Come on baby. I have to add to your water, but I forgot you put it in your backpack, right?  It's in the art room, baby. Come on. You're in the art room. Come on sweetheart. I have the camera sitting here. Now I'm getting a little bit perturbed, because now I'm getting a lens error. And as soon as I got it back, you know what, let me go ahead and call Candy while I'm sitting very comfortable in my car. I noticed as soon as I got it received it back, I started getting this lens error. So I'm wondering what the hell happened in between them getting it and me receiving it. Why now am I getting a lens error? And it says lens error and then it restarts. It shuts down. Right now it's okay.  And I have, I haven't till July 27th, because that's when I purchased it to, you know, get this looked into, but anyway, y'all, it's Friday and I'm ready to sway. I just picked, I just dropped off JB girl.  I need for her to stand her in line. I started back working out yesterday very, very slow. Y'all 30 minutes on the treadmill, very light weight. So today I'm going to do again 30 minutes on the treadmill and that's it. I'm going to do 30, maybe 35, 40 minutes on the treadmill. That's it because I have a meeting later on this morning. It has been a very interesting work week because of the holiday for next week. We are, those of you who are not here in the States, it's 4th of July next Wednesdays in the middle of the week. So a lot of our clients took off. A lot of people I work with took off. Hail Christine took off. I'm like, helpful. I spoke to her this morning.  It's just a very weird work week because we don't have any scheduled trainings for next week. So I'm really just sitting up here looking at emails coming on my phone. I'm just, you know, but I'm taking this time to play catch up on maintenance in the system. Those of you don't know, I'm what's called a learning management system administrator. And so I manage our trainings within an online system. So I'll just play catch up for getting ready for, for a Q three girls. What I'll do. Um, Miss Lori is the woman that owns the in-home girl. Hold on. What is that? What is that? Oh, it's just a fly. It was crawling and I thought it was a spider. Y'all, y'all. I don't do spiders. I can handle flies, but I don't do spiders. Let me lay down the window. I don't do spiders. Um, if y'all remember, I had put some flowers together, a couple of, in my, one of my previous vlogs, and that was for Miss Lori. And she owns a in-home daycare. Why is she sick again? Y'all, she has, um, one of the neighbors told me that she now has shingles, the shingles. I don't like, she didn't get to check a box when she was, but a lot of women, a lot of people, elderly people tend to get the shingles, hep C, all that type of stuff. So she's always had some medical issues. She basically doesn't have an immune system. And I told her to her face, y'all, how I am. And on here is how I am in person. I am very upfront. Um, I tailor it to the person that's receiving the message, but I let her know.  She has had pneumonia three times this year. Long story short, one of the other neighbors wants me to keep her daughter, her son, she asked me what, what my schedule is. I said, I'm okay. It's kind of slow next week. But I'm like, it's probably going to be longer than that. If it doesn't take that, what, it doesn't take a week to get over shingles. It may take a couple of weeks. So she pays me. I'm down for it. And plus he could play with JB. JB will be home with me a couple of days next week. So it is what it is. But yeah, that's what that's all of what I have going on. My camera doing some lens error things. So yes, let me go ahead and get canon on the phone and be like, I have a lens error now that I have my camera back.  I mean, I know y'all packed it. They wrapped it up in a bunch of stuff. Now what I've did to help my screen and I feel like they did something with my screen because even JB and I was like, I told JB I said, wasn't my screen worse than this? Was I imagining this disaster? He said, now my mood was worse. I feel like they've done something with my screen, but it looks better. I'm looking at the top. Sorry. So what I've done is added a screen protector on that. So let me call them. You guys, um, hey, y'all, just got back from the gym. I had to cut my workout short because I forgot. I need to stop. I had to stop. I built your store real quick. I want to show you guys something. I, one of the reasons why I went natural, my hair is because I wanted to have an overall as healthy natural lifestyle as possible. So I switched up a lot of things, how I eat, what I put on my body. I rarely use lotions. Like I use oils instead of lotions. I use coconut oil mostly for my skin as far as soaps. I use natural soaps. Would it be black soap? Natural soaps, black soaps, vitamin E soaps, lavender boy soaps. We usually get them from Whole Foods. And I have been on a hunt for a deodorant, which I think is really important because yeah. And so I have here raw earth. See if y'all can get that raw earth organic. There we go. Raw earth organic. This has lavender oil, baking soda, uh, ylang-a-lang scented. It smells nice. And this has to be out of all the, and I have a couple of down there that have tried. This has been the most effective. I mean I just got from the gym. I feel okay. They're deliveries. They, they are straight up tripping. Package for me a couple of weeks ago. They had on regular clothes and they were in a minivan. Like if you're not wearing brown, they're driving a brown truck, you don't need to be touching my packages. Hollywood Beauty has sent me all their entire collection. He said he was sending it to me. The guy I've been in contact with sent me their entire collection of the Ergon Oil line. Thank you guys. Y'all this, this child.  Do y'all hear him? I am, I am four rooms away and he's still being loud. Okay, three rooms away. Anyway y'all, I try to be negative but I just, I am just in a funk lately. Let me tell you something. I don't like Phoenix. I don't know if it's something like damn. I do not like Phoenix, Arizona. I never really have.  There, I have a laundry list of reasons why I don't. Yeah, I've never really felt Phoenix at all and it's so hard. This is why I think this trip for me when we go back in September, this is going to be difficult for me, especially, especially since we're going back as a family and we stand on my family. It is always so hard when I come back from Texas and come back here. It gets, for me personally, it gets worse and worse every year when I go back. Every, every time I go back, I should say it gets worse when I come back here. And I always told myself I would never raise a child here in the state. There's just too many things that I don't know if people are aware how conservative Phoenix is too. There's issues going on with mostly on the east side. So I'm in a couple of Facebook groups. There's just multiple issues with race relations going on here in Phoenix and her neighborhood. So yeah, it's just Phoenix has the highest or the fastest growing number of skinheads. Oh yes. And they have a large, huge population of sex offenders. One of my girlfriends just told me that who moved away for her child. So on to good things, y'all. Update about my titties, about my breasts. It has been what? Has it been six weeks? Has it been a month? A little over a month has been five or six weeks y'all. My scars look amazing. Like my after pictures are going to be bomb compared to those other helpers I've been seeing on the website. So I've been using a DIY scar cream. It's just shade butter tea tree oil, frankincense tea tree oil, sorry, frankincense oil, vitamin E oil. I think I did castor oil, sweet almond oil, yeah, all that girl. And I've also been using this Palmer spray and I've been using this stuff religiously. Now it's a little bit itchy up underneath. There's a long scar here, but I'm okay. I still have to sleep on my back. Even when I lay a little bit on my chest, it hurts after a few minutes, which means I can't even do any. I wanted to do a medium perm rock set.  