All aboard for the transcribed premier production the cruise of the Paul Parrot that thrilling story of privateers shipwreck and wailing days at sea Although bad luck has followed our friends of the Paul Parrot ever since they found the rough diamonds on Gaulto Island It looks now as though they may just about have everything under control Or even though the Paul Parrot was wrecked on this strange island off the coast of Brazil All repairs have just about been made by the man under the direction of Captain Dalton The Indians who menaced our friends have been scattered their white leader misto The magician has gone mad and jumped into the ocean when his black leopard was killed by the Jaguar Which Johnny Robbins and Sue Grange befriended Annabelle Wilson is back safe in camp and Johnny and Sue have recovered the diamonds that briney stole Only one problem faces our friends now that the Paul Parrot is repaired How can they get it back into the sea from the rocky ledge where it was beached as they're worrying over this? Impossible task a sail is sighted approaching the island It soon turns out to be a full rigged ship, and it's about to drop anchor in the harbor as we pick up our story Dickon Dickon hand me my glass That vessels fly on no colors, but there's something about it. That's familiar. Hi captain. He's the glass I think I knows what you means I does know me down to these you know what ship that is dicken Strike me captain if these all eyes don't deceive me It's it's the african I dicken the africana it is Captain Dalton you mean captain Karsha's privateer ship that we got separated from in that awful star I sue last the very same Captain if that is the africana We may have more trouble on our hands whoever's in charge of the rest of the privateer's crew doesn't know that karsha's dead And briney and his men have surrendered their liable to start firing on us again But mr. Grange Remember there are still a lot of our men from the crew of the pal paradigm board that ship Remember captain karsha made them go over there as hostages when he and his men boarded us Then when the storm came up and we lost our rudder neither group could get back to their own ship You're right lad, but I fear mr. Grange is right our men can do little good Most likely against all the men of their crew that are still on the africana Dirt and down the edge captain if that means we has to fight what are we standing about Gaffin for that's right Dicken if we could defeat half their crew we ought to be able to walk with the other half easy enough Easy there Johnny and dicken remember they have cannon aboard and we're in their range. They can blow us off the beach But we'll be ready the last all hands Stand by for a skirmish mr. Wainwright mr. Wainwright issue arms from the powder locker There's a bootload of men coming ashore. Lush me to a yard on captain. That's a good sign. That means they will stop poorly first There's somebody in the bow of the boat captain holding up his arm. It looks It looks like stand by men make no show of resistance till we find what they want first captain Dalton Don't you know who that is in the boat? It's mr. Hollings Hollings well, so it is Salt me down for a mackerel Hollings was the one who saved the diamonds for us on go to island captain Dalton Maybe he can help us again. I mr. Grange have a great deal of faith in that man When I sent him over on the Africana at the head of our group of hostages I figured he might be able to throw a reef in the private here's course and maybe he's done just as much Oh Johnny just think mr. Hollings wasn't even one of us to begin with he was one of that awful dirt Brisco's crew back on go to island and yet. He's been such a good friend. Blow me down It seems you're all doing a lot of pearl counten before you even catch your oysters Let's wait and see what Hollings has to tell us they're beaching their boat now Yes, some of the other man from our crew that went over to the Africana with him. Blow me down. It's a blink and reunion Hollings it's good to see you again. We scarcely thought we'd ever see you were the Africana again after that storm Hello Johnny and Sue Well, I'm back all right and I'll bring you good news you seem to be in charge of things around here What happened aboard the Africana? Well captain when you sent me over with a party of hostages and give me that long glance I knew you wanted me to try something. Hi Hollings that I did with your ingenuity I thought you should be able to spike his gun somehow. Yes captain It was the storm that came to me aid When the Paul parrot and the Africana were separated the crew on the private here was on be men's Both the captain and the first mate were over on the Paul parrot The third mate had died then the second officer was a man that couldn't have been master of efficient smack But what did you do mr. Hollings? Well, I'll tell you that it's highest and all hands were at wit's end Did I start him to figure out? Blow me down. Help me. I just know what captain Carson be walking me to do in case like this I can't see the other ship at all. Don't you know how to navigate men? I know but that is I think I just well enough but without the captain. It's very distressing for me Oh, yes, then you're letting the waves hit us a beam if you let us sink sidewise into the trough of the waves will be swapped Give me the wheel. I'll write it out for you I I ought to let you at the wheel being your one of the oil is the captain was about to scuttle But if you if you think you can hear why You're swinging the wheel hard over your layer over on her Well, I guess that did it when I swung the wheel over hard the boom from the foremast hit him in the back of the head and felt him like a tree Oh, hi there you meant from the Paul parrot Now here's all that's left to the second mate thanks to a swing and boom that just laid him low The crew aboard is demoralized. It's up to us to keep our heads and take off All right, all right now here You you Rogers and Kately creep after and spike all the Canada you three get to the arms locker and take what arms you need And stand guard over the rest of your capture the cook and stand guard over the galley Bring me guns and you for back me up with rifles when this bloomin private air crew finds out We've got all the arms that they've got no leader and that they don't eat till they do what we say They'll see our way of it soon enough You mean to say that you and the men with you from our crew took over the Africana as easily as that. Hi, Mr. Grains, that's the way it happened. In fact, we didn't even have as much trouble with them as we expected after the storm died down There wasn't one left who had navigator ship well enough to be sure to get them out of their trouble So when I promised not to report him as pirates, they was ready to follow me and eat out of me hands Wonderful, but how did you get back here and find us on this island? Well, Johnny, that wasn't so easy We scoured these seas all these days looking for some trace of the Paul parrot to tell you the truth I'd almost given up hope when I sighted the smoke from your camp on this island and a moment later through the glass I saw the good ship Paul parrot herself rest in high and dry on the beat High-hullings all's well that ends well they say. Hi, but by the way, are you sure the men on the Africana are still with you? They won't try any tricks now when they find out what's happened to their captain and the rest of the crew There's captain you can depend on them. They're behind me strong Captain I just thought of something remember you and mr. Grange and Dickon said you were worried about getting the Paul parrot back down into the sea again I lad with whatever I still see no way to do it now that the Africana's in the harbor Couldn't it pull the Paul parrot down off the rocky leg? Johnny let this ain't like hitching a wagon to a blooming horse. Let the Africana pull us off Johnny is sound like a blooming land lover Stole that Paul parrot Blow me down dick and there may be something in what the boy says it that if we construct a long slide from the big trees in The jungle from the ledge across the beach into the sea What's to prevent the Paul parrot from sliding down them if she had a tug from a line hitched to the Africana?  