Hi everyone, again welcome to the LPS class we are going to continue our lecture on tickle if you remember like I mean in the last lecture we talked about the TK predominantly we completed the TK we give some more advanced to tickle processes basically as to how one can load in tickle as a dot is so and call tickle functions from anywhere things like that that we talked about today we are going to take another step in that direction but mainly we are going to talk about tickle in synopsis tools these are the tools that you use for your labs and also like I mean in real world you will be using a lot and synopsis has actually modified tickle a little bit for the better so we will be learning about how to use tickle in synopsis tools and what kind of support that they provide because tickle is not only their language but language of choice but actually it has lot of good things basically so today we will be talking mostly about tickle in synopsis tools which is mostly an extension of the existing tickle so we will be talking about lot of the concepts that we already covered just to reinforce so that you you also know what it is so number one thing as with any other tickle we have number of variables the variable names are mostly like if they are the scalar names basically and you can simply say any name it can become a variable name and you can assign a value to that variable by using the set command so simply like set a one will be same as a equal to one a will have a value of one and then these variables this values can be integer integer or floating and then we will soon see like I mean other variable extensions these are some of the things that we already saw like I mean in the first lecture of tickle and then one of the key concepts that we also talked about was the variable substitution that is also valid so once you have this and then now you can select set the $ a so that deal also be equal to one so those are the things basically that you can do and other ones like the various other functions and things like that are also like supported like incremental or additions and whether the info exists kind of things basically info exists is essentially like that is one thing which returns if the variable is true info exists it returns a one if the variable exists and if it is a it does not exist does not exist in terms of zero and then you can also have info wars and here you can give like some wild card say x star and this returns all the variables beginning with x and then the precision rules are very similar to the regular tickle rules that means that when you start with an integer and then as you go to further operations may be like to this result stays as an integer and then you again divide by 2.0 now this becomes a float answer 1.0 so and then if you use the float as the first one the result will be a float so those are those kind of things basically need to be aware of then one thing that synopsis provides is also set of predefined variables one example is the ENV so ENV is a variable that contains all the environmental variables so we can use commands like array names ENV this command will print out the list it contains elements element names that correspond to the name of the environment and then to show like a particular environment variable within that we can also use an echo command echo doll V and V home will print out whatever the value that is set as home and synopsis also provides a predefined command called get ENV so the get ENV command is very simple this is the get ENV and variable name and then it for it dumps that particular variable so home has whatever it is that gets dumped out so these are this is the nifty command that you can use and now let us go into script basically what is the script the script is nothing but it is a tickle so it has tickle commands and synopsis commands so these are all like grouped together and so you can run like some synopsis commands to get some data and then process it through using your regular tickle commands and then also like apply that back into like a synopsis tool so that becomes part of the script and along with the commands scripts essentially like I mean you know that already the hash if you use it that is for comments and this can come anywhere in the line and the only thing is after the hash everything in that line will be treated as a comment the only exception is if you are extending the comments using the back the backslash arrow and use the backslash arrow even the next line whatever it is that is treated as a comment as you know this is the continuation character and basically it will be this and any kind of preceding character will replace with nothing so this has a new line to it that will be preceded that will be replaced with just a blank and that is why this line will be then continuous with the next one and how do we run a script we use the command called source so for example source my dot tickle my dot tickle can be a script that contains all these tickle commands from the synopsis commands and we simply do a source to run the script so once you do the source you can redirect using the rather than symbol so this is all the standard ones that we already saw about saw this these things now let us go to the next one which is the data types as we have seen in the regular even synopsis also supports the three basic types of data which are strings array and list the string is nothing but a sequence of characters and string can be within codes basically in embed strings within codes or you can have like this generic strings of just some letters the strings are usually operated on by a string command so string command takes many arguments essentially so for example string and then we can say compare here we give the first string and then the second string so it compares these two and if they are same it generates a one otherwise and it's a zero and then string to upper and then string name this will convert the string from lowercase to uppercase so similarly there are many operations that are possible the main ones are format regex reg sub which is essentially uses a regular expression to do a substitution also you can do scam like a string scam or and then string string provides a set of string manipulation functions and then string substitutes is a BST which is for substitutions so this will be a pure substitution a reg sub will be based on a regular expression it can do a substitution so these are the commands that synopsis will support let us do link lists the list is nothing but an ordered group of elements so it is usually inclusive in the square bracket and we can also use a list command create a list so list and then set of elements will be turned into a list and you know like I mean the command substitution the square bracket command substitution and then I also think that you remember in tickle there are grouping basically there is a loose grouping all the with the braces and then more strict grouping with the quotes it may be like viewers but the main difference is that here when you have like a variable color X it does the variable substitution whereas here it does not do any substitution they are preserved assets so this is more strict and this is more loose okay so based on that I mean you can actually group the list elements so if you group it here anything under the inside the brace is treated as one object in the list and then the others will be submitted out also a list has index the L index you can do L index and then give a number and then access any of the elements and it usually it starts with 0 and then it goes to end so L index end will give the last element and then 0 will give the first element so these things they do not change other list operations are contact join L append L index that I mentioned L insert then length or L length L range L range is also like a it is a very useful operator it is basically it extracts the elements in a list within a given range L replace L search L sort and split we went in much more details we covered I think like pretty much you can use that way so the tickle interpreter within the synopsis tool can work with all these different setups so now we come to the arrays that is this element here so array is the tickle it uses the associative array we know that basically the index