So I'm gonna talk about the a little bit of the history of Fedora websites and Have we got to where we are today? And then kind of end by putting out a huge call for help because we really need help on the website steamer So just out of curiosity Anybody in your part of the project when this was the landing site for Fedora? Does anybody remember this? Yeah, so this was actually before Fedora was using its own domain for the website. This was actually fedora.redhat.com back in 2004 so Little bit of history for you and then so more recently a couple of years ago We switched to this kind of design. There were designs in between there, but This is what we were using for a number of years and Then today, this is what the landing site of Fedora looks like. So if you're gonna get Fedora.org This is what you'll see. This is what our users see our new users who are Wanting to download Fedora or get involved. This is the landing site they see. It's simpler than the needle design. It's Less less going on at once so you can kind of focus in on individual components and Yeah So how did we get there from the previous design to what we have today? So mid-2018 We had a volunteer contributor who was kind of leading the Fedora website's team His name was Robert Mayer, Roby Duck on IRC and He was doing this for a number of years and it got to mid-2018 and he had other commitments come up Which happens and he was no longer able to devote as much time to maintain the website So around this time Fedora 29 beta was pending due in a couple of days and we had no website prepared and that was a problem So a couple of people reached out to me internally because I had worked on the websites before and They said hey like we're in trouble. We have Fedora 29 beta coming out. We don't have websites help so I Worked it was the weekend before release. I worked updating the websites getting everything ready to go Same kind of thing happened for Fedora 29 final We got to the end, you know the release was approved ready to go to GA and We had no websites same kind of deal so started noticing a trend here and a little bit later in that year kind of had a heart-to-heart with Jim who was my manager at the time and this controller is going crazy And I explain, you know You know Originally working on websites was not part of my job description. I was like, you know, I enjoyed doing this I've worked on websites before I'm happy to keep doing it But I have a request a condition and that was I really want to redo the tool set that we're using for the websites because well, I'll go into why but Around the same time Matt Miller the through our project leader came to the web team and he had a request. He said, you know for fedora 30 We want to redesign get fedora. We want to have a new face for fedora You know we had had the previous design for Five years or so probably at that point and it was time for a change the facelift also at that same time When Ryan Lurch from the design team saw that request he started working on the the new get fedora the one that we have today But he also emailed a couple of people internally and externally and said Hey, while we're redoing this website while we're doing the redesign should we also look at our Tooling should we like see if we should switch to different tooling? you know a different static site generator or whatnot he wants to open that discussion and His email about that he had no idea that I reached out to to Jim earlier and there was a totally independent thing like we We came to the same conclusion. We need to redo the tooling as a totally separate thing So I guess great minds things alike, but why why didn't what drew us both to this this idea so The old fedora websites repository is the give repository that has All of our websites kind of crammed into it has the landing site get fedora.org It also has armed up for our project or all thought for our project or expands labs Iot all of the floor websites crammed into one repository And that has a couple of problems. So first off the repository is huge All the static assets for these websites the images CSS JavaScript. These are copied for each and every website There's a lot of custom code so In the old websites repository, we were not using a static site framework We were using gender to two templates and a lot of custom Python code that kind of compiled them all together You were not using an official framework to do this There's a 557 line config file called called global bar dot py which gives you some indication of how this is going There were a lot of legacy code and hacks that were added in over time so for a given release for example There would be a spin or a lab that that didn't get done in time to go out in GA So we would have to go into all the templates and comment out just that one spin Or sometimes we'd have a particular release or version that has a different Download path from all the others. So we'd have to go in and find that just for that one release And then remember to undo that change for the next release And a lot of those never got undone So the templates just became a mess of all this legacy stuff added over time so It was hard for our developers to set up and contribute I mean just cloning the repository alone takes a significant amount of time because how big it is I Mean I have fiber at my house now, and it still takes several minutes to clone the repository so Ryan from the design team, and I started kind of exploring new static site generators And we looked at a couple options the first one we looked at was Hugo which is written in go-lang and I had some new ideas had this idea of themes where You kind of have a set of themes and you reuse them for all the the sub components of the site But it did a little bit too much it was trying to be a little too helpful I had had a very specific specific idea of what a static site should be and how it should be laid out and We kind of had our own ideas that we wanted to do and Hugo was kind of getting in the way of doing that We looked at Jekyll we looked at hackle which is like a Haskell version of Jekyll We looked at Pelican, which is a Python one And we also kind of asked what does the team already know what do we use what are you know? What is our skill set in story infrastructure in Fedora websites? What are the what are the tools that we already know? And the one thing is we use flask these Python flask for all of our modern web apps in Fedora infrastructure It's kind of something that we've settled on over the last year or two Previously we're using every framework over the Sun, but you know, we're we're kind of consolidating on one framework now and A community member said hey you guys are familiar with flask as a team like