give us a good laugh. Slayerdarth, why can't we have that sort of humor anymore? Oh, the dancing Slayerdarth. You know what? What kind of comedy I miss? The old Pink Panther films were criticized 100%. The original Pink Panther, absolutely brilliant. So effing good. So effing good. And Peter, Peter Sellers, one of the greatest actors ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. Cheryl, just for the wild swings from no to God-pusting laughter. Indexed Gundy, the judge of executions, quick shot of propaganda. He don't want to spend 10 minutes without making it. Oh, God, we got a clown on censored too. I got some clowns posting on censored too because they were paid whatever, whatnot. It is what it is. It is what it is.  But it is what it is. People are allowed to speak their mind, right? Easy, 9.8. Temporary peace.  Okay, just again, the poster alone is fantastic. This is one of the greatest movie posters ever. Really, look at the poster. If I ever, Slayerdarth, if I ever have kids, I can show them the old Pink Panther films because they show you, you don't need to rely on smut or foul language for last 100%. So good, so good. Elder God, I'm watching. Yeah, Elder God, it's okay. The guys, he's just pissed about some of the opinion of 80% of the world that I'm posting on censored too and he's a history denier, right? But it is what it is, man. It is what it is. Ryan MC, people are allowing to speak their mind within the confines of censored too. Yeah, I know. One of them, there's two of them on censored too was saying that he wanted to have an open discussion on censored too. Just like, wait a second, where have you been for the last like eight years? Open discussion on censored too, crazy. Please, you haven't even seen it yet. 9.8 out of 10 based on the poster. Funny, funny, funny. Slayer include, by the way, Luddix, thank you very much. You and your partner that are trash talking some of the videos I'm putting out on censored too, because the more comments you make, the better for my analytics and it kicks up my videos even more. So I appreciate the comments and the interaction on censored too. It helps me get more views and make more money. Appreciate it. Hilarious. The kids took, the kids, they didn't take cocaine. They chewed on it. They didn't know. All right, they didn't know. They're making a cocaine shark, at least they're not. I'll watch that. I'll watch it. Hilarious, hilarious. Slayer include a shot in the dark. Chicho, Cheryl, Chicho. I'm sorry, this is off topic, but I've been meaning to share.  Nice. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. That's good. Learning how to present in front of an audience is phenomenal. It should be one of the essentials they teach in school, but they don't. They put people on the way they do it. Insane. Totally unprompted for me. Proud mom moment for sure. Awesome. Awesome. Alligator, Sid is killed. Oh, no. Slayer, my friend partook in debating club at his secondary school and he was talking about why the Soviet Union was bad. And he simply said, croaked friends, do you not remember the holo mandor? That's the Ukraine starvation thing, right? No, I want to go back. No, I'm censored to dancing visual. Gang. Okay. Cocaine bear. We got haters. We got lovers. We got people in the mid ranges. Okay. Next movie. Let's bring out the next movie. Let's bring out the next movie. Let's go. Let's go. Should we go? We got two humor, one heavy. What should we do? We got two humor, one heavy. Should we change the tune and go with the heavy, heavy? What say you? What say you?


Okay, so let's start with the question, eh? I know some of the questions off the top of my head because I was looking at the very end. It's slow, but long. Is that right? Okay, so one of the questions was, that's a nice little opener, was around... In your slides yesterday, all 143 of them, you used a mountain image that you've used many times before. Is this you just building up to your own free solo?  Actually, I saw it. Is that working? No. Yeah, you're on. So yeah, free solo. I actually watched this movie, funny enough, when I flew from Boston to Seattle for Triple Con. I'm obviously not going to do a free solo, but it was a great movie. That's a good question for me to type along. Okay, another question was around... Not that long ago, you promised to write a recipe for the Umami demo. How are we doing with that, Dries? Not very well. Yeah, I'd love to get a recipe in Umami. And especially like there's some photos, I'm more of a photographer than a cook or a chef, I should say. So I would actually love to take an existing recipe in Umami, try to make it, and contribute a photo. So that would probably be my step one. Maybe I can take a question from the room. Anybody questions from the room that they can speak out loud? I'll repeat the question to you. Any questions from the room now? So I'm considering we open... So creating a UI or experience, which is more tailored to a smaller work path or a long time. Is not it our audience's interpretation? So I'll try to repeat the question. So how important is it to have a user experience that is tailored to smaller sites? We're just tailored to enterprise facts, because going toward a smaller site may give you experience. Yeah, it's interesting. So we actually think a lot of the improvements that we're making today are beneficial for everyone. For both on the low end as well as the high end. And I think there's a lot of improvements we can make that are in the same vein. Actually, very few capabilities in Drupal 4 are unique to the enterprise, in my mind. In terms of UI and offering experience. So we've got some deep running. Okay, we're getting there. Actually, this is a good one. Right at the top of this from Chris Holbrecht. As Drupal has grown out, have been primarily a hobbyist project into an enterprise one. How are we approaching and how are we attracting the next generation of developers? Yeah, no, it's a great question. It's not an easy question, you know, because I think a lot of people got into Drupal because it was so accessible. It was easy to crack open the code and start making changes to it. And obviously as Drupal has gotten more complex, because it's gotten bigger and bigger and people have more and more use cases that they want to use Drupal for. We've lost some of that accessibility of the code, meaning it's no longer as easy to just get involved and make changes. So it means that our audience from a developer point of view has changed a little bit from, you know, hobbyist developers, let's say that can, you know, make changes in very little time to, you know, maybe, you know, there being a requirement to have sort of a more in-depth background in programming. You have to know more concepts. You have to know more, you know, design patterns which are maybe not, you know, as easily thought as, you know, the Drupal that existed 10 years ago. So I think the way we attract more developers is through a variety of different things. I don't think there's a magic bullet here, but I do think we need to go to where these developers are. I don't see Drupal always being represented at developer conferences that would, you know, or would make sense for Drupal to be represented. I don't think Drupal is featured enough on certain websites either. Like a lot of web developers, you know, use or read websites like Smashing Magazine and these kinds of websites. Like we should really try and get, you know, more articles about Drupal on those sites. We do often we're sort of in our own world. Drupal camps on Drupal.org and not enough RV kind of getting off that island if you go. So are you saying we need, now we've got our code off the island, we need to get our image off the island as well. Yeah, so there's an amazing story to it. I mean, it is amazing technology and obviously I like to think you all believe that otherwise you wouldn't be here, but there's so much to like, there's so much to love, and we don't always do a good job telling that story and inspiring people that are not in the Drupal world, you know, about it now. So I think getting off the islands, going to conferences, writing guest articles or, you know, on other sites. And also universities, I'm going to schools and universities and telling people about the power of Drupal and how amazing it is and what a great career choice it is. You know, all of these things are good. I think if you are an employer, they could bet on hiring new people, meaning people that don't know Drupal yet and give them a chance to learn Drupal on the job. We've actually done this at Acquia.  We did some classroom style training, we did some pair, you know, programming, all of these things. And at the end of six months, we gave them a, we offered them a job which they didn't have to accept. And they were like, well, that's amazing. Like, they're going to pay us for six months so we can train. Yeah, it makes a difference. There might be a job for me too. And so a lot of people took that job, and still today a lot of people are at Acquia, and they're some of our most passionate, committed, loyal, energetic employees that we have today.  And so I would definitely encourage organizations to really take a chance on new people and invest the time and energy to bring them up to speed. You know, I've seen too many organizations that want to hire senior developers and senior developers only. I was really encouraged. I had a meeting with quite a lot of business owners yesterday, and you part of taking that as well. And they were really quite keen to actually start doing more collaboration together on training materials and sharing their own training materials with each other so that we get a more common framework and a larger number of people can use them. That's something you definitely support, I assume. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I think. Yeah, the more we can share it, the better. I mean, I'd go and start a core DNA. Yeah, absolutely. We are open source after all. So, I just noticed this question from Kevin Thull, which I love, which was, what is, for those of us that don't know, what is the proper route to creating initiatives? What support happens if they're created? And, as Kevin says, he's asking as the maintainer of the unofficial Drupal recording initiative. How can we make sure that those initiatives for all sorts of things end upon your slides on a Wednesday morning? Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, so there's really multiple ways, but sometimes initiatives are created kind of more in a top-down manner, and we do that by looking at data. So, for Drupal AIDS, we do the survey. I think over 3,000 people responded to the survey and allowed us to prioritize all the things people were asking for. We followed that up with other surveys. We followed that up with lots of conversations. I spoke to hundreds, actually. Drupal users and hundreds of agencies and was vetted with the court committees and the product managers on the court committee.  