Section 78 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910-1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by John Greenman. July 28, 1918, Spiritualism in Lawsuit, Case of Harper and Brothers Against Mitchell Kennerley over Copyright on Mark Twain's name. On the face of it, the suit of Harper and Brothers v. Mitchell Kennerley, publisher, involves a bald question of property right. But by indirection it involves also the questions whether spirit communication with a living is demonstrable, and whether there is a life hereafter. The riddle of the universe is about to be debated, not by theologians, but by lawyers. Harper and Brothers, publishers of the works of Samuel L. Clemens, and owners of a copyright on the pen name Mark Twain, base their action on the publication by Mitchell Kennerley of Jack Herron, a novel which, according to the introduction, was communicated to Mrs. Emily Grant Hutchings via the Ouija Board. There is no direct statement that Mark Twain's spirit dictated the book. He is not named as author, and on this technicality the attorneys for Mr. Kennerley might possibly seek to evade trial. The James N. Rosenberg, who has been retained by the defendant publishers, said the other day that the case would be tried on its merits. "'We will put the issue up to the Supreme Court,' he asserted. "'We will have a final ruling on immortality.'" Has the shade of Samuel Clemens any right to the use of a pseudonym he adopted in the flesh, and permitted his publishers to copyright? That claims have thee departed on the relics of their earthly pilgrimage. These are obvious issues in the suit, and if it is established, to the satisfaction of the court, that the spirit of Mark Twain did indeed communicate the novel, while the attorneys for the plaintive are upheld in their contention that said spirit had no right to market any literary commodities, except through the House of Harpers, owing to a contract made prior to his passing, by what mode of procedure can the disembodied be brought to book for such unbusinesslike, not to say immoral, conduct? William Marion Reedy of St. Louis, who had a part in making the work of Patience Worth, another Ouija board authoress, known to the material world, had a finger in this occult concoction, too. Lady Grant Hutchings had known Mr. Reedy for some time. She had contributed special articles to his magazine, The Mirror. But Mr. Reedy confesses he did not think much of her as a fiction writer. About three years ago she asked him to read some manuscript she had with her. He did, and he was surprised at its worth. At that time the novel, Jap Heron, was about half finished. Mrs. Hutchings said nothing to Mr. Reedy about how she had written it, but during the course of an evening at her home the Ouija board was produced, and Mrs. Hutchings and Mrs. Hayes, who sat with her during the readings, began to work with it. Either that or it was moved by the spirit controlling it. Mr. Reedy was surprised to find that he was reading a continuation of the unfinished manuscript he had recently seen. It was then he learned that Mark Twain was declared to be dictating the story. Mr. Reedy was in town the other day, and when he was asked whether he thought Jap Heron came up to Mark Twain's standard, he was in doubt. Parts of it are good, as typical of Mark Twain as I can remember from my early readings, he said, but other parts are sloppy, awfully sloppy and sweet and sentimental, usual bestseller stuff. Harper and Brothers assert in their petition that Jap Heron is far below the grade of anything Mark Twain wrote while alive, and that the circulation of the book would hurt his reputation. Among the points Harper and Brothers will present are the two books Mark Twain wrote, What His Man and The Mysterious Stranger, in which he asserted that there was no such thing as life after death. He refused to believe in a spirit world. He refused to be a spook. Judge or jury must weigh that fact. But it is possible that the Ouija board will be made to perform in court, and that the shade of Mark Twain, or what purports to be his spirit, will undertake to confound Mark Twain the unbeliever. That Mrs. Hutchings intends to get into communication with that very important witness is an assured point. In her introduction to the book she shows that she and Mark Twain are on the friendliest terms. He calls her Emily, and she calls him Mark. There is nothing spooky about their conversation. It does not smack of the spiritist cabinet. While the book was being revised, the Ouija board has occasion to chaff Mr. Hutchings, who was acting for his wife in secretarial capacity. Smoke up and cool off, old boy! The spook is reported as saying to Mr. Hutchings, Perhaps I should apologize. The last secretary I had used to wear an ice-soaked towel. The girls, Mrs. Hutchings and Mrs. Hayes, and old Mark together will make the riffle.  In my ambition I have been too eager. It is hard to explain how great a thing is the power to project my mentality through the clods of oblivion. I have so long sought for an opening. Be patient, please. I am not carping. I get Edwin's, Mr. Hutchings, position. We will be easy with the new saddle, so the nag won't run away. I heard Edwin's suggestion, and it is a good one. We will go straight through the story, beginning where we left off to-night. That was what I intended to do, but that second chapter nipped me. There is, of course, ground for doubt whether the testimony transmitted through a Ouija board will be accepted. The court may consider it incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. But if it is admitted, the stenographer's transcript is likely to have a liveliness uncommon in court procedure. End of Section 78, July 28, 1918, Spiritualism in Lawsuit, read by John Greenman. Section 79 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. September 15, 1918. To Aid Artists Affected by War. An organization called the Artists War Service League is being founded here for the benefit of artists of all professions, who have been wounded or incapacitated during the war. Mark Twain's home in Reading Connecticut has been offered by his daughter, Madame Gabrilevich, as a convalescent home. The initial membership committee is composed of such artists as Rudyard Kipling, Enrico Caruso, Daniel C. French, and John Drew. Membership will be open not only to professional people, but to all lovers of the arts. End of Section 79, September 15, 1918. To Aid Artists Affected by War. Read by John Greenman. Section 80 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. October 25, 1918. Twain Home, A Rest Camp. Stormfield Estate to be a Retreat for Wounded Men. Stormfield, the estate at Reading Connecticut, which was the home of Mark Twain, has been given by his daughter, Clara Clemens, Madame Osip Gabrilevich, for the use of convalescent soldiers and sailors of the artistic professions. Madame Gabrilevich, though admitting that she had turned Stormfield over for the use of wounded men, would not discuss the subject further, saying that the affairs of the organization which was to control the estate were not yet complete. End of Section 80, October 25, 1918. Twain Home, A Rest Camp. Read by John Greenman. Section 81 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6, 1910 through 1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. October 7, 1918. Stormfield for a Home. Clara Clemens Gabrilevich Aids Artists War Service. Clara Clemens Gabrilevich has turned over Stormfield, the home of Mark Twain at Reading Connecticut, as a convalescent home in charge of the Artists War Service League, recently incorporated under the laws of the State of New York. The objects of this organization are similar to those of the American Friends of Musicians in France, except that it proposes to aid men of all the artistic professions in the service and their dependents, instead of confining itself to musicians alone. An honorary committee named for the purpose of stimulating membership now includes Rudyard Kipling, representing literature, Enrico Caruso Music, Daniel C. French, Sculpture, and John Drew, representing the drama. J. F. D. Lanier will be treasurer and Winslow, Lanier and Company, will act as bankers for the fund raised by the League. End of Section 81, November 7, 1918. Stormfield for a Home. Read by John Greenman. Section 82 of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6. 1910-1919. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by John Greenman. December 23, 1919. Mark Twain's Home Sold. Hartford residents, built in 1870, wrote Huckleberry Finn there. Hartford, Connecticut, December 22. The Hartford Home of Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain, at 351 Farmington Avenue, where Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were written, was sold to-day by Richard M. Bissell president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, to J. J. and I. Ahern of this city. The house was built by Mr. Clemens in 1870, and until a few months ago was used as a private school. End of Section 82, December 23, 1910, Mark Twain's Home Sold. End. End of Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part 6. 1910-1919. Read by John Greenman.


