Thanks for allowing us to introduce the Ocean Teacher Global Academy of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. So we call it OTGA in short, it's a long term project of IOC of UNESCO and its second phase started in 2020 precisely when COVID, the COVID pandemic hit. The project builds on the legacy of previous projects and includes new initiatives such as the UN agenda 2030 and its SDGs and also the UN decade for ocean sciences for sustainable development. The main goals of the Ocean Teacher Global Academy is to deliver packaged courses that address the needs of the IOC member states and its partners and the training courses for continuous professional development and include topics such as marine spatial planning, implementing international marine law, preparedness for natural disasters like tsunamis and so on. However, this was not the case for many, many years and in fact the history behind goes back to the 1980s when training courses were organized very much ad hoc mainly in African countries and an important milestone was reached in 2005 when the project office for IOD of IOC was established in Ostend in Belgium and this function, this place functioned as the single international training center for many years. So everyone would travel to Ostend to attend a training course that was normally five days long, 30 hours workload and would be able to train around 20 people per course. Of course this model worked for some time but it became a little bit obsolete soon and in 2015 we moved into what we call now the Ocean Teacher Global Academy with the establishment of training centers around the world ranging from Asia to Latin America and Africa. We were already using Moodle but in a very, very rudimentary way. We were just trying to sell the idea of using a learning management system and then in 2020, we expanded to 16 training centers but as you all know 2020 brought lots of surprises and the world froze for a while and so we had to really reinvent our approach to continue providing training for our community and this is where we were extremely happy to already having some experience with using the Moodle platform and since then our Moodle platform became the backbone of Ocean Teacher and we've been providing training courses strictly online since 2020 as mainly instructor-led online courses being organized from the regional training centers. Now of course that moving to fully online learning brings many challenges as you probably are aware and to start with we realized how big the misunderstanding is of what you're learning is and most of our training centers and the instructors there just wanted to transfer directly what they were doing in the classroom and basically streaming their classes. We've been trying to demystify this idea since then and in this process we've come with many challenges and I think perhaps the very first one is the low digital literacy. We've had a very interesting talk just before the keynote talk talking about digital skills and digital literacy and I was a bit struggling in the sense that it was indeed very European focused and we're working with African countries with Asian countries. It's a completely different story with small island developing states as well but in a nutshell we have three levels of challenges at the learner level. We've had way more people enrolling to our courses and we got lots of attention however the engagement is much lower and the commitment is much lower so of course there's lots of well a considerable dropout rate of the learners. As I mentioned the instructors started directly transferring them the what they were used to do during the in the classroom but of course this doesn't work so it took us lots of coaching of the our instructors to start moving from from that and of course they were also a little bit they overestimated themselves regarding how much they were able to use a learning management system. There's a learning curve there as well and of course technical issues with the the spread of our training centers time zones are a gigantic puzzle for us. We've installed big blue button which we're a fan of but there's lots of problems with that especially firewalls we have lots of complaints about that. So we started trying to tackle some of these issues. We actually brought an e-learning designer to our team and and we we did a needs analysis so we asked our instructors at our training centers what they were able to do already based on this study examining faculty perception of their readiness to teach online and the results were quite surprising because as I mentioned before they definitely overestimated their capabilities their skills because we contrasted this with the the contents the training courses that were uploaded on the platform. So this was definitely not so okay and for to trying to address this we've we've created our own course on designing and teaching online courses for our own instructors and using their own courses as mini projects that they would be as assignments that they would have to do during the discourse. This course takes more or less 15 hours to to follow. We've also developed tutorials and specifically focusing on using the lesson tool in Moodle because we definitely like it very much and I see you very nodding and and also make sure that we have one to one coaching sessions with each training center's instructors and then we've also developed a course template because they were quite closed and and the the courses were looking really not so good so we've developed a well-structured course template that includes all the placeholders that we believe are absolutely mandatory in a course and these have been translated in the meantime also to Spanish and Portuguese. Our main language is English but we also work with them with other languages and then to address the learner's needs we also created a standard start year section in each course where we have again placeholders of everything that should go in there. I must admit and my colleague is also here so she will be smiling it's incredible how adult learners don't read and don't want to follow instructions so this is a mandatory section and everything else is not enabled in the course as long as they don't complete reading this section but they insist in not trying to read and send us emails saying I can't see the course contents well of course not and then of course we've had to reformat all the structure of our courses and what used to be a one week long on-site course is now at least three sometimes up to six weeks long training course with with a few hours per week of individual assignments and eventually some live or synchronous sessions used for Q&A with the instructors so those are mainly our our approaches to help them complete the courses we also have to have lots of care regarding accessibility so we actually do not promote the use of videos that much because that's very heavy in developing countries and we try to promote not using linking to platforms that are not available in some member states. YouTube is very nice but it's not available in every single member state that's an example and then to complete it we've also implemented a quality matters rubric that is adaptive from an already existing one and parallel to that we are also ISO certified as a as a learner provider outside formal education so as you can see from these graphs this has been an uphill story and you can see that in 2015-16 when we started with the ocean teacher global academy and the regional training centers we started being able to train a lot more people in the different regions and of course we were impacted by covid but in 2021 we managed to train way more people than ever before and so we really believe that going online was a fantastic move and promoted by covid so not everything is bad about covid and another good side effect of this is that this was achieved with a much lower carbon footprint which is also quite important we've also managed to reach areas or audiences that we it was very difficult to to reach such as small island developing states in the in the pacific and we also have some building evidence that we managed to train more women online that if it would have been a non-site training course so one one of the challenges identified by the UN ocean decade that started last year is ensuring that skills data and technology are accessible for all and this can only be achieved by the right training and we believe that through ocean teacher we are contributing to that however we do see that like a lot of our training is very much hands-on so practice-based training and we see that there's lots of resistance to this change to moving online and this is perhaps our main challenge convincing our audiences that online is also a way of of getting things done and so we'll be continuing trying to convince our communities that we will be using this further and further and I often mention astronauts are trained on earth so we should be able to train ocean sciences or researchers also online and I would not like to finish by mentioning the the king dow declaration from UNESCO in from 2015 where which which became the very first global declaration promoting the use of ICTs in education and and I would like to also have you promoting this and and using this declaration to to promote ICTs as a way of promoting inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning education thank you very much and there's one minute left thank you very much Claudia that was excellent we have time for one question if we have a question from the audience I actually have one thing I'd like to ask are you using the mobile app to ensure accessibility for people in places without bandwidth yet not yet okay not yet but we're considering it and by the way we've had lots of help from our Moodle partner in redoing our platform the last couple of years


Good morning. So, wellness coach. Well, an athlete even at the top of his game will have a coach. The coach is there to give advice, help, give insight. The coach keeps focus on the goal while the athlete focuses on the performance and the execution. So very much like the wellness coach, the wellness coach is there to give direction, to balance and well-being. So, did you know that we have in-house wellness coaches now? Amy Henderson, I hope you all know Amy, Amy, do you want to? There we go. Yes, and I are trained to do this kind of work. We're trained to listen, to listen at a different level. We're listening for clues of some internal processes that might be in conflict. We can identify patterns. We can help give the guidance that you need when you have an issue or a problem. So, we can help just informally, stop by our office. I know that I'm not always available, but Amy is also available. I've been assured that we're looking for some office space for her that's private, but in the meantime she's welcome to use my office and you can always invite her to step into your office. If you just need that quick check-in when sometimes you just need to talk out what's going on with you or you just need to listen. You know, we have the fixes and we have the listens and sometimes there is no fix and sometimes you just need a listen. And so also when sometimes you could use that little bit of outside perspective with whatever's bothering you and giving you that a little bit of extra awareness and just the guidance on how can I create some balance in my life. So why talk? I hear this all the time. Why talk? And if you have ever had a problem or a concern that you've just kind of mold around in your head until it seems to have grown and grown and grown, you'll know why because it becomes way out of proportion. So talking helps to give it the definition. It keeps it confined to what it really is all about. It leads to better understanding of ourselves, that greater awareness, that perspective that we find on our own sometimes by just talking it out. And the brain processes information differently when you speak it out rather than just thinking it. They're similar, but it's different. So I love this little cartoon. In case you can't see this, what do you mean you need to find a balance in your work and family? We consider you part of our family. That just kind of reminded me. You know the culture of the Moran is kind of like a family, but even in the best of families there can be problems. So coming soon, this is one of the things that we hope be offering soon, is just a 15 minute de-stress, relax, restore for faculty and staff. We're hoping to offer this during the lunch hour so that you can just kind of take that deep breath and get it together.  So when we get stressed or hurried, we tend to breathe rather shallowly. And when that happens, we get a lot of tension on our shoulders and it just creates a lot of, it hurts. It physically hurts us. So I wanted to do a little deep breathing. So if you'll just kind of push back from the table a little bit, get comfortable in your chair, put your hand on your belly, your abdomen. And I want you to close your eyes and take a deep breath all the way into your belly so that your hands rise and then out, exhale, all the way out. And so we're just going to breathe deeply and as we do, we're going to count. So breathing in, all the way in, exhale, two. And just continue on to ten. And as you're practicing this, you might notice how your body is feeling right now in this moment. And you can take this practice with you wherever you go when you just need that moment to calm down. And as we're coming to the end of this practice, just acknowledging the choice of taking this time out, your daily busyness, your hectic schedule, for your own health and well-being. This simple breathing exercise is an act of self-care. So if you would just acknowledge and thank yourself for taking the time to take care of yourself. Feels good, doesn't it? So balance, work-life balance means balancing the two to achieve the harmony and well-being for yourself. This little cartoon says, he destroyed his inner balance. Get the wellness coach. Okay, granted, it said yoga coach, but I figured put sold in certain wellness coach instead.  And the instructions are, this is also known, there's many renditions of this, also known as the Wheel of Life, whatever. I want you to rank each of the aspects here on the spokes by your current satisfaction, current satisfaction from zero to 10. Yay, you. Then I want you to join the dots. So this is kind of what one would look like completed. And you'll notice that it's not equal in all sexers. I don't expect it to be. Of course, it's not going to be. And that's not what balance really is. You know, you may be okay with not being quite a 10 on one of these spokes. It's a very individual thing. And it will also change from day to day, month to month, year to year. But what it does is it raises awareness of maybe some of the areas where maybe you're not quite so happy. That just gives you an idea of, okay, what can I do to kind of bring up my satisfaction scale there?  And it is blank on one side, labeled with the different sectors of your life. This is a very individual thing, too. So what I want you to do is just, you know, not right now, maybe, but think about how you can take care of yourself in each one of these these areas. On the other side of the paper, there's ideas. Ideas, things that you can do in each of these sectors for a little self care. This is the completed side that you should have on the other side. And just to leave you just with a couple quotes that I love. And Dr. Marcus talked a lot about resilience, but resilience isn't a fixed personality trait. It really is a lifelong project. Something that we work towards. And then I love this quote by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on and fortune and or misfortune at their own private pace like a clock during a thunderstorm. So I hope that you are all clocks during the thunderstorm of your day. And thank you and please take care of yourselves.


