everyone. Marianne Espresso Press Design. Thank you for visiting. Today we're gonna do a mini book, but first little show and tell on housekeeping. Thank you to my customers for their kind reviews and I know I'm probably gonna butcher your name. Ara Celle, I'm giving you an Italian C, although it might be Araceli, Araceli, I'm not sure, but thank you so much for mentioning my videos in your review and purchasing the products that you liked. You have been so supportive ever since you found my site. I appreciate it so much. Words can't even say. It's uplifting when, you know, sometimes you don't get the kindest comments. On my videos in particular, but when you see the people that are uplifting, they make up for all of it. And thank you, Marcy, as well. I'm glad you liked your product. Keep Nina Rabina in your thoughts and prayers from Mixed Media Emporium. She recently announced that she's got diagnosed with cancer. It's according to her, it's curable, so that's good news, but she has been having a hard time keeping up as one could expect. So just keep her in your thoughts and prayers. That's a group I belong to and I haven't been able to post since the craft show, but I hope to get back to it eventually here. And I wanted to mention, if you bought on Shopify, don't worry if you need a link to your product that might not be shown anymore. Everything is still archived and just shoot me a contact on there or an email and I'll resend you the link if you need it. So a little show-and-tell. I'm busy. Oh, I'm purging big time. Like last week went through my Christmas stuff. Two trash bags full. I'm just purging, but I was happy to be back to cards, happy to be back to my normal routine of just having fun and minimal pressure. I made a couple little cards.  And this one is to a friend who moved. I would probably compose this differently. It was just an idea I saw and decided to try it and things are a little out of proportion, but I'm keeping it anyway and it looks like that little spot needs some glue. But I'm just happy to be back. I decided not to do the line of cut bow line of cut today because my folder just arrived about 15 minutes ago and I knew it would. So I just sat down and made a little book last night and this is it. Very simple. I'm calling this a zipper closure because this is string I had on my desk.  So in the end I came up with that. And it's just a simple little book. I'm using up scraps and I'm gonna probably just use these for collage play. It has two little pockets and if I take this out the pocket is so, there we go. The pocket is so tight. It has to be loosened up a little bit. But very easy. Okay. So what you'll need are two 3 by 12 strips and one three and a quarter by four and a half for your cover. So as you can see I'm just using up paper scraps that I have in my basket and that's what I'm using and you're gonna need a scoreboard. These are so simple and once you get it you can make them tiny. Little tiny books. You can make them larger. You can add pages. Once you learn how to put the pages together. So you're gonna score both of these out. I'll put this on the screen as well. Two, four, six. This is three by 12. Score this one. Two, four, six, eight, ten. That's my husband walking around upstairs. And then, tell me I lost it already. Your cover, might as well do this at the same time, is three and a quarter by four and a half and you're gonna score it at two and one eighth and two and three eighths.  Okay, these you're gonna fold accordion style and your first one is going to be going up and the thing you most want to pay attention to is that the folds are even like so. It's a little wonky. I just want to make sure everything's even. You can fold it one way, make sure they're even, then flip it back. Okay, up, down. So we have two that look like this with two mountains in the center. So what you're gonna do is these last two, you're gonna put them together like this. And what I did is I turned them into pockets. I was thinking of trying to side pocket today but I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna stick with the program and fold that one over. Use this one for a tiny notch. That way both my notches are even.  And I guess I'll use glue. So let me get this here. And I'm gonna try to keep my glue in my shake-in today. Need some vitamins. And of course it's coming out like a river. I'm gonna wipe that off a little bit. Use that.  Okay, there's my pockets. I can get my fold situated as pressed as evenly as I can. Okay, then you're gonna glue from here to here. Do not glue the ends. I'm just gonna use glue stick. I'm loving this glue stick either. Haven't checked if... and then you're gonna start gluing your folds. Okay, because this is long, I'm just gonna go half and half here on the table. But normally I had it spread out and did the whole thing. Whoops. There I go to Gloober. I'm gonna glue my folds. Press those down a minute.   Okay, so there you go. One, two, three, four, and two little pockets. See if I can get something in there. It's gonna be tight. Since your little pocket is less than two inches, your little tank is gonna be about one and three-quarters. I made it three. One and three-quarters by three. Okay, your little cover. Oh boy, I need a new blade. So your little book is going to sit in the middle of there and your two end pages are going to be glued to your cover. So just start with one. This glue stick isn't bad. It is nice and creamy and and then push your book up to where you get your end paper kind of aligned with the seam of the fold.  Do not glue your spine to your center. Weaken your spine and just lift it up a little bit. Actually, that's off. That's way off. Oh boy, don't rip. It's too close to the edge. It's not, what I mean is it's not centered enough. Let me do that over. Sorry, maybe this paper is a little thinner. My spine isn't as wide as the other one. That's better.  I need some B vitamins. I did not absorb B vitamins. I typically have to OD on them to keep myself. What's the word? Non-deficient. It's still a little off, but oh well, it's a little page. It's a little crooked. I don't want to lift it again. It is what it is. Okay, and I should have rounded my corners before I started. There you go. There's your little book. I get my corner rounder. I went to a concert on Sunday. Now, this normally wouldn't be the type of concert I would go to, but this was kind of special. Our church, the choir director and another parish who went to Juilliard and is a pretty accomplished pianist, restored our church organ that was, the original was destroyed in a fire in 1909, and this particular organ was purchased in 1910. It took him 14 years to restore this organ, so it was quite a labor of love. That page is a little crooked. It was quite a labor of love, and it was, he's still not completely finished, but it is restored back to its 1910 sound, which was unbelievable. 1676 pipes and block, handle. Who else? Handle, you know. Maybe some Beethoven in there. Now I'm having a hard time remembering, but the sound was unbelievable. 1600 and 76 pipes in 14 years, so my feeling was if someone is going to take that much labor of love to restore an instrument, I can go and show my appreciation for that, that type of dedication and talent. He plays four-handed compositions on the piano. He's internationally toured with, or no, he internationally studied with a famous Russian pianist, and it was unbelievable. I listened to it twice, so I thought you might like, it was just fabulous. I thought you might like my little zipper tie there, and that came about because this was laying on my table, so I grabbed it since this had green in it.   Well first of all, this baker's swine from Dollar Tree is ridiculously thin, so it was driving me crazy trying to tie a bow, and at first I had two little end signature embellishments on there, tied at once, didn't like that. This string started out at least 12 inches long, and finally I said, I'm just gonna make a zipper, so that's what I did.  Again, once you get this, you can add more pages in an accordion. You can make them any size. Once you figure out how to do it, you can make a mini mini, you know, one by two, one and a half by two, cute little gifts to give to kids.  So there you go. Hopefully that was understandable. I wanted to show you a couple things here. If you would like to learn how to make these, a couple of things I've been doing. Paper clips, business in the front, party in the back. I generally don't like in paper clips. I've never found a way to get them, rarely found a way to get them not lumpy, and I've tried everything. So in my humble opinion, why not just decorate the back with something different? And this is the only thing I have truly found that hides a lumpy bumpy in paper clip, and that's fabric. So if you want to learn either of those, just let me know which one, and I'll do it next time. But that's that's my feeling about paper clips. Why not just decorate the back? This one you do have to put a cigar band. Otherwise it will come off, and it still can come off, but it's a lot less likely. If you have your little, I call them, cigar bands. So I don't I don't necessarily see a point in hiding the back. Just just do something else with it. Okay, that's 30 minutes guys. Let me know if you want those next week. I'll do them. But for now just have fun making mini books and using up your scraps. That's what I'm going to be doing as I clear out, try to clear out all these scraps from the craft show. I almost did a scrap buster from Gil, but goes to know Lee that is probably going to be a lifesaver for me, but I decided to do the little book instead. So okay. I'll see you next time everyone. Maybe I'll see you again this week. I'm not sure, but have a great week and thanks for your time. Bye.