Mr. Hullings you'll receive an ample share of our proceeds from the treasure when we return to New Bedford I assure you Now you may later that no hold hold hold fast a moment captain Captain Dalton you've got a full crew. You don't need me And now I've got the chance. I've always wanted I've had me first mates papers for years, but I could never get to be master of a ship Now here's the Africana Kosh owned it and he's dead. He had no as his only other officer brine. He's joined with you. He has His crews come to me as a man Now look here captain Dalton. They let me claim salvage on it The port authorities will grant my claims and I'll be what I've wanted to be all these years Master of me own ship a respectable merchantman skipper And believe me that means more to me than all the diamonds you could show me You're a wise man Hullings.   There'll be no more stops Here's the quiet Johnny. Oh I'm just thinking what about oh about seeing mother and father again after all these years and About what's been happening in the Civil War and about well everything I was awful sorry to see mr. Hullings leave us But I guess he knew best he got what he wanted most a ship of his own and that's the most important thing I think well now you've got all you want haven't you Johnny I mean when we get back to new Bedford and brother as we sell the diamonds will all be rich. Yes, Sue But that's not all I found something else that I want all my life more than being rich even what's that Johnny? I bet I can answer that Johnny. I don't think and I didn't see you come up behind us And he's captain Dalton too. We couldn't help over here in your sue and Johnny. Well dicken. What do you think it is? I want most verse lad. I'm afraid it's the same thing. I always wanted to be on the scene Is that it Johnny? Yes, Sue. That's it. I It's caught you in its spell too has it Johnny Well, let me tell you this the seal make a man of you if anything can and it's helped prove to me That I may look over all the earth and nowhere would I find a better group of shipmates than us four right here Hey captain, you said a wise word. We'll always be good shipmates I hope and I hope no matter how many storms we run into There'll always be enough smooth sailing for us And there they go Johnny sue captain Dalton Paul parrot himself and all our friends of the Paul parrot homeward bound But they've still got a long ways to go And there may be many more adventures ahead for all of them on the transcribed crews of the Paul parrot But until we hear from them again, this is your announcer Dave ward wishing all of them smooth sailing and saying goodbye


Brought to you by DIS, keeping companies connected with cloud-based solutions. Come on, City! Stuart, good to chat with you again. I know we spoke about it on Saturday after the game with Reese's injury, but now the club have put out a statement just confirming the length of time in which he's at least going to be out now, which is 12 weeks. Just how disappointing is that for him and the club as well? Yeah, first and foremost obviously for the young lad. He's down in London today being assessed properly by the specialist, and then obviously we'll know furthermore if he needs an operation or not, so we'll just have to wait and see. But yeah, listen, it's bad for us as a football club, but for the boy himself. But, listen, it's pan-passal football, we all know that, and you've got to come back as good as ever hopefully, and I'm sure he will be with all the support he'll get here. Yeah, as a young man and as a young professional, 18 years of age, a first real significant injury. What's the best course of action for him now to get back fighting fit, and just for the presence of mind as well? Yeah, it's a mental thing as much as anything. Listen, you've got to get through it. It's not a life, it's not career ending injury or anything. I remember Brian Robson, I think, he broke him two legs and something before he was 16. So it's things you get on when you deal with, you've got to have the support, the mental and physical work that you will do. But again, I would have 11 months with a knee injury. So four months is long enough without a doubt, but it's a muscular injury. It's not like a serious knee ligament injury or a break or anything. But they can be as bad, I know that. And it's just about when he gets back, if he has an operation and working through that, if he doesn't have an operation, then just exactly the same, but be guided by the specialists and obviously the physios. What does it mean now then for the way that you set up your system, your shape, do you alter things now? Rhys is going to be out for a significant period of time? Possibly, yeah. I mean, listen, there's no doubt when we decided to go through at the back and we're going to try to play out from the back, then Rhys would have key component of that. So, you know, we look what we've got at the minute and we're struggling a few departments, if I'm honest, but we've just got to come up with the best solution, whatever that may be. And, you know, we'll work around that. On the solution side of things, does it present opportunities at all for someone like maybe George Secora to put his name forward or Fin Cousin Dawson who can play in that position? Well, yeah, not naturally left-sided though. We're asking people to bring out the ball on a certain side or to play it. Listen, lots of people play three-center arches, should be strong, big and solid, Northampton last year.  