Hi, my name is Sandy Baird and I am a citizen activist and also an attorney in Burlington with my colleague Eric Añero, who is also involved in the legal profession and being a citizen journalist, and he's here today to report to us on Africa in 2024. Mr. Añero is from the Ivory Coast. He recently visited there and kind of took the temperature there, particularly because there are elections occurring there this year, is that correct? Yes. And so he's here to report on what he sees in these elections and also the mood that's rising in Africa. Okay, so what's going on? But you are from Ivory Coast. Yeah, thank you. Okay, could you point out where Ivory Coast is? Ivory Coast is West Africa, next to Ghana. Right here, correct. So you have Ivory Coast here, Ghana and Liberia bordering the ocean front, Liberia here, Ghana here, and then Mali. Ivory Coast has been for a long time, it still is jewel of the French Empire and past colonial empire in Africa. Ivory Coast is really the epitome of what a country could be when it serves the interests of the West, particularly that of a former colonial power. So I was recently... A former colonial power that is France. That's France. I was recently in Ivory Coast. That's where you're from? Yeah, a gloomy atmosphere. People are very, like, the country is going from, he's being praised by the West as a growing economy, but when you go in Ivory Coast, you see that the population don't get anything from nothing, nothing at all. It's all going back to the major corporations, the international corporations that are investing in the country because the international monetary fund, the World Trade Organization, and the Western powers force those countries to open the economies to this big, this major corporation. Most of them have tax exemption for 10, 5, 10 years. But they are corporations not owned by people from the Ivory Coast? Not at all. If you go really deep into the ownership of these businesses over there, you want, like, probably 90% of the corporations are either subsidies, I mean local representations of bigger corporations, American corporations, French corporations and... British? But mostly French. Because that was their history? That was their history. So you have in Ivory Coast what is going on in Africa, which is, you know, a continent that is seen as a beacon of growth, of economic growth, but in return, the population don't get anything from that. So you have crime that is rising, but you are also some kind of, you know, it's a mess. You have urbanism, 50% of the population in Africa, even more. In all of Africa. In all of Africa, live now in cities that have no logic in terms of urbanism. Why? Because, you know, the leaders are not doing anything. They're kind of reacting on a day-to-day basis more as serving as agent of foreign corporations and foreign governments than planning their development. And then they have the pressure from the IMF and the World Bank. IMF, what is it? International Monetary Fund, because most of these countries are plagued with debt. They have to pay back their debts. So they are forced to privatize most of the economies. So you see a country like Ivory Coast, all the strategic, you know, sectors of the economy are in the hands of private sector, and not even local private sector, international. Do they own the land also in the countryside? I've been trying for 20 years to get the title of a land that I've inherited from my family. I haven't gotten the paper yet. So you have an administration that doesn't work. Corruption is plaguing the country. Ivory Coast right now is, you know, facing massive scandals of corruption. But yet, yet, France, the U.S., British and all these European countries are continuing to praise the local government because they provide cacao, they provide gold, chocolate, they provide, you know, all the resources to the West. Especially amid fierce competition from the Chinese and the Russians. But the Chinese and the Russians don't own the corporations, correct?  You have Wagner that does business, military.  But with the Chinese, let's say, and then the Russian, it's more of, yes, we sit down around the table and then we can discuss business. But they have the feeling, and then the new generation have the feeling that with the West, it's still a colonial mentality. I mean, it's still, you know, a domination, you know, from the West rather than real business. I don't know if most Americans are educated terribly about Africa or even much more of the world in general. I remember though taking a class at the University of Massachusetts in which the professor said that between 1878 prior to World War I and 1914 in the beginning, all of Africa was colonized by the West or by what we now see as the NATO powers. All of Africa except Ethiopia. Except Ethiopia. And that was when this colonization of Western white countries controlling the economy, the land, the police of Africa and probably Asia and Latin America as well. But I want to concentrate on Africa. So that was correct. Yeah, for all these years and then in the 60s. Wave of independence. Wave of independence, mostly, you know, independence is that way granted rather than fought for. Not in Algeria. Not in Algeria, but most of the countries and, you know, the other sub-Saharan Africa countries were given the independence. But not their economic independence. Not the economic independence. And that was still controlled. Even political independence. Right. Because, you know, the president that is in the Ivory Coast right now is going maybe to go for a fourth mandate when the Constitution's just give you the right to have only two mandates. Okay, so now let's get into these elections. Yes. So Ivory Coast has an election? Not Ivory Coast, but a major election would be that of Senegal. Senegal. I can't see where that is. Senegal was also during the colonial era. Senegal is here. Senegal during the French-speaking you have next to Mauritania and Gambia and bordering Bamako, I mean bordering Mali. Senegal was the capital of the Dakar. Dakar and Senegal were, you know, were the center of the West African part of the French Empire. So Senegal is very much like the second capital was for a long time second capital of the French in, I mean when it comes to Africa. First thing, Ibiza. Yeah. Senegal has for a long time been a beacon of democracy, you know, trying to, they've been known for a peaceful transition of power even though it's still, you know, governed by lackeys of the Western world. But, you know, Senegal has had a long tradition of peaceful transfer to power. And then with the contraction due to the aggressiveness of, I mean, the presence of the Chinese and the reaction of the Western world that is competing against the Chinese and the Russian, you know, those countries like Senegal has moved as transition to autocratic government. Senegal has. Yeah. Because you have the Russian and the Chinese, but also you have a new generation of Africans that don't want to be just, you know, a citizen of countries that are, you know, under the rules of other countries. They dream about independence. Most of them have been in school in Western countries. A lot of them are contributing to the global debate when it comes to governance, when it comes to science. So it's hard for them. It's painful for them to still be, you know, a subhuman. I mean, considered a second-class citizen in the global world. So those younger Africans are pushing for more democracy, for better governance, and they are somehow, you know, more, you know, let's say they're getting closer to Russian China because they're seeing Russian China as also, you know, example of defiance against the West. That's what you noticed when you were in Ivory Coast. Yes. So the governments that are faithful to the Western world. And are they? Oh, yeah. Because if they're not, the West will lose. So they can't. I mean, the West will lose. The West will lose. The Germany. The Germany in Africa. So the West is counting on those, you know, presidents and leaders like Makisal in Senegal, Alassan Watara in Ivory Coast. And those that were toppled down by the Yuntas in Mali and Bukinafa that were also, you know, some kind of a servant, that's how they call them, of the West. So the West is now closing their eyes on, I mean, they condoning, you know, these leaders that are transitioning to become like more of dictators and to face a push from the younger generation and the opposition parties. So Senegal is... Is there an election? Yeah, there's an election in Senegal. And Makisal and the government in power in Senegal has managed to bear, you know, one of the leading opposition leaders by imprisoning him. So he cannot be, you know, part of the election. So is Senegal going to, because there were a lot of violence recently prior to the election, I don't know if the supporters of those new leaders that are being prevented from participating in the election will accept that. Would that be, you know, chaos? Senegal will give the tone to what will happen to the French past colonial and power. If Senegal falls into the hands of that new generation of leaders that are defiant vis-à-vis the West, then the West can then maybe react by financing rebellions and opposition parties and it could be a chaos because there's so much... In other words, would the West accept a defiant? They won't accept because there's always the menace of China and Russia. So the West is scared if maybe those leaders that we control are no longer there, the new young... I mean, and then we saw it. So you have the election in Senegal that will be very, you know, it's very soon. It's like in February, I think. And then you are also... What's going on in Mali and Burkina Faso? What is going on? Mali and Burkina Faso are... French speaking. Well, Senegal too. Mali and Burkina Faso got rid of the French. They don't want the French... Recently. Recently. Right. So you have two countries that are now led by Yunta, Guinea also, but will it be contagious? Because more and more countries are facing those turmoil and this boiling, you know, general opinion that wants a change. So Mali and Burkina Faso, depending on how they will do without France and without the Western world and with the help of Russia and China. Okay. So these countries that you're talking about have kind of ditched the Western world in a lot of ways. Yes, somehow, yeah. They've adopted... A more productive or like a more partnership, I mean, a more active partnership with China and Russia, especially Russia. Why? Because Russia is helping them. Russia is not a former colony, I mean colonizer. Right. So Russia is not there with post-colonial mentality, post-colonial agenda. They're there probably to do business like everybody, to maybe take profit. Make profit. Make profit. But with Russia, we don't talk as, you know, former colonizer and former colonized, you know, citizen. Russia didn't do the slave trade. Yeah. So Russia is helping also Mali and Burkina Faso deal with the so-called terrorism. But that seems to be another problem. So you're talking about elections. What are the main issues? How pro-Western a government is or a person is? What is happening actually? And would the United States tolerate the result of an election which gave sort of a thumbs? I mean, the United States, I think... I mean, the U.S. doesn't have no more teeth in Africa. Why? Because there's so many different players.  