Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. As you all probably know by now, the piano is one of the most versatile instruments of all time. It can play a bunch of genres, rock, pop, blues, jazz and the like, fusion, folk and so many more. In this lesson I want to show that to you or demonstrate that to you by giving you an exercise which involves a different genre in each hand. So the left hand is going to play rock as you heard in the intro video and the right hand is going to play a bunch of pop sounding or very kind of catchy sounding melodies like what you heard in the intro video and we are going to cap off the lesson with the famous chorus melody of the Incubus song Drive which kind of inspired this lesson as I was going along my routine of trying to brainstorm what I should teach you. Before we get started just for your information, the entire left hand pattern as well as all the five right hand variations which I have for you or the right hand melody lines which I have for you are waiting for you on our Patreon page. You will be able to download the staff notation as well as the MIDI files for the same and it will be great if you could also consider hitting that subscribe button and turning on the bell icon for regular notifications. Let's get cracking. So first off I am going to demonstrate the chord progression. All the chords hail from the G major scale or the E minor scale which is its natural minor relative or E minor. So the chords would be E minor, D minor, C major, D major. You could probably just start playing it along with me. Get your keyboards out. You might want to pause the video, get the keyboards out and learn along. So E minor, B minor, C major, D major, E minor and as you can see I am using some nice inversions in the right hand just to get by and to practice this exercise well what you should also do is the timing of the chords is what I chose to be I think quite interesting. So E minor, B minor, C major, D major, E what's happening there, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4 so it's an irregular change of chords. E minor for 3 counts, B minor for 1 and then C major for 3 counts, D major, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 and that. And for the purpose of this lesson we are going to play the chords in the left hand so also get used to the same chords in the left hand, 4, 1, it's a very glam rock progression. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1 so you may want to get this first 2, 3, 4, 1, 2 and then in the left hand I am just playing it in root position okay, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. Now the pattern in the left hand instead of just doing the rather boring so I am going to give you an arpeggio pattern over 2 levels of playing. The first level will not include the third of the chord it will just be a power chord which is used a lot in rock songs. Stuff like that so many songs go with just power chords right. So instead of playing it as a block power chord we are going to arpeggiate it by playing the notes in a scattered pattern or in a one by one way. The second thing we are going to do to the arpeggio is retain the pattern but however make the chord to be the original triad but in open position. So let me first teach you that the way I am playing each of the 4 chords E minor, B minor this is in the power chord shape, C major in the power chord shape, D, A, D in the power chord shape. Do that together E minor, D minor, C major, D major, E minor, D minor, C major and another nice way to practice it could be 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. You could probably look at this as a pattern on its own rather simple but still rock sounding I think 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1. This is going to serve the foundation on top of which the right hand is going to play melodies. And then we learn the same chords let's try the same chords in the spread or the open position so to speak. So instead of playing 1, 5 and 8 which is the octave on the top I am now doing 1, 5 and 10. 10 would be basically the same 3rd which you would normally play but in the left hand if you play the 3rd together closed up with the root and the 5th it starts sounding very muddy in my opinion especially with the full band playing alongside you. So you would want to add the 3rd on top. It is what we call as spread or open voicing a lot of which I have taught on our YouTube channel we have even made a playlist on the same we will link it up in the description. So E minor that's how E minor is E B G then B minor a rather stretchy kind of shape B F sharp D then C major C G E and then D major let's do that again 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1. So a simpler pattern could be with the open 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 3 and 4 and 3 and 4 and 1 and 2 you can even do this with the powers 3 and 4 and 2 and 3 sounds pretty much the same of course a lot more emotion will come when you spread it 2 and 3 and 4 ok let's add something to this now 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and no breaks now and 3 and 4 and all the beats are covered right and 4 and 1 and 2 and 3 and 2 and 3 and 4 there we go that's your left hand pattern which we are going to do pretty much draw the lesson however I have a really nice pattern which includes a little bit of 16th notes which kind of emulates what a guitar player would do in any traditional rock context or alternative rock glam rock all kinds of rock so the pattern would be something like din din ta ta ka din ta din din ta ta and that's also a common drum groove do do ta ta ka doom ta chum doom doom ta ka doom ta chum doom doom ta ka doom ta on the guitar it'll go jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing and the chords are not going to change evenly they will change at these irregular intervals so let me try and play that pattern on the keys and then try and teach you so it'll go jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing jing so we are bringing in some 16s 1e and 2e and 3e and 4e and again 1e and 2e and 3e and 4 if you observe I gave a gap at the on of the 3 that kind of allows you to move your hand to the next chord actually I didn't do that that's the pattern which I guess even guitar players do that so that they can kind of shift to the next chord easily however I think deep down it's an awesome drum groove which all of us have stolen from so 1e and there we go 1e and ta ta ta at the very end of the bar at the and 4 and I'm playing b minor in spread position pretty much how I taught you earlier earlier I did now we're just adding that 16th note embellishment making it more drum like ok so if you if you're finding it a stretch to go all the way to the third or the 10th interval on top what you could end up doing is use the sustain pedal and you can take away your pinky finger from the starting part from the starting root of the chord and give yourself an additional maybe 1 inch or half an inch more of width to access that G but if your hand is also painting if you have some kind of a wrist issue or if you're a kid watching this video and you still want to play along you probably can't stretch out your hand so much it will take you some time but you can still prepare for that when the time comes of course when your hands get bigger and your you get bigger in general and till then you can just play the fifth chord pattern in the same 16th note vibe with power chords so e minor b minor c major d major e minor b minor c major d minor if you can stretch to the third well and good as you can see it's the same rhythm it's the same hit points it's just more harmonic because of the stretch to the third let's look at power chords as well in the same pattern you could also toggle between the two patterns okay so that's all about the left hand done and dusted left hand over now in the right hand i have i've composed four melodies which i think you'll enjoy and the fifth melody is going to be the incubus song so stay tuned till the very end we're going to learn a lot of melodies now in the right hand and to approach this hand independence if you want to call it that between the left hand and the right hand the best way is to just drill your left hand and get it in a very muscle memory kind of way so that anything you play in the right hand should just happen you should not even think that your left hand is even doing anything you know yes you may find you may feel the burn of the left hand because it's a physical workout on your forearm your wrist and fingers of course you will feel the burn but as you can see as i'm talking to you also i've developed the independence to talk to you and play the piano which i think is a bit tougher please i think it's a bit tougher than even playing a melody or singing a melody but the idea here is whatever melody you have in front of you in the notation you're you're going to need to first sing it we'll sing it together and then we will try and execute it in the right hand and after i or while i played in the right hand i'm also going to help you with the fingering for the same watch out for the fingering and the alignment also you need to perhaps check see there are two ways to develop independence one is you drill the left hand to be so confident or so comfortable that you don't even know what it's doing it's just it's just an instinct it just happens and then you you're giving your conscious brain not 100 percent of its effort but at least 90 percent of its effort to play the melody in the right hand so that's pretty much the idea the second way of looking at independence which sometimes works but sometimes can be a bit stressful would be where you align the notes together you you have the staff notation this where reading comes into play you have the right hand in the treble clef you have the left hand in the bass clef and you actually physically see with your eyes oh at three uh at the uh of the three there is some kind of a interaction or the two hands are playing together while at the end of the four the the the left hand and the right hand are not playing together there could be a rest at the four or something like that so let me now bring you to the melodies and the first melody would be i'll play it with a simple pulse so you get the feel of it and i'm now singing this with my left hand pattern and then we get it so instead of playing this c i would recommend you to play the higher e as mentioned in the notation because otherwise the two hands will start fighting with each other so fingering what do we do you can start with your middle finger that will work pretty well and then pinky for the b you can even start with your index finger on e come to think of it i kind of prefer the middle finger slight stretch only the melody with the left four chords of course going on now tens spread chords good way to kind of remember this is to actually listen to me playing it don't focus your entire attention to just reading the notes you can listen to me playing it you can also download the midi files and the notation and play it and get to listen to it so listen and see don't only see some of you some of us are more comfortable with notation i understand but with notation you're looking at the stuff you're not you're not hearing it and thus you're not feeling it if you ask me hearing in music is feeling seeing i don't know how you can really feel it when you see it you're just observing okay what is the note how long is the note and when is the note occurring pretty much okay so let's move on to melody number two so melody number two includes a nice stream of eighth notes and at the end i have a sixteenth note run okay let's do that i'll sing it first so it ends with eight sixteen notes let's get that on the keys i'm trying it first with block chords e e minor e b minor c major d let's work on our fingering and and after we get the fingering we can then bring back our original pattern now when you do the semi quaver run i think you have to start the run with your middle finger and when you cross to the d you cross your thumb under again that's your first bar let's get that together slowly and now next bar cross the thumb