Welcome to another episode of Recover Loud, presented by Recovery on the Road, a talk show dedicated to ending the stigma of substance use disorder. I'm really excited today to speak with our son Dylan, who's the older brother of Taylor who we got to speak to a couple weeks ago. Dylan, Taylor, and our other son Seth all grew up in the home where Lori and I both suffered with substance use disorder. Today's episode is going to demonstrate the difference that one can experience a situation as compared to another. It'll demonstrate that trauma can be seen differently and experienced differently between two different people during the same event. I'm really excited to have Dylan with us today, and we're looking forward to all he has to share. Hi, Dylan, and welcome to Recover Loud. Thank you. Tell everybody what you're up to today and where you're at. Like you said, I'm down in North Carolina. I am in the United States Marine, I've been in for about two and a half years. Just recently bought a house, living with my wife and our three little puppies. And recently Lori and I got to go to North Carolina and spend some time with Dylan and his new wife and their three puppies. And if you knew us three years ago, you would understand that that experience was one that really drove us in our recovery. When the kids were growing up, we had these three little rubber ducks. And if you remember, Dylan, we used to always talk about how we had our ducks in a row, and they were all close-knit family. And then once the kids got older and our substance use disorder took off, our family spread apart. Dylan's freshman year, we were living in Massachusetts. After some horrible experiences, I totaled four vehicles in three months. We realized that we couldn't live the way we were living in a place where I didn't really know anybody. So we had to decide to move back to Caribou. Dylan, who had joined the football team and the basketball team, had really done well in this new high school setting. And he was given the opportunity to stay in Massachusetts when we moved back. And though it was seen as a great opportunity for Dylan, it was something that was really difficult for me to accept leaving him behind. But Dylan, can you tell me a little bit about what high school was like, not having us there? So initially, like you said, we all lived out there and then when you guys made the choice to move up, I was given the chance to stay. After the rest of you had left and I had moved in with our family down there, things just kind of went pretty smooth as far as like I would go up and visit in the summer. And I would come back down and have school and do my sports and keep my grades up. I was doing really well and it was, I think, my sophomore year, the summer before my junior year. I just came up to visit and a lot of the time that I was like up there, I wasn't really, I didn't really feel the same kind of welcome because it had been so long. And so after that, I kind of started distancing myself from you guys up there, not knowing anything about the substance abuse. And so my junior and senior year was pretty much very isolated from you guys up north. And I think I did that mostly just to protect myself because I didn't know what was going on with you guys. I didn't know really anything and it was, and it went well for me at least. I found my own hobbies, I did my own thing, I started working out, I had jobs, I had a car. And then my senior year was actually when I found out about the substance abuse. And I think that was the biggest shock for me because I had no idea in the entire four years that I had been living in Massachusetts that that was going on. So Dylan, I want to back up. Obviously today we've told you that the substance abuse didn't start during those four years. We just kept it from you all that time. But can you go back and what was your childhood like? What was it that you were doing and how did you feel? Did you notice something was wrong or what was it like for you? Looking back at my childhood and stuff, it wasn't, to me it wasn't negative. To me it was, we would go on trips. I played my sports, I did all that. I had what pretty much any kid could ask for, just having that freedom to kind of explore the adventure. And the thing was when we were living out on the Persevera is where I think I had that the most freedom because I would ride my bike in town and I was nine, ten years old. I would ride my bike, I would go pretty much anywhere and I could explore anywhere and it felt like the world was in the palm of my hands. I would go out to the farm with you, I would go shopping with mom. It wasn't a negative experience and the only thing that I ever did notice was that you guys would leave and you'd be gone for a couple of hours and you'd come back and you'd be there. When we were there, did you feel like, did you feel loved? Did you feel supported? Over times obviously if I was being dumb, I'd get yelled at or get punished but I guess as far as being loved by my parents, I definitely felt that, I definitely felt like you guys didn't, I thought you guys just didn't have a well-paying job. So that's why you couldn't always give everything to us, which was fine by me. I understood it, I accepted it and I just felt like you guys were doing everything you could for us with the money that you did have. I definitely felt loved by both of you, you guys both taught me very important lessons in life. When we started raising you guys, you had a very different upbringing than what I had growing up. My parents didn't tell me that they loved me on a regular basis. We didn't do a lot as a family. There wasn't much. I was in band early on and my mother would go to the concerts, but my father never attended. When I was on the wrestling team in high school, neither of them ever went to one meet. Not that they weren't interested, but it was just different. We raised you that every time we left the house it was by I love you and we wanted you to feel that love. I'm glad to hear you say that you felt the love. You notice the times were gone, but that wasn't your focus. You remember all the good times, you remember the positive things. I think that's what's helped shape you today. Early on having that support and that love. I know we didn't hide it from you very well, but you didn't understand it then. Was there ever a time that you had found out or figured out that something was up? The most that I think I was telling you while you were down here that I ever really noticed that there might have been something suspicious was I was looking for something in your room and I found the drawer full of pills.  You guys were still around. I never really suspected anything about when you guys were gone because it gave me time to just kind of do my own thing. That's kind of how a lot of my younger years were. I just did my own thing and when you'd get home, we'd do something together. We'd either play catch in the yard, we'd build a fire, we'd go to the garden or something like that. It was never like you guys just, if you were home, it was never that you guys would come home and just never be there for us because you always were. I never really suspected anything major because I knew that you did have that injury to your back and I thought that all the pill bottles were your medicine. It was suspicious that there were so many, but I just figured they were yours. For a while it was. Those were my prescriptions. I had found a doctor that would prescribe large amounts of opiates. I took advantage of that. I didn't need the high doses of meds that he was giving me, but I knew that if I asked for it, I would get it. That was just as the addiction progressed, more and more became the norm. That wasn't possible anymore when the doctor cut me off and it left me to search on the streets for things. That's when it went from having all this extra money to go on family trips. We went whale watching, we went to Fun Town, Splash Town several times. We did all those things and I felt like I was giving you guys what I missed out on because I grew up poor and I grew up with a family that didn't do things together. So I made sure to do that, but the problem was I was doing that with illegal money. My first addiction was money and the lifestyle and the power that I had from having something that people wanted. Eventually having to switch doctors and they wanted to test me over and over again led me to using so that I would pass the test and it didn't take long once I started taking those high doses that I was on to get addicted. So it went from having all that extra money and being able to do all those great things to spending every last dollar I had and then going to work every day to work my butt off so I had something for that night. And then every day we'd wake up broke and sick. So it was that perpetual cycle. I worked to get high and I got high to work. So thankfully I was able to break that cycle. So as you were getting older and you had that opportunity to stay in Massachusetts, when the communication broke down, did you remember or feel that it might be hurting me to not talk to you or did you think that we'd forgotten about you and gave up on you? What was that like? Once the communication broke down and it would be like a month to two months before I hear anything, I just figured they're doing their thing and I'm doing my thing. And then after another couple months of that happening, I guess they just don't care. And then I just kind of go about my business, I do my own thing. And if you texted, I'd respond, I'd make maybe a 25, 30 minute conversation, call you on holidays, that's about it. And to me, I guess it was just kind of at that point I was living my life. I wasn't going to sit there and worry about you guys. I wasn't going to sit there and worry about what you were up to because it didn't change or affect me. I didn't, it's not that I didn't care, but I didn't need the distraction while I was trying to focus on myself and do my own type of growth because I didn't have my parents there to teach me. So did you feel alone in everything you were doing? Because we weren't there, even though you had family around you? Like our family down there, they helped me out as much as they could, but ultimately they did tell me, you need to learn how to do this stuff, you need to do this, you need to do this. And I was fine with it because luckily you had taught me a pretty good work ethic early on. And so as soon as I got my car, I started working. I was working on the weekends while everyone else was out having fun partying. I was picking up extra shifts during the week. I was doing everything I could so I could pay off my insurance and get new tires from my car and do other things. And then taxes and came out and I had to teach myself how to do taxes. I had to do everything I could ask for the help, but I didn't want to. I wanted to, at that point I wanted to be alone. I wanted to learn it on my own because I didn't have you guys. And it felt wrong learning things that I should learn from you, from somebody else. You know, honestly there were times in that period when I was unhealthy that I even got to the point where I resented my family that was raising you. They were taking care of you, they were giving you these opportunities, they were doing all the things I should have been doing. And I got to a point where I resented that. I didn't want to hear about what you were doing from them through Facebook posts. I wasn't getting that contact with you. And a lot of it was my fault, obviously. Because in the moment, even when I thought about you, I still was thinking about where's the next tie coming from. I had to focus on either going to work to make some money or finding some scheme, borrowing money from this person and that person and promising everything. Or in the end I was selling everything that I owned. When we were living in mass, your mother and I, we had our own business. We built a collection of tools and some equipment. And as soon as we got home, all that stuff started being parted out. So everything that we had worked for and built up just got let go. And it wasn't the $400 hedge trimmer didn't get sold for $400. Chances are, I don't remember exactly, but chances are I sold it for $40. Because whatever I could get so that I could just get high. And I miss a lot of those things, those physical things that I had worked so hard for. But in the end they really didn't mean anything to me. And I gave it away. And for me it's difficult to even consider the fact that you might feel like one of those things that I gave away. That was never my intention when we left you in Massachusetts. And in the end I know that it felt that way. But just know today that was never my intention. And I deeply missed that connection to you. When you were growing up I felt we were close. Playing pass in the living room with the football when you were two. Teaching you how to ride a bike at age two. All those things and I remember it early on when you knew nothing. You looked up to me and you wanted to be like me. And then later on, as you mentioned, you came up in October of 2018 after some ugly things happened at home. Was it 2018? Yes. It was your birthday in 2018. You came up and I had been arrested. And you wanted to know what was going on. And I remember you showed up. It was like three in the morning. And instead of going to bed, we sat and talked until about 7.7.30. And I was honest with you. At that point I wanted you to understand what it was I was going through so that you knew it wasn't just that I didn't care about you. Do you remember that conversation? Do you remember? So what did it mean to you in that moment to have that conversation and learn the truth that I was telling you that day? When I had gotten to Grampy's house, I went in and said hello to him. And he said, I knew your dad upstairs. He was waiting. And I just left your guys' house. I had seen mom and she had to go to bed. So I said, okay, I'm going to go talk to dad. And I remember I walked in the room and I saw you.  And I couldn't believe that was my dad. And when I asked you what happened, you were honest with me.  And I think if I think back to it, I think I've maybe seen you cry three times. Because I grew up. And it was, it was a pretty big deal for me to like see that and hear everything you had to say because I didn't have to fight you. I didn't have to ask you over and over again to be telling the truth. I said, what happened? And you told me everything. And I think that was, that's a big reason why it didn't take me as long to just forgive that aspect of things like with you. Was because immediately when you were honest. Yeah, and honestly, I felt at that time. I mean, I couldn't hide it anymore. I couldn't live with the fact or with the idea that you thought that we didn't care about you.  Because when we first went into that scenario, you know, I went to you and had that talk. And I asked you, you know, please don't resent us later for this decision. And, you know, I kind of knew at that point what was going to happen. You know, I kind of knew that I wasn't going to be able to afford to come down and see you. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to send you birthday money or Christmas money. I just, I kind of knew that the life that I was living wasn't going to allow that. And, you know, but I saw it as a great opportunity for you to get out of the chaos and have a good jump start on your life. When I went off into the Army when I was 17, I remember I was at the airport ready to fly out and my parents had taken me to the airport that morning. And just before I walked away, my father shook my hand and said, I'm not going to tell you to make me proud because you always have. And I'll never forget that moment because that moment was the first time I'd ever heard my father say that. And honestly, I don't know, I didn't understand how important it was to hear that from my father until I actually heard it. And then, you know, the story, I went into the basic training. I got injured and sent home before graduation. And because that was such a big thing to me in that moment, I felt I let him down when I got discharged. And it was, you know, it was a pain for me. You know, it hurt that the one time I heard it from my father was something that I couldn't complete and finish.  And I just, I want to repeat that. You know, I'm proud of the man you are today in spite of the upbringing that I gave you. And I appreciate that you do remember the good times. Because honestly, you know, I know that my upbringing made me the person I am today.  And also I want to make sure to tell you that you don't have to be alone anymore. You know, I appreciated the phone call in November before Thanksgiving.  You know, I want to be present for all of your milestones and be a part of that. So, you know, I appreciate you coming to that point. Dylan, I want to thank you for taking the opportunity to have this conversation with us. You know, we did do this once before, had some technical difficulties. So this isn't the first conversation we've had, and it won't be the last. And I'm grateful for that. You know, your mother and I today are willing and open to have these conversations with you. And we're willing to be there. So if there's ever anything that crosses your mind, you know you can ask. And, you know, I just hope for the continued healing for our family in the future. You being where you're at, your sister where she's at, and your brother on the path he's on.   And I was really concerned for every one of you what it was I was teaching, you know. I feel like just finding something to do, finding a way to help is a really good way to cope and to deal with the issues that you've been through. Thanks for watching this episode of Recover Loud. If you or someone you were loved are suffering with substance use disorder, please reach out. You don't have to do this alone.  Recovery gave me hope for reunification of my family and the gifts of my recovery are coming through every day. And if I want it bad enough, and if I work towards it, and I stay on my journey, I know I can achieve anything. Don't forget to like, comment, and share this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel. You can watch Recover Loud on YouTube as well as on PMC Channel 5 in the greater Portland area. Thursday nights at 7 o'clock. Have a good night. Recover Loud everybody. Thanks for watching this episode of Recover Loud.


