W-O-R, New York, 710 on your dial. Now for a transcribed drama of Murder by Experts. The Neutral Broadcasting System presents Murder by Experts with your host and narrator, Mr. John Dixon Carr, world-famous mystery novelist and author of the recently published bestseller, The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This is John Dixon Carr. Each week at this time, Murder by Experts brings you a story of crime and mystery which has been chosen for your approval by one of the world's leading detective writers, those experts who are themselves masters of the art of murder and can hold tense at his fire. This time, our guest expert is the noted mystery novelist, Lawrence Blockman. From his vast knowledge of the mystery field, Mr. Blockman has chosen a radio classic written by Joseph Roscoe. And now he presents Miss Marilyn Erskine in The Creeper. It is the hour before dawn, that moment when the huge sprawling metropolis lies deep in slumber. The streets are empty, safe for the milkman, making his rounds from one darkened apartment house to another. But look now, there on the third floor, an apartment is brightly lighted. The occupant is an attractive redhead in her early twenties. She sits curled on a couch, speaking on the telephone as the radio plays softly. Like I'm telling you Gladys, I'm waiting on my table. Pay no attention to this guy. I can see of course that he's given me the eye, but good. What did he look like? Oh, he was the Gary Cooper type. Oh, lanky and sunburned, bashful too. Anyway, he's sitting at one of my tables, trying to get up near enough to start a conversation. I'm polite, but nothing else. Well, it's 2 a.m. and we're getting ready to close the place when he finally speaks his mind. What did he say, Virginia? What did he say? He was from out of town, and this was his first visit to New York. Oh, Gladys, I think somebody's trying to get into my apartment. What? Yeah, but the door knob is turning. Oh, it's probably some drunk at the wrong apartment. Oh, he's putting his key in the lock right now. So what? You've got your night lock on, haven't you? No, it's broken. Gladys, I'm scared. There's nothing to worry about. He'll go away when he finds his key won't unlock the door. Oh. Because I can't stand to hear about it. How can you go on eating without batting an eye? Well, I... I'll see the rest. Interesting. Oh, you... Don't go turning on that radio again, Steve Grant. I've heard enough. I'll go out of my mind for heaven's sake. Yes. That's a good, solid clue. What is? What haven't you said? How many men use that?  Okay, Mrs. Grant. Pass the biscuits, my little pigeon. Pass the biscuits. Eat, eat, eat. Three women in three days murdered in cold blood by a fiend right here in the height.  Too scared to stay in. The lock's broken. And he sits there eating. Pass the biscuits, he says. There's nothing wrong with my appetite, my love. Of course. That would cost you your job on the police force. You were in a restaurant eating when you should have been answering a call. Well, some men drink to escape. I eat. Escape what?  In short, a wife.  Maybe the creeper's way of escaping life isn't drinking or eating. But, uh, strangulation. You know it.   Go ahead. Can I help it if men look at me? I don't know why you come home at all. Where do you go? What do you do with your time? Where were you this morning? Why did you come back? Sweet. But someday I'll lose my appetite for that, too. When I do, honey, there'll be no escape. Now, I'm off again. Kiss? You're using stage lipstick again. Wipe it off. How many times must I tell you? You're married now, remember? Steve, wait. At least so much money, Edison. Sorry, no time. Don't leave me alone. Stay home today, please. I'm afraid. Oh, don't be silly. That nothing will happen to you. You've a dormant, an elevator boy, Mrs. Stone across the hall, a phone. You're safe there. But the night lock, it doesn't work. Well, now you can't lock me out anymore. It doesn't catch. Something's happened to it since last night. Steve. Get a new one. I can't get a lock, but they're all so busy. I'll try it all morning. If I want to phone you, where will you be? Out. Goodbye, love. Take care of your cold. Curly chase. Hey, you got thrown off the force, Steve. Yeah. You got thrown off the news, Curly. Yeah, you heard wrong. I wasn't fired. I was just worn. I wasn't fired either. Just suspended. For three days. My trouble is I eat too much. I drink too much. I hear you're living up at the height, Steve. Yeah. It's funny me too. Hear you're married now to a gal at the knock-out. As all the boys wish them. Yeah, you can say that again. Used to be on the stage, you know. Yeah, I think I knew her. Wasn't a stage named Vicky DuVal? That's her. I love that winch, but how does a guy handle it? Maybe the creeper has the right method. Thank you for taking the words out of my mouth. Who is the creeper, Steve? You got any anger? You tell me and I'll split the reward with you. One thing, though, and I don't think even the police force have put it together yet. In all three cases, just before the creeper struck, the door locks had already been changed a bit. You don't say. You got a theory? Well, sure. I mean, take that note on the wall written with lipstick for heaven's sake in every case.  I cannot control myself. Right. Now, what man uses an expression like that? The long and short of it is this. A creeper is a woman. A roost. Just like the height of the message from the floors that was six feet. And yet I'll lay odds to creepers no more than a guy your height says. Or mine. Five feet and nine. Well, go on. Let's have the rest, Sherlock. OK. That business of the three locks that were tampered with, they were tampered with from the inside. I don't get it. That creeper must have gotten into each of the apartments when no one was home and broken the night lock. That made it an easy setup when he came back later to knock off his victim. Oh, how could he have gotten in to begin with? Those were solid locks. A picklock would open them. You mean the creeper's a burglar? Maybe. Oh, well. Oh, not you and your theory. Yeah? How do I know where the creeper's going to strike next? You do? Certainly. The creeper's not smart. He's just crazy. You play along crazy. Think the way he does. And you'll one jump ahead of him. That's the trouble with the police and all imagination. How can you expect logical clues from a madman? Play along crazy, Steve. Make out you're the creeper. What's your compulsion? Go ahead. Let's see. All right. First, the victims are all redheads. Everyone. Three redheads in three days. They've come to think of it. Now that you mention it... Yeah, they all lived in the high strikes. Rita Croft is Claire Nixon and Virginia Peters. All right. What was the number of the apartment in each case, huh? Rita lived in 1A. Claire 2B. Virginia 3C. Don't ask me the why or where, or don't ask me the logic. Just play along crazy. You'll see what I mean. You'll see where he's going to strike next. I don't get what you mean. The next victim of the creeper lives in the high. She's a redhead. Her night locks are tampered with. She's going to get hers today and her apartment number's 4D. Well, why are you staring at me? You don't like my arithmetic? Why are you staring at me? My wife's a redhead, play. We live on the heights. Apartment numbers... Ah, you're just a boozy reporter. Your apartment number? 4D, I told you. 4D, of course. I'll have it delivered. Apartment 4D, I should have guessed it anyway. Why? A face is a number, believe me. Since you've moved into the neighborhood, Mrs. Grand, for me it has a special number. It's like double dented, delicious green parties, you see?  I'm a lady's man, like the creeper. What did I say? What's going on in this block of raw nerves? You can't joke? The creeper, the creeper. That's all I hear all day. Well, it's mass hysteria. There ain't no such an arrangement. You don't think so? Why, I assure you, Mrs. Grand, it's just a fairy tale for circulation of the tabloids. I'll send your prescription up to the board. No, I'll just wait here for it. Well, it'll take some time. You should go right home and stay there if you're just getting over the flu. Now, believe me. I'll deliver it myself. It'll be a pleasure. No, no, I'll wait. I may not go right back. I don't want to be there all alone. Well, suit yourself, Mrs. Grand. Why are you staring at me? I'm always admiring your lipstick. I've nothing like that in stock. It's a special lipstick. I used it when I was on the stage. Well, don't let the creeper go right in a note with your lipstick. Have a seat.  