When we came here and I learned about the Compass Program, I just took the course just out of curiosity and I really, really believe in the program. It's great. I wish I had something like that when I was a junior spouse. It's great to build up that network among spouses. A spouse might be hesitant to come because of the language barrier and my goal is to take down that barrier. I would like to help others that went through the same situation. For me, it's very important for other spouses to feel like they belong and that's my motivation to make people feel comfortable. They don't need to do this by themselves. There's nothing to lose. Get out there, meet new people, try different programs. Some you would like, some might not be your cup of tea, but you try it so you can make a check mark down the list.


She studied history, American studies, Japanese studies in Berlin, in Tokyo, in Graz, and also in Vienna. And when I asked her, she said, kind of everywhere. So it's her third talk on the Chaos Communication Congress. She was here three years ago and two years ago. And we are very happy to have her back. Please welcome her. Thank you. Oh, I'm on. That's good. I would have taken that screwdriver, but okay, it's too bad. Well, thank you all for being here. I hope you're all having a good time so far. It's day three and I'm having a good time. It's a very good Congress. This year, unfortunately, it's been hard for some people to actually be here. It's been a nightmare to buy tickets online. So in addition, I'd like to welcome everybody watching the stream from at home or Congress everywhere. So thank you for watching. Anyone of you watching this from at home or anyone of you who has some sort of cell phone, mobile device connected to the Congress Wi-Fi has actually been using a spread spectrum technology in the past couple of days. But this is not a talk about spread spectrum technology. Oh, and I wanted to give a hint to the translations team in German. That's Band Spreitzverfahren. And je suis désolé, je ne sais pas what it means in French. So this is not what I want to talk about because I would never pretend to be an electrical engineer or a fully trained computer scientist who is qualified to explain this very complex technology. What I want to do is tell you a story, give you a short 20-minute overview of a person, a remarkable person who worked on the development of spread spectrum technology about 75 years ago and until recently was not recognized for her accomplishments.  So you go to your library and you find lots of big handbooks, handbook on spread spectrum communication for example. And they usually have sort of an introduction with something like this. Never mind if you can't read it right now, I've uploaded my slides so you can look at it later and I'll also explain anything that's important. This is from an Austrian handbook. And of course it mentions Claude Shannon in 1948 publishing a mathematical theory of communication, a very important paper and before that actually it mentions in 1942 Markey and Antile are patenting the first spread spectrum system ever. So you're wondering who is Markey and Antile, probably some guys at MIT, right, working for the military in 1942 developing secret weapons, could be. So ladies and gentlemen, this is Markey. Hedwig Kiesler born in 1914 in Vienna, she was a beautiful child. She was 16 when she decided to quit school and become an actress. She started hanging around the Sasha film studio in Vienna. She also stalked famous director Max Reinhardt until he cast her in his play The Weaker Sex. She had a couple more minor roles, she played Sissi, she played Opposite Heinz Rühmann. And it was Max Reinhardt who promoting his play coined the phrase, Hedwig Kiesler is the most beautiful woman in the world and the press picked it up very quickly. Then when she was 18 she did something very daring, she starred in a Czech film called Ecstasy. It's very interesting, please ask me about it or watch it on YouTube. There was full frontal nudity and she faked the first onscreen orgasm. The film was banned, the pope denounced it and Hedwig became famous. But then after Ecstasy, surprisingly Hedwig stopped acting and she married this guy. He became the young trophy wife of Fritz Mandl. He was at that time the third richest man in Austria. He was the owner of the Hilton Berger Ammunition Factory. He was also an Austro-fascist. He supplied weapons to a lot of unsavory individuals and organizations. And as his beautiful young trophy wife she was supposed to be there at parties, at meetings with important industrialists, weapons dealers, politicians and to just stand there and look beautiful. But she also listened when they spoke about developments, about German glide bombs being tested and developed. She listened and she noticed. After a couple of years for whatever reason I think Mandl was pretty controlling and then jealous for one reason or another Hedwig left him and used her Ecstasy fame to go to the US and get a contract at MGM in 1937. Her first film in the US was Algiers. And this film established her fame, her new look, her hairstyle and this very distant kind of unsmiling style that MGM had in mind for her. And they also promoted her as the most beautiful woman in the world. She usually agreed that she could not act but oh my God she's so beautiful who cares. She, actually she was not just beautiful. She was also bored with acting because usually working for a studio you made like two movies a year which took a couple weeks and the rest of the time well there was no Netflix. So she didn't like to party that much. She read, she painted and she always invented little gadgets at home. And she also worried of course at that time. She worried about the war going on in Europe she had she was an immigrant after all. She had friends and family still in Europe and oh yeah it's just a couple that's Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart. And then she was Delilah in Samsung and Delilah, Technicolor. Yeah, anyway she worried and yeah that's a fun tweet I found the feeling when you're 3,000% done with glam photo shoots and are inwardly planning a new radio frequency system for torpedoes. I like it. So that's what she started doing because she remembered what she had picked up she knew about German bombs being controlled by radio she knew that Germany was using 18 different frequencies for their glide bombs and usually dispatching 18 bombs at a time. So the enemy would have to jam every single frequency and at least one would get through. So especially in 1940 when Germany started sinking English ships in September 1940, 77 children who were being evacuated to Canada died. She offered her knowledge about weapons to the Navy. She thought about offering it because she had an idea. These German glide bombs they were radio controlled. So why not make torpedoes with radio controlled to increase their chances of hitting targets and not just going in a straight line and maybe hitting something or not. Her second idea was to use just really, really short signals just split seconds radio signals between the ship, the torpedo and the plane overhead in between longer intervals of radio silence. And then her idea was changing the frequency of the split second signal making it harder to intercept and jam. She just said okay let's just use a lot of frequencies and hop. She called it frequency hopping. But of course the question is how to do that. And here's where that second name mentioned in the pattern comes in. This is George Anteil. He was from New Jersey. In the 1920s he moved to Berlin and then to Paris and became famous as an avant-garde composer and pianist. Here's another one. His most famous composition was the Ballet Mechanique in 1924 where he tried to synchronize 16 player pianos and he also used airplane propellers and sirens. You can also watch it on the internet. Listen to it. It's crazy. It was the score for a movie actually. So he knew about synchronizing mechanical instruments when he met Hedy in 1940 at one of those Hollywood parties. And they started working together on their secret communication system which they proposed to the National Inventors Council in 1941. Here he is. There's the tall one is Hedy. And on the right is George. And the woman in the striped dress is George's wife. So their secret communication system suggested using 88 frequencies because there are 88 keys on a piano. It was just a little in-joke. And hopping between them synchronizing the sender, the transmitter and the receiver. In addition, using random signals on three extra frequencies to just make some noise. So you have 88 frequencies and you're hopping on some with the signal. You're sending one signal there, one signal here. And then you're sending random signals that don't mean anything. And if the enemy actually manages to intercept one of these frequencies, there would be like just one blip. And it wouldn't make any sense. What I want to just quickly talk about is this. So this is what they thought might happen. Here's an American ship going there dispatching a torpedo that would usually go here. Here's a German ship. And it doesn't go in a straight line because it's trying to evade the torpedo. Here's a plane. And the plane is watching and messaging the ship that the torpedo needs to change its course.  