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I was on my way back from missing persons and it was 1.27 a.m. when I got back to room 42. Homicide squad room. Hi, Joe. You talk to Graham? Yeah, I just got in. How'd they do? I only came up with a kid. Where'd they find him? The boyfriends. They were watching TV. The missing youngster told his friend his mother knew he was there. Uh-huh. Everything's all right then, huh? Yeah, I guess so.  You know, it's a funny thing about parents. What do you mean? Thing like this happens and all they care about is getting their kids back. Uh-huh. After a while, they begin to think about it and get sore. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Well, you figured you got a couple kids. Yeah, I guess it'd be the same way. I got it. Homicide Friday. Yes, sir, that's right. Well, where were you supposed to meet her? Well, have you checked there? Let's see. All right, you want to give me that address? Yes, sir. No, we'll be right out. Right. Goodbye, sir. We've got a little better check here. Yeah? Bartender out on Normandy. Says his wife's supposed to meet him a half hour ago and she hasn't shown up. He called his house? Yeah, she's not there either. Says she's never been late before. Yeah, it's always the first time. Well, he doesn't think so. Huh? He thinks she's been kidnapped. Frank and I left the office and drove over to the bar. Was located on the corner of Normandy Avenue in Monroe Street. In the event the story we'd gotten on the phone was true and the woman had been kidnapped. We parked the car down the street and I walked back to the place. A couple of minutes later, Frank followed. We met the man who placed the call, George Cabot. We asked him to tell us what was wrong. Sure didn't waste any time getting here. Anyone tell us what's happened? Yeah, my wife's gone. How do you mean? Ethel's disappeared. When did you see her last? This morning when I left the house. Have you talked to her since then? Yeah, at 12.55 tonight. She called here to tell me she was on the way down. Mm-hmm. Did she seem all right then? As far as I could tell. Possible that she might have stopped at one of the neighbors? I thought about that too, but I checked. None of them have seen her. You've called your home, Eddie. Yeah, I didn't get any answer. I tell you, something's happened to Ethel.  Well, maybe she's still at the house and didn't hear the phone ring. Yeah, I figured that too. Maybe that's her. Hello, Ethel, what? No, this is Cabot's barn grill. Yes, ma'am. Who? No, I didn't see him tonight. No, I'm sure. Yeah, I'd know him. No, lady, I'm not lying for him. He didn't hear. Yeah, if I see him, I will. Yeah, good night. Letting her. Woman's in the same fix, I mean, unless she can't find her husband. Cabot? Yes, sir. I hope you won't be offended by this, but does your wife drink? You mean you think she stopped at some barn, got gassed up and just didn't show up? Is that what you mean? No, that's not exactly what I meant. I just asked if your wife drank. Well, you got it all wrong. Ethel has a martini once in a while before dinner, but if she wanted to drink any more, she could come down here and I'd pour for her. All right. It's a question we have to ask. You understand that? That's as long as you don't think Ethel's a lush because she is. It's said to check your house. Yeah, when she didn't show up, I waited a while, and then I got worried and called Mrs. Lawrence. She's the lady next door. Ask her if she's seen Ethel. Yeah. She said my wife had been over there all evening. They were playing that baseball game, Line Drive, you know, with the cards. I don't think I know it. It's a new game. Anyway, they played that for a while and they watched the television and at 12.30, Ethel said she had to come down and meet me. Mrs. Lawrence said she left the house then and drove away. His neighbor's kind of bubble headed, you know? She's not real bright about things, so I thought that maybe Ethel had gotten sick and couldn't answer the phone when I called. I called the cab and went home. The car was gone, so was Ethel. I checked the whole house in the yard, not a sign of her. Looked in the front closet, too. Her coat was gone. I'm sure she left the house. Mm-hmm. I had the cab driver come back to bar the same way that Ethel always drives it. I thought maybe there was an accident or something. If there was, I'd be able to see it. You know, people are cops. Yeah, I understand. Wasn't anything. Does she always come down here at night? Regular is clockwork. Never misses. Excuse me. Yeah, sir. Hello. Yeah. No, I remember. No, ma'am, I haven't seen you. Look, lady, I got my own troubles. I'm not trying to cover up for your husband. Well, it doesn't make any difference to me or not what you think. He hadn't here. Okay, that's fine with me. Never ran up more than a 30-cent tab anyway. And even then, he ate all the peanuts on the bar, and you tell him I said so. Yeah, good night. Real bright, Pa. You were saying that your wife made it a practice to come down here. Is that right? That's right. You see, our boy was killed in the Pacific five years ago, our only kid. We both took it pretty hard. We got on Ethel's nerves sitting around the house by herself, so she drove down to pick me up, get here a little early and help me with the cleanup. Yes, sir. Called at 12.55 to say she was leaving, walking the door at 1.05. Didn't vary more than a minute, either way. Depend on the light at the corner of Denmore and Santa Monica. If she makes it green, it's 1.04 when she walks in, otherwise she's a minute later. Does she always call before she leaves the house? I can walk over to the phone at 5.01 and pick it up. I know she's going to be on the other end.  How do you mean? Well, I mean, has there been anything on her mind? Anything that worried her more than usual? No, she didn't say anything. If there was, I'd have been able to tell. Is there any special reason why you think she's been kidnapped? Just that she's gone. It doesn't like Ethel to do something like this. I know it's not her idea. Never done anything like this before, then? No. Do you have a picture of her we could have? Sure, I got one in my wallet. Probably a woman again. Oh, well, look, I haven't seen your... What? Now, look, don't you try that with me. No, I don't.  Hello? Hello? Call it? Call it? What's the matter? Nothing. I guess I made a mistake about the whole thing. Why do you mean that? I guess nothing's happened to Ethel. Just forget I called you about it. Is that the way you want it? Yeah, I'm sorry to cause you all the trouble. I'd like to buy you a drink if I could. No thanks. Sorry about the whole thing. Well, tell us what they said. Who? Party on the phone there. I don't want to talk about anything. You're not going to help your wife that way. Now, what did they ask for? Look, I told you guys it was all a mistake. Now, why not let it go at that? How about the picture you were going to give us? There's no reason for it. The whole thing's a goof up. Well, you're talking the phone didn't make it sound that way. All right, she's gone. Those are the people who have her. They ask for money? No. They said for me to sit tight and not to tell anybody or they'd kill Ethel. I'm going to do like they say. You're taking a big responsibility on yourself, Kevin. Maybe so, but she's my wife. It's a big city. It's going to be a little tough for us to find the kidnappers without your help. That's so bad. How do you mean that? I've got an idea who they are. It isn't going to be too hard to find out.  Ethel's my wife. I'm not going to let us help you then, huh? No, and I don't want to go over it anymore. I got the only stake in this anyway. No, you're wrong about that. What? What about your wife? Because of his attitude, it was useless to question George Cabot any further. We left the barn, got in touch with the office. We made arrangements for a complete 24-hour surveillance to be kept on him. In most cases of this type, the kidnappers usually demand that the victim's friends or relatives stay away from law enforcement agencies. They do this to stall for time. Statistics prove that in the vast majority of cases, the victim's fate was decided long before the kidnapping occurred. It never is the intent of any officer to endanger the life of a kidnapped victim, but at the same time, it is necessary for them to have all available information so that they can move rapidly when the case does break. In an effort to gain more information on the missing woman, Frank and I went over to see the victim's next door neighbor. She identified herself as Carol Lawrence and asked us into the house. I'm not sure this is quite proper, you know. What's that, Ms. Lawrence? A couple of men in my house at this hour, especially with me in my bathrobe. Oh, I'm sure the neighbors want to see you. I hope so. A couple of real Gabby ones from the street, you know. Big mouth. Yes, ma'am. I guess you'll be in police minutes. All right, you think? Yes, ma'am. Okay, then. What do you want to know? When did you see Ms. Cabot last? You mean Ethel? That's right. Sorry, didn't I? Why? What time did she leave? About 12.30. Say where she was going? Didn't have to. What do you mean? Ethel only goes one place that time tonight. Down to pick up George. We understand she usually calls him before she leaves. That's right. I left here at 12.30, went next door to get a coat.  