And these are, many of those are the ones that I mentioned, but not all of them. Other initiatives, and this is the part that I want to talk about most, is that the power of open source and the power of Drupal is that initiatives can be grassroots. There's a lot of great initiatives that have been created by people that decided to just do it. They said, we're going to do this. We're going to start an initiative, and then they started to have momentum and traction, and those also end up on the minds of people. So it's important to recognize that things can come from different directions, and I think it's essential. I think it's essential to how we innovate. So an example would be Tweet, and maybe this is going back a little bit more, but I never decided, hey, let's do Tweet. The community took that initiative, people rallied around it, and it ended up in Drupal 8. There's a lot of other examples, but the point is, it can either be top down, and we'll start another cycle of doing the research and surveys, probably like a year from then, when Drupal 9 is almost here, or maybe after this year, but in the meantime, I all need to keep innovating, keep organizing yourself, keep doing the things that you're passionate about and that you're conviction about, and start an initiative. Yeah, I mean, I know from a pharmaceutical background that attrition is a great thing. It's better to start a hundred things and just see which succeed than to never start them in the first place. Right, and Kevin is actually the perfect example of this, but let's recognize that for a second, he's standing right there, yeah. We kind of should have recalled the kill now. Kevin decided to start recording camps and ponds, and has now recorded, I don't even know how many camps and ponds, hundreds, and it's kind of an initiative, well it is an initiative, it was never, never did anyone go to Kevin as far as I know and said, hey Kevin, let's start recording initiatives. No, Kevin decided to start doing this, and now he's scaling that as well, he's making video recording kits and probably others to do the same, so it's actually an amazing example of sort of an initiative that just emerged. Brilliant. Okay, so I've got one from Alana, I think she's in the room somewhere. Oh, hi. It was about, you talked in the Dries notes about the privilege of time. How do we convince organizations to acknowledge the need to give developers and other contributors time to contribute during their workday? Yeah, I think, I think, and I've seen this and I've heard this. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence, I don't know if like a part of this, but those that are actually involved in the Drupal community, those that do get that as part of their job or in their free time, they actually become much better Drupal developers or it doesn't have to be just developers, but it's not going to be developers right now, so quite collaborating with others in the Drupal community, you can actually learn so much and you can learn it so fast, you can go straight to, let's say, the people that help build the layout builder and ask them questions, right? And if you don't contribute, if you're not in the issue queues, if you're not at the events, it's a lot harder to do than you have to do a lot more self exploration, which could take a lot more time. And so that's why organizations like the ones that I mentioned in my Dries note, Pfizer, I think it was the state of Georgia as well. That's why when they work with partners and they work with Drupal agencies, they will pick agencies that contribute back to Drupal that they know are active in the Drupal community. And in the case of Pfizer, it's like Mike Len who ended up running that, he has a quarterly review with each of his Drupal agencies and every quarter they need to show Mike what they've contributed back to Drupal. And if they don't contribute, it takes off the list of approved vendors. I mean, it's an amazing process and he learned that that is how he gets the best results.  And so, you know, kind of going on and on, but there's a lot of benefits, not just for the individual that come from contributing, but also for the organization that the individual works at. Okay. I've got one from Darren, which I think we may have talked about before, actually. Will Drupal continue to be a complete product? Or is it moving towards just being a back-end component? That's a good question. I think it will be both for the foreseeable future. So the way I interpret that question, maybe it's the wrong interpretation. The way I interpret that question is, you know, will Drupal also be coupled? Like will it exist in its traditional way where it provides a front-end? Or will things move to being decoupled only, meaning you bring a front-end to Drupal? I don't know. Is that where this is going, do you think? But in my mind, the power of Drupal is that we do both. And I actually do believe that a lot of users of Drupal need both. Like it makes a lot of sense to build a traditional couple website, maybe for your main marketing website, because you get all the power of the layout builder and we do it in place editing, accessibility and search engine optimizations that Drupal ships with. But that same instance of Drupal could also power mobile applications, you know, what have you. And so the ability to mix and match the different delivery options is actually really powerful. I think it's a key differentiator compared to completely headless solutions, but also the differentiator compared to sort of solutions that only do the traditional or coupled methods of content delivery. So it's a strength and we should embrace the strength. Now, even 10 years the market changes to be completely decoupled. Great, we can follow that, right? So we're set up in a position of strength where we have optionality for the future, but in the meantime, it absolutely think we should keep doing both. Yeah, good. Okay, I've got one from... In fact, I've got the same question that people expressed in different ways. So Caroline has asked, I was dismayed to see the recent Stack Overflow survey found Drupal a very dreaded framework. I love D8. I'm glad you'd love it, Caroline. Where's Caroline? Is she here? Ah! I love it too. But where do you think we've gone wrong? And how do we fix it? I don't think we've gone wrong. The last time I looked at the data, Drupal was in the top 20 most commonly used systems or in the top 20 most loved systems and in the top 20 most most hated systems. And actually, that's a great place to be. And actually, so was other software. If you look at all of the software that was kind of in the loved and hated category, there are amazing names to be with. It was like Linux. It was like WordPress. It was like really significant, highly successful open source projects that ranked in both. So I think it's a little bit the nature of the beast, so to speak. And I didn't I started data Caroline and I didn't think it was as worrisome as maybe other people in Drupal I think we're just a very large project with lots of people that love Drupal for sure, with lots of people that don't like Drupal. And I think it's a measure of success. Cool. I've got an anonymous one. Anonymous? I don't think they're in the room. I hope not. Could there be a finance industry summit like the government one? Are the next Drupal clients?  I think it's one of the largest banks in the world that have standardized on Drupal.  I mean, there's so many examples and I think they're they have their own unique requirements around regulatory environments. I mean, there's probably a lot of best practices that could be shared amongst people in that industry. The beauty of Drupal is actually that it's really strong in a lot of these verticals. I mean, really strong in higher education or really strong in media entertainment. So we have summits for some of these things and then there's actually secondary verticals where we're also really strong but maybe not in the top three or top four. But it's not I mean, we could actually have a summit for every vertical I think because it's almost as though the summits could reflect Drupal.org case studies because if we're getting case studies then there are definitely people. So, yeah, I know we've recently launched a case study section on financial services. Maybe that people are out there. Good to hear. I believe it. Okay, so I have one from Sean. This has been a long week. When you met Matt Mullenweg, co-founder and WordPress and automatic, did you discuss philosophies about open source or just CMSs in general? That's a great question. I've known Matt for a long time and so we, when our paths cross, we try to meet up and just hang out a little bit, exchange notes and I don't know, we talk about a lot of different things to be honest but we definitely talk about open source and content management and industry trends and things that are going well and not well. I don't know if there's a specific topic that we talked about but yeah, I don't know. That's nothing that really jumps out at me like it's not like we have these secrets you know, secretly scheming things or something, it's just like more like socially talking about stuff without a real agenda. It's just like more of a friendship than what I'm trying to do. That's good though because we're all part of playing the same game, so being friends and working together with different people in different projects is a great thing. I know people in junior and it's great. We do things. We're on the same side of the battlefield in many ways, we're both we're all trying to advocate for open source. We believe in open source. There's a lot of common friends and then yeah, there's also things that we don't look eye to eye about and that's okay, like kind of critique them about their not prioritizing accessibility as much as I think they should. That's okay, we can disagree about those things. We need to talk about it but it's all very amicable. I don't know, I think Matt has a lot of respect for Drupal actually people may not notice but Drupal predated WordPress but WordPress was just launched WordPress.org was just a few pages and one of the pages actually Matt gave credit to Drupal. Oh, no way. I think that's the big reboot since I've done that one for the way back machine. I do think we inspire each other or we try and work from each other. Absolutely. I'm going to ask this one because I don't know whether we're going to be able to answer it here but I think it might be something that we come back to later. We've changed Drupal console this time and in terms of the core sessions we've compressed them down into two days rather than three days so rather than being three short days they're actually two long days now which I'm feeling right now, I must admit. Have you got any thoughts on that? Maybe but I think at the end of the day we should look at the survey results that don't really matter. I think on this topic I think hopefully everybody will feel like the survey and provide feedback and we'll look at that data