And for those of you trying to get your first dunk, I would emulate this. Yup, another day, another dunk, and that's how I'm keeping it up. Living high, one day at a time, and every day is a battle to never give up. Strength phase going strong, pun intended, and it seems as if my path just got extended. But where I'm headed, just got more clear, more directed, more mapped out, as if someone just gave me the blueprint. Now all I need is patience, consistency, so I'm focused on building my resilience. 10 years in and I'm just getting started. Mastery is a never-ending journey. A chance to chase your higher self, and I'm forever closing in. The higher my goals, the deeper I go within. Just feeling amazing, it's warm in here. Woke up with my atrophy through the roof. It lifted like crazy, a little less this week, heavier and a little less set, so I think I'm a little more fresh. Just focused on building a huge strength base, and if you watched my last vlog, I talked about building resilience, that's my mood right now, that's my focus long, long term, so that I feel like the stronger I get, the more foundation I've built, and the longer I can make progress, and the higher I can jump. Focused today is max jump, stimulating that max jump, just throw lobs and go get it, because I'm really heavy in the lifting phase, I don't have many jumps in me today, so I'm not really focused on dribble dunks or trick dunks, I'm really just focused on footwork technique and max jumping. Thanks for staying along with the journey though. I'm feeling explosive, and I feel like I'm just scratching the surface, not just for today, but my potential, because I'm lifting so much, I literally lifted 9,000 pounds yesterday. Also gonna measure it to double check, because it's listed at 10 feet, but every fraction counts. It's like one eighth under 10 feet, it's literally like the one notch of a thing, I don't have to call these millimeters, no that's a fraction of an inch, we don't have words for that. We're dumb, you should use meters, it's probably like one centimeter, two centimeters under 10 feet. What? Methodical, strong, and I'm just, I feel like I'm using just two giant big steps, and it feels really good to have all that power. Not bad for the first try, I want to punch it, it was okay, but I'm happy first try, I didn't really, I mean, I'm welcome. It's all about the thing, there's no emphasis if you don't yam it, so everything has to be yam, though it's kind of no height. That's an inch and a half high, exactly 10 feet now. Good thing I brought this. So honestly, I really feel like I'm barely dunking, because it's legit 10 feet, and I have to try so hard just to dunk it. Yes, I have room to stare at a little bit of distance, but it's not as much room or like next level, I feel like I'm barely dunking for me, because it's been so long, but I feel amazing, it's actually the best I could've asked for, because my body's banged up a little bit, but still feeling super strong, and good bounce, effortless bounce, even the dribble dunk, most of my hand over the rim, and that's my weakness, so for that to be strong feels great.  So this height for me is basically the same as training for my first dunk, so I'm gonna throw some lobs, try to get the perfect timing, but most importantly, jump as hard as I possibly can. For those of you trying to get your first dunk, I would emulate this. Yo, just wanna say thank you for all the love and support along this journey, so much more to come, not just for my dunk journey, but for my channel, so I'm excited. Let me know what you wanna see for Dunk Tip Tuesday. This week I just squatted the PR today, 325. I don't think I've ever put that much weight on my back for a full squat, and it was easy, so let's get to it. I'm pumped for the future, and I can't wait to show you guys what I can do. It just, it never ends. It just never ends. Let's go. And lastly, if you wanna start your dunk journey, I got programs from beginner to intermediate to my entire instant jump tech program, six weeks to master your technique. Plus, I have personal coaching from reviews of your jump technique to one-on-one coaching, so hit me up on my website. Let's work, baby. I'm also a rapper.