doesn't matter it can be a real number it can be a integer it can be a string whichever one that we can use so typically an array name will be a it is an array name followed by element and usually the arrays will have a two-dimensional lookup table basically like one is index and another value it is like a key value pair almost think of it that way tickle also supports the expr so you can use the expr as well for evaluating any expression so the array commands are typically like array and then similar to the list commands and I have put a question mark here there is a fourth data type which is what is what makes synopsis tools with special you will talk about that towards the end of this lecture this is called collection so collection is a data type in synopsis tools you can actually use this the very very useful data type it is kind of list but it is even more advanced than a list we will look at it as to how to use it and how actually it is being used today so operators essentially I mean this is this mainly goes back to that what I was mentioning regarding the expressions expressions are given by expr and then you can have like one argument which is in enclosed in the in the braces the inside that you can have like a B time C plus D whatever you want so maybe it is wrong at all so have the total substitution as well so the operators essentially like I mean that you can use within the expr command or addition subtraction multiplication division less than greater than this is basically a shift operator where it shifts the value to the left by so many bits so if you say like a B a it shifts B the number of bits as to A so if A is 2 it shifts left by 2 and this is a shift right operator and this is the equal to as a logical operation and not equal to a logical operation these are also so these are the relational operation value but the these are bitwise and this is bitwise XOR bitwise R and this is a conditional operator there if if A is non-zero then take B otherwise take C so if you say like set X A question mark B3 if A is 1 then X is B if A is 0 then X is C okay so the all the other operators basically you can also use a logical operations instead of bitwise and the logical operations typically use inside some control flow structure so let us see like what are the control flow structures in the synopsis tickle number one is the if else if else here you do not have to have these both these things it can just be if so if as two arguments one is the expression and then the second argument is and you can see that I am putting in greater so that they can work they are grouped as one and two in an else's case we specify the expression say expression one and then you execute script one else is and then we can give expression two and then script two and then finally else and then just good three so you can see that actually like it can flow nicely with all the other classes here so when the if command evaluates the expression if it is the expression result is not a zero then the if it is zero then it just goes to the next one and this else is can continue on and on now the while command so quick question how many arguments do you think it takes so the while command has two arguments just similar to the this is the bare bone is command it is a while then condition or an expression and then what body is just a script which so these are the two arguments for why how about for for is something that we studied also how many arguments do you think for for is also another way of looping structure so look at for for has actually three arguments actually four arguments so the first argument is the initial expression and then the second one is the termination the third one is a re-init expression so what is this we will talk about that and then finally the body or the script itself so the re-init expression is basically like from initial to the termination how to go about doing that so in a simple case like you can say initial can be set x 0 and then the termination condition can be all of x less than or equal to 10 and then where the re-init expression will be increment x increment on yeah x and then you can have the body so that that particular loop will be repeated 10 times now comes for each how many arguments do you think for each takes this one one two three four or command takes four this takes three how many do you think for each takes actually for each takes also for each takes actually three arguments actually like this is two arguments while takes two arguments for takes four and for each takes three so what are the three arguments does it take so it takes a variable then the input list and then the body it picks up one variable at a time from the list and then runs the body for each one of them now there are two other actually three other controls three other control flow commands which can actually cause changes in the way the four is being run so one such command is break the break command will cause the innermost loop to terminate as soon as it hits the break and these can be used to actually change the flow for power for each and why now the next one is the continue command continue command actually passes the innermost party for innermost loop to stop but it continues from there it left off it won't terminate the whole thing so it causes the current iterations of the innermost loop to start to terminate but the next iteration will still continue so continue is kind of it's more safer kind of a command compared to break but you may have situations where you use the one you can only use one or the other they are not interchangeable and sometimes like the big one pick in there the continue fits in and vice versa now the last one is the switch command the switch command how many arguments does it take actually believe it or not it takes only two arguments so the switch as a variable and the whole bunch of value and then script this entire thing is actually in close to the one place so you can almost say that basically for given variable if it is of one pattern then do one script it is of a different pattern then do a second things like that and it progresses I mean until you have no more patterns and the switch command also has three options that we will talk about it can be exact exact match or a globe match GLOV this is not to be confused with a selector this is a globe GLOV match is essentially kind of a loose match and then finally we get basically so these are three different options that provide for the switch command now let's talk about the basic file commands so before we talk about these additional commands basically we have CD and PWD I think you guys know that CD stands for the change directory and then PWD the present working directory those are pretty much the same then you can use that inside synopsis tickle command interpreter and now let's look at file commands and there are two of them basically like meaning like the we can use two different types of options here in the file or GLOV and Bob you know that basically matches the regular expressions in this context so the file commands are directory name to get the directory part of the file name and then you can also do file exists and then a given a file name which returns one if the name exists or 0 if it doesn't exist file extension is give the extension part of the root or text it returns the text and then each directory is a command that returns one if the file name specified is a directory and 0 otherwise and each file also works the same thing if it returns one if the name next to it is actually a file that exists otherwise it returns to 0 these are all like file testing commands then readable is another one which is written the permissions are set such that the file can be readable and then the root name is another one which is gives the root part of the file name size gives the size of file name bytes and then file tail file name will return the file name some part of the from the path string and then you also have like writable which is basically returns also one is writable or 0 otherwise now the globe is actually like I put it to the end basically the globe matching is something that we talked about in this context it actually returns for files it is a globe command it is mainly for pattern matching and reporting files and the