We're good at bringing the ball out. I'm giving his overloads, a la trying to do what Sheffey and I do at the time. And we were getting a lot of crosses in the box from as high as a higher up wingbacks, you know, Woody, Rhys, Tyler, whatever it may be. There's a lot of opportunities created by them. So, but yeah, it's a different, I don't say George going and playing on the left-hand side. It's not his game to bring out the ball as it is within on the left-hand side. So, you know, you have a system and that system will tell them we're made to suit certain people. As I said before, Ben playing in the three, not as comfortable, Rhys playing in the back two, not as comfortable. Everyone's got their own different strengths. How then make a centre half or a ball playing centre half a priority in the January window now? It has been in the last month going to be a priority, but obviously more so, left-sided one probably. Don't have to be ball playing. As I said, once we start going into the winter months and the pitches chew up then, you know, and listen, I'm looking at Cheltenham, you know, we've got to play tomorrow, three, six-foot, two, six-foot, three centre-backs, actually decent on the ball. We do come out with it, there's no doubt, but big, physical, strong. And I go back to years and go from my first management to time at Bradford, I was going back a long time when I was speaking to Danny Wilson. You've got to be big and strong in both boxes, especially back end of the season, you know, when it's not about playing football, it's about being physical, being strong. Defending long throws, corners, free kicks. So that's something going forward. We've got to look at in the recruitment side of it. We've got some nice, tidy footballers, but when it comes to the physical side of it, it's something certainly a mark that we've got to look to to bring into the football club. How are you doing on the other injuries? How's the extent of Zellie firstly? Zellie's away for a scan now. So, you know, I expect that not to be a short-term one. And listen, you know, you feel for the lad because he's worked, since I've been in here anyway, since pre-season, he's worked tirelessly. He's got much power on string testing, he's hamstring than anyone at the club. He played more minutes, I keep going back to pre-season. And nobody can understand, you know, why this has happened. You know, we give him a bit of run out at Salford. He's trained well all last week. He starts the game quite brightly. And then what, 10, 12 minutes in, he has to pull up with the hamstring. So again, that's, it's disappointing for his cells, but it's usually disappointing for the lad because it's been a stop-start injury since he's come to the football club. And Levi Sutton and Harry Pritchard, how are they faring? Listen, I'll be honest, Jimmy, it's not a great news again this morning. Three of the lads that were available to us on sat, they're all out now with mine and muscle injuries. But I don't want to be doing gloomy. It is what it is. You know, I'm looking at the board. I'm looking back. I remember speaking a couple of months ago, I just looked back at the program. I think for the first, well, certainly in league games, we've lost one out of six. And we, apart from having suspensions to Levi and the two O'Connor's, we're actually injured, right? And I think if you throw the cup games in there, I think we've lost two out of the first time with a relatively strong sport to pick from. Unfortunately, now we've got seven out tomorrow, possibly eight. Certainly all is in the way that we would, I would like to have played against each other. And that's for sure. And it's, you know, we've had a lot of discussions this morning as a staff, watched lots of things and we will do this afternoon because, and again, we can't do any work today because one of the lads is a 50-50. If he's available, it'll probably change the way we play or try to play in a shape. We've got, but we add out of the bare bones and certainly middle to front areas. We haven't got a lot of options, if I'm honest, but listen, we've got to get on with it and be competitive. We can be tomorrow because we're up against a really strong side who built on from last season, big, strong, physical, good at set plays, long throws coming in your box all the time. But they also play off from the back as well. So I think the manager's done a really good job there. They've got a strong, strong squad. And I would probably, you know, think, you know, they've been one of the strong favourites to be top three at the end of the season. But that's a challenge we have. And it's a challenge we've got to rise to. Have you decided yet how you'll set up, or are you specifically waiting on the 50-50 player? Yeah, we've got a little idea at a height going into games and not looking where we can be a threat. We've got to be a carrier threat of some sort. But likewise, you know, the, I mean, I've just watched a clip of one of the games there. They've got eight in the box, some corners, and they're all six foot plus. So, you know, defensively, airily, they get a lot of goals from set plays and long throws and free kicks and corners and load the box. And they're good at it. You know, they're well-drilled, they're well-organised. So you've got to come up, you've got to look at that factor without having the biggest side available to pick from as well. So it's a challenge, but it's one that we've got to come up with something that we can be resolute. And that doesn't matter about your system. Resolution comes from within. But then we've got to have a way that we can try to hurt them and create and get opportunities. We can't go into game thinking, yeah, we're struggling, certainly middle-of-front with threadbare. But we've got to have a plan to at least, you know, carry a threat and can't just sit in the full 90 odd minutes and hope to defend the box with the quality they've got that they put in and obviously the size that they've got. Just going back to the injury side of things, Stuart, for a moment. What do you put all the injuries down to? Is it just unlucky for you as a squad right now? Or is there a wider context to it, do you feel? No, we're looking into everything, because a lot of them are. But I think the thing as well, that's a bigger problem at the moment is that we're getting two or three back, but maybe can only use them for an hour. And then you're losing many longer, they're going to be out for a couple of weeks and that's what we're finding. So it's really difficult, frustrating. I'll defy any team in the league to go through what we're going through at the minute. It's probably the worst injury problems I've encountered. And more so because it's, you know, middle to front. And the ones that I mean, we're playing clay in every minute of every game at the minute, you know, a 36-year-old. We've nothing to give him a relief from really. We've got lads who are playing, who are wanting to play and committing to play, carrying little tightnesses and muscle injuries. And then they come to the after the game, Saturday and Sunday, they're struggling.  