Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. 150 years ago, Jacob Cooley ordered his African-American slave, Hosea, to build a chest for his first child. Hosea set to work, crafting a wooden chest of some remark.  Cooley's other slaves vowed to avenge the death of their friend and sprinkled the dried blood of an owl in the chest and had a conjureman curse the chest. As if by magic, Cooley's first born died in infancy and, over the forthcoming years, a total of 17 deaths were attributed to the conjure chest. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Welcome, Weirdos. I'm Darren Marlar and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, the strange and bizarre, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved and unexplained. Coming up in this episode... In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, there is a home built by slaves that is considered the most haunted in Alabama. Drivers are reporting strange, ghostly orbs following them on dark roads. Deng Thanh Ngoc is a well-known con man who has used the names of multiple dead soldiers to con veteran groups into giving him money. One identity he stole created a fascinating but dark story. A woman comes home to find her visiting sister murdered and police were convinced she was the one who committed the crime. So what went wrong with the case to allow her to get away with it? A bordello, pizza and a haunting. You can find them all at the Red Onion Saloon. Plus later, I'll share two creepypastas from Weirdo Family Members, a brief history of egg birding from Louise Latham and dreamality from Kara Raich. But first, the brutal death of an African slave brings a curse upon the wooden chest he was ordered to construct. We begin with that story. If you're new here, welcome to the show. While you're listening, be sure to check out WeirdDarkness.com for merchandise, my newsletter, to enter contests, to connect with me on social media. Plus, you can visit the Hope in the Darkness page if you're struggling with depression or dark thoughts. You can find all of that and more at WeirdDarkness.com.  An elegant mahogany-venir chest of drawers, hand-carved by an African-American slave 150 years ago, resides in the Kentucky Historic Museum at Frankfurt. Crafted in the Empire style, the chest has glass knobs on its four drawers. Nothing about its outward appearance gives any hint that tragedy has stalked its existence, that it's known to historians as the Conjured Chest. Two decades before the Civil War, the family of one Jacob Cooley lived a sumptuous life as wealthy southern planters. Jacob owned many slaves and farmed thousands of acres. He was also an evil, despicable man who frequently beat his slaves for the slightest infraction of his stringent rules. Jacob Cooley ordered one of his slaves, an excellent furniture maker named Hosea, to construct a chest that would be used for his first-born child. For some unknown reason, Jacob was angered at Hosea's finished product and beat him so savagely he died a few days later. Cooley's slaves, led by an old conjure man, placed a curse on the chest for all future generations. One drawer was sprinkled with dried owl's blood and a conjure chant was sung. All those associated with the chest would fall within the curse's evil power. Although Jacob Cooley himself evidently escaped the malevolence, his descendants were not as fortunate. The baby for whom the chest was originally built died soon after birth. The chest was in his nursery. His brother inherited the chest and he was stabbed to death by his personal servant. Jacob Cooley had another son, John, who inherited one of his father's many plantations. The young man led a serene bachelor's life until a vivacious young woman barely out of routines came into his life. Her name was Ellie and she soon married John nearly three times her age. The couple inherited the conjured chest. Knowing of the tragedies that had befallen her husband's siblings, she put the chest in an attic. Meanwhile, Jacob Cooley's youngest daughter Melinda eloped with a waggish Irishman named Sean. With nowhere to live, Melinda turned to Ellie. John and Ellie had done well and had accumulated several farms in Tennessee. They turned over one of these to Sean and Melinda to work. While Melinda bore her young husband a brood of children and worked from sunrise to sunset, Sean came to loathe the dullness of farm life. Ellie Cooley tried to help, but Sean's rebuffs made her presence unwelcome. To try and bring some beauty into Melinda's dreary existence, Ellie sent over her father-in-law's chest. It had been in her attic for a very long time and nothing had happened. She had almost forgotten the chest's legacy. Perhaps the curse was only a lot of talk. Within days, Sean deserted his wife for the bright lights of New Orleans. Melinda was inconsolable. She took to her bed with an ailment. There Melinda soon died, an exhausted gray-haired woman barely out of her thirties. Shortly after his wife's death, Sean was struck in the head by a steamboat's gangplank and died. The conjure chest had claimed its third and fourth victims. The couple left many orphaned children. John Cooley was given the job of traveling to Tennessee to assign the youngsters to other family members. The youngest, a baby named Evelyn, ran up to him, her tiny arms outstretched. John took her to live with his own family in Kentucky. Little Evelyn grew into a beautiful and intelligent young woman. When she turned 16, Evelyn passed an examination that provided her with a teaching certificate, with which she took over a one-room schoolhouse. She met and married a Scotsman, Malcolm Johnson barely two months after she began teaching. As a wedding present, Ellie presented her niece with Jacob Cooley's handsome chest, and the evil passed to a new generation. Evelyn Johnson had children and even adopted a young orphan, a girl named Arabella. The curse was all but forgotten. Evelyn had the chest but didn't find it necessary to use right away. However, after Arabella married some years later, Evelyn put the girl's bridal gown in the chest. Shortly thereafter, Arabella's husband suddenly died. That was the beginning of a series of horrible events visited upon Evelyn and Ellie. Arabella's child died after her baby clothes had been put in the chest. Evelyn's daughter-in-law, Esther, married to her oldest son, put her wedding attire in the chest. She died. Once Aunt Sarah knitted a scarf and gloves to give to her son for Christmas. While walking along a train trestle, he fell off and was killed a few days before Christmas. Two other tragedies befell Evelyn's immediate family.  Yet Evelyn's husband, Malcolm, was a success. A small man, always courteous to those around him, he parlayed a shrewd Scottish sense of thrift into a burgeoning business empire that, at its height, consisted of mills, houses, a cullyard, wharf, and a dry goods store. Malcolm was an extraordinarily wealthy man when he died. Despite her material comfort, his wife was haunted by the memories of those around her who were struck down or stricken in some other way by hardship. She took her own life. 11 Persons The conjure chest was taking its toll. As the 20th century unfolded, the chest was inherited by Virginia Cary Hudson from her grandmother Evelyn Johnson. Mrs. Hudson thought tales of the curse were just hearsay. She was wrong. Her first baby's clothes were put into the chest. She died. Another child's clothes were tucked in a drawer, and she contacted infantile paralysis. Another daughter's wedding dress was stored there, and her first husband ran off. A son was stabbed in the hand. He had clothes in the chest. A friend of the family put hunting clothes in it. He was shot in a hunting accident. And so it went. 16 victims, all of whom had one thing in common. Some of their personal clothing had been put in the conjure chest. Mrs. Hudson wanted to put an end to the curse. She found what she had hoped would be the solution in the form of an old friend of hers, an African-American woman named Annie. Annie understood curses and conjures. The spell cast by Hosea's faithful companions would be broken only when three conditions were met. First, Mrs. Hudson would have to be given a dead owl without her having to ask for one. Second, the green leaves of a willow tree had to be boiled from sun up to sun down. The dead owl had to remain in sight. Third, the boiled liquid was then to be buried in a jug with its handle facing east toward the rising sun below a flowering bush. A stuffed owl, given to Mrs. Hudson's son by a friend, accomplished the first requirement. Mrs.  The owl kept watch from a kitchen counter. At dusk, old Annie and Mrs. Hudson took the jug and with its handle pointed east buried it beneath a flowering lilac bush outside the kitchen window. Annie said they would only know if the curse had been broken if one of them died before the first full days of fall. Annie died in early September, the 17th and last known victim. The final private owner of the conjure chest was Mrs. Hudson's daughter, Virginia C. Main. Though she may have been skeptical of the curse and knew fully the story of the curse being lifted by Annie and her mother, she never stored anything in the chest and kept it hidden in her attic. The Kentucky History Museum has it now. Mrs. Main donated it to the museum in 1976. According to museum registrar, Mike Hudson, the chest is in storage in our vaults, awaiting the time when it fits into a new exhibit. Supposedly the curse has been removed, but has it? Tucked safely in the top chest drawer is an envelope with a cluster of owl feathers inside. The museum isn't taking any chances. On 17th Street in Tuscaloosa, there is a home that is hailed as the most haunted in the state of Alabama. It is called the Drish House, which was formerly known as Monroe Place. Built mostly by slaves for John Drish and his wife on a plot of 450 acres, it was a beautiful home, styled in both the Greek and Italian Renaissance style. However, as beautiful as it was, darkness from its past marred its beauty. The owner, John Drish, already had a sad, morbid history when the house was built. He was a doctor and was married to a woman named Catherine Washington. They had a daughter named Catherine. Sadly, his wife died when their daughter was young. He sent her to live in Virginia with relatives because he believed living with a widower would not be good for her. John Drish was allegedly a charming man, and it didn't take long for him to woo and marry a rich widow by the name of Sarah Owen in 1825. He brought his daughter Catherine back to Alabama to live with him, but their relationship was frayed, so much so that a story of cruelty surrounds them. Allegedly, Catherine fell in love with a man John didn't prove of. He locked her in her room with very little food and water, and she eventually relented. She later married only to bring her sons back to the Drish House. She had divorced their father. Many rumors suggest that Catherine suffered from mental illness. Though charming, John Drish was an alcoholic, and he suffered from a violent temper. Sadly, John Drish would die because of that. There are three stories surrounding his death. The first is he threw himself from a second floor balcony. The second is that he was drunk and fell down the stairs, and the third story alleges that he was trying to stop drinking and began to shake from withdrawals and fell. Regardless of which story is true, John Drish died in 