U.S. warns Iran over Persian Gulf. The United States is ready to send additional forces and means to the Persian Gulf zone again in the event of an escalation of tensions with Iran and the identification of alleged threats from its side to shipping in the region the commander of the Central Command Air Force USA, Lieutenant General Alexis Grinkiewicz said at a meeting with the Washington group of military observers. But we are trying to send the following signal. We have increased our forces in response to a specific threat. This demonstrates the importance of the region for the United States. If Iran decides in connection with the withdrawal of reinforcements that it has a favorable opportunity, then the United States is absolutely ready to return and build up forces again. I hope they have caught the signal and will be restrained for a long time, the military commander said. According to him, the recent transfer of American reinforcements, including fifth-generation F-35 fighter bombers to the Persian Gulf zone, had a good impact on Tehran's allegedly destructive intentions. The increased presence of surface vessels that went in, combined with our air power, has deterred Iran from taking any actions against maritime shipping, Grinkiewicz told. It has had good effects, he added. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the additional U.S. capabilities to the region after Iran attempted to seize two commercial tankers in international waters off the coast of Oman in early July, which followed Iran's successful seizure of two oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz just months earlier. The U.S. Navy says in all, Iran has seized or harassed almost 20 ships in the region over the past two years.


Hello, it's Rachel Larson here from the Drupal Association and today I'm catching up with Badi and Gabe from the Decoupled Menus Initiative Day at DrupalCon North America to find out how things went, find out what you've been up to since and what you think of how people came along to the event and enjoyed it. So hello everyone, thanks for coming along. So the first thing I really wanted to know is DrupalCon North America for all of us here and you, me, everyone, it was an incredibly intense time. So how have you been relaxing since, Badi? Yeah, like, so it was not just DrupalCon, it was actually everything that happened before. So I think, like, probably four weeks before DrupalCon, we really started and we did, like, you know, video calls after video calls and we were rehearsing the keynote, Gabe, remember? We were just doing that a couple of times because we've never done a keynote before, so at least not of this size. So we thought that we should maybe prepare it a little bit better than maybe we would do normally.  So I think we just took a pause maybe for one week or two weeks and we're slowly getting back into work. I think that was great. How about yourself, Gabe? Anything particular helped you relax and reset? Yeah, I moved to a new state. So it's my first spring here and I've just been enjoying that kind of seeing the changes when they come. What's what to expect for next year? Yeah, yeah, it's fantastic. So whereabouts are you now? I'm in North Carolina. Oh, nice. Yeah, that'd be really lovely. Yeah. OK, so thinking back to when we at the Drupal Association first proposed this new initiative day format for DrupalCon, the decoupled menus team, you were incredibly keen to go first and you would immediately say things like, we want Tuesday straight away, which was actually really encouraging to me, you know, I'm proposing this dramatically different format to have somebody that really was enthusiastic and sort of say, yes, yes, we want a piece of this. So thank you for that. But when you actually got to Tuesday and you had to stand up there, well, stand up virtually there at the keynote and helping people all through the day, bringing information about decoupled menus to them all through Tuesday and then helping them get involved in actually the future of Drupal menus during contributions, was that scary with the things that you learned? Tell me all about it. How did that feel? Yeah, I was scary. I I was actually very glad to go first and I didn't regret it at all, mostly because you get all the hard stuff out of the way up front and then everything else becomes you can you can sit down and enjoy DrupalCon because I'm a notorious procrastinator and had it been later in the week, I would have gotten to just stress about it all week. So yeah, I know the same feeling. So actually, like before, like when we said, yes, I think like we really thought that the trees would trees not would actually start on Monday, or at least like I thought that so it brought like a little bit of an extra pressure because he normally speaks about the initiatives at his keynote. And for us, like not knowing, of course, what he's going to be talking about, like we also didn't want to because in the last three's note, he talked a lot about our initiative. So that was also like a little bit of like a puzzle that we didn't know. But of course, that that worked out, but mainly that the most difficult part was the contribution area. The online platform, because we were the first. So we occurred like during the week, understood how to use that. And so I think like our contribution day, the first day was like a little bit maybe just trying out the tools. And then the second day and the third day and the fourth day was already really good. So I learned on the last day that I think the Drupal 10 readiness initiative, they were like, they worked amazingly with the tool that I was like, I was saying had known that on Tuesday. But but the benefits on the other hand is that we did week like a daily meeting with in the contribution. So we actually got a lot of stuff done. And that was maybe like the that's what that was why we wanted to be first because we wanted to engage with the people in the beginning. Yeah. So is that your lesson to learn then around and now that we have a tool that we can continue to use into the future that may be the fact that you're familiar with that now is going to help you. Be able to hit the ground running, shall we say, maybe a little bit more. Yeah, totally. And especially like with the video platform using big blue button, you know, like now I know that we could we can do breakout rooms. So we, for example, did a breakout room in just other platforms and because we just didn't know how that worked. So like, but now knowing, you know, having all this experience in this one week, awesome, you know, if we can continue using the same and we learn how to use it. Cool. Yeah. Cool. So actually, it's funny you mentioned something there about about through the week and my initial expectation when we were putting together a program and sort of selling this to the various initiative leads was that you would have one day and then be able to relax for the other days and not have to worry too much. But actually, I saw that you were both making events and doing demonstrations and having more contribution time, not just on Tuesday, but on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. There was always something going on, which was great to see. It was obviously you were very keen. Did that work for you? Do you think it helped increase the momentum in the initiative or what? I think it is crucial. And I actually am really wondering afterwards, how can we maybe just do that for all the initiatives? So maybe thinking about it afterwards, maybe the four or five keynotes could just be on the first day because it's a little bit. It's a little bit, you know, that's what you always wish for when you go to an in-person event that you you you figure it out a little bit earlier because you need time to get in. So on the first day, not much happened. And on the second day, we were still forming the groups on the react menu component and the Svelte menu component and the web components and the documentation. So we had like four tables. So it took time. And I think like first on Thursday, which was day number three, we really started to like actually be able to get something done. So to think about that afterwards, like maybe we have to, you know, maybe this is a great way of how we could do it with the other initiatives to that we can allow people to like sign in earlier into the the tables that they want to go to and be part of it throughout the the conference. So that definitely worked for us because we engaged with around 40, 50 people and they stayed with us the whole week. So that's really great. Yeah, that's a big deal. When I actually think about Drupal Kana, I'm wondering if that's actually not so abnormal to go out through the whole week and that it only seems unique because of the online format. I know that for me, in-person Drupal Kana's are often just spent in the sprint rooms. And if I go in with something I really want to contribute to, I spend I spend my whole week there, you know? So I wonder if we were able to actually capture that same spirit of contribution throughout the week. And, you know, the way we we kept going through the whole week. And yeah, and I agree with you, Gabe. And the the good thing about the virtual platform is that we can actually engage easier, in my opinion, with new people. So, you know, I remember going into this big contribution area at an in-person event and I saw Gabe maybe there or other people and I didn't know them, but I knew that they were part of something. But I didn't want to like interrupt.  