the Fedora project uses flask for things Have you checked out frozen flask and? Spoiler spoiler spoiler alert that is what we settled on So frozen flask is basically you lay out the website as a flask app You have all your endpoints and your functions that they define Templates and template variables and whatnot and then it will go through and it will crawl the site and generate static HTML files from Your flask app, so we tried it and we pretty quickly settled on so a lot of design work with with Ryan and Moe to any mock-ups and myself implementing A lot of work later. We deployed the new get fedora in may of last year The sad thing is it's still not the one true place you get fedora, right? So get fedora.org But we still have alt for all thought for our project order for the alternate architectures We still have armed up for our project or for armed specific stuff We still have spins around their own sub-domain. We still have labs. We still have all these other sites that if you don't know You know where to look for a particular version of fedora, like, you know, it's hard to find It's not one umbrella site that has everything on it and that's kind of what we want to move to So So we need help we we really need help to to get there So kind of some goals that we have in the short term Maintenance so people file bug reports, you know, people see typos on the site You know, there's translations that They get updated over time Or strings that we forgot to add to the translation system Every fedora release and fedora beta release The website needs to be updated in the new system with with frozen flask. It's really easy. There's one YAML file It's kind of all self-documented So you go in you update a couple variables and the site is updated. It's it's pretty nice In the long term like I said, we want to merge all the other sites into get fedora So that get fedora.org is the one place to actually get fedora So also there's There's still work that we need to do on the old websites until that until that migration to get fedora happens The old websites still need to be maintained until then so every fedora release You know, it's it's Not fun. It's there's a lot of tedious work there. Like I said with all the legacy templates and whatnot But as of right now that still needs to be maintained and we still need a lot of help doing that so This is kind of a call for help if anyone is interested in in helping out on the website scheme It is highly rewarding rewarding work You know, the websites are highly visible anybody who's interested in fedora looks up fedora wants to contribute to fedora They're going to start at get fedora.org. It's the landing site. You get to work with really cool people mostly other volunteers Really smart people really good designers people who want to see fedora be successful and You get to help fedora be successful So a couple of resources if you're interested in helping out we have fedora websites on free note That is probably the best place if you have immediate questions or you know kind of want to introduce yourself or show interest That's probably the best place to get started We have two really badly named repositories right now We have here pig your dot.io slash fedora websites That is the old repository that has all the websites kind of combined into one repo We have the new websites, which is through our web slash websites Really badly named, but I'm hoping once the once all the other subsites get merged into get fedora We can get rid of the first robot story And we also have a mailing list and So there's updates to get thrown there sometimes you can also feel free to introduce yourself there and Kind of say hey, I'm interested. I would like to help out You can also contact me directly. I'm more than happy to kind of help some people Get started and kind of show around what we have Like I said, we really need help with this this the fedora websites are what people see when But they want to get involved in fedora when they want to try out fedora for the first time And the website team is really lacking mandala right now. It's something we really really need help with so That's about all I have. I'm happy to take questions, but you know, this is Mostly just wanted to show the migration to the new website what that looked like and kind of throw out a call for help because we could really use it There's questions. I'm happy to take them, but otherwise that's good That was really the main reason it was like we had a lot of familiarity with flask already We've been using it quite heavily in infrastructure All the team members were pretty familiar with it. The old website 3po was Python it was a lot of custom code, but it was still Python So that's why, you know Flasking and Python was an advantage Yeah, I mean that's that's the main reason it's just familiarity again We looked at other kind of compared other static site generators Some of them we could have made work some of them were again trying to do more trying to be more helpful than we wanted them to be but Yeah, mostly familiar Yes, there is Yeah, so there's a on the fedora documentation website There's a whole walk-through. It'll help you set up the container It'll you know the the container image has all the dependencies and everything already there So just go through the steps It'll set it up and you can go to the site in your browser. You can make changes and you'll see them right away Thank you


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Hi I'm Sean, founder of Counter Alliance Core. We're here in Sars-Toon Creek, where we have one of our food forest projects, actually six projects here, and six projects in three other villages, El Cedro, La Pintara, and La Guayra Cocolí. Thanks to the crowdfunding campaign, thanks to all of our supporters, our donors. Here's a rambutan tree, one of the 50 trees on this site alone, the site of Don Marcos. And we're here today to deliver on another part of the help that we give with these projects, part of the grants for these food forests, which is organic spraying. We brought a bottle of neem and also pruning, like we brought the pruning shears and also training how to do that. So this is part of the one year of continuing support that we give as part of these grants. And we're also getting ready to plant the second half of all of these project sites. We make sure that the regenerative methods are being followed, like mulching, like using legume trees for mulch and for shade and nitrogen. So if all goes well with that, which they are in most of these sites, then each benefactor receives another 50 fruit trees. And that'll be the next update coming up in December. So thanks again to everyone who donated and stay tuned for more.


