Aloha, and welcome to Crossroads in Learning. I am your host, Keisha King, and we are still in the midst of the coronavirus COVID-19. We are entering our second rounding into our third month, and we are still fighting with this, but we're making progress. Today we're going to talk with a special guest about how we've chosen to reflect and refocus during this battle. Welcome with me to the show, Estria Mayashiro. Aloha, Estria. Aloha, Keisha. Aloha, everybody. It's so good to have you here as we're going to talk about redirecting our focus as it pertains to COVID-19. And why don't you start off by telling us about your organizations, Mele Mirals, and Estria Foundation. Yeah, so my name is Estria. I'm from Kaimaki, on the island of Oahu. Born and raised, I've been doing art since I hopped a fence and did graffiti when I was a kid. From there I fell in love with painting walls, went to San Francisco, got to paint many places, have a little role in the graffiti style writing movement in the Golden Age of San Francisco. And then from there I got the opportunity to build this nonprofit and merge my community work with my artwork. And so we did programs like water rights, rights because we were graffiti writers, and we did murals in 11 different places. South Africa, Palestine, Philippines, South America, Central America. I didn't even go to most of these places. And then from there we did a program in Hawaii called Mele Mirals, which is a series of murals that partners with schools. That one is, we finished number 60 at Kaneohe Elementary recently. I thought it was going to be 20. That one, that program's still going strong because it has rich components in the Hawaiian culture, the spirituality, the wellness and whole being, you know, the meditation piece. I want to ask you about all of that in just a little bit. I want to find out, you know, you've mentioned all of these places that your art has made it to, whether you've actually gone there. But what is the mission of the organizations that you formed? Yeah, so the mission of the Esther Foundation is really to raise awareness on critical human and environmental issues. And we chose the longer approach to that by going into education. So our programs primarily serve young people, actually from kindergarten through college. And then from there to expanded to teaching teachers. So we offer professional development courses. We offer classes in schools in Hawaii as well. Okay. Now, how did you get involved with the Hawaii Department of Education? Because it sounds as if at one point you were a graffiti artist and now you are an educator for the DOE. Tell us, how did that connection begin? Well, for about a year before we did the first melee mural, we met with several different people in the community, probably about three to five meetings a week for a year and said, this is the project we want to do. Do you guys have any suggestions? What do you think? And a lot of people gave their input. And so we got introduced to a number of schools. We did a pilot one first where we invited people from Kona, from Kamehameha schools, from different places. And everybody came together and did one. So, all right, this looks, this works pretty good. Let's try it. So from there in the beginning, we had to call other schools and ask if we could partner with them to do it. But now because people have heard about it, there's actually a waiting list and they're calling us to partner with us. So it's really a blessing to be in that position. So just so we're clear, you have melee murals in the Hawaii public school system and you are completing murals at each school. Is that correct? Or at schools, at certain schools? Yes, most times they're in schools and sometimes it's near a school. But because we're a nonprofit, we partner with those schools and work together with them. Okay, now tell us who is completing the mural? Is it just you and a team of artists or are students involved? So we partner with the kids. We bring in a team of artists. I've led the majority of them and sometimes other artists lead them too. Sometimes there's more than one artist. We work with the students by teaching them meditation and taking them on excursions or hukai in their areas they get to learn about their place and develop a connection to that place so that we hope that in the long run, when they get older, they'll be in positions of influence to embrace their kuleana, to take care of that place, their responsibility to care for it. And so that's how the murals work. We work with the kids, teach them meditation. They get ideas through the meditation. We put their ideas together on a board. Once everybody approves it, then we paint, we paint, we teach them how to paint and the students then act as leaders and they teach their schoolmates how to paint. They come for a say an hour to the wall. They tell them what the mural is about and then they actually work with them to paint. So it sounds, and we're looking at some of the pictures now that demonstrate that students are working together. They are actually on the wall painting alongside some of the artists. But can you talk to me about this meditation piece that happens before paint begins? Yeah, so in the meditation process that we've been taught and we pass on, we teach the students to ground, to calm their minds, clear all their thoughts out and to be able to be present in the moment, to hear, to feel, sense the wind, the birds, whatever. And then from there, we ask the land what it wants. We ask for inspiration and guidance and then the students get ideas whether they're pictures or feelings or some of them get words, whatever. However the ideas come to them, we share them with the group. We start sketching them down on paper and we're looking for commonalities. So if six people have the same idea from that one meditation that we know that's confirmation because they weren't talking about those ideas, they just sat down quietly and received those ideas. So it's about being in touch. And it's also about teaching them our role and our place that we're under the heavens to receive guidance but we're on the earth to take care of it. And that's our place, you know? Hmm, that's very interesting that you would say that during this time when we are indeed on the earth and there's so much going on with this pandemic. Talk to us about how COVID-19 has changed the way that you work with your students. We're all out of school right now. How is, what effect has that had on your work? Yeah, the COVID has been a real challenge for us because we had to shift our focus from in-person classes. The murals are obviously on hold with the lockdown but we shifted to using things like Zoom and Webex to have classes online. We have to prepare our lesson plans ahead of time and share them. In some schools, like Cahill Elementary, we were able to print out the packets and pass them out when the parents came in to pick up things for their students. So in different ways, we were able to share with them and then we do classes during those calls and then they have to draw some things or paint some things. We passed out supplies earlier and then they got to share what they created back in the class. We use Google Classrooms to give out assignments and feedback as well. Okay, wonderful. So you have class that is still actively taking place even though you can't be together in the physical presence as you would normally. Now, here's my question with regard to what you're currently doing because in addition to working with students on a mural, you are also stationed at Kaimuki High School where there are several murals. Can you tell us how many murals do you have there on campus? Yes, so we're based at Kaimuki High School. We're blessed to be given a space there to operate and we offer classes there during school and after school that are free to all the students. In the last few years of being based on that campus, the students and us have continued to paint murals every semester. So now I think there's about maybe 17 murals on campus. 17 murals on campus. Oh, wow. That's great. That's a lot of murals, but that's great. Especially for a short period of time, I understand you've only been based at Kaimuki for a few years. How many years have you been there? Oh, I don't know, three or four years. Okay. Okay. Yeah, 17 murals in that time. That's still, that's a lot. That's, you've been very busy. I've seen some. In fact, we're showing some now of auntie and let's see, there's the one with the soldier and the gecko all there. I know recently you gave a tour of Kaimuki High School. Can you talk to us about what that tour was about? What did that entail? Yes. There was a professor from UH, Aya Mylani. She wanted her, she, they teach people that are teaching. So they wanted them to come down and see this project-based program that we have. Our murals are melee murals, and then our classes are called Halao Paheona, which is visual arts class. So we try to share what we can about our culture, our stories, our perspectives, our Hawaiian way of looking at things, approaching things. So in the course of sharing those things, we hope that it gets infused into the culture. So as part of that class, we opened up the campus to tours and we had our students break up into groups and take people around campus. And they only had enough time to cover about 10 murals per group, but I think there was three or four groups. So, and they had quite a lot of people, good turnout. So we plan to do that again and offer it more to the public on an ongoing basis. I was there for that tour and we just looked at a few pictures from that event, which was, as you mentioned, a really good turnout. What impressed me was the interaction with the students. Each student served as a guide, is that correct? Yes. Yeah. Students have to practice their public speaking and leadership skills and assert themselves. And they did. And they were very knowledgeable and did a great job on that. Now, we're gonna take a short break, but when we come back, we're gonna talk for a few minutes about your career before you began working with the DOE. And we're gonna talk about what new chapters you may explore beyond this time if you decide to do anything else. So thank you so much for being with us. We're gonna take a quick break. 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My goal is to decrease pain all over the world, inspiring people to take better care of their bodies to enjoy life to the fullest. I look forward to hearing from you. Aloha and welcome back to Crossroads in Learning. I'm your host, Keisha King, and we're having a great discussion about resetting and refocusing while working in art and our public schools. We're speaking with Estria Maeshiro, co-founder of Mellie Murals and the Estria Foundation. Estria, welcome back. Thank you. Indeed. So we've discussed and taken a look at a few of your projects that you've completed here in Hawaii, but that's not where your career began. Why don't you take us way back to the 1980s and we'll look at a few of your pictures from then. Why don't you talk about it? I'm not that old. Right, neither am I. We were just babies. Well, yeah, in the 1986, I graduated school here, and so I moved to San Francisco for college and ended up building... Wait, wait. You're not Hawaiian if you don't give shout out to your local high school. Oh, yeah. I actually went to Iolani High School. And from there, I went to San Francisco for college, and by the first week of being there, we're painting the project rooftop, so really jumped into it. And painting there was a turning point for me because I wanted to be one of the best there.  