From DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. How often do you hear people say, �My God would never do that� without that person having a true understanding of who God even is? Well, right now you can get a free copy of the book None Other by John MacArthur. In the book, you'll discover the only way to discover the one true God. Get your free copy of this book by clicking the �Free Stuff� tab at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com Offer expires June 2nd. Citizens of Hicksville, New York are not happy with remarks that Robert De Niro makes in his new film, The Comedian. People in the Long Island town want De Niro to formally apologize after his character in the movie, a stand-up comedian, joked that Hicksville is home to inbreeding and crystal meth. Hey, it's not Robert De Niro that named your town Hicksville. You did this to yourself, Hickvillians! Last week's brawl among adults at a high school graduation in a church outside Memphis reportedly began over a dispute involving the saving of seats. People, please! It's a high school graduation, not the Super Bowl! It's not that great a show! Anthony Bourdain has dined with President Obama, but he's very unlikely to break Brad with Donald Trump. The celebrity chef explains, I can't see the point, since he only talks about himself and he's only interested in himself. That makes it really hard for Anthony Bourdain to talk about his favorite subject of Anthony Bourdain. This is both sad and hilarious. If the presidential election were held today, despite all of the antics that have taken place since he took office, Trump would still defeat Hillary Clinton. However, a separate study shows that, again, if the presidential election were held today, Dwayne The Rock Johnson would beat President Trump by a margin of 42-37 percent. That's kind of make Hillary feel special. Police say that a Massachusetts woman arrested this week after she knocked over six mailboxes while allegedly drunk driving had a lizard in her brawl. Even worse, the lizard was supposed to be keeping an eye out for the cops. Al Gore's vice presidential running mate, Joseph Lieberman, is said now to be the front runner for the new FBI director. Well, second runner, actually. Trump has already offered the gig to Meatloaf, but we're not holding out our breath on that one. In Bostwick, Florida, police say an unnamed man learned the hard way that kissing a rattlesnake is a really bad idea.  This won't surprise you in the least, a friend of the victim said the man had been drinking while handling the seemingly calm Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake. But when he moved toward the reptile, as though to kiss it, the snake bit him. By the way, did you catch that he was bitten on the tongue? Okay, let this be a lesson to you, buddy. You don't lean in for a kiss with a snake or a woman with the tongue already out. That's just wrong. British bookies say gamblers are betting that Donald Trump won't finish out his term in office. Meanwhile, the ghostwriter of The Art of the Deal says Donald Trump will figure out a way to resign from office. Wow, even Trump doesn't want to see Trump in the White House. Better start polishing those shoes, Mr. Pence. A new study found that more than half of American doctors are burnt out, exhausted, and losing their sense of purpose. The phrase, they're not alone, comes to mind. Last week, a man in Washington state tried to get out of drug charges by bribing the policeman with Taco Bell. Stupid! Taco Bell?  Have you signed up for the Marlar Sheet? It's free, and everybody who subscribes is automatically entered into monthly drawings for prizes. And for this month, May 2017, I'm giving away a Daily Dose of Weird News t-shirt and mug combo, and you can sign up for the Marlar Sheet free at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up, and be sure to subscribe if you want to see more. Click that little bell icon next to the subscribe button to be notified when I post new videos. And if you're already an official Weirdo, well, please share this video on your own social media. Find even more weird news that I didn't have time for on the Facebook page at DailyDoseOfWeirdNews.com. I'm Darren Marlar and I'll see you next time, Weirdos!


It's better than Black Hat. Hey guys, this is my review for Ferrari, the newest Michael Mann film. The first one he's done in eight years, the last one being Black Hat. Don't like to talk about that one. This film is focused on Enzo Ferrari, played by Adam Driver, at the height of some pretty interesting drama with the company, his marriage, his mistress, and the future that Ferrari would have from this race. The reason why I mentioned Black Hat is because I have a little bit of a sour taste from that film. Michael Mann, at one point, was my favorite film director. And then he kind of just disappeared. But if you go back to 1992, this man had hit after hit after hit. Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Insider, all these kind of collateral, Miami Vice kind of an in public enemies. And then he just disappeared. He didn't make another movie for six years, and that was Black Hat.  When I really started reviewing film back in 2015, Black Hat was the second film I ever fully, truly review that was new. And I was quite let down by it. This film, however, does have the Michael Mann feel, the touch, just how he is conveying the story through the cinematography, through his characters kind of exploring the environment they are in, the camera lingering a little bit afterwards to capture the emotion, but also passing the time. Is it as cleanly edited as films like, say, Heat or the Insider? I would say not entirely. There are some shots that linger for reasons of which are kind of inexplicable. There are some moments where they hold on people that you kind of feel like maybe you could have cut a little early, but there are some great performances that make use of that, particularly Adam Driver, as well as Penelope Cruz. She is phenomenal in this movie. She is one of the main reasons why you should watch it, aside from the subject matter. Her relationship with Ferrari as his wife, the mother of his child who died from sickness, and now has to see Enzo slowly take more and more control of the company from her as she's been his partner for quite a while, as well as succumb to the fact that he has a bastard child with his mistress, and that child could eventually take on the Ferrari name, and she's dealing with the guilt, the emotion, and the anger that she has towards her husband. Very interesting relationship. The relationship between her and Enzo is one of the best parts of the movie, and it constantly keeps coming back to it. And some people might be a little bit taken aback by that, considering it kind of cuts back and forth between this race, this very dangerous 1,000 mile race through Italy that Ferrari needs to win to help boost the company's numbers and their profits and basically just stay alive without being taken over by another entity. And that was something that Ferrari was very, very stubborn about. He did not want to be owned by anyone. That was the point of Ferrari. And he has all of these people that are vying up from Fiat Ford, and he's just like, no, I want to have control. And that personality, that stubbornness, that thought mentality definitely is given on the screen by Adam Driver, whether it's from him talking with these other businessmen, or how he goads his own drivers to essentially say, if you have the moment and you slip, you don't belong in Ferrari. You have to take that chance. Every day, you could die on the track. So you might as well go for it. And that's something that this film does not shy away from. It does not shy away from the cost and the danger of racing back then. I don't know as much about Enzo Ferrari as I would like to, but this film has made me interested in learning more about him, either reading or listening to the book that it's based on. That leads me to my next note, is I cannot confirm the historical authenticity of this movie, because Michael Mann did a pretty good based on a true story with the insider, and he was pretty close for a little bit of Hollywood dramatization. However, public enemies, as decent as that movie is, is riddled with historical inaccuracies. There's a person, a very well known crime boss who dies in that movie well before he actually died. It kind of left me with a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth, considering Michael Mann had said in interviews past that this movie was going to be one of the most realistic movies about John Dillinger, and clearly that wasn't true. So I can't say about that for Ferrari, but as a movie, I liked it as a one watch. It's not one of Mann's best. It definitely had those feelings of his previous works. It definitely had some great performances in it. I did like the parallel storytelling that happened in it, but it's not a rewashable movie. I don't think so. After James Mangold made Four Verses Ferrari, I was wondering if we'd ever see another movie using old race cars. And while Ferrari doesn't fully go that distance, because again, it's not the main main focus of the movie, it still did those car scenes pretty good. I liked them. I thought that they were intense. I was very invested in them. You're not as invested in the drivers as much because you don't really know as much about them as you would like. You do get some personal moments with them, especially there was a scene where all the drivers are writing love notes to their wives or their partners in case they die because this was a reality back then. And technically speaking, it is a reality even still to this day, but I would have liked to have just a little bit more from them. I would have liked to have just a little bit more kind of connection with the racers. There's certain scenes where the actions around it are more than what is happening to said characters. Overall, I feel Ferrari was a nice return for Michael Mann. It's definitely a positive at the very least. It's not as grandiose as you would have thought it would be. You kind of feel that you want a little bit more from it. I'm just happy that we got a good Michael Mann movie again. And now that he's been talking about making Heat 2 for the little while, I don't know how he would do it. The book was really good. In the end, though, I'm going to give Ferrari a four out of seven. Happy that Michael Mann finally made a decent movie again. I'm just happy for that. But that's it for me guys. I'm curious what you guys thought about this movie. Let me know in the comments below. What are your favorite Michael Mann movies? As I said, this guy was my favorite director in the 90s and even into the mid 2000s. But eventually, Danny Boyle took that spot because man wasn't making anything. So anyways, guys, hope you enjoyed the review. 