We're tired! A three times Super Bowl champion. Coming to a TV booth near you, you, you! They already saw you saying that you would never look good in another uniform. So will you continue to look good in a New England Patriots uniform? I think that is a fact. I will always only look good in a patch uniform. But I will no longer look good in a patch uniform going forward. I'm officially retiring from the NFL. I'm happy for them, but I don't like it because it's playing at such a high level. Why now? I need answers joined right now by newly retired, out three-time all-pro, three-time Super Bowl champion, and a good friend of mine, Devon McCordy. How are you? I'm good. Don't hurt yourself. Don't get too excited. I know it's my first time on here. I love your repping. I mean, it took too long if you asked me, but you've been busy with another great season. You led this team in interceptions this season. Dev, a lot of things to talk about. You're still playing at a really high level. Why now? I would say first off, I wanted to always lead the game, not being like an absolute bum and just thinking it up out there. So for me, mentally, I just had enough. I think it was the point at the end of the year. I kind of knew that I probably was going to retire, but I think I needed to make sure that's how I felt mentally and then physically, seeing that my body wanted to give it a go, but having surgery, getting at a point in my rehab where it was time to start working out and getting ready for the season. Again, I just didn't have it in me, and I knew at that point, probably the last week and a half, two weeks that I was going to make this decision and then I was just figuring out what the best way was to go about it. But I'm excited for what's next, and I'm excited to look back and just have a couple drinks and just reminisce about my career and all the good times. I mean, you have a couple Super Bowls to choose from. I asked these kind of questions to Gronk when he hops on the show. So what is that one memory that first pops up into your head? Like, if you had to frame, you have these frames with your beautiful kids and shout out to them in Daku I love and adore, and it's probably supporting you through this retirement process that can't be easy. What photo are you putting in that frame from your entire illustrious career? Well, that one behind me is a pretty good one at the Super Bowl, but it's there's a time when we beat the Rams in Super Bowl 53. We're on the sideline and confetti starts to fall and Jay Max on a knee. I'm just standing over top of him so excited, so happy for him. So I would say if someone said frame a moment, I'd be that moment. I think I have a big shout out to Jared Rita and our video department took that picture on the sideline. Great picture that to me really captured that whole year of watching a bum like Jay Max come to our team, get his first Super Bowl, and I got to just witness that as a big brother, it was an awesome feeling. And you held the Rams to three points, so it doesn't, it's not lost on me. You would pick, you would pick a 13 to three low scoring. I'm not taking. Sposefest of a Super Bowl to be your absolute favorite. Okay, so you're, you know, the tweet was it's not about the, if something about the journey or where you're going, what is the destination? You have this retirement announcement, which is so cool and amazing that you do it to your brother, Jason. He's clearly focused on his career, which he is crushing on Good Morning Football, which you visited recently. Let's manifest this thing. What is the ideal situation for Devin McCourty? Well, right now it's a good another job. Like you said, you know, Doc's supporting me through this. Doc does not want me home. She hates, but I have extended time at home. I'm at home still being a captain trying to run the show saying we should do this like that. Why are we not waking up earlier? So she wants me gone. So I'm hoping with, you know, making a decision now retiring that my name could be thrown in there for somebody's TV jobs. Just get an opportunity to go out there and just improve. You know, I think that's the biggest thing from watching Jay. I watched his first ever show on Good Morning Football and then being on with him this past that past week. It was just so cool because I'm like, man, this guy's actually good at this. Like he's reading the telepompter going back and forth. I'm like, where's this guy from? Like, how did he get this? So it's just for me just getting that opportunity. I'm excited about it. And I would say that's what's been pretty cool. I didn't think when I signed back to New England the last couple of times that there would come a point in my career that I'll be walking away from football will be so excited about what's next. It's just, I think, hard for us football players to imagine. So to be at that point and to know that, you know, there could be some good things ahead for me is very exciting. And, you know, I'm ready to kind of take on that challenge. I mean, I think your brother learned it from you. And don't talk about how you just realized you're good at media when you worked with me 10 years ago. That was just a random Monday. It was a random Monday. We would pull up to a quick slant.  