Locks presents Hollywood. Leave your mother's company to makers of the Locks Radio Theatre starring Donna Reed and Jeffrey Hunter in Raw Hive. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we present Academy Award winner Donna Reed and that talented young actor Jeffrey Hunter in an exciting saga of the Old West, Raw Hive. What a box of screen hits. It tells the story of two strangers whom he had a lonely stagecoach station and are held as hostages by an escaped criminal. A hundred years ago the territory of New Mexico included much of the area, now known as Arizona and New Mexico. But a hundred years ago the hardy traveller of the territory had a vast wasteland separating California from the east. A wasteland of hostile Indians and ruthless bandits and of something known to its friends as the Jackass Mail. A crowd of dusts moving across the arid plateau, upward through mountain passes, downward along icy streams, endlessly across the desert, a plunging, pounding, panting thing of mule flesh and warren iron and human determination. That was the Oberlin Mail and Princess Dakota St. Louis in 25 days, 2700 miles in 25 days and 25 nights. The shortest, fastest, not breakingest ride you could buy for $200 gold. Meals included. The eating part of it came at the various relay stations along the route, at lonely cobbins and adobe posts where fresh teams were hitched to the stage. Raw high pass was one such station. I heard it, Sam.  Answer him. All right. I think according to company rules... Well, let me tell you, without us blowing that bugle, how's the stage going to know everything's all right in here? I mean, there's engines and road agents hiding to ambush them. I get the point, Sam. I got it six months ago. Well, you sure don't act like it. You think I'm getting a kick out of learning you the stage business? Oh, come on. Let's get them yous ready. A baby in there. Come on, Mrs. Holt. He does most of the cooking at this station. Maybe he can help you. I'll be glad to, Mrs. Holt. Have you got some milk? Milk? Of course not. How about some dry oatmeal? All right, folks. This way. Well, I think so, Mrs. Holt. All right. Mix it with some water. Maybe I can get Callie to drink it. I'll fix it as soon as we change the team, Mrs. Holt. Thank you. And if you don't mind. Yeah? I'm not Mrs. Holt. I miss. Now listen here, boy. I can't change those yous by myself. All right, Tom.  You've seen a pretty woman before. There was all them stories about the St. Louis girls. Guess stories. Get those, Mrs. Holt. More coffee, Mrs. Holt. No, thank you.  Hey, ma'am. You call this a meal? Won't do any good complaining. Tom here is the son of J.C. Owen. So everything Tom does has got to be right. Who's J.C. Owen? Superintendent of the Eastern Division of the Oberlin. Well, folks, we better be getting back to the stage. Hold on. Wait a minute. I'm getting my rifle. Looks like a patrol. Like is it? You just pulled it from the west? That's our goal. You see four men on the road? Nope. Nobody. Who you looking for, Lieutenant? My name is Ray Zimmerman. Zimmerman? Zimmerman. I thought they had him in prison over at Huntsville. Well, he broke out the day before he was due to be hanged. He and three others. They held that Johnny Madden stage outside of Armistia. Johnny Madden what? Well, he drove through here just yesterday. And today he's dead. Johnny Madden. The old is a driver on the line next to me. But why? Why did they do it? Johnny's stage wasn't carrying a gold shipment? They must have thought it was. Anyway, my patrol is here to give you where to go as far as Armistia. That suits me. All right, everybody, climb in. Oh, we will have to stay here. Why? Company rule, ma'am. I paid my fare. It took all the money I could scrape up. Now, I'm going through to St. Louis. On the next stage, maybe, ma'am. Company rule says that when there's a danger of M.D.N.s or road agents, the stage can't carry any passengers under the age of 12. Now, of course, if you want to leave your baby here with us... Me, happily? Well, I guess not. We're going to get on that stage both of us. Hey, Sam, get the ladies' bags off the stage. All right. No, don't you dare.  Get out of my way. Miss Hope, please.  Let me go. All right, Scott, get that stage going and get out of here.  I'm awful sorry, ma'am, but you see rules are rules. I think these are all your bags, Mrs. Hope. Miss Hope, if you please. Huh? How's that? Never mind, Sam. You look after the mules and I'll carry your things inside. Hmm, Miss Hope. Oh, uh, Sam, there's a view.  I hardly imagine the son of the superintendent of the division would be washing dishes. Well, Sam and I take turns. He's all part of my education. Education? Yes. He has six months' work in a relay station, six months' ride and boot on a stage, and a year in the division office, and I'm ready for any job they got. And you're six months here? Well, that's up next week. Look, is there something you want to? Yes. Is there someplace around here I can take a bath? Well, there's a basin and a pitcher of water in your room. I said a bath. All right, come on. See that thing across the yard that Sam's pumping water into? The horse straw? Yeah, and you just see that you don't use any soap in it. Is that where you take a bath? No, there's a hot spring in the canyon back of the station. Ah, that's more likely. But you're going to have to watch out for snakes. Then maybe I'd better borrow your revolver.  That's not a bad idea. You can't hit them. At least you can scare them to death. I can hit them. Don't you worry about that. Hey, John. I'm coming, Sam. I'm coming. Here, take your gun. Oh, she says she knows how to use it. Maybe too well. Sam, I don't figure her for a lady road agent. What do you figure her for? You don't know what she wants, you know? A bed, a bedroom with my gear out, and made it a nursery for her and the baby. Hey, huh? What's that? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, somebody's coming up the galley. I see them. We're just rounding them borders. Tom, there's that spear rifle in the stable. Get it.  You be careful, Tom. I guess you'll wonder who I am or maybe that's Badgell. Deputy Sheriff? Yeah, Deputy Sheriff Miles from Huntsville. Well, I'm glad to know you. Oh, and it's my name. Not it. I suppose you're going to pick me up with a meal. Sure can. It's Sam. Sam, it's all right. It's the sheriff. You can come out now. All right. You're not taking any chances, I see. That's the way to stay alive in this country. Especially with Ray Zimmerman on the loose. Howdy, Sheriff. Hey, stay with your horse? Oh, as soon as I'm off him, you can't. Tom, he ain't no sheriff. Get your hands up, I said. Yeah, who's England? Some friends of mine down on the galley. Oh, maybe I'd better really introduce myself. My name's Zimmerman. I suppose you search the other room to see if there's anybody else around. You bet. You can't say you put our horses in the corral. I'd be settled. Sure. Good idea, boss. And now, Mr. Rohns and Mr. Whatchinam. Game card. All right. I now want some answers from you two, and I want them right. What time's the next stage, do we? The stage from the west. Tomorrow afternoon. Uh-huh. How much gold is carrying? Oh, none. That shipment went through today. Zimmerman, stop it. He'll get more than that the next time he lies to me. The California stage comes through tomorrow morning. It's carrying 100,000 gold bars, consigned by Crocker Mining Company and Sacramento to the government met in New York. And why ask God? Because I'm testing it. Unless you know I got everything figured. Oh, what is it? It's