What? I cannot control myself. Wait, wait. There was a note I had referenced to it. It was a joke, that's all. Wait, Mrs. Grand, your prescription. Oh, it's you, Mrs. Civil. What does that just scare? Didn't all these awful murders in this neighborhood? Oh, yes. Isn't it terrible? You walking home? I guess. I'll go with you. It's good we live in the same house. At least if I had a double lock. But the night one doesn't work. I can't get a last miss though. Oh, don't you worry. We'll stay together this afternoon until our husbands come home. Think of it. We're visited, so we live right across the hall from each other. Isn't that just like a big city for heaven's sake? Oh, would you rather I drop in on you? Well, I don't all make it yours then. Isn't it horrible? The ghastly things they're saying? Repairies. One doesn't know what to think next. You believe the latest? The latest? That maybe it's a woman, the creeper. A woman? Can you beat it? I can't imagine how in the world you'd figure that for heaven's sake. Can you? I don't know. I was just thinking of something while I was thinking. Well, I can see where a married woman now, if her husband was two-timing her, perhaps only weak and no will of his own. And if the wife, say, was merely getting at those female homebreakers, well, I can understand that. Because you take my husband now. You've met Mr. Stone, haven't you? You're Mrs. Grant. Anna, you still get me like that for heaven's sake. I don't feel well. I must have gotten home at once. I feel pain. But Mrs. Grant, you are heaven's sake. Just spelling Charlie, he's fixing the fuse box. Help you with your packages. No, thank you. I don't mind a bit. Look out of breath. I don't want to. Where's Jimmy, the elevator guy? He stepped out for a few minutes. I'll take you up. But I... He mightn't be back for another five, ten minutes. No point in waiting for him. No, I suppose not. Apartment for the... Well, yes, how did you know? It doesn't take long. Funnily enough, both Charlie and Jimmy show up, leaving you to run things alone. Particularly seeing you and you. Oh, I don't mind. The last place I worked, I was the only man. Where was that? 522 Smedley Avenue. 522 Smedley Avenue? Yes. Right next door to the apartment house where the creeper is trying to free the caucus. Suppose you, uh, read about it. Yes. What's wrong? Why did you stop? Right. We seem to be stuck. Stop this elevator. Stop this elevator at once. No need to get excited, Mrs. Grand. Take it easy. You'll live long. And figure what went wrong. You don't fool me, not for a minute. I'll scream if you don't. Oh, there we are. Oh, Charlie must have cut off the curtain. Let me off. Let me off. Need to help you with your packing? No. No. I want to know how soon I can get my lock changed. Yes, of course I left my order. Fix it at once. Hello, baby.  It's me. You want the whole house? What are you doing here, Bernie? I'm playing along, crazy. What are you talking about? How did you get in here? Fairly Valentine. Don't worry. You're having a thing to be upset about now. I've come to protect you. Give me the phone. Hello? Never mind about the lock. Thank you. Long time no see, Vicki. What do you want, Bernie? Me? A headline. Your husband wants to. He wants I should keep an eye on you. What's that? Sure. You didn't think Steve and I were acquainted, did you? Oh, yeah, yeah, from way back. Just met him at a bar. I don't believe you. What do you mean, keep an eye on me? Oh, just in case they're creepy. Oh! You heard the carrot. He's a mad. You've always been mad, Bernie James. Where is Steve? Why should he send you? Why should he think the creeper will come here? What are you doing here? Oh, yeah. Playing along, crazy. You got a drink? You're drunk now. You're getting right out of here.    When I took the drink, it was to forget you and you know it. Well, Rumpart Angel. Which means I haven't gotten over you. Yet. Get out.   What? Haven't changed, have you? Even a wedding ring can't do that to you. Ah, don't play with me. My business is snooping. I make a living at it. Between drinks. So your new models love thy mover, huh? Mr. Stone, across the hall. Dirty salesman. Sit down, darling. Just play along with me while I play along, crazy. Sit down. Like we're expecting company. I must be crazy doing this. Why wait here for the creeper? Why not a hundred other streets? A thousand other apartments. A million other days, because I'm riding my house. Yeah, let's have some music, don't you stick. Let's have some music. Turn on the radio, let's dance. It's been a long time, baby. A long time. That's it. Now let's dance. Give me your arm, let's dance. Like old times. Around and around, like my brain. Why you tremble? I still love you a little. Ask me why? I love you, I love you, I love you redhead. I could kill you when you deserve it. With the radio on, you could scream and no one would hear. I could put my hand on your throat like this and I could strangle you. Why are you crying? Stop it.  Cut it out, I say cut it out, I can't stand it. I never could. Okay, you want me to leave? It's your funeral, what am I saving you for anyway? Where's my hat? In a few minutes, there'll be a knock or a ring or a door just open and you'll be lying on the floor like the other three.  Goodbye, my worthless. Give my regards to the creeper. Look in his eyes, like a madness. What if he comes back? Like the other three, like the other three. There'll be a knock. The drugist is here with the medicine, shall I let him up? My medicine? Why, yes. You hear?  Don't hit me once. Please, I must have changed right away. Mrs. Brandt, you come right away. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you, but not when I hear you. I don't know what came over. My job had me down, but now everything's okay. I've been bad, bad, wicked. Oh, you knew what I've gone through today, the most dreadful state, and then that. You sent someone here today. Early Chase? Then you did. I know I just got rid of him. All right, guy, smart reporter. Lives in the neighborhood too. Honey, it sounds cock-eyed. I mean, Perley's theory, but I was a bit worried when I got to thinking, so... Vicki, don't let anyone in the house till I get home. I won't, Steve. Not anyone. Do you hear? Not anyone. Locksmith. Oh, wait, Steve. Locksmith. Wait, Steve. Oh, thank goodness it lasts. No, I can breathe easy. Just a minute, dear. Goodness, you've come. Please step in. It's the lock on this door that I... Oh, just a moment. My husband's on the phone. Something else I wanted to tell you. It's all right. Everything's all right now, Steve. You needn't worry. Didn't I just hear you talking to someone? Was that someone at the door? It was no one, Steve. Just Mr. Frank the Locksmith here to fix the lock.  The Locksmith? Listen, Vicki. That's what I was going to tell you. What is it? The police are on a new trail. They think maybe a locksmith... Vicki, are you listening? Maybe the creepers. A locksmith.  What nice lipstick you use, Mrs. Grant. It's a lovely shade. Vicki, answer me, Vicki. Are you all right?  For heaven's sake. Did he death? Yeah, a pearly chase.  On that creeper story I just gave you. Add this, though. The reward for his capture goes to the elevator boy. He heard Vicki Grant scream and called a cop. The creeper was shot running from the building. Yeah, ironical, wasn't it? The locksmith was the killer. The one man Vicki thought would protect him. What an ending to a lovely, lovely redhead. And so the curtain falls on the creeper, which was chosen by guest expert Lawrence Blockman, whose latest thriller is Bengal Fire. Next week at this time, Murder by Experts brings you a story or through which three persons make a bet with death with seven million dollars is the stake selected for your approval by the noted mystery writer, Miss Frances Crane. Until then, this is your host, John Dixon Carr, hoping you'll be with us next week at this time. 