I had a good time. Roll through a quick slant. You would come with all the energy and candy. We just go out there and share time. We show Tom Korn what to do. So that was good times. That wasn't work though. Yeah. Do you want to do a million things? You do something already. You have a good rep, like camaraderie with guys who are really innovative in the media space. I know that. You could do your own thing. You could do the I am athlete sort of vibe, brand of Marshall thing. You could go work for a network. You're just open to everything. Is there something that you prefer? Do you want to be in the booth? I will say right now, I only got to do that for 10 minutes at the broadcast boot camp that the NFL puts on. Last March. So I'm not a hundred percent sure. I'm most comfortable right now doing the studio shows that I've done. And then eventually me and Jay do want to get back to, you know, I don't know if it'll be the same kind of structure that we had our podcasts going before. But we do want to get back to being able to do some type of podcast or scripted series, something like that of being able to kind of bring out something else that, you know, guys are doing. But, you know, I think between, you know, the pivot and I am athlete, like they're crushing that space. So it's been fun to just watch those guys and see what they've done. So just trying to build off that and kind of use what we've done all of these years and find a different avenue to kind of be. And we have to mention the new hides podcast because you got two brothers there who are skyrocketing rushing the top of these media charts crushing it. So I saw Travis Kelsey last night at an Oscars party here in LA and I saw one other NFL. I mean, Travis is Mr. Hollywood now. Here he is eating an in and out burger. I'll ask you the other guy that I saw that's in an NFL royalty world. Guess who I saw last night at the Vanity Fair Party. Was it Edelman? No, that's such a good guess. I shouldn't have given you options. I saw I saw your I saw one of your favorite people, Robert Kraft, someone who you have so much respect for. And I love seeing him. He's a bright light. He's incredible. And listen, most people don't spend their careers in one place and most people in the NFL have short careers. You did your entire 13 year run in New England. How special was that to you and that relationship with Robert Kraft? He interrupts your press conference. It's so beautiful. Yeah, it was awesome. And I think not only the play there, but the ability because of the extended time being in one place to get to know, you know, RKK, Jonathan, Dan, Josh, like all his kids and to be around their family to me was probably the best part of that. And, you know, towards the end of my career, all some of the special moments for RKK is 80th birthday party is wedding as Jonathan was going through the invitations just think of just to think of me and send me an invite and be able to be there. And, you know, obviously they shared in a lot of great moments for me on and off the field but to, you know, kind of be able to do the same thing as a friend has been awesome. So just being able, you know, from your time, you know, that you spend a year up here to be in this area, just this team, the fans and the fan base like they look at you as like man we love this guy because he was loyal to New England he stayed here. And for me that's been awesome these last like probably month and a half two months of just walking around everybody would see me and a black, what are you going to do you got to give us one more year you have to. So just being able to enjoy that and I love this community is whole New England community has accepted me and I've been able to grow and do so many different things. It's an honor for me to look back on my career and say man for 13 years. I got to not only play here but I got to serve a community that accepted me and was grateful and I was grateful that they accepted me and you know everything that I learned from the New England community. It's really well said and I you know you're talking about this and I'm thinking about free agency and it starts in an hour and I'm thinking about a guy like Levante David who's such a stud played every year of his career in Tampa Bay. He is that he's facing this decision of Tampa doesn't really have the money do I go there on less money do I go take more money somewhere else and and it means something to be in that where company of just playing for one squad. And if you're going to see this or watching this like that's going through his head you were loved up there and are loved and will forever be because you were the heart and soul of the Patriots defense. Tom Brady did his thing and you did it for for all of that. Let's check out some of that leadership on display courtesy of NFL films.  