getting into your bonnet. Grats, keep them covered. Yes, sir. It's been a rock with that mistake, wasn't it? Yeah. I've been thinking about that. Hey, you. What's the whispering about? Well, that's nothing at all. I don't want to make a break for it. No, not now. The woman, your wife. I ain't got no wife. All right, then she's all in. Wife, where's your wife? What do you want me to do? Want her to name? How about this other woman? No, we need him. Grats, take him to the bedroom. Lock him up. Yeah, boss. You go first. Fire, did you hear a woman screaming? Hey, come to think of it, I did. Yeah, they come. Yancy's bringing him in. Look at what I found, boss. I found this wife on the table, and then I see this lady and this lady cutting across your eyes. No, butters. I saw you kill Sam. Good. And you know what you're up against. All right, Sabbath, take her back and lock her up with a husband. My husband? I sure. Or don't you like him since you've seen me? Come on. Hands off me. Oh, cut she ain't she? I like him with a spoon. Sabbath. Listen, Sam, hear those shots back in the canyon. How long do you think it takes for a bath? Hey, wait a minute. What happened to my gun in the cartridge belt? I dropped them. You dropped them? Yes. I was so startled when I heard those shots. I wonder I didn't drop Callie, too. Where's the gun now? I don't know. I think just the other side of that pile of fire went along the corral. A lot of good. It's going to do it out there. Us? I'm not in this thing with you. Ms. Holder. Mrs. Holder, whatever your name is. Isn't this Denny Hope? And while we're on the subject, Mr. Owen, what right did you to tell those men you're my husband? I didn't tell them. That Zimmerman's idea.  You're sure it's not your own skin you're worried about? Well, sure I am. Killing me doesn't seem to be part of their plan, at least not yet. See, they need me alive until I've stayed through with that big gold shipment. I'm going to be their decoy. What's that got to do with them thinking on your wife? No, I'm staying out of your mess. I'm going to tell them the truth. Now, look. Can't you understand, Ms. Holder, that they'll be nice to you as long as they think you're important to me? Until they don't need you any longer. But after they get the gold shipment... We'll figure out something before then. And if we don't, then what happens? What do you think? I think I'd like to live. Even if it's just for another 24 hours. It's late afternoon in the lonely station at Rohad Pass, where Vinnie and Tom are held prisoners. In the main room of the station, Zimmerman, Tevis, Yancy and Gratt, wait impatiently for the arrival of the state's coach from the east. Right in the cupboard? Put it back. Right now. There's not going to be any drinking. That goes for you, too, Gratt. Yeah, yeah. You hear that, Yancy? Ain't no drinking, man, boss. All I ever done wrong in my whole life was to steal that horse. It wasn't for that you and me had never met. I regret it even more than you, Mr. Just because you three busted out of jail along with me, that doesn't mean I picked you for this job. You just came along. And that's my bad luck. Now, there's no call to talk to honorees. Damn everything's going just right. Is it? That guy down the yard, there's Todd's body laying there for the whole world to see.  I got to tell you everything. I'll put up a nice little cross over here.  All we need for the stagecoach to come along and see a cross, you go bury him.  Yassim, I do it good. The rest of you keep a lookout for that stage from the east. I come through here early. What are you going to do, Zim? Never mind. I don't remember seeing you wear a revolver.  I handed in this. What do you think? What was wrong with it?  I'm not stopping you.  If you're lying to me. Go ahead, look. We had a gun. We wouldn't be putting up with your bullying. That's a point, man. Oh, and when the stage from the east comes through, I want everything just as usual around here. You feed the passengers and the crew and get them on their way again with no questions. They're one of no worse than that. You're telling me it's gone to Tucson or to Yuma. They had a bad tooth. He had to go to a dentist. You think that'll work? It'll better work. A lady here and a baby, they'll be counting on you to see that it doesn't. Company rule. What are you talking about? It's a wonderful company rule that was supposed to keep the baby and me out of danger. If you would let us go through on that stage in another week, Callie would have been with her father's family safe. No, no, that brings up something I've been meaning to ask you. Where is her father? Dead. He killed three months ago. Her mother too. Oh, but I thought that she was... I told you. I'm plain as any host. Callie isn't my baby. Her mother, Jeannie, was my sister. She married a gambler who got the gold fever. He just had to go to California. What took you out there? Jeannie wouldn't go without me. Now I'm going home without her. You say she and her husband were killed? How? Jeannie was too pretty. Jeannie was too jealous. One night a drunk and clean jumper took a fancy tour. The shooting was over. I was alone with Callie. Well, that explains some things. Does? Yeah. I guess you've got reason enough not to like men. I don't. Is that the impression I get? You sure do. That's a stage. There must be some way to get word to them. All right, now we've got to be careful. They're going to be watching us like a hawk. It's on the bill, stage driver. You just said they'll be watching you every instant. They may give you a chance. Here, hide this in your box. And you be careful. If anything goes wrong, they'll shoot down everywhere. I know, but don't you think... Wait in front of her to answer them. All right, then do it. Come on out here. Yes, sir. Yeah, boss?  Lock yourself in that room and keep her quiet. Sure, I will. I just love babies. What about my wife? I was coming to her. Tavis? Yes, him? Take Mrs. Owens out the back way. Take her up in that canyon behind the station. Far enough so she can't yell. You bet. This is the kind of work I enjoy. Every woman you can do that, not with Tavis. Why not? You know why as well as I do. Just look at it. She'll be all right. As long as you don't make any mistakes. Now, why is your pupil hanging over there? All right, go get it. Tim, you told everybody what to do except me. You're going to be out in the stable with your rifle. Grab your cover Owens and me when we meet the stage. Yeah, good. Owens and his old friends. Deputy Sheriff Miles. Owens, I said answer them. Everything's cool and there's not much of it. It didn't have time to fix it then. Well, why not? I've been too busy. Oh, busy doing what? All right, Tom, I thought you told him. You know, about Sam. Toothache and having to go to the dentist and Tucson. Yeah, he told his sheriff. And you're staying on here to help out? Yeah, I... Mr. Fickert, what are you bound for? Oh, just traveling, Sheriff. Uh-huh. What about you, Mr. Chickering? I'm going to California. So you know something, Sheriff? There's something about you that you... Well, there is. Yeah, I keep thinking now. Ain't I seen you somewhere before? You ever been to Huntsville? No, I never went or read it. That's where the territorial prisoners located, isn't it? The one that fellow Zimmerman broke out of? Yeah, that's where I'm, Mr. Fickert. I suppose Sheriff, you must have known Zimmerman. Well, I... I saw him once this way. Mr. Fickert's from the New York Herald, Sheriff. He's probably looking for a story. Oh, a newspaper man, eh? You hear that, Tom? Maybe you could give