What's up everybody I'm the Mangus, you were awesome today on playing Countess aka Beatrice. I've always admired good Countess players, but to be honest, I played her once in Legacy Paragon and performed so poorly that I just never touched her again. I decided on a whim to give her a go in Over Prime and ended up really enjoying her. I'm sure I did millions of things wrong with her though, so feel free to let me know how to improve in the comments. Let's take a quick look at her abilities. Her Q teleports you to a target and deals damage, you leave an afterimage behind and reactivating this returns you to the image.  This stuns the target of course. What I did good this match, I had a plan to deal with Gideon and I think I executed it well. I selected squishy targets for elimination in team fights, and I did my best to protect our orb carrier.  As usual with my videos there will be a condensed version and a full gameplay version, you can use the timestamps to skip around. This time I'm going to just full on edit out everything in the condensed version, no music and no fast-forwarding, I'm just gonna skip. I've grouped up this game with Jellies, Convay, Viking Jedi, and OSK Gaming, all of which will be linked below. Like the video if you enjoy it, subscribe for updates on all of the Paragon remakes, but for now let's play some Countess. We're up against the Gideon so the game plan with Countess is to Shadow Slip through his abilities, kind of be deceptive, and bait out his abilities just like we did right there so that he misses them and then we could get on him to do damage. I'm leveling up her Q first, I'm sure that's wrong, but I'm doing it because the the previous matches I played with Countess it seemed like it was the one an incredibly long cooldown and I wanted to be able to Shadow Slip as much as possible. We get some good damage in on Gideon and Shadow Slip back out before he could hit us with his abilities. That's what I wanted to do, that was the game plan for this game. I'm thinking E might be the best thing to actually level up first. Here comes Kalari. Unfortunately I didn't use, I didn't even use my, well I did use my blank, okay I did use my blank, I thought I completely forgot about my blank there, but nope. Kalari and Gideon just smashed me, I believe that's my only death of this game but still unfortunate. The first item we're building it to is the Elkima Blaster just because it's cheap, pin, and power. They're gonna turn on you guys, I'm not anywhere near there. No she's so low. I was a little late on my rotations this game, I guess it's because I was not comfortable on Countess, but as always when Jellies is at like five health that's when I come to save the day. He's bouncing back in between the portal with the Severog and they're on the other side I'm waiting for them to come to this side. Here comes Jellies and Severog's right on his hail and one dark tide is enough to take out that Severog. Oh he died, he died, Mango's got him. Oh, wait where is, oh did he teleport back first before you? Yeah he did, he teleported and Mango's got here. Gideon's running pretty low on mana, I mean he's got the health advantage on me but mana is what matters in a mid lane battle. He activates his ultimate which if he would have jumped in the air a little bit higher to where I couldn't have reached him he would have been safe with that ultimate and he probably would have killed me but no he did it on the ground which yeah I was able to just right into him interrupt his ultimate and kill him. Now even before the tournament we were doing this strategy of trying to take a very early prime orb. Now after the tournament we started using the, what do you call it, the Takima gemstone of abundance? No, I forget what it's called. It's the one, it's the smite item, the the jungler smite item. We would all back grab the smite item and take this thing down even faster and even earlier but we did not quite have the strategy down by this point but it still still works out pretty well for us. We got that really easily. Jelly does have the prime though and he's getting stalked by Kalari but Kalari absolutely no match for me right now. If people just didn't seem to realize how weak that the prime guardian was like you didn't need the the smite items to take him down. You could just a solid rotate and you could take this thing really really early and because we had Ulug or Narbash, we're all at max health. His heal was ridiculous. There were so many ridiculous parts of over prime. Now I want to take out this Sparrow if I can. Sparrow always take out the ADC first if at all possible and that was very very possible right there and we have we have the dunk already. Now I'm getting hit by, I couldn't hit him because he was a little bit too high but we were able to dash out using our blink and I don't know why I shadow slept right there. Probably just that fingered to you. There's no way they can stop that.  We need to go back to the tower. Yeah that's worth me dying for so I'm going to steal one of our jungle camps. How much health does that thing have? Nice to hit down. We can leave. They don't need to stay. Yep. They wasted an ult also. The problem that OSK was referring to is physical armor out scales physical damage so this Seb was building a ton of physical armor and giving him problems but as you can see here he was not building any magical armor so we were able to just melt right through it. We did not. We did not go on her. I'm dead. Oh man goose let's go. Man goose left this team. Get him. Get him. Get him. Get him. Come from behind again. Dammit I can't teleport in. Fuck. Which way did you mean by left? I was trying to go on Revenant. One of the changes I think they need to make, I think these walls need to go down once you take the inhibitor next to them because oh my god like we were so separated right here and we couldn't, like you can't easily rotate unless you go all the way around this little peninsula in the lane. My abilities just aren't quite long enough to reach these guys unfortunately but yeah that wall gets super annoying because you can, now we're going in for our second shot at prime. Remember this thing when you dunk it it gets exponentially stronger. The shockwave that emanates from the landing. Again a lot of people didn't seem to realize that just dunking the prime deals damage to enemies, minions and towers. And it increases, it's 20% of the prime guardian's max health and that increases by 20% every time so it's, if we dunk it this time it's going to be 40% of its max health as damage to every enemy on the map including the core as long as there's an in head down. Just let the side lane just do everything. There's definitely there. If you want to wait just a little bit I'm almost there. Or go in. I'm hanging back right here because I really want to target the Gideon and the Sparrow and Sparrow notices me unfortunately but we've got our Narbash halting in on her and she goes down quite easily. Cosmos almost got me but we ended up taking him down as well and we get the dunk. So I almost waited a little too long right there but I don't know, Countess players seem to live on the edge and I was kind of living on the edge right there. Maybe I did good, I don't know. And that's going to be game. There's no way they can defend against that prime guardian attacking their core. Let me know what you, any comments, any advice on how to play Countess, Beatrice, whatever. Like I said I haven't touched her since Legacy Paragon but she is really fun. I might start picking her up in Fault. Yeah, just a really enjoyable hero. Alright, Narbash and Sparrow. Narbash won't be able to thunk me fast enough so we just go on Sparrow and I gank. Got it. And I can dodge his thunk with my dash anyway. What is uh... And we're going to start this match out like we do. Every match by helping our jungler get the red buff. So notice this time though I was kind of bouncing around in between the shadow well and the red buff. That was to make sure I didn't get invaded and baited a few times during the match. And we're up against the Gideon so the game plan with Countess is to Shadow Slip through his abilities kind of be deceptive and bait out his abilities just like we did right there so that he misses them and then we could get on him to do damage. Nope, I'm not mistaken. I'm no Countess expert. But Shadow Slip used to just straight up execute a minion and you could only get the health regen for her if you used your right-click, her spin, her little spin of death to get regen off of the minions. I'm not sure how it works and it would probably be perfectly honest but I know that Shadow Slipping does not execute minions anymore which it would have been nice to have. Nice job. Thank you. I have two pecs and I'll use my blank. I'm leveling up her Q first, I'm sure that's wrong but I'm doing it because the previous matches I played with Countess it seemed like it was on an incredibly long cooldown and I wanted to be able to Shadow Slip as much as possible. We'll get some good damage in on Gideon and Shadow Slip back out before he can hit us with his abilities. That's what I wanted to do. That was the game plan for this game. I'm thinking E might be the best thing to actually level up first. Here comes Kalari. Unfortunately, I didn't use my blank. Okay, I did use my blank. I thought I completely forgot about my blank there but nope, Kalari and Gideon just smashed me. I believe that's my only death of this game but still unfortunate. The first item we're building it to is the Elkima Blaster just because it's cheap, pin and power. You can let them push out. I'm pretty decent on Health and Mana so unless you want to just go back and get mana that's fine too. Let's just plan to go back and heal on that too. You're fine. Yeah, I'm probably fine with my mana right now. This also lets me get my award back. I'll probably go down and drop it. There's a Kalari in the jungle here. They're gonna start on you guys. I'm not anywhere near there. No, she's still low. He missed 30 seconds on life. He's got no mana. I feel like we just kill this if we can. I'm gonna get him. Good job. Good job. They're Kalari, yep. Now I'm gonna award, I guess. Where's she going? She's coming for you OSK. They're Kalari's bomb coming for you. She's coming from behind you. Coming up behind her. I'm running. Here, just fight her. Sorry man. I should have EED, my bad.  