Greetings, Jordan Pidgesson. I've come to fact check you now for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about Recently, Jordan Pidgesson, whom I like He has made a few tweets basically calling anonymous commentators anonymous posters cowards. Now I understand where he is coming from. I understand that he is sick of anonymous individuals using their anonymity to insult others or to Say things that are outrageous and edgy for the sake of it But I would say that If you were to ask me the question does being anonymous make you a coward No, it doesn't. I think it makes you intelligent and prudent because it's not so fun to have your Life destroyed. It's not so fun being canceled as has happened to many individuals and There is a price to be paid if you stray from the From the moral framework which I have discussed at length in my podcast which you can listen to and Yeah, you're all familiar with Cancel culture. So it can be worth staying under the radar living a normal life Having a normal job so that you can support those who are public figures who can't get a normal job because yeah They have been they have been cancelled because they Say certain things they express certain political opinions which aren't Within the aforementioned moral framework Now I've been cancelled for as long as I have been a public figure basically So yeah, and my great crime you ask it's always quite hard to explain why you are cancelled because it's such such a Sensible centrist position. So basically what I have said is that I believe it's wrong For Europeans to be replaced in their own countries. Therefore. I am a right-wing Extremist or whatever label they use so it's not always so nice to be cancelled and If there isn't any need for me, there is actually a need to be a public figure because of my unique talents and everything like that, but you don't need to be a public figure to do good things you can still be a You know a good influence on the In the metapolitical struggle being anonymous as long as you post good things and you you know lay out arguments in a Coherent and appealing manner. So I'd say it's quite unfair to label anonymous posters cowards I could agree with Jordan pitch on that the individuals who are Who use their? Anonymity to insult others. Yeah, they could be called cowards But to simply be prudent to stay under the radar for the sake of not being cancelled. It's absolutely a valid Course of action and it does and it absolutely does not make you a coward now There is something to be said though about these individuals who view the very The very survival of European civilization. They view it as a joke They view it as a hobby as a distraction. Then of course they go online post very Controversial things just for just for the sake of it because it's supposed to be edgy and controversial They want to kick off being radical pseudo radical pseudo edgy can't really be edgy if you're anonymous so there is that Danger and I do believe that Anonymity it also causes a lot of damage, but in order for us to have a free discourse and I'm hardly the first one who says this In order for us to have truly have freedom of speech truly have an open and honest discourse we need you know anonymity because otherwise there's always the risk of paying a very heavy price for You know criticizing the wrong Individuals so again They say we have freedom speech which we don't in Europe for example We don't have freedom speech in the same way as you have in the US But even in the US where you supposedly have Freedom speech if you say the wrong thing You will be cancelled and Yeah, I mean it's worse than a prison sentence for many in Sweden you can go to prison for You know a thought crime for a few months, but if you're not cancelled that might actually be a more lenient punishment in in many ways, so I would say that Having the option to remain anonymous. It's our Yeah, it's a fundamental key to having a truly honest discussion, so anyway just a short Check-in from this beautiful Winter landscape with my thoughts to recap You do absolutely not need to feel bad for staying anonymous. I think it's a good thing I think it's good intelligent prudent to be anonymous as long as you don't misuse that anonymity to behave in a Dishonorable manner, so don't post things that you don't really mean don't insult people just try to Present your opinions in a in a normal way like a normal person would and All will be well, and I can say the following as well that it's quite annoying as a public figure to have to deal with Anonymous posters posting a lot of Truly Well, I will state this diplomatically truly unintelligent things on your posts and They cover behind anonymity again if you can express yourself in a as a normal person It's good if you can't handle that then you shouldn't post at all. So anyway Do stay anonymous if you want to support the guys and girls who are out in the open and Yeah, view anonymity as a gift that you should Use responsibly and now also lastly to Jordan pitch on if you happen to watch this you need to Dominate your inner chaos. I understand that your emotions.  I don't endorse this in the least I think should be Respectful towards him, but Jordan pitch on you can't let your emotions dictate a good policy for freedom speech need to conquer your Inner chaos. So yeah, that being said, thank you all for watching XXO boom


How are spiritual gifts given? How are they distributed? Well, let's go to the Bible in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and then we'll get an understanding to see not only how they're given, but also we'll see why. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 4, it says, Now there are varieties of gift, but the same spirit. And there are varieties of ministries and the same Lord. There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons. So this all, this is happening to everybody. All these things are happening to all, not every single body, but those who are in him. Look what he says. But to each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good. Now notice, given. This is not something that you get. This is a passive action. This is something that's happening to you. Who does this to you? Not you. You don't get to determine if the manifestation of the spirit happens to you. No, that is done. The manifestation is given of the spirit to you. Why? And here's the reason why for the common good, for the benefit of others. Remember, every time we see in the scriptures that the spirit of God moves on a person, it's not for the benefit of that person, but for everyone else. It is for the growing, the edification of the body. When the spirit moves, others are blessed. Not necessarily the person that is doing it. You don't heal. A person doesn't have the ability to heal in the Bible for the sake of themselves. We don't see them healing themselves. We don't see someone performing miracles for one of themselves. We see God doing things to people for the benefit of growing the body. As a matter of fact, Jesus tells the disciples in John 15, as he's getting ready to leave, that the spirit is going to come upon them and they will do what? Be witnesses, testify about him. And then we see them first in Acts 1, him saying the same thing of where they're going to be witnesses to. And then we actually see it happening in Acts 2. What happens? The body is grown. So the spiritual gifts or the pneumaticum that he's speaking of, the things of the spirit, they're given why? For the benefit of the body. For one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit and to another the word of knowledge according to the same spirit. Another faith by the same spirit, healing by one spirit. Another affecting the miracles and prophecies and to another distinguishing of spirits and to another various kinds of tongues. And to another, the interpretation of tongues. Now this isn't an exhaustive list. However the spirit moves is however the spirit moves. However it shows up is however it shows up. Look what it says. But one and the same spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as he wills. How he wills. So if you want a particular spiritual gift, that matter. Keep wanting.  When someone is thinking that a person ought to exhibit certain gifts that you've heard before about maybe someone speaking in these tongues. And even though I don't think that the tongues that we see today are what we see in the Bible, even still if a person doesn't do so, it's not them that does it. You don't manufacture or force it. It is the spirit that causes a person to either speak in these different languages or the spirit that causes someone the ability to heal. The spirit causes someone the ability to do whatever these things of the spirit are. It is distributed to them from the Holy Spirit. And as Paul is making the point, because we are part of one body, every part of the body has a function, a specific function to benefit the rest of the body. And he uses the example of the body. My hand is not there to benefit just the hand. The left hand is not there to benefit this hand. If this hand is in trouble, what comes with a the other hand? If my foot or my feet, which are used to uphold the body, to take us from one place to another. If something happens, that foot, that toe, if I hurt my toe, does not repair itself, does not heal itself, does not fix itself or care for itself. It would be my hands. Same thing with other parts of the body. We are there to benefit the whole of the body, the entirety of the body. And who determines what you are?  The Spirit delivers as or gives as He wills. And why does He do so? For the benefit of others. We've covered this before and looked at the Greek. There is no such example of a person having a spiritual gift and using it to edify or build up themselves. But Peter tells us that these gifts were given. We should use these gifts for the benefit of others. And to that point, we don't have an example of anyone in the Bible using these gifts for themselves, except to build up others. And so, how do you get a spiritual gift? Or how gifts are distributed by the Holy Spirit as He wills, as He determines for the benefit of others. Amen.