let's try and get that slowly but surely with the left try to sing along with spread chords coming back in the left end very slowly so that's melody number two let's move on to the third melody basically the challenge will be very similar your independence has the same kinds of notes but i've made it a bit longer i've made it a four bar melody instead of a two bar melody so let's learn melody three i'll first play it with the block chords let's just do the first two bars that's your semi quaver flourish so you start with a higher e you come down to the lowest e high e e b a d um second uh third bar and fourth bar i'm playing now e b b e e c b f sharp e b b e e c b f sharp e e b a g b g f sharp e b b e e c b f sharp b e b a da da da let's bring back our left hand pattern now with power chords singing is very important you'll get the alignment between your hands a lot better if you sing the melody which means you need to have the knowledge of the melody so to speak you can also tackle this melody in smaller pockets so this took me some time so what i did was i just kept kind of looping just that bar you can even go back to the simpler pattern we discussed earlier you know and then maybe and then maybe bring back the 16th note flavor let's try that now with spread voicing go haven't taught you the fingering yet so pinky and thumb with your middle that's your semi quaver run you'll want to cross that middle finger there that was melody three let's move on to the fourth melody in this melody there's a pickup so i'm going to start my melody first and then the chords will take over so pump pump pump and then the song begins let me break it down bar by bar now with block chords in the left hand so it starts at one and two and three and four and and one and two and three and four and one and i'm also playing the chords as a pulse the pulse is essentially how your head or your body or the listener would move naturally to the flow of the songs important to play whatever it is you're playing first of all with the pulse that is really important b minor c major d e minor let's bring in our left hand pattern now to play the melody okay again let's start spread chords pulse it's okay if you make it's okay if you make mistakes but moving to the pulse will ensure that you're on time and has ensured and will ensure that your independence will be uh steady as well okay so i thought we'll do one final melody which is the song which kind of inspired this lesson or maybe a few similar songs it's drive by incubus so we'll just play the chorus melody i suggest you listen to the song it's a really nice rock song one of the hits of the nineties whatever tomorrow brings i'll be there with open arms and open eyes yeah okay let's break that whole thing down so we'll do our usual block chords in the left the challenge here is you have to start at the end of the two one can probably till you get the chord shifting you can just start with one chord with a pulse so one and two and three tomorrow brings i'll be there with open arms with open eyes yeah now let's do it with the changes e minor b mine c d it's a four bar tune yeah bringing back our favorite pattern let's just revise it before the melody comes so keep the drums also with you in fact if you listen to this song the drummer itself in the incubus drive song will inspire you greatly i've just chosen the chorus but you get the idea you can do the other parts as well so slow it down the spread chords guys so let's just recap the video we've done a very rock piano arpeggio pattern in the left hand with power chords with also spread chords and we've done five melodies let's break them down melody three melody four which which starts at the pickup and then of course incubus is drive right guys hope you found the lesson useful and we have a lot of other hand independence exercises concepts methods and you know ways of approaching the subject of hand independence that's probably the most commonly practiced thing on the piano because it's it's the one instrument where it's almost drum like in nature your right hand and your left hand can do completely different things and in this lesson i wanted to show you that it can also do completely different genres if you look at the melody it's quite pop all of them are very pop melodies and the left hand continue to play a rock pattern so try to work on your independence watch our playlist on hand independence we also have a structured learning process to develop all this from almost ground zero you can consider our foundation programs which include theory year training and those are structured lessons which you'll find on our website nathanielschool.com you can see the link in the description as well and don't forget to get yourselves a copy of the staff notation and the midi tracks which will be available on our patreon page and there's a subscribe button thanks for watching the lesson but we'll definitely feel your thanks a lot more if you press that button right now and there's a bell icon too as we release regular content so you will get notifications in whenever we release our daily videos right guys thanks a ton for watching cheers see you in the next one


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This is Christopher Isherwood. The story you're about to hear was written by Aldous Huxley and myself. It's based on a true incident, and it has never before been told. It concerns a man who had a gift greater than he could understand, a gift so unique that when it was shared by others, it destroyed them. CBS Radio, a division of the Columbia Broadcasting System and its 217 affiliated stations present the CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mine. Tonight, Jacob's Hands, an original news story by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood. We are proud to have Mr. Isherwood as our narrator, original music composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. On a small ranch in the Mojave Desert, not far from the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, is the home of Professor Arnold Carter, his sister and his daughter, retired now to this medically approved climate, nourished by the warmth of the sun. The professor lives quietly with his family and his bitterness.  Look, Father, where have you been? Aren't they lovely? Halman Blossom's the first of the year. Get them out of here. You want to bring on another attack on my asthma? I'm sorry, Father. Do you mind if I practice my singing? I can stand it if you can. Where were you at lunchtime, Sharon? Outside, looking for flowers. With Jacob, Marl Wager. Good afternoon, Aunt Annie. Were you with Jacob, Sharon? What's wrong with that? Jacob wouldn't hurt a flea. Jacob is a hired hand and you're the daughter of a fine scholar. Don't you ever forget it. That silly is just a friend.  You've got to learn to be cautious. Things can happen. Do a cripple? Do a girl who walks around on crutches? Annie, see if there's some lunch left over for Sharon. Self-pity. Look at her. Dirt on her shoes. Wash up, young lady, if you expect to eat in this house. Well, who is it? Oh, right. I'm coming. I'm coming. It's me, Professor Tom Pierce. Oh, I'll come out.  Whatever looking I can do. The way you talk, Professor, it's a waste of time. Yeah, I'll come along. We'll see. All right. What kind of shape is she in? Her hind legs are paralyzed. She's got a high fever. Yeah, couldn't be the black quarter. She's over here, Tom. Tried to keep her away from the other animals. We never can be sure. Jacob, what are you doing with that calf? I'm just looking after her, Professor. Didn't I tell you to leave her alone? The disease might be contagious. Yeah, let me have a look, Jacob. She's been collapsed like this long since yesterday. Well, I guess that's it, Professor. Black quarter, all right. All right. Jacob, get the rifle. Jacob. Sharon, stay back at the house. You can't shoot a thing just because it's lame. You hear me? I said go back to the house. You'd better go back, Sharon. Before you do it, Professor, can I... Can I keep her for a minute? What? Can I hold the calf?  Get my gun. Let's not hear any more of this claptrap. Die.  What? Why are you touching her, Jacob?  I won't.  Do you hear?   The calf's on her feet. What did you do to that calf? I demand a new. I don't know. You must have done something, Jacob. She's on her feet now. Her hind legs move. It's not anything I did. It just came to me a feeling, something I could feel moving into my hands.  That calf wasn't sick to begin with. Oh, I examined him. I say he was sick. Jacob here, he's a healer. He's no such thing. You think as a scientist I could accept... Just the same. I'm going to try him out. Listen here, Jacob. I got me a lame dog down in my place. You tried on him? I guess so, if you want. Yeah, and there's others around here might like to see this thing more. Nonsense. You're making too much of it. Jacob, give that calf some water. And you, Sharon, come in the house. And Jacob healed the dog and a cat from another nearby ranch. And the following week a colt said to be suffering from an incurable disease. And the editor of the local newspaper. Jacob, open the door. There's a man here to see you. Ed Burton from the paper. I'd like to speak to you, Mr. Erickson. All right. There's a lot of talk around. Some of our folks seem to think that you have the power to heal. Is that right? Well, Jacob, answer Mr. Burton. I... I guess so. Sometimes it happens. I touch an animal, a dog, or a calf, and he seems to get well. I see. And do you charge money for this healing? No, sir. I couldn't do that. Why not? Because, well, it isn't mine. Whatever this thing is, it just comes over me. Strange feeling. I don't know. First I feel it in my hands, then it passes on to the animal. It's quite a story, Mr. Erickson. I'd like to write it up. I think everybody should know about this power. All right with you? Sure. If that's what you want to do, I don't mind. Thanks, Mr. Erickson. Good day. I'm going to write some friends of mine in L.A. to drive up. Prominent doctors, both of them. I think they could settle this whole business once and for all. Good idea. I'd like to do a follow-up piece when I get here. And do you really believe in this nonsense? Now, Professor, do I believe in Santa Claus? Jacob, this is Dr. Marlar and Dr. Carruthers. How do you do, Mr. Erickson? Pleased to meet you. Now, Jacob, these gentlemen merely want to talk to you. As doctors, they're naturally curious about your... power to heal. We certainly are, Mr. Erickson. Dr. Carruthers is an outstanding psychiatrist. My field is neuropathology. Professor Carter and I were at Chicago University together. Before the loss of my health, I was professor of biology at Chicago. You didn't know that, did you, Jacob? No, sir. Mr. Erickson, I'm frankly skeptical about so-called miracle cures. I have to be in my profession. I'm sure you understand that. Well, I just don't know. All this talk and everything. If you don't mind, I'd just as soon... Now, Jacob, no one is going to hurt you. Of course not. Well... All right, Doctor. You may proceed. Mr. Erickson, here we have a rabbit. Oh, not just any rabbit.  Cancer of the lung. But, sir, I... Please, let me finish. In most cases of so-called faith healing, we find the illness to be hysterical in nature. That is to say, though there is an actual and very real physical illness, its basic origin is in the mind of the sufferer. Release the tension and you often release the illness, hence a so-called miracle cure. Now, Mr. Erickson, we obtain this rabbit from a laboratory. We know the animal's disease. It is entirely organic in nature. We ask you to cure it. But I don't cure things. It's this feeling that comes into my hands. Yes, we understand all that, Jacob, but whatever it is you seem to impress some people of our neighborhood. Why not let these two gentlemen in on it? They're men of science, Jacob. Yes, sir. Only I don't know if anything will happen. Sometimes it doesn't. There was a hen last week up at Tillman's and I... We understand, Mr. Erickson. You just do it any way you like. We have plenty of time. Here you are, Mr. Erickson. Go ahead, Jacob. Talk to it. You're going to get well. You're going to get well.  