And that goes that curl formers tutorial too. That's a wrap.  So I don't know. Hey y'all, so this is my hair, my makeup. Can you guys see my makeup? You really can't. JB, oh lord, today is the day. Well, I definitely needed some adult time to shug in my outfit in a minute. This is not what I had planned to wear. I had a very cute summer. This is still summer slash spring. I had a very cute summer shirt. Like it was really cute. And chasing after JB, I got oil on it. So I had to switch up my outfit at the last minute, literally the last minute.  Let me show you what I'm wearing real quick. And then I got to go. I think I know where this place is at, but you never know. This is a new shirt I got from Ross. And y'all have seen these pants before. These are high waisted stone wash pants. A little necklace here. Some earrings, makeup is very pretty. Hair is banging.  But yeah, very cute. I didn't have change. I didn't have time to change up my purse. So yeah, I have a tan purse, but whatever. All right, y'all. Y'all, I tried to lay down and take a nap.  I tried to really lay down and take a nap, but they kept coming in the room. So now they're out there swimming, whatever. So I've been home from the brunch for like an hour. It was a really good time. I had a really, really good time. I stayed the entire time. I would definitely be going to another one again. Let me fix this picture, y'all. Real quick before I forget, YouTube is straight tripping. I have uploaded, I mean, I did a lot of videos this morning. I like edited and uploaded like five videos. Why, what is that? Sorry, y'all. Why did it release one of my videos, my pie video that I scheduled for next month? I went ahead and unlisted it and put it on private because I didn't want that. I'm not going to be, you know, releasing two cooking videos in one day.  So I have between seven to eight video scheduled and it's making me nervous because for some reason, I don't know. And another thing I noticed, I'm not getting notification of comments. I literally have to log in, go through my community area to see comments that you guys make. I'm not getting any notifications that people are leaving comments on my videos. I'm over it. So there's a little delay of me responding to you guys. It's just going to be even if I can. So I'm going to sit here and lay down.  Oh, his tabling. I'm going to lay down where the outside. I'm making fish tacos today. I had what I had. I had French toast at the brunch and one piece of chicken and like two slices of bacon, girl. But I'm going to have one thing of French toast. I knew we were going to have fish tacos today. It's going to be fried catfish tacos too, girl. And then tomorrow I'm taking it easy with lettuce wraps. Just really watching you guys. I'm lost a little bit more weight. So really can you tell by my face? I'm really trying to watch it. So yeah. No, it's not going to hurt, baby. I got to watch JB's hair this morning, y'all. I'm toying, contemplating about I'm struggling with this church I've been going to to. These holes in Lord church, by the way, if y'all can hear me, it's early so my voice is deep. The last service, he had just made some questionable comments and I'm a type of Christian or I question. I question my pastor. I'm not going to be blindly following someone. Okay. If I feel it in my spirit, I'm going to question you. So, you know, speaking on the fact that there are some Christians who believe that women should not be in the pulpit and should not be preachers and all that ministers. So he's like, well, you know, what are you talking about? What about Paula White? What about Juanita Bynum and Red Flag? Most of you may not, and I know some of you may not agree with me and that's fine. They are false prophets, especially Juanita Bynum. I could possibly give Paula White a little past, but what sparked my little doubt about her was when she allowed herself to be wrapped in scrolls. Very similar to Eddie Long. Yeah. She allowed herself to be wrapped by this self-proclaimed Jewish rabbi. I mean, that's disrespecting Jewish people and I do know there was an outcry from them when that happened because it was televised. Anyway, that was just fuller in my opinion, but Juanita Bynum, twice divorce, Juanita Bynum, who speaks out and gets homosexuality and then on one flip, one hand says she's been with women. Hypocrisy.  Yeah, Juanita Bynum, no, and I believe if I remember correctly, one of her husbands was still illegally married while she was dating them. Lord, yeah, you got to be very careful and this is a fairly large church. He had a lot of followers and I do know just looking at some of the Google reviews, apparently he has slipped up and cursed on the pulpit. Girl, y'all. The only other church that I absolutely was getting in and filled in my spirit come to find out their Trump supporters. Who has cursed in the pulpit? Right, JB? He's quiet.  Your new milk. Vanilla milk. Vanilla milk. So, JB, you only have a few more weeks for summer school and then you go to kindergarten. How do you feel about that? Excited. Excited. So now we're going to do a little bit of learning today because we got off track and then when Thomas is here next week, we're not going to do, we're not going to be able to do much, but we're going to have to do a little bit of learning this morning, okay? So real quick, I have another YouTuber, small town, small time YouTuber that I think you guys should subscribe to, especially my 45 plus natural YouTubers. I know y'all can't see that. Her name is my silver, no, the silver crown. Let me get her full name. The silver crown. JB, hush. The silver crown natural gray hair. Check her out. I like her. I really do. This is JB's outfit. He's obsessed with his watch. Oh, Lord. Okay, let me show y'all what I'm still looking good. There's two. There's going to be new weeks today. So, hi, watch. It is cute. Look at his face. All right, y'all. We're at, my thing is about to get flagged. We're at fries. I know y'all like she's swagging and surfing at the church. Yes, church was, church was good. They had a guest speaker, but girl, I'm not going to say anything. It was good. It was, it was good. It was okay. I got a message. That's all that matters. What microphone, baby? Microphones are speaking so well. And we're at the kids section. Now you're tall section, dude. Y'all, see he's been calling me dude for a while. That's a bit of an umbrella, I guess.