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Hello, welcome to SSUnited, so see this side and this is the continuation of SSIS tutorial. So today we gonna discuss about how we can load data into our database from Excel file. So here you can see you will face two type of scenarios. So our first scenario is when database table contains nwarecare data type for string data like as we can see we have a table it contains four columns. First is ID, then name, then date of birth and then setting. So we have four columns. So in name column we can see we have nwarecare data type and we want to load the data in this table. Initially we don't have any data, let's have a look of Excel file. So this is our Excel file. As we can see it has four columns ID, name, date of birth and setting. So we want to load this data into that table. So first of all we have to use a Dataflow task because we are dealing with movement of data. So we have to use Dataflow task inside the control flow. And when we move to Dataflow panel then we can see we have to use Excel source from which we want to get the data. Then LEDB destination where we want to load the data. So let's move to SSGT to create the package. So here we need to create a new package, right click on this SSIS package, new SSIS package and we want to rename this with Excel to database nwarecare. So this is our package. So we have to use a Dataflow task. So we can drag and drop this Dataflow task and once we double click on this it will directly move to Dataflow panel. So inside Dataflow panel we have to use Excel source. So we can drag and drop this Excel source. And here we need to make the connection with Excel file. So once we double click on this Excel source then it will ask for Excel connection manager. So we don't have Excel connection manager at yet so we need to create a new one. It will ask for Excel file path. So we need to specify that file. You can browse and we can see and this is our Excel source. So we can select this file and click on open. Once we click on open then click on then we need to select the seed from which we want to get the data. So we want to get the data from seed one as we can see we have data in our seed one in seed two we don't have any data and seed three we don't have any data. So in seed one we have the data so we can select the seed one. Once we go to on columns then we can see we have id, name, date of birth and seed three. We have all the columns then click on OK. So we have done our source path. Now we move to our destination. So we want to load the data in our SQL server table. So we have to use LEDB destination. Now we can map and once we do click on this LEDB destination. So here it will ask for an Excel manager. So we need to click on new. Once we click on new then we can see our configuration LEDB connection manager. We already have a connection. So now I am going to delete this one and click on now. It will ask for server name. So we can select our server name. So this is our server name. Once we click on server name then it will ask for database name where we want to connect. So here we want to connect with SSIS test. Now we can check our connection, text connection succeed then click on OK. Again click on OK and click on OK. So here we need to select the table name where we want to load the data. So we want to load the data in our employee data destination and where care table. Now go to on mapping. So mapping succeed and click on OK. So as we can see in our table initially we don't have any data. Now I am going to run this package six rows. So these six rows should be inserted in our table. So we can select and we can execute as we can see we are getting the data. Once we have an where care data type for string data in our SQL server table and we want to get the data from Excel file and load in our SQL server table then we don't need to worry about it. It will directly move to data from our Excel source to destination and our Excel source will return an where care data type instead of where care. Our second case when database table contains where care for a string data. So as we can see in our second table. So this is our second table and it also has the same structure as our first table but it has where care data type for name column. Now we want to load the data in our second table and we can execute and we can check we don't have any data right now. How we can load the data first of all again we have to use a data flow task inside the control flow panel because we are dealing with movement of data and then once we move to data flow panel then we can see first we have to use Excel source and then we have to use a transformation which is data conversion. So data conversion because Excel source will return and where care data type and in our database we have where care data type. So it will not be mapped correctly. We have to use a data conversion by which we will convert our n where care data type to where care data type go to on SSGT. Now create a new package of this time Excel to database and where care. We have to use a data flow task. So we can drag and drop this data flow task. Once we double click on this it will directly move to data flow panel. So in data flow panel we need to use Excel source. We can drag and drop this Excel source then we need to make the connection. Once we double click on this Excel source it will ask for Excel connection manager. So we don't have any Excel connection manager at this time. So we need to create new one. Once we click on new then it will ask for Excel file path. Now we can select our file. So this is our file and click on OK. Then it will ask for Excel seat. So we want to get the data from seat one. We can select seat one go to columns. We want all the columns then click on OK. So we have done our source path. Now we need to load the data in our SQL server table. So we have to use LADP destination. We can drag and drop this and connect. Now again we need to make the connection for this LADP connection manager. We have already made the connection. So I am going to use this one click on OK. Now we need to select the table. But this time we want to load the data where string data contains wirecage data type. Click on OK. Now go to mapping, mapping succeed and click on OK. So here we can see our destination will not be succeed. If we read then we can see column name cannot convert between unicode and non-unicode string data types. So we have to convert first. So delete this connection and we have to use a data conversion. Go to on columns and we can see we have a transformation which is data conversion. We can drag and drop this data conversion. Once we do click on this then we want to convert data type for this name and our new data type should be string. So we can select our string and click on OK. So once we click on OK and we can see if we want to rename our output alias name then we can also rename like name new. So now click on OK. Now we need to map this data conversion with our destination. Click on destination, go to on mapping and this time we don't want to map name with name. We want to map this name with name new. So we can drag and drop this name new and click on OK. Now we can see error has been gone. Now we can execute this package. Once we execute this package then we can see our package succeed and six rows should be inserted in our table. So go to because of management studio and execute our selected statement. So as we can see we have six rows. So I hope you have understand how we can load the data if our database table contains where can data type for string and where can data type for string. Now we have few points to be remember. Our first point is it make connections with Excel workbook. So if we need to access multiple seats in same workbook then we don't require to create connection for each seats. Once we create the connection with our Excel workbook then we can access all the which is available in the same Excel workbook. Our second is we can we can also sort data at source by selecting is sorted property true and set a sequence in column spot key position. So we will cover this part once we understand about the merge. Next is we can select only specific range from Excel if required. Like in our Excel source as we can see we are getting six rows but we want to insert only three rows in our database. So how we can select only this specific range. So for this we need to understand about the data access mode. So here we specify how we want to fetch the data. For example if we have table or seat name in a variable then we can use it or if we want to write SQL statement to get the data then also we can use it. In our scenario we can see we have four types. First is table or view second table name or view name variable third is SQL command fourth is SQL command from variable. So I am going to use SQL command to select the specific range of data to go to SSDT also double click on this then we can see table or view. So I am going to change with SQL command. Here we need to write the SQL command. So select start from then we need to specify seat name seat one then we have to specify dollar sign after that we need to specify the range. As we can see select our first three rows. So we want to get one, two and three. So these three IDs and we also want to get our column names. So we will pick the data from A1 to D4 A1 to D4. Now we can preview and we can check. It's going to written only first three rows as we are expected. So go to on columns and we can see we are getting all the columns click on okay then execute our practice. Once we execute our practice, practice succeed now go to on SSMS and execute our selected statement. So we can see we have three rows. So I hope you have understand how we can select the specific range and we have also understand about the data access mode and we will understand about the table name or view name variable and SQL command variable. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos and please share to others. Thank you so much.