So... And then the Africans are becoming more assertive. Washington, what can Washington do? Okay, we don't give you money. We don't give you military aid. That China and Russia can provide. So the U.S. will have at some point no choice but to get down from the pedestal and start talking to those folks like mano a mano, like equal, maybe not totally equal, but at least let's do business. And then we can do better than the Russia. That's what they have to do. And for example, if you see South Africa, South Africa is growing defiant. South Africa is taking Israel to an international court. If you can get it there, yes, I know. I'm shocked. Yes, I know that Israel is committing genocide. South Africa is alleging. The interesting thing to me about South Africa is that they're also kind of the head of BRICS. Yes. Which is an alternate economic power challenging the hegemony of U.S. capitalism, really, in Africa, correct? They're not socialists. They're not socialists. No, they're not. It's interesting because the problem with our opinion here in the West is that when a country in Africa or in the black and brown world is not following the U.S. or France, then they're tagged as anti or pro-Russia. Mandela, Nelson Mandela, who was the first black president of South Africa, told a report in the U.S. not because you guys have a problem with Cuba or Russia that we necessarily have to follow you. Right. We're not necessarily pro-Russia or pro-Cuba. We are friends with them as much as we want to be friends with the U.S. in the West. But if you are against Russia, it's not our problem. Yeah. We do business with Russia, so you cannot force us and then South Africa showed it. Most of the countries didn't follow the U.S. and the Western world in the war against, I mean, in the war in Ukraine. Right, why? You know, I mean. Okay, so that was one of the times when your opinion shocked me and caused me to change my thinking, is that when you came back once from the Ivory Coast and pointed out that all over Ivory Coast there are Putin signs. Oh, yeah. Why? It's a matter of pride. You know, Putin, for most of the Africans, is courageous enough to stand against the West. The West. Because in the mentalities, in the people's mind that the West has always been seen as an oppressive block. Not as liberating. Not as liberating.  And for a long time they've been using Africa as their playground for militarism.  Now these countries want to be free. And they want to, so for most of the Africans, the West is not as no credibility to tell them who to go against or, and then I also talk to many people, the current, you know, situation in Middle East is eroding, is eroding the, you know, the, you know, the sympathy for the West. Most of them don't want to be caught in the middle of, you know, a conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. But, you know, the way it has developed with, you know, all these military campaigns in Palestine, you know, is eroding the support for the Western world as that they are seeing to be giving a blank check. That's why South Africa is rising to take Israel, which is a very significant move, Israel to... I don't think Americans know how significant it is, but let me go back. So BRICS is Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. But they've recently been joined by a lot of other countries as well. But BRICS is like not an alliance. It's the ultimate economic capitalist power that's rising in the world. And you're right, South Africa being in that sort of breaks, doesn't break its ties with the West, but it clearly means that the South African economy is going to be at least helped by those other BRICS countries, correct? Yeah, and then it's interesting that Africans are not seeing, you know, actions as breaking the ties or not. They're seeing that we have... Just increasing their ties. We are sovereign. We want to do business with everybody. So now it's time for the West to accept that and then say, okay, maybe it's time for no more militarism and business with everybody in good faith and good friendship. Well, I don't think the Africans want militarism, period. No, they don't. Nobody does. But at least they want also to increase the military power to be able to resist against what they call agent of destabilization used by the West. For most Africans, the terrorists are good friends, good buddies with the West. Really? And then also are the result of the adventures that the West got into in Libya, that have destabilized the whole continent. So they want to get more military independence. But when they are under the umbrella of the former colonial power, the colonial powers like to come as the gendarme, as the cops, rather than giving the means to the Africans to fight those terrorists. Terrorism and all these menaces. But there's also a big menace that will hit Africa, which is climate change. I mean, I'm not getting into the debate of what is, but it's more that the effects of climate change are being seen already in Africa. And Africa will pay a large price because most of its economy is agricultural, mining, and so. And then I was in Abidjan. Ivory Coast has lost 95% of its original forests. 95? 95, if not more, to cash crops. Because for a long time... That's not climate change.  And that affects even your microclimate, before even it affects... Listen, I was driving on the streets of Abidjan. Wherever I go and then there are trees, it's fresh. When I get to a part of the countries where there's no trees, it's hot and unbearable. And then the rising of the sea level, there's a lot of menaces that are going to hit Africa. And then so we have to see Africa will grow more defiant, not defiant but assertive, vis-à-vis the West. The West doesn't have the power anymore. Why not? European economies are plunging because there's no more room for growth. There's less and less countries to exploit. China is no longer that big... Or Russia. Or Russia.  So China might be even buying part of Europe. Or the United States. The United States. African countries are growing rebellious and defiant. So where does the Europeans who are addicted to capitalism will get cheap labor, cheap resources to make profits? There's no room for Europe to grow. The European demography is declining. Or at least there's no more youth. There's more old people. It's an older population. That's true here. For example, Angola. Angola, which is a former colony from Portugal, is almost ruling Portugal today. I'm not saying that Angola has taken over Portugal but most of the investments in Portugal, a lot of investments in Portugal come from Angola. Angolans and businessmen from Angola and corporates from Angola are taking over chunks of Portugal's economy. So Europe has to sit down with Africans and redefine their relationship, friendship rather than domination. So this is what we're going to see in 2024. In the other elections, like in Rwanda, we'll see a guy who's been there for almost 30 years now since the genocide. He's changed the constitution to be able to run until 2034, I don't know. You have also in Tunisia, a guy who was coming with all the hopes of bringing more democracies, turning to be an autocrat. And then we'll see. And then also depending on who is going to be elected in the U.S. We know who's going to be elected. We don't know yet. No, but things look creepy, a little. But it's interesting how much a lot of Africans over there would like to deal with a government in the U.S. because they know maybe it's not very friendly with them, but they know where they stand with that power rather than a government that pretends to be a democrat, to be holding the values of democracy dearly, and that are involved in wars around the world. Especially wars in the Third World. And then there's also a lot of conflicts that are going under the radar, like in Sudan, a lot of conflicts in Africa that are kind of forgotten. And simmering. Yes, but we'll see. Okay. Yeah, we'll see. I think we're almost out of time, but thank you. Oh, my pleasure, Sandy. And we will be back. We'll be back. In about a month, thank you. Yeah, and then we'll follow this election in Senegal and see how you know. Not only in Senegal. But in all these countries. And in the U.S. In the U.S.? Yeah, it's interesting. Across the Atlantic Ocean. I mean, from each side of the Atlantic Ocean, two major democracies are going to have elections. And we'll see. And then if the elections go on, if the elections go well, because there's also some worries about how the election will turn here, if the U.S. can no longer be an example of clean and proper elections, the rest of the world can go into chaos. One of our major candidates might be in jail. Oh, the rest of the world could be in jail, too. In jail, too. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. See you tomorrow.