Yeah, I think so. I think that I like the idea that we were saying that to a group of initiative leads, put time aside where you are explicitly available to others. So you're actually saying, hey, come and speak to me, which I think is what the the online meetings and the events that you were setting up through the week really did. It said to people, hello, come and speak. And I think that was really great. That that side of it really seemed to work. And talking of engagement. If somebody is watching this video now. And wondering how to get involved in decoupled menus. What should they do when this video finishes? Call us, no. So we have a slack, we have a slack channel on Drupal Slack. It's called the coupled menu initiative. And I think like we have a weekly meeting there at two o'clock UTC and then 12 hours later. And and first thing is just to like engage with us there. And we have in that sense, like maybe three focus areas at the moment, I would say it is the JSON API changes that are being done. There is that part of the JavaScript framework, creating the components, working on them. We have like we had a lot of work done with the web components, which where the other, you know, JavaScript web components that we had already created, they all said, like, hey, maybe we're just all going to use the web components. So so and then we have the third, which is the documentation. And we already created, I think around 15 pages that we then need to now consolidate and put on Drupal.org to create like a documentation of how to use the new JSON API changes that have been done and how do you set all that up? But at the same time, how do you use one of the components that have been created? So so these three areas that you can just, you know, I would say like you could focus maybe around these three things. Where do I fit? And when you come and you say, hi, maybe you can tell us like I'm interested in documentation, how can I help? And then we can probably figure out how to. And that was 2 p.m. UTC on which day of the week? Tuesdays. Tuesdays. OK, cool. I just couldn't remember. I think I missed it. So I just wanted to check. OK, wonderful. I'm going to ask one sort of like last question. If we were to have an initiative first style conference format again. Would there be any particular initiatives, either ones that already exist or ones that you would like to make up? That you think should be included? Yeah, I would love to see. Hosting ops initiative. How do we make Drupal easy to deploy and host? Not just for, you know, major hosting platforms like Acquia and Pantheon platform. But how do we get it so that it's easy to spin up locally and easy to deploy to a digital ocean droplet or to put into a container and run? So not just the tooling, but actually Drupal itself. How do we make that thing packageable? Yeah. I hadn't thought of that one. That's really interesting. Yeah, cool. Any additions, buddy? Um, I think hopefully we are going to go and do something more in the decoupled scene. So we just don't know what, but hopefully we can keep on, you know, doing the same thing in the decoupled scene because I think that there is a lot of opportunity there for Drupal. So anything around that and and maybe mainly, you know, for me, what is the most important thing is just to, you know, how can we enable others just to set up Drupal and just you start using it in a decoupled way. So the documentation part of it and all that. So yeah, I would like to just make sure that we have that focus every single time we do it again and again, because that is what we are seeing from our customers, that that's what they want. So we should continue at least being there relevant. Brilliant. OK, well, thank you very much to you both. I think that's a fantastic place to finish. I look forward to seeing you both in the decoupled menus initiative Slack channel on Drupal Slack. And I'll see you again later. Thank you. See you. Thank you. Thank you.


Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brenton today We are doing some more crafting this time We are crafting back in Wizard City mad back, and we are doing some death jewel a death jewel level 15 Edora high onscreen now All the things you need really really simple all the things that you're required to have beforehand as well Yep, and what it gets and all that sort of stuff all those three little things that go up on screen that poof poof poof I I don't know. I don't know they they all gone screen now, and you'll see them and we are about to craft So the death 15 jewel basically the same as the balance one except for death obviously Not sure what we're gonna get we got a crack damage onyx plus two Like with all the other jewels you can get a lot from them So it's kind of just a lucky guess I suppose and what you get just a short video of course completion was crafted short Thank you for watching next video coming soon Thank you for watching and remember crafts inside the box


Hello from the National Archives Public Programs and Education staff, Betsy Ross is portrayed by Kim Hanley, actor, historian, interpreter and reenactor from the American Historical Theater. Betsy Ross has been immortalized as an important figure in American history. There's also a legend about her. Did she design the first American flag? Most likely no, she did not. Did Betsy Ross sew a flag for the American Congress early in the struggle for American freedom from Great Britain? Yes, indeed she did. Was this flag the first stars and stripes ever made? Unfortunately, the answer to this question may never be known. But such facts and myths about Betsy Ross have been recounted by generations of Americans. Learn the inspiring story of the patriot, upholsterer and flag maker, who really was Betsy Griscombe Ross Ashburn Claybourne Claypool, portrayed by Kim Hanley. 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Wonderful. Well good morning to the all. My name is indeed Betsy Griscombe Ross Ashburn Claypool, but I realize that is a lot of names for thee to recount. For now let's just call me Betsy Ross because that does seem to be how history has indeed remembered me, but I was indeed born Betsy Griscombe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Year's Day of 1752. January 1st, interestingly enough, I know folks in thy day celebrate the Yule Tide and the Christmas Tide, but in my day in being a Quaker we certainly didn't celebrate that day. What was indeed celebrated though by many was New Year's Day, the first day of the year, so there were always celebrations on the day of my birth and I suppose it was all to do to not get quite ahead about myself to think that those celebrations were for me, but no, they were for the birth of the New Year, not for the birth of some little girl in Philadelphia. I was indeed born of the Quaker Faith, my family were the Grissoms, my father was Samuel Grissom, a carpenter. He helped build the Philadelphia State House, now known as Independence Hall, and the Christ Church where I had to worship for a little while, many other wonderful buildings in Philadelphia. So I came from a line of folks who were good at working with their hands. As a Quaker, a member of the Religious Society of Friends, there are three testimonies of our faith that guide my life and my spirit through its course. First is that there are no intermediaries between me and my maker. Second, that all people are equal, whether they are men or women or Negroes or whites or Indians, that we are all equal in the eyes of that Creator that made us all. And that because we are created by a greater good, we shouldn't try to aggrandize ourselves above others. So as they will see from my dress, I'm quite plain in my manner and my clothing. My costume is just a very basic plain linen of, by the way, this is a non-slave manufactured shade of blue, I find that very important, and simple fabrics. Also, my surroundings are very simple. I don't have any fancy things on my walls, but what I do as for a living does require me to have a hand with fancy stitching and fancy work. So I am aware of what my fashion is. I'll get to that in a minute. Now, at about the age of seven, I had the opportunity to do something that many girls in my day did not have. I went to school. In part, this was because I was a quaker and of the religious society friends and being that they thought all children were by grace of God equal that they should have the opportunity to get an education. Now, I will say in my education, I learned the basic things, reading and writing and arithmetic. I will say though there were still some inequalities about it. While boys were able to learn such complicated and interesting things as Latin and Greek and or astronomy and philosophy, we girls ended up having