1867, leaving his distraught wife to plan his funeral. Sarah was so distraught that she became more and more eccentric. She planned an elaborate funeral. When it was over, she kept her husband's funeral candles and hid them away. She insisted that they be burned at her funeral. When she died in 1884, no one could find the candles, so her wishes were not met. Sadly, these were not the only dark things to surround the Drish family. Dr. Drish's niece was murdered by her husband, and there was also a rumor that a runaway slave hid in one of the towers, but when he exited because he needed food, he was returned to his owner who burned him alive. There have been reports of a male ghost who is assumed to be this slave. Since Sarah's death, the house has been used as a school, a church, salvage yard, an auto parts store and was also reportedly a prison during the Civil War. Besides the male ghost, ghost lights have also been reported near the top of the house and what appears to be a ghostly fire shooting from the third-story tower. Of course, there is no fire when the firemen arrive. This occurrence is either blamed on the ghost of the slave or Sarah Drish, who is believed to be angry because her wishes of using her husband's funeral candles at her own funeral were not met. Though the house fell in disrepair for a while, it has been restored and it is now open for those who wish to hold events there. So there is hope that the dark history of the Drish house is gone and can now have a bright future. Up next, drivers are reporting strange ghostly orbs following them on dark roads and Dangtang Nock is a well-known con man who was used the names of multiple dead soldiers to con veteran groups into giving him money, but one identity that he stole created a fascinating and dark story. These tales and more when Weird Darkness returns. Hey truckers, if you're on the road behind the wheel of a tractor trailer for a living, I have a contest just for you. Every month, I'm doing a random drawing from entries I receive in the Deadhead Truckers Contest. Go to WeirdDarkness.com slash truckers and register to win.  If you listen to Weird Darkness because handling 18 wheels alone on the road by yourself just isn't scary enough, then this monthly contest is for you. Register to win at your next 10-100 and visit WeirdDarkness.com slash truckers. That's Weird Darkness.com slash truckers. Roads have always seemed to attract about them tales of the strange and unusual. They push out further and further ahead of us, their destinations not visible, mysterious as the landscape rushes by us, sometimes bringing with it bizarreness. It is perhaps this almost primal sense of oddness that has spawned countless tales of haunted roads, inhabited by all manner of strange entities and apparitions. One feature of some spooky haunted roads are ghost lights, also called spook lights, dancing and twirling in the dark to baffle and amaze, and sometimes they seem to be far from harmless. Some malevolent spook lights seem to be linked to some sort of phantom motorists, and perhaps one of the more well-known of these is said to prowl a rural road in the town of Switzerland in St. John's County, Florida, in the United States. Here there is a modest little road called Greenbrier Road, which runs just east of the main town and there have for years been tales of a rather aggressive spook light that stalks vehicles that dare to drive along here at night. The enigmatic light is typically said to look just like a motorcycle headlight, which will pull up behind cars and steadily catch up no matter how fast the car goes, growing even larger in the rear view mirrors of the startled drivers. The light of the Greenbrier Road will then either chase the car until it is gone or bizarrely perch itself atop the vehicle, sort of piggybacking the car for some distance before blinking out of existence, as if it were never there at all. In some cases the mysterious light has even been blamed for causing crashes alongside this lonely stretch of road. The most common origin story for this mysterious light is that it is the wraith of a doomed motorcyclist who died along the road when he was decapitated after running into a telephone pole wire and that he now terrorizes the stretch upon which he met his fate, with only the headlight of his phantom bike visible. One witness named Todd M gave his story to the weird U.S. website saying, A few years ago I went to see Greenbrier Road at night with three of my friends. We had heard the stories about that light that people see and we wanted to see it. We drove up and down the road for like 40 minutes trying to see something but never saw anything until we got ready to leave. My friend Tom was driving and he looked in the rear view mirror and said, What's that? He looked behind us and there was the headlight of a motorcycle coming up fast. We slowed down a little and thought the biker would pass us, but then, just as it got right behind us about a hundred feet, the light went out. There was no motorcycle or anything. We turned around and went back but didn't see anything. I really think we saw a ghost biker of that guy that was killed on his motorcycle on that road. The malignant Greenbrier Ghost Light is so well known in the area that it has been the target of paranormal investigations and even scientific studies and police investigations trying to find a rational explanation for what people are seeing, but no explanation has ever been found. Speaking of phantom motorcyclists, there is another similar spook said to haunt a remote stretch of road winding through the rural farming county of Exeter in Tulare County, California, which is supposedly the stomping ground of a similar ghost. In this case, in the 1950s, a group of friends allegedly decided to play a prank on one of their friends by stretching out some rope across a narrow road called Bardsley Road in the Fresno Valley, after which they lied in wait for their motorcycle riding pal to come cruising by on his way home from work. The plan was for the rope to just hit him in the chest and knock him off his bike, which was pretty mean but they didn't intend to seriously hurt him, certainly not kill him. The story goes that the rider came along the darkened road as expected and also hit the rope just as expected. What wasn't expected was that the rope would be too high and lop his head clean off to go rolling across the pavement. In the aftermath of the gruesome accident, people started occasionally claiming to see a bright light shooting up and down the road, sometimes accompanied by the sound of a motorcycle engine and with the full apparition of a headless rider visible as well. Motorists and people walking along the road at night have also told of being followed or even chased by the Phantom Motorcyclist and it's believed that if you encounter the rider, you will be cursed to be in an accident yourself. Adding to these is a headless rider said to prowl Creek Road of Ojai, California, apparently riding a vintage 1940s motorcycle and appearing as a glowing light at first, often pulling right up next motorists to bang on their vehicles or chase them. Interestingly, Creek Road is ground zero for all manner of ghostly phenomena and high strangeness, including at least two Phantom horse riders, numerous apparitions, a smoking horribly burned and disfigured entity called the Char Man and even a supposed vampire, making a headless motorcycle rider actually one of the less bizarre tales from this place. Other sinister spook lights seem to be malevolent spirits or even possibly demons, located out just northeast of Jacksonville, Florida, is St. George Island, which is home to a historic sugarcane, cotton and corn plantation from the slave days called Kingsley Plantation, established by a man named Zephaniah Kingsley in 1813. The original plantation would quickly grow until Kingsley owned around a total of 32,000 acres of land and employed about 200 slaves. Despite having so many slaves, Kingsley was known for being a very lax and kind slave master, allowing his workforce to basically do whatever they wanted when they were off-duty and they were allowed to sell any crafts they made on their own time. Kingsley even married one of his slaves, Anna Magigene Gi, who would go on to take a prominent management role on the plantation, own her own land and end up being one of the richest women in the state. Although conditions were much better for slaves on the Kingsley Plantation than they were elsewhere, there was some amount of tragedy on the plantation, nevertheless. At some point, one of the slaves allegedly took to beating and raping other female slaves, even according to the stories murdering a few and hiding their bodies in the wilderness. When the other slaves got wind of this grim behavior, they are said to have gathered up a lynch mob to hunt the perpetrator down and had him strung up and hanged on a massive, spooky-looking oak tree right in front of the plantation along the main road to the premises, leaving his lifeless body to swing there in the wind. Although Kingsley would move to Haiti along with all of his slaves in 1837, it seems that at least some of them remained in a macabre sense. Over the years, the Kingsley Plantation has come to gather quite a reputation for being intensely haunted, supposedly by the ghosts of those murdered here. One is a woman in white that is frequently spotted roaming around and as a habit of photobombing pictures taken at the locale, while another is an unearthly screaming or wailing that supposedly emanates from the old abandoned well on the property, said to be from a victim of the crime spree, whose body was unceremoniously dumped down there in the darkness. However, one of the most frightening of the spirits of the old Kingsley Plantation is supposedly the vindictive spirit of the mad slave murderer himself, who terrorizes the plantation's creepy and rugged unpaved road. This particularly malicious spirit typically takes the form of two malevolent angry-looking red lights said to be his glowing eyes, earning the phantom the name Old Red Eyes. These lights will supposedly appear right behind cars right about at the old oak tree and chase them, in some reports even relentlessly attacking them. One report of an encounter with Old Red Eyes was described by a witness thus, I've sold Red Eyes several years ago. I have a friend that lives just off of that road and had taken him home from Jacksonville one night. It was about midnight and after driving him off, I was driving back down that road to the hard road and looked in the side mirror on my car and saw two red lights. At first I thought it was the taillights of another car but they were too close together. I slowed down a little and watched them in the mirror and it looked like they were coming closer. I knew that I had not passed another car and it did not seem like a car would be coming down that dark road backwards.  