but there's definitely things that I liked about the changes I liked that we brought in a more diverse audience that we reached out to the site owners and sort of business decision makers that actually write the check and for building a Drupal site I like that we incorporated marketers and fountain authors so I think that's very good. I'm excited about that but at the same time I've heard a lot of developers say that the next day would be better that two days is maybe two compressed. It's an interesting one because I've got conflicting thoughts on that as well and this is one of the things that struck me was it costs money to come to Drupal Con not just for the ticket but also for being here and if you've got two very long days then it's one less day hotel cost but you know. That's why I started up my answer with what I said. Let's look at the data and let's make data driven decisions about how we want to keep evolving Drupal Con. Drupal Con for you so let us know. That's why we send out the surveys. So Avi has asked a question Drupal has over the history has been late at solving for non-ambitious experiences. Is it still a good solution for the small business or non-profit with a small budget? That's a great question I think in many ways the answer is no. That's kind of the facts. So in Drupal when I started Drupal in a market with completely different there wasn't any software as a service at the beginning there wasn't OBS, there wasn't OVB there wasn't NASCAR space like 10 years ago people would come up to me and say hey how do I build a website for my daughter's soccer club or something and I would say oh it's Drupal it's awesome and today I mean it's a little bit harder to justify because there's so many good options to do simpler things faster and cheaper than the Drupal and so I don't think that's a bad thing just the way things have evolved and so there's no denying that Drupal is more expensive than some V solution that I just mentioned that doesn't mean Drupal is bad I will say that I reject the notion that Drupal is just for the enterprise I've tried to explain this many times and that's why I use the term ambitious digital experiences versus enterprise digital experiences and I'll repeat it one more time I've learned that I have to keep repeating myself until people repeat it back to me I know it's going to be a weird thing to say but I do believe that Drupal is for ambitious non-profits I do believe that Drupal should be for ambitious startups or small organizations if you want to do something new if you want to do something very innovative if you're a non-profit then you want to rethink how fundraising works do campaigns in a different way that's going to allow you to break through you know, like you are a little startup called Airbnb and you want to build a business online like those organizations should be using Drupal but they also probably have a slightly larger budget and so that's why I reject the notion of enterprise because to me enterprise implies large companies with large budgets and it excludes the ambitious smaller organizations but if you're small and you have almost no budget then maybe Drupal isn't the best choice that being said there's a lot of examples of small organizations with very small budgets that are very successful to Drupal and so it's also not necessarily like of the table either and we're also constantly making improvements to Drupal that actually makes it more accessible for the low end of the markets you think about all of the things in 8.7 even not only our media management capabilities all of these things actually benefit the low end and the benefit of the high end you think about the work that we've been doing about making Drupal easier to upgrade things like the automated updates initiative it actually I believe it benefits the low end more than it benefits the high end more because in the enterprise you have staff you can afford to be developers or we think developers through a Drupal shop that's the problem on the low end it's like you may not be able to have full time staff or you may not even be able to hire somebody for a couple days a month some of these tools that we're building have actually allowed it to happen again so it's kind of exciting that we can build things that actually benefit everyone if you look at the roadmap product roadmap carefully you'll see that a lot of these things are actually beneficial for everyone cool we've actually one at a time we've got to ask two more questions if everybody is okay with that this next one I'd like to say something as well after you've said something okay so it's an anonymous one we still hear and see some inappropriate behaviour particularly towards women at after-hours events often hard to address due to power differences can we stop it well we have to and so I think if you see something you know say something I mean that's where it starts in my mind and so there are channels where you can go and you see these things you can go through classification you can go through the classification staff you can also come to me and share it with us so we can deal with it and I will say that when these things have happened in the past and I'm not aware of every time something happens necessarily but I have seen the staff deal with it very effectively again I'm not saying you list the case every single time but I do know that the staff is very serious and based on what I've seen they're very serious about it Thanks Dries because I'm actually the code of contact coordinator so that's quite nice it kind of was I just want to say one thing from the Drupal Association putting on the event if you can't or won't behave appropriately at events you're not welcome simple as that you're not welcome to behave appropriately and that goes for everyone that goes for you, it goes for speakers it goes for our staff it goes for me that would be awkward but I would still do it so yeah and I'll leave you with one final question to might be a little bit cruel it is what is the internet going to look like in 20 years what is the internet what is the internet going to look like in 20 years I don't know but I do know one thing this is like a philosophy from Jeff Asos like many of us product management he doesn't ask what's the future going to look like in terms of new things but he often asks the question what do we know will still be the same in 20 years and let's double down on that in fact they'll be managing content and in fact they'll be managing more content than they're managing today so as long as we keep improving Drupal's content management capabilities of a lot of conviction Drupal will still be in here in 20 years that is brilliant thank you very much Dries thank you for all the questions they're really appreciated I can't get them all cheers that was brilliant I was literally clicking flu and they were just going I was literally the way that we tried to do it but I was choosing questions that were easy to make a conversation thanks Dries oh god that's the wall


we go it's better we go oh come on it was just a tap what's up everybody welcome back to the channel I'm Evo Revit here I'm forza motorsports sixth so I wanted to hop back into forza motorsports sixth see if we can't get some slides going on here we're gonna rip this r35 around we're gonna do a little practice session and we're gonna try and hop into some public drift hoppers and see how we do against everybody else like I said I've been playing forza a lot recently so not too sure how my drifting is going to fare in forza motorsports sixth find the airport section get a good test run going sure that looks about it we do have the full wheel setup for this with the NRG innovations 350 millimeter minty green and neuro chrome wheel hydraulic hand brake six speed shifter and we're gonna rip it in a little bit of a practice session in this GTR yes forza physics I mean not too bad for the first throw out rip the e-brake here clutch in the e-brake a little break way too much try to save that from crashing we go oh it amazes me how oh am we right how different the feel is from horizon to here so anticipation of forza motorsports seven coming out here very very soon can't wait to see what the wheel physics are gonna be like in there don't hit that we're good I thought I was definitely gonna kill that wall smoke in the retires on this GTR jump drift I knew that well hopefully this is not how our online session is gonna go we get one more lap here then we're gonna hop into a drift hopper and see what we can do clutch kick I don't think we're gonna hold that nope we're gonna straight now the wheel feel is so different I haven't been on forza motorsports sixth I don't know how long actually we're gonna get another lap here you can't get her bearings right initiate in you can't hold this out nice and wide straight that up for the middle section those we save our points there we go try to run this outside section not doing as bad as I thought I was gonna do after hopping just right back into this hit that one again and now do definitely want to try getting back in here to motorsports six with four of seven coming out soon get back the track racing has definitely been itching for me to get back into racing some tracks other than just ripping through you know Australia yep so that's gonna end this practice session so we found an online session here it is a 20 out of 24 session we're hopping right into this here at Circuit of Americas this should be interesting public drift hoppers are a bashfest if you try and if you don't wait to go or if you're not all the way in the front all right here we go first drift hopper of today and not doing too well starting up in third gear see like I said this is just gonna be a cluster in this first turn I don't want to throw it in there too hard and I'm just adding to why is a guy in a Porsche like why are you in Porsches this is not drifting if you're in a Porsche bank the points no oh I feel like that was my fault so like I said drift hopper not turning out too well so far if we can't bank some points though I knew that was gonna happen like I said it is just a cluster right now find ourselves in a spot we can bank some points though oh we bank some points earlier but oh boy reverse entry oh I don't think we touched it really dude oh yep I think I'm just gonna wait till everybody goes I thought I was gonna lose those points with that almost reverse entry bank those points though take those points can't hold this turn out all right we're getting we're getting the slot we're getting the rhythm back here in fours of six with the back end of this car smashed definitely gonna want to get hop back more on the fours of six so if you guys want to keep saying more fours of six don't forget to top that like button subscribe to channel I do appreciate the support without those points apparently we're still on track things the points it's all I want to do definitely got to get into tuning some cars here on fours of six as I definitely have not tuned many cars