You look what happened to Gareth Evans when he tried to come back slightly early from training. It's just so hugely frustrating at this moment in time. You know, we would have used, if it had been five subs on Saturday in the cup, we would have used all of them. I would imagine come tomorrow, we will, I would imagine use all five substitutes tomorrow because there'll be lads that are probably starting that I'm getting told can only do maybe an hour. You know, we had A mark Zele for an hour. He gets 12 minutes. We'd A mark restarting for an hour. He gets 53 minutes. So it is challenging. There's no doubt about that. But in that, the people that are going on the park, I've got to take their opportunities. And it's, it's tough times, but it's ones that we've just gotten back and down the hatches and drive through it and, you know, be the best we actually can and be difficult to beat, but also as I said, try to carry a threat and, you know, score. We've just spoken to Clayton and specifically about him at 36 years of age, knowing his body better than anyone else, having a vast career of understanding injuries. How important is it for you as a manager to have that dialogue with a player who fully understands his own body and his limitations and his expectations, maybe in contrast to someone who is at the early stage of the career, who is dead keen to get out in the field, but hasn't got that air of hesitancy because they know what injuries could incur. Yeah, of course, experience. That's exactly what you said, you know, your own body. But, you know, needs most at the minute and, you know, he's having to play. And again, he's one of the markers in the team.  And normally we'll think, well, you just get your best players on the path, but they're not about taking every hands off and being drew on because they're looking at the marking, they're looking at the size of Tottenham, set pieces, et cetera, et cetera. And it's a key part of any game, especially at our level, there's so many goals scored, and, you know, at the minute, you know, Clare says, another one will pick up. We've got a relatively smallish team scored, if you like, a lot of footballers. So that's something we're going to try in the coming windows without a doubt. Dee Wolves' Arsenal game after the Chelsea Spurs game caused the head injury to Raul Jimenez and there's been a proceeding amount of conversation about a Troidini on talk sport this morning talking about how, you know, more responsibility needs to be handed to the players in those circumstances. What's your take on that conundrum at the moment? It's been going on for a long time. There's no doubt about that. I mean, the clash, the sound was sickening. How both players didn't come off there and then I was amazed to be honest. Obviously, really stayed on to half-time and unfortunately for the Wolves players, you know, the serious injury. But yeah, I think anything like that.  I think Stephen Warner was on the TV this morning. I've had the head knocks and it depends on what time you play. I just want to get on with the game but then I have to be a little bit. But it did a few years ago a bit, taking out your hands and, you know, if you lose consciousness then you were out for two weeks. It was a give me and then it started changing a little bit different rules. But yeah, it's something everyone's got to look at. As a manager, you're always wanting to keep people on the part but it's about play safety. There's no doubt about it. More important than a single result. They watch right for the player. Do you feel like there could be more to come in that respect that there needs to be more precaution taken surrounding head injuries? Yeah, possibly. Yeah, as I said, they did a few years ago if you lose consciousness.   He wants to carry on. I'm saying he's got to carry on and the physio's going on. Listen, the rules have changed. You can't do it now. And the lad feels okay, but you've got to go by science as we keep saying. Stuart, good to chat with you. Go well tomorrow night. Cheers. Yes, thank you. You're very full-fledged after the game about the performance. And you said you wanted to see more energy and more just better play really. Have you seen a response from the players in the short time you've had so far? No, to be honest today, they've all have done the lads at play with a little passing drill. We can't afford to do anything. Honestly, we've got to bear bones in training and some of the lads were not playing well. We've had a small fiver side, but it's almost non-contact because we're struggling so much with injuries. But what was it about the game the other night or the other day, should I say? It run parallel to a couple of games we've had recently that we started okay, we get a goal ahead and yet in fairness, their two goals are worldies, both 30 are, there's outstanding goals. But when we concede one, I think it was the first shot they'd had against us and they scored a great goal for their play. We then seem to mentally, I don't know, lose focus, lose concentration. Maybe we think we have to go and score straight away because we then give opportunities up on the counter attack. And the other day was the poorest we've been in possession of all. When we've been looking to play out, when we play it well and getting good areas, as I said, and we've got good possession, we get through teams and get it wide and get crossing, we look at good team. But all we need is a bit of slackness and sloppiness, which we've had Exeter, when they scored, they got two, they could have got two or three before halftime, Salford were the same. And certainly on Saturday before the game, before halftime, Odell could have had another couple of goals. And that's as much a mentality thing. But also we were just sloppy throughout those two or three or four players had the poorest day in possession of the ball. And we just got to hope that obviously that doesn't happen again.  And that was the key, that little period just before halftime. Then we come out half time. And obviously they scored another fantastic goal, second half would have looked a bit better. But we don't really create a great deal. But as I say, middle to front at the minute, we're body wise and personnel wise, we are struggling. So we've just got to make the best of what we can and be difficult to play against, but also carry a threat. And at the moment, it's easier said than done. I suppose that is the difficult thing, isn't it? You can talk to the players and tell them that they've got to concentrate.  It's down to them having a load that they've got to do that. It is, it's focused concentration. As I said to the players often about defending, you don't have to be the biggest and strongest and quickest. You know the game, read the game, be aware of where the dangers are. That's why people like Clark, it's a tremendous plan to 38 and 39. And there's other examples because they might not have the pace and anything, but they've got the experience, they know the game, they read the game and understand, you know, where the dangers are coming from. But as I said after the game, we were flopping possession and that, I think again, there are better chances came from us giving the ball away as it did against Exeter, as it did against Saltford. So we're like causing his own downfall at times. But you know, in fairness, when two players who were good players on the day and showed that the other day, McAlaney and Raw, two fantastic strikes, if you're honest, but it was a bit in between that, you know, we could have done better. As you said, you probably use all five substitutes tomorrow night. So are you now having to look sort of bigger than you start at 11 and think, I'm going to have to have them on the bench because they're the one that can replace whoever needs to come off after an hour? Yeah, but I think tomorrow we will use every fit available body. They'll probably be only one of the