Should be a double actually. Oh no. He doesn't have flash though. You can run. Yeah, I just...invised. It was nice. I was a little late on my rotations this game. I guess it's because I was not comfortable on counters. But as always, when Jellies is at like 5 health, that's when I come to save the day. He's bouncing back in between the portal with the Severog, and they're on the other side. I'm waiting for them to come to this side. Here comes Jellie, and Severog's right on his tail. And one dark tide is enough to take out that Severog. He's still down there though, so we gotta be careful. Oh, he died. He died. Manga's got him. Oh. Wait, where is... An allied tower is under attack. Oh, did he teleport back first before you? Yeah, he did. He teleported when Manga's got here. Got it. Okay. Cause I definitely saw him down there. What do you think? We got juice for the 7 minute? Uh, not quite 7 minute. We'll get black and then run over. Yeah. Alright. Let's go black, guys. I'll recall after black. Yep. I mean, they know it should be able to get 6 and kill. Yeah, they're gonna see us right here. I have smite for it. Come, maybe you just wanna come and... Oh, are they gonna... I'm on my way. I haven't worded so well now. Go ahead and start. I'm on my way. You make that sound sick. Now we have Countess's ultimate, which is always just extremely dangerous in any fight. It seems to not really matter how... how leveled up she is. If she's ahead, this thing will just delete people, but even at this level, um, yeah, Gideon wants to go part of it. Actually, I'm gonna go get the lead. Okay. They're missing, right? Yeah. Careful left, I guess. Oh, she's back. Amazing. They're both super low, though. Yeah, they are. Gideon's run pretty low on mana. I mean, he's got the health advantage on me, but mana is what matters in a mid lane battle. He activates his ultimate, which, if he would have jumped in the air a little bit higher to where I couldn't have reached him, he would have been safe with that ultimate, and he probably would have killed me, but, uh, no, he did it on the ground, which, uh, um, yeah, I was able to just ult right into him, interrupt his ultimate and kill him. All right, let's reset and go for it. What the heck? How did she kill him? Probably piercing. Dude. He hit me with two stuns, but under turret. They'll expect you to be backing because you died. So, Paris, do you want to come back Yep, I'm hoping they didn't see my recall, but we'll see. They'll see the beam in the sky if they're paying attention. Okay, that was behind a little bit. Like, behind a hill or something. I'm so annoyed about that. All right, we'll leave one on the body. Almost there. Oh, here's Kalari. Did we take their long way? Yep, I'm running into the jungle now. My ult's back up with the stun. All right, Maurice is looking at us.  Yeah, I'm running in. All right, let's go. Let's start it. Now, even before the tournament, we were doing this strategy of trying to take a very early prime orb. Now, after the tournament, we started using the, what do you call it? The Takima gemstone of abundance? No, I forget what it's called. It's the smite item. The jungler smite item. We would all back grab the smite item even earlier, but we did not quite have the strategy down by this point, but it still works out pretty well for us. We got that really easily. Jelly does have the prime, though, and he's getting stalked by Kalari, but Kalari, absolutely no match for me right now. People just didn't seem to realize how weak the prime guardian was. You didn't need the smite items to take him down. You could just solid rotate and you could take this thing really, really early. And because we had Ulug or Narbash, we're all at max health. His heal was ridiculous. There were so many ridiculous parts of over prime. Now, I want to take out this sparrow if I can. Always take out the ADC first if at all possible, and that was very, very possible right there. And we have the dunk. Already. Now, I'm getting hit by... I couldn't hit him because he was a little bit too high, but we were able to dash out using our blink. And I don't know why I shadow slipped right there. Probably just that fingered Q. There's no way they can stop that.  We did go back to the so... I'm going to steal one of our jungle camps. How much health does that thing have? We can leave. No need to stay. They wasted an ult also. Now, if you take that prime orb guardian, as soon as it spawns, the enemy team has zero chance of bringing it down.  Don't die, guys. Pressure in mid. I'm going to pressure left again. Nice. I've got an Arbash on me. Let's kill it. I grabbed the enemy red buff, so she's not going to have it. Nice job, dude. Let's go. I was just unfortunate timing by her. Arbash was mid by the way. He's chasing. Ah, he got me because I couldn't smite because I was stunned. I'm going to go ahead and finish off our Akima Blaster and get the Akima Energy amplifier, I think it's called. Everybody just called it the bunny. This thing gives you a huge chunk of magic power and it gives you a percentage increase of magic power, so this thing just it's a huge chunk of power. Once you get this thing, it's a pretty big spike. Dude, how do I have a is he really just that strong? Yeah, he's pretty strong. He gets surprisingly strong. Akima Black is up. Yep. I think we picked this character first, yeah. Since you're still pretty far away. There's the, I'm three levels up and I have an item over him. Did he knock you in a turret or anything like that? No, he just knocked me away. The turret was gone. Oh, I have no answer for you. We don't have any vision for Khlari, but the board. That was so strange. The problem that OSK was referring to is physical armor outscales physical damage, so this sub was building a ton of physical armor and giving him problems, but as you can see here, he was not building any magical armor, so we were able to just melt right through it. 1v1s or something? Cause he just got melt right there. Wait, does Beatrice do magic damage? She does. Okay, that's probably one of those. Oh, she is. Alright, we're on our way. Oh, you're pretty far away. I'm still coming. Just in case multiple show that go. Do you win the 1v1? Do you win the 1v1? Oh, watch out, no rash. What the heck? Oh, she stepped up in front of an r-bash. Thank you, boys. Do I get in him here? I think I might get in him here. We're coming. That's good because we have mid lane pushing hard. Yeah, in-hebs down.  Oh, you're over there. I was like, who? I was like, who? Oh, she got me. Ow, that hurt me. We did not, we did not go on her. I'm dead. Oh, Mingus, let's go. Mingus left this team. Get him, get him, get him. Come from behind again. Dammit, I can't teleport in. Can we go left? Which way did you mean by left? I was trying to go on Revenant, my bad. One of the changes I think they need to make, I think these walls need to go down once you take the inhibitor next to them because, oh my god, we were so separated right here and you can't easily rotate unless you go all the way around this little peninsula in the lane. My abilities just aren't quite long enough to reach these guys, unfortunately, but that wall gets super annoying because it just seems like it would go down, right? It just seems like it would go down. I know they were there in Paragon, but I'm not sure how they functioned in Paragon. I don't know if they ever went down or if they just stayed up the entire time. I'm pretty sure they went down because I remember juicing people with Decker through those walls. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah. Poor might end it. Minions themselves might just end it. All right, well, let's start this bad boy up. I'm coming. I'm pretty low, but I will assist. Now we're going in for our second shot at Prime. Remember this thing, when you dunk it, it gets exponentially stronger. The shock wave that emanates from the landing. Again, a lot of people didn't seem to realize that just dunking the Prime deals damage to enemies, minions and towers and it increases. It's 20% of the audience max health and that increases by 20% every time. So if we dunk it this time, it's going to be 40% of its max health as damage to every enemy on the map including the core as long as there's an in head down. There's nobody currently on right, the minions can see. They're a little bit behind. I have wards, they're probably... They're just letting Solo side push in. They want to stop us. Yeah, I mean we could just like just let the side lane just do everything. They're already at base. They're definitely there. If you want to wait just a little bit, I'm almost there. Or go in. I'm hanging back right here because I really want to target the Gideon and the Sparrow and Sparrow notices me, unfortunately. We've got our Narbash ulting in on her and she goes down quite easily. Cosmos almost got me, taking him down as well. And we get the Dunk. So I almost waited a little too long right there, but I don't know. Countless players seem to live on the edge and I was kind of living on the edge right there. Maybe I did good. I don't know. We got minions to take the inhib. Yeah, we got minions and chance. We almost have the chance. There we go. You're taking damage? Yeah, they're slow. And that's going to be game. And that's that Prime Guardian attack in their core. Let me know what you, any comments, any advice on how to play Countless, Beatrice, whatever. Like I said, I haven't touched her since Legacy Paragon, but she is really fun. I might start picking her up in Fault. Yeah, just a really enjoyable hero. But that is going to be it for this video, folks. And thanks for coming out. Man Goose! We'll see you in the next video.