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This is Sal for Lease. Sal joins us. He's the CEO of Dot Drives and we will be talking with with you all about working with boards. So that was one little nugget of insight of what you've been working with. And so thanks for sharing that with us. Before we get started, we do like to start every episode by saying thank you and extending our deepest and serious gratitude to each and every one of our presenting sponsors. We here at the nonprofit show are so extremely grateful to have your continued support, your investment, and really your dedication to the conversation at large. So thank you to our presenting sponsors. And of course, thank you to Julia Patrick, who is not here today. She has another commitment. Julia is the CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy. And in fact, her commitment is all week long. So if you're tuning in this week, and she's not next to me, she'll be back next week, but she has left me in good hands. So I'm Jarrett Ransom, also known as the nonprofit nerd CEO of the Raven Group. Now, Sal, welcome. And before we get started, I do want to say that you and I have already, as I call it, had some really nerdy conversations. And I really enjoyed chatting with you. For those of you watching again live, as well as recorded, this is Sal for Lee. Sal is joining us. He is the CEO of Dot Drives and welcome again. But I would love for you to tell us a little bit more about Dot Drives. Yes, certainly. Well, first, thank you so much. And it's unfortunate I don't get to meet Julia, but maybe the next time. So real quick, Dot Drives was actually birthed as a result of even one of the topics we're going to discuss today, which is how do you better engage your board? I probably need to explain that I also wear another hat. I lead a nonprofit organization. And it was after leading that nonprofit organization for close to 10 years, after coming out of 20 plus years of business. That was the catalyst for launching Dot Drives, which is a software application that was created really because of the desire I had and others around me peers to see better efficiencies and certainly greater effectiveness for nonprofits, whether it was donors or their board members or whatnot. So that's why we're here talking today. And that's why, as you mentioned, Dot Drives exists. And so talk to us about the length in with the sports outreach, because you did say you wear a couple of hats and and I'm going to be transparent before we even open the digital doors. Sal and I had a very transparent conversation about just how many hat hat I should say plural. It's like, you know, stacked on here. Many of us in the sector do wear but share with us about the sports outreach, because this is this is that other hat. Yeah, so I thought you were going to say it, but I'll say it about just, you know, if you find yourself crying in the middle of the afternoon, join the club, right? So, you know, when I left the corporate environment at 40 over 12 years ago, I never realized what I would be stepping into. And it actually the workload, the responsibility actually amped up. So part of that's probably my own fault. But part of it is just that innate desire to meet needs. And I think that's what a lot of people get into callings around the nonprofit space. That calling for me was sports outreach. So I stepped into a role and I've been fortunate enough to help reorganize that organization and grow that organization. And we work internationally and domestically, we are a Christian organization. So at the core of what we do is evangelism, discipleship. But we also say we step on the field and off the field.  Our name really doesn't encapsulate who we are because we are 30 going to be 34 years old. So and we we serve anybody from any, any area, any background, any faith. So that's kind of our the sports outreach side of things. And then of course, as I mentioned earlier, decided to do something to help not only myself, some of the struggles I was having, but a lot of peers who we were recognizing didn't really have a simple tool at their disposal. A lot of great things out there. And if you have a great product, great. But a lot of us didn't have something that spoke to our workflows and what was important to us. And I'll just say what's important to me is it's all about really meaningful relationship, whether that's with your board members, which I think we're going to talk about, or your donors, or your team for that matter. And I love that connection. So when I did a little due diligence before Sal and I jumped on a phone call a couple of months ago, I want to say, because we had one of your teammates, Josh on to talk about that drives and he was phenomenal. We had a wonderful episode with with Josh as well as he talked a little bit more about drives. I myself grew up as an athlete. I'm still very much an athlete. I have actually gone to Uganda and have experienced the community and the residents of that community. And it's just phenomenal. So to see your website for those of you that haven't checked out, Sal will share his contact information again. But all of this really does stem from, you know, that the connection and those relationships. And so the connections and the dot, I mean, how does this exactly work? Well, so I'm actually going through another, let's say life change, season of change. When I was in business, probably the one strength that I was blessed with was the ability to connect things to connect people to connect systems to, to see that things could operate more soundly. And that was an area that excited me and I enjoyed it, you know, the difficulties and what not. And I will say I'm now moving from this fixer mentality or this fixer behavior into what I hope is an encourager. That's something that God's working on me right now at this season in life. But the point of connecting the dots, it's so critically important because in any organization, in any organization, business, church, nonprofit, what happens is you have so many different things happening. But you have to have certain processes in place to bring those things together. And the greater and the simpler those processes are, whether they're communication, whether it's in the case of that drives a CRM, whether it whatever those things are team meetings to collaborate, you have to be very consistent and conscientious about putting those things in place so that you connecting everybody so that you're working towards a specific goal. Otherwise, you have just all these dots doing their own thing. And that's not going to result in impact or be very productive. Yeah. One of the things we've talked about a lot on these episodes, Sal, is really that return on relationship. And I feel that, you know, we all bring relationships to the table. We all bring a different skill set to a relationship. And we can all continue to add on layers to that level, right? The depth and breadth of each relationship can go to so many different heights. So dot drive, you know, really provides a way to connect back to that connection of these dots to drive the mission forward. Is that kind of what we're what we're looking at here? Yeah, I think you summarized it well. And I don't want to just hop on the actual application, although it's obviously my baby and I love it. I really want to turn our attention to a process because it's just a process. It's just an application that we created to encapsulate a process. And the process is consistent engagement, understanding whether it's that donor or that board member, and being consistent and having a process that keeps that relationship healthy. And because at the end of the day, that's what's going to produce is that healthy relationship. So whether we're talking about that drive or any other process one might have, it's about having that process to have the healthy engagement to make sure that that's front of the mind that you are specifically and consistently engaging. In this case, I think we're going to talk a little bit more about the board. But how are you doing that consistently? Because if you're not doing that consistently, you're not going to see the results. And I'm so glad that you said that. And it is about the process. It's more than dot drives. But talk to us a little bit because I think when you and I were on the phone, probably nine times out of 10, I will have a nonprofit leader tell me, oh, my board, they don't do anything. I can't get my board to activate. I can't get them to engage. So what are some ways that I mean, let's let's dive deep. And I want you to just jump into the deep end with me, Sal. But like, sure, here, where can we take this conversation as it relates to the board? Okay, I love it. And we'll never get it all in. So maybe you'll watch that. You already gave me all the disclaimers. And I know I've got somebody over my shoulder, executive producer, but you just opened the can of worms because let it out because here it is. So we all know that every nonprofit has a board, right? And those may look very different. But at the end of the day, for you West coasters, just think LA, just think LA, that's easy to remember. And it's love and advocacy. So when I think of who's coming on my board, or why did they come on the board? It should be those two those two terms that identify that person. And it's from that place that I'm going to engage them. Why would somebody come on our boards, Jared? If they