I ended up making a career out of it there and then eventually moving back home to share what I do with here. Okay. What caused you to have the desire to make the transition to come back to Hawaii? I think I always thought... I think, yeah, I always thought I would come back. And then after one day sort of wake it up and go, oh, my God, I've been in California for how long? I got a goal. And I also think you've got to be real careful and intentional with what you say out loud because Kupuna, your ancestors are listening. And so one day I had said, I think I'd like the majority of my life's work to come from my people back home. I'm talking about my artwork, my community work. And within a year I moved home and launched the MeleMurals program. Hmm, wonderful. Now, tell us about the movie that is all about your life and that transition for you and the discoveries that came from it. Yeah. We have a documentary called MeleMurals. I think you can watch it on PBS online or something. I'll get you the link. And the filmmaker wanted to cover how a couple of us started off with hip hop and then transitioned into using that for our culture, for our people. It's a great film.  Well, it's a great story, but there is something really special that you discovered about your own ancestry with, I guess it was while you were doing that project. Can you share with us about that? Yeah, so I'd have to say that in the meditation you're trusting, you have to learn to have faith in the things you cannot see in the messages that you receive and know that you have to be able to distinguish. Well, is that a good message or is somebody playing tricks on me or what, you know? Right. And you have to trust in yourself as well as trusting in what you can't see. Right. So I think the process and the journey has strengthened faith for me and strengthened my confidence in what's out there, what's after this part of our, you know, this life in this part, what's after that. Being able to talk and try to gain knowledge from spirits is an amazing thing because it just changes your whole perspective. Death doesn't hold the same scariness about it that it used to, you know? You know, it's interesting you bring that up right now while we are faced with an incredible number of deaths because of COVID-19. And here on the islands, we're a little bit safer where as very few people have lost their lives due to this virus. But talk to us about, you made some connections with the land during the meditation and discovering what the land wants or what the land has to say. Explain what you mean by all of that. Well, I believe like other Hawaiians that the land, the earth is a living thing. It's just not like a human that has, you know, moving arms, talking mouth, but it holds memories of things that have happened on it before, you know, it could be traumatic, it could be positive. Some places you go, they feel really good. That's pretty much how the earth should feel.  Something's not good about this place or something's not right. And oftentimes it's because something traumatic has happened there and the land, we haven't come in to help it heal, you know, and so it's hanging onto that. So you might have a lot of suicides in that area or a lot of deaths or a lot of bad things, car break-ins, thefts, whatnot. And it's, you know, it's those bad energy things that are lingering. So you gotta bring people in who can perceive those things and help lift it to the light and cleanse it, make it from a low vibration, something dark to a bright high vibration. You know, it can be a pico, a portal of creativity, of new life, birthing. And to a large extent, these murals do that because you're bringing in so many young people, so much energy from different people, all with the same common goal of making something fun, making something beautiful, you know, doing something positive for other people. And that alone shifts the energy of the space. But in the meditation, we teach the children to calm yourself and ask the land, what does it want there? And it may not speak in words, it may speak in images, or, you know, it may speak of stories that have happened before. So like say, a lot of our old Hawaiian stories, people mistakenly call them myths, but they're not myths, they're stories of people. And some things have been changed or exaggerated or whatever through time, you know. But the stories hold lessons, the stories hold value, perspectives, a lot of things. And so a lot of these stories in our books were written down, I don't know, in the 50s or whatever, by some white man with the opportunities to come in and just go around and collect stories and not have to work. So they're written in a style that's hard to sort of digest nowadays. It's pretty dry. And it's sort of like giving you every other line of a story and then you've got to stop and be, sit with it and try to figure out what are those lines in between, you know, and so sitting with the land and it helps you do that. But also because those stories were written at a certain point in time before, it doesn't cover what has happened since that writing of that story till now.  They're opposites, there are two sides of the same coin, but they're opposites. They're both about new life and beginnings. So the lava me, the forest grows, the lava wipes it out, but in time that lava becomes dirt and the forest grows again. And it's this continuity. So in the stories, they just, boom, they don't get along. Seems like Pele almost kills Kamapua because she's mad at him for something. But what you get in meditation and seeking answers is that later on they've made peace and they work together to help people in places. I mean, you wouldn't get that if you just read a book.  I learned so much when you speak, especially about the Hawaiian culture and the beliefs and the story, the history and the background. I'm wondering now, we've been sheltering in place for the most part for just over two months. What do you think the land is saying about this time of respite? Fewer people are in the beach, in the ocean, fewer people are traveling by car and gasoline and things like that are not as heavily in the air. What effect do you think that has had? Well, I think it's really obvious that we have been going down a bad path for such a long time, so much violence, so much treating the earth like a resource to plunder rather than a loving living thing to nurture. And that's why in our stories, we consider it, this part of the island is the older brother and this part's like our mom. And you think of the sacredness of places in the same way you think of like, I would never hurt my family, right? So you've got to take care of it in the same way you take care of your family. And it's like we have been the virus on this earth and now it has taken a virus to slow us down and stop enough, pause enough to look at those things. We've been suffocating the earth, we've been choking it, we've been polluting its bloodlines, and now this thing is in the blood, it's in our breath. We have poisoned the oceans, the airs, the waters and now own air is poisoned to each other. We are affecting each other's lungs. The virus is attacking our lungs and it's making us look at like, oh, we've been choking the earth so we need to change what we're doing. You can tell your visual artist, I could very easily visualize exactly what you were saying and hoping that the earth is forgiving and that we can turn this around and continue to do the things necessary. In 30 seconds or less, can you tell us what things would be necessary or what positives we could take from this moving forward? I think people have learned the value of slowing down and going back and spending time in the things that matter most in our lives, relationships, love, nurturing, you know, gardening, people getting back to fishing, the old simple ways. We don't need all this consumption, all these plastic things and we need to take care of this place. Bottom line, we need to take care of this place and the little art and meditation can help us do just that. I wanna thank you so much Estria for joining today and I hope to see more of your work and we've been looking at it while you were speaking and so we're hoping you continue doing what you're doing, you're educating so many people, all of our keiki that have been a part of your projects and your murals at our schools have benefited greatly. We thank you so much and we thank you for watching Crossroads and Learning. We'll see you next time. Aloha. Aloha, mahalo.


My favorite holiday ad is the Hershey's Kisses Christmas ad. It's been running for decades. I remember it since I was a really little kid and I remember it would come on after Thanksgiving or maybe right around Thanksgiving when I was a kid and I felt like Christmas didn't start until that one started. It's pretty simple. It's just somebody I think whistling a holiday tune, though I forget which one exactly. And then the palm tree lights up and it's this police Navigate. I feel like there was a Wall Street Journal story not that long ago that talked about why it has been around just for 25 plus years. And part of the brand marketing team said that it was just because every time they storyboarded anything else, they just feel like it's not as good. I do like the one with Santa and the M&Ms when they get scared. And the peanut M&M kind of nudges him and he's like, Santa, I think that's cute. I think my favorite holiday ad is one of the John Lewis campaigns from 2014. It's called Monty the Penguin.  And you see the two doing all these really adorable holiday things together. Going to the park, playing together, playing with Legos. And then winter sets in, it starts to snow, and then the penguin gets really sad. And it all kind of plays out, you know, in the end really it's just the boy's imagination. And he has a stuffed penguin, but he finds his stuffed penguin a friend, a companion, and it's just really sweet. My favorite holiday ads every year are the Coca-Cola polar bear one. There's just something so simple about the ads and just them opening the Coca-Cola bottle at the end that signifies that people are coming together. And even that's pretty lame to buy into like an ad and a brand, but it's cute.  This isn't necessarily one of my favorite holiday ads, but it's one that resonates with me. And that's past trucks. Which has aired every Christmas that I can remember and the reason that it always sticks out to me is because I was so confused by the fact that they would do this elaborate campaign for a truck that you would buy in a gas station. I worked a Group M and then they had, one of our clients was Hess trucks, so they had the trucks at the office and it made it easy to purchase there. So I would get it from my godson for like every year. And there would be the same jingle every year and obviously somebody's buying them because they were spending a lot of money to advertise it year after year, show after show, but I never met a single person who actually owned one. I never talked to a single kid who wanted one. His mother continued the tradition and she kept buying it every year and he's 14 now and every holiday it's on his Christmas list. So I'm not quite sure who is buying these Hess trucks and also there are no Hess gas stations anymore now. So whenever I hear that commercial I always remember that and how I am amazing godmother and how I started that tradition with two families. Take that! My favorite holiday ad is the Heathrow Bears which comes out every year and it's these bears that are coming home, flying into Heathrow to view with their families and the bears are just so cute and it makes me so happy to see them every year. My favorite holiday ad was one that premiered last year I think. I remember sitting in my honest living room with my whole family there and the Sam Smith song starts playing in the background. We all turn to get the TV and it's this Apple commercial where they have these two gorgeous dancers kind of spinning around and whatnot with snowfall everywhere. It's so, so pretty. I think you can't go wrong with a Sam Smith song inserted literally anywhere. My favorite holiday ad featured Biz Marquis for The Shack as Radio Shack had rebranded themselves at the time. He's walking around and he's taking pictures of what he sees and all he says is, Oh snap! Guess what I saw? Oh snap! Guess what I saw? My favorite holiday ad is the 2008 Macy's ad where celebrities associated with Macy's recite lines from the famous Yes Virginia, letter and it ends with the little girl whispering forever as she puts her letter to Santa in the mailbox and it just makes me feel all warm and tingly inside because there is a Santa Claus.