here or drifting this tune is actually by a known tuner show mystified we shout to mystified on this tune for sure oh we're getting a little rhythm going we're not last that's all I care about right now we are not last oh boy I feel like we've got to be last if I keep doing that don't hit him I want to bank these points thank you try not to hit people but definitely getting back into the rhythm of here oh wrong way paint initiation there we go we're gonna lose this points that's something I don't like about fours of six I mean if you go off track you do those points but like you can also lose your points by going too much angle you can't do reverse entries and you lose all your points see like that we're probably we're gonna hold that but looks cool it's like it's screwed up I just have to get smooth around the wheel here and fours of six and let him go ahead of me oh boy lost it don't touch him car did not want to get sideways at all and the car was the wrong way standings now so we probably will end up being last here shortly I should have just much kicked that out almost trips not fun so I've determined my drifting in fours of six not as good as a rise in three right now but I think it's because I've been just torturing myself on horizon three almost every day I'm really torturing I have a lot of fun with it so okay yep we lost that try and get on this dude's way don't hit that oh why do we lose our points apparently you can't go into the red section or you will lose all your points we're gonna let him go by we were 15th of 19 so we're not completely really near last yet I think as long as we can keep some points going I don't think we're gonna be able to hold that I tried doing a long entry with that definitely wasn't gonna work oh boy we're off but we're good so fours most worth six coming back after a long hiatus definitely need more practice on this I threw that in way late I'm thinking I have left foot breaks that up like I do in horizon three which I do not maybe I do I'm not sure on this tune so I think we're gonna do one more lobby here one more session when we end this episode off maybe I can get better than 16th but if we don't finish last I feel that after not being on fours of six for months time kind of an accomplishment which think or maybe not maybe you guys are all sitting there saying that my drifting shit which I might agree with you right now all of this although maybe I should try oh he's gonna lose it I saw that happening all right we're gonna definitely probably wait for some of these guys my car likes to start in third gear see what we can do here oh we've already screwed it yep my bad dude probably should not have ripped the brake as hard as I did I do like Rio so we'll see how this works although that dude just lost it turn around no oh boy got cause initiation there we go just a tap that was just a tap but we lost all our points that was a good run to we lost all of them and so was that 360 for style and prompt to 360 and then we get stuck on the wall yep definitely need to get a cartoon for my style this car is definitely handles good but I don't know if it's exactly how I need it for my style to begin out screw up this turn now we go it's better we go oh come on it was just a tap like wall taps at all oh don't hit him with the fun getting junior drift truck I'm gonna have to back up him a little bit so we're doing better than last time we're 14th now that G scared me that G definitely scared me what was that that dude just like litched out okay gonna clutch kick this one no don't lose it I thought we could save that it's not gonna happen so we're back down in 16th now but now by myself so maybe I can get some good drifts going I doubt it we're gonna hit the wall there too hot okay definitely got a little bit of a lag there try a different view maybe a little hood view will give me a little bit of better perspective I'm being hopeful to try this hood view for this one time well there we go we'll save those points okay so did we determine that we need to be in hood view does give me a little bit better perspective on angle oh how did we not kill that wall so continue that like we did probably scared that dude in that BMW so we're doing a lot better hood views we're gonna finish this one off at hood view see what we can do well I don't want to hit him get the tandems maybe kind of impromptu unintentional okay you go ahead of me I was on the brakes hard to feel so bad I was on the brakes hard to that section trying not to hit him but we were going hard in there so I think I'm doing a lot better in hood view I think it gives me a better perspective of angle oh yeah we're ripping this on a lot faster now big I think I drift better in hood view comment down below I mean oh Jesus oh it was just a scrape and we're definitely sending a lot harder now I'll thank God he was ghost thank those points kick we go I'm trying to go in a little bit too hard but I think this is gonna do it this will be the last one minute prime last lap here in Rio here on 4th 4th 4th 6 like I said too much you guys want to keep seeing 4th 4th 4th 6 don't forget to tap that like and subscribe to channel I'm having a lot of fun actually here on 4th to 6th take in a tune a couple cars see if I can't get a good tune for my style here I would have just been a perfect drift have but no 4s and 6 says no you can't do that we got the unicorn so that's gonna do it here for this episode here on 4th March for the 6th as always you guys know you can follow my Facebook Twitch Twitter and Instagram all of which are found in the description box below like thank you guys for coming out watching I'm definitely gonna do some more 4s and 6 here try and get a better tune going get some better slides going so as always guys I'd like thank you guys for watching I'm evil rabbit I'm out


Hi there, it's Sandy. And today I'm going to give you a first look at my unboxing of Sketch Markers. It's a Slovenian brand of alcohol markers. They reached out to me and asked if they could send me some markers for a review. And I said, sure, okay, why not? And I got my Christmas PJs on because it felt like Christmas in the studio by the size of the box. And you can see they sent some other goodies too. The set of markers that they sent, by the way, has some issues with it. I'll talk about those, but they also sent me a pack of 36 markers that don't have the same issues. So I'm gonna not include those other markers in this review because I already filmed this and I wanna get this up and it's already a really long video. So we're gonna set the other set of markers aside and I'll talk about those another time. Okay, this is the 48 set. And it comes with stickers you can put on things, as well as a little booklet that would contain if you wanna swatch them out in it, all 448 of their colors. And this is what the markers look like. They are a round body marker, but they have little wings. I don't know if that's what you call them on each cap.  I'm just gonna put that out there for anybody else who has dogs who like to eat pens. They have markings on two sides of them. One is the chisel nib, the other is the brush nib. You could also get them in a bullet and chisel combination. And on these, the gray line is where the chisel nib is. It's the opposite of Copic. They have a stick-on label and they have the names and numbers of the colors on the top. Their numbering system I don't know yet. I'm just gonna tell you, I have no idea how they calculate their numbers or anything and that will again be for a later video. You'll hear more about that. The first thing I did after opening the markers was to open one of the pads so I could have something to swatch on. So I wanted to see how these were. A good friend who I've known since forever ago in Copic days, said that she's had a set of these markers and that the Japanese nibs and Japanese inks are fabulous. She's been super satisfied with them and I was really curious. And I just decided I'd swatch out both ends of a couple of these pens and then I got it in my head to see if I could guess in my pea brain what color Copics would match it. So we could kind of see what the strokes look like and any differences between them. And that is a BG15. How close is that? Do I have my act together or what? And this is a YR24. Ba-da-boom, ba-da-bing. I know my colors. So let's look at the other things that were in the box. They sent a small pad of Bristol. It's a very heavy, heavy paper. Super thick. And then they also sent a sketchbook and it's very standard sketchbook paper from what I can tell. I have plenty of other marker sketchbooks with this paper in it. They also sent an illustration pad which is kind of halfway between those two. Not a marker paper, but it's not that heavy Bristol. So it's a little bit in between. They also sent this pack of liner markers. And I don't know if there's a bigger range of number sizes. This is a 005 to a 0.7. And what I decided to do was use one of these and start making a grid so I could swatch these 48 colors. So they have a nice metal tip on the front of them. And I started using my little T-square to make a simple grid. I didn't want to get fancy and do anything crazy with it. I just wanted to get the colors on a piece of paper because I needed to see that in order to decide what I was gonna draw for test samples because I never just gauge anything by swatches. I may swatch, but I don't make judgments just by swatching. But what I realized is that markers come in crazy order. And I have heard this from others too that the markers are in wacko order in the containers, whether it's in the wallets or in these acrylic cases. So yeah, I decided I would reorder them before I started doing my chart. You'll also notice that some of these have the number rubbed off on the top. And that is what my issue was with this particular set of markers. They have told me that both the company, the manufacturer in Slovenia and the US distributor have said, nothing else has ever happened to any other shipment of markers, but everything that came in this one shipment must have gotten squished or so. I don't know what happened along in shipping, but the top of the box rubbed on these letters. They have assured me that they have not had returns for these because of this issue. And my friend who has these markers and has had them for a year and a half, said she has never had this issue with any of the tips of the markers. So I'm gonna try to trust them on that. And that was why they sent me a second pack of markers so I could see that their markers don't come like this normally. And I do believe them because the wallet did not have this issue. So back to what I'm doing here is arranging them, trying to do the yellows with the yellows and the blues with the blues and the reds with the reds. I kept changing my mind because I couldn't really gauge where each one should be. I was trying to figure out a few things, one of which was you see me peeling off and sticking back on those labels. Since some of mine have