Play will be spooked. Uh-oh. Okay, this cannot be good. Oh, it's mine! Oh! Yo, we just knocked over the skeleton! Sike! You have zero wins. What is up, you guys? Realistic Gaming here. Today, we're gonna be playing Horrific Housing in Roblox.   We voted for the town map, which is my, this is kind of like my first time ever doing a video on this, but I mean, I played it here and there. Not really, but today we're gonna play it profoundly. See what this is all about. I know there's a lot of crazy stuff happens on this map, so we should be expecting some cool things to happen. Bean store, what? There's a bean store? Where can I find this thing in real life, man? Imagine all the farce people passing here, man, from coming in here and buying too much beans. Yeah, as I said, one player will get mad. Here's Emma! My god, I think he's the mad one. All right, chill. Oh, dude, he has a lightsaber. What in the world? Where did he get a lightsaber from? And there's a giant rubber ducky over here. All right, that's pretty cool. So I don't know which one is my house because they all look the same. They're all red and have a sand-colored door. Ooh! One player is an abomination. Oh my god, no, okay, this cannot be good. And why is this house on lava? What? This house just turned into lava, man. Okay, your plate has been trapped. Uh-oh. Oh, that plate right there, it's stuck in a bubble. Oh my god, imagine if the guy was in there. He would have gotten trapped in there. Takes a sniper and points to that blazer. Oh my god, rest in peace, the blazer. Oh! Dude, they just got smashed by a meter over here. Two players will be forced to duel. Uh-oh, where's the duel? I wanna see the duel. Oh, it's over here! Go, fight to the death! Boys in B-Y!  Uh-oh, who's gonna take the W? Oh no, it's a close battle! Oh, the sea creature won! Rest in peace to the handsome man. Thanos is trying to get the infinity stone. Stop him! Oh my god, where's Thanos? Oh, Thanos is over there! Stop him! Chase after that man! The purple Kool-Aid man. All right, so we go...  I don't remember Thanos' face looking like that. Ah! Okay, let's stop him from going in the igloo. Oh, why are you attacking me, bro? Dude! He attacked me instead of Thanos! Really, bro? That's how it's gonna be out here, man? Oh my god, it's the invisible man with the sword. Well, thanks a lot. Now I still have zero wins. All right, ladies and gentlemen, and we are back for round two. A rapated line or one HP. I don't know what this even mean, but let's go for the middle one. And that first one, that first run was just a trial. Now it's gonna be the real deal, man. All right, one HP, bro. This is gonna be impossible. Oh man, they just had to make it difficult, didn't they? Oh, why am I over here? Oh yeah, I was doing the obby. Oh, there you go. All right, so we are doing this round with one HP. Seems like it's gonna be a pretty impossible match to survive anything at all, but here goes nothing, man. We shall try to remain victorious at the end. Oh, nice, and I got an igloo house already. I don't wanna be small HP. Yeah, I don't think anybody wants to be a small HP. Yo, he has a piano over there. Someone will have double their max HP. Yo, that isn't fair for the rest of us. All right, but whatever, man. Two players will be swapped positions. All right, well, I guess someone will be lucky if they swap with me because I have an igloo home. Oh, wait, what do you think about that? I turned myself into a pickle. What? Okay, that's pretty hilarious, man. All right, friendly campfire has appeared. All right, where is the campfire? Did Pickle Rick go in my igloo? Oh, he disappeared. Oh, no, I think he fell in the, oh, there he is. Pickle Rick. Yo, that thing is so hilarious. And he has no head. It's just like a body roaming around. Uh-oh. What is that noise? Oh, he fell in the water.  Somebody is lit, literally, uh-oh.  Oh, there, and there she goes. That's what she gets for being too lit. Dude, she just caught on fire and she fell down. The blizzard is coming. Oh, no, this is not good. All right, I guess we'll just hide in my igloo house. Okay, I don't think this is a good idea. Let's go over here. No! You gotta be kidding me, man. No! Okay, so I know how I said round two was our round, but have you guys heard of third time is a charm? Well, today we're gonna take that into effect, and hopefully we do get a W, our third time around, starting in three seconds. Oh my God, yo. Man, what is up with that boy? He needs some milk. All right, so we voted for the scattered one. Let's see how this one goes. I mean, it looks quite interesting since the houses are floating and they're scattered around. They're not like on the ground. Oh, man. Hey, why is there house, what? Why is there house like have a waterfall? That's not fair, my house is all basic. Okay, someone got turned into a penguin. Hey, I wanna be a penguin. That is not fair. Yes, somebody just drowned. That's better for us, because that means one last person. One player will start shrinking. Who's gonna shrink? Hey, what's up, piano man? He's over here with this piano. Real, I'm over here. What's up, guys? I see y'all over there, man. Let's wave to them. E-wave. All right, there you go. Someone is an Easter bunny? Oh, man. Don't like the Easter bunnies over there. Someone will be able to blast their horrible music into your ears. Oh, that does not sound too good. Oh, there's an Easter egg. Wait, let's go grab this thing. Wait, it doesn't even do anything. It's fake. Okay, somebody's looking for a cooling ice cream. What are the Easter eggs there for? Maybe the only Easter egg bunny can collect them, huh? Wait, is he trapped in there? The player will win a Bloxy Award.  Oh, look, the penguin is here. Hello, Mr. Penguin. Can we push him off? Let's try to push off the penguin. I'm sorry, Mr. Penguin, but I have to do this if I want to win this round. The plate will be spooked. Uh-oh. Okay, this cannot be good. Oh, it's mine. Oh, yo, we just knocked over the skeleton. Sike. Hey, oh, he came back. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, wait, what? Two houses will swap location. Dude, that scared the heck out of me. I thought I was gonna die. What? I thought it flung me or something. And my house broke down. Hey, at least my doors don't work, right? All right, so that's the positive side of all this.  All right, hey, hey, my boy's hitting it. One player's health will be set to half their max HP. Uh-oh, please don't pick me. The meteor is falling. Okay, you know what? Oh my God, it better not hit over here. Where's the meteor? One player will start shrinking. Uh-oh, it hit over there. Okay, sweet. At least I got two houses here so I could jump back and forth. Oh, place will merge. All right, nice. Now this is making it a little easier for us. Um, what? Well, no, please don't fall.  All right, so I guess the place have merged now. Watch out, the floor is lava. Okay, this could not be good. Let's go up here, actually. No, climb on the house. Thank you. Okay, that house is lava. The skeleton is still getting lit over there with the toxic gas going on. Oh man. Oh, why is this body? Yo, this man's is thick. Oh, we turned into pickle Rick. Would you look at the odds? All right, now I feel like I'm definitely gonna win this round. Okay, your blade will turn our house to the ground. Uh-oh. Oh, oh. Yo, come on, man. That we were friends. Is that how you're trying to snipe me? Oh my God, yo, that house is on fire. Somebody call the firefighters. Hot dog gate. Oh, good thing I'm not in that house anymore because I would have gotten trapped in there. The good thing we got moved over here. Oh, we got turned into a penguin. Oh, I think he's getting attacked by bees or something. Yo, are you good, Mr. Penguin? I don't know, but he just seems to be running around like a maniac. There's a murderer on the loose. Uh-oh. It cannot be a murderer, right? Because I'm people Rick. Oh gosh, great. Innocent. Oh, it's like murder mystery inside of a horrific housing. That's pretty cool. All right, you know what? I'm gonna climb up here and I'm just gonna trap myself. I mean, if the killer's out there, he's gonna have to run in here, right? Please don't let him be the penguin. A penguin can't be a murderer. They are cute, man. Oh no, I don't know if I should trust this penguin. Oh, the sheriff is over there. Sheriff! Get the murderer, man. Oh! What just happened? Dude, I was so close to actually winning that round. No! Come on! There were just like three people left. Oh my God. That was the closest we've ever got into getting a W, man. They just had a bad boost on my master plan. Wow, you look at that. The round ended like one second later. All right, let's try the lava one. This one should be a quick round. Let's try to win this one, man. I'm gonna try my hardest to win this round. Dude, we were so close. We were like a minute away from winning that round if we didn't die. But like, are those coconuts? Oh, they are coconut. Wait, that's a bomb. It's a bomb coconut. All right, lava, the floor is lava.  So let's see if we can win this round. Okay, lava will rise every time somebody dies. Uh-oh, okay, that's not good, man. All right, so they made it a little harder. So every time somebody dies, the lava rises. Somebody has super speed. I don't think I would wanna have super speed in this map. Dude, why didn't you say I'm being hunted? Wasn't that from last round? I don't know, but whatever, let's not mind it. He's trying to distract me from getting my W. Hello, guys, hello. How's it going, man? It's pretty hot out here. Dude, there's so much lava. Oh, no, it did rise a bit because somebody just died. Why is everybody dancing? It's not the right time to dance, but I will dance with you guys. Okay, a plate is gonna be trapped inside of a globe. Okay, all right, nice, not us, so we're safe. We're now. He's doing the out dance, wow. Hey, the epic duck is coming? Uh-oh. This cannot be good, can it?  