CMP, Flee Bodo, thank you for being here with us today, and thank you all for being here too. We're here today to have a conversation. We're here to talk about ourselves and our health, but not just our physical health, our psychological health. Now, a lot of us go through challenges and stresses through life that can be difficult to talk about, but we're here today to talk about a very serious topic and that is suicide. Now, CMP, it seems like sailors are more prone to talk about physical problems, physical injuries. Then they are to talk about stress and suicide, which can be kind of difficult to talk about, kind of weird at times. So why is it important that we're here today addressing this topic? Well, thanks, CMP, too. It is an important topic. And after 30 months in the job together, Flee Bodo and I seem like we've traveled to every possible location around the globe where sailors are, and we feel like we know every one of them today. Both active and reserve. And so every time a report comes across our desk that talks about a sailor who took their own life, it breaks our heart. So we really need to talk about this as a leadership team. We need to talk about it as members of our own teams in the fleet. So there is no right time to talk about it. We've got to talk about it all the time, every day, every sailor, all the time. Right, that makes perfect sense there. So, Flee, what do you suggest to help sailors understand that no one is immune to stress and everyone is at risk for psychological harm in their lives? MSC-2, this suicide is very complex. And as you stated, nobody is immune to stress. And understanding that every sailor has their own way of dealing with stress. And sometimes that sailor has a hard time with reaching out and asking for help. And I will be the first to admit, I don't understand it all. But what I will assure sailors out there, if they ask for help, or when they ask for help, we will be the first ones to help them. Absolutely. Yeah, and talking about our challenges, whether it's operational challenges, maintenance challenges, social challenges or psychological challenges like this one, makes all of us better. We all recognize that. So we have to talk about this together as a team. And I think we all know that the stronger the team, the more we look out for each other and the more we're going to recognize when things aren't going right for sailors or something's out of the normal. And those are the indicators that hopefully people recognize and they step in. And I think whether you step in and actually save a life or just express an act of kindness, that's going to strengthen the team at the end of the day. Absolutely. That's what it's all about. So what are, CNP, what are some of the things that we should be looking at, listening for in our interactions with our sailors, our family members, our friends? What do you suggest that we look at, listen for? Because a lot of people can't read the signs. Yeah, I mean, the signs, it's interesting. Every time we've learned of a suicide and a death by suicide, we often go back and look at what indicators we might have missed along the way. And they're often very subtle and sometimes are very direct. And it's different for every person. Fleet talked about the complexity of this issue and it is very complex. There is no magic formula that we can train sailors to recognize and immediately be able to act.  And if you're someone who is having a tough day, is seeing some of those challenges, those stressors at home, the stressors at work, you've got to recognize your own weaknesses as well and not be afraid to talk to others about it. And our teammates need to be willing to have those conversations. So for the both of you, where else should we turn other than our, I mean, we have our leadership. We have our families. Is there anywhere else that you think we should suggest that we turn in a time of need? Well, I think all of our sailors have gotten the information with regards to every sailor every day. There are chaplains out there that we can look to. Their fleet and family support centers have different programs. And turning to each other, I might not have the right answer, but I can get you the information. Sometimes it's lonely. And some of our sailors have demons and they don't want to ask for help because they're embarrassed. But no matter what your pay grade is, no matter what your position, no matter how successful you are, that does not define the fact that you have stressors and that you can't ask for help. Absolutely. Yeah, the only thing I'd add there is we've got a great medical community as part of our Navy. And they're well-trained in many aspects of psychological mental health issues. So again, because they're wearing a uniform, it might dissuade people from walking in the door. Don't be afraid to do that. Seek out that help and make sure that those who see patterns of behavior that might cause you to think that a shipmate is having a tough day, don't be afraid or reluctant to refer them to our medical professionals. It's a great team. And they are part of the team when you look at the whole part of the Navy that's trying to tackle this issue. Well, CMP fleet, thank you for being here and answering the questions. And thank you all for watching. And I hope that you're able to take something away from this video. And understand that there are resources, like the one that's actually on the screen right now, the website and the phone number. Be sure to reach out to that if you feel that you need someone to reach out to in a time of need. And be sure, like Fleet said, to reach out to family members, to sailors, to friends, whatever you need to help get you the help that you deserve. And always remember, always remember that help is always available. Thank you for watching.


Okay so I try to start. First of all I need to say that actually I did not invent those practices. Those was invented by my beloved customers especially by application developers because I am DBA initially and I try to go through them very briefly because actually I have for lots of them and 100 or something like that but I try to select for you about I think eight or seven really best practices yeah really best worst practices and I do that quickly because actually you know it's you need to explain a lot and really hard to make people use the best practices but for worst practices people usually adopt them themselves very quickly and effectively so worst practices best practices are just boring so you need you don't need to follow them you need to implement worst practices and they really owe you to make things very bad so post-use consultants me myself for example quite nice guys I think and there are a lot of them here and maybe very happy if you will follow these worst practices so thank you in advance so let we just warm up a bit one of my favorite for years use as many count in your code especially if you have a high concurrency environment for example have you voted internet site put a lot of counts on your main page or and some most usable part of your internet site because if you show to your end user some magic figure it is very important figure free and even here you load a page and see quite different figure and spent five or ten minutes to calculate which figure is how it was changed yes he will be very thankful to you so select count is quite nice thing besides of that select count is quite not hungry for resources in PostgreSQL so you literally do not need to make full scan of the table to check the latest version to make the count and postgres will do it fast immediately just believe in this fact and all consultants will be quite happy for that you just do not need to use approximate figures from real tuples and from PJ catalog that's that's boring thing do not follow that the next one is try to create as many indexes as you can because it's boring to create indexes after you created your schema just cover one endeavor comb with some index better think you can do only just you can use Django and it will do it for you but actually indexes are quite free of any charge they do not consume the space we do not consume the shared barfers they do not bother you demil we do not slow up your postgres at all and actually if you create in advance some some indexes even for non existing queries up to mother was certainly will use them just for you you need to just to ask and pray and everything will behave everything will happen just keep calm and use more indexes it's not bad to use slightly in our index you just need to create both yeah for fields and multiple in that direction multiple in that direction and so on and so as many as you can yeah that's a simple combinatorics so next favorite maybe one of every consultant in this room will agree with me that if someone changed after vacuum off it's the beautiful thing because you actually can help your customer very fast very efficient and definitely it he will come to you because if he switches after vacuum off things will be really worse so you need to switch it off because you do not afraid big data big data is a nice trendy thing now so if you have for example one megabyte of data and then spread and huge data files consuming one terabyte of data you can call that big data and be trendy so do not afraid of brought brought is your friend and friend of your consultants actually so turn off the vacuum off this really helps it's a good recipe I can advice that every time so another nice thing is you need to replicate something you need to reinvent so on in post office is a quite stupid tall technology it has replication since maybe 15 years or maybe less or something like that people spent that time just for fun just don't borrow just create some triggers put some data through db link use zero MQ use something like that just reinvent the slowness because like young we can believe said so on is so hard to use because it was so hard to develop them so just try to repeat that one endeavor replication model implemented by developers I ever saw it just picked up several common mistakes from the slowness so you do need to you definitely need to repeat that five just move your joints or not joints or even better distinct or even better something like that into your application that's your beloved Python has kill or PHP or pearls Java whatever it's quite nice language is low level comparative to SQL and the only one thing you will need after you fetch several tables to your favorite programming language is to invent join not only one join but has joined made join maybe some another join and maybe you try to teach your application how to choose the proper way to join and basically you need to count the size of the one table count the size of another table maybe sample from time to time your tables from your favorite language then you can hire Tom Wayne to implement the postgres co optimizer in Haskell or something like that it's quite cheap but so it's reasonable price just to not to use the postgres as it's designed to be so just move the logic which database designed to implement to your favorite implication and implemented yourself never use graphical monitoring all those graphs it's a quite stupid thing because you can always log into your database grab some walks and say okay yesterday into two o'clock in the night that was screwed up that and that and even better you can not you just switch off any SMS notices from your monitoring because it was better than your boss called you and said our service is goes it goes down what's happened because with this SMS from text SMS from monitoring is just boring thing just do not use that it tells you to wake up 15 minutes before your boss will be on call and fix things quietly nobody will know what's happening it's boring it's stupid you need to make more fun from operating postgres quail so just do that never use foreign case foreign case it's a very stupid thing it actually the only one thing which can which has some border to the fantasy of developers you you can reach fast everything if you do not use foreign case so consistency in the application works always never happens that you lose some data you have some unconnected data if you will use foreign case so do not use them that makes that brings a lot of fun to your life and probably the good idea is to bet your monthly income for example to guarantee that the application will be consistent if you do not use foreign case nobody likes to do that if we're starting to talk about the month and come and I'm curious why I do not know maybe you know and finally eight is all the time I dealing with databases I see that thing I stop in 30 seconds or something like that people try to use very universal tables ID text ID block or something like that to make things even more simple ID can also be a text so ID can be now in some strange encoding non-unicode and you can try to interpret it in and decode it that always brings fun but if you try to for example to store in the text some IPs or my love timestamps that always be fun so example here is some example and so it is 21st of December and it easily can be converted from your business logic to something more peculiar than simply to 21st of December so do it and you always can find in your database some nice and funny artifacts so thank you if you have some questions or if you have some another worst practice just send it to me and I will talk about this on some another conference thank you


We're here for the unveiling ceremony of the historical markers to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Rights Research Institute. Now to start things off, for those of you not standing, if you'd like to be upstanding for the Philippine National Anthem. Thank you. And to start things off, may I please introduce Dr. Robert Ziegler, the Director-General of Erie, for his welcome and opening remarks. Well thank you very much, Sophie. It's a wonderful, wonderful pleasure to be here today for this historic occasion. This unveiling of a historical marker presented by the National Historical Institute. I would like first to recognize our guests of honor. I think that this is a historical event and something that we should not underestimate. We should look back to the 1950s, look at the situation in Asia, look at the situation where food security was a major challenge. The creation of Erie was a representation of that optimism, a representation of that hope, and the history bore out the wisdom of these visionaries. So thank you very much. And Sophie, I'd move it backwards. But we're just about to move to the important part of the ceremony, where we will be unveiling the markers. Now the unveiling of the markers will be led by Executive Director Ludovico Badoi of the National Historical Institute, and Mr. Faustino Salaca, the second Filipino to be employed at Erie. Very much. Can I now invite Executive Director Badoi for a short presentation about the markers, followed by the signing of the certificate of transfer of the markers to Erie. Thank you. What you will be witnessing in a little while will be the transfer of the historical marker from the National Historical Institute to the International Rights Research Institute, and therefore allow me to read the certificate of transfer. Thank you very much.