the number coming off the end, I knew I was gonna need those labels if they kept rubbing off. I didn't know if that would. So I was carefully peeling them away. So be careful when you get yours out of your pack in case any of those labels do slip off. All right, I am relatively satisfied here-ish with the order. I kept moving them and then switching them around. Okay, right when I think I'm good with it and I was like, no, gonna have to move all the grays to the other side. And you know what I realized at this moment? This was when I realized the low digits like the SG-1 and SG-2 and SG-3, those are the darker colors. And the ones with an eight and a nine in them are the lighter colors. The whole thinking is gonna have to turn upside down if you use these, if you're used to Copics. If you're not used to Copics, this is gonna be no big deal for you. So just gonna put that out there. And as I said, I don't know anything about their numbering system, but I have been told there is a full set of these as a loner coming to me so that I can make a hex chart for these. I'm gonna tell you these are not my first choice in terms of alcohol markers personally. I'm not gonna be switching to these, but what I'm really curious to see is a comparison of the colors. And I wanna find out if there's some of these that fill in the gaps that I felt have been missing in the Copic collection. So I am really excited to start digging in during my sabbatical to that whole collection and see how all this plays out. And I also would like to be able to come up with some recommendations for you if you're interested in buying them. Right now I have no idea. I can tell you don't get this pop set unless you just wanna do flat color. This has a really great and broad selection of all the colors. It has a little bit of everything, but it doesn't have really good deep blending types of things. So I had some struggles with my blending, particularly with this set. I'm really good at making up blending. I can use all kinds of markers together. And I struggled with this just because there weren't great blending colors. But again, that's my fault because I chose this set. I wanted a 48 set because I wanted the broadest view of what their colors were like. I wanted to get a feel for whether they were grayed out kind of desaturated colors or were they really hot bright colors? And how were they gonna play out on the page? So this color collection did give me a good view of that, but it didn't give me a good view of blending. But you will see I did accomplish some of what I'm known for, which is massive layers and creating some realism. I got out the sketchbook and I decided I wanted to try to create a fall scene because it's fall while I'm filming this. And I thought it would be nice to make some trees. Now, there is not a really nice bright equivalent of my favorite yellow in this particular set. I was struggling with that because I wanted really bright yellow trees because that's what we have out my window. And I love that color. However, I had to settle for others and started building my layers. One of the things that I realized quickly on this is that the marker paper and having just a big swash of flat color is very different than using it in context in a drawing. And that's one of the reasons why I tell people not to just rely on the swatches.  There are some colors in here that I thought were going to blend that didn't because when you use them in real life together, when you're trying to layer them over top of each other, the colors do some funky things. There were some colors here that got muddier than they should have, necessarily from my brain's thinking, looking at that swatch. I'm curious to see whether that's gonna flow out over the entire collection. I have no idea right now. But for the most part, I was really pleased with the nibs on these. They feel very much like the alcohol ink markers that I use now, all the Copics. And they also are going to work really well with Copics. Any alcohol markers are gonna work great together. As long as you're using great colors to go together.  But you can always use any brand of alcohol markers together in one drawing. So if you have a color in one collection that you like more than another, feel free to use them together. The difference is gonna be in the kinds of colors each company has, where they're made, how light fast they are, and whether they get muddy or not. I had a lot of mud troubles with these. But again, I'm making up colors because there are intern colors that I don't have. And I am really excited to see what it's gonna be like when I have the full set to be able to really play with it and see what I can do and how far I can push it. Now this paper was really cool. The marker did not go through. There's one little dot that sunk through the paper, but that was pretty nice that the paper survived all of those layers. So let's do a first blending test. And this is where I'll kind of get into a little more of the blending issues that I had with it because of the colors that were in this particular set. I'm gonna guess that there's gonna be way better colors when I have the full set. And there were these colors that have Vs in them. So they're calling them violets. I would call them red violets. Nonetheless, get my own brain out of my own way. And what I found was that light pink color that I started with and then the mid-tone color should have blended by the looks of the swatches, but they didn't. The reddishness of the darker color doesn't really look that different when you're looking at the swatches, but boy, when you're trying to blend them, it did. And I struggled with that. I also had a really big gap between this orangey yellow and the really bright, simple yellow, the light one. So I couldn't soften the darker yellow. I couldn't soften that edge. So I had to use some tip to tip, which is not the end of the world either. But I don't know what the cause of that was, whether it was just too big a gap in colors or whatnot. But finished off my little snail. And this was just a quick test to see what it's like to do one large area with just a blend in it. And look at that marker paper, man. That stuff didn't bleed through at all. So that was pretty nice. I mean, it bleeds through the paper, but just ghosting as opposed to dirtying up the next sheet. Okay, card making test. I know lots of you are card makers. So let's try a stamped image on Nina. Because this is what I normally use. I felt much better here because the marker papers are not something I'm used to blending on. And I don't tend to find that they get really smooth blends anyway. So I wanted to see if I was pushing those papers to do something that they aren't able to do. There were some browns in this that I figured I could use for blending. And I picked out some coordinating Copic colors so I could do this sketch marker test on the left. And I'll do the Copics on the right and just compare how they do. And for the most part, the only big difference I saw between them is when I started putting in the lighter colors on top of the darker colors, they did this thing that I've talked about in a lot of my videos before, they eat away at the darker colors. In my brain, whether or not this is correct, in my brain, the lighter colors would have more of whatever makes colorless blender. And so it erases whatever was there. And I found that these sketch markers did it more. Now that is possibly because these are brand new markers. And my other markers are not brand new. They are juiced up, but they're not super brand new. So maybe that's part of it. Again, until I do more real world testing, I don't know if that's a general issue that I'll have going forward with these markers or if it's just, you know, this one particular thing.  I wanted to give you this first look. So just know these are really preliminary opinions. I reserve the right to change my mind because that's what we get to do in this world. We get to change our mind. So you can see the difference is not great between the two. There's not a vast difference between them. And I'm gonna give a preliminary blessing to these right now for those especially who have wanted to get into alcohol, ink coloring, and you just couldn't figure out how you could budget for that. These are a couple of bucks cheaper than Copics. And one of the things that they have sacrificed has not the nibs. The nibs are good. They have apparently not sacrificed on the inks. These are Japanese inks as well, but they have sacrificed on the body of the pens. And if you're gonna sacrifice on anything, then that's the place to go. So don't hold the body of the pen responsible for your opinion of them either. And I'll talk a little bit more about that too, but let me get to this anime drawing. I'm not an anime artist. That's not my shtick. I'm considering doing an anime class though. I have lots of young students who keep asking, would you show us how to do that? So I did an anime drawing, which you can now download from my art classes site. I put a free download there. And there's a link on my blog as well as over on, in the, it's in the color charts section. I need to find a better name for that on my site. But anyway, this drawing is available for you to color it as well. I ended up drawing it in Copic multiliners. And as soon as I explain this masking, I'll tell you why. The masking, I'm using Eclipse tape and just tracing over top of it, because you can see through Eclipse tape to cover the eyes. Because since I didn't have a huge array of colors, I wanted to test and see if my Copic airbrush would work with this. I didn't want to use Copic markers. I could have jumped in here with some Copic colors, but I decided I would try to see if these markers would also accommodate my Copic airbrush. And if you push it all the way through like this, it doesn't snap in like into place the way a Copic would, but it does work. The angle is gonna be a little different. So if you're an airbrush user, just know you might need to kind of adjust and get used to turning it a different direction. But it seemed to work pretty well here. And I airbrushed over, you know, I masked the eyes, I airbrushed over some of the hair because I'm gonna be able to cover that up with the hair color. So I wasn't too worried about that. Okay, back to the reason why I drew this in my Copic multi-liners. I drew it the first time, because this is the second time I did it, the first time I drew it, I did it in their liner pens. And they worked great when I did one stroke lines. As soon as I did two strokes or three strokes or tried to fix a line or did the thick areas around the eyes, that sort of thing, as soon as I touched those with the markers, it dragged black color. And I was really bummed about that. It could be that you just need to wait longer for those pens to dry. I don't know that yet. Again, haven't done massive testing, but the pens operate fine. They draw really well. I just don't know about that ink and how long it takes to dry. So