Good morning everyone, Dr. Solier in Beverly Hills. We have this fine young gentleman here today and we're doing gynecomastia. Now he's in his mid-20s. He's had this since he was 12. You could see he's got fat all around here and I could feel the gland right in there. Same thing with this one. He's got the fat here, he's got the gland here. This is persistent gynecomastia of adolescents.  So what we're doing today is we're gonna go make a small hole here, clean this out, small hole here, clean this out. He works out, he's muscular, look at that. Those are huge, he's got huge pipes, look at that. So it's not that he doesn't work out and he's not athletic and everything. It's just the hormones and the body's tissue. So we're gonna take that out, take out the gland and it's gonna be a great day. Stay tuned. So I want you guys to see the right compared to the left. The right side, we've taken out all the fat. Here we still have the fat on the left and I want you to see the gland. That's the gland right there. I could see it right there, outline right there, that's the gland. So we're gonna take out the fat here. We took out 250 cc's of fat on the right. We're gonna take out about the same on the left and then we'll retract the gland. Stay tuned. You can see everything is nice and flat, very thin but except right there, that's where the gland is. So now we're gonna go after the gland. The left one is gonna be bigger than the right but first we'll start on the right. So here on the left you could see a lipo everything. You could see how the gland is sitting lateral chest right there. You could see it, I could squeeze it. Look, everything else is so thin except right there. That's where the gland is and I can literally play with it like right there. Onster gland to be as thin as possible. Look at how thin I got him. You could see my thumb inside and out. You could see it poking through. He's very thin, there's always, you have to be careful, not too thin, not too thick but we're getting him as thin as possible there. So here's the gland on the right side. Look at the fibrous material. It's all fibrous, very little fat on it and this was laying around there in there like that. It's all removed. You could see how much flatter his chest is. This side was even bigger. Look at how big this one was. It was humongous, look at that. And you could see again, very little if any fat around the edges but the substance itself is that fibrous gland tissue that has grown. This has grown due to hormones. I don't know if it was, it had been on some steroids as a kid for asthma. So this is just growth due to hormonal issues and you cannot lose this by weight loss because it's not fat. But you could see the incision is perfectly placed between the dark and the light. Once I have him completely closed, no one is ever going to know that he had any kind of incision.


When things go bad something good always comes of it when things go wrong You have to see the bright side of it when you lose a deal You need to say great if you lost a job You need to say great if something really bad happens you need to say to yourself Great and you need to recognize where the opportunity is every single failure is a step towards Success every time you lose something you're gaining so much more than what you lost If you look at it the right way for example when you lose a deal You don't just lose that deal you gain future time back that you do not have to spend on that deal anymore That you can spend in a more positive way to build even more deals every time I lose a deal I think to myself thank God I can use that future time I just got back to go get five more deals every single time I just had a seller call me that I had a property listed with it's been listed for about two months And they called me and said hey we need to take it off the market We sold it to our next-door neighbor, and you know what I said I said Congratulations that is great that is incredible And I was genuinely happy for them that they made that sale and did not have to pay me a commission They saved that money. I congratulated them now. What's gonna happen next time? They need to do a deal. What are they gonna remember about me next time? They need an agent who are they gonna think about are they gonna think about me because I didn't make them feel bad For cutting me out of the deal Exactly they're gonna call me up and say Ricky our sister needs an agent we need an agent My brother needs an agent my dad needs an agent They're gonna refer us to every single person they know why Because they know that you are not interested in just the money. You're more concerned with their well-being You're more concerned with what's best for them not what is in your best interest But what is in their best interest? I want you to understand something right now I want you to understand that you're not at war with anything in the world Except for your own mind You're only at war with yourself You're not at war with the market. You're not at war with buyers with sellers with other agents with companies Technology you're not at war with anyone, but you you have to step up You have to stand up and say it's my time I'm gonna put in the effort to do what I need to do to get where I want to be I'm not gonna let anything get in the way.  You're not gonna out work me That's what you need to tell yourself every single morning when you wake up No one is gonna out work me. I'm gonna get up earlier. I'm gonna work harder. I'm gonna stay later I'm gonna work smarter. I'm gonna out work.  I'm gonna keep walking in that direction. I'm not gonna stop where I'm at I'm gonna keep walking forward.  I'm definitely not gonna go back where I came from I'm definitely not gonna stay where I am. I'm going this way and nothing Nothing is gonna stop me. I had a new agent reach out to me here lately and he said Ricky. I need your help What do I tell my wife? We're working, you know night and day trying to build our dream and nothing's really happening We don't really have anything in the pipeline. There's no real results to speak of What do I tell my wife who is sitting here telling me should we keep Pushing forward here or should we give up and what I did was I answered his question with the question I asked him Well, let me ask you something How are you paying your bills? What income do you have right now? Are your bills taken care of and he said Ricky? We're house hacking We have a little little house. We're living in the downstairs. It's 850 square foot. We're renting the upstairs out and all our bills are completely paid and I said we'll ask her What her problem is? What's the real issue going on here?   Do you understand this? I said what you need to do is you need to go to your wife and you say look, honey We need to be extremely Grateful for where we are in life. There are people that have far less than 850 square foot to live and what we need to do is we need to be incredibly grateful and happy About where we are right now Knowing that we're doing what we need to do to build our dream to get where we want to be and what we really need to Do is an enjoy this Moment we need to enjoy this moment because we're gonna look back in a couple years when we're making several hundred thousands a year And that we've upgraded to a really big nice house We're gonna look back on these days and say man, I wish we would have enjoyed these days more Those were the good old days when we were building our dream. That was the fun part But if you if you just want what the next step is if you just want a bigger house all the time When you do finally get that bigger house, you're gonna be unhappy there. You're gonna say I want an even bigger house This is why I talk about do not focus on the results Only be satisfied with your actions. Don't be upset about what house you're living in what car you don't have You know what clothes or don't worry about the materials in life Worry about how much effort you're putting in to put yourself in position Where later you have the option to buy those cars that you want to buy those houses that you want To wear those clothes that you want if you want at that point I'll tell you right now. I could go out and buy a house twice the size of the house I live in but I don't why because I'm happy with where I am Knowing that I'm pushing forward to get better and better and better and better every day I don't care what kind of house. I'm living in what kind of car. I'm driving all I got some Ford F 150 I don't have a Maserati.  Do not give yourself an out You make whatever your dream is the only option and you put forth every drop of energy and effort that you have Into that please listen to me when I say that everything is perspective It's all how you look at it if you're looking at it negatively right now if you're thinking things aren't going your way It's literally just the way that you're looking at it. You could you could literally right now Turn that around and see exactly where you are in an incredibly Positive position right this second right before your eyes You could go from having a very bad day in a bad situation to an incredibly great day That's super productive without anything changing just your thoughts Now if you're not putting in the effort that you need to to get where you want to be then it's really hard for me to help You get where you want to go if you're not willing to put in the work if you're not willing to put in the the effort necessary Then how are you gonna get where you want to be if you get anything out of this video? Please take these two things. I want you to be extremely happy with where you are in life While continuing to push harder and harder and harder to get where you want to go


The students here at the University of Alabama exceeded our expectations. We had over 900 undergraduate students engage with the Challenge Box over the past three days with over 120 winners and then we actually had one student who solved the high value problem and two additional students solved it after him. So it was actually a record for any Challenge Box activation that we've had and that made us really proud.