young boys that I'll miss out tomorrow. So we've got everyone available. We'll be involved. I would imagine looking at the board and that's if we get OK news in the morning. So yeah, we'll just have to see, and then we'll have to, as I said, try to come up with a plan that makes it difficult to play against. But once you're out there, it's about running harder than your opponent, jumping higher, tackling stronger, whatever it may be, the quality that we might be lacking middle to third, we've got to make up with energy and tempo. Just good luck tomorrow. Yes, thank you. Stuart, you were saying about, obviously Chilton were quite an imposing team, you know, a very physical, tall team. I mean, the current make-up of the squad and of the team, can your team match size like that physically in a physical battle, do you think? Just being speaking to Kenny about that, and a good chat there about we look at how we scored, what we've got. Obviously, we inherited, you know, the, I think, seven-cent and a half, some four-cent of forwards at the time. We had to bring in the midfield was an area. And certainly in that area, we knew we would probably like to start with a big physical presence. But the way we wanted to approach the game, you know, with Cook, Elliott, Clarky, Levi, you know, get a bit of energy in there, pass the ball well, certainly up to Christmas. Certainly, as I've always said before, I think you can get the ball down and play on good surfaces if you set out that way to do that. Thereafter, you know, when you go into the sort of winter months and the pitch is deteriorate, you need a bit more physical presence certainly in there.  Obviously, we put on the O'Connor in there on Saturday, but it was a different game. He didn't go in just as a holding midfielder. He had a lot of work to do in there against their midfield three rotation or diamonds are starting. Yeah. So it is a, it's an area. And I've got, at this level, I think you've got to look at that. You've got to look at, yeah, teams can play the way out. But when it comes down to the physicalities of set players, I mean, we're missing, for example, you know, even a Novak, and I go through and start the season or a Novak and a Donaldson up front, our physicality up there, ball's not coming straight back. So you go try to find a different way. We haven't got imposing big fullbacks. Now Tyler couldn't come into that as a wingback, six foot two, the three stroke four centre half. So we've got a reasonable sizes, although Finn and George are not huge imposing ones like six, three and that. They're okay in the air, but you're on the poor day and Ben are the stronger ones, you know, aerial obviously. But we do miss, in certain, I look at the team last year that the Bradford put out against them, you know, and he likes a big Kelvin Mellor in there with the three centre halves, which helps so much. When the game's so tight, the game's going to be really tight and it's going to, but a few games this season have a challenge and then they don't, you know, maybe with a long throw or a flick corner, it's a key area again. Obviously you're saying about the weekend about, you know, tough times need tough characters. I mean, you know, for yourself as a manager when your team's in this situation, particularly when you're sort of restricted of who you can play, I mean, how difficult is it to sort of pick yourself up and sort of see a light at the end of the tunnel currently? You've just got, because I've been saying through times, maybe not as bad as this injury-wise, but certainly difficult times. And there's no other option, really. You've got to get out there, you've got to front it up, you've got to come in on a Monday, you've got to have a plan, you've got to be bright and you've got to focus on what you can do and just believe in that, not long around the corner, a little bit more reinforcement's come back. We get a couple of results. I mean, I know it's different and it's easy saying it, listen, Neil, and again yesterday, you can talk all you want about, you think you're going to turn the corner, but it's got to start happening. Again, you know, we are, you know, hurt with opportunities, what we can do and what we can change at this moment in time, there's no doubt about that. But we've got to stick at it and look at ball and we went to ball and in the league game, three, four weeks ago, don't know how long, shouldn't have lost the game. I don't think anyone, a fair-minded person, could see ever losing or shouldn't have lost the game. And they've now won four on the bounce. So that's what you've got to look to. You've got to look to past experience that you've had as a player, as a manager, as a coach, when there's been difficult times. But we could do with just a little bit of look turning our way and getting something and trying to build up. So there's a long, long way to go, as I said, there'll be certainly changes in January when we get to the window. And I keep saying, hopefully we'll get players back, but we seem to be getting maybe one back and then from Saturday, we've got three out of the 18, which is tough and challenging. But what's the other option? Do you see what's going on in the world today? You get on with it. And the phrase I heard the other night with all this young phrase, it is what it is. I know it's a love, but it is what it is at the minute. And you've just got to get on with it and you've got to do your actual best. And you've got to be prepared and you've got to be prepared for battle mentally and physically. And a challenge and stick it out. And keep going, because when you get the results, things can be a brighter place, naturally. As you say, when it's a challenge as big as it currently is, if you can get through it, as and when you do, I suppose it feels more satisfying as a result than it, because you've had to really fight quite hard. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, I mean, I've got to be honest, if we're going through this now with a fully fit squad or just a couple missing, it would be really, really concerning. But you do see people hopefully available. That's going to be available and make us better once they get up and running. We keep saying this. It's been a stop-start season for too many of the players. But we've just got to... Yeah, listen, we've got to do the best. Like I said, the other option is to go lie down and not have a fight in us. So have a fight in us. Do the best we can. Keep battling. Keep believing. And let's get this turned around. Brought to you by DIS. 