Howdy how's it going? My name's DavyChappy and today it's time to put on that big bubble of protection because I'm going to be going over each and every ab duration spell in the game and rating them on Davy's Davy Meter. Keep in mind, as always, that this video is absolutely loaded with opinions, so if you feel like you can put on more protections better than I can, feel free to leave a comment down below. But with that out of the way, let's begin. TAN TRIPS! Blade Ward. On the outside, this looks decent, but the secret is that if you just take dodge, you'll be way better off. Resistance. Not exactly amazing during combat, and if you're out of combat, you could just use the help action. FIRST LEVEL! Absorb Elements. Reaction spells are my favorite because I don't have to think about using them. The added damage is just dicing. Alarm. WARNING. BITCHEN COMING. I REPEAT. BITCHEN COMING. Armor of Agathis. This is one of those weird spells that legitimately get better with higher spell slots. Ceremony. This spell is so flavorful and the effects are so varied and useful that the fact that this is a ritual means that you don't even need to worry about wasting any of your prepared spells. I don't care if it's situational, I'm totally biased towards the spell. Mage Armor. Remember that whole thing about mages being easy to hit?  Protection from evil and good. The problem with one person you touch spells is that nothing is stopping the creatures from just being all like, oh okay then I guess I'll just attack the three other people I'm here to kill. Still useful for possessions, I guess. Sanctuary. This spell is dedicated to all the players that chose to spend their days healing all game log. Super useful for keeping someone alive. Shield.  Shield of Faith. Another useful spell only made less useful by the number of spells that also do this. Snare. Dabby! What happened? Oh, you know, just hanging around. Aid. It's like temporary HP, but better. Arcane Lock. Now you'll never get into my porn collection. Lesser Restoration. You have no idea how many times this has saved my life. Pass Without Trace. You have no idea how many times this has saved me from another encounter. Protection from poison. Not a lot of things use poison and it's not like poison needed any help being the worst damage type. Warding Bond. Um, what the fuck? Why is this only level two? Third level. Beacon of Hope. I once used this in tandem with the mass healing spell to help fight a dragon. The DM needed a minute. Counterspell.  Dispel magic.  Gliff of Warding. See, the reason why I like this better than contingency is because I can cast this as lowest level three and there's absolutely no max duration. Magic Circle. Very situational, but when it works, it really works. Nondetection. I always feel like somebody's watching me. Protection from Energy. Uh, how about I just stick with absorb elements, you know, the level one spell? Remove Curse. It's not nice to curse. Fourth level. Horror of Life.    Banishment. Begone. Thought. Duth Ward. I almost disintegrated someone by throwing a lich at them. Almost. Freedom of Movement. Surprisingly, this spell is better in water campaigns than in most other situations. Still, it's an hour of non-concentration movement, so... Mordenkanen's private sanctum. The enemy keeps teleporting into attack us. I've got the solution. Just give me 10 minutes. Hope nothing interrupts me and then don't leave this cube for any reason. Alright, we good? Okay, everybody choose a p-corner. Stone Skin. Remember Blade Ward? Yeah, that's how I feel about this, even if it's concentration. Fifth level. Antilife Shell. You fools! Nothing can penetrate my antilife bubble except, you know, ranged attacks and spells which you've conveniently brought. Huh. Banishing Smite. Face the might of my BAN HAMMER! Circle of Power.  To spell evil and good. Behold, I come from the demiplane of dread, and I am here to crush all more to... Wait, is that God? Greater Restoration. The situational spell to cure all assillails and dick-bad diseases. Planar Binding. Hey, do you have a thousand gold jewel that you're willing to throw away as well as an entire hour within 60 feet of a demon? No, didn't think so. Sixth level. Druid Grove. Okay, given that this spell clearly exists as just a role-playing convenience and doesn't really have any practical use in game, I'm rating it as such and want to mention that this spell alone makes me want to play Druid. Forbiddence. Once again, this spell requires some extreme components for some very situational uses. It gets a two because these situations are a little more manageable. Globe and Vulnerability. Fear the might of my magical balls. Guards and Wards.  Primordial Ward. Unfortunately, this concentration spell relies on you to get hit in order to use it, but fortunately the immunity to elemental damage makes up for it. Seventh level. Symbol. Hey, don't you touch my box. Wait, is that all those seventh level spells? Well, okay then. Eighth level. Anti-magic field. This spell is the absolute bane of all casters. Especially the wizard. Holy aura. Looks like the shoe is on the other table, which has now been turned. Mind blink. I wonder if it would be a cool idea to bind this spell to a helmet. Actually, I think that's been done before. Ninth level. Imprisonment. The amount of preparation required for this spell is insane, so you need to really hate the person you're imprisoning with this thing, because they are not coming back. Invulnerability. I'm so hard that nothing can pierce me. Prismatic Wall.  Well, whoever it was, they have helped me make my next bad guy. But that'll about do it. I hope you enjoyed this video. Leave a like and comment if you did. 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and welcome to this edition of Create a Life You Love. Now, as you know, I believe everybody has a Dharma, a path that they're destined to be on accidentally or purposefully. Some people know this from early on. Others kind of get guided into it willingly and sometimes unwillingly. We're going to talk about that today with one of my favorite people in the world, Attorney Scott Wagner. Hi, Scott. Hey, Tony. How are you? Good. How are you? Good. I can tell at the accidental Dharma is what we're going to talk about today. It's possible. It's possible. Fair enough. Fair enough. Thank you so much for being a guest. It's such an honor to have you on. I'm really grateful you could be here today. Thank you very much. I appreciate the opportunity. So, Scott, you have quite the story.  I am. The first question I ask everybody, when did you know you wanted to be an attorney? I'm still trying to figure that out, but it was not something I was drawn to.  I was fortunate to have an older brother who was a prosecutor for years and decided that I should be an attorney as well. I originally wanted to be a musician, but I wasn't any good. I don't believe that. It was true. I was terrible, but it was a great way to meet girls, which at the time was, you know, what was important, and my brother fortunately told me that I wasn't any good at it, and I listened to him, and somehow I ended up in law school. Okay. That's a great way to end up there, though. I mean... Well, it beats working is what I was at the time.  There's no money in radio. You've got to go to law school. So I went to law school and now I work 12 or 13 hours a day, and Jeff is now on the radio for three hours a day. Awesome. He's the smartest Wagner, but nobody likes to brag about it. Oh, that's funny. So where did you end up going to law school? Well, I went to Marquette. I really never had any interest in going outside of Milwaukee, unlike my daughter, who is now in beautiful San Diego, and I'm very jealous going to school. I know. She's, again, I'm not the smartest Wagner, but... And I had gone to Marquette for undergrad and liked it and liked Milwaukee, and so that was really the only place I applied, and it worked out just fine. Marquette is one of the best law schools? Well, it's funny because when I went to Marquette because I'm really old, the law school was this tiny little building on the corner of Wisconsin 11th that was a fire hazard. No one from Marquette is watching, right? But after I was done with all the tuition dollars I had spent, they had built a beautiful new law school. It's like state-of-the-art. It's all glass windows. Everything is Wi-Fi. I went back to speak to a class about plaintiff's class action work, which is one of the things I do. And as I walk in, there's like signs where students can get massages and stuff, and it was a completely different law school experience than I had. Anybody at my law school who offered you a massage you wanted to stay away from. I think this new thing was something different. So do you think about taking a class just once in a while so that you can get a massage and be in the new state-of-the-art building? Well, I would never say it that way. Oh, yes. Maybe that's the wrong way. Right. Maybe I'll teach a class. Oh, that's even better. You should do that. Right, because I'm a little old to be a student at this point. You're never too old to be a student. It's close. So you mentioned earlier you played music. What kind of music? What type of band? Tell me. I need to ask. I know it's really not about the band, but I need to ask about the band.  