I won't let you. Well, Jacob... You're going to get well. You're going to get well.   I won't. Gentlemen. May I examine the rabbit, Mr. Erickson? Yes, sir. Thank you. It's very interesting how you stroke the back of the animal. You have a great gentleness in your hands. Everyone around here says Jacob is a very talented young man. They believe in him. If there is any difference, I can't detect it. Of course, we'll have to dissect the animal when we get back to LA to be sure, but it appears... You're not going to cut him open. Naturally. You want to be absolutely sure before we pass judgment? But to kill the rabbit just to find out...  Well, Arnold, we appreciate your letting us in on this. Yes, it was a wonderful opportunity. You don't often get to test these things first-hand. Have you better be getting back? Long drive, you know. I certainly do appreciate your coming out. It's been a real pleasure for me. And I feel a lot better. Yes, I'm sure you do.  I'll join you in just a moment. Jacob? Yes, sir? I think you'd better pack your things. You're fired. It's me, Jacob. Sharon, can I talk to you? I guess so, only it's kind of messy in here. Oh, I don't mind. Your father wouldn't like it if he knew this. What he doesn't know won't hurt him. I heard what happened today. I'm sorry, Jacob. They don't understand. They wouldn't listen. I understand. You do? It wasn't your fault. It just didn't happen, that's all. Where will you go now, Jacob? I don't know. You knew where I'd go if I could. Where? To Los Angeles. I didn't like it. Well, when I was in the army, they shipped me overseas from New York. It was noisy and crowded. So was Paris. Paris? Oh, they have the opera there, Jacob. Imagine if I could sing in Paris at the opera. A great stage and people and fancy clothes. And a girl on crutches singing opera. What's wrong with that? Everybody in the audience would laugh. I wouldn't think of your leg at all. I'd be listening to your voice and looking at your face. Jacob? Yes? What if you could cure my leg? Sharon. It isn't as though it was deformed or anything. It isn't. It's just lame. Like the dog you cured. Please, will you try for me? Why? Don't you see? Because they're not the same. I loved animals all my life. I understand that. Do I mean less to you than a dog? But that was different. Why? Because animals can't talk back to you. Do you like me, Jacob? Yes. I mean a real whole lot. Yes. Then cure me. I don't know how. Kneel down. Take my foot. Take it in your hands. Do what you did to the calf and to the dog and to the colt. Jacob, don't you see? You have the power to make me well. I'm begging you. I want to walk. Do it for me, Jacob, please. Don't let her wimp anymore. She's going to get well. She's going to get strong and well. I'm going to get well. I know it. She's going to get well. She won't be lame anymore. She'll walk like everyone else. She'll walk again. She's getting well now. The lameness is leaving her and she's getting well. Jericho! Oh, it's the happiest, happiest night of my life. This tower is all shining for me. I own this night. I own the world. Jacob, it's mine now. I can heal. I can heal, people.  Jacob. When you leave here tomorrow, I'm going with you. I'm going with you. Sharon, no, you can't.  Sharon and Jacob left together for Los Angeles. But once there, they went their separate ways. For Sharon had only one goal. The opera. The weeks passed and audition followed audition. And the response was always the same. Well, it's a pleasant enough voice, but a bit light for our needs. Why don't you try the popular field? And at the broadcasting and recording companies, audition followed audition. And the response was always the same. Yeah, okay, okay, Miss Connor, thank you very much. We'll call you if something turns up. For Jacob too, there was only one goal now. To heal the sick. But he chose another direction. A small mission near downtown Los Angeles in an area called Skid Row. And a year passed. I want you to get well. I want you to get well.  You feel my hands on your foot. Now you're well again. You're feeling better. You see? Now you can walk. What do you think of that, huh? Well, Lou. Doc, that boy's got an axe. He's for us, ain't he, Lou? Would that pull him into the art theater? Would that pull him in? I tell you, we should hire that guy. You put him on top of the bill. After Flossie does the strip number, we get it made. Lou, you're crazy. It's something we'd pack to house. This boy's too big for a bellicure house. Now, I got other plans for him. Such as? Doc, we're gonna go into the healing business in a big way. You and me and this here boy Jacob. Now listen.  I don't care if you have to open time, but you bring him. Lou, listen, I need money. Honest, I'm broke, I tell you. Baby, you're always broke. Will you stop trying to make like a diver or whatever? I got dames who can sing better and live on the salary, you know? What's the money? Okay, Mr. Lawrence. Lay off the Mr. Lawrence, will you? What's the money? You don't like class? Okay, Lou, here he is. Wow, wow, Mr. Jacob. We're ever glad to see you. Step right in. Jacob! Jacob! Sharon, what are you doing here? You know, this brought an old home away. Oh, Jacob, it's really you. I didn't recognize you. The costume... is a star of our show. Well, then you're singing. Well, that's wonderful, Sharon. Give us a knockdown, baby. Oh, Jacob. This is Lou Zaccone, the owner of the theater, and this is his assistant, Doc Waldo. I'm pleased to know you, Mr. Zaccone, doctor. Yeah, I'm sure. This is the man who... this is my oldest friend. Was I right?  Oh, Lou, no, not Jacob. Mr. Jacob, the doctor here and me, we got a little, uh, proposition we was wanting to talk about with you. It's a very high-class ethical kind of operation. Yeah, it's very ethical. Uh, baby, you're forgetting where the tin spots are coming from. Mr. Jacob, now, what we got in mind is a sort of a clinic, see? Now, with a doctor's medical education and my business management, this here clinic could help everybody. Not just a few bonds. I don't know... Ain't that right, Sharon? Why don't you tell Jacob? Yeah. I guess that's right. You see? Well, now you sit down, Mr. Jacob, so we can talk. Psychomagnetic Medical Center. Mr. Erickson? I'm sorry, he can be seen by appointment only. Yes. Thank you for calling. Why is Mr. Erickson? Isn't he in his office, doctor? Listen, there's half a dozen patients waiting to see him. Well, shall I try to locate him, Dr. Waldo? Call the art theater on Main Street. Ask for Mr. Laura, she might be... Jacob, for heaven's sake, where you been? Don't you know there's people waiting to see you? Good afternoon, doctor. Miss Reed. Good afternoon, Mr. Erickson. Now, listen, we're putting our blood, sweat, and tears into this operation, Lou and me.  Come on into the office. Now, sit down and listen. I want to talk to you, doctor. Listen, Lou and me sunk a bundle into this place. We hucked the art theater up to our ears, and now it's beginning to pay off and big. You're in on the take. Am I, doc? You got 10% of the giant, haven't you? And you didn't put up a stinkin' dime. Doc, today I sat in the park and a man came up to me. A man who'd seen me at the mission. He was sick, doc. And I asked him to come to me and I'd help him. And do you know what he said to me, doc? What did he say? He said I came to you, Jacob, but they wouldn't let me in. I didn't have enough money. Yeah? Is that right? Doc, didn't we have an agreement anybody could come to the clinic, anybody? Now, don't get on your high haul. Didn't we agree to charge only people who had the money to pay? Sure, Jack, you know. I must have been asleep, Bob. And this man, this man who'd seen me at the mission, said others had been coming here, too. Others who couldn't pay and that they were turned away. Now, is that right, doc? You answer me, doc. Well, after all, Louis... You answer me. Well, sometimes it depends. It doesn't depend. I have lived with this until my heart can't stand it any longer. I've seen goodness turn to thin. I've seen it... Hey, doc, break out the bottle. This is a celebration. This is one grand celebration. Hi, Jacob. Hello, Jacob. We're here to celebrate, kids. It's been a while, Louis. Some other time. Some other time? You're out of your mind. Today, right now. You want to tell him, baby, or you want me to... Lou, you and the doc, go on out. I want to talk to Jacob alone for a minute. What? You heard me. Listen, kid, this ain't no secret. Get out. Both of you. Okay, okay, but watch it, baby. I've bruised these things. Come on, doc. Jacob. Yes, Sharon? I've always believed in you, Jacob. I want you to know that. What is it, Sharon? Is something wrong? Did they hurt you in some way? Listen to me, Jacob. This is a tough thing for me. I didn't make it the way I thought I would. Once I said I wanted to stand on an upper stage in Paris, but I couldn't because everybody would look at my crippled leg. And you said you wouldn't. You'd look at my face and hear my voice. Isn't that right, Jacob? I guess so. Where am I now? They are looking at my legs, Jacob. Both of them. And they want more. A lot more. I just can't take that anymore. I just can't. If I had money, Sharon, you could have it. You could always have it. Your money? You give it back to the patients, don't you, Jacob? They shouldn't have to pay. I've known that for a long time, Jacob. What? I'm going to marry Lou. Lou? Lou's a conee? I've got to. Don't you see? There's nowhere else I can go. There's nothing else I can do. Sharon. Sharon, if you'd have me... Spend the rest of my life without a dime. Living in flop houses. Watching you get taken by every sucker. Now, don't say that. Well, isn't it the truth? Isn't that what you are, Jacob? A sucker for every con man who ever came along. I was the first one. I got you here. Then Doc and then Lou. You always took care of the other guy, Jacob. But what did you ever do for yourself? But... I thought you understood. I've got to marry Lou. He's made a lot of money out of this place. And I need money, Jacob. I'm through with flop houses and cheap clothes. Jacob, wait! Hey, what's that, Jacob? You saw or something? Jacob. Ain't a lessonous one too far. Jacob. All of it. It's quiet. It's quiet. It's sinful, don't you see? What I've been doing is sinful. I was wrong. I didn't do these things. I'm to blame. It's not your fault, any of you. I did it. These hands are mine. Doc, get the police. Lou, no. Let him alone. He built it. He can tear it down if he wants to. Jacob. These hands. These hands. Please, let me alone. Let me alone. Jacob returned to a ranch in the Mojave Desert to work that he knew. And he cared for the animals. And sometimes he healed them. But never again would he minister to a human being. For now, he understood how dangerous it is to heal the body if you cannot also heal the spirit. He knew the meaning of Christ's question. Whether it is easier to say to the sick, thy sins be forgiven thee. Or to say, arise and take up thy bed and walk. Tonight, the CBS Radio Workshop has presented Jacob's Hands, while Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood with Mr. Isherwood is our narrator. Jacob's Hands was adapted for radio and directed by William Frug. Vic Parran was featured as Jacob with Virginia Gregg as Sharon. Others in our cast were Her Butterfield, Helen Clebe, Larry Dopkin, Harry Bartel, Parley Baer, John Dana, Hans Conrad, Bill Conrad and Janet Stewart. The CBS Radio Workshop is produced in Hollywood by William Frug. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you this week when from New York we present Living Portrait, an unusual study of one of the nation's most imaginative businessmen, Mr. William Zekendorf. Whatever your own views on religion may be, CBS Radio believes that you'll be pleased to know that much time, thought and effort is being devoted to giving children a strong spiritual foundation in Sunday schools throughout America. If your children are not attending Sunday school now, this week, Sunday School Week is a good time to enroll them. Stay tuned for five minutes of CBS News to be followed on most of these stations by My Son Jeep. America listens most to the CBS Radio Network.