a needle thrust into our hands for another several hours worth of sewing in school. It was all right. Sewing actually would become very, very useful to me. But however, I will say most girls certainly did already know how to sew by the time they were getting to school. We'd had needles thrust into our hands from as soon as we could hold them. So I grew up going to school in Philadelphia with many of my other Quaker friends. And I went for about seven years until I had another unique opportunity. As a member of the religious society friends and being that we all considered boys and girls to be equal, girls could have as much use in society as a boy. And therefore, it was thought that we could have jobs and we should be trained for good jobs. That was very important. I was able to enter an apprenticeship and I took on an apprenticeship to the Webster family's upholstery shop. That meant that I would be making things such as bed hangings and window curtains and sofa cushions. Can you think of upholstered things that might be in your own house? Does they have a sofa that they can sit on that is fabric covered and soft? Or does they have curtains in their windows that they can close from the sun or open up to let the light in? Does they have bed hangings around their beds to draw clothes in the winter and keep the warm at night? Or if they doesn't have those, perhaps they might have sheer curtains that they can put around their beds at night to keep the bugs out. Some of them might have curtains and many of them don't? Well, I suppose times do change. Perhaps their windows are a little better than mine and the bugs don't get in. And the cold can stay out. So another upholstered thing, does they have any paper, wall paper in their homes? Walls covered in pretty fabrics. That is also something that the upholsterer would handle. So I was to join this apprenticeship for some seven years, where I would learn not just the techniques of being an upholsterer, how to make cushions and bed hangings and window curtains. I would learn the business of being an upholsterer, which meant I also had to price out rooms and estimate costs. Estimating costs meant that I had to be very good at my numbers. So arithmetic does count, literally. If one is to upholster a wall, put wall paper on it, one needs to know how much wall paper to buy. So one needs to measure the wall from the bottom to the top and from the side to the side. And then factoring how wide that wall paper will be. And so know how many strips of the paper one will need to cover the wall. And that's the simplest part of upholstery. Once people start cutting curves into sofa cushions, it gets even more complicated knowing how much fabric to order. So also I had to learn how to maintain customer relations and keep careful accounts. These were all things that I had to learn as an apprentice upholsterer. But certainly I was good enough with my needle. It was all the other management and business associated things that I had to learn. Now, when I was 21, my apprenticeship would be officially over, but I wasn't going to go into trade alone. I had met a young man there by the name of John Ross. And John Ross and I did indeed fall in love. And we were married. And my family and the Philadelphia Yearly Quaker meeting were horrified. John Ross, they see he was not a quaker. He was an Anglican. So we ended up having to worship the Christ Church in Philadelphia because I was read out of meeting. That meant that I could no longer participate in the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting as a member. I was read out. There were consequences to that. That meant that I no longer had a vote within my religious community. That's another thing we quite the ladies had. We had a vote. But, well, I didn't really mind at the time. I was young. I was in love. And I was ready to start my business. Well, things were going along quite well. We were married in 1773. But that itself was a very difficult year. Because they remember the T Act was passed in 1773. And I do know that they can find out much more about that through the National Archives and their carefully preserved records on the T action. Now, the T Act caused quite an uproar. And it caused a collection of men folk in our towns to gather up and enforce boycotts. Boycotts have been enforced before. But now we were going to boycott British tea. My husband joined the militia and also helped enforce the boycotts. And, well, we would be called patriots for that. Patriots were folks who supported the American cause for representation within the British Parliament. You see, the problem was taxation without representation. This T Act was a tax faced upon us by a government that we had no say in. That's one thing if one has a say in one's own government. But when one doesn't, that's called taxation without representation. And it was unfair. So, well, the T Act happened and folks in Boston threw tea into the harbor. And then for the next year, many more folks would be engaging in tea protests. And my husband and I had clearly made our determination that we were for the American side. The other side would have been the folks who were for King George and the Crown and Parliament and unquestionable loyalty to the King and Great Britain. I don't know if there was a right or a wrong to all of it. I just know what I believed. And I was led by my maker to have a certain opinion about how I could proceed in this government. Well, things were going along again. Rather contentiously, but we were surviving and certainly maintaining our postory business. We even had a wonderful commission from the Tule family for when one of their daughters was married. And she had an entire suite of her home decorated by my husband and I. But then the year turned from 1775 to 1776. During 1775, a Congress had been convened in Philadelphia. Boston was still under siege by the Britons after the destruction of the tea in the harbor. And General Washington had been sent up there with an army to help liberate the city. Oh, long, long story. But it still felt so far away away from us in Philadelphia. But in the new year 1776, my husband turned ill and he died. That left me a young widow. A young widow in very uncertain times, mind the ever our relationship with our parent country was becoming ever more agronomious. The folks in Congress had all disbanded to go home and form state governments and right constitutions. And here I was a widow alone in Philadelphia, trying to maintain a business not during such uncertain times. By July 4th of 1776, there was a new motion in Congress to have a declaration of independence prepared and signed. Virginia resolution was passed that these United colonies are to be now called the United States of America. That we were declaring independence from Great Britain. My goodness, that was a very big change. I still was widowed. I'm still trying to maintain my business. And now many things were changing. A little later in the year, I got a knock on the door. It was my late husband's uncle George Ross. And I said, well, Uncle George, how are they? Can I invite the interfere couple's coffee? Not tea. He says, well, Betsy, I have an important job for them. It's a secret. I said, oh, certainly Uncle George, come on in. Let's discuss it here in the front parlor. He said, no, no, Betsy. If anybody's been to my house, they will know that my front of my house was where there was a workshop with a nice big bow window for everybody walking by to look in. I wanted them to look in these years so that they could see that I was an industry as a bolsterer and that they could even see what I was working on and how fine my work was and what kind of fabrics I had available. But he said, no, no, Betsy, this is a secret business. We can't have folks peeking in on us. So brought them to the back of the house. Now, my late husband's uncle George Ross was indeed a member of that Congress. He had signed that Declaration of Independence. And he says, Betsy, I need you to make something for a committee that I'm on with the Congress. He was on one of the committees that was responsible for procuring things for Washington and the troops. And he showed me a picture. He says, Betsy, I need you to make me this. Now, this is sort of flipped. Let's see if I can find one that's not fitting. There we go. I need you to make a banner that looks like this. I said, oh, Uncle George, that's very nice. So what does he need it for? He says, well, it's to be the new banner of the United States of America. I said, oh, Uncle George, that's very nice. He says, can you tell me a little bit more about him? He says, well, it is to be 13 stripes alternating red and white, the union of which shall be a blue field with 13 white stars representing a new constellation. Oh, this is very well, Uncle George. Now, what's this to be for? What does he need it used for? He says, well, for a ship, Betsy. And I said, oh, well, that's probably going to be, oh, goodness, at least seven by five feet, maybe nine by six feet. He says, oh, yes, that's a good ship-sized flag. I said, well, that's going to take me some time, Uncle George. Now, in