I apologize for the delay. We had some technical difficulties on a picture that we were producing that we'll be providing you a little bit later. I'm Sergeant Chris Almser, the supervisor of the Aurora Police Department Media Relations Unit. Today we're going to give you a briefing on the incident that occurred yesterday. Speaking first will be Sergeant Steve Jokers. His last name is spelled J-O-K-E-R-S-T. He is the supervisor of our major crimes homicide unit. He will discuss the homicide that occurred at 142 Del Mar Circle. Then after that, Lieutenant Matt Clark, spelled C-L-A-R-K with the Denver Police Department Major Crimes Division, will give you a quick briefing on the officer involved shooting investigation that occurred at 14572 East 46th Avenue. And then finally, Chief of Police Nicholas Metz, M-E-T-Z, of the Aurora Police Department will give you an update on our officers who has shot condition. Sergeant Jokers. Thank you. Thanks, Chris. Once again, Sergeant Steve Jokers, S-T-E-V-E, last name Jokers, J-O-K-E-R-S-T. And I am currently with the Aurora Police Department Major Crime Homicide Unit. On November 8th, 2016, at approximately 11 21 a.m. in the morning, the Aurora Public Safety Communications Department received a 911 call for service involving weapons with an injured party at the location at 142 North Del Mar Circle. Initial responding officers located in an injured male suffering from apparent gunshot wounds in the parking lot on the west side of 142 North Del Mar Circle. Officers immediately began to render aid and summoned for emergency medical assistance. Members of the Aurora Fire Department arrived on scene and transported the injured male to the University of Colorado Hospital where the victim succumbed to his injuries. During the initial investigation, officers located several eyewitnesses who provided detailed information of the suspect vehicle, license plate, driver and direction to travel from the scene. This information was provided to other responding officers, which include the members of specific Aurora Police Department Specialized Units, as well as the Denver Police Department who were able to locate that involved vehicle at an address in northeast Denver. Before I turn this over to Lieutenant Clark, I would like to remind you that this is currently on our portion an active investigation and we won't be providing the identity of the victim or any other information pertaining to our case at 142 North Del Mar Circle. Lieutenant. Good morning Lieutenant, Matt Clark with the Denver Police Department's Major Crimes Division. I'll give you some information about the incident that we had, that was the back end of the homicide, it was the second half. It occurred at 14572 East 46th Avenue which is in the Montbello area near the area of 46th Avenue and Durham Court. The Denver Police Department received an initial notification about the Aurora homicide with the suspect information at about 1131. That information included specific details about the armed and dangerous suspect who had just committed the homicide in Aurora and a specific vehicle by make model and license plate. The license plate listed to an address in Montbello on East 46th Avenue which directed District 5 officers to that location. Upon their arrival they located that same vehicle. It's a black Chevy Monte Carlo Tudor in the driveway there. It was unoccupied and there was no other individuals outside of the residence at that point. Simultaneously Aurora investigators, officers began arriving in the area and there was coordination between the two agencies while they were waiting for additional tactical resources to assist in attempting to contact the subject at that location there. Over the next several minutes as the coordination occurred, officers were prepared for an individual to come out of the residence and to contact him and that in fact did happen. The subject emerged from the residence. He was carrying a infant, we believe to be his child in a carrier. He loaded the carrier into the vehicle. There was specific concern of the officers at that point. If that vehicle became mobile knowing that he just committed a homicide 30 minutes prior in his propensity for violence and likelihood of being armed. The decision was made to attempt to contact him at that location prior to him getting into the vehicle. So the infant was placed in the vehicle. He was standing outside of the vehicle as an Aurora tactical team of four officers came up the street. They were in an unmarked car but the subject did identify them and recognize them to be officers rather than attempting to flee. He instead retrieved a handgun and began firing upon the officers. The officers were concerned and aware of the infant in the vehicle and they directed their specific direction of fire. The Aurora officers was directly at the subject and not towards or in the line towards where the infant was in the vehicle. The subject was struck by the rounds that were fired and he went down and was pronounced deceased at that location in front of the residence there. During the exchange of gunfire, one of the rounds that was fired by the subject did strike an Aurora police officer who was the driver of the tactical vehicle that was approaching. That officer was extracted from the car by Denver and Aurora officers and he was subsequently immediately transported in the Denver police vehicle to University Hospital. That was by a Denver police supervisor and an Aurora police officer in that vehicle and they rushed him to university for immediate treatment. Just so you're aware, I can give you a brief background. The subject was deceased. He'll be identified by the Denver Medical Examiner's office. He has a limited criminal history. He has some arrests for assault and a robbery but it's not a lengthy criminal history as far as that's concerned. We did recover a gun at the scene by the suspect. We also recovered several shell casings, further indication that he did fire upon the officers with multiple shell casings. Three police officers discharged their weapons in this incident. Two from Aurora and one from Denver. I won't go into the details of the officers or their identities but I can tell you that the Aurora supervisor with the tactical team came on the Aurora Police Department in 2003. A tactical officer from Aurora who was involved came on in 2001 and the Denver police officer who was involved as a District 5 patrol officer who came on the police department in 2013. Through this investigation we were cooperatively with the Aurora Police Department Major Crimes Unit as part of our investigative protocol for officer involved shootings. We interviewed a number of witnesses, all the officers that were available gave statements. We still have yet to interview the injured officer and we will do so when he's ready to provide an interview. You can imagine the call of an officer being shot gets a lot of attention from other officers. I would like to take an opportunity to thank the surrounding jurisdictions that came into Denver. We had Arapaho County, Adams County, Commerce City, Aurora and Denver police officers all responded immediately to help contain this chaotic scene and it was appreciated. At this point, if you have any additional information, if there's anybody that witnessed either of these incidents, either the Aurora homicide or the Denver incident involving the police shooting, we'd ask you to contact the respective agency or crime stoppers with that information and pass that along. In conclusion, again, thanks for the other agencies and our thoughts and prayers with the Aurora Police and the officer and his family as he works towards his recovery. I'll address any questions after Chief Metz speaks. Thank you. Good morning and thank you all for being here. Since October 1st of 2016, this has not been a good month and a half for law enforcement around our country. In fact, nationwide, since October 1st, our country has lost 14 police officers to gunfire. And I'm here to tell you today that we feel incredibly blessed that I'm not sitting up here giving you that kind of message. On the other hand, there were a couple of comments I heard yesterday following the incident when, in fact, one of them was on a radio show where they said, yeah, an officer had been shot. Oh, then now it's non-life-threatening injuries and the shooting must have not been that bad. I want to tell you that we came very close to losing a brother here at Aurora Police Department. With the officer's permission, I want to show you a picture of the entrance wound to our officer. As you can see here, it's just right around, right up by his nose. Had that round either taken a different type of trajectory or been a half inch to an inch higher, I'm not sure what kind of message we would have been giving you today. So we feel very blessed that he is going to survive and we feel very blessed that we're not playing in a funeral. This officer has an incredible reputation on our department. He was hired in 2003. He's been assigned to a variety of units besides patrol. He was assigned to the District 3 dark team in 2008. He was recently assigned to our SRT team, which is essentially our SWAT team. He received a Distinguished Service Cross in 2011 and he received that for responding to an active shooter incident in an apartment complex and rescuing a shooting victim. And he received the Meritorious Service Ribbon in 2015 in which a suicidal subject was threatening officers with a rifle and he was able to end that without further injury to anybody else. The two officers, at least from the Aurora Police Department that were involved, both of them are from our SRT. One is a sergeant. She's a female sergeant. She's been on the department since 2003. Also a supervisor within our SRT. The other is an officer who's a male since 2001. He's a lateral from another agency and also a member of the