Mr. Fickert a story, huh? Oh, would you, Mr. Owens, maybe something with flavor and excitement? I'm sorry, Mr. Fickert. Nothing much happens around here. Sheriff, what about this fellow Zimmerman? Yeah. He came from a pretty high-told family. Ah, that's right, he did. If you met him, you'd probably take him for a complete gentleman. He can call a murderer a gentleman. Well, I heard he went wrong and caught a some woman, a Creole, from the audience. Yeah, he said she was a real looker. Zimmerman caught a double dealing him with some other young, fancy dance. Still involved. You seem to know quite a bit about Zimmerman, Mr. Fickert. Oh, forget I'm a newspaper man. Why don't you tell us the rest of this story? I don't see what's been added to that story, except from the caption again and hanging. Uh, Mr. Chickering, what's your line of business? I'm a drummer, a cult firearms, hard-foot kinetic. No, is that so? I hear cults getting out some new army models. That's what I'm taking to California. I'll assure you. Uh, no. No. No, no, that's all right. No, trouble. Got my sample case right here. There. You ever see such beauty? You mind if I handle one, Mr. Chickering? Go right ahead. We're proud of our product. If you want to test it, I've got ammunition off the stage. You're an excellent salesman, Mr. Chickering. But I don't think there's time for that. There's just a coyote. Yeah, like a king from the canyon. Well, it might have. Tom, may I see the gun, please? Tom? He came from the canyon. There's only a coyote. The guns, huh? He kind of knows. Ain't it good? Yes. Is that why you're shivering? It's cold. The stage would be pulling out almost any time. Plenty of moonlight, so we can see it come up. Do you know what that coyote is howling about? He just calling for his lady friend. Come and be sweet to him. Do you know coyotes? Mr. Tebas, please. Oh, Mr. Tebas. You don't have to be so nice and nice, girl. Don't run away.  I'll tell Zimmerman. I'll let him know. Just tell you that. You think I'm afraid of him, huh? Just because he thinks he were on the stage? Mr. Tebas. Mr. Tebas. Mr. Tebas. Little girl, you know how long it's been since I've seen the footage. Wait a minute, girl.  What's that you dropped? What?  No. Yes, you did. I seen that fall out of your blouse. My blouse? Well, there it is. Right there at your feet. Mr. Tebas. I'll pick it up. Go on. But it's only a letter, a personal letter. Where? Who from? My brother. Let me see if it is. You can't read it. There's no life. There's no life? That's good enough. Now, hand it over. You thought I didn't know how to read, didn't you? Well, I guess I showed you, didn't I? Yes, Mr. Tebas. I guess you did. I did indeed. How long, Davis? Good long time. Good shift. Goodbye, gentlemen. All right, Orange. It's back in doors. My wife is over here. Tebas is bringing her in. Come on. Now, just a minute. That's for trying to get that salesman's gun. And that's for not following my orders. And that's so you'll remember next time. What's the matter? You're waking the baby. How do you think she can sleep? It's always right. Oh, get out of here, Yancy. See him. Go on back to the room. All right, boys. All right. Now I'm going to have to rock her to sleep again. Let me in a minute. That's Benny. Don't move. I want to stay where you are. No, Davis. Him goes on it. Why? Do you want to leave her alone? All right. No, I didn't think. Back to your room. You too. Hey, I haven't got that guts. Baby, no. You're going to forget about her, Yancy. Yeah, we'll take care of her. Call me. Call me, honey. I'll see both of you in the morning. Come. Wait. You may be lifting out the door. Could you get word to the stage starters? No. Tom, what are we going to do? I don't know. We've got to keep on thinking and trying. How much time have we got? Till the stage comes through from California with that gold shipment? Till tomorrow morning. Oh, late at night. Some 12 hours have passed since Zimmerman and his companions took over the station at Raw High Pass. Locked in the small back room of the station, Tom stares hopelessly through the barred windows while Vinny attempts to comfort the restless baby. That hollering coyote that's bothering Yancy. Just some way of closing that window so we couldn't hear it. I know the company put up those iron bars so it's more imaginable. Oh, thoughtful of them. What is it? Press your face against these bars and look as far at the right as you can. Do you think a fine one by the corral? Yes. Well, that's about where you dropped my revolver, isn't it, right? Yes, on your far side. Well, maybe it's down there. I see. If anybody found it, please hear about it. I think we've got to get there. All through this Adobe wall tunnel and opening big enough to crawl through it. We'll dig it out with our fingernails, I suppose. I don't need something with a sharp point to it, sharp and strong. You must have a butcher knife out in the kitchen. Oh, sure. Then let me get it. It'll be easier for me. But, Ralph... I'll tell them I need water for the baby. Well, we've got to try, Tom. Tell me exactly where I'll find that knife. You know where the cast of water is? Alongside the cup. The baby's got a fever. I want to get her some water. All right, give me the picture. You know, I'll fill it. The picture has to be ripped out first, Mr. Zimmerman. I don't want to ask such a favor of you. What time it is? He's outside. I put him on lookout. You're sure? About what? That he's on lookout. What do you mean? I just see him. Well, if you'll excuse me, Mr. Zimmerman, I'd like to fill this picture. Yeah, I'd say first heaven. Didn't say that at all. No. Then what were you trying to say? Why, nothing. No way, Mr. Zimmerman. No, do you have a picture? Yes. What's the matter with your baby? I don't know. She does very easily. I don't know why she had to be here, anyway. Why not? I just don't like her being here, that's all.  Yeah, yeah, revolver. She's just old enough to talk to understand. I guess that's it. Yes, that's it. Getting your hands raw like a couple of rats for what? For 24 hours, we've let those murderers walk all over us, order us around, do this, do that, and we did it. You can't argue with a gun. Why not? Where is this darkness? Well, we're still alive, aren't we? Still alive. It's going to happen just as well as I do. Well, sure I do. Any minute now they're going to come in here and take me out there to harness that team. I'm Zimmerman's bait for the stagecoach, a bait for ambush. But what do you want me to do about it? Say, I'm sorry, Mr. Zimmerman, I'm not working today. Oh, Callie, Callie, please. And maybe I've been wrong about something else, too. Maybe we shouldn't have pretended to be Mr. and Mrs., but I figured it was a good bargain for both of us. I thought they'd treat you all right because they wanted me to cooperate. Oh, yes, they just treated me wonderful, especially Heather. All right, from here on out you can just do better on your own. Maybe you better tell Zimmerman who we are. Maybe I will. Callie, stop it. Now's the time. Go ahead and tell her. It's nothing that concerns you, Mr. Zimmerman. A husband and wife can quarrel in private, can't they? Well, it wasn't very private. The stage ought to be along any time.  All right. Get back in the room, Mrs. Zorn. I'll say that it doesn't bother you any more. The gun, the gun, where is it? You have pepper's idea? And I was worried about you being able to handle a gun. But you and the baby can be honest. What about you? You're leaving, too, aren't you? My relief won't get here until next week. I'm just going to have to wait till then. Tom, do you mind if I wait and go back with you? I was hoping you might want to. I do, Tom. I'd better answer that bugle and let him know that everything's all right. It is all right. Everything's all right now. The award time is almost here. Last night, we're William Conrad as Zimmerman, Lawrence Dodkin as Teves, Tim Graham as Sam, Polly Bear as Yancey, and Jack Krushen as Grats. Our radio play was adapted by Leonard St. Clair, our music, followed and directed by Rudy Schrager.