Right, oh, collect the spiky boots. Jump on the epic duck to hurt it. Oh my God, where is it at? Oh, I might not see the epic duck anywhere. Where's the tongue about that? Oh, wait, is someone? Don't risk it. Oh, you can jump high, though. All right, I don't see the epic duck anywhere. Oh, it falls on top of houses. Dude, it just destroyed Blazer's house over there. Okay, no, oh my God. Dude, I was on fire. I'm burning, somebody help me. No, I'm burning. Somebody please throw some milk at me. Oh my God, this is not good. This is not gonna end well for me, is it? I'm gonna burn alive from what it seems like. Dude, this is unfair, can I stop the burning? Please stop it. No, don't quack at us. Oh, you can stomp on it. Oh, we have to defeat it, actually. Oh, okay, so it's one, two, three of us, it's four of us total. Oh no, put the epic duck still out there. Okay, this can't be good. Yo, look at those boots. What are the- What are my tins? All right, so we got some tins, man. We gotta win this. My God, where's the epic duck? That was right next to us. Dude, the lava keeps rising. Hey, that's pretty smart. Getting on top of the globe over there. All right, that's a smart one. I might have to go over there myself right now.  So I should be good if I fall in the lava one more time. Survive real! Oh my God, yo, that almost got me. That was way too close. All right, let's go to the globe because it is a higher spot and it is harder for the lava to reach us. Oh my God, dude, that duck almost bamboozled me right there. There it is again and it strikes one more time. Oh, I think maybe the duck will eventually go away if we ever defeat him. Oh wait, I think it went away actually. I don't see him anymore. I have a sword, I'm sorry. I have to do this so I can win. I'm gonna win one way or another. She's like, no. I'm sorry, man. That was my evil side taking over for a second. And it's a Minecraft sword. Really, this seems like one. Ow. I just wanna get the W, man. You understand, don't you? I mean, I'm sure all of you understand. Everybody wants to win, right? Uh-oh. Why did the music change? I'm sorry, kiddin'. All right, a meteor is falling. Did we survive it? Yes, we did, but now we gotta survive this meteor. Hopefully it doesn't land here. Acid range from the sky. What? How are we supposed to survive an acid rain? No. All right, you guys, I think this is the end for all of us. Oh, dude, it destroyed the barrier. Ow. No. Please don't do this to me. I do not wanna go out this way. Uh-oh, dude, that, oh my God, the acid rain broke the ceiling of the roof. Oh no, this is not good. I'm sorry, kiddin', it's gonna have to end this way. It's me or you. That dude is still alive over there, like how? Oh, dude, no, she's on fire. Oh, she fell. The lightning will strike, please strike that, man. Oh, she's still alive, what? I feel bad, man. All right, dude, that's not fair. I'm trapped here. All right, I think I can make it across over there. Um, this is an abandoned house. You got a pet? What? But my house is destroyed. I can't go to my house. Oh no, my camera died, you guys. I'm still gonna keep going, no matter what's I'm gonna win this match. This is not fair. Oh, I caught a fire. Oh my God. Wait, I won. Ah-ha, yes. They tried to make me lose. My camera died on me. I caught on fire and I have no idea how I won, but I got first place, baby. That's how you do it, guys. We won by luck. Hey, a W is a W, right? Well, that was pretty awesome. I am not, I'm not gonna lie. This game is pretty fun and enjoyable. I wish they just added a bit more crazier stuff, like natural disasters or something. Something to make it more intense, you know? But I mean, it's a pretty fun game overall. Well, thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for the amazing support. 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Expanding space has significant implications for measuring distance. Consider a race track that's 100 km long at the time the race car crosses the starting line, traveling 200 km per hour. If we set its odometer to zero when it leaves the starting line, it will read 100 km when it reaches the finish line in half an hour. Now suppose the track is expanding at 50 km per hour. How long will it take to reach the finish line and how far will it have traveled? It will be more than a half hour and further than the 100 km that the track started with. But it will be less than the length of the track when the car crosses the finish line because some of the expansion will have happened to space the car had already traveled through. A little algebra gives us the exact numbers. Now suppose we didn't know the track's distance at the start, but we did know how fast the car travels and the car's odometer tells us how far it traveled. And furthermore, suppose we found a way to figure out that space was expanding at 50 km per hour. With that, we can figure the original track's eyes and we can figure out how far apart they were once the car reached the finish line. The principles are the same for light traveling to us from distant galaxies. Here we are zooming into GNZ11, the most distant object ever found. The galaxy's redshift, combined with Hubble's law, gives us the distance the light traveled – 13.4 billion light years. And we know the speed of light so the time traveled was 13.4 billion years. We normally say that the galaxy is there for 13.4 billion light years away, but during its long travel time, space expanded considerably. In fact, GNZ11 was less than 2.7 billion light years away from us when the light started its journey and the galaxy is now over 30 billion light years away. In order to calculate these distances, we need to know how the universe expanded during the light's journey. It's not like the simple constant we used in the car racetrack example. In fact, we'll be spending the remainder of this video on just how and why our universe's expansion behaves the way it does, and we'll return to GNZ11 along the way. Note that if a galaxy is far enough away, its apparent velocity will be faster than the speed of light, and its light would never reach us. It would be beyond the physical visible horizon for the universe. It's not that it is moving through space that fast, it's just that more space is being created per second between us and them than light can traverse in one second. Plugging in the numbers, we find that all galaxies beyond 14 billion light years could never be seen here. GNZ11 is now 32 billion light years away, so the light that is leaving GNZ11 now will never reach us.


Tarzan of the Apes, brought to you out the pages of Edgar Rice Burrow's famous book. Tarzan lies unconscious on the ground.  Horns, tents, harsh for the leap, the lioness waits for some movement, some motion which will send her hurling upon her victim. There is a moment of silence, a tense moment, a moment in which furious death waits to execute its grim mission. Horns, waiting. Slowly Sable's animal brain connects the presence of her cub with Tarzan. Gister was devouring the cub. Tarzan fought Gister. The cub is safe. Slowly, suspiciously, the great beast relaxes. The hair on her short mane gradually lies down and her tense haunch is straightened. Slowly, very slowly, she advances toward Tarzan's limp body. Snarling deep in her throat, she stops, showing the strange creature lying still before her, the deference of fear. Cautious, ever ready to crush the life out of the thing with a mighty paw, should it move, she advances closer and closer, step by step. Her sharp, mungent breath is caught on Tarzan's neck. Sable sniffs the thing with a strange scent. Not the scent of a mate. Sable is puzzled. Tarzan stirs. Growns a little in his unconsciousness. Sable leaps back, snarling, but part of the paw raised across the head of that strange creature. Slowly, she puts her foot back on the ground, circles Tarzan, and without further ado, drops away, urging her cubs before her. Sable, the merciless killer, the feared, the dreaded. Sable, the beast, has learned gratitude. Tarzan lies unconscious.  The jungle sun sinks lower and lower. Suddenly, there is no day. A dank, steaming mist arises from the ground and groups in great clouds through the forest like ghosts of massive monsters return from some primitive jungle of eons before. Tarzan still does not move. He lies easy prey to the savage beasts of the jungle, the deadly insects, the sleeping leopard, the murderous gorillas, and worst of all, the snake, Pista, the silent, cold, crushing, slithering death. The moon comes up, making the jungle a wilderness of tall shadows growing in a myriad of puddles of moonlight. The jungle becomes replete with sound. The whimpering choir, the lemurs, the weird laughter of the hyenas at the waterhole, the roar of Numa, the lion, walking in imperial disdain, propelling his approach to the waterhole. A cold, dead weight is slowly coiling itself around Tarzan's body. Its heavy, gliding pressure stirs him with a brawl of anger. Tarzan regains consciousness. The small steamer, bearing our passengers and the mutinous crew, steams down the golden path laid by the moon off the sea on the West African coast. The same moon which shines down upon the inner Tarzan, his cousin Clayton could see if he chose to look through a porthole of the ship Salon. How closely related and yet how far removed these two? Tarzan, the ape man, and William Cecil Clayton. The four in the Salon, Jane and Professor Porter, Clayton and the captain, discovered that they locked in. The crew was mutinous. Newton, the seamen, has informed the captain. Newton leaves. The scream is heard. It's hitters. Grabbing the two automatics, the captain and Clayton rush to the door. It's locked. We're barred in. Poor man. Here, dear. Everything will be all right. I'm afraid it won't be all right. This is mutiny. We can't stand here and let them torture that man this way. Open the door. Open it, you hear that? I won't stop him. I can't stand here. This is the best.  You'll do nothing out of thought. I'm captain here, and as long as I am captain, I'll be obeyed. Understand that. Leave a devilish grave situation. This is mutiny. If I can get them to open that door of their own will, we have a chance. If I can't, we're better off in here. I suggest, Mr. Clayton, that you leave the matter entirely in the captain's hand. Oh, sorry, Captain. Not at all. It's Porter. Yes, Captain. You'll find in the top drawer of my desk a small jade ring bottle. Its contents are deadly. I hope it rules to be a souvenir of an unsuccessful mutiny. You don't think, Captain, that it would be necessary?  