What's going on guys got Kyle here with Layton Sports Cards and we are ripping this is 10 boxes 2022 2023 Pranini prism Premier League EPL choice 10 box break number eight. We're in a randomized before we started. I'll show the results again real quick We had Rob V with Brighton down to Adam B with Everton If you're ever looking for these results, you can find them on the main page of our website Their results section all the way at the bottom. Good luck guys. Let's see what we got here 10 boxes of choice Gotta hit the there we go Sean Fortnite dancer Sean every time he comes in You and you enforced out the bar right now guys. What you guys got going on? I just say we're Trying to see the UCL together There is Ryan Christie base our first auto is gonna be Steve bull out of a wolf or Hampton there Steve bull on the throwback auto That's one there for wolves getting the first auto We've got red scopeless Sondra Martinez that one is number to 30 nice hit there for a man you We've got green blue and yellow Fabio Vieira and burned Leno and our silvers. We have Kyle Walker Mateo Kovacic and John McGinn John McGinn go box to El Kiwis. Oh, jeez. It's been a while since I've been to Kiwis, man I might have to my have to there is a kaleidoscopic base Jared Bowen and Our auto is gonna go to Aston Villa there Jacob Ramsey on the choice auto you go Aston We've got number to five Kieran trippie a that is three of five nice one there for a new castle Kieran trippie a we have a Bobby Firmino green blue yellow choice and tiger Tiger is gonna be a rookie for Tottenham Jed Spence nice one there will with Tottenham spot on the tiger short print rookie Jed Spence got a silver Peraeus a Neil Smith row and Romeo Lobby a rookie Go box three got another kaleidoscopic this time. It is James Ward prowse Auto is gonna be rookie auto Jeremy Cermy into someone's going to Brighton Brighton with the rookie auto there Got another tiger strike. 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There's one interpretation of quantum mechanics that basically says it may look to us that there's a nearly infinite number of electrons out there, but there's actually only one electron popping in and out of existence. It's like all of the electrons are the same electron. If you follow supersymmetry down to the bottom, maybe all existence is just one particle. So by the same token, we might understand each of ourselves as attention, looking out onto the world from a different shifting locus in the matrix of relationships. And then the question is, well, how is my attention any different from your attention? Ultimately, it's the same attention. Perhaps you could consider that our only real agency and choice is the choice of what to pay attention to and that all of our other apparent choices come as the automatic product of what we have created ourselves to be through the exercise of attention. The dualistic mind has trouble grasping this paradox that in essence, our choice of what to pay attention to is God making the choice of what to create. So my agency is not separate from your agency or from God's agency.


Well, folks, this is Jacob Schup filling in for Tom O'Brien, we're at the 4 p.m. stock market update. Let's take a look where everything's shaked out at the end of the day with the ES-Mini trading at 4,814. The Russell down about 0.78% at 1968. The NQs about 16,963 almost at 17,000. We are flat for that. Dow futures flat as well just under 38,000. The gold contract just kind of staying still. We're at 2,031, 2,032, been kind of cycling through that throughout the day. Silver down, we're about 2,290, and silver, looking at copper contract at 3,78, again not a lot of move after we kind of had a little sell-off in it. Again, we had the height there about 3,97. Nice little tick earlier, about $3.82, interesting. We'll see if we can get up to that area solid way. Of course, we have crude oil futures going up as well as we get into colder seasons and there's some talk about supply issues. Look at the DXY. Again, we're doing this kind of consolidation pattern essentially. 1,0234, flat for the day. We might be seeing that. We want to see some action of this breaking down lower, ideally get back down to this area and crack through to the $99 area and then we'll be kind of as Tom says off to the races with some of the equities here. QQ trading at 409.38, Google at 143.66, Meta 369, Disney still hovering right below that $90 area, Apple 185.83, Lucid again, we were talking about what happened with them. They just had horrible quarterlies. This is a new all-time low in Lucid. I think some of these, well, you can look at BYD at least in China, right? They have so much backing from the government. This is that's a new entry into vehicles, into the vehicle market that they're spreading all throughout China. They're going to come to the US as well. That's an example of a kind of newer company that's just making EVs really taking off. Lucid is having a rough time and obviously not a great equity to be in whatsoever. See, we had CPI obviously talking about that a little bit. Where's the thing I wanted to pull up? Well, that's the end there. I'll be back with you tomorrow anyways. I'll find what I wanted to talk about plus we didn't have enough time anyway. Folks, thank you so much for joining me. We have Tommy on tomorrow at 9 a.m. Eastern time for the morning market kickoff. And then we have Basil Chapman on at 10, Steve Rhodes at 11, Larry at 1 p.m. Eastern time, and I will be with you at three o'clock to send you off. Thank you so much, folks. Have a great rest of your night.


Hello Pythonistas, hello Chennai and hello world. We are here to present on performance optimization with Elasticsearch. I am Anishwini Das and she is Anisha Swain. And before we go forward with the talk, we would like to introduce ourselves. We both are Red Haters and we are active open source contributors. And speaking about Anisha, she is a research fellow with Indian Academy of Sciences and she is also an artist. I will hand over the control to Anisha right now. Sorry for that. So first we will talk about basic Elasticsearch and its architecture. And then Manashwini will show you some of the demos, how exactly we index data in Elasticsearch and so on. And at the end I will tell about the techniques that we can use to increase the performance when we are using Elasticsearch. So what is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine. And please mark the word powerful. It's a very powerful system. Elasticsearch is the heart of Elasticstack. In Elasticstack we use lockstash and bits to collect and aggregate data. By aggregate I mean do more analysis on the data. And we use Kibana for visualization. In Elasticsearch we can store both structured and unstructured data and just not text data, we can store numerical and geospatial data as well. And it's comparatively easier than other analytics and search engines. So this is the whole structure of Elasticstack. We use bits to collect the data and then lockstash, aggregate and analyze on the collected data. Elasticsearch index it and store it. And after that we visualize the data in Kibana. Elasticsearch also provides a premium version of the software which is called XPAC which also gives security, alerting when there is a problem in the system, monitoring and also some machine learning analysis. So why Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a persistent data storage which is a distributed document store. It stores data in a serialized JSON format which makes it very reliable and very fast. The search time is approximately one second. So it has very high indexing rate which is approximately 2-3 times of normal indexing. It provides sequential input-output pattern and it also indexes schema-less data. With dynamic mapping it can automatically detect and add new fields and data types when we are storing the data. It's very easy to maintain data in Elasticsearch because of its scalability. Elasticsearch is a physical collection of documents. We can distribute the documents over various nodes and the nodes can again be distributed in our cluster. So if our data is increasing then we can simply add more nodes to the cluster and scale it. For faster search, Elasticsearch uses data structures like inverted index, KDB which gives approximately real-time full-text queries. And as I said, the ability of clustering and ease of data maintenance. We can also write three types of queries for Elasticsearch. Structured queries like we write in SQL or full-text queries like query DSL. And we can also combine both to make complex queries. Now we'll hand over to Manishani to talk about the basic architecture. Thank you, Anisha. Yeah, as you can see right here, there are in a node, there are two shards. One is in a dark blue color and then it's a light blue color. Both of them are shards. So each shard contains a collection of documents. And these documents are distributed over shards. And there are a collection of shards which are distributed over nodes. And all these nodes are distributed over clusters as is already mentioned by Anisha. Elasticsearch is a logical grouping of physical shards. And each document is a part of a primary shard. And obviously we can have a replica of a primary shard. So what are primary and replica shards? Here we can see there are three nodes, but we'll concentrate on the first two nodes. There is one primary shard, one replica shard. But you can note this that the replica shard of the first node is there in the second node. That is in case if the first node clashes, then there is second node which can give a hot reload of the data. Moving on to performance consideration about shard sizes. As discussed before, if the number of shards increases, the cluster will grow. And so there is always a maintenance problem. The larger the shards, it is difficult to move it within the elasticsearch. So obviously it depends. Average shard size is from few GB to a few tens of GB. Nodes need to be in the same network for each search engine inside a cluster. Cross cluster replication. Cross cluster replication is a type of replication in which a copy