that's why I decided for these, I would do this in my Copic multi-liners, because I know I can trust them to dry quickly. And I needed to get this project done so I could get the video finished. All right, back to crazy airbrushing. I decided to put darker color in there so I can have a little more dimension around her face. And I knew that this was not really even, but I wasn't super worried about it, because this is just a quick test. I really wanted to test out the airbrush factor, and I wanted to play with those pinks. See on the right-hand side of that chart, over on the right-hand side of the screen, there's a pink and a darker pink and a purple and then the bluish purple. Those are the colors I'll use for the hair. The top two colors are the ones that I thought on the snail were gonna work fine. They didn't work fine, and they didn't work fine here either. But there's another thing that is not working fine for me, which is I am trying to soften the edge of those shadows. I had been looking at anime art just to kind of get some stylistic ideas, and I didn't like the really crisp shadows. They do a lot of crisp shadows in anime, and I tried to soften it. But what happened was when I went over the airbrushing with the sketch marker, it erased enough color that I then had to go in and just fill in the whole section because I got weird white lines on the outside of it. It was like it bleached it out or something. And you can't really see it as I'm kind of going here in fast motion, but you'll notice in a second when I pointed out to you exactly the issue that I'm talking about because down in the bottom under her neck, there is a white line. And that's what this did. It just erased that. Now, sometimes Copic marker will do that too, but I didn't have alternate colors. Usually I'll use a darker color than that when I'm trying to draw over top of airbrushing and I didn't have an option. So in this particular case, I just decided to mask out the chin in the same fashion I did before tracing it onto the eclipse tape and then airbrushing it. So a little darker neck, so what? No big deal, right? So next up, I decided to use pinks and greens for this. I wanted to test out the greens because there's at least a reasonable collection of them in the pop art style set and started with the light green, moving into the darker shadows at the top and then starting in with greens coming down that would be lighter and lighter. And there were some things again that I noticed here, the lighter colors did eat away at the darker colors in the same kind of a way as previous. So that may be an indication or it just might be that I don't have the right colors that I'm using here. I don't really know that. And not gonna make any major judgments on that.  And next I decided I would use some grays and see how it worked to shadow her eyes with grays. And that came out much better. I started getting a really nice dimension across the eyes with that and then also added grays into the whites of her eyes because if you look at your eyes or someone else's eyes, notice they are not white just like their teeth are not white white. There's very few things in this world that are white white and putting color in them is just fine makes them look much more natural. So now we move on to her sleeve. I'm gonna use the same greens. And again, I'm gonna push it to try to see if this whole idea of the lighter colors eating away at the darker colors is really a factor. And here I've got a nice big area to do that in. And my shadow color is almost gone. So I had to go back in and add another layer. If you get these and that's an ongoing issue then just layer on more color or start with darker colors. And that's a solution for that. Every marker brand is gonna have its own set of issues. I'm not really saying that this is a deal breaker necessarily, it's just not something I'm used to. And if I were to advise you on getting something I want you to know maybe some things that you can do to accommodate some of the factors that are in the product because I don't like to recommend things that you think are gonna act one way and then they don't. So here's where I went with the pinks. The first time I did this, I tried doing blended hair. I tried blending that pink that's on the top and the secondary one. The second color is really red when you put it over top of this pink. And you'll see that in just a minute. So I'm putting in the darker color what I was considering was gonna be my dark for this because I wanted that flavor of that bright pink because I wanted to see how long it would last. A lot of alcohol inks will dye down. They dry and they turn a little softer and I wanted to see if I could retain that real flavor of pink hair. But here's where I'm putting in that second color that second pink and look how red it is compared to the first pink that the difference is vast. And when I tried to blend them that didn't work very well but I grabbed my airbrush and I just airbrushed over the whites instead of trying to blend everything. And I did the same thing with her hair on the other side as well. Finishing that off with airbrushing too. Then I wanted to push some color back. And here's where my knowledge of color theory is helpful for me with this set of pens. So to push it back, I used another V. This is a V3 one. They're including their warm and their cool purples in one color name. I'm really curious to see the whole thing. I wanna see how, if I can figure out how the brain works of the person who named them and numbered them. But I'm pushing the color back with this darker bluish color but the bluish color doesn't really work with the pink. I want the hair to still feel pink. I don't want it to feel blue. So I went over it again with that dark purple color to try to pull that back into a color that feels more like the rest of the hair. And that worked pretty well to do that. It started getting a little bit muddy. And again, these are not the greatest blending colors in this set. So I'm not sure if muddy is overall gonna be my feeling about these colors, this whole brand, or whether it's just this set. Or maybe I'm just a complete color nerd and it's not an issue at all. It's hard to say. You would think that 24 minutes into a video, I might be able to cobble together some advice for you if you wanna buy some of these sketch markers. And I really don't have any I can offer at this point. I only have looked at one set and the set of loner markers, which will be the full set, is not here. It will arrive in a few weeks. And then I'll need some time to process through that and test colors and do comparisons and all that kind of stuff. So put your patient pants on for that one. That'll be a while. However, I would like to share some definitive things I can say and I wanna share some general advice on buying alcohol ink markers. Cause I know Santa wants your list and maybe some of that general advice will help. So first off is the definitive things. Number one is I will not be getting rid of my Copic markers and switching to sketch markers. I'm just not. I'm not a brand ambassador for either company.  I know them, I love them, I trust them. They have been very consistent throughout all of these decades that I've been using them. The markers are built like little tanks. They work really well. I only had one that developed a leak and that was cause I stepped on it. Okay, well, I had another that my dog ate. But aside from that, there were no marker fails in my personal history and the inks are super consistent. I always get the same color every single time and I know I trust it. The nibs are great and can be replaced just like the ink inside. Now the sketch markers, you can also replace the nibs and replace the ink. So those two parts are the same. The difference between them is the marker bodies. The Copic ones I said are made like little tanks and I don't feel the same about the sketch marker bodies. There's a good reason for that though and the company will be the first one to tell you that. They were trying to bring the price down and to bring the price down, they actually had to sacrifice something. They chose as a bunch of companies don't choose. They chose not to sacrifice the nibs. They're still using really good Japanese nibs and they're not sacrificing the inks. The inks are good. So from an artistic perspective, you're getting the good value there. The place where they cut the cost was on the pen bodies. They're smaller than Copic sketch pens and that means they're probably going to need re-inked more often. I couldn't find an ounce number for the sketch markers. So I don't know ounce for ounce how they do compare and I'm sure someone will find that out and get that information to me at some point but I just from the size of them, I believe that you'll probably need to re-ink them more often which is not a huge deal and depending on how much you color that might not be a problem at all. The ink on the outside of the pens as we've already talked about had scratched off on the top just from a shipping incident and some of the sticky labels on the side came off. Those may not be deal breakers for you either. Maybe you're not into the cosmetic and maybe having a cap on one side that has the name on it and the other one doesn't is not a big deal for you. Maybe you'd rather save that money and you're still getting a good nib and a good ink to go inside of it. So for some people, this is gonna be a great purchase and for other people, I don't want you to be disappointed. I want you to honestly know what you're getting if you purchase these markers. Okay, now for my advice for anybody buying any alcohol markers because I can't give you advice on specific colors here but I always say, find what you want to color the most first. Figure out what that is.  Try to go for, if you can, a range of like five going from the very lightest to the very darkest. So pinks from very pale pink to a very deep pink and go for yellows going from a very pale yellow to a rich Y17 kind of a yellow. Go for greens that go from light to dark. So then you have some potential ranges in between all of those. You may not need all of them but you can do dark pink flowers and light pink flowers and then you can do light pink flowers that have deep shadows. So think about the kinds of things you want to color and focus on those colors first. Don't worry about buying all the pens because it's gonna take you time to get used to coloring anyway. So just start with what you really need and then expand from there as you start getting more confident in your coloring. So that is my advice. I'm gonna just leave it to you about what kind of colors you want right now. If you need them right now or do you want to wait a little while longer until I get some charts out there and can kind of give you some better advice. All right, that is it from me. I will see you again very soon. You know me, I'm gonna come out with a video in a couple of days because that's how I roll. See you guys later. Bye-bye.