And Port Sett, my dear Clayton, well, you've seen it. I found the bottle, Captain. Thank you. Isn't there some way that we complicate these mutineers, Captain, if it's money, why I have a little... And I have a great deal. I'll see if you can buy them off. If they take the ship, everything on it is theirs anyway. Yonk, my first mate is in back of this.  There's rather an intelligent fellow, in fact, that I've had several conversations with him, seemed rather interested in archaeology. You will stand away from the door, Miss Porter. Thank you. Mr. Yonk. Mr. Yonk, do you hear me? Yonk! Yeah, I heard you, Captain. Come here and unlock this door.  Oh, thank you, Captain. Throw those two automatics. They're in your desk, got the floor first. Are you presuming to order me, Mr. Yonk? You'll lose your papers for this. My papers? You're on the high seas now, Skipper. Not at the Admiralty. My papers? They've been chained, crazy. They're Captain's papers now. You are mad. This is mutiny. You realize what that means? Yes, and you better realize too. Throw up those automatics on the deck. I'm not asking you. I'm telling you. And I'm telling you, Mr. Yonk, that I'll see this ship run the ground in heathies before I'll take orders from you. Yeah?  If those guns aren't thrown up on the deck in exactly one minute. Throw them out, please. Please, please throw them out. There goes mine. I guess... I guess they've got us there.  No, no, I didn't. Not very clever of you. Well, there goes. You're learning to take orders readily, Captain. Come in here. Oh, I just happened to think. Quick, Father, give me that map. Why this? Where did I, uh... Why, here it is. Are any of these passengers talking to me? Yeah, I surveyed the world.  Hey, Clayton.  What? The ship is going to be run from now on. Only next time, I'll use the business end and not the bun of the gun. I wouldn't be surprised if you'd killed him, young man. It doesn't make a great deal of difference, Tracy. Not to you, it doesn't. They hang them just as high for mutiny as they do for murder. Not when there aren't any witnesses? That there won't be any witnesses? Arzan regains consciousness. A sinewy thing of all muscle is wrapping itself around him. Slowly encircling him. A rocious cry of a battling beast. The contracting link wound around him tightens. Arzan struggles. Then, suddenly, he feels himself lifted high in the air. Another moment. And he finds himself safe on the broad back of Tantor, the elephant. Tantor, his friend. Despite his aching head, Arzan gives a call of quiet. Tantor, the great beast of the jungle whom even save all fears. Here's the call of his friend. The wise beast knows that all is well with a fight ape upon his back. Tantor is happy, too, for Tarzan is dearer to Tantor than all else in the world. A strange jungle friendship as strong as it is odd. Tantor pulls back his great trunk and trumpets to pearl the fastest of the whole forest and his penisms with the mighty Tantor and his friend Tarzan and patting on their way. Let all beware. Tarzan feels himself all over gingerly and then shrugs, nearness to death his life, not adventure in the jungle. Guiding Tantor by kicking him behind the ear, Tarzan directs the great beast from the sea shore and his cabin. Tantor sways along his way at a speed which is almost unbelievable for so clumsy an appearance, tearing up the trees and brush which impede his way. Then Tarzan hears the beating of the surf and in a few minutes they come out of the jungle onto the beach, a strip of white sand, a sea of darkness divided by golden bands. Tarzan looks down the path of the moon on the water. He gasps, a bolt. That means men. Tarzan the ape thrills because he sees in them that which he most wants to be. Man. Tarzan the man.


It seemed to be making for the roof, but on the top floor we've finally caught up with her. Crane, please, please! That ape came out of here! I'll do anything, anything!  Midnight, the witching hour when the night is darkest, and our fears the strongest, our strength at its lowest ebb. Midnight, when the graves gape open and death strikes, how? You'll learn the answer in just a moment in The Eighth Song. Murder at midnight, tales of mystery and terror by radio's masters of the macabre. Our story by Peter Martin is The Eighth Song. Captain Fogg shrouded a nondescript freighter just in from Africa, and now unloading its cargo in New York Harbor. Down in the ship's deepest hole stands Crane Follyott, the famous big game hunter. Before him is an iron cage containing his latest conquest, a restless thing of panic and hysteria and insensate passions. A huge ape! Quiet. Don't be afraid.  I killed too much already. And besides, I need you to live, need your help. And that's better.  I'll be taking them off in a minute. Oh, good. Lucky thing we were able to get a hold of another truck. Why, the university forgot to send their truck is beyond me. Still, I don't think keeping the animal in my cellar overnight will harm him or anybody. Well, look at him shake, though. He's scared. Not scared, exactly. That's because like all apes taken from their natural habitat, he imagines he's in the presence of death. Death? Yes. What's he doing now? Opening and closing his mouth as if he were trying to sing or something? How did you know? No. Know what? I'm sorry. You wouldn't know. They can sing, though. Yeah? They do. But only when they're in the presence of death. We rode home through the foggy night in the truck, the ape and I. The house was dark when we got there, and I had to give the driver and his helper an extra $20 to take the canvas-covered crate holding the ape around to the back door and into the cellar. Coming up the cellar stairs, I entered the front hall and... Folly, is that you? Dr. Murchison. Yes. Welcome home. What are you doing here? Your wife was just going out when I came here, but she let me in and I've been waiting for you. Waiting for me? Yes. I was about to go myself when I heard the noise downstairs. Oh, I suppose you want to know where the ape is? Well, he's downstairs in the cellar. I see. Folly, why did you bring the ape here rather than to my laboratory? Well, the laboratory truck never arrived. What? It's impossible. I personally arranged for it to meet you at the pier. Why are you questioning me, Dr. Murchison? You don't really think I want a neighbor's house guest, do you? The only thing I was interested in was to get the ape to a safe place until morning, then I was going to call you. I see. Can't you wait to start cutting him up, whatever you intend to do with him? You want to take him with you now? Well, you know that's impossible for Folly yet, and you know we don't intend to cut him up. I'm sorry, Doctor, but the strain taking care of him, you know what delicate animals they are. Eh, won't you come into my study and we can talk? Thanks, Folly. But now that I know his safe, I must be running along. As you wish. When, uh, when will you send the truck around, take him to the laboratory? Well, round noon, I should say. Good. Get some sleep, man. You look terribly tired. Yes. Good, peaceful sleep. At last. Hello. Someone's at the door. Yes. Yes. I imagine it's my wife. Oh. Oh, Crane. Hello, Cecily. You're back. Yes. Why? Why? That's a strange question. You know Dr. Merchison, don't you? Yes. I was just about to leave Mrs. Folly yet. You must excuse my wife, Doctor, she's so pleased to seeing me that she's forgotten her manners. I understand. Well, I'll be in touch with you. Brian? Good night, Mrs. Folly yet. Good night. Crane. You promised you'd stay away until November. Yes, I know I did. But the thought of you all alone in this big house doing nothing but waiting for me to return to your welcoming arms, what else could I do but rush home as quickly as I could, my dear? Don't be sarcastic, Crane. I'm the contrary, my dear. I'm not being half as sarcastic as I'd like to be. Excuse me, I'm going to bed.  Let me pass. I've never asked very much of you, you know. No more than the friendly pat on the head you give to your dog. I said, let me pass. Yes, Cecily. But first, there's something I must tell you. How tired I am of being a hunter of killing wild animals instead of enjoying the happiness of my home with you. You seem to enjoy your hunting trips well enough. You're always going on them and bragging about them to everybody. Now let me pass, Crane. Please believe me, Cecily. Hunting is only a substitute. A very unsatisfactory substitute for the love I hope to receive from you. I never do. I thought we'd settle all that. Yes, but I... I never dreamed you'd treat me like some loathsome animal you couldn't bear near you as though I wasn't a man but an ape. When are you leaving on your next trip? When? Yes. Because until you do, I'm going away.  You know my family doesn't approve of divorce. Of course they don't. Especially when it's a matter of losing the foliate millions along with the husband. How can you be so disgusting? Something terrible has happened to me, Cecily. Something which forbids me ever to go hunting again. Don't make silly excuses. You know you love to hunt. Not any more, Cecily. Something has happened that makes me terrified ever to hunt again. What on earth are you talking about? I really can't explain it, my dear. But on this last trip, every time I killed a wild animal, I imagined I was killing...  