I've reverted back. Between my freshman and sophomore year at high school, I shot up six inches and lost 40 pounds, so I was suddenly okay. And as we were in the high school, they had what they called a night-scaler. I went to Nicolet, and there was a kid sitting on a table playing a guitar, and all these girls were around him. I mean, all kinds of girls, and he wasn't any good. So I'm thinking to myself, you know what? I can do that. So I learned about six chords, and even smarter than that, I was the guy who was really good at it, and the two of us would play different bars because at that time the drinking age was 18, and I was tall enough that nobody cared and I wasn't drinking anyway. So we played around the city, different things, and had a great time, and was considering expanding our touring area, but my brother properly told me that I sucked and I should really go back to doing something else, and he was ultimately right. The funny part of this is most of the places we've played have either burned down or gone out of business. That is hilarious. Yeah, so I'm not so sure what the lesson of that is, but I don't think it's a career I'll go back to. Yeah, I get that. I get that. So let's go back to law now. What type of law do you practice? I'm a litigator, which means I'm in court as much as anybody is these days, and I do commercial litigation, which means, you know, not family or criminal, but generally kind of business to business litigation. And the niche I've sort of fallen into is plaintiff's class action work representing shareholders when they're mergers or acquisitions and making sure they get paid properly for their shares. Okay, can you expand on that a little bit? What type of class action other than, you know, the basic titles that you just gave, some of the cases that you may have handled? Sure. We've done, I actually helped try the case against a mutual fund company that had a very precipitous drop in the value of a bond fund that a bunch of retired people were in. That was back in 2008. We tried it in Milwaukee. It was the only civil trial of a class action to go that year. I'm involved now in something a little different for me in the opioids class action against the manufacturers and distributors. I have two of the counties in Wisconsin. I'm the local counsel for that. I've also represented retirees against various governmental entities when their benefits were cut. But most of the work I do is more the shareholder type work either in connection with misrepresentations made in a public offering or if a merger and acquisition is not compensating the shareholders adequately. And that's also an area I kind of fell into. There's a really, really good firm out of San Diego which is one of the reasons my daughter is there. That was my connection. And they started working with me and so I do all the Wisconsin work as far as I know and they're very excellent attorneys. I mean some of the sharpest minds I know and they become very, very good friends of mine there.  That's amazing. So do you get to go visit her very often because that would be an amazing trip to be able to take right now? Well, I was talking to her a couple of days ago and she was complaining about the weather being 80 so I wasn't very sympathetic for her. But I was fortunate in May we had a mediation out there in one of the cases that was, the mediation was in San Diego so I swung out to see her and actually to bring her home but I was able to make it a work trip. And last year my brother and I went out to see Jimmy Buffett weather which wasn't really a work trip but I'm a bit of a parrot head as you know. That was my 54th show and it was Sydney's fifth so that's pretty good for a 19 year old. Nice. That is awesome. So awesome. Very nice. So in doing litigation and some of the work that you do how did you end up deciding that's what you want to do? Well that's got to go back to my brother who as you can tell is very dear to me. And very influential in your life apparently. Well, both my parents have passed away but my father was a complicated man let's say and as someone once said who get very friendly when they drink and my father was not one of those people so my brother was always there for me and still is to this day I would do anything for him and I'm sure he would do anything for me but he ended up sliding into the father role considerably and he said look you want to litigate you don't want to sit around in a room all day you want to be in court you are reasonably charming in small doses people like you until they get to know you and you'd be bored otherwise so he actually got me a job with one of the smartest guys I ever met in town who was a litigator and like an idiot I started working my first year of law school and I was working 40 hours a week while going to law school just because I liked it so much. Wow, that's very very impressive. Well I don't know if it's impressive or just took me that long to get stuff done but it was different back then because now you can go on any computer and you can research but I graduated in 89 because I'm old but back then you had like dedicated research terminals you couldn't just go on the internet and start doing legal research and I remember I was two days at the firm still in my first year of law school and one of the partners gave me this bankruptcy assignment I knew nothing about bankruptcy law I slept at the firm for two days just trying to put it together because I didn't want to go back and look like an idiot because he had to sort of redirect me but that was how it was back then and my health things have changed, huh? Yes, I'm still tired but I know a little bit more now just to add a bit more to add a bit more so okay so the next question I would ask is where do you practice law? I just joined a firm called Mallory and Zimmerman in Milwaukee I had been it's a great firm I really like the guys and I had always been at purely litigation firms before and generally smaller and usually I was the owner or one of the owners and there was a couple of problems one, I'm not a great administrator so having somebody else handle that has been very good to me good for me and the other thing is this firm not only does litigation but it also do corporate and real estate work and it's just a nice synergy that I can offer my clients services I couldn't at a purely litigation firm and there are other litigators at this firm but the other people can use me or the other resources as well nice, very nice so and how long have you been practicing? I graduated in 1989 so we're coming up on 30 years in June that's amazing well again it's lack of any other marketable skills no, I don't believe that it was too far in at that point to figure out something else I don't believe that in that one bit I really don't let's talk a little bit about your awards awards that you have won there's a couple different recognition you can get there's Super Lawyers which is from West and I've been named in there since 2012 and there's Best Lawyers News and I've been in there since 2012 but to be perfectly honest and Martindale Hubbell too is rated A-plus or ethical but a lot of attorneys get that but the best rewards are when your opposing council sends you cases when they give you referrals in the future when your clients refer cases back to you and I've been very fortunate to have those relationships nice very nice and if somebody would come in for a consultation they want to talk to you what can they expect during a consultation with you? Sure, the first meeting is always free because I've got to figure out whether I can help you or not and the hardest part of being a lawyer is sometimes just telling people that one, they don't have a case or two, you have a case but it will cost you so much to bring it and to succeed that it won't be worth your time so they can expect brutal honesty from me which is good, I think that people need that I really do Well it's an interesting thing because I had one of the biggest cases I ever had was a very successful defensive software firm that they actually brought me out to Colorado to handle the case and the only reason I got that case is because I had told the company that they should not pursue an action they had a couple months before and he respected that and even though another attorney had told them chase it, give me $10,000 down and I just said, here's why you're going to spend more than you're ever going to get back how much time are you going to spend on the litigation that's going to be away from making money and he respected that so it paid off and that's always the hard part of my job is to make people understand the flaws in their case at the outset because you would much rather have that discussion on day one than you would on day 600 and a lot of people come in and they say, look I don't care what it costs but I'm going to take these guys to court and we're going to make their lives miserable and that lasts until bill number two because they've seen how much it costs and then it's, you know, what do you mean how can it cost this much so it's very important to have that conversation on day one and say, you know, this is how it's going to go and you can't always know how it's going to go because it's not like paving a road where you can have some idea if it'll cost me X to get from A to point B because as somebody once told me it's kind of like painting a room we try to paint the room but then the other side comes in and puts graffiti all over it or paints it a different color and then you've got to go back and paint it again so it's hard to give an exact cost estimate or explain exactly how this is going to work but after so many years you have a pretty good idea of range of cost and you just want to make sure that they sign on for no surprises