What's happening kids? No, your ears ain't deceiving ya. It really is me and I'm telling you to watch the new MTV show, True Love or True Lies. So what's it all about then? Don't ask me, I'm just banging out the voiceover over to host my ajarma. Basically a group of beautiful couples go into a beautiful mansion, some of them are real and some of them are fake. So each night they vote out a couple that they believe is fake and then when they go they let them know I am a real couple or I am a fake couple. The couples do not know anything about the other couples as soon as they step into the mansion, they're meeting for the first time, they've got to question each other, find out where they met, how long they've been together, where they live and then at the end of it they've got to decide are you real or are you fake? How will the winner be decided? Will the couple have to have survived 10 days of intense scrutiny, judgment, question and query by every other couple in that mansion? At the end of it, who knows who will win? Will it be a real couple? Will it be a fake couple? We don't know but it's very exciting and you should watch it because it's going to be amazing. Have you got what it takes to spot the fakes true love or true lies?


Hi everyone, in this tutorial we're going to talk how to return a value from a function in Python language. When you're creating your function it's good to know that functions can return the data. For example, if a function is doing some math calculations, it's very possible that this function is going to have a returning value. For example we can create a function that has a variable x with value 5, then we can do some calculations and finally we can return the result. In this case we're going to find square of variable x, which is in this case number 5. Also you need to notice that if we want to return a value, we need to use the keyword return followed by the data to return. Okay, let's make a simple example. I'm gonna create square function. This function is gonna have x as an argument and then we're going to have some math calculations. For example, let's say that our value is equal to x times x and let's simply return our value. Let's run this cell and then I'm gonna call this function and I'm gonna provide an argument for example number 5. Let's run this cell and as you can see we have an returning value from our function. That's all in this tutorial. Don't forget to subscribe to our channel and to like our video. See you in the next tutorial.


Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. Coming up on the program, I have a story on mosquito scientists that are getting bit on purpose for research. Brian Lin has this week's science report on an oxygen-producing device placed on Mars. Later, Andrew Smith and Joe Robbins present the English lesson of the day. But first, it is lunchtime. And mosquitoes find their way to Ella Branham's arm at a Salt Lake City lab in the American States of Utah. They are not very aggressive, and their kind of picky eaters, said Branham. She breathed into a glass tank to attract the insects to the carbon dioxide in her breath. So, I'll be feeding them with my arm. Branham had volunteered to let the South American mosquitoes, called Sabbaths Sienius, feed on her blood. She is doing so to help produce eggs and maintain the colony for education and research at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District. The district is one of many mosquito control areas around the United States that seek to control one of the world's deadliest animals. Mosquitoes are expected to strengthen as climate change creates a warmer and wetter environment. Mosquitoes can carry viruses including dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and zika. They are especially threatening to public health in Asia and Africa, but are closely watched in the United States. Local agencies reported more than 1,100 cases of West Nile virus in 2022, says the US Centers for Disease Control. Most humans who get West Nile show no symptoms, but for some it can cause vomiting, fever, and in rare cases seizures or meningitis. Over roughly the last 25 years, nearly 3,000 deaths and more than 25,000 hospitalizations connected to West Nile were reported throughout the US, mostly in August. West Nile deaths have been reported this year in states including Texas and Colorado. Mosquitoes are also thought to have caused malaria infections of people in Maryland, Florida, and Texas. Ari Faraji is a disease expert and the director of the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District. He said the mosquito season is starting earlier and lasting longer as the climate has warmed. The district used to shut down each year in mid-September, but that has gotten later and later. Last year, district workers were still setting and checking traps until late November. And this year, workers estimated that there were five times as many mosquitoes in May compared to the average year. There was an unusually snowy winter in Salt Lake City and a very rainy spring that left more water for mosquitoes to breed in. That is where the health threat comes in. While both males and females feed on sugar or nectar throughout their lives, females require blood to provide nutrition to their eggs. The workers, including scientists and students, use drones, boats, and vehicles to trap, sort, and test mosquitoes for viruses. Their work considers how things like weather systems and population growth will affect the spread of disease. The more people there are close to a lot of mosquitoes, the higher the chance of spread, Faraji said. The wetland areas surrounding Utah's Great Salt Lake are problematic, he added. Though dangerous, mosquitoes are also important to ecosystems throughout the world. Some serve as pollinators or food sources to fish, birds, and frogs. We try to maintain a balance and suppress them to the point that they're not negatively affecting communities, Faraji said. Bringing them away would definitely negatively impact our ecosystem overall. I'm Dan Ovek. The American Space Agency, NASA, says a device placed on Mars to produce oxygen has performed better than expected in a series of experiments. The system is called moxie. It is designed to change or convert carbon dioxide captured from the Mars atmosphere into oxygen. The instrument works through a process called electrolysis. This process uses extreme heat to separate oxygen atoms from molecules of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide makes up about 95% of the Martian atmosphere, NASA reports. The rest is mostly molecular nitrogen and argon. Nuclear oxygen makes up just 0.16% of the Martian atmosphere. But future exploration of Mars and possibly other planets by humans will require a large supply of oxygen. NASA has said the chemical element will be necessary for astronauts to breathe and to produce rocket fuel for launches carried out from the Martian surface. NASA financed the moxie demonstration experiment. A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, created the device. The moxie instrument was carried to Mars aboard NASA's Perseverance Explorer, or rover. Perseverance arrived on the red planet in February 2021. The device is a box-shaped instrument attached to the rover. NASA reported its first results with the moxie system in April 2021. At the time the space agency reported, the device had successfully converted carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen. In the first experiment, moxie produced 5.4 grams of oxygen in one hour. NASA then carried out a series of additional experiments to test the effectiveness of the system. In a statement issued earlier this month, leaders of the demonstration project said moxie had completed its 16th and final experiment. They noted the device's impressive performance had proven it was possible to capture oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. Such oxygen could help supply breathable air or rocket propellant to future astronauts. The statement said. NASA said that moxie had produced a total of 122 grams of oxygen since Perseverance landed on Mars. This amount is about what a small dog would breathe in 10 hours. While the amount of oxygen is small, it represented the first experimental capture of a natural resource from the environment of another planet. When working at its highest level of effectiveness, the instrument was able to produce 12 grams of oxygen in one hour. NASA says this is twice as much as its engineers first estimated the system could produce. The moxie team has also been measuring the purity of the oxygen the device produces. Overall, it has reported the instrument produced oxygen that was at least 98% pure. The latest experiments with moxie on Mars are designed to help NASA build a much larger version of the system. A full-sized device could be deployed on Mars in the future. A NASA explanation of the instrument states, the goal of a big moxie would be to make and store all the oxygen that the astronaut and their rocket would need for their mission before they even launch. Such a system would need to make between 2,000 to 3,000 grams of oxygen per hour, the space agency noted. Trudy Cortes is the director of technology demonstrations at NASA headquarters in Washington DC. She said the agency was pleased to be able to support such a technology. By proving this technology in real-world conditions, we've come one step closer to a future in which astronauts live off the land on the red planet. Cortes said. MIT's Michael Hecht leads the moxie development operation. He said in a statement, the team's work will next center on working on the larger version of moxie. In addition, scientists will need to create equipment to liquefy and store the produced oxygen. I'm Brian Lin. Brian Lin joins me now to talk more about his science