We didn't all think we'd be here. You thought you'd be going to free agency. You could have went anywhere. You battled to be on this team. You was in Detroit. You thought you was a billy. You didn't know you'd be back. You got trained in here. You thought you'd get trained. I thought I'd be gone. There's a reason. God plan this fellas. Let's dominate. Take advantage. No tomorrow. Let's dominate today. Dominate on three. One, two, three. Where was that energy Mondays at NBC Sports Boston? I already used it Monday morning. That was the problem. Insane. That is so insane. I would say this. I remember, I think it was my second year. We had veterans, my rookie year, Brandon Merryweather and James Sanders, who really led all of that and led the team. And then the next year they were both gone. And it was kind of me and Pat Chung. And anybody that knows Chung, Chung's looking at me like, I'm not, I'm not getting a speech and talking to guys. So I just remember being in that circle and being like, man, I don't know what I just said to these guys. It was probably terrible. And then I would say being around Matthew Slater and seeing the preparation, seeing the thought that he put in any time he talked to the team. I would say moving forward. I really looked at that time with those guys in that circle as an honor that other men would look at me in a circle. And I would say, man, I can't wait for this guy to get me going. I took a lot of pride in that. And I want to deliver.  And, you know, I think for me, that's probably one of the things I cherish most, the secondaries I played in, because there was so many close connections. We knew each other's kids. We knew each other's struggles. We were there for each other. And to me that, you know, call it minute to two minutes that we got was kind of highlighting why we were going out there to play together and the plan was to go out there and dominate and look good and play good together. I love the idea that you just like black out when you're doing that. Just go out there and have a great game, which I love. Matthew Slater, I believe is coming back for his 97 season this year, which is one of the wildest stories in the NFL because he's such an inspiration. There's no one more beloved than him. But outside of him, who are you handing the keys to that Patriots locker room from a leadership perspective too? I think two guys that stick out for me always think defense, but, you know, obviously I'll start because I feel like if I don't mention this, everybody runs with it. Matt Jones is going to be a leader of the Patriots. He's a captain. He's a quarterback and Dave Andrews. And then obviously the other captains this past year, Richard Wise and Joanne Bentley, but I always like when I get that question, I think the captains are obvious. But I think other guys like depending on what works out with Jacoby Myers and Jonathan Jones to me are two guys that have a ton of leadership qualities. But I think they remind me of myself and I'll throw Kyle Duggar in there as well of you have leadership qualities, but there's leaders all around you. So you don't need to do that. Like it doesn't make sense for you to talk after, you know, either I talk or Slate talks. But I think those guys will now look around and be like, all right, we got to replace the energy, the passion that Deb had when he spoke to the team. And I think those are some guys that will step up depending on how free agency works out. You know, Jay Jones and Jacoby are gone. And I think Doug will look around and say even more now like, hey man, I know I'm quiet, but these guys need me. I know the process of not meeting and who. I expect some of those younger guys at a home grown to really step up. Deb, you're too media savvy. You didn't fall for my Mac Jones thing by, you know, leaving him out of that answer. But are you telling me? Well, you can't, but listen, there's a lot of controversy around Mac. There's a lot of criticism around Mac. So you and how we handle things and what he's like, what do you mean? Cause he's demonstrative out on the field. He hasn't, you know, like he had huge shoes to fill. That's probably why. Are you telling me that Mac Jones is the future of this franchise? Yeah, like, so for me, I don't understand. I'll say this, all these young quarterbacks come in and it's like, they get crushed right away. Then we watched jail and Hearst, we give him time, develop. And now everybody's like, did you see the soup bowl he had? Man, he might have been better than my homes. And it's like, yeah, he got drafted for a reason. We see Tua down in Miami. We finally get some stability around him.  Oh man, he's actually a good player. And I look at Mac, who came in, came in as a rookie under Josh McDaniel's show. So much promise, ended up in the Pro Bowl as an alternate played really well for us. Gave us a chance to go compete in the playoffs, which wasn't, didn't go well at all, but gave us a chance to be in the playoffs. Two years removed from the greatest quarterback to ever play the game. We were back in the playoffs. Like you never hear of that. Then last year, it's kind of like a new kind of testing things out with, you know, Maddie P and Joe judge kind of running the offense, which it didn't work. And, you know, the bad thing for Mac is a lot of that goes right to him. Like he wasn't good. He is his fault. His fault. And I just don't see it that way. I think he's a young guy who now get a chance to be with Billy O, a proven offensive mind in this league. And I think he's going to go and I think he's just going to skyrocket. Especially when they get DeAndre Hopkins, which they better do, build, build, better get that kid for Billy O. That would be nice to see those two reunited. Dev, the other thing I'm going to say is let's cut that tape off and send it right to ESPN, to CBS, to NFL Network, to whoever. Because the way that you got just so heated for Mac Jones, I could listen to that all day. You were amazing. You'll do whatever you want to do for now. Relax, have a couple of beers, reminisce and enjoy yourself.  