My fellow Americans, tonight we celebrate the coming of a new year, a time of expectation and promise. I believe it's going to be a very good year indeed. Our economy is healthy, our defenses are strong, and our policy of peace through strength is paying off in spades. In six weeks' time, the Soviet Union is due to pull its remaining forces out of Afghanistan. I'm confident the Soviets will stick to their timetable and be out by the 15th of February, which will then be a great day for world peace. I'm also confident about 1989 because in just three weeks George Bush will be sworn in as the 41st President of the United States and a superb president he's going to be. He has handled skillfully the selection of his cabinet and the transition process is proceeding well and smoothly. So the news is good this New Year's Eve. Of course we still reel in shock and horror from the bombing of Flight 103 over Lockaby, Scotland, and we extend our sympathy to the bereaved. Now if it seems likely our terrorists have crawled out of their hole to threaten American lives, I can promise them this. The pledge we made to seek out the truth and punish the guilty is a sacred one which George Bush shares. Indeed President-elect Bush knows as thoroughly as anyone in the world today the nature and problem of terrorism. As chairman of this administration's Task Force on Terrorism he oversaw a report that is the toughest statement to date on the need for strong action, including when warranted military action against terrorists. That report ought to be giving some people sleepless nights right about now. That crime aside, however, there is little to disturb us about the overall state of the nation as we join together to make merry and sing old Lang Syne. But still during these days, when you turn on the television or read through the newspaper, you might get the idea that what faces George Bush upon his assumption of the responsibilities of the presidency of the United States will be nothing but a series of impossible choices, heartaches, and just general trouble. Now I'm sure most of this talk is simply evidence that we're about to go through a change of leadership, a moment in time that does funny things to people, particularly in Washington. For some, this is a time to put in their bids on the agenda of the future. For others, this is a time for the jitters because they try to imagine what the future will bring and find it a little confusing. These jitters have been overcome with courage and vision in both the United States and Canada as the way has been cleared for an historic new free trade agreement to take effect tomorrow. And I want to assure you, as we do take this time together, to look ahead that there is not a single major problem facing this country today that cannot be solved when we come together to solve them. What it takes is the political will to solve them, rather like a successful New Year's resolution. Now here are a few New Year's political resolutions I think could be accomplished in 1989. I think we should resolve to keep within the Graham-Rudman targets and eliminate the deficit entirely by 1993. I'll be telling you more about our budget for the next fiscal year over the next few weeks. But let me just say that this new budget represents a serious and dedicated effort to produce a realistic plan for meeting our responsibilities to reduce the deficit, maintain our defenses and help the needy. I've said it before and I'll say it again. All this can be done without raising taxes. Higher taxes mean slow economic growth and economic growth combined with budget realism is the key to eliminating the deficit. George Bush's lips have been eloquent on this subject and it sure would be a great new year if we continue the progress we made this year, putting an end to those mammoth continuing resolutions and work with a real budget again. We can continue to improve relations with the Soviet Union in 1989 if we remember that the key to improve relations thus far has been our strength and resolution. We must remain sober in our estimation of our negotiating partners and without illusion we know about their goals and aims. Whether we're talking about bilateral relations with the Soviet Union or efforts to achieve a negotiated settlement in the Middle East, the lesson is the same. To achieve further reductions in international tensions, the incoming administration will need appropriate levels of defense spending, not to mention support from Congress for their foreign policy initiatives. Trust me, I know. Have a very happy new year and until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you. Now it's time for the phone call of Prime Minister Roni and we'll go right over to the other.


All right, it's time for interactive. We are at day six of four, 12 days of Chris Maxx promotion. How do you win? Participate in our daily challenges. Here's today's challenge. Name the islands on which the matches in the ongoing West Indies versus England limited over series have been played so far. Head over to the 12 days of Chris Maxx chat on the Sports Maxx app and tell us your answer for a chance to win a cricket West Indies jersey. Yeah, you can get that jersey and you can send it to me or you can go and support the team for the deciding T20 international. Also, check out our clips on X Instagram and YouTube and don't forget in case you missed it is now on Sports Maxx, CNTV and YouTube. Moving along, Azhar Joseph was RCB's first buy of the 2024 IPL auction and it was a big one. The Antigone going for 1.3 million US dollars. What are persons saying on Twitter through other West Indians going in the draft as well? Take M, not worth that much for sure. L-O-L, I don't like that comment. Abdullah Farosh, superstar from Windows, make them proud like at Henry Gale, at Brian Lara, at Vip Richards. Will Comish, another overspend. Joseph is a talented ball, but 1 million is totally ludicrous. Badumahendra, great pick, classic West Indies fast baller, handy with the bat too. So, Lance Wattaker, Azhar Joseph, is he worth 1.3 million? Well, the last comment handy with the bat too may have something to do with him pushing over the 1 million mark because he can't hit the ball. And in IPL, you have a number eight, number nine batsman coming in and banging the ball around. It could be to your team's credit. A lot of money, 1.1 million, but Azhar is an improved cricketer and I think I like his cricket brain. So, I'm not gonna say it's too much money. Mitch Stark was sold for twice that. Exactly, I was just gonna make the point that Mitch Stark and Cummings both went for over 2 million. So, when you take that into consideration, it is really just a representation of Azhar's growth in recent years and definitely how well he's gone this year and how well he went for parts of the IPL last campaign as well. All right, what about the bidding war between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders for West Indus T-20 captain, Robyn Powell, the Royals, eventually winning that battle at 900 and 90,000 US dollars. Was it 890? Robyn, let's see, good pick. People were mocking him to get picked in platinum category. Lull, he is worth that. He is worth it. He is that good a player. More than I was expecting, but a good player. Yeah, Robyn, what do you make of Robyn? Ah, I'm not totally sold on Robyn, you know, Ricardo. He's 30 years old, has matured and as a captain of the West Indus T-20 team at the moment, I'm looking forward to see what he does in the IPL. But in the IPL, you have so many tricky spinners and Robyn still struggles against spinners. He has been improving a bit against them, but he still struggles against the spinners. So I'm happy for him, but I think Alzari is much more of an understandable buy for me if I compare the two buys. Yeah, I think the thing with Robyn Powell and the understanding is that he can be a match winner. And sometimes as a franchise or as a team generally, you're looking for that X factor.  