SRT. These officers as well as the officer from Denver reacted, in my opinion, courageously and heroically. And had they not reacted the way they did, they may not have been able to prevent our officer from getting further injury. I also think it's really important that we thank the Denver Police Department, the two officers that were there from Denver PD immediately put our officer in their car and rushed him to and shoots. It just shows that the relationship between the Aurora Police Department and the Denver Police Department is a very strong and solid one. And we work with Denver on a lot of different types of issues. But this is just a, to me, a prime example of how our departments come together when crisis hits and do an excellent job of taking care of each other. Following the incident our officer was, as I said, rushed to university and shoots. The, one of the first things we deployed was a new unit that we call our trauma response team. This is a group of officers who are specially trained to respond to situations where one of our own or even if it's another officer from another agency who has been seriously injured. We come in, we work with the hospital staff to make sure that not only is the officer taken care of, but also to ensure that the basic operations of the hospital are able to continue. They came in, they did a great job, they were able to arrange for the family to be brought in. We've been working incredibly close with the family, also working with the family to bring in extended family from out of state. So that is working out very well. I want to give a special shout out to my officers from Aurora. Those who not only were at the initial homicide scene, who were handling things the way they need to be handled, but also those officers who either were already on scene at 46 in Montbello or the officers who immediately responded. I went up to that scene not long after the help the officer came out and I can tell you from my own observations the collaboration between the Aurora police officers and the Denver officers in making sure that that scene was as secure as possible because it was still very fluid was amazing to watch and I couldn't be more proud of my officers and the officers from the Denver Police Department. I also want to thank the Anschutz Medical Center. Their staff, doctors were absolutely on it. They were providing whatever assistance our officer or our family or other officers needed and they really went out of their way to make sure that our police family was well taken care of. So with that, we'll open up to questions. Can you point to status and a baby today? Can you tell us a little bit? I'm going to see if someone else can maybe answer that. Yeah, the baby was okay. It was checked out. It's perfectly fine. It's been released. It's with another family member at this point. Just to clarify, the suspect was in the house with his baby. Yes ma'am. The officers called him to come out or did you just happen to come out? He came out on his own. So they were prepared to deal with him if he did come out and that's in fact what happened. They made no attempts prior to bringing him out of the residence. Places the baby in the car. Yes ma'am. He's outside the car, sees the cops. That's when he pulls his firearm and starts shooting or just running and shooting. He does not run at any point. He maintains his ground there and instead engages the officers. Had the officers ever gotten out of the car? No. The two Aurora officers had not. The Denver officer was out of his vehicle. Not at this time. How close was that shot roughly? We're still working to determine that. How many shots were fired? We have three officers fired multiple shots each from their weapons and similarly the suspect fired multiple shots from his. We're still executing search warrants on his vehicle and doing some crime scene work to make sure we get the accurate count. Detective, can you tell more specifically if you can, when you say that multiple shots were fired but the baking was not on the line of fire, I think it's difficult for us to understand how gunfire is going on and yet the baby is somewhere on the scene and yet the baby is not in danger. Sure, so they knew the baby, my understanding the Aurora officers knew the infant had been placed into the vehicle and then he was outside of the passenger side of the vehicle a couple feet west of it and so they were directing their direction of fire was specifically at him and they were cognizant knowing that if they were off-line with their fire that it could potentially go into that vehicle. So in doing so they made sure that the direction of their fire was always at him. How does that element of an infant being there change the reaction and how do the officers become trained on that kind of thing? It just seems like it elevates that. It definitely does, it was definitely a concern, they were cognizant of that and the risk that the child was in potentially being with this individual and by their response so they were aware of it and did the best to mitigate the situation. Was there any? The subject forced a confrontation with the officers, he fired upon the officers as they were in the area, they did everything they could tactically to contain him and he was definitely an absolute threat to the community. Do you know this at this point because I know it's early on, but do you know that when he fired first is that the point that he hit the award resumption? I don't think we'll be able to ever sequence which round hit the officer. Do you have any information, sir, if the baby was with the suspect at the time of the shooting in Aurora? I do not know that. Do we know what motivated that as well? I mean, I certainly heard things from people who were opposed to the family. Do we know why he went over to this department and targeted this person? Just like I stated earlier, we're actually in the process of still interviewing witnesses and gathering information from that particular scene and at this particular point we're still trying to develop that to include the information regarding the baby there. We do not know that right now. Did the victim and the suspect know each other? Did he have a gun in his hand when he came out? Did he have the baby in a carrier strapped to his chest? No, sir, we believe he retrieved it from his waist area. From the car? No, from his waistband, but I don't have any information. He got it from the vehicle. Joe, what's the, does the officer, your officer, who's on his ear rank? He's an officer, yes. Could you hold that picture on the front of the body and we'll just grab a clip for a second? Sure. And we're going to provide everyone with a copy. And we'll also send an electronic version to your desk. Great, thanks. Chief, it's not often that when we hear in the public that someone was shot in the face that we get to see the look like. Can you talk about why you are showing that and how come there's no entrance or can you explain how come there's no exit wound or where it goes, what goes on there? Yeah, well as far as why there's no exit wound, I'm not a physician so I'm, and so I'm not going to be able, not able to really give you an answer to that. I can say that the round was lodged internal inside him still, so the round did penetrate. As far as why I'm showing the picture, I think right now it's important for the public to know the kinds of dangers our officers are facing, and in particular for this situation. I think it's incredibly important to know just how close and how serious this situation was for this officer that, again, this was not something that was, oh, he got shot and he's fine and okay, must have not been that serious. Again, I feel that it was a miracle, if not a blessing, that he's still with us. So the officer actually, when he started firing, the three Aurora officers were still in the car, is that right? I'm going to have to ask the lieutenant. That's correct, the Aurora officers were in their vehicle approaching the residents when they were fired upon and they returned fire from their vehicle. That's what the evidence is showing. But the Denver officer was already there and was visible outside of his car? That's maybe what motivated this for the suspect? That's possible, so I'm not sure what triggered the suspect, recognizing it was the officers obviously. But yes, the Denver officer was out of his vehicle, he was a uniformed officer. Was he walking up to the house in the car? No, he had a stationary position that he took there. Okay, any other questions? One more question? I know you've addressed this, the fact that a Denver police officer put your officer in the car and took him to the hospital, and you're grateful. Is that something that you guys talked about? Is this the lessons of the Aurora movie theater? There's a different response. You don't wait, you just go. I can't say specific whether it's from the movie theater. Everyone knows that many of our officers made that type of decision that night, and because of that saved the lives of many. I think there was just a concern that how long was it going to take for emergency medical personnel to get there. I can tell you from my conversation with one of the doctors, he came out and said that those officers definitely made the right decision to load him up and get him to the hospital. He actually applauded that decision. And I'm sorry, we're not releasing the names of either the victim or the suspect in this? At this point, I don't believe so, but I'll let you answer. The investigation is ongoing and that's going to be actually through for our victim regarding our related incident on Delmar. That's going to come from Repo County Coroner's Office. Okay, so the suspect is the suspect? Similarly, the suspect is Denver Coroner's Office. Later this afternoon, I anticipate. Alright, thank you everyone. Thank you everyone. If you want to just stick around for a minute.