the picture that he showed me, pardon me for disappearing that, he showed me this picture that had six pointed stars upon it. I said, can you tell me a little bit more about the specifics of his drawing, Uncle George? He says, well, Francis Hopkinson in Congress has codified this whole thing. I said, Francis Hopkinson, I know him. He's that congressional representative from New Jersey. He worships at the Christ Church. He plays the organ. He has a lovely voice. He writes songs. He's such a creative fellow. He says, yes, yes, yes. But Francis Hopkinson codified all of this. And he drew it for me with these six points on the stars. I said, well, if there are to be stars under George, do they need to have six points? He says, I really, I don't know. I said, well, heraldically speaking, Uncle George, the star has no specific points in heraldry. The Raoulsbury indeed does have six points, and that is George Washington's personal battle standard. The mullet has five points. There are other stars with seven, 12, what about 13 points on them? He says, well, all that sounds rather difficult. Are not six pointed stars the most easy to cut and sew? And I said, no, Uncle George, if I can make the a five pointed star upon this banner, will that help thee? It will certainly help me and save me considerable time in the stitching. So I proceeded to show him how I can take a perfectly nice, this is an eight and a half by 11 sheet of paper. And I folded it thus for him.  So you will see that I'm not engaging in any sleight of hand. Here we are. Let's fold two folds, three folds, one more little fold. Now it looks a lot like one of Benjamin Franklin's kites. And I'm never left a frame of the picture. And I'm going to cut Diagon down. And I show him how I could make a nice five pointed star with one snip of my scissors. Does he see that there? One, two, three, four, five points. Pin that up for me. I need a pin in my hat. There's usually always one up here. Yeah, I'll just take one from my dress. We use pins to hold ourselves together. So perfectly nice five pointed star. And I said, now this will save me some time in the stitching on George because I have to go not around, not just around the star points 13 times each, but I have to do both sides of the banner. He says, well, that's very well, Betsy, send me the bill when you're done. And I did. I proceeded to make him the ship's colors. And I sent him the bill. It was 14 pounds, 12 shillings, three pence. And as I was making this thing, I started to have a better understanding of what I was looking at erotically. I'm going to go back a little bit for the in the in the building of this thing. Because I was working on it. I began to understand the heraldry. We started out here. This is where we get the blue and white. It's Andrews cross. And here we have George's cross. These two crosses were developed by heralds way back at a time called the early middle ages to indicate saints. Andrew became the patron saint of Scotland, George the patron saint of England, and the two countries used these banners to identify themselves. Moving along a few years, we had King Henry the eighth, his three children in succession after him ruled Edward who had no children, Mary who had no children, and Elizabeth who had no children. Queen Elizabeth was a great man. When she died, she had no children, no more heirs to the English crown. Oh, what they do with the English crown, they gave it to a cousin. He was the King of Scotland. James the sixth of Scotland became James the first of England. And he put the two banners together. You see there's still Andrews cross and George's cross, Scotland and England. A few years later, we had many ships on colonial business, American colonies, Indian colonies, and this banner was developed. This is called Queen Anne's red ensign. The red ensign flew over all the colonial properties here in America, including the state house where which my father helped build. This red ensign then, when George Washington went up to the Battle of Boston, he included 13 red and white stripes to it. This was called the grand union flag of the 13 United colonies, great Britain in America. That's a lot of words, we just call it the grand union flag. Then with our independence, we added those stars into the blue field, removing the king's colors from it. Don't need to see them anymore. And this is how we got to our stars and stripes, which I continue to make this very day. And I did get married again to a man named Ashburn. And after he passed away, I married another man named Claypool. And so that's how it became Fretzy, Grissom, Ross, Ashburn, Claypool, flag maker of the stars and stripes. Well, that was a very quick description of my life and my events, but I'm sure he has questions for me that he would like to engage in. So please, if he has them, ask away. Well, thank you so much. That was just fascinating information about your history and really how involved your whole family was in our early republic. So thank you for sharing that great information, Betsy Ross. We have some wonderful viewers with us today. We have someone from Detroit, and we have a question someone sent in. The question is, did you really make this flag? They say, or was it an exaggeration? I think maybe they mean did you do it by yourself or did you have help? Oh, well, I actually did the first flags that I made for Congress, I did do by myself. I definitely made flags for the Congress. I billed them. I received pay for them. There is no question about my work as a flag maker and for government, for official government resources. As to what specific flags I've made, I've made many flags. I've made stars and stripes. I've made chips colors. I've made ensigns for battle. Even if George Washington needed one of his personal battles standards with the Six Pointed Rowellsburgs upon them, I'd make that. I make stores. Many women were put to work making things for the war effort. We also would make things such as bedding, mattresses for the soldiers to carry, cartridge boxes for them to hold their weapons and their musket balls and cartridges in. Indeed, the musket balls and cartridges themselves we would make, and we got paid. We got paid by Congress for our work. There were a lot of women at this work and making things as far as the stars and stripes and weapons. Yes, I did make flags. I'm not sure if I answered the question completely. No, that's great to know. Thank you. It's so interesting to hear about women's support of that effort and the cause for independence in all different ways. So we have another question about the design of the flag. When did they put the stars in a circle? I have a banner here to show you. It will take up my entire frame here. This has the stars in a circle, but it's just the stars on the blue field. The first time we actually see this is in a painting of George Washington at the Battle of Princeton by a wonderful Philadelphia artist named Charles Wilson Peele. Mr. Peele was at the Battle of Princeton, and this idea of stars and stripes and battle ensigns is quite ancient, and different companies would have different flags. Well, I'm not sure what company flag might have had those stars in a circle, but that is this lone banner appears behind George Washington in that painting at the Battle of Princeton that Charles Wilson Peele made. So that's the first time we've seen that. Now, when I was first presented to make this, and if Francis Hopkinson ever asks for a flag made, it will always, again, I apologize that this is lit, it will always look like this with six pointed stars in the blue field and the 13 stripes red and white. This is the Hopkinson flag. He is credited with the codification and design of this. However, I believe history has much more to do with the actual design than Hopkinson, but he did codify it all. So fairly to him, he gets credit for that in the conquests. And another question about the flag, specifically about the material of the flag. What was the flag made of? Oh, wonderful question. The flag was primarily made of wool. Wool and linen are the primary things that I use to make flags. Very important reason why cotton is, while it is made, while we do have the raw materials here in America, the refining of cotton is very difficult, very expensive, and we don't do much of the production here in America. Linen comes from the flax plant, and lots of ladies indeed were donating or giving up some of their garden space to flax plants. It was a patriotic ideal to do so, to grow flax. And that could be cut down, processed, and made into one of the strongest fibers. Flax, linen, is the only fiber that actually gets stronger when wet. Indeed, they will often see ladies about campfires. They specifically need and want to have a linen apron that they soak with water because the linen absorbs that water, it's onto the water, and it becomes a fire retardant if any sparks or embers fly up at their aprons. It's actually very helpful and safe for them to wear a wet linen apron around a fire. So linen is a great fabric that we make here in America. The other one is wool. This is made from sheep, and this is also a