globe you can say like start or very long and then start a text this will return collection of very long and text files okay so so far so good let us continue on file access commands essentially because how can you open a file and access actually the first command is file open command or just open here you can stay like what is a file and then what is access mode the access mode can be R which is just read only R plus it is used for reading and writing and the W it is open only for writing W plus is open for reading and writing and if it is the file exists it truncates it otherwise it will create the file then a is open the file for writing only and then the new data is appended to the file so the existing data is kept and then the new data is just getting up into the file here the only requirement is that the file name should exist it will create that particular file and a plus is the same thing only for now we can use it for reading and writing and here if the file does not exist it creates the file and then the new data is also like appended to the file similar to the previous command and to close a file we just specify the close command the close followed by a file ID not a file ID close that particular file then we also have another command called flush command literally means flushing so but the way that it is the flushing it happens is whatever stored in the buffer gets written into the file at this point usually when it exits that's when it gets written out in this case when you issue the flush command at that point gets written out into the main file so no buffer is being kept now we have other two commands also to get information from the file or put something into the file these are just the inputs so the gets command essentially given the file ID and the variable it reads line by line into that the put command essentially like whatever you find the line gets put into the file and also there are two other commands from non sequential file access meaning you can go directly to middle of the file and then start reading from that and those commands are seek and tell the tell command essentially it is used to obtain the current position of the pointer in the file there as a seek command will just given an offset it goes to that particular location see what is there now we come to much more interesting stuff which is procedure so as we saw actually we can define procedures and then then we can run these procedures instead of the native commands and then the main command that creates the table procedure is proc so and then proc has three more arguments it is the name name of the proc arguments and then the body so we saw like I mean lot of these things about procedures in the previous lecture and we also talked about the variable scope in the context of the tickle in the overall tickle and this is essentially the scope determines like how to access the variable so if you want to preserve the scope from a global variable into the procedure we use the keyword global so that particular variable is visible inside the environment or inside the procedure now if you want to pass a procedure pass a variable back to the the calling process and without actually passing it as a results we can do that using a form and we can also do up script to upload the script itself these are some of the commands that we solved it and we can also specify defaults for the arguments just right next to it as a single element essentially and then tools will take it now coming to the variable number of arguments this is specified as ARGS in the procedure so if one of the one of the arguments is this called ARGS then tickle this as the variable number of arguments so it will keep reading that until it is fully exhausted and arrays in procedures you can use arrays inside procedures basically again the scope needs to be determined and then you can assign a scope and then it is quite pervasive at the time and arrays can also be added into procedures extension this procedure extension essentially so synopsis actually supports some built-in features that can actually enhance the whole tickle script writing it is no longer field-second script but it is a full-blown program so two of such commands are defined proc attributes proc name and then optionally a name for text or the second one is parse proc arguments which has the dash arguments key with the argument list and then there is a result which generates the result so the advantages of using these scripts the define script and the parse script is that when somebody request a help on this command it automatically produces a help so the define proc command essentially takes as I said proc name it can have in some info information textual information with dash info there are other things which are not very relevant which is the command group hide body hidden permanent and don't abbreviate so I have put the those additional options now the next one is the parse proc arguments the part proc arguments has arg list as one of the arguments and then result array so the results array will contain the parsed arguments essentially so let's store in the result array and then the arg list is essentially Mr. arguments that needs to be passed the procedure the reason why we use these two commands are mainly so that it makes the procedure more readable and also it gives a consistent messaging around the proc the define proc commands proc commands also goes with the fan proc attributes command that actually gives more information about the all the attributes for the arguments the parse proc arguments command essentially that if you don't have this the the particular script will not respond to the dash help you can make it work by using a help procedure name and then minus verbose but in if you want to get the procedure added you need to define the part parse proc arguments then once we define how do we display the procedures for that we have several commands we can have info args info body so these are some of the commands that we can use in a procedure so now we come to the collection which is one other data structure which is unique synopsis the collections are set of similar type of objects you can have collection of actually multiple type also say with attributes they like nets into a collection all the cells into a collection and then you can have a single collection which can then move nets and cells but they are all grouped separately so if you have a name called x in the nets and corresponding x in the name cells they both are separate first of all inside the array itself and then we can separately destroy one of them if the other one needs to be more prominent so if you remove any objects it calls for like cells so if you remove x it can be the cell or net and it if it removes it from the cells the x the net x is still retained inside the collection so other important thing to note about corrections with corrections memory less so it is created when at least one element get added and it is destroyed automatically even the last element is removed so by itself it does not have any kind of bearing on what and for creating collections there are two commands one is get any get star is a tickle command for creating collections and then all underscore star is also another command so if you want to display objects in a collection we use query objects command and for selecting objects from a collection again filter expression is one attributes select an object from a collection we can use a filter option or filter collection command so this one is like the filter and then whole bunch of attributes now how do we add and remove objects from a collection you already saw like how to add the first element using the get or actually the set commands but for adding and removing objects from a collection we have to use these two commands either add to collection or remove from collection so these are preset commands basically which will help add new objects into the collection or remove the existing ones and as I said basically like the last element is removed this array c state this collection c state and basically it is completely destroyed so I mentioned earlier that the collections are very versatile and it is probably like the best thing happened here so to compare to collections we use the compare collections and then if you want to iterate over a collection use for each collection see basically the common theme is the collection collections becoming more and more and to copy collection basically we just use for copy command or copy underscore collection command for each collection also has just two arguments and then for to copy the collection use the copy collection command and the extracting objects should be using the query of command so I think like I mean this pretty much is the overview of how we can use some tickle in synopsis tool how this is useful we will probably like go through some examples in the next lecture okay thank you but it is only a Sunday