Then I looked in the mirror again and there they were and they were right behind my car. I gunned it and got the hell out of there. What I saw wasn't a car. Just as ominous is the appropriately named Demon's Road in Huntsville, Texas, which is already spooky enough, as it meanders through groves of twisted trees and darkened woods and ends up at the desolate Martha's Chapel Cemetery. The real name is Bowden Road but it has earned its nickname in the decidedly frightening phenomena that have been reported from there, such as Shadow People, a ghostly child with glowing eyes on a tricycle, a hulking faceless beast, a strange hooded figure and arms reaching out from graves. There are many spirits said to lurk along the murky stretches of this road and in the cemetery but one of the creepiest is a ghostlight that seems to be quite malicious indeed. Motorists venturing down the Demon's Road have often reported mysterious red lights hovering about in the dark, the number of which seem to depend on how many people are in the vehicle at the time. These spook lights will supposedly aggressively pursue cars and, spookiest of all, will leave unexplained handprints on the outside. Indeed, these lights have plagued many who have traveled down the road, often leaving those handprints and always hostile, sometimes even clawing or grabbing at cars to leave scratches and dents behind. What could this diabolical force be and why does it want to attack vehicles? Nobody knows. Another case in Texas of an aggressive ghostlight is that said to Roma Road in Hardin County, leading from Bragg to Saratoga, which actually at one point was a part of the Santa Fe Railroad back in the early 1900s before being paved over to be turned into a road. In an area called Big Thicket, there have long been reports of a multi-colored spook light hovering about at night along the road and in the surrounding wilderness, with many of them pointing at the light being quite evil. Even from the beginning, the reports of the Big Thicket Ghostlight, also called the Saratoga Ghostlight, were far from friendly. Hunters reported being chased by the lights and it was not uncommon to hear of them rushing amongst horses to send the animals into a panicked frenzy, to the point that on at least one occasion a horse-drawn wagon was forced to go crashing into a ditch because of the lights. At the time, the lights became a pretty widespread rumor, attracting all sorts of curiosity seekers. An author, F. E. Abernethy, would explain of the phenomenon in his book, Tales from the Big Thicket, Thus. Light seers poured onto the road by the hundreds. People of all ages and intellects came to see and test their beliefs in the supernatural. They shot at it, they chased it, and they tested it with litmus paper and geiger counters. A preacher harangued the road's multitudes from the top of his car, making the light as an ill omen of the world's impending doom. There were some nights the light didn't show at all, but for the most part, it was there to inspire stories that could be passed on, to change and grow at the will and imagination of the storyteller. In later years, the light did not stop its antics in the slightest bit, with reports of it chasing people or even attacking them common, such as cases in which the light stopped car engines, burned people's hands, or even violently knocked them down. There have been reports of cars being dinged, dented or smashed by the ghost light, and it is generally not something one wants to encounter while driving down the already eerie rural road. As usual, there have been many attempts to rationally explain the big, thicket light, such as that it is some sort of illusion, swamp gas or merely headlights, and there have been a fair number of more paranormal explanations as well, including that it is the spirit of a hunter or civil war soldier, or even that it is a curse placed over a lost Spanish treasure. Whatever the case may be, the stories of the evil ghost light of Saratoga persist. Texas seems to be a haven for such spook lights, because there is another road in this state that has its own scary stories of such entities. In the area of Mitchell Flat, east of Martha Texas, there have long been reports of mystery lights floating out over the desert landscape since at least the 1800s. The phenomena are usually described as dancing orbs of light that zip and zoom low to the ground over the parched desert scrub, and they have collectively been coined the Marfa Lights. While the phenomenon is puzzling but usually harmless and distant, there have been some reports that show these lights can be rather frightening on occasion. In one report from Weird Texas, one man named Tim Stevens gave an account of a very bizarre experience, witnessed by a friend of his father's named Roy while traveling down Route 90 in the 1970s. According to the report, Roy had been driving for hours out from San Antonio after sunset and just before dark, and there had been no other cars out in this remote stretch of the highway that evening. Suddenly he noticed what he took to be headlights in his rearview mirror. For some time, the lights remained a comfortable distance away, but at some point, the lights quickly closed the distance to follow right behind him. The report explained the following sequence of events. My dad said that Roy had been driving up with the lights a comfortable distance behind him for several minutes when the vehicle sped up and approached his truck rapidly. For a few seconds, he honestly thought he was about to be rear-ended. Before an impact occurred, however, the lights stopped a few feet short of hitting his truck. At 60 miles per hour, in the middle of an otherwise deserted highway, there probably wasn't too much to ask for a courtesy of a little breathing room. So Roy tapped the brakes. The driver of the vehicle behind him maintained his distance. Roy again tapped his brakes. No response. Finally, very annoyed, Roy jammed hard on his brakes for a fraction of a second. To his amazement, the vehicle behind him stayed the exact distance from his rear bumper as it had been. Roy decided to try a different approach.  The speed crept up to 80 miles per hour. The lights behind him reacted in perfect unison, staying several feet behind his truck. As it approached speeds, Roy was sure he'd never pushed it to before. At nearly 100 miles per hour, the truck was beginning to vibrate badly, but the lights did not waver. Enough was enough. Roy eased off the gas and let the truck coast down to a sane speed. Then he stood on the brakes. The tires screeched and smoked, and the truck pitched and slid slightly to the side. But the whole time, Roy watched the lights in the mirror. They stayed in exactly the same spot until the truck came to a stop. Roy then saw something completely unexpected. The lights shot out off the road to the right and fired across the desert like missiles. He craned his neck around to try and follow them visually, impressed by the driver's driving on what was sure to be a very rough road. He smiled and was about to drive on when a thought occurred to him. He frowned and, making sure he wasn't about to be run over by a big rig or other traffic, put his truck in reverse and slowly backed up, maybe a couple hundred feet. He checked the barbed wire fence line for a road, a gate, or other break of some kind where his pursuer may have slipped through. But there was none. Roy said he was pretty spooked, all right. Off the distance, he could see lights move swiftly across the horizon. Whatever this was, whether it was connected to the Marfa lights or not, it certainly seems hard to explain away as a trick of light or headlight reflections from the distance. Ghost lights have been a persistent phenomenon within the world of the weird, and there have been countless theories to try and explain them. Yet none seem to touch on those lights that seem to reach out from the merely mysterious to lash out at or harass those who encounter them. Is there some explanation for this, or is this just hoaxes and tall tales? If it is indeed real, then why do these particular spook lights cling to these locations, and why do they seem so hostile and threatening? It seems to be beyond our ability to comprehend at this point, and these lights may flit about the periphery of our understanding, prowling their haunted grounds without ever being satisfactorily explained. In Washington, D.C., there are two walls that, from far enough away, appear to be black slabs. As you come closer, you start to notice the etchings on the walls. Closer still, and you will see that the etchings are names. In total, there are 58,308 names, each one belonging to an American man or woman who lost their life in the Vietnam War. Most of these lost souls return home to be buried, but far too many, some who died but were never found, others who were taken as POWs, etc., never came back. For the families of these missing 1,200 people, there was a hole that will never be filled, a hole created by uncertainty, by fear, by grief. To this day, there are mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters hoping for a miracle, hoping that their loved one will return and with each passing year, the chances of that miracle happening shrinks. For the family of Master Sergeant John Hartley Robertson, that miracle happened in 2013, no matter what the world tells them. John Robertson was 32 when the helicopter he was in was shot down over Laos in May 1968. The copter carrying Robertson was never recovered and in 1976, he and the other passengers were declared dead. In 1982, Robertson, along with his brothers-in-arms, had his name etched into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. He can be found on Panel 64E, Row 8. At the same time as the memorial was opened to the public, the U.S. government received reports that Robertson was alive. Robertson's wife and children weren't told. Tom Fontz never had an easy life. Born in Detroit, Fontz's father died when he was young and while Fontz never liked to speak about it, his children believed that their grandfather perished in a house fire. After the death of his father, Fontz spent a life in and out of orphanages and detention centers, suffering abuses he preferred to keep to himself. When the chance came, Fontz joined the U.S. Army and spent 27 months in Vietnam. His time in the military gave Fontz something he had been missing, a family. After the war, Fontz became a born-again Christian and chose to live his life by a simple but honorable credo, radical love no one left behind, no one left unloved. Fontz spent his life traveling the world on humanitarian missions, doing his best to ease the suffering of others. In 2008, Fontz was on a humanitarian mission in Vietnam when he heard about John Robertson, the American soldier who had been living in a small village. Fontz set out to the village to find Robertson. Robertson was old and he had all but forgotten how to speak English. He sat with Fontz and explained what happened in May 1968. His copter was en route to a rescue mission when it was shot down over some mountains. Robertson survived the crash but was instantly taken captive by North Vietnamese soldiers. For four years, they kept Robertson caged up, beating and starving him. At first, they tortured Robertson in hopes of gaining information from him, but in time, the torture just became something to pass the time. When he saw his chance, Robertson escaped from his cage and ran. He evaded the soldiers that pursued him and broke out of the forest before collapsing into a field where he was found by a woman he would later marry and have four children with. For reasons unknown, Robertson never tried to contact his family in America. For over 40 years, John Hartley Robertson lived with his new wife and children under the name of his new wife's dead husband, Dang Tan Nuck. Fontz pushed Robertson now in his 70s for more information. He wasn't about to blindly trust the man but he hoped, deep in his heart, that what he was being told was the truth. Robertson was clear on some details but other things like when he was born or the names of his American children he couldn't remember. He was suffering from dementia and would often break down in tears. Fontz, with the help of Emmy-winning documentarian Michael Jorgensen, searched for more information on Robertson. They found that the U.S. government has been contacted by Robertson multiple times but they never informed his family. Robertson first contacted the U.S. military in 2006 to tell them that he was alive. In the information he filled out, Robertson wrote down the name of a non-existent high school and the wrong address for his U.S. home. He also misspelled his own name. Robertson tried again in 2008 and this time he was taken to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh where he was fingerprinted. His prints did not match the ones on file. As far as the U.S. government was concerned, this was another case of a Vietnamese man trying to trick the military into giving him the back pay that John Robertson would be owed.  