This video will cover the following objective from the endocrine system, discuss how the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland are structurally and functionally related. Describe the structural and functional differences between the anterior and posterior pituitary gland. The hypothalamus regulates the activity of the pituitary gland by producing hormones that are either secreted from the posterior pituitary gland or regulating the production of hormones that are released from the anterior pituitary gland. The hypothalamus and pituitary gland are connected through a stock called the infundibulum. The infundibulum contains the axons of neurosecretory cells that are located in the paraventricular nucleus and supraoptic nucleus of the hypothalamus. These neurosecretory cells are neurons that release hormones called neurohormones. Oxytocin and antidiuretic hormone are examples of neurohormones that are released from the posterior pituitary gland by the neurosecretory cells of the hypothalamus. Oxytocin stimulates a positive feedback loop during childbirth in response to stretching of the cervix when the baby's head is pushing against the cervix, stretch receptors, relay information in through sensory nerves. This information is relayed into the hypothalamus in the brain and stimulates the activity of the neurosecretory cells that release oxytocin from the posterior pituitary gland. Oxytocin then binds to receptors on smooth muscle cells in the myonetrium, stimulating contraction of the uterus, pushing the baby towards the cervix, which creates an even greater stretching of the cervix, activating even more secretion of oxytocin in a positive feedback loop until the baby is born. Oxytocin is also involved in a positive feedback loop that stimulates the release of milk during suckling. When an infant suckles, it stimulates sensory receptors in the ariola in the nipple that relay information into the hypothalamus, stimulating the neurosecretory cells that secrete oxytocin from the posterior pituitary gland. Then oxytocin binds to receptors on myoepithelial cells in the mammary gland, stimulating contraction that releases milk as milk pulls in lactiferous ducts and then in the lactiferous sinus. This milk will be secreted out of the mammary gland and this will reward the infant that will continue suckling as the infant continues suckling. This will stimulate more secretion of oxytocin in a positive feedback loop until the infant is satiated when the infant is full and stops suckling. Then the stimulus is removed, ending the positive feedback mechanism for the release of oxytocin. When there is insufficient water in the body, that is, you're dehydrated, this leads to an increased blood osmolarity or increased concentration of solutes in the blood and also an increased solute concentration in the extracellular fluid. This is detected by osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus. This stimulates thirst, which will then stimulate you to go find some water and get a drink in order to restore the osmolarity or the concentration of solutes in the blood and extracellular fluid in your body. However, these osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus will also act to stimulate the kidney to increase reabsorption of water, which causes the volume of the urine to decrease, leading to a more concentrated small volume of urine. As I'm sure you're familiar with, when you're dehydrated, the color of the urine becomes darker, and this is a result of the action of the hormone antidiuretic hormone. So here we can see the location of the neurosecretory cells in the super optic nucleus of the hypothalamus that function as osmoreceptors and release antidiuretic hormone in response to a high osmolarity, a high concentration of solutes when you're dehydrated. Antidiuretic hormone will be released from the posterior pituitary gland, and then it will have actions to stimulate the kidney to increase water reabsorption. Antidiuretic hormone is produced in the hypothalamus and released by the posterior pituitary gland, then it travels through the blood to reach target cells in the kidney, as well as in the arterioles, the small blood vessels, the small arteries that carry blood into capillaries. In the arterioles, antidiuretic hormone stimulates constriction, stimulates vasoconstriction, that is the smooth muscle in the wall of the blood vessel contracts, and this will have an effective increase in the blood pressure. A synonym for antidiuretic hormone is vasopressin. Vasopressin and antidiuretic hormone refer to the same hormone, but the name vasopressin comes from the fact that it has this effect of increasing blood pressure by stimulating contraction of arterioles. The name antidiuretic hormone comes from its function in the kidneys, where antidiuretic hormone increases the reabsorption of water, causing the volume of the urine to decrease. A diuretic is a drug or a chemical that causes the volume of the urine to increase. For example, alcohol is a diuretic, and alcohol works by inhibiting the secretion of antidiuretic hormone by disrupting the signaling of antidiuretic hormone, which would normally work to decrease the urine volume. Alcohol acts as a diuretic, increasing urine volume. The hypothalamus also produces hormones that are secreted into the blood in the infidibulum and travel into the anterior pituitary gland. These hormones are known as releasing hormones because they will stimulate the anterior pituitary gland to release other hormones known as tropic hormones. The tropic hormones will then stimulate yet another endocrine gland in the body. Let's look at a specific example where the hypothalamus makes the thyrotropin-releasing hormone, TRH, that will travel through the infidibulum and the hypofysial portal veins down into capillaries of the anterior pituitary gland. The TRH will bind to receptors on cells in the anterior pituitary gland and stimulate those cells to release another hormone known as TSH. So TRH stimulates TSH to be released and TSH then stimulates the thyroid gland. TSH thyroid stimulating hormone stimulates the thyroid gland to produce other hormones known as the thyroid hormones T3 and T4, which have a function in the body increasing the metabolic rate. Another example would be the regulation of the adrenal gland or the regulation of the gonads. And so we'll go through the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis where the hypothalamus makes CRH, the corticotropin-releasing hormone, the anterior pituitary makes ACTH, the adrenal corticotropic hormone, and the cortex of the adrenal gland makes glucocorticoid hormones to help the body respond to chronic stress. And the HPG axis is another example where the hypothalamus makes gonadotropin-releasing hormone to stimulate the anterior pituitary to make LH and FSH, luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone, which will then travel through the blood to the gonads, the testes and ovaries, stimulating the production of the sex hormones testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. Growth hormone is secreted by the anterior pituitary in response to a releasing hormone known as GHRH or growth hormone releasing hormone that is secreted from neurons in the hypothalamus into the hypothesial portal system. When GHRH binds to receptors on cells in the anterior pituitary, those cells release growth hormone. Then growth hormone will bind to receptors on cells throughout the body. When growth hormone binds to receptors on adipose sites within adipose tissue, it stimulates the breakdown of fat releasing nutrients, fat molecules that can be broken down to release energy that will fuel growth. Growth hormone will stimulate the uptake of amino acids from the blood and these amino acids are building block molecules that are used to build proteins. Growth hormone will also stimulate cellular proliferation and reduce apoptosis. Cellular proliferation is a cell division to make more cells and apoptosis is a programmed cell death, so growth hormone will stimulate the production of more cells to increase the growth of a tissue. This is especially important at the epithesial growth plate where it will stimulate the elongation of the bones. In the liver, growth hormone will have a diabetesogenic effect, that is it increases the breakdown of glycogen, a polysaccharide, which functions as a storage molecule storing glucose. As glycogen is broken down, glucose is released from the liver into the blood, increasing the blood glucose level. This glucose can be taken up by cells and used to fuel growth. The liver also produces a hormone known as insulin-like growth factor 1 or IGF1 in response to growth hormone. IGF1 has similar effects in cells all through the body. It will stimulate growth, so similar effects to growth hormone in that it will stimulate cell division, reduce apoptosis and help stimulate tissue growth. But in the hypothalamus, IGF1 will bind to receptors on the cells that produce growth hormone releasing hormone. It will decrease the production of the growth hormone releasing hormone and will also stimulate the production of another hormone known as growth hormone inhibiting hormone. The hypothalamus will produce more growth hormone inhibiting hormone in response to IGF1, and growth hormone inhibiting hormone will inhibit the release of growth hormone from the anterior pituitary. This works as a negative feedback mechanism where as the levels of growth hormone rise, levels of IGF1 rise, and IGF1 then inhibits the production of growth hormone by stimulating the production of growth hormone inhibiting hormone, which as the name suggests inhibit the release of growth hormone. Abnormally low levels of growth hormone during childhood produce a condition known as pituitary dwarfism, seen in the image on the left a full grown adult may be very short stature the size of a child with the overall normal proportions because growth hormone signaling was disrupted, this led to a decreased growth rate. In the opposite example shown on the right, an excess of growth hormone signaling during childhood leads to increased growth rate, especially stimulating the elongation of bones causing a very tall, statured human, as we can see in the example here of gigantism, someone who has a really large body size as a result of excessive growth hormone during childhood. Growth hormone is just one of the hormones that is produced by the anterior pituitary gland. The anterior pituitary gland is secreting several different hormones in response to releasing hormones that are being produced by the anterior pituitary and secreted into the hypophysioportal vein traveling into the anterior pituitary gland. Here we can see at the top the GnRH that stands for gonadotropin releasing hormone is produced by the hypothalamus and stimulates the anterior pituitary to release two tropic hormones, one known as luteinizing hormone abbreviated LH and the other known as follicle stimulating hormone abbreviated FSH. LH and FSH both have actions in the reproductive system. They will stimulate the gonads in order to lead to the production of the sex hormones and also stimulate the production of the gametes, the sperm and eggs. Next you see TRH that stands for thyrotropin releasing hormone. So TRH is the releasing hormone from the hypothalamus that stimulates the anterior pituitary to make TSH, thyroid stimulating hormone. So thyrotropin releasing hormone TRH stimulates the anterior pituitary to make thyroid stimulating hormone, TSH, that will then stimulate the thyroid gland to release the thyroid hormones T3 and T4. T4 stands for thyroxin and T3 stands for triiotothyronine. But these thyroid hormones T3 and T4 regulate metabolism increasing the metabolic rate. TRH stands for the prolactin releasing hormone. Prolactin releasing hormone stimulates the anterior pituitary to release prolactin. Then prolactin is a hormone that stimulates the mammary glands to produce milk. So during the end of pregnancy and following pregnancy prolactin is stimulating the production of milk but this is different than the action of oxytocin that stimulates the release of milk. Prolactin prepares for that action of oxytocin by stimulating the mammary gland to produce milk and then in response to suckling oxytocin will stimulate the positive feedback mechanism for the release of milk. So next we see GHRH which stands for the growth hormone releasing hormone. So growth hormone releasing hormone stimulates the anterior pituitary to release growth hormone then growth hormone stimulates growth throughout the body especially in the bone and muscles but also stimulates the liver to produce insulin like growth factor another hormone that stimulates growth. Last we see CRH is produced by the hypothalamus. CRH stands for corticotropin releasing hormone. So CRH stimulates the anterior pituitary to release ACTH. ACTH stands for adrenocorticotropic hormone. ACTH stimulates the adrenal cortex the outer region of the adrenal glands and it stimulates the adrenal cortex to produce glucocorticoids which are hormones that help regulate metabolism in order to respond to chronic stress. So glucocorticoids will have the effect of increasing blood glucose levels and that's why they're called glucocorticoids. So glucocorticoids are produced by the adrenal cortex and they'll stimulate an increase in blood glucose levels.