didn't love the mission, if they didn't love what we were trying to accomplish, why would they come on? Now, I've heard scenarios, well, I, you know, I asked the CPA because I need to make sure this and that I get that. But at the end of the day, what I'm going to tell you, I'm a disruptor in this field, because what I'm going to tell you is, do you know, even if you brought that person on for that purpose, they needed to love what you wanted to do. But sometimes it's those people that are your strongest advocates. I've seen the most type A, you know, non-public people yield just to be honest, the highest level of returns. And it all came down to your level of engagement with them. The executive directors now, I know this isn't going to gain me any friends, but I'm one too. The executive directors, the executive directors that say that, and Jared, you and I have had this conversation, it's probably nine out of 10. And I've been guilty myself. Oh, my board doesn't do this. My board doesn't do this. My board doesn't do this. I've got what I think is one symbol remedy. Own it. Own it. You are the executive director. These are very busy people that have come alongside you. The reason why they are very busy and the reason why you have them on your board most of the time is because they're influential. They're professional. They have tremendous skill sets, but they're also being pulled in a lot of directions. It's your responsibility. It's my responsibility to engage them consistently so that they are not the ones that have to lead this out. That's not their role. And so the way I've learned to do it over time, again, this didn't happen overnight, was to just make it very practical and make it a process. So if you want to ask me, like, okay, Sal, it's time to get in the weeds, the simplest thing I could tell you is an annual sit down. An annual sit down. I mean, how many of us actually even do that? We may meet at the board. We may send an email, but do we sit down with that board member either face to face or like we're doing right now over the video and talk through what excites them about the mission? What can we align with so that they want to use their gifts or their influence to be that advocate for your mission? But if you fail to do that, and I think it has to be very systematic, I think it has to be once a year. I think you put it on your calendar. I think you share it with your board. You let them know this is the direction we're going to go in. We're going to have an annual sit down and it all starts with that. And I could go into more details for sure on that because that's what begins what I call the board engagement process. I love that. And I hear also from from board members on the other side saying, you know, I would do more. I don't know what to do. I don't know what's needed to be done. I don't know where I can best help.  So here's a question. Is that really only the executive director or could it also be like the director development maybe working in tangent or in conjunction with the executive director to make sure that each board member, you know, knows one what needs to be done. And two, I also coach to say like, we, the professional want to make it as easy for the for the busy nonprofit board member as possible. And I and I coach my client style to say like, spoon feed the board, make it as easy as possible. So do you hear that as well, where the board is saying, I don't know what what I need to do. Yeah, again, I mean, you've just given the other side of the coin there. We do hear that from a lot of board members who actually want to be more deeper engaged, but they're not getting they're not getting that that consistency from the executive director, the president, the CEO, or the development director. So as you said, yeah, I don't think it's exclusive to to, you know, the head head. I think anyone who is charged with mobilizing board members to be advocates of that mission would be involved in this process. So I would very much be comfortable with turning over that that engagement process to to a development officer and actually have. And sometimes it's it's a dual type of situation where it's a even a larger conversation than just one on one, because it may be healthy for the executive director to be involved in that conversation as well. So they're all kind of hearing the same things, you know, each organization is a little different. I, you know, the area I most focus on with our application and when I do any consulting is is primarily grassroots to like, say one or two million, which most of those and I'm not telling you anything you don't know, Jared, most of those are small shops, they might have an executive director, they'd be lucky if they had a full time development director in a lot of cases. So so again, I'm speaking a little bit to that audience. But to your point, yes, it could absolutely be anyone who's responsible for that type of shepherding of board members. Yeah. And I think that's important to know and thank you for bringing that up. Because oftentimes here on the episode, you know, especially when we have someone that does serve with a specific organization, we do like to quantify or qualify, you know, how big is this organization? Really, what are we talking about? You know, what's what's the workforce? Who are the supporters of the organization? You know, and how all of that falls into the success?  And then the board is saying, you know, and I've heard this multiple times, I don't know what to do. I don't know what they need me to do. So to create that system, to create that process, you know, when it comes to engagement, what are some other things that you might recommend when it comes to really engaging with the board? Well, I want to go back because, like I said, we could take hours to go through this because I think it's important if I if I if there's one pearl in anything I say today, it's it's that annual sit down annual survey and I didn't get to the survey part. Okay, so the survey, the survey is going to be the meat and potatoes. So the survey in my case, we have a 13 questions simple 13 questions. I mean, it doesn't get much more simple than this. It's just things like what excites you most about the work of the organization, you're trying to get them to to start to open up. You know, then it could be questions as you know, do you plan to personally donate? Would you like to work on securing grants? These are very simple questions. And what we've done, Jared, and I would recommend this if you don't have a process in place, I can share these with any of your audience. But what we've done is we've taken that survey. Now, just so you know, this survey also is built into our application under what we call best practices. So again, what I'm going to be jumping from place to place for a second, our application was designed to provide best practices. Because what we wanted to do was we wanted to say, we listen, statistically, we know the majority of nonprofits are small. We know this, you just look at the statistics, go Google it. And we wanted to provide a one stop shop for best practices and for processes, because you may be wearing five hats. So now if I'm the executive director and my budget's three, four, five hundred thousand dollars a year, I can use this application. I could say, okay, I'm going to do my donor engagement. Great. I'm going to do my major donor relationship building. We call that a pipeline process or moves management. I see you have a moves management sponsor there on your thing. That's awesome. So it's that process. But we put that all in one simple place because you know, you're wearing a lot of hats, you're out in the field, you may even be doing programming on top of running the organization. So we want it to be simple. But back to the survey, what we've done is the surveys within the moves management process in the application. So you don't have to rethink it every year. You don't have to, you just start again. It's right there. The other nice thing is what we do is we take that survey and we convert it into a survey monkey, give a plug for them. They should support you. I'll try. We use them a lot. But here's a great thing. You can put that in a survey monkey.  