of the remote cluster is stored in a local cluster. So this is used to provide backup. For anyone who doesn't know here, elasticsearch also has a Python client by the name of elasticsearchpy. If you want to know more, you can just go to this link. It's demo time. I already have Kibana in the last set up in my device. I'll just check. So yeah, looking to the first query, I'm trying to index some documents. So this contains a put request. We can also have a post request, but the difference is put request can have an ID that we have right here. Post request doesn't need to have an ID. There can be a hash value that is automatically given to it. If you run this, we get this answer. So here we have a total of two shards, one successful shard. And since this is already indexed, we can just run a get command. So yeah, we have it right here. As we have already indexed it, we can also try to delete it. So here we can see the result is deleted. I have tried to do this indexing of bulk of documents. We already have accounts.json that is already there in the website of Elasticsearch. So if you want to look at the database, you can go there and look. So yeah, let us just have a look at the response that we have received. The took key value shows the amount of milliseconds that Elasticsearch has taken to produce a response. Timed out is just to check whether the search has timed out or not. Shards means the number of shards that it is looking into. It is a total of one shard and we have one successful shard. Hits means the number of results that is received. And here we can see thousand. And relation is equal and moving on to score. Score is like how well the data matches with the search query. So here we have a maximum score of 1.0. So these are the hits. Elasticsearch provides a default of 10 documents. So we can see 10 documents right here. We can also have a match query. A match query in which suppose we want to match a particular, you know, right here we have an example. That is we want to match whether the account number should be 20. So here we write a match query. And if we run it, we have one successful shard and we have one hit. Moving on, we also have a bool query which gives a response when only the output is true. So here we have a match query again where the address should be either mill or lane. If we just run it, we get this value of 19 hits. Then we move on to executing filters. So Elasticsearch has two types of contexts, like two types of query DSLs that would say query context and filter context. So this is the filter context. Filter context, as you might be knowing if you guys are already using Flipkart that everyone uses like Flipkart, Amazon, all of that. So we have a filter feature where we can, you know, have T-shirts with full sleeves or not full sleeves. So it just should match. Yeah. Summarizing, we index some documents. We did some put and post requests. We deleted some, like, deleted some documents. We conduct, like, ran a match query, bool query, executed filters. So here coming across Elasticsearch, we always get to cross this world, come across this world called aggregations, which just provides an ability to extract statistics from the data. That is, we can conduct a lot of SQL group by queries or queries similar to that. This is very powerful and efficient. That is, we can run a query within a query and we can run queries and multiple aggregations and multiple of these queries are together, like in a nested manner as well. And the results back are both either in one shot, avoiding network round trips. These are the types of aggregation. Since there is a lot of time constraints, so I'm just, you know, skimming across this. Metrics aggregation, pipeline, matrix and bucket. So matrix is, like, just providing the statistics of the aggregation. Pipeline is, like, aggregation of aggregations. Matrix is, like, providing a matrix out of the number of documents that is doubtful, whether it will be there in the next versions or not.  So we have analysis, which is, like, converting a text to terms or tokens according to a given filter. So these are, there are analyzers, normalizers, tokenizers, token filters and character filters. Moving on to what these are. Analyzer, whether it can be built in or custom. It is just a packet that is, like, three, which has three building blocks, that is, character filters, tokenizers and token filters. We'll slowly come across this. Analyzer is, like, it only emits a single token and it requires the use of token filters. Tokenizer is, like, just taking a text and, you know, dividing it into unique tokens. So there are many types of tokens that we come across. This is just a very small subset of the tokenizers that we have. There are token filters, like, these accept a set of tokens from the tokenizer and can modify them.  And we have character filter, which have, which are used to pre-process the stream of characters before it is passed to the tokenizer. We have HTML strip card character, which is an example, which is just you to know, remove the opening and closing tags in HTML. And also, we have, suppose we have, you know, patterns such as ampersand apos, it just converts it to apostrophe. Moving on to scan a scroll API. So the scan search type and the scroll API are used to, you know, retrieve large number of documents from Elasticsearch efficiently without paying the price of deep pagination. Scroll is like, you know, sending multiple requests and just giving us the request till, you know, we reach the end of the page. Then we have scan. This just removes the costly part of deep pagination. So this just makes the tasks really easier. So I hope this was not too fast for you still. We have 12 minutes left. I'm handing over the control to Anisha. Yeah. So we will discuss about some of the performance enhancement techniques that we can use to enhance the performance of indexing, searching, and make it less expensive for us. So generally, these are the don'ts that we shouldn't do while using Elasticsearch. We shouldn't return large number of data set at a time. Instead of that, we should use scan and scroll API so that we can get some data and then again using a particular ID, we can fetch another set of data. Second is indexing large documents. So indexing a very large amount of document can effectively affect the performance in a high amount. So instead of that, the max content length of a document is by default 100 MB, but we can scale it up to 2 GB by some setting, but it is expensive. We can have more memory usage and more stress on network. So we should know what exactly to index and we should index the whole data in small, small parts. So as Manashini has already showed you the scoring, as the score shows how efficiently we have searched the whole documents, like what's the score of the document that we searched or filtered. So scoring might not be consistent because when you search for a data, it might go to replica charts or primary chart depending on your search. So Elasticsearch has a setting of preference so that if a particular user is logging in with its ID, the search will go to that particular chart so that we can get a consistent scoring. And each chart is responsible for its own scoring. So the scoring of a document in a chart depends on the index statistics. So either we have to index all the charts with the same index statistics or we have to go through all the charts and get a relative index statistics with DFS query than fetch. So indexing performance enhancement. To index the performance of indexing, we should try to put bulk requests. But again, we have to figure out the optimal amount of bulk requests that we can get. So it's a trial and run process. We have to run a benchmark and get our optimal size. We should use multithread system but again keep a watch on too many requests because it can throw an exception. So if it is showing an exception, we can pause and again resume. Should increase refresh intervals. Refresh intervals is elastic search. Periodically refresh the indices which receives one or more than searches in previous 30 seconds. So either it's a good way to do it when your site has less traffic or increase the refresh interval. And yeah, we shouldn't create replica charts at the first. We should disable the replica for initial load. I know it's a little risky but it's very good for enhancing the performance of indexing. And we can use the technical index generation to lower the risk and make a replica chart according to the updated document. So there are some more points like shouldn't do swapping. Should allocate more memory to the file system cache for buffering input-output operations. And it's a good practice to use auto-generated IDs by elastic search so that it doesn't have to go and check for duplicacy. And yeah, of course, faster hardware and virtualized storage works with better input-output per second works pretty better with elastic search. And we should also keep check on cluster health of elastic search. Because if a node goes down then it takes some time to initialize it again. So at that time it would be yellow but it should be green when it's having primary and replica charts. Disable merge throttling. So if we're having problem in merging then we should disable merge throttling for some time. But again it's a trade-off because it might degrade the search performance. Trade-pulling rejection error comes when we send too many requests to your nodes at a faster rate. So either we can scale the nodes or slow down our process of sending the requests. Disk usage. So we should disable to preserve disk usage. We should disable unnecessary feature like if we want to create a histogram out of numeric value then we don't need filtering. So we should disable indexing. In string by default they have normalizers but if we don't want normalization then we can disable norms. So we should also avoid dynamic string mapping because it maps every string as text and keyword. So we can specifically give our template for string mapping. We should disable source if we don't need original JSON or we can use best compression for taking negligible spaces. Force