I watched her run up the stairs in terror. I heard the slam of her bedroom door. I stood there at the foot of the stairs for a moment, days, yet more certain than ever of what I had to do. And then quite unexpectedly, I felt the wet sting of tears on my cheeks. Yes, there were tears, but no sound. I thought of the ape in the hold of the ship, silently opening and closing his mouth. Some outside force seemed to be guiding me now, as though I was a mechanically controlled robot. I began walking down the hallway to the cellar door. The darkness didn't frighten me. It was my friend. I went down the cellar steps in perfect calm, never thinking to snap on the light. No, it was the darkness that soothed me, whispered to me the darkness and the presence of my friend. He sensed me, of course. And more than that, he expected me. He knew I was coming. I went to him. There he was, outlined in the dim light of a faraway street lamp, coming into the cellar from the grating over my head. Yes, my friend, you want to be free, don't you? Yes, and why not be free? But before I left you out of your cage, we must understand each other. There is a price you must pay for your freedom. Am I really being so unreasonable? Listen, you shall do what I command you to do, with an ecstasy of satisfaction. Do you hear? This time it is no animal you will see die, but a human being.  I see you are pleased, and you should be. Didn't I kill your mate? But I tell you, Cecily drove me to it in my need to clench my murder lust against her. And now, my friend, you shall act as my conscience.   Yes, yes, you do understand. Here in my hand is the key to your cage, the key to your freedom, and mine. We have made our bargain, haven't we? Yes, yes, we understand each other as though we were two brothers. Yes, come out. It is there to her room. It is there that you shall sing at last. Yes, your song of freedom, your ape song. And so man and ape start for the room of their victim. Start up the stairs side by side in the darkness as the clock strikes twelve for... Murder! Now back to murder at midnight the ape song. Crane folly it and his ape continue up the steps to Cecily's room. We went up the stairs together and it didn't seem strange when the ape took my hand as though wishing me to guide him. And then for a moment I was afraid of trouble. The ape became fascinated with a heavy carpeting in the hallway, patting it with his hand as an infant plays with sand. But finally I got him to stand up and come with me. We made hardly any sound as we climbed the main staircase leading to her room. What is it my dear? What's the matter? Something in the room. I see it's eyes. But that's fantastic my dear. There, there it is. Crane, Crane what are you doing to me? I see nothing, I hear nothing. Crane, let go of my arm.   Oh no, no, not I. Come, aren't you going to kiss me just once as you used to in the old, old days? All right, yes, anything, but let me go. Good, now, let me hold you in my arms. Oh, Cecily, I need you so. Why have I lost you? Why did you forsake me, Cecily? Go! Cecily, come back, don't run, you can't get away. Very well, if that's the way you want it. There's quite a chase. I followed them as they ran through the house from room to room, floor to floor. She seemed to be making for the roof, but I knew if she got away from me, she'd never, never shake off the ape. Finally, on the top floor, we caught up with her in the attic. Crane! You treated me like an animal, Cecily. And now an animal she'll treat you as you deserve. Choke the life out of you. There she is, over there in the corner. No, no, Crane.  Kill her? Goodbye, Cecily. I stood over her body and thought I could smell the sea and hear the pounding of the clean waves. And I felt sleepy again. Really sleepy again. I knew I could sleep now. I don't know how long I stood there or how long the doorbell was ringing. Until I remembered that it wasn't I that it killed her, but the ape. I was safe. Why not go downstairs and open the door? I couldn't get a taxi in there. I wanted to see the ape first thing in the morning anyway, so I thought I'd come back to that comfortable sofa of yours. Dr. Murchison, the ape has escaped. Escaped? Yes, he jumped out of a window into a tree after killing my wife. Fully it! What are you saying? Yes, right after you left. The first time you ever took it was when she screamed. I ran upstairs to her room, but... Queer. What was that? I nearly said it was queer. I can't tell you how sorry I am, Fully it. For you. Sorry. For me? Shouldn't I be? In a way. Yes, it's lucky you did come back. We'll have to organize a search for the ape, of course, called the police. Yes, I am sorry for you, Fully it. Terribly sorry. The days that followed were the happiest of my life. At the inquest the coroner's verdict was death by accidental strangulation. The ape could not be found, and the official opinion was that he drowned in the river his body carried out to sea. Everything had worked out perfectly until I began to become aware of something strange and frightening and horrible. All this was happening to me one day on the street. You dropped the coin, sir. Oh, thanks that dime. I... I have it. Uh... Did you hurt your finger? Here, let me pick it up for you. Thank you, my thumb. Somehow I can't seem to bring it across. My thumb was no longer opposable. I couldn't bring it across my fingers. I never realized what it could mean until a few days later at a ball game. Get your scorecard at the game. You can't sell nothing without a scorecard, mister. Never mind. Come on, mister, only a dime of scorecard. You don't want to spoil the pleasure of the game just for a dime.  Yeah, who are you, a quiz kid or something? I said, get out of here.  What was happening to me? I could hardly force myself to think about it. But I had to, especially after what happened at my club. I say there, fellow you don't mend. Have a seat in the check. Thank you, Sam, but I've got to be going. Yes, of course. I see you. You see what? Lumbagoa can't straighten up your back. Going to a doctor, eh? You think it would help, do you? I don't know.  A half hour later, I was in Merchison's office. Now you must take it easy for it. We all have our off days, you know. You've got to help me, Dr. Merchison. You don't know what I'm going through. I wonder. You do look rather... I can't stand wearing shoes anymore. They're taught to me. And I can't straighten my back up. Have you ever had rheumatism? And a severe back injury. Rheumatism? You sit there talking like that when I've caught myself making sounds like an ape? Don't you realize what's happening? That's what I'm becoming, an ape.  We'll do something. You've got to do something. With your whimpering and listening. I can help you, but only if you cooperate. I'll do anything. Admit your range for your wife's murder. What? With the ape's help. Everything points to it, Follyette. You're bringing the ape to your house, your strange behavior before and after I left. And now the transference. I don't know what you're talking about. It's quite simple. Arranging for the ape to strangle your wife puts you legally in the clear. But you can't strangle your guilt. You can only suppress it. And unconsciously in your guilt, you have taken on the actual characteristics of the ape.  Killing me would only prove your guilt twice over. Be sensible, Follyette. Trust me. I've taken extensive note on your case. You've taken note? Yes. Because I knew that some sort of reaction would set in. Oh, there you see. Oh, no, no. Keep away from me. You're going to turn me over to the police. You're against me too. Everyone's against me trying to hunt me down. But you won't get me. You won't... Please stop that. I dropped him. And he fell to the floor, gasping. And then I tore open the door and ran. I didn't know what I was going, what I was going to do next. I only knew I had to hide. I found an abandoned house, hid in the cellar, and there, there in the darkness, it all became clear. Ape. The ape who had killed Cecily. I was the ape. That meant he was claimed Follyette, and that meant... Yes. I had to find him somehow. Kill him for killing Cecily. And that way, that way become my old self again. Where could I go? Where would I hide if I were he? Whether it's green, yes, and trees, and rocks. Ape, yes. In the park. At night, in the park, I threw off my shoes, walked barefoot, concealed in the night as I hunted my mortal enemy. Piece by piece, I discarded my clothes, my jacket, my trousers, walking like the animal I had become. My eyes were sharper than they'd ever been. I could see even in the darkness. And then, as the moon started to go down, I climbed a ridge. There were caves, cages, stone houses, and a zoo. And then, I heard something, it made the hair prickle on the back of my neck. My fingers itched, and my body shook as I heard the sounds that told me I had found my enemy.  I ran to where the sounds came from, and there was a locked steel door. The ape was snarling, and when I came to come near him, I ran around to the other side, wrenched a fire axe from the wall, and came back to the door. I smashed at the lock with a sharp edge of the axe, opened the door, and leaped into the cage. He reared at me with his hind legs, and I swung at his throat. Holy monsters! Jake, get your gun quick. There's a man in there. Let me help you.  Let me rest while I act. Watch out, the cage's open. There he is, Jake. Let him have it. I pronounce him dead. Who thought a man could make a sound like that? It was dark and we thought the ape had killed him, so Jake just fired. What gets me is trying to kill a nape with his bare hands and doing it. His crazed mind. This was the same ape he provoked into killing his wife. I can't get that sound as long as I live. Never. The complete transference into ape. Yet he could have been saved. Look at them lying on the ground. Too bad we couldn't have gotten here a minute sooner. Sure left an easy trail dropping his shoes in clothes after him piece by piece. Ape and man on the ground, side by side. It ain't pretty. His toes turned in. Puffs of hair from the ape's throat still clutched between his fingers. His teeth biting into his lower lip. Poor foliage. Or should I say poor humans? How close to animals we really are. Two bodies lying side by side in the darkness with no one to say which was the victim. As the clock strikes twelve for... Murder! Remember to be with us again when death pads through the night with glowing eyes and the clock strikes twelve for... Murder! The part of the big game hunter was played by Raymond Edward Johnson. With music by Charles Paul. Murder at midnight was directed by Anton M. Leeder.