Well hi there it's Sandy and today I'm going to be coloring two cards both on colored card stock using Copic markers and colored pencil. The first of the two is a stamp by my favorite things and it's a recent one in their last release and what I did was stamp it onto some dark blue card stock using white ink. So I used Lawn Fawn's Yeti white ink and it's a pigment ink so I did let it dry before I started messing with it and I'm coloring the highlights on the top side of the flower. So you can decide which way you want your sun to be shining on and whatever petals the sun would touch that's where you put the white pencil and I'm just going to go around kind of creating a sea shape on the top side of each one of the flowers and it's going to kind of curve across the top. You'll see how that plays out. I'm making sure to leave some areas with no color on them because if you colored the whole thing in you would end up without any shadows and I want to make sure that I do create some shadows but I am going to go back in with some Copic markers in a little bit and add some of that back in as well as adding some other colors so that these don't look like they're white hydrangea flowers that they will end up looking like they are multiple colors because I love it when my hydrangeas are partly purple and partly blue and they just have this really soft transition of different colors between them. There are three little flower blooms on this. I don't know if you call them flower blooms when there's blooms within blooms necessarily but three clumps and I've got them stamped on a little bit of an angle so that I was trying to create a corner design for my card and so I kind of tilted them a little bit sideways but if you stamp it straight up you end up seeing more of the three shapes but in this bottom one I'm making sure that I put more highlight on the top side of this flower that's down here but I want to make sure that I leave some space in between. There's like a little darkish line in between and I'll emphasize that more when I get to the Copic marker phase which is starting right now so I'm taking a V04 and I'm just going to do some quick flick marks up over top of what's going on here. If I go over the white ink then that's going to darken some of those dark areas and I'm also just going over the white pencil so I'm going over both of them with the purple marker and that just gives it that really soft feel of a couple different colors in the flowers themselves. I wanted to add a little bit of green to the leaves down there but I thought what if I just darken all of that and let that whole corner fall off and then I decided to also add in some blue so I get that multicolor of the different kinds of purples and blues and at that point you can decide whether or not you've covered up too much if you go back in now and just pick out a few of the top flowerettes and start to put little highlights on those then you're going to increase the dimension and if you need to go back in and add darker green in order to kind of really deepen those shadows you can do that as well but don't get too caught up in messing with it because if you start adding a whole lot of dark then you start having to add more transitional colors and everything that just seemed like it was going to be too much work so I just left it this way there's some of the the flowerettes that don't have any color on them because they're in the shadow but it just kind of creates this really nice soft rounded shape for the flowers now this stamp set is from Waffle Flower it's got a couple of tulips the sentiments in it are from Mother's Day but of course Mother's Day is passed so you can pair this with another sentiment the sentiments from Mother's Day are actually quite beautiful and you could use them year round because there's things that say in in the stamp sets about you know your your special mom your special grandmother doesn't have to be just for Mother's Day so if you like to make cards for your mom and your grandma it's a beautiful set that way as well as having these gorgeous flowers so I'm doing the same thing but since the flower shapes are different I have different shapes for the highlights I'm just putting everything that's on kind of the top and right side of each one of the shapes in white now this would be a beautiful card in and of itself right but I'm going to go in and start adding in just a little bit of color this one is different because I have a lighter background color it's an intense color this yellowish orangey color and it's going to react with each of the Copic markers differently so you might want to cut a scrap of whatever it is you're going to use and try whatever colors you want on it I hadn't tried this yet so I was a little freaked out by how much color I put down when I chose this particular green I think it's a YG 17 and it was like okay well there you go but I had already committed so I proceeded on and I started blending it then with a YG 03 and as I was trying to cover up those white stamp lines I ended up going over into the background and I will fix some of that later but I just wanted to try to blend some of this in so they'd start feeling like they were more background things because I wanted the flowers to be the thing that really pops out and I wanted red tulips I thought red tulips on this really warm orangey yellow paper would be gorgeous so I started doing flicks from the bottom up and then you know making sure that I covered the petals on the inside and in order to create the highlight on the petal that's toward me I left it white and then just went over at the very last with a few quick strokes and that leaves that lighter color against the darker color that's in the center so I get multiple layers in the tulip itself so each one of these I'm just going to go over it with some really quick flick marks and I'm not laboring over it don't try blending and everything don't get crazy just do some really quick flicks as you're going from the the area where the marker is going over the paper versus going over the pencil you're going to get a pretty a good transition from a darker to a lighter so that's one of the reasons for putting the pencil first you may want to scribble your marker off on scrap paper if it picks up any of the pigment from your colored pencils and I'm using Prismacolors in this by the way so here's where I decided to pretend that I hadn't gone out of the lines on the green by just adding some general very light green in the background and just kind of squishing some colors in there and figured I'm just going to pretend like I meant to go out of the lines because nobody's going to notice they're going to see how beautiful all of this looks and they're not going to worry about it so I'm adding more of the white highlights again on top so that I'm getting multiple layers and kind of growing the contrast in these by just putting some highlights on some of the parts and not on others at all so there's less white going down in this layer than there was in the very first layer of white that I put down but it really gives a nice contrast that you can go back and forth if you need to add more of the red marker or that sort of thing but I just left mine as it was and then all I had to do was add some sentiments to my cards and I chose to use just wanted to say hello from another stamp set from Ellen Hudson links are all in the doobly-doo of course as always and pictures that you can pin to your Pinterest board over on my website so you can save those ideas for yourself for later and I will see you again next time have a great day like the video if you enjoyed it and subscribe if you haven't and I'll see you next time