Well, can you tell us about it? Nice woman. Real nice. Yes, ma'am. We're great chums, you know. Belong to the same club and see a lot of each other. You see, my husband's gone and Ethel's man works every night, so she's alone a lot of the time, too. I understand. Since their boy was killed, she's been kind of empty. How was that? Their boy was killed. Yes, ma'am. She's been kind of empty ever since. I see. Then too, George don't help much. What do you mean, Ms. Lord? Oh, maybe I shouldn't have said anything. Well, it's all right, ma'am. Oh, I sure don't want to get nobody in trouble. You won't?  No, ma'am. How about you? No, ma'am. One thing I can't go is a person who carries tales, just can't go and don't want anybody to say that about me. Well, yes, ma'am. What is it you're going to say? I guess it'll be all right. You're so honest looking. Thank you. He is, too. Yes, ma'am. Would you like to tell us? Well, you know, poor Ethel isn't very happy. That's all. Oh, I feel so sorry for her sometimes. What about? Well, it's that husband of hers. Mr. Kallit? Yeah, oh, he's a good provider and all, but I always say there's more to life than just that. A nice home, good car, paid bills and all, but George isn't the fellow he makes out, you know. That's how? Why do you think Ethel goes down to that bar to pick him up every night? Well, we don't know. Why don't you tell us? You're a man. You should be able to figure it out. She doesn't trust him. That's why. Uh-huh. All those girls hanging around the bar, Ethel notices things like that. George has got pretty big eyes, too. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to add it all up. Well, does Mrs. Cabot ever talk to you about all this? A couple of times. She'd come over, crying because of something George had said or done. She'd tell me. Uh-huh. No, sir. No matter what it looked like, they weren't very happy. Do they have a quarrel that you know of? A lot of times. George used to yell at her, scream about her leaving him alone. He'd hear it over here. Summertime, you know. The windows are open. The sound carries right over. Uh-huh. Couldn't really not hear it. In mind, I didn't try. Yes, we understand. Any of these quarrels ever get violent, you know? You mean, did George ever hit her? That's right. Oh, you bet he did. Gave her a black eye once, took a couple of weeks for it to go away. Poor Ethel. She tried to hide it with makeup, but she could still tell. I see. When she left, did she say that she was going down to pick up her husband? Yeah. Told me she had to go get George.  Why is that? Missed the last part of the movie on TV. I see. Ethel had to leave before we found out who this Wendler was. Uh-huh. Can you tell us what kind of a car the cab is driving? Pontiac. Cooper sedan. Sedan, light blue. What year? This one. Brand new. You happen to know the license number? No. Didn't give that to you. Didn't pay a lot of attention. Do you know what they do business with one service station? No, I can't tell you that. Can you give us a description of Mrs. Cabot? Sure. I'll give you a picture if you want one. I appreciate it. There's no trouble at all. All right. I've got a scrapbook here. Some shops of Ethel. Uh-huh. Here's that pencil shop that I was looking for. And here now. I know it's here. Is that it there, the book? No, no, no. That's my high school, I know. Uh-huh. I'll wait just a minute. Well, it is here. I know it is here. Oh, here it is. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I took all these myself. This man looked very nice. Oh, that's my husband. I took that for an out-island one spring. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh, here's one. This one here in the chef's hat, that's Ethel. We were having a barbecue and she was the cook.  Uh-huh. Well, here's cut short. Now, I had it cut last month. Kind of a bob-like. You can take it. Thank you very much, Mary. You know, I just thought of it. You haven't told me what this is all about. Something happened to Ethel and George? Well, we're not sure yet. We're just checking out a complaint. Oh. Well, as long as you're all right. Yes, ma'am. Well, I think that about covers it. I'd like to thank you for your cooperation. No, I'm happy to help. Good night, Ms. Lawrence. Good night, Mr. Smith. Well, there's one more thing. Mm-hmm. Will you be home tomorrow if we have to get in touch with you? All day. If I don't answer right away, let the phone ring for a while. I got some work to do in the garden. All right, ma'am. Thank you very much. Well, I hope I helped you out. Good night. Good night. Good night. What do you think? I don't know. The way she tells it, something's out of line, isn't it? Well, Cabot seemed to be pretty upset when he got that phone call. There's only one big trouble with that. What do you mean? Maybe that's what he wanted us to think. 2.45 a.m., Frank and I got back to the office. We ran the names George and Ethel Cabot through R&I, but we found no record on them. We sent a teletype to DMV up in Sacramento asking for all available information on a car registered to George Cabot or his wife or both. Frank went over to the business office to see if the men and the units that were keeping Cabot under surveillance had reported in. There were no messages. We made a 15.7 report directing it to Captain Warman, telling him of what had happened and what action we'd taken. At 3.52 a.m., we were ready to leave the office. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Now let's go. All right. I get it. Make it fast, huh? Armicide Friday. Where? Yeah. Okay, we'll be right over. What do you got? Ethel Cabot. Yeah, I just found her. You are listening to Dragnet, the authentic story of your police force in action. All of us smoke for relaxation, for comfort, for satisfaction, and in the whole wide world, no cigarette satisfies like a Chesterfield. You smoke with the greatest possible pleasure when your cigarette is Chesterfield. Only Chesterfield gives you the right combination of the world's best tobaccos. Tobaccos that are highest in quality, low in nicotine, best for you. Get a carton of Chesterfields, Chesterfield regular, Chesterfield king size, both at the same price in most places. It's America's most popular two-way cigarette. This is the best, Chesterfield, and the time to change today. Frank and I left the office and immediately drove over to Georgia Street receiving hospital. When we got there, we talked to Dr. Sebastian and he gave us the whole story. The woman had been found lying by the roadside. She was picked up by a motorist. He'd taken her directly to the hospital. Sebastian went on to tell us that from her appearance, Ethel Cabot had been severely beaten and then rolled or dragged in hot tar. Her clothes were covered with it. Her hair was matted. The doctor said that the woman's head had been shaved and that most of the tar had been removed. A tentative identification had been made through a letter found on her person when she'd been brought in. An attempt was made to call her husband but there was no answer at either the bar or at their home. Frank and I waited until the woman had been treated. Then we went in to talk to her. She was in a state of severe shock and she was incoherent. Don't hit me anymore. Please don't hit me anymore. You got over him. Yeah. I didn't do anything. Don't hit me. Miss Cabot. Miss Cabot. Please let me go. Please. You're all right now. There's nothing to be afraid of here. You're lying. You're in a hospital, Miss Cabot. You're all right. Don't let him get me anymore. Don't let him touch me.  Where's George? We're trying to reach him, ma'am. I don't want to see him. Not ever. All his fault. George caused this? He told me. Who said that? Both of them. They said they were doing it for George. There were two people? Yes. They kept hitting me. They poured the tar over me. It wasn't anything I could do. Nothing. Did you know these men? They kept hitting me. George. George telling the staff. Not anymore, please. Not anymore. Miss Cabot, do you know who the two men were? No. I don't know them. They didn't have any reason to do it. Except for George. That's what they told me. I didn't know they were going to hit me like that. Did you hear a name? No. I don't know them. Did either one of them call a name of any kind? Please make them stop. Don't let them pour any more tar on me. Miss Cabot. Burns. I can't stand anymore. Miss Cabot, can you tell us what the men looked like? George. George telling them to stop. Miss Cabot. Now we're not going to get much more out of it, Joe.  