And then boom. For synchronization between the sender and the receiver, they suggested using these paper ribbons with punch holes, just like in those mechanical pianos that Anteil used to be familiar with. Oh, here's actually a notebook that they used for the mechanism that was supposed to make the sender and the receiver go off at the same time so they would be synchronized. The New York Times picked it up. And like they said, the National Inventors Council actually was positive, liked the idea and suggested that they should patent this. The U.S. Patent Office awarded them the patent. But the Navy rejected it eventually. The Navy said it's too bulky, it's too big, we can't make this. But the question is why. The Navy actually thought, because they had said they wanted to use these paper ribbons, just like in a piano, and they were like, we can't put a piano in a torpedo.  It's not going to work. In fact, it would have been much smaller, of course. And then there was the issue of a Hollywood star known for her beautiful face and a crazy composer inventing a weapon system, I don't think so. Then again, the timing was kind of bad. Right after Pearl Harbor, the Navy was in shock and busy fixing their existing torpedo system because in 1942, about 60% of American torpedoes were duds. They exploded too soon, they didn't explode at all, they went anywhere, and so the Navy was like, okay, we got to fix this and we can't really develop anything new right now. And then one point that I've been thinking about is Hedy at that point was still technically an enemy alien. She wasn't naturalized until 1953. So there's obviously always the question of loyalty, I think. Instead, it was suggested that she should help the war by selling war bonds, which she did very successfully. She sold $7 million of war bonds in one day, which is in today's money about $100 million. She also served cake at the famous Hollywood Contine. But her patent seemed to have been forgotten. It ran out in 1959. She never got anything from it, she never got any financial gain, nothing, but in fact there was secret military research on this topic from the 1940s until the 1970s. It was classified. The first time spread spectrum technology was used by the military was in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. A system called Blades was installed in ships in the Caribbean and later also in the Mediterranean Sea. This system using frequency hopping spread spectrum was the only one that could not be jammed at that point. Civil use of this technology came much, much later. In the 1970s, 1980s when the FCC started with a deregulation of frequencies and allowed civil use of various frequencies in, let's say, microwaves, mobile phones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, et cetera, et cetera, it actually started being used in the civil sector. In the early 1990s, Dave Hughes, who's known as an internet pioneer, came across Haiti, researched her patent and lobbied for her recognition for the first time. He got her nominated for the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award, which she was awarded in 1979, 1997. She was 82 years old. She didn't leave the house anymore. Her son went there and got that award on her behalf and supposedly she was very happy about it that she finally got some recognition. In the past 10 years, especially in Austria, there has been at last more recognition of Haiti. There was an exhibition around the country. The Austrian Republic awards the Haiti Lamar Award for Achievements by Women in Information Technology and Vienna named a street after Haiti. Her birthday is now Inventor's Day. In the United States, she was finally inducted in the National Inventor's Hall of Fame two years ago. Well, I've been trying to speak just 20 minutes, giving you an overview of this, I think, remarkable person who should get much more recognition than she did. I think I've been a bit faster, actually. That's good. I'm hoping that maybe I've been able to inspire some interest in this person and maybe inspire someone to read up on her or maybe watch her movies. Sadly, she's been all but forgotten. Her career was big and very short. And then she lived on for decades. She was forgotten. Her inventions were forgotten. So I'm hoping that maybe you'd like to look at some sources, watch some movies. You could contact me. I have some really good books that I read on her that I would recommend. And that would be good. That would make me very happy because doing research on Haiti was fun. She kind of developed a relationship to a person like that, and I like her. She was considered difficult as a woman, as an actor. But I think she was considered difficult for doing things that any man would have been considered, yeah, he's a strong guy, and he knows what he wants, and he does what he wants. She was always doing things her own way. She came to America on her own alone. She made her way. She was basically, you could say she was a refugee. I mean, she came with a contract, but she couldn't go back. Austria was gone. There was war. She always missed it. And she had to make her own way.  And she always tried to find happiness. Unfortunately, she didn't really find it. And so in closing before we can have a couple of minutes for questions, I hope, I'd like to ask you to give a hand to Hedy. Thanks a lot, Anja, for this very nice talk. We have a couple of minutes for questions and answers. So if you have something that you would like to know, please feel free to go to the mics. There's something going on online, I think. Okay. Yes, thank you. I ask you would like to know, are there any competitive stories where a non-technic technic people or person contributed to technology? I'm not sure. Is there another Hedy? Oh, another Hedy. I'm pretty sure there is. I can't come up with any example right now, but maybe someone does, because there are so many people, especially women, who are being overlooked for what they're doing, like she was. I'm sorry, I can't really come up with any examples right now, but especially when it comes to women, it's still, sadly, it's still so hard for women to be recognized in a technological field like a man would. There's always, maybe especially when you're this pretty, nobody thinks that there's anything behind this pretty face. And I don't know, I would like, if anyone has an example, that would be great. I'm sure there's a lot of people who are another Hedy. I think the person on microphone was nodding to that, but you have a question there, right? Yeah, that actually kind of covered my question, but I just first of all wanted to thank you so much for doing this talk. And also maybe to sort of respond to you, I think one of the things we could think about is not only women, but also people, particularly in what we still call the global South who are doing amazing work that doesn't get recognized. And we come to conferences and there's often times a lot of, not a lot of communication between developers in those places. So I think it's very likely that's where our next Hedy Lamar could come from. So that being said, I do have a question for you, which is what can everybody here do to try to help avoid this? How can we think outside the box and be reaching out to people and maybe uncovering hidden work and sort of breaking the mold? Because that's what happened to her. Like she got stuck in this structure that existed by thinking outside the box. I think by supporting not just girls from an early age, you know, to just not look at this gender stereotypes, you know, you have a girl. And so, yeah, she can't be interested in technology. She should just be open and be open to anyone who's, you know, asking questions, who wants to learn and support that. It's really awesome to see so many little girls here, too. Yes. Thanks to all the parents who are doing that. We have one more question online. Yes, thank you.  