Thank you Hello. Yeah, in the show I'm Presenting a video called une noire a walnut. It's one of the first video works. I made ten years ago and I had started a series of these very short films After childhood memories or everyday life events and very mundane things and I wanted to write scripts From these memories and that's what I did with a une noire actually It's very simple. I don't know if you all saw it yet, but it's a little girl Singing a song and her grandmother is recording and she's trying to help her and All the time she's interrupting the song and the little girl gets really Pista off and she says stop it and things like that and I First wrote the script and then I had to find actors. I really wanted to Work with professional actors because for me it was important that the film didn't look like something a Matter or you know made at home with friends and people laughing in front of the camera I really wanted to be serious with the people and so I I look for an actress. I saw her in a film and I found her address through another person and the little girl was a friend's daughter and They had to learn the text before and the first time they met was at home when we Were supposed to shoot the film so it was very bizarre because the little girl was so comfortable And the actress was really I think intimidated by her and I guess we Resumed 10 or 12 times and that was it so it was like two hours work maybe and We shot in my place. It was at the time. I was living in a studio in the center of Paris. It was really small So nothing spectacular really and I made a series of these Kind of short films like this one. We are going to watch it with one or two characters and always After a short script I had written before and actors were supposed to learn the text and Sometimes it was like this a monologue. So very frontal and So let me maybe show you this one. It's called just Lynn. We came to the restaurant He wanted to accompany me. That's how I brought her home. We sat on the edge of the bed He started hugging me. I pinched myself to turn off the lamp He took off his clothes. I turned around to do the same We each had a slip under the wire. He started hugging me again By moving his tongue in all directions I couldn't close my mouth. He had a big tongue that he was turning very fast I couldn't move anymore. While hugging him, he started to pinch me He was doing regular rotating movements with one hand. At the end of a moment, he left his left hand to the right and he started to get in the way He seemed to be enjoying it a lot Then he put his hand between my thighs and he frayed vigorously from the bottom Seeing that I was doing the grimace, he said it was pleasant and he put his index on with frenzy I felt tingling Then he leaned on me and he started to do the waves more and more fast It was a mechanical rhythm. He seemed totally absorbed It was a sort of groaning at a frequency of about one per second I don't know how long it took He started to groin more and more Suddenly, he was in a rush He stayed there, like that He was sweating a lot He hugged me on his mouth, by taking off He was lying next to me Suddenly, I heard the quiver The idea was, of course, to take all these little stories, memories, everyday life things and to turn them into something absurd, comic, sometimes cruel I guess all this series is kind of a list of all the situations where we are not really telling important things but just trying to be together in the social ways like when people ask, so, how are you today, and things like that I made a lot of videos with these kind of situations For example, a guy coming back from holidays and telling two or three times exactly the same things to different persons Oh, yeah, the weather was nice and blah, blah, blah Just also because sometimes I, myself, were through these situations and I found them so ridiculous but at the same time, I guess it's always like this and so I wanted to make fun of this but not only fun, like something we all share So, and about the simplicity of the frame and the shot I wanted to have a single shot of film because the dialogues or monologues were supposed to last two minutes There weren't really stories or it were just moments like this so I guess it was the best way to make the film not having effects or moving a camera, things like that just, you know, a steady frame and just one or two characters or three sometimes around the table A lot of them are around the table and after these, I started to work slightly differently but for example, for this film, Justine I had asked the actress to, as an indication, a play indication imagine that you are in a police station and that you are giving a report of what happened to you and because I wanted something slightly shifted between the text and the story which is really pathetic and something really sober, a little detached of the content and so that was the purpose of this film, for example I don't know if you have any questions or maybe the best is to ask them in front of the work Une Noire You're welcome


Remember a Hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse we present a dramatization of a copyrighted story called The Third Ingredient, written by one of America's most versatile writers of fiction, William Sidney Porter, who gave himself the name O'Henry. O'Henry, who died 40 years ago when he was a comparatively young man, had the knack of writing short stories which somebody once said were rather like a cigarette case. Each one had a highly polished surface and closed with a snap. O'Henry himself would probably have enjoyed the remark. Anyhow, we tell you this kind of story tonight.  I think you'll enjoy it and I think you'll also agree that we couldn't have chosen better for our leading role than their delightful young Hollywood actress and an old favorite of ours on the Hallmark Playhouse and Blythe. And now a word about Hallmark cards from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of The Third Ingredient. At Christmas, as on every memorable occasion, you'll take special pride in sending Hallmark cards because just as for hundreds of years the word Hallmark has been the distinguishing symbol of quality. So today the Hallmark on the back of your greeting cards is your assurance of finest quality and perfect taste. It's a symbol of quality. All who receive your cards will quickly recognize and realize you cared enough to send the very best. Now Hallmark Playhouse, presenting O'Henry's The Third Ingredient, starring Anne Blythe. In the days when if you had a car you were rich. Take a walk down the teeming snow-touched streets on a December day, past the brownstone houses, past the shop girls hurrying home from work, past the push-carts and the kids playing ollie ollie in free. Criss-cross this island other rivers, black and swirling with their ferry boats and tooting tugs calling to each other in the dusk. And everywhere in O'Henry's New York you find the unexpected, the surprise, the whirligigs of life. Aboard the Jersey to Manhattan ferry boat a girl stands at the heavy chain rail. The drops of water on her face are not melted snow but tears and her eyes are on the deepness of the river. I beg your pardon. It's one of my weaknesses that I can't stand seeing a beautiful girl with tears in her eyes. Thank you, but I'm really quite all right. Anything I can do to help? No. It's very nice of you to be so kind. When it goes, tired or unhappy, kindness counts more than anything else. Hey, look. Look. The stars are just coming out. Starlight and snowflakes. Sometimes when you're looking at the river it's hard to tell whether the stars are way up there in the sky or way down there in the water. Oh, they're in the sky all right. Look, did you see that one? Up there? He's a twinkler. I call him Mr. Abernathy. He's a very unsteady type personality. Blicking around the skies if every night were New Year's Eve. You make the stars seem so friendly. Oh, that's it. That's it. That's what I like to see in a pretty girl's face. A nice smile. Oh, there is a fat, steady star. You put her probably. But I think of him as Mr. Bumblechuck, who ate too much for dinner. He's in the electric light business. He likes to advertise. He makes all the other stars look dim as if they hadn't paid their light bills. Oh, please. Please go away. I know you're trying to be kind, but I think it's better if I just stand here alone. Please. Hey, what happened to the smile? I can't explain. I feel miserable and I don't want to make you feel miserable, too. Sure, sure. But remember, Mr. Abernathy and Mr. Bumblechuck and I will be around if you need us. There's really enough water in the river, you know. Oh, don't make jokes, please. It's no use. It's just no use at all.  