The Independent National Electoral Commission, Aina Kaduna State, has organized a one-day post-election reviews of the 2023 General Election to tackle recorded challenges for smooth-running and better performance of the 2027 General Elections across the country. The aim of the review is identifying gaps and preferring solutions to improve future conduct of elections to consolidate Nigeria's democracy. The resident Electoral Commissioner Agwal Mashi, who was represented by head of electronic operations Aina Kaduna Hussaini Muhammad, said the purpose is to x-ray the successes and failures of Aina in the 2023 elections by strengthening institutional capacity for the discharge of responsibilities and enhancement of processes and procedures. The areas as far as the election process is concerned are relating to three main areas. There are three phases in the election process. The pre-election activities, the during, that is the actual period for the conduct of elections, and then the after the post-election period, lighting the major processes, systems and procedures for the conduct of elections that have taken place and are reflected in the various topics about 15 sub-heads that we are now about to commence deliberation upon and the aim is to come up with things that will impact on future elections. Some of the participants of what other just concluded elections say there is need to improve welfare of the staff and immediate payment of compensation to victims during election. In attendance, there are next staff, ad hoc staff, including electoral officers and their assistants, heads of departments, administrative secretaries, some presiding officers, collation and returning officers. Ad hoc staff welfare, a socially collation officer, I would love to see general improvement. And then in cases of, in issues, in case there are some violence in some part of the country, people involved should be compensated in time because we have cases, I have a particular friend, this is a personal experience at one of the local government, I think Katia, where they were attacked during elections until now they've not been compensated. Her phone were seized, her bags were collected during that particular election. So hopefully, I think generally areas of welfare for ad hoc staff should be improved and then in training also. In successful and peaceful elections, we still have challenges and these challenges varies from logistics to mobilization to so many other factors. Of course, we have challenges, including transportation. They have to review their operational standards to improve on it. And of course, this is very key because it determines the movement, on-time movement of men and materials. And so what they use, the kind of vehicles they use, the time they bring in these vehicles goes a long way in affecting and affecting the process. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Polypropylene, PP-based composites are commonly reinforced with glass fibers, GF, but the polymer fiber interface is often weak and susceptible to damage under certain environmental conditions. To address this issue, researchers have attempted to improve the adhesion between the two materials through various techniques, including modifying the glass surface or polymer matrix. Unfortunately, these approaches have not yielded significant cost performance improvements. In this study, researchers proposed a novel approach involving the polymerization of polypropylene, PP, directly onto the glass fibers. This technique was found to significantly increase the strength and toughness of the resulting composite while also doubling the interfacial strength. This article was authored by Mariana Echeverry and Sylvia E. Barbosa.


So Adidas has been killing it lately and not many of us have hopped onto it yet.  But for real, I want to show you guys some of the pieces that they do offer currently because Adidas was kind enough to send over some items and sponsor this video. Now I do buy stuff from Adidas myself outside of any partnerships and I have full range on what I can say, all opinions are my own. And so let's show you all what I got. Let's kick it off with the provisional rain jacket. This has got to be one of the top bang for the buck in terms of items that you can get for athleisure and tech fits. And you're going to get a well designed futuristic looking jacket kind of has the Y3 vibes that is also water repellent, wind resistant and has plenty of pockets, inner pockets and front zipper pockets, which is what I always keep an eye out for. And I am five seven with a pretty slim muscular built. I did get this in a size medium, which is my true to size. And it does fit a little bit loose. So if I were you guys, I would size down for a more slim fitting look. But I don't mind the more relaxed fit on this. What's great about it is it's very light and very comfortable to wear. And I really dig how they showcase the three stripes. They kept a black still so the stripes are more subtle, but pops with the right amount of light hitting it. Although I do wish the cuffs were more adjustable. They are predetermined so you can't really tie in there. But for the price it's at, I'm not complaining. Also, another great aspect about this piece and Adidas in general is their commitment to using more recycled materials. They're always using it in most of their products now and there really isn't any compromise. So here's a simple tech fit that you can style this jacket with. I've just got a simple tank, some cargo pants, some sneakers. And what does make this piece have a kind of Y3 vibe is the higher color to it. It really gives it that futuristic look. And I highly recommend this one. This is a solid steel for the performance. So I'll leave this piece along with the other items in the description down below. Just full transparency. If you guys do make a purchase, I do get a small kickback that does go back to supporting the channel. And so I can eat. Y'all are the best. Now the Stan Smiths, a classic. So I used to have these sneakers back in the day in the green colorway. And I'm glad I got these back in the navy colorway with that cream sole. Because man, does that cream sole really make a huge difference? So again, we're working with recycled materials. 50% of the upper of the sneaker uses recycled materials. I got navy because green is obviously the most popular colorway. And I just see it all the time, which is totally fine. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is still tempting to get the green one. These are a great replacement for an all-white sneaker. If you're bored and you want to pop of color, these sneakers got your back. And although these use recycled materials, they still stay true to the original classic design that's now over four decades old. And they also got a ton of colors for you to choose from, so go nuts. So you see me styling here with a more aesthetically lighter colored fit. I've got on this light blue graphic tee that I talked about in my last partnership with Adidas.  So yeah, the next item up are these Pintuck pants. I really dig these a lot. I'm not really a fan of khaki colored pants.  So you kind of look like Jake from State Farm. And you know, sometimes black sneakers do look good with khaki colored pants, but I think white sneakers look better as they complement the lighter tone of the pants. I did get these pants in a size small, and I think they fit perfect. This is meant to have a more loose fit with that Pintuck stitching within its design. And for those of you guys that don't know what the Pintuck is, that's this right here, which is normally what you see in suit pants and trousers. And because of that, these pants look quite unique in terms of a street pants. These are very light, very breathable, and perfect for hitting a skate sash or making it up with the fits. Definitely, definitely recommend these.  Next up is this Y3 square label hat. Yoji is the man, and yes, I am a fan boy. I couldn't afford it back in the day when I started YouTube, so I'm just grateful for y'all for giving me these opportunities. It's more loud than you think whenever it comes to styling. And if you guys don't like that contrast or that pop, I would recommend the other Y3 hat that's still black. But yeah, the jump in premium materials isn't really drastic at all. But it is definitely noticeable in terms of my Amazon hats. So with this hat, you are paying for the brand association and a little bit more premium materials. And personally, that's fine with me. But not to worry, we still have a hat for more than half the price. This is the city icon hat for ridiculously cheap. Definitely pick this one up. They got plenty of colors, and there's a clip on the back of the hat so you can clip it to your belt loops or a tech bag. And every tech heads favorite feature, water repellency. Well, I don't think it's advertised that way, but because of the 100% nylon materials, it does make this water repellent. I don't know how long that's gonna last though. This one has a graphic on the side, there's text on the back, and I did have to bend the brim to make it more wearable. And it does absorb sweat quite well. I have a lot of hats ruined by cheaper materials because of sweating. So this is a solid bang for the buck. And last but not least is this graphic tote bag. So the tote bags I own are only cream, so this Navy one's a nice switch up to my bag collection. And it has this pop of pink and mints that's really nice to look at. And I really dig the art design of this one as well. Just make sure you are actually using your tote bags so you don't look like a goof just for a FitPick. But yeah, I really think this tote bag is gonna pop whenever you incorporate it with a Fit. All right y'all, those are the Adidas items, definitely essentials. I'm stoked to be getting some more stuff from Adidas. I have some more Y3 pants coming. If y'all wanna support the channel or pick up any of these items, everything will be linked in the description. Y'all are the best, thank you for the support, and thank you Adidas for sending over this care package. Give this video a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, follow me on Instagram and TikTok at Fly With Johnny Tye. And until then, stay fly, deuces.