nice, wonderful now when someone comes to you and typically like you mentioned you deal more with businesses than individuals but if an individual were thinking I need an attorney what type of cases could an individual bring to you the cases where I deal with individuals primarily or with their owners of businesses because you would be amazed when people start businesses with friends don't think about how it's going to end and then ultimately have some sort of falling out and there's two reasons businesses have falling out one there's too much money and somebody gets jealous that Jane is taking too much and not earning enough and then it becomes this issue of how do we separate the business and still let it run but get somebody bought out and two is there's no money which is a situation just as bad or perhaps even worse but that's where I see a lot of individuals is hey I'm an investor in this deal my partner we used to get along great but now we don't how can you help me out I also do things there's a contract that went bad I mean I would do that kind of thing but that's most where I see individuals is when they're investors or if they had invested with brokers who had treated them poorly or some kind of securities offering so that's good for people to know I think I think that's really important for people to know second you deal with a lot of bigger businesses so if somebody has a business and they're looking they have a problem with their business or they're looking for someone to represent them what types of cases could they bring to you well they could bring any kind of case but where we can really provide value is litigation avoidance which is how to keep you out of court because once you're in court the money is flowing and as we said you only have half control of what's going on at best because the other side is going to do what they're going to do but we do things like review the contracts of businesses to make sure that they're protected to make sure that if a client doesn't pay we can collect our attorney's fees and we go after them to make sure that there's appropriate releases in there to make sure that the individuals are protected behind the corporate form they've chosen so there's all sorts of things we can do for businesses at any size pre litigation and I prefer to do that to keep them out of litigation because it's amazing how many very successful businesses started with no foresight at all in terms of what's going to happen when we grow and what kind of protections are we going to need how do we make sure we as individuals are not liable for things and a business is just like a marriage but people don't understand you should be thinking about how it's going to end because all the businesses do and that's what I do is business divorce Oh, nice that's a really interesting way to put it It's not a very romantic sentiment but they're finite entities Well, when people get into business they think they know I think they know there's a possibility it could go this way but they're so focused on it's going to go this way it's going to look like that they don't think about the dissolving of a business or the separating of a business and what that will look like because you're focused on success is how do we make this generate money, how do we get fat and happy and get the cash in but nobody ever thinks about the backside some people do until it's too late and it's much easier to work that out when everybody's getting along than it is once you're three quarters of the way through and one of the things I know when people first go into business together the little things on the contracts that they think, oh this isn't a big deal we're in this for the long haul I'm not going to worry about this detail or that detail those are the details that kind of bite you in the butt but you think you can trust this person which is great but that's why you can blame it on me exactly that's my role to be the fall guy, exactly but that's really what we're doing more of and I enjoy more than litigation because you can actually do something productive and prevent litigation nice, that's a really nice role to be able to take on when it works it's great absolutely so what was your first big case and if you can't talk about all the details or names that's okay but well it's ironically and I think you know this my first big case was actually in Sheboygan where we're filming when I was young and dumb it was years ago, it was probably in the early 90s the two hospitals in Sheboygan that had been vicious competitors they won't mention any names they've both been sold a couple of times got together to put together an ambulance service when the city of Sheboygan privatized its service and at that time the the model was changing where if you outsourced everything and took everything off the payroll the private provider would do the benefits and everything else so the two competing hospitals merged into an ambulance service that they put up for bid with the city council and just assumed they would get the service and I represented a Milwaukee provider who had been doing paramedic service all around the country and came in and blew them out of the water and Sheboygan the city council chose my client instead of the homegrown one which caused all sorts of consternation and the two hospitals made life as difficult as they could possibly do both hospitals wouldn't cooperate with my ambulance provider and ultimately they would run out and they came to me to represent them and of course it was me three years out of law school at a three attorney firm against the two biggest firms in the state oh my goodness today it was young and dumb and of course I took it on a contingency basis which I'm probably too smart to do now but it was fascinating we filed suit in the eastern district of Wisconsin we drove out to get the Sheboygan press it was the first time my name was in a good way in a newspaper it was a front page story out in Sheboygan in fact I would take the same exit to get there we used to go to city council meetings all the time so I did bring back some memories on the way out here it worked out just fine it was a long friend of mine since then we had a lot of interesting cases together that's very very wonderful so can you share with me a more intriguing case perhaps well I don't know how intriguing it could be we've represented a couple different interesting businesses over the years my partner had fallen into representing an adult bookstore and had fire damage to it and that resulted in some interesting inventory sheets in terms of the various different products that had been supposedly smoke damaged we spent a lot of time laughing over that I can only imagine and we had another adult entertainment center that had burned down those were only two adult entertainment cases but they do stick out in my mind over the years now I can imagine you mentioned earlier a class action suit that has to do with the opioid epidemic and that is such a sensitive and kind of a hot topic right now also and there are I think everyone at this point might know someone that in some way has been affected it might not be your direct family friends family or neighbors family where they have somebody who has been directly affected by the what they're calling the opioid epidemic so in handling this case I'm sure that there's a lot of passion for you in seeing I don't know if justice or the right thing can be done here well it's actually one of the cases I'm most proud of because usually what I do is just moving money around and that's important and it's significant to people but when you look at the opioid crisis I mean it's staggering I had no idea until I started investigating and I'm just a local counsel there's national counsel that are handling these cases which are all consolidated in Ohio in a multi-district litigation but the impact that these pain killers that I don't think were ever meant for people of our age or younger is devastating and the addictive quality they have is frightening when you look at how people on relatively quick turns become addicted to them and as we were talking about the other day in many situations when they clamp down on the opioids you see the heroin rate rise because it's such a gateway to heroin it's the same feeling the judge who's handling this in Ohio is a great judge he's really trying to move these cases along and trying to get a settlement that will actually address this problem which is more than just throwing money at something but you know it's a multifaceted problem is how do you educate people not to fall into that trap how do you educate physicians who generally aren't trained on pain management in medical school I mean there's all sorts of things about law I wasn't trained as and they learn about in many cases pain management from the people selling them the drugs so it's a frightening situation I think the statistics are for every 10 people in the United States a man, woman and child there are 7 opioid prescriptions written I mean it's frightening it's astounding and I've heard some cases about the FDA and what they've passed that the doctors as far as painkillers the doctors have said do not pass this that's too addictive and the FDA has still passed it passing so that 5 year olds can get oxy what 5 year old needs oxy that's not in the hospital all the time it just my mind can't even begin to process all of that it really cannot some of the county people that are on the front lines that I work with I mean the dedication they have to really combatting this