From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. A British survey has found that playing the bagpipes can damage your health and your love life. We suspect it is much all along.  Vampires are already arguing over whether it tastes great or is less filling. Research finds that horses remember faces. They remember friends, have excellent memories, and can remember complex problem-solving strategies for ten years or more. So if President Trump runs out of human beings willing to be in his cabinet, he can start interviewing candidates at Churchill Downs. You can pluck it. You can dye it. But you can't beat it. Gray hair is genetic. That's the word from an international group of researchers who have identified the first gene linked with gray hair called IRF4. A team at University College London conducted a genetic analysis of more than 6,000 Latin Americans of mixed ancestry to prove that genes determine if your hair will turn gray or not. This particular group was chosen because of its extreme diversity. The study said we already know several genes involved in balding and hair color, but this is the first time a gene for graying has been identified in humans as well as other genes influencing hair shape and density.   The robot from Lost in Space or maybe R2-D2? How about data from Star Trek? Ooh, maybe the robot made from the Jetsons. President Trump would like to create a new branch of the military, the Space Force, and it'll get started as soon as he can locate his first choice for Space Force Commander, Buzz Lightyear. A writer and doctor of psychology, Anna Konakova was writing a book on poker, but she got so good at winning that she's put the book itself on hold. I was going to write a book on procrastination, but I just never could get around to it. What's an extra inch in height worth? A study found that it could mean up to $800 a year in extra income. Researchers found that tall people tend to earn more money and win more respect at work. They found a height advantage even in jobs where being tall isn't a qualification. In other words, they didn't just look at pro basketball players. Some good news for the non-tall, the researchers also said that being short doesn't appear to be a prohibitive disadvantage. Hard work, motivation, and intelligence help bridge the gap. But I guess taller means more money, though? This is exactly why I'm going to grow my hair longer so I can have a man bun. The Toronto Star reports that Donald Trump has made 1,486 false statements so far since becoming president. But to put that into perspective, that's really only 92 false statements per month or just about three a day. Study says two-thirds of public school eighth graders are not proficient in math and literacy. Whatever the words proficient and literacy mean. In South Carolina, a 75-year-old man was arrested for shoplifting two bottles of wine, gourmet mushrooms, and hummus at a supermarket. But a deputy asked the man why he didn't pay for the items, he said he did not realize that he had to. Does that excuse normally work for you, mister? So I would start shopping at the Lexus dealership. According to research, our brains get rid of their waste while we sleep. In a related story, a majority of Congress suffers from insomnia. At a Salvation Army store in Keesboro, Australia, a young man went inside to shop and left his $1,000 bicycle just inside the front of the store after asking permission from the attendant to do so. Apparently, not everybody got the memo though. Before he left, his prized Fuji road bike was sold by two volunteers, not realizing it was not a donation. Best part, it was sold for just $20. Meanwhile, the store has put out a plea to try and get the bike back, and they're trying their best to compensate the customer. United Airlines has banned 50 types of dogs and cats from flights after several animal related incidents.  Stick around, there's more weird news to come. Twice a year, I take a single week and ask you to join me in saving lives. Well, this week, you could save a child's life in Haiti or Guatemala for a single gift of just $50. That one-time gift of $50 to Food for the Poor will provide a full year of food and clean water for life for that child as it gives the child and their family the resources to filter the water for drinking. If you'd like to do more, a one-time gift of $250 will provide the same for an entire family of five. I've supported Food for the Poor for several years now because I believe in what they do, and I hope you will support them now as well. You can give online by clicking the Give Life banner at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com or click the link in the show notes. And if you'd rather give by phone, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's 855-901-HOPE. Or in your mobile phone, you can dial Pound 250 and say the key word, Donate. Please, make that one-time gift of $50 this week and bring them food, clean water and, most of all, hope and life. In Anchorage, Alaska, a blockbuster video store has been trying to increase store traffic by putting on a display of a jockstrap once worn by actor Russell Crowe in the 2008 movie Cinderella Man. The jockstrap has a kind of strange history. It recently became part of a celebrity auction which Crowe has dubbed the divorce auction, where it caught the eye of the host of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Oliver purchased the jockstrap and some other items and sent them to Anchorage, which has one of the last remaining big box store video chains. The video store is trying to stave off streaming movie services which are gaining popularity as more broadband capability comes to the nation's most remote state. Oliver also sent along the robe and boxing shorts worn by Crowe in the movie as well as the actor's hood from Robin Hood, his vest from Les Miserables and a director's chair with Crowe's name on it. Kevin DeMood, general manager of the blockbuster in Alaska, admits that it would be awesome if Crowe were ever to show up at the store, but in the meantime he'd like to send photos of the display to Crowe as a thank you. And as for the most asked question so far, no, he does not know if they washed that jockstrap before sending it, but he would like to think they did. A journalist who once enjoyed 15 minutes of fame for throwing his shoe at President George W. Bush is now running for president in Iraq. He's already considered a shoe-in. In Scotland, a woman is battling a rare disorder that causes her to throw up at least 30 times a day. And that's without the help of Taco Bell or Chipotle. In Tampa, Florida, 37-year-old Scott Stone was arrested after he allegedly splashed a corrosive chemical on two luxury cars, causing more than $3,000 in damage. When asked why he did it, he told detectives the cars reminded him of vehicles driven by people who bullied him in college. Stone now faces two counts of criminal mischief and told detectives that he didn't know who owned the cars. The two cars were a 2017 Porsche Macan and a 2015 Mercedes 500. Ironically, Stone's own car, a 2012 GLK Mercedes, doesn't seem to remind him of the bullies and was spotted at the scene at the time of the attacks. While Roseanne Barr doesn't mind telling the world that she is a Trump supporter, her ex-husband, Tom Arnold, is going to star in an anti-Trump documentary series, The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold. Wow, that sounds almost as anti-colimactic as Peraldo and Al Capone's vault. The Natural History Museum in England has disqualified a participant in its wildlife photographer of the year competition after determining that a photograph he submitted was staged using a stuffed ant-eater. Now, how is it the photographer's fault that the ant-eater overraid? A postcard believed to have been sent by infamous serial killer Jack the Ripper as just sold at auction for $30,000, so he was apparently also adept at highway robbery. In northeast London, around 30 people were injured at a Jewish festival. It seems a bonfire was going and some of those in attendance were of the opinion that cell phones are evil. Several started throwing their phones into the fire in protest, which was not the best decision. Cell phone batteries have a bad habit of exploding if they are overheated. London Ambulance Services went to the scene at about 11pm and treated multiple people for burns. Sounds like maybe they were right about cell phones being evil. Elon Musk says he plans to announce the location for a new Tesla SUV factory by the end of the year. The more difficult task will be finding a location for the new Tesla SUV dealership where people could actually afford to buy one. Former Law & Order SVU actress Diane Neal is running for Congress in upstate New York. A celebrity running for political office that will never work! The owner of a wildlife park in South Africa is recovering from several lacerations and a broken jaw after a lion he wants bottle-fed as a cub attacked him. Michael Hodge was investigating a strange smell in the lion's enclosure at the Marikelly Animal Sanctuary, which seemed to be disturbing the animal. As Hodge was leaving the enclosure, the lion raced toward him and dragged him to some nearby bushes as visitors screamed and Hodge yelled for help. Hodge was eventually rescued and airlifted to a hospital in Johannesburg. Tragically, the lion, a large male named Shamba, was killed during the attempt to save Hodge. The family said in a statement that Hodge is only too aware of the dangers of working with wildlife, but they remain his passion. And that the family is devastated by the loss of the 10-year-old lion which they raised from a cub. So here's a quick little pro tip for you. Just because you bottle-feed a lion cub doesn't mean that said cub will grow up to be your bestie. Hawaii lawmakers have passed a bill that bans the sale of sunscreens containing chemicals believed to be harmful to coral reefs. So question why on earth would anybody be applying sunscreen to coral reefs? According to a study, women who drink moderately are less likely to gain weight. The study has been brought to you by Ernest and Julio Gallo and by the makers of wine in a box. The rate of a certain type of grain tumor has doubled over the past two decades and some researchers are pointing at the use of cell phones as the cause. Although personally, I blame reality television. The guy in India thought it'd be fun to get a selfie with a bear and was mauled to death. Yeah, he's the only one who didn't see that one coming. Even the bear was like, dude, really? Recent great research shows that humor hits men and women differently. So stop asking her to pull your finger already. She does not find it funny. She thinks it's gross. In Italy, a lovesick guy stole an ambulance so he could serenade his girlfriend with its siren. Police say he jumped into the ambulance, turned on the siren and sang romantic love songs to his girlfriend until the neighbors called about the noise. We have really come a long way from boomboxes and Peter Gabriel, haven't we? Scientists predict that 42% of Americans will be obese by the year 2030. For once in my life, I'm ahead of the curve. Yeah! In Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 64-year-old Don Gorsky has eaten 30,000 Big Macs, almost one every day for 46 years. No kidding. Don ate his first Big Mac in 1972 at the same McDonald's where he chowed down his 30,000th one. And he's only missed about eight days in between. And that includes a day in 1982 in which there was a snowstorm that shut down the McDonald's restaurant, as well as the day that his mom died in 1998. Quote, she requested I not eat a Big Mac on the day she died in remembrance of her, unquote, he says. Gorsky also notes that he has OCD, which has led him to catalog thousands of receipts, wrappers and containers over the course of more than four decades. And he does not appear to be suffering for his cause either. Ellen DeGeneres had his cholesterol checked back in 2003 and came up with 140, and he's run a marathon, with Big Mac number 21,387 in hand while he was running. After consuming number 30,000 on the Big Macs, he took one for the road as well and said, maybe I'll be eating it when I catch myself on the news. Who knows? Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling apologized for killing the character Dobby the House Elf in Book 7. I'm not sure how sorry she really is, though. She gave the apology while rolling around in a giant bed made of money. For her wedding with Prince Harry, Meghan Markle has decided not to have a maid of honor. Nuts. Another dream of mine crushed. The NSA collected over 500 million phone calls last year, triple what it did in 2016. So you could be outraged that the NSA is listening in on even more of your phone calls. Or you can congratulate them for listening in on even more of your phone calls. If you want to be happier, cancel your Facebook account. That's the conclusion from a Danish think tank that insists quitting Facebook will not only make you happier, but also less angry, less sad and less worried. The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark found that after only seven days away from Facebook, those users reported feeling happier, less sad, less worried, less angry and less depressed. For more information, you can read this entire article on my Facebook page. Scientists just named a newly discovered beetle after Leonardo DiCaprio. Interesting that in the short amount of time since it was discovered, the beetle has already slept with three of its co-beetles. In Oregon, a horse is suing its owner for $100,000, seeking damages for neglect. It's actually the Animal Legal Defense Fund bringing the lawsuit on behalf of the horse, so not as strange as it sounds from the headline. Ironically, the name of the horse is Justice. The lawsuit is taking a long time though. When asked how much money the horse was suing for, the horse had to knock on the ground with its hoof 100,000 times. Keep listening, I have a lot more weird news coming. Twice a year, I take one week and ask you to join me in saving lives. Well, this week, you can save a child's life in Haiti or Guatemala for a single gift of just $50. That one-time gift of $50 through Food for the Poor will provide a full year of food and clean water for life for that child, as it gives them the resources to filter the water for drinking. And if you'd like to do more, well, a one-time gift of $250 will provide the same for an entire family of five. I've supported Food for the Poor for several years now because I believe in what they do, and I hope you will too. You can give online by clicking the Give Life banner at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com or click the link in the show notes. If you'd rather give by phone, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's 855-901-HOPE. Or on your mobile phone, you can dial Pound 250 and say the keyword, HOPE. Please make that one-time gift of $50 or $250 this week and bring them food, clean water, and most of all, hope and life. A New Jersey farm has come out with ham-flavored ice cream, which I think means mustard is now legitimate ice cream topping. What another reason not to drive while tired? Well, according to a survey by AAA in Washington, D.C., nine out of 10 police officers have thought a driver was drunk when really the motorist was overtired. So officers will now ask if you've been drinking or if you need a nappy poo. In Aurora, Colorado, police ticketed 26-year-old Angelique Sanchez for allegedly damaging a 7-11 microwave by heating up urine inside it, which caused the urine to explode. Apparently, Sanchez thought microwaved urine would help her pass a drug test for a future job she was applying for. The police report shows the 7-11 clerk called police after hearing a loud bang a few seconds after Sanchez placed something in the microwave. The clerk told police Sanchez looked at the microwave and walked out the door, and the clerk noticed yellow liquid dripping from the microwave and the smell was unquestionably urine. A background check revealed Sanchez has been arrested several times and convicted of theft, and now I would think also charged with urinating in public. Facebook is coming out with their own dating service, because apparently they felt all of your information that's already been compromised wasn't enough. Meghan Markle's estranged half-brother has written an extraordinary open letter to Prince Harry, in which he urges the groom to be to call off the royal wedding. Because the one person in the world you know that you're going to get an unbiased opinion from is somebody described as estranged half-brother. 7-11 is announced they're going to be offering healthier options for their customers. Because what the world needs now is a kale slurpee. English teachers are shaking their heads in dismay. Only 43% of U.S. adults read at least one work of literature in the last year. That is, novels, short stories, poetries or plays marking a three-decade low according to a report from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is the long, steady decline of literary reading, laments the Washington Post. The ADA has been tracking adult reading and arts participation since 1982 when the literature reading rate was an impressive 57%. The survey counts only those books read for pleasure, not because they were required for work or school. In an attempt to capture the broadest possible range of leisure reading, there was also no distinction made between physical books and books read on e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle. Speaking of Twitter, they say that 350 million passwords were stolen, so if you have not changed your password lately, now would be a good time. Instead of a password of 12345, you might want to change that to 54321, because nobody will ever figure that out. Vice President Mike Pence said there is a lot of prayer in this White House. Hey, what a coincidence. We're staying pretty busy praying out here too, Mike, because of what's going on in there. A study finds that people who use AOL email give the most money to political campaigns, because apparently they have a lot of disposable income from not spending money on anything other than dial-up. Seriously, who uses AOL email anymore? President Trump is going to appoint Patriots Coach Bill Belichick to his sports council. Well, wait, wait. Really? The President of the United States has a sports council? Okay, go ahead. Tell me government is not too big and overly invasive in our lives. We're paying for a sports council. Scientists in Singapore created a robot that can put together an IKEA chair in roughly 20 minutes. The goal is to have the job completed in just 10 minutes, but they've not been able to figure out how to stop the robot from angrily tossing assembly pieces across the room and having parts left over. A British teenager struggling with an essay on an Ian McEwen book didn't get a really good grade, even though he got help from the author himself. Who happened to be his dad? The award-winning British author says he feels a little dubious about his books being studied in school. His son, Greg, had to read McEwen's novel Enduring Love as homework. Mr. McEwen said, I confess, I did give him a tutorial and told him what he should consider. I didn't read his essay, but it turned out his teacher disagreed fundamentally with what he said. The teacher gave Greg a C-plus for the essay. Ouch. In Mobile, Alabama, a 13-year-old who had been declared brain-dead woke up shortly after his parents signed organ donation papers. Some people just refuse to share with others. A study suggests that some birth control pills can lower a woman's free testosterone level. But on the positive side, low testosterone means fewer incidents of things like lady mustaches. Shout out to my late Aunt Dagnis! Hey! Goadon O'Brien is cutting back his talk show to just half an hour each night. It's a direct response to him only being half as funny as he used to be. A 92-year-old woman in the UK sought help for an addiction. Booze? Nope. Cats? Nuh-uh. The great-grandmother told her doctor she is addicted to email. She told her doctor that she is SO addicted. She will sometimes check her emails inbox six times a day. Six. Yeah, get her into rehab. Idaho State University has got a real problem on their hands. They have admitted to misplacing a gram of weapons-style plutonium, and federal authorities want to find them $8,500. The university has not been able to account for the bit of radioactive material since 2003, but, nonetheless, believes it was properly stored at a licensed disposal facility. However, with no documented proof, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it must propose the fine. You know, the first place I'd look for plutonium is the house of that weird scientist guy who built a shoddy lookalike bomb using used pinball machine parts. One in three employees admits they have been to work with a hangover. The other two develop their hangover while at work. John McCain has let it be known that he wants Vice President Mike Pence to attend his funeral, but not President Trump. Old age can make people cantankerous. Keep listening, I've got more weird news coming up. This week, I'm asking you to join me in saving a child's life in Haiti or Guatemala for a single gift of just $50. That one-time gift of $50 through Food for the Poor? It provides a full year of food and clean water for life for that child. It gives them the resources to filter the water for drinking. If you'd like to do more, a one-time gift of $250 will provide that same for an entire family of five. I've supported Food for the Poor for several years now because I believe in what they do, and I hope you will now as well. You can give online by clicking the Give Life banner at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com or click the link in the show notes. And if you'd rather give by phone, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's 855-901-HOPE. Or on your mobile phone, you can dial Pound 250 and say the key word, HOPE. Please make that one-time gift of $50 or $250 right now. Bring them food, clean water, and most of all, hope for life. Mitt Romney says his favorite meat is a hot dog. I'm assuming his favorite fruit is rollups. President Trump's ex-wife Ivana made an appearance over the weekend on Italy's version of Dancing With The Stars. She credits her incredible dancing skills on watching her ex-husband Donald dancing around questions from reporters. Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fourth term as president of Russia on Monday. He's scheduled to win his fourth election later this year. Disgraced televangelist Jim Baker is back at it. Now he's selling cabins in Missouri that he calls Safe From The Apocalypse. And if you act now, he'll also send you a holy welcome mat for that cabin, soaked overnight in holy water and personally blessed by Jim Baker himself. Hallelujah! In Franklin, Indiana, Barry K. Ridge has been arrested for driving his riding lawnmower while drunk. Apparently believing the old adage that if at first you don't succeed, try, try again, Mr. Ridge gave it another go on Saturday. So once again was arrested by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's deputy was sent to a Franklin home around 5.15 p.m. after a caller said a man wearing a neon green shirt, riding a red lawnmower, pulled into his yard and began to mow his grass. It was Mr. Ridge, and the officer said his eyes appeared glassy. According to the police report, Ridge's breath test at the Johnson County Jail registered 0.165. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08. Ridge is already awaiting trial on a DWI arrest from April 8, 2018, where he was reportedly on his lawnmower in a Kroger parking lot causing disturbance. Sounds like somebody needs to have their driver's license taken away, and have his mowing privileges revoked. According to research from Mount Sinai, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York, those who have a higher sense of purpose in life and believe their lives are useful appear to live longer. Although it is not clear why, believing there's a reason that you're here on Earth lowers your risk of death and your risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Fortunately, I was able to identify my reason for being on Earth a long time ago. Netflix and Cheetos. Fitbit is adding menstrual cycle tracking in its smartwatch app. Looks like I need to get that app. With a description like menstrual, it must be great for men. Michelle Obama has said again that she will not be running for any office in 2020.  This challenge involves spraying aerosol deodorant onto a person's bare skin for as long as they can stand it, which ends up giving the person frostbite. The spray deodorant left the girl with a nasty wound on her forearm where doctors had to perform a skin graft. But her arm did smell powder-blue-fresh. A couple married last weekend in Africa just days after the bride was attacked by a crocodile that ripped off her arm. The pair was canoeing in the Upper Zambezi River when an 8-foot croc leapt out of the water grabbing the bride-to-be and dragging her into the water, ripping off her right arm during the attack. Well, at least the wedding ring is traditionally worn on the left hand, you see it all worked out. iPhone is often considered a luxury product since budget-minded consumers generally buy cheaper Android devices. However, 82% of U.S. teens now own iPhones. So, I guess we can congratulate Donald Trump on the improved economy. A new study finds that tourism is worse for the environment than anyone thought. Fendt discovered that various species of wildlife suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from the daily exposure of having to see out-of-shape tourists of bathing suits. In St. Petersburg, Florida, police arrested 57-year-old Jennifer Sue Roberts for calling 911, not once but twice, claiming she had a medical emergency. Roberts reportedly appeared intoxicated when paramedics arrived after the second call. Turns out her medical emergency was just that she wanted beer. Pinellas County Sheriff's Office records indicate Roberts, who also reportedly goes by Jennifer Sue Sunday, has been accused of dialing 911 without an emergency on 28 different occasions. If you consider being out of alcohol an emergency, it might be time to dial back the libations a bit. A 22-year-old man set a record for solving a Rubik's Cube in just 4.22 seconds. The same exact amount of time it takes me to lose my car keys. Facebook is said to be looking at producing their own TV series. It will be similar to the comedy TV show Friends, but none of the characters actually know each other. Photos seem to indicate that Hillary Clinton has been wearing a back brace. Either that or she forgot to take the hanger out of her pantsuit. What is decision fatigue and how do you work around it? Psychological research suggests that the least productive time of the day is the mid-afternoon, right around 3pm. Conversely, the most productive time to work is within the first two hours after you wake up.  Psychologists call it decision fatigue. Making decisions uses the very same willpower that you use to say no to donuts or drugs, says psychologist Roy F. Balmeister. When you make a decision or avoid a temptation, you're using up the supply of mental energy you have for the day. In the same way, you can only lift a weight so many times before your muscles give up on you. For this reason, leaders like Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg wear the same thing to work every day, since it removes their need to make a decision about how they're going to dress. If you're getting decision fatigue from pulling clothes out of the closet, you might need a psychologist for more than just decision fatigue. Tuesday was Free Cone Day at Haagen-Dazs. I was asked not to let you know, though, until now. In Keanu Reeves News, John Wick 3 is already filming, which is something many people want to see. In the meantime, Bill and Ted's excellent adventure, 3, is signed and going to happen, which is something many people don't want to see. 5. Keep listening! More weird news is on the way. This week, you can save a child's life in Haiti or Guatemala for a single gift of just $50. That one-time gift of $50 through Food for the Poor will provide a full year of food and clean water for life for that child. It gives them the resources to filter the water for drinking. If you'd like to do more while a one-time gift of $250 will provide the same for an entire family of five in Haiti and Guatemala. I have supported Food for the Poor for several years now. I do it on a monthly basis, in fact, because I believe in what they do. And I hope that you will become believers too. You can give online by clicking the Give Life banner at DailyDosaWeirdNews.com, or click the link in the show notes. And if you'd rather give by phone, you can call<PHONE_NUMBER>. That's 855-901-HOPE. Or on your mobile phone, you can dial Pound 250 and say the keyword HOPE. But please, make that one-time gift of $50 during this one-week campaign.  6. Concast is going to make an offer to buy Fox. They said they would be by to make the official offer sometime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. In Northern Ireland, Brenda McLaughlin sustained a circular hole in her skull when she was at a nightclub and attacked by a 17-year-old male assailant armed with a power drill. The teen assailant was arrested and stands accused of unlawfully and maliciously causing grievous bodily harm to Ms. McLaughlin, and is further accused of stealing the power drill that belonged to the nightclub where all of this went down. Police were called by witnesses who reported a woman lying injured on the ground with blood coming from her head and lapsing in and out of consciousness. Thankfully, there does not appear to have been any brain damage. On Brenda, that is. The teen-aged attacker most definitely had brain damage even before he got to the club. 7. California is working on a plan to tax space travel by the mile.  How do you tax space? Something that's not only not in your state, it's not even on your planet. 8. New research says that the average American works two more hours a day than the peasant of medieval times. Plus, we still complain about being underpaid. 9. Adele celebrated her 30th birthday over the weekend with a Titanic-themed party. As hard as it is to keep a music career afloat, why theme a party around something known for sinking? In Gulfport, Mississippi, 32-year-old Shawn Michael Stroud has been accused of stealing a John Deere front-end loader, then using it to ram trailers and vehicles at a Walmart parking lot. Why'd he do it? Stroud told police he thought it was the end of the world and zombies were chasing him. Stroud is accused of hitting two occupied vehicles, several utility trailers, and three unoccupied vehicles. Gulfport police say they had to put down spike strips to stop Stroud in the nearby parking lot of a Nissan dealership after he fled in the front-end loader. At the police station, court records say officers read Stroud his rights. He then told them about the zombies. So where are the priorities of law enforcement nowadays? Why are police wasting their time arresting this guy? They should be out trying to stop the zombies. 