Hello Hello, Wave Can you see them? Can you see them? Okay, great. Yeah, go Oh, this is what me? Yes, it's you Where's Sarah? Where's the cat? It's on the couch Hi Sarah Don't think it graces like the couch Are you sharing your screen? Can you say my phone first? Nope Do you want me to pull it up and then you talk over it? Do you want me to pull it up and then you talk over it? Yeah, you put it up You on iPad? Yeah Because life was not hard enough Exactly Yeah, so we are using CSS Custom Properties and a red harbor Tell me what you want me to do Okay Okay, wait Yeah, start talking This is highly professional, isn't it? This is what we do all the time Anyway, start talking I think things are improved Minutely Can you be Isn't that I was looking into this This is how I'll talk about you before you get in the coat This is the preferred reduced motion media query And the idea behind it is you have animations which are great but some people actually have problems with looking at animated things because it can cause or particular problems Sarah can explain what problems can you get from too many animations What can it do? I can send particular people to have a bit of a meltdown which can be a problem for people on autistic spectrum in particular You also have people with epilepsy as well and I can set off and I think it's also not a good thing It can be quite overwhelming for those people with sensory disorders as well Thank you So that's why this exists This was introduced by Apple in Safari a while ago It's one of those classic things It's a great Apple app It's in one browser As of 11 hours ago it's just landed in Chrome and it's also in Firefox 63 in pretty much everything right now The question is why would you want to use it so we can never mind and basically what you need to do is what part of the code can you actually see at the moment The one that says root and I've showed the media query that says prefast reduced motion So the idea is that you actually if you scroll down to the transition code you'll see here that this is declared twice So there's the hard coded fold back I've done a release for your time in 500 milliseconds so it's really really obvious and then you get the animation timing under the myth which is a CSS variable and you think oh, CSS variables can't use those because the browsers don't support the moderated disk that's why we have the fold back up so the browsers that do support CSS variables and support media queries will do this properly the ones that don't support CSS variables will just show you all our measures so you add an extra line to your transition like so and you scroll back up to the root that's where the variables are actually declared so it's really simple, you set the timing as a variable the media query requires a reduced duration and you can do this once for each of your animation timings animation timings will typically be pretty consistent anyway so that means you write a fairly variable code and so that you support people who have reasons that do not have strong animations and again this is in code, Firefox and Safari as of today so that's really good I need to change this as an experiment recently I think I can turn into a media query point easily so I'm going to take a bit more and see what happens from it but once I've got it nicely done I'm going to put this into every different CSS every time I've got an animation because for the people who are affected by it it makes a big big difference in their lives done Yay, thanks passing it off to like Olivia, Olivia are you there can you see, can you see people a lot of people here hi, hi, hi, thanks your fan club man cause um I can't drop off like cause I I can't show up yes please OT, OT oh she's back whose screen is happening whose screen is this, excuse me my co-pan, your screen is inceptioning us CSS animation in general so machines can start transitioning I need to comment this out most of it sounds really good idea but actually it turns out that like 8 images don't take off which is quite a lot and after that everybody else so this animation property so that it works like you're obviously being served to break it down just to see how it's done in construction so the first one is that just moving the width of the before civil area width and the second line over here I just pretty much you can change the line on top you can change the property but because this thing is embedded into this little thing and I hope it works so you just move me the correct percentage of the correct time and then it's just a normal like a city that comes after this animation is done so yeah and I'll give you a few more examples of what I've done so far, this is another one this is your such a smooth look but it's pretty much just really transformed the take the lines accordingly and then put me this level and then I will come up with that again at the correct time and so pretty much it's actually like super simple it's just I take a lot of time to execute it but when you execute it it's just pretty good I don't know this is also the most mind blowing thing I did it's my favorite then but basically this is the one that's made for the fan but you can it's a special connection but if you open it, it might be pretty much that this this is like where and why properties are good technically and then put a bottom and then it just closes so these are the things that you can sort of do with CSS animations in general I'm going to touch a little bit about JavaScript animations because I actually don't use them myself in fact Google brings out documentation for the first time on this app I need to show how good it is I never really needed it because I can do everything with CSS animations also JavaScript kind of scares me so I try not to get into it too much but it it actually just animates CSS so we can put it all in code so that it's just much easier to create and CSS is not very mass CSS is just a lot of CSS and it can get quite overwhelming but if you look in some so it just is that can you see the code? actually it's very blur so you just talk through can layer how blur? then it's it's just that please check out please cannon it's one of the most opinion person that uses great software basically all these are SVG animation and library software allows you to release just SVG animation any SVG very simply and it's not a lot of code in general so let me check out please cannon that is all okay thanks thanks so much okay can you see my cannon cannon cannon at the shell it's called build.com and if you look at the size it's really snippet and made from a single bit it's like a bow it's made from like a bit and that's shallow to do something similar but I do like it's a lot of work so I'll do something different which is like a macro interaction so if you take a look it's just that I'm on the road and there's a movement on macro interaction and I'm mostly designer but I have to be fun and development you know macro interactions are really important for running in general so I made the quick smart snippet like animations can be very I just have like about 5 no no no elements and I'm the road and I left here and I left here next which is like a letter that comes on top a different letter and the previous one is the and the notification app and I left here a little bit but it's really just moving from border to first direct and changes to like CSS better better so let's just I think made it border this was made from borders and then border into a lot of things and create an input like this and then I'm just adding like transforms and dark shadows with like a small shadow like that and here looking at the letter this is actually made from one thing can you see that there's like a white part and a blue part on the bottom so this is made with a green sorry about that the lights here are made from dark shadows and the color is the two chocolate you can see you like these are just dark shadows so the two lines are this of the two dark shadows and it's changing the work so I'm just actually creating a group that looks like this line and putting dark shadows to it so that it looks like there's four lines but there's actually only one there or one of the other ones I guess it's not the one I would put a bit of an arc with yeah so this is how I made the lines each animation would be similar to the other ones but each animation is very very simple so if you look at the work we did on the significant it's really just a combination of scale and rotate and opacity which is just increased in the group from 0 to 31 which I expected to be and the letter which is just changing the job and the height very simple animation but by combining them and timing them correctly it looks pretty good so if you think like micro interactions like this it works very well never mind still got chance when you come back next month the month after also can the computer around so you can see the live people yeah mute okay okay so today I'll be sharing about actually a subset of the previous talk because there was some drawing of CSS but specifically I'll be talking about using CSS background gradients to draw so why why not because we can and this was actually inspired by something called by something called a CSS battle so basically you're only you're scored after the accuracy given a certain score I think 600 and to get even higher score you just use as little characters as possible so of course we want to keep a code to a minimum so there is a few benefits to this technique it's easy to manage and edit you can change sizes and things fairly easily as long as you use percent it can be one single term element if you want to do something more complex you might need a few more and it's kind of fast somewhat drawbacks is that there's no dynamic variable so you can't do anything related to a random algorithm or something like that and you're limited to straight line circles I also missed out but you can do squares and triangles so how do we start so one way we can start is actually we're going to the background the background property of CSS and the part highlighted in red is what we actually care about so you can either declare an image or color you can declare its position its size and whether you want it to repeat or not and CSS gradients there are two kinds one is a linear gradient and the other is a radial gradient so we can abuse this to hack and make some images so let's go to so this is the gradient we all know and maybe not love but this is basically how we do with a linear gradient we put the degree which is the angle which it will go you can also omit it it's quite easy it still works and then you declare where you want the color stop and then the next color stop and then the last color stop so if you want to change this into a line all we have to do is to just be more specific with our color stop so we know that greens stops at 30 then we start yellow at 30 and end at 50 and then it becomes a line alternatively if you are lazy to repeat yourself over here you can just use a 0 common 0 this will also work so it's the exact same result but without having to type that 30 over here you just append a 0 common 0 after every color stop so that is how we make a line next we can try to do some other shapes so here we have a square it's quite easy so linear gradient and then because we don't really want a gradient we just call it blue and blue you need at least two and then this is the back to my notes it is actually the position this is the position and this is the size and then since I don't want it to repeat because if I remove repeat and then it just all becomes blue so we will put no repeat just so that it won't keep repeating itself and then finally this is the other color that will be the backdrop so another way we can do things is once we add a degree we can actually draw triangles so here this is a line first so I just did a transparent 