Come on here with me and Gronk and Edelman. I like that idea. I might come out there and hang out. Thanks, Kay. I would love that. Much love to your family. Thank you and congratulations on an incredible career, one of the best guys on and off the field. And Mac Jones, who knew? All per quarter, but better than Tom Brady. That's what Devon just said. Better than Tom. I'll do that to me.


Everybody give it a round of applause. I'm coming through, they wanna see what I'm about. Yeah, I got skills, do it for the thrill. I'm on a pay for proud. All right, so hey Devin, appreciate you giving me all the information on the 2018 F-150. Thank you so much, seems like a beautiful truck. Look, I'm just a little bit far away, I'm three hours away, so I'm gonna look for one more local because I just don't, I just don't wanna drive that far. You, but our vehicles are all marketing prices, special one, sorry. You're okay, watch it. Everybody give it a round of applause.  Okay, listen, listen, this is nothing. Let me explain this to you, okay?  Never, never, okay?  They're not, nobody even cares about you, okay? They care about themselves. I swear to God, it's, no, no, no, it's not a bad thing, is this the truth? Like I'm thinking that you're thinking about me, you think that I'm thinking about you, really we're not thinking about each other, we're all thinking about ourselves. So how about we just do this?    Whether you're deadly out of here or not, just on your heart, what do you wanna say? Devon, I appreciate you. You're just a little bit too far away. I'm gonna look for one a little bit closer to me. Absolutely, I'm sure there's definitely a reason why you gave me this call today. It's Margaret Price, it's a hot trade. If Price is right, I know you live a little far, but you wouldn't let distance stop you from a good deal, right? Hey guys, sorry to interrupt the video. Right now's the time to take yourself to a whole new level. Listen, the market is gonna demand you to get more skill right now than you've ever needed to have. And if you do, not only will you become great, but you're gonna make more money than you ever imagined, I would love to talk to you, tell me what you need help with, text me right now. If you see on the screen, my cell phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>, let me say that again,<PHONE_NUMBER>, shoot me a text message, tell me what you need help with, I'll reach out and call you, let's take you to the next level, let's get back to the video. Everybody give me a round of applause. No, you did a good job. You did a good job. Hey, good job, good job. Listen, and by the way, watch this. Hey, Devin, is your heart a little bit shaky? She's alive now. She's alive, we just let her out of jail, okay? All right, but listen, I wanted to say something to you real quick, all right, rephrase. Everybody understand what rephrase means.  So what happens is that when I feel, when I feel somebody say something, what my goal is is not to stick to what they are saying, my goal is to bring them over here to unfamiliar territory. Okay, let me explain this to you, okay? Now by the way, my job's to teach you to be a closer today. That's why it's called the Master Closer Seminar, okay? Somebody says something and what is it? Hey, Andy, I'm too far. What do you hear? Too far, everybody write down what I hear is too far. Listen, can you change the distance? Nope. Oh, Mr. Customer, let me just move you a little closer to the store. It doesn't make sense, okay? There's nothing you can say. So my goal is I'm gonna take them to unfamiliar territory and I'm gonna close them over there, okay? Listen, I'm gonna tell you this, all right? If somebody's got a notion that they think that they're too far, number one, never agree. Okay, never agree. Okay, somebody said I'm too far. Hey, I totally understand. Actually, you said you're what, three hours away. Most of our business has done five to 10 hours away. So it sounds like you're actually extremely close. You see how I changed the narrative, okay? Always set the tone, always set the stage. I'm just gonna say this. I'm gonna teach you the diversion here. The rephrase that someone says, I'm too far. 