But before that, Jared, we're going to send you a quick online survey. Boom, you send it to them. They fill it out online. You can keep your whole board. You can have all their surveys. You can see where they aligned where they didn't. Great for committees. Great for putting together a committee. If you've got four people who said, Oh, Sal, I love, would you host an event or assist with an event? Well, if I get five out of my 10 board members who say, Yes, guess what I can do? I can bring them together. We'll probably have the best darn event we've ever had. And so and that is such a good opportunity because I know when it comes to fundraising and fundraising, we really do want to lean on our board as advocates for bringing new constituents or supporters into the fold. Absolutely. I mean, we again, as we started out, we could talk about board governance. We could talk about board finance. I think for me, those other ones are obviously critical. But for me, for the health and vitality of that organization, if you don't have a board that's engaged on the development side, I don't see. I don't see how that could be a healthy organization.  They do. And when we talk truly about connecting those dots, you know, it is often about getting that board buy in and making sure that the board is committed, they're engaged, they're they're all in one of the one of the quotes I've heard, which I just love and continue to repeat is people support that in which they help create, right? And so receiving the buy in from the board, I'm going to say it's critical to the success of the organization. How do you create this buy in, though, Sal? Well, again, I think you're going to say, oh gosh, he just oversimplifies everything. I think it all starts with that survey. I think once, yeah, once they've spoken it out, it's not like Jared, when if I came to you and I say, Jared, I need help with, you know, you're a board member and you're you're the Mac Daddy board member, you're going to do what you can probably eat out. But but but that didn't come from you. That didn't that that didn't initiate with you. It might not it you may not be even a passionate about that it might not even be in your skill set.   You never graduated from postmaster. I mean, that's not that's not comfortable for everybody. That's a misalignment. So I think Jared, to answer your question, it all comes back to working through that process once a year and then taking those the feedback you've received, they've given you their thoughts. They know why they're part of the board because they love the mission and they should want to be an advocate LA. But how do you convert that into the engagement? And that's hearing from them. Now, you set the stage, right? You set the stage you you you've kind of wrote the script, like this is what I need. And then you're asking them to say, oh, well, that's a menu. It's like going to a restaurant.   That's all we're asking for. We're asking for you to let let them pick it, let them pick it. And then you put it into a process that's consistent. And we don't have time. That's one of the big reasons we built that was it's all about the relationship process. Now, we focus primarily on major donors and board member engagement. But for instance, our product is a CRM it's a standard CRM with what I consider these these, I think, very unique value props that really allow people to focus because at the end of the day, the majority of funding comes from major donors that sustains an organization and from board member, if you want to have a health organization from board member engagement. So let's not let's not overcomplicate this thing. There's there's great products that do a lot of other things we don't do. And I say more power to you. That's our niche. That's those are the things we we focus on. And we've we've seen the impact over, well, even from the product line over two years, but but we've seen the behaviors produce impact for a very long time. So I want to ask about that elephant in the room. So we have the the annual meeting, we do the survey or we do the survey, and then we have the meeting. The board member says, I'm all in. This is my buy in. This is what I want to help and support with.  How do you talk about like a reengagement with a board member that might have all the best intentions out and then all of a sudden you don't you don't get a reply back from them. Yeah, okay, so that's going to be a hard one for me to answer. I'm just it's going to be hard for me to be that objective, because I'm kind of a I could be a bit of a bull in a China shop in this regard, meaning if a board member has a really legitimate reason he or she that they disengage for I have no problem. Season of life. Listen, let's just be transparent. I've had board members who you know a child has went off the deep end. You know they didn't expect that wonderful people all of a sudden their life's in turmoil. A major career change. I had a board member he was he was amazing. He got a huge promotion travel had to travel all over the world. He was going to be out of pocket. You know, you have to have those conversations though. You can't just say, oh, I hear crickets. Why, why is it and then you start to get frustrated with the board member. It's better to confront and say, is this board member in a season that's difficult. It what's what's happening here. Once you establish that, then you're good. You put that aside. You allow for the grace. You allow for the inactivity. That's fine. I'm not talking about that. If you're hearing crickets after you've put them through this process, then chances are they're they're probably their season is setting. The sun is setting on them because again, go back to LA love and advocacy. I love that. I mean, it's such a short acronym, but love and advocacy and I'm going to agree with you. I know that life happens and as we started the episode, so much has happened over the last 18 months.  You know, is there something that you'd like to share or that I may be able to help you with? I always come from a place of, you know, to be of service. And I think that is a great way because clearly they've bought into it, but we're, you know, we're all experiencing this thing called life. And I think that's important to keep in mind. Sal, you had shared with us that we could talk for hours and I have no doubt about that. And I would love to continue to just have you talk more and more and more about this board engagement. Unfortunately, we're not able to dive too much, you know, further beyond, beyond what our 30 minute broadcast provides. But Sal is amazing. Drives is amazing. The organization that you serve on and really helped to bring all this to fruition is a phenomenal mission, doing so much great work across the world. So thank you for all that you do. And if any of you are interested in connecting with Sal, I will witness to you. He's very active on LinkedIn. So you can send him a connection on LinkedIn. And then, of course, please do check out Dot Drives. Both you and Josh have been phenomenal guests on the episode. And we're so grateful to have you. Thank you so much. I just had one last thing to say. I almost forgot. We as a gift, we have a very generous corporate supporter of our Dot Drives initiative, and they will underwrite one application for a year for one of your listeners. So if you have a listener, I'll leave it in your court. And if nobody, that's okay. But that's phenomenal. So if you have a listener that's either a startup or small nonprofit needs a process, needs a system, we will go ahead and get them on the system, get them trained. And I think you'll have a future guest on your hands. Well, thank you. I think that's phenomenal. It's very generous of you and your supporters. So we're so thankful. If any of you are interested in that, please do reach out to either Julia or I. We would be more than happy to connect you with Sal and see if this makes sense for you and your organization. It's always a pleasure to be here and talk to so many amazing leaders across the nation. Again, we extend our deepest gratitude to each and every one of our sponsors. We are so grateful to have your continued investment and support in these conversations, not just the nonprofit show, but all conversations that are happening right now around the globe. We're just so thankful to our presenting sponsors. So thanks for allowing us to have these great conversations and to connect with so many thought leaders just like Sal for Least Today with Dot Drives. Sal, thank you. Again, I'm so appreciative. I have a feeling that we'll have you back on. And I hope that you enjoy your week. I think you've got some downtime, which is which is good. I know we all need that. So for all of you that are watching, thanks so much for joining us. I hope that you will join us again tomorrow. This week is action packed. Julia's away, but I'm here and I look forward to seeing all of you tomorrow. We end every episode by by saying please stay well so you can do well. Thanks so much, Sal, and to all of you watching, we'll see you tomorrow.