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What do you got, Paul? It seemed like it was hard for both teams to find run on both teams. What did you think about it? I mean, we had a few that were productive, I think, you know, later on in the red zone, but it certainly was tough sledding. And I think that it was good work. And you see in different fronts, and you're seeing some different things and different pressures and run pressures and first and second down pressures from the edge or whatever it may be to go back and, you know, we'll see these different things throughout the season. So it was really good work. Say your story on the other side of the board, what did you sense, too?  But again, I mean, we know that there is a level of importance to be able to stop the run and whatever scheme it may be. It's going to change week to week. So certainly something that's been a strength of ours, but I think in these practices is just not letting it go and not being lax and making sure more gaps are set in the edge and building the wall. You're going to watch a film and just push the pressure with the things you like. Well, today I thought there was an energy level. I think that we came out. I thought we tried to celebrate the plays that we had in the red zone offensively, which is important. I mean, it's tough to score in this league. And we've tried to really do a good job in the red zone. We've got to get down there more. I've said that quite often. But I think that there was some cool execution. I felt like we didn't dwell on negative plays if they had a good play. And again, we lined back up and tried to play again. I thought we were better on third down than today than we were yesterday, which is really encouraging. Would that unsportsmanlike penalty against them have taken away the touchdown post play? On the interception? Yeah. So that would be a dead ball foul. No time left on the clock. Had there been time left on the clock, I guess that you could do something with it. But it was a dead ball foul. There was no time left on the clock. Yeah. Well, again, we're clocking the ball and we can't flinch. So that goes down as a fall starter. 10 second runoff. We were out of timeouts at that point in time. So yeah, it's a great learning experience. It's something that we've tried to continue to cover and we installed two minutes and these things come up. How critical it is that we're waiting there for the snap, knowing that they're going to move. They're going to try to move inside to try to force that to happen with a 10 second runoff. So again, that's what well coached teams try to do. And we need to understand that that's going to happen. Yeah, it's not that hot. But I mean, it's trying to be a professional. I don't know.  I mean, it's trying to approach these games like practice. Or excuse me, try to approach these practices like games, obviously, where we want them to be as aggressive and as physical, as violent within the rules as you can. And then you've got to line back up and play again. You can't taunt. You can't point at somebody. You can't stand over an opponent. I certainly can't throw a punch. Is it tough? No. No. I've been in this league. I played this league. I played with a lot of guys like that. I don't think it's tough. I think that that's part of the job. And it's not a free-for-all. You got a responsibility to the team. And I appreciate what Jeff does. I mean, I think he understands that. And again, we don't make mistakes, but understanding that and not throwing a punch. Yeah. I mean, I think that we did. I think we came out. We got good third down work. We got good red zone work, good situational work. Really like the pace in which they practice and they move. I thought it moved along. We got a lot of reps in there. So a lot to teach from. No. I mean, I don't think it's going to be a long-term thing or no structural damage and anticipating him being back. Again, I'm not putting a timeline on it, but I think that it was the best case scenario. You get really close. Well, I think relieved. I think when you, again, have that type of thing and you feel something and you just, I think, relieved. And, you know, we'll rehab him. And I know he'll work hard to get back. And when he's ready to come back out, he'll help us. No, he's here with us. Jimmy, you got anything? No TikTok. No TikTok. No, no, no. I just said celebrating as a team. I don't think I, you know, I wouldn't read too much into that. I don't know if I, you know, I, it was, you know, again, he's played in this league and he's been a successful player. But also, you know, the whole emphasis was that, you know, we're going to embrace scoring touchdowns and celebrate as a team. And no, I mean, that was nothing. Well, you got the same amount of reps as Malik up until the two minute. I did two minutes over here yesterday. So why Malik was going, we'll, we'll did that. And the plans were to, to have him go today, but, you know, they took him in and we'll see where he's at for the game on Saturday. Well, I thought they were, but I thought the ball came out quicker today than it did yesterday with some of the looks. I know that they watched the tape, studied hard and wanted to come back out here today. And, you know, that there's the second group and then both of those Malik and will had some third down conversions. And, you know, I thought they were better today than they were yesterday. And I thought both of them had, you know, fairly good days yesterday. Just to be clear, you said they took William? They did, or he would have had the same opportunity that Malik had. Like, so that was the plan. Yeah. I mean, I think that yesterday, I think the one-on-ones, there were some, some good balls and there were some that got out of, you know, got away from them and did some into the wind today on third down, did some downwind. So we'll figure it out. Mike, in terms of something you think could work well against the Vikings, why are you standing here?  I don't like, I don't know why you'd stand behind me. Defense you're going against versus something that you would want to work on yourself. Yeah, I think that there's some of that. I think we came back and tried to repeat some of the runs that we didn't necessarily like how they looked yesterday. You know, whether you get the same defense or not, I think that was some of it. And I think that there was some, you know, you go back and you try to third down, you try to scheme and say, hey, this is the looks that we're getting.  So there was a little bit of both. There was a little bit of, hey, just, just repeat some of the stuff that we didn't like yesterday, but also, you know, maybe try to see if we can't put something in that helps us convert. I won't let you guys know on Saturday. Thanks. But no, man, I'll go just to stop the run. We know team going to try to run the ball on us. We proud on our cell phone running, stopping the run. And, you know, we'll, in our offense, we proud on our cell phone running the ball. And yesterday wasn't good enough. You know, we had a good place here and there, but today that's how we were supposed to stop the run. Getting the opportunity to measure yourself here. I mean, it was good, man. I got some good work. Probably today, guys, especially giving me different sets that I didn't have and saw all camp. And I mean, that's, that's what we needed. That's what I needed for sure. So they're going to get the same guys each and every day. Ingram, he gave me good work this week. And, you know, I appreciate it. You know, we jawed back and forth, but that's what the game about. But I enjoy these joint practices because, like I said, you get to see different sets, especially for offensive linemen or kind of where they at, especially on how they view you as a player. Is it power or something like that? And so that's when you, you know, especially after the first day of practice, you could go in and, okay, this is how you're going to set me. Now I come back today. Now I know, all right, this is what I need to do to this particular offensive linemen. You did a little bit of waving. What was that exchange there? Yeah, I don't remember the context exactly, but you were waving to somebody there. I don't remember. I don't know exactly what we were talking about right now. But with that, there's a certain level of intensity that you're playing with. How tough is it out there to balance that, right?   You know, I'm an emotional player and I play with a lot of passion. You know, I don't see myself never changing. The way I talk, the way I have fun with it, I would never change. No matter if I'm, hopefully, I could play long and long in this right now. But, you know, it's always a balance.  You know, I never want to put myself in a situation like that.  I've been talking since the league because anybody that I grew up with, that's just how I play the game. I love to have fun with it. I enjoy the game of football. I play with a lot of passion and, you know, it's come out on the field. Any opportunities, you know, is a blessing. You know, I'm here just trying to take a full advantage of the opportunities given to me and go forward. You know, we got a game this weekend talking about guys on this team and maybe what the team's all about and how do you think you fit that? Oh, yeah, just learning, man.  So learning day by day, you know, just trying to get adjusted to everything and make an impact. Did you spend much time around Derek before and another big back kind of like yourself with him like being kind of his presence and he went to school not too far from Orlando, and obviously he went to Alabama, so everyone knew him. But it's kind of cool, you know, getting to be around a guy like that, you know, just had so much success in this league, you know, similar in stature.  So that's been kind of cool to see, but, you know, just learning from him, seeing how he operates in his day-to-day routine, you know, just trying to learn as much as possible from him. Yeah. What's that like? That's the life of NFL, man. I pray for opportunities here, so, you know, I'm just trying to take full revenge of it.  You played a lot of football, you've played a lot of teams. What makes you think maybe this spot is going to be a good one for you? Man, it just isn't God's hand.  I know I prepare, you know, so all I can do is just stay and go from there.