problem whether it be you know kids who are in foster care because of the addiction of their parents and just the incarceration that's up so much which again takes parents away from their kids and the deaths I mean the death rate has just skyrocketed for this so for the opioid abuse so I really admire some of the people at the county who are on the front lines and really spending time trying to make this work and the difficulty in this case is going to be how do we craft a solution at the end of the day I mean with education and treatment and different areas need different solutions so it's not the usual puzzle which is how much money can I get for how many people because money alone isn't going to solve this directly so Scott first and foremost I want to thank you so much for being on the show it's just so amazing to have you on and have you share your gifts with everyone please tell people how they can contact you the easiest way to get me is I'm an attorney at Mallory and Zimmerman is my email it's the quickest way s-wagner s-w-a-g-n-e-r at m-z-m-i-l-w dot com nice and I will respond generally within 24 hours perfect excellent thank you again for being on the show it's absolutely positively such an honor and I'm really grateful you were able to make the trip and sit here with me and discuss your journey and your path absolutely my pleasure Tony thank you so much for having me thank you and I want to thank you for this episode of create a life you love in the next episode Jen and I will be making holiday spirits what signature drink are you serving at your holiday meals find out on the next episode can I come back yes absolutely


So this piece is a sonata, which is a soloistic composition that often features one or more instruments, so in this case fluguella and harp. Debussy's sonata for fluguella and harp is not a very creative title. During the Impressionist art movement, it was premiered at Jordan Hall in Boston, which is the New England Conservatory's performance hall. Similar to painters like Monet, who did the painting on this slide, the composer Claude Debussy expressed his intense patriotism and appreciation for individuality during World War I. During the First World War, the globe experienced a loss of human life at a previously unfathomable magnitude. As such, the importance of the individual was lost to shrapnel and machine guns. Debussy himself described the piece as terribly sad, not knowing whether it went off to laugh or cry at it. This piece is not traditionally melodic like Mozart or Beethoven, but its beauty lies in its imprecision, much like Monet's delicate and disembodied brushstrokes.


Welcome to Monet Café. Join me in this pastel painting tutorial where I will paint a beautiful owl in a night scene and give you many tips and techniques for painting feathers and more. The reference image is from unsplash.com, a beautiful photo from photographer Jesse Cason. Now I put the photo into Photoshop and had a little fun creating a little bit of whimsy. I added some stars, made it a night scene. And by the way, the butterflies were fun, but I don't include them in the final painting.  Here is my basic setup and let's talk about these products that I use for this painting. Here I am in my Amazon shop, which is a great place for you to find many of the products that I use in my lessons. I categorize things and very easy to find. They're called idea lists. Right now you're seeing everything. I also have product review videos, but if you click idea lists, one of the categories that I recommend for beginner pastel artists is this one that says beginner basics for pastel artists. And in it I have the products that I'm using in this lesson. Well, not all of them, but I'm using pan pastels. Now this is their 20 set. This would be considered like a starter set for pan pastels. And this is the pure color set. I just found and added to my Amazon shop their 20 landscape color set, which has some really nice colors. The great thing about pan pastels is you can mix them. And also I am using these soft tools. These are the little applicators that you can get to apply the pan pastels with. They work great. It feels very much like you're painting with a paintbrush, which is really, really neat. Now the surface that I'll be using is pastel matte. I believe I have it in this. Yes, it's made by Clear Fontaine. And pastel matte is such a wonderful surface for pastel painting. If you've been painting much with soft pastels, you may have heard that the professional sanded surfaces are the way to go because you can get so many layers, which is true. What's interesting about pastel matte though is it's not really sanded and yet you can still get lots of layers. This was my first time using pan pastels with pastel matte and I got to say I loved it. I'll definitely do it again. I'll talk more about the products as I'm painting, but the color that I used is the dark blue and that one right there. And the pad that I have is one larger than the one that you see here. This one's 24 by 30 centimeters. The one that I used is 30 by 40 centimeters. And you can find all these products on other art retail sites, but this is just an easy way for you to find things. I created a basic sketch using a white charcoal pencil and I painted it freehand, but I did want to make sure I got the accuracy for the owl and the feathers. 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I'm showing you my basic setup here, but I want to just make it known that you do not have to have pan pastels to create this painting tutorial. Just use what you have, matching colors and values as best as you can. You can even follow my tutorials with different mediums. But I did love how Pan Pastels has these palette trays, and I can literally put the little round compacts into the palette tray while it's attached to my board. And it's a great way for you to be able to see the colors that I'm using, and it's a really neat and convenient way for me to just use them. Like literally, like I'm painting with a paintbrush by using the applicators. So this surface, again, is the pastel matte. It's the, I think it's called Midnight Blue, and it's such a great surface for layering soft pastels. And the pan pastels, one beautiful thing about them is they get these nice soft effects for backgrounds and feathers. So I just have my surface taped to my board with some black artist tape. Also, the board that I have it on is a DIY, do-it-yourself board. I have a video on how I made it. I used to use black foam core board, and I got tired of the expense. So this board is nice and hard.  So that's, oh, and I've got my, all of my pan pastel applicator applicators back here with the clean tips. You can reuse them a lot, but when they get really worn out, you really should put a new tip on it to keep it fresh. And all my other applicators back here. So that should be great. I might add some pastel pencils to this towards the end, perhaps with some linear strokes. So I'm just going to have fun. I hope you guys learn a lot and let's get started. At this point in the video is where I will have on my Patreon version of this lesson, a much slower version, more commentary. And I show many of the colors and include all of my color notes for the painting. Now I'm using the pan pastels with this little applicator to get in the basic form of the tree. A lot of this was from imagination because I kind of invented the image myself other than the owl. And in hindsight, I should have used the large, it's like a sponge applicator for pan pastels. This portion of the painting, I don't know what I was thinking. It took me so much longer by using these little tools, but I was really just trying to shape this tree and kind of conceptually work it out. But if you are using pan pastels, I suggest you use the large round applicator or it's oval shaped. You'll see me using it when I get to the sky. It applies things much more quickly.  Like I said, that's what I now would do in the future for large areas like this is just use that larger applicator because this little one just took me forever. The great thing about pan pastels is they have the numbers right on the back so I can share which exact colors I'm using. That's not the same with regular pastels. They don't have the number like imprinted on them. And like I said at the beginning, the butterflies was a neat idea, I thought. But because I was making it a night painting, I think the butterflies would be more for a day painting. So I decided just to make it a starry sky with some fireflies. And they kind of all meld into each other, the stars and the fireflies. And I really did, I enjoyed painting this. It was very relaxing. This style is a bit of a departure for me. I love impressionism. And I would say it's still impressionistic, but it's a bit more whimsical and mysterious. And I do give more detail than I normally do. I'll pay no attention to that old lady's face there. I don't know who she is, but she jumped into my painting somehow. Just kidding. So I also just used, you saw me use a paintbrush. You can brush and soften things up with soft pastel by just using a paintbrush. I loved this pretty turquoise color. I think this one is phthalo blue. And I just love it. And again, I love the fact that we can mix and blend pan pastels. And you can with regular stick pastels as well. You just layer one color on top of another. But I do love how with pan pastels, I can put two colors on my applicator and kind of mix them right there on the surface. Like I said, I'm still in the blocking end stage, but you