I think there are three elements to the Welsh foundational economy approach. The first is what we are announcing today is the experimental. The £1.5 million that we agreed with Plaid Cymru as part of the budget settlement a couple of years ago, we are announcing today that we are cracking on with that. It's going to be applied, it's going to be sector neutral. So, it's open to all comers, state, public, voluntary sector to bring us your ideas of how you can apply the principle of the foundational economy in your area. And that, I think, that is a bold approach for government because we are saying it is experimental. Not all of these projects will succeed. They will fail. Some aren't particularly exciting. But let's give it a go. It's a relatively small amount of money to start, £1.5 million, but already we are looking at how we can add to that. We are talking to the Cardiff city deal about the potential of matching funding. There are other Welsh government projects. I'm very keen the valley task force that I chair will also put some money into this as well. So, I think there are things we can do with an explicitly experimental approach. And that's exciting. Let's celebrate the fact that it's experimental, not bemoan the fact that some of it will fail. Let's celebrate and learn from failure. And that's okay. The second element is a Preston Plus approach. And I went to visit with Jenny Rathbone, Matthew Brown in Preston in the autumn. The thing that impressed me most was, this is a little borough council, the size of Swansea in a poor part of England, who have not found excuses for what they can't do. They focus on what they can do. And the thing that the Deputy Chief Executive said to me that stuck with me, he said, this was easier than we thought it was going to be. We told ourselves all sorts of stories about how procurement rules stopped us from doing this. And this was all done within existing procurement rules. And it was done without increasing cost and without reducing quality. And it's had an impact. Preston has been lifted out of the bottom five poorest parts of England and five of the six local anchor institutions are living wage employers, which is perhaps one of the single most significant things that we can do to improve the local economy is pay people a decent wage. So, but clearly Preston is a borough council. If we're going to apply this on a national scale, we need to iterate it. And one of the things I think, the frustrating things I find, so Preston has been inspirational in doing. Wales has been inspirational in talking for a long time. And when you think, the founding thinkers of the foundation economy are here. The great miserableist, Carol Williams, sitting down the frontier. Developed a lot of his thinking based on the economy of Heineheeth, a mundane economy he called it. Keith Edwards sitting next to him, less miserable. Also son of Heineheeth. He did a lot of important work 10 years ago on the can-do toolkit in housing. And as ever, we did a pilot project and then the caravan moved on. And others have taken it up and applied it. But we need to reclaim that Welsh leadership, that Heineheeth leadership, to make this agenda real. So we'll be looking at a Preston plus, because Carol will be talking about this later, I'm sure. But the Preston approach to procurement has been a postcode approach. And I think we need to go to a more relational approach to procurement. We develop longer supply chains, not simply based on the geography, but based on how we can benefit the third element, which is grounded firms. That, I think, is the third pillar of the Welsh foundational economy approach. How do we tackle that missing middle that we've long analysed and discussed, the phenomenon where we have the egg timer shape to the Welsh economy? We have a small number of very large firms, a mountain of one man in the van, micro firms, and a small number of medium-sized firms. And how do we grow the small into the medium? And how do we stop then the medium selling out, cashing out when those founders have reached the end of their time? And that being lost to the Welsh economy. So explicitly, this is a pro-business agenda, but it's pro-grounded business, it's pro-local business. It's the businesses that have a stake in their economy. I was discussing with James Davies last night, another honoree, son of he, the former manager of the calisonic factory in the town, who went to Japan to be the European leader, and has now come back to help us with our work here. And he and I were talking about examples of what we thought a grounded firm was. And the example we both seized upon was Parker Plantire in Chinachee. Highest Protocabins, Cement Mixers, the mundane and glamorous and sexy part of the economy. But my God is that a rooted, grounded firm. And George Parker, the managing director there, is a salt of the earth man of the town who gives to all sorts of local causes. And when the great slump hit in 2008, it was just personal savings to make sure that nobody was laid off. And you walk into his outfit then, there's a little life of Marzola, it's back in the 1970s, the filing cabinets are still there, but the values and the commitment to his town and the role he sees himself as playing there is inspiring. And the same of Burns, Pet Food and Kidwaley, these exist beyond the Cardiff radar, but this is what makes the Welsh economy tick. And we've taken them for granted and not supported them, and they're still there. Fair play to them, they are still there, but some of them are struggling. And we need to do more to explicitly help them make a contribution to the fabric of our communities. So those three elements, I think, are key. The good news is that a lot of this work is happening and it's great to have the context of international and national examples, but we've also got the domestic examples. And we'll be hearing about them through the day of the housing associations, the care sector, who are doing experiments in this now. And I think we need to learn from that, we need to scale it up.  This has got to be mainstreamed. And I'm very pleased that the senior officials from the Welsh Government are here with us in force today. And we need to think about how we bake this into the new regional economic plans that we're going to be developing as part of the economic action plan, how we bake it into the local service boards that are sitting out there, having gone through endless meetings to draw up local plans. Now we can give them a real project to focus on. Let us bake it into the social care work that we're doing. And let's not just think about this as procurement. It's not just about procurement. That's a key part of it. But every part of Wales, every sector, the police forces, the UK government organisations that are here, the private sector, all have a responsibility to engage in this. And we in this room are the people that are going to make this happen. We have the power. All the stuff we're talking about, we can do it. If Prestonborough Council can do it, then we can do it. So let's get on with it and do it. Diolch.