But what you have is a player who at any time can win you matches, can get you out of sticky situations, coming in at that number five, number six position. Fear enough, fear enough. And that's what Robyn Powell represents in my opinion. Couldn't do it for the West Indies today, though as we're running out of time, West Indies 169 for eight. In the 14th over, they are chasing 268 to beat England in the fourth T20 international being played in Taruba. It won't happen. They won't win this one. The fifth and the signing game will be on Thursday. I think it's safe to say. That's it for today's abbreviated version of the Sports Max Zone. Thanks to Chris Taylor. Or, oh no, it's not. Yeah, I think you have time for one more. Oh, I do. Here we go. Let's get Julian Alfred in. Yeah, let's get reactions to Julian Alfred's interview yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Supernova. I'm sure Ms. Alfred has and will continue to make St. Lucia proud. Top tier athlete. Great seeing Julian on this interview. Powerful story of resilience and triumph. Love the way Ricardo handed the interview as well. I don't like reading about myself. His reactions were so genuine. Excellent questions as well. Lance, I think you should have read that. That's it, no more comments? I hope not. It was a very satisfying interview, we must say though, because we have tried to get her on for quite some time now. And very revealing that in spite of her successes, she has gone through periods of lacking in confidence in spite of her success. Because when things go badly for her, it hurts her a lot. And it dims her spirit. But I'm hoping that given her rise and her consistent top draw performances that she will build her confidence and begin to shrug those doubting moments that she has. Yeah, and based on what she said, they are getting fewer and fewer. So hopefully that she will get to that stage where she has complete confidence in herself and in her abilities. And coach, Eldrick Florial will for sure help her to get there. There's another issue that she spoke about that I can't take up now, but we really do need to talk about in the coming days. All right, is it, can I wrap now? Yeah, okay, I can wrap now. Thank you very much for making it. That's for my zone today. I wanted to big up for a special guest, Chris Taylor, who doesn't pass through very often anymore because he's touring the world, but it was great to have him. Hey, thanks for watching. We'll go back tomorrow. Abbreviated show on Wednesday as well, but it's gonna be a good one.


All right, let's begin Thank you for coming to our sponsor showcase presentation success from the platform up Here in beautiful Amsterdam. It's an honor to be speaking to you today So who my my name is Josh I have been in the Drupal community for 11 years now and I've started a couple different companies I've done a lot of trainings at various points I built a Amazon machine image that a lot of people use back when that was first the new hotness And I'm a co-founder of a company called pantheon Which is a professional website platform and basically the purpose of my talk is to explain Why what I mean by that phrase professional website platform and why it's necessary not necessarily why you should you know Choose us although I hope you all use pantheon but really our perspective on the industry that we were a part of and the Trajectory for Drupal and why platforms are the future and other things are not so Pantheon the professional website platform. We chose those words relatively carefully It's it's it's for websites. It's a platform and it's for professionals. It's professional grades So there are many platform as a service companies out there. You could do something with heroku. You could use Red hats so we'll take them all I want so heroku is a nice website platform Or not I'm sorry not a nice platform for web applications. It's actually not so great for websites Mainly because they don't handle state and content as a choice It's a design choice on their part But it makes it kind of a non-starter for try to run Drupal or any other open source CMS There are other up-and-comber platforms like red hats open shift, which I would say is not quite professional grade yet It's a little bit still In flux and kind of has some of the same problems as heroku and there are our wonderful competitors in the Drupal space platform From commerce guys, which looks really cool to me and of course aquea Well, they have a cloud thing that kind of qualifies as a platform so good for them and everyone's doing this because it's kind of clearly the direction that the market is headed and That's what I'm here to talk about So our mission is to power the world's websites That's what we do with our platform, but I want to talk about the web as an industry Since this will will sort of frame things at a high level and we'll get more low level later So I have statistics from the US market And I can you can extrapolate to the EU market into the global market, but these are numbers that are are relatively real So every year in Estados Unidos there are 500 billion dollars spent on digital marketing and that's everything from social media to Adwords to websites to probably like apps that qualify as marketing in some sense I mean, it's a very broad category, but it's an awful lot of money. That's a pretty pretty big pie to slice up 106 billion of that is spent in online advertising and that is primarily the revenue of Google Facebook Twitter and a number of other companies That's kind of where they make all their money is through the online advertising market And and that's a healthy chunk of that pie, but a larger slice of that pie is spent on websites And that includes the professional services to build websites the technologies If you need to license them or or otherwise and then the services that are used to run them services like platforms or traditional hosting providers and it makes sense if you think about it that The website slice of the pie is bigger than the advertising slice of the pie because there are lots and lots of people that Build websites and don't spend any money on ad words, but nobody spends any money on ad words unless they've got a website to link to So there's some logic there to that equation So the point of this is to say that if you you know, there's a there's a very large market here And websites are a very important part of it and if we look at the the Movement into into CMS as a you know, basically nobody wants to build a website by hand anymore or not that many people do And how many of you in the crowd here would self-identify as a developer? Okay, so quite a few so how many before you found Drupal or something else wrote your own And I will say air quotes content management system, right? It was a blog and I wrote my own template and everything for it And I had my like my special text file format that I invented for myself That was like the repository of the blog posts and did that for years and years before I realized that I There are a lot of other things I could be doing and I picked up a CMS and the rest was history So that's something happening across the internet and if you break down the market of websites running on CMS by volume This is what it looks like So I'm gonna make a few notes about this chart So WordPress is by volume the clear market leader Which is it's a very easy-to-use tool And I think a lot of that actually by volume is the 70 some odd million blogs that are on WordPress comm Not all of which are actually active So there's a bit say I think it's still clearly in the lead though just in terms of sheer numbers Joomla's second Drupal's third Drupal if you if you sorted out by who powers large websites Drupal has a much larger percentage of that market So I don't think that this has any like danger sign for Drupal at all All of these numbers are gradually trending up in general as as others are going down I also want to call out at the end of this line square space, which is in this in this graph is being represented as 0.1% of the market but square space is actually rapidly rising They were they were they were not even on the chart a year ago, and they're they're going up pretty quickly I think they have a tool that