His belief is that the U.S. authorities are working to keep Robertson and other living U.S. MIA POWs in Vietnam silent, though the reason to do so is unclear. Fontz and Jorgensen took Robertson to Edmonton, Canada to meet his only living sister, Jean Robertson Holly. After a brief moment, Jean was sure the man standing before her was her brother back from the dead. Jorgensen turned the story into a documentary titled Undocumented in 2013. Shortly after the premiere, U.S. authorities released new information on Robertson. In 1991, former CIA paramilitary operations officer Billy Waugh traveled to Vietnam to find Robertson and obtain a DNA sample for testing. Waugh was successful and the test proved that Robertson had not taken the name Dangtang Nock from a dead man. He was Dangtang Nock. How Dangtang Nock, a Vietnamese citizen of French origin, had found the name of Master Sergeant John Hartley Robertson, or why he chose it, is unknown. What is known is that Dangtang Nock is a well-known con man who has used the names of multiple dead soldiers to con veterans groups into giving him money. Waugh believed that Nock had collected thousands of dollars over the year. Still, Master Sergeant Robertson's family held out hope. In November of 2013, they started a GoFundMe campaign in hopes to get the money needed to perform their own DNA test. While they were unable to reach the intended goal, the Robertson family was able to get the test done. The results showed that Waugh had found over 20 years earlier. Dangtang Nock was not John Hartley Robertson. Men like Dangtang Nock, men who take advantage of the grieving and the hopeful, are true monsters who walk the earth every day. To lose a family member to a war can be nothing less than shattering to one's soul. To lose them again because of the actions of a con man is something no one should ever have to feel. The want to believe that your loved one is alive and well overtakes the rational side of your mind, pushing out all doubts because in the end, all any of us want is a happy ending. To find out more about MIA or POWs that are still missing and to donate to those families who are still living with uncertainty about their loved one who fought in Vietnam, you can visit POW-MIAFAMILIES.ORG. That's POW-MIAFAMILIES.ORG. When Weird Darkness returns, a woman comes home to find her visiting sister murdered and police are convinced she was the one who committed the crime. So why wasn't she locked up in prison? And a bordello, pizza and a haunting, you can find them all at the Red Onion Saloon. These stories are up next. What kind of person does it take to build a civilization from the ground up? Astronaut Nick Burke will have to learn how to be a leader if he wants humanity to survive on a new planet, even if he himself is no longer human. Nick Burke dreams of successfully creating the first sustainable space colony in human history. After a third failed mission on Mars, Nick returns to Earth heartbroken. But during the trip home, he has an epiphany caused by a near-death experience on how to truly accomplish his dream. Nick launches a billionaire-funded startup company that solves the interstellar travel problem, transporting people in a spaceship without any people aboard. After Nick lands on his new, distant planet, he has to combat his greatest trials yet, including raising children and goats while becoming a colony-building survivalist. Fans of Andy Weir's The Martian and Dennis E. Taylor's We Are Legion, We Are Bob, will find familiar themes of innovative science fiction ideas with plenty of humor and pop culture. The hard science fiction novel, Seed, by Matthew G. Dick, narrated by Darren Marlar. Here are free samples on the audiobooks page at WeirdDarkness.com. Mrs. Ida Quinlan and her nine-year-old son Johnny went out to buy a pair of stockings around nine o'clock on the night of February 1, 1896, leaving her baby in the care of her sister Mrs. Sophia Grant. They took a streetcar to the store several miles away, purchased the stockings and other sundry items, returning to the house at around 11. Ida rang the bell, but there was no response, so she went to the landlord who lived nearby and got a key to the house. Entering the sitting room, she was surprised to see the drawers of the chiffonniers pulled out and the contents spread on the floor. She called for Sophia and getting no response went into the kitchen, where she found her sister lying dead on the floor, covered with blood. Horrified, Ida ran from the house to seek assistance from the neighbors. At least that was the story she told the police. The following day, Ida Quinlan was arrested for the murder of her own sister. They lived in a three-story tenement in the Charlestown section of Boston. It was a two-family home, but at the time, Ida Quinlan and the two children shared the house with her sister Sophia Grant and their brother, Angus McLeod, a conductor on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. They also took in lodgers. John Thompson, a breakman on the same line as Angus, had a room there. Sophia had married B. W. Grant three years earlier, but after a few months, they decided that they did not want to live together. She stayed in Charlestown and he lived in Providence, Rhode Island, where he had a dry goods business. It was said Sophia and her husband were on friendly terms and corresponded frequently. Dr. O'Brien examined the body for the police and determined Sophia Grant had been struck in the head several times with a blunt object, fracturing her skull. She was wearing nothing but a nightdress and stockings, but had not been sexually assaulted. There were no signs of a struggle, but a rocking chair in the kitchen was overturned. She was probably struck while sitting in it. Robbery was thought to be the motive but no one from the house could say that anything was missing. Ida thought Sophia kept $25 in one of the drawers but that could not be confirmed. The doors had been locked when Ida returned and there were no signs of a forced entry. It could have been one of the residents of the house but everyone with a latch key had an alibi. It might have been a former lodger who kept his key or possibly the killer had climbed a drain pipe and entered through a broken window on the third floor. But the police did not think it was necessary to go so far afield. Ida Quinlan's story did not stand up to close scrutiny. The police had several reasons to suspect Ida of the murder. She had a record of violence having been charged with assault and battery three months earlier. Ida's husband David had moved out due to her bad temper and drinking habits. She was the last to see the murdered woman and the first to find her dead. She could not explain why she left the house after 9 o'clock and travelled so far to make a purchase that she could have made at a store near her home. It was unusual for her to keep her 9-year-old boy out past 11. After finding the body, she ran from the house without first checking on her baby. Their guard dog, a large black Newfoundland named Fred, gave no indication of being disturbed by an intruder. The police were convinced that Ida Quinlan was guilty and arrested her for the murder of her sister. Additional evidence was gathered. Dr. Wood of Harvard University who did forensic analysis for the police examined the dress Ida wore and found blood, not in blotches which might have resulted from touching the body after death, but small spots as if spattered. Her Macintosh, shirt waste and shoes also had spots of blood. 9-year-old Johnny Quinlan went questioned, said he had been by his mother's side all night, but the police found witnesses who contradicted that. At 9 o'clock, a delivery man came by with a dozen bottles of beer Ida had ordered. Normally, he would have carried them upstairs for her, but this time Ida carried them herself. While she was inside, William D. Daughtry, a tailor on his way to the shop, saw a boy standing alone on the street. He recognized him as Johnny Quinlan and said hello. Ida and Johnny had been seen apart long enough for her to have murdered Sophia. The biggest problem for the police was the absence of a motive for the murder. Relations between Ida and Sophia were cordial. There were no recent arguments or long-standing feuds between them. It was said that they disagreed on religious matters but not enough to incur violence. Ida would not benefit financially by her sister's death.  In spite of this, the police were ready to take their case to the grand jury. Without a motive, it was doubtful that Ida would be indicted for a first-degree murder, but the police were sure that she'd be charged with second-degree murder or at least manslaughter. But the grand jury was not impressed by the evidence against Ida Quinlan and did not return any indictment. While they vowed to keep investigating, the police were reluctant to pursue any other theory. They had gone all in against Ida Quinlan and they still believed she was guilty. The reputation as officers rests on their claim, said the Boston Daily Advertiser, and it could not be said that they would attempt to pass over any other clue, yet it can easily be seen that it would be very hard for them to get up much enthusiasm in working over something that would be a slap in their own faces. The Boston police found no more evidence against Ida Quinlan or anyone else in the case. The murder, which made sensational headlines in February, was all but forgotten in March. In the small city of Skagway, Alaska, on Broadway Street, there is a building built with planks cut by the town's founder, Captain William Moore. This building is interesting for three reasons, a bit of naughty history, pizza, and a haunting. The naughty history of the building began just after its completion when it opened as a bordello in 1898 called the Red Onion Saloon. This was during the gold rush when miners, hoping to hit it big, traveled through Skagway which had been dubbed the Gateway to the Klondike on their way to find gold nuggets. Miners would come in looking for entertainment in both drink and ladies, and they found both in the Red Onion Saloon. The first floor was a saloon where the men would imbibe alcohol and dance with the women. The second floor contained 10 rooms where the men were entertained by the ladies who inhabited them. Choosing the ladies was done with dolls. Each had a doll that represented