Well, it's almost that time. We are almost ready to race. If you're just joining us, you're joining us in Manchester at the Bellevue Stadium for the Monster Energy FIM Speedway of Nations Race Off 2. Great Britain play host to six other nations and they'll be battling it out to join Poland, Sweden, Germany and of course the host nation Russia on the 20th and 21st of July. Now, this is where all of the action happens. This is the pits base here and it's very, very busy at the moment. Team Australia, one of the favourites. Now Chris Holden in for Jason Doyle and I just wanted to interrupt as we always do. Hi Mark, how you doing? I'm doing great, I'm just having a good day. Good mouthful, just perfect timing indeed. Okay, well Mark, you've had a few changes, a few rider changes but quite a strong line-up all the same. Yeah, bringing Chris Holden in is no sort of hindrance to our team.  So not that the others aren't but you know, you're a former world champion and on fine forms it's going to be hard but the key thing is Jason's obviously taking an injury which we wanted to be fit and well for the next Grand Prix and we couldn't really risk him. You know, we potentially could do eight races here tonight so with a broken ribbon and sort of damaged lung it's probably not the place to be. Well coming in as one of the favourites, do you see Great Britain and Denmark as the contenders or are you just looking at the whole field as a strong competition field?  Okay, well new rules under 21s come into play. Any ideas when you're going to put that in? Yeah, I've got a couple ideas but we'll see how that pans out to begin with but obviously you know, you're going to try and pick on the nations that probably aren't sort of the usual suspects. Okay, we'll let you get back to dinner, sorry to interrupt. Alright, well we'll just swing around this way because another usual face in the pits of Great Britain looking at to get their first gold medal since 1989, Nigel, is this the year? For Great Britain, they've got a chance, of course what they did last year in the final was fantastic and of course Ty won the final so if they can repeat that type of performance then they will be in the mix. They've got a chance, yes they can do it, not sure they will, I think it's going to be a great tournament in Russia and I think here in Bellevue, the national Speedway stadium which is my favourite track in the world, I think we're going to see a great night racing. Yeah for sure, okay well you are in the commentary booth with Calvin, what makes for the ultimate pairs heat? Well when there's a bit of team riding involved and if you've got a situation where you know you need a race advantage and the leader is looking over his shoulder and deliberately slowing down to try and get his partner through into second place for a maximum race, team riding, looking over your shoulder, slowing down, trying to slow your opponent down and that is great team riding. Calvin was useless at it as a rider, he was so selfish he'd just get and go. But great it is in the commentary booth we're sure, okay thank you so much Nigel Pearson, you'll be hearing more of him of course later on and that'll be from around about 7pm, remember that's local time, okay Mark's just trying to escape from us so he can eat his dinner. Let's head into the pits now, a bit further deep, oh what a nice surprise we see Natalie Quirk in the distance there as well, we won't interrupt her, right team GB here, well we have been speaking to Robert and Ty and Craig all very relaxed at the moment. I might just interrupt Craig and just see how he's feeling, he's wearing a bubble hat but the sun's out, unexpected sunshine Craig. Well we're up north now so you can't be too careful. How are you feeling ahead of tonight, the crowds are going to be big? Yeah I hope so, it's always a bonus to be in our home nation, resting in front of our home crowd so hope they all get behind us tonight and create some great atmosphere. What's it like riding pairs with the other two? Both phenomenally capable riders so yeah it's the great guys to ride with and if we need a bit of team riding then both of them are very capable to do so. Okay thanks Craig we'll leave you to it, they've got a signing in a bit as well so all the fans can get their autographs. Now this is what happens, the pits are opened up and all the fans, all the officials, all the people come into here so I'm going to walk you back out to the track so we get a bit of clear air. Now there's plenty of action as we said Poland, Germany and Sweden are already through joining host nation Russia so it is a question of can they do it, a very strong Denmark team as well. So the likely suspects are Great Britain, Australia and Denmark but make sure you keep across all of our social media to find out exactly what happens on the night.