48 pixel then blue then transparent again and then we can actually change the position fairly easily by adding some and you hear then something and then you can move it up right and then if you want it to be we want it to be a triangle we just do this and then it becomes a triangle right and so we can actually change the direction of the angle to maybe what's 45 plus 90 oops but basically you can change how the triangle looks because life coding always goes so well okay so after that now we have triangles we have squares we have lines we want to do maybe something like a circle because that's the only other tool we have so here's the circle same thing we add some color stock to this and then it becomes two circles you can remove one or the other it doesn't really matter you can change the place where it is so you can circle there and then it becomes a quarter circle so you can actually give it like then px and then you can move the thing around so you can also use percentages of instead so that's how we draw circles semicircles we can also do circles, semicircles, quarter circles so with that now we have a few examples so this thing inside this arrow pattern was done using only this techniques in fact it's just using the triangle and the lines other examples is something like this Taiwanese cartoon couple I thought it would be nice to recreate it so this is just circles and I just use a blue color to block this off so that it looks like a semicircle alternatively you can do something like because I work in e-commerce so we always have to mimic how a voucher looks so you can do something that has this voucher kind of a tear-off pattern this is another thing that I saw online so I decided to replicate it and this is one of the CSS battle things which you can actually go to my codepad basically it's just a lot of circles right so next slide so tessellations so how I made this for something using this technique called tessellations there's actually a study here if you go to my notes you can probably go and read out on the study basically there's three regular tessellations pattern that you can do but mostly we are interested in the square because square is the most easy to replicate so how I recreated this I saw this pattern online and wanted to recreate this I cropped out a square where it seemed logical for the pattern to start and end I divided it into segments so that I can draw the lines divided it into segments the other way so that I had this Eureka moment where I saw first there was lines here and secondly there were triangles so I ended up creating that thing out of this and I wanted to do a live demo of this but there's no time so I wanted to show a demo so maybe we think out of a pattern this is kind of simple you can obviously see that the base shape is a square so when we cropped this out we actually found that actually it's only just two circles right the rest of it is kind of just repeating itself so doing this we can actually do so let's we need to start with a lines or a linear gradient completely regret doing live coding oh is there another one live coding always goes very well so that's that so we have something here we want to add a size so zero and then we put some size 100px 100px grid we want the color stop there's a line and then we want to draw another we want to draw a square so there's another line and we change this to 90 degrees so yeah we got a grid awesome then next we want we want to draw the circles here so let's start with a radial gradient and then we want yellow then pixel bro I think you learn to be on say because I didn't be on say to start faster I think can ah black transparent why am I typing out transparent okay I'm pretty okay I think photography must be the one maybe cannot do that so the circle location 30 seconds bro it's not sure okay never mind always when live code doesn't work always go to your always go to your backup which is 30 seconds bro here so basically the idea is very very simple you do your radial gradient you move the circle to the top you move the circle to the left and then let's head back up if you don't say twice you must start dancing new rule okay let's 5 minutes okay come I love these primers there's my new favorite thing okay okay go ahead you don't say okay so hi I'm I'm interested a lot in generative art but mostly using JavaScript and processing but since all the cool kids these days are CSSR I'm trying as well so I've tried a couple of things not using just linear and radial radial gradients but sometimes for simple pieces like these radial gradient works very well for intricate ones that I've done a couple more we'll see later we need SMGs because curves are a little bit difficult so I'm very inspired by peregrine designs for Islamic art so most of what I do is repeat tally over the background so this one I use radial gradient especially because when you don't have a hard stop the gradient kind of disperses and it gives a slight blurry effect and most of the tally is in the space that you can see these days they have this really blurry effect over the background so I wanted to create that so I kind of use radial gradients like 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 times repeated the gradient over circle and yeah just create this one the second bit since this one had this was inspired by a particular Iranian cafe in Mumbai so this was on the floor of the cafe so I tried to take a picture and tried to recreate this with CSS but the curves were slightly difficult to do in CSS so you see the borders and the circles on the borders actually all the circles in this entire image or in this entire piece are all radial gradients the lines are all radial gradients with hard stops and stops but the curves are all cubic beziers in SVGs which are slightly easier than quadratic beziers because cubic beziers are a little bit too difficult to get my head around it so it's just got one control point and you can create the curves I'm doing it for time so the third piece I wanted to show was this one this was another Islamic art piece that I saw in a cafe in Singapore I don't remember which one but yeah it's somewhere around the Kotaung area and so this one was the reason why I wanted to show this probably more of SVGs than using linear or radial gradients except for the brown blur that you see at the center of each tile so that's radial gradient with a very high stop so it kind of blurs into the background with the floral white background so the rest of the checkered board the flourish that you see in between they're all SVG parts I love hand-coding SVGs they're very therapeutic I tell you if you're having a very bad date just try and code a hand-code SVGs so all of these that you see the numbers are dotted by hand and I'm very proud of it so the good part of SVGs you can actually define a definition of a particular part and just repeat it and transform and rotate and it's just amazing because you have to write so much less code I mean it looks very complicated and the flourish looks complicated and the petals look complicated but it's just like one path defined and you just keep on rotating and here and there I have one minute more so let me show you one more so this one see this particular piece so this is again purely SVGs it's just that what I wanted to talk about was the so you know sometimes sometimes when you create images using pure linear gradients or using SVGs the contrast is very sharp it's not real life like but you need some sort of you know there's this word term in Japanese called Babisabi some sort of irregularity in your image so noise does that I mean if you're into gender to art you use a lot of purlin noise to in order to add that little bit of changes over your art so you could do that very easily using SVG filters so this is what it is so you could add a few turbulence which is actually purlin noise implemented in SVG through the basic definition and that's the end of my answer thank you so much last letter for today a pass everybody this gentleman 5 minutes right? however many minutes you're reading me I'll just make you O.P.O.T bro sorry sorry one moment O.P.O.T bro okay so I guess this is the can I change the aspiration hold on your saying waits for no one it's even worse your choice bro no one's on that a while back I was making I was doing something freelance for a friend and I was making part of these hamburger mobile menus and I realised that for my skill set it was quite a nightmare for me to make the hamburgers so I thought having something that I felt was difficult and this is my attempt and pretty quite a couple of hours spent writing everything from scratch so I'll just go through everything one by one and then if there's any questions I'll answer them later on the easiest most boring kind of menu you click on it and cool like it changes right but nowadays with all the animations that people are doing you cannot look bad so the one I actually implemented for my friend's side I did something like this I like to call it the easy simple and easy one where by the middle the middle one it actually just disappears and then I put the for the top and the bottom row I just moved the what do you call it? Origin something origin like yeah transform origin that's right transform origin and then it's all the way to the top the left side so that's just 0% then this is the other direction from instead of this one and then I've got another one whereby this is it got to a point whereby for this these ones onwards I had to I had to start everything first absolutely which was not what I was a fan of but because of the way I wanted it to look it had to be done because I had to do a top 0's, 18, 36 thing and then it had to like move so this was what I did and then moving on I made about 18 I think so I have go this one this one is this is actually one of the only ones that I'm using 4 lines instead of 3 and then it's just whereby the middle part is 2 lines and then it just rotates and then the top and the bottom just kind of fold into the middle and moving on to the next few this one is like this kind of but the top and the bottom go into the middle and then it happens after that and then this is a delay in animation for this one moving on as well this one is these are the slightly more orthodox ones this is the left arrow those quite cute and then the right arrow and I also did the other kind of wait no wait this one my bad do I scroll left and right from here where are the rest of my you are right where's my other hold on where is the oh I scraped one row ok sorry sorry this is the other left arrow and this is the other right arrow the other arrow so I've got this like play button kind of thing or like rewind kind of thing and moving on I have a plus side as well as a minus side the easiest one to make other than the one that has no animation this is probably the easiest one I didn't want them to fold in the same time so I did like a little delay thing and it took me a while to figure out the transition shorthand which I was really grateful to find out at the end and then I've got other ones where this one is this one is a little bit spinny spinny and the last two this one goes on forever this one is the quite cute I feel and then it rotates and it rotates again then this one is the this is the slower version of this in the other direction and then I've got this one where it goes on forever yeah it spins it's a windmill and this is the other direction it was easier for this one the last one is something that took me the last three hours it took me a while to think of I asked my colleagues about it and they're like oh do whatever you want and I decided to do this I would say this is the the most more I've played for this one so this is the side case I've written a little bit of JS as well this thing actually it just does everything at the same time and I'm done I call time right now bye