George. George. George. Stop. Yeah, Dave. While you were talking, the Cabot woman's call came in before you get in touch with the business office. Okay, Dave, run away. They probably got a line on Cabot, huh? Yeah. Hello, this Friday. When? Okay, we're leaving right now. Right, bye. Well, that really tears it. What's that? I just lost the tail on Cabot. Frank and I went back to the office. We got in touch with a unit who had been assigned to keep Cabot under surveillance. They told us that the man had gone downtown and had entered an all night movie. In the darkness, he managed to get away. A team of men was sent out to his house, but he hadn't returned. A stakeout was set up on it. A check of his bar failed to yield any additional information as to his whereabouts. A local broadcast was sent out to all units, asking that they be on the lookout for the man. If he was found, he was to be taken into custody, and we were to be notified immediately. 6.45 a.m., Frank and I checked out of the office and we went home to shave and change our clothes. At 8.15 a.m., we got back to homicide. There was somebody waiting to see us. You want to see us? Are you Friday and Smith? That's right. I'm Arnold Leffer. I got something to tell you. All right. You heard from Cabot? No. Oh, I figured maybe he'd call you. You know him? Yeah, yeah, I work for him. Help out in this place. You heard from him? Yeah, this morning. He called me at home. Did he say where he was? No, but I think he'd been drinking. He sounded like it. Yeah. It was either that or he was mad at one or the other. Was that right? Yeah, last time I heard him talk like he did this morning was when he had that beef in the bar about a week ago. What was that all about? Oh, a couple of guys thought they were pretty rough, tried to prove it to George. Yeah. Well, he cleaned up the place with them. What caused that beef? Well, they started to get loud with a couple of girls in the place. George told them to quiet down. They didn't do it, so he told them to get out. Yeah. They didn't want to go, and they tried to put the muscle on George. But they tried it with the wrong guy. George really showed them. That's all? Oh, yeah. Bought some boats right out in the street. Guys were pretty sore about it. When did this happen? About a week ago. I don't remember the exact date. Mm-hmm. They were pretty sore. Told George they'd find some way to get even with him. I get it. Armicide fighting. He's not here right now. Can I take a message? Mm-hmm. Yes, ma'am. No, he's not working today. Yes, ma'am.  All right. That's nine-eight. Yes, ma'am. No, no. It's right in the message book. Now, he'll see it. That's right. Yes, ma'am. Mm-hmm. Now, he'll look at the book when he comes in. No, the first thing. You bet. Well, you're more than welcome. Yes, ma'am. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Welcome. Welcome. Yes, ma'am. Bye. You know these two men? Yeah, I've seen them a couple of times around the bar. You know their name? Well, one of them's called Jack something or other. I don't know the last part. How about the other one? I can't do any good there. You know where we can find them? Yeah, that's one of the reasons I come in here. I want to tell you what George said to me. Yeah? Well, he said he found out who kidnapped Ethel, told me he was going to get him. He mentioned this Jack figure was the same guy. Where can we find him? Well, there's a Roman house over on 7th. I can show you. Where are we going? Well, look, there's something else, so. What's that? Well, I was at the bar when George called, and after I talked to him, I checked around. You know. His gun's gone. Frank and I left the office and drove over to 7th Street. The bar boy pointed out the Roman house where he said we could find Jack and his friend. We checked with a manager and found the two men answering the description we'd gotten, shared a room on the third floor. We left Arnold Leffer in the car and we went up to the room. Should be the last one. Yeah. I wonder if Cabot's gotten here yet. He has. Come on. Let's kick it in. All right. All right, Cabot. Let him go.  Let him go. Come on. Please don't stop me. He's crazy. This guy's crazy. Come on, Cabot. Take it easy now. Come on. Come on over here. Get over there. You should keep him away from me.  What do you think you're going to prove doing a thing like this, Cabot? A couple of minutes more. I wouldn't have cared. We found your wife. She's going to be all right. Yeah, I know. You didn't help yourself much doing a thing like this. He's crazy.  All right now. How about this one? Name's Rick O. Martin. Him and Jack took my wife. They admit it? Yeah, they said they did it to get him with me for the fight. Well, we didn't hurt her. We just scared her a little bit. That's all. They're right. Well, what difference does it make? We're going to beat it anyway.  Sure. All we've got to do is come up with the right plea. And you've got it all figured out, haven't you? Sure. There's a lot of ways we can go. Yeah, we've got one in mind. The story you have just heard is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent. In December 14th, trial was held in Department 98 Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. In a moment, the results of that trial. Now, here is our star, Jack Webb. Thank you, George Fenerman. Believe me, there's no substitute for quality. That's why I'm so sold on Chesterfields. 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In 7th month and 15 days span he came to 920 grams, so he is sinking inside, every minute I leave him he is going to lose his life. Hello there, my name is Dr Ravi Shankar Swamy, I am one of the consultant neonatologist at Manipal Hospital in Whitefield and I am just going to talk about baby of Sushma or Tushant as we know now. So when we went for the scanning the doctor said the baby is reducing the weight and he is exactly 900 to 1 kg of weight approximate not sure.  So we went to radiology department and did one more scanning and we came to know that the blood flow from me I should give the blood to him that is he will be growing right. So what happened is the flow in the card is reversed.  So doctor said we will operate it emergency we will do it and we will take the baby out at least to save my life. When he was born immediately the next second itself he is shifted to NICU.  He was born extremely pre-term around 29 weeks of gestation and we also at the same time apart from having all the complications of prematurity which includes immature lung and immature gut he also had a brain infection and so we had to treat him for all these complications. And he is there almost for 45 to 50 days in NICU. Usually when babies are about premature they have problems with their breathing and also with the feeding. So we had to support the breathing with all ventilators and later on a non-invasive form of breathing support and similarly for feeding as well we initially give them total parental nutrition and then gradually introduce the internal feeds and once the feeding is sorted then mother has to breastfeed and so on. So this is an usually expected stay for anyone who is born about 29 weeks and so and the whole idea here is that the baby should come out with an intact survival and that's what the focus has always been throughout his stay with us and currently you have just seen him he is three and a half years old and he is doing fantastically. So what I wanted to emphasize here is that let it be pre-term babies or good going infections or any surgical complications we are here at Manipul Hospital Whitefield to look after you. So we have all the experience required from doctors as well as the same time we have all the equipment so if you want to choose one of our facilities in this place to us. So I am completely thankful this Manipul Hospital Whitefield and the doctors here and all the neonatologists all the gynaecologists and all the nurses for giving us the best gift in the world.


The Kogi state government has received 19 entire agency health emergency kits from the World Health Organization. According to the WHO representative in Nigeria Dr. Walter Cassadi, each kit is expected to treat 10,000 population amounts to 900,000 beneficiaries. Making the presentation at the Ministry of Health on behalf of the country, representatives and head of mission of WHO Edwin Ede said the donation is to ensure that the flood disaster in Kogi is mitigated. Ede said the organization was so delighted with the level of commitment shown by the state government and its avowed commitment to reducing diseases arising from the flooding.