And if I keep my eyes on the stars and Mr. Abernathy and Mr. Bumblechuck, why, the river won't look so cold. Arms inside. I had a girl. Yes, what happened here? I can explain it, Captain. I saw it all. This young lady dropped her purse on the edge of the boat. What? And when she leaned over to get it, she lost her footing and fell in. You both all right? I guess so. We'll be pulling into Manhattan in a minute.  Good rescue land. Why did you say it was an accident? I did it on purpose. I wanted to do it. Did you? So close to Christmas. You shouldn't have jumped in after me, no matter what. You might have drowned yourself. Do you know that you're very beautiful with a Hudson River in your hair? Well, how can you say that? I'm a terrible side-hole, sopping wet and my hair dripping. Yeah, well, look at me. I'm something about drip myself. I don't know how I can laugh at a time like this, but you've made me laugh. Ah, lovely wet laugh. Come on, come on inside. Well, we'll dry out everything but the laugh. This young lady, any place she wants to go, and it's your money. Yes, sir. You shouldn't be doing this, really. You shouldn't. You've done enough for me already. There's one thing you can do for me. Will you tell me your name? I can't. I just can't. Oh, will you give me a hint? What do you do? What do you work? I'm so grateful to you for everything, but I'm too ashamed. All right, but I'll find you somehow. I'm going to claim my rights of salvage. Why? Where to, lady? The Val and Bruce apartment house on 10th Avenue, 346. It's really not an apartment house at all. They just call it that. It's a brownstone walk-up. You'll know it right away. It's the faded, funny one. Look at that faucet. This place advertises running water, but just between you and me and the water meter, it only crawls through the faucets. I'll be through peeling these potatoes in just a minute. What are you doing to them? I suppose I am wasting a lot. Give me that knife a second. I'll show you. You've got to scrape them. You'll lose out if you peel them. Oh, I always thought they had to be peeled. Now, there. You're the young lady who lives on the top floor, aren't you? Thanks. That's the first time anybody's called me either young or a lady in a long time. Eddie Peppers, my name. My name's Cecilia Foster. I've seen you here at the sink before. Oh, the sink. The exalted meeting place of the Val and Bruce apartment house. Grand Central Station. I guess everybody in this place meets here to dump their coffee grounds and to stare at each other's kimonos. Oh, finished. There are your potatoes. Oh, thanks very much.  And I was hacking them up. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia. Hold everything, Cecilia.  I suppose I am. Art work doesn't seem to be much in demand. Oh, yeah. The landlady did say we had an artist in the house. She said you paid a miniaturist. Yeah, that's it. I don't know what that is exactly, but I know it's not a house. House painters eat more than two scraped potatoes. Oh, if it weren't for these potatoes, I'd go hungry tonight. Oh, Cecilia, I've had it handed to me in the neck, too. I lost my job at the shop today. Ladies' waste department. Oh, I'm awfully sorry. Well, don't be sorry. Be glad we bumped into each other.  But I got home and found no potatoes and no onions. Now, what kind of a beef stew can you make out of just beef? Well, you can make oyster soup without oysters and turtle soup without turtles. And coffee cake without coffee, I know. But you can't make beef stew without potatoes and onions. Oh, I haven't any onions. Just these potatoes. We're on our way.  Oh, beef stew. Oh, it's always been my favorite, too. All the parts are good by themselves, but oh, you put them together and they're not just three times as good, but ten times as good. Oh, here's a girl who really appreciates true art. Fellow beef stew lover, shake hands. You know, it's all kind of like melodies. The beef, solid and pompous, like a fine English gentleman. An Irish leprechaun, bobbin in the saucepan like an elf in Kilarney. Honey, they're the hearts. Oh, they're the fiddles. Pitsick your symphony. Or if I had a few pennies, I'd run down to Giuseppe's stand and buy an onion. But I spent my last nickel on the ferry boat. Oh, it's a shame. A stew without an onion is worse than a matinee without candy. Honey, what are you looking through the skylight for? Tell me something. Can you ever see the stars from here? You can see them when the lights are out. Then this place is just like the bottom of a well. Would you turn them out for just a minute? Oh, sure. The meat and potatoes still have a long way to go. Look, there they are. Mr. Abernathy and Mr. Bumblechook. Mr. Who and Mr. Who? Abernathy and Bumblechook. Friends of yours? Oh, yes, yes. Look, that one and that one, the twinkler and the fat one. Oh, you mean the stars. I didn't get you at first, kid. When you see stars like that early in the evening, close your eyes and make a wish. Well, I got a wish, Mr. Bumblechook, that you bring him. The second act of the third ingredient, starring Anne Blythe. Many Christmases ago, we started giving all the youngsters in our neighborhood a little remembrance. Well, what with the growth of the neighborhood and the growth of the children, our list grew to 10 or 12 boys and girls of all ages. You can imagine how difficult it was to see that each one received an equal gift, until we found the magic money tree card made by Hallmark. It's the perfect answer. Now each little Jimmy and Johnny, each genie and Jane, receives the same. And the biggest thrill of all seems to be that the card comes in the mail, just like Mother and Daddy's Christmas cards. You remember that thrill, don't you? The first Christmas card addressed to you? Well, here's a card and a present rolled into one. On the outside is a dazzling Christmas tree. It's bright green branches hung with tinsel. For extra magic, you decorate the tree with 10 silver dimes. Just put the dimes and gum circles on the branches and they look like silver bells. The verse inside the card says, Money doesn't grow on trees. That's almost always true. But here's a magic Christmas tree that's growing dimes for you. Merry Christmas. Can you think of a nicer Christmas present for the little folks on your list? You'll find the magic Money Tree card made only by Hallmark on the display counters of fine stores everywhere. And it, too, has that distinguished Hallmark on the back, which says, you cared enough to send the very best. Now back to James Hilton and the second act of the third ingredient, starring Anne Blythe. Into the river, and there are also moments when things seem brighter, when, for example, a beast's jewel is bubbling on the gas plate. Of course, if one only had... Well, lights on again? Sure. Hey. What's the matter? Why the tears, Cecilia? Oh, I wasn't crying. Oh, Mr. White. Oh, Aunt Heady knows. Aunt Heady was young once, too. Come on, now tell me. The minute you mentioned the ferry boat, you got a Long Island fog in each one of those big brown eyes. No.  I'd better not talk about it. Oh, help yourself. Like I always say, I'm a shoulder. You can cry on me any time you like.  So if you want to use me, go ahead. Oh, Heady, it did all happen on the ferry boat. I was coming back from Jersey City. Oh, Mr. Shrum, an art dealer, told me about a rich man in Newark who wanted a miniature of his daughter painted. I went to see him and showed him some of my work, and when I told him the price would be $50, he laughed at me. Why, the dirty bum?  He could get one 20 times that size for $8. Well, I told him I'd do it for that even less. But then he said he didn't like my little puny pictures.  