can see I'm combining some colors and I'm using some purples. A little bit more in the upper portion of the sky and kind of carving it into the tree area. Yay, I'm finally using this round sponge applicator or oval shaped and it blends so well. And that's when I had my aha moment. Why was I not using this to begin with? I could have created this background so much faster. Okay, now I'm back to the applicator and I'm just still working this composition. Again, I didn't have a lot to go on in the background, but I decided to create a main tree. That's my tree on the left there. I'm going to be adding some regular pastels soon, you'll see. And I'm going to really work on getting those values a little bit more contrast, a little more richness to it. But I have the main foreground tree on the left there. Then I have a mass of trees behind the owl. Here we go with the stick pastels. I used a combination of some purples, the dark Terry Ludwig color. It's called Eggplant and these other blues and purples. So here's where I am just darkening some things. It sounds crazy to say I'm darkening them so that I can lighten them. But the reason for that is it's going to create that contrast. And then you'll later see me go in and add other colors on top like now I'm adding some greens on top. But what it does is it creates these layers of values and colors. And that's what's going to give your painting form and that feeling of three-dimension so it doesn't feel flat. I always say it's so neat. We're creating an illusion. We're creating a three-dimensional feeling on a two-dimensional plane. So now I just added more dark in the foreground. And the reason is a good concept for a painting is to almost have any lips. You know, a little area of darker values kind of framing it in almost as an oval or a circle. Now here's my strategy for the stars. I got one of these applicators of the Pan Pastels. It's almost like an eye makeup applicator. They have some with long handles and some with short ones.  Here's where I'm adding a little feeling of some wispy clouds. Look how beautifully these Pan Pastels blend. I literally just put a little bit of light on the Pan Pastel and it created that feeling of just this almost see-through wispy clouds. Now this is the Terry Ludwig Eggplant color. Pardon my crazy hair. I sometimes forget to really pull it back. And the eyes look very flat right now, you can see, but you're going to see them really take form as I add some highlights in the eyes. Now I'm using these tools and really the tools are very affordable. But just by the pack that has all of the different applicator tips, because you'll find that some of them work better for a particular subject matter, I found that for some of the feathers, you'll see later on the top of his head, I use the applicator that has the almost like a rounded top to it. And then for some of the feathers, I use the triangular shaped one that has more of a pointy tip to it. So it's kind of like you just play around with them, see what makes the best marks for your subject matter. And you can see I'm creating the face rather dark. It's always a good idea at the beginning of a painting to consider your light source. Where's your light coming from? And I didn't have any clear light source with this because I invented the background, but I imagined it as being kind of behind him. Like it's the sky is brighter behind him. And so that's why I'm keeping him a little darker than the owl in the reference image. And I want to focus a lot in this lesson and in the description of this video. You'll see my tips for creating feathers. And the good news is it's not a lot different than some of the other techniques for painting subject matter. We're going to work dark to light, layering your deepest darkest values first and then layering your lighter values on top. So the way I like to think of it, I'll get back to that thought. Notice while I'm painting this, the owl has almost like a heart around his face. It like frames it out with a little bit of a darker rim. So that is kind of something neat to keep in mind when painting this type of barn owl. But we're layering dark to light. Think of it as laying a foundation where your shadowy areas are underneath. And then the feathers as they gradually layer on top until you finally get to the final top layer, they're going to lighten up. In other words, the feathers underneath of course are going to be darker. They're going to be more in shadow. So we're creating the foundation first with our darkest values and we're layering. Think of it as building a building on top. And now you can see I'm using that little pointy one and I'm layering on top of that kind of purple gray that I had put down. Let me slow this up a bit. So you can see that it's beginning to take form and have a sense of depth because I put my darker layers down first. And as I layer the lighter feathers on top, you really get a feeling of depth and dimension. And you're going to see me doing that throughout this painting for the remaining feathers on the body. It's the same strategy of dark to light.  And instantly the eye feels spherical. I'm just using kind of that gray purple. I think I'm mixing a purple with another color and all of a sudden those eyes feel like they have depth and form to them. I'm using the Terry Ludwig Eggplant color. I think the color is V100 to create some depth behind his beak and his nose. His nose felt a little flat before and our noses and animals noses kind of come out from the face. So we're going to have that little shadow kind of underneath the nose. Now here's where I'm using that applicator I mentioned with the rounded tip. And it was great for his feathers on top of his head. And you can see once again, working light to dark. Now I did have a feeling of some backlighting, meaning the lights behind him. So that's why some of the outer feathers, almost like the halo around him, are going to be lighter. But you can see right here how because I laid down the darker orange first and then I gradually layer the other colors on top. It really gives that illusion of feathers. I added a little purple halo around the face as well, that little heart area to frame it out.  I haven't done, I never done feathers with pan pastels before. So that was interesting. And I love painting birds, but I've painted just a few owls. So I was really enjoying this. Now I add a little bit more of this pretty neutral blue. This is just where I have fun with color. I get that question a lot is how did you know to add that color when you didn't see it in the reference image? And it's really just a couple of simple rules. If you get the value right, the color doesn't have to be exact. As long as it's the correct lightness or darkness of a color and then just keep color temperature in mind as well. Now here is where I'm going to add some pastel pencils. Another thing that I don't do often, but I wanted to really get in that feeling of his feathers and I thought these pencils would work great. You can see I'm still getting quite a bit of layering. This pastel matte surface is great for that. Another thing that's great is pan pastels don't take up a lot of tooth of the paper. So you still have a lot of layering ability once you lay down your background with pan pastels. This is definitely more detailed than I normally work, but it was fun. My favorite is still impressionism. I just I love to suggest things rather than spell it out or photo realism. I am impressed so much with artists who do photo realism. I think I just don't have the patience for it, but this one was fun. Definitely got a little more detailed with this. And the pastel pencils really added that neat detail for the feathers. Look at my pinky here. I use my pinky as a stabilization device. I just set it down. I clean it off. You can't see me, but often I'm wiping my pinky off when I move it to another area. So as not to contaminate the colors in the painting. But there is a device you can use. It's like a wooden dowel. I can't remember the name of it for some reason. You guys probably know what I'm talking about. That you can rest on your easel and it works the same way. But my pinky technique has worked for years. Now here's the same strategy again. Once laying down darker colors and then the lighter, darker values and then layering the lighter values on top with directional strokes. I can't stress that enough for your strokes to emulate the motion of the feather. And they're overlapping each other. That's the thing that I think works best when painting feathers is realizing. We're not just painting by number. You know those paint by number sets? Like you see how I have the feathers drawn out here? I could just fill each one in with a color. But I know that each feather has more dimension than just one color. So what I'm doing here is I'm painting in the form of the feather. Notice how I have multiple kind of dark values in there. I also know that there's one wing you'll see in the reference photo where there's a shadow underneath it. It's like there's some of the feathers that are raised up. So that's why I made that dark kind of line underneath that one area going down his back a little bit. And lo and behold, it creates that illusion of some feathers kind of curving over top. Now here's where I switched to the oval brush or applicator I should say. The larger one. The reason is because the feathers are larger. I realized I needed a little bit more dark in some areas. So you can see how I've added some dark. That's another area that's kind of in shadow