Thank you. Thank you for showing up. Okay. I'm going to talk about WordPress and accessibility. And the first thing I want to say, everything I'm telling you, including the links, the link to the slides, every content, images is also available on reandritveld.com slash wceu16. So you can read the full story there. Okay. How accessible is WordPress? Well, it depends.  If you're using existing technology, like screen reader or voice recognition software, there's not really a label you can put on it. Accessibility, WordPress, that's a number. It depends on the user, and there's so many different kind of users. So it depends on the user. But a lot of it, if you look at it overall, is pretty good. The basis is really pretty good, and that's good news. If we look at the front end, WordPress ships with the theme called 2016. That's very accessible. It's an excellent theme. You can download them for free when you download WordPress. There are other themes in the WordPress theme repository that are labeled accessibility ready. That are accessible, too. The most accessible issues are solved there. So you can download them for free. If you are a developer, you can use the Genesis framework. Together with the sample theme, you have an excellent base to build an accessible theme on. So a lot of choice of accessible themes together with WordPress on the front end. If you look at the backend, if you are a user, if you keep it simple and use the basics, then you can use WordPress very well. You can add images, you can add a title, you can add content, some images. If you don't get too fancy, you can post, you can add text, you can add a menu to your theme. Always keyword and screen reader very well done. You can add widgets. So overall, if you keep it simple, you have an accessible front end and you can use the backend also if you have, for example, screen reader or don't use a mouse. So that's good news. But there's still a lot to do. First of all, I want to address some things that are more in the blog post. Legacy code. WordPress is a teenager. 13 years. Difficult age. Trying to grow up. So a lot of code that's in WordPress now has been there for a long time. And some of it isn't really accessible at all. But because it's been there for so long, the plugins or themes depend on it. So if you change that, make it in something accessible, plugins will break. And that's not really our intent. I want to give one example. It's like the settings API. In the WordPress admin, you can adjust the settings of your WordPress install. That's built in an HTML table. And we now know a table in HTML is used for displaying data. And not for layout. But if we change the settings API into something semantically decent, a lot of plugins will break because they use the settings API for their own settings. This is difficult. If we need to change that, but if we do that, we have to work together with theme developers and plugin developers and do that all together to perform that very well, that the settings API is going to change. So that's something we need to work out. Another thing is consistency. Don't make me think. That's a golden rule in web development. Things should work the way you expect them to do, to work. That's not only for people with an impairment, very important, but also for every one of us. I want to give one example. Search in the admin. This is a screenshot of the search post. Do I have a light? No, I don't. You can see it with the arrow. Okay. The input field is on the right with the submit button. That's in most table lists screens. We're used to that. But in the themes, we want to add a new theme. Then it's on the left without the visible submit button and with the placeholder. If you want to add a plugin, it's on the right again without the submit button and with the placeholder. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I fill out the name of the plugin and I press the first button inside. That's the installed button beneath. So I installed Jetpack many times unintentionally and I'm really an experienced WordPress user, but I'm so used to having that button there so I press the first button inside without thinking. I don't want you to make me think. So that's something we need to discuss. How do we do that? How do we make stuff beautiful but also consistent and usable? Then we've got accessibility-ready reviews. This is not a code issue, but a workflow issue. If someone submits a theme to the repository, to the theme repository, she's very proud. I made this very beautiful theme and I did really my best and I also made it accessible so I add accessibility-ready tag. And then she has to wait for four months to get a response. And then, well, the response is way too long. What happens is all team authors abandon the theme. So all that's too long, I moved along, let it. Or they say, okay, well, that accessibility-ready review is taking so long, I will drop the tag. And this is such a waste of time and also such a waste of energy. There could be many more accessibility-ready themes in the repository if we could find a better way of how to deal with the reviews. This is not the fault of the reviewers because there are not many of them. We just need another workflow. Maybe automate this. If you have any ideas about this, go ask Joe Dawson. He's sitting over there. He's really interested in your help if you have ideas on how to speed this up. I want to introduce you to Eva Westerhoff. She is one of the leading accessibility experts in the Netherlands. And she's born deaf. And she has a message for you. Good morning, welcome, born, camp, Europe. I hope that you will have your pleasure having me, Eva. Okay, look at that. All the Dutch and Flemish people. And all the people know Dutch sign language. Okay. Really frustrating if you don't know what she's saying, is it? Thank you. I will subtitle it. Good morning, welcome, born, camp, Europe. I hope that you will have your pleasure having me, Eva. If you couldn't read that, she is saying, good morning, World Camp Europe. I hope you have lots of fun in Vienna. Accessibility is hard. Getting it right for everyone. Subtitles on WordPress TV. On May 18th, there were 4,648 videos on WordPress TV. Which has 246 subtitles. That's 5%. Come on. We could do better than that. If from now on, every speaker takes the responsibility of subtitling their own video or have someone subtitling their own video, that will be a huge improvement. I know it's very awkward to hear your own voice. And here you make all that mistakes. But you enlarge your audience. It's not only alone for deaf people. How many people are reading this because of my fabulous Dutch accent? Sometimes people talk very, very fast. So it's very convenient to read it back in English in text. Some people don't know English very well, but they can read it. So you enlarge your audience. So, that's a deal from now on, every speaker. This is all a work in progress. We're getting there. It takes time, it takes research, but it's work in progress. But then, some things in WordPress needs to be rebuilt from scratch. In my opinion. Guess what? The media. The media at the moment is not accessible for people with a keyboard or a screen reader. It maybe is if you are a developer and you know exactly what to do and what the underlying code is. But not for a screen reader user who doesn't know code and just is swimming around and doesn't know what to do to get a gallery or to add a caption to an image. This needs to be rewritten, rebuilt. This needs to be a feature project. So we can research, play around, see what's best, and then replace it for the current media. This will be very hard. It will take time and it will include several teams, like the core team, UX team, the design team, the accessibility team. Most teams need to work together. So this will be a huge undertaking. But I think to make it accessible and also sustainable for the future. It must also be beautiful. It must be usable. So this is a huge project and I think we should start with that. But most of all we need to keep calm and stay focused. If you are a developer we are living in very exciting times. Rest API. React. All the JavaScript we now need to learn deeply. If you developing like that, take a step back. Look at your work and say, am I developing for myself? Or am I developing for the people who are actually going to use this? I know this is very hard and it takes time and takes study. 25, 26% of the web.  