Hello. Today we'll be talking about VITES. We'll give you a brief introduction, and we'll also give you a few demos that cover some of the new features that we have recently developed. I'm Sugus Sugumaran, I'm co-creator of VITES and also CTO at PlanetScale, and I'm joined with Deethi Sigheridi, who is lead maintainer at VITES and also software engineer at PlanetScale. What is VITES? VITES was initially developed as my SQL scaling solution at YouTube, but it has evolved into a cloud-native database. VITES is a CNCF graduated project. It was donated by Google to CNCF in January of 2018 as an incubating project, and it graduated from CNCF in November of 2019. It was the eighth project to graduate from CNCF and the first storage project. What do we mean when we say that VITES is a cloud-native database? Stateless storage in Kubernetes is not an easy problem to solve, but VITES had a head start because it had been built to work in Borg which was the precursor to Kubernetes at Google. Because of that, VITES was ready to run in Kubernetes even before a version 1.0 of Kubernetes. Some of the features in VITES that made this possible are the way in which VITES runs my SQL instances in our primary replica configuration so that when there are events like a pod deletion, if Kubernetes decides to kill a pod, then you can fail over to a replica without any disruption to the traffic. The other feature of VITES that we want to highlight is its scalability. VITES is massively scalable and we have not so far hit the limits of how much you can scale it. As long as you keep adding hardware, there are VITES implementations which are running literally millions of queries per second with no problems. VITES is also highly available and this is a result of the primary replica configuration in which VITES clusters typically run, and the seamless way in which you can fail over from a primary to a replica in case of unexpected downtime. VITES is right now my SQL compatible. It runs against any my SQL flavor, community, enterprise, Percona, MariaDB, etc. It does not work with Postgres as of now. VITES serves millions of queries per second in production at various companies. Some of the biggest users of VITES are JD.com and Slack, and they both have very high traffic instances. JD is the largest Chinese retailer, which means that it is the largest online retailer in the world, and Slack, as most of you know, is a collaboration tool that is serving many, many large enterprises. Some of the VITES users run it on their own hardware. Many of them run it in the cloud and some of them run it in Kubernetes, and VITES can run in any of those configurations. Let's cover a few key concepts in VITES. The first one is key space. In traditional database architecture, people usually have a monolithic database. In VITES, you break that monolithic database into segments, each of which is called a key space. And a key space can itself consist of multiple individual databases, but it is a logical database, and a VITES cluster can contain multiple key spaces, so multiple logical databases, each of which may contain more than one physical database. The next concept we should understand is that of shard. A shard is pretty much the smaller component of key space. So key space, if you think of it as a logical database, a shard is the way you split up tables in that logical database across individual MySQL instances in order to get the scalability that people are looking for. VITES all depends on a topology server, a distributed key value store that serves as a central location for VITES components to discover each other. Let's look at the VITES architecture. In this picture, we are showing n shards, and all of these shards together comprise a key space or a logical database, and it consists of multiple physical databases. And for each of those physical databases, we run a component called a VT tablet, which takes over the management of those physical databases in terms of doing backup restores and providing protection against unanticipated queries that might overload the database and things like that. Traffic to the VITES cluster is routed through another component called VTGate. This serves as a gateway to the cluster and applications talk to VTGate, which then decides where to route individual queries. VTGate speaks the MySQL protocol, which means that applications can interact with it as if it were a single MySQL instance and it provides the logical single database view that VITES gives you across the shards. There is also a control component called VTCTLD, and this is a daemon process that can be used to manage the cluster and serves as an entry point to various cluster management functions. Next up, we will show you demos of some interesting things, features, new or otherwise in VITES. We'll start with showcasing the MySQL compatibility and then move on to V-replication, online schema changes and automatic failovers. Hi, this is Arshit and Andres, and we want to talk to you about MySQL compatibility. We believe that the test provides a valuable illusion for its users. It's the illusion of a single database when in reality your data might be spread out across multiple verification clusters. It's the illusion of working directly with MySQL Find7 when in reality you're connected to a code service. Finally, it does make it seem like you have a dedicated connection to your database when in reality your queries are being sent through a connection pool and where two queries can end up on different servers. This illusion has to work with many different systems. It has to convince your connection libraries that you use to connect directly to your database to send your queries. These libraries often send some preamble and follow-up queries and expect them to answer in very specific ways. It has to work with object relational mappers, tools that translate from the objects and structures you're working with in your whole signage to complicated SQL queries that the test has to be able to understand in one. We also want your old code to work with the test, not just the new projects. Forcing our users to have to change old SQL queries is not a good idea if we want happy users. Lastly, we want you to be able to use an application that works well with MySQL and make it scale by placing the tests in front of MySQL. When we started working with this project in last spring, we quickly picked the word process, the thing that we were aiming to support. Here we have our newly installed MySQL cluster and we have a test in front of it and we are configuring WordPress to talk first directly to the backing MySQL cluster. We have installed it, we now are able to just write the little blur and a new blog post about the other incoming the test 8.0 release. Here's the blog post published. And we can see here in the status page for me to get that no queries are coming in. If we now change the connection port, so instead of talking with the backing MySQL, we talk with the test. We go back to the WordPress admin page. Here we can see that queries are starting to trickle in. We can list existing pages and it seems to work pretty seamlessly. Now I want to talk about what the test does behind the scene to create this illusion. Here I had a setup where the top pane shows the queries done executing against the test. And in the bottom pane, you can see the queries being received by the DT gate and the queries that DT gate sends to the tablet. Now, if we're dealing with a lot of data, we don't want to see all of it in one go. So we're going to use limits. That's going to show us the data, but we're sure showing a lot of data and you want to provide pagination. You want to know what the full number would be. SQL called found rows test plan. It provides the data with the limit, but it returns found rows as if you had run the query without the limit. To implement this, what we had to do was to store this value in the DT gate session. So when we evaluate the found rows, we never send anything to the tablet, which might be an entirely different tablet. So we wouldn't have this information anyway. The last piece of the illusion that I want to show here is user defined variables. This is something that lives in the session states on MySQL and because we can't trust which MySQL will end up in, we had to do the same thing. Copy these values into the session state of the DT gate level and provide it to the tablet when necessary or evaluate it directly when we can. Here's an example of us having to send down the information in form of a parametrized query to the tablet. Hello, in the short demo, we go over a migration workflow. Early adopters often used to try with tests in production. We show how to move tables from your existing setup to serve them using with tests with the replications, move tables. Let me see how easy it is to roll back to your existing setup. Let's get to the demo. So this is the data we have in our current server. We first start all the witness components that are needed. The topology, VCTLD and VTKT. Now we start the unmanaged tablet, which is just a tablet proxy, which points to the existing database server. Once that is done, we start the witness cluster with three tables which are in your database. We start three tablets. One will be the master, the other replica and the third is the real one. The tablets are started. We have two on this, the master. And now we can initiate the V-replication workflow called move tables, which lets you move a number of tables from a source. So commerce is what we call the existing database. That's the key space. Customer was the new witness cluster and we copied over customer and C order from commerce to customer. You can see here, the VDIF command shows you that all the tables have been copied. It's a very small table, so it's happened really quickly. And you can look at the metadata of V-replication. It shows you which position it's running at. It's syncing currently from commerce to customer. At this point, your existing database is still contains all the data. It's where the app is pointing to. And you can see when you insert into the your existing database, it gets synced and the target still has the new row that you created. Now we start switching over to the witness cluster. We switch reads or read only on replica. And then finally, we switch over the writes, which is all traffic from your app is going to the witness cluster. Note that we are still running a reverse replication at this point when we switch writes, keeping your original existing database server in sync with the witness cluster. We can look at this by looking at the reverse workflow that is automatically created by witness. And you can see that the position is in sync. We insert some rows into the target, which is the witness cluster. And you will see that read application, the reverse replication has kept it in sync. The GT IDs will increase by 10, which is the number of rows that we inserted through VT gate, five in C order and five in customer. So which means your existing server has all the data and you can switch back to it at any time. Let's initiate the switch back. So to do this, to switch back, we do the reverse, which reads back to your existing database. And then we switch writes, in which case now the app is pointing to your existing database, witness cluster is just there in the back down. It is still, the forward replication is still running. So if you, the app is now inserting data into the existing database, the witness cluster still is kept in sync. You see that here? We insert a row into your existing server and then we confirm that our target has moved forward that is the witness cluster is in sync. Read application can also be used for applications, such as flexible, resharding, change data capture, materialized views, anonymization and aggregation. It has proven itself at scale in several massive high performance production setups with huge databases serving very high QPS. Thank you. Hello, my name is Shlomi Gerach. I'm an engineer at PlanetScale and today I'd like to present online DDL, a new experimental feature in Vitesse 8.0, which comes to solve the issue of schema migrations and of the fact that an altar table in large busy systems takes the power out of the developer's hands. With my skill on large and busy systems, an altar table is a risky operation. It is blocking. If not on the primary, then on the replicas, it will create replication lag. It is resource-related. It can consume so much IO that your environment is unable to serve production traffic. It is unalatable and uninterruptible. You can't expect to know what the status is or hit control, see and expect things to just come back the way they were. Workarounds exist in the form of external tools like Ghost, Petey Online Schema Change or Facebook's Online Schema Change. These are tools that require operational knowledge from the engineer. They need to run in the production environment. They need to know. They need to get the identities of the affected service. They need service discovery. They can do throttling, but they need to understand how to do throttling, which service to throttle by. What does the environment look like? So the usage of these tools, although popular requires an operational domain knowledge that some engineers do not have and therefore the engineers need to relay the schema migration operation into the hands of VBAs who will most commonly run these migrations manually. The situation is undesired and this is why VTES is happy to present a new syntax for online DDL and alter with Ghost table, alter with Petey Online Schema Change table, putting the power back into the developer's hands and abstracting away all of the complexity of running schema migrations. Let's look at a quick demo. For starters, we're now logged in into VTES. We have this simple table called eggs. It's populated with a few rows. It's actually only sharded environment with four shards. But when I select from the table, it makes the appearance of just a normal monolithic table. I'm going to begin with the normal alter table. That's a blocking operation in production. I wouldn't run that. That could take minutes, hours or days to run. But of course, here on this very small table, it returns instantly. Already, we see that VTES is very useful to us here because it abstracts away the need to know what are the affected shards. How many shards are there for this table? Who are the primary service for these tables? This is something that VTES already is aware of and abstracts away. But again, this schema migration is blocking. And therefore, we introduce this new syntax. Alter with ghost, table, eggs, modify int, et cetera, et cetera. And the first thing we note is that we get back this job description, job ID, which we will use later on to track. We'll be able to use this value to control immigration, audit immigration, cancel it or retry it. Now, the next thing we see is that the table has not yet been migrated. That's because this operation goes asynchronous and offline. VTES becomes the owner of the scheduling of this migration. In fact, every shard in itself owns the scheduling of the migration. It can take place in the next minute or in the next hour, depending on whether there is other running migrations. At long last, we will see that the migration is successful. We can see that the schema change has been altered. Of course, tracking the progress of immigration by show create table, show create table is undesired and VTES offers us an interface to look into the status of running migrations. The same interface allows us to control, cancel, throttle, and terminate or retry running migrations. There's a lot more to this and please look at the documentation and release notes for VTES 8.0. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone. I'm going to give you a very quick demo of the orchestrator, which is actually a new component of VTES. VTES has previously had what we call as planned failovers, which means that if you plan to deploy software or if a pod goes down and it gets an event, VTES automatically performs failovers where it changes the current master and fails over and promotes another replica as the new master. But operating VTES in that level won't give you this huge high availability that people get with it. Usually what they do for that is they integrate another component called the orchestrator authored by Shlomi Noach, which is a popular tool for MySQL. And VTES works as an external integration with that orchestrator. What we have now done is forked that orchestrator and made it a core component of VTES, which means that this new orchestrator called VTARC actually works hand in hand with the VTES topology can understand all those components. And therefore the integration is tighter and a lot smoother. So here I'm going to give you an example of that orchestrator and the things it can do. So I have a cluster here, which is a single, which is an unsharded key space. And in this key space, I have a master and four replicas of which one is not an eligible master. And now that I have, now that I've also brought up the orchestrator which is running and the orchestrator also has the same view of the topology except if it actually has a better UI, you can see that it's now beautifully graphically represented and shows how things are connected. But what you can do here, for example, is I can go to VTES and say do a plant reparent, which is failover from the master from 100 to let us say 101. So I say do a reparent. So as soon as you do a reparent, then what VTES has done, it has performed a failover. But as soon as it does a failover, the orchestrator notices that it has happened and adjusts something that see, now 111 is the new master. So they are both in agreement. But you could also go to the orchestrator and say, hey, you do the failover for me instead of asking VTCTLD to do it. And that can also happen. Like for example, I'll say promote 17101 as master and orchestrator is a nice drag and drop UI. You can say, hey, do you really want to make 101 the master? Yes, I want to make 101 the master and the orchestrator performs that act. And if you go look at VTES, it actually should have updated 17101 and the orchestrator will soon refresh its screen to show that it's the case. But what can orchestrator do is if MySQL crashes underneath, it can actually detect it and proactively perform failover. So I'm going to do that. I'm going to bring down 101 to show you which is my down 101. So as soon as I go down, you will see that this is the log of the orchestrator. After a few seconds, it'll notice that something is off and it says, okay, I'm going to perform some functions. These are, I'm running it in post mode. But if you refresh here, 101 was the previous master. And now if you see it says, hey, I have now promoted 100 as a master because 101 is down. What I can now do is go back and bring that 101 and just waiting for the shutdown to finish. And if you see here, do the refresh, you should see that 100 is now master. 101 is actually down. If I click on the status, it'll say it is down. So now I'm going to bring back 101. And as soon as I bring up 101, I can go to orchestrator. It'll say, hey, 101 is back up and it looks like everything is fine. I'm going to now point it back at the new master. So the way orchestrator works is it works in this thing called the desired state. Any component is not in the correct state. It goes and fixes it. So it makes this entire cluster self-healing even, but then it's beyond just looking at the state. It's also looking at whether something is able to serve traffic or not. This component of orchestrator will soon be available as a operator component. So in the operator, there is actually this pull request which should be submitted by the time you see this video. If not, it is pull request number 130 and you should be able to build off of this OC1 initial branch. And once it is there, you should be able to use the new VITS operator to deploy this orchestrator. And there is a sample YAML that I've submitted here which will, there's a sample YAML which is under the operator example, but it's called orcluster.yaml. And you can look at it to see this section which is the VITS orchestrator. And that should show you how to set up the orchestrator for your cluster. Thank you very much. We invite you to visit us on the web at the website, VITS.io, where you can learn more about VITS. Do join us on Slack. We have a very vibrant and welcoming Slack community. You can also find us on GitHub or talk to us via Twitter. And we'll take questions next.