I had just enough money to buy my ferry ticket back to New York. I felt as if I didn't want to live another day. I must have looked the way I felt because he came up to me and talked to me, asked me why I was crying. A masher, huh? Oh, nothing like that. Good looking. Yes, but better than that, kind and whizzy and warm. I told him to go away, I begged him to go, and finally he did. Oh, baby, you need lessons. You never say go away to a man like that. Well, when I was all alone, I got so miserable, I slipped over the rail and dropped into the water. Oh, no. Oh, Eddie, it was cold. And then he jumped in to save me. Oh, you know, the minute you mentioned him, I knew he was the hero type. Oh, Eddie, I was so ashamed of myself. I wonder if some nice handsome fellow would ever jump in the river and rescue me. Of course he would, Eddie. Well, I ain't gonna try it. With this face of mine, I don't know if a fellow would pull out the plug if I was drowning in the bathtub. Oh, Eddie. So that's how it all began, huh? No, that's how it all ended. Why, you gave him your name and address, didn't you? No, he begged me to, but I wouldn't tell him.  It's been three days and he hasn't found me yet. Oh, well, give him more time. This is a big town. Think how many girls he might have to see soaked in water with their hair down before he'd recognize you. Tell me, Eddie, do you think it's all right to be just terribly rich? This hero boyfriend of yours?  Well, after he left me, I saw him get into a big black limousine and a chauffeur held the door for him. And you wouldn't give him your name and address? Uh-oh. The stew is gonna boil dry. Give me the pitcher, Eddie. I'll go out to the sink and get some water. No, no, you've had enough water in your young life. I'll go. You just wait here. Can I have a chat with your Mr. Abernassy and Bumblechook? Can't guess what I just saw out in the hall. And attached. I asked them both if they wouldn't like to join us for potluck. I acted just as sweet as I could. But I got turned down. You're so pretty. Honey, maybe you could swing it. Why don't you go out and make it? Oh, no, no. I don't want to see any man now, except... It ain't him, honey. We're up against real life now. This ain't your hero, fella. I believe you said he had automobiles and chauffeurs. Well, this here is a poor schizix that's got nothing to eat but an onion. Does he live here in the Balambrosa? No, he told me he stopped by to see that writer fellow who lives second floor back. Jack Bevin? He's the hungriest-looking person I've ever seen. Take it from me. All writers are hungry-looking. But this fellow is so far gone, he even looks hungrier than a writer, if that's possible. And he has nothing deep but an onion. Oh, Eddie, that's awful. It's hard to believe, but he sounds as if he's worse off than we are. At least we've got meat and potatoes. Yeah, it's too bad. He talks like he might have been a gentleman once, but he's mighty low down now. Well, we've got to share our dinner with him, Eddie. We have enough for three. Is he still outside in the hall?  Hello? There's nobody out there in the hall. Oh, to think there was an onion with two legs on it right there in the hall, and it walked away. I suppose he was so miserable, he just wanted to be alone. Yeah, maybe so. But I'll bet that onion would have had a high old time with our meat and potatoes. Here, take my apron. Why?  Well, this is a sale you couldn't find.  I have not been hiding. I was... You catch cold? I already have one. Um, what are you going to do with that onion? I am going to eat it. If all you've got to eat is an onion, how come you lean out of windows and give orders to chauffeurs in black automobiles in the street below? Because, madam, I pay the chauffeurs' wages and I own the automobile. Put the onion! My mother always made me eat one for a cold. I intend to eat this onion and go to bed, which I should have done three days ago instead of chasing up and down Manhattan Island. Good night, madam. Wait a minute! What possible business is it of yours? Young man, don't you move one step until you tell me how did you catch this cold? Woman, I jumped off a ferry boat and went swimming in the Hudson River. Now, does that answer your question? It does. I said push open that door. Potatoes is waiting in there. Potatoes? Go on in, onion. What the blazes? Hello. You're the onion? Yeah. Yeah, can I be part of your beef stew? Oh, it's the strangest thing. I've heard of people meeting by moonlit lakes or by the trellis in a rose garden or on mountain tops at dawn. But who ever heard of two people finding each other over a saucepan full of meat and potatoes? Plus an onion, madam. Don't forget the onion. Oh, that's what gives it the song.  But it wasn't a very good likeness. You're much more beautiful. I was afraid I'd never see you again. You'll never stop seeing me if I can help it. I thought it was only in the story books that the prince comes riding up in his shiny limousine. I guess we ought to thank your friends upstairs. Jack Bevin's? How did you know he loaned me this onion? Oh, no. No, not him. Turn out the light and you can see them. There. There they are. Mr. Abinethy and Mr. Bumblechook. They've been watching out for us, I'm sure. I think they cooked up the whole thing. I bet they did. Thank you, Mr. Abinethy. Thank you, Mr. Bumblechook. A couple of stars named Mr. Abinethy and Mr. Bumblechook seem to be shining more brightly than ever, lighting up the whole sky with their smiles. Magic money-free card. Take a look at the other special hallmark cards. There are ones for mother, dad, sister, brother, even ones for Aunt Maddie, Uncle Ebner, and cousin Lou. You'll find hallmark cards that say Merry Christmas to the boss, to the minister, to teacher, all the others you'd like to remember in a special way. There are also other items made by Hallmark that add a special happy touch to Christmas. I'm speaking of gift wrappings. Paper, ribbon, seals, and tags that are all specially designed to go together can make your gifts the ones everyone wants to open first. There's a wide selection, or will be if you hurry, at fine stores everywhere. And you know these hallmark papers are styled by artists who really know how to express whimsy and fantasy in color and design. They, like hallmark cards, are the first choice of folks who want the very best. Here again is James Hilton. You know, Anne, if you can really make a beef stew as detectable as you made the character of Cecilia for us tonight, won't you invite me over for dinner sometime, please? I certainly will, Mr. Hilton. Why not for the holidays? Well, by the way, I have just selected my Christmas cards for this year, and I was very impressed with the work of Hallmark's famous artist, Grandma Moses. I think her Christmas card paintings are really beautiful. Well, since you're a Grandma Moses, admire Anne, you'll no doubt be interested in reading the article about her, which will appear in the December 10th issue of Parade Magazine. It tells the whole story of her remarkable career. Oh, look for it next Sunday. Now tell me, what have you planned for next week, Mr. Hilton? Next week on the Hallmark Playhouse, we shall present The Promise by Mildred Cram, a compelling love story of a young couple who rediscovered their faith on a Christmas Eve. And as our star, we are happy to welcome back our very good friend, Robert Young. Our Hallmark Playhouse is every Thursday, our director-producer is Bill Gay, our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray, and our story tonight was dramatized by Lowlands and Lee. Until next Thursday then, this is James Hilton saying, Good night. A universal international picture co-starring Mark Stevens. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you all until next week at this same time, when James Hilton returns to present Robert Young in Mildred Cram's The Promise. Next week, our special Christmas presentation, Hair to Pauly, is the story of Silent Night. And the week after that, Ann Barley's Patrick calls me mother on the Hallmark Playhouse. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.