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com, coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Prison Basketball, three box break, three box picketing number 11, it's retail edition by the way, that's why I'm trying to spit out. Alright, so big thanks to all of these folks for getting into it. Now we're giving away the pelicans in this break, so what's happening here? At the beginning of the break, we'll randomize the New Orleans person to the break. One team equals one entry. That's pretty good, I like that, so let's grab everybody's names, let's copy them in here, let's take out that blank spot right there, so there's a one spot in 29 is going to get the pelicans in a three box retail break after three times, one, two, and the name on top after three is going to be Jonathan Spears, there you go, congrats to you John, after three you get the pelz, a little rooftop next to your name so you know that's a winning spot right there, you get the pelz in this break, congrats. 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Welcome. This is Melissa Armell with the Stock Swoosh and the GAP Options course is coming up next week. It is Thursday, May 2nd. I don't do this class that often, so if you're interested, email me at Melissa at thestockswoosh.com. You can go to www.thestockswoosh.com if you want to sign up and register. So the GAP Options course I do a few times a year. It's a course designed to assist you with trading options. Again, you have to have a trading account to take the option trade. You will buy the call or buy the put. You get one month free of the options newsletter with this course, which is very nice because that's normally an annual subscription, and it gives you a taste of the options trade. So in the class, you will learn targets, how to manage the trades, and particularly for the month you get the letter. It will be very, very helpful. We'll go over some of the trades in the letter. And again, I'm calling calls and puts based on my GAP rating system. So the objective of this class is to teach you information on how to see quality options trades and manage options trades in GAPs. So if you're thinking about doing this, I'm telling you, when you want to get good at something, I mean really, really good. And maximize your success. Working hard is important. Spending the time, doing a class, reviewing your own trades.  You can call it look if you want to, but I really believe that the harder that you work at something and the more energy and effort that you put into it, you're going to see the results. You will see the results.  It's profits. It comes down to desire. How much do you desire to be successful? If you're like, well, it's a side thing trading. Maybe. No, that's not good enough. In reference to trading, if you want to be successful, you have to throw yourself into it. Fall on. It doesn't mean 40 hours a week. And it doesn't mean all your life savings. It just means that the time that you spend doing it, you're going to be serious. And it means you don't take any live trades in the market without learning how to trade first. That is silly. No one can make money in the market consistently without knowing what to do. Trading isn't gambling. So when you take a class, you learn information and you take that information and you use it for profit. Now, while there are some classes out there that don't teach good information, there are many classes that do. And my classes do teach good information, particularly my gap rating system. But the options newsletter has been an amazing letter this year, 2019. And in this class, you will learn a lot about options and it will help you. And again, it's a half day class. So if you don't know what an option is, if you're brand new, that's fine. Again, we'll talk about that in the class. This was just one of the days. Some Zen trader or one of the weeks, I'm sorry, one of the days she sent me her P&L from the one week. She is a Golden Gap course student and she's also an options newsletter subscriber. So huge week for her here, over $12,000. And she's had another huge week this week. So she is on track. She's really getting into groove here. And I want to point out she does not have big size in these trades. This is one contract, six contracts, eight contracts, two, 10, 12. You don't have to take big size to profit in the market. Here, she took one contract of Google, which costs around $1,300 or thereabouts, and she made over $3,400. So you don't have to take some massive size to make money in the market. Anyways, this was that Google. And you can see here, it was very interesting because it had this rally. This was a big trade, but it could have been even bigger because it didn't even have. If you look at the week that the move happened, it was, again, it was a hugely profitable trade. But the move itself was not what you would say John Mungo. I mean, there were baby green bars. So that was very interesting. But anyways, here was the original letter. And again, you get one letter free with this class. You buy the Google calls. It was strike $1,200. I give the expiration date, the strike, and then you take it when you get it. Now, this letter was out in the pre-market.  So you could have gotten this for around $13. Five contracts would have cost you $6,500. If you sold it out at $38.50, this went more than that. Okay, this went higher, though, I will say. Profit on five contracts, though, if you sold it at $38.50, it was $12,750. Return investment was 196%. And some people made more. Like I just showed you. I mean, some of the return investment, if you held it, another day was even bigger. So, again, I've been calling huge trades in this letter. It has to do with taking the trade. You risk the amount that you can afford. Whether it's one, whether it's two, whether it's three, it's still profit. It's still 196% return on investment. Here's an example. If you were a beginner person, and you risked $1,300 one contract and sold it out at $38.50, which, again, was a little early, you could have made $2,500. Beautiful trade, okay. So this is not updated. I must update this through this week's trades, but total year to date has been 84% win ratio. That's actually higher than that this week, because all the trades this week were winners. So I think I'm over 85, 86% win ratio year to date. Only seven losers. No losers this week. Literally, I'm just on fire this year with my trade calls. Day trading and options trading. And I will tell you that you want to be a part of this. You want to take my classes. You want to learn my system. Now is a great time to know me to take my trades to learn from me and do it. 2019 has just been a fantastic year so far. It's only April. So options are a way to make money if you cannot be in the live trading room daily. It's very convenient, particularly if you can't actively trade in the morning. So this is a course designed to assist you with trading options. The objective of this class is to teach you information on how to see quality options, trades, and manage options, trades, and gaps. And, again, I teach the rating system for the gaps where I make the calls in the golden gap course, so you get these trades just like that email. You get an email to you and for the one month free, if you want to sign up for the newsletter, you can do that too. It's for the year. If you want to do this class, I'm doing it Thursday, May 2nd. It's $1,500, 12 to 4. And, again, it includes one month free of the gap options newsletter. Okay? So if you're interested and you want to sign up, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Have a great day, everyone.