The International Committee of the Red Cross has delivered over 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The conveyor-current food and relief items were filmed driving along an empty highway, some with flats hanging from them, others emblazoned with the Red Cross emblem. A walker with the ICRC Maxime Zabalov said their assistance was for the people who have suffered from the terrible consequences of the shelling on the city. The delivery included food, water and essential hygiene products, which Zabalov said would be handed out by the Ukrainian Red Cross to people in the city, including those that were sheltering on the city's metro station. We are in Kharkiv with the ICRC team, where we distributed 60 tonnes of food and non-food items for the people who have suffered from the terrible consequences of the shelling on the city. This help humanitarian assistance will be distributed by the Ukrainian Red Cross Society. This has been put in their warehouse for further allocation to the people in need.


Welcome to the Radio Communication Assembly 2023, RA-23, just prior to the World Radio Communication Conference, WRC 23, being held here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. I'm very pleased to be joined in the studio today by Donna Bateh-Murthy, who is the Senior Vice President of Global Regulatory for ViASAT. Donna, welcome to the studio. Thank you for having me. No stranger to ITU Studio. We've chatted many times before. So Donna, tell me what's the significance of the ITU Radio Communication Assembly for you? The Radio Communications Assembly is the culmination of four years of technical studies, reports, recommendations, and it will now set the priority for the next four years, including the leadership that will get us there. Personally, I'm honored to have been chosen to be the Vice President of Working Party 4B and will lead the efforts on 5G and 6G for satellites. What do you think the biggest issues are going to be faced here? I think that the biggest issue is just setting the priority for the next four years, but with respect to specific issues, IMT 2030, which is 6G, is hot topic as well as increasing the capability and capacity of broadband and the hot topic of the day of space sustainability, as well as gender neutrality in ITU leadership. What advice has the biggest issue here at R823? As an international telecommunications operator, all the issues here are important to us. But if I had to pick one, it would be space sustainability. We're a global satellite operator, which means we have expertise and experience in space technology and operation, and we recognize that it is important for the rules of the road to allow for everyone to be able to benefit from the space economy. This includes access to shared, finite spectrum and orbital resources for everyone. And finally, let me ask you, how have you found the tone and the spirit of this three years radio communication assembly? That's a really important question, because not only does that impact this meeting, but the tone and spirit could set the stage for next week's treaty conference. As you know, in today's geopolitical climate, things are complex and they're difficult, especially to reach a global agreement on something, but that makes it a bigger necessity to work together. Not that I'm biased, but I think the fact that the ITU at its core is driven by inputs by engineer means that, for the most part, we're heading towards a technical truth, and that helps all around for us to get to a positive outcome. And finally, the tone really does matter. The fact that the UAE, the host nation, has done such a wonderful job at this meeting, making sure everything's organized and people feel welcome for that. I thank them and that's going to have a huge impact next week. Well done. Thank you very much for joining us in this studio. It's always a pleasure to have you here and look forward to catching up with you again very soon. Thank you. It's always a pleasure to be here. Thank you. Thank you. And if you've enjoyed this interview, then do tune into the ITU YouTube channel as well as our SoundCloud or wherever you get your podcasts from for further interesting interviews and for further information, please check out our website at www.itu.int. Thanks for tuning in.


I'm a very avid reader. I read a lot of books and my hopes for the America treaty are that it will give me as somebody who is totally blind access to much more books than I have access to today. Right now there's a lot of duplication being done where Canada will produce a book and the US will produce a book or the UK will produce a book and this will just allow these countries to share books and give access to much more material.


I wanna, for our audience, just name the names of players that they know who I've been. And we've named a bunch, Tanaka, Matsui, hit a homerun at Koshien. Dice K through like 250 pitches one day and then pitch the next day. You say Kukuchi, pitch with a broken rib. Otani pitched and lost and you have his post-game interview from there, which is just so full of emotion. Is there always one player that takes it by storm? And is that how all of these players that I just named were? Were they like heroes of their time or were they late bloomers? Or have you guys known these names since they were like 16? Yeah, yeah. I mean, definitely like every summer there's just a couple of heroes are born. Out of those people you mentioned, for example, Tanaka and Matsuzaka were really those like in the moment at like 17, 18 years old, a household name and we still love them for that no matter what happens in their career later.  And then there's like other professional leaders like Otani was always a very like, everybody knew he was amazing but because he actually didn't like perform that while his team at Koshien, he didn't even make it to Koshien his senior year which was a big surprise. You know, he was all kind of decided he could like to go to the majors out of high school and then the joining Japanese baseball anyway but that was really kind of when things took off for him I would say. But then yeah, so there's different versions of heroes actually Matsui, people know him not for his home run but the fact that he was walk, intentionally walked five times at Koshien which ultimately worked and his team lost and that was at the time crazy, the controversial and this pure form of his sport you know, it was a riot basically. So that's kind of what he was going for, game two. Two games? Okay. Yeah. And so he still hit a home run and they walked him five times. That's crazy. He'd done so well in his previous years too that by the time it was his senior year, I mean, that was what the other team decided to do. You know, it paid off for the victory but in terms of the spirit of the sport it was just highly, highly controversial. So yeah, and you know, in our year in the 100th tournament there was this guy Kose Yoshida from a very Northern prefecture in Akita that had never really done very well in Koshien who, you know, threw every pitch for his team from the regional through to the finals of Koshien I think 1500 pitches over the course of a month and he became, you know, really the hero although he didn't win in the final because he was like kind of the hero of that year. So there's always like a couple of people and then there's also other professionals like, you know, each year, for example, in high school he was a pitcher actually. So he like threw at Koshien but he's one of the kind of more rarer examples of, you know, he's most known for like not crying when he didn't make it to Koshien his senior. He was still focused on being a pro and he knew like this wasn't it for him which is kind of an exception. I think even like those guys who go to the pros and know that they'll have a career just high school baseball is usually like a very emotional thing. But, you know, looking back, I feel like people knew like he was a different one from that time. So each person has kind of a garbage, you know through a lot in high school baseball and there's like just a lot of emotional shots of those players from that time which I, you know, is I think, you know the years audience would also be kind of interested to see.