So I'm trying to be more intentional with how I work out and one of the things that I'm doing is in the morning, even if I don't have enough time to do a full workout as in doing cardio for 20 to 30 minutes along with doing my traditional strength training. I make sure that in the morning I do cardio so I can get that heart rate going, release some endorphins and for some reason doing cardio in the morning gives me the most amount of energy to get through my day. I do switch up the workout though. Let's say I know that I'm gonna play basketball after work, then I make sure that I do my traditional strength training in the morning with the most amount of time in between the strength training and playing basketball. That way I can actually play without feeling like a bowling ball and having like arms. After working out I hop right in the shower because I often notice that I feel less creative and less relaxed when I don't shower. Also more importantly I want to smell good because I probably stink for real after coming from the gym. As I've progressed through my 20s which is a nicer way of saying getting older I become more intentional with my skincare routine. In the mornings I first use a moisturizer that contains sunscreen, under eye cream cuz it's essential and vitamin C as a brightener and to remove some of my acne scars. I also use acne cream if I have a breakout. So one thing that I've learned is that bad habits follow you to wherever you go. To give you an example I share some of the same frustrations in our previous apartment where I felt like it was too small and there was a lack of storage and things were just all over the place and there wasn't much that we could do. And now I find myself experiencing that same frustration but it's not because the place isn't big enough. The place is big enough and there is way more storage. Even an extra room. But the main reason is because at night I get really lazy as in I like fall asleep on a couch or just push it off to the next day and I don't clean up the space at night and I know I need to take like five to ten minutes each night and it's not even till I do dishes and stuff. It's just to put things away not have coats on the floor on the dining room table pillows everywhere and etc. So in the morning I can wake up with a nice and clean and organized space. Alexa play lo-fi music. Mo money mo problems the station lo-fi hip-hop radio free on Amazon music. The thing I've noticed is that I need lo-fi music in the morning to get me focused for the day and to really get into the zone. I spent way too much time watching sports videos and my excuse was oh I'm doing this for fantasy football. So I could start thinking of different strategies whether it was before we started drafting to having my team already drafted and picking up players on the waiver wire thinking about trades players out of skyrocketing setting my line-ups the best match-ups for the week. It doesn't matter because even when I'm not playing fantasy football I'm playing some other YouTube sports video related video. Having a clean desk in the morning is so underrated or at least like a desk that's really easy to declutter otherwise you'll just find yourself being like frustrated and not wanting to work from like your monitor and I definitely need to work from my monitor especially since a good portion of my job I still write code. What's really nice is that most of my team members are on like West Coast or Central time so when I'm logging in I don't usually have any meetings unless I'm meeting with some of my co-workers that are in Europe and I only meet with like one co-worker once a week. We still don't meet that early in the morning it's usually at like 10 30 I think or 11 a.m. and they're in Berlin. For the rest of the morning I'll grab my iPad and use my new favorite note-taking and calendar app called Penbook to jot down some thoughts and create a to-do list for the day. Sometimes I'll even read in the morning for information retention. After creating my daily to- do list and doing some reading I'll grab either some coffee or tea which is a great stimulus for myself and it gives me some time to sit with my thoughts. I noticed that I get a nice boost in energy and excitement for the day when I make coffee or tea in the morning. I've noticed that I've been a lot less active during the colder months so I've decided to make sure I get some fresh air in the morning on top of my cardio by stepping out to one of our rooftops. There are days when I don't step foot outside at all or don't go outside until it's dark so it's important for me to get some sunlight. I need that vitamin D. I'm extremely grateful to live in this amenity building which acts as a vertical neighborhood especially during those winter months when I'm outside less. So that wraps up my morning routine. Comment below what your favorite part of your routine is. I'm curious to know what you guys do in the morning. Give this video a thumbs up. It really helps out with the algorithm and as always have a blessed rest of your week. Peace.


A man gained access to an orphanage in Poland, killing a teenage girl and injuring nine other people in a knife attack late on Tuesday, police in the central city of Lodz said. Police received information shortly after 2100 GMT on Tuesday that a 19-year-old man had entered the orphanage in the village of Tomaslawis near Lodz and attacked residents with a sharp object, police spokesperson Annetta Sobiraj said. Five people were hospitalized as a result of the incident, but their lives were not in danger, Sobiraj said. For others were treated on the spot. The attacker was arrested at his place of residence about an hour after the incident and did not put up any resistance. He was sober at the time of his arrest, but the police were also testing for drugs, Sobiraj said. The attacker's identity could not immediately be verified independently. Prosecutors were investigating all elements of the last period of the victim's life, including her relationship to the attacker, said Gelanta Skilnik, a spokesperson for the district prosecutor's office.


In May 2017, a furious battle erupted between ISIL-affiliated fighters and government forces in Marawi, Philippines. After five months of fighting, the city was left in ruins and 98% of its inhabitants had fled. One year after their displacement, these people still wait to return home. From barangay to lali, di sumangkok Marawi City. I'm a tribal dance instructor specializing in Maranaw dance. Before the siege happened, one of my sources of income was renting out Maranaw traditional dresses and the other landups that I have sewn. We were busy sewing costumes when we suddenly heard gunshots in basak malutlut. ISIL were forcefully recruiting young men to join their group, giving them guns to fight the military. After a few hours, everyone started fleeing Marawi City until we were the only ones left. That's when I decided to leave the city. I gathered my brothers and my adopted performers and went to Sagiwaran evacuation center. The first thing I took was my landup that my grandparents gave me. This landup's name is Lilintikan which means well taken carol. There are a lot of interested buyers from all over the world, especially from the U.S. and New York. Ilang bisis nila ilang bisis nila ako kinausap para bilhin yung malong. Pero I cannot just sell it because it is a family heirloom and it reminds me of our hardships in Marawi during the siege. Whenever I see the landup, I feel lost in Marawi. Not only our livelihood but also the dreams of my brothers and adopted performers. If I sell this, it's like selling my whole being as a Maranawon. Para ko rin binin tayong pagiging isang Maranaw ko kung may gustoong bumili, may gustoong... I will never exchange this for anything. Hindi ko ipagpapalit.


Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music now Here's probably the most or top five most asked question I ever get as a teacher and YouTuber in the comments it is do we really need chord inversions? Why should we spend so much time learning them? Is it gonna help? Is it gonna enhance the sound and so on and so forth and will it work in the long run more importantly because it seems to be a Concept which students learn after perhaps a semester on the piano or after some time And I would imagine it's the same with guitar players and other instruments which play polyphonic music in the sense So on these instruments we we are given a shape we are given a specific shape on a guitar You'll have a default C major shape or a bar chord But then is it worth exploring different shapes of the same chord becomes a very important question So I'm gonna explain this from a piano perspective But I'm sure you'll understand and get the idea that it could apply to pretty much all the polyphonic instruments out there including Instruments which are not really instruments the digital world of Polyphonic synthesizers if you will so even when you're arranging or producing music or programming It is some people use that term you would need these concepts for sure in other words This whole video will be on the debate whether just the root position of a chord C major Is this enough for me to get started? Is it good enough? Do I need to invest the time and effort to then learn? The C major with with its inversions the first inversion and the second inversion is that of value? Is it important? Well, let's see in this lesson and before we get started It'll be nice if you can get my handwritten notes on patreon and you'll also get notation You'll also get MIDI tracks and backing tracks wherever applicable and there are lots of other perks as you become a patron You'll get to interact with me You'll get to do workshops and before we get started it'll be awesome If you can consider hitting that subscribe button and turning on the bell icon for regular notifications Let's get cracking so the first reason why you would need to use chord inversions and why you should start with chord Inversions as an absolute complete beginner to chords is so that you can make it easy for yourself Now isn't that important right now a lot of the times we are taught a C major chord in that Notated fashion. It's so easy to read doom doom doom. It's just linear line line line or space F FAC doom doom doom space space space, so it's visually easy But imagine if you have to shift from C major in the root position and then F major in its root position. You need your eyes for that for sure. Don't you think? Even I can't do it after so many years of playing so I would imagine that Choosing the more efficient inversion of F major Namely in this instance C F A or maybe even an F minor C E G C F A flat C E G and as you can see in this particular Lesson or demonstration I'm not even looking at the piano keyboard because I know my I know that I can trust the piano and my hands to get It right and to not make mistakes, you know So shifting becomes a lot easy on the piano if you know your inversions chord shifting And it's important to know that the ability of playing a chord on the piano If I were to tell you in your very first piano class play me F sharp minor You know if I didn't brand it as a tough chord or a difficult chord And I just said put one finger on this black note another finger on that white note and another finger on that black note You will play it but then the challenge is if I tell you play F sharp minor and then maybe play a C major You would know C major also perhaps in class number one C E G But this is the job the act of shifting is the actual problem or the actual Challenge when it comes to playing chords on not only the piano I would imagine most instruments you would be able to get a chord on even a guitar But or a banjo or ukulele or whatever But then are you confident to shift from that chord to the next chord in time in an real-world environment like a song with a singer with a drummer and a band on stage perhaps if That's a challenge. You definitely need to use inversion. So C E G will thus become F minor C F A flat and Similarly if you were to not start on the root position of C major Maybe start from the first inversion E G C you can still use the appropriate inversion or the most efficient inversion To go to the default F major and there are a lot of other advantages of doing this So I'm sure you'll agree with me that you might as well start learning chord inversions at the word go The the moment you do chords as a piano learner or if you are doing chords This is what you need to do You need to bring in the inversions and I have a few simple strategies First of all write down the triad in a neat round circle. So see E G And because of writing it in a neat round circle, you can extrapolate three shapes pretty easily in the closed shape As we call it or the piano inversions which are in the clockwise direction C E G or E G C or G C So you'll extrapolate three shapes and by the way if you go in the counterclockwise direction You're going to get well, we don't call them as piano inversions But they are very useful for music writing in general the spread shape So if you go in the reverse direction, you'll get C G E or E C G or G E C These are called as spread shapes which I'll come to shortly in the lesson So first and foremost shifting becomes very easy between chords and I've done a playlist on chord inversions So if you think about it from the word go if you take if you plant your hand in a certain position C major, okay, and now maybe close your eyes. Maybe I can do an F sharp minor F sharp major D7 E flat major 6th E minor F diminished Maybe F sharp augmented G minor just trying to randomize or jumble this E major E 7th C 7th F 7th B flat 7 flat 9 Maybe an E flat minor 7th Maybe an E minor 7th Maybe an E major or I repeated that fair enough F sharp minor A flat major D G You can even go around the circle of fifths perhaps with your eyes closed. That'll be a bit easier on the brain C F D flat E flat A flat D flat G flat or F sharp B E A D G C You can also do a circle of fifths in the clockwise direction C G D A E B F sharp D flat A flat E flat D flat F C And I don't think you can do this with your eyes closed if you were doing just the root positions of the chord, right? So we are made to believe I guess with two Rather or two or three rather wrong music education systems if you will one is Notation because when it looks good in notation, it's generally the root position So people teach that especially to kids when they start, you know, it just looks Root-like in nature, but it's a horrible way to start your chords because Generally speaking when you're learning a topic in life in general, I'm sure you might agree with me You can let me know in the comments the first Grasp of something you do in that subject is going to stick with you You know, if it's a language, it could be you know the important You know the pronouns or the nouns or the adjectives the important sentences, you know That will stick with you for I guess for life So you better have a good teacher or at least a good education system so bring in inversions right from the beginning and The other thing is these keyboards, which are sort of auto programmed to do cards if you play those cards in Inversions if you don't play them in the root position, they kind of give you wrong answers So to speak in this keyboard style of training or sometimes even in apps in recording apps So if if you buy if you're biased towards that then you're not really a keyboard or a piano player You're just a kind of a button pusher so to speak. So try to Try to kind of focus on it from a two-handed piano perspective where it's just white and black keys So definitely chord inversions will be useful at the very beginning Don't delay them in your education journey for later. Okay, there are some other reasons why chord inversions are useful If you were to play a chord with an inversion Let's say B flat major in its whatever inversion actually names are not even important. You just need to know the three shapes So if I play B flat major like this, you know For my year or for any human year the top note is generally going to ring The most it's going to be the most prominent or the most catchy for ourselves to a point that we can even sing it See Now I could sing the other notes F in the bottom or B flat in the Middle But it's this guy which seems to be sticking out a lot So because of inversions you can bring out the melody line very well in a in a song And it will also equip you as a solo piano player to make music with melody and harmony in one hand We've done a lot of videos on the same where I've used melodic arpeggios It's a very common technique which I use in music you can check out a video in the description But just just to show you I'm just gonna sing a tune See I found a chord and I've planted my pinky my higher finger highest finger on the Top note of that inversion and I'm telling myself. Hey, it's F major But with F on the top because that's the melody line and maybe And then B flat You Know so the topmost note will will will generally propel the melody line forward and you can put the pieces together Of the melody like a jigsaw puzzle so to speak by So I can play those notes and Then plant my hand On the new inversion of the target chord printed in your charts, whatever you read Maybe what's that that's your landing or the long one that's your D over B flat E flat major I Do this for the simplest of songs Pretty much anything in your actually you have one hand free on the piano You know so it is worthwhile learning chord inversions in the right hand to bring out the melody line We tend to have a biased approach towards playing the piano wherein chords are played in the left hand melody in the right hand That won't work in a band setting because this will make it very muddy For your guitar player and the other musicians, especially the bass instruments in the band So you'd rather make it a bit easy for everyone's ears cleaner Less muddy by playing chords on the top end and it'll be the icing on the cake if you can bring in the melody line On the top end so that's another reason you would definitely need to learn chord inversions So another reason would be a bit more from a musical composition perspective. That's the voicing So each voice you play in a given chord. So let's say C major in root position We'll have intervallic relationships between each of those notes. How many intervals are there? You might ask well There are actually three intervals for a three-note chord that might seem a bit obvious But trust me, it's not very obvious because for a two-note chord There you just have one interval for a four-note chord you have six intervals So we'll get to that maybe in another video. So if you take C major The intervals are C to E major third E to G minor third and C to G perfect fifth So our ear is processing all these three intervals together to get the sound now if you play an inversion It's a very different sounding Set of intervals, you know because it's E to G minor third first You have a perfect fourth by the way so the first inversion has a perfect fourth and You have this rather Serious minor sixth. So you have a minor third E to G Minus sixth at the extreme and a perfect fourth and the same story if you do a G C E again, it has a more different play. I would say this is a more grander inversion a grander sound while This is a more timid sound or a more Pensive sound even though a major chord as we learn in books is generally positive So you have a more assertive Textbook sound which you hear all the time This is a bit more pensive or a bit more introspective it's thinking while this is a lot more grander why the grand you might ask You have an interval G C which is a perfect fourth G E which is a very grand interval. That's a major sixth So very different intervallic relationships between the notes will happen And thus different voicing as we call it and where things get really interesting on the piano or as a composer in general On any instrument or even in a DAW software is when you adjust the voices to go beyond the octave So now if I take C major, I don't want to press the E here. I will Press it up the top Above the octave some musicians call this a tenth voicing And what's beautiful about it