Was there anything else than normal school? Yes. Well, you know, she was born in 1914. She went typically a girl of her status. She was from a well-off family. Her dad was a banker. Went to like a girl's school, which she did. But as far as I've read up, her dad actually supported her learning. He taught her a lot. He took her, he took her hiking. He told her how technical apparatuses work. And he always, he supported her learning a lot. But then again, she had the typical formal education of a girl of her age and status. And when she was 16, she was at a finishing school in Switzerland, Switzerland, and she ran away because she wanted to be an actress. So I guess it was not that challenging. It was nothing that really interested her in that school. I'm guessing girls, they learned how to be a good wife. How to, you know, know enough so that you're not too boring for your future husband. That was the goal of educating girls. We got another question on Mike One. Hi, I would like to thank you for this talk as well. And for the intervention, just on microphone number two. I would want to know, I would like to know what led you to researching Hedi's life and how did you stumble upon this personality? Because as you said yourself, it's hard to, I mean, if they're not recognized, how do you find her at all? Thank you. So how did I find her? I found her last year. I had never, ever heard of her. Never seen any of her movies. Somebody on Twitter, who I follow, posted a link about her, like an article online about her inventions. And I read that and I thought, wow, that's interesting. Who is that? And then I just started googling her and in the end I started buying all these books and reading and watching her movies. And I'm really happy about that, because as I said, I really like her. So yeah, Twitter. I think, ah, there's someone at mic six. Yeah, I wasn't sure, because you sat down again. So please ask your question now. I'm not sure you said like, or the name of the talk was the woman behind Wi-Fi. Can you explain the title and her position and what was made out of her theory? Yeah, I chose that title because a lot of articles, there's a lot of short mentions of her online and they often stress that, yeah, she was one of the pioneers of these technologies that eventually led to today's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. And there's still always this discussion. When somebody says, well, yeah, she invented Wi-Fi, which I wouldn't say because she didn't, but she was one of many pioneers working on this technology the past decades. And there's still always kind of misogynistic backlash when somebody recognizes her achievement and people are always, yeah, well, it's so different Wi-Fi and spread spectrum today from what she did and she didn't really, well, she didn't really do anything. It's not that important and that's still today. And I think it is important what she did. She was ahead of her time. She thought about something that scientists during that time could not grasp. It was possible. Her patent was feasible. And to answer your question, it's kind of a little provocative, maybe, the title intentionally to just make you think about what exactly did she do, which is not that little, I think. I think regardless of a provocative title, it was a really amazing talk and we would like to thank you one more time. And goodbye. Okay.


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Thank you. I hope that the organizers will add a clap Before this talk so hi everyone. Thanks for showing up. This would be a little bit of a different talk today than the previous ones It's not about the code. It's not about development. It's more about the process of how we did this project in Croatia That I'm really proud of But before I begin couple of things about me, so This is my son. We like to fool around as you can see. This is me wearing the Well, I'm not sure how it's called in English So we fool around a lot we don't live together So it's really important for me to be there for him and he's made through motivation and I want to create a better world for him I'm a designer. I have 14 years around 40 years of experience and for the past 10 years I've been working with WordPress. I do make a living out of WordPress But I'm also specialized in designing touch screen user interfaces around an agency called luggage brothers Although we don't look alike. We are brothers believe it or not We don't hit each other we love each other but on this picture just to be dramatic we figure that we Will try something like hitting each other and I won I'm also a war pressure. I am Really fun of communities and I like to think of myself as an activist. So on this first picture on the left. There is a An association from Paula. That's my hometown The just a week ago celebrated their 10th anniversary of working with people with disabilities and this first website that we did for them 10 years ago was on WordPress. So WordPress really helped them promote their community programs I also co-organize WordPress meetup in Zagreb just So this is the picture from our last meetup two weeks ago. It was the 11th meetup We usually get somewhere around 52 80 90 90 people so much more than today but thanks again for showing up showing your support and We plan to have working Croatian split this year I was the lead organizer past year in Rijeka and this is also part of this story. So couple of things about Croatia Have you been to Croatia before? No, you should definitely come Okay, see you see you at work in Croatia. It's First week of September. So see you there It's a beautiful country these three pictures I took in the span of three three days first I was hiking on a mountain near Zagreb then I was Driving on a bus and this is a view of island stress and last one. This is from my hometown Pula, we have a beautiful Roman amphitheater 2000 years old there, but Croatia Also has problems There are a lot of differences between Croatia and Germany. So for example, Germany has 20 times more people and your budget is 70 times more Bigger than Croatia, you know, it's a huge amount of money that you have that we don't and you have two times Higher GDP per capita. So per people then we have and Because of all that we have a lot of differences of working with clients Our clients are less educated. We get lower budgets and Nevertheless clients expect the same quality that we deliver when we deliver a website so I would say and Argue that we can get the same opportunities like you probably Can in Germany, that's not a problem But there are a lot of differences because of that. We want to go to conferences outside We want to travel but it's a lot more expensive than when you were living living here in Germany and We try to Be as professional as we can be but these are problems and these are differences that you should take into consideration When thinking about what I will show you in this presentation So I say that we as professionals in Croatia have to be innovative and resourceful We have to change our process. We have to adapt to these circumstances So I'm going to give you one example in our agency We usually don't deliver All website templates in Photoshop So we do basically one to two templates in Photoshop and after that We go to HTML and build our templates there so we changed our process and That's not nearly all because we don't design Responsive websites in Photoshop. We don't design mobile version tablet version. So we changed our process and in this And at this time when we go to HTML we usually design breakpoints We usually design mobile first approach there and I could go on and on saying that We don't share wife friends with our clients because they're not willing to pay for those But nevertheless, we try to create those that are maybe lower fidelity than you should Probably do in your own process So can tell from what I'm talking about what is Croatia Croatia's biggest problems They ask people of Croatia what are four biggest problems there and the number one thing Was unemployment then economy poverty and corruption So around 20% of people are unemployed and that's a lot Economy has been in recession for eight years now So that's also a problem and people are leaving country because salaries are so low they are basically struggling and Try to make a living every day. So This week around thousand people left Croatia for good. They don't plan to return to Croatia anytime soon and just the past year around 50,000 people left Croatia and Of course, we have a problem with corruption as well But this first three plop problems is something that we cannot solve as individuals as individuals We cannot solve unemployment. We cannot solve the economy or the poverty rate because we don't like to protest we don't see ourselves as Sort of a protest nation we like to protest if it's something that we could like on Facebook So we have a lot of Facebook protesters But we almost never protest on streets and in Croatia We have a problem with corruption and lack of transparency and this is something we can try to solve as individuals But that's not nearly all There's not problem only with corruption most of our politicians do try to solve that but they just don't manage that We have a problem with vision and how to solve the corruption issue So we asked ourselves, can we help them? Can we help politicians solve that problems? corruption issues Come when you lack transparency When you don't work on your government transparency Some work have been done in the past, but that is not nearly enough So this is my favorite quote from Dalai Lama, which says a lack of transparency Transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity and it's definitely true. So I ask you why is transparency important? First of all, we want to know how is your money spent? We want to ask questions and get answers from our government and we want to be involved in the decision-making process as well So on top of that of all that we want to build a better democracy So this is something that is pretty normal here in Germany You have a long Long time democracy, but Croatia was not even on the map 25 years ago So we are quite a young democracy and having a two-way communication helps understand the problems of running a city and running a country And it builds trust between the government and the citizens and only like this you can build a better society at the end So in 2014 Gong that is association non-governmental association that Helps oversee the election process and it was really important in the 90s because we are such young democracy We were at war back then so we had to oversee this election process and in 2014 they They they started a survey and it's not the first one. So the first one was done in 2009 then in 2011 so in 2014 it was a third survey they did and the Main objectives is to see how citizen countries in Croatia Help build transparency and trust between the citizens and the local governments and the average score is 5.9 so when you see that you might think that it's a good score, but on a scale From zero to ten. That's somewhere in the middle I don't see it as a good score and 98% of local governments had their websites, but they are usually Liking the information required to have on the website so you have a situation that local government city has a website without any information that are obliged for for they're obligated for some reason by the law and On top of all that That's not the biggest issue the biggest issue is that there are there are no penalties for doing that So they are basically Not delivering information that are needed by the law, but there are no penalties. So one of the Croatian problems and we Started to think about working with Rijeka because Rijeka is the most transparent city in Croatia And it was in each survey. So the last year that the survey was Conducted Rijeka got a 9.6 Score which is really amazing. So we said Let's try to change things with Rijeka So this is Rijeka. I don't know if you know where Rijeka is. Rijeka is the largest Croatian port it's Close to Easter close to Italy. So it's around 50 kilometers from Slovenia from Italy. It's on the Where the couple of paths intersect so if you are if you were going to Croatia, then you you Could know that and the Rijeka is also the third largest city there There are four major cities Zagreb, Split, Rijeka and Dostjak. Rijeka is the third largest city It has a population of around 130,000 people, but nevertheless It's four times smaller than Nürnberg and the Rijeka is a multicultural city There are a lot of nationalities living there side by side without problems without issues And it's really a multicultural city that we all from Croatia could learn about how to how to live in peace and harmony and Because of all that it's open for new ideas And as I said before Rijeka is the most transparent city and on top all that I think that you won't be surprised when I tell you that just two weeks ago Rijeka Received an award and it was selected as European capital of culture For 2020 so I think that they're doing such an amazing and important work So why Rijeka wanted Warpress? They used it before on couple of smaller projects. They know how to use it. That's the the main reason So Warpress is easy to use is easy to install easy to run so people know how to use it They know the administration interface They know how to change things themselves and this is what is really important to them the second thing is that Warpress is open source and they believed and I truly believe in that that It's in the best public interest. So in Croatia We have a lot of problems with proprietary CMSs and a lot of not Really transparent decision-making when creating a website for cities and governments and so on So it's definitely best public interest to have an open source platform that won't be dependable on anyone Nevertheless, that's us or someone someone else or some other agency and in 2003 Warpress revolutionized Publishing everything could get online and publish anything they wanted And I think that it truly helped not only in cities with democracies that are still still struggling but it Helped a lot of different people to publish their thoughts ideas So this is one of the reasons why Warpress is now used on quarter of the web and this was truly amazing and this happens even today and 10 years later Rijeka wanted Warpress to help it being more transparent So I would say that in this case and many other cases Warpress helps transparency as well And at that moment we decided that we didn't want to create a website for only one city But we rather wanted to create a platform so all the cities could use it but we had a problem Because as I want to say we didn't have any political ties and not only that but I was very critical about our national government two years ago when they decided to adopt that UK as their primary Design pattern for the new government website and they did that But they did it in a wrong way because they didn't think about the content They didn't think about the information architecture of the web. So They use it of course got UK is open source So anyone can use it by but they should have done a much better job And we shouldn't be satisfied with the average, but we should understand and aim for much more and They even issued a couple of press releases that were saying basically that my articles that I publish in couple of magazines are wrong So where is the problem you might ask so the national government and the local government Rijeka? Came from the same political party So with that in mind and knowing that Croatia still struggles with their democratic principles You might think that because of that we couldn't get the job, but we did Get the job nevertheless because Rijeka really wanted to work with us. So our approach was is that we wanted to make a better city website and we want to open source it and Definitely we want to design it in the open. So we started writing a blog started to document everything that has been done in this process and Maybe even more important for myself and a lot of community members in Croatia is that we wanted to make it accessible for everyone So when we started working with Rijeka, we asked We created a survey for the citizens of Rijeka and other cities as well And we asked them a lot of questions one of which was how much do you think that accessibility matters on the new website? And around 25% of them said it really matters and 75% of them just didn't answer that question or Said that it doesn't bother them. And this is basically the only issue the accessibility issue that One thing that we didn't listen to the public So we just ignored their answer because we believe and we think that accessibility really matters and What makes warpers great is this accessibility theme That are working really hard to make warpers better for people with disabilities and Rijeka said We want that too So there were a couple of questions Like how to even start working with them without public bid, so I'm not sure what's the situation in Germany but in Croatia everything about 25 approximately 1000 euros have to go to a public bid and I think that this is a perfectly natural but in Croatia we have Another problem with that because there are companies and there are individuals that just Use public bid to lower prices and to break this public bid process and in Croatia We don't have the ability to say hey, we want to use the The company or the agency that has the best economic value to us but we want to use the lower offer and People tried to fight on those grounds and they just didn't manage that The second question that was that we were afraid of was the public reaction So I will say that our final offer for this project was 23 around 23,000 euros and We usually charge much more because we are working with bigger clients We are working with companies that has specific goals We are trying to optimize everything we do so our prices are much higher and in Croatia 23,000 euros is a big a big budget and People are worth thinking. Hey, I I Earned that amount of money in a year and they are just doing a website anyone can do it and we were afraid of the professional community reaction as well, but Professional community was really eager really helpful and they did an amazing job supporting our effort on all that and our last thing that we were worried about worried about is if this is enough of a budget that we could work on so we could make this project happen in the end and At that point we just said this is maybe one in a lifetime opportunity and we want to invest Our time and we want to create something that is extraordinary