renewable resource here in America. Indeed, sheep were largely spared from the dinner table. They were spared from the mutton pot because of the use that they had of their wool. So again, this was an industry that was many folks in their homes or any shepherd or shepherdess who had sheep would keep their sheep for the wool that it could provide. And wool can be spun into a very light fabric called bunting. Now we can make this here, or some bunting was also processed overseas, but either way, wool was the fiber that generally we use to make the big parts of the flag, the stripes, the stars, and even the blue field. Thank you. I am so impressed. It sounds like there are so many different parts of your job and what went into making the flag. You needed to know the mathematics of it. You needed to know the science behind what materials would hold up. Really interesting. And we have a few more questions about the flag if you have a few more moments. Why do I have such time as it needs? Wonderful. So we have someone asking what happens when states are added to the union. We now have 50 stars for 50 states. Oh my goodness. That is quite a lot. Now what about the number of stripes? No, I can answer that. When in 1794 by that year, two more states joined our union. They signed the Constitution. That was Ohio and Kentucky, I believe. Anyway, with these two states, they needed representation on the flag. So a 15-star and 15-striped flag was approved by Congress. We were supposed to add a new star and a new stripe. This would be the flag that would be an activity during yet another war, the second war for American independence or Mr. Madison's war, or what he now calls the war of 1812. This flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes was a very important flag as it took us through another war. And indeed, a song called, now called the Star Spangled Banner, formerly known as the Defensive Corps of Henry, was written about this flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes. Not the specific one, but a much bigger one. Anyway, however, after the war, there were even more states in our union. Another goodness, I'm not sure how many states there were by 18 and 18, but the Congress determined that it was going to get very busy with the stripes if we kept adding a new stripe. So they reduced the stripes to the original 13 and just kept adding new stars as new states joined on to our Constitution in our union. So that's how we have 13 stripes maintaining, but a new star will be added with every state to the union. That's really interesting. We have a question too. If you ever travel, they said from the mention of the ship's flags, it made them wonder if you ever sailed on one of the big boats, maybe the tall ships. Have you left the colonies? No, I have never left the colonies. The most I've sailed is from Philadelphia to New Jersey and back again. That's not a very long sail. That's just across the Delaware River. Indeed, the first time I went across, I was but a child when I was originally born actually in New Jersey. So I came to Philadelphia. Then there would be times when we'd go visit a family in New Jersey. It was an easy crossing. And when I had to elope to marry John Ross, I eloped to New Jersey and married him there. Well, thank you. So I think I'm going to ask our final question for the day. And this is the question we always end on. What advice do you, as Betsy Ross, have for young people today? Oh, goodness. I would say they need to work very, very hard. Anything that they want to do to become good at it. But once they do become good at it, they need to be diligent in their work. They need to be honorable in their business dealings. Quite frankly, one of the reasons I suggested to the Congress that they have five pointed stars is that, well, it would save me time. But I also would not charge them for that money for that time that I wouldn't be using. So I tried to be a very ethical business person. If I do the work, I expect that folks should reward me in kind for it. But if I don't do work, I don't ask for money for something I haven't done. So ethical business practices. And also, oh, that was the other part of the question was working together. And who did I make the flag alone? I remember that from the first one. I did indeed make my first flag alone. But that does not mean that everybody made flags alone. I'd like to talk about one group of folks that I do know made possibly the first flag that flew in a battle. It was over Fort Stanwykes in New York now called Fort Skyler. And they were under siege. The siege began at the end of July, the beginning of August of 1777. The flag resolution officially stating that the flag would be 13 stripes red and white, etc. This flag was passed, sorry, on June 14th of 1777, shortly before that fort went under siege. But to be under siege means that nobody can get in or get out. Nothing can come in or come out. So whatever they had in the fort, when they were besieged by the British was all they would have. Now they must have had the instructions for this flag or the resolution for the flag. And when it came time to have a battle at that fort to finally liberated from the British, it was Americans inside the fort, British outside the fort, British not letting anyone come in around the fort. It was determined that they wanted a fly flag. So they banded together and they did it together. Soldiers from the fort donated their shirts, ladies, officers, wives in the fort who often had fashionable red petticoats. They donated their red petticoats. And the head officer at the fort, General Swarthout, he donated, well I shouldn't say donated, he did Bill Congress eventually, but he gave his blue uniform for the blue field. So together they made something of the red, white, and blue stars and stripes to fly over that fort during the battle of Fort Stanwyx or the siege of Fort Stanwyx. And so working together they were able to create this thing to inspire them to liberty. So I hope those are two lessons to take away. Work very hard and work together for something that they believes and that is more important and greater, that it will supply for the greater good. Well thank you so much for that inspiring advice and sharing your story with us today. It was just so wonderful to learn and for answering all these great questions we have. So we'll end today with one last look at that Docs Teach educational activity related to Betsy Ross. And join us to meet Amelia Earhart next month. Aviation pioneer and champion for women in the workforce on Thursday August 18th at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Thank you all for participating in our program today.


Good afternoon, everyone, Basel Chapman here on this 13th of October, Friday, end of the week, and I'm the host of the Tiger Technicians Hour, 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock each market day here at TFNN, and I have the opening and cold dating newsletter. We're looking at the dollar closing up $39 at $33,670. It got repelled at this 200-period expansion, moving average. If you're interested in these moving averages, I'll discuss them on Monday in my show. We're looking at the S&P having a really nice rally early in the week and then stalled it closed down $21 at $43.27. So both the Dow and the S&P need to go on at some strength early on Monday. Otherwise, if they pull back from, yeah, we've got to watch that very closely. The same with the QQQ, which is the NDX100. Very sharp move to the downside, closing at $365.13 down $4.80. The weekly chart is still very good, but the daily chart is having a little problem at this resistance area right here. The daily chart you can see, the IWM, the Russell 2000, looked very ugly and closed ugly down $1.51 at $1.70. The star, not just the star, but the absolute sparkler was gold. Gold was up $58.7 at $19.41.7 on the daily chart yesterday, $2.00 down at the $18.86 level today because of the configuration over in the Middle East. Up really sharply, the $19.56 level is the turn-to-peer moving average that was resistance many times over the last month and a half. We're going to be watching that because it was acting very poorly, but this is an emotional trade and therefore this emotion can last quite a bit of time. We're going to be watching the key support will be at about $19.20 to $19.10 if there is a sudden pullback. Here's the thing, gold and the dollar went up. The dollar was up $6.6 at $1.62. Not a big deal, but it's a big deal in the context that gold is the aperture, the icon of fear. The dollar is the icon of the US, the currency of most importance, and that's already what is showing right now. It's still holding very well, and if you look at the US, if you're looking at bonds, it was a nice move up today, but those yields are still in the higher level. You want to see bonds really from $113. They need to get to the $116 price soon for yields to already come down and Crude Oil was very high. Have a great weekend. We'll see you all on Monday and thank you for being here on TFNN and check out all our programs coming up Sunday. Tommy Stas is off at 9 o'clock. Have a great weekend.