them behind the bar. If the dolls were sitting up, the lady that the doll represented was available. If the doll was lying on their back, they were entertaining. As time passed and the rush for gold faded from the area, the bordello eventually faded as well, leaving the building behind to become other things. It was used as barracks in World War II to house soldiers. It also became a union hall, bakery, and gift shop as well as a laundry and television station, but its history as a bordello would not fade and it was destined to become a saloon again. Only this time, there would be pizza. Today, it is a historical landmark and operates as a saloon and brothel themed pizzeria with pizzas with bordello-themed names like the Busti La Rue or Lady Lavoie, and the employees dress as madams from the Red Onion Saloons heyday as well as barmen and musicians in period dress from that time. It is also a working museum where they give tours and you can view items that were once in the brothel. Sounds like a fun place to visit, even without a ghost. The haunting itself is allegedly the ghost of a woman who had been named Lydia and is thought to have been a prostitute at the Red Onion Saloon during the Gold Rush. There have been multiple sightings of her, especially in the upstairs area, though she has been allegedly hostile to men, she does have a fondness for plants in the saloon and waters them. There have been footsteps heard on the second floor and if that doesn't frighten you, she also has appeared as a full-bodied apparition that ran down the hall when police came to check out a disturbance. She then ran into the madams room. When they checked it, no one was in the room. It is often this room where her spirit is seen walking around and watering plants that are no longer there. There is often a strong smell of perfume and cold spots. Unfortunately, it is not known whether she died in the Red Onion Saloon, but one of the former madams was believed to be named Lydia and perhaps it is her spirit that lingers. So if you want to do some ghost hunting on your own, the Red Onion Saloon operates from April to October. Get a drink, order a pizza, and if you're lucky, you'll also get to see Lydia. 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The Conjure Chest was posted at theunexplainedmysteries.com. The haunting of Derish House was written by Amanda Penn. Haunted Roads and Spook Lights was written by Brent Swancer for Mysterious Universe. The strange return of Master Sergeant John Hartley Robertson is by Derek Ferracci for the 13th Floor. Did Ida Do-It is written by Robert Wilhelm for Murder by Gaslight. The Red Onion Saloon was written by Amanda Penn. And The Fictional Story, a brief history of egg-burning, was written by Louise Latham for Weird Darkness. And the other fictional story, Gremality, was written by Cara Raich for Weird Darkness. Weird Darkness is a production and trademark of Marlar House Productions. Copyright Weird Darkness. And now that we're coming out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light. Proverbs 11 verse 9. With his mouth, the godless destroys his neighbor. But through knowledge, the righteous escape. 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Think Tech Hawaii. Civil engagement lives here. The Comfort Zone on Think Tech on Spectrum OSU 16. I'm your host, RV Kelly, and today we're going to be talking about excuses. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm a little tired of the excuses I've been hearing from Washington, from politics, even from local community leadership, and sometimes from my husband, though I'm sure he feels the same way about me. So today we're talking with the confidence architect, Kamisha Muhammad, about making excuses and why they don't serve you. Kamisha, welcome to the show! Hello, thank you for having me. Oh, it's so good to have you here. I'm excited you're joining us. Now viewers, you should know I've actually never met Kamisha face to face, so this entire interview is live, totally spontaneous. She hasn't been prepped, but we're gonna have a lot of fun anyway. So, yes, we are. Kamisha, would you be willing to explain a little bit more to our viewers about what you do? Yes, I am a lifestyle transformation coach and speaker, and currently an author as well. I help women gain the courage, confidence, and compassion for who they really are, so they can show up boldly, fearlessly, and authentically to live the life that they truly want to live. And I do that through coaching and speaking and sharing. That sounds like a really unique and a really interesting thing to do. You must get a lot of interesting stories, you must get a lot of interesting clients, but how did you get into that? Okay, so I got into it because I had a really expressive degree that I wasn't using, and I found that I needed to use it because I spent a lot of money on it, and I wanted to use it in a way that I could spend in my integrity and also set my own standards, and I felt like working out in the field that I was in. I was running into a lot of integrity issues. I wasn't in a place where it was too high enough standard that I felt comfortable to actually represent them, and so I just got tired of it happening over and over, and I wanted to control my own situation, and I fell into a swamp trying to figure out, okay, what do I do? I really want to live life, but it's so hard to just show up and work your own business, and I really want to go back and work for someone else because it's easy, but then I have to, again, work to their standards and have to deal with whether it's going to be in integrity or not, and I didn't want to because integrity is really high on my value list, so what happened was I said, okay, how can I help other people, and I found that I wanted to help other people be confident in who they are, like who they really are so they can go out and really live how they wanted to live because that's what I fear for myself, and that's how I wanted to show up, and I was like, there's many women out there that want to do the same thing, so why not go ahead and help them do that? Wow, Camisha, that is really powerful. Would you be willing to tell me a little bit more about some of the struggles you see these women going through, some of the difficulties that they face? Now working with women on solely confidence, and what I came to find is that a lot of the women weren't ready for the confidence conversation because at the moment a lot of them didn't even feel like they were worth going after their dreams, they were worth being who they were because they were always told something different, and they always felt something different from the people around them.  Alright, that's a really interesting story, and I actually have a couple personal experiences about that where I've noticed in my personal life whenever I'm really wanting to go after something and there's something that I know is going to be good for me. I just kind of, sometimes we just freeze, and we hit this thing where we don't know how to move forward, we kind of want to move forward, but we're afraid of the risks, and so we end up making these ideas and these stories about why we can't have what we want, why it's not safe to go after what we want. And so I've seen in my life so many times where there's something that I say I want, but instead of getting my results, I make excuses. Oh, I can't do this this week, I've just been too busy. Oh, my husband and I are going through a rough spot, I have to focus on that. Or, oh, you know, I've been going back to college, I just don't have time. And so I make all of these excuses instead of getting the thing that I actually want. Is that something you see your clients doing sometimes? Oh yes, it happens very, very often and it even happened with me. So I've learned to see the patterns because it was a pattern that I followed. And I followed it in kind of a different direction where I had the excuse of why I shouldn't show up and show out for me. And my excuse was because it would dim someone else's life and it would hurt someone else. And I really believed it, it was like it was instilled in you. Like if I keep showing up and showing out and I'm getting all this recognition it's taking away from someone else. And that was another reason why I decided to help women just show up and be who they are because I went through a whole phase of where I was always dimming who I was because I wanted to let other people shine. Which it didn't serve me any purpose and made me feel a little okay but it also helped me hide. So I felt okay but I also was able to hide for that very reason and that was a really good excuse for me to hide. Whereas later I decided like hey I'm tired of dimming my light it takes too much energy, I'm not happy, I really want to be happy so I'm just going to be who I am and if someone doesn't like it they don't mess with me or it's not good for someone else, it's okay. Because I'll find my people, I'll find the people who like me who love me for exactly who I am and those were the people that will rock in my life and the people that don't, I'll be okay. And I want other women to feel that exact way. And you know Camisha it's really funny you say that because actually that's something I've been going through right now. Now my viewers you know I have my TV show, I'm a speaker, I'm a coach, I sing I love to put myself out there but I often don't because I feel like there's a limited amount of whether that's like happiness or recognition and if I put myself out there like you said I'm taking it from someone else. And so I've had to struggle with that mindset myself that if I am my true self and I go after what I really want I'll outshine people and everyone will turn on me and drag me down. Like that's a fear I've had. So when you are working with your clients on this what do you tell them or what do you have them do to have them work through this situation? I have them look at the outcome and weigh the results. What is going to be different if you show up as who you really are versus if you don't? How is that going to serve you in your life? You have to take care of yourself first. You can't take care of everybody else and then not take care of yourself.  You have to take care of you so you can show up as your best self so that you can be of help to those around you or take care of your children or live in harmony as much as you can with your husband because you know how they get. So you have to love who you are first and you have to take care of you. So I focus on that a lot. I focus on you. You are important. It's okay to be selfish. It's okay because when you are selfish you're able to be happy and helpful. You don't have to not help people because you're being a little selfish.  