can actually compete with wordpress.com for a lot of people's businesses And they're clearly going after it. However, this chart is kind of a lie because it looks at the It's it's saying that the it's emitting the true market leader the true market leader in CMS is none None runs 60 something percent of the internet and what none is is it means that the the box that scraped the internet that Analyzed sites to provide this graph couldn't identify the technology behind the website and that breaks down to a combination of things. It's Sites that are just static HTML. There's a still a lot of those out there and a lot of them being built It's sites that use like Proprietary or obscure content management systems that are so you know minute in their market share They they didn't you know they couldn't this actual the numbers behind this graph go on for about another, you know 200 places in the long tail people that are at like point oh two percent of the market None also includes all the CMS is that we wrote before we found Drupal And there's a lot of those out there and still more being built today Not so much in PHP now But if you look at what people will do in in the Ruby world and the Python world and in other places There's a lot of like inventing new CMS is still going on which is which is fine But those all qualify kind of as none because they're not really a there's no appreciable market share But the the the ones at the top WordPress Drupal and Juma are are clearly they're kind of leading that market And they're all open source and they're all PHP I think that's worth noting and is kind of an important point and if you think about how the website market breaks down This is how we at Pantheon see it So you think about who has the money to buy a website right? There's there's on on the one end of the spectrum There are sole proprietors and these are people who essentially operate their own business and operate their own website They probably also do their own taxes file their own payroll mow their own long like these are people who are doing all this stuff for themselves because they they run a small business and so forth and their budget is somewhere between a hundred dollars and a thousand dollars a year maybe and they're using tools like go daddy or host Gator or wordpress.com or Squarespace and they're they're kind of Cruising along at a low level at the far other end of the spectrum You have like the top of the market these are like the Fortune 500 companies publicly traded companies giant companies that will spend a million dollars or more routinely on a single website for some reason and They they've traditionally been dominated by proprietary systems like interwoven, adobe cq web sphere Open CMS these are all things that we may never have worked with but these are the giant sort of enterprise grade content management systems that have been installed by big consulting companies inside large corporations for a long time And our good friends at aquia are doing an excellent job at positioning Drupal as the open source alternative in this space It actually I think they get far too little credit for breaking into that market because it's not easy to do and it's important for the Long-term legitimacy of the project to like it's show that you can take on the goliaths in the space So I give them a heck of a lot of credit for that But there's an awful lot of room between a thousand dollars and a million dollars as your budget for a website and in the space that like you look at It's essentially and it's not just corporations. It's also nonprofits. It's higher education It's it's some small businesses too that are more aggressive and more forward-thinking about their web strategy inside that corporate space Open source is really winning. That's where you see Drupal and to a lesser extent WordPress really really starting to take off and and and dominate and that is in part because In this space the developers of the websites often have a large role in picking the technology And so they pick the things that they find that they like to work with the most because it's what will make them most efficient and their customers tend to just trust them and That's that's where a lot of the the sort of Energy flowing into the Drupal commercial ecosystem comes from there's some from the high-end and there's there's certainly some stuff Drupal gets used by people on a tight budget as well But it's usually a technical person who can implement that who likes Drupal and implement it for themselves It's not typically Someone who's just you know, not technical and looking for a tool but in that middle space because you do need a full-power content management system for all of these sites and Drupal is a you know, no license fee great community. We all know the reasons to pick Drupal That's where a lot of the economic energy is coming from The point here is that the web is in a state of transition away from Custom bespoke solutions and like read only publishing and towards content management solutions rewrite publishing and like actually even more interesting distributed use cases like headless Drupal and so forth like we are in the Middle of a chick nobody who read does their website now says you know Let's just do it in Dreamweaver like we just use stag HTML for everything, right? There's there's static site generators are actually having a moment of coming back in vogue among front-end developers But that's actually for other reasons people don't sit down and say I don't want to be able to edit the content of my website I would like to have to call a developer to be able to change the words on a page Nobody says that anymore and for good reason, right? It's democratizing to allow more people to take control of their web presence and the customer's experience on the web And none is on its way out. So Also, you see less and less frequently do people say you know the best thing for us to do would be to try to Write a new CMS from scratch. I think we really got a bunch of fresh ideas that have never been considered by anyone else And clearly we have the most talented people in the world here So let's just take on that huge hairy challenge and and mail it most people are learning to be a little bit more humble and say well You know, this is actually a problem people have been working on for a couple of decades And there's a lot of stuff out there we can just pick up and use and see a lot more value by building on top of existing systems rather than writing our Own from the ground up But in this context, I believe that Drupal is too hard and too expensive to reach its full potential as currently constituted and I will couch that in In saying I don't think that this has to do with the complexity of how Difficulties to develop were for Drupal or even even thinking about how how much more complex it may be to work in Drupal 8 I don't think that's actually the problem It's also obviously not that Drupal has like a high license fee because it's open source But the problem is that it's too hard and too expensive to run and maintain Drupal sites over time It's not about the individual website It's about whether or not an organization or a company or an institution can actually adopt Drupal as a as its go-to Solution for all of its different problems that it has on the web Maybe it won't solve a hundred percent of them But it can be their go-to the long-term costs of running the open source software fall on the organizations and Many of them are either, you know get burned because they radically underestimate these costs or they look at them And they say well You know I kind of would rather just pay the money for site core because I won't have to deal with all this stuff the expensive Part of Drupal is the hassle because open source costs you in time and stress and for many people who would like to adopt Drupal as an open-source solution now They're deterred by the cost of getting up and running the cost of managing the sites over time We often see Drupal as this amazing like set of Legos that can be built into anything that you can dream if you can