So, glad that you guys made it out, we didn't have too much of the bars last night. So we're going to get into this here. What is a superhero? Right? We see them in the movies, we experience them in comic books and we grow up with them but we don't really, and sometimes you don't really know how to relate to them. They're human, they're part, you know, something that you can relate with, but at the same time some of them fly and can breathe in outer space and look amazing while doing it. Others are faster than a speeding bullet and they can, you know, move through time as if it was nothing. Some come from really strange places and they get their powers from radioactive spiders and, you know, injected materials from government agencies and all sorts of weird places. But what you may not know is that a lot of superheroes do Drupal, too. And this is Captain Drupal here. He actually has a comic book series that you can find on Facebook. But I think that we need to start looking at ourselves as superheroes and the powers that we have in Drupal with the same light that we look at Superman and Flash and X-Men and all those. And so, first off, a lot of you guys are going, who is this guy? My name is Chris Taitzel, I'm the founder of Walker and Cellar Door. I've had experience all over the world and I've been blessed to be able to work in many different startups all the way up to Fortune 100s, all over the world, different cultures. I'm an open source developer for about eight years now, Drupal and WordPress. Yes, I'm sorry, I've dipped into the dark side, but actually it's been very interesting to learn from both communities. And then those who were in my session yesterday, my claim to fame is I'm actually a third generation tech nerd. My grandfather started at IBM in the 50s. My dad started in the 80s at IBM and I said to hell with this, I'm not going to do technology.  And before we get started, I want to introduce you to my superheroes. This is Caleb and Evan. They are three and one. And then my beautiful wife whose birthday was yesterday and I missed it for this. So, honey, you're on the recording. I love you. Happy birthday. She actually gets to stay home with these two who are running around like crazy. They already know how to like bend time and do all sorts of crazy stuff. So she's my real superhero. I'm a big nerd. I'll make mistakes. Call me out on Twitter. So if I diss your favorite superhero that you secretly love and have the whole collection at home and I get their origin story wrong or something like that, I apologize now. It's just a talk. So let's go back to my history as a superhero. It started off very early.  And she goes, what's the matter? And I was wearing my superman pajamas. As all kids do at my superman pajamas, I keep on, but I was just bawling my eyes out. And I was like, what's the matter? And she looks over and my sister, older sister, two years older, is sitting there and she goes, if you just run a little bit faster, you'd fly just a little bit faster. So I'd run down the hall and I was like, did I do it? No, just a little bit faster. I almost saw you get off the ground and I was just crying and bawling my eyes out. Why can't I fly? And she said, they're going just a little bit faster. And I feel like a lot of the times we feel like that in technology, like if I just do a little bit more, I'm going to be this really amazing prolific developer or amazing prolific speaker or whatever it is. You always feel like you're running just a little bit. But I kind of came to an epiphany. And it was after, it was after Drupalcon, Vienna, I took a trip to Istanbul for a couple of days. And I decided to experience the culture. I'd been there before, so I kind of knew where I was going. But I sought out and found a local hookah bar. That was, you know, locals only. I walk in and it's almost like the record stops and everyone's just like, what is this guy doing here, right? I'm by myself and they just sit me down. So I started talking with folks. And we started talking and what do you do? And back and forth, I was like, well, I kind of work in tech and then, oh, what do you do in tech? Well, I build websites. Well, that's really cool. Like I was like, I want to have a website. And I've been talking with a developer. It's been taking us years to get it out. And he's like, here, let me show it to you. It was absolutely horrible. And he's like, it doesn't work. I don't know why this developer can't do it. He's like, well, how long does it take you to build an e-commerce site? I was like, well, I'm kind of friends with the guy in Bill. Plug in for the whole thing. And so I was like, half a day, a couple hours. And he's like, no. I was like, yeah, you can kickstart something within a couple of hours and get it up online. He goes, well, what about hosting? Because our host is constantly going down. The website's never online, anything like that. I was like, actually, I got some friends that do hosting as well. The website will never go down. And it was just like mind explosion. And I didn't realize until that point, because I get so caught up in the details of how are we going to do this complex module and we're going to build this e-commerce site that's going to plug into this therapy that's going to do this and this and this.  They don't understand it. It's just five lines of code. To them, it's millions of people watching a video online. And so Drupal actually does some really cool stuff as well. We power worldwide brands like Tesla, NVA, Nasdaq. I mean, multi-national, multi-billion-dollar companies are running on this. Funny thing about Tesla, the new car here actually does a zero to 60 faster than this page loads, which is pretty amazing that they've built a car that can go zero to 60 faster than their website. Like Ryan was mentioning yesterday, there is billions, billions with a B in dollars in revenue happening through commerce, right? It's powering governments and universities, including Oxford, Harvard, some of the brightest minds in the world have chosen Drupal as the platform that they're getting their message out, that they're teaching. Even your London.gov.uk, I found out, is based in Drupal. It is everywhere you're looking. And it's no small feat. So we've got, and this is from a Dries post a while back, so the numbers are obviously a little larger now, but 190,000 sites on Drupal 8, that was the 80% year-over-year growth, 1,600 stable modules, a 95% year-over-year growth. And this was, by the way, 76,374 hours of automated testing were run in 2017. And that's almost nine years' worth of automated testing running on Drupal. So what we have built and what we continue to build is powering some pretty freaking amazing things, but to us it's just like, oh, it's a little bit of CSS here, a little bit of sass there, a little bit of PHP, and whatever you want to throw together. So like every good superhero, your journey has to begin somewhere in Drupal, and unfortunately this is what it looks like for the most folks. This is the famous learning curve for popular CMSs, and you can see WordPress and Joomla and ModX are kind of, you know, simple and you get it over time and you've got crucifixes and people hanging off of the Drupal cliff that will never really get there.    I myself am no stranger to this. This is me kind of being open and honest in the light of Ryan yesterday. I feel like we can all just be honest here. We actually did this a while back, and I encourage you guys to do it is to go back and look at your first ever post on Drupal.org. It's the most embarrassing and awkward thing to do. And for those of you that it's not, you are a better person than I. So this is my first post. I posted, I said, I'm having trouble getting a border to show around my image. If you go to the, I redacted the link to see what I mean. You'll see what I'm talking about. The code is, and I did want to post my code because it's so horrible. I believe I'm getting overwritten somewhere, but I just don't know if I add or add border equals 10 pixels solid. I get a solid border, but I don't get a clear border around the picture. What am I doing wrong? CSS is what I was doing wrong. Very kindly, somebody later on was like, you're looking for something called padding, not border. I was like, oh, cool, thanks. And that's where I ended up, that's where I ended up starting in Drupal. I bought a theme off of monster themes. I installed it and I realized this doesn't look anything like that demo did. Hence the, I sensed the camaraderie here because there's a lot of folks that have done that. And so what I did is I said, well, in light of my upbringing, all else fails, just do it yourself. So I took Fusion, which was the popular framework in triple six at the time. I took Awkward Slate, which was one of the popular kind of darker themes, and dark themes actually used to be really cool. And then Dan Land, which was again popular, and I was like, what if I just mash all these things together and actually make the theme that I wanted? So I did. And I learned about it and it was horrible. But at that time I ended up getting involved and getting involved in the IRC channels. And through doing this work, I ended up getting connected with a project called Omega. And this was right when Omega 2X was turning into Omega 3X. And lightning struck and everything got crazy after that. And what I realized is that hard work pays off. Like you can't just simply do Drupal. You're not just simply born with the talent of doing Drupal. You have to learn it. So you have books and publications. There's online tutorials. You're here at conferences and camps and meetups. This is where you want to be. You want to foster it. And I kind of look at it as the X-Men. You have the Xavier School for the gifted youngsters. It's like we all have these superpowers inside of us. We all know how to do things in our brain. We just can't put it into Drupal. We come to these events to kind of learn and hone and get our skills to where they're at. But you can't do it alone. You can't go into it and just be like, I'm just going to read all the books and listen to all the events and speakers and know what I'm going to do. It takes a little bit of help from the community. And I believe this is DrupalCon Vienna. And you can see that there's just a small community in Europe around Drupal. But the amazing thing about the Drupal communities, if you engage the Drupal community, they will engage you back. And one of the things that I found most amazing, because my initial introduction to technology was in iOS, and I went to WWDC, was that there was no camaraderie amongst developers because you were all fighting against each other for a slice of the pie. And when I went to Drupal, it was like, Drupal and that guy built the module that 200,000 people have installed.  