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Now it's my turn to present, as you all know as scholars interested in detecting and studying ancient textiles we are obviously met with tremendous challenges, especially in the Mediterranean area where these textiles are mostly absent. We're not so lucky, I just wanted to show you a nice slide instead of scraps. So with actual textiles from Denmark for example, where we have the oak coffin burials, or in Siberia where they're frozen from Pasawuk for example, or in Egypt where they are preserved due to their very dry climate. So in these instances we're met with a wealth of textiles in ancient Greece and Rome, not so much as you know. We have few scraps here and there and especially when you're seeking to see something about color you're really challenged. So then you have to obviously look for secondary sources, it can be literary sources and it can be iconography for example and textile source. But with regards to colors especially iconography has a potential huge source of information on this particular topic. So where I work now it looks like this. I work in the Glitch Attack and I'm dealing with Greco-Roman sculpture primarily from the Roman period in fact and this is what we're met with. It's a wealth of white marble, they're absolutely beautiful and you can actually say something about the garments which are carefully rendered, they're sculpted on these sculptures. But as all of you hopefully know these sculptures were originally painted in all sorts of bright colors. But due to the preservation of conditions in the ground, some of these have been laying in the ground for centuries or even millennia, the paint has dissolved and paint consists of pigments which provide the color and binding media which is organic nature, egg, milk, oils, animal glue etc etc. So when it is in the ground these artifacts are in the ground the paint is dissolved because of this organic binding media. But there are different ways to detect their original colors and I'll present a little bit of what we do in the museum together with my amazing team with my fantastic colleagues where we work with different techniques. I'm the archaeologist and they are the very smart ones educated in the natural sciences and they work in chemistry, geochemistry, geology and of course some conservators and they do different sorts of analysis of these artifacts to track the original paint of how the original looked. And sometimes we're lucky to find a lot of paint or as in these sites for example Egyptian material, there's a lot of textiles, there's also a lot of polyprimine that we're lucky. And here ancient is the cape from Babylon. So one of the techniques we use in the museum which is really really useful, she was invented in the British Museum, we have a representation from the British Museum in fact. In 2009 it was visible induced reminiscence or just VIL because it's much easier to say. And it's a photographic technique so it's non-destructive, non-invasive so we really enjoy that so we don't have to take any samples or anything. It's a really good way of starting a survey looking for ancient polyprimine. This method I will not go into the specific details, use the camera and a filter and so on. It can detect one specific pigment it's called Egyptian blue and it's as we know that world's first synthetic pigment invented in the third millennium BCE probably in Egypt that's why I'm calling it Egyptian blue. And this is what it looks like. In the middle you see an image of one of the sculptures in our collection the Skiara Amazon from the 2nd century CE and to the left and to the right you see close-up images taken with this VIL technique and these shows that she in fact was her garment was painted with a border using Egyptian blue perhaps mixed with something else so we can actually be sure that it was blue but it was blue in it might be purple might be green we don't know but there was a clear border on the edge of the garment so this is really interesting and you cannot tell that you cannot see it with the naked eye when you go look at the sculpture in our collection you cannot see any clear border anything so this is making some of the invisible decoration visible to us again. And this is a close-up of her sandal to the left you see like normal photo and to the right the VIL image and some of her sandal is in fact sculpted and that's usually what we meet in these beautiful sculptures. The strap around her ankle is sculpted so we can actually see it but the rest of sandal is not there and it's been quite a puzzle actually because it was really strange footwear why would you just wear an ankle strap and nothing else but as you can tell here Egyptian blue was used for the ankle strap as well as here around the part of the foot I don't know what it's called but you can tell here so again making stuff the original colors and the decoration and details of her attire visible with this technique. Another case I would like to show you is a sculpture of what we believe is the goddess Pibele from 16 BCE from Campania in our museum collection and here we're a little bit more fortunate because when you look very very careful there are small traces of colors such as this one. This one is a close-up from around here so when you look really closely you can see there are actually tiny tiny traces of blue color this is a microscopic image here and over here you have to take my work for us it's actually some pink and here is a UV image which is another technique we use in the museum it's also really good because it's non-invasive so we don't have the artifacts and it can point us in the right direction of what we are actually dealing with and here you can see that the red or the pink color lights up that in color redish color here which indicates as an organic pigment which is