Lux presents Hollywood brothers company the makers of Lux Flakes bring you the Lux radio theater proudly presenting photo play magazines gold medal award picture sitting pretty starring Robert Young Moreno Harrah and Clifton Webb Ladies and gentlemen your producer mr. William Keely from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen This is the big night of the season in the Lux radio theater because tonight We present the picture that you the moviegoers of America have chosen as the one you like best in 1948 it's that delightful comedy sitting pretty Selected by you in a nationwide poll for photo play magazine Our stars are Moreno Harrah Clifton Webb and Robert Young the original cast Which made the picture a hit for 20th century Fox? After tonight's performance sitting pretty will receive photo play magazines coveted gold medal award one of Hollywood's highest honors We had an idea some time ago that sitting pretty might win this award because every male has brought requests for it These letters told us what you thought of Lux Flakes too, and I'm sure that if we could take a poll of housewives Their gold medal award would go to Lux Flakes Here's the curtain going up for act one of sitting pretty Starring Clifton Webb as Lynn Belvedere Robert Young as Harry and Moreno Harrah as Tacey Stingbird Hill is a typical suburban community Where everybody knows a little more than just a little about everybody else For example the neighbors all know that the Harry Kings housekeeper Simply up and quit today Leaving that nice Mrs. King with that big house those three noisy children and that terrible dog to take care of all by herself Yes, the news went through the community like a flash Cheatly because of Clarence Appleton Mr. Appleton lives on the corner and has very little to do except grow iris and Mind other people's business. I am endeavoring to obtain some pollen from these iris Flowers with a feather. I am not tickling young man. I am gathering.  Oh run away and play no no wait just a minute your housekeeper left today, didn't she she sure did you sure heard Indeed. Tell me what did you say? I guess I did pop stars. How many times do I have to tell you kids never to do that? No, I didn't lose another case in court today. I guess it's the heat and Mrs. Maypole quitting some housekeeper She sure was a drip pop. Maybe you've got something there. Well, how are you fellas? Oh, fine? What's wrong with Roddy? What's he crying for this time? Do something for me Why don't you keep train that big up not to jump on people. He's just glad to see you pop. I'm watch dog He's glad to see everybody Three children and a dog when she took the job now, don't worry honey, you'll find somebody else Say isn't that Clarence Appleton in the garden? The devil's he doing oh that well It seems that we have a very healthy male iris and he asked if he could have some pollen so he could breed one of his own You don't say well at least we should get our choice of the litter. Oh Please now about Mrs. Maypole well, I've decided that we just can't afford a regular housekeeper anyway unless of course You got that raise Well, no not yet, but being invited to the boss's house for dinner is a hopeful sign Who'd you get for a sitter tonight? I didn't have you didn't but we're due there in an hour Oh, I've owned at least 15 of the little darlings. They're all tied up sitting. Oh, it's no use Harry Just phone mr. Hammond and tell him that we can't come okay, Tacey You'll probably fire me but okay sometimes I wish he would fire you the sooner you stop letting mr. Hammond kick For the last time the smore to starting a law practice than just hanging out a shingle You have to make contacts and the only way you can do that is with an old established outfit You know, I'm right.  Hammond thinks you are thank you now. What are we going to do about a sitter? I mean for the future. I'll tell you what we're going to do. We are going to advertise I'm going to put an ad in the paper for a well a resident sitter what a resident baby sitter Someone who can live in the spare room and crazy. Oh, I knew you'd say that but just you wait and see there must be someone we can get Harry King. Yes a good evening. I am Lynn Belvedere You're you're who I'm the party who answered your ad in the paper Lynn Belvedere But you can't be why not have you ever seen me before? Oh, no, no, of course. I haven't very well then Well This is quite a shock. You see we well we advertised for a sitter and Naturally thought we thought you were a woman in your letter your advertisement madam of which I have a copy makes no mention of sex Possibly not but it was certainly implied I need someone to help with the housework and sit with my children. Mrs. King. I haven't to dislike all children intensely But I assure you that I can readily attend to their necessary though unpleasant once Oh I've just had a long and very trying journey in the day coach. May I see my room your room? But my husband isn't home yet. That if I may say so is a matter of complete indifference to me. I Take it you're not retaining my services to sit with him But he's at the station. He's looking for you. I left the station 20 minutes ago Well, he's expecting a woman. We just assume that you wear a woman. You have made that painfully clear, Mrs. King Now may I please see my room? Why? Well, I guess so it's upstairs. Thank you Boys, what are you doing still up?  Belvedere Larry and Tony the babies asleep. Well, that's a blessing, isn't it? They seem to be quite fascinated by you, mr. Belvedere the fascination. I assure you is not mutual. Oh Well, this is the room mr. Belvedere.  I'll just stop them here in the wastebasket for my work, Mrs. King I require an atmosphere of spot and simplicity and may I ask what your profession is certainly? I am a genius Oh, well well good night, mr.  Well darling I retire and may I inquire of a time you said breakfast? Hmm. Thank you. Perhaps I should tell you now I like fruit juice coffee and thinly sliced gluten bread toasted I'll try to remember. Thank you. Good night Who in the heck was that? That darling is Lynn Belvedere. Huh? Tracy it's a man Brody eat your cereal. What are we going to do about mr. Belvedere very simple as soon as he deans to join us at breakfast I'm going to kick him out right on his ear. He says he's a genius Well, I don't think he's cute and genius or no genius. I'm going to see mr.  Well, we'll soon find out We're sorry to dash in on you like this mr. Belvedere, but we did knock I don't doubt a mrs. King When I practice my yoga, I'm completely out of this world. I Take it breakfast is ready. Now look here you when I talk to somebody. I want to look him in the eye not in the foot Say something. It's no use dear. He's out of this world. He told you so Come on Harry. That's so silly. I never heard of such a thing standing on his head Now put down that spoon over mr.  King What can't go on you're staying here? That's what I'm perfectly willing to carry out my end of our agreement I seen a reason why you should default on yours, but it's impossible. You couldn't do the things we require for example, could you Could you bathe Roddy mrs. King for many years? I have successfully bathed individuals of all ages and sexes, and I've never had any complaints Little boy, don't do that again That's enough Roddy now stop it mr. Belvedere my wife tells me you're a genius that is correct Well, if I'm not too inquisitive do you mind telling me what form it takes your genius? I am in my way the philosopher. Oh, I see you you just sit and think mr. King If more people just sat and thought the world might not be in the stinking mess that it is Well, maybe you've got something there and you can really handle children If you mentioned only three children Henry's the dog is a great dain probably the only great dain in the country Who would rather chew my shirts than chew a bone? I dislike dogs intensely mr. King almost as much as I dislike children and your children if I may say so have peculiarly repulsive habits and manners However, I assure you I can cope with them successfully if given a free hand Gesundheit Tony Larry sit down finish your breakfast. Casey. I I'm going to the office. It's a long kid. See you tonight Casey would you mind walking to the car with me? Oh? Excuse me mr.   I did precisely that mrs. King, and you will note that he didn't like it I Guarantee that he will never throw cereal at me or anyone else again ever Mr. Belvedere consider yourself hired. He's done that to me too You know you've got something. I couldn't agree with you more mr. King You might even say I've got everything Well, just be careful. You don't relax so much you break your neck We thought they're standing on their heads, and they love him. He gave Roddy a bath, and there wasn't a I'll be a Hey the dog. What's the matter with Henry's he's sick. No darling, but he must be look He just walk in lay down. Tacey. That's the first time I've ever seen Henry walk Every other time he's just galloping He's not barking. No darling It seems that mr.  And he had a long talk with Henry this morning Henry's been quiet as a mouse ever since isn't it wonderful? It's incredible But there's just one thing Henry Harry mr. Belvedere. Well He's sort of mysterious. How do you mean? Well, he locks himself in his room. I went up and listened, but I couldn't hear a sound What do you suppose he does up there? He's so quiet Maybe he stands on his head that doesn't make much noise. Oh Is he up there now? Oh, no, he's out taking walk then why are we whispering? Oh? I forgot he says he's going to go out for a walk every night before dinner Harry Do you suppose it would be very unethical if we went? It certainly would but let's go. I know it's the right key Harry Funny, it doesn't work. It's the right key. It's got to work here. Let me do it. You're wasting your time mr. King Hello, good evening Knowing human nature as I do I suspected that you might try to snoop This is a new lock on the door, but it can't be I didn't order a locksmith There was no occasion to mrs. King. I am an expert locksmith and now if you'll excuse me. I will see you both later at dinner Oh, Harry will you um Well, you'd better tell the book is to come in and wash that won't be necessary mr. King They're scrubbing their grimy little paws right now. I Don't know Tacey. He may be all right, but let's face it. He is a screwball. Well a little eccentric maybe Father father Since when am I father? Are we father mr. Belvedere says that cleanliness is next to godliness. Well dear need I say more I guess he stays Tacey After a brief intermission we'll present act two of sitting pretty What is that book you were chuckling over Libby? Oh chicken every Sunday? Oh 20 Century Fox has just made a movie of it and the picture was so funny I wanted to read the book and laugh all over again I think Dan daily is great as the dreamer looking for easy street and Celeste home make such a practical wife She loved the chance to play such a natural role life in mother's boarding house provides plenty of human situations I remember the scene in chicken every Sunday where Celeste is washing dishes and Dan insists on taking over Well, they had a good many retakes on that to get it just right Celeste washed quite a pile of dishes all told and she was very pleased that the studio gave her locks flakes to do them What could be more natural? Millions of women who care about their hands never use anything else for dishes Lock flakes are so mild and gentle They don't redden or roughen hands as strong soaps often do and yet it costs so little to use locks flakes for dishes Three times a day. It's really easy on the budget. The tiny diamonds of locks are so sheer They practically melt into suds the instant water touches them. I've never seen such thick rich suds These tiny luck diamonds are a real triumph of the world-famous lever laboratories and the suds lasts so long These wonderful diamonds actually go further Ounce for ounce they wash up to twice as many dishes as any of ten other leading soaps tested They're thrifty Here's our producer William Keeling act two of sitting pretty winner of photo play magazine's gold medal award Starring Marino Harrah as Tacey clipped in web as Lynn Belvedere and Robert Young as Harry Who just wouldn't recognize the King household anymore? Peace and serenity like a halo have settled over the little family a blessing directly traceable to the gentleman in the spare bedroom Mr. Lynn Belvedere Now on a wintry Sunday morning. Mr. Belvedere returns from a little visit downtown Roundly McConner. He encounters the community gossip Clarence Appleton Why it's Belvedere a good morning Belvedere You will kindly address me as Mr. Belvedere until I grant your permission to drop the title a Contingency which seems hardly likely. Mr. Appleton. Well, really. I Intended no offense. Tell me mr. Belvedere.   Mr. Belvedere Perhaps you could drop in on your next afternoon off. I am not a servant. Mr. Appleton. My afternoons are always my own Oh Well in that case drop in anytime for a glass of sherry. I just like sherry as much as I deplore the habit of dropping in on people uninvited But mr. Belvedere, I am inviting you and I sir am declining. Good day Particularly, I just thought we could surprise the kids with a snowman if we're making a snowman Let's make it properly now. You finish the arms and leave the face to me. Okay, mommy We all know you were a great sculptors before I married you any face even a snowman Must have expression and character. Well, hurry up or the kids will be home from Sunday school. Daisy. Look. Good morning, mr. Belvedere Good morning. Good morning. Oh, I guess you left the house before we even got up. Yes. Well Cold enough for you nippy nippy, but it suits me. Well, how do you like our snowman? Mr. King you should have let your wife do the face. I did the face. Oh, well, it will soon melt What do you suppose he's got in that package? Oh, how do I know? I've given up wondering about anything he does or has But I made a noise. I distinctly heard a sort of metallic ticking So did I if he's doing anything illegal up in that room we could get into a lot of trouble Harry Do you suppose if you climbed up on that tree and well, maybe crawled out on that limb? Yeah? I could look right in his window Tacey go in the house why go in and watch the stairs if he comes down find some way to warn me all right But be careful all I'm gonna do is climb a tree But I'm not high enough Stop looking at me and watch for mr. Belvedere. I am watching. I'll know what he's up to in just a minute now Climbing trees mr. King at your age Better come out mr. King bring a roll of gauze, please and some adhesive tape Oh take it easy will you that's my wrist kind of keeps still you're lucky that no bones are broken I must say that's a very professional bandage mr. Belvedere There aren't many people who could do that that's substantially what general Pershing told me during the first world war You were a doctor to a bone specialist. Oh, no Is there anything you haven't been yes, mr. King? I've never been an idler not a parasite Or have I ever climbed the tree to look into someone's bedroom? Now mr. King, how did your wrist feel? I guess I'll live. I hope it's better by tomorrow. I've got to go to Chicago indeed Oh, I thought I told you mr. Belvedere. Yes. He has to go to Chicago on business Hmm, you'll have nothing to worry about mr. King. I shall endeavor to pinch hit for you at every available opportunity Hey see my hearing things something squeaked why yes, I heard it too like like a bird That's precisely what you heard the Twittering of a bird the cage is in the living room mr. King Where on earth did it come from? That was my package which you mr. King stared at so pointedly a little while ago I'm opposed to the practice of exchanging gifts at any time But since you were gracious enough to give me three pairs of excellent one and socks than the occasion of my birthday I try to get something for your anniversary that would give pleasure to your entire family in brief a canary bird How very kind of you thank you mr. Belvedere. Oh, he's beautiful does he sing not yet, but I shall teach him Hey, Tacey go out and tell Bill to lay off that horn with you But darling you've got to catch a train and a villain and are driving you to the station Nobody's driving me to the station. I've just decided. I'm not going to Chicago. Why not?  Well, you seem to find him very attractive, Tacey I find the Grand Canyon attractive too, but that doesn't mean that I'm in love with it You're mad about it. Oh, I am insane with passion now look Tacey I I'm not suggesting that you and Belvedere will carry on while I'm gone Oh, that's darn white of you, but you know how gossip starts and well I just look would you feel any better if I slept at Edna's house while you're gone Well, yes. Yes, I would definitely the kids won't like it. Well, I'll break it to him gently when they get home from school You sure you don't mind certainly I'll mind but every night I'll go over to Edna's and Bill's now pick up your bags Darling and beat it. Don't I get a kiss? No, I'm a one-man woman and my heart belongs to Belvedere. Oh for him I'm coming Bill. So long honey. You should be very gratified Mrs. King Oh, oh, Mr. Belvedere if you'll permit the observation. I believe your husband was actually jealous in his sophomoric fashion Mr. Belvedere don't you consider eavesdropping a bit unethical unethical, but fascinating I Particularly enjoyed your comparing me to the Grand Canyon Now there's rugged grandeur you'll pardon me Mrs. King. It's it's time. I gave Roddy his bath This presence and I've already telephoned for her she'll be here in a moment Don't you weed young man the label on that bottle clearly says distilled London dry gin When your mother arrives she can drown him and I swore as far as I'm concerned until then put the bottle down Oh, are you sure you call the right number mr. Enough intelligence not to lose my head in the crisis If I'm not mistaken, and I never am there's a car turning down the corner right now They're now back in bed and go to sleep. You'll be fine in the morning. Thanks for coming Oh, did you take his temperature mr. Belvedere? No, I'm satisfied that he simply has a belly ache No more no less. Oh Well, he feels nice and cool. I assure you I could have handled the situation perfectly well myself only the child expressed a mortal in desire for his mother Well, I'm glad you did Tony.  No dear. I'm going right back to auntie Edna Oh and by the way Dopey the next time you find a package of chewing gum be sure it is chewing gum Good night darling I'm sure you'll go right to sleep mr. Belvedere. Whereas I should be plagued with insomnia I also hope you'll forgive my appearance. I don't usually rush through the streets in the middle of the night in a bathrobe and Whoever could that be if you go to the door you need not conjecture. Oh Mr. Appleton please pardon the intrusion mr. King But I noticed all the lights go on and knowing your husband is away I felt constrained to dash over to see if anything's wrong. No, thank you mr. Appleton. Everything is fine Oh, well just a neighborly call you might say to offer my services if needed I Can see that they're not and how did you know our lights are gone on? Did you borrow your mother's binoculars or were you perhaps looking for pollen and your iris? Put down that bottle mr. Belvedere. I shall mr. Appleton. I merely intend to have a drink Well, well, I can see that I've not needed here your vision is remarkably accurate Evil-minded little worm. Mrs. King. Do you know anyone who has a beehive a Good swarm of bees could ruin his iris. I know But how could you get them to swarm? Oh now don't tell me you were also a beekeeper. That is correct Well, good night, Mrs. King. Good night, mr. Belvedere They had to tell you her ratio as Harry King's employer as the man he works for you simple one Clarence. What else isn't that enough? There I was calling on an errand of mercy Belvedere in his pajamas and Tacey King in in a negligee cavorting about and guzzling gin This is awful the wife of my own employee. Well, I'm sending for Harry King at once Oh, I I don't suppose you let this get around Clarence. You haven't told anyone else. Well Hardly anyone who ratio drunk three o'clock in the morning. It's Adams. Take a telegram to Harry King Oh that pose mr. Belvedere. Oh, you're not getting bored. Are you Edna bored? I'm having a wonderful time, but I do have to run along You may not have known it mr. Belvedere, but Tacey used to be quite a sculptor. Hmm. It's possible And I think it's very sweet of you to pose like this and give her a chance to practice my mohiz. Mrs. Philby are not entirely unselfish Someday they will need a bus to me in the Hall of Fame The only virtue you lack mr. Belvedere is modesty. I do not consider that a virtue. Oh, I do Harry is very modest. Your husband has a great deal to be modest about I Don't let him get down sweetie. See at the house tonight. I'm as usual right after dinner. Goodbye. Mr. Belvedere. Thank you for going Now perhaps we can get something accomplished I doubt it. It's your jaw mr. Belvedere your jaw it Just isn't right. My jaw is perfect Come here and I'll demonstrate Now if you if you place your fingertips at the base of my jaw like this a little higher That's it. There you are now feel how the orbicularis orus operates now over here at the jaw bone Well, can't you feel it? Oh, yes. Yes. Well Well, this is a cozy little scene Harry. Why darling what a wonderful surprise. I didn't expect you till Thursday pretty obvious You didn't would you mind telling me just what you two were doing? I was permitting your wife to massage my larynx and I might have mr. King that your greeting to Mrs. King is scarcely cordial. I'll greet my wife any way I like Harry I came back from Chicago because mr.   I'll raise the roof if I want to Tacey look, I I'm willing to believe that all these rumors about a drunken orgy with Belvedere are Somewhat garbled so that's it the fine hand of Clarence Apple but my gosh, Tacey just now when I came into the house You were practically holding Belvedere in your arms. She was merely feeling my bone structure.  He's right And as for that drunken orgy Tony got us all up in the middle of the night with a stomach ache I dashed over from Edna's and I wasn't in the house ten minutes when that horrible little mr. Appleton came snooping around. Oh Well, I imagine it was something like that Look, I'll admit it's all pretty silly, but well, but what well I was just thinking that perhaps it might be simpler all around it if mr. Belvedere sought employment elsewhere I see to satisfy malicious gossips like your dear boss and Clarence Appleton You want us to to kick mr. Belvedere out in a word. Yes, that is your final decision, mr. King Yes, I'm sorry, but that's fine Oh hi kids That's enough of that your father's not the type to be swayed by sentimental pleading little boy Don't ever again as long as you live dare to call me uncle. I know stretch of the imagination Could I possibly be a relative of yours? My name is mr. Belvedere. Is that clear? Yes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's better What the heck's the matter with Roddy children are psychic mr. King they can sense impending disaster Okay, okay. I know when I'm licked you can stay Roddy stop crying for me mr. Hammond. Yes, Harry. I did sit down Harry sit down How long is it since you returned from Chicago? Oh About a month mr. Hammond a month Harry the firm of Horatio J. Hammond and associates has a spotless name in this community Absolutely spotless. Yes, I'm sure it has and as I told you about a month ago I consider it mandatory for all connected with this firm and their wives Never to incur the slightest gossip of a scandalous nature.  Now look here mr. Hammond.  Belvedere were seen together at the crystal cafe They were dancing the Roomba.  No, I wasn't I was tired and I went to bed early I don't doubt that Tacey might have attended the lecture, but I know that after the lecture She was dancing the Roomba with mr. Belvedere at the crystal cafe. I saw them there myself So did my wife mrs. Hammond so did Clarence Appleton and his mother now for the details It hurts me Harry. It hurts me deeply I'm glad he's here what I've got to say is for both of you Tacey why didn't you tell me you were out dancing with this man last night now? What have you heard answer my question? Why didn't you tell me well? I tried to tell you when I got home But you were so sleepy and disagreeable you wouldn't listen then then then why didn't you tell me this morning at breakfast? I can be sleepy and disagreeable to mr. King our meeting last night was purely coincidental But most enjoyable then you admit it certainly more over he Roomba's like a saint. I don't care if he dances like Arthur Murray You may be interested to know mr. King. I taught Arthur Murray Why mr.  King Well, it's not going on with you in this house Harry I think you'd better pull yourself together after the lecture last night Edna and I went to the crystal cafe for a cup of coffee It just happened that mr.  King I have neither the means nor the presumption to buy cocktails for other men's wives So suppose you apologize to both of us now for this I should apologize because of your indiscretions very well Harry until you come to your senses and stop letting mr. Hammond run our lives.  It's perfectly all right with me Oh, Harry, it would be difficult to tell which of you is behaving more foolishly, but I think you have a slight edge mr. King You keep out of this Well, I thought you were going home to mother very well if that's the way you feel about Satisfied mr.  King Your wife is right. You owe her an abject apology. I've half a mind to punch you right on the nose It takes half a mind to resort to such measure. Well, you Mr. King I need like to tell you that in my youth. I was quite expert in the art of fisticuffs Yes, mr. King. Yes, I think perhaps it's time I left Now for station identification This is CBS the Columbia broadcasting system of sitting pretty I'd like to have you meet our special guest Helen Weston an ambitious young player who spends her free time as well as her Working hours on the 20th century Fox law How about that Helen? I just can't keep away, mr. Keely I get a real thrill out of watching the stars work Then if you saw a letter to three wives being filmed you had a chance to watch three stars at once Yes, I did Linda Darnell is wonderful the perfect glamour girl And I think Anne Southern is absolutely right for a smart successful career wife Jean Crane has the most sympathetic role perhaps as a young wife who doesn't know how to Live up to the country club crowd. It was exciting watching those big country club bad scenes in a letter to three wives But they worked on them so long. I felt sorry for Jean She said her nylon stood up better than she did under the strain of so much dancing I'm sure Lux Flakes had something to do with that Helen. You're right, mr. Kennedy the wardrobe girl told me it's a rule of the studio always to use Lux Flakes for stockings Just as they do for everything washable these tiny diamonds of Lux are a real economy Scores of strain tests on all kinds of stockings prove it Washing stockings with strong soap or rubbing with cake soap make runs come quickly But with Lux Flakes even sheer nylons last twice as long I do believe that's true. Mr. Kennedy. I'm devoted to Lux Flakes myself Well, then you've probably noticed how much faster these tiny diamonds of Lux dissolve They bubble up into suds the instant water touches them make richer suds to that last and last There's such perfect care for stockings. It's no wonder 90% of the makers of stockings Recommend these tiny diamonds of Lux Thank you for coming tonight Helen Westcott. Thank you back now to our producer William Keely The curtain rises on the third act of sitting pretty the photo play magazine gold medal award winner Starting Clifton Webb as Lynn Belvedere Robert Young is Harry and Marina Hara as Tacey For 10 days now hummingbird hill has had plenty to talk about Tacey has taken the baby and rushed off to her mother Mr. Belvedere has mysteriously disappeared and Harry is struggling Unhappily to keep together what remains of his home But now something akin to an atom bomb has suddenly struck the community a new novel has appeared in all the bookstores And the critics are raving about it Unknown author writes brilliant satire of life in the suburbs Sensational new novel hailed as best in years first and second printing sold out entire country clamoring for copies And what has this book to do with hummingbird hill plenty? It's all about hummingbird hill and the people who live there and the author of course is none other than Lynn Belvedere For certain readers the novel holds a particular and dismaying interest people like Clarence Appleton mother Mother have you read the second chapter? It's all about me and about you too. Do you see what he calls us?  It's Clarence.  It's slander that's what it is get Harry king in here right away Bring me every book we have a library of laws. I'll sue to the highest court in the country the whole town would sue He's made fools of every one of us As the background for the wonderfully witty book and hummingbird hill is speedy. I'll accept a few residents such as Edna Filvey and her husband Will Some movie companies gonna make a newsreel right at your house newsreel, uh-huh They're bringing Belvedere back to get some intimate shots of the master at the scene of his triumph Put Harry on the phone. I'm sorry, Tacey, but we don't know where Harry is Probably nothing he's probably just out somewhere looking for a nice soft shoulder to cry on Bill says that he there must have worked Bill Ten to one Tacey takes the first plane home give the type of reaction. I anticipated Well, I I guess we're ready to shoot mr. Belvedere now I'll be behind the camera, and I'm gonna ask you a few questions So just be perfectly relaxed and I'll man. I need no instructions. I have directed many pictures How did you write this book? I wrote it with a quill. I am Mrs. King. I most certainly am and if you try to stop me I'll sue the police Everybody else in town has got a lawsuit Let her throw out. I left him with Auntie Edna. Oh, it's so good to see you He's inside Mark the country. Have you unanimously hailed your novel is a masterpiece of sheer genius that is correct Well, what do you feel about it? I feel they were quite conservative over there. We're trying cut cut that must be Mrs. King It certainly is oh, Tacey Gosh, I'm glad to see you. I had to come back darling. I came the minute. I heard you were in trouble. Don't worry It'll all work out. All right. I Been such a dope tasting you have indeed But there's no need to be emotional Mrs. King. He won't starve Mr. Belvedere, I don't quite know whether to congratulate you or to to strike me with a baseball bat Well, yes, it's a move point mr. Belvedere, please. We haven't finished shooting.  Is that you? Well, come on in Roddy wants his mama Tacey. I'm sorry, but I thought I'd better bring him over come on upstairs in Let's get out of this shamble. Yeah, go ahead dear.  Will you okay boys? Just one of the penalties of fame mr. King. Well, I'm not famous. You will be my book has made you immortal I'm Horish you Jay Hammond and I'll go anywhere. I please where is this Belvedere question? Oh? Oh, there you are. Don't you take your hat off when you crash somebody's house?  Belvedere It gives me the greatest possible pressure to serve you personally with his summons summons. Well, well how interesting I am suing you for one million dollars for libel splendid. That's a good round Salton I'm gonna sue you to and me and I mr. Taylor My mother and I are going to sue for another million dollars in addition We shall see that you are run out of town excellent mr. Appleton such notoriety will cause the sale of my book to soar even higher if that is possible Mr. King mr. Philby would you two young men be interested in acting as my attorneys in these threatened suits? Are you serious mr. King? I never just about a million dollars Money is the root of all evil and I have the greatest possible respect for it Okay, mr. Belvedere will be very happy to defend you I'll say we will the law firm of philby and king will be open tomorrow morning And they'll have their work cut out for them because we intend to sue not only you but everybody who supplied you with this libelous information Excellent idea mr. Hammond. You should always go to the source. I intend to Has it occurred to any of you gentlemen who that source might be? Who is the person who knows all about everyone in hummingbird hill? Who is the one that for years has made a repulsive habit of snooping and gossiping about his neighbors? Who is it among us for example who knows all our little peccadillos with girls in flourish shop The girl was merely delivering flowers to that motel and they were not orange blossoms mr. Taylor Were they and you mr. McPherson why you carrot assured me in this book is a drinking man It is not I who counts the empty bottles in your clash can mr. McPherson just one little moment Are you insinuating that I let the chips fall where they may mr. Appleton, but I am not what Hammond Who is it that takes a habit of reading his neighbor's mail that you may oh, this is outrageous Are you suggesting that I have been your your collaborator? Don't be so presumptuous Let me put it in terms that even you will understand you mr. Appleton have spread the pollen I have reaped the harvest, but but but this is fantastic I have been more grossly maligned in this book than than anyone it is only poetic justice that a stool pigeon should be roasted So so you would have one apple no no Take a look at this they've got Clarence Appleton's picture in the paper Boy, what a shiner I Bet it nearly killed him when mr. Hammond went over and trampled down his iris bed Well, how would you like to go celebrating tonight? Love to would you care to take me dancing dancing? Remember, I don't dance as well as mr. Belvedere. No dear, but you're much prettier. Oh Wait a minute. We can't go anywhere. Who's sit with the kids? I will Mr. Belvedere the mere fact that I have been catapulted into fame does not blind me to the obligation I undertook here mr. Belvedere. You're an amazing man Just what are your plans for the future my dear mrs. King This book of mine is only the first volume of a trilogy. I estimate the other two volumes will take me at least two years more And you you're going to write them here Posteriority will demand that the entire masterpiece be written under the same roof Your house will become a shrine mr. King. I'm surprised that you even want to stay it can't be very convenient You claim you don't even like children and that is correct now if you'd excuse me Oh, uh, mr. Belvedere. Yes, I think it's only fair to tell you that before long we're Well We're expecting another child, and you will find me of great service mrs. King. 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Four years ago, I made a video called Why Do Design Thinking Projects Fail? You can check it out there if you're interested. I made it in a hotel room in Tokyo right after I'd run a workshop for a client. And before the workshop, the client contacted me and told me, just make sure this is not a design thinking workshop because we hate design thinking. And I've heard this from clients over the last 10 years, non-stop. Almost every client I go to or every client we work with, they always tell us, hey, you guys can do this workshop-y stuff if you want, but we don't want to see any design thinking stuff because we already did it and it didn't work. Now, when I hear that, I don't think, yeah, you're right, design thinking doesn't work. I think one of two things has happened. One, they worked with another consulting firm who told them that design thinking was going to solve everything for them. Or two, they themselves believed that design thinking was going to solve all their innovation problems. And if they just go to some sort of design thinking course, then all their employees will be able to make amazing products and do all the innovative stuff and be super creative. Those two things are just completely false expectations. Design thinking in itself is not going to solve a company's innovation problems. Design thinking is basically a process, a mindset, some tools that are going to help you validate and test products. But that in itself isn't going to actually solve the core deeper issue at a company that isn't being innovative. And this is really the core issue with how design thinking is sold. Essentially, design thinking is sold as this all-in-one, really nicely packaged innovation process. And of course, I'm someone who runs a company that sells workshops and sells innovation processes. And it's great for us to be able to package this thing up and say, if you do this training, you will be more innovative. But the truth is the absolute dark truth of all of this, and that's maybe not that dark. The dark truth behind all of this is that just teaching a team how to do design thinking is kind of like teaching somebody how to cook one dish, but not teach them how to cook. That's basically the way I think about it. I'm always talking about recipes here at AJ & Smart. I'm always using that as a metaphor for learning workshops. But design thinking is essentially just teaching you one part of the innovation process and one very specific thing that is useful to know when it comes to being creative, when it comes to being innovative, but not knowing the underlying principles of all of that kind of make it difficult to internalize. And also just means that a lot of people are going to know a lot of surface level stuff after taking a design thinking workshop or after taking a design thinking course. That's not necessarily going to translate into the realistic day today at working at a corporate or working at a company. If you're working at a company and you're watching this video and you've been through a design thinking course or you've been through a design thinking training, even if it was six months long or one year long and you're like, wow, that was cool. That was fun. We had some post-its. We made a wallet. We did all the cool design thinking stuff, but it didn't change anything about our company. Then you're not alone because that's basically what happens with every company. When I go into a company pretty much every time because they see the post-its, they're like, ah, great. We're doing design thinking stuff again, but we already did design thinking. And I have to explain to them that design thinking is one very small part of this bigger picture of workshopping, this bigger picture of problem-solving and facilitation and decision-making and design thinking is just sort of one brand name that's behind all of this. There's also design sprints. There's also agile. It all comes under this one umbrella of facilitation and workshopping, but most companies know and specifically focus in on design thinking. But does design thinking work at all? Does it have any value? Absolutely, yes. It's a really great recipe. It's a really great tool set. It's a really great mindset for coming up with new ideas, for testing new ideas, for iterating on ideas, for prototyping. And it's essentially the baseline and foundation for a lot of really, really useful workshops and useful systems like the design sprint or even things like the business model canvas have design thinking elements in them. So I do think it deserves a lot of respect for being the first system for being creative. It's literally like a systemized creativity process or whatever, but it's not going to solve a company's innovation problems. And therein lies the problem with design thinking is that companies think this is the silver bullet that's going to solve everything, but it never really is. So let me tell you what I've seen working at companies instead of just ranting about design thinking. And design thinking is part of what works at companies. It's just one part of it. So here are the three things I've seen that work really well for companies trying to become more innovative, trying to make their staff more innovative and try to empower their employees to be more creative and test out products. Here are the three things that I've seen work really well. Number one, training a dedicated team of process facilitators, basically taking three to five to 15 people at the company and really focusing on giving them all of the tools and all of the skills they'll need to facilitate creative problem solving workshops and decision making workshops at the company that they are at. So tailored workshops, tailored tools, tailored mindsets to the company that they're working at. Not just a generic, here's this system, here's this system, just run with it and somehow squeeze that into your company. They need to be trained on tailored workshops and tailored knowledge to the company they're working at. So the first thing I've seen work is really creating a facilitation team that can be booked by other teams in the company when they want to get something done. And these facilitators are constantly training themselves on every possible type of collaboration tool. Design thinking, design sprints, agile scrum, everything that they can find. This team is just constantly being educated on collaboration. Often they're called collaboration coaches or facilitators or in many companies they still call them design thinking coaches or maybe they're agile coaches. It doesn't really matter as long as this team is specializing in just learning as many processes as they can and then tailoring these processes to the company they're working at. So it's a facilitation team or a collaboration team at a company that can be booked out by other teams. And I've seen this work really, really well at companies. Number two is that a company shouldn't try to do a top-down innovation approach, especially a large corporate. It's very, very, very difficult. What we've seen work well is starting with a small team. So like really taking one example team or two example teams, getting them really, really good at working in these new processes and then just having them prove that these processes work better and have that virally spread throughout the organization for a while. What we often see at companies is they'll, you know, the leadership team will do a design thinking course. They'll bring in a big consultancy. They'll create all these design thinking guidelines and these innovation guidelines and then the rest of the company receives them and just goes, oh cool and then closes it and never looks at it again, these design guidelines. But what we've seen in successful companies who are going from let's say being more traditional to becoming more innovative is they'll train a small team or multiple small teams at the same time and have these teams prove that this really works. In the innovators dilemma, the book that probably if you're watching this video, you've seen it, they talk about creating a separate team, separate from the environment that can really be as fast as it wants and doesn't necessarily have to work with the rules of the corporate. And you don't even need to do that in this situation. You can take a team that already works in the company that has to stick to the rules of the company and just start layering on some of these collaboration tools to what they already do and just really try to improve one team's process or two team's processes and have them show how successful that can be and let that slowly spread throughout the organization. And the third thing really fits with that, expect that this will take time. A company booking another company to do a six month design thinking course or whatever and then expecting to be innovative within six months, especially if they're like a 70,000 person telecommunications organization, it's just completely unrealistic. This sort of thing takes a long time. And that's why often we recommend to clients that if they're going to do this, if they want to actually change their processes and make their systems more efficient and more innovative, that they really focus on just nailing it with one important team. Maybe a team that's working on an important product or an important future looking product rather than trying to do this over the entire company because if they, like I said in point two, if they can prove it with one team, then they can prove that out for the rest of the team. That team sort of acts as like a case study. So the third thing is really for companies to expect that changing anything in a company takes an extremely long time and bringing in these types of processes is something that is a multi-year transition versus a multi-week or multi-month transition. And it's a really boots on the ground situation. It's the individual employees who are going to be learning this stuff. Like I said in point one, building maybe this facilitation or collaboration team and having them virally spread that throughout the company rather than trying to do this full top-down approach. I think I'm getting sweaty. So yeah, really for me, when a company says to me, hey, design thinking doesn't work or design thinking sucks, I hope you guys aren't doing that. What I say back to them is, well, what did you do? And they're like, oh yeah, we did it, you know, one week boot camp on design thinking and our company is still not innovative. And I just say, well, your expectation is just completely wrong when it comes to how this sort of thing can be integrated into a company. Design thinking is not this silver bullet. You can't just stamp design thinking or apply design thinking to a company and now it's suddenly innovative. That's just not how it should be perceived. And if it is perceived like that, it will fail. And then people at the company will hear design thinking and they'll hate it. Design thinking isn't broken. Design thinking doesn't suck.  So I better say that because someone will find it otherwise. But the truth is design thinking doesn't suck. It's a system that works and has its merits. It's just that companies, companies have way too high expectations of it and people selling it want to sell it. Of course, you know, I'll sell a couple of design thinking workshops to you if you're watching this video. But you know what?  It's mainly going to be like a team building thing for your team to have a laugh, have a good time. But if you expect it to change your entire business overnight, that's just not going to happen. So I hope this video was somewhat useful. And actually, if you've watched this far and you're interested in this idea of becoming one of those facilitators or collaboration coaches that can pretty much run any type of workshop for any type of team at any type of company, I've made a one hour free training. There's going to be a link down below. It will say like free training that's going to teach you how to actually pretty much run anything, whether it's design thinking, design sprints. It doesn't really matter. So that could be interesting to you. And the final thing I'll say is let me know in the comments if you have any questions about design thinking workshops. I've been running them for 10 years. If you have any questions about how to bring that sort of innovative practice into a corporate the right way, just ask me anything in the comments. We always reply. Thank you so much for your time. And have a lovely day. Bye.


Meanwhile, Senate President Lawan has commended the judiciary for strengthening democracy stating that the ruling in his favor showed that democracy was at work. The APC had delivered victory to Lawan after dragging his opponent, Machina, to the apex court while insisting that Lawan, who did not contest that the primary poll, was its authentic candidate. Lawan appreciated his political party for fighting tooth and nail for his victory while re-echoing his support for the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates, Bolatynubu and Kashim Shatima. We start by thanking Almighty Allah for his blessings and of course what has happened today in the Supreme Court, the judgment on Europe in North, particularly the victory for all APC in Europe and generally APC across the country. What happened was democracy at work and the courts gave their various judgments and of course the Supreme Court gave the final judgment. I want at this point to commend the Supreme Court and in fact the judiciary generally for making this kind of judgment to strengthen our democracy because it's not only for politicians to work and strengthen democracy, it is for all of us and all the institutions have supposed to play it. So I commend the Supreme Court and the judiciary in general. Let me take this opportunity to thank the On Progressive Congress, the APC or party for taking this matter to court, to the Supreme Court. Actually, I didn't as a person, as an individual, go to the Supreme Court to seek for a address that my party did and my people, the peoples of Europe and North and Europe and state generally and many political associates and well wishers and supporters across the country and beyond who showed interest that there has to be an appeal at the Supreme Court on this matter. So today this victory is for all of us in the world. I am the symbol.


The Independent National Electoral Commission has revealed that fresh registration in the ongoing nationwide continuous water registration has hit over 10 million. The commission in its quarter four week twelve updates released in Abuja also disclosed that over 9 million registrants completed their registrations out of which about 3.5 million registered through online and above 6 million registrants did physical registration. The commission also disclosed that it had so far received above 25 million applications including those for voter transfer, requests for a replacement of permanent voter cards, updates of voter information record among others.


Hello, everyone. My name is Serena. My pronouns are she, her. I am based in Toronto, Canada, and I'm currently on a three-month sabbatical at the Reaker Center. If you haven't heard of the Reaker Center, it's a magical place where you basically can do a writer's retreat for programmers, and I encourage you to ask me about it if you're interested. Previously, I was a data scientist and a consultant at the Bardis Group. As part of that, I worked on a project in collaboration with the Government of Ontario, where our goal was to explore ways in which natural language processing could be used to extract information from laws that can be usable to the public. So today I'm here to talk to you about improving law interpretability using natural language processing. But what does interpretability mean? Let's take a step back and think about the context. By law, the definition of law is the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members. So it's basically a system of rules that tell you how you may or may not behave in a society, and it's pretty important that you know about it because ignorance is no excuse for breaking it, and so really important to understand them. In terms of interpretability in this context, there's two aspects I want to draw the attention to. On one side of the content, so we want to be able to extract rules and obligation from the text, and then we want to be able to identify the entities that are responsible for compliance and are affected by the legislation. In terms of technical implementation, that means find a representation of the rules that makes them more accessible and understandable, and if you do that, you may be able to see things like patterns across industries, maybe see the difference between private and public sector, whether there's a difference in responsibilities, or even highlight ambiguities. There are several challenges in the space. The first one is there's no level set available to us, so no one sat down in Ontario and annotated the text of all the laws saying this is interesting, this is not. So the first problem is we can't run any supervised analysis. The second language, parsing and tokenization, is kind of hard on laws. They're all formatted with bullet points, bullet points are referred to other bullet points and lots of references to other laws, and that can break the parsing and tokenization algorithms very easily. Next, laws tend to have limited lexicon, so the vocabulary is relatively limited, but they're very specialized in context specific, so the same word can be used in different places in the same text, but with different context and so have different meanings. Sentences can also be very complex, so they can be really long and convoluted and sometimes it's hard to tell who's responsible for what, what is the rule, what is actually, you can get lost in the sentences basically. And then finally, they're very domain specific, so think about a domain in terms of an industry or a topic or a geography. So if we had a data set from Europe, for example, and we trained a model on it, we wouldn't be able to generalize as well to Canada. So in light of this challenges, we instead of building a single model, we decided to build a framework of analysis, and we put together a mix of pre-trained natural language processing models and supervised machine learning. And this was with the goal of extracting information, and that information boils down to the rules that are defined in the tax, the entities that are responsible for compliance, but also things like the difference between public and private responsibilities and trying to organize the rules into homogeneous groups, and we'll see in a few minutes what I mean by homogeneous. Before moving forward, I want to do a quick grammar refresher just because I'm going to use these words a lot in the next few slides, and I want everyone to be on the same page. So in grammar, the subject is the word of phrase that indicates who or what performs the action of the verb. So in the context of law, this is going to point us to the entities who are responsible for complying with the rules. And I have an example of a sentence here where every employer is the subject grammatically, and it's also the entity that is responsible for providing something. And next, we have the object of the sentence. So that's the entity that is acted upon by the subject. And so in this context, it's a rule specification. So we have that every employer was the subject. The object of this sentence is workplace emergency response information. That's what the employer should provide. Okay, so getting into more of the analysis, we built a proof of concept based on the accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. This is a statute and a regulation passed in 2015. It defines rules and requirements for accessibility in Ontario, and it also sets out processes for eliminating barriers. So in this context, the rules that we're interested in are called burdens. So a burden is a requirement or obligation that organizations have to comply with. And that can be related to physical and architectural barriers like steps, stairs, sidewalks, but also things that are less tangible like documentation and training. The analysis articulates into three steps, and we don't have time to cover all the details of the implementation because I would like to live some time for questions. But I'll try to give an overview of the challenges and the solutions at each of these steps. Step one, burdens extraction. So finding the sentences in the text that define rules. In this case, having a limited vocabulary actually works in our favor. So we can come up with a short list, with a set of verbs that are very likely to point us at the definition of a burden. So for each sentence, if any of these verbs appear in the text, then we'll label that sentence as a burden. It is a pretty coarse classification rule, but we don't have it label set. And even, you know, being a pretty high level business rule, we get .89 accuracy. So the proportion of sentences correctly classified is 89%. And we get .97 recall, where the which is a proportion of burdens correctly classified as burdens. The next step is to identifying the subject. So we want to know who's responsible for complying with these rules. The problem here is the sentences can be really long, can be complicated, and sometimes they can be sentences, the subject can be a sentence on its own. So we use a dependency parser to represent the syntactic relationships between words as a tree structure. And then we navigate the subtree of the subject to identify all the words that define it. And I have an example here to make it more clear. The subject, the main verb of the sentence here is keep. And that's the head of our tree. We also have that the subject, the dependency parser identifies organizations as the subject of the sentence. And then all of the words that define organizations are actually, have actually a parent-child relationship with organization. And so that's why navigating the tree, this subtree will let, well, just let us find all of the definition, the full definition of the subject here. The final step is a clustering analysis of the subjects. So the objective here is to organize the burdens into homogeneous groups based on the entities that they affect. At this point, we're not entirely sure still of what we want to be, what to expect from the results of the analysis. That's why we use clustering. But we want to see, we're looking for any kind of pattern or regularity. And we would like to see a difference between public and private responsibilities if they exist, and maybe similarities across industries. Before we can do the clustering analysis, we need to represent subjects of the burdens into a vector space. So we need to have some numbers instead of strengths. And so before we even do that, we need to do some sentence normalization. This is one of the steps that we do here, for example, is to delete the stop words. These are words that appear very frequently in the text, like the, but they don't really add a lot of information. So we're just going to ignore them. The next step is we need to actually project the sentences into a vector representation. And so we do that by using a semantic space. In a semantic space, words that have similar meaning are going to be projected with vectors that are close to each other in that space. And so you can do operations on the vectors. And one popular example is if you take the vector for king and subtract the vector for men and then add the vector for woman, you get the vector for queen. So you can do this kind of operations. The third step is dimensionality reduction. The vectors in the semantic space are still pretty large. And so we just do some fancy math to represent them into a two-dimensional space. And then finally, we can do clustering. For clustering, I use k-means. The goal of k-means is to partition and data points into k-clusters. And it does so by assigning each data point to the cluster with the nearest mean. One of the reasons to choose k-means is that it's very easy to interpret the results and they're very intuitive. So the average of the clusters can serve as a prototype for the group. So that means that you can just look at this one average centroid and kind of get a feel for what the group represents if you've done a good job. The plot here shows the representation of the burden subjects into the two-dimensional space. So that's what each point is. And you can see that the projection has this nice three shapes coming out of the center of the plot. So it looks like we've done a good job in terms of creating the groups. For evaluation, we're going to use TF IDF. TF stands for term frequency. That's the number of time a word or a term appears in a document, which in our case is a sentence. And the inverse document, IDF stands for inverse document frequency. This is proportional to the number of documents, which again in this case are sentences, where the word appears. So what TF IDF does basically is it gives you a measure of the term frequency, but also it weights it down if the word appears in many documents. And so that's important because a word that appears in many documents will have less power in explaining the difference between them. So what's important here, we consider the TF IDF score for the top boards in each group. And what's important here is that they're pretty well separated. There's no overlapping. So that's what we want. Going to look into more details in the group. The first group, you can see that the top three words here for TF IDF are transportation, service, and provider. And every other word has a much lower score. So we can say that this is a group that focuses on transportation standards. We don't see difference between public and private responsibilities, but that kind of makes sense. And that's about 21% of the burdens in this group. The second group has words like surface, trail, access, parking. These are all words that refer to physical barriers in public spaces. And so that's what we're going to call this group. Again, there's no difference between public and private here. There's really no reason for that to happen. So that's fine. And then we have about 25% of the burdens that are classified in this group. And then finally, we have this group where organization has by far the highest score. And then everything else can be a little bit confusing. So if we look, we have public over here. We have municipality and minister. So that points us as burdens that are probably government responsibility. But then we have words like organization, person, employer, and others that are kind of ambiguous. We can't really say whether it's public or private responsibility. And there are more in-depth analysis of the burdens in this group. It turns out that they're mostly about administration, compliance, and standards. And then about half of the burdens that we extracted from the text. So that is ambiguity. To recap everything, we were, in terms of content, we wanted to find rules and obligations. And we were able to automate the extraction of burdens. In terms of content, we wanted to know what the entities affected were. And we were able to do that by extracting the subjects of the sentences. And then we wanted to find some homogeneous group, which we did successfully by organizing them into three groups with k-means. The next thing we wanted to look at was patterns across industries. And we didn't really find that, but we did find that the legislation has a strong focus on physical barriers and transportation. And then a large proportion that is dedicated to administration and standard definition. So we got this like three main topics. We weren't really able to find the difference between private and public. And that was partly because it wasn't really important, but also not super clear in the last group. And so we were able to highlight some ambiguities with respect to the last group. So this project was a proof of concept. And so it was limited in scope. And there's definitely more that can be done in terms of refining the kind of information that is instructed. But it is a framework that can be generalized and easily applied to any legislation and any domain. So I say it as the first step towards an abstract representation of laws and that can serve the purpose of improving line interpretability in at least a couple of ways. On one end, it helps extracting information and summarizing it so that the rules and requirements can be made more accessible to anyone that needs to follow them, whether they're an organization with a legal department or a regular person. And then on the other end, it can help lawmakers by highlighting parts of the legislation that is ambiguous and could be rewritten or adapted to be more clear and more accessible. So this could be an instrument for both helping the understanding of the existing legislation, but also improving the way we write laws so that going forward, our legislators can write laws that are more interpretable and more approachable for everyone. If you're interested in seeing the code and sort of like the technical details of the implementation, there's a repository on GitHub at Vardis. The slides are on my personal GitHub and you can find me in the Slack at csv5-qna or full free to DM me on Twitter. Great. Thank you very much. Yeah. So we did get a couple questions. I don't know if you want to jump straight into the questions or I can help as well. Oh, I can see them. Okay. Okay. So the first one, both Canada and the US have common law systems. Would you need to approach a European style or even Quebec civil law system with a more closed known historical system differently? Let me just digest the question. I'm not entirely sure that I understand what you mean by that. In terms of technical implementation, I think this question is more focused on the access to information with common law versus civil law, some sort of systems that deal with more closed nonhistoric systems, historical based systems. I don't think they need to be approached differently to be honest. If I understand correctly the question in terms of technical implementation, I think this would be a way to like it would be possible to sort of like apply the same framework. You can tweak it very easily. It's not that that's why I was saying the it doesn't use a because it doesn't use a supervised methodology. There's a lot more freedom in how you play around with parameters and the steps of the process in general. The next one, but sorry, Kyla, feel free to like hang me if I haven't answered your question. If I haven't actually answered your question, because I'm not entirely sure that I've hit the point. The next one did fancy math. Okay. The fancy math is spectral embeddings.  Yeah. It's hard to fit everything into a short 15 minute. Yeah, I hope that that was clear. There's definitely a lot of tactical stuff that I couldn't pack into the 20 minutes. Yeah. And there's a lot of conversation going on in the thread here around different types of tools and different people pointing to different workflows and processes. But I think this is a great thing for us to continue in Slack. And we can have the thread here available to you. And also anybody who's got questions, just jump over to the Slack channel. So I think yeah, I'll, yeah, if you can give me access to this threat, I will respond to everyone. Sounds great. Awesome. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Right off the bat, TenGuy Machio's Zero, or Far East of Eden Zero, a JRPG made by Red Company, hits you over the head with this frickin awesome intro – with incredible looking art design, some great inspiring music, and some truly fantastic sprite work – with a ridiculous amount of detail. How is it that this game is able to put forth visuals that almost look like they could be an early Saturn or Playstation title? because this is one of only three Super Famicom games to utilize the SPC-7110 expansion chip, a data decompression chip that allows developers to put a lot more stuff onto a cartridge than they normally could, and this spectacular-looking game is the result. However, unfortunately, that chip also explains why this game was never localized in the West, because, number one, that extra chip made this game just a tad more expensive than other games, and number two, extra space means extra text, and holy crap, this game has a ton of text in it, which means that any sort of English translation would have taken a very long time, and seeing that this game was released in December of 1995, you can understand why publisher Hudson was already looking to fifth-generation consoles at that point. It wasn't until 2017 that we got an English patch for this game thanks to folks like Buu, Tom, and DDS translation, and apparently this patch was 15 years in the making, and I can believe it because, like I said, good god this game has so much text in it, it makes the Golden Sun series blush. The story here starts out in the land of Japan, which is divided up into six kingdoms.  Ew, shoulder siblings, am I right? Meanwhile, your character, Higan of the Fire Clan, is told by his grandfather that he is to become the fire hero and save the world from the tyranny of the demon world and all that good stuff. I should mention quickly that this is actually the fourth game in a series that started in 1989 on the PC Engine CD-ROM, but you don't need to play those games to get the story here. In fact, the story itself isn't really the hook of this game. I mean, in terms of narrative, there's really nothing that's all that staggeringly original, but the sheer depth of dialogue, characters, and NPCs here is pretty dang impressive. This game really does have a golden sun vibe, and that seemingly everyone in this game has a million things to say, which is both good and bad. It's good because it definitely makes the game immersive, and it does a great job establishing a lived-in world, but it's also kind of annoying because as that old saying goes, there are certain people where if you ask them what time it is and they tell you how to build a clock tower, well, every one of those people are in this game somehow. Still, TenGuyMacchio Zero does have some other interesting quirks that were definitely original for the time, and the game should get full credit for taking advantage of all the extra space the expansion ship provides. For instance, there's what the game refers to as a personalized live game system, or in other words, the time in your real everyday life matches the time in the game, so if it's 8 AM for you in reality, it's 8 AM in the game as well. Some stuff might not be available to you depending on what time it is or even what day of the week it is, like shops might not be open or special items might be out of stock, and what's really cool is that this game has festivals that happen on certain dates in certain locations, so it's almost like you have to create a schedule for yourself to make sure you don't miss anything. It's not a new idea for games in general, but this is one of the first games to implement this system, and it's pretty crazy to see in a Super Famicom game. But unfortunately, other than that, this is pretty much just your typical role-playing game. You've got random battles, equipable weapons and armor, experience points for leveling up, shops where you can buy stuff. Really, the only big difference between the combat here and, say, the Dragon Quest series is that you don't learn spells or techniques through leveling up, but instead by finding hermits that will teach you stuff. There's really nothing all that unique when it comes to the usual RPG combat formula here, which again can be a good thing and a bad thing. Yeah, it's kind of the same old same old, but hey, that's all some people want. Not everyone wants crazy mechanics you see in other Super Famicom games like Energy Breaker. Sometimes the typical turn-based combat is like comfort food, nothing wrong with that, but I do understand if you get a bit burnt out on this sort of thing because the encounter rate here is, sadly, pretty bad. It's not as bad as stuff like Breath of Fire, but it's still a lot to deal with. I almost get the feeling that the combat here is de-emphasized by design because the game's strengths here are found in other areas and they're pretty obvious. There's the aforementioned time and date system, and there's also the graphics and music which are both incredible. The soundtrack for this game is something like 4 hours long, but what's really crazy is the amount of detail in the art design. Believe it or not, there are no palette swapped enemies in the entire game. Every enemy is different, and that's definitely something no other 16-bit RPG can claim. And like I said, this game's world feels very established and filled out. There's quite a bit of exploring you can do, and there's all sorts of wacky stuff, like being able to raise your own pet. Yeah, you can't bring it with you and it doesn't really do anything, but it's something you can do, I guess. Still, I do wish the story and the characters were more interesting. Sure, the world itself is cool, but the story is paint-by-numbers, save-the-world type stuff, and there's hardly any character progression at all, despite there being thousands of words of text here. Add on to the fact that this is a very grind-heavy game and the fact that this is one of those games where you have to check everything. All the pots, dresser drawers, every spot and every house could have an item, and after a while it just gets kinda dull. The TenGuy MacQ series would continue onto other platforms, and this would be the series' only entry on Super Famicom, but yeah, TenGuy MacQ Zero may not have a whole lot of originality, and it may not be all that unique, especially in terms of story and combat, but it executes the basics well enough. It falls far short of matching titles like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VI, or even other Super Famicom games that weren't localized like Live Alive, because those games had distinct stories with real character arcs, whereas TenGuy MacQ Zero feels like the same old same old. Again, that can be good enough for some folks that are just looking to scratch that JRPG itch, and this will definitely get that job done considering the incredible graphics and music, but just keep your expectations in check, because bigger doesn't always mean better. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Hi everyone Welcome to another live video. I'd just like to let you know That I am now on tiktok So you can follow me on tiktok just search for Nox survivor YouTube and You will see me on there Anyway in this video We're going to be talking about How the narcissist will plunge you into darkness. It's like You could be having a great day Everything is going your way You're happy Everything's going fine That there's no problems You're not over thinking about anything No negative thoughts And then suddenly Here comes the narcissist Out of nowhere and they just bring you down They just plunge you into darkness and it's like a minute ago You were having such a great day Everything was going great You had no worries in your life and Suddenly they just appear out of nowhere and they just seem to notice All of these things that are wrong which You weren't aware of and if it's not something that's just imagined in their own minds It's just a little thing that's blown up out of proportion It's not something you are really concerned about But they just exaggerate it They just plunge you into darkness They make you feel bad about something that you weren't even concerned about Until they came around you and that's what they do they bring you into their misery Misery loves company and when a narcissist is miserable Which as we know is most of the time They do not want to be alone. They have to share that misery with someone and they usually Like to give it to whoever's nearest and dearest to them Especially if you're in a good mood if you're happy then It just makes them feel like they're the problem So then they have to bring you down. They have to plunge you into darkness when they do this You have to try to not get pulled into it don't go to them for validation Stop trusting their perceptions of the situation and Start trusting yourself start validating yourself because up until You were around them You were fine. You didn't have all of these Problems that they're now complaining about all of these things that they've blown up out of proportion You didn't have to worry about any of that But when a narcissist comes into your life, they just pick everything apart It's like suddenly nothing's right and the reason for that is because they feel miserable on the inside And they just can't cope When the outer world doesn't match there in a reality So they'll create drama and chaos They'll point out all of these things that are wrong No matter how irrelevant or insignificant they may be They can turn a molehill into a mountain because inside They're suffering They're full of pain and shame But of course They can't deal with that so they have to project it onto you.  It's white It wouldn't make any sense to you It would be completely irrelevant And that's how you have to see it when they bring this chaos into your life It's not relevant to you. You feel good You're happy with yourself They might be miserable, but that's on them. That's their reality It doesn't have to be a part of you Anyway, I hope this message has been helpful for you As I said earlier, I am now on tiktok You can follow me on there at Narc Survivor YouTube That's my account name and I'm also posting videos now on Instagram as well My username again is Narc Survivor YouTube So follow me on there as well Thank you all for joining this live video. I Appreciate you all and I will talk to you in another video very soon