And when we answer those questions we started thinking of a process and this is our process for When we started working with Reka so four phases analysis design HTML and WordPress and We try to adopt a principle of what we call agile design, so you all know about the agile development We wanted something else that we call agile design and it means that we will always communicate and innovate even in later stages of the project and we want to talk with citizens and cities to solve their real problems and above all that We want to make everything open for change anytime So we started with the analysis process. We plan for analysis to last for a week. I Practically moved to the Eka And I lived there Two months so I could work on site with the local team From from the city we analyzed hundreds of pages of content So I will go back a bit when if you remember that transparency survey The Eka was the most transparent city, but there was still a problem because all the information Was that was there on the website, but people don't seem to find that so the the thing is that Nevertheless, Eka was the most transparent city. They still had Transparent problems because when survey ended of course people like investigative journalists could find any answer But regular people like myself and you couldn't so we analyze hundreds of pages of content to build a better information architecture and We structured that content into different groups for example news information about the city about the city offices and local government and what is especially important is topics for the citizens and This last topic for the citizens was structured into sections like family culture sports education economy and so on Our idea was to help people find their way through their content so this is what we aim for and We really focus on this that key content so news articles and that sort of information that is here for I would say political reasons so you could see What? See the officials are doing within a day. We're pushed aside to make room for content that interests average citizen So topics for the citizens were being rewritten from a scratch because they didn't have that content before And we did a lot of interviews we interviewed both citizens and other cities So you can see this is a workshop that we held at Croatian Association of cities where we asked other cities to help them Help us solve their problems and special attention was pointed to smaller cities and the smallest cities in Croatia have Barely 10,000 people living in it After that we created personas. We tested user flow We wanted to see how it ever how it all goes on the website one of my favorite personas was young dad that is trying to subscribe his kid into kindergarten and We wanted to see how many steps Does anyone need to come to the topic that interests him? So we optimize a lot during this process. We simply sketched everything on whiteboards. We did a lot of Testing user flows and with that we come to a solution that were That is currently undergoing the final phase of implementation to WordPress and We also built some wireframes and tested even more Because we made changing changes during this process. So remember we started by analyzing content We created information architecture. We did interviews with citizens We did interviews with cities and with all that we changed the content and we changed how things are going and how the things are looking on the website and We wanted to see if we can optimize these small parts of the website as well and these wireframes We shown to the citizens that came to a workshop and we show them that in small groups We explained user flow. We explained how will they get The information they needed they we asked them a lot about what are their problems What do they think lacks on the current website? So this current website is Quite all I think it's eight years old and I will show it in a moment So we got some insight that helped us build better templates based on this interaction Had with the citizens so in our second phase the design phase we were focused on key templates only We didn't design those templates in mobile and tablet version. We designed only desktop version So remember when I said that we wanted to optimize everything We have this budget that we had to work on and working more time cement that we wouldn't get paid for that We were open to making changes at this time as well If we believe that it will help our users So we were open to make any changes Necessary to build a better experience for them and I promised you a current website of the city of rica Website so please I won't say close your eyes. But here it is So this is the current website for the city of rica. It's I think eight years old and as you can see a lot of content is Overflown so we have basically an information Overlog We have two navigations up here and on the left. We have news this that is practically using the Whole home page and we have a lot of banners and this is especially Funny with the banners because every department can just come and say hey add a banner on the home page because Yeah, I think that they had around 50 banners on the home page so We tried to make the change and we tried to simplify everything. So this is our proposed design for the home page You can see that there are a lot of less information there we used Sorry, we use this Slider as well. We are not the fan of the sliders. We don't like it but I think that on some occasions like when you want to promote certain content that is really important for the citizens like what happens when city has a day in a year that's Celebrating or when it's a carnal because rica is well known for that Carnival you want to show that and the most important thing is this big Big navigation pattern on the top so basically this navigation will stick always to the top so you could Come to any part of the website within a click or two clicks and this is something that we are we wanted to do we wanted to create information architecture that will support that and There are only a couple of things on the main menu like What is going on the addresses in the eco then I Don't see it from this So this is a strategy for the city the Parts of the city and topics for the citizens and so on we try to make everything Really easy to see and and watch and we had we added a quick links basically with The ability for for them alone to change that so when our parents will come to the city and in Croatia at the Subscribing to kindergarten process is only in a month in the entire year So when parents will come to that they will get the quick link that will basically guide them to the landing page about Subscribing your kids to kindergarten. We added a couple of more things. So the the news section has bigger images But it has no description. We added important news that are Important for some ways, for example, if you want to help promote your social policies if you want to help people to see what are they're supposed to do and For example, when you build a new house for public housing and so on basically this news will stick there And if you remember the banner part on the old website You you have seen that there is a lot of information overload a lot of colors a lot of different designs so we tried to not allow them to Upload any banner that they want we created a interface that will add a couple of things a couple of Elements that are going to be used throughout the website and on the bottom Of everything it's a sort of site like navigation with all the important things So when people are scrolling to the website when they come to the end of it They want they could go to find another content another page there. So it's really important to to have that as well Second Template we developed around 10 or 15 templates. I'm not sure everything is available on github as well The second template was topics for the citizens. So we have We have Parts of the parts of the topics like like education schools culture sports and so on and It's scrollable basically it's a landing page for the topics and when you click on some topic Then you will get the landing page that is Especially optimized to get all the relevant information for the citizens. So this is an example from the taxes and taxes of the city Land page for this sort of topics and if you scroll down a bit further, you will see that all the information there is somehow I don't know how to say that properly, but it's Optimized for better readability and so the people can could actually see what's really important for them in our HTML phase We said everything should be responsive, of course, we are designing responsive websites for I think past six years But we were not focusing on devices. We didn't design Responsive responsive breakpoints for devices like iPhone iPad Android tablets and so on we designed for the resolution So at some points we added breakpoints and if we see that content is not Delivering relevant on certain resolutions. We