used perhaps medallic which was really common it could be something else but probably medallic and here you see a cross section of the blue colors that's a certain layer or something there also illustrating the beautiful like purplish blue color used for her gauntlet. So I don't know if you can tell I hope you can but we're trying to plot in with the traces of colors are like blue blue blue blue and here's a lot of blue as well and here's some blue and a lot of purple here on the mantle so I hope to do a reconstruction of her next year when you've done some more examinations but what we can already tell is that she was brightly colored she was not white obviously but full of blue she was wearing a blue cheetah probably and then a pink mantle probably with a bit of blue on it as well and yeah that's another instance another example Nemesis from Rannous in our collection which is amazing she has a lot of falls in her garment which we like that when we're looking for polychromy because that's where we're lucky to find it again I hope you can tell that here are some traces of yellow yellowish yellowish orange hopefully but we need to look closer to this this is just what I'm taking with my own camera we haven't examined this sculpture yet because we have to make sure that this is just not something from the ground where it's been excavated and hasn't been cleaned so we have to find out if it's truly creamy or not I hope that she's you know that would be something for you Daphne and I'll call you right away yes male garments as well this is more or less typical in a way by first look Roman male sculpture he's wearing a turquoise traditional attire among the Roman elite and he has been examined by my colleagues and my colleague Emily Skolmova the last time that's why he has made two different reconstructions of this sculpture and there's so much to say about this I could go on for this one this for like half an hour first of all I have to say both scenarios are likely it's really really difficult to reconstruct these ancient sculptures it's not something to take to be taken lightly it's not easy because there's so few traces of color left so there's a high level of interpretation involved and you have to keep that in mind always of course when you see these beautiful reconstructions always yeah be a little bit skeptic but so we don't know actually if it's only the border of his garment of his token that was uh was colored like this or maybe the entire token we're not entirely sure no matter what it's really interesting because when we read the written sources describing the toga it's either white or the pretexta with the purple border or entirely purple which was reserved from the for the emperor and the imperial family of course and this was restricted to the elite to wear this kind of garment and especially in these colors and there was like a level as you probably know a hierarchy of who could wear what the interesting part is that this guy from devious doctors he was an actor in fact and he was a freed slave who became very very filthy rich so he had these uh yeah this sculpture actually in a sanctuary nimi uh and also of his former owner uh a portrait of her as well so he is really rich but he was not part of the elite as such so he was not allowed to wear a purple toga for example so what was done here well he wore the toga but he chose a different color to reflect something else respecting the kind of social hierarchy reflected in the press and i find that really fascinating and really interesting and this is really a fantastic case proving how polychromy can help us understand the the details and the the message in these different images we see so they're important to take into consideration that our perception can be changed or the interpretation can be changed entirely when we add the color oh how am i doing in time am i good okay and this is of course very very obvious but i want to show you again it's just close up of a couple of statues uh in our collection as you can tell sometimes the sculpture was kind to mark where the border of the garment should be like this here as well so it was easiest to paint and here there's a border all the way along here here here also again an indication that this was painted in some sort of color here it is again for the third time today but it's a wonderful case so i had to use it as well i would do it briefly because Susanna already dealt with it and deaf me as well see of course original here and here are two different reconstructions by the frame plans and again that shows that it's quite difficult sometimes to do reconstructions when it's just limited evidence that we have available but again here the polychromy has helped interpreting this particular sculpture that it's called the peblos car but it's not wearing a peblos and that's based on the polychromy as you can see she's wearing this thin garment underneath and a tighter garment maybe the appendices you know and some sort of long garment which is tied here and then down over here but it's open so it's not the peblos so that was just my brief point it's important so now go ahead twice today and that was actually it thank you


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