You know something can be done better by others than you can do it, but you can still do it Some things can be done with greater confidence than you do it with, but you can still do it Some people are more successful in doing something That you want to do But you can still do it other people doing well in something other people doing something before you did it Doesn't mean you can't do it because what makes it different is that you are doing it What makes the thing that you're doing different to them is you you are its unique X-factor life is not a pie other people taking a piece doesn't diminish your peace Life is an ever-flowing river. So do what's in your heart to do and don't overthink it. Cheers


The study found that the Charlson Comorbidity Index had a high positive predictive value, PPV, meaning that it accurately identified patients who had the specified conditions. This suggests that the Charlson Comorbidity Index can be used reliably to identify patients with multiple chronic diseases. This article was offered by Lash Timofiel, Christensen Steffen, Christians and Christian F., and others.


We have identified three promising two-dimensional, 2D materials for use in semiconductor logic devices, WS-2, PTS-2, and point-say-2. These materials exhibit high electron mobilities and finite band gaps, making them ideal candidates for future semiconductor applications. In particular, our calculations show that the phonon-limited electron mobility in point-say-2 is approximately 4,000 centimeters 2.v1.s1 at room temperature, which is the highest among all the compounds studied with an indirect band gap of around 1.25 Ed. This work provides a valuable guide for experimentalists who wish to synthesize better 2D materials for semiconductor devices. This article was authored by Zhishuo Huang, Wenxiu Zhang, and Wang Lijiang.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we discussed the following question which says, a plane meets the coordinate axis at A, B, C such that the center point of triangle A, B, C is 2, 6 minus 8. Find the equation of the plane. Let's see the solution now. We have to find the equation of the plane which meets the coordinate axis at the points A, B and C and it's given that the centroid of triangle A, B, C has coordinates 2, 6 minus 8. Now we know that the equation of a plane which cuts off, intercepts A, B, C from the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis respectively is given as x upon A plus y upon B plus z upon C equal to 1. Let this be equation 1. So this is the general equation of the plane. So we have that the plane cuts, intercepts A from the x-axis. So the plane meets the coordinate axis say the x-axis at point A which has coordinates A, 0, 0. It meets the coordinate axis y-axis at point B which coordinates 0, B, 0. Since the plane cuts off intercept B from the y-axis and the point C where the plane meets the z-axis would be 0, 0, C since C is the intercept which the plane cuts from the z-axis. We take let alpha, beta, gamma be the coordinates of the centroid of triangle ABC. So this would mean that alpha is equal to x-coordinate of A which is A plus the x-coordinate of B which is 0 plus the x-coordinate of C which is 0 upon 3 and this is equal to A upon 3, beta is equal to the y-coordinate of A which is 0 plus the y-coordinate of B which is B plus the y-coordinate of C which is 0 upon 3 and this is equal to B upon 3. Then we have gamma is equal to the z-coordinate of A which is 0 plus the z-coordinate of B which is 0 plus the z-coordinate of C which is C upon 3 and this is equal to C upon 3. And we know that the centroid of triangle ABC is given as 2, 6 minus 8. Therefore we can say that alpha is equal to 2, beta is equal to 6 and gamma is equal to minus 8. Now as we know that alpha is equal to A upon 3, so we have A upon 3 is equal to 2 which means that A is equal to 6, then beta is equal to 6 means B upon 3 is equal to 6 which gives us B equal to 18, then gamma is equal to minus 8 means C upon 3 equal to minus 8 which gives us C equal to minus 24. So we have got the values for A, B and C. Now substituting the values of A, B and C in equation 1 we get. Now this is the equation 1, so I am putting the values for A, B and C we would get x upon 6 plus y upon 18 plus z upon minus 24 is equal to 1 that is x upon 6 plus y upon 18 minus z upon 24 is equal to 1. So further we get 72 in the denominator by taking the LCM of the denominator of these fractions. So in the numerator we get 12x plus 4y minus 3z is equal to 1 or you can say we have 12x plus 4y minus 3z equal to 72. So this is the required equation of the plane. So this is our final answer, this completes the session, hope you have understood the solution of this question.


Next question is from demousse 134 can meditation help increase muscle gains? Yeah, absolutely. I can't okay. So why now is there a direct effect? Not necessarily, but let's examine what meditation has a profound effect on stress.  It's a it's a stress hormone So it's burning energy, but also over time It's gonna make sure that you burn less calories become more efficient and store more calories as body fat because again It's a stress response stress lowers testosterone decreases insulin sensitivity Lowers growth hormone, of course it affects your sleep and the quality of sleep Do all of those things have negative effects? Uh or affect muscle gains at all. Absolutely. So if meditation improves your quality of life And reduces your stress then the effects are higher testosterone better insulin sensitivity lower Cortisol better sleep and therefore the results of that will be you'll build more muscle So there's obviously there's tons of science to support This that that this is a fact now What's time just an hour time off here about this other day that I meditation Yeah, that I want we actually were and I and because well just I was talking about how he just like it Is not my thing like I just I hate it But here's everybody thinks that you need to get in a quiet dark room and cross your legs close your eyes and Hum. Yeah, you know for Yeah, it's like You can you can walk and meditate it's just about being present you can fish and exactly It's about being super hyper focused and present in the moment in the now Not stressing out about months before or what's to come It's literally being in yourself in that moment and time and not allowing all these other distractions around you And so that can look different for many people And the practice of that is going it's going to do a lot more than just build muscle for you Building muscles is one of the the byproducts of that, but it's also got tremendous value outside of that Creating that space where you know, it's it's this quiet intentional You're in you're very present like for me like I was talking to Adam about this It was it was archery and and and so that was something where I'm out in nature. I'm by myself You know, I set up a target and I'm just kind of slowly mechanically going through the process of of you know Aiming and then now I'm looking at it for quite some time. I'm trying to really like slow my heart right down I'm breathing really slow. I'm hyper focusing on in one direction And it's just for me. It's a practice and so like I utilize that as breath control I utilize that as you know being very like hyper focused in one thing And uh, you know, everybody has their own way of kind of dealing with this and and there's again It's great to be able to kind of get to a place where you can you know, kind of get in that meditative like Space where you're anywhere. That's like that's the ideal way to do it But it for sure in terms of like countering stress And and bringing that down We've seen so much result from that and One of the clear examples of that was when I was up in stanford and I was watching uh, Corey Slashinger when he was still there before he went to the suns and he had like every one of his athletes Monitored with their stress and he was able to kind of look at all their levels like all day long And in in right programs that were very specific to What they needed based on what you know, what state of stress their their body was in and they got tremendous results And ironically the the suns are going to go all the way. There you go. I'm crazy. Our boy's killing it. No, I'll tell you It's one of the main reasons why I'm so consistent with working out for me. It's so meditative I literally and this is why you guys see me when I come in here Even when we're all working out oftentimes I'll put my headphones on It's not because I prefer the music in my headphones than to the in the gym It's it blocks everything else out. It puts me more in that meditative state 100% and it's It's the most meditative thing that I do. It makes me very present I oftentimes don't think about anything else So it's an hour of being present and it has profound effects on me mentally and psychologically Which I know Can you will benefit me? So and by the way, if you are on a health and fitness journey long enough You're gonna end up here. I'm telling you right now. You could focus all you want on nutrition You could focus on exercise Then maybe you'll look at sleep But at some point you're gonna get to this spiritual practice which meditation would fall under Because at some point you're gonna it's gonna lead you there because this actually is the root Of most health. It's the root because as we're present. Here's why I'm gonna I'll make I'll make sense of it When you understand presence and how to be present and you've kind of I don't want to say master that But it's something that's a part of your practice your diet is naturally more balanced Your workouts are naturally more balanced. Your sleep is much better It actually contributes to everything in ways that everything else doesn't necessarily contribute to everything else