And I think some viewers might misinterpret this as you saying that oh you should undermine other people or oh you can take things from other people but I don't think that's what you're saying. Right? I think it's more like you're saying that. No, no, no. I'm saying when I'm saying be selfish I'm saying think of yourself first sometimes because we as women we're so nurturing and we want to help everybody else that we neglect ourselves and we forget ourselves and so everybody else is getting what they need and then we're falling by the wayside and we're not getting what we need. So what I'm saying is okay to be selfish sometimes and think of yourself first. Take care of you because self-care is very important. You have to take care of yourself so that you can really show up and a lot of people take it as oh you tell people to say no and I won't help you or I can't do that for you, I have to do for me and I'm kind of saying that but I'm not really saying that. What I'm saying is think of yourself first so that you can make sure that you're happy mentally, physically and emotionally so that you can be your best you and then as you're doing that you can reach out and help other people you can be a part of other things but you need to help you first. I think I get it now and so I have a story where recently I committed to helping a friend with a project right about the same time that I decided to go back to college while I was also growing my business and then as all of this was going on I was like I'm running out of hours and then my church called me they wanted me to take on some extra responsibilities there and I was so like ahhh tense and stressed by like trying to juggle everything that I ended up like disappearing for a week and a half where I just I couldn't answer my messages I couldn't show up to anything I was like so overwhelmed that I shut down and if I had at the very beginning been just a little selfish like you said I might not have committed quite so much to that project I might have been able to commit to a smaller thing for my church I might have been able to spend more time on my college courses maybe shrink down a little bit on my business but I would have kept my sanity and it's not like I would have let those friends down but I still could have supported them in a way that also supported me is that what you're saying? Yes, you could have thought of ways to I want to say spread your time more wisely than spreading yourself in because I know you just said you wanted to help and you had made a commitment but sometimes you do have to say okay what can I really handle and how can I handle it effectively and efficiently because like if you can't handle it and you shut down now and you are harming yourself versus if you at the beginning you would have said okay this is how much time I have that I can commit to this and if you can accept this time here this amount of hours or this amount of minutes then I can help you but if this is not enough time for what you need I'm sorry I won't be able to help because I have to I have my own commitment to commit it to right now and sometimes people are like I don't want to say no but you don't necessarily have to say no you just say at this time I don't have the capacity to handle that for you but if you need me later I can say I'll let you know if I have the time then you don't have to come straight out with the word no everybody thinks that no is a bad word but no is a good word because I used to do the same exact thing I would take on so much and so much and so much because I really wanted to help but then for me I I had a shut down situation that was for not just a couple weeks it was for like some months and I just was like okay no more world I really just have to shut down and take care of me but it followed me being stressed to the point to where I got sick I ended up in the hospital because of the stress and made my body think that's why self care is so important to take care of you physically mentally and emotionally you have to set boundaries and be able to say I can't do that right now I can't help you with that right now because if you don't you risk yourself you know you risk yourself and that's not what we want to do we don't want to risk ourselves which as women we do it so much and sometimes we just have to learn to say I can't or no or I told them an easier way to say no is to just schedule your youth time that no one or anything can interrupt take a day of the week or a couple of hours that that's just you and it's time for no one else that's an easy no on this day of time and that's not even saying no that's just saying hey this is the time for me and nobody else so that's a good way to get started in blocking out time for you so that you can really take care of you and decompress and not worry about anything else going on that's just like the shutout time for you and it's like a healthier way to do it before you get to the end and it's kind of too late those are some brilliant strategies Kamisha so thank you for sharing and viewers we are going to be right back to talk just in a minute just in a minute more we'll be right back to talk more about making excuses and some easy strategies that you can use to start saying no and protecting yourself see you in a minute Hello everyone I'm DeSoto Brown the 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new technologies and new thoughts on how we can get clean and green in Hawaii Aloha Welcome to Comfort Zone I'm your host RB Kelly and this is our special guest Kamisha Muhammad now viewers when you checked out we were talking about easy strategies for you to say no we were talking about why it's so important to be a little bit selfish and put yourself first now we also want to dive into a little bit of excuses so Kamisha can you explain what you're thinking with this Yes, yes, yes so I found that it's so easy to make an excuse but this means something you really want to do because the excuse is easier and I've been through it I made some crazy excuses to not do what I really wanted to do be out of fear and not wanting to put myself out there and then I got to a point where I was like I'm either going to get an excuse I'm either going to get excuses or I'm going to get results at a point where excuses really didn't matter anymore because I was like it is what it is and it's going to be what it's going to be and if I don't take that step and jump out there I'm going to live within my fears because fear can't consume you and so I said okay I have to get past these excuses so what am I going to do and I just started to jump into anything that I would have apprehensions about or that I would not want to do because it wasn't comfortable and I love this title out of the comfort zone because what happens is we will live in our comfort zone forever because it's safe and it's easy what I found is that out of my comfort zone consistently on a consistent basis I always tell everyone to go for what's easy first I think I went for what's hard first because I needed to get past the excuses and because I got really really in tune with time and I was like time is passing by and passing by and passing by and you do not get it back and so I was like okay I can't waste any more time so let me expose myself to these things that I'm fearful of or that are uncomfortable and I didn't get used to being uncomfortable and what happened was I kept doing it and I kept doing it and I kept doing it and now I'm not as uncomfortable to do those things and sometimes I don't even think about it because I built it into myself that it's become part of my lifestyle to just go after whatever I'm most afraid of first and get it over with and it's kind of like you're numbing yourself and you're numbing yourself to being uncomfortable because you're consistently doing it and it was I was doing it for a while and I came across a YouTube video where I wish I could remember his name right now where he was actually exposing himself to know he would ask people outrageous things get a note, ask the one something outrageous, get a note because he wanted to get used to hearing know so that when he heard it it didn't affect me anymore and that's kind of what I did with fear and being uncomfortable I kept exposing myself to it so that later I would have to deal with excuses and I would get more results it was about taking action and taking action is what helps you get past the fear it helps you get to your results and it also helps you with the excuses excuses a fear's best friend or fear's closest cousin they work together they plot on you but you have to find I made a post the other day I'd be your own superhero and conquer fear and excuses and living your confidence and live fearlessly and boldly so that you can get to the life you want to live and get to the life you want to live quicker instead of letting fear and excuses run your life you take control and start running your own life wow Camisha now I know okay I can think of just today several excuses that I've already made so what would you recommend for people who are you know trying to stop using these excuses start taking accountability and start building that confidence what would you have for them I usually checklists and I like to do lists because if you're writing it out for one and then you see it right in front of you and I usually say you know like you know one column all the excuses that you would make to not do something that you really love and that you really want to do make a list of all of those excuses and then make another column and write why you make that excuse how does that excuse really affect you and in the third column like is the excuse really in control is that excuse larger than what you want to do with your life and where you want to be in life I also say with excuses I always say find find the counselor for your excuse and what I mean by the counselor what is your excuse and now turn your excuse around and do the opposite because we sometimes we make silly excuses we make silly excuses and we live in them and so we make them so much that we start to believe them you know that is a real thing we start to believe that they're actually true because we're consistently saying it we're consistently living in it so we start really identifying with it if we start to conquer those excuses by countering them and doing the opposite you know to really conquer that excuse now you can always come up with another silly excuse so I call him next to me because we really we get creative with these excuses we get really creative and I know because I'm a really creative person the biggest one that I think we tell ourselves is I'll do it tomorrow I do that all the time I do it tomorrow you know and I say those tomorrow turn into weeks and months and years and then you get to your New Year's resolution and you have the same New Year's resolution for the previous year and the previous year and the previous year because you keep putting it off and you never do it and what I tell people is there's no such thing as tomorrow like tomorrow does not exist tomorrow is a fantasy because every time we say I'll do it tomorrow and you wake up and guess what it's today it's tomorrow and if you keep waiting and say I'll do it tomorrow you're today's keep passing so why not just do it right now and do it today thank you Kameesha this has been really interesting for me and I hope very helpful for our viewers now is there a website or a link where people can find you and maybe practice it yeah of course my website is www.kameesha.com You can like, links below There's the c-s-m-e-s-h-a and I want to stuff that out so so you can find me at www.kameesha.com and on on all social media at Kameesha or you can type into the everything that's architected I should pop up now when we were talking earlier over the break you did mention that there was like a guide that people could use it was was it the So what I have for you guys is I have an excuse cleanse starter kit that is the starter kit before entering into the excuse cleanse and what I'm going to do for you is I'm going to give you a free surprise out of the starter kit and to get it you