Yn wych yn gweithio i'r dynach y fawr o'r cyfnoddol i fynd i gael i gael i gael, mae'n golygu i nodi gwrth ymlaen a'r ddiwrnodd. Pryddoedd yna, naillaf, yn ymlaen i gael tiott white. Ieith y Cymru, o'r Llyfrgell Cymru, ymddangos arwaeth ynghynghwm i wneud cyfnoddol i gaelol sy'n f chemical syniadol i bawb iawn o gwleitio bydd y gael yn llwyaf ei rai yn eitwm. Disgustings of sectors across a range of portfolios, including sports and events, have been taking place in relation to the impact of Scotland's temporary timetabling and alternative transport. For example, on 20 May, culture officials joined the event industry advisory group meeting where I understand the group discussed the impact on the event sector. The EIAG includes members from cultural, sporting and business events. While we want the temporary timetable to be in place for as short a period as possible, engagement is also on-going with individual events as required. Many attendees will already have plans to make use of Scotland's extensive bus services that serve key routes. The world-class qualifier on 1 June is one of the biggest games in 20 years, with more than 50,000 people flocking to Hamden. Considering the last minute changes on the day, 700 services were axed, can the minister today give fans the assurances they need that extra capacity will be laid on to get them home from Hamden, many to northern cities, and that that capacity will not fall foul to more unplanned cancellations? I thank the member for her question. First of all, it is important to remember why this dispute is happening. Scotland has taken the decision to put in place a temporary timetable, and that has been made necessary by the decision as part of a pay dispute of train drivers not to take up the option of Sunday and rest day working. That is in train drivers' gift. Rest day working is entirely voluntary, and this has been a feature of British railways for many, many years, entirely predating nationalisation last month, I should say. It is also true to say that Scotland, like many other parts of the GB rail network, relies upon rest day working to allow the network to function. What we have seen over the past few weeks is the network not functioning. We have had mass cancellations on Sunday, for example. The last day of the old timetable, there were over 300 cancellations. I understand the concerns of supporters planning to attend the Scotland match against Ukraine on 1 June, which is just over it a week away now. This is Scotland's most important game in a long time, and we want to ensure that supporters can get both to and from the match on public transport, including using where possible our bus services across the Scotland. However, before the reduced timetable was introduced last year, I think that from Glasgow to Aberdeen it would have been at 2140, meaning that it would still not have returned people home to Aberdeen after the match. ScotRail is aware of the various large cultural and sporting events across the summer, and the impact of the reduced timetable might have on them is currently being reflected by ScotRail in terms of how they will address that. Specifically on the Scotland-Ukraine match, I asked ScotRail for an update on this last Friday. They have assured me that plans are in place, and they will publicise details of this in due course, as they do with all major events. I will be meeting ScotRail tomorrow to seek an update on this work, and more broadly, of course, on the negotiations as they are due to meet with Asliff this afternoon. Minister, the night-time economy and cultural sector are already on their knees with the pandemic. The Night-time Industries Association has described the cuts to rail services as devastating, and that Scotland's economic recovery in the future of many thousands of small businesses and jobs are at risk as a result of the rail service that has been cut to the bone. Last week, Douglas Ross asked the First Minister what compensation will be made available to businesses affected by the cuts. The First Minister did not answer. Can the Minister provide a response now? I thank the member for a question. Of course, ministers are very aware of the impact that the pandemic has had on the night-time and on the wider hospitality sector. I should say on Scotland's cultural sector—I know, as a former cultural minister, just how challenging the pandemic has been for our theatres and cultural venues in terms of the restrictions. Undoubtedly, this time has been the most challenging for the industry in living memory. We are aware, of course, of the emerging pressures from the cost of living crisis, both due to the cost of doing business and the consequences of reduced household incomes. Additionally, on leisure spend, for example, ScotRail will, of course, be keeping this timetable under review. However, in regards to the member's question, it is absolutely essential that we now get a resolution to allow for that restoration of the timetable and allow for services to go back to normal for passengers and staff alike. It is absolutely essential that we do that, and I will be seeking an urgent update from ScotRail on that meeting that we will ask Lethally to this afternoon. ScotRail's temporary revised timetable is one facet of industrial action taking place throughout the UK. However, while the Scottish Government wants all parties to get round the table and negotiate a fair and affordable pay deal, the Tories would seek to use this dispute to illegalise industrial action. I therefore ask what discussions the transport minister has had with Grant Shaps on his proposal to make industrial action illegal unless a minimum number of rail employees are working. Sorry, minister. Ms Dunbar, can I draw your attention to Standing Order 13.7.8, which tells all members that a member may ask a supplementary question only on the same subject matter as the original question? That being the case, we will move on, and I call Neil Bibby. The current ScotRail crisis is causing misery for so many people every day, but especially for those who do not work regular hours. One of my constituents is an NHS nurse who finishes her 12-hour hospital shift at 7.45pm. Her last train home is now at 8.04pm, but she will miss it because she has less than 20 minutes to get changed and jogged down to the station. There is no bus, there is no rail replacement bus, so how would the minister suggest that my constituent and countless others like her get home? I thank Mr Bibby for his question. It is a really challenging time for shift workers and for many people travelling across the country, as the question alludes to, of course, what relates to sporting events and wider events industry more broadly. In terms of his constituent, I would be more than happy to address the specifics of his question if he would like to write to me and I will raise the matter directly with ScotRail. We absolutely do not want this scenario to go on for any longer than it already has been on going for having started a new timetable just yesterday. We are seeing a reduction, I should say, on the network of cancellations yesterday. As I mentioned in my response to the first question, we had over 300 cancellations on Sunday and that was not sustainable. We had to get to a better scenario in terms of the delivery of services. ScotRail have put in place a temporary timetable as a result of drivers refusing to work their rest days. I am absolutely committed to working with ScotRail and Aslef to get a resolution for Mr Bibby's constituent and for the thousands of other passengers who have been inconvenienced by the dispute. Mark Ruskell. It is clear that unsustainable unfair working practices have been allowed to build up across the whole rail industry over many years. Does the minister agree that this is why Union and passenger voices on the ScotRail board will be so important going forward? And while passengers wait for the dispute to be resolved, can she make sure that no communities, like Dunblane, are disproportionately impacted by the emergency timetable? I thank the member for his question. In relation to Union and passenger roles, he will be aware that there will be representation on the new ScotRail board, which is certainly welcome news. I know that that news was welcomed by the trade unions, who I spent a lot of time with on my appointment back in January, discussing with them their views for nationalisation and where they saw the future of Scotland's rail network going. I want them to be part of that vision through, for example, developing our plans around women's safety. Additionally, staff safety concerns have been raised with me by the unions in that regard, and I am keen to work with them on that matter. With regard to the specifics of the disproportionality to Mr Ruskell's question, that has been raised with me in relation to rurality primarily. I have raised this matter with ScotRail, and I will be happy to provide the member with an update regarding the restoration of a number of services that I hope will be coming in a matter of days. The minister has got to accept that this is a utter failure of industrial relations from this Government. Organisers of July's 150th open championship in St Andrews are banking on more rail services for the almost 300,000 people that will be descending on the town for this world showcase. Does the minister understand the humiliation that there will be imposed upon Scotland if she does not get this rail strike sorted by