A mysterious traveller. The mysterious traveller inviting you to join me on another journey into the realm of the strange and the terrifying. I hope you will enjoy the trip, that it will thrill you a little and cheer you a little. So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves and be comfortable, if you can. Where are we going? Why are we going to visit a man who could change the soul of a human being from one body into another? In a story I call, They Who Sleep. My story begins, late one foggy night in a dingy little room in the slum section of a great city. The occupant of the room, the small man, white haired, his cheeks hollow from hunger, is just admitted a visitor whom he does not know and whom he is trying to send away. An expensive redressed young woman with a heavy veil hiding her face. But my child, it cannot be me to whom you wish to speak. You have made some mistake. I haven't made any mistake. I've been hunting for you for days. I spend a good deal of money tracing you here. But I do not understand. Why should you wish to find me Alexander Thomas, a penniless old man who... You did not always use the name Alexander Thomas. Once you called yourself Chadwin the Great, hypnotist beyond compare. Chadwin the Great? Yes. I once used that name. But Chadwin the Great no longer exists. I am only Alexander Thomas now. Listen to me, Chadwin. We've met before. Ten years ago you gave a performance at the Bijou Theater. There are so many Bijou Theater. You asked for volunteers to be hypnotized. I came up on the stage. I and my sister Rose. You hypnotized her easily, but you could not hypnotize me. There were so many. I cannot remember. No, but you can remember this newspaper clipping. That old story from the newspapers? Where did you get it? It says that you, Chadwin the Great, once performed the experiment of exchanging two men's souls. By the use of secret drugs and your great powers of hypnotism, you transferred one man's soul into another man's body. You cannot believe all the newspapers say... But you did this before witnesses. And one of the two men died. You went to prison for five years for manslaughter. Why do you come here to remind an old man of his tragedies?  No, Chadwin. For years I've kept this clipping for years. Never knowing what impulse made me tear it out and save it. Until last week I found it again. And then I knew...  Perhaps I am. So you can transfer souls from one body to another? No, no, I cannot. How much would you charge to do it again? Do not ask that of me. I am old. I have been in prison. How much, Chadwin? Could you put my soul into another's body for ten thousand dollars? Ten thousand dollars. Yes. Then you could live like a man again, not like a starving animal in this hovel. Once before I tempered with the eternal laws, I paid the penalty. And so did one of those I experimented upon. But which one, Chadwin? Which one? He died. The other, the strong soul in its new body, lived. Then I am ready. When can you do it? Tomorrow night? Well, my child, why should you risk your life for that which cannot be, which was not meant to be? Look, Chadwin. I shall raise my veil. What you call me beautiful. Even pretty? No. I'm ugly. You are not ugly.  But if it were not twisted by bitterness... Enough of talking! How can you know what it means to a woman to be ugly? To lose the man you love to a woman you hate? Because you are plain, and she is so beautiful. Chadwin, will you do as I ask? To help you change with one who is beautiful. To help you to be loved for just a little. My child, perhaps it is not such a great wickedness to do that. Then you'll do it? But it is only for a little while. You must understand that. For ten days no more. Then the laws which cannot be violated with impunity require that your soul must return to your body. It's enough. It's all I want, Chadwin. Very well. I have here small bottle. Take it. Guard it carefully. When the moment comes, she, the other, must drink it in water. Yes. It will be easy. She will drift off to sleep. Then you, you must come to me. But not here. It would not be safe. Never mind. I know the place. The safest in the world. Very well. The exchange will be made. You will see that she, in your body, slumber dreamlessly. After ten days she will wake and be herself again. With no memory, whatever, what has happened. And now, Miss Vaughn. Helen Vaughn. Now, Miss Vaughn, who is this beautiful one with whom you would change places? The girl who just married the man I love. My sister, Rose Vaughn. Good morning, Bessie. Good morning, Miss Helen. Where's Miss Rose? She's gone downstairs yet? Mrs. Tabor, you must learn to say now, Miss Helen. This is Tabor, then. She's in her room, Miss Helen. Is, uh, Mr. Tabor with her? Yes, he is. All right, Bessie, thank you. Helen, is that you? We thought we heard your voice. Come on in. Leonard just leaving for the office. Good morning, Helen. How's the best sister-in-law I ever had? Hello, Rose. Leonard? Darling, what's the matter? I know. Did you hear what time this young lady got in last night? It must have been quite a party. Leonard, I hope you aren't keeping tabs on Helen. No, but I did hear the clock strike three just as her door closed. Well, me for the office. First, a goodbye kiss. Oh, gosh. I sure picked myself a beautiful wife. Oh, run along, you silly. Bye, Helen. Got a sisterly kiss for me? Don't put your arms around me, please. Well, there's sisterly affection for you. You'd think she hated me. Oh, run along with it.  Yeah, they probably do it that. OK, I'm on my way. Bye, you two. Bye, darling.  I just think you two carry this lovey-dovey business to a ridiculous extreme. Helen, this is if... Well, is if you dislike seeing Leonard kiss me?  Helen, oh, my dear, I didn't realize... Didn't realize what? Didn't realize it. Oh, Helen, darling, believe me, someday the man will come along who'll mean just as much to you as... as Leonard does to me. You'll find him. I'll help you find him. Listen, I'll give some parties and invite a lot of new men. Don't, Rose. Let go of me.  Helen, how can you be so cruel? Oh, stop sniveling like that. I'm sorry, Helen, but you're always so sharp when anybody tries to be nice to you. And you, you're always so nice to everybody, so soft, so sweet. Sorry, Rose. I always forget how the least quarrel upset you. Well, here, drink this, Rose. There's a sedative in it. Something quite harmless, it'll soothe your nerves. All right. Nasty stuff. Now lie down in your bed. That's it. Just a few moments now and you'll be drifting off to slumberland, my beautiful sister. Oh, it's quick, isn't it? It'll drive you already. You do? And you must give in to the feeling, you hear? Don't fight it. Rose, little Rose. Rose? Can you hear me? Yeah, I hear you. It seems such a long way the way. Such a long way.  Do you hear? You're to sleep for a while. Then when I call, no matter where I am, you're to come to me. She's asleep. Jadwin's drug is working. Come. Well, let it rain. Yes, let the skies open and branch the earth.  Like a cloak to hide the rebirth of Helen Vaughn. Leaving her sister Rose in a slumber so deep, it was almost deathlike. Helen Vaughn hurried to her room. There she wrote a note addressed to Rose and Leonard, explaining that she had decided suddenly to go off by herself on a trip to Mexico, and that they would probably not hear from her if for some time. Then she put on her hat and coat and slipped out. All day she waited in a hotel. Then when night came, she picked up Jadwin the great in a rented car and drove him through the storm into a spot well outside the city. When she turned into an ancient cemetery, there she brought the car to a stop before a low building of white marble over which Ivy and Moss had grown for many years. With a heavy key, she opened a massive padlock, and they entered, shutting the door behind them. The air in this old musty Liam is dank odor of a charnel house. But where else could the living liar sleep peaceful and undisturbed as safely as here among the sleeping dead? No, I will not go so many. You already have your money? You can knock back out now. Then in heaven's name, let us be finished quickly. Quickly, yes. The storm should hide the car from the cemetery guards, but we must take no chances. Now, here's a flashlight I brought. I'll turn it on. Look there, Jadwin, at the tears of compartments this tiny stone building holds. Each compartment with its iron door, each holding within it a coffin in which lies the dust of a Vaughan. I see them, yes. Twelve of them. This one, here on the bottom, is empty. It meant some day to hold the body of Helen Vaughan. Tonight it shall receive her. No, no, this is madness. I'll open it. See that narrow, dark compartment. So small, so quiet, so restful, so safe from disturbance. In it for the next ten days, I'll rest my body, holding the soul of my sister Rose. No, no, there must be some other way. None that is safe. While my body sleeps, and I am absent from it, it must be where no one can find. And here, no one ever will. I do not like it. Pull the light. I'll slide into it. Wait, fool me enough. The stone is chilly, but what matters that to one is when he sleeps. Go in there. Rose-Van, hear me. Enter the body that awaits you here. Enter quickly and wait. This guy... Shadwin closed and locked the iron door of the compartment, slipped from the most alieum, left the padlock on a huge door again, and was gone. At the same time, back in the big house in the city, the frantic Leonard faced the floor, waiting for some change in the condition of his wife Rose who all day had been in a strained stupa from which nothing could arouse her. There you are. Doesn't she look better? Yes, I... I think she does. She's waking up.  