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with the queue. We're at San Francisco International, at gate 54B, if you want to stop by and say hello. We're here for Alaska's elevated flight experience launch. It's really an interesting opportunity. Alaska took advantage of the purchase of Virgin to kind of rethink the brand, rethink the branding of the planes and add a bunch of new amenities. This is the one that you're going to care about more than any of the others. And we're really excited to have the founder and CEO of Salt and Straw the Ice Cream, Kim Malik. Kim, great to meet you. Thank you. I'm a huge fan. I don't know how many hours I've stood in line and waiting to get into your restaurant in Portland. Thank you so much. So for folks that haven't stood in line for their Salt and Straw, give us a quick update on Salt and Straw, who you guys are all, what are we all about? Yeah, so we started actually in 2011 as a little push cart, which is a big deal in Portland. And we've grown now to 19 shops up and down the West Coast. We make all of our ice cream in five gallon batches. So we say we're the smallest, or the largest small batch ice cream company in the world. And we're excited to have this new partnership with Alaska. Right. So I don't know kind of what the official industry categories are, but you would certainly be like in the super rich premium category, right? Really, really rich ingredients, fresh ingredients, crazy flavors. Each city that we operate in, we make a different menu. So it reflects that city's local flavors, what's going on with the food scene. And we make everything in-house. So whether it's a brownie or rendering bone marrow or making gummy bears ourselves, it's all made in-house with great, great care and love. I'm just curious if you have a feel for, you know, what is the formula for your success, right? It's ice cream. There's a lot of ice cream choices. Of course, Ferrells was one of my favorite back in Portland. Oh, we love Ferrells. They don't have any more, get the zoo. But what are some of the secrets to have, you know, quote unquote a commodity product, if you will. It's ice cream. But to build such a passionate following and really have people that are so connected to the product and the brand. Yeah, well, we feel so fortunate to have this loyal following. And I think it's really, you know, we invest a lot in earning people's business and earning that attention. And so like I said, we have a different menu in every city that we operate in. We change our menu every four weeks. So it's reflective of what's happening locally and seasonally. And then when you come into our store, we try to offer a pretty special experience. So from the store design to the way we take care of people, they can sample through the whole menu. I was just at one of our stores and a customer said, this is like a wine tasting. I mean, I'm tasting all these flavors, hearing the stories behind how they were made and the collaborations that went into it. So we pack a lot into the experience. Right. So it's interesting that we're here at Alaska because Ben in the opening talked about really the culture and about people because it's kind of the same thing. A seat mile is a seat mile. So how do you differentiate your product and your offering? And he talked about values and wanting to work with companies that reflect the similar values. You're here, so tell the people, why are you here at the Alaska event? I love that he talked about values. I noticed that as well. And I think that's definitely one thing that we share is a care for the people first and foremost. I mean, we scoop ice cream, but we offer people I think four days of training before they show up to actually start scooping ice cream. And that's all about how to create connections with people, how to have a really special experience when someone is standing in front of you and how to connect. So we invest a lot in our team and I think that really shines through in the way that they take care of customers. And I definitely see that when I fly with Alaska Airlines and it was one of the reasons I was so excited to be able to partner with them. Right, so we've got to tell the people. So you can now get salt and straw on Alaska Airlines. That's right. So not for just for a couple months now, we've been offering a little single serve container that we actually developed in conjunction with Alaska Airlines. So they helped us design the packaging so that it would really fit with the experience that they were offering. And then we launched it in the air and we don't really sell ice cream outside of our stores very much. So it was a really big deal to work with them on this project. Yeah, and I would imagine in terms of the packaging and the experience, you're so dialed into that. That's such a part of your brand that you pride a lot of, I'd imagine initial concerns about making sure that was consistent with the brand that you guys represent. Yeah, definitely.  All right, well, Kim, thanks for the ice cream earlier. Oh, thank you. And thanks for taking a few minutes. Congratulations and stay flying back to Portland. Awesome, I appreciate being here, thank you. You're welcome. She's Kim, I'm Jeff, you're watching theCUBE where San Francisco gave 54B at the Alaska Airlines better experience. Thanks for watching.