just have to go to theexcusecleans.com and enter in your information and get on the waitlist because it drops on Monday and I'll be giving you all something free out of the starter kit. Alright thank you Camisha so viewers if you haven't already be sure to go visit theexcusecleans.com not Cleans C-L-E-A-N C-L-E-A-N-S-E cleanse the excuse cleanse. Alright well thank you so much for joining us Camisha we've had a wonderful time having you on the show is there any last minute one or two we've got just one or two minutes left but is there anything else you'd like to say to the audience before we go? Yes I would just like to say you know give yourself a chance take the time to go for you make out what you want to do in your life like what is it not what you think is within reach but what you really want to do no matter how outraged it may feel to you no matter how far away you may think it is just live in that moment and think about it and write it down and then think about all the things that you have that are holding back and I want you to decide do you want to have a life deal with excuses or do you want to get results and a way to get results is to take action and to kick people and to say throw excuses to the curve you know they're cute and all but we want to we want to go ahead and live the life that we want to live. Brilliant thank you so much Camisha I've really learned a lot from having you here and I'm sure our audience has as well so viewers thank you for having me I really enjoyed it and really enjoyed speaking with you good I'm happy to hear that so viewers I hope you are not getting lazy I hope you're not getting stuck in your comfort zone because there's still more to learn every week you have the opportunity to tune in on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. to get more of Camisha and other experts like her to help you stop sucking at life and start getting the results you want so please do tune in next Tuesday at 1 p.m. for out of the comfort zone for you there


Yn ymwneud, ymwneud ym mhwylwch chi'n gweithio. Rwy'n ei ddim yn gweithio, yn amser ffordd i chi'n gweithio. Yn ymwyng o'r ffordd i'w ymwneud, mae'n ffordd i chi'n gweithio. Yn ymwneud ymwneud, dwi'n gwneud yn ei gweithio. Yn ymwneud yn ymwneud. Rwy'n ei ddim yn ei gweithio? Rwy'n ei ddweud, mae eich gweithio. Mae hyn yn ei ddweud ar gyfer y Lleodraeth fel yma, o'n mynd i gael ei fod wedi wniech ar gyfer, a gw'n ffren i gael gael y maeson. Ymgolodd, Fel Mesaen yng Nghymru, a'r gael y gallai? Gallai yn ffren i'r gael. Mae'r ymddur yma. Ymmer hyn o gael yma wedi'i dd pois. Mae'r ffren i'r gael yma. Mae'r ffren, mae'r gael ddod i ddoch yn ffredeg o'r gael. Mae'r gael ddod o'r gael yn ymddur ond yma. Mae'r gael i'r gael wedi ddod i ddweud yma. hinei chi efallai ngwethaf. We hope for a good weeks training next week to get a convention from then on. Last week was obviously your 2nd way win in the club's 2nd way win in 30 months. When you look at what you're trying to build here, how significant a step you feel you're taking to getting that next the way win? Three points, a good feeling in the moment, a bit of confidence to take forward. This is a Premier league but I can't dispute it's a great feeling for us. Felly wyddwn i'r gam ydym ni'n gwlad gwneud. Rydym eich bod i'n dda i, a'n cael ei gynnal, a'r ddechrau'r lleol yn brosiectd ar y gwahodd yn y cyfnodau, a'r ysbwrth yn dal yn gafosio. Wrth gwrs, mae'n gweithio'r bobl yw risu lleol ar y cwmpflaen i ni. Ond rwy'n ôl i beth sy'n blaen iawn. Ac mae'n angen i'w ddweud hyn i'n gweithio, oed yn defnyddio ac yn haf ymgyrch â'r cwmfaen. Rwylech chi니다 i mewn gweld llawer o gael canfeyddiaeth, maen nhw'n anodon. Rydym yn cael eu siwr arall o sîl mewn ond wedi'u gweld. Rwy'n meddwl i'ch fynd yw eu vadr, ddwy'r ddych chi'n meddwl mynd i'r hyfforddiadol yn fwrdd i'r ddangos a ddotlod yma, ar gwybod yma i'r hyfforddiadol, wedi'u finfectio. Rwy'n meddwl sicrhau ymweld digon o'r ddodlod i amlwg. Roedd Ien nhw'n allan o'ch gofyn i'r fan. Ac fel y tîm lanzaednaeth, mynd i'r rhywbeth, a am gympredin ni'n ymdyn nhw. Mae'r gweithredydd yn dweud eich o'r enghraifft o'r ddechrau a chael adynnol y ddefnyddio a'r ddweithiau a'r amser lle o beth sy'n ddweud. Rwy'n ni'n meddiad ym Ysbryd yn lleol â'r cyffredin. Mae'rUnhaith ymdeg yn ymdeg yn meddwl a'r Fygoedd Cymru ac mae'n meddwl i'r rheiniwr. Mae'n meddwl i gynnwys hyn yn gweithio gyda fforddau ein ffordd a'r organwysau. ymarferd ystyried yn ei chael bÕf ymgyrch, siarad ar ôl i'r llun, yn dod o ran y bwrdd, yn ôl ymgyrch, ni'n fydd yn bwrdd. Felly, roeddwn i'n rwynt ei ddif ymddian nhw o hynny, i'n rhan nhw i ddim yn ar arwain, a'r pryn ymgyrch, d OND, mae'r parbylch yr oes �hau ymddian. Rwy'n meddwl ar y dyfodol, gofodd, ymryddu iddyn ni'n parbylch? Prydych chi'n gweithio arni, ym rwy'n credu eich tref eich ddau ar hynny, Rydyn ni'n mwy'n ei wneud bod yw'r ardalai caithau iawn, ond ond rydyn ni'n meddw i'ch brif mwyавnau a'r cyfrifau sydd yn gyflonwg ar y trofyniaid a fydd efallai ar gyfer gwell. Yn y fod i'ch gwybod ar wych. Yn dyn ni'n meddwl yn ymgyrchiant rwyf wedi'i gwerthwyrion, ac rydyn ni'n mwyaf i'ch ei hun ymddug ferfrif sydd yn trwy'r cyfrif yma, felly mae'n ardu yn y gallu gwymoniad a mae'r trafnwysau a'r holl mae'n ardu yn dweud y dyfodol. Rwy'n dweud y bydd yn gweld y peithio bod dowod o'i gweld a ati yn y gweithio a'r ffwrdd o'r prynwiadol yn y cyhoedffent, ac yn y gallu gweld ar y cynhyrchu a'r pernwys i'r gweithio, ac yn etym ni'n gyfrifio'n arweithio i oed i ni i gynrychiadau â wledalen. a now we've had maybe some time to work with more confidence, less tension in a positive direction and the players are brought in to that. So there's lots of nice parts of it, but we're still very early. We've still got two wins on the board and we still want a lot more. So I feel bad when I talk too much, in answering your question. It's just some good work that we want to continue. It might be early to ask about certain players' futures as well, but just wonder if you've already asked to sign conocolic permanently, If not, are you going to? Well it's not probably a question for now, because it's so far away a lot can happen. Conor's been really, really good, so maybe understeai it since he's been here. He's been amazing in terms of his own performance and in terms of his influence on the team on and off the pitch. So I think that's really visible. There's a long season to go. Conor knows how I feel about him. I think Conor knows how the club feels about him and he said a lot himself about the feeling. Mae roi am wych ei wneud y dyfodol yn y cwysig i chi'n gweddillio ar draws chyflym cwysig. Rhaid i wedi gynnwys gyda chi'n gwybod chi'n gwybod yn ymgyrch arall, a chi'n gŷnod i gŷch gweithio i'r lei. Rydyn ni'n dod i fynd mewn gweithio gyda maen nhw, a weithio? Rydyn ni'n ganwethaf i'n gweithio'r cwysig i chi i chi nhw, nhw yma chi'n mynd yn eitem yn wedi cael y Llach. A bydd teimlo ar hynny i'n meddwl i ni. 23 ymddian nhw'n ddechrau, 18 yw'r dyfodol, ymddian nhw'n gweithio ar yr awrig yn y Lleig yw 12. Felly, mae'n gweithio o'r awrig yn ydydd ydym, bobl yn ddif transgender o'w ddim yn ymdyn nhw'n ddim yn yr wych.  Mae'r peth yn gweithio'r cyflwyno, yn rhan o'r arddangos. Dilyn fel y diweddau hynny'n gwneud hynny nid yw dwy genny'n gwneud?哎'r hoffu y gallwn gwneud eich graff i bobl yn ei gwymorol? Ni'n mynd i ddweud hynny felwn toer,ène'r iawn i'r ddweud i bobl yn gwneud? Dwi'n mynd i gael gwybod am hynny ac rwy'n meddwl hynny'n gwneud hynny. Rwy'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i'n mynd i gael gwybrafain. Rwy'n mynd i gael gwneud hynny'n meddwl hynny. I-Double is my best man. He's always saying the right thing and doing the right things. If he feels like he's contributing well for this club, he'll want to stay and help the calls. He's just a sort of bloke of ears so again it's an ongoing situation. But Shamus will know. He has to know from us that whatever capacity he wants to be at this club deserves whatever he wants. Paul Mercer have said it this week. I've been impressed with what, Frank has done at the club so far, he's getting the absolute best at the players at his disposal which is what the fans want to see. followed by two and blow up with black Sport actually. are you getting the best out of the players or are you just scratching the surface? I guessed scratching the surface, but I think we're we're doing better. There's more to come If that's the answer to that. it's nice to the people outside of Everton and maybe sort of seeing that talking about a lot respect for Mohsen and the people that speak about the game and now maybe people are seeing Ond y dweud o'ch cyntaf lle yma. Dw i chi ddarlo'n gwneud, i'n mynd i ddim yn diolch. I'w gwneud eich hoffi arwag, a i chi fyny roi yn gwych ar ykelion y dyna. Ond rydym chi'n ddweud yn weithio arweithio arw Overall. Ond ymgyrch chi'n ddweud yw'r clywedd oes i'w gwneud, ac rydym ni'n gofyn i'r cynnig arbennig oedd o'n gwneud iherwydd. Mae'r priodau i'r byw i'r Dabr unig wedi bod yn ein bodi'r ffôr yn bryd. Mae'r cyfnod i'r byw yn y ffrind yn y byd. Mae'r ffôr yn y Llyfrgell yng Nghymru. Felly mae'r ffôr yn y byw yn y ffrind. Felly mae'r byw yn y byw yn y byw yn y byw. Mae'r ffôr yn ddechrau'n gweithio. Mae'r ffôr yn y byw yn y byw, ond mae'r byw yn y byw yn y byw. Fy fydd yn y byw, ond, mae'r ffôr yn y byw yn y byw yn y byw. y tro, mae'n bach yn ffanaidd yma. Ryn ni'n bach, y Manchishunideg yn ein fanciant ydw i ddweud. Rydyn ni'n ei fod yn iyw'r bus ar gyfer y prosiecte. Mae'n dweud i ddweud ffanaid uchelor. Byddwn ni'n leisaf o mwyaf, mae'n eu ddweud i chi i'r gwahau honno i'r cymdeithas ac oedd o'n fwyaf i'r ddweud. Rydych chi'n cymdeithas yoneydd. Rydyn ni'n mynd i chi fod ymlaid ychydig i'r f burningo, Ieibl o'n gweld o gynnig yn gwy plat y cyfraedd ar gyfer Llanlludol, a Llanllud, Llanllud, Llanllud, Llanllud, Llanllud, Llanllud, Llanllud. Os mor chi pari am y c五on gwbl yn gwneud y cifn wasgau? Os gallwch chi'n rhaniaeth ar ei bestiail? Nawr, y penderfyniadau ymlaen chi'n amlwg'i'n cael eu bellach? Rwy'n credu y gyrryr y twfyniadau gyda'u cyrraedd o gyfraeddau a rydych chi ymlaen chi'n meddwl yn dŷn ffais? Mae'r gwelir i fryd. Felly mae'n ei wneud bod y wneud oherwydd fan hynny, byddai ffyrwysau sydd ei ffyrwysau ym mwy o'n gwneud ar y gweithio y ffyrwysau Cynllun dod yn Fyrwys. Rydyn ni'n rwy'n cael ei fod yn byw'r paroler yn fengaf. Rydyn ni'n rwy'n digwydd, mae'n gwneud hynny'n gweithio ymwysrach gwybraeth ffyrwysau. Mae hynny, dweud, mae nhw'n neud a gennymethio'n gwneud. Rydyn ni wedi chi'n gweithio'n gwneud amärr kaynodol, Franck you said there's more to come from your side and offensively you've scored seven so far this season. We've dominated to come back and Neil finding his feet, are you confident that's going to come? Well I hope so, again we have to continue working. I think the first three or four games of the season were not easy to analyse in terms of what numbers we were returning and goals because we played without a striker a few times and we were trying to find the right system to get through and introduce players into the squad and the team. But since we've found out I feel like our goal threat has been more, we've scored a lot more goals but our goal threat has been better from our point of view so we can keep improving that and hopefully goals will come off the back of it. On that note Alex Werby's got an assistant three in his last four Premier League games that's actually as many as he