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Well, thanks for coming everyone. I'm going to get started because half an hour is not very much time Then I'm going to talk about something called did calm and the self sovereign Internet To get started I just want to make the point that When I talk about this, I'm not I don't want to debate the relative merits of different autonomic identifiers like pure dids and Kerry and ADI I think all of them can apply to what I'm going to say And if you don't know what an autonomic identifier is that's good because that's one of the things we're going to talk about today I will be Watching Or hopefully a little bit trying to watch the chat To to see if there are questions so feel free to ask if you if you have them So when This parties didn't say I have a birth certificate therefore I am We don't spring into existence because some administrative system provisions and identifier for us and no single administrative regime Be it a birth certificate or a driver's license or whatever or even a collection of them really defines us and so When I talk about self sovereign Internet what I mean by that is that sovereignty is the source of our authority to act represents a A root of trust if you will I'm going to talk in some detail about what that means because the root of trust Determines the domain and a degree of legitimacy for an identity system So when we talk about identity system architectures first of all, I want to point out my belief that identity systems don't manage identities, but rather are built to manage relationships and They provide the means necessary for us to remember recognize and rely on other parties in that relationship And to do so they use identifiers Which are handles that we use to name the thing that we're remembering recognizing and relying on So identifiers are issued to or created by a controller Who by virtue of knowing the authentication factors can make authoritative statements about the identifier for example, example when you authenticate to a website you are using A password usually to make an authoritative statement about the identifier and claim it The controller could be a person an organization of software system of some kind and it might be the subject that the identifier refers to, but that doesn't have to be the case. Okay. Identification factors can be things like passwords or key fobs or cryptographic keys or almost anything else. But really one of the things we care most about is the strength of the bindings between these three things. And The architecture of the identity system has a great deal to do with the strength of those bindings. So in an administrative identity system like the ones that we use for almost everything, some administrator is asserting the binding between an identifier and the password. And the administrator owns or verifies the identifier, even if it's your email. They're still when it's used as an identifier in their system. They are essentially asserting the binding between that. And they're assigning it to a particular controller. The only Binding that's particularly strong in this administrative setup is the one between the controller and the passwords because typically we allow the controller to generate the passwords themselves. Now in a ledger based system, Which I think of as algorithmic. We have a ledger, which is essentially registering the bindings between the identifier and the public key. And usually the identifier is derived from the public key in some way. So we get strong bindings between all of these. The binding between the controller and the identifier is strong because the identifier is derived from public keys that the controller has generated. And then finally, the primary thing we want to talk about today is this idea of autonomic identifiers. So in this case, the identifier is and the keys are self certifying and the person is their own root of trust. And I don't have time today to go into the details of why that works and why it's so we'll talk a little bit about it. But Nevertheless, the idea here is that the identifier is derived from the key, but the the source of truth about what that identifier means is held in some cryptographic structure, which I've labeled here as a key event log. So in order to use these identifiers, we have a system of wallets and agents, and I'm going to be speaking primarily from the viewpoint of hyper ledger areas, although many of these concepts can be generalized to other systems. So this is a diagram that's meant to show something on the left connecting with something on the right. And there's something on the left could be an individual or an organization or it could even be a natural thing like a cow in this picture or a man made thing like some Internet of Things device. And they do that using some system of agents and wallets.  And then from the rest of the talk, I'm usually just going to say agents, and you should understand that to mean an agent and a wallet, because agents and wallets are almost always deployed in pairs. The wallet is the thing that is is essentially the distributed key man or the it's the key management system, whereas the agent is the software system that uses the keys in the wallet to do some thing and we're going to talk about what those things might be. So this diagram also distinguishes between edge agents and wallets and cloud agents and wallets, and you can see that an individual having an edge agent and another individual having an edge agent could have a direct connection save with via Bluetooth, or they could have a connection through some cloud. set of agents that may even route messages between from one agent to another. These agents are speaking a protocol called did com. That is really the basis of what we're going to talk about today is this idea of a protocol a messaging protocol called did com that a series of interoperable agents, whether they be edge agents or cloud agents can use to communicate with each other. So how does this all get started. What happens is Alice and Bob exchange dids, and you can see here that Alice has created a did 1234 a BCD and Bob has created a did which I won't read but you can see it, and they have exchanged them. And so now Alice knows the Bob the did that Bob gave or generated for her and Bob knows the did that Alice generated for him. In addition to exchanging the did which is the identifier they have also exchanged information about the public key that is associated with that did. And they are keeping track of these in key event logs. And they each have this key event log and without going into all of the details. You can think of the key event log for this particular relationship, because each relationship will have its own key event log as being a conflict free replicated data type CRD T something like a Google Doc, although much more cryptographic. And both Bob and Alice can verify that it is correct, and that the if Bob rotates his key for example, then Alice sees that key event, and the cryptographic chain informs her that this is a valid key for Bob, and that it's been signed by the previous key and so on so you know some people call these micro ledgers, because they have this kind of cryptographic property, but nevertheless the very foundation of this whole idea is that did exchange creates this did relationship. And that Alice and Bob can have a self certifying relationship between these keys, or between themselves, based on these keys and and identified by the did identifier. And this whole idea of how this works, the indirection of the did was brought home, the importance of the interaction was brought home to me. This past week, when someone sent me an email and it happened to be encrypted, and I set him back a note and I said sorry I can't read this and he says, Oh, don't you use this key anymore turns out it was a key that I had