would have started here, well, scored earlier, and this was the second one. Parkes, just holding and wrestling his man and starting it past Clark in goal, and that was the second goal for Pleasantville secondary. Well, he can kiss the badge, would have enjoyed that. And then later, this man, Javis the foul, and Atiba getting the third item for Pleasantville. Javis at the heart of it, Henry doing all the good work on Honor Plata, and that was goal number four for New Carapo Park, getting his hat trick. And then later on, it was more skill here. Look at that. And another goal for East New Carapo. And then Javis, here is Neymar Lott in this broadcast, and Henry, and peanut butter jelly sack, which is yet another goal. That's Park. The hat trick for him, confirmation. Pick scoreline, five at the half, and then that happened in the second half. Beautiful goal. I finished that was. Teela getting his second, and then another one. Teaching Khaled and it went to Javis. What Pleasantville team of warriors and they fought back. Look at that from distance. Oh, goodness me, the goal of the match, perhaps. And that started to show Keith Robertson. And then Williams second and thought maybe confirmation and then later on Williams with his second and a third for Pleasantville. Look at the celebration as well. Then Williams, a magician, and Adams with the tapper at the far post. Now they were enjoying it a lot because Sackland tested face and his luck from distance. Well, you decide which was the best strike from distance. Certainly one of the favorites at this game ending by eight goals to five. Well, let's see what the numbers say. It's going to be interesting and in terms of shots, Esmukarapo 20 of which 18 were in target. Pleasantville, all of their shots in target, scored five of the seven shots. Certainly a rocked and rugged contest, 9-10 in terms of falls. Pleasantville goalkeeper, while he's had a easy day clock making 10 saves. Possession though, that belonged to Esmukarapo. And look at the score line at the top. It's the most erratic score line. Exciting. Oh, you use your choice to put it at 8-5, the final score. So it's a good time to say goodbye to all of our viewers on CCN, TV6 in Trinidad. And as the sun sets here in Mocha, it's time to send it down to Hans de Viennes who's standing by with our man of the match, Pax. Our man of the match, Brandon Pax scored five goals for the entire season. NGC man of the match, Trophy, goes through five for the entire season and your hat trick today. How do you feel about your performance? How do you feel about the team's performance? I feel very good about my performance. I've been training through pre-season very hard for this performance and come out on the field and show you today. Well, it looks very difficult for you all to even get the Premiership division title, but are your goals focused now on inter-call and in what way? Yes. Our goal is to focus on the inter-call, to place first in the inter-call and in all the inter-call. Well, all the best to you, Brandon Pax. Congratulations. Our NGC man of the match, Brent Sancho is with another player that made an impact today. Well, thank you very much, Hans. It's very unusual here at Sportsmax that we do a second, of course, mention for man of the match, young Keelan Williams with his second half exploits have certainly deserved the opportunity to speak to us here on camera. Keelan, of course, unfortunate with the loss. Talk to us about your second half performance in particular, your two goals and assists throughout the game. Well, the first half, we wasn't focused and when we come off and next half, well, coach talked us and let us concentrate and pass the ball a little more, play three wingers and after we started to communicate more, second half, and well, when I was going to the goal, I just see the goal open and I just shoot and I say, yeah, after I did, yeah, it was all for me and just confidence just rise up and we started score more. Well, we saw the confidence and, of course, from your first goal as we just saw into your second goal, where you started to take things into your own hands as a player, it just felt that if we had more time, you might have gotten back some of those goals. Tell us about that confidence and how do you take that confidence into your next fixture? Well, very few games, I always tell them, I go in and take them on, that's be there to be for the, um, you scrap something, I show I go into score, I tell them I'm going to score, I have to score and everything can rise up. Yeah. Thank you very much, young killer. Well, congratulations on your performance and all the best for the rest of the season. Of course, an honorable mention to young Williams and what he's been able to produce in this half of football, a sparkling display by that young man, and I'm now joined by his coach, coach Roberts, of course, a disappointed defeat overall, a tale of two halves, your assessment on the game. Assessment on the game was, as my player just said, they take a little while to settle. And once they settle, and as you know, we say here, confidence is everything. I just do my part to keep motivating them, to keep motivating them. At no time I be negative with them. I know they have the potential. And as I said, it's a resilient group of fellas. Although we didn't get the result you want today, I'm really proud of these guys today, because the effort was so resilient. And I just had to say hats off to them today. Well, it was a good second half of coaching. I'm very sure you would take this performance going into your rest of your fixtures. Thank you very much, coach, and all the best to you. Of course, coach Roberts, talking about the attributes necessary and needed for his team to dig their way out of their situation. I'm now joined by the winning coach, of course, Coach Dilson, this coach, who has really done and dusted in the first half, your assessment of the game. Yeah, definitely. I'm part of my young charges. You know, we scored eight goals. That means we did a fantastic job going forward. You know, we tried to give some of these senior players a bit of rest to the end of the match. And yeah, we conceded. Yeah, I know. And of course, for you, it's about moving forward. Intercull coming up, of course, scoring the goals that you did in the first half. You must be going into the Intercull. I'm sure that's your focus now. Definitely. Every game now, going forward is about, you know, preparing for the Intercull. And I'm seeing a lot of improvement going forward as well. So, you know, we are preparing well. Well, all the best to you and your team moving forward. Thanks a lot. Well, the


to be responsible for the code, for these communities, for keeping these things. Somebody called for a post. I've not talked to us yet. Come over and say hi. They're more likely to plug into these opportunities to use it. So I just went by and say hi. Community Pulse with PJ. Analytics and ROI, how to maintain a personalized to those selected, which is lacking for community emotional. All those things. Refer to my apartment as an expensive storage unit and do how often I was on the road and traveling, but I'm lucky enough to actually be there in person most of the time these days. So this picture is the number on the top of a place called Tank Hill. As you can see, I'm not someone who looks like they need a service dog. Like a service dog. A striped kitty dress. Super excited about that striped kitty dress. It's one of my favorites. A left wrist, which I still have today and I've worn ever since. This single fact is defined. Type 2 gestational, do a type 2, because that's the most common in conversations to have at two o'clock in the morning. Or shots for some people. Continuous glucose monitoring system. So it's heading towards level. And it delivers a certain amount of insulin per unit. Or my blood sugar is running high. And continuous glucose monitoring system. Attracts my blood sugar on a regular basis so that I can see the patterns of how I'm doing. For the amount of sugar in my bloodstream throughout, keep me from indoor skydiving, which is awesome. Should totally try and talk to you about it. Well, how to travel, how to behave in public, things like that. That they struggle with some sort of mental disability or illness. Including depression. They struggle with depression. And something closely related, which all you can do that I have to deal with. And that's fair. You don't have as much pressure as some of those people who do work in tech. So I didn't pick Google search for the term brown in tech culture. Can anyone see what the number at the top of the screen says? Let's assume that some of those are just people who have tagged articles with popular terms and things like that. But even if you take only 10% of that, that's still 200,000 results. That's still a huge number. It's still a big problem. I don't want to be an owner. I don't want to say that we're all going to wind up depressed because I don't think that's the case. And I think we should be the ones to start to fix it. The first thing we need to do is figure out what causes burnout