4. Women have stepped forward to accuse New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of physical violence that was not consensual. As if there is such a thing as consensual physical violence that doesn't indicate the need for therapy. Bill Clinton has written a presidential thriller with best-selling crime writer James Patterson. The president is missing will be released next month and it's being billed as a unique amalgam of intrigue, suspense, and behind-the-scenes global drama from the highest corridors of power. And who better to write a crime thriller about a president than a president who's been accused of so many crimes? George Zimmerman has been charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly stalking a private investigator. Isn't that the private investigator's job? Taylor Swift has had Ticketmaster turn off their resale option for her concerts to make it appear that more tickets have been sold. She's not selling out for real though. Playing Crawford has been reportedly fired from the TV show Lethal Weapon and Fox is going to need a new Martin Riggs. I do hear Mel Gibson might be looking for work. In Marathon, Florida, 46-year-old Guillermo Herrada Olivia was arrested for stabbing 34-year-old Inel toward a Morales in the thigh with a dexter knife while drinking at a friend's home. Morales told deputies he was drinking beer with several friends when he went into the house to grab another one and use the restroom. Herrada Olivia followed him into the kitchen and armed himself with the filet knife and stabbed Morales according to police. A drunken Herrada Olivia turned himself in to police about two hours later telling deputies that he used a filet knife to open a beer and Morales got stabbed. Not only that, but then he tried to use a can opener to clean the fish for that night's dinner. Katy Perry sent an olive branch and a sweet letter to Taylor Swift as Taylor launched her new tour. Apparently their bad blood is now behind them. At least until they begin to feel irrelevant and need something to garner press again. There's a report that NASA has invented an age-reversing pill they would give to astronauts traveling to Mars. Mars? How about taking care of Earth first? I mean seriously, who would not immediately sign up for a prescription to age-reversing pills? A Canadian zoo is in a bit of trouble after a bear was taken out for ice cream at a local Dairy Queen. Discovery Wildlife Park in Alberta faces two charges for failing to notify officials the bear was leaving the zoo. One-year-old Berkeley was taken through the drive-through Dairy Queen in a pickup truck and hand-fed ice cream through the vehicle's window. It was really cute until the bear got angry because they wouldn't give her any more candy sprinkles. Ticketmaster says that they could one day replace tickets with facial recognition, meaning all us ugly people will likely be shoved to the back of the arena. Page Six of The New York Post reports that Donald Trump Jr. is moving on from his soon-to-be ex-wife and spending time with Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News. It's actually a pretty good fit, if you ask me. She's a lawyer and the Trumps always seem to be in need of one, including Donald Trump Jr. right now. A USA Today analysis of federal energy records found that about once every four days, part of the nation's power grid is struck by a cyber or physical attack. This news brought to you by the good folks at Generators Are Us. A man nicknamed Captain Jack Sparrow was arrested in Knoxville for huffing glue and resisting arrest. Huffing glue? What was the black pearl fresh out of rum? Come to think of it, how did you sail your pirate ship into landlocked Knoxville, Tennessee to begin with? Following President Trump's decision this week to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, Iran's supreme leader said of Trump, this man will turn to dust and his body will become food for snakes and ants. Well, duh.  Thanks for the update, there, Captain Mavius. A pair of twins were born in Utah on May 4, Star Wars Day, and they were named Rowan Luke and Ky Lea after the movie's characters. Their parents better enroll them in self-defense courses before they hit grade school, that's all I'm saying. The recent study shows the people who like charities on Facebook are less likely to donate to them. Whoa, you mean people are sometimes untruthful on social media? Sky News is planning to ID celebrities at the upcoming royal wedding using AI. Alright, so let me get this straight, you did not invite Donald Trump or Sarah Ferguson to the wedding, but you did invite the Terminator? Massachusetts State Trooper rescued a dog running loose on the interstate by luring it with homemade jerky. Be careful, that's also how they get last-minute people for jury duty. In Florida, a woman in an old white sedan pulled up to the drive-thru window at a fast-food restaurant. When the employee asked her what she wanted, the woman said she had a gun and wanted money. The employee asked her how much she wanted and the woman replied $50. The employee told her to get lost and then closed the window. The woman drove away with nothing. Wait, was there a correct amount to ask for for an armed robbery? The latest survey of teens and tech shows nearly 8 in 10, 78% have a cell phone and almost half of those, 48% own smartphones. The two in 10 kids who don't have a cell phone probably couldn't reach it anyway because they're always stuffed in their locker. A Picasso nude painting, Young Girl with a Flower Basket, sold at an auction Tuesday for $115 million. Imagine how much it might have sold for if he decided to paint her some clothes. April was the coldest it's been in 20 years across the U.S., especially between Donald and Melania after the stormy stuff. Poland now has a Hershey Highway, quite literally, thanks to an overturned semi-truck near Slupka, tons of liquid milk chocolate covered a six-lane highway and the stuff hardened, blocking traffic and creating a nightmare for cleanup crews. The chocolate gushed across all six lanes on the A2 which connects Poznan to Warsaw, blocking traffic in both directions. Videos posted to Twitter show excavators scooping the soppy sticky mess from the highway as traffic builds up. Meanwhile, the truck lies on its side in the median. The driver's okay, suffering only a broken arm. Nobody else was hurt. Although they are expecting the highway will soon need some repair work using strong acne medication. The study says some millennials are turned off by sex, with one in eight still virgins at the age of 26. In their defense, though, it is kind of hard to meet people playing video games and living in your parents' basement. A new study shows that our brains need rebooting. The study published in a recent edition of the journal Science found that a plumbing network in the brains of mice flushes out cellular waste while sleeping. The study officials found that several important housekeeping functions take place while sleeping. In case you didn't catch that, whenever you go to sleep, you get brainwashed. Rose McGowan says she's leaving the Hollywood bubble behind. She's giving up acting and becoming a full-time activist. It's never the people you really want to see less of that make these kind of decisions, is it? Tell me Michael Bay is quitting Hollywood? That'll make my day. Today's Daily Dose at Weird News is brought to you by Send Out Cards. You can mail a real personalized greeting card without leaving the house or going out to buy stamps. Choose from the hundreds of existing cards on the website or create one of your own completely from scratch using your own photos and message. And you can even use your own handwriting and signature if you wish. 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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com coming at you with Jaspy's high-roller mystery crate, random letter break number seven. For Carlsberg Crate, there is a hit list promo, everyone knows the deal with this, high risk, high reward, could be a lot of fun stuff here though. We're going by the first letter of their first name, by the way. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Thanks to the people who bought spots straight up, congrats to the people who tried the fillers and congrats on the winners. There are the letters right here, let's roll it, let's randomize it. Snake eyes, two times for each list. One and two. Nice, Richard, hello. Vacation in Orlando, how's Orlando? Well, Disney World? All right, Jeremy down to Jonathan after two. And then two times for the letters, one and two. We got M down at T. Nice, not too human. I've been to Orlando before, the humidity blew my mind. All right. So after two on each list, Jeremy with M, Josh, GA, Nick, J, Harry, L, Joshua, RZ, Nick Stover with D, Nick Smith with NP, Nick Smith has C, Joshua with F, Nick Smith with HK, Joshua with SW, C Birch with B, and Jonathan with T. First letter of their first name. Let's sort by letter, and we will pause the video just for a little bit to see if there's any trades. And when we come back, we'll select the number and we'll do the break. Stick around, B, R, B. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. There were no trades, so that list remains the same. Thanks, everybody, for getting in, for making this happen. Appreciate it. All right. Now, let's flip back over here. Let's generate a number. So we only have these crates left. Let's go to our crate list right here, one, three, seven, and nine. One, three, seven, and nine. So let's generate a number between one and ten. Three. We haven't done three yet, right? There you go. Boom. Good luck, everybody. Appreciate everyone getting in. And there is crate three. Good luck, everybody. Yeah, Celtic's making a furious comeback. This could be a great series. All right. What could be in here? I need a knife. All right. First one out of the gate is basketball. It's a graded card. And it's a Devon Booker rookie from Limited Basketball, rookie, jersey, and auto. 23 out of 49 graded in 8, 5, 10. 9 is a 9-5.  Corners are an 8. Surfaces is an 8.5. His autograph is a 10. First letter of their first name, letter D, Nick Stober, with a spot that he won, gets the Devon Booker. Yeah, don't look to OP. All right. Next. I think we got football here, also graded, and autographed. It is Juju Smith-Schuster. It's a one of one from Flawless. From 2017, Flawless, rookie signatures, 9, 5, and 10. Centering, edges, corner, surface, all a 9-5. Very nice. Letter J, Nick Smith, from Nick Stober to Nick Smith, Nick Smith, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. All right. Next. Baseball, also graded, 9, 5, 10. Fernando Teteis Jr., rookie auto from Topps Finest. Centering a 10. Corners a 9-5. Edges a 9-5. Surface a 9 from 2019. Green parallel. Letter F, Joshua, and the fourth and final one. Another graded card. Football this time. PSA 10, Justin Herbert, from 2020, Panini Daunris Football. Gridiron Kings autograph. Rookie Gridiron Kings. And that is for, oh, that's another letter J. That's Nick Smith again. Another crate in the store. Really nice stuff. Thanks everyone for watching and for breaking with us. Now, let's flip back over here. There are some hit list people, unfortunately. So we have the Devin Booker, the Fernando Teteis, and the two J names, Juju and Justin. So let's grab all these names here, New Dice, New List, and one of you is going to get a spot in the next break. So a little hit list promo here. Let's roll it and randomize it. Four and a 6-10 time. Name on top after 10 gets it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and 10th and final time after 10, Jonathan on top. Congrats, Jonathan. Unfortunately, hit list. But a little consolation prize that you got a spot in the next one. I'm Joe for Jaspeyscasebreaks.com. Thanks for going on a, thanks for discovering and solving some mysteries with me in this mystery crate break. Mystery crate number seven in the books. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