Yes, of course it's me. Who did you think it was going to be? I was startled. I guess... I guess I must have been dreaming. Rose, what's happened to you? Your voice sounds just like Helen's. Really, Leonard? Perhaps I'm catching a cold. No, no. Now you sound like yourself again. But for a moment I'd have sworn it was Helen speaking. I guess I've been so worried I'm just imagining things. Leonard, hold me close. Close, darling, close. Always, Rose, always. Always. Yes, always. She'll never have you back, never. What are you saying, Rose? I was just thinking of how much I love you. So much that I'll never let anything take you away from me. Never! In the days that followed, Leonard found his beautiful wife, Rose, strangely changed. You... You've been different somehow these last 10 days. In fact, ever since Helen went away, so unexpected. Have I, Leonard? How? Well, you've been gayer. More headstrong, too. It's almost as if you required a whole character. Well, perhaps I have. And how do you like this new wife of yours? Well, I do, and I... Don't? Oh, please, I... I don't mean it. It's just that... Well, I was so in love with the old Rose, it's a little hard to get used to the new.  And, uh, I do hope you're not too mad at me because... Well, what is it this time? Another fur coat? Uh-huh. Worse than that.  Another? Why, there's three in 10 days. Rose, I forbid it. You can't, Len. Because I've invited everybody already. Rose, it's so unlike you. You used... Why, you act more like Helen than like yourself these days. Never mind, darling. You'll get used to the change in me. In time. Bring her husband's displeasure, Rose, or, should I say, Helen, when I head with her planned for a party that night. And when early in the evening, a small gray-haired man presented himself at the door and asked for her, he sent word by Bessie that she would not see him. I'm sorry, Mr. Chadron. Mrs. Tabor says she cannot see him. She says she does not know anyone named Chadron. Well, she does. Ten days ago I was here. I gave you an envelope for her. It had a key in it. Oh, surely you remember? Yes, but just the same, she says she doesn't know you. Now, please go, or I'll have to call an officer. Did you tell her what I said? This was the 10th day? Yes, and she said she had no idea what you were talking about. All right, I'm going to do what I can by myself. And while the gay party went on, miles away in the old cemetery, Chadron the Great worked frantically with a hammer and chisel to force the padlock on the door of the mausoleum in which, unknown to the world, a sleeping girl lay hidden.  He won't let me into our house. He won't even talk to me. Won't let me warn her if she wa... What is it? The dog's coming this way. There he is. Nobody's trying to take him to the one what's in here. The dogs. I must run for it. Look out, he's getting away. There you go, great runner. They missed me. I've got to get back to town. I must warn her. She's got to know. Miss Warn, thank heaven this time you heeded my message. I won't have you coming around to my house this way. Do you hear? You must never come here again. But you do not understand. The ten days is up tonight. Now, your time is over. Are you trying to scare me, Chadron? To get more money from me? Money? No. I'm just trying to tell you. It was understood ten days only. Mark is not allowed.  Do you think I ever intended to give up Rosa's body once I had it? In that narrow crypt in the tightly locked morselium, my body has long since died from lack of air. That rose has died, but I remain alive. Oh, that is what you planned. I should have guessed. But it is not so. Your body is not deep. It is in a sleep so deep that it scarcely breathes. It needs no food, no water.  No. No, it's not true. It is true. And you will not be asleep. You will be awake, needing air. And there will be no air. You're just trying to frighten me. And tonight I try to open a tomb to save you. I was driven away by guards with dogs. But what can I do? Only if we can reach the tomb in time to open it, can you be saved. We must go now. I'll get the key. And we must hurry. Hurry! There's the most lean, Miss Bond. We, heaven and the gods, are not waiting. They won't be.  Now hurry, Chip. What is it, Miss Bond? I don't know. For a moment. It's Rose trying to return to her body. We cannot waste an instant. Hold me up. Something is pulling at me, tugging at me. She's speaking to her own lips. No. No, not yet. Go back. You hear me, Rose? Go back. Here's the most lean. The key. Give me the key. Here it is. Quickly. She's pushing at me so hard. Help me. Everything is so dark. Where are you? Go back. I'll tell you. Chad will have you got the lock out. It won't unlock. It must. They put a new padlock on. Oh, dear heaven, they've changed the lock. Help me. No. No. It's getting dark. Dark. It's hopeless. We cannot enter. Helen, where are you? No. We can't both be in the same body. Go back. Helen, I'm trying. Don't push me out. Help me. Go back where you were. Help me. Wait, Rose, wait. They're coming back. Help me. Child, sleep a little longer and wake without memories. With it, I can do nothing now. And God, they must not catch me. They must not catch me. There it is. We've got him this time. Only catch. It's a girl. It's Mrs. Tavern. The sleeper of the steps of her own family wants to live. Say, we got to get her out of here. Help me live to her end. And wait. Did you hear something then? Somebody calling a long ways off. Listen. I don't hear it. Did you hear anything? I can't hear anything. It's just a wind. Come on. We've got to phone Mrs. Tavern's husband. She may be sick. Come on now. No time to lose. Do you remember anything about a man named Chadwin? Chadwin? It's Leonard. Bessie says he called several times last week to see you. The last time was the night of the party. You're sure you don't remember it? No, Leonard. I'm sorry. Oh, that's all right, darling. I just thought maybe you might have begun to remember some of the things that happened during those ten days when you, well, weren't yourself. It's so strange. It's just my mind has been asleep the whole time. Is there something about Chadwin, the paper? He committed suicide last night. His body was found near the old family morselium. He left a mysterious note saying he was paying for some transgression. Oh, strange. I wondered if he could have given us any clue as to how you came to leave the party so suddenly that night and drive to the cemetery. Oh, but it's all over now and not worth worrying about. I remember if I could, but when I try, I become suddenly frightened and feel as if I were locked in in some dark, tiny space where I can't breathe. All right now, darling. Let's forget the whole thing. Now, let's see what came in the morning mail. Maybe there's a letter from Helen. You know, it's high time we were hearing from her. She's really not acting much like a sister being. Oh, for long without even reminding her to let her just know where she is. This is the mysterious traveler again. I'm afraid Leonard and Rose are going to have to wait a long time for a letter from Helen. In fact, I'll be very much surprised if they ever get one. I suppose it'll never occur to them to look in the old Marcelium. In fact, since they both feel a distinctive version of going near it, it may never be open again. But I don't suppose that'll make much difference to Helen now. Now, if you were wishing that you could step into somebody else's shoes, maybe what happened to Helen will make you change your mind. You know, I knew a man once who stole somebody else's body only to discover when it was too late that he... Oh, you're getting off here? Well, perhaps we'll meet again soon. I take this same train every week at this same time. You have just heard chapter 55 of The Mysterious Traveler, a series of dramas of the strange and terrifying. In Tonight's Story, They Who Sleep, Philip Clark played Chadwin, Gertrude Warner played Helen, and Helen Clare played Rose. The Mysterious Traveler is written by Bob Arthur and David Kogan. Original music is played by Henry Silverne, and the entire production is under the direction of Jock McGregor. Listen next week to a tale titled Escape Through Time, another tale of The Mysterious Traveler. The Mysterious Traveler is presented by W.O.R. Mutual from the W.O.R. Studios in New York. This is Mutual.