merge API reduce the number of segments per chart which is physical memory which a chart have. String API is used to reduce charts per index. We should use to decrease the disk usage. We should use smallest numeric type. So if data nodes are running low on disk then we have to add more data nodes to our cluster and scale it horizontally. So if we have only certain nodes running out of disk then usually it's a sign that we have initialized the index with very less amount of charts and we need to add on more charts. So if there are more disk usage then we can scale the nodes horizontally and we can use rollover and alias for that. So I think that's it for the performance constraint. Thank you. I need questions. Am I audible? Yeah. So how are the performance metrics for traditional relational data? Will it work well for relational data also or should we prefer an SQL over it? It will work for relational data as well but the only difference is it will be in a JSON format. Does that answer your question? Yeah. I mean what are the performance metrics compared to traditional SQL databases? Have you used GraphQL ever? No. So GraphQL in a particular way there are certain constraints that we have in relational databases that is... Let me just take this off. Yeah. That is sometimes we have to fill in null data. That is something that you have to give a particular data to a particular field. Like it is mandatory but it is not mandatory when it comes to Elasticsearch. That is a particular document can have a particular field or cannot have a particular field so... Steamless. Okay. Yeah. Hi. The question is very relevant to Elasticsearch 7.x. So we are actually using the nested indexing with Elasticsearch. So it would be nice if you can just give us some best practice to search or do filter queries in nested things. So what we are trying to achieve is actually to only get the component in the nested not as a parent in the result while searching. We have a similar kind of use case for our... We had to index some directory structure so it was pretty nested as well. So what we are doing is as I mentioned earlier, if there is a range query, I can just move that to a keyword or a term and then I can search that term instead of nesting. I can elaborate you the whole structure that we are using after the talk because it might need pen and paper. Okay. I will see you offline. Sure. This way. We are using Elasticsearch 7 and I am getting the same performance issue what you have mentioned. And even I tried most of the things. I avoided lots of fields. I have removed lots of fields. Then still I am meeting the issue. So can you just tell us the, you know, pin pointedly the particular issue? So after 30 days I am getting the issue. So I need to delete the data. Again I need to do a clean new setup. Then the problem is being resolved. Everything is the same hardware. Everything is the same. Only the data is matters. So whether we need to delete the data every particular day or something like that? So that is the thing. If you still need the old data, you can use this snapshot and restore. That is the functionality like that. So it will just take snapshot of old data. And it will like, I am not pretty much sure how exactly. But it stores it somewhere like, you know, compressed way and it uses it later. Or it is a good way to delete the data if you don't use it. Reindexing concept is, that is what you are talking about? Sorry. Reindex. Not reindex. It is like. Snapshot you are talking about? Yeah. Okay.


This summer I'll teach the course Law and Memory, Legal History of the 20th century. I don't want this course to be a traditional legal history course focusing on names, data and places. I want to explore the relation between our recent past, European past, collective identity and legal culture. We will study the legal dimension of national socialism or Francoism and also the legal and bureaucratic dimension of the Holocaust. And then we will study the memory of the law, how the legal systems after 1945 treated these episodes of our recent past, a recent past which has shaped European identity.


Hello and welcome to Monet Cafe! I'm artist Susan Jenkins. We're gonna have some fun today and if you're new here please subscribe and hit that little bell icon to be notified of future videos. Today's lesson will be on painting whimsical birds in pastel. I've done some more bird paintings that were a little more detailed and serious but these are whimsical, cute, fun and pretty easy. So let's get started. For this lesson you can basically use what you have. I'll be using some gray drawing paper and various pastels. The reference material I'm using is from pmp-art.com and they have so many wonderful reference images and I've saved a whole photo album of birds, a lot of chickadees and I'm going to show you right now how to access my photo album within pmp-art.com. If you'd like to access some of my birds that I've already chosen. Here I am on the pmp site and you'll have to create a profile before you can access any of this but it's free and you'll need to do a search for me. If you want to find my profile type in Susan Jenkins, click search then you'll have a lot of information that shows up but if you look under profiles right there to the right click that and then you can follow me and access my photos and images. I don't think I have a lot of my paintings in there but I do have a few bird paintings. The way it works is you attach your painting to the image that you used. So the photographer gets to see your work. Here's another little bird sketch that I did and you get to share with them what you've created. So it's really fun and a great resource for artists. You may even have some of your own photography that you would like to share for other artists to use. Now let me show you really quickly how you access my photo album. See right there? Up top you'll see photo album. If you click it it will take you to my already pre-saved albums that I've saved and most of my albums down a few pages. I have seven pages of albums. The bird photography is on page seven just so you know so you don't have to search through all of my pages. Now I only share this in case you want to see some of the images that I've saved but I encourage you if you use this resource go ahead and make some of your own albums. Look through all of the reference images and save them yourself to albums that you will create the headings for. And I find these albums are very handy because sometimes we don't want to search for a lot of images to do a painting and when we've pre-saved them we can jump in there and find images that we already know that we like. Usually it's a good idea to do a little warm-up. I found a little birdie that I liked and if you the chickadees are kind of neat because they're pretty round you know they've got some distinction between their head and their body but this little guy is already pretty plump and round. So I basically start working and then I kind of alter things as I see they they need it. I don't feel like I have to get a perfect linear drawing because I kind of like it to be sketchy. So I alter things as I work and I'm constantly comparing spatial relationships. I saw that the bottom of that bird needed to be a little bit bigger. I had him a little too squatty. And so I encourage you to find maybe like I did a lot of images and just start sketching. Do lots of these and it doesn't matter if they're great at first and as a matter of fact they're not going to be until you do more of them. And before you know it you start to learn the anatomy of the bird by just playing around and doing some sketches. And the more that you do the more you understand where things are on that bird and then with other reference images they'll just come so much easier for you to recreate more accurately. I used to find that birds were a little bit difficult. I kind of had a hard time creating their delicacy and that too is something that just gets better the more that you do and it really does have to do with the anatomy of the bird. When you get it right you really can get that gentle delicate quality of the bird. Also too in a minute you'll see in the photo he just had one foot showing the other one was probably beneath his feathers. But typically I draw the branch to match the feet instead of the feet to match the branch because what if you have your branch too low. So I usually do the branch after I have the bird kind of sitting where I want him to be. Then I can guarantee it's in the right place. Now I'm not applying color over the pencil sketch I already did. Once again that was just a warm up. I'm showing you how with a pretty chunky pastel I can get it in some basic shapes to start this bird. So I used a medium value pastel to get those first larger marks of the belly and the head. And now a darker pastel to represent kind of that shadowy area where a wing would be. Even though I don't necessarily see a wing there. And now I'm just using lighter value pastels to basically do a value study in color. I see that that front part of his belly is really bright. Kind of goes right under his middle part of his body and underneath towards the branch. And now I'm going to get my darker pastel and just start basically blocking in some areas where I see dark. Of course under his little neck that's kind of standard and typical of a chickadee. Then he has a little bit of that other wing kind of showing on the other side. And now I'll get his beak and the black area on the top of his head. And one of my goals with this was to try to create a whimsical bird with as few strokes as possible. I wanted it really simple, very basic and fun. I know sometimes myself we can get a little too serious about art and often it's fun just to play. So all you saw up till now was real time. I've sped it up just a little to get through. But what I am focusing on now is really just getting my shapes accurate and my values. Color as you can see is interpretive. As long as you're getting the value right you can make these little birds whatever color you want. You'll see with the next one that I do that I go with. I can't remember like greens and purples. So these are for your creation and whatever you want to do.  So I thought these might be neat. I'm going to do more of these just they're kind of like a neat way to relax. And also I'd like to do some different types of birds. And I think I got his eye a little angry looking. It's funny eyes are so expressive for how you draw them. If you just angle them down like a little eyebrow that looks angry a little bit it's amazing how quickly you can make an eye have a different expression just based on the general positioning and shape of it. So I can't remember if I make him look a little happy or not. Now I'm just using a charcoal pencil again and just reinforcing some of the darks and the feathers.  And like I said before I draw the branch in after I draw the feet in so I don't have to try to match the bird to the branch. And there you go you got it he is still kind of angry looking but that's okay. You got a little squatty cute bird you can make him whatever color you want. And now I'm going to do another one. Here is one of the chickadees from my PMP-art.com album. And I'm doing all of these just on this same piece of gray drawing paper. Once again you can use whatever you want because these are fun and you're not to get too serious about it. You don't have to worry about using expensive materials. I also encourage, I mean this might sound crazy what I'm about to say, but draw with the understanding that it's okay to throw it away. I can't tell you how many things that I create and I learn from it and I don't keep everything that I do as precious you know. I mean unless I really like it I might save it and give it to somebody but I do a lot of things just for the joy of it and just for the fun of it. And I don't know maybe my mentality is a little that way because of the flooding of our property and realizing we all have too many things in general anyway. So you know I try to keep it light-hearted and enjoy the journey. That's probably the best way to put it. Okay so this one is actually more of pinks and blues and I'm doing the same thing. I'm getting in shapes and values. My color is interpretive whatever I want as long as I get the value right and as you can see I kind of develop the shape of the bird as I go. And artists will have their different ways of doing this but once again I don't like to draw in a perfect line drawing because then I feel kind of bound by it and sometimes I like to work the shapes as I go. I apologize that for this bird my hand gets in the way a lot so I hope you can see how I'm kind of shaping things. But again the typical chickadee markings and anatomy and it's interesting I mentioned the flooding of our property that was actually three years ago in September next month according to when I'm making this video because the flooding was a result of Hurricane Irma and right now we have two hurricanes brewing in the Gulf and even though they're not going to hit us we've got some serious wind as a result and things are just kicking up and branches are blowing all over and my little dog just ran in here while I'm making this video and oh I'm thankful we're not having a full-fledged hurricane coming our way but I bet there's not a lot of little birdies in the tree right now they're probably all hunkered down somewhere staying safe. I think it's amazing how nature knows what to do with all these things and people sometimes aren't as smart. All right let me finish this one up. Now as this little birdie evolves as I'm working I think you'll see how I'm adding and shaping him as I go and also how working on regular drawing paper works. I've been doing quite a bit of artwork lately pastel artwork on regular drawing paper it's a good idea to keep a light touch so that you get a little bit of layering capability because if you have a touch that's or mark making that's too heavy-handed you're going to very quickly lose your ability to get any layering. Now also with chickadees I noticed their eyes are as black as their head often so sometimes you don't even see the eye you just barely see the reflection and when I add at the end the little reflection in the eye that's all it takes really just to understand that okay there's an eye embedded down in there somewhere and as you see I just shaped him a little more with some of the lighter value and sometimes I see oh he needs to be a little chunkier or I need a darker value here or there so and you may not work this way you might actually choose to get a more serious drawing in and work from that but everybody has their own unique way of doing things that's one thing I've learned as I've journeyed down my painting career is how beautiful it is that we're not all the same oh I decided to give him kind of a crazy leg I've seen birds sometimes whether the legs are actually kind of awkward looking which is rather cute to me now I'm going to add in that little reflection and this is really something you just get better at in time is learning where that pastel is actually going to land on the on the surface especially when it's big and chunky like that you kind of learn to feel your way the more that you work with them and that's just a practice thing you know it does get better now I'm going to start another one and I'm going to just let you watch this one to music and think about the things I've spoken about and also it's okay if your bird doesn't look exactly like the bird in the photograph as long as you've got a bird that you're happy with and you had fun doing it then it was a success all right so enjoy the music while I create this little birdie and also stay tuned to the very end because after this one I'm going to do another little bird actually in gouache paint I haven't worked with gouache paint much rather than just to combine it with like a mixed media with other mediums but this time I did a complete gouache painting for a little teeny teeny weenie bird painting so stay tuned for that one well those certainly were a lot of fun and now I'm going to show you my little gouache painting I actually have done a little review video I haven't shared it or posted it yet on some gouache paint that Arteza sent me a whole 60 set of gouache paint and then they sent me this empty watercolor container that you can use for gouache as well where I could choose out of the colors to how I wanted to make my own gouache palette so if you'd like to see a full video on that I'll be happy to make it so just let me know on this one I did go ahead and do a linear drawing because once again I am not the gouache expert but one thing that's neat about gouache if you've got some experience with pastel and maybe you've had a little trouble with water color pastel and watercolor behave very differently in the way you put down your darks and lights whereas gouache can work very similarly to pastel in that you can kind of get some darks in first and lay lights on top of it you'll notice here but it also behaves very much like watercolor because it's a it's a water based medium and you can control how thick or thin the gouache paint is based on how much water you add to it so you can have it behave a little bit more like an acrylic if you add less water or more like watercolor if you add more water I'm gonna try to provide a link to a free resource to someone an artist I love her gouache work and she has a free downloadable gouache guide and it's fantastic so I'll try to remember to put in the link or this video in the about section of this video in case you're interested in gouache paint let me know I'd love to hear your feedback because I'm I'm really coming to enjoy gouache painting a lot and I would love to do some more tutorials as I learn so let me know what you think about that because you know my original concept for Monet cafe was not to be so heavy on the pastel it just happens to be my favorite medium on the pastel medium but to incorporate other types of mediums as well which I do a lot of mixed media work but anyway so I like to give you guys what you want I have edited out a little bit of this so as not to have it so long and it's not about this gouache tutorial I just wanted to introduce it and oh also show you look at this doing the little background with this kind of segmented brush was kind of fun and again I wanted to kind of introduce this as a little teaser and see if you guys would like more gouache tutorials and thanks to one of my patrons who reminded me about this video I had promised to bring and actually forgot I had the footage so give me some feedback guys like this video feel free to become a patron if you like be blessed in this crazy world and as always happy painting


This was the city 30 years ago, a city then one of the greatest in the world in size and stature ranking with London, Paris, Rome, New York. Alive and a unity, this was Berlin in the 1930s. No barriers at the Brandenburger Tor, no guards at the Potsdamerplatz, but this was Berlin before Hitler came to power. 1945 and this was Berlin, a city in name only, a geographical location. Mid the rubble of destruction, the flags of the victors, men who taken up arms and self-defense were the common aim to destroy that which menaced them all. Around them, had a defeated nation, for their armies had met in the very middle of Germany. Until such time as Germany could reshape her own destiny, she would be divided into separate zones of occupation, each controlled by an allied power, American, British, French, Russian. Economically, she would be treated as a whole. This the victors had agreed when they had met to decide the future of Germany. Even then, some had reservations about mutual trust, but a world war just over, they had to trust one another, or else begin another war. For Berlin, it was to be each power with its sector that a city open to all the powers until Berlin would again assume her role as the capital of a new German state. Berlin lay a hundred miles deep in the Soviet occupation zone, but was not part of it. Access to the city for the other powers was agreed over certain roads, railways, and three air corridors. Make shift perhaps, but then it was never meant to be permanent.