dream it You can Drupal it. It's a wonderful slogan and And and as a developer with like the way that there's a nice architecture They're good apis and as a developer this is often, you know, especially a developer who's experienced with Drupal This is often the case like you could say yeah, I can just plug this into that I'll make a view on top of that and my content type and bam I've just you know, I was at a hackathon last night and these these kids cloned essentially cloned the functionality of imdb in Four hours now They mean there's a lot of more stuff to do but the heart of what that was doesn't take that long to put together in Drupal And and the ability that we give people to really quickly model different content different access controls Essentially do your data structures. That's an immensely powerful set of features But to someone who's looking to adopt Drupal as a holistic technology to solve more than one particular problem Over the long haul the experience is more like this. They're it's confusing. It's inconsistent There's a lot of hidden complexity that isn't apparent right away. They requires knowledge That's not very widely held or well documented and there's a lot of responsibility That's thrust on the implementer to sort of carry the the weight of Drupal over the long haul And that's where the expense comes from I believe that open source solutions need platforms in order to reach internet scale The reason why WordPress is so dominant in the volume graph is because it has a really great platform called wordpress.com That has 70 million blogs running on it that nobody has to worry about maintaining Without platforms open source is still thrust far too much responsibility on an IT department or a web developer Who's playing double duty as a sysadmin or an actual sysadmin who has like 50 other things to worry about or worst of all Nobody and then it's like you're just the clock is ticking until something bad happens Because it's not just the lamp stack anymore right if you're thinking about building a more modern Drupal infrastructure There's a lot more that you got to be thinking about in terms of providing You know the best possible performance the best possible uptime and all the features that you're gonna need And it's not even just about having varnish and get it's about like actually having some DevOps capabilities So that you can iterate on your site without breaking it It's about being able to scale if you need to that's kind of complicated that's all these things are very different than building websites and right now you either have a Kind of pissed off overburdened reluctant IT organization doing this stuff Which is out of its strike zone or it's the web developer who should be building the website Except they got sucked into doing all this stuff because they're maybe they enjoyed it at first But now it's their responsibility the one who can do it. It's no fun If you think about it There are all these challenges that go into launching running scaling and maintaining websites that are really different from the challenges of thinking up Inventing and building websites. So you have all the website DevOps problems like your 24-7 on call security high performance high availability Workflow presumably everybody should have that now Version control the actual stack itself the operating system prop maybe hardware even if you if you go that far down the stack Those are all very different disciplines than thinking about the brand the content strategy and so forth the UX the Information architecture the front-end development the actual CMS development itself whatever tool you choose to use Those are pretty divergent skillsets and there are people that have both In this community and if you but it's a small group of people and they're all like booked for the next six months And they cost a lot an hour and we can't scale our adoption of Drupal relying on these very scarce Unicorn type resources who cross the streams and have all these skills We need to in order to make Drupal cheaper and easier to implement We need to take the skills on the left which thank goodness because Across site after site after site are largely the same thing and turn them into technology And allow our creative people and our human minds to focus on the problems on the right This is kind of similar to something that Dries was talking about in his keynote where if you think about as the project scales the Costs of participation go up and part of that has to do with complexity and so I believe that platforms By can leverage technology to radically reduce complexity by taking a large set of problems off the table So to speak so you no longer have to worry about the things on the left And as the difficulty and complexity of the things on the right grows You can devote more and more time and resources to them in addition to enjoying the fact that the things on the left Are probably better done by software than people anyway And this is like we have this nice little fun graphic It's like the road to server hell and it's like you know you start out You're like oh you're gonna dev server and you know you you go down the path and at the end You've got a million servers and you're on call and it's no fun and it's it's it's honestly a lot of developers And I myself I'm in this category like it's fun to tinker It's fun to build like a virtual machine and set up a bunch of packages and get something working But taking responsibility for that for the next several years is a is not something to be undertaken lightly And I think we get away with a lot of times because we're lucky But I don't think we're gonna be able to get ten times as many Drupal sites out there in the world with getting lucky So Platforms are kind of like another way of saying the cloud I used to go around and do talks about Drupal in the cloud and sort of you know regret some of the things I might have said several years ago, but whatever I feel like the cloud has made a lot of promises right the promises of the cloud are Instant provisioning no maintenance the ability to scale smoothly That cloud should work for any size business or any size project But maybe not all the way down to the person who only has five dollars and is doing something for their softball league But maybe a good cloud could work for them right if it was set up right Why not if their needs are modest and the idea is you have fewer headaches and you're innovating Continuously you sort of on a train with a bunch of other people rather than in your own little box in your closet Or your co-location facility and that's the idea But I think for many people in the website space the cloud like Amazon EC2 or Linode or Rackspace cloud Has honestly just bent moving servers from one place to another Switching from physical servers to virtual machines and moving you know going from if you were on site your your data center To some cloud hosting, but it's the same essential thing You're just having somebody else worry about the power which is not nothing But it's not that that's not what those those promises were right this promises a lot more than just like getting the server out of your facility Into someone else's facility Whether it's virtual or or bare metal And and and it's the same old problems like you have the same problems with most cloud implementations now as you did It's just that there it's in someone else's building right you you provision things one at a time You maintain things one at a time scaling is kind of a Stressful white knuckle affair that involves a lot of voodoo and knowledge that is not widely held in the community You can only upgrade things one at a time It's it actually me it probably is it's nice people to revision a new server one at a time via an API versus via Faxing someone in order form, but it still doesn't you know You're still you're still focused on that problem and not the website problem right so it hurts your innovation Right, so you get you give your headaches to someone else, but it still costs you a lot of time and money and and I think to date We have yet to see the real