exchanged with him in 2011. Of course, I had no idea what it was didn't remember anything about it. Now, nevertheless, he still had it in his in his system. And so a better distributed key management system is clearly going to benefit a lot of people. And that's really the basis of did calm did calm is a messaging system, based on these did relationships. Alice can have as many did relationships as she want Bob can have as many as he wants, because they're based on dids and those dids are linked to public keys. They can sign messages to each other, they can encrypt messages to each other. And even if they rotate the keys because they've been lost or or or whatever the did relationship can remain. And the key event logs will sync up the keys between Alice and Bob so that they can maintain their relationship. A little bit later. So this diagram is just meant to show a number of did based relationships that Alice might have. So you can see that Alice has one with Bob like we've been talking about but she also have someone with Carol, Carol and Bob happened to have a did relationship. Alice also has a did relationship with with Bravo corp and with a tester corp and with or tester Oregon with certified corp. And you can see that in this case, a tester org has issued a credential to Alice and she has used that to present a proof to a certified corp. And that credential is not based on peer dids but rather is the root of trust for the credential is rather a public did that is written to a ledger, which allows certified corp to actually validate the credential using that public did and and the credential definition that's associated with the credential. But the idea here is that did based relationships can form a complex network and any individual can have as many of them as they want. It's important to note that Alice in this diagram has five different peer did relationships. She has created a different peer did for each one of those relationships she's not reusing the same peer did in each relationship she's using a Now, because of the secure and interoperable nature of this did calm represents a secure network overlay, very different than say TLS, which is another example of a secure network overlay, but TLS is very specific to a specific to a certain application, namely, HTTPS, whereas did calm is a general purpose messaging application. And importantly, it allows other protocols to write on top of it. And that is a very, very important feature because it creates this idea of the self sovereign Internet that I use to title this talk. So, unlike, say WhatsApp, or signal which, you know, can talk to each other but can't talk between the two platforms using wallets that speak did calm. A transit wallet can speak to another transit wallet or an ID ramp wallet, or a leasy wallet, or an isadas wallet or any other wallet that happens to be our agent rather is probably the more proper term or any other agent that happens to be interoperable with the hyper ledger Aries interoperability profile. So, we've talked about did calm is secure private interoperable transport agnostic, but the thing I want to focus on now is the idea that did calm is extensible. So, to do that we're going to talk about tick tock tow protocol, and I am going to try to share. I'm going to stop sharing. I'm going to start sharing a different window so that I can show you this. Here we go. I can find it now. Okay, so this is actually what I'm showing you on the screen right now is actually the GitHub Aries RFC protocol for tick tock tow. So this is actually a defined protocol in the Aries. RFCs that Daniel Hardman put together really just to as a simple protocol to show how protocols could be defined on top of Aries. So in my lab at BYU, Bruce Conrad who works with me put together a version of this inside our Pico system, which is a system that speaks agents. And so I have here a agent for Alice, and I have an agent for Bob. And you can see that Bob doesn't have any connections Alice has a connection to agent book for historical purposes, and we're going to create a connection between them so this is an invitation if we looked at it it would look like this kind of complicated QR code but that's not really what we're going to do we're just going to copy it. We're going to come over to Alice, and we're going to paste it in here and Alice is going to accept it. She now has a connection to Bob Bob has a connection to refresh that. Bob is going to start a tic-tac-toe game with Alice, and he's going to say I'm X and he's going to let them move first. And so now Bob is now in this game if we come over to Alice, and look at her connections with Bob you can see that she has a message from Bob says let's play tic-tac-toe I'll be X, and she could say, Okay, here we go.  He sees Oh, he clicks X, so on and so forth, we can see that you know he saw her her her messages, and is playing tic-tac-toe via the protocol. It's just a simple demo to show that these agents can have protocols put on top of them. It turns out that if I were to go into this we're going to Bob you would see this is a system of called Pico's KRL, not nearly any time to go into it but you can see that he has rule sets for a sovereign agent and for the did com plug in and one for tic-tac-toe. And all of these are what's allowing this game to go forward, but it's all happening over did calm using a protocol that's been defined by Bob. Let's go back to the slideshow. And you have to go in here. So in it so there are some protocols, you might if you're familiar with verifiable credential exchange inside hyper ledger areas. You might think of that as just oh something that's implemented in the code but in fact issuing a credential and presenting the proof from a credential or protocols which are defined on top of did calm. So they're not just like, you know, this kind of hard coded thing inside areas they're actually protocols, which allows credential credential issuance and proof presentation to be done in an interoperable way by anyone who can speak these protocols on top of did calm. And you could imagine there could be lots of other protocols that were defined on top of did calm you could have protocols for delegating or commenting buying and selling contracts putting things in escrow scheduling, there are almost any workflow that you want to make interoperable you could think of as being a protocol which is defined on top of did calm. Now to think about what the possibilities might be I want to talk for a minute about the Internet of Things. So this is the current model for the Internet of Things which I call the CompuServe of Things. In this case, Alice has a Baratza coffee grinder. And since it's the current model of the Internet of Things she has to download Baratza's app, and it connects to Baratza's administrative IOT system that maybe speaks to the coffee grinder through some API, and intermediates essentially Alice from her device. So imagine a different model. This is our, the diagram I showed you earlier but now Alice has this coffee grinder out to the right and if we ignore everything else we just see this so instead of Baratza intermediating Alice's relationship with her coffee grinder. Alice instead