then? If it is not sorted by then, what plans does she have for making sure that the roads of fife are not gridlocked with 300,000 people descending on the town? Many moons ago, as a teenager growing up in St Andrews, I worked to the open, so I recognise very much so how important the openness to the local economy of St Andrews and surrounding fife villages, I should say. I am advised that a meeting of the silver command group for the open at which the Scottish Government's major events team is represented is taking place today. It is expected that the traffic and transport group at which Transport Scotland is represented will be formally tasked with investigating the impact further and looking at those contingencies that Mr Rennie spoke to. I hope that that gives him a reassurance that plans are being put in place. However, I would say that the open is quite a wee bit away yet. I hope that we will be able to reach a resolution with the trade unions before then, and I am committed to working with them to delivering that in conjunction, of course, with Scotland. The minister will be aware that the international festival is just around the corner. Many people travel into the city from other parts of Scotland to go to the theatre, to go to shows. Some people have contacted me already that we have bought tickets, but we will no longer be able to attend those because the trains running back to where they are staying will not be running any more. Will the Scottish Government offer compensation to those who have already bought tickets who can no longer get home safely because of a rail strike? The premise of Mr Balfour's question is that no tickets would assume there was no festival. I do not accept that premise. Ministers, of course, are engaging with cultural stakeholders on a range of matters, including Mr Robertson's meeting with the director of festivals Edinburgh just last week, when I am advised that the issue was not raised. As I mentioned, as a fifer, I am well aware that people travel into the capital city to attend the festival. I would hope, as I outlined in my response to Mr Rennie, that we have reached a resolution far in advance of that date. Officials are also engaging regularly with the cultural and events stakeholders to understand the real difficulties that they are facing in their respective sectors. Again, I would appeal to the trade unions and ScotRail to work together. I am delighted that they are meeting this afternoon. I look forward to sharing an update with members on the resolution from that meeting later today, if I am able to do so in terms of the progress that we might be able to identify going forward, including, as I mentioned to Mr Ruskell, the reinstatement of a number of services. To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports of an outbreak of the monkeypox virus in the UK, including a case in Scotland, what action it is taking to monitor transmission of the virus in Scotland and support people affected. As the member would rightly expect, I am being regularly briefed by officials and clinicians on the monkeypox outbreak. Public Health Scotland is working with UK Health Security Agency, Uxha Public Health Wales and Northern Ireland Health Protection Agency to monitor and respond to potential confirmed cases of monkeypox in the UK. Work is progressing with NHS boards and wider partners both in Scotland and the UK to investigate the source of this infection. Close contacts are being identified and provided with health information and advice, and that may include the offer of a vaccination. There are well-established and robust infection prevention control procedures for dealing with such cases of infectious diseases. Of course, those will continue to be strictly followed. Does the Scottish Government continue to work closely with the NHS as we monitor the situation closely? I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer, and I would join in highlighting comments of Dr Nick Finn, the director of public health science and medical director of public health Scotland, who said that the overall risk to the general public is low. Dr Finn has also said that early identification and vaccination can stop close contacts going on to develop the condition. Given the interest in tracing people who are travelling within the UK and the confirmed case in Scotland, can the cabinet secretary outline how any required contact tracing will be carried out and what role testing protect services that were developed during Covid-19 can play? I thank Paul Cade for at the beginning of his response, reiterating the important advice from Nick Finn and the reassurances from public health Scotland that the overall risk is low to the general public. There are well-established procedures in place. There is one confirmed case, as has been widely publicised of monkeypox here in Scotland. Of course, appropriate contact tracing has been and is being done in that case. In the cases in England as well, I know that contact tracing is well under way. That process and procedures predate Covid in terms of contact tracing for infectious diseases. To give them an absolute assurance, that is in place. What I would say to people is, please do, of course, familiarise yourself with what to do if you have any of those symptoms that are associated with monkeypox. There are good well-established procedures in place and there is a good four nations approach to our response to monkeypox. I am having a meeting later on today with other health ministers across the UK to discuss issues around vaccinations and antiviral treatments too. The World Health Organization has highlighted the importance of tackling misinformation about this virus.  I am sure that the cabinet secretary has been appalled by racist and homophobic assertions in the press and online regarding the virus. Dr Derek Sloan, a senior clinical lecturer in the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and consultant in infectious diseases at NHS Fife, has written extremely well in the courier today, misbusting around monkeypox and ensuring that health anxiety does not even accidentally fuel racist or homophobic discrimination. Does the cabinet secretary agree that we must do all that we can to tackle such misinformation and discrimination and can he outline how the Government plans to do that? I strongly associate myself with all the remarks that were made by Paul O'Kane. I have not seen the peace in the courier but I will make sure that I do so after I leave this chamber because, like him, I have been appalled at some of the disgusting and frankly bigoted reporting that I have seen in relation to monkeypox. It is important that we work hard to get the advice and the appropriate public health advice out to those communities that may be more affected by the current outbreak, but do that in a way that does not stigmatise that community and does not allow this issue to be weaponised for other purposes. I strongly associate myself with those remarks. To give Paul O'Kane and other members some assurance, we are working and I have tasked my officials to work with a number of organisations and stakeholders in the LGBTQI community. There is also some good material that I have already put out, for example, by the likes of the Terence Higgins Trust, which I would strongly recommend to anybody in the chamber. I think that it is important to highlight that anyone who has confirmed case or anyone who is in close contact should avoid people who are pregnant or immune suppressed or children. Can the cabinet secretary reiterate how that information can be passed on to members of the public? I would say to people that Public Health Scotland is putting out regular updates. I will be putting out regular updates that were provided yesterday, which give us really good details around, for example, the symptoms that people should look out for in terms of symptoms associated with monkeypox. Of course, if anybody feels concerned that they may have those symptoms, call your GP or, if you are out of hours, call 111. There will be further advice. We are probably at the early stages. I would fully expect there to be more cases identified of monkeypox, but I will go back to what I said to Paul O'Kane that there are very good procedures, robust procedures and infection prevention control procedures in place to deal with those cases. Despite the relatively self-limising and mild nature of monkeypox, there are some who may be more susceptible and may require hospital care if they do catch it. How is the Government ensuring that all health and social care workers are protected from the virus and have information about how to keep themselves and their patients safe from any on-going transmission? It is a very important point that was part of my discussion with clinicians to give her some assurances. Those conversations with health and care staff are really important and vital, in fact, but particularly for those health and social care staff that are working in CHID units, for example, and are dealing with those who have infectious diseases. That work is very much under way. We have, as she knows, mentioned limited vaccines, although there will be a further discussion on the further procurement of those vaccines at the meeting that I attend later on today. Those antiviral treatments, too, could be quite helpful in relation to those healthcare workers to keep them safe, so that they, in turn, can treat anybody who has this particular virus.