So I forgot to record an intro but hey guys, I'm Adam, first year rep and hopefully I'm gonna show some cool stuff. I've never vlogged, this is something very new to me, not something I'm familiar with so I tried my hand at it, it was a bit of a disaster but yeah, tried to go on a walk with my dog, that didn't really go well. POV you're taking your dog? Oh my god. It's not easy to take photos when your dog sees another dog and almost takes your arm off but yeah, I'm gonna hopefully mix some footage with the actual walk, the photos, I did edit them, you'll see that in the photos, they're not raw but they were still taken on a phone camera so I think that says something for itself. Yeah, so the first night I went out, it was really overcast but yeah, I just took out a tripod, went up on this walk, stood at this gate and just pointed it at the skyline and it was kind of cool, it was weird, the phone just turned around, it was like oh, hold up for like five minutes while the takes the photo, it was like 2am and yeah, there was like one car came by, scared the shit out of me because I just thought like the streets would be empty and I live in like a small village so it's not that busy but yeah, this was like five minutes taking which is a bit of a hike but I think it came out pretty cool, can I zoom in? I can zoom in, now it looks, now it looks shit but I don't know, it's like quite a sharp image and the sky looked really cool in that one, I thought and then I've got this footage of the sign on the gate, bear in mind while I was taking this I could actually hear a bull over the far side of the field like going nuts like I'm pretty sure there was a bull in there, so yeah that's kind of a cool snap I thought as well then decided to bring the dog for a walk, that didn't end well so I like turned off the camera and managed to get some photos, there's like a lot of like abandoned buildings where I live Sheds, factories and things like that, so I wanted to try and get like a picture of that I don't even think I got any other photos, I think this is the only abandoned thing I got but yeah that's it, I thought that was a cool shot and then the fields as well, I just thought the collars were really cool, obviously I pushed them a bit like that's kind of quite saturated but yeah I saw this really cool truck that was like in behind a gate and that's been there for years, I can remember that from when I was way younger and yeah I thought that was pretty cool, I just thought the framing was nice, bear in mind like I am like an amateur photographer, I can't even call myself a photographer, like I like taking pictures on my phone, that's as good as it gets and I suppose like I just made this to say that like you can like really like push a photo even on a phone to look good if I do say so myself, I don't know I thought the framing was nice on some of them and the phone does quite a good job handling like I don't know like the twigs and stuff that like in front of the sky, I don't know I'm waffling here, I know nothing about photography, I'm doing a photography module, should probably know a thing or two and so I took these photos on like a phone, they cost less than 500 euros so I feel like that's something to know but I don't know yeah I thought this really, this was really good for the price of the phone so I kind of wanted to show that off that like if you're someone who's into photography but doesn't want to go and fork out for a camera and is thinking of maybe getting a phone, it's a relatively cheap phone, I say relatively I mean like iPhones are upwards towards like a grand this phone is cheap in comparison but it's not exactly a cheap phone but still I mean I feel like for the photos you get it's a pretty good price so that's basically what I did this video on and yeah I hope this was somewhat enjoyable to watch, I baffled on, I waffled for so long I'm definitely going to cut this down but yeah I hope you enjoyed and thanks for watching


Ladies and gentlemen the entire production staff and technicians on dragnet wish to thank the American weekly and the television editors of the various Newspapers which distribute the American weekly for voting dragnet the best mystery drama on television for 1951 1952 our deepest thanks for this fine recognition About to hear is true The names have been changed to protect the innocent Fatima cigarettes best of all king-sized cigarettes brings you dragnet on both radio and television Your detective sergeant you're assigned a juvenile detail an eight-month-old baby is stolen from its mother It's the third case of child stealing reported in less than three weeks There's no lead on the suspect your job Get him compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. Yes compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette one Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection to Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection three Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs 21% longer than standard cigarette size Fatima gives you more for your money and in king-sized Fatima You get an extra mild and soothing smoke plus the added protection of Fatima quality By Fatima in the bright sunny yellow pack best of all king-sized cigarettes Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime for the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles police department You will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files From beginning to end from crime to punishment dragnet is the story of your police force in action It was Wednesday June 18th was warm in Los Angeles We were working the day watch out a juvenile division my partner's Frank Smith the boss is Captain Stein My name's Friday. It was 6 30 p.m. When we got back to 13 35 Georgia Street second floor the squadron Hi, Kevin, how's it going any sign of the baby? No, not yet. We're doing everything we can we haven't got a lead to our name Lousy thing. How's it stack up anything like the last two cases? Yeah quite a bit same neighborhood same general MO We check with just about everybody in the vicinity. No one saw the baby taken having about 10 o'clock this morning 10 15 This mrs. Donaldson drove down to the neighborhood shopping center to do her marketing She had the baby in a bass on that in the back seat of her car baby boy eight months old Mm-hmm. She pulled into the parking lot right behind the market left the baby asleep in the car She went into do her shopping when she came out the baby was gone How long was she in the market and she told us about 20 minutes We talked to a half a dozen people who drove their cars in and out of the parking lot about that time They couldn't help me and see anyone loitering around how about delivery trucks usually unload supplies at the back door Don't they already checked on that we talked to the driver of a bread truck He was making a delivery about that time. He couldn't help us either the mother mrs. Donaldson She's the only one who came up with anything at all. It's not much, but it's better nothing Yeah, but when she parked her car and got out to go in the market She noticed a woman sitting in the car park next to hers when she came back and found her baby was gone She noticed that this woman's car was gone, too. Mrs. Donaldson described the woman for you. Yeah, she was middle-aged She had gray hair that's all she remembered. How about the car the woman was in was a green sedan That's the only thing mrs. Donaldson could tell us she's not even sure of that There's no one else around the market that remembered the car well if there is we haven't found them We covered the whole neighborhood skipper talked to everybody we could got us know where smoke out and thanks you Joe. Yeah, thank you. I Got a light Okay, captain No kickback yet on the broadcast The old points you got out on the baby no nothing up to now It's a carbon copy of the last two job no suspect no motive mrs. Donaldson can't think of any reason at all for it No, I'm not a one her husband's a teamster. They don't have much money She couldn't think of any friend or relative who might possibly want to take their baby baby normal and good health. Yeah, perfect Scott me this makes it about one a week just about Martin baby was taken on the fifth the and whose baby was taken on the 12th both of them recovered in 24 hours nothing wrong with either of sure doesn't make sense Must be a psycho case of some kind. I think we can go along on that This one happened near eighth and Dineheart that right? Yeah, I'll say neighborhood is the other two about a 12 square block area There how about that lead your head on the old man out there? Do you exhaust that? Yeah, the old Gardner Hmm, we double-checked him this afternoon. He wasn't anywhere near the market when the Donaldson baby was taken How about the other two people you had your eye on either of them anywhere near the scene at the time neither one of them Skipper both clear. How's it stand now? Well, we're doing everything possible Dean Bergman went over the Donaldson car for prints the bass on that too There's no word from him yet special detail from Metro Division still going over the neighborhood nothing from them either No sign of any physical evidence. I mean besides any possible prints No, nothing captain a usual number of tips from people in the neighborhood checked on all of them They went nowhere. Well, we just about run the gambit on this thing. You have anything in mind Well, Joe and I were kicking around an idea on the way back in figure it might be worth a try I mean providing we get the Donaldson case cleared. Yeah, Joe Well for one thing we figure the neighborhood out there works in our favor all three of the babies were taken in the same 12 square block area. It's the strongest part of the MO that we got to work on Now if we get good enough coverage in that area out there, it might lead somewhere. What kind of coverage? Well, maybe a system of decoys something to draw the suspect out at the right time the right place makes sense What have you got in mind? Well, Frank and I were figuring if we could round up half a dozen police women or so let them work different points around the Neighborhood and make it obvious that they're house wise. Yeah, have each one of them with a baby carriage Spot them at the shopping centers out there in that area They leave the carriages outside the stores go through the motions of doing their shopping and cover each one of them What do you do for bait? I think we can fake it skipper put a life-sized doll in each of the carriages Keep it pretty well