And it leads to a fairly funny story. Alex, are you in the room? Oh, I think I saw him yesterday, so okay. Yeah, I'll embrace him now. So one of my first Drupalcons I went to was Drupal in Portland. Late at night I was kind of staggering back from the bars as everyone does at Drupalcons. And I meet another guy. He's wearing a Drupal shirt. We kind of have this bond with each other instantly because it's like, oh, you're Drupal, I'm Drupal. And he's like, I've got some scotch. You want to come back and have some scotch in my hotel room? Normally if you meet a stranger on the street in Portland... Hey, do you want to come back to my room and drink scotch? You say no. But I said yes. And I went back and we sat down, we drank scotch and we talked about the time I was in Omega and how that was going and where everything was going on. I had no idea who I was talking to. So we were just drinking and having fun and all of a sudden I'm at the conference the next day and I'm like, that's the guy I was having whiskey with at like two o'clock in the morning last night. Someone's like, yeah, it's Alex Pott. He's like one of the core contributors. No idea whatsoever that I had been sitting there drinking with a core contributor completely unloading on how horrible I thought some of the things in Drupal were. The guy who was actually writing them. He was very, very nice about it. He's very, very kind. But I look at that as an experience of my own of saying Drupal is a very, very engaging community and it took somebody who had been there a while reaching out to somebody who hadn't and said, come follow me, let's have some fun and I'll show you the ropes. So one of the cool things about superheroes is they come in all shapes and sizes just like we do and I think that's part of the reason why we relate to them. But in the same manner, not all Drupalers are the same. This might ruffle some feathers, but we're not all the same, right? And that's a good thing. I am not a back end programmer. I try and all of my developers now try to get me out of the back end programming. My brain just doesn't think that way. There's certain ways that I just can't click. I pass it off to one of my developers and it's done. There are other people who have design and they can look at something and say, wow, if we move this here, we make this color this and we do this, it's going to look amazing. Me, I almost failed art in college because I just don't do art. I couldn't even blend my colors properly. So what do we do in that situation? We embrace our abilities and we work together. This is a clip from X-Men here where you, you know, the, tossing Wolverine into the, again, sorry, for spoilers. They're tossing Wolverine in because he's pretty much the indestructible thing that everybody relies on when the world's about to die. But it's a good example of using your abilities of strength to throw in somebody who is completely indestructible, who has a sharp claws, to defeat, believe it was this point, it was Magento. Sorry, Magneto. That was for you, right? But I think if we all work together, we can actually use our abilities together to actually go out and tackle some pretty big things. And it's at this point that we're going to need to montage every great superhero story, you have that montage of them failing and then working out and doing all this crazy stuff and learning their powers and shooting the cat with lasers and stuff or whatever it ends up being because they're trying to figure out what they're doing. But then once you have that capability, once you know what you're doing, it comes with a pretty great responsibility. I love this quote from Spider-Man is that with great power comes great responsibility. In Batman, Aras Al Ghul says, if you become more than a man to vote yourself to an ideal, then you'll become something else entirely. And this is kind of in the same vein of what Ryan was talking about yesterday of doing well and doing good, is now that we know that we have a superpower, we do these amazing things on the web. We need to use it to help people in need. It's not something that we just hoard to ourselves. Keep inside and say this is my superpower. And I think that's one of the amazing things about most superheroes, super villains are the opposite. Most superheroes feel compelled that now that I have this, I have to give it back. And how do we do that? This is an example of how I've been able to do it. From DrupalCon Denver, we created during one of the hackathons a geolocated text messaging service. Kind of fun, kind of cool. Hacked it in a couple of hours over a couple of years and it worked and it won. We ended up taking that technology, going to Haiti and allowing aid workers to post text messages to each other during the earthquake response. To some success and to some failures, we then took that and said, well, what if we applied that to the homeless crisis in Washington D.C.? Now, this is a drive where there are many people to register. Now, folks who are experiencing homelessness in Washington D.C. can sign up for a service and then all the service providers can go out and say, and I get text messages even when I'm here in England, of food available, legal services available. If you need someone to talk to and you're feeling like, you know, hurting yourself, come talk to us. Hypothermia and hyperthermia alerts. And it's really fun to be able to say, like, we're taking this technology that we built on Drupal with Drupal at Drupal-Con and we're actually using it for good. What does that also mean?  But I feel like it's our responsibility as developers, as these folks that have amazing powers have actually put them to good use. And a safe web is our responsibility because we're the ones who control it. So I always say, clients aren't asking you for security, but they require it. So it's our responsibility to be secure. Strong encryption is getting a lot of flak from over here in the U.K., in the U.S. just the same. And we have to be able to stand up and say, no, strong encryption is the tool with which we fight. It's like our shield for Wonder Woman. And I feel like the Hippocratic Oath, if anyone is familiar with the Hippocratic Oath, it's what doctors say that, you know, first do no harm, right? As a doctor, you're supposed to always help the patient, not hurt the patient. And I think that we need to have a new Hippocratic Oath for us as developers with these powers that we possess to say, yes, we're going to actually use them to do good. But sometimes superheroes need help, too. Like one of the things that I'm passionate about is empowering developers to realize who they are and what they are and how good they actually are. So be a Superman, not a Clark Kent. You may feel like a Clark Kent in your daily life. You may feel like you don't have this superpower, but you really do. And what does that mean? And I will keep this safe for work and safe for children. But there's an amazing, amazing video called FU Pay Me. Watch it if you don't have children in the room because there is a lot of swearing during it. But I always tell folks if you are starting out as a freelancer or as a new agency, this is required material. You need to watch this. You need to read it, read the transcripts, do exactly what it says. It talks about how to structure your contracts to respect yourself. And in doing so, the clients will respect you. And how to get paid. And so part of that is if you respect yourself and your work, it shows. So if you respect your work, you put value on your work, your clients and your customers will put value on your work. Why is a Rolls-Royce worth as much as a Rolls-Royce is worth? Granted, it has like virgin calf leather that's been sun-dried in the South of France or whatever. But it's worth something that people put worth into it and they've put value into it. Same thing with your work. Know your value and don't be afraid to fight it. If a client is saying I think your rates are too high or I think you're unreasonable in this, at some point you need to learn to walk away and respect your powers and respect that you have something that is special that other people don't. And this is a big one. If you're a leader or a team manager, stand up for your team. If a client gets abusive, stand up for your team. If things are going wrong, deadlines are slipping and things are kind of going out of control, stand up for your team. It shows that you have some control and some power and respect for what your developers are doing, not just what you're doing.  