had in the previous 87 for Everton so is it the team that's changed, is it him that's changed, what's led to that? I don't think he's, well since I've been here he hasn't changed. He's been a fantastic player for me in whatever position I played him in last year and the summer gave pause for thought and how we construct the team as we move forward and I wanted to actually move Alex into a more central position regularly to finish the seasons with a wing back at times because I just felt we really suited his attributes and then it's down to him and of course the team having a good structure really helps any player but it's down to him and I'm just delighted that I think he's getting a recognition that he deserves as being one of the top midfield players in the Premier League at the moment that's how I feel about him. Can he add more to his game yet? Tell him that. In and around the final third he can do more because his talent says so but in game I think he can do more and assist more and maybe score himself a bit more but I'm not complaining there. He's been fantastic for us. Just on James Garner who of course came from Manchester United how ready is he and what can we expect from him when he does get his chance? James is ready. He's completely ready and when he came he was very honest that he wasn't fit for the Liverpool game and the match fit so we had to work him, he went away with a 21s and played a game and now he's completely ready so he's ready to go and the way he's trained in I'm excited to see him play and get him in the team. Right, I was just wondering how easy your analysis has been of Manchester United have you had some decent results but have you had some real anomalies this season? Yeah, I think, it's our job to analyse them and I think you probably have to expect the best version of a team to come and then also try and find weaknesses if you can in a team and everybody has them, they're not so visible for certain teams but I think we analyse them as well as we can. I think it's very important for us at the moment while we're on a run that feels like an upward curve is that we focus on ourselves and keep doing the good things that we do because we should be able to give a lot of teams trouble if we do our things really well and at the minute we're doing them pretty well can we do them better and better for sure. So we analyse Manchester United and the first feeling of Manchester United is always there is a big threat on the counter attack I think they've had that for many years and then the individuals that are attacking into the pitch so we're well aware of that but we'll also be hopefully confident in what we can do first. Carl, just go to Adam. Carl Tia, please. Hi, Frank. How do you feel about having the best offensive record in the league at the moment? Why do you think that's been the case? Well, I'm very happy about it because it's a base that can help you win games and it's a base that we never had last year since I came here we didn't have it for whatever reasons and they're ours to analyse and we did and hopefully we've corrected certain parts of that. I'm happy for the lads because you work as a team collectively and it's a really nice stat to hold on to because there's some fantastic teams in this league that don't give away many chances and we're at the top of that and it's how long can we stay in and around that for. Realistically we know that may change for sure but we must take pride in it but understand what it takes and can we get even better, we can certainly get even better defensively but some of our play and some of our set up for me has been really pleasing but we can get better. How vital is that partnership between Conor Cody and James Tarkovsky which really seems to have clicked straight away? Yeah, it's hugely important for us they're setting standards here which are important for us to set good standards so the competition that we have and players that might want to get in the team frustrated not to get in the team we've got to see this standard that we're setting now about ourselves of being hard to beat and it's not just Conor and Tarky that goes through the whole team but the good competition we have means that you have to get to those levels and to get to a level of having that least goals conceded record is a good thing for everybody and now sustain it and the players that want to get into the team you've got to come in and sustain it if and when you get in the team. You're back at Godderton at the weekend how much have you appreciated the fans support and the relationship that you continue to build with them? Yeah, it's great because that one is not so much about me it's a nice personal thing for me I've had it since I got here but the biggest thing is how it will affect the players and now what I feel on the pitch at the end of Southampton what I feel in all these welcomeings at Godderton from last year and this year and the feeling between the fans is that the fans have got a team that they like they like the look of, they like the feeling of the players they see a real commitment and some quality in what we're trying to do and the players are reciprocating that in terms of how they play to a degree that they can get better but certainly how they interact in the game, social media, I think there's a very positive feeling it's important in the modern day because fans pay their money they love this club, they need to feel like the players are really understanding of that and at the moment that's good so again, keep going with that, it's hugely important. That's right, we've got a good look someday. Thank you. Are there any further questions in the open section? Franck, I just wanted to ask you about Reuben Van Agrae we haven't seen him a lot really since he arrived I was he looking and training, was he pushing for a start at all? Yeah, he's doing well, he trains well with us and a good lad, I've spoken to him a couple of times because it's difficult with my job sometimes consistency has been a good part of our season in terms of being able to pick the same sort of players people talk about relationships in the pitch Conor and Tarky and now we've got Miko and Pat Pat is obviously injured but when players are playing well you want to keep going with them and the team looks good so Reuben has to train at a good level and be ready so that's literally my answer in terms of his attitude and training performance for that I can't fault him at all to be ready when he comes in It's been a lot of speculation around a takeover at Evan I assume for you it's pretty much business as usual you blank all that out and you just get on with your job Absolutely, absolutely, it's something that I don't probably know enough about and probably can't affect other than doing my job well because I think that makes every conversation better whether I'm part of them or not is a better question when you ask me it's much more positive than it was at the back end of the last season so I think my job is to coach this team and to build relationships with the team with the fans and with the people above me and I have to say since I've been here the relationship I have with the chairman, with the CEO with the owner have been great and I think that's that alignment that we've found and we're searching for has helped us improve and let's hope we can continue with that Asby Rosie, improvement doesn't happen in a straight line it can take its hits I'm not naive enough to think that because we're unbeaten in some games everything's great, we must stay on ourselves but in terms of the communication between the club I'm very happy at a minute and as you say those things are not ready for me to dwell on at all really


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I mean there are there are cage lions Something I'm trying to say to be fun Mike the Mike the tiger from Travis Kelsey rookie ticket Wanda Robinson First auto is a base rookie ticket Derek Stingley going to the Texans And we've got number to 75 gonna be blue rookie ticket Kavan tibidoh for the Giants Giants again getting a red season ticket Danny Dimes that is to 175 and Blue is Myles Garrett on the X's and O's to 99 the die-cut box 7 Her box 5 box 6 right between Season 2 Herbert Christian Watson rookie today. I don't know man process of elimination. I don't know man There's a rookie ticket silver gonna be Jack Jones for the Patriots Jack Jones there And we've got number to 35 all-time contenders on the whites gonna be Jerry Rice Nice it for the Niners got the short printed Jerry Rice. Now we got the auto Congrats Niners blue is Romeo Dopp's rookie ticket to 99 and Silver Saquon MVP contenders keep it going This is box 7 Yeah pretty good for sure I've seen any dreaded orange card We've got Christian McCaffrey Christian Watson. Oh, I thought I was no this is a redemption We've got contenders optic. This is rookie ticket autographs blue card number 123 is gonna be James cook Go into the bills on the blue auto. I believe those are to 99 For the bills there our second auto is gonna be a base rookie ticket Tyquan Thornton Pats on the on-card Silver season ticket of Cooper cup and up-and-coming silver is Amun Ross St. Brown. I think he's passed that at this point I think he's just a elite receiver Fox 8 the adjuncts myself Brandon cooks season ticket we've got rookie ticket Garrett Wilson and 900 points we will random that the end random to all Auto is light blue or sky blue Calvin Austin rookie That is number to 99 For the Steelers And we've got a David Bell cracked ice to 22. This is for the Browns four of 22 and Silver up-and-coming Drake London We were close Steve. We were close See what these last two got good luck guys Of course, I'm none of that Go 900 points. We will random that as well at the end season ticket Kamara rookie ticket of Wanda Robinson We've got a silver rookie ticket auto going to the Eagles Carson strong Rookie QB auto. We've got Wanda Robinson orange rookie ticket to 50 and Brock Purdy nice one here X's and O's die cut That is numbered 9 of 99. There we go a Niner spot Niner spot doing well at the Jerry's and now a Brock to 99 900 points we will random at the end Season ticket miles Garrett rookie ticket David Bell We've got a rookie ticket base Brian Robinson For the commanders there Yeah, I jinxed myself for sure Steve and three in a row after I said something We've got red season ticket Aaron Jones. That is to 175 and Rookie round numbers blue nice one here is Kenny Pickett and Aiden Hutchinson Number to 99 on the dual rookie round numbers over this. Oh, yeah I'll roll dice So one two three top one two three top four five six on the bottom go to the Bottom it is six. We'll go to the Lions Aiden Hutchinson on that one to 99. All right guys That will do it for the 10 boxer. Let me set up a random real quick for these three points cards Gotcha all right guys we got three points cards and you roll a dice here We are gonna go nine times on the random all teams in on these three good luck. Here's one two three four five six seven eight and nine Carolina Panthers All the way down to the Steelers Panthers are taking home the first points We've got Eagles with the second points and we've got cowboys with the third points Yes, it's just how the product is a badger They did put a few in there Is uh just how it is all right guys that will do it for optic number 21 Thank you so much. We'll get them right out to you


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