JavaScript is not the enemy. We just need to work harder to get it accessible. It needs more research. That's enough for the preaching. Now for good news. The last two years in the accessibility team has been amazing. First thing that happened was that we had a team of developers sitting over there joined our team. He did a ton of work and research. He fixed a lot of issues in WordPress. He earned a commit status for that. Thanks to the work he did. Andrea, thank you very much. We have a web content accessibility guidelines. At the moment we are at version two. You have three levels. Level A, that's basic accessibility. AA is the global standard. Triple A is for dedicated software. So now in the core handbook accessibility guidelines are added. This is summary. John Blackburn also showed this slide. All a new updated code released into WordPress core and bundle teams must conform with WCAG 2 guidelines at level AA. And this is awesome. I'm really, really proud of this. So we are in Europe. Why is this important? Sorry for this bridge. Last month the EU agreed on a directive that all government websites and all public service websites need to conform with WCAG 2 AA. So now WordPress is getting ready for Europe. WordPress can be used for big projects in Europe. And I think it adds a lot of value to WordPress. So awesome news. If you want to know more about this and all the regulations, you can contact her. She is there. She has written an awesome blog post about this. It's in my blog post a link to that. And she will give an unconference talk this afternoon about this. So go with visitor and ask her if you know more about European law. I know this is very difficult for all of you. You have to learn accessibility. You have to learn accessibility too. So an accessibility wants to help. We are writing a handbook. It's on make. WordPress.org slash accessibility. There is a link to the handbook. We don't want to rewrite everything that's on the interwebs about accessibility, but that's undoable. It's on GitHub. We developed a JavaScript method called WP.a11i.speak. WP.a11i.speak. WP.a11i.speak. What you can do with this JavaScript method is tell a screen reader user what's dynamically changing on the site. Because a blind person can't see what's changing. So with this method you can tell the screen reader user what's changing from the site. If you have questions, please ask all your questions in the form and not on Slack because we got a lot of questions in Slack. Only you will get an answer and it will be lost in time. If you ask it in accessibility form, then everybody benefits from the question and the answer. We have a test team. photo, but we have 75 volunteers who test WordPress core for accessibility. And this is really, really awesome. They give up their own time. So if you write for core and you want your code tested or you have a question or problem, we can set up a test. We can give it to the testers, they report back, and we will report back to you about the issues or the problems or solutions. So use the test team if you write for core. To help you quickly on your way, I have three tips to improve your code. If you are a developer, one, use one H1 per page. And in that H1, tell what the page is about. This will save screen reader users so much time because they immediately know, okay, this is what the page is about. Two, if you are a designer, check the contrast between the background color and text. If you don't know how, go to the handbook or Google contrast analyzer, contrast ratio analyzer, then you can find the rules. And every functionality you build has to be keyboard accessible. If you don't know how, go to the handbook, Google it, or go to my workshop tomorrow, I'm giving that on the contributors day on how to keyboard test. So where are we now? I think we are on the right track. We really got the support of the community. And I'm so grateful for that. That wasn't the case a few years ago and look at you are here now. Thank you so very much for that. We've got the support of the release leads of most of the core developers. We're pristine developers are picking up accessibility themselves, like in the Genesis community. That's really, really wonderful. We don't have to do everything ourselves and explain people are actually picking it up. I also noticed that on the contributors days. The accessibility table gets more and more crowded. And in London, two months ago, we had an absolute dream team. That was really awesome. So I want to finish with the request and assignment. While you are learning JavaScript deeply, learn accessibility deeply too. Thank you.


Dr. Gundry here for GundryMD. Today, I want to talk about fruit and how bad fruit is for you. And you're going, well, wait a minute. That's not a fruit. That's a zucchini. Actually, anything with a seed in it is a fruit. A zucchini is not a vegetable. It's a fruit. A tomato. A tomato is not a vegetable. It's a fruit. A pepper. Now that's surely a vegetable. In fact, it has seeds in it. It's a fruit. A banana.  But I'm old enough to remember that these strawberries didn't exist in January. In fact, these strawberries didn't exist, period, because they were hybridized to be able to become huge and have a sweet flavor without any exposure even to sunlight and to grow in January here in California. This does not exist in the real world. So if you're eating this strawberry in January or, for instance, any of these fruits in January, your body does not think it's January. It thinks it's the middle of summer. And the middle of summer was when fruit would grow. All of these things would only grow in the summer. Even in the jungle, bananas only grow once a year. We eat fruit to gain weight for the winter. And we actually increase our cholesterol when we eat fruit.  So if you think fruit is healthy, I want you to begin thinking about it as a special candy treat that you should only eat when it would have naturally been available. This is Dr. Stephen Gundry, and I'm always looking out for you. Give fruit the boot.


A Russian missile hit a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, killing at least two people and wounding 23 in an attack that President Volodymyr Zelensky described as a crime against humanity. Video footage showed a devastated building with smoke pouring out of it and rescue workers looking on. Much of the upper floor of what appeared to be a three-story building had been badly damaged.  Only an evil state can fight against clinics. There can be no military purpose in this. It is pure Russian terror, Zelensky wrote on Twitter. Regional Governor Serti Lysak said a 69-year-old man had been killed, adding that another man's body had been pulled out of the rubble and that 21 of the 23 wounded had been taken to hospital. Three were seriously hurt. Russia's Defense Ministry said it had carried out an overnight strike on Ukrainian ammunition depots. I went to the bathroom to wash my clothes and fell on the wall. I flew in. There was no window, no balcony. After the balcony, the balcony was empty. So what? We are going to give it to the Commission to register it. We don't know what to do with it, but the fact is that if they don't get it, they will find it. They are innocent people, all the pensioners are innocent. This is an old building that was built in the middle of a wooden structure. The speed of the fire was fast. There were also two wind turbines that did not allow us to buy additional forces to the place of the fire. Because there is a threat and probably a one-way strike. Now this is the branch of our hospital. We worked there with the psychological patients of our hospital. We lived on the 3rd floor, on the 1st floor, on the 2nd floor. We had a VPO, but I hope that these VPs will go somewhere in a month or 100 years.


So welcome back we had just seen a case where the pressure was less than the critical pressure when the given P was less than critical pressure for water that means the pressure was less than 22 MPa. Now let us see table 3 for subcooled and supercritical zone now that means when the pressure is above the critical pressure that means the pressure is more than 22 MPa. So this is the table now for a case I am talking about and you can see that I am talking about the pressure equal to 25 MPa which is more than 22 MPa and therefore if I draw a horizontal line here I can see that this is now supercritical pressure so I am at 25 MPa in a subcooled compressed liquid zone and if I go on increasing temperature now here from 0 degree centigrade to 1000 degree centigrade I will not come across this LV saturation line that means I will not have a corresponding value of T set P over here and that is why you can see nothing has been given in the bracket till the pressures which are below the critical pressures all this steam tables table 3 would give you T set P value in the bracket over here but the moment you see that in the table 3 nothing is given in the bracket you should be sure that this pressure is beyond the critical pressure obviously we know that 22 MPa is the critical pressure for water and the moment we know that there is no T set value associated with that because it is beyond critical pressure you will not hit a LV line and therefore you do not see any T set value given in this table as was given earlier alright so if I go on increase the temperature I will not come across a T set value and I will not come across any latent phase change over here because there is no phase change line that I encounter when I go on increase the temperature from left to right just to show you again some points 50 degree centigrade at higher pressure if I compare with earlier pressures of 0.1 MPa I mean this region now this was the phase change point earlier case in this case now I am at 115 degree centigrade but earlier case I was at low pressure and therefore I was in a super heated vapor zone now I am in a sub cooled compressed liquid zone so just by changing the pressure by increasing the pressure I have changed the zone now in this case similarly one more case of 400 degree centigrade I am in a super critical fluid zone now alright so this is my super critical zone this these two points are shown in sub cooled zone and as I shown that if I went on increase the temperatures I will not come across any latent phase change. So what have we learnt from this we have seen steam tables and we have specifically seen table 3 which is meant for single phase regions we saw sub cooled and super heated zone earlier and then we saw sub cooled and super critical zone in the last slide. Thank you very much.