where the wing is overlapping. There's kind of two of those. Another area that has a little bit of darker values is that area where his wings kind of come together. It makes a little V shape on his back. So that's why I got a little darker value in that crevice. And you can just see how I am putting down the darker values using color as a guide. You know, I'm not sticking to the colors of the owl. I'm giving him a little bit more richness. But I'm using value as my priority and just getting creative with color. So now you can see I've added some of the lighter values on top of those feathers there. Now I decided to add the fireflies and even a little bit of whimsical kind of markmaking around the stars. You certainly don't have to do this if you want yours to feel more realistic. So, you know, make it your own, whatever you want to do. Now I'm speeding this up a bit. You can see the whole painting took nearly four hours. I mean, this was a lot of little markmaking. It probably wouldn't have taken me that long if I'd have used that large applicator in the beginning, like I mentioned, for the blocking end stage. But you can see now it's starting to take some depth and have that form and just a rich feeling. And I'm continuing to work the feather layering. So I'm coming back in now with my kind of my middle values. And I think you'll start to see how you really can feel that depth underneath the feathers where one wing and feathers is overlapping the other. I did go in and create some of the little identifiable marks of this particular species of owl. There's little black marks in some places I used a pastel pencil and then even the Terry Ludwig pastel as well. You'll see me do that more. You can see a little bit of it now around the face, but I add more of that as I work.  There were some larger feathers and then we're kind of all blending together. So I just put a little dark shadow under some of them to delineate them for separation a bit. Now pastel pencils again, still using my pinky technique. And I really loved the soft effect of these feathers. They felt believable to me as an owl feather. Now here's how I typically like to think of painting items subject matter like this. I want to, of course, anatomically get things pretty accurate, but they don't have to be exact as long as you suggest elements with the directional strokes. In other words, I'm not trying to paint every feather exactly like I see it on the owl. I didn't measure, I didn't count. I just looked at how they were forming over the owl, the general direction and size of the feathers. And that's really all you need. And it's a much more carefree way of painting too. And I think it's more painterly when you paint that way. Here's where I'm adding some of the little black marks. This is the same strategy. I don't need to have them all in the exact location that they are. I just kind of squint my eyes and see where the general motion, how they're laying on the owl and the pattern, I should say. In general, not overly complicated or detailed. And once again, this is a way more detailed painting than I normally do, but I like it. I had fun with it. All right, I'm going to add some peaceful music for you to continue to watch my process. Don't go away. Keep watching. I will be back at the end also too. If you recreate from this tutorial, I would love if you would share it and tag me. If you do on Instagram, you can tag me at Susan Jenkins artist that way I get to see it. And if you're on Facebook, find me on my art page is the art of Susan Jenkins and follow me and also tag me at the art of Susan Jenkins. If you share on Facebook that way I get to see it. And that's really good artist etiquette too. If you share something, make sure you mention the artist if you recreated from a tutorial. So enjoy this lovely music is from a young girl. Her name is Hannah McFarland. A few years ago, she gave me permission to use her song in one of my videos. And she just creates the most beautiful piano worship music and she sings beautifully too. So enjoy and I'll be back in about four minutes. Here's where I'm going in and adding that final light highlight on the eye. I often talk about how that little light reflection on the eye is like the icing on the cake. But I'm going to tell you in this case I added it and then I took it away. They didn't feel believable for the scene often or all the time. You want to make sure your subject matter matches in the scene like this is a night scene. There wasn't a whole lot that would cause his light, the light in his eye to reflect that brightly. And it made him, I don't know, just it didn't have the right mood. So I got rid of the white and I end up adding back that little bit of a purple and blueish highlight to the eye. So that was just my own personal preference. You know, can do what you think looks best for your scene. So I will have this painting available for sale in my Etsy shop, the original. I already have prints and products of this available on my Fine Art America site. And this makes a beautiful print. They do a great job Fine Art America greeting card I have pillows. You can buy this and all kinds of things. So I hope you enjoyed this. I hope if you want more content, you'll become a patron of mine or just to support this channel to keep these free videos coming. I would appreciate it. And as always, God bless, beautiful artist and happy painting.


hing. That's really important. We have to do that. And otherwise, it wouldn't have been a priority. So, I mean, so it's still really, really early days. And I think the question in my mind is now, like, what will happen when data scientists in lots of different domains have access to an infinitely hackable differentiable language, along with the world of all of the C libraries. You know, like, what do we end up with? Because we're starting from very little in terms of ecosystem, right? But, like, there are things in Swift, we haven't covered, for example, something called keypaths. There's this thing called keypaths which might let us write, like, little query language DSLs in Swift with type safety. Yeah, give me all the parameters out of this thing, and let me do something interesting to them. Yeah. That's really cool. And so, you know, I guess at this point, I'm kind of saying that people is like, pick some piece of this that might be interesting in your domain and over the next 12 to 24 months, explore with us so that, you know, as Chris said, putting this airplane together whilst it's flying, you know, by the time it's actually the all the pieces are together, you'll have your domain-specific pieces together and I think it'll be super exciting. And one of the things that's also really important about this project is it's not cast in concrete. So we can and we will change it to make it great. And to me, we're very much in the phase of let's focus on making the basic ingredients that everybody puts things together. Like, let's talk about the core of layer is. Let's talk about what data blocks should be. Let's talk about what all these basic things are. Let's not mess with float anymore. Let's go up a few levels. Yeah, we can consider float done. But let's actually really focus on getting these right so that then we can build amazing things on top of them. And to me, the thing I'm looking forward to is just innovation. Innovation happens when you make things that are previously hard accessible to more people. And that's what I would just love to see. So the thing I keep hearing is how do I get involved? I think there's many places you can get involved. But to me, the best way to get involved is by trying to start using little bits of this in work that you're doing or utilities you're building or hobbies you have. Just try. It's not so much how do I add some new custom derivative thing into Swift for TensorFlow. But it's like implement some notebook that didn't exist before or take some Python library that you've liked using and try and create a Swift version. Try something like a blog post. So one of the things when Swift first came up is that a lot of people were blogging about their experiences and what they learned and what they liked and what they didn't like. And that's an amazing communication channel because the team listens to that. And that's a huge feedback loop because we can see somebody was struggling about it and even over the last couple of weeks when Jeremy complains about something, we're like, oh, that is really hard. Maybe we should fix that and we do change it. And then progress happens. So we want that feedback loop and blogs and other kinds of forms. It's a very receptive community, a very receptive team for sure. Were there any highlight questions that you wanted to ask before we wrapped up, Rachel? Really? Okay. An absolute honor and absolute pleasure to get to work with you and with your team. It's like a dream come true for me and to see what is being built here. And you're always super humble about your influence. But I mean, you've been such an extraordinary influence in all the things that you've helped make happen.  I'm... Thank you so much. And from my perspective, as a tool builder, tool builders exist because of users. And I want to build a beautiful thing and I think everybody working on the project wants to build something that is really beautiful, really profound, that enables people to do things they've never done before. I'm really excited to see that. I think we're already seeing that starting to happen. So thank you so much and thanks everybody for joining us. See you on the forums.