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ath there you go they're running texas bobbles likes those thank you and you got them honey thank you so much i appreciate your purchase you guys again give texas bobbles a follow okay we're gonna do a little bracelet bundle these are all really pretty look at these one two three four five six seven eight there's eight bracelets here eight bracelets 27 run them for three dollars and here we go 15 seconds and these are nice for stacking they're really pretty we've got some a little bit of flash to them how pretty those are all right no problem i have two watches here and they are untested one is a fossil and here's the band let's have a little wear on it untested and this one this still has the plastic on it it says bosh and lom olympics symbol lila hammer lila hammer 94 if you guys want to i don't know if you can google lens that see if you can find that but it looks like maybe bosh and lom sponsored it it's a really nice condition untested though but i'm gonna go ahead and run these two together untested fossil and bosh and lom olympics watch i'm getting tired five dollars which is a deal especially if they work you think that's a swatch doesn't say swatch does it i don't see anything that says swatch on it i don't know but you might want to look it up because it's got the olympic symbol on it untested it does look like a swatch but i don't it doesn't say swatch it's a collector's item all right well we're running it for um five dollars both watches untested 15 seconds best and highest is gonna take it probably need to look up that olympics one it's probably i don't know i could see that definitely being collectible you want me to rerun it see denny i think that would be um i they're untested honey one's fossil though and the other one is vintage and still has the cover the face cover on it and it's says bosh and lom which i think they've done collaborations with uh like the aviator sunglasses and stuff like that 15 seconds five dollars it's running for the uh fossil and the bosh and lom olympics untested yeah it's a really high dollar bosh and lom is really my husband has a pair of sunglasses vintage ones that's why i know that see denny let me know on those honey you might do really well okay so we've got a little bracelet bundle these look like anklets this one looks like it could be pearl anklet maybe and a necklace i guess maybe i'll ask does anybody want me to run this for three dollars because i keep running things and nobody's snagging up and i'm gonna have to delete them so any interest do you ever look for jade yes i've sold a lot of jade but this is just um this is just plastic if that's what you were looking at yeah ask uh brandon brandon are you here he got brane uh jade and 18 karat gold it was a buda a jade buda encased in 18 karat gold from one of my untanglings i just dump it and sell it so you can get some deals remember that that was awesome wasn't it i can't remember what he paid for it but he got a good deal 15 seconds three dollars i remember thinking oh my goodness this looks like gold but it wasn't signed it wasn't marked three bucks for all this see denny is gonna get that thank you and he also got the diamonds yeah i actually uh he put it on the diamond tester and did a short on his instagram and i put it on my instagram where he's testing it and it shows that it's diamonds he just tagged me in that today this would be good for um easter so these little bears that's got a little bit of nicks on it right there but you've got this one it's hallmark vintage this is a russ vintage this is a snowman bunny made in china and i don't know who this girl is but we're gonna put her with it so you're gonna get all these broaches what was his name who's name honey that got the jade brandon brandon w v i think is his username on here he was here tonight um he just his name just showed up yeah he's gotten diamonds and gold he's found some really nice stuff he's got a really good eye all right we're gonna run this 15 seconds five dollars all one money for the cute little easter's coming bundle broaches see denny's gonna get that one thank you so much all right do you guys want to go in and take a peek at my buy it now items and see if there's anything you guys want to make offers on because if you have free shipping you're gonna get free shipping and it does let you make offers and i always take offers during the show i got the best alligator brooch you like your alligator brooch oh thanks mike thanks for coming in i hope you find something that you um like i can run this this is really beautiful let's run this bundle and then i'm getting tired i'm starting to feel uh zapped all right here we go let's look how pretty this is this is beautiful it's long and pretty here's how long it is i'm gonna flip it and here's this and this one's really beautiful as well look at that that is stunning as well we're gonna put this little guy with it this just has a little piece symbol on it looks like that we'll add that to it too there you go nice little bundle we're gonna run it for five all one money number 76 whoops five dollars we're doing sudden death best and highest is gonna take it this is a nice bundle guys 15 seconds five dollars it is running if anybody likes that one and where did my bag go here these are beautiful right here i don't know if they're glass or what they are but they're pretty hey kelsey b cells thanks for coming in see denny's gonna get that one see denny this is a beautiful lot thank you so much thanks everyone for being here i appreciate it let's see here's a bracelet lot a bunch of bracelets let's see what we got we got this gold tone thing here's this little one on a what do you call it vintage glass oh look at that that's pretty what that is and then this one these are uh is that filigree where they're hollow i'm not sure what it's called i'll just pretend like i know i don't know what that is that one's how light i think just some beads that's glass that's stone these three are some type of metal and those are glass so this is a really nice lot really nice lot here are you ready this is gonna be number 77 we're gonna start this one at five dollars hey are you all wrapped up in there what are you doing don't you bite on that silly dog what are you doing okay so we got some stone and glass in this one yeah this is a nice bundle we're gonna start it at five dollars 15 seconds it's running five bucks there you go guys sudden death best and highest if you want it get in there clock stops at 15 seconds thank you for your bids thank you bt so bt down home you got it nice pickup not a lot of nice ones in there thank you so much i know that sudden death sudden death it'll get you all right let's see what else we got you guys want to keep going i'm tired but um what's new right you get you stay on so long and you're just drained okay so this is you guys look this up pura vita p u r a v i d a i think i'm saying that right um i've never seen the necklaces but the little bracelets are collectible people collect these um different ones and they are adjustable they look like just little string bracelets but they're they're actually popular um i did a little search on them a while ago and i was surprised but pura vita so i've never seen the necklaces but i've got two bracelets and a necklace and i've sold these on multiple occasions here on whatnot and they always sell but these were left over in one of my untanglings so i am lauding them together tonight and we're gonna run for five dollars you guys heard of the brand yeah they're nice they're nice oh it's vita thank you thank you that makes sense okay we're gonna do all three for one money 15 seconds running for five sudden death guys if you want them get in there thank you so much i appreciate it there's also some animal jewelry left if you guys want to look at the auction tab and let me know if you want me to run any of the animal jewelry see denny's going to take that one home thank you so much honey there are some animal jewelry items left i've got so many bags of jewelry i may try to do a pop-up one of these days during the day i don't know we'll see um this one is a loft a loft necklace here is your loft here's your class it's really pretty anybody like that little loft necklace three dollars how do i how do you organize yours how do i organize what honey she's she pounces it she you know what she hated sudden death in the beginning but she's gotten really good at it remember that see denny your jewelry i just got 50 pounds oh my gosh i have probably 700 pounds i have it all organized on a shelf my husband built me a shelf um he was sick of jewelry being all over the house so i said build me a shelf in the basement and he did three dollars it's running for the loft he built it the next day next day for me bt down home i know you can't help it you get that free shipping and it's like you want to buy everything i understand i get it i get it i don't really have a way that i organize it i just have it in totes i'm just totes um and i'm trying to just work my way through it okay let's see is there anything specifically that you guys are looking for and doesn't it it doesn't tangle oh i'm sure i'm sure it tangles it's sitting in a lot of it i bought and i just threw it in the tote i haven't even i haven't i haven't gone through it that's why i do the untanglings on my channel because i don't have time to untangle it i just sold a huge tangle tonight um eight and a half pounds of jewelry that i just i i don't have time i i worked on it and i just i can't i just don't have time you guys i don't know if this is a bracelet or a necklace it's it's not a necklace it's too small but it's too big for a bracelet i guess you could kind of i don't know what it is but if anybody wants it i'm gonna run it i don't really know what this is i sold it tonight it sold for uh 70 some dollars it was a massive tangle it already sold all right here we go we're gonna run this for three dollars you think it's an anklet that'd be weird on your ankle wouldn't it maybe at the beach there you go untangle pro yeah it's just the time that it takes i try to do my untanglings live i'd rather just dump it and take a chance of um somebody getting an amazing deal and coming back that's what i always say hey you know if i dump it and somebody gets an awesome deal then i have a buyer forever you know so uh that was number 80 thank you so much um hair junkie thank you hair junkie i have some hair things here you want to look at that yeah okay so there's this one i don't mind untangling live because i can talk to people uh this is another hair thing this is another hair thing this is another hair thing this is one of those hair things and two vintage i think clips brett's they say scoochie or scunchie i don't know so it's just a little hair thing bundle people love to buy my tangles so i do sell them from time to time but not very often i try not to to buy tangles but that one was just i don't know if it just got bounced around or what happened but i just i couldn't do it it's too much all right here we go we're running this for three dollars 15 seconds there you go for the hair things if anybody wants some three bucks this one's really pretty for your hair some bling for your hair no takers on the hair things all right i've had some hair things shows and they're really successful um if i advertise them and let people know you know that it's a hair show people really uh i do really well with those you want me to rerun that yeah uh-huh the hair thing one sure thing yep you got it it's running um i really enjoy the animal shows that i did tonight but the preloading i mean i probably have three to four hours in preloading my hundred item shows so sometimes i you know the untanglings are great but i can't show items as fast so it's either you know you have the time on the front end or the back end either way you end up having a lot of time in it what not is a lot of time so this is just a necklace this is a fun pink plastic necklace look at that that's a party just pink looks like it might have an issue right there but if you like neon colors uh this is just um i think this is all just plastic guys i'm not sure and then this little necklace right here i don't know what those are made of but they're not pearls maybe glass or something so here's a little bundle a little bundle of necklaces thank you texas bobbles for your purchase appreciate it we're gonna run these for three dollars the necklaces all one money three bucks