Good morning everyone. I hope everyone had a great weekend. We have this lovely patient here We're going to do a tummy tuck and lipo contouring I'm really excited for her because she has a great shape and Once we do the tummy tuck and the lipo it's going to look fabulous Let's take a look at our patient today So you can see that she has some stretch marks down here You know the only way is I always say to get rid of stretch marks is by taking them out We're going to do a low writing scar which is going to be low and come up high So that way it pulls on her thighs. You see that you see how it's going to pull up So we're going to go low and then come up and it's going to put some tension and pull up her thighs our goal is to remove this Elliptical incision here. I'm marked out. I'm going to take all that out. This point is going to reach down here She has some skin laxity up here. We're going to contour this area by Taking it all the way into her bones And we're going to lipo the pubic area pubic area is very important if you have a tummy tuck you'll notice that sometimes when you do gain weight It goes to the pubic area afterward because if you don't remove the fat there They're very rich fat cells there that will be large if you gain a little bit of weight So we're going to prevent that from happening. So she's going to get a nice contoured look Very cinched in waistline. Most of the stretch marks down here will be gone We're going to do an internal corset, which is going to tighten her muscles She's going to look fantabulous. Look at her from the side.  Stay tuned So the first thing I like to do when we do the tummy tuck in lipos is to do the liposar To contour the waist and make it as small as possible So we're starting with the liposar first.  Now she has more cinched in waist We took out about 800 or 1000 cc. Let's take a look at the fat So now at home you guys can see the difference between the left which was performed as opposed to the right that wasn't Huge difference. Okay, so we haven't even started the tummy tuck just doing the lipo contouring Once I take her look at how small her waist is going to be. This is like very thin very thin Brought them in here. She looks very good We already took out two liters of fat from the abdomen and the pubic. So we start First by isolating the belly button. Here it is going around it looking beautifully my beautiful and So handy assistant assisting me today Look at that. Wow Next we I always place the scarf where there's Hair follicles if it's up here. It's too high Your tummy tuck scar should be somewhere where you have hair follicles if I go here It makes the surgery much easier, but it's going to leave her a scar that's visible If it's down where the hair follicles are it won't show in a bikini number two is the There's a little straight line and then it hooks up. So it pulls up on your thigh So it kind of gives you a little bit of a lift It's not a thigh lift, but it does give you a little bit of a tension lift laterally So we're going to start with the low riding scar. Here's my my marks And slide right through them beautiful beautiful So this is a fascia we get to first before we get to the muscular fascia But we open it. This is the one we when we close we're trying to get that as we go deeper There's the real muscular fascia right there. You see right in here watch See how There it is speciculates the muscle So when we know the muscle is right underneath it the word of the day is Pesticulation in the right layer like we are right now. You could see how god likes plastic surgeons He developed a layer so we could go that's really bloodless and we could just go through it and get to where we want to be So i'm going to teach you guys some things here when someone has a six pack You're seeing these lines and you could see her muscles come in like this. This is the rectus abdominis muscles You could see the striations going across here. That's what creates the six pack So you have to be thin enough for this to be visible So imagine you have to be probably half a centimeter or so to see these Lines when they do it through lipocontoring. It's just causing a defect in the skin You're not seeing the actual lines Now what we're going to do is when we pull up you could see that the muscle has separated You can see how this linea alba has become about a centimeter a centimeter and a half to two centimeters So i'll bring this muscle to this muscle this muscle to this muscle and do the internal core set for her at this time And the other thing is look at the belly button. The belly button is attached. It doesn't move down It doesn't move up It'll stay at the same level because it's getting the blood supply from underneath So it can't be moved unless some doctors do a floating belly button Which they caught the stock and move it. I don't like it because it makes it Disproportioned so again the first time we do it we do figure of eight to approximated We'll do a double layer closure, but look at how this folds it inside. It's called imbrication where we We Fold it upon itself. Okay Let me hold on let me get this right All right ready So you can see how it's spread out. It is and with this it's going to become together watch push push boom Nothing is cut.  No muscle is cut All I'm doing is bringing it together So we did the first layer. This is the second layer. The second layer is continuous continuous means the stitch starts And runs like a shoelace all the way down What you can see is again i'm I'm folding it one more time on top of each other. Watch this You see how it folds on top of each other so the muscle even gets tighter So you have a two layer system of closure Which makes it doubly tight So we've tied her abdominal muscle internal corset times two one interrupted one continuous It's nice and tight. You don't see any division It's nice and flat and you can see the outside of it But the inside is nice and tight and together So now we're going to go to the next step of cutting off the excess skin So we've measured and this is about 21 centimeters I measured twice so we could do replicated on the other side So we're going to cut this out and then replicate it on the other side I measured this side it's equivalent to the other side so we're going to go ahead and Cut this side To the desired markings So I check where the belly button is and I Bring it out on the skin. So here belly button is going to be right in here So I know it exactly where it's going to be It's going to be two thirds of the way from the sternum and one third from the pubic So here we are for the reveal. Here's her old belly button. You can see the circle This here was her Private ear your pubic. You can see the hair follicles. Look at how much skin we took out Almost the length of what she has left. Watch this. Here we go. The refill. Oh my god, beautiful Look at that. She looks fabulous


The Federation of Ugandan Football Association, Fufa, has sacked Jonathan McInstree as head coach of the men's national football team. This brings an end to his 18 month at the helm of the Ugandan cranes. The Federation had asked McInstree to step aside, following the team's poor show at the Chan in Cameroon. The 35 year old was also not in charge as the East African country played its last to African Cup of Nations qualifiers against Burkina Faso and Malawi. Uganda failed to qualify for the 24 team competition to be held in Cameroon next year, drawing outrage from football fans in the country. McInstree's tenor lasted just one year and a half. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Canada men and women, good morning. Tomorrow, 25th December is a very very important day. For the whole world, this is the day that Jesus Christ was born and we will be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ tomorrow. Tomorrow we all need to be homely. We should not be excited over it as most people lose their lives during this day out of excitement, most especially the youth. So I'd like to aid the youth that let's be indoors. Christmas Day is a day for celebration for the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas Day is a family day. We all have to stay as a family, stay indoors and all those that are close to us. So let's celebrate Christmas with the family. I know Samya is going through a lot of challenge, economic challenge. I know most people will not celebrate the way they've been celebrating in the past because they cannot afford to celebrate and the manner they've been celebrating due to financial constraints. But I can tell you that I think that is something that will be dealt with in future. I think Samya will be restored with their dignity of celebrating Christmas with the many things that came along with Christmas. Christmas is a day that we all thought we should now rejoice, eat whatever we've never eaten in the past most especially our grandchildren, children and so on and so forth. But this time around, this year 2023 has come with a lot of challenges. It will not be possible. If you go through a lot of more today, you will not see people pushing trolleys the way they've been doing in the past. Why is it so? I think we've all gotten the answer. Economic challenges, economic challenges. Who has caused these economic challenges, we know who it is. We've got an answer. But I can just tell you that me and my wife will wish you well as we celebrate this very important day.  Merry Christmas to all of you.