Welcome back to my YouTube channel, Daniel Rosel here. I want to talk today about one of the pieces of technology I've been making the most extensive use out of for the past couple of years. And that is the webcam I'm speaking into today, the Logitech C930E. It's the webcam I've been using to record my video blogs and my screencast and all that kind of content for about the past year. And I've become very, very fond of this webcam. And through trial and error, I figured out a few things that have improved the recording quality. And I thought I'd pass them on in this video. Now, the first thing to say about recording with a webcam for vlogging. Now, it's very possible to record into a computer using a DSLR or a mirrorless or a camcorder. You typically need something called a capture card to get that to work, to take the HDMI output coming off the camera or camcorder and get that into USB that the computer will work with. And it's true that you're going to typically see better quality using one of those than using a unless it's a super high end webcam. Now, the reason that webcam quality tends not to be on par with stuff like mirrorless cameras, etc. Is that it's a really small form factor. The actual size of the camera is small. And because the size of a webcam is expected to be a pretty small thing that traditionally fits on top of a monitor, the sensors going into these webcams don't tend to be the biggest. I read an interesting tear down article of this webcam. The C930E not to be confused with the C930C, which is its kind of gray market Asian counterpart. And during the early days of the pandemic, when webcams supply chains were crazy, a lot of the Chinese version of this webcam is getting dumped onto European and American markets. So you want the C930E at the end and not C. But anyway, like other webcams of this kind of classic webcam form factor, you know, a little box about an inch wide like this, it has a relatively small sensor. And typically when you have a small camera sensor, you're going to notice poorer performance in low lighting conditions. Now, this goes whether we're talking about using a pocket gimbal like the Femia records and videos on or the DJI Osmo or anything else. That's a small camera with a small sensor. You can get often really, really good results shooting on those cameras during daytime, but as soon as the sun goes down and you're relying on artificial lighting, it can go very, very far down. Now, the C930E does have a little bit of illumination just to the left and right of the camera lens. Looking at me as I speak into it are these little small lights. Now, these, I just have to say, don't throw off enough light that if you're looking to record your video blogs at nighttime, it's not going to look good to give you guys an idea for the lighting setup I use when I record these blogs. I have over my head here about a 10 inch LED panel that's providing most of the lighting. I have another little light off to the side. And then behind me, I have this kind of RGB stuff, and there's an RGB light facing backwards as well, shining on the wall. If I take it up here, you can see it's actually an RGB tube. So I'm using a few different lights. Now, let me show you what kind of a recording would get if I were to take off my main lighting. I'm going to just turn off the remote. And now we've gone to no lighting. And now you can see the webcam starting to try to compensate. But, you know, that's basically as good as we're going to get. So I'm going to turn my light back on again. And you can see the second that my light comes on, it goes from being absolutely terrible to being half usable. So if you are doing vlogging and you want to do it using a webcam and not using a camera or camcorder and a capture card, it's essential that you have some decent lighting on your side. I'm not saying my lighting is perfect. It's very basic, in fact, but you can see that just having one key light filling me in here from the top versus me having no lighting on me whatsoever, it's a night and day difference, literally. My second and third recommendation I'm going to make together when you're shooting video blogs using a very, very small camera like this. I think it's a good idea to try to help the camera to record good footage as much as you can. Now, this Logitech I'm typically recording into OBS Studio. And I found that I have much better results when I manually set the white balance. Now, I have a separate video on YouTube, how to manually set the white balance using OBS. One thing that you can do is hold up a white balance card and then set the white balance on that.  So what you can do is hold this up into your webcam and manually adjust the white balance until you get that white. Now, this becomes especially important when you're using colored lights. As I mentioned, just in the last tip, I have a few different RGB lights I'm using when I shoot these videos. There's a bit of blue lighting. There's a bit of orange lighting in the background. And I have sort of a soft white light coming on to me here. Now, if I could just go for the automatic white balance, trust me, it doesn't look good. I have a little bit of a kind of red tint to my skin at the moment just because I slept horribly. My skin's a bit irritated.  So for whatever reason, if you're using a bunch of different RGB lights, the camera has a hard time picking out what white should look like. So I find it very important to manually set the white balance and also manually set the focus as well. There is auto focus on this webcam. It's pretty good. As you can see, this took about a second to focus on my fingers. Now back to my face. But if I was recording this typically before I started rolling, I would manually set the zoom because they're going to be staying in pretty much the same distance from the camera. So manually set the zoom, manually set the white balance. You can do both of these things in OBS Studio. And I found that it just makes a really, really big difference. OK, the third and final tip is to use a dedicated microphone if you're doing video blogging and you want to record using a webcam. Now, as you guys can see, I am using a podcasting style microphone. I'm using the Audio Technica 80 2020 via the Beringer Euphoria UM2 Audio Interface, a bit of a mouthful and getting that into OBS Studio. But previously, I just used to use a lavalier microphone just clipped onto my T-shirt, whatever. Now, I found that they both delivered much, much superior audio quality than using the internal microphone on the C930E. But just to show you guys what they sound like, I've added them both as sources into my OBS Studio here. And I'm going to swap over from the microphone you're listening to, the 80 2020. And now you are listening to audio pickup from the built-in microphone on the webcam itself. And I'm just adjusting the gain a little bit to try stop the levels from clipping. But you should hear I'm going to give you a few more seconds to listen to the difference in audio quality between the built-in microphone on the Logitech C930E business caliber webcam. And now I've gone back to the 80 2020. And I hope you agree with me that the audio quality is better. I hope those three tips were useful. I do think that the Logitech C930E is a really, really decent webcam for shooting, vlogging, streaming, talking head videos or screencast. It is not 4K capable. So if you need your 4K capability, you should go for a different and perhaps higher end, more expensive product. I would just say, I think for a lot of these really, really basic videos, I don't think 4K is necessary. I think 1080p is more than good enough just to recap on my three, three tips. Tip one is pay attention to lighting the sensor on this webcam like all webcams is small and using lighting or no lighting is going to make a dramatic difference. One more time.  Here's me with the light back on and it just doesn't get any better with the light off. It doesn't like adjust that's as good as it gets. Second tip is manually set your focus and your white balance before recording. I recommend doing that always and just use some kind of a white object.  And finally, I recommend not using internal audio. It's fine for, you know, just doing business chats. But if you want to do video blogs or streams or something where the audio quality is going to be more noticeable, I recommend using a dedicated microphone like the one I'm using or any other microphone for that matter. And you should definitely notice a big improvement. Thanks for watching this video. I hope these tips are helpful. If you want to get more videos from me, do feel free to click on the subscribe button.