value of the cloud Very widely in in the world of websites and in Drupal in particular And that's what we are trying to solve. I think the platforms are trying to solve this problem They're trying to provide the true value of the cloud to the websites So the idea is that you can run at massive scale without having to rearchitect your website as it grows the idea that your use case can be contained and that it's not a one-off Cluster somebody built over here or a virtual machine that was you know provisioned by somebody's script over there that it's a Homogenized infrastructure and that it's all clear throughout and that the platform is actually focused on the website problem not on some generic PHP problem or Python problem because there's a lot of things that go along with building websites that don't necessarily apply everywhere else Like you need to be able to save files That's an important problem to solve if you're a platform And so to bring it back around to our thing like clearly we come from the Drupal community We are focused on providing value to the Drupal community And I think we actually do manage to provide value with our platform to this So the idea that you get instant provisioning no maintenance smooth scaling we're continuously innovating under the hood We've done a lot of things this year and we'll continue to do a lot of things in the years to come and the ideas We try to make it so they can really work for any size business or product a true platform should work for a small business or a personal project and A giant enterprise because that's what a real technology solution does You don't actually need special solutions for different size customers You just need a solution that actually solves the problems and that can go to scale and that's that's kind of what we've built So that is my presentation. It's about how to be successful and why platforms matter I hope that wasn't too pitchy for you, but I'm happy to take questions. Thanks If anybody has a question Yes, do you mind speaking with the microphone because they're recording and it'll be easier for future generations to benefit Okay, so it sounded like that you actually had two questions Let me tell me if this is right one question was how do you approach the problem of scaling in a way that doesn't require you to Doesn't break the bank And the other one was with through plate on the horizon, you know, and you're thinking about just getting into Drupal Should you be considering Drupal 8 or not? So the first question is easier. I think that you should look into the platforms that are available I have a strong bias about which one just you should use But you should really look into all of them because that the thing is that a good platform will allow you to start on a relatively modest budget And then smoothly scale you as you need to to a larger and larger and larger a larger size account basically Most platform companies have a kind of a distinction that they'll make between When they start to offer like guarantees around your uptime and you know higher levels of support and so forth And you may be able to get a ways before you actually have to engage that side of things And so it could be relatively cost-effective, you know on the order of a a few hundred or small low Thousands of dollars a year to be on a pretty scalable platform and then kind of like just go for it Like see how successful you can make your website And if you can make your website very successful and it really matters to your business and you're really growing it Then it should be actually fairly easy to justify the cost of you know Leaping up to get like a guaranteed uptime contractor people to scale to millions and millions of page views right if you're getting millions of page views Your website is really worth putting a good platform behind So I would I would look for a platform that allows you to start at a relatively modest price and grow as you're able to grow the the importance of your website and For Drupal 8 I still think it depends on when you want to launch It's a little it feels I mean I'm super excited about the beta coming out this week I think that's huge and It you know the the caveat is that Drupal 8 core Contains a lot more functionality than Drupal 7 core did and you may be able to actually build a whole website Without installing a single contributed module I like a real first-class website without installing or without installing many contributed modules The big concern is how long will it take for a bunch of the modules you might want to use to catch up And so I think it sort of depends on When you want to launch because if you want to launch like this year, then no don't do it Like just do build something in a in Drupal 7 and plan to do a rebuild or refresh of it You know in in six, you know in a year or so or if you have a really complex use case probably don't do it because You you're gonna need a universe of contrived modules in your library that that aren't gonna be there yet But if you're planning to launch sometime next year and your use case is relatively straightforward I think it's worth considering and you should at least like in the term in engineering terms like do a spike, right? That's where you say, you know what? We're gonna spend two days and we're gonna look at likes what it would take to get Drupal 8 close to what we need It to be and evaluate it from there like maybe wait until after the beta comes out and there's a few bug fixes But that I think would be a sane approach and probably fairly prudent Any other questions? Yes, do you mind speaking to the microphone? So as I understand the idea of a platform includes updates to the modules that are done So I believe that an ideal platform should Help the you keep the core software up to date including your content management system In turn right now. We don't actually do it for you We just make it really easy for you to do yourself I would like for us to be able to do it for you if you consent to that but there are There are enough concerns around the potential for an upgrade to break something that we wouldn't want to necessarily We would be cautious about upgrading live websites without first having the owner of that website review the update and say Thumbs up, but I think it's technologically feasible like this is not functionally that exists in pantheon or any other platform That I'm aware of for Drupal, but it's there's no reason there is no reason that we couldn't say Let's get your test environment all updated Let's run all the core unit tests and let's send you an email that says hey, we think your website looks good It's got the update in there check out the test environment And if it if you approve click here to deploy to live like that should be totally doable And that's what everyone deserves Honestly, we don't need to spend so much of our lives hacking it out on the trenches when an update comes out Like I think we can make the robots do this work for us and we as people can benefit from that We need that in order to scale further I think So in a perfect world, yes, I don't have it now, but I want to any other questions It depends I think that In our case if you have other PHP tools that you want to use that shouldn't be a problem But for people who want to run a node JS App or something in Ruby or they want to be able to compile sass as part of the platform environment That's not something we currently support and the philosophy behind that is what we we want to be good at what we're good At and we know that won't solve all of the problems But if we can conclusively and definitively solve some of the problems in a way that is bulletproof. That's of value There I but I there are other people that take a different point of view on that where they are there they're thinking that the Role for the platform is to allow you to run, you know Multiple pieces of software in this the same environment and integrate them and I think that's it's an interesting approach We just have an opinion for ourselves So what what in particular We have PDF generation. Yeah That's a that's a really