in the first place. So there's two folks that I haven't seen today. I put the information up here. I'm happy to tell you about them afterwards as well. They're both fantastic resources. And I encourage you to think about what you have a chance. The first one is called overwhelmed. How to work, play, and that should kind of rotate. Sorry about that. How to work love. The truth about burnout makes some basic causes of burnout. And they resonate pretty well with everything I've heard and felt. The first one is a lack of control. We start out really excited and passionate and intense about this new hobby. We try to conquer it, and we try again. It enters the right company, the right situations. We wind up simply hiding, waiting for all the pieces to fall, hobbies as a result, which doesn't actually help burnout. One of the easiest ways to cover up burnout is changing jobs because it gives us that sense of a new challenge. It's the new excitement, the new relationship energy, if you will. The Christina Maslow mentions are unfairness and insufficient reward. So I'm sure you all know someone or maybe it's you who's the go-to person for our questions. You're the person who always picks up a quote of you who always mentors the new people, who always helps the new employer in the rows. And that's great. There's nothing wrong with that. But what happens when that starts to feel unfair or unbalanced? That you're getting just aren't enough. There's been a lot of articles and forums and entrepreneurs like social psychology, a whole bunch of different sites lately, that say past a certain point money is not a motivator. And yesterday that a lot of us have higher salaries than pretty much anyone else in other industries. But that only gets us so far. That only pays off so much, and it hits this point where it's just you can't pay me enough to continue to do the things that you're asking me to do. The next reason for burnout is work overload. I'm a close friend last year. I told her this. I said it's the constant overwhelming disfactor. The overflowing inbox, the never being in my microscope how long I have to actually clean and get things organized the way I want them to be. But to do this that's five pages long and it only ever seems to grow around shrink and the burden of feeling like I'm the only one who can do all of these things. The always being on at events, which isn't fake and I love it, but it's draining. The physical exhaustion from not getting enough sleep consistently and from my blood sugar is not being as under control as I would like. And also I think that comes with all the above. So these are things that I've heard repeatedly from a lot of people who deal with burnout and con on words and backlogs and things like that help a lot. But what about when those backlogs are overflowing and the teams are too lean to actually work as a lean team in our today? It is lack of community. So when we spend so much time investing in work in our code and learning new skills we sometimes fail to invest in our personal lives. And we start to drift away from the circle of people that are closest to us. As a friend Jason's tweet says, community is those people who come looking for you when we don't show up. I think all of us need to find that group of people and those people in our lives. People who are burnout as well. If you've come to the resolution during my talk so far that you are burnout or you're down that road, I apologize, but it'll get better if my cover is How to Be Revented. And what can we do for anything? You probably can't see this slide, but it's Alph, if you remember the character Alph. And someone's putting oxygen masks on him and they already have their oxygen mask on. So airlines are constantly reminding us to put our own oxygen mask on first. This isn't because they want children or people with disabilities to go with that option for longer, obviously. But it's because if we aren't getting oxygen ourselves we can't be expected to help others. So putting on our own oxygen mask first aka taking care of ourselves. Setting aside time just for us being selfish, because it's not a bad thing sometimes, is essential.  Getting oxygen is stepping away from your laptop. Throw your laptop across the room sometimes and just close it and leave it there for a while. And it's hard, I get it. Harder than why we do what we do is because we love solving problems. We love helping other people. We love being there for other people and being there for our team. We're going to be there for longer hours or complete unrealistic deadlines or review just one more pull request or figure out just one more blood if there's a problem. Good friend of mine helped stop if yes, call a firefighter. And there's a couple of important principles here. First of all, we should not be expected to be online at all times. No matter what. And if this is the expectation you need to sit down and have a serious conversation with your manager. This should not be the case and there are no exceptions to that. It doesn't matter how small or large your team is. It doesn't matter if there's a problem. It doesn't matter if your team is qualified for certain things. And yes, there's going to be times every once in a while when we have to stay up late fixing a problem or when we'll get a page in the middle of the night or things like that. But it should not be the norm. And if it is, talk to your manager. And if that doesn't change it, talk to people here today because I'm fairly certain there's people here that are hired. Step up and take responsibility for the things that you're doing when you can't. Again, we're not no matter how much it feels like it. We're not doing things that work so that I can't be responsible for those things. I don't have access to our support-taking system because it's not my job. We have a whole community service department dedicated to that. I actually make sure I'm not on sales calls because again, it's not my job. We have technical sales folks who are supposed to be on those calls. And if I am allowing myself to be on those things, if I am allowing myself to pick up the problems that everyone else is asking me to, I'm giving people the impression that I am the only person who can help and eventually teaching them to take advantage of me rather than allowing them to reach out to people who can help them the most. Next thing, learn to say no. A lot of us really struggle with this word and it's not that difficult of a word to say but situationally, it can be hard to bring up. It's the easiest way to learn to say no. Get your managers buying that you have to run things past them before you commit to projects outside of your department. Make them the bad guy. It's what they're there for.  Also, be okay with saying no to your personal life.  Speaking of personal time, use your calendar. Really use it. For two different things. First of all, time box your projects. So when you know that you have a big work project coming up or something that you really have to focus on, make sure you set that time aside on your calendar so that people can't put meetings on there or people know that you're gonna be unavailable.  And again, if something happens, they'll likely be able to fix it. If you're the only person who can, they can reach out to you then. Keep things on your calendar so you can't skip them, including vacation. Plan for it. Every practice of always having a vacation on the calendar at some point. So when I come back from a vacation, if I don't have another vacation coming up on my calendar, it's just a long weekend and make sure I schedule one. This keeps you with something to look forward to, keeps you able to focus on what you're doing because you know that you're gonna have some time to relax when we have. But then also, when you're on vacation, be on vacation. If you use Slack or HipChat at work, make sure you change your username before you go to say, iBox or PTO or something like that so that people know you're not available. Make sure you set up your email bounce backs so that again, people know you won't be responding for a few days. Give yourself those extra boundaries so that people are aware that you're gone and can't be reached. I mentioned the book earlier called Overwound. And the author realized as she was writing the book and interviewing people for it that planning for leisure time takes effort. Here's a quote from the book. She says, I realized she was kept putting it off, like I was waiting to reach some tipping point. Like it finished picking all the weeds, chopping the bamboo, cleaning up the crayons and sharp teeth and math papers, buying more cat food. She goes on and on. Then, as a leisure was something I needed to earn. And she says something else that I think can resonate with all of us. Even when I seem to just have some free time it was often for such a short period that I was at a loss for what to do with it. So I just went back to the next item to do the list instead. We need to learn to put down our to-do list and to take that time for ourselves and plan for vacation or plan for a break. Even if it means spending a