We're just gonna do some simple partner passing drills starting very basic We'll build into some more combinations with actual two players in the middle But you'll see the progression simple skills.  Yeah Good now a brand. I just want us to change our space. Don't go in the same pattern Good and again now a little quicker Good. Yeah, good. Good. Stop switch Okay, like I said get your timing don't don't just stay on the same channel.  What do I want passing technique leaning over? I don't want my passes up here. Yeah, really as if you're going inside the foot really open it up flat sir But I want to see Over-emphasized lean over the past. Yes, especially if it's one time if it's one time and I'm here I'm gonna do something like that. Yeah So the harder that ball is coming in the more important This comes and play me again. I don't like that It's gonna go back and forth, but now play me playing to touch and I need this touch out of my feet I don't want it play I Don't want it here. Okay, you can go any way you want any technique. Yes, play But put it into space play now I go again. Yes Okay Got it ready you can start there start slow.  It's up switch But change your movement after you don't run in the same circle Good get there together go tighten up show me good Into space and move with your touch Good Good go a few more go give me four good ones to finish one. Okay, stop switch Okay, just get in that habit always with the passing up with with the passing I'm talking about leaning over with the first touch. I'm talking about Leaning over on top of the ball. Yes if my touch is bad, but if I have a bad touch But I'm already accelerated. I'm already on top of the ball.   She's gonna turn the other way I'm gonna play back, but I want to change my space And I want to open up. Okay. Yes Okay, so a couple things I Don't want to receive like this. What's wrong with receiving like this? I'm flat-footed, but wait wait. Am I trying to go? I'm trying to go that way. So what's wrong with my body positioning? Good, I'm square to you. I'm facing this so if I can I want to open here play and Then I'll go this way or if I am receiving with my back that first touch better be On the spin. Yes. I never want to do this Okay, too slow make sense. Okay. Have fun with it and then we'll give you advice good in play and just change your space print good Again Good play back there Here we go.  If you see that she's behind you got to play that pass to her faster. You can't take two touch Ready, but start at the same time ready. Go Good, and we play new space now we go Good. Yeah hit your pass And rest switch up Start there start there ready three two one. Show me good Good later later because it's coming quick.  So this time We're just gonna play one ball. So put that ball to the side. Let's put it behind you Okay, now we're gonna combine with each other. Okay, so one of us is always gonna go long one's gonna go short To start I just want you to go short. Okay Whoever is the longest player you're gonna play that one first So if I'm further away than her for their brain, I'm just gonna play into you. You're gonna play there I just want you to find new space short Short I'm gonna find new space long. Yes Okay, so I'm just gonna lay into you. You're gonna play back in and again. Okay couple of things So when I lay this pass off to her I don't want this pass Diagonal going forward I want to put it back into her path Okay, I can play way faster if This pass is more direct and she can ping it back in there. Does that make sense? Don't don't even play a diagonal I want it going back in towards her, but you have to find the right way to pass just go long for me Hey, the other thing is the movement of this run when she when that balls into her I'm not waiting and now play me and I'm just standing still and I'm play that's not I'm anticipating it's going into her Play so play her now. I might show short here and I want to peel into her like this and we'll play like that Okay, and you just find the right way to pass.  We'll switch. Does it make sense? Okay, you got it ready on toes on the outside play cool find new space. Yes quick Good now we're a little quicker. Yeah, play it plain. Yes, but Good. Yes, you girls are good enough to play one touch on the end good Good and hit those long ones a little harder. Good. That's fine Good got it Brent. You're long now You're long. So go stretch it long. Don't come too short stretch along playing there and lay off to me Good and now you go find new space find new space play get there get there get there ready you got it and go Just get long once you lay off get long once you lay it off here find that new space there play here and again long play to me Good get higher get higher Good and like that's okay and again Stretch early go higher early. Yeah Good Yes, that's better few more Good now you got it ready few more few more before you switch few more good stay in the box Hit that one a bit harder on the end. Yeah, where are you good good switch rolls now? You already did okay the reason you want to practice this is a Levels of players a lot of times players Although we're both midfielders defender striker We usually get stuck on the same line. The problem with this is very easy to defend when I have levels to my play We're much higher to defend we can create triangles right now if we're all in the same line We're very easy to defend so a lot of players when they do this They'll suck into the middle. She'll be too close. I won't get far enough. Okay, so it's really important With your players you want depth you want width so encourage them to get further away play. Yes. Yes This allows us to create space otherwise One player can defend two players. Okay, so this time We're gonna just want you go high same thing short and long short and high this time You're gonna play the short one though. Okay girls. You can start to touch.  Okay, so you go high again. I find new space.  Okay. Once you get good play. I can play this one one time Make sense Okay, doesn't make sense. Yes. Let's do it. Just start high start high again. You got it then you can go short Good.  Good play in here Open up. Yeah, if you receive that if you receive that to touch receive on your back foot. Yes Play there play here. Go and get a new space Yeah Yes early early Turn play good get it get it Play that time you're close enough Ready and depth you're on the same line there. Stay high stay high and you can drift into any space But just stay high play right back into her good Here we go Good play quick good make it work and I actually want you a little more central tour don't hang on the sideline be like a striker be like a target player Yeah, right here right here Play quicker quicker quicker quicker Here you go quicker now quicker now play get there Good do a few more a few more before you switch Okay, because you guys keep hanging out here. Yes striker. I want you in here Play in here because then I have someone on my back.  Yes, and right back into her move. Good Hey Good good. Yeah up up up play quick Good, that's better back in That's better. That's better Good good. Good. Now you got to put that back in there though. Don't set it still good touch play right back into her. Yes Okay, and stop Good stuff there. Okay. 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Good morning, Hank! It's Tuesday! Happy 2017! Today's video is like Voldemort's soul. It comes to you in eight parts, one of which is inconveniently located inside our protagonist. Part one, my snot. Hank, there is so much snot inside of my body right now, so I apologize if I sound sick. It's because I am sick. Part two, speaking of my health, 100 days has begun. My best friend Chris and I are trying to have a healthy mid-life crisis, so over the next 100 days we're gonna learn a lot about health and fitness, and over at youtube.com slash 100 days, you can see me do this, and also this sweet move, and also quite a lot of this, mostly that, really. Doing partner abs always reminds me that my stomach was made for resting a laptop upon. But my life is changing pretty dramatically during these 100 days. You can also follow along with us if you're so inclined, and if you're a nerdcott nerdfighteria next month in Boston, you can do a live workout with Chris and me and our trainer, Laura. Part three, 10 year anniversary. Hank, 10 years and one day ago, I uploaded my first ever video to YouTube in honor of that anniversary.   Anyway, that first video began. I'm not going to be good at this. I wasn't good at it, of course, and in many ways I'm still not, but I feel so lucky to be at it 10 years later, and I just wanna say thank you to everyone who's been part of the last decade with us. Part four, so a while back we asked them on Tana-based artist named Claire Emery to make some limited edition woodblock prints to celebrate vlogbrothers 10th anniversary. Claire is just an amazing artist and she created three prints to celebrate a decade of nerdfighteria. Each of them is available for pre-order now at dftba.com in black and white or hand colored. We're not getting a royalty or anything on this, we just love these prints and wanna celebrate this anniversary. So I hope you like them. Also, Michael Aranda made a beautiful video about Claire and her work, which you can watch over at Hank's channel, link in the doobly-doo. Part five, speaking of celebrating, throughout 2017, Hank and I are going back to watch every single vlogbrothers video for a new project called This Date in Vlogbrothers History. For instance, on January 3rd, 2007, Hank referenced for the first time that people were saying we looked like the proclaimers and on January 3rd, 2011, I made one of my most viewed videos ever, which I'm sure had nothing to do with the thumbnail. You can watch the videos and read our reflections on them over at the community tab at youtube.com slash vlogbrothers slash community or you can get notifications by making sure you're subscribed, there is a little button directly beneath the video and then clicking the bell to get notifications on. Part six, Hank, as you may have heard, Nerdfighteria sponsors a third tier English soccer team called AFC Wimbledon and this Saturday at 10 a.m. Eastern Time here in the U.S., AFC Wimbledon will play in the third round of the FA Cup against Sutton United, a game that will be televised on proper American cable television, specifically the channel Fox Sports One. Wimbledon players wear DFTBA on the back of their shorts and you can see those shorts live in high definition this Saturday. A group of Colorado Nerdfighters will be watching the game at the Three Lions Pub in Denver and there may also be other places to watch the game live with fellow Nerdfighters. I've started a Reddit thread on the topic, link in the doobie-doo. Part seven, punishments. Hank, in your final video of 2016, you went over four minutes in a non-educational video which means for the first time in several years we've got a vlogbrothers punishment coming. Your punishment will take place live on stage at NerdCon Nerdfighteria. I'm pretty excited about this. Nerdfighters, if you have suggestions for Hank's punishment, please leave them in comments. Part eight, a moment of sentimentality. Hank, getting to make stuff with you in Nerdfighteria over the last 10 years and three days has been the great professional privilege of my life. When we started this project, we weren't particularly close. Like, I left for boarding school when you were 11 so I never really knew you as anything other than a kid. I mean, before vlogbrothers we talked on the phone maybe once a year, now it's at least twice a week. These past 10 years, Nerdfighteria and its projects have brought so much joy and fulfillment to my life but the best of it for me has been getting closer to you and being part of the awesome that you bring into the world. Thank you. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.