that's it so our philosophy has been when there's a common enough use case And that makes sense for everyone to run well and and we think we can support it We will so PDF generation totally done on on pantheon. There is a documentation page on it. It may not be the We there are like three or four different binaries people use and we only we picked one that we thought was the best and that we could support and we use That so it might be that the binary name is different, but like all the the Common modules that are used to generate PDFs should work fine There's a there's some other limited use cases like that that we're into supporting So if you have a particular question about that, I'd be happy to talk with you afterwards to make sure that you we can Hopefully solve your problem Can you say something about your differentiators from pantheon as opposed to your competitors around sure rising up? Sure, so I think the things that differentiate us From some of the competitors are Our ability to scale smoothly a lot of other cloud platforms actually at different service levels or different sort of Sizes they actually implement different architectures And so transitioning between those architectural leaps can be difficult It you know the the your application may break you may have to re-engineer it there may be unexpected side effects With one of the things that I think we've done that we're very proud of is created an incredibly consistent It's not always a hundred percent perfectly consistent as we found out in a few edge cases We're working on solving that like we really take this very seriously Consistency throughout the platform so what works in one place will work in the other what works in your development environment Will work in your live environment what worked in your in a free sandbox site will work exactly the same way just at Larger scale on a much larger site, so that's a differentiator I think the fact that we really prioritized the developer experience because the whole to go back to this thing here, right? the whole The whole point of this graph is that in that middle market. It's the developers who are making it happen and The developers are I mean the businesses need a platform to because the long-term costs of running open source are Kind of a problem that need to be addressed, but if the platform doesn't help the developers Have a better life experience and be more productive than it's not doing its job And so I think our prioritization of the developer experience is something that helps differentiate us And then at a technology level, I think you know we have a reputation for performance. That's well-deserved We take that very seriously. I think I don't know We haven't done a recent kind of like performance showdown with other people, but there is one done last year by Web developer in Texas and it showed that we were you know, we're definitely more higher performance and more scalable than other available platforms We support multiple different content management systems, which is not all platforms do that So that's that's a differentiator and I think we are a platform company and a platform company only we're a technology company So you can't hire us to build your website. It's not possible. We won't do it and I think that's actually important for two reasons one for us it keeps as a focused on what matters which is the platform and building the technology and making it better and Secondly, it makes it much easier and more straightforward for us to partner with the developers in the community and the agencies in the community because we don't compete with them other questions Matt Johnson No, when can we spin up a pantheon instance in Europe? Or Australia yeah, sadly probably not that soon We Are working on offering customer service in Europe so on European hours And we actually do about 20% of our business out of the EU already So people use it even though the location is in the US. It's fast enough but we have made a decision not to open a Second data center here until we're fully committed to backing it with a business push and we're not ready to do it It's just like organization. It's gonna take us months to get there So I wouldn't expect it until later next year to be honest Yeah, I was hoping that I mean there was a time when we thought we'd be more gung-ho about it and like have it ready for Drupalcon Amsterdam But it just turned out not to be realistic. It's it's complicated. All right Yeah I have an enterprise level website. I'm working on how do I and of course using any platforms I have a risk that at some point of time as websites evolve they will end up in in In that the platform becomes bottleneck because let's say I have a I Need some custom image extraction extraction tool or some kind of say Custom schema for solar or something or I need elastic search And then I I have a risk when I build an architecture to when I propose Solution for clients or something. Mm-hmm somebody. I I need to consider this. Yeah, eventually I will Can end up of dropping the platform. Yep. Yep. I I know How the clients or can influence the technologies back off your part. Ah, well, okay So there's a there's a very easy way to influence a technology stack of the platform Which is to talk to me and order David who's we're at the booth the whole time and and we really do Actually, we both enjoy talking to web developers Because that's fun to do for us and but we also listen and it's we get most of our good ideas from you guys We're again, that's one of the things that differentiates us We're committed to this community of developers and trying to figure out what they need to be successful That said there is an inherent I should have a slide about this in in part of things because it's like I'm kind of saying platforms are for everyone And the truth is it's not actually platforms for everyone where platforms really really kill it is When you're like one or two steps behind the most The most creative and cutting-edge use cases because platforms are about taking things that are Standardized enough to essentially make them really simple to get and then having that be just like done And if you are really if you're a development shop And I this is what I did when I was a development shop So I would not fault you for being here if you are about like being on the cutting edge of every single technology Then I think you still might be able to use a platform for some of your projects You probably want to know what's all the different platforms are capable of doing so you can pick You know because there's still some benefits in being able to hand over a solution on a platform to a customer for the long haul It's just easier to support than if you have to keep track of a bunch of servers But if you really want to push the envelope then I think you know you basically on some level you're saying I am so I'm so on the cutting edge that I will do all of this. I Know what services I need In some cases, you know, you can you can get like other Provided cloud services for some of the things so like if you wanted elastic search You could get that from some other platform and integrate the two platforms and there's people that are doing that more I don't know whether that's really the future or not I think there's going to always be and it's an important role for Developers that do the full stack full stack development is a real thing and I think it goes way beyond just like doing the back end I think it involves designing and managing the services that your your application talks to and so I Have an enormous amount of Not just sympathy, but at admiration for developers that actually go that far with things I can't support all of their use cases Until we understand that some of them are you know a Scalable be supportable and see gonna be implemented widely enough that it makes sense for us to do so like you mentioned elastic search That's what I'm very interested in I think elastics elastic search is gonna kick the shit out of solar And it can't happen soon enough because solar is a bear to set up. It's a bear to maintain It's