So we talked in a different video about some of the ethical considerations that we have as people who practice public relations, but in addition to that there are some legal issues and and principles to keep in mind as we engage in public relations. So let's talk briefly about the law and public relations. There are a couple of common legal issues in public relations that we should be aware of. First and foremost is free speech. We enjoy free speech in the United States and that works for us as public relations practitioners. It also works against us. People are allowed to shout as loudly as they wish against whatever cause we're representing, whatever idea we're representing, whatever we're trying to project there. People have the right to argue against that and do so loudly and do so publicly within certain contexts. So as much as we enjoy free speech on our side of public relations, we also have to understand that it works both ways, that people working against us have that legal right as well. So we ought to appreciate that on both sides of things. Let's have to be concerned with the idea of defamation. Defamation is making a statement that can be proven false with the intention of causing harm to another's reputation or livelihood. So there has to be not only the fact that it can be proven false, but that it can be proven that you were intentionally doing so with the idea of causing harm to their reputation or livelihood. Now, we need to remember that through two types of defamation, defamation is a broader term and more specifically we can engage in or accuse others of slander and libel. Slander and libel are both types of defamation. The only real difference is that libel is written and slander is spoken. So when we write something down, if it's in a blog, if it's in a book, a newspaper, a magazine, whatever, if we write something down and it would consist of defamation, that would be considered libel. But if we say it out loud at a public event, in a podcast, on TV or wherever, if it's spoken, then that would be considered slander. But slander and libel are both forms of defamation. And we need to be aware of that and cautious regard against that as public relations practitioners and also be aware of them on the lookout for it from other people. It's not okay for other people to defame us or our clients either. So we need to be conscientious of disclosure in public relations when we are putting forth a product or an idea or something. If we are officially connected with an organization that's paying us to do so and sponsoring that, certainly we need to disclose that. You see that all the time with influencers in social media, for example. You may see this influencer post and they're talking about, you'll catch me, Banana Republic all summer or whatever, all season long. But you'll also notice up here in this corner, it says, paid partnership with Banana Republic. We have an obligation as public relations practitioners to identify, okay, this is somebody that we are really financially engaged with that is either paying for this, for us to do this, for us to say this, we need to be aware of that or be conscientious of saying, no, this is not a paid promotion. We're not financially in league with this organization or this cause. But whatever the case, we need to identify clearly and disclose any connection that we would have with a sponsoring organization. Well, be careful of a copyright and fair use arrangements. So if we're using material that is copyrighted, obviously, we need to have permission for that. We need to pay for it if necessary and so forth and be aware of not violating copyright law. We also need to understand fair use that some, you know, for example, I'm using some different images and I use different things for these videos. And I do so really under the guise of fair use that I'm not making money off of this. This is not my, I'm using this for educational purposes, primarily for my classes. I mean, it's publicly available, but the reason I make these videos is for my classes. This is really fair use. So copyright laws are different in that regard, but we need to be conscientious of copyright and fair use laws and legal obligations as we engage in different public relations activities. We also need to understand privacy. The right of privacy provides somebody with the idea that they can have this sense of privacy without, and when we violate that, what we're doing is causing harm that is caused by the dissemination of truthful, but private information, information that may be truthful, maybe accurate, but it's considered private information and not something that is for public consumption. So we need to be conscious of that too. And, you know, obviously there are some issues, some gray areas with people like celebrities or public figures that give up a certain extent of privacy. But even then, we get into this ethical area of, for example, celebrities and their kids. Celebrities are people in the public limelight and they choose that as their profession, but does that make their kids fair game? You know, ethically speaking, most people would say probably not that, you know, using pictures of images or any connection to their children who have not chosen that, unless they've chosen to be in that public spotlight, would not be ethical, but it might be legal, but it's not necessarily ethical. So we need to be aware of not only the right to privacy legally, but also then kind of in an ethical sense where we cross that line and where are those lines for us. So as you can see, again, we didn't get into these in great detail, but there are some legal issues that we need to consider as practitioners of public relations. So if you're going to be entering into the field of public relations, working in public relations, we really do need to have an understanding of these different legal implications and how they impact the work that we do and the choices that we make in that field. If you have questions about the law and public relations or ethics in public relations, anything along those lines, feel free to email me. I'd love to hear from you there. In the meantime, I hope that you have a new understanding of the limitations of what is and what is not allowed in public relations. And it's certainly not, everything is fair game and anything is legal and anything is ethical. There are certainly restrictions on these things that we have a responsibility to both know and then to follow.


Austin reaffirms U.S. support during Ukraine visit. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III underscored the United States' steadfast support for Ukraine, as it defends itself from Russian aggression, during talks with senior leaders in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, today. Austin met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Defense Minister Rustam Umarov, during an unannounced visit to the country. The leaders discussed Ukraine's current operations and near-term and mid-term goals and objectives, Austin told reporters following the talks. I wanted to reassure the leadership that the United States of America will continue to support Ukraine, he said. We talked about the things that we're going to continue to do to make sure, they have what they need to be successful on the battlefield. He added that the discussions were an opportunity for the leaders to refocus and ensure that, to maintain alignment. Between the ongoing operations and objectives on the battlefield. Austin's visit marks his third to Ukraine as Defense Secretary and, second since Russia's invasion. While in Kiev, he announced a new security assistance package for Ukraine valued at up to, $100 million. The package includes, additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons and, other materials to help, Ukrainian forces defend their territory, amid Russia's ongoing assault. It marks the 51st drawdown of US inventory for Ukraine since, August 2021. The US has provided $44.2 billion in, security assistance to Ukraine, since the start of the war. Austin also underscored the continued support from the US-led group of nearly 50 countries known as the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group. Which has rallied in support of Ukraine. The International Coalition has provided about, $36 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, further enabling Ukrainian forces to defend, their nation's sovereignty and regain more than half of the territory seized by Russian invaders. That group has roared into action, and we have continued to work together to provide much needed security assistance in the form of, other artillery platforms, tanks munitions, Austin said. And so, perfect work on the part of our allies. Austin will host the 17th meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group later this week. Austin's visit comes as Congress takes up, President Joe Biden's request for supplemental funding to continue to support Ukraine. While Congress continues to work through the request. Austin said he is confident there is bipartisan support for Ukraine in both chambers of Congress. I know that there are some things, that we need to continue to work through to get, the supplemental request approved, he said. And we'll continue to work with Congress to do that. The Secretary added that continued support for, Ukraine is imperative. What happens here matters not just to Ukraine, but to the entire world, Austin said. This is about the rules-based international order. This is about not living in a world where a dictator can wake up one day and, decide to annex the property of his peaceful neighbor. That's not the world we want to live in. And so this is, this is more than, than just Ukraine. This is about, again, the rules-based international order. I have a question, Mr. Ryan Washington knows.