had a break point as well. So we could change these small parts of the website Everything is still open for change if it benefits our users on the warpers part of the Design process we use the standard warpers administration as a starting point The main reason for that is they know how to use it. They have websites that are running warpers The second thing is that we want to optimize it. So make it easier to use for them for their users and To make it error proof. So we remove elements from the administration What we think that they're not necessary to have it in the in the administration interface We are using advanced custom fields to create sort of experience that is basically guiding the administration users how to upload content how to make it more legible and so on and We interconnected a lot of content with custom post types and tags. So for example on the past website if you want to change something like the address or If someone changes, it's his or hers job position You had to do it in a really painful way, but we are creating an address book We are creating a sort of interconnection between the address book the workplace between the department And with using tags, we try to make everything as easy as possible So let's say that there is a news editor that wants to end the news about the session of the City council it simply adds a news with a tag and it shows up on the city council page as well So this is really important if you want to have a transparent government and we were focused on transparency information as well so budget representative contents and so on and in the in the example of representatives We are adding a functionality. So we could see how is the representative we reacting to different questions so representatives could ask question the mayor could ask questions for the departments and we are showing the citizens what is his personality because citizens now can see what are these questions and what sort of What what sort of commitment the representative has and this finally Works really good when you try to reelect Those representatives we faced quite a few problems So the first one was we got paid Less than we usually had for similar projects This is around two and five Times or even three times less than for for similar projects and we had a lot of unexpected setbacks For example, we plan for analysis Faced last a week we worked on that almost three weeks So you can see that we didn't get paid for for two weeks of work It was a lot more work than expected we created blog posts in that process we Realized that we could add some extra benefit like creating content strategy guidelines and accessibility guidelines and these strategic documents Is something that is Really important because there were no that sort of documents in Croatia before that and What are the benefits? except that we added value with these documents like content strategy built the guidelines and designing design blog What person are more recognized than it was ever before people see that they can build something extraordinary and amazing with WordPress and We talked in this work, and I talked with a couple of people and if you come from Less developed country then you have problems understanding that WordPress is not only a blogging platform and since everything will be open sourced This is substantial benefit for the country Citizens were involved and what is more important. They were listened we really asked them questions and we were prepared to listen to listen then to listen to their answers and to make changes accordingly and One of the benefits was this this is that an educational conference that we held in the city hall of Rijeka, which aimed the employees of the city We just asked we we saw the opportunity to create a one-day half-day conference so we asked professionals from the copywriting industry SEO industry Social media industry and we even asked a guy that comes from the association of blind people of Croatia so they explained what are the Important things that you have to do when Creating content for the web so copywriting guy Talked about that SEO guys talked about it and so on and so on and it was a really important to do that because employees of the city now Has better understanding of all that and above all that we film we've videoed everything and it's available online for the other cities as well and one of the benefits is This we organized working Croatia our first working Croatia last year in Rijeka we have four meetups in four different cities and Rijeka meet up was only one of them, but the city of Rijeka was really eager to help the WordPress community so they were involved with How we managed to organize everything they gave us the venue for free. They gave us a lot of support They gave us access to local media so we organized a really cool working for around 170 people That were really happy after after all that so Let's try to conclude this We all have our own comfort zones Politicians have their comfort zones as well, but I think that they should leave their comfort zones if they want to make a better future So when we elect them, I think we elect them for for this reason we want to for them to give us a better future and a couple of people asked me Why are we doing this? Why are we doing this the way we are doing it? So I say that we should seize the opportunity We should leave if we can and we shouldn't expect someone else to leave and this is sort of a project if you remember from before that is Maybe once in a lifetime. I don't know but this is an opportunity that I didn't want to miss and we as a team didn't want to miss that because when you think of yourself as a designer designers you think of Changing the world so what can be a better place and one day? I just want to sit in front of the mirror and I want to See myself that I did everything I could So I could look my son in the eye and just Tell him that his dad did everything to build him a better future So thank you, and I know that we are this is the last session and we want to go Away Okay, I will speak slowly Thanks a lot first of all Just got a tiny little present and almost full the rate. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks So The question was I think I should repeat it for the camera So the question was how we were chosen to do that. So there's a history lesson I started working with workers 10 years ago. I was really recognized in the community that wasn't a community until three years ago and We started talking with Jekka. I think Two three four years. I don't remember anymore and the problem was what I said about public bid situation. So we didn't want to do anything that is not transparent and We said that if it has to go to public bid and we will definitely apply but they have to find a way to choose Whoever they want. So if they want to go with the lowest economic lowest lowest price It's okay with us. We don't we didn't want to work that way and since this offer was above So below public bid threshold, we couldn't we could say that The mayor could decide for themselves and sign these documents So the mayor said we want to work with these guys because it's really important to do so for this reason that I mentioned in the in the Presentation so we did everything open source at that point we Sat with them and we said hey if we want to do this, right? We want everything open source. We want to design to design in the open We want to document everything and because of all that We added this extra value and it wasn't that big of a deal because we didn't get what we usually get paid because We seize this opportunity. So No, there was no public bid because it was the below public bid threshold. So our The question was what are the plans for the future of the project since This young fellow has the same problems in Slovakia as well. Just kidding. So the plans is That we will open source everything. So we open source design already We are in the last phase of doing the HTML part and work as part and we are combining that That's two together. So we could lower actually the cost of everything and we will open source the HTML templates the WordPress team and this will all go in English and language. So it could be adopted basically anywhere with a similar Similar system. So we are aiming not only to cover Croatian cities we are aiming to cover the cities in other countries as well because Today when you are building a city for a website for a city then this is a substantial cost and We in Croatia alone have around 130 cities and I think that half of them Don't have the budget to create something like that and with that we would give them everything for free and In that way, maybe a local workers agency and we don't want to work on that anymore The local workers agency can come can create a design and use the workers team so they can build a better website for their city as well, so this is the benefits and I Think that it could be used in Slovakia as well. I was last week on working upon them And I talked with a lady from Bulgaria with the same problems So I suppose that this could make Better democratic principles in other countries as well. Thank you


Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's all Mike. Another video.  I heard you're not supposed to curse in the beginning because they get all mad at you. Look at this lighting. I fixed it up for you guys. Look at that hair. Beanie on the fleek as the kids say. I don't wanna do like a greatest mistakes video or like what I regret would not don't regret a single letter, not even a single whatever that quote is. That's an underrated movie. We wear the Millers. But that's probably where this video is gonna go because the questions I've gotten in the DMs recently, the majority of questions I've gotten from y'all are like Mike, whether it's COVID, injuries, life. I think a lot of you have kind of grown with me and shout out for that because when I started YouTube, you know, I'm 22, 23, now I'm 32. And so a lot of you guys maybe started watching me when you're 17, 18 or in your early 20s and now you guys are mid 20s, late 20s, 30s and maybe you have more intensive jobs. Maybe some of you guys have gotten married over this time, more of a routine, turn to more adult and just have more responsibilities. Maybe some of you guys have little ones running around and so your schedule has changed or maybe you just can't train like you used to but now it's important for you personally your life wise to find time for that. So a lot of questions on how to come back into the training portion, which if you guys go back into the vlogs, I talk about how I'm doing it, the recharge guysentraining.com, how we've been doing that for myself but can also, how you get your strength back but the question is like, oh, I'm, you know whatever percent body fat or I'm 10 pounds overweight and I've lost a muscle, do I start to lose fat? Do I start to build my muscle? What do I do? What are the first steps nutritionally or what do I do in the gym? So if you guys are interested in my advice on how to get jacked or lose fat or build muscle, coming back to the gym, give this thing a thumbs up, man, like the freaking video, help your boy out. See if we can get a thousand likes. Thanks so much, man, for rocking with me. New videos Monday, Wednesday, maybe take, maybe not. I mean, all the holidays are on the weekend like New Year's or whatever, so we might not take a day off. We might just be grinding. So there's no right answer to this. There's no right answer on how to come back but if you have had a extended period off of the gym, extended period off your nutrition, lifting heavy, any physical activity, there are decent chances of muscle memory and being able to kind of recomp. So recomposition meaning gaining muscle and lose body fat at the same time. Now, this is possible for any lifter but it is slightly easier or more likely when you're new to lifting or training, strength training or if you are coming back, you can also get similar effects. Now, if you're a super advanced lifter, it's unlikely but possible if you add copious amounts of volume to an area that has not recently gotten that type of stimulus. So say you only train biceps three sets a week and then you go into a diet phase and you start hammering your biceps, you may be able to gain some muscle there if your protein is adequate and recovery is adequate while you're losing weight. For the typical person having some type of off season or building phase, some kind of cut or diet phase typically how we'll go through those waves and for most strength athletes, focusing in on kind of maintenance, finding a weight class that's comfortable for life, comfortable for you, because hopefully our identities aren't so tied into this thing. You can love powerlifting, you can consider yourself a powerlifter but hopefully we have some goals of longevity, of feeling good, of our families, of our health outside of that. So maintenance, slight surplus to gain most efficiently muscle and strength in training. Now for multiple reasons to come back into training I think a more general approach is great. So we can be specific in a barbell movements if you'd like. Again, I'm doing a higher intensity, lower volume phases to get the most out of my time and that volume. If you come back and start banging out 10 sets of 10, what happens when you plateau in a month or two, right? So I'm doing one heavy set, single double triple and a back down set three, five. And once I start to plateau there, then I'll start to add in more volumes on the downsets or the top sets, whatever it is. For the nutrition, I made a little pact with myself because if you guys don't know, I find myself to be a very confident person in general. I'm very aware and confident of who I am, that I'm a good human, that I treat people well, that I do the right things in front, behind the camera, in front and behind closed doors. But I'm not the most confident person in my looks for those that have rocked and rolled with me. I'm pretty self-conscious of my body. I don't really get naked here on this channel, looking around YouTube the other day for titles and what other content creators are doing and everyone's still half naked. I'm just not comfortable with that. One, I don't want you to follow or listen to me because of how strong I am or what I look like or what car I drive. I want you to listen to me because you believe I have well thought out opinions with experience and knowledge that I've gathered from other very intelligent lifters and coaches over the years. And that I hopefully put it in a way that you understand. Point being, I'm not very confident in my Bob. And that's just the truth. And I know we all deal with some self-esteem stuff whether other people might not like the way they do this or they do that. And we all have little things about our bodies but point being, I don't like being heavy. I don't feel very comfortable in my skin when I'm heavy. And right now I'm hovering around 220, 225, 230 on some days. But I made a pact with myself that I'm gonna maintain 220 to 230 pound body weight. I'm not going to pay attention to it. I'm gonna try to get more protein in since we've kind of done this little recharge which started in maybe October. And really try to build back some of that muscle and give myself a good six to nine months to hopefully build back and even maybe extend the most muscle mass I've ever had. Now for the general public, I kind of recommend that whether you're newbie, whether you're even intermediate or again, coming back on the recharge, spending time at maintenance and focusing in on training, focusing in on protein, focusing in on sleep. But also just getting some general physical preparedness going, I try to get a little elliptical in right now we have the assault bike. I try to get some kettlebell swings in. I try to superset some stuff so get my lungs going. Again, the general health look, I'm not saying eat maintenance, eat Doritos and just squat heavy once a week. What I'm saying is don't focus in on cutting the body fat right away. And obviously this depends person for person. If you are in a health risk for your body weight or your body fat percentage, this advice may not be for you. You may need to go straight into a cut to get down to a healthy range. For males that might be 10 to 20%, ladies that might be 15 to 25% depending on your build. And obviously these are all just eyeball judgments because we don't need to go get a test. You can kind of know where you're at. And I still, I think I'm in a healthiest range. Probably low 20s. I don't look great, but I'm not, you know, I'm soft but I'm not hopefully gonna have a heart attack. Find it, I try to find wood to knock. So you, those that are in an unhealthy range should probably focus on building a routine of eating more whole foods, getting some movement in whether it be like cardio lifting, finding an activity you enjoy and losing some weight. That's not bad advice at all. But for those that want to really optimize their physique, want to get stronger, want to get bigger and are focusing on aesthetic and strength like the majority of us, I think you are doing yourself a disservice by hopping back in and looking for those abs, looking to, you know, cut down your calories below 2000 and all this stuff. One, because your metabolism too, because building back that muscle does take time. It will come back a little bit faster because of muscle memory and because you're already conditioned for that, but it will take time. So whether you make a pact with yourself, you have some training buddies or you just build out a plan. I do recommend kind of going into a maintenance phase. Building back the habits is the number one thing I recommend. Those habits can be multitude of habits and it kind of depends per person on what you're good at, what you're bad at. I'm not great at my meals. So my habits are getting back to grocery shopping, getting back to cooking, getting back to anything I order out, focusing in on a protein packed meal. Even if I go to, you know, a drive through or something like that. Not going for the option I necessarily want but going for something close to what I want that still has a good nutritional value. For others, it might be sleep.  