I've been there before. Join a team. Even if it's other freelancers, I've been able to work on some amazing projects because I teamed up with other freelancers and said, hey, I do some cool stuff. You do some cool stuff. Together we can do even better stuff. So let's go work on something. And at the end of the day, superheroes are people too. This is... It's kind of a hard concept to get at times. And I will share a slightly embarrassing story here. We're working on a project. I was in Seattle. The project was for a client in Nigeria, in Africa. And we had developers in the Eastern Europe and Ukraine. And deadlines were coming up. And all of a sudden one of our devs just stopped responding to us. And I'm like, not cool. I need this. I was the manager at the time. And so I kept hounding them over Skype. I'm like, where are you? The code's late. You're late. Why is this going to happen? You're going to get fired, blah, blah, blah. Finally at the last minute he comes back on to us. Hey, sorry about that. My dad was in Ukraine getting bombed. And I had to go help him. Live. And so I'm really, really... He was apologetic to me about it. I'm really, really sorry. I didn't mean to, but we didn't have internet because we didn't have power. My dad was getting bombed and I was trying to get him out, but you couldn't get out. I am so sorry. Like, I am a horrible, horrible human being right now. I put the deadline over the life of somebody else. And I realized that sometimes in life, you need to take a step back. Like, Brian was saying, take a step back and realize that the people you interact with, yes, they're on the other side of the screen, but they're humans too. And so part of that is, if anybody you know might care, unfortunately, passed away recently. But you create these relationships in Drupal that impact you and they help you through tough times. And this was during some of the times last year when we were all kind of questioning the community and what was going on in the community and some of the strife that we had. And this is actually a shirt that he made that's a comment from the views module that says, if none are selected, all are allowed. And I thought it was actually pretty cool to put it in Drupal's code, but you end up connecting with people that will make impact on your life even if their life are cut short. And so respect earns respect. And so this is one of the things that we have to realize in the Drupal community, and I think it's something that I myself, because obviously I'm a global human being, challenges my developers when their father's being involved in Ukraine that though we may be family, there's still disagreements that occur and that's okay, but we need to learn how to respect each other through that. Though sometimes, I hate to say it, there are people in the community that just want to see a burn. And this is a really powerful quote from Batman is that some men aren't looking for anything logical. They're not looking for money that can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. They just want to watch the world burn. And we have to realize that there are people inside this community, outside this community that just want to rabble around. And that's fine. So don't earn internet points or respect. Yes, you may have the perfect comeback in that reddit post or you may have the perfect comeback to that d.o. post. But are you really going to be doing anything good? Are you going to be earning the respect of others when you're doing it? And when all else fails, fall back on the community. And I think that we found this through recent times and various things that have been occurring. But then we also see it historically throughout our community is that in times of strife, the community kind of falls back on each other. They fall back on the institutions that we've created. And then through that, we were able to get through anything that comes up. And so by our powers combined, and this is not a superhero world-ish, if you know Captain Planet from any of you 90s kids out there, you can actually go do some really cool things. And it's exciting to be here and talking with folks in the European community, because I'm over from Seattle in the States and I'm seeing so much different powers over here than I am over in the U.S. And I've had more meaningful conversations at this camp than I think I ever have at any camp. And so as we're ending here, I want to pose to you, what is your origin story? Everyone has one. Whether you realize it or not, whether you make the mistake of borders or padding, whether you post a stupid first question on D.do, or a really powerful, helpful question on D.do, what is your origin story? And I think it's important for you to kind of sit and think and go back to what got you into Drupal and why are you still here? And then what's your superpower? Everybody has one, right? And so once you know what your origin story is, then think through, like, what is my superpower? And then at the end of the day or by the end of the day, find somebody and talk with them. Get to know their origin story. Get to know their superpower. Get to know what drives them and why do they do Drupal. And I think that if we do that more and if we reflect on what we are and how we are, we'll be a much more powerful community because of it. So with that, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak here and I'll open it up for some questions if we want to do some questions. But more than anything, I appreciate all of you guys and the superpowers that you have. Chris is very inspiring. I think he shows how amazing and powerful our Drupal community is. And as I said, it's quite a huge question. It's my first question of Drupal. And it's very simple. And yeah, I've learned a lot obviously. So any other questions or Chris?  That's a good question. So my superpower is I come from an analytical background. When I said I didn't want to do technology like my dad and my grandfather had, I said to hell with this, I'm going to go be a doctor. So I went and studied science. And so I went through the University for Science and everything and then I ended up falling back into technology. But I still kind of have that science background, that analytical mind and that question in mind. And so what I tend to do is I tend to structure, whether it's structuring data or analyzing data, but then bug squashing. I love bug squashing. And so I can get in, find the variables, isolate the variables, take them out and then try to hone down to what the core issue is. So yeah, I would say that that's mine. It's kind of that analytical sense. I did some theming. I was okay at it. I tried some back-in developing. I'm horrible at it. So that's where I find myself in the Drupal community is more analytical and data oriented. So yeah. Drupals are super and heroes because they have super villains. Super villains. And for the Drupal community for Drupal heroes, what the world sort of is? What's the supervillain in the Drupal community? I think it's ourselves. I think it's our own doubt that we can do what we think we can. Right? We run the risk of saying, well, I have a hammer, everything's a nail, right? But I think with Drupal, we have a very, very powerful tool in our hands. And at times, our biggest supervillain or the biggest thing that's holding us back or fighting us is our own inability to realize the power with what we're dealing with. To us, it may just be a blocking engine or it may just be something else. And I think that part of it also is complexity. As we build this more and more powerful tool, it's becoming more and more complex. And our supervillain is that we're almost building a wall around ourselves and not letting others in. And so I encourage people that know to teach. Those that go be with others can help them because we're isolating ourselves by being as advanced as we are, I think. And while that's allowing us to go do these amazing things in large enterprise and throughout the world, it does kind of hinder us a bit. Any other questions? So in a world where we may be protecting people from things that they don't even know happen to them, how can we conflict that with a challenge that a lot of marketing can take more into decisions now? Correct. Yeah, and that is a battle, right? It goes back to doing well and doing good. Marketing wants you to do well. Marketing obviously wants to promote your product and do everything. And I think at the end of the day, it's up to us as developers to say, no, I'm going to take that extra step and do that right.  There is, you know, it can be good PR, it can be bad PR. Look at the encryption debate, which is near and dear to my heart in security. The encryption debate around strong encryption is that by providing strong encryption to the world, we're allowing bad things to occur. Yes, we are. We have to live with that. But if we weren't to have strong encryption in the world, even worse things would occur. And so it's one of those things where Apple took a stand and said, no, we're not going to backdoor our encryption into the Apple devices because we want to take a stand for what we think is right, even though it may hurt us and even though it may cost us a lot of money legally, we're going to take that stand. I personally respect companies that can take that stand and can do that. And I think more and more in Drupal, like Ryan was saying, I think folks are doing good as well as doing well. And if you're doing that, doing good is keeping us secure, is going out and building those things that people may not know that they need, but they really do. And sometimes it's a thankless job.  But I did it. Go me. But at the end of the day, you are benefiting the community in essence, the world, in your code. And the more that you contribute back to Drupal, folks to go build tools that help the homeless or tools that doctors without borders has run on Drupal. Your contributions to Drupal core and to some of the contributed modules are helping save lives in Syria, even though you don't feel like the little chunk of code is. So, yeah, I don't know if that answers your question or not, but I think sometimes it's just doing the right thing and not expecting the marketing return out of it is what we'll have to be doing. Any other questions? I think we have time for one more. No? Awesome. Well, I really do appreciate your generous offer, Alex, to bring Ryan and I out here from the US and to have us be here with you guys. And I look forward to talking with you guys more today. So, thank you.