little bit of extra money to pay someone else to take care of planning it or taking a vacation when you'd rather go somewhere else or just taking a day off to lay around the home and being leisurely but plan for that time or else this simply won't happen. I would pause it. We all have four hours every two weeks that we can take out of our normal work day to take a step back see the force of both the trees and decompress a little bit. Don't believe me? I don't blame you. Totally understand how busy we all are. A lot of things on our plate. We all have a lot of pressure at work. We all have a hard time getting everything done every week. But one of my good friends Jay Coleray came in a little while with this idea before we decompress. It's a time to reflect evaluate and recent our goals and ideas and here's the thing. It's only four hours of every other week. Four hours of a week. Four hours that will make you stronger more effective more efficient with your work and more motivated to do your work on a regular basis. You can also leave great ideas of how to leave and grow your team as you take the time to step back and see the force as well as the trees. So here's find a location a place where you can relax get comfortable spread out dig into whatever you're going to be doing whether that's a coffee shop a library a hiking trail you'll find that spot. And during that first hour deliberately disconnect from your normal day to day work. So if you need to wrap up a few things before you can focus go ahead and do that if you need to spread out your equipment cool whatever you need to do in order to disconnect from your laptop for a few hours I usually wrap up a few things and then go for a run or a walk to kind of get myself into that mindset and get my brain off of work things. So then during the second third hour spine swing is constructive and helpful but allows you to disconnect from your early work. So for me sometimes that's digging into co-cademy or brushing up on lessons for coding sometimes it's reading the latest business or work-related book that I'm happening to be reading at the time or whiteboarding the latest topic that I've been looking into. And then lastly as you wind down from that thing that you've been doing in those couple hours that last hour brings it all back together. So I'll usually journal a little bit about what I read to learn how I'm feeling about work how I'm feeling about burnout make a list of things that I want to tackle and then back to the office and then pack up and then head back home.  I'm really bad at this one but seriously take advantage of sick days and make use of time whatever it's called in your company and use it. So when you wake up not feeling all take the day off and don't be online. You'll be amazed at how much more quickly you heal. And speaking of healing when you're eating mental care get it. Mental illness depression anxiety all of these things are normal and it's mental health which means it's health which means it's importance just as important as physical health. So just like a broken hand or an infection it's a mental condition. Don't let anyone tell you differently. Start by taking a look at your company insurance policy. A lot of insurance policies allow for a small number of psychologists or psychiatric visits at no charge. I have a friend at a former company who used to just go find a therapist they hadn't seen before a psychologist they hadn't seen before. And we have four free visits a year under our insurance policy and you just pick a month and say cool I'm gonna book four visits with this psychiatrist and I'm just gonna talk to them and get their advice and wrangle about what I was on my chest and get things off my chest and kind of get a pulse of how I'm doing and it doesn't cost me anything. So take advantage of those things. I mentioned earlier that one of the things that we lose track of is our personal communities our personal hobbies. So do what you can do in Best in Us communities this is the picture of San Francisco and it's kind of cartoon like but it's divided into all these different neighborhoods and the hobbies and the things that people do. And it's a difficult thing to do sometimes if you're not as willing to invest or not as able to invest in those things I'm gonna do a hint though made up is for more than just tech talks. Everyone knows that. It has a lot of hobby groups has a lot of adventuring groups hanging groups outdoors groups things like that as well and it's a great tool to be able to connect with people in your city outside of tech. It also says they connect with you where you feel better or you can feel at peace where when you know that you're stressed out things that you can go do to allow yourself to decompress a little bit. So who am I to be saying all of these things? Obviously I'm not a doctor not a medical professional. Haven't studied psychology or psychiatry or any other line of thought along those lines but I do know what I'm talking about to a certain extent about a year ago almost two years ago now I burnt out a really hard and I'm better now not 100% but I'm better and part of the reason it took me as long as it did to start recovering from that was because I didn't do a lot of these things I've been talking about today I didn't take care of myself I didn't reach out to my community I was really scared about the repercussions and I was terrified of perception but that hurt me more because it forced me to keep going and to keep doing the things that I was doing before So these days I'm lucky enough to have a community both professionally and personally who I know will keep an eye out for me and check in on one of my coworkers who's actually here today will ask me on a regular basis like So it's awesome to have those people around me and I say I'm lucky enough but it didn't come from luck it took for me working to build those relationships and working really hard to have that community and I have to continually work at it but it's worth it everyone in this room understands the stresses of being in the tech industry everyone understands the difficulties that we have keeping up with everything that's going on everyone knows that you need a community to rally around you So as you're attending events as you're at meetups as you're doing various things throughout your day and meeting new people don't be afraid to say hey people understand what you're going through and it says if I can't help you in person I'll just plug my computer and this is one of my favorite things about tech and working in the tech industry these days is that we might not all live next to each other we might not all work next to each other but we're all online we all most of us have an online presence or on Slack channels or I or C or Twitter and being able to reach out into the internet void and say hey to help or does anyone understand these types of situations and getting that support in return is huge and don't underestimate the value of that worth taking care of even for the ones that I'm having to take care of ourselves talking to damaged women who seemingly help all the time in the world for a leisure and feel no guilt about it but also manage to get a lot of things done in a time of fashion so the woman that she's speaking with says having leisure time for myself isn't something we even have to list gaps it's just natural the author replies you don't feel guilty or selfish but you're neglecting your children you're worried about what you do to work the woman here perhaps know their worth need to know our worth as well and she talks about you some of the numbers around depression and burnout and people in tech as well as some of the specifics about causes burnout about what to do about burnout both how to prevent it and how to slowly recover from it and it is a slow recovery I mentioned earlier I'm doing better and I add a few percent most days and that means the seven days are awesomely productive and I feel really good about it and every once in a while when it's perfectly bad and most days they're somewhere in the middle and it's a process but most importantly I know that it's real I know that it's a process I know that that's okay and I know that I don't need to be ashamed of it and I know I have a community help me as well it's interesting because I was listening to Brian's talk I don't know if he's here but as I was listening to him yesterday he was talking about passions and things that were involved in and I think it really applies to this it says passion which could be your job your open source projects your side hobbies whatever is what drives you and gives your life meaning obsession is what happens when you're fixated on something forsaking all the rest understand the difference between passion and obsession to change your thoughts and actions find balance by cultivating other interest offline so let's remember to be awesome let's be incredible let's be passionate about what we're doing but let's be balanced about it as well if you have any questions you can kind of see my Twitter handle on the front of the video so I appreciate it have a good one