One, you need to get good, kid. Two, you need to put the controller down, set a routine of what time you're going to bed, what time you're going to sleep, what time you're waking up and make that a more regular thing. Getting your water in. If water is something that you struggle to get, find yourself a routine to do that whether you drink a glass of water every time you come and leave the kitchen, whether you grab a water bottle and travel with it. Whatever things set you up for success, those are the plans we need to start to build. If it's a routine thing in the gym and you can't find yourself going to the gym, put it in your phone, put an alarm, set an exact schedule, buy a new program, invest in a coach, invest in yourself so that you can get these things going a little bit better. Find a training partner and say, hey, Timmy, I'm going to meet you Monday, Wednesday, Friday at five o'clock and now you hold yourself accountable and Timmy accountable to meet at five o'clock Monday, Wednesday, Friday. These are the type of things, very small, we'll build up over time and once we do those for weeks, months, years, we'll get back to where we're going. So I have a lot of hope for me, my progress and strength. I think I got a lot of room to grow still. My ceiling is high as an athlete. I'm excited to share that with you. I got a heavy bench day today, light squat, heavy conventional beltless poles. So it's my second pole day but we're going to go all beltless conventional. Probably sets a three to six. See what that looks like. I got a podcast a little bit later, the boys are coming. Hopefully you guys enjoyed that. Hopefully you enjoyed the training footage, man. Thanks so much for riding with me, boys. Leave your comments below, what topics you want me to cover in this nature, just basic tips or my opinions on things as we throw it in with the vlogs and training footage. Sorry for the daily vlogs not being as exciting or as normal as they are now but I spent a lot of time here in the gym in the morning, whether I'm doing the clothing design, the orders, running the gym itself. I'm here rocking a roll and kind of by myself. So I can give you guys some of my thoughts during the day as a little journal but it's much more fun to kind of log out with the homies, you know, and Kyle and Dan and all my boys are around me. But that'll have to wait a little while. The holidays get a little weird. And again, I'm running the gym all morning long. So once we get some help or figure out our schedule that I'm not here early, early by myself, my energy will be a little bit higher. I'll be able to run around town because after I'm here I'm home back on the computer doing more work. So when that's kind of settled in I can have some not necessarily leisure time but time to vlog vlog. I'm excited to do that because I bought the school camera and I want to share with you all. So energy drink, I'm going to grab some foods. I'm going to train. Hopefully you enjoyed the video and the training. Like the video, my friends comment below. Salam Mike, we're out of here, 3sb.co. Check it out, Kyle's in training. 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The North Wind and the Sun The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. When a traveller came along, wrapped in a warm cloak, they agreed that a one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak of should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fought his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Porick in an Irish accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. When a traveller came along, wrapped in a warm cloak, they agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Anise in an Australian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. When a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak, they agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak about him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Ruth Golding in a received pronunciation English accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Ellie in an Austrian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when the traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Dana Meilinger in a Hungarian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Anna Simon with a Dutch accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Bologna Times in an Air Force Brat accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Peter Yersley in a South East London, England accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by semantic nuance in a Chinese accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by David Cole in a honed off black country accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Bridget Gage in an upstate New York accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Marianne Coleman-Hadkins in a New Zealand accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Laurie Ann Walden in a South Carolina accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect in accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Graham Dunlop in an Australian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Ernst Patinama in an English accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Kara Schellenberg in a Southern California accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Matt Zogale in a Singaporean-Chinese accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Tricia G. in a Minnesota-U.S. accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Sean Michael Hogan in a Newfoundland-Canadian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Jesse in a German accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Alana in an American Midwestern accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. When a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak, they agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take off his cloak should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Dullstar in a West Central Pennsylvania accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger. When a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak, they agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of recording. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Timothy Ferguson in a cultivated Australian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Magdalena Cook in a Australian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Stuart Bell in a neutral Southern English accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Joy Easton in an American accent Southern Indiana. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Andy in a Texas-U.S. accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the Northern Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and the North Wind was obliged to confess the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Sonja in a German accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Alan Davis-Strake in a New York metro accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, and the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by DailyBab in a Northern Ireland accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by Iswa in a French accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Recorded in Belgium in September 2009. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by May Lowe in an Australian accent. The North Wind and the Sun were disputing which was the stronger when a traveller came along wrapped in a warm cloak. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take off his cloak should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely he did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the Sun shone warmly out, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the Sun was the stronger of the two. End of text. This recording is in the public domain. Dialect and accent collection volume one. The North Wind and the Sun attributed to ASAP. Read for LibriVox.org by May Lowe in an Australian accent cloak around him. And at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the sun was the stronger of the two. This recording is in the public domain. They agreed that the one who first succeeded in making the traveller take his cloak off should be considered stronger than the other. Then the North Wind blew as hard as he could, but the more he blew the more closely did the traveller fold his cloak around him, and at last the North Wind gave up the attempt. Then the sun shone out warmly, and immediately the traveller took off his cloak, and so the North Wind was obliged to confess that the sun was the stronger of the two.