covered for a chance. It'll get us in there both. We work it right about half a dozen police women That's what you figure out for you that ought to do it Givinal division captain Stein Yeah, that's right. Mm-hmm How's that? I see Mrs. Bolger Yes, ma'am. I understand How's that? Yes, ma'am if you like All right. Thank you. Goodbye We're one. Yeah, either one of you contact him. This is Marion Bolger the last month or so You know, it's not familiar to me. How about you Frank? Don't recall the name. Why don't you that was her on the phone? She wants to be investigated says she wants to prove to us that she's not involved in any of these child stealing cases How do you spell that name Marion Bolger B. O. L. G. E. R. Ewing Street address No, I never heard of her. What's the pitch got me? She kept saying she's got to have her name cleared She's innocent kept insisting. She didn't steal the Donaldson, baby. Well, we didn't say she did. We don't even know the woman You're going to check her out We ran the name Marion Bolger through our and I but there was no previous criminal record on her 725 p.m. Frank Smith and I left the office and drove out to the Ewing Street address to interview the Bolger woman Before we called her home. We checked with some of the neighbors Most of them had a favorable opinion of her they described her as a pleasant woman slightly eccentric The only complaint was that the bolger woman was very fond of children And that she kept most of the youngsters on the block well supplied with cake and candy Despite repeated objections from the youngsters parents other than that they seemed to like her 8 0 5 p.m. Frank and I called on mrs. Bolger and she ushered us into a neatly furnished living room She was an older woman possibly in her early 60s dark brown hair streaked with gray It's the honest truth sergeant anybody who really knows me and tell you I wouldn't do a thing like that I love children. I want all of them to be happy. I wouldn't steal it But just a minute mrs. Bolger, please something we'd like to get straight.  I didn't do it. I didn't steal those other two babies I didn't steal the donelson baby either. How'd you know the donelson baby was missing, ma'am? Just happened this morning the evening paper the whole story's in there So first I knew about it to help me when I got me even in paper. Please sergeant You got to believe me. All right now try to take it easy, ma'am What gives you the idea that we're accusing you of taking those babies? You haven't chat not in so many words. You're thinking about it though.  All those stories going around about me Just because I like children because I enjoy them. I understand them Just because of that they try to make me out of witch or something trying to say I took those poor little babies Just a minute, ma'am. Who said you took the babies down at the store this afternoon? I heard them that grocery clerk and that silly mrs. Murdoch They laughed about it tried to make out there's only a fool and well, I knew better They weren't fooling they meant it Accusing me of such a terrible thing. I just don't know when I've been so upset Well, now what grounds would they have for saying anything like that, ma'am? I mean even if they were fooling only because I love children That's all People in the neighborhood are the same way. They don't like me. They go around saying things about me Just because I understand their children better than they do Just because I know how to treat children. No, I think you got it wrong, mrs.  Nothing wrong with giving a child candy good homemade fudge. I make it myself Besides, how would you know about that? We talked to your neighbors, ma'am. They had a lot of nice things to say about you Yes, I just bet they did Nasty dirty stories. They've been passing them all over the neighborhood about me. No, ma'am. You've got it wrong Just let me show you Come in here this way the dining room. Yes, ma'am Look at that Look at that. Yes, ma'am. It's very nice. You see how I decorated the table Paper streamers all over the room It is supposed to be a party for the children in the neighborhood I worked a whole week getting it ready. I made the cakes myself decorate them too I made everything in my own kitchen Candy sandwiches took me a whole week And they didn't even come They didn't come ma'am the neighborhood children. It was supposed to be for them Special summer party. I wanted to give them today They didn't even come Their parents wouldn't let them Not one of them It's a crime Terrible crime All this good food Well, now maybe there was a mistake, ma'am. There wasn't any mistake I invited the children 14 of them Mothers wouldn't let them come I had everything ready Little favors reach one of them Now look Ice creams all melted.  Yes, of course I can I was right here in the house getting things ready for the party My friend, Aggie Benson, was with me. She's a scooch on my mind. She was helping me get things ready Well, then you didn't leave the house at any time this morning No, sir. I didn't you can ask Aggie. She'll tell you You have a car, Mrs. Bolger Oh my no, I wouldn't want to do with it. I've had one. I never learned to drive What do you want to know? Just routine, ma'am Well, I guess we better be going frank All right, sir Then you don't believe those stories, do you? I mean just because I like children I'd steal those babies You don't believe that, do you? No, ma'am. We haven't any reason to believe it I knew you'd understand. I wouldn't do a thing like that. I just love children Sergeant never had any of my own. I lived here by myself. No husband, lonely Terrible thing being lonely Yes, ma'am, yes There's only one answer for it Children, big family. It's an old saying. It's very true When you get to be 63 you want something else to wake up to beside the morning paper 8 40 p.m. Before we headed back for the office Frank and I made a thorough check on Mrs. Bolger Her background and her alibi. We found nothing to link her in any way with the child's dealings 9 15 p.m. We got back to the city hall and went directly to latent fingerprints where we met with Dean Bergman. He'd found several sets of prints on the Donaldson's car and on the bassinet from Which their baby had been stolen. Most of them were those of the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson Bergman was unable to identify the two foreign prints found inside the car We contacted the officers in charge of the special detail checking the neighborhood With the latest child stealing it occurred. They'd failed to uncover a lead 7 48 a.m. The following morning Friday morning captain good piece of news the Donaldson baby they just found him where Highland Park area they found him in a cardboard box apparently he's all right a little exposure Doctors are checking him over now at Georgia street. How about the suspect any sign of him? Not a trace It was little or no different than the first two cases Some 21 hours after he'd been abducted from the car in the parking lot at the rear of the market near 8th and Dinehart the Donaldson baby had been recovered apparently unharmed The cardboard box in which the baby had been found was gone over for fingerprints Routine investigation at the scene and in the neighborhood where the child had been found Failed to turn up a lead on the abductor Frank and I checked with Dr. George Hall who'd Examine the child after that we talked with Mr. and Mrs. Donaldson The details of the case coincided almost point for point with the first two abductions The baby had been taken then recovered in a 24 hour period Outside a slight exposure the child was unharmed also like the two cases preceding it Something which the child was wearing at the time of his abduction was missing In the first case it was a small pink sweater in the second a pair of shoes the baby was wearing In the case of the Donaldson baby it was a sterling silver ID bracelet with the initials JD engraved on it during the next five days Frank and I ran down every lead we could get Our hands on they went nowhere our system of police women decoys was put in effect It failed to get a rise on the sixth day thursday june 26th 5 30 p.m We got word of another child stealing this time in the echo park area We drove out to talk to the mother of mrs. Chester Osburn. Yeah, that's right Did the same thing I do every morning gave the baby her bath dressed her put her out in the backyard in her buggy She usually plays a while then she takes her nap and about what time did you discover your baby was missing? I don't know exactly about two o'clock. I guess maybe a couple of minutes after Went out to see how she was looked in the buggy and she was gone Well, it's almost six o'clock now mrs. Osburn. How is it that you waited so long before you notified us? Just kept hoping it was a mistake. That's all I went from house to house all over the neighborhood Went as far as three blocks away. I asked everybody nobody saw my baby. You don't know what it means to me Telephone mrs. Osburn Would you answer it, please? Whoever it is take the number. I'll call him back. Yes, ma'am be glad to Hello. Yeah. Yes, sir. Oh, yeah, harry. We're here now. This is friday How's that? When I see where That's all, uh-huh. Okay harry. Thanks. Yeah, tell him. We'll be right in right away. Okay. Bye Well, that was our office mrs. Osburn. You can stop worrying now. What it's about your little girl. She's all right What do you mean? I just found her three blocks from here Again with the lone exception of the time element the osburn baby's abduction resembled closely the three previous cases The crime occurred in the same general area the same general method of operation was employed and again outside of slight exposure The child was recovered unharmed There was also an article of clothing missing a pink knitted bonnet And as in the previous three cases the suspect had abandoned the baby without detection Routine investigation of the crime laboratory crew and juvenile officers working the case failed to turn up a lead During the week that followed additional personnel for both decoys and stakeouts were assigned to the area without results friday july 4th 10 a.m Shall you busy? What he got frank? Yeah, my name milder leslie just called in and this child stealing thing looks like it might be something Yeah, what's the pitch? Well, this leslie girls employed as a maid for a mr. Mrs. Roth r o t h This is stockbroker. She's worked for me yours. So she says yeah A leslie girls and upstairs maid for the Roth's she's been following this baby stealing case in the papers right along She thinks maybe mrs. Roth can tell us something about her. Yeah, how's that? Well, the leslie girl was cleaning mrs.  