You might know that KDE every 1st of April does a joke, some kind of joke, and you might be wondering actually how does KDE choose what jokes to make on the 1st of April? Well usually how it goes is that throughout the year somebody makes a joke and then we say well you know what that could work the 1st of April and this adds up and then when actually we're getting close to the 1st of April me or somebody else actually goes back and searches for 1st of April in all of the KDE chats that that's at least how I do this and writes down all of the ideas that were sent throughout the year and there's a message saying okay which one should we go for and now I'm going to go by memory so maybe I'm not remember everything correctly but I want to talk slightly about how GNOME work to be because that was actually kind of funny so we did the 1st of April joke one year and shortly after that there was a talk of saying okay but what if we got actually GNOME involved and I think it was just like a few days after the 1st of April or something like that so everybody just kind of forgot about it until the 1st of April of the next year and one month before that I just went into the promotion group and was like hey 15 months sorry 11 months ago with this idea that sounds pretty cool how about we actually act on this and the cool thing is that the promotion group of KDE does actually have ties to the promotion group of GNOME and if I remember correctly back then there was actually a person from the GNOME promotion group that got engaged in KDE promo group even before that to um I don't remember look around somewhat I don't quite remember so it was actually pretty easy to get started and I discovered that GNOME does actually also have a promotion group that's freely available available sorry for everyone to join and back then I actually joined the GNOME promotion group which is not called like that but you know I don't remember and we proposed the idea and the GNOME people were actually very interested in participating so now that we actually decided to do something together we had to decide what and you might say okay GNOME doing GNOME is such an obvious joke so but there were there were actually other options as well and one of the options that really lasted until the end I don't know if I should talk about this maybe we'll do it in the future but let's let's say it but don't talk about it too much was actually to do a joint announcement without saying that it was a joint announcement and to me KDE say make KDE say that it was actually switching to JDK and make GNOME say that it was switching to QT the same day I thought that was going to be pretty funny but eventually we thought okay let's just merge the project and do GNOME and most of the GNOME promotion material actually got from the KDE promotion group but we often we you can see this mock up and this mock up are done by manual which is very active in the visual design group of KDE then there was for the website I think core Carl Carl did most of the job actually buying the domain and setting it up and Carl is from the promotion and visual design and development KDE work groups and we often actually asked GNOME for feedback and we also asked them to make statements to actually embed into the GNOME website and back then if you if you went to the GNOME website you had statements from Alex Paul which is currently the KDE AV board director it's not called director but the boss of the KDE AV board and then we also add the boss of GNOME which is also not called the boss of GNOME but I'm weird we're weird enough I don't know that well the names of the GNOME position organizations so sorry about that however not everybody even in the KDE community not everybody thought this was going to be fun and we actually did some mock ups of some projects of KDE together with projects of GNOME like mixing all of the concepts and some of the maintainers of the KDE projects actually got in the KDE promo group saying please remove this part because I don't think this is a good idea take off this part which was I mean it's the right for the project not to be mentioned in such thing if they want but we thought you're killing all of the fun but eventually we did make this and it went pretty well in the last round of April Fool's idea which again I collected on the first of April there were some very nice ideas like one idea as an example was that K-Runner actually manages to do covid tests just by typing covid tests and it would come out as either positive or negative and we would advertise the feature that it would actually be able to do the covid test just by KDE because KDE is able to do everything and we even had this version where you actually had to leak the screen to actually get your covid test done that was a nice idea but people rightfully say that maybe joking about a pandemic wasn't the best idea so we discarded that there were there was also an idea to actually make a notification I'm talking about this because all of this idea got discarded so we probably want to have them a notification that was about KDE Plasma actually requiring a key to unlock so a bit like Windows you know like we insert the KDE license key to enable Windows just the same thing but in a KDE Plasma notification we actually added a mock up I don't remember sorry who did the mock up that was pretty funny but we thought that could be let's say interpreted in the wrong way because there's even though you're doing a joke and it's clear it's a joke there's always going to be that one person that actually believes in it so and eventually we went with a Knotch or as I call it the Scotch which was actually published on my channel but yeah and I think that the cool thing about all of these ideas is that there is no such thing as the KDE secret chat about the first of April false joke even for the Knomon this was all done public publicly in the KDE promotion group and its related chats so everybody can actually join the KDE promo group and propose an idea for the first of April and even if you do it now I'm gonna write that down and you know next year when the first half of April comes I'll read that and we'll discuss it so if you think that KDE should make some kind of April false joke well you're more than welcome to actually join the promotion group and start discussing with us if you do that like one week before first of April that's even better about what could be done and that's usually a very funny part of being part of the KDE promotion group which you can join easily even if you're not a KDE developer and anybody can join if you want to help out so I'm just going to leave that there


So Let's just get right into it. First of all The attack right now just isn't good enough first half jank not providing much as far as I could tell Just very disappointed with us getting forward a lot of possession But I mean even crossing just not getting good looks into the box Just again the crossing is what gets to me because it was horrific today Whether it was set pieces whether it was corners whether it was just trying to swing some in Balls too low balls too high and nothing really teasing So so disappointed in going forward in the first half and obviously defensive breakdown On the run done goal. This team has been pretty solid defensively gave up, you know, cheapy freak goal last Sunday And this week, you know run done gets in behind and it's a it's a great cross and Unfortunately me to just barely misses a clearance and it's in the back of the net Nothing Pickford could do about it Just kind of stinks Unfortunately, I didn't really understand keen coming out of the side if he needs rest, I guess I get it Hopefully that was the situation, but if it was a change for change's sake, I don't know why you do that I don't really think it affects that goal Zuma wasn't really an issue on that play But just communication at the back. They've been so good that back four is working together fantastically, I Don't know why you you make the change unless keen just needed a day off So hopefully that's what the situation was for me and Marco Silva substitutions didn't make a whole lot of sense Or at least they didn't make sense initially. He's trying to in my opinion.  You've got Rich Arleson playing up top, which is what he's been doing recently But not what he's been doing all game So you moved him and then you're putting Bernard in at the 10 Which is something he hasn't done yet this season as I her recall Then you're moving over look men to the left Place where as far as I remember he hasn't played all season And then you're putting Wolcott out on the right where he's been ineffective all season. So I I Understand trying to move pieces around and trying to find something but for me that was I Didn't understand it the third substitution When Calbert Lewin came on that makes sense to me. You're bringing out a striker You're bringing up, you know a target in the box to swing it across to But then again, you're taking off look men and moving where Charles into his third position of the night They were playing like tandem strikers up top. It didn't work for me. We had a ton of possession We were getting deep into their Final third into the final third But there was just no end product Couldn't string passes together close to the goal Shots were horribly miss Passes were just, you know, miscommunication someone thought someone's gonna run So it's very frustrating Something has to be done about the offense because it's it's not good enough You could see Marco Silva moving pieces around trying to find some sort of spark some sort of Way of playing where we can actually you know attack With some teeth But it just it isn't working. I don't know if the answer is to continue playing around with the pieces or if it's You know go out there in January and and find someone who can be a threat who can get in behind or who can You know swing it across very frustrating today but you know I thought the defense performed well pickford. I thought was fantastic again not asked to do much But what he was made a big save For me Refereeing was poor again It didn't cost us the game, but if if I'm the ref in that game Christian had to doesn't finish that game there are a lot of kicking legs and and stomping on feet and stomping on ankles and Late tackles it was Halter Skelter out there. It was poorly refereed Very very frustrating to watch. I think it had to hurt or you know Got in got stuck in Four or five six times is just ridiculous. So for me that was very disappointing to see I think


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Now we will highlight an example from the Design for Good pillar through which we assist organizations with product design, development, or implementation. This year we partnered with a non-profit, Bridget to Prosperity, on a project that the intersection of transport, infrastructure, and data analytics. We are joined today by Ms. Abby Noriega, the VP of Evaluation of Bridget to Prosperity. Welcome Abby, the floor is yours. Thank you so much, it's such a pleasure to be here. As she mentioned, I'm Abby Noriega of the Bridget to Prosperity. We build trail bridges so that people can reach essential destinations. We currently have programs in Uganda and Rwanda with evaluation work in Ethiopia and Zambia and Cote de Bois. So for years we've had anecdotal evidence that D2P trail bridges influence the size of the paths and roads that connect. When we heard from the Autodext Foundation about the opportunity to apply for support of an E4C fellow, we thought this would be an ideal way to try and answer this question. So the project leveraged existing satellite imagery of completed D2P trail bridges in Rwanda and Uganda to determine changes in the width of the walking paths and roads within a specified distance, both before and after bridge construction. So as Abdul explained, there were detectable changes in the sizes of the adjacent paths. This was really exciting to find and add to evidence from other studies we've done that bridges don't just make existing crossings safer, they increase pedestrian movement within a region and very likely influence local economies, school attendance, healthcare access in a really significant way. We will be building on this work by incorporating it into ongoing research about the impact of improved access in rural communities. So Abdul was a particularly good fit for this project because he has a very specific skills that we were seeking around remote sensing and was able to understand the problem and come up with an effective approach really quickly in an area of work where there's strictly a dearth of data. In fact, we'd love to continue working with Abdul, however we can, we're trying hard to have him work with us in a continued way. And I'd love to introduce you to our E4C fellow over to you, Abdul to explain a little bit more about the project in your experience. Thank you very much, Abby. So my name is Abdul Rashid Musa. I am a PhD student at the University of Missouri. I'm originally from Ghana, West Africa. So I'm a transportation engineer, I specialize in big data analysis, spatial statistical modeling and applied spatial intelligence and transportation safety and systems optimization. So I had the pleasure of working with registered prosperity during the E4C fellowship and I'll describe the experience as enlightening and humbling. As I was able to be part of the project that was a improvement in shape and the course of the lives of people in a real world setting. The main outcomes of the project were proof of the value of the presence of these trail bridges and increasing connectivity and active mobility within these regions. And as an individual building on my skillsets in spatial analytics, computer vision modeling, this experience was invaluable for me to apply what I know. My biggest takeaway from the fellowship was becoming more familiar and especially more involved within the engineering for development spaces, engineering for global development spaces. The E4C fellowship with the learning modules that we were engaged in was a wealth of information that allowed me to expand on what I already know and I'm incredibly grateful for that opportunity. Thank you. Thank you, Abdul and thank you, Abby. And a special thank you for the Auddesk Foundation who sponsored both of the projects that we've just showcased this year. Really phenomenal partnership for us and we're so incredibly grateful.