oh my goodness you have covid i'm sorry 15 seconds three dollars it's running these people okay see denny's gonna take that one thanks honey yeah i a few months ago i had a migraine it lasted over 45 days um i i went to the doctor and i said please just give me some blood work and it came back that i was deficient in vitamin d and i mean i can work through my migraines they just you know it's uncomfortable but since i've i've been on vitamin d i'm starting to get my energy back so my vitamin d was really low so maybe check your vitamin d it's kind of an unexpected thing i mean i've always had migraines but not a 45 day uh here's a brooch enamel and um a little necklace that looks vintage i needs cleaned but gold tone little vintage set right there go ahead and run that but never did i expect vitamin d i mean i was tired i didn't feel like working i'm like what why am i so tired and vitamin d you guys it's you need vitamin d so feeling a lot more energy but i don't even think it's up 100 yet i need to i'm gonna ask him to retest it 15 seconds running for three thank you thank you oh okay um i don't know they gave me a prescription for it i take it once a week for three months once a week for three months it's some uh just a vitamin d dose but i was way under what it should have been i didn't know but i was glad i asked so yeah i'm feeling better i need some sunshine we need sunshine so i can get out in it because right now there is not much of it i heard if you stand in hot water as hot as you can without burning yourself it will help alleviate some of the pain oh really never heard of that oh my goodness texas wobbles okay this one is really beautiful it's a 1946 i just love this color isn't that pretty it's kind of like a greenish color and i'm going to pair it with this necklace right here and this is just plastic but super super cute there might be some plate wear on this or some slight discoloration on this chain compared to this clasp but these are really pretty i'll put it up on the bust for you guys there you go okay nice little set of two this is going to be number 83 run it for three bucks and they are plastic and here we go i i have a black light for which thing the green is that what you want to see hold on it tells if it's lucid i think right yes it's plastic run it just froze so give me one second here number 83 i never do the black light thing i should i know i should number 83 try this again i think it up oh i turned it off can you see that i've got my ring light on is it lighting up okay is that what you wanted to see yeah that's pretty so does that mean it's lucid it's beautiful 15 seconds sudden death best and highest is going to take it three dollars it's running two necklaces one money lorina pop thank you nice pickup honey all right this is a cool bracelet it's one of these uh wood bracelets that open like this and these are cold so i don't know if this is glass but it's cold and it hooks in like this really pretty um sorry really pretty bracelet and it is cold so i don't know i don't know what it is but we're gonna run that remember you guys can check the auction tab let me know if there's anything you would like me to run we're gonna run this bracelet for three 15 seconds three dollars yeah it's a pretty bracelet i love the wood how it opens slides thank you for your bits sudden oh did i take it off sudden death sorry guys i think i forgot to put it back on when i went out and came back in bt you got it thank you so much that one's coming your way anybody have any request any number requests let me know this one's cute let's run this bundle so this one is marked a charming charlie it looks like easter eggs charming charlie this one has the lobster clasp and the nice little dangles here i don't see a brand on this one it's blue and this one it may be just plastic all just plastic so you're gonna get three for one money on it this is gonna be number 85 three dollars oh this is just overflow um that i'm running at the end of my uh animal show i i had my animal show tonight i had a hundred pre-loaded items 15 seconds three dollars so these are items that are leftover from my untanglings because i never get finished with my untanglings so these are untangling items okay thanks for taking a look at that it depends what it is honestly i think um i mean i sold uh probably 85 items that were singles tonight but they were um um you know pre-loaded so let's see what we got here i don't know what's in here oh these are pretty look at this that's pretty a little seed bead bracelet this might be a little seed bead choker necklace maybe or an anklet maybe i don't know it seems kind of small let me get this through the bead maybe an anklet so a bracelet and an anklet possibly those are cute all right we're gonna run these two number 86 three dollars we're gonna do sudden death and best and highest is gonna take them thanks everyone for coming in 15 seconds it's running for three texas wobbles likes it this is beautiful look at that pretty bead is that a button advantage buttons and bt is gonna take that one thank you so much yeah it was really pretty let's take a peek at this this is cold cold cold with rhinestones around it there is glue however this was set in here you can see that on the back you see it how shiny but this is a cold stone with rhinestones all around it and it's a pretty big it's pretty big i'm gonna run that 87 that's pretty isn't it 15 seconds it's running for three it's a cold stone see denny likes that one and kelsey got it thanks honey appreciate your purchase thank you for your bid see denny take a peek at this little bundle this one is a saint thomas gold tone here let's put it up on the bust okay so this one's marked saint thomas i'm gonna double it this one is got the vintage class faux pearl and this one is let's say avon i think avon little avon necklace okay we're gonna run it for three dollars number 88 best and highest is gonna take it 15 seconds it's running for three three dollars for the bundle saint thomas is the one i don't know if that's a good brand or not you guys can look it up no no takers okay did anybody want to take a peek at um the buy it now items if you go into the buy it now um and search any big crosses i have so much jewelry i have a whole thing of jewelry like that i don't know if i have any uh let me check the buy it now um i've got a crucifix pendant and a holy cross rotary club token under the buy it now i don't know if either of those are your interests to you but if you go to the buy it now there's a search bar you can also search um um you can also search by most recent most recent items listed i have um let me see if i can find it here i just did a little it's got a says roman on the back it might be catholic it's a little thing that i think might have been stuck on a rosary that's old do you want to see that hey low dog retro you guys want to see some amazing jewelry check out low dog retro oh my goodness um how about this i've got this little stick pin a little brooch and a little heart bracelet does anybody like that anybody like that little bundle is that a yes okay i don't know if that was for this or not let's see what number uh there is a little bit of cleanup that needs to take place on the i'm going to show you guys again before i run it right here a little bit of cleanup on the back of this and this one right here it just looks like maybe a stone was glued on to that and then the little heart bracelet okay and we froze again come on sorry guys i gotta do it again if anybody makes any offers please let me know because the little red dot is no longer working so the only way i know is if you tell me or if i check which i need to make sure i check before the end of the show just in case there's any buy it now offers i had a whole bunch the other night there's a lot of really good stuff in the buy it now 15 seconds running for 15 seconds of sudden death three dollars it's running for the three piece okay i am going to call it a night unless there is something you guys want me to rerun go ahead and check the auction tab let me know if there's something you want me to rerun um let me know if you want to check the buy it now and i can uh look at offers otherwise i am gonna call it a night would you show me the bag of crafters pearls i'm looking for some colored ones crafters pearls do i have crafters pearls i'm not sure what you're talking about seed any honey i don't know that i have any crafters pearls did i say i had crafters pearls oh hold on a second i think hold on wait a minute let me look at something here i mean i have this crafters lot it looks like it has some crafters i don't know it's just a crafters lot i can run it if you want me to you showed them briefly tonight i mean i had um the earrings i had some earrings these right here i mean it was a pair of earrings they must have sold i don't see anything over here that's pearls i mean i can show you guys this crafters bundle and i can run it let me see i mean this has this in it i mean it's just like a they're faux pearls they're not real and then there's this stretch and then i've got some um you know crafters items like this in it it's got this big heart you may find some wearable but it's this is a crafters lot crafters repair junk i'm just going to call it a junk lot so i can run that if anybody it's a court-sized bag full this is gonna be number 89 i'm gonna run it for five dollars it's a crafters bundle picture this all right we're gonna run this crafters bundle it's a court-sized bag i did take a picture it wasn't showing up four five dollars 15 seconds running for five anybody wants it sudden death all right you got it thank you so much all right guys unless there's anything you guys want to make an offer on let me know um i am gonna call it a night yeah so you didn't oh i don't see anything um pearls i mean i have this bag that had the one little strand is that the one you're talking about you guys can check the auction tab let me know if there's anything you want me to run before i call it a night okay all right honey it's no big deal i can run it it's like right here so just let me know anybody have any requests just look at the auction tab and let me know what number and i can run that for you thank you guys thanks everyone for coming in i appreciate it i'll be on tuesday and thursday um i'll be having untanglings tuesday and thursday night 9 18 p.m and then i'm also going to be doing um my bling show is next sunday so i've got that it's got a hundred items preloaded you guys should definitely go and look at that um after this show go look at the bling there's a hundred items preloaded there and then there is hold on a second sorry my seed beads glass and stone there is 100 items loaded there and there is some amazing stuff so you guys can pre-bid if you can't make it to the show and let's see who's on we're gonna raid someone let's see okay we're gonna go to blissful finds all right you guys thank you so much for being here i'll see you next week and we are going to blissful finds have a great night and thanks for watching oh it's not selecting come on well maybe we're gonna raid let me try it from oh oh it is working okay no that's weird okay let me go to my other phone it's like frozen let me raid from here create a raid okay let's see did they go off that's weird did they go off oh they raided me i was just getting ready to raid you oh my goodness i thought my phone was stuck that is so funny oh my goodness yes i was just getting ready to raid you and i'm like why isn't it working why isn't it working thank you for the raid you're so sweet that is awesome okay well now we have to find somebody else to raid because i am going to bed as well and you guys i'll be on tuesday and thursday doing an untangling so you guys be sure to check that out and what are you guys looking to what are you looking for tonight um let's see i thought i saw somebody else that was in the chat earlier let me see we're gonna go to blue moon you guys she was in the chat earlier so we're i'm gonna send you over to her okay have an awesome night thank you so much for the raid and um here we go thanks for watching


Rwy'n gweithio, My name is Kate Drake, I'm head of finance operations in society. The item from the society's collection I would like in my stocking this year is this painting. It's called the protester performers and it's painted in Circulars 1660. The reason I like it is because of the colour and the unusual style of it and also the perspective of the figures at the bottom.