Hold on. Someone here. I think I've found what we came here looking for. This is perfect. He's going to tell us exactly what we're after. Can you confirm what you're looking for? Oh, yeah. It's... Good afternoon, call you back. This is a walk-in talkie. Yeah, come on out. That's question marks. That umbrella. That stench of cheese. The doctor! I don't smell like cheese. Sorry, that's me. You're not shower? Not as much as I should.  How rude!    In that case, let me go and take her. She's actually the runny. Who? No, I'm the who. You're the runny. I am? What letter does your name start with? R. The runny! Oh, I don't just kill for money. He'll like it if she knows.  You must have a lot of job satisfaction then. Oh, so much. You wouldn't even know. All right. Time to cook me dinner. Now, which of these bad boy buttons tears on a march away? That one! It's all right. Nothing hurt or broken. But, where's the guy with the gun done? Well, do you taste that... metallicness in the air? Yes, I do. That's him. You could use some salt, but who killed him? It must be the Bannermen. But why would they do that? My guess. Something to do with the microwave.


record holder and 200 meters now. Class one, Rashon Rowe of Kingston College with a good start and paws away from Shakur Williams of Medebrook 10.45.


Most depressing town in Britain named 3 for a cent I've said this when I was there so this is not like I'm slagging them off behind the back although I am because they won't be watching this well who knows it's swindling and so I mean it's a bit hack but if you're a comedian on stage it's kind of an easy laugh at some point in the night to just make a little jive about a nearby place and I try not to do that because it's a little bit easy but in swindling the place to slag off if you want to laugh is swindling


Hi, this is Ella from When I Work. Today, employees are going to learn how to swap or drop shifts on a computer. Dropping a shift removes the shift from your schedule to another coworker completely, whereas swapping a shift will replace your current shift with a different one. To swap or drop a shift, click My Schedule. Then select the shift you'd like to offer for swap or drop. A pop-up containing details of the shift will appear, and you can choose to swap or drop. I want to swap my shift, so I'm going to click Swap Shift. You'll then see all the shifts that are available for swapping. Select the shifts you'd like to work, and then you can add a message if you'd like. Once you're finished, click Initiate Swap. An alert will automatically be sent to your manager, letting them know that you'd like to swap your scheduled shift. If your manager approves it, notifications will then go out to your coworkers, and the first coworker to accept will receive the shift, and you'll receive theirs. Now, in this example, let's drop a shift. You'll then see all the employees that are available to take an extra shift at that specific time. Select the employees you'd like to include. When you're finished, an alert will be sent to your manager just as if you were swapping a shift. If your manager approves it, notifications will go out to your coworkers, and again, the first to accept the shift will receive it, and then you'll no longer be scheduled at that time. Swapping or dropping shifts can be done with minimal effort from managers and gives employees the power to adjust the schedule to their liking.


In Pakistan, Beta Thalassemia is a serious health concern with an estimated 5-8% carrier frequency, and birth of 5,000 major children every year. The treatment of Beta Thalassemia major patients poses a great economic burden, thus making it important to focus on prevention services. Currently, there is only one government-funded program in Punjab province called the Punjab Thalassemia Prevention Program, which provides free-of-cost services for Beta Thalassemia screening and prenatal diagnosis. Screening is done through complete blood count and hemoglobin electrophoresis, while chorionic villi sampling and amplification refractory mutation system, ARMS, are used for molecular diagnosis. Molecular techniques such as non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis are also being trialled. This review discusses the current diagnostic facilities and the status of prevention programs in Pakistan, as well as potential future perspectives. This article was authored by Mahmood Gaffer, Mohamed Farooq Sabar and Furqan Sabir. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


Case Keenum's first pass as a Bronco incomplete. We're playing against the Seattle Seahawks All right Royce Freeman Sensational rookie running back. What can he do? boom boom boom come on come on Yeah, right Royce. Come on case Oh Boom boom Wasn't a score, but it was um First down see that pass guys third and six Yeah, the real reason I watch football is defense here goes chubb and Vaughn Miller first time playing together Defense is gonna be nasty Third and 16 defense chubb and Miller Halftime Derragus, they're left about two seconds 11 seconds I'm kind of walking around aimlessly outside trying to figure out what to pick up what to clean up And I just got to go to bed. I got to go to bed. I didn't sleep well last night So I got to go to bed, but before I go to bed quick story I am a long-distance runner and you may think that that does not coincide or dovetail with football Well, in fact, it does it does and I'll tell you why because when I was in high school running cross-country my respect for football and football players went way way up because my football my high school's Head coach would basically the entire football team Varsity JV freshman football teams would jog probably like a mile and a half from the high school where they practiced Down to the cross-country course Every single year on at the home cross-country meet, you know because at a football game, you know, we probably had I Don't know. We probably had like seven We maybe had a thousand people at our football games at a small town maybe eight hundred like it was we we loved our sports in Buna Vista, Colorado, but at the cross-country meet, you know, maybe there's 200 people at the most so the football coach would require now it was required But still they showed up and they would jog down to the cross-country course and cheer on All the runners cheer us on and it was like as a young like runner who you know You're like you're a little out of place in cross-country because you're not doing football or gall for basketball I don't know. It's just like not your most typical high school sport. It made you feel good. It made you feel good So I am forever a football fan in part because of that. Thank you, mr. Markin. Thank you, mr. Markin. All right, folks We're going to bed soon But first gonna pass it off to true love for a little walk down memory lane speaking of high school true love Take it away. I Am so interested. He said that he saw your book in here from 2002, which is mine And I thought that was gone long gone. Anyway, I'm really excited to find it And also just see what else is in here. He said there was some stuff of mine. Oh my gosh Oh There's his You had yours in great can is in your books and great is the name. Whoa, thanks. He had Was this Yeah, this is my senior year, right?  Oh My gosh, there's all these pictures. This is our senior year of when we were like new elementary kids My gosh, I wonder where I don't have Facebook. So I don't exactly know Where a lot of my people are This is so fun to go back and I certainly haven't looked at this. I Mean, I feel like since we got married or as we put stuff in and I think oftentimes I'm much more apt to like see you pitch it pitch it. Don't need this unless it's like Moved my heart completely. I don't ever need to see it again But it is fun to kind of look look back in some of this stuff And there was this little bag of turtles. Oh, here it is and oh my gosh It just when I was having our first dating I went to Mexico for a mission trip and he brought me to airport and anyway, I bought him this as like You know like a little gift to be like I couldn't stop thinking about you the whole time I was there here. I got you a turtle, but then we started getting each other little turtles on different trips We took before we were Married, it's like I kind of forgot about that because now of course we do stuff together. So Anyway, it's a it was a lot of fun. So I I love yes to memory chess