Kevin, three points, deserved three points, hard fought three points, just sum up your emotions for us right now. Yeah, it's good. I mean, apart from my croaky voice it was good, it was a good afternoon for us. The lads bought into exactly what we wanted to do over these last couple of days and I do feel like you said it. I feel like I deserved three points, I feel like the lads worked consistently throughout the whole game. We set out a game planking off and on the ball and I feel like they've executed pretty much bang on. In terms of the performance, the tactics, a little bit of a more direct approach, but more energetic it seemed as well in terms of a high press and a lot of kind of closing them down to clean that first half. Two have sustained that over the course of the 90 minutes as it seemed with a lot of energy, that must please you as well. Yeah, it's good.  That's why they've all ended up coming off because they're all into the game. So, to then have the guys who came on and I thought the guys that came on done well as well created chances and things like that. So, it went a little bit more direct to a certain extent in our eyes as a group of staff for this game. We knew where the space would be, we knew where the commit players followed and I feel we used that to our advantage. I feel we utilised them spaces. It was in short, it was behind whatever it may be, I feel like we mixed it up quite well at times and obviously it was playing to see, the energy it was playing to see. We had a few good, few shots on goal, we had chances, we created chances and the place was buzzing, it was good. In terms of the organisation as well, in terms of defensively at the back, swimming and coming here, up to this point I think they'd scored the most goals in the league to keep a clean sheet against them and really nullify their threats I guess must be good. Yeah, it was good. Again, clean sheets win the game, clean sheets get your promotion and that's exactly what we need to work on. You know, we've been good defensively at times but I felt we were solid, I felt they did a couple of chances, don't get me wrong, but on the whole I felt we defended well, I felt we closed spaces, I felt we squeezed up, we dropped off the right times, I felt we were defensively we were good. It was good to have shot them up because they were a good team to be fair to them. They were a good team obviously. I've not really looked at it from my managerial point of view but they were clever, they were a good team. I thought they'd done well at times, they popped us all, popped through us at times and that's what we need to treat back. They were a good team and just glad to get the three points. You mentioned your croaky voice, this whole post-match kind of situation, a lot different to how you've experienced it so far this season, how it is as a player, how have you found it today in general? It's been good, I feel it's been long it has, I feel like I kind of came in early, I've said it runs before because at the end of the day I want to come back in place. It was one of the ones that feels good to me, a long day I feel like I've sat around quite a bit because normally you're getting ready, you're getting treatment, you're doing this and that so it takes up a lot of time but it was a good experience, a great experience. I loved it and it was just, it's a good buzz, like you don't even know what I'm saying, the croaky voice the last, I wouldn't say 15 minutes but we're alright, probably like last 10 minutes, last five minutes it was, the clock starts to go backwards, I think it was Bernard's watch at one point so I was just starting to get a bit hesitant as such and it made me feel comfortable because I felt we would continue to carry out that game plan, we didn't then sit off on 18 yard box and stuff, we kind of tried to squeeze up when we could and it was good. I'm feeling the support from the stands today as well, it's something you've experienced already as a player here a little bit but to have the fans fully behind you leading this team to hear your name chanted from the stands, that must have been a really good feeling. It's good, it's different obviously but it is good but I feel the fans would get behind any manager that comes in and brings energy and brings about desire and wants to play attacking football like the game plan allowed us to at times, it might have brought less possession today but what we worked on was exactly what it was so it was great. I've said before that we've got to make this place a fortress and automatically teams in this league will be kind of scared coming to that if they know that's that so I feel we've got to continue to make that. The fans were brilliant, lots of buzz in and all in all it's a good day here. A lot of positives to take from individual performances as well, Richie and Gillie coming back in midfield and also Bobby obviously scoring his first goal for the club, a really proud moment for him and his family. There's positives across the board really in terms of individual performance. There was yeah obviously picking out individuals as such but like I know Richie can perform on a weekend week out he's done it throughout his career that's why he's had a good career and Gillie gives you two different dimensions as such he's got legs but he's good with the ball and he's good with driving the ball so I said everyone in that dressing room was absolutely shattered because of the amount of effort and energy that was put into that game so obviously if you spoke about them individuals but on the whole you obviously got them Bobby as well like Bobby's top draw today again, the amount of effort and the energy that he put into it was unbelievable and I couldn't say the same for so many people but for him to get a goal in front of obviously home crowd his family and stuff like that is brilliant for the guy. You mentioned everybody's exhausted in the changing room. Two have overseen a performance like that having only had sort of two days to prepare for the game and kind of inspired this kind of a performance today where everybody can come off the pitch and say yeah we couldn't have given anything more and we've got the results to show for it that must be pleasing for me on point of view. Yeah it's great again like as I said I feel we actually get the game plan pretty much not bang on you never do but like what we wanted on and off the ball we've done that most of the game we've done that for you know probably good 70 minutes of the game I'd say so we knew that would give us our best chance to win and that's all that really worked down but yeah everyone's tired there but that's what it takes, that's what it takes to win games as I say that's what it takes to get promotion and that's ultimately what we want and what those fans want and what this club ultimately deserves. On to Tuesday, trips to Grimmsbyn, the Eiffel Trophy I guess after that you'd really wait your appetite for a Tuesday night's game. Yeah it is yeah and obviously we know it's a complete different ball game when it comes to the Papa John's Cup you know it's different but the mentality will still be the same from us you know we're going to go Grimmsbyn we'll commit like we have done today we'll work hard on what we think is going to win us the game and yeah we'll obviously need a good refresh, a good rest up tomorrow and good to go Monday but we're looking forward to it and again it's right at this moment in time tomorrow but enjoying this moment because we're not obviously winning a few games as such it's a good moment to just sit back and just enjoy it.