difficult to configure. It's difficult to customize and Elastic search essentially they're running on the same underlying engine elastic search just said well why don't we just not have all those problems and have a way better search interface and The unfortunately for Drupal we built a lot of our like next-generation search module integration Tech at a time before elastic search existed So we have this pretty good integration layer with solar and if you just set it all up It just works and it's way better than searching out of the database But if you want to customize it, it's it's just not it's like a hard to do and for us We we don't support a lot of customization because it's hard to support But with elastic search we were actually using that internally for projects And it's much easier to deal with and we're much happier with it And I think if we can get a good elastic search module for Drupal Then we'll see a lot more elastic search on platforms But it's always going to be a trade-off, you know, yeah, yeah, well, yeah So I think you have to you you got a you you have to understand I think it's important also to understand where this fits into your You know if you're doing this professionally as a shop where it fits into your business And if you're an organization that's looking to adopt Drupal as a tool that you use for a lot of websites Where where your strengths and weaknesses lie so I think um, you know a lot of times people I've seen things where people actually use a bunch of technologies that maybe weren't necessary and it that Ended up costing them more in the end because they ended up with a much more complicated solution that was over the long haul very difficult to maintain and I think if you're where we see a lot of people having success with platforms is where they kind of know What their projects tend to look like they know what their customers tend to look like and their Interested in taking that knowledge and making it work more efficiently and that's And that's you know again there there and you know the ultimate extreme of that is we have some people to do this on the Platform on our platform I'm sure there are people doing it on other platforms where you have somebody who just really like kind of rolls out the same website over and over And over again But they're able to do it at a lower cost and faster and for a larger volume of customers And if they were designing everyone and architecting them from scratch And so I think that you know if we look at the the whole thing of what we need to scale Right if we're gonna take over none We need to be able to build websites much more quickly and that that involves taking expertise and and knowing a certain set of problems And saying I've got this problem solved in the future I'd like to actually be able to do more to support the reuse and reputable the Repetibility of solutions for customers because I think for a lot of customers who are out there like nonprofits of the world You have a question to we can answer but like I got my start in Drupal with this project called civic space Which was just take Drupal make it intelligible to a nonprofit call it civic space and tell them to use that instead of this Terrible proprietary vendor they were all on and it worked like once it was like hey Here's a solution for a nonprofit people understood and they got it and they wanted to use it when it was like Drupal Which could really be anything it was much more difficult for them to figure out And so I think you know platforms can help us as we productize Drupal into more industry specific or customer specific type solutions You're another question. I think that's an incredibly important question So the question was where does this mean things are going with mobile? Ah? Sorry, I'm just skipping through my slides. So we have something interesting on the screen right now Drupal is Drupal 7 just got totally screwed right Drupal 7 the major development cycle for Drupal 7 happened Right about when the first generation of the iPhone came out and everyone thought it was going to be a dud Because it's for like the first year and a half. It was like it's too slow. It doesn't really work You know this gesture stuff kind of and I don't know And Drupal 7 was released at a time when the mobile web was not It was it was the potential was obviously there But the industry didn't really think about it and certainly developers weren't thinking Oh, I gotta make something that works on that kind of device People who are doing mobile web development We're thinking more about how to make something work on like a Nokia phone Which is very different than building what we all know now to be mobile websites And so the Drupal 7 in and of itself is just lacking in mobile support in many ways Which is unfortunate Drupal 8 addresses a lot of the shortcomings. There are a lot of Things that you would want to do from a platform a from owning your website perspective that a platform can provide Like being able to deliver responsive images or dynamically sized images They're supporting more up-to-date protocols so that mobile websites can load faster These are the sorts of things that you can totally do on your own server But these that's an example of something that I think a platform Really really should be doing and considering we've got some of that I think we need to we need to do more to have stronger mobile support And that's clearly something we will be working more on and I think other platforms will also be working more on because It's where it's where the whole industry is moving. So I think that the the benefit there is As opposed to like rolling your own or like having your own server is the innovation around mobile is happening fairly quickly and It is a obviously valuable widely head hell held totally standardizable type of use case And so it's the type of problem better so better a platform level support for mobile sites is a type of things that Platforms should be really good at so then you can just focus on like getting the right responsive design and They can take care of a lot of the under the hood stuff That's required to make sure that you can deliver those designs and deliver them quickly to mobile devices


From the International Telecommunications Union Headquarter in Geneva, we are celebrating the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. This year, we're pleased to have with us Ms. Hilda Moutse-Équo, the Director of Economics, Tariffs, Competition and Consumer Protection, at the Zimbabwe Telecommunication Regulatory Authority. Welcome, Hilda. Thank you, Bilal. We're pleased to have you with us and would like to know from you your experience with the standardization program and the bridging the standardization gap. How did that affect you personally? How did it affect the region and perhaps the whole study group? Bilal, I must say that we are very excited about this bridging the standardization gap program. We've benefited immensely from this program and for me, I've been attending study group pre-meetings for many years and prior to that, I didn't understand, I didn't have a clue of what was happening. I only listened to the arguments, read the contributions, but I didn't know how to make a contribution myself. I didn't understand how to go about it, but now I think I'm almost a guru in that. Very good. And why is this important to your country, to your region in terms of being an active participant? First, I think it helps in ITU achieving its goal of inclusivity because it helps us, especially with developing countries, to participate more actively in ITU work and its deliverables. And I think that is very important. It also helps us improve how we do our work back home. So the information sharing and the knowledge about what others are doing helps you at home in your work? Yes, it's very helpful and we've benefited and most of what we take from the ITU, we always make sure we implement back home. Thank you very much and I wish you a happy World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. Thank you very much. We hope this program will continue.