She says they've all been used. They're not new Well, a lot of mothers save baby clothes things like that. No, the roth woman wouldn't have a reason to yeah, she's never had any children You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police force in action The only way you can prove to yourself that fatima is the best of all king-sized cigarettes Is to compare them with the brand you've been smoking? 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Roth for almost a year She went on to tell us that for the last few months or so mrs. Roth Who was a fairly prominent club woman had been acting peculiarly and that mr. Roth was worried about her According to the lesley girl. He'd consulted the doctor several times about his wife As for the articles of baby clothing they'd been found stored back on a shelf in mrs. Roth's bedroom closet The lesley girl told us that she happened to find them while cleaning and dusting mrs. Roth's bedroom Each of the articles she claimed she saw seemed to tie in directly with the child's steelings a pink sweater a pink bonnet A pair of baby shoes identical items of clothing had been taken from each of the previous abduction victims After we left mildred lesley frank and i got to a phone called a record bureau and had them make a run For us on mrs. Roth. She had no previous criminal record 120 p.m. We called mr. Roth at his place of business, but the office was closed because of the fourth of july holiday We got in the car and drove out to the roth home an old two-story mansion just above silver lake reservoir Mrs. Roth wasn't at home. We interviewed her husband in the living room What seems to be the trouble sergeant? Why would you want to see my wife a few questions? We'd like to ask her mr. Roth. Can you tell us where she is now if she took a drive with some friends of hers I think they were going down to the beach club. Why but we're investigating a juvenile case mr. Roth We think maybe your wife can give us some information on it. Well, I'm sorry. She isn't home It's too bad you didn't call this morning. She didn't leave until after 11 She'll be home later tonight if you care to call back You're sure it's not something I can help you with. Well, yes, sir Maybe you can like to ask you a few questions about your wife's activities the last month or so Well, how do you mean some of the social work she does with the club? Not quite mr. Roth You said you were from the juvenile division. Is it something regarding her work with the underprivileged kids? Her club does quite a bit of that, you know right? I don't know too much about it though. No, sir. It's not that I don't think I understand. What is it about? Mr. Roth, we want you to understand that this is merely a routine investigation We don't want to offend you in any way, but we have some information that we've got to check out What do you mean? What kind of information? Well, there's been a series of child stealing cases the last month or so We're the investigating officers on it. Maybe you read about them in the papers Yes, I have but what would my wife have to do with that?  Yes, sir. I think she can help us quite a bit I don't know exactly when she'll be home. I don't have any place to contact her I do know the club's taking a group of children to the Coliseum tonight the big 4th of july fireworks display, you know Yes, I see. I'm gonna meet my wife there tonight. Maybe I could give her a message for you tell her to contact you All right, fine. Mr. Roth There is something that you can do for us right now though. Yes Would you take us up to your wife's room? I'd like to have a look at it Take you to a room? I don't understand. What for? Like we told you before, sir It's a routine investigation I think if you take us to your wife's room I think we can clear the whole thing up now probably won't be necessary to bother you tonight Well, I certainly don't understand but come along if you like the Doris's room is right at the head of the stairs. Thank you Certainly has me baffled But would there be about Doris's room? It has to be investigated. We don't know that there is anything, sir Just appreciate your cooperation and at all. We haven't anything to hide. Here we are This is her room Now what is it you're looking for? That's the bedroom closet, is it? Yes, that's right. I'd like to look at it if we could Certainly go right ahead. All right The shelf up there Joe, can you reach it on? Yeah, I think so What is it? What are you looking for? Here you go Frank. Yeah Pink bonnet pink sweater. That's it. Here's the baby shoes The id bracelet Yeah initials jd. Uh-huh not much doubt. Yeah Baby clothes bracelet Never seen them around here. How'd you know they were here? Well, we weren't sure that they were But I'd never seen them before. What are they doing in Doris's room? Why would she have to talk to her about this? Yes, sir so do we After finding the evidence in his wife's bedroom closet, we continued to interview mr. Roth We briefed him on the details of the case and explained about the articles of baby clothing It was very cooperative, but he found it hard to believe that his wife was responsible for the abduction of the babies He told us that early in their marriage his wife did have a child which died shortly after birth Complications left her unable to have any more children when she found out about this it resulted in mrs. Roth having a nervous breakdown But apparently she recovered completely Roth went on to tell us that his wife was very fond of children That she devoted a great deal of time to social work caring for underprivileged children He also told us that during the past month with the recurrence of her nervous condition She'd been under a doctor's care Shortly after eight o'clock that night along with mr. Roth We drove to the coliseum where crowds of people were gathering for the annual july 4th fireworks display Roth pointed out his wife. We went over and he introduced us These officers would like to talk to us honey. Let's step over here. Well, I can't leave the children alone. Can't we talk later? No, honey, it's pretty important. I think you better talk to them now. Well, all right If you say so you'll have to stay and watch the children though. They'll be all right We can keep an eye on them from over there. No, I can't leave them alone. You'll have to stay All right, ma'am. I want to be a step over here, please. Yes This ought to be all right right here. Beautiful night tonight, isn't it? Children just love these things I think they're just about ready to start the show.  We'd like to talk to you What do you mean? I can't leave now. I have these children with me What did you want to see me about? What's the trouble? I think you know why we're here, mrs. Roth I don't. Why do you want to talk to me? Well, we can start here, ma'am We were at your home this afternoon. Your husband showed us your bedroom, the closet We found the things up on the top shelf. What? The baby clothes, the bracelet How's it? It doesn't mean anything. I'm afraid you're wrong. It means a good deal, ma'am. You know that Yes, all right Well, do you want to tell us about it, mrs. Roth? mrs. Roth Where do I start? There's no beginning Just started. I couldn't help myself. What can I say? You just tell us what happened start any place My baby died and they said I couldn't have any more. I guess it started then I told my husband told the doctor too. They didn't understand Nobody understands. It's all I wanted. My children, my own children How about the martin baby, mrs. Roth? The first one you took. How'd that happen? How'd that happen? I saw him in the baby carriage Outside the market there. Such a cute baby Pull the covers back, looked at him I didn't think I was going to steal him After I looked at him, I just wanted to hold him Hold him close so I picked him up You understand, don't you? Yes, ma'am. He was such a sweet baby. He could have been mine I kept on holding him and then I started to put him down back in his carriage I couldn't I couldn't What do you mean, ma'am? I couldn't put the baby down. It's just like mine It was mine. I can't explain it I took the blanket from the buggy. I put it around him. I walked away. Nobody knew It was my baby. Yes, ma'am. Would you go on?  I couldn't even tell my husband I lied I take the baby and stop overnight at a motel and tell my husband lies. I couldn't let him know Well, you knew you were doing wrong, didn't you? Yes, I knew it Not when I was taking the baby though. Not when I picked him up. Not when I held him in my arms held him close It didn't seem wrong. Most natural thing in the world. I just pretended I'd picked the baby up and I'd hold it close. It was my baby All of a sudden it was my baby Later on I had to face had to stop pretending the baby wasn't mine had to give it back Why didn't you abandon the children ma'am without notifying anyone? I knew they'd be found. I made sure of that. I always put them someplace where they had to be found Terrible headache You don't know what it's been like I couldn't tell anyone. No one Yes, ma'am. You about ready to go now? All right Like it only explained it to you. I mean having a baby then losing You don't know what it's like No one will ever know what it's like No one You took four babies, ma'am. Yes. How about their mothers? You have just heard was true The names were changed to protect the innocent on october 10th trial was held in superior court department 88 city and county of los angeles state of california In a moment the results of that trial Now here is our star jack web. Thank you, george fenerman friends I believe all of us are willing to take practical advice That's why I like to make it plain that I want you to compare fatima with the king-sized cigarettes. You've been smoking I know that's the tried practical way thousands have convinced themselves fatima is the best of all king-sized cigarettes You'll find fatima gives you more for your money an extra mild soothing smoke plus the added protection of fatima quality Tomorrow get fatima in the bright sunny yellow pack best of all king-sized cigarettes Doris evelyn roth was tried and convicted of child stealing under section 278 penal code four counts She was placed on five years probation one of the terms of probation required that she would be under strict supervision of a competent psychiatrist You have just heard dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files Technical advice comes from the office of chief of police w.h. Parker los angeles police department Technical advisors captain jack donahoe sergeant marie win sergeant france bracer heard tonight were her bellis big parent virginia greg Script by jim mosey music by walters schuman. Hell give me speaking Made with the same people who make popular chester field cigarettes has brought you dragnet transcribed to los angeles Each thursday night. It's counterspy on nbc


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