And first of all, I'd like to welcome all of the ambassadors and our diplomatic colleagues from member states as well as the observers and the representatives of international organizations, the members of civil society. And I'm also pleased to confirm that all credentials are in order and suggest that the council take note of this. First of all, I would like to speak on behalf of my country, our most deep gratitude to all the member states of the organization for having allowed us to be part of the main governing body of the IOM. This four-year cycle, which comes to an end today, is something of which we're very proud because we have taken it on in the belief that migration is an essential factor for sustainable development and Chile is committed to a world of peace which respects the human rights of all. Through our participation on the Board of the Council, we think we have contributed from our region towards the strengthening and growth of this, our organization, at a key point in the history of international migration. For me personally, it has been a major honor to have been able to carry out the mandate of chair of this council with the period that started in November 2017 by my predecessor, Ambassador Marta Mauras, who I'm sure many of you recall with great appreciation. Our mandate took place in a year with important events in the area of migration. And we should highlight the process which is still to be concluded of the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, in particular the meeting in Puerto Vallarta and the negotiating rounds in New York and the arrival at the final draft, which we hope will be adopted by the huge majority of countries in Morocco in coming weeks. Both the Council of the IOM and the Administration did not spare efforts in maintaining the link between the Global Compact and Geneva, aware of the importance that this multilateral capital has for the subject. There were many occasions where we were able to exchange opinions with the co-facilitators of the process, as well as with the special representative of the Secretary-General, Ms. Luiz Alba, and their collaborators. And we were able to look at this from the point of view of those for whom we work for every day, covering the subject from its many perspectives and complexities. I have no doubt that these interchanges constructively contributed to the process and are in part responsible for the central role that the pact has for the IOM. Knowing that 2018 would be a year marked by the Compact, we ensured that our work, ensured there was good communication between capitals New York and Geneva, and along with the exchanges which were organized and which led the process, the Bureau of the Council set up working group to be spaces for information for delegations on the developments in New York and also as a space for exchange of opinions between states as the negotiations developed. These important working spaces were very important and flexible for us, and I hope they will continue to be so now that the organization is preparing to take on important and new responsibilities, which will bring challenges which all countries must respond to in a joint and responsible manner. 2018 was a very important year for significant changes in the organizations because the second mandate of Ambassador swing after 10 years heading up the IOM came to an end in accordance with current practice of international organizations and with the transparency which characterizes our organization. We held the first interactive dialogue of member states with the candidates for the Director General of the IOM and we looked at their priorities and opinions in a simple and direct manner and I hope this initiative will continue and we can continue to perfect it to make it a habitual practice in the future appointments of Director General. With a few weeks before the Marrakesh conference, the IOM is in good shape and well prepared to face the challenges it faces. I would like to thank the administration for the excellent work carried out and I would like to recognize in particular the leadership of the former Director General William Lacey Esming and the Ambassador Laura Thompson. I would like to wish every success in carrying out of their functions in the recent months and I would like to welcome Director General Antonio Vittorino and to conclude I would like to wish every success to my successors in this post. I am certain that their leadership will be prominent and essential for the work in the coming year. Thank you very much.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com with 2020 Panini flawless baseball two box pick your team number seven from jaspyscasebrakes.com There's the fresh case right there Thanks to the people here for getting into the action and pick your team seven. We've got pick your team eight in the store Maybe a couple more cases to post after that one as well And once we fill up number eight so get into that on jaspyscasebrakes.com has Nick put that into some kind of Team random or filler or anything like that. No, there's eight And pick your teammate there are 11 teams left if you're watching live go to jaspyscasebrakes.com and go and get it Maybe we can fill that one up straight up You also notice the R&B's right there. There are number blocks for this So there's the there's the pick your team seven group right here. So those guys don't count. We already did that break Those teams works just like a number block. That's the title of the video right there if you're looking for the randomizer That next to me right here. All right. Well, let's pop this baby open and let's see what we got. Good luck So we're doing both briefcases. Let's just slide that one just off camera You can you can see it right there in the top cam now some cases has that that third in case hidden there That's not super common But maybe this will be the one. No, no third hit These are naturally mined at not lab grown Let's do the card in the middle here first or the box of cards here in the middle first All right, they're all the blockchain cards in here And this is a player I'm gonna have to look up because he played for many different teams So it's quad patch signatures a blockchain quad patch signatures hard number 10 Who's a Burt Blileven? And according to cardboard connection on com it's for the California Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles in Orange County That's Matthew Acons with this redemption Matthew you get a free top-loader with it, too. All right Now we got Three-color dual relic the man of steel Ricky Anderson three out of ten David Baker with the A's Look at this coming up three out of three Dual relic for the pirates honus Wagner That's for Ryan P. Look at that and The enclosed game worn slash used material That's an that's an old piece of lumber right there ladies and gentlemen There you go Ryan P All aboard the Big Head Express Got another train whistle coming up this guy's a little more modern more current Justin Dunn four out of five For Rory S and the M's They go Rory All aboard 18 out of 25 Keston here. Oh, you got both of their both of their jersey styles there, too. I Like that that goes to the brew crew Brett and the brewers Brett got the brewers straight up and pick your team seven 14 out of 20 Quad relic an autograph for the fish six dough Sanchez Fouad with the Marlins. He's been playing some Some good baseball. We've got out of seven It's Kurt Schilling leading the bigs He led the bigs with 22 wins in 2001 That's a five out of seven jersey and black ink autograph Kurt Schilling Ali Fonzo with the diamond bags nice Another great player here 11 out of 15 Aussie albies Atlanta Matt Medlin with the Braves and seven out of seven It's Vlad Guerrero senior Nice patch nice autograph for the Montreal Expos Exposed stuff, of course, we'll go to the Nationals that'll go to Evan Levine. Nice Think Vlad Jr. Lost a little bit away. Maybe maybe look maybe it'll look closer to that All right There he is. There you go, Evan Actually, let me mark that so it'll be easier for the shipping team to just fly through this sorting process and get this to Evan a Lot more quickly All right Let's do the gem first, which I think goes on this side. Yes. It's Peter Lonzo for the Mets 12 out of 20 Peter Lonzo diamond and the Mets are a number block team So Mets 2 we'll go by that number right there Mets 2 is going to be for Mark Mark Stemmerman with that one. There you go mark and The autograph is gonna be Whoo Ken Griffey Jr. Reds edition Steve Locke with the red legs 15 out of 20. That is awesome He's got a great auto too Excellent stuff. All right, there you have it if you're if you're in the Hermosa Beach area folks You can stop by the shop Especially if you have little ones that you have kids treat them to an empty briefcase They're under the Christmas tree No, no third encased card right here. Let's do the middle card first. I did not see who the encased card was I'm gonna be just as surprised as you when we show those Wait, did India is not supposed to beat Wisconsin, right? 14-6 All right, we got George Brett Great dual memorabilia autographs for Kansas City. That'll be going to Brett and the Royals All right, and now we've got the hits here. Oh Indiana was number nine until they lost to Ohio State. Isn't Wisconsin supposed to be pretty good? Clemson at Virginia Tech is that we're watching this. They're sold satchel page eight out of ten for Matt Medlin and the Braves We got ten out of ten mule subtles Who I don't think is associated with an MLB team. So this could be a randomizer Let me just double-check What was called the block the blockchain cards? That's what I thought too, but Then someone was saying that they're they're still carrying some weight on the secondary market Depending on the play, I don't know how George Brett's gonna go But people are actually buying those up. There's like a whole small subset of collectors who are who are Actually buying trading and collecting those like seriously mule subtles Is not associated with a MLB team? So this will be randomized to he's with the Newark Eagles He'll be randomized to someone in this break right here if the randomizer ends up on a number block Then it'll go to whatever team You know lands on that number blog zero So I guess Aaron Pettit would have a shot at it if that number block team lands it All right Ten out of ten Keith Hernandez Mets Mets are a number block team and that's Mets zero Aaron Pettit ten out of ten What's up Gilo? That's right Adam cover makes a good point Fred You get the free top order there, too. That is not digital. That is real Definitely real and tangible. Oh Let's on this side right here. We've got another Keston here a 23 out of 25 dual relic and autograph. That's for Brett and the brew crew I see David B was saying Indiana loss. They're starting QB. So that's why their backup was playing, which is why Wisconsin Dual relic and autograph five out of 25 Kwang Hyun Kim for the Cardinals Cardinals are a number block team And that'll be Cardinals five that will be Adam copperman with the Kim Kwang Hyun Don't expect any just don't expect to take any cat naps with Kim on the mound the card says We got for the Giants Sean Maddock and the Giants gets the one Marishal five out of five Look how I feel like he's leaning way back Good core. I guess that'll be for Sean once again and Sean All aboard the big hit express whoo-hoo got eight out of twenty Smolzee Going to Matt Medlin and the Braves. Wow. Look at this four out of five for the Astros Celebrating his fifth career no-hitter. That's Nolan Ryan Two-color jersey on cart autograph. You've got the the fluorescent orange of the old Astros uniforms that's David Baker with the Astros I thought Steve Locke got it No, sorry Steve David Baker though. Congrats out of five All aboard the big hit express whoo-hoo Yeah, the old colors are classic. There you go, David. All right now the encased cards I think the auto was here. It's usually on this side. So let's grab the gem first And we'll do that mule subtle Randomizer so on this side we have That's my guy Gavin Lux one out of 20 diamond And that'll be for the Dodgers Roy with my Dodgers and the auto on this side It's yes, of course the one-per-case Jordan Alvarez Star swatch sense a nice patch though star swatch signature seven out of 20 David Baker with the Stroze and there you have it ladies and gentlemen. I am Joe for Jaspie's case breaks.com Thanks for joining the action. We've got more in the store. Check it out. Let's see where mr. Suttles goes There it is. Let's copy the Teams right here. Let's get them in right here. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it team on top We'll get the mule cells five and a four after nine if it's a number block team Then it'll go to the number number whatever number block team in the number zero five and a four nine times one two three four five six seven eight and One more time ninth and final time after nine team on top It'll go to the Giants and the Giants are not a number block team that goes to Sean Amatic and the San Francisco baseball Giants. Yeah, Lux is supposed to be Starting second baseman next year. He's supposed to be the real deal great hitter there's mule cells right there too and That's for Sean San Francisco and I'm Joe for jaspie's case breaks calm That was pay your team seven. We'll see you next time for more flawless baseball on Jaspie's case breaks