what's up everyone welcome to a brand new unboxing or what I like to call it what's in the box of course it's also featuring my little dog oatmeal what's up oatmeal what's up but of course like I said we're doing this new thing called what's in the box I think this is like episode number two so this should be fun I ordered a bunch of San Diego Comic Con pops I have a good guess of what's in here but to be honest I can be completely wrong because I still have a bunch of them still coming in and I did promise you guys I would be doing a San Diego 2018 Funko Pop haul which once I get them all in I will officially do that and then do an updated Funko Pop collection video but this is the thing I'm wondering what's in it I kind of already opened it up I didn't look what's inside of it yet but it's from Funko so it has to be from the Funko shop and I have a good guess of what it could be stupid thing to even wonder but honestly I forget half the things I order half the time and sometimes people do ship things that are just from themselves and not actually from Funko shop they just use the same box like I do like like I said let's unbox this shit you're gonna get my first freaking reaction you know I really hate this new like bubble thing like when I was a kid I used to love poppingies now it's unpopular stupid right so if I am correct this should be the mad max Funko Pop which aww okay first off a little disappointed it's coming in this um if you guys don't remember it came in that black box which I thought was freaking cool but it's just coming in the normal box but of course we're gonna open it up so this is mad max the next card has mad max on the front mad uh nuts in the back and of course this is from that one scene of course you guys know what this vehicle is and I remember when I saw this for the first time I was like this looks amazing I'm a huge mad max for your road fan so I knew this was the one I was gonna have to collect I think it's out of yep 5,000 pieces is how many this is out of I pretty much dig it I really wish it would have came in that big black box I think that was a pretty cool box but first off let's open it let's get an in depth view of what this looks like and then tell me guys down below were you guys lucky enough to get one of these cars in were you not let's talk about it how what do you guys think of this Funko box down below in the comments of course you can see you can kind of see the front of it kind of just all like this you can kind of just see the front you can see max right there nuts in the back like I was saying you see the back of the car we also can look at the box and everything because the box just looks really cool but like I said let's open this thing up let's see what it looks inside of course we can get an in-depth look in it you know you can see the chains you can see all the little details from the car that we get in the thing those little spears that they throw that explode which is really cool of course max has the blood back thing still on him and I do have that Funko Pop because that is a really cool Funko Pop but I still need to get the rest you know they have the comadou warrior the Morton Joe Furiosa's Chase version of her this is just a really cool set I'm really happy that they finally did it at all yeah guys that is the mad max fury road the nux car edition like I said what's in the box because I really didn't know what was in this box but I'm glad that I was able to show you guys this I was glad I was able to show this unboxing I think I'm going to take this one out and put it up with my other rides up there I don't know if you guys can see them up there but more unboxing comes soon I have two more pops coming in I do want to unbox those and show you guys because they're two of my highly anticipated ones I definitely know this was my last two that I've ordered and of course like I said look out for that San Diego Comic Con 2018 Pop Funko kind of thing I'm going to be showing also I'm doing a giveaway for Iron Man Mark 1 Funko Pop so make sure to look out for that do not miss out on that there's two days left for that so do not miss out on that if you guys missed out on that pop in the stores of course guys if you guys are new here head up sandwich on films over there because right down there you guys can get into advanced movie screens check out some moos and also some movie reviews of course like I said if you guys are new here hit that subscribe button I do tons of videos like this movie reviews and also talk any kind of geeky or nerd culture but until next time stay classy


Very nice to see you. Please join me for a few moments of centering silence. Now please let's join in our in-gathering hymn. We give thanks number 1010 and the words are printed in your order of service and we'll sing it through twice please. Welcome to First Unitarian Society of Madison. This is a community where curious seekers gather to explore spiritual, ethical and social issues in an accepting and nurturing environment. Unitarian Universalism supports the freedom of conscience of each individual. As together we seek to be a force for good in the world. My name is Karen Rose Gredler and on behalf of the entire congregation I would like to extend a special welcome to visitors.  Newcomers are encouraged to stay for our fellowship hour after the service and to visit the library which is directly across from the center doors of this auditorium except no I just remembered they're doing photographs in there. So meet people in the commons out behind. Forgot that the first one. Bring your beverages and your questions. Members of our staff and lame ministry will be on hand to welcome you. We also look for persons holding teal colored stoneware coffee mugs. These are FUS members knowledgeable about our faith community who would be happy to speak with you and to share their enthusiasm for FUS. We welcome children to stay with us during the service. However, please remember that it is often difficult for those in attendance to be here in this lively acoustical environment. So our child haven back in that corner, the little glass room and the commons out behind the auditorium are great places to go if a child wants to talk or sing or hop around and you're welcome to go there and you can see and hear the service from there as well. We acknowledge those individuals who help our services run smoothly. Now this service as well as the first one, we have staff operating sound for us because we didn't have any volunteers. Hint, hint. Our lame ministers and smiley. Our greeter is Jeanine Nussbaum. Our ushers are Helen Dyer and who is it? Doug Hill. He pitched in as well. And hospitality making coffee and ice water and other things back in the kitchen are Sharon Skratish and Jeannie Hills. Please note the announcements in your red floors insert to the order of service. This includes information about today, this week and upcoming events and services at FUS. I would like to read one particular announcement that pertains to today. Sharon Salzburg will be here with us later today at FUS for meditation and a talk by this renowned meditation teacher. Sharon is the author, a book she may recognize, loving kindness and real happiness. Her wisdom and loving approach to kindness are very relevant and inspiring during these difficult and challenging days in our country and our world. The program will run from 6 to 8 p.m. right here in the auditorium. All are welcome. It's a free entry with a free will offering donation to Sharon if you're able to do that. Again, welcome. We hope that today's service will stimulate your mind, touch your heart and stir your spirit. Thank you. Add to do and began.  