Back to school is finally here. Jade, you have your hand sanitizer. You have your disinfecting wipes. I even gave you an extra mask. And this one you can put it on. Jaden wanted a COVID-19 rose. Wash your hands. Wear all of your masks in six feet only. Ensure your children are provided with a personal hygiene kit to carry and use on a daily basis. Items like hand sanitizer, wipes and extra masks should be in there. Remember, if your child does not feel well or is showing any flu-like symptoms, keep him or her at home.  Classrooms have been prepared to ensure physical distancing. Teachers and support staff will guide students during the day to wash their hands and all surfaces, desks, chairs, door handles and washrooms will be cleaned regularly. Right now, administrations of schools would have communicated the new schedule specific to your child's grade or form. Lunches will be consumed at the student's desk or outdoors while respecting physical distancing. As we start the new school year, 2020-2021, we are all adjusting to the new normal that was introduced by COVID-19. I beg of all of you, let us observe the guidelines as prescribed by the Ministry of Health. Our children, teachers, educators, stakeholders, we all depend on one another to do the right thing for the sake of our children and the sake of our nation. Let us all be vigilant and observe the protocols as defined by the Ministry of Health.


Raising a litter of kittens is a thrilling adventure, but it also comes with a lot of responsibilities. You must keep a watch out for fading kitten syndrome in addition to ensuring that the tiny fluffed balls are secure, warm, and nourished. Neonatal death is referred to as fading kitten syndrome. The first week of life is the most dangerous for kittens, accounting for 70-90% of all fatalities. According to estimates, stillbirths account for 8.5% of all births, with 16% dying before weaning. A very attentive caretaker may be alert to the indications of FKS, increasing the kitten's chances of survival. Low birth weight kittens, kittens with congenital defects, and kittens that are poor nurses, are at a higher risk for FKS. People who rescue and foster pregnant cats and or foster kittens should take time to learn to spot the signs of FKS as the offspring of stray and feral cats are particularly prone to this condition. Since FKS is so common, many people involved in feline rescue advocate for spaying rescued pregnant cats. Fading kitten syndrome is not a disease, but rather a collection of signs that develop in neonatal kittens. It has many underlying causes, and leads to rapidly declining health. Unfortunately, one of the very first signs is the unexplained death of a very young kitten. Because of this, FKS has been compared to sudden infant death syndrome in human babies. Causes of Fading kitten syndrome. Fading kitten syndrome can occur for a variety of reasons, including environmental factors, congenital defects, parasites, bacterial or viral infections, and even human error in hand-raising kittens, says Ellen Karaza, a licensed veterinary technician and a Fading kitten expert from Novacat Clinic in Arlington, Virginia. Due to the immaturity of a neonatal kitten's body and immune system, even seemingly small factors can trigger a domino effect. For instance, what might start as a small bout of diarrhea can quickly result in dehydration and hypothermia, causing vital bodily functions to fail. Any number of factors can trigger Fading kitten syndrome, but the important thing is to recognize the symptoms and to intervene immediately. Belly button infections, omphalophobitis. A common diagnosis for kittens with the syndrome is inflammation of the belly button, Demos says. Bacteria travel up from the place where the umbilical cord was chewed apart by the mother cat or cut during a C-section. Genetic issues. Some kittens may have genetic problems, says Demos. They can survive in their mother's uterus but once born, they have difficulty thriving on their own. For example, a cat born with a heart condition could lead to Fading kitten syndrome. Neonatalysioarthrolysis. Neonatalysioarthrolysis is a condition that occurs when a mother cat and kitten have different blood types and is more common in pedigree cats. The antibodies in the mother's milk will attack the kitten's red blood cells, Demos says. In this situation, the kitten starts off healthy. Then within a few days or a week, the kitten's health will start to go downhill. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife to get 20% off. Symptoms of Fading Kitten Syndrome. Early signs that a kitten is fading may include lethargy, lack of interest in nursing, sleeping separately from the litter, and whiting caregivers may notice that the kitten's skin is less elastic, which is a symptom of dehydration. The kitten's face may start to look gaunt and triangular if it is not getting adequate nutrition. There are some indications that a kitten may be at risk for developing Fading Kitten Syndrome. The signs to watch for include. Extremely low birth weight, kittens that develop FKS are often the smallest of the litter. They have a low birth weight and are not as active as their litter mates. Inability to nurse properly, healthy kittens nurse almost immediately after birth. A Fading Kitten is often not strong enough to grasp and suckle the mother cat's nipple. During the first 72 hours or so of nursing after birth, healthy kittens that are nursing well receive special milk called colostrum. This colostrum provides essential nutrients and antibodies. Colostrum gives the kitten passive immunity. Allowing them to grow and thrive until they can receive vaccinations and stop nursing. If a kitten fails to nurse and needs to be bottle fed it will not receive colostrum and is more likely to develop FKS. Abandonment, mother cat's sense when there is a weak kitten and may abandon it in favor of her other kittens. This is an instinctual reaction designed to protect the healthier kittens. Hypothermia, low body temperature, since newborn kittens can't regulate their own body temperature, they depend on their mom for warmth. Therefore, abandon kittens or kittens that do wander away from mom, rapidly develop hypothermia. Hypothermic kittens are lethargic. Its mouth and gums will be a bluish shade rather than a healthy pink. This can rapidly be fatal unless human intervention occurs. Treatment options. Treating fading kittens in a veterinary clinic can be frustrating for both providers and clients. But Karaza and the team at NOVA are saving neonatal kittens on a regular basis. Her advice to other veterinary professionals? Don't be afraid to treat the little guys and think outside of the box with their care, she says. Sometimes the issue causing the fading is easier than you think, you just need the right diagnostics, cat medications, and blood products. Fading kitten treatment should address both the cause of the fading and any secondary symptoms. Through an examination and diagnostic testing, a vet can determine any treatable illness such as respiratory infections or internal parasites, and can prescribe appropriate therapies. However, fading kittens typically also have secondary symptoms, such as dehydration or hypoglycemia, that must be addressed through supportive care. In some cases, a kitten's condition may be too advanced. Some kittens may not survive no matter what you do, says Karaza. Late signs of fading kitten syndrome may include symptoms such as abnormal breathing, extreme lethargy, neck arching, or odd vocalizations. If these symptoms are present, a veterinary professional should determine if it is likely that the kitten can be saved. In advanced cases, euthanasia may be the most humane solution. Through early intervention, caregivers can hopefully avoid this scenario. Consult a veterinarian right away if you notice any abnormal signs in a newborn kitten, especially lethargy, lack of nursing, and or difficulty breathing. The kitten will be examined and tested for any infections or parasites. The vet will prescribe a course of action to treat any infection, prevent hypothermia, malnutrition, and dehydration. In the unfortunate event that the kitten does not survive, kitten rescuers can help fading kittens. Those who frequently care for neonatal kittens, such as kitten foster parents and rescuers, will benefit from learning advanced kitten care skills that can save a fading kitten. Tube feeding, for instance, may save the life of a fading kitten who is unable to suckle or swallow. Subcutaneous fluid therapy, when carefully dosed by an experienced caregiver, can help provide essential hydration to keep a kitten's body functioning. Proper administration of iron, vitamin B12, or dextrose can also help some kittens bounce back. Each of these lifesaving skills should be learned and administered under the supervision of an experienced veterinary professional, as every kitten's situation will be different and will require specific treatment tailored to their needs. The most important thing for caregivers to know is that fading kitten syndrome does not have to be a death sentence. By acting quickly, understanding the symptoms, and working with the right veterinary team, the chance of survival goes up exponentially, explains Karaza. The biggest killer to these little guys is waiting. Caregivers can give kittens the best chance by planning ahead. By learning advanced care skills, knowing the early signs, monitoring kittens carefully, establishing a good relationship with a veterinarian, and creating an action plan ahead of time, caregivers can lay the groundwork for a high chance of survival. If you enjoyed this video, kindly press the like button. 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Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasewrakes.com coming at you with our first, my first live look at 2020-2021 Uberdeck Ultimate Collection Hockey 2 box, random team break number one.  That actually turns out to be a pretty good price point there. We combo the ducks and coyotes. Big thanks to this group here. We'll triple you up, one, two, and three. And then the combo makes us a 30 team list. No crackin' in here yet. Let's roll it, randomize it. Names and teams, five and a five. Ten the hard way, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten, and final time. After ten we've got, what am I doing here? After ten we've got Pat down to Carl. Five and a five. Ten times four. And then the teams, one, two, three, four, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten in final time. After ten we've got the Boston Bruins down to the Ottawa Senators. All right, Pat with Boston, Christopher with the Flyers, Daniel with the Ducks-Coyotes combo, and the Blues. Mike with the Canucks, and Michael Logue with the Bluejack. Chris with the Blackhawks, Daniel with the Kings, Michael with the Sabres, Carl with the Rangers, Michael with the Devils, Mike Tower with the Caps, Carl with the Islanders, Daniel with the Canadians, Carl with your triple last spot mojo stars next to your name, Predators, Wild, and Lightning. Pat with the Flames, Carl you also have the Sharks, Daniel with the Redwinks, Pat with the Stars, Michael with the Maple Leaves, Christopher with the Panthers, Mike with the Penguins, Michael with the Oilers, Daniel with the Jets, Carl with the Avs, Michael with the Knights, and Carl with the Carolina Hurricanes, and the Ottawa Senators. I'll give you my answer now, Senator. Nothing. Not the Gaming Commission license, not the, remember that? Michael Corleone, beginning of Godfather Part II. I'm gonna pause the video when we come back, we're gonna see if there's any trades, and then we'll have the break. Stick around. Be right back. All right, welcome back ladies and gentlemen. No deals were done, so here it is. On Sunday the 17th, Ultimate Collection Hockey. Thanks everyone for spending a little bit of your Sunday with us, appreciate it. Just a quick little two box break. So remember, another two box break in the store right now. So that says Ultimate Collection Hockey, I'm gonna trust whoever wrote that. Now there's two inner cases here, so we'll do dice rolls to figure out which ones we're gonna do. All right, one, two, three for the left inner case, four, five, six for the right one. And it's four, one, two, three, four, five, six. So we will save this for next time, Ultimate Collection Hockey. Now let's pop this case open. It's just, we're just doing a two box break, right, all right, two box break. So we're gonna go by row here, one, two, three, and four. If I roll a five or a six, I'll roll again. Row three, one, two, and three. So we'll put those, I know it's kind of hard to see, but we'll put some blue X's right there over the Ultimate Collection symbol. And next time we may just go like this, or I might just grab two random boxes. Either way, it'll be random. And let's do this. So what are we looking for here? It's a quick break, one pack per box, four cards per pack. I don't know what's inside, but we're gonna find out right now. Good luck, everybody. Is hockey season's almost, man, we are getting into a really good part of the sports calendar. I think hockey season's almost over. Our playoffs set. I don't think so. I think everybody still has a few more games left. I think we're still a few more games to go, but let's see. Who do my Kings have left? Maybe one more game left for the Kings. All right, let's see what we got in here. That's a base card on the bottom, relic on the bottom, a couple autographs in the middle. Okay, all right, 2020 Igor Zamula, 40 out of 49. Ultimate introductions card for Christopher and the Flyers. We'll use this blank card here to slow play the rest of the hits. There's Keegan Colesar for Vegas, and a couple autographs and then a relic. There's Ty D'Andrea, 67 out of 2.99. Ultimate rookie's autograph for Dallas. Nice on-card action here for Pat Wolff and the Dallas Stars. Relic on the bottom is Ultimate Rookie's Philip Khrushchev, 16 out of 649. That's for Chicago. Christopher has the Blackhawks. And the other auto is Sergei Bobrosky for Florida. That's going to be for Christopher S. as well in the Florida Panthers. Nice start for Christopher. Another box. Relic, no extra base card here. I just want to see what I want to show first. Let's show the relic first. It's Anthony Angelo, 31 out of 649. Piece of his jersey going to Pittsburgh. That'll be for Mike, Mike Tower. Little wrinkly on the penny sleeve, Mike, but... Dylan Cousins, Ultimate introductions. Buffalo, going to Michael. The autograph is Gage Quinney. Ultimate signature rookie autograph. And that's for Vegas. That'll go to Michael, Michael L. With the Golden Knights. And last but not least, the jersey auto, Buffalo! That is Sam Reinhardt, 55 out of 135 jersey and autograph for the Buffalo Sabres, Michael L. Buffalo! 55 out of 135. And there you go, gang, a nice, quick break of Ultimate Collection hockey. We've got two more boxes in the shop. In the store right now, you just saw us pop open a fresh master case.  So do the math, not a bad deal. I'm Joe, and I'll see you next time for the next hockey break. Bye-bye.


Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. When the rumor gets around that summer has begun, Broadway is beside itself with glee. Somebody notices the sunlight and tells somebody else, and the word gets around. It drifts across town, and a man reaches into his closet for a hand organ, puts the funny hat on his monkey and takes a walk up to Broadway, just to grind out background music for the big grin. It's the time for the Dockswant and the silken ankle and the flowered print dress. The orange juice is sweeter, the caniche is lighter, and the guy runs down the street screaming, I'm in love. It's June, and it was June under the translux too, a rare day, and the Times Square crowd had gathered there to consider it and take the story of it home to the little woman, dad, and mom. There was a man lying in the circle of their feet. He was expensively dressed. He's dead, Danny. What happened, Muggevin?  What is it with them, Danny? What happened? How can you tell what happened? People milling around, crossing streets, going to lunch, looking at the Wandaads over there in the Times Building, suddenly a guy's face down on the pavement. Somebody laughs, drunk, and somebody sees blood. So we got him on the pavement and them watching. Uh, stabbed. Yeah. Now who he is? Uh-huh, here, Wanda, loads of identification. Yeah, Earl Lawson, Park Avenue. Earl Lawson. Earl Lawson, stocks and bonds, he's got a name. Wizard or something, makes money by the buckets. Anybody see it happen? A million people in Times Square, high noon, nobody saw anything, nobody.   Well, it started off to be a pretty day. Yeah, real sunny. Just across the street, the file of crowd waiting for the movie that was better than life held on close to its place in line. Held on close against the insinuating whisper of the violent dead. It was a trick, kid.  But a few were sold by the whisperer and were drawn by it and joined the cluster attending the dead man. A woman pushed her way close and turned away. She opened her purse, smeared a lipstick nervously across her lips, studied their reflection in a window, and then carefully, carefully retraced them with a perfumed scarlet. And death had raised its banner on Broadway. The home of the murdered man was a place whose sounds had been geared down to the soft purr of wealth. The swish of the ankle-deep carpets, the flute-like trills of the parakeets taking the noonday sun in exclusive cages. The butler murmurs you into the library and asks you to wait quietly. You don't dare open a book because turning a page would release a clap of thunder. And finally, when you'll wait no longer, the soft voice at your shoulder. I'm glad you made yourself at home, Mr. Clover. This is a difficult house to do that in. It's quiet, you can say that for it. You're... Harlan Lawson, Doctor Harlan Lawson. Oh, then the books on this shelf. My one literary effort. All 20 copies. 20 copies of the same drivel. New Freedom Pennsylvania, the utopia that failed. Nice binding, though, wouldn't you say? Quite expensive. That's my brother, he's everything you say. He gave me those when I got my PhD. Made a grand gesture of binding my doctor's thesis and burying it 20 times over on this shelf. Every time he fingers the gold lettering, I tell him how grateful I am. You don't get along, you and your brother? We suffer each other. Let's put it that way. He has his world. I have mine. And your world would be? The back alleys of poverty. You see, I'm in the nature of a failure, Mr. Clover. I'm a social worker. Doesn't pay very much. But I take in tears and give an exchange baskets of fruit my brother's castaway clothing. And the gestures of sympathy they taught me in post-grad humanities. But you keep on living here with your brother, with Earl Lawson. I exist here. Is this why you came, Mr. Clover, to run your hands over my brother's library? To probe into me? Or is it... No, no. Don't say to me, Earl has somehow run afoul of the law. Don't say it, because I wouldn't believe it for Earl. He's dead. He was murdered.  He was stabbed left lying on the street in Times Square. He must have shuddered that it found him in a place like that. I'd swear he shuddered. Your brother dies and that's how it hits you? To each his own way, Mr. Clover.  Let's play it that way for a while. I dreamed the wish sometimes, but I couldn't have killed Earl. I slept the morning through. Earl's butler will testify to that. He was serving me brunch when you came in. Expensive brunch with wine. Who else would want your brother dead? Besides me. That would be your thesis, wouldn't it, Mr. Clover? I suggest the scholars approach me. Yeah, thanks. I'll try. Then back to headquarters into the desk. Get on the phone, make enquiries, send out to the newspapers for files. Read them, digest them, extract them. Start a file of your own. Label it. Earl Lawson, homicide. Fill out the form, date of birth, hour of death. Murder by sharp instrument to be filled out in detail by the coroner. And on the lines on the bottom of the page, the incidental information, jot down the phrases. A self-made man, shrewd financial mind, known enemies, probably many due to financial manipulations. Send out for coffee in the sandwich because it's suddenly nighttime. And read some more. Then your door opens and Sergeant Tartaglia is all business. Lady to see you, Danny. What does she want? She knows who killed Earl Lawson. What? Bring her in. This way to see Danny... My name is Peggy Drake, Lieutenant. Please sit down. Close the door, Tartaglia. All right, all right, you can stay. Miss Drake, the sergeant said you know... Not exactly. Danny, she told me she knew all about it. She said... What's on your mind, Miss Drake? I have the murderer's picture. Here. Here it is. Yeah. How'd you happen to take this picture? Well, I'm here on vacation. This afternoon was a good day to take pictures. And I was at Times Square. I took a lot of pictures and... Well, this is one of them. You can see for yourself. I found a store with six-hour developing service and I got them developed. I was looking through them and I saw this one. That's why... Yeah. Come here, Tartaglia. Look at this. Ray Brewer. That's right. Ray Brewer sticking a knife into Earl Lawson on Times Square. Call records, do you know? Get the last known address on Ray Brewer. And anything else they've got interesting. Yes, I did help with that. I don't know how much. Records. This man here were the ninths. His name is Ray Brewer. The known hoodlum. A record of every misdemeanor on the books. Yeah, yeah, I got a pencil. Wait till my society back home hears about this. I belong to the literary society. We have open films. What else? I suppose this will be in the papers. What else? What else is what else? Yeah. What's happened to him lately? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. How you making out, Gino? In a minute, Danny. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I got all that. We appreciate it, and thank you. Very interesting, if I may comment, on the material gathered from records. What's interesting? Up until a week ago, Ray Brewer was confined to the county hospital for incurable disease. Yeah, I remember he was a pretty sick man. Incurable? His heart. Docs gave him a month to live. But last week, he was discharged from the hospital. How come? He was lying in the bosom of his family, as the records guy phrased it. Where is this family? 1212 West 16th, the man says. Where you going, Danny? See that Miss Drake gets home, Gino. I'm going to pick up a killer. Open up, Brewer, or I'll come in anyway. Brewer, where are you, Brewer? Huh? Out here, Danny. Taking my ease on the fire escape, watching you. Watching you spill out your strength. Throw away the gun, Ray. They tell me you've got a month. Throw the gun away. Maybe you can live a part of it out. All of it. It's arranged. I live all of it. 30 days, half, Ray Brewer.  You make me shake with fright. Stay where you are, Danny. I'll bring it to you. The gun, Ray. Now, don't drool. Gino, you'll get it. Funny, when you rang the doorbell, I thought it was a boy from Milford's. But no, it was you. How come you find me so lightning quick, Danny? A girl, a visitor, I got you a picture, sticking a knife in a lasso. I never could learn to be camera shy. Boke a camera in my nose and smiled for all birdies. Turn you back to me, Danny. I feel a new smile coming on. Listen to me.  You did that. You brought sunshine into my short life. One for the road. Splintered through me, glittering, ripping into the dark cells where pain lay waiting for it. Being released, scurry darted through me, opening endless doors on endless hurt. These new ones took over. Finally gave up because they'd overdone it. I couldn't feel it anymore. Then the haul went cold on the sweat that had drenched me. And looking for Brewer, knowing he wasn't there, I'd come into headquarters and tell him to put out an all-points bulletin on Ray Brewer. Then to Park Avenue to ask a question. Why had Brewer wanted Lawson dead? What had Lawson been to a hoodlum like Brewer? Help me. Get in my back. For a long haul I could see the parakeets preening, pecking into their clipped wings. The new stillness of the man lying there with a knife in his back. Dr. Harlin Lawson. Dead. The nap of the thick-rugged furrowed where his hands had tried to tear life out of it. And suddenly the flute song of the parakeet started again. And it wasn't still anymore. You're listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. The sensational young tenor, Mario Lanza, will take the place of Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen on CBS while the famous pair are on summer vacation. Mario Lanza starts his new series tomorrow, and you'll be heard each Sunday this summer on most of these same stations. And while Jack Benny is off for Korea, Guy Lombardo and his orchestra will be on hand to entertain you in CBS familiar Jack Benny Time.  And Broadway knows June is passing through. It presses its nose against the shop window, sighs at the cascade of white satin flowing slowly over the wax figure, sheds a tear at the coronet of cloth lilies of the valley, and blows its nose for the sweetness of it all. It's the time of youth, the two-week romp in the Catskills, the burial in the sand at Far Rockaway, the breathless ecstasy on the heights of the roller coaster at Coney, for the stay-at-homes, other suites, other delights, the subway ballgames, the band concerts in the mall, the moon-burned girls in the dark grass, and the, my hand in your hand, talk about two brothers dead of knife wounds. Summertime talk.  Building something, Gino? Oh, it's you, Danny. Yeah, you might say I'm building a site for sore eyes. Oh? You mind if I look? It's my pleasure. Pardon me for obstructing your view. Oh, nice. I think so also. A pinnip picture of Mrs. T hammered to the door of my closet. This I consider a worthy hobby. Mrs. T? I call Mrs. Tataglia that whenever I'm in a hurry. Consider her, Danny, in her Catalina swimsuit, Jones Beach underneath her, the Tataglia progeny forming a garland of angels at her feet. Gino, do you mind taking the tacks out of your mouth now? So as I can tell you about Ray Brewer, huh? So as you can do that. Naturally. Permit me to close the closet door on Mrs. T first.  Well, nothing on Brewer, Danny. The Hoedlem killer is still at large. All points bulletins have been sent. Nothing, huh? Bread and butter, there is something. I forgot. The Milfits, of which the Hoed spoke to you, is Milfits' haberdashery on Madison Avenue. But Roman Curcio traced it down after thousands of other Milfits. It seems... I'll check it. Well, don't go away, Danny. I got something else. Another pin-up? Well, you might say that. Remember that Peggy Dray came in here with the snapshot of Brewer killing Lawson? What about her? Precinct 12 picked her up last night running down East 60th Street in her... You should excuse the expression negligee. Why? Was someone running after her? The Precinct boys asked her the same question. She said no. She said she'd dead herself to do it, and she took the dare. So the boys decided on a small fine and let her go. A lonely girl in the big city. Sometimes it hits them that way. All right, if I leave now? You always leave me, Danny. I'm used to it. Go, Danny! I'm looking for Mr. Milford. Mr. Milford is dead. What? 12 years ago. Like that. Zoot! He was assessing plans with a buyer and... I know, Zoot. Who are you? Mr. Milford Jr. May I be of some service? I'm from the police. I want some information.  The police department called you a while ago. You said you had some dealing with a man named Ray Brewer. Oh, yes, I did. I did indeed. You want to tell me about it? I don't see why not. Then tell me. Surely. Last week, Mr. Brewer entered Milford's and was fitted for a complete outfit from linens to waraches. Waraches? Boutriala, Mexico. Mr. Brewer was going to Mexico. Note that I said was. Note that. Mr. Brewer changed his mind, eh? Well, that's a man's right. Mr. Brewer decided to stay around the city. Thus he canceled the Mexican clothes and ordered town wear. Gabbardines. And he paid you? I only ask because it's been bandied about that Mr. Brewer is not a wealthy man. His friend paid me. The friend who was with him when first he ordered. This friend? Here, this man's picture in the newspaper. The very one. Dreadful clothes. Not ours. Is he from here in town? What's his name? Says right here, Harlan Lawson. Hmm. PhD. It says this chap was murdered. That's right. Do you have any idea why Mr. Brewer changed his mind about going to Mexico? None. We're so delighted, too. The first time he was in here showed me a travel brochure put out by the airplane people of Central American lines, I think. I've been to Mexico, you know, or ridden on a donkey. Thanks, Junior. Thanks a lot. May I be of service to you, Senor? I think so. I'm from the police, Danny Clover. Oh, my privilege. You wish to tour Central America to observe our police methods. It can be easily arranged. I will speak to the Latin consulate. I just want to know about Ray Brewer. Brewer? Ah, the name has a familiarity. See, see, Senor Brewer. The man who wished to live out his days in Mexico, the land of tradition and romance. He's a murderer. You think you'll make him? What a dying man sets his heart to do is difficult to restrain him from, Senor. This from my father, I learned. But Senor Brewer will not make Mexico by way of Central American lines, Senor, of this I am certain. Tell me why? Because only yesterday he canceled the ticket. It took me so long to prepare. He canceled the tour I had mapped for him, Capulcos, Apateca, the floating gardens. When Brewer came in here to arrange his trip, was he alone? With another gentleman who subsidized the excursion. This one? In the newspaper picture? See, see, this one. Dr. Lawson, a gentleman of refinement. Now dead, I perceive. Yeah. Brewer didn't give you an address by any chance. Oh, no, no, no. He simply took the cancellation money, told me he preferred your city, as who would not. You peddle tickets to romantic places, and you like it better here, huh? Who would not? Why pay extra fares, and your romance is where you'll find it? Now come in, Magdalene. Sit down. Got anything? Nothing. Guy Brewer's hiding someplace where I can't even begin to guess. Nobody knows anything. Stool pigeons, old friends of Brewer's, not a thing. If he gets out of the city, it's going to be tough. Yeah. How do you figure it, Danny? Figure what? List, the case, the killing of the Lawson brothers. You know what I mean. You piece it all together, it comes out easy. Show me. Sure. Harlan Lawson wanted to get rid of his brother. For money? Maybe. But more than that, I think.  Harlan just stood there and cried for it. Harlan was a social worker, Danny. He probably did a lot of good where it counts. Sure he did. But I met Harlan. He impressed me, my government. He felt sorry for himself.  Like you said, Harlan was a social worker. Brewer was in a charity hospital. That's what he met. Harlan found out Brewer only had a month to live. Promised him a fling that month in Mexico for killing brother Earl. Well then why did Brewer turn around and kill the hand that fed him? If we go on the assumption that he killed Harlan too. Brewer killed twice, all right. The knife in Harlan matches the stab wound in Earl. He killed both brothers. But why? I don't know why he killed Harlan. Another thing I don't know is why Brewer changed his mind about going to Mexico. We found that object. Danny, all I can say is thank goodness. Let's say it and sit down in a corner. Muggevin and I were discussing this. It's about Peggy Drake. Peggy Drake. Say isn't she the girl? Yeah, the girl who took the snapshot. She should have taken the snapshot and left the city. What? Just a few minutes ago at 5.00 midnight to be specific, she had a to-do with a cab driver. Tried to force him to take a wardrobe trunk in his back seat. He took a window while so forcing. Quite a scene. The police suggested a moving company. And... And what? Give me a breathing spell, Danny. And Officer Padunik suggested his father-in-law and stood guard over the trunk until his father-in-law, the Murphy Movers, hauled it away. Thank jeep as this girl leaves for her hometown of New Freedom P.A. in the morning. Where? New Freedom, Danny. The trunk has already left by Murphy Trucking Company and the girl Peggy Drake leaves tomorrow leaving the police only again wave the finger under her nose. Highway Patrol, Mugman, pick up that van. Escort it back to Peggy Drake's place. Right there. What do you know? So that's why Brewer changed his mind about going to Mexico. Then I waited. It was a little less than an hour when the phone call came. The Highway Patrol had picked up the van at the entrance to the Delaware Bridge. There was plenty of time. Time to grab a bullet chili and walk over to the 60s into the rooming house where Peggy Drake was staying. Inside the banisters of the staircase had been worn smooth by a thousand respectable hands and the color had just begun to drain from the flowers and the wallpaper. On the third floor landing was a trunk beside a Detective Mugman. She's in there, Danny. Does she know we're here? We talk loud. She knows. Stay with the trunk, Mugman. Okay. It's you, Mr. Clover. Glad you're here. Come in. Please, come in. What goes on in your town? I don't understand you people. Something wrong, Peggy? It was all that noise a little while ago. I opened my door a bit. I saw my trunk. Explain it to me, Mr. Clover. You were sending it back to New Freedom, huh? Of course, where I live, where I came from. That's where you met Harlan, wasn't it? What's he got to do with it? I need some sleep, Mr. Clover. My bus leaves early tomorrow. You're not leaving. You want to bring your trunk back in here and unpack? Not leaving. Wait a minute. Mugman, bring that trunk in here. What are you doing? I don't have to unpack. The trunk's pretty heavy, Danny. I need some help. Okay. I'll give you a hand. You better grab the handle on the other side. Okay, Danny? Uh-huh. Wait outside. I wish you'd tell me what this is all about. How long did you plan to stay in New York, Peggy? Four days. You needed a trunk that big for a four-day trip? That's a brand-new trunk, Peggy. Yes, I just bought it. It's for things I want to take home. Books, lamps. Books, huh? I like books. Let's see what you bought. Don't open that. Why not, Peggy? Leave me alone. What's the girl have to do? I come here for a good time. I say you had quite a busy trip. Running down the street at night in a negligee? I had something to drink. I didn't know what I was doing. Then creating a stir with this trunk with a cab driver? It wasn't my fault. People here aren't helpful. Peggy, we're looking for a man, Ray Brewer. We want him for two murders. Brewer? You know him, Peggy. You took his picture. Brought it to me. Well, that's right. I remember his name. I'm sure you do. Let's open the trunk, Peggy. No. Don't get it out of here. Take it away. Later. You took the picture, Peggy, because you knew the murder was going to be committed. The murder you planned so well with Harlow. Get it out of here. Just get it out. Give us a picture of the murderer. You figured by the time we found who he was, traced him, he'd be roaming around Mexico. By the time we got to him, he'd be dead, because Ray Brewer only had a month to live. I didn't do anything.  It was horrible. One thing was bothering me, Peggy. Why Brewer changed his mind about going to Mexico? He saw me taking his picture. We didn't tell her we were going to do that.   I ran from him. Somebody grabbed me by the shoulders and choked me. When you finally got back here, Ray Brewer was dead. He didn't live his month. His heart gave out. Let's open the trunk, Peggy. There he is. Ray Brewer. I won't look. I'm not going to look at him again. All the while, I was putting him in there. Staring at me. Staring. And I couldn't get the trunk closed. His hand. I was alone. His face. The remnants of the night are driven back into the earth. You walk the streets, and from behind a doorway, you hear the old sound, the sound of weeping. You know the night time will never leave. It's found its refuge. It's Broadway. The gaudiest. The most violent. The lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat. Broadway is My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Totaglia, and Jack Krushen as Muggevin. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Peggy Weber was heard as Peggy Drake, Ted Osborne as Harton Lawson, Anthony Barrett as Ray Brewer, and Don Diamond as Milford. For a full hour of outstanding musical entertainment, plus one of radio's biggest cash awards, play Sing It Again every week over most of these same CBS stations. Laugh along, win along with Jan Murray as he picks up his coast-to-coast telephone and invites you to sing it again and land a big batch of loot. It's exciting. It's outstanding radio entertainment. Stay tuned now for Sing It Again, which follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. Bill Anders speaking, this is CBS, where you meet a venture with Charlie Wilde Sundays on the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Hello Columbia and welcome to This Week in the City. I'm your host, Alicia Yuzzi, bringing you highlights from the public relations, media and marketing department. This week in the city, on Tuesday, February 19th, come out for lunch with a planner and join our Planning and Development Services staff at the corner of Jervay and Lincoln starting at 12 p.m. Bring your lunch and talk to our planners about the future of our city. Also on Tuesday, Columbia City Council will hold a 2 p.m. work session and a 6 p.m. evening meeting. Both the work session and the evening meeting will be held at the Busby Street Community Center located at 5212 Farrell Road. For agenda items, visit our website at columbiasc.net. On Thursday, please join us for the Columbia Lifesavers Blood Drive and donate blood to help save lives here in Columbia and throughout the Midlands. The blood drive will begin at 7 a.m. and will end at 3 p.m. and it will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center. For details, visit our website at columbiasc.net. Also on Thursday, the Blue Thumb Landscape of Conference will be held starting at 8 30 p.m. at the Eau Claire Print Facility. This is an all-day conference and for details, you may visit our website at columbiasc.net. And rolling into the weekend, on Sunday, the Black History Heritage Ball will be held at Greenview Park. For details, contact the Parks and Recreation Department at 545-3100. Well that wraps up this week and we hope you have a great week in the city.


Today, during our first service because we've reopened, I would like to just make a few little statements on the reopening of the church. For most of you who are here, you have heard it from your life group. We really took the shift in our church in the beginning of the year, not knowing that this pandemic will happen, to structure our church, not for conferences, big gatherings, non-profit status from the government, but for persecution, pandemics, and for hell to break out, and for our church to still survive. Churches were not built for good times. Jesus says, I build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.  So many things shifted the church stood. But the secret was, is the church was grounded in the Holy Spirit and the church's strategy was discipleship. It wasn't just to get everyone in the building, though those things are vital and important, is to get every believer to become a disciple maker. And so that's why what you are gonna hear even more today, we're part of the series called Hitting a Homerun. And for us, we've seen a huge increase in life group attendance. About 15 life groups have been opened during this pandemic, and we believe that circles, circles are better than rows, or zoom is better than live stream. And it's very, very important. Life group is not optional for us as life, Christian life is not, because community is where things happen. Accountability is where things happen. And if you would choose to go to a life group on Sunday morning, choose life group. Don't choose Sunday morning. Choose a life group. Why? Because that's where somebody knows you and you know them. This will become a heartbeat of our church. And pandemic put a huge exclamation mark on it. In other parts of the world, people who don't have non-profit status from the government like we enjoy, or the constitution to protect them, how they thrive, they gather against the law, but what then makes them succeed as a church is every individual doing the Great Commission, which is to win souls and make disciples. Amen? With that said, one of the reasons that we decided to reopen two weeks ago, I was a part of a church not very far from here in Washington state that has reopened its doors for actually a past four weeks. I was there, I had the opportunity to minister at the three services. I've seen the safety procedures they took and I've seen what really led them to that decision following week. I was part of a pastors meeting with around 900 to 1,000 pastors from all around the United States and the most known attorneys and the attorney firms that helped the churches who got sued or written off by the government for reopening. And they outlined safety measures that we can take, outlined illegal stands that as a church we have, the protection that we have from our constitution. We took some time to pray with our pastoral team and also with our board. We made a decision to reopen this Sunday. We communicated that first to our life group leaders, brought them on board and then life group leaders told everyone else and we haven't posted this online so this is the first time that we're actually publicly saying that. And then when we made the decision last week, Donald Trump throws this curve ball in our direction in a good way. I know you probably watched it but let's watch it again. Today I'm identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogue, and mosques as essential places that provide essential services. Some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential but have left out churches and other houses of worship. It's not right. So I'm correcting this injustice in calling houses of worship essential. I call upon governors to allow our churches and places of worship to open right now.  These are places that hold our society together and keep our people united. The people are demanding to go to church and synagogue, go to their mosque. Many millions of Americans embrace worship as an essential part of life. The ministers, pastors, rabbis, imams, and other faith leaders will make sure that their congregations are safe as they gather and pray. I know them well. They love their congregations. They love their people. They don't want anything bad to happen to them or to anybody else. The governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now. For this weekend, if they don't do it, I will override the governors. In America, we need more prayer, not less. Thank you very much. Thank you. That's your neighbor, say you're essential. Okay, we can take your seats. Turn to your neighbor, say you're essential. When two months ago, when the pandemic broke out, we came into agreement with our government, local and state and federal government, to close everything down for 14 days because nobody knew what this pandemic was. After about 14 days, news started to, and articles started to surface of who this pandemic mainly targets. 14 days were extended. And then after 30 days, another extension happened. Now that most people are aware and the data has shown that this particular virus targets particularly mainly people with underlining health issues and elderly, we felt that with the fact that everything else got reopened and liquor stores were deemed essential, pot shops were essential. Getting a two by four was essential, even though you can't eat it. But it's essential. Everything else became essential except church. Why we felt that before even Trump announced that we were essential is that this crisis has caused many people to fall into heavy depression. Suicide rates have went up. Domestic abuse have went up. The calls for the domestic abuse at police department have skyrocketed. Pornography consumption has tripled. If not doubled and tripled. It's been crazy what's happening that this is causing a lot of hurt and I feel like the church is a place where people go to. When something like that happens, they don't call the governor. They first call their pastor. They first call their cell group leader. They first go to church. And so to deem church not essential is actually not helping the very people we claim to help. We found it very ironic. The abortion clinics continue to kill babies while we cripple the economy to preserve or save people. If we were really saving people, why are we still encouraging to kill them? And so we saw a double standard with that. And so we're talking with our attorneys. We consulted the attorneys. We wrote to our chief of police and chief of police responded back and he said, I'm glad to hear and I appreciate your email. As you prepare to reopen, make sure everyone's safety is your top priority.  Nice work. These are challenging times for us. Your commitment to this community and its well-being will certainly ensure that we will get through this together. We wrote to our also our commissioners. We wrote to as well our state representatives. And from a particular state representative, he wrote back, he says, dear pastor Vlad, I am very proud of you. My only wish and prayer and hope is that yours and other God fearing Bible believing churches would have opened much sooner. We serve God and not men. Now this is a government official, not a preacher. And he says that, and God author and a finisher over faith is able to keep us and protect us from all harm and disease. And even if he did not, like Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego, he will not, we will not bow down or serve any other God or men. This guy's preaching. I would love to be in your church because I didn't tell them we're opening today. I told them we're opening next week. On the Sunday morning of 31st, and I hope I can make that happen. Once again, I want to say thank you and proud of you guys, keep up the good work for the Lord and keep fighting the good fight, your brother in Christ. A state representative. We also got another email from another representative, similar words. And so we felt that because the local government that we serve under, they see our work, they see the importance of church gathering and they understand that church is not less protective of their people than loaves of their customers. Unlike other big store stores, whose main concern is profits, even though they say it's the safety of people, but they exist for profits. We exist for people. For those of you who are like, well, but people, you know, also tied and everything, I'm gonna tell you straightforward, our tithing didn't go down during the pandemic. You guys are all very generous. We are generous church. We've been giving more than we've gave before, but as a church, we've been giving. We didn't feel led this year to do a sacrifice Sunday. Now I know why. And so I know that our people, they're loyal, they're giving. Our attendance on live stream is also very good, but we also know a lot of you are sick and tired of Zoom. And after all of this is over, you're gonna petition that that thing gets wiped from the planet Earth for the next 30 years, because we are, God bless the technology, but it's a little bit exhausting already in all of the live streams. So we felt, please understand, I don't have an itch to reopen the church, because that means to me now, preaching twice instead of once, okay? So everything in me says don't reopen it. Why obey the government fool, just do what everybody else is doing. And don't, why, because your life is easier. So if you think that my life is easier because of this, you're wrong, it's not. And so, and then I've never been called with names by other people who are Christians in positions, except this week. You know, it didn't come from the community. Everybody said, if you reopen it, the community will trash you. They didn't. Churches did. Other people did who were believers. And so community is not going to trash us because community understands if we take safety precautions, they see the double standard everywhere. And so on the opposite, they applaud and they celebrate that. So I just wanted to remind each one of you that we're doing this with caution, but also courageously. We're doing this carefully, but also with the strength of the Lord. Walking with God everywhere in the Bible, I always see this one phrase, fear not. First month we told you not to be afraid. But in the last 20 days, many of you have been telling us not to be afraid. Yeah. I cannot tell you how many people from our church messaged me with the same words. I messaged them two months ago. They're like, pastor, you're everywhere. People are everywhere. What are you afraid of? And a lot of it, of course, is what people will think. And that's exactly what I really was thinking. What people will think. What people will think in our church. What people will think in our community. But when we went to God, we asked God, what do you think? And that's what I think. I wanna challenge pastors and leaders and Christians. Get off of CNN. Get on your knees and ask God, what do you think? Okay? Get off of Facebook. Get on your knees, open God's word and say, God, what do you think? And when we did that, we looked at our history as a church. When we do deliverances, we don't ask what everyone thinks. That's not popular. When we get up here and pray for the sick, I don't ask what anybody thinks. I ask this, who do I follow? Am I a politician or am I a preacher? Do I follow Christ? Or am I trying to win a popular contest in the community? The best example we can set for our community is the example of following Jesus. Any other example, any other praise you get that doesn't come from that, my friend, is not worth fighting for and pursuing. So with that said, we've decided to reopen this service. Next week, we're gonna reopen two services. So it's gonna be one at nine and the other one at 1130. And we will let other people know, we ask you that you tell other people who are comfortable coming. Please understand, this is not a political stand even though it becomes a stand. For us, we are obeying God, we're serving our community, and also we are honoring the deaths of people who went to different parts of the world to fight for our freedom here. Well, sometimes I saw that little Facebook graphic when one veteran held a poster and he says, while I fought for freedom overseas, now I lost it here at home. To honor the deaths of people who did not die so that the government runs the country, but so that people have freedom. When I came to this country, I come from a family of where people were persecuted for Christ. My dad wasn't allowed to go to college because he was a believer. Certain members of my family had to be baptized at night. And please understand, for those of you who are drinking the Western Kool-Aid, communists did not have a problem with us believing in God. They only had problem with two things, us not assembling and not sharing our faith. They had no problem.  The only problem they had, read Book of Acts, and my friends, you will see, Pharisees had no problem against apostles that they believed in Jesus. It's that they talked too much. Why did they put them in prison? Because they talked about Jesus. Not because they believed in Jesus. So for those of you who walk around and simply say, well, Vlad, this is too radical because the government doesn't stop us from worshiping God. They're just not allowing us to meet. Now if all the abortion clinics, loaves, home depot, everything is closed, I would keep my mouth shut. Yet, our constitution still allows us to meet. This is the land of the free and home of the brave. Many of us are immigrants here, and that's one of the things that we value about this nation is freedom. Freedom is risky. The government gave you freedom to drive. They also gave you an opportunity to kill somebody. They trusted you not to get drunk behind the wheel, fall asleep behind the wheel, recklessly drive and destroy another human being. Every time you have freedom, you always have risk. And that's where you have to exercise your love toward other people, toward yourself, by exercising your freedom in such a way that it doesn't hurt other people.  And now knowing that our elderly people are at greater risk, I think that we didn't become dumb because of this pandemic. We're still caring citizens. We're still caring family members. We care for others, and we will continue to do so. These are our people.  They're your family, they're your friends. And I don't know if anybody will get sick and come and intentionally infect somebody. I know that that's not gonna happen because we care for other people.   Cause you're there to get your two by two, two by four, and come back home and continue to do your project.  All right, all of us, prophetically, shower.  So I believe, and I appreciate our president, I don't agree with a lot of stuff maybe that our government will do, but I appreciate that our president had the gods to announce and to trust the pastors and the churches to assemble peacefully and with carefulness. Amen, let's give God the glory. Even if you did not vote for him, or you don't support him, I still think it's good to celebrate the fact that the churches are called essential by him. Amen. Safety precautions that we took. We send them to our police, to the chief of police, to our local representatives. We took them from our attorneys. One of the things that we did, as you saw, we have four air purifiers. They're not cheap. They're class two, the medical devices that purify the air and remove all of demons. They don't do the demons, just bacteria, just bacteria and any other viruses that might be in the air. They purify the air. That's why you felt the anointing stronger today. It was the smoke and the purifying of the air. We replaced also our vacuumer to be able to take everything from the carpets that's not just dust and dirt, but also any other bacteria and any other substances there that could be in our carpets. We sanitize our facility before, we're gonna sanitize our facility afterwards. We also advise social distancing, but we can't enforce it. We advise wearing masks. We can't enforce it. So we advise also for each one of us to come to church and check your temperature first. If you have fever or symptoms of any kind of disease that puts you at risk for you to stay home. We also encourage you that we abstain from shaking hands. We advise that. Some of you haven't seen each other for so long I saw you already broke that advisement. You're like, give me love for COVID-19, but I'm getting love. I'm getting a hug. And so we advise you not to do that. Also our offering is going to be instead of being passed on, passed around, our ushers will hold the offering baskets on the way out. We place sanitizing sanitizers everywhere and when you were coming in instead of getting bulletins, you were getting a little dose of purification. When we will exit the building today at the end of the service, we will exit slightly differently. Paul, if you can wave your hand and then Sam as well. So those are gonna be two exit signs. We will exit through the common area. And for those of you who wanna exit and get a fresh air, you will exit through the outside. We will not exit the same way we entered. We will exit differently because we're preparing for the next week service when we will have one service coming in and the other service exiting. Also, we will have a VIP room where Terry is, Terry, wave your hand. So if you are first time guest at our church today afterwards, you can go there, just the VIPs and receive a free gift from there as well. So that's gonna be some of the safety measures that we placed. We've closed the auto call. We are gonna pray over people and move the pews to create a little bit more distance and space. I'm not sure how much six feet that is, but it gives you a notion that it is six feet. And so we separated them to give you a little bit more space and breathing room in your pew. And so we have a fuller statement on our website that you can check it out. I would encourage you to invite your friends next week, but we don't punish, be little, make fun of anybody who is not sick and who's afraid to come. I think we live in a free country and you can do whatever you want. And so we celebrate those believers who are with us today who are saying, you know what, I'm gonna hold on. I'm gonna see, you know, if Vlad gets arrested first and then I'm gonna reshare it and say, I told you so. And so we celebrate you, keep tithing. Don't give up. God is with you, we love you. And so we love the churches in tri-cities, those who are not reopening, those who are watching for their elderly and because they have more older people or are waiting for it, we are in this together. We don't criticize other churches who are not reopening. Hopefully they will do the same, not criticize us because we're one community, we're one faith, we love our God and each church needs to ask God what God wants them to do. Amen, amen.