you can help the lower register a lot more harmonically Because if you played C major in the root position down below Absolute mud and chaos sometimes so It's a much better way to play C major Or maybe even C minor Okay Great for our pageos See there's a lot of pop songs out there which use this technique So you can open out the lower register in your productions in your compositions and arrangements by not being scared of Whether it will clash or anything see clashing is not a matter of clashing frequencies It's a matter of clashing intervals in my opinion and the lower you go The intervals are too close to each other in terms of yes pitch and frequency So they clash and you're not able to make out the intervals clearly like I said there are three intervals for a triad So for you to make them out better Spread them out more and they sound beautiful up top too Okay, so spread voicing versus closed voicing even with closed voicing as you saw you can generate different sonic textures Right, so I have a couple more reasons why you should use chord inversions And then to cap off the lecture we look at when you should not use chord inversions Let's look at actually you case studies where you should probably stick with root position So just stay tuned. So the other thing I would like to mention is voice leading the fact that it is easy to play It's easy to shift it also is easy to hear So that's the bonus you get on the piano, I guess see It's probably the only instrument we have in our musical family where what is easy to play is actually the best Sound sonically guitarists will get very annoyed when they understand this fact because usually on a guitar The best shapes you get are the most tricky to play if you ask me at least so on the piano C to F super easy you can play it with your eyes closed or with a blindfold if you enjoy that approach And look what's going on here Very smooth you can also hear every voice very smoothly and this is also what they call in music as voice leading So you can hear That's the lower voice and then As well as the higher voice In any inversion Now you put the common voice there So it becomes very orchestral you can literally assign each of these notes or voices To acquire or an orchestra or use different instruments and see how the textures come together Right and last but not least I'd like to look at a use case for chord inversions a very important use case using slash chords now Slash chords will drastically change the energy state of the chord in question. So if I take C major Generally speaking the base note would be C Like so, however, if I play C major with an E base Even though I have the root position going on here It doesn't sound very stable anymore. Does it? Reason being I would imagine that this is a completely different chord quality So knowledge of inversions can control the the mood or the the energy state of the chord I feel this is a tense chord It wants to resolve to F while C major with C base is just happy. It's at home sitting on a sofa Quite happy there, but C with E going to F C over E is highly unstable Once resolved similarly C over G C slash G as we call it C G Results to the dominant perhaps the G and then back to C because dominant wants to go to tonic So it's ironic that the tonic chord with a different base Results to the dominant and the dominant feels more at home, but then that wants to kind of Come back here. Similarly the tonic chord with a third base. I tend to call it one slash Number three normal three that helps me to remember because you have the third in the base and then I Don't know what the official Roman definition or Roman terminology for slash chords is so maybe you could leave out leave it in the comment If you've learned it a specific way, I'll be happy to see it But this is C slash E. I would call this one slash three Roman one slash normal three that results to F Again great voice leading but it's important to know that inversions help with Changing the energy state of chords, especially when you propel slash chords With a different base note in the lower register of your piano or any musical instrument in general In fact, this whole lesson doesn't pertain only to piano players You can probably try and check out these techniques with whatever Form of work in the music industry you do and let me know if it helped you I hope it did and these are just standard theoretical concepts now to conclude this lesson Is there going to be ever a case where we should say no bye-bye to chord inversions? I guess not after all this but maybe for a couple of things for example If you want to do some left-hand arpeggios And you want to hold on the root note with your pinky You're almost creating a very Rooted voice here. You're making this voice different than the remaining voices so in the case where Your hand is kind of divided into one part and part two where this is doing the job of a bass player The you will then need to think okay is the original chords as per the chord chart C major so you don't want to play that with a E bass because then the flavor will change the energy will change right so Especially in the left hand when you're doing arpeggios and when you have the ability to ring out one of the notes Prefer the roots Because that'll be as per the chart See that is an actual deliberate change because I wanted to play F slash a Now normal B flat major G major So in these cases you definitely need to consider not doing too many convenient inversions But focusing more on the actual sound that the bass register needs as per the chords printed in your progression Okay, the another reason would be when you're striding when you're kind of block moving away like for example This is a very standard pattern you hear in so many piano terms, right Now if you were to invert that It kind of makes that very it makes the non-root very important So I would say in cases where you're breaking up your chord in cases where you're Apeggiating the chord and creating a left-hand pattern with a very important root Probably play the chords as they are with the root position Instead of inversions but for the most part you have to know inversions as you journey forward as a pianist or as a Musician arranger songwriter whatever producer in general So hope you found the lesson useful if you did do leave us a comment hit the like button There's also a share button somewhere there and if you haven't subscribed yet It'll be awesome if you could hit that button nothing will happen to your computer try to hit it right now There's a bell as well and support us on patreon if that works for you. 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So, given any matrix A, we can produce its singular value decomposition, SvD, A equals U, sigma, V transpose, where U and V are matrices corresponding to rotations, and sigma is a diagonal matrix. Well, at least we say we can find it. Let's go ahead and find some. So, for example, let's try to find a singular value decomposition for this matrix. So, by assumption, this matrix A will be U, sigma, V transpose. So, if we find A transpose A, that's going to be V, sigma transpose, sigma, V transpose. Well, I know what A transpose A is, and so this means that we want to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of our matrix. So we find our eigenvalues, which gives us our diagonal matrix lambda, which, by assumption, is the product of sigma transpose times sigma. Now, remember that sigma is supposed to be some diagonal matrix. So, let's represent it as the diagonal matrix sigma 1, 1, sigma 2, 2. If we multiply those two together, then we get another diagonal matrix whose entries are the squares of the original diagonal entries. Now, meanwhile, lambda is the diagonal matrix of eigenvalues. And we have a choice here. We can put the eigenvalues in any order that we want to. And for reasons that will become clear later on, it's convenient to set them down in descending order. So, while lambda could be any diagonal matrix whose entries are the eigenvalues, the one we'll actually want to use is this one. And by a direct comparison of the entries, we can find both sigma 1, 1, and sigma 2, 2. And at this point, you may be wondering, there are two square roots of these numbers. And so it doesn't matter if we take the positive or the negative square root. And the answer is, I won't do your homework for you. That's something that you should check out on your own. Now that we know the eigenvalues, we can find the eigenvectors and normalize them. And remember, the columns of V will be the eigenvectors of A transpose A. And so we have V equals this matrix, and V transpose is the transpose. Now, we could find U in the same way, but we'll take a shortcut. To find U, notice that if A is U sigma V transpose, then A V is U sigma. And we know A, we know V, and we know sigma. And so this allows us to find U directly. Here, we'll treat U as a matrix of column vectors. So if we multiply both sides, since the two matrices should be equal, this first column should equal 6.3592 times U1. And so we can find our first column vector. And by comparing these second columns, we can find our second column vector. And we'll get our columns of U. Now, the last step we took there does raise the following question. If we decompose A as U sigma V transpose, if we find U, we can compute V transpose by comparing U transpose A with sigma V transpose. And that's because if we left multiply by U transpose, we get U transpose A equals sigma V transpose. And by assumption, at this point, we will have found U and sigma. And so we can find V transpose by inspection. Or we could have found V first.  So again, from our decomposition, this time right multiplying by V gives us A V equals U sigma. And again, by assumption at this point, we will have found V and sigma. And so the question is, which one should we find? And the answer is, it doesn't really matter. But we can choose to find the easier one. For example, suppose we wanted to find the singular value decomposition for a 2 by 3 matrix. Now, we might note that if A actually is U sigma V transpose, then in order to make the dimensionalities work out, we'll want U and V and V transpose to be square matrices. So this 2 by 3 matrix A has to be the product of a 2 by 2 matrix U, a 2 by 3 matrix sigma, and a 3 by 3 matrix V transpose. And since V and V transpose are larger matrices, it might be easier to find the matrix U first. So we'll start out by finding A A transpose. We'll find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of A A transpose. And we find the columns of U are going to be the orthonormal basis. And so we know that U has these normalized vectors as its column vectors. And the entries of sigma are the square roots of the eigenvalues. And we'll conveniently put them in order. Now, sigma is a 2 by 3 matrix. So the question is, what can we put in that last column? And we won't go into the details here, do your own homework. But it turns out that we can actually fill that last column with the column of zeros. So again, by assumption, A is U sigma V transpose.  Now let's set up that matrix equation. On the left-hand side, we'll just do that multiplication. On the right-hand side, we'll write it this way. We have our matrix sigma, and this matrix V transpose. Well, that matrix will consist of the column vectors of V transposed. And so that gives us the rows of our product equal the transpose of a column vector times some scalar. And that means we can find V1 transpose and V2 transpose. But what about V3? Now, before we go out and find that third vector, let's see if we actually need it. So remember, the idea here is that we want to write A as the product U sigma V transpose. But notice that if we take the three matrices we already have, U, sigma, and V transpose, if we multiply them together, that third vector doesn't appear anywhere in the answer. We actually get our original matrix A, and so we don't need that third vector. And at this point it's probably worth mentioning the value of productive laziness. Since the components of the third eigenvector don't enter into the computation, we don't need to compute them. So we could be lazy and find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for the smaller of the two matrices A transpose A or A A transpose. But if we put some effort into our laziness, we can find out something very interesting. And we'll take a look at that next.


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