Next question is from fat husband. What is a good progression for introducing weightlifting to kids and teens? Oh yeah, great question. Now this is true for anybody. This is true for anybody who's being introduced for weight training, but especially for kids. You want to work on body awareness and control first. It's very important for everybody, but with kids what you'll find is when you have them balance even a lightweight overhead, you'll notice that they have poor controls. Like they want to drop the dumbbell on their head. So that's the number one thing that you focus on. And the way you start with is body weight stuff. So you start with regular squats and push-ups and body rows and things where they're balancing their whole body. And then from there, the first things that I do with weights are static holds. So I would have my kid grab a couple dumbbells. I'll help them put it in position above their head and then I'll have them hold it up there real tight and real strong for 10 seconds. Or I'll have them, you know, hold dumbbells and walk nice and tall. Or I'll have them go down to a squat and have them go maybe halfway down and hold that position for 10 seconds. Because what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get them connected to their body and get good control because once you get the control, then the rest becomes easier. Now you can do the traditional exercises and build them up. And by the way, that control portion builds a lot of strength as well. You're building a lot of central nervous system strength in your kid. So now as far as sports, if you want something organized, gymnastics is an excellent way to introduce kids to resistance training because it's all body awareness. Yeah, no, I totally agree. I'm glad you brought up the static holds. I think I got the most. I had my kids like we're trying to do overhead presses and they were trying to emulate a lot of the workouts and movements and things that I was doing in the gym and they'd watch. But then wanting to know more and like going through those movements, I found it way more valuable to just slow down and hold the positions first. So they really can understand where they need to tighten in their body, what they need to do to organize things so that they had good control, good understanding of how to hold the weight in an overhead extended position as well because that's an opportunity for me to educate too. Like how this could then affect their back if they do it wrong and all these things. It's just slowing down. I think that transition from body weight exercises and moving and understanding how to react when they get a good understanding through gymnastics, parkour, something like that where they're going through all these rotational things and all kinds of different planes of motion. Once they get through that and then they do the body weight exercises, now to load it. It's one of those essential things I've found is to stop and to hold weight to get really comfortable with that. And then we can kind of move into how you're going to organize moving that weight up and down. I picked this question because it had so many likes. So there's obviously a lot of people that want to hear this and the main reason why I wanted to bring it up is so I could actually point towards the interview that we did with Chad Wesley. Is Wesley his last name? Chad Wesley Smith maybe? Yeah, I believe it's Chad Wesley and we did it a long time ago and every once in a while we have someone on this show that's another fitness professional that kind of blows my mind or really opens my eyes to something and that interview was that. So if you're not interested in this topic, it's not the most amazing interview but if you are interested in topic, I think it's phenomenal. After talking to him, I've made plans. Chad Wesley Smith. Yeah, Chad Wesley, right? So I've made plans for how I will take max through sports and so swimming in gymnastics is the first thing right away after listening to that. So if you're looking for something very prescriptive, like at what ages, what types of play they should be doing, what types of exercise, like he breaks all of that down by their years. Like, okay, so ages here to here, they should be doing so many seasons of general play. They should be doing this much of a specific sport they're into. I think that episode is phenomenal for that and I know Sal already mentioned the gymnastic thing. Like that's a for sure place and that really what that is, that's the body awareness. I mean, they're honing in on how to move in space and gymnastics does that better than any other sport.  I just want him to learn that practice early because for all sports pursuits, that's like the best foundation. The great base. Yes, if they if he ends up falling in love with baseball, soccer, basketball, football, tennis, any of these gymnastics would be a phenomenal foundation for all those pursuits. Plus, you're less likely to get the overuse injury factor. Like if you introduce them too much, you specialize them too early. For instance, there's only so many pitches if you're a pitcher, you know, there's only so many of these repetitive type movements that until it becomes an issue for them later on in their career. So it's like you're shortening the window of their career when in fact if you just introduce them to more sports and then kind of make that into like you're honing in towards a specialty, much better approach. Dude, you just reminded me of a conversation. This would have been better in the intro, but I have to bring it up because you just reminded me. So I was with my PTA best friend, right? So he's a physical therapist assistant. So rehabbing people all the time. You want to know what is a rising major rehab that he has to do right now? What? So, you know, he's used to seeing people that are like advanced age and had hip surgery and knee surgery, but he's starting to get like kids in their 20s and stuff. Wow. Guess what it is? Is it forward neck and shoulder? Video game thumbs. Oh, wow. Nintendo thumb? You say about how you only have so many throws. Well, you have only so many freaking, you know, thumb flicks and rotations because the kids are playing it so excessively now at such a young age. Like an arthritis and everything? Yes. Oh, wow. I forgot what he actually called the name of what it's called, but it's got a name for it. That's an embarrassing intro. I know, right?  You can only do them repetitively so much. Without balance? Yes. Yeah. If they're balanced, they can move, they can move a lot, but if they're not balanced, you're just a big problem. Yeah.  No, that's crazy. Isn't that wild? That's alarming. Well, you know, here's something we didn't touch upon. I have trained a lot of kids and I will say this, okay, you definitely need to know what you're doing and, you know, do what we just said. But here's another factor that is very important. The workouts need to be short and very enjoyable for kids. Otherwise, you're not, it's just not going to happen. If it's like, come to the workout, do what I say. It's going to be very difficult to build that relationship with exercise.  But then when you're doing it, put on fun music, have great conversations, play games in between. Don't treat it super, super seriously because if it's super unenjoyable, they're not going to want to continue to do it on their own. And of course, you can't always be there to train your kids. So try to create a fun environment and you can make exercise. Play heavy and then, you know, when they have questions, that's an opportunity for you to educate. Exactly.