report. Welcome back, Brian. Thanks, Dan. Glad to be here. This week you reported on a device, NASA, placed on Mars, to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. And we learned the leaders of the project are very pleased with how the instrument performed. Why is this considered an important project for NASA? So NASA and the creators of the device from MIT say it was designed to prove it's possible to produce oxygen in space environments that really have none currently. It is important because without oxygen, it won't be possible for future astronauts to spend extended periods on Mars and possibly other planets, too. And as noted in the report, the level of oxygen produced during the tests was quite small. And the team is confident a much larger version of the instrument can be built and one day deployed on Mars. NASA has said another possible use for oxygen on Mars will be to help make fuel for additional space missions that might launch from the Martian surface. What can you tell us about that? So NASA says it plans to use the oxygen to make propellant for future launches. It is a combination of fuel and oxygen and the fuel needs the oxygen to burn. And while it might be possible to transport fuel supplies from Earth, getting oxygen there will be more difficult. This is because oxygen is several times heavier than the fuel itself, which presents transportation issues. So having the ability to produce large amounts of oxygen on Mars could open the door to more exploration possibilities. Very cool. Thanks again for being here, Brian. You're welcome. Thank you, Dan. My name is Anna Matteo. And my name is Jill Robbins. And I'm Andrew Smith. You're listening to the Learning English podcast. Welcome to the part of the show where we help you do more with our series Let's Learn English. The series shows Anna Matteo in her work and life in Washington, D.C. To be or not to be in Washington, D.C.? That is an easy question for Anna to answer. Anna loves being in Washington because it gives her the opportunity to do a lot of special things. Andrew, are you quoting William Shakespeare, the famous English playwright? Of course I am. To be or not to be is probably the most famous line from all of Shakespeare's plays. And in Lesson 13 of Let's Learn English, Anna, who loves the theater, is excited. And that's because she gets to do and see some unusual things at an unusual party. That's right. Anna gets to visit a special birthday party for William Shakespeare. And it's an unusual party because Shakespeare died more than 400 years ago in the year 1616. Well, people still celebrate his life, especially at the Folger Library in Washington, D.C., which has the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's works. That's where Anna was lucky to find this birthday party for Shakespeare. Let's listen. What is going on here? It's a big birthday party for the writer William Shakespeare. This is a party for William Shakespeare? Yes! Awesome! Awesome! I think awesome is one of Anna's favorite words. She uses it a lot. Yeah, so do a lot of people in the United States. In American English, awesome just means really good or enjoyable. And this birthday party is awesome for Anna because it lets her see and do things she does not usually see or do. You could say it's an unusual day for Anna. It's a most unusual time, it's a most unusual day. It's quite bizarre, it's super odd, it's strange in every way. I guess that's our unusual theme music for today's podcast. But now, let's listen to the things Anna gets to hear, see, or do at the birthday party. This is a drum band. I never listen to a drum band. But today, I am listening to a drum band because it's Shakespeare's birthday. This is a puppet show. I never watch puppet shows. But today, I am watching a puppet show because it's Shakespeare's birthday. My clothes are usual. His clothes are unusual. In Washington DC, seeing a politician or even the president is usual. Seeing the queen of England is very unusual. Your majesty. But today, I am sword fighting because it's Shakespeare's birthday. Sword fighting is pretty unusual these days. I know I've never tried it. Me neither. But in some of the plays Shakespeare wrote, it's normal to see a sword fight. Now let's review what Anna saw and what she did at the birthday party. First, she listened to a drum band. This is a drum band. I never listen to a drum band. But today, I am listening to a drum band because it's Shakespeare's birthday. Second, she watched a puppet show. This is a puppet show. I never watch puppet shows. But today, I am watching a puppet show because it's Shakespeare's birthday. After that, she saw a man dressed in clothes from Shakespeare's time. That looks unusual today. My clothes are usual. His clothes are unusual. Next, she meets someone dressed like Queen Elizabeth the first of England, who was queen during Shakespeare's time. In Washington, D.C., seeing a politician or even the president is usual. Seeing the queen of England is very unusual. Your majesty. And listeners, what's last? You got it. The sword fight. Sword fight! But today, I am sword fighting because it's Shakespeare's birthday. I think the sword fight and the people dressed in old styles of clothes are the most unusual things on a saw. You could say they're not normal. They're strange. Bizarre. Weird. Different. Out of the ordinary. Odd. Novel. Atypical. Curious. Rare. Unexpected. And I think that list of words might have been unexpected for our listeners. It's a most unusual time. It's a most unusual day. It's... Excuse me. We have more to explain to our listeners. Oh, right. Sorry about that. I'm Andrew Smith and you're listening to the Learning English podcast. There are many words in English that mean the same or almost the same thing as other words. We call these similar words synonyms. Andrew and I gave eleven synonyms for the word unusual. Now we're going to say them one more time. But pay close attention because we're going to say them very quickly and we're going to add one more for a total of twelve synonyms. You ready, Andrew? Ready. Strange. Bizarre. Abnormal. Weird. Different. Out of the ordinary. Odd. Novel. Atypical. Curious. Rare. Unexpected. That was fast, but our listeners can have fun listening to that part of the podcast again to try to understand all twelve words. We should also explain that one of those synonyms is actually four words connected together with hyphens, or the small line between words you sometimes see when you are reading English. That's right. The synonym was out of the ordinary. Those four words out of the and ordinary get connected into what sounds like one big word. Out of the ordinary. Out of the ordinary simply means not ordinary. Which means not normal. Unusual. Odd. Atypical. Rare. Okay, okay, stop. I think our listeners get the idea about synonyms. I think they do too. But it's good to know how English can use synonyms to express an idea in many ways. That's true. Sometimes it's also good to know which synonyms are used most commonly to express a particular idea. But this can be difficult for people learning English. Yet they might need to ask a native speaker which words are commonly used and which words are rarely used or used only in certain kinds of communication. And even with two common synonyms like the words usual and normal, there can be a difference in how often the words are used. For example, some language databases show that native speakers of American English use the adjective normal about twice as often as the adjective usual. That's interesting. And that word interesting makes me think of another important thing from lesson 13 of Let's Learn English. In the beginning of the episode, Anna said she was bored. But today I feel bored. When I feel bored, I always look for something unusual to do. But after going to the birthday party, she says she is no longer bored. There are many things to do in Washington, D.C. Some usual, some unusual. Today I am not bored because it is William Shakespeare's birthday. Well, that means the party was not boring. Exactly. Instead, it was interesting or maybe even exciting. If it were boring, then Anna would still be bored. Okay, I see what you are trying to explain to our listeners.  But ING, like boring, to describe things we see or perceive. So that means Anna would probably not say, I'm boring. That's correct. If she said I'm boring, that means she thinks other people do not find her interesting in any way. It would be very unusual for a person to say I'm boring. It would be atypical. Or out of the ordinary. A bit odd. Or maybe just an English mistake. So please, listeners, do not say that you are boring. But it's okay to feel bored from time to time. Jill, how are you feeling? Oh, I'm not bored, but I am a bit tired. Thinking of all these synonyms can be tiring. Yeah, but it's fun too. Hey, I have an idea to keep you awake. Uh oh, I see you grabbing your guitar. Are you going to play your unusual theme music again? You guessed it. But first, I want to tell our listeners that there's even more they can learn from Lesson 13 of Let's Learn English. And we will explain those things in another podcast soon. Oh boy. And they can learn more on our website, learningenglish.voanews.com. They can also find us on YouTube and Instagram. And thanks for listening to the Learning English podcast. I'm Jill Robbins. And I'm Andrew Smith. It's a most unusual time, it's a most unusual day. It's quite bizarre, it's super odd, it's strange in every way. It's a most unusual time, it's a most unusual day. My mind keeps wondering what to think when colors smell like gray. I've heard the strangest things today, like words that rhyme with oranges. And so I think I'll sit right back and watch the world. It's weird and strange in every way. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak.