Well, do we have a controller unplug or do we have an official surrender? Has the white flag been what I'm just gonna he might he might the pizza man might be there Boy, don't even try that on me. How's it going everybody? That's a joy here back with another round of dragon ball fighters ranked matches And of course we're still on that Jiren Videl Grind we also have Bardock backing us up Bardock and Videl very very dangerous combo because of some restand stuff You can get man. I'm not saying I'm gonna be doing any of that But man is that cool stuff to do No, we can try it. Oh wow. Look at the jab range Okay, okay. Okay. I respect it. I respect it. I respect it.  And I can't believe I got hit by that. All right. We out. We out. Yeah I could have done something a lot better, but you know, it's fine. Oh god Lot of blocking to do here folks. Let's not let's not get worried about it I Know you just didn't try that on me boy. Oh god Videl I I seriously do think a lot of people are gonna play Videl it like a good a good high level. Oh No, I messed that up. Oh wow. He got hit. Wow. He just took the hit spot touch.   I could have done something a little more damaging there. Oh Come on Jiren. Oh My god respect Videl come on that round was all but wait, I don't have the alternate costume on I just realized But still dude respect Videl. Did you see that DP into? Oh my goodness DP into level three. I knew he was gonna go behind by the way. I didn't mean to do that I I did mean to do the DP, but I was also just trying to spam out a level one I don't know where that third bar came from if I'm being completely honest with you But uh, it's it's cooler if I say I meant to do it So I definitely meant to do that. That was sick. Alright, we're just gonna go all the way to the corner Come on Jiren. Let's go. Mmm Crush him. Oh god Jared had his hands prepped he was like, I don't think so but uh, yeah, it definitely happened. Oh Make him fear the command grab, let's go. Oh Oh You didn't fear that command grab. So here's the punishment. In fact take the level three knockdown a little wasteful Maybe but cool. Definitely. All right. Here we go. What's the okay? Oh He actually banished that that was good. Ah Good stuff good stuff.  This is actually gonna be a little bit of a comeback here Not if I do that Definitely not if I do that No, oh, no, dude. All right, we have to there we go nice I Still got that great great saying man is so good for just making them like have to eat a little bit of pressure mmm We can take the sliding, but I would rather just go for this. Yeah, darn it hit players these days Y'all think they're so smart. Yeah, okay Tried to spot dodge on them didn't really work out too. Well. Mmm. Do we want the yeah, we do want the sliding here We'll take sliding here all day Baby Yeah, we'll just keep him out right Respect the pressure dude dropped it. Oh, no spot dodge on him.  He said you got it, bro Well, do we have a controller unplug or do we have an official surrender? Has the white flag been what I'm just gonna he might he might the pizza man might be there Boy, don't even try that on me. Come on. If you're gonna do that if you're gonna try that come on You know time skip man. The only person here that could skip time is Videl Go ahead great same and get get get down with your bad self. Nice Do we get the rematch though? That's That's the real question Are we gonna get it something tells me in my heart of hearts. We're not gonna get this Well, let's go ahead and just have a little podcast then. Well, what did we do right? Yeah? He just oh, okay. There we go. Nevermind. Well. Well, would you look at this? I don't have a z-union by the way So this man has to he has to be worried about this you like oh, is this the same guy and maybe an idiot? Okay, okay, okay, this has to be the same guy. Hey, what's popping chief? It's your boy me again Damn, I kind of feel bad.  It's not like it was dishonorable, but he did It's just funny, you know, it's just it's like, okay, I'll back out of this This isn't going anywhere. And then it's like hey, I'm back for the best of three Maybe you just like powered up dude. I should really learn how to do the like the jump cancel or at least like uh, oh Jiren you poor poor soul. Oh, no, that was supposed to be a counter I would have felt like a god amongst men. I Got to get better at that guard cancel. Yeah, y'all she gets eaten alive by that. Oh, no I shouldn't have jumped. I shouldn't have jumped. I just lowered my damage output by a million. I Should not have jumped And why do I do this? He doesn't have a lot of blue health, but Oh No, I messed up messed up Muscle hahaha So cheap dude, but that was so cheap But I love it though. Ain't no way you're gonna. Oh, that was a little cheap of yourself.  That's who I'm not using.  That didn't look good for his back at all Hey, I can't also I can't believe we got hit over it. I tried I tried mashing a level three I'm gonna be honest with you gonna be honest. I Should have guard cancelled. Why didn't I? Hmm. Yeah, I guess I didn't think of that I guess I really was not thinking about that. All right, well now the game's a little more evened up I'm pretty happy Bardock hasn't had to make an appearance at least out in front We're gonna down tech here I but oh no You know what I'm gonna go ahead and say that that was a lot luckier than I deserved Yeah, I don't feel good about this one Yeah No, I I've gotten lucky like three times already. He's gonna level three. Oh, no three overheads for the price of one Damn, I was looking for my spot to level three.   This might not be a Bardock video, but he'll sock you one. Um, can we end it here? Yes, probably yes, definitely Oh, oh get him go hunt. Oh Sorry, aren't you but this is where this fight ends.  All right, so we're back in it. It might have been 3. Oh, but you know It hasn't been too that long Why not why not just let it fly dude? No, Jiren. Why did you crouch so low to get that down heavy? Oh Bardock that was supposed to be an assist Whatever we can do some Bardock stuff.  Oh Three overheads again, man.  We're still cooking just a little bit of lag. Oh level three knockdown serving it up Gary's way All right, let's see wake up. What's the wake up? Oh Fake the overhead, but we got out. Oh, I could have gotten the optimal. I could have gone optimal, but I didn't oh But good enough am I right? All right, let's see. Who do I want out? It's Videl kick kick I'm glad that hits twice something about that is more satisfying to me. All right, so we have Videl out We have to assist looking pretty good. Let's back dash. Yeah, we saw that one coming. I Know bar. That was a poor choice.   I mean I'm to player. I know what it feels like All right, but I kind of want jeering out The blue health might not be that. Oh wait, that's it. Oh Come on. I dropped that Damn, dude All right, that was a pretty easy knockout. We didn't have to do anything too fancy. Keep it classic. Keep it classic All right, yonks is out. Oh, I got something about that visually crossed me up It looked like I was going back and he was going back as well We're living this I hope so that was all confidence What do you think what do you think he's gonna go behind is gonna drag rush hmm? I'm not switching out by the way Why isn't he switching out because I'm all skilled, baby I Don't need to switch out when you've got these Videl rapid-fire punches Damn, am I sick? All right, should we go for one more Boba bonus round? That was already that was the legendary bonus round right there, but should we go for the buh buh buh buh buh bonus round This is a bonus round.   It was so obvious. Oh, we don't have more. Oh, I Was mashing that bit. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I mean, how do I keep getting in these situations? I Didn't mean to go back to standing blocking This is crazy. Yo, I can't believe we're gonna lose the book as soon as I called it a bonus round. I lost That was see I'll give it up, but I didn't Okay, okay, I'll give it up. I'll give it up. I'm just getting beat out on this is not my round Damn, is this not my round. Oh, come on. He what the hell? No, that will come on I know you're the time skip guy, but Jesus. Oh Dodge it. I Think I dodged it. No, I'm just kidding. Damn. This is as soon as I called it a bonus round I just get beat out on every super dash. I Don't know why I did that but whatever And sliding Come on Videl. You got to work with me here Jumped into every beam. All right. We need to we're just gonna spark here Okay, take the sliding take the sliding. Okay, take the damage take the damage No way Our guard cancel out Oh, come on. Oh, come on. How did you even know I was gonna do that? That's improbable. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. Let me go. I need to work That's not anything dropped it Nice, okay, we can't we if we get hit one more time.  Oh, what? Oh, oh The lag give it the lag take it away Let's go, baby. Come on chief. Come on. What? No Why this got so laggy No, no, no, stay away. Stay away. Stay away. Stay away. Oh come on show My achy breaky heart, dude It's like that bro Now I can't leave I can't leave cuz he got his first win I'm doing one more at least cuz it's it's a little bit of a scumbag move to beat him like that many times and they're like Oh, one way and I'm out. I'm out No, I forgot I didn't have a standard heavy. Okay, we can't do that anymore. He's he's he's getting it Oh, and we got a stop super dashing now.  All right, watch we're gonna stand here and wait There we go, there we go If that's what we got to do then we're gonna do it Come on. I definitely hit that meaty. Please All right, we oh No, the medium one is actually a good answer to that Maybe if I would have done it sooner. I definitely didn't try to jump there.  I tried guard canceling.  Oh one reflecting a change Yeah, I tried to get I tried to get a little something going there. No. Oh, come on Darn it. I'm gonna break free of this block stun, baby.   We're not out of the woods yet No grab And take this with you Damn that's satisfying one big grab and we got a bar a key blast and we just got a keeper running Come on. Come on. That wasn't what he was expecting But it's still worth damn it. I hate that. I did that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. As long as we play safe Mmm-hmm We take it we got it. We got it. We got it. Okay a little closer than I would like but hey, we still got it, baby All right, great saying man. Go ahead strike that pose. This green color is actually pretty sick And I guess we're going to wrap it up for today We shot we got to see a lot of good Videl stuff Videl is looking a little wild knocking a lot of you I still got to work on actually hitting Jiren's optimal stuff when it matters I can do it in training mode easily, but in in real games in the clutch I definitely am not hitting it when I would like to be that said if you have a favorite moment for the video Make sure to let me know down below in the comments as well as whether or not you think Videl has any credibility to being played at a top level I certainly think she does but I would love to hear your guys's opinion on that as well While you're down there if you really like these videos and you want to support the channel Make sure to the like button and subscribe it helps keep you up to date on all the videos as well as letting me know to keep making this Kind of stuff if you really want some more Dragon Ball fighters and or fighting game content I do have some videos up on your screen that you can feel free to check out if you're looking for some more stuff But I'm Datsudoya. 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This is what lessons from the East wasn't Steve. What was the name of the show, Steve? We're facing facing the east facing the east. Okay. And we do this usually on Monday at this time and we talk to Steve as circle where ever Steve is. And usually he's in Kobe, Japan. And are you in Kobe, Japan today, Steve? Yes I am. But next weekend you're going to be here in Honolulu. I will be there, yes. Okay. We'll catch you over the weekend for another show. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, you and Alan Meyer who was on before also, so that'll be great. So today is a show that follows up on what we discussed just last hour with somebody who was in Bang Pro Bang. You get that right? Close. Which is a 50,000 person city in Laos. And he was there and he was talking to us about various things that happened there, but also mostly about the coronavirus as it appears in Laos. And so let's talk to you about the coronavirus too. Let's find out what is happening in Japan and how people and the government are reacting. Because you are much bigger than Laos, which is only 7 million people. And you have actual reported cases. And that makes it different. So what's happening in Japan on coronavirus, Steve? Yeah, well the government is being proactive in that it's yesterday actually allocated funds to be able to handle any further outbreak of the virus. Also, they've increased security for tourists coming in. As you probably know, when you walk through immigration, I think this is worldwide. They have those heat sensors that measures your temperature before you actually go through the immigration process. So they've beat up the personnel around there. They are taking this very seriously. And as you noted, Jake, Japan already has three cases of tourists from China. Actually, all three of them are from the Wuhan area where this virus originated. And they have been identified and have been isolated. Some are in hospitals. One is in the hotel room and she can't leave that. So I think those of us that have been in Asia, we remember SARS, which is just a little over 20 years ago. That was a major virus outbreak. In fact, the coronavirus is in the same family. It's a similar type of virus. And I think in that case, that one also originated in China. I don't know why China is the king of these threatening viruses, but they seem to originate from that country. And in that time, China was very slow to recognize the danger of this virus. And I think Asia overall was a little bit slow to respond. So I think because of that, the fact that 800 people died from SARS, there were about 8,400 cases of SARS. Jake, you probably remember that. I don't know if it impacted Hawaii or not, but it certainly was a big deal out here, working in Asia at the time. So I think because of that, the politicians remember how poorly that was handled and how probably people needlessly died because of lack of response. China seems to be more proactive about dealing with this and surrounding countries as well. No major, there's no like embargo on Chinese tourists. I read Malaysia is now preventing, not Malaysia, Mongolia, is preventing Chinese tourists, period, from coming into the country until this is figured out. So Japan's not at that state, but it certainly has raised its defenses and has allocated funds in case this becomes a much broader contagion within Japan. Yeah, I read about the Mongolia also. And my reaction is if I were running a given country, I'd have to have a really good reason not to stop all the Chinese because they're the ones carrying it. And they come in the country, they infect a few people before you know it, that country. So maybe Mongolia is absolutely right about this. One of the big issues, I don't know if it's been discussed, it's a culture point. What's happening in China is Xi Jinping now belatedly is in the health authorities, they're belatedly reacting and they're reacting in a very controlling manner. I think it's the nature of the PRC. So he's shut down that province, what is it, Huay province? What? And Wuhan, the city, and he's shut down an area which has, I don't know, more than 30 million people. And you can't come and go and the streets are empty and everybody has to stay home and all these curfew kinds of things. You can't bring in food or supplies.  And then he's dictated that two hospitals will be built virtually overnight to handle those who are infected. There are thousands of beds in these hospitals and the Chinese, they can do that. They can build hospitals overnight with thousands of beds. They're quite amazing at that. So he's taking all these, I want to say draconian steps, all these bold steps, these control steps. But the question, and maybe you've thought about this, the question is, does that work? Bold steps, does that work? I mean, you mentioned that governments should respond and certainly they should. But the question is, when you have an unknown, brand new coronavirus where nobody knows exactly what the dimensions are and what the molecular travel speed is and so, does shutting everything down the right solution? I think it's a culture point. It's a point in the PRC. And probably I would guess that the Japanese have a different culture reaction to this and they're not going to be so overwhelmingly controlling all of a sudden and maybe more thoughtful, more medical research oriented and figuring something out about it before they take these bold social and governmental geopolitical steps. Do you have any thoughts about the comparison and how that works? Yeah, well, I know Japan better than China, but certainly, both actually Jay are one party state. Basically Japan's been run by the Liberal Democratic Party or called Jiminto in Japanese since World War II but the control that they have over the functions of government is nowhere near as comprehensive as what China can do. I mean, and their leadership, they can order a quarantine of an entire region. I don't know if that would actually be possible in Japan. I guess theoretically it would be, but it would be, I think, difficult for the leadership to actually do that unless it was a really severe threat. So there is a cultural difference and also a political difference between the two countries. When my time in Japan, has there ever been anything where, one of the numbers I read yesterday, so almost 3,000 people have been infected and 80 people have died already. I've never experienced that in Japan, so the government hasn't been challenged in that same respect in Japan but I would think based on my observation and study of Japan over the decades that they would not be able to do exactly what China is doing. So I contrasted this breakout, the coronavirus with SARS. In that case it was a different leader but China kind of tried to hide it and didn't report it even though the numbers were growing and so forth and hindsight turned out that they actually made things worse. So maybe in this instance the leadership of China is going, okay, we were criticized quite harshly 20 years ago for not responsibly dealing with this threat and not helping the rest of the world deal with it as well. But now China is taking these measures to perhaps demonstrate that they're being responsible. They've been sequencing the virus, you probably read this as well, Jay, and they've turned that over freely to researchers worldwide who would be asking for help to try to figure out how to deal with this. But it is remarkable when your one party state and the government in China has that much control that you can just shut down 30 million people basically overnight. Well, I think the police will respond to whatever he wants and they are strong in their response. Yeah, there's another point though, the Chinese New Year holiday has already begun and I read that the governor of the Wuhan area was saying that there's probably 3 million, I read as many as 5 million Chinese people from that area that are traveling right now and I would guess the percentages of them are traveling internationally. So they're out there already, they're Chinese people, they're in Japan, they certainly come here, they're going to come to Hawaii. I was in Las Vegas two years ago during Chinese New Year, I couldn't believe the whole place looked Chinese, it was remarkable how many tourists were there. So I'm sure they're in the United States in large numbers already. Yeah, I was in Sydney a couple of years ago at Chinese New Year time and the whole city of Sydney was Chinese, it was very interesting. Yeah, it's the largest movement of people in the world period. I guess it used to be the Hajj in the Middle East but no longer, now that the Chinese have become wealthy and they can travel, there's millions and millions of people that are going to be traveling. So I think maybe that's in part why the world is responding so actively. My Japan is concerned in beginning to build its defenses for a potential outbreak here. Yeah, and I had the impression that some of the people who left Wuhan left because they wanted to get away from the quarantine, they saw it coming. It was not just New Year's travel, it was, let me get out of here before they shut the place down. And you're right, it was altogether 5 million people left that area from Wuhan or somewhere else and potentially those people are spreading a disease. So in other countries, I mean in SARS there were 11 countries involved. There are already more than 11 countries now that are involved and it's only a few days after this has become public. Yeah, this seems to be taking off much faster. By the way, just a very side note, I was working in Korea during SARS and there were no outbreaks of SARS in Korea, which was surprising because other Asian nations experienced that. And they claimed that eating kimchi was the reason why Korea did not have SARS. Why do I feel that's it? I just tell you, Jay, maybe you want to be on the safe side here because there's the same family of viruses. You may want to go buy some kimchi from my quality kimchi. I like kimchi. Maybe that's the secret. This will be in the movie and the sequel. Well, I think it's very scary because they don't have a handle on it, although Xi Jinping has a certain amount of medical expertise available in the country. China has come a long way in medical research and development of vaccines and the like since Xi was there. Their biochemistry and their medicine is way beyond what it was in 2002. They've already done some work. He's built some teams. He dedicated more people to focus on this than we have in the United States, which is interesting. And that's another question about whether the United States government is doing the appropriate thing. But I don't think this is a virus and viruses are viruses and they mutate and it's very hard to understand them and catch them. And who's to say what the real problem is here? It may require a long time to develop a vaccine. Meanwhile, the thing is moving like wildfire. I remember reading not too long ago, Gates was mentioning, he was kind of predicting. I don't want to fear Mounder at all, but this is Gates. He's spending a lot of money on medical research to try and fight malaria and so forth. So he said that at some point in the near future there will be a pandemic disease like this one potentially and that the deaths would not be thousands, but actually millions. He thinks that that will happen at some point. So hopefully it's not this case. So hopefully they'll be able to sequence this virus and figure out how to beat it. But anyway, he thinks that that kind of massive deaths will occur at some point. I guess his understanding of the medical area and the cultivation of these viruses and so forth. Two points on that. One is the sequencing thing. I just recall that in fact the Chinese medical teams that have been assigned to this in the past few days have already sequenced the virus and shared the sequence. So the medical community globally now has the opportunity to find out what's going on and maybe to stop it somehow with some kind of medicinal cure kind of medicine or possibly a vaccine although that's hard. That's one thing. The other thing is that this is largely a question of burning out because the way it ended in 2003 was it just sort of burned out. We didn't do too much. It just burned itself out. And MERS in 2012, the same thing. I mean something like 8,000 people infected in each case and 800 died and of the 820% of those were healthcare workers. Pretty scary. As opposed to the disease in the Congo, I forget the name now, the disease in the Congo where it comes and goes and as it comes and goes, science has been able to find vaccines. So there are vaccines now and the vaccines actually work. The problem is that people do not accept the vaccines. So there's a social overlay on how you do this. And I think the common denominator in all of this is the social overlay because you've got to get people to behave in a certain way to contain it, to isolate it and let it burn itself out. Anyway, sorry, you were saying. Yeah, is it Ebola? Is that the disease you were thinking of, Jay? Yeah, Ebola. Okay, one thing that's interesting, you mentioned some of the cultural aspects of how to deal with these types of diseases. In Japan, when you arrive here, you notice that many people are wearing facial masks. And as an American, you're thinking, oh, they're afraid that they're going to pick up a disease from somebody else.  And the use of surgical masks and these facial masks are quite common. And the motivation for that is to try and limit the spread of disease when you recognize that you are ill yourself. So this is one thing that if this did take off, there's kind of a cultural practice already. Yes. Because Japanese people care about each other and they're willing to wear masks to protect others. This would, I think, in a way limit the spread of disease. If indeed these facial masks actually work, I've read that some people think they do and some people think that they don't. Well, in China, they don't have enough masks to go around yet. And the call was out. Oh, yeah. You know, Jay, I was in Costco a couple of days ago shopping for my family.  And they had a huge pot. They had the 25 boxes of facial masks. So they're either probably going back to China. I sort of get the prices of facial masks there going up by six or seven times. They were making an investor. They probably paid for their airplane ticket just by purchasing those facial masks here in Japan at that cheaper rate. Yeah. So one other thing too that kind of counterbalances the government reaction to this disease. And that is already hotels, department stores are complaining at the number of Chinese, which is the major group of tourists that come to Japan period, but especially during this time frame during the Lunar New Year, the numbers are falling off dramatically. So they see it. So hotel cancellations are up significantly. The Chinese tourists that are shopping in the department stores in Osaka, the number of shoppers during Lunar New Year is 80% Chinese. So Japan has developed a dependency on Chinese tourism. And now that the Chinese government has banned group tours, they just did that I think yesterday or the day before. There's an economic impact. Yes. So you can see the government wants to protect the Japanese citizenry, but they don't want to go overboard to the point where even fewer Chinese come because then some industries that are dependent on Chinese tourists are going to complain as well. So it's an interesting dynamic. Obviously public health is number one, but economic interests also are at play when tourism, which is a major, which is the fastest growing industry in Japan as we talked about before in previous shows. And when that's impacted negatively, that hurts a lot of businesses here locally. Well, if I could just finish, it's actually if the number is really significantly, the number of tourists significantly goes down. The GDP, the Japanese GDP, which is not so high to begin with, the growth rate could go down by a tenth of a percent or one or two point percentage off the GDP for 2020. And has that significant effect? Well, I think it's kind of like terrorism. It's like weapons of mass destruction, like bioterrorism. People get panicked and they slow down their economic activity. It's not just the government. Everybody gets scared and they stop doing the things that contribute to the national product. And so the market went down over 200 points this morning. I don't know exactly, it was a substantial drop and clearly related to this epidemic. Yeah, the Nikkei went down by two percent yesterday and it's because of this virus outbreak and the uncertainty. You know, business hates uncertainty and this is a huge uncertainty right now because they don't know yet how it's being spread and how much this will impact Japan or the rest of Asia. Well, let's get some advice from you, Steve. Let's get some advice. What is your advice to the Japan government? What would you tell them to do at this point? I very rarely agree with what the Japanese government does, especially the current leadership. I think we've talked about that a couple of times. I'm not a big fan of the current Prime Minister Abe. I think he's not really helped the country over the last six or seven years. In this instance, I think they are proactive, but I don't think they're pushing too far and making the Japanese people feel scared more than maybe they would naturally be when they read about this type of thing in the newspaper. So I would say that in this instance, I agree with how they're handling this so far.  They've allocated funds just in case this outbreak becomes more severe. They're already figuring out where to put these patients, which hospitals to put them in. A hundred different hospitals have been identified in Japan that would take these patients. So obviously, they have quarantine facilities there. So I'd say at this point, so far, what the Japanese government is doing is responsible and I think is not crossing the line to where it's polarizing or making the fear level go up. One thing that I haven't seen... It almost hurts me to say that that the Japanese government is doing a good job here, but I have to be honest with you. It's okay, it's okay. One thing that I haven't seen it in print, but I'm surmising and see what your reaction is, that they are able to confirm the existence, the infection in a given person. They're able to tell us with pretty much total certainty that this person, this individual is infected or not. So I gather from that that there must be a test. The medical community must have a test to determine this virus as opposed to other viruses. Flu, for example. And I give them credit for that, for having the test and having it available so quickly. Yeah, that's correct. In the news, some Chinese tourists have gone to the hospitals and they're showing flu symptoms, but they don't have the coronavirus. They have some other type of virus. So you're right, that they can determine whether or not it's a severe infestation with the coronavirus or it's just a more common cold or influenza. Let me ask you for a little more advice, Steve. What about the United States? The United States. Yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer, who was so heavily involved in the impeachment trial, got up and made a statement which was way outside the impeachment trial. He said, we have a serious problem here and the CDC has a special fund of $85 million, which it can release on the determination that we have an epidemic. The CDC must make that determination. And then Bingo, on that alone, $85 million is released to the medical community in order to deal with this epidemic. On the other hand, Trump said, he made a kind of a bland statement about everything is going to be fine, which I think is, again, as so many things he says is not based on fact or evidence, but that was his address. Everything is going to be fine while Schumer is saying they haven't released the money yet. They haven't treated it as an epidemic. And I really wonder, you know, you talk about whether the Chinese government is being treated with us, whether the American government is being candid with us. What is your advice to the American government, Steve? Yeah, well, clearly, Japan made that decision. Just with the three instances of identification of the virus here in Japan, they did what Schumer is saying the United States should do. The Japanese government made that decision quickly and that's why these funds have been released to the medical community to be able to fight this disease if it becomes a bigger threat. So they had made that decision and I would imagine the United States should do that as well. There's going to be instances of this in the United States. I can't imagine, there's so many countries, but there already is instances in the United States, right? Yeah, oh yes. They've already been identified there. Yes, several cases. Yeah, it's not in large numbers. Yeah, it's not in large numbers, but clearly there are people coming into the country that are carrying this virus. Maybe they're not showing symptoms yet. You know, the medical science doesn't understand it yet, so you don't know what the incubation time is or how the disease is spread. So I think Schumer is correct that it's irresponsible for the United States to not take this seriously as other governments clearly are to try and protect their citizens. What about... I don't know, you know... Go ahead. What about traveling... Americans traveling to Asia? I mean, a lot of Americans regularly plan trips. Plan trips overseas to vacation or business and go to Europe, and Europe has some cases. And of course Asia, you know, a number of cases, especially China. But what about... What's your advice to them? What about pursuing some travel that people had planned at this point in time? Well, already Japanese businesses that have operations in China are pulling their people out. And they're canceling any type of business trips into, especially the Wuhan area, but in China in general. So many businesses, and I imagine many people are canceling their trips. I don't know if that's the advice that I would give. Certainly, I don't think you'd want to go to the area that's been shut down by the Chinese government. In fact, you couldn't get in there anyway. But the Japanese government's actually sending a plane. Most Japanese citizens got out of that area before the quarantine occurred. But now they're going to send in a plane to get the rest of the remaining Japanese citizens. They're going to get all Japanese people out of that area. As the U.S. is. We're doing the same thing. We're taking all the Americans out of China. Right. I think all governments are trying to get all of their citizens out of there. Because obviously they don't want them to become infected and face the risk of dying from this virus. Well, we've got to follow this team. We've got to follow it. We've got to talk about it again. We've got to see every day how the numbers change. And we have to make our, our own decisions. And more, we have to be informed about it because I think it is a risk for everyone. Anyway, I will, I will see you on Saturday for our show on Saturday this week. Looking forward to it, Jay. You and Alan Minor and have a good trip over. And I hope you don't have any issues at the airport. Jay, shall I bring some face masks with me? Do you want me, some of the Japanese ones are probably, you know, top of the line. I can bring them with me. I'm glad to see you there. Thank you, Steve Sergei. Really appreciate it. Take care. It was a pleasure, Jay. Thank you. Take care.


When the narcissist sees you moved on if you discard the narcissist They're going to be unfavorable of it They will try to have a negative and harmful effect on it They will try to prevent your progress and development You will preoccupy their mind continually and to a troubling extent They will be constantly talking and worrying about you They will try to get you back or they will become obsessed With your new relationship partner, they will talk about them in a condescending way They will criticize them.  They will pop up at your job. They will be calling you constantly They will start a smear campaign against you. They will start a smear campaign against the person you're with They will become obsessed with the other person. They will stoke and harass you They will disturb you in public.  They may even try to mirror the new person you're with Because it makes them feel like they're not good enough So they will change things about themselves They will try to act like this new person and they will try to run you into the ground They will try to hurt you Because they want you to feel the pain that they feel.  They will try to isolate you from other people Especially people that you're attracted to Because they don't want anyone else around you They're very insecure They're afraid you might chew someone else over them Which is why they're so controlling Even if they're the ones to discard you They will still try to stop you from moving on Because they're very jealous And they will still see you as their property Even if they forget about you Even if they're bored of you and they've moved on to something else They still won't want anyone else to be involved with you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you Please like Comment share and subscribe if you would like to donate Maybe have our link it's in the video description Coaching inquiries You can email me at coaching at nags5er.uk Thank you for watching I don't talk to you soon


Last episode Didn't have all the blood all that blood in the last episode. I could hardly sit through it. I'm glad I wasn't eating Let's have more violence in this episode shall we? Hey, welcome back to our stupid rags is it it's up Corbin You can't give us blood and guts like that and not the liver and today we are on to episode seven Meaning there are only three episodes left Well of this season though again a fresh new slate here in a month or so Last episode the I don't know if they're the feds or the state level or what they are But that person who's come in to crack down crime Yeah, is now going after the kids the brothers at least And now I am they're dealing in opium and all this kind of stuff and they're breaking bad style Come up Tripathi's looking all awesome and crazy His son is probably gonna die at some point because he's crazy And the gang war has still yet to start, but it's about to yep. Yep So once again if this is on the channel, this is just gonna be highlights Not with audio or video from the episode because we can't or we'll get a copyright strike. We don't want that Until Amazon gets us permission. So if you are Amazon and are watching this Please pick up my calls or emails. I don't know your number But if you'd like to see full uncut version, please go to patreon full unedited versions there future I'm sure we're already done if this is on the channel the Finale is already up On the channel I mean on patreon. So go check that out today The episode is called lions of Mirza purr, which was on the license plate of the car at the end of the others So I'm sure this is about them. So let's just get into this Three let's do it to one that actor looks like Vijay Varma Yeah, the profile from gully boy. Oh, I knew it. Oh, I thought you I thought she got shot I did too for a split second. Oh He's intense now brains just became brawn Go toe-to-toe with him, bro Yeah, bro, you can take them No contest But obviously they can't because of who his dad is obviously right It said Farhan Akhtar exact producing. Oh That Farhan Akhtar at our after I don't know if it's the same Farhan Akhtar And virtually every episode has had double directors Interesting. Yeah, very interesting. I Wonder if they had two completely different teams filming to speed up production. I think he's gonna hurt sweetie. Oh He best not do that. So did they take sweetie or dimpy? I think they took sweetie I can't tell. Oh He took his sister. Yeah, he's not he's not gonna be happy. Oh dang nice pull it Come on girl, you could have shot all four of them About time hit him again.  He's doing such a great job And he does yeah, I hate his character, but he's such a good actor I mean, I really like to know if the director and the lighting people did some things intentionally with lighting like remember Shady stuff green and V. Yeah, so much symbolism in the lighting.   I don't I don't know. I have a feeling it's dad But I don't know someone's gonna die.   Obviously Hey, that's one heck of a hickey brother Is this the best I think it I think this is the gun the law enforcement. Yes It's a good thing nobody in the show can shoot Yeah It's like a bun They're like stormtroopers.  Was that one shot from when they came in the door? Yes. Yes. How is that a drone?  Is this one shot? Yeah, we're still on that same shot. That was up there with the family man hospital. Oh, yeah Incredible sequence. I'd like to know if that was like a drone or if they they they they did it what wirely. I don't know I Think they had I think they we'll talk at the end of the episode. I have an idea But I think what they did. Why do I feel like compounders in the house? Nice shot old man.  I thought he was setting things up. It's like hang himself No, I don't think that's how he goes out And that's probably the last time those brothers are gonna see each other I think our our I think our buddy here is dead. You know whose chair that is, right?  He's sweetie his brother His sister didn't be it.  I think it I think his character is great His character is stupid Because he's he's just he's soaked in it's like a kid who's watched too many gangster movies and wants to be a gangster now Yeah, what a great episode this this really took it took some Really strong turns with the plot and so I think what they did with that Fantastic shot it reminded me of a shot. Yeah, I know you haven't seen it But in episode six of haunting of Hill House, okay I am I think they used the same what it basically is It's a wooden platform pulley elevator that you can do second floor to bottom floor or third floor to bottom And so you have you have your cameraman walk in step on that They pull it up and then they can lean over the edge and then they could prop They probably had ropes on either side and he had a lanyard so that when he did the thing over the ledge They could pull it back so that he could look straight down But he was still on the platform and then bring it back and just go up Technically really hard probably had to rehearse that for quite a few hours Beautiful sequence. I think that's probably how they did it Yeah, I didn't know if it was a drone that or if the cameraman was just on wires Because obviously they did a lot of stuff. They went like down back up around they so it was Technically impressive Impressive sequence that they did there Yeah, it was fantastic up there with the the the family man multiple Yeah, the hospital sequence in particular.  I think it's gonna turn out that he is a step ahead of everybody. I really hope they don't Game of Thrones spoiler here, so I'll wave my arms when it's not there. I hope they don't Ned Stark him for sure Yeah, I was thinking that too But I think if they were going to they would have done it just then when when compounder when Abhishek was in the house Okay, some of you for some reason haven't seen give us a Game of Thrones. I don't want to spoil that Yeah, I don't think I don't I don't think so. No, you don't think so. You don't think Tripathi's dying at the end. I Don't think so. Yeah, that would be that would be hard for me to believe But yeah, the episode was phenomenal because now what are they gonna do are they gonna join or they could do Like the double spy so like he's like, I don't know if they're actually I don't even know if he's asking them to him The spy or not or if they're just asking him them to join him instead of Tripathi Well and he made a good point though it is true nothing goes on in that town Unless Tripathi says so and you remember when he was walking up the stairs his dad said to him You know Moona wasn't completely to blame for this and he said I know Yep So very very well very well could have called a hit on them Or it could have been the state as well, but I don't know if they would have just started firing I suppose Well, there's a reason they didn't go. I yeah We're it's beautiful They've done a really good job of getting us personally involved with these storylines and these characters and now two episodes away from the end of season one they have tied a knot and We need we the next two episodes.  Well, I knew somebody was gonna die Abishak happened to be the guy But I'm I think this is a great great show.   I suppose I Don't want Tripathi to die for sure No, yeah, they've done a good job at making you care for these and nobody's good It would surprise because nobody's good in this Everybody's the only person except for the girls I suppose Yeah, yeah, even somebody who's carrying the moral high ground of like the dad Yeah It's just a really really well created it all the way around show. I can't wait for the next episode really Okay, well if If you'd like to see the full uncut version of our reaction of this episode and there was a lot in this episode So go check it out on patreon It's up there. No cuts. No editing. No nothing.


Okay, this is Apur. I work for Mintra. I have played a number of roles there. In interest of time and due to my laziness, I haven't prepared any presentation. So you have to trust my word. One of the questions which I see happening in most of the talks was that how do we monitor system parameters? There are systems like Nagios or Senso who are alerting them. But when you want to debug them, there is not much information available in those systems. So let's say your CPU shot up to 100%. You got a warning from Nagios or Senso. But when you log in, there is not much available there to debug for you. Also, there are times when your application started behaving erratically. It's the application, either a lot of errors or response time increased. At that time, you can't correlate whether your box was behaving weirdly, whether your database was behaving erratically, etc. So there is a very good tool called StatsD, which has been outsold, an open source by a company called Etsy. There is a very popular blog post from Etsy on StatsD, which you can check there. They have explained how this system works. If I have to give a 30-second introduction of that, it's a service running over UDP, where you can push in any packets. You can virtually store everything. The storage pattern will be a.b.c.d, so they create separate directories for that. The things you can store there are things like counters and times. So let's say you want to capture how many requests are coming to your server. That can be captured and what was the response time of the request that you can also capture. You can also go deep. Suppose you want the response time of one particular function. Your application is doing 10 things out of that. One happens to be executing a DB query and you suspect that that's the thing which is most unpredictable, so you can capture that as well. So basically it can capture anything and you have good graphing tools available. One is graphite, another one is upcoming, which is called Grafana, where you can plot those things because you are capturing n number of different metrics. Let's say you are capturing your database response database as well as your application. You can just suppose both of them simultaneously. One important thing which I have seen people using graphite, which I haven't seen people using graphite, but we are doing, is that we are monitoring system parameters into it. There are a lot of utilities available in Linux like iostat, VMstat, SAR, W, et cetera, which gives various things like load average, CPU usage, memory usage, et cetera. So we are storing that as well, simple crons running on all of the boxes which we have deployed using puppet, so it's simultaneously available to all the systems. We are in a format that environment and dot box, et cetera, we are capturing this. In case any of you are interested, then I can explain to you in detail outside.


Well hello and welcome to Understand Men Now. I'm Jonathan Asley of JonathanAsley.com and I'm so excited to be shooting this short video for you today. Our topic are many even capable, capable of a serious commitment. The truth. The truth. Wait a minute. Let's go like this. The truth. Okay really quickly. If the content here resonates with you and you're interested in speaking to me directly, check out the link to schedule a free discovery call to see if working with the coaches right for you. Okay that the truth about men are they the truth are they really capable of a serious commitment. Okay a few days ago I shot a video about the skill night this one skill gains 99% of men's respect and in that I shared with you a little bit of the dysfunctionality of men today especially men at midlife. So if you follow my work my specialty is midlife which is after baby making years and before retirement. So if you're 42 to 69 you're in the right place. Although younger people follow my work and get a lot of value from it as well. But I shared a graph and so I'm going to share it again today and I want you to take a look at this. Okay and it says 10% 10% 40% and 40%. Now I just want you to look this first 10 this half first. Okay roughly about 10% of men have clinical issues. I mean they've got some real cynical issue clinical issues. They're narcissists, they're sociopaths, they're passive-aggressive, they're bipolar, they're you know borderline personality and it's probably even greater than that but that's why I've been really deep clinical issues and then it it kind of goes like this. Okay and this is because a significant because most human beings have suffered childhood wounds and traumas childhood wounds and traumas or adult traumas that have caused them serious mental and emotional issues in their lives. In fact I always say the number one emotional health issue is I'm not good enough I'm not lovable I'm not likeable and if you're not familiar with inner child work then I definitely want you to check out the book called the Hoffman process for yourself and for understanding why men are in this space because the main reason why someone can't commit is because their emotional traumas are causing them to not be able to get out of them their own issues and be able to take on a partner in their life. Let me repeat that they're so stuck in their own issues that they can't take a partner in their life.  This is why if you're not familiar with the work of Esther Perrell check out mating in captivity and watch her videos she explains why 80% of relationships don't work out just Google in YouTube Esther Perrell and 80% of relationships fail. She did a podcast with Lewis Howe that's fantastic for understanding this.  This is why I'm such a big proponent for each one of you to lean into your sovereignty to lean into your self-worth, your self-esteem, your self-confidence and your self-love and if you're not familiar with my book what the heck is self-love anyway see written by Jonathan Asley. There's a link to all the books I recommend below in the description under Jonathan recommends in my book self-lovethebook.com if you want to check it out but I want to encourage you to lean in because I know it's frustrating being in relationship with men who pull away and ghost and disappear and you're being taught to lean back and wait for him to come get you. Well here's the thing the 10% of guys this is the one you all covet this is all the ones you want right this is the one you're looking for. Here's the challenge with those guys they're never gonna pull away they're never gonna ghost they're never gonna disappear. The other guys it's because they've got some stuff going on that needs healing so by pulling away all you've done is create more anxiety with them as well.  What's most important is you leaning into yourself that's the most important thing and here's the thing I want in that just as I shared in that one video the 99 the one skill that gets 99% of men to respect you that one skill is knowing your standards it's knowing what you want in relationship so why do I and why do I always say this ladies I know you want men to lead the relationship but you're giving the job to the wrong person you have to be in charge of your own destiny this is why I recommend this book Eight Dates by Dr. John Gottman and Julie Gottman this teaches you the mechanics to a healthy happy relationship is this sinking in please tell me if this is sinking in oh I just noticed the red and the blue the blue here the red here but is this content sinking in with you are you getting it are you making the shifts if this is your first time watching please watch my other videos because I've got this theme going on because the truth about men in commitment at midlife most men are rather clueless you need to be directing the process by setting your standards by leading by example and I know you're all coveting that 10% these guys know what they want I get it but if you're not with one of those guys then guess what you either set the standard or you move on because it's no sense trying to hope for magic fairy dust to make him change how many of you are waiting for magic fairy dust that he's gonna somehow evolve at some point in his life the only way he's gonna evolve is by you setting the standard for what you want in your life because when you set your standard either can jump on the train with you or you say bye bye bye bye listen I'm your big brother here if I was vetting these guys on the first date I'd be saying look don't fuck with my sister either know your shit come to the table knowing what you want be I'm vetting for those 10% guys on your behalf okay I'm doing my best and if you need support with that schedule a call with me that's where I can help you with on a much grander scale all right I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do first off giving myself a big gigantic job the bear hug of self-love I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone or even a pet and give them a hug because right now we all could use more love in our lives and hugs are a great source of love I want to wish you a super duper wonderful fantastic day bye bye now


Hi, I'm Steve Police. I'm the Vice President for Student Development and Enrollment here at Immaculata University. I'm here taking the ALS Challenge. Thanks to my friend back here, Sarah Smith, from the Women's Basketball Team. After I get my ice poured on me, I'm going to challenge Dr. John Stafford, Dean of Students here at Immaculata University. Dr. Chris Leshanek, my counterpart from Cabrini College, who's the Vice President. And I'm challenging the entire Women's Basketball Team. Thanks to Sarah Smith. Hi, I'm Jenny Sauer, Vice President for Finance at Immaculata. I am challenging three colleagues at other schools in the area. Dr. Lou Meir, VP for Finance at St. Joe's, Joe Baker, Vice President for Finance at Widener University, and Eric Olson, Vice President for Finance at Cabrini College. And I'm Kevin Quinn, Vice President for University Advancement. And I am challenging Marty Farrell, the Vice President for Advancement at St. Joe's, as well as all my nieces and nephews, Olivia Quinn, Jack, Ben, Alice, Bo, Sarah, Jane, and the Big H. You have 24 hours to complete the challenge.


24 Irene was a great comfort to Mary Louise in this hour of trial. The chair-girl, beneath her gaiety of demeanor and lightness of speech, was deeply religious. Her absolute faith sounded so cheering that death was robbed of much of its horror, and her bereaved friend found solace. Mary Louise was able to talk freely of Mama B to Irene, while with Aunt Hannah she rather avoided reference to her mother. I've always longed to be more with Mama B and to learn and to know her better, she said to her friend, for though she was very loving and gentle to me while I was with her, she spent most of her life caring for Grandpa Jim, and they were away from me so much that I really didn't get to know Mama very well. I think she worried a good deal over Grandpa's troubles. She couldn't help that, of course, but I always hoped that someday the troubles would be over and we could all live happily together, and now that can never be. Irene, knowing more of the Hathaway family history than Mary Louise did, through the letter she had found in red, was often perplexed how to console her friend and still regard honesty and truth. Any deception, even when practiced through the best of motives, was abhorrent to her nature, so she avoided speaking of the present affliction and led Mary Louise to look to a future life for the motherly companionship she had missed on earth. That, said she, is the thought that has always given me the most comfort. We are both orphans, dear, and I'm sure your nature is as brave as my own, and that you can bear equally well the loss of your parents. And Mary Louise was really brave and tried hard to bear her grief with patient resignation. One thing she presently decided in her mind, although she did not mention it to Irene. She must find Grandpa Jim and go to him wherever he might be. Grandpa Jim and her mother had been inseparable companions. Mary Louise knew that her own present sorrow could be nothing when compared to that of her grandfather. And so it was her duty to find him and comfort him, to devote her whole life as her mother had done to caring for his wants and cheering his loneliness, so far indeed as she was able to do. Of course no one could quite take the place of Mama B. She was thinking in this vein as she sat in the den with Irene that Saturday afternoon. The chair girl, who sewed beautifully, was fixing over one of Mary Louise's black dresses, while Mary Louise sat opposite, listlessly watching her. The door into the hall was closed, but the glass door to the rear porch was wide open to let in the sun and air. And this simple scene was the setting for the drama about to be enacted. Mary Louise had her back half turned to the hall door, which Irene partially faced. And so it was that when the door opened softly and the chair girl raised her head to gaze with startled surprise at someone who stood in the doorway, Mary Louise first curiously eyed her friend's expressive face, and then rather languidly turned her head to glance over her shoulder. The next moment she sprang to her feet and rushed forward. Grandpa Jim! Oh! Grandpa Jim! she cried, and threw herself into the arms of a tall man who folded her to his breast in a close embrace. For a while they stood there silent, while Irene dropped her eyes to her lap, deeming the reunion too sacred to be observed by another.  Softly the sash of the window was raised, and the maid's Susan stood on the ground outside, leaned her elbows on the sill, and quietly regarded the scene within the den. The opening of the window arrested Colonel Weatherby's attention. He lifted his head, and with a quick glance took in the situation. Then still holding his granddaughter in his arms he advanced to the centre of the room and said sternly, addressing Agatha, Is this a deliberate intrusion, because I am here, or is it pure insolence? Forgive us if we intrude, Mr. Hathaway, replied Agatha. It was not our desire to interrupt your meeting with your granddaughter, but it has been so difficult in the past to secure an interview with you, sir, that we dared not risk missing you at this time. He regarded her with an expression of astonishment. That's it exactly, Mr. Weatherby Hathaway, remarked Susan mockingly from her window. Don't pay any attention to them, Grandpa Jim, begged Mary Louise, clinging to him. They're just two dreadful women who live down below here, and—and I realize who they are, said the old gentleman in a calm voice, and addressing Agatha again he continued, since you are determined to interview me, pray, step inside and be seated.  Nan Shelly laughed outright and retorted, Not yet, Hathaway, we can't afford to take chances with one who has dodged the whole department for ten years. Then you are government agents? He asked. That's it, sir. He turned his head toward the door by which he had entered, for there was an altercation going on in the hallway, and Mr. Connaught's voice could be heard angrily protesting. A moment later the lawyer came in, followed by the little man with the fat nose, who bowed to Colonel Weatherby very respectfully, yet remained planted in the doorway. This is, uh, uh, very unfortunate, sir, very unfortunate, exclaimed Peter Connaught, chopping off each word with a sort of snarl. These confounded, secret service people have trailed us here. It doesn't matter, Mr. Connaught, replied the Colonel in a voice composed, but very weary. He seated himself in a chair, as he spoke, and Mary Louise sat on the arm of it, still embracing him. No, said a gormon, it really doesn't matter, sir. In fact, I'm sure you will feel relieved to have this affair off your mind, and be spared all further annoyance concerning it. The old gentleman looked at him steadily, but made no answer. It was Peter Connaught who faced the speaker and demanded, What do you mean by that statement? Mr. Hathaway knows what I mean. He can, in a few words, explain why he has for years borne the accusation of a crime of which he is innocent. Peter Connaught was so astounded he could do nothing but stare at the detective. Staring was the very best thing that Peter did, and he never stared harder in his life. The tears had been coursing down Mary Louise's cheeks, but now a glad look crossed her face. Do you hear that, Grandpa Jim? She cried. Of course you are innocent. I've always known that, but now even your enemies do. Mr. Hathaway looked long into the girl's eyes, which met his own hopefully, almost joyfully. Then he turned to O'Gorman. I cannot prove my innocence, he said. Do you mean that you will not? I will go with you and stand my trial. I will accept whatever punishment the law decrees. O'Gorman nodded his head. I know exactly how you feel about it, Mr. Hathaway, he said, and I sympathize with you most earnestly. Will you allow me to sit down a while? Thank you. He took a chair facing that of the hunted man. Agatha, seeing this, seated herself on the doorstep. Nan maintained her position, leaning through the open window. This, said O'Gorman, is a strange case. It has always been a strange case, sir, from the very beginning. Important government secrets of the United States were stolen and turned over to the agent of a foreign government, which is none too friendly to our own. It was considered, in its day, one of the most traitorous crimes in our history. And you, sir, a citizen of high standing and repute, were detected in the act of transferring many of these important papers to a spy, thus paroling the safety of the nation. You were caught red-handed, so to speak, but made your escape in a manner remarkable and even wonderful for its adornness and have for years evaded every effort on the part of our Secret Service Department to effect your capture. And yet, despite the absolute truth of this statement, you are innocent. No one cared to reply for a time. Some who had listened to O'Gorman were too startled to speak. Others were framed.  Irene thrilled with joyous anticipation, for in the presence of this sorrowing, hunted, white-haired old man whose years had been devoted to patient self-sacrifice, the humiliation the coming disclosure would thrust upon Mary Louise seemed now insignificant. Until this moment Irene had been determined to suppress the knowledge gained through the old letter in order to protect the feelings of her friend, but now a crying need for the truth to prevail was borne in upon her. She had thought that she alone knew the truth. To her astonishment, as well as satisfaction, the chair-girl now discovered that O'Gorman was equally well informed. CHAPTER XXV. SIMPLE JUSTICE.  At last he said, brokenly, repeating his former assertion, I cannot prove my innocence. But I can, declared O'Gorman positively, and I'm going to do it. No, no! said Hathaway, startled at his tone. It's this way, sir, explained the little man in a matter-of-fact voice. This chase after you has cost the government a heavy sum already, and your prosecution is likely to make public an affair which, under the circumstances, we consider it more diplomatic to hush up. Any danger to our country has passed, for information obtained ten years ago regarding our defenses, codes, and the like, is today worthless, because all conditions are completely changed. Only the crime of treason remains, a crime that deserves the severest punishment, but the guilty persons have escaped punishment and are now facing a higher tribunal, both the principle in this crime and his weak and foolish tool. So it is best for all concerned, Mr. Hathaway, that we get at the truth of this matter, and when it is clearly on record in the government files, declare the case closed for all time. The State Department has more important matters that demand its attention. The old man's head was bowed, his chin resting on his breast. It was now the turn of Mary Louise to smooth his thin gray cheeks. If you will make a statement, sir, continued O'Gorman, we shall be able to verify it. Slowly Hathaway raised his head. I have no statement to make, he persisted. This is rank folly, exclaimed O'Gorman, but if you refuse to make the statement, I shall make it myself. I beg you, I implore you," said Hathaway, pleadingly. The detective rose and stood before him, looking not at the old man, but at the young girl, Mary Louise. Tell me, my child, he said gently, would you not rather see your grandfather, an honorable, high-minded gentleman, acquitted of an unjust accusation, even at the expense of some abasement and perhaps heartaches on your part, rather than allow him to continue to suffer disgrace in order to shield you from so slight an affliction? Sir! cried Hathaway indignantly, starting to his feet.  Have you no mercy? No compassion? Plenty, was the quiet reply. Sit down, sir. This girl is stronger than you think. She will not be made permanently unhappy by knowing the truth, I assure you. Hathaway regarded him with a look of anguish akin to fear. Then he turned and seated himself, again putting an arm around Mary Louise as if to shield her. And Irene, speaking very slowly, I am quite sure Mr. O'Gorman is right. Mary Louise is a brave girl, and she loves her grandfather. Then Mary Louise spoke, hesitatingly at first, for she could not yet comprehend the full import of the officer's words. If you mean, said she, that it will cause me sorrow and humiliation to free my grandfather from suspicion, and that he refuses to speak because he fears the truth will hurt me, then I ask you to speak out, Mr. O'Gorman. Of course, returned the little man, smiling at her approvingly. That is just what I intend to do. All these years, my girl, your grandfather has accepted reproach and disgrace in order to shield the good name of a woman and save her from a prison sale. And that woman was your mother.  You brute! exclaimed Hathaway, highly incensed. But this is not all, continued O'Gorman unmoved. Your mother, Mary Louise, would have been condemned and imprisoned, and deservedly so in the eyes of the law, had the truth been known, and yet I assure you she was only guilty of folly and of ignorance of the terrible consequences that might have resulted from her act. She was weak enough to be loyal to a promise wrung from her in extremity, and therein lay her only fault. Your grandfather knew all this, and she was his daughter, his only child. When the accusation for your mother's crime fell on him, he ran away and so tacitly admitted his guilt, thus drawing suspicion from her. His reason for remaining hidden was that, had he been caught and brought to trial, he could not have lied or perjured himself under oath, even to save his dearly loved daughter from punishment. Now you understand why he could not submit to arrest, why, assisted by a small but powerful band of faithful friends, he has been able to evade capture during all these years. I admire him for that, but he has sacrificed himself long enough. Your mother's recent death renders her prosecution impossible. It is time the truth prevailed. In simple justice I will not allow this old man to embitter further his life, just to protect his grandchild from a knowledge of her mother's sin. Again a deathly silence pervaded the room. You—you are speaking at random, said Hathaway, in a voice choked with emotion. You have no proof of these dreadful statements. But I have, said Irene Bravely, believing at her duty to support O'Gorman. And so have I, asserted the quiet voice of Sarah Judd, who had entered the room unperceived. Hathaway regarded both the girls in surprise but said nothing. I think, said Officer O'Gorman, it will be best for us to read to Mr. Hathaway that letter. The letter which I found in the book? asked Irene eagerly. Yes, but do not disturb yourself, as she started to wheel her share close to the wall. Josie will get it. To Irene's astonishment Sarah Judd walked straight to the repeating rifle, opened the sliding plate in its stock, and took out the closely folded letter. Thus Nan Shelly and Agatha Lorde were no less surprised than Irene. Also they were deeply chagrined. But O'Gorman's slip in calling Sarah Judd Josie had conveyed to his associates information that somewhat modified their astonishment at the girls' cleverness, for everyone who knew O'Gorman had often heard of his daughter Josie, of whom he was accustomed to speak with infinite pride. He always said he was training her to follow his own profession, and that when the education was complete Josie O'Gorman would make a name for herself in the detective service. So Nan and Agatha exchanged meaning-glances and regarded the freckle-faced girl with new interest. I'm not much of a reader, said Josie, carefully unfolding the paper. Suppose we let Miss Irene read it. Her father nodded ascent and Josie handed the sheet to Irene. Mr. Hathaway had been growing uneasy and now addressed Officer O'Gorman in a protesting voice. Is this reading necessary, sir? Very necessary, Mr. Hathaway. What letter is this that you have referred to? A bit of information dating nearly ten years ago and written by one who perhaps knew more of the political intrigues of John and Beatrice Burroughs than has ever come to your own knowledge. The letter is authentic, then? Quite so. And your department knows of its existence? I am acting under the department's instructions, sir. Obligious Miss McFarlane, he added, turning to Irene, by reading the letter in full. CHAPTER XXVI. This sheet, explained Irene, is in fact but part of a letter. The first sheets are missing, so we don't know who it was addressed to, but it is signed at the end by the initials E. de Vee. The ambassador, cried Hathaway, caught off his guard by surprise. The same, said O'Gorman triumphantly. And it is all in his well-known handwriting. Read the letter, my girl. The first sentence, said Irene, is a continuation of something on a previous page, but I will read it just as it appears here. And then in a clear distinct voice that was audible to all present, she read as follows. Which forces me to abandon at once my post and your delightful country in order to avoid further complications. My greatest regret is in leaving Mrs. Burroughs in so unfortunate a predicament. The lady was absolutely loyal to us, and the calamity that has overtaken her is through no fault of her own. That you may understand this thoroughly, I will remind you that John Burroughs was in our employ. It was through our secret influence that he obtained his first government position, where he inspired confidence and became trusted implicitly. He did not acquire full control, however, until five years later, and during that time he met and married Beatrice Hathaway, the charming daughter of James J. Hathaway, a wealthy broker. That gave Burroughs added importance, and he was promoted to the high government position he occupied at the time of his death. Burroughs made for us secret copies of the fortifications on both the east and west coasts, including the number and caliber of guns, amounts of munitions stored, and other details. Also he obtained copies of the secret telegraph and naval codes, and the complete armaments of all war vessels, both in service and in process of construction. A part of this information, and some of the plans he delivered to me before he died, as you know, and he had the balance practically ready for delivery when he was taken with pneumonia, and unfortunately expired very suddenly. It was characteristic of the man's faithfulness that on his deathbed he made his wife promise to deliver the balance of the plans, and an important book of codes, to us as early as she could find an opportunity to do so. Mrs. Burroughs had previously been in her husband's confidence, and knew he was employed by us while holding his position with the government, so she readily promised to carry out his wishes, perhaps never dreaming of the difficulties that would confront her or the personal dangers she assumed, but she was faithful to her promise and afterward tried to fulfill it. Her father, the James J. Hathaway above mentioned, in whose mansion Mrs. Burroughs lived with her only child, is a staunch patriot. Had he known of our plot, he would have promptly denounced it, even sacrificing his son-in-law. I have no quarrel with him for that, you may well believe, as I value patriotism above all other personal qualities. But after the death of John Burroughs, it became very difficult for his wife to find a way to deliver to me the packet of plans without being detective. There's some oversight at the government office, which aroused suspicion immediately after his death. Burroughs was discovered to have made duplicates of many documents entrusted to him, and with the suspicion of the truth government agents were sent to interview Mrs. Burroughs and find out if the duplicates were still among her husband's papers. Being a clever woman, she succeeded in secreting the precious package and so foiled the detectives. Even her own father, who was very indignant that a member of his household should be accused of treason, had no suspicion that his daughter was in any way involved. But the house was watched, after that, and Mrs. Burroughs was constantly under surveillance, a fact of which she was fully aware. I also became aware of the difficulties that surrounded her, and although impatient to receive the package, I dared not press its delivery. Fortunately, no suspicion attached to me, and a year or so after her husband's death I met Mrs. Burroughs at the house of a mutual friend, on the occasion of a crowded reception, and secured an interview with her where we could not be overheard. We both believed that by this time the police espionage had been greatly relaxed, so I suggested that she boldly send the parcel to me, under an assumed name, at Carver's drugstore, where I had a confederate. An ordinary messenger would not do for this errand, but Mr. Hathaway drove past the drugstore every morning on his way to his office, and Mrs. Burroughs thought it would be quite safe to send the parcel by his hand, the man being wholly above suspicion. On the morning we had agreed upon for the attempt, the woman brought the innocent-looking package to her father as he was leaving the house, and asked him to deliver it at the drugstore on his way down. Thinking it was returned goods he consented, but at the moment he delivered the parcel a couple of detectives appeared and arrested him, opening the package before him to prove its important contents. I witnessed this disaster to our plot with my own eyes, but managed to escape without being arrested, as a partner in the conspiracy, and thus I succeeded in protecting the good name of my beloved country, which must never be known in this connection. Hathaway was absolutely stupefied at the charge against him. Becoming violently indignant, he knocked down the officers and escaped with the contents of the package. He then returned home and demanded an explanation from his daughter, who confessed all. It was then that Hathaway showed the stuff he was made of, to use an Americanism. He insisted on shielding his daughter to whom he was devotedly attached, and in taking the responsibility on his own shoulders. The penalty of this crime is imprisonment for life, and he would not allow Mrs. Burroughs to endure it. Being arrested he did not deny his guilt, but cheerfully suffered imprisonment. Before the day set for his trial, however, he managed to escape, and since then he has so cleverly hidden himself that the authorities remain ignorant of his whereabouts. His wife and his grandchild also disappeared, and it was found that his vast business interests had been legally transferred to some of his most intimate friends, doubtless for his future benefit. The government's secret service was helpless. No one save I knew that Hathaway was shielding his daughter, whose promise to her dead husband had led her to betray her country to the representative of a foreign power such as our own. Yet Hathaway, even in sacrificing his name and reputation, revolted at suffering lifelong imprisonment, nor dared he stand trial through danger of being forced to confess the truth. So he remains in hiding, and I have hopes that he will be able, through his many influential friends, to save himself from capture for many months to come. This is the truth of the matter, dear friend, and as this explanation must never get beyond your own knowledge I charge you to destroy this letter as soon as it is read. When you are abroad next year we will meet and consider this and other matters in which we are mutually interested. I would not have ventured to put this on paper, were it not for my desire to leave someone in this country posted on the Hathaway case. You will understand from the foregoing that the situation has become too delicate for me to remain here. But if you can, give aid to Hathaway, whom I greatly admire, for we are in a way responsible for his troubles. As for Mrs. Burroughs I consider her a woman of character and honour. That she might keep a pledge made to her dead husband she sinned against the law without realizing the enormity of her offence. If any one is to blame it is poor John Burroughs, who was not justified in demanding so dangerous a pledge from his wife, but he was dying at the time and his judgment was impaired. Let us be just to all and so remain just to ourselves. Write me at the old address and believe me to be yours most faithfully, E. DeVee, 16 September 1905. During Irene's reading the others maintained an intense silence. Even when she had ended, the silence continued for a time, while all considered with various feelings the remarkable statement they had just heard. It was O'Gorman who first spoke. If you will assert, Mr. Hathaway, that the ambassador's statement is correct, to the best of your knowledge and belief, I have the authority of our department to promise that the charge against you will promptly be dropped and withdrawn, and that you will be a judged innocent of any offence against the law. It is true that you assisted a guilty person to escape punishment, and are therefore liable for what is called misprision of treason, but we shall not press that for, as I have said before, we prefer, since no real harm has resulted, to allow the case to be filed without further publicity. Do you admit the truth of the statements contained in this letter? I believe them to be true, said Mr. Hathaway in a low voice.  She was not sobbing. She did not even appear to be humbled or heartbroken. Perhaps she did not realize at the moment how gravely her father and mother had sinned against the laws of their country. That realization might come to her later, but just now she was happy in the vindication of Grandpa Jim, a triumph that overshadowed all else. I'll take this letter for our files, said Officer O'Gorman, folding it carefully before placing it in his pocket-book. And now, sir, I hope you will permit me to congratulate you and wish you many years of happiness with your granddaughter, who first won my admiration by her steadfast faith in your innocence. She's a good girl, is Mary Louise, and almost as clever as my Josie here. From Nan, come Agatha, let's go back to Bigby's. Our business here is finished. End of Chapter 26. End of Mary Louise by L. Frank Baum. Read by Cibella Denton in Carrollton, Georgia, in January and February 2009. For more free audiobooks or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org.