has a peer-disk relationship with her coffee grinder, and she has one with Baratza, and interestingly enough, the coffee grinder itself has a peer-disk relationship with Baratza. So what might we do with that. So one of the most obvious things that you might do with that is Baratza might issue firmware updates. The coffee grinder has a peer-disk relationship with Baratza. They can offer a firmware update over the DidCom messaging system that the peer-disk relationship gives them. And Baratza, I'm sorry, the coffee grinder can use Baratza's public did to look up the current key that Baratza is using to sign things and validate the signature of the firm. The signature of the firmware update all by itself and Alice can now be confident that she can tell her coffee grinder. Yes, as long as you can validate the firmware comes from Baratza, please go ahead and update your firmware whenever it comes along. So that's kind of the obvious kind of thing. You might imagine that Alice needs to prove ownership, maybe not of a coffee grinder, but of something, right? I just made a customer service request yesterday. I had to prove that I had bought something. So we could imagine the coffee grinder issuing an ownership credential to Alice, and Alice using that to prove to Baratza that she actually owns the coffee grinder. Of course, you could use it to prove to anyone that she owns the coffee grinder if that were important. There's all kinds of interesting sub scenarios here about what happens if Alice, you know, sells the coffee grinder, lots of interesting scenarios in this one. One of the most interesting to me is the idea that the coffee grinder itself could be at the intermediary in a customer support relationship. Alice, if the coffee grinder has some kind of problem, Alice would tell it to initiate a customer support contact, and it would connect with Baratza. And of course it knows a lot more about itself and the problems it's having than Alice does, and so it could just communicate with Baratza. Baratza knows that it is one of their products because of the, you know, the credentials that the coffee grinder might be able to prove to Baratza. So lots of interesting scenarios with that. There's a company called HERO, H-E-A-R-O, that is pursuing this actually with DidCom and verifiable credentials. One of the most interesting ecosystems is vehicles. I had a company several years ago that did, that used this exact model, not with DidCom because it didn't exist yet. But, you know, Modulo, the actual DidCom, used this exact self-sovereign model in vehicle connections. You know, vehicles have lots of relationships, owners, manufacturers, financiers, manufacturers, I mean dealers, insurance companies, other vehicles, traffic signals, lots of interesting things. So one of the scenarios we might imagine is a DidCom-based protocol for buying and selling. And this is a very interesting kind of relationship, right, because if Alice wants to sell her truck to Doug, she might list it, she might tell the truck actually itself to list itself on some brokerage. When Doug finds it, they would set up a DidCom relationship that then could be managed through some buy and sell protocol. They could each have DidCom relationships to their financing. They could have one to the DMV, to insurance companies. And, you know, then there would be a protocol for actually transferring ownership of the truck from Alice to Doug. And one of the interesting things about that, at least from a PICO standpoint, is that Alice, when she transfers the truck, the truck's going to know a lot of things about Alice. So from an information hiding perspective, she may wish to transfer the maintenance records. In fact, Doug may insist on that, but not the trips that she's taken. But she could keep all of those in a shadow truck, kind of a device shadow that would keep all of the things that Alice knew about her truck can be fully functional, at least from a data standpoint, as Alice completes this transaction. So PICO's, we're experimenting with the self sovereign internet of things, as we've seen PICO's can be agents. We recently updated the engine and, you know, Aries has gone through a lot of transitions. So the demo I showed you is actually based on the old Aries profile, not the new one. So we're working on incorporating that making DidCom the primary messaging method as opposed to HTTP, which PICO's have been around since 2008. Some transitions there. And exploring the use of DidCom protocols between PICO's for various things. So if you're interested in any of that, you can go to pico labs.io. There's code and quick starts and lessons. It's all open source. And we have some interesting projects that we would welcome people helping us with. So, I've uploaded these slides to Hyperledger so you can get them follow through all of these links if you're interested in going further. And of course I'm always available for questions a lot of the stuff that I've talked about today I've written about on my blog at windley.com. But feel free to pop me an email or, or if you have other questions that you want to ask. So that's what I had I don't see any questions, or anything in the chat so unless somebody has a question that they'd like to put forward, we're getting close to time. So, we have a question. Any SDK for DidCom. Yeah, if you go to Hyperledger Aries. Hyperledger Aries is a whole set of open source code. There is a Python version. There is a JavaScript version. Aries is a Pico version. The Python version is Akapai. We call ours Akapiko naturally because you know who wouldn't want to go to Akapiko. And there are there are other implementations of that but yeah. Yeah, Akapai is not just DidCom. It is, but it is DidCom in the sense that what it's doing is it's implementing DidCom based protocols. So, like I said credential issuance is a protocol on top of DidCom. So, so the whole Aries system is DidCom based. And I've uploaded the slides to Hyperledger. So, so that should be available on the Hyperledger system if not send me a note and I can drop you something. Yeah, so how can we use self sovereign identity on resource constrained device that's a really interesting question and that's why Pico's exist. Coffee grinder may not have all of the resources it needs to be a fully functioning system, a temperature sensor for example probably isn't going to have its own wallet and be managing keys. That's why Pico's exist. Pico's are device shadows that can that can work with resource constrained devices to offer them these kind of agent services. So that's that's exactly what Pico's are designed to do is to use this. Any alternative to Aries. Well, I'm probably not the best person to answer that question what I would say is the Aries is a set of specifications. There are Aries code implements all of this but for example, the Pico stuff is not part of the Aries project it just uses the Aries specifications to be interoperable. And yes, Pico's are all open source. So where are at time, I probably ought to end so that you can get to the next session but I appreciate your time today please feel free to ask additional questions by sending me an email or on Twitter or whatever so thanks a lot guys.