This is stock number 20148. We are here at Summit Ford in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ford and heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this brand new 2020 Ford F450 crew cab long box dually with the all-new 6.7 liter power stroke diesel. This one has 475 horsepower with 1,050 foot-pounds of torque. This one is all set up for the max towing that you can do with this truck and that comes out to 32,600 pounds on this particular truck. This is a four-wheel drive, has the fifth wheel and gooseneck prep package, has the 430 gears with the limited slip, and it has the 10-speed automatic transmission and the all-new 6.7 liter power stroke diesel. We're gonna take a walk around. If you want to check out more photos in the upper right-hand part of your screen is a link right to our website where you can check out more photos of this truck. So click that and check us out there. But we're gonna get up close and check out all the options on this particular truck. They come with Continental Conta Hybrid HD3 22570R 19.5 tires with the 19.5 inch Hollis aluminum rims. Really nice rims on here. You can see the tread pattern on those tires. One of the highway tread pattern there. This is an XL with the STX package on it. You get the chrome-trimmed grille. This has the ultimate tow camera with the 360 camera on there. So you get a front camera there. And we'll go over all that when we get into the inside of the truck. Really like the design on these Super Duty trucks. You get the painted step bars. The telescopic tow mirrors. This one has the clearance lights up there. I believe they're LED clearance lights. This one also has the FX4 off-road suspension package. So you get all the skid plates and the different shocks as well. You can see it does have the anti-sway bars back here still. Take a look at that underbody. Also want to take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this video at any point. So you can go take a look at all the options. I'm not going to go over everything that's on this sheet, but feel free to pause it and check everything out. It has the 14,000 gross vehicle weight rain package, serious satellite radio, the Gooseneck kit, STX appearance package, the ultimate camera, pro trailer backup assist, the mirrors and everything like that for an MSRP of $67,005. To see the actual window sticker you can click in the upper right hand part of your screen to our website and get a link to that actual window sticker to download it and print it. Take a look at the bed here. The fifth wheel and Gooseneck prep package. So you can buy the hitch that fits that. You also have a wiring back here. It has a 7 pin and then I'm not sure what that hookup is called. That's a look at that up. But you get the cargo cam up there as well. Just to get the backup camera here. There's a light here that shines down, makes everything bright back here. You get the 4 pin and 7 pin wiring back here. The heavy-duty receiver hitch with the sleeve reducer. Blind spot monitoring on this truck. Take a look inside. You get the telescopic tow mirrors. They have blind spot monitoring there. You get LED side lights. They also fold out like so and manually fold in. You can see there's the camera for your 360 view camera. Inside the XL package gives you the gray cloth interior. You get the 40-20-40 split bench seating, the heavy-duty rubber floors, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. You get the tilt and telescopic steering wheel. Instrument cluster is digital. You get a digital speedometer outside temp display, steering wheel with the thumb pads, audio and Bluetooth controls on the right, cruise controls and information center controls on the left. This is the 10-speed automatic transmission. If you ever want to figure out what speed you have and you don't know, let's go to that and it'll tell you your top speed. Put it in drive and it'll tell you your top speed at the top there. Turned-out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller. Here's your trailer backup system. I was wondering why Ford never put that on the heavy-duty trucks. Apparently they do now. This one has the 8-inch sync radio. You get AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities and Bluetooth of course. Before we get into the cameras too much, just want to show you it does have the factory exhaust brake, your stability control, downhill assist control, of course your hazard lights, and then your camera. You can press that and check out your 360 view right there as well as what's right behind you. Now you can change all your cameras so you just click that button. You can see you can go from just the 360 view to the front view to the overall front view and then this is your cargo cam. So if you change those you can see now we're looking straight ahead. That's what's directly in front of us in the camera. You can do kind of your front bumpers so you're not going to hit anything and then you can also do your cargo cam which shows you what's going on in the bed of the truck and of course it gives you a nice straight line when you're lining up a hitch that you're going to be right on where you want to be. So very cool stuff there. That's a whole different video for going through this radio but you can see just definitely a lot of cool stuff that you can do with the radio. I think you can turn the camera off by pressing the top camera button. You get all your apps in here. This one has Ford Pass Connect with the Wi-Fi. You can hook up your mobile apps to it, your Bluetooth of course and like I said AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities.  You get a USB-C and a USB jack as well as a power point right there. Up here you get a 12 volt and a 110 volt 400 watt max dual glove boxes here. Get a little bit of room up there and then your books and everything are down here. This one also has your map lights, interior lighting. You get six auxiliary upfitter switches and then your map lights and everything are right there. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll take a look under the hood. Sing runs just as smooth as all the other six sevens that you're used to. Back seats you get the latch child safety system back here. You get one on each side.  It's got a little hook that you grab to put that seat back down and it does have the fixed glass window with the built-in rear defrost. You also get your child safety locks back here and just to quickly check out underneath that hood here. Remember the all-new 6.7 liter power stroke diesel 475 horsepower, 1,050 foot pounds of torque. Runs really smooth as it should being a brand new truck. Anyways Oxford white is the color and we'll go around one more time. I'd personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You will have been able to check out the truck, learn a little bit about it, see it from all the different angles and I hope you just like the video. We work hard at them and to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three-quarter tons, one tons, super heavy duties like this one. Go to www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. If you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more heavy duty truck videos like this one and new truck videos like this one on your right. 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This paper proposes a novel framework for automatic sleep stage detection from EEG signals. It uses a transformer model with an attention-based module to extract relevant features from the EEG signal and then uses these features to classify the signal into one of four stages, wake, N2, N3, or REM. This approach outperforms existing methods and provides reliable results with high-interator reliability. Additionally, the authors provide visualizations of the correspondence between sleep-staging decisions and features extracted by their method, enhancing the interpretability of the proposal. This article was authored by Zheng Chen, Zi Wei Yang, Ling Wei Zhu, and others.


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I mean it was an exciting game to be able to play everybody and to get some goals in in the first half to put three goals in the back of the net and the first half was nice and we you know the some youngsters off the bench got to to do some exciting things and yeah so that's where we are so we're happy to get the win always happy to get the win so yeah so the sophomore group is um the the sophomore group came in strong and a lot of them started their freshman year and I I often refer to sophomores sometimes as having the sophomore slump but they did not this this day they uh they you know Marissa came on and and did a great thing with with some goals and Lexi of course and Sarah was able to find the back of the net with a great shot at the top of the arch and um and get an assist as well so it was neat to see some of these kids who have been struggling a little bit to put the ball away today right yeah that's that's been um it's a good thing and it's been a bad thing for us this season as well because we get a lot of shots and um we'd like to convert more of them and that's that's some work we'll continue to to strive to get better at yeah so kind of what's the message to the team you guys are right still playing to win absolutely I mean the message is is we we're sending off some seniors we've got four seniors that put their heart and soul into this program and um and we've got a great underclassmen group that is striving to get better and what not you know what how can you end and not try to play positively and and get the best out of this game that we can and um hopefully just continue the momentum for uh for next year and prime for the spring