You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible.  Please now rise and join with me in reading the words for the lighting of our chalice that are printed in your program. How often we seek refuge in this sacred flame from the world's trouble and pain. Today may our lamp light the way for those who know no refuge, that we may open our minds, our arms, our hearts, our mouths to sing, come whoever you are, holy new and holy true. And now please turn to your neighbor for a warm Sunday morning greeting. Grownups that want to sit like a kid and hear a story about a girl. This is a story that is based on the life of a little while ago. She was of African and Cuban and Chinese descent who lived on an island and she very, very, very much wanted to drum. So this is her story. She lived in the 1930s. This book is called Drum Dream Girl. On an island of music in a city of drum beats, the drum dream girl of pounding tall conga drums, tapping small bongo drums and boom, boom, booming with long loud sticks on big round silvery moon bright timbales. But everyone on the island of music in the city of drum beats believed that only boys should play drums. So the drum dream girl had to keep dreaming quiet, secret drum beat dreams. Outdoor cafes that looked like gardens. She heard drums played by men, but when she closed her eyes, she could also hear her own imaginary music. When she walked under wind wavy palm trees in a flower bright park, she heard the whir of parrot wings, the clack of woodpecker beaks, the dancing tap of her own footsteps and the comforting pat of her own heartbeat. All those rhythms. At carnivals, she listened to the rattling beat of towering dancers on stilts and the dragon clang of costume drummers wearing huge masks. At home, her fingertips rolled out their own dreamy drum rhythms on tables and chairs. And even though everyone kept reminding her that girls on the island of music had never played drums, the brave drum dream girl dared to play tall conga drums, small bongo drums and big round silvery moon bright timbales. Her hands seemed to fly as they rippled, wrapped and pounded all the rhythms of her drum dreams. Her big sisters were so excited that they invited her to join their new all-girl dance band. But their father said, only boys should play drums. So the drum dream girl had to keep dreaming and drumming alone. Until finally, her father offered to find a music teacher who could decide if her drums deserved to be heard. The drum dream girl's teacher was amazed. The girl knew so much, but he taught her more and more and more and she practiced and practiced and she practiced. Until the teacher agreed that she was ready to play her small bongo drum outdoors at a starlit cafe that looked like a gardener, where everyone who heard her dream bright music sang and danced and decided that girls should always be allowed to play drums and both girls and boys should feel free to dream. And that's the end of our story today. Thank you so much for listening and you guys can go do your summer fun. And we will rise to sing hymn number 168. It's called A Litany for Survival. For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision, crucial and alone, for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice, who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns, looking inward and outward at once before and after, seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children's mouths so their dreams will not reflect the death of ours, for those of us who were imprinted with fear, like a faint line in the center of our foreheads learning to be afraid with our mother's milk, for by this weapon, this illusion of some safety to be found, the heavy-footed hoped to silence us. For all of us, this instant and this triumph, we were never meant to survive. And when the sun rises, we are afraid it might not remain. When the sun sets, we are afraid it might not rise in the morning. When our stomachs are full, we are afraid we may never eat again. When we are loved, we are afraid love will vanish. When we are alone, we are afraid love will never return. And when we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So, it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive. The second reading this morning is from Alice Walker's essay In Search of Our Mother's Gardens. How was the creativity of the black woman kept alive year after year and century after century when, for most of the years black people have been in America, it was a punishable crime for a black person to read or write. And the freedom to paint, to sculpt, to expand the mind with action did not exist. Consider, if you can bear to imagine it, what might have been the result if singing too had been forbidden by law. Listen to the voices of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Aretha Franklin, among others, and imagine those voices muzzled for life. Then you may begin to comprehend the lives of our crazy, sainted mothers and grandmothers, the agony of the lives of women who might have been poets, novelists, essayists, and short story writers who died with their real gifts stifled within them. How they did it, those millions of black women who were not Phyllis Wheatley or Lucy Terry or Francis Harper or Zora Hurston or Nella Larson or Bessie Smith brings me to the title of this essay in search of our mother's gardens, which is a personal account that is yet shared in its theme and its meaning by all of us. I found while thinking about the far-reaching world of the creative black woman that often the truest answer to a question that really matters can be found very close. But when, you will ask, did my overworked mother have time to know or care about feeding the creative spirit? Unlike Ma Rainey's songs which retained their creator's name even while blasting forth from Bessie Smith's mouth, no song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write that we all write are my mother's stories. But the telling of these stories which came from my mother's lips as naturally as breathing was not the only way my mother showed herself as an artist.  And not just your typical straggly country stand of Zinnia's either. She planted ambitious gardens and still does with over 50 different varieties of plants that bloom profusely from early March until late November. Before she left home for the fields, she watered her flowers, chopped up the grass and laid out new beds. When she returned from the fields, she might divide clumps of bulbs, dig a cold pit, uproot and replant roses or prune branches from her taller bushes or trees until night came and it was too dark to see. Because of her creativity with flowers, even my memories of poverty are seen through a screen of blooms, sunflowers, petunias, roses, dahlias, forsythia, spirea, delphiniums, verbena and on and on. I notice that it is only when my mother is working in her flowers that she is radiant. Her face as she prepares the art that is her gift is a legacy of respect that she leaves to me for all that illuminates and cherishes life. She is handed down respect for the possibilities and the will to grasp them. To this pulpit this morning for me. Because the question of emergence and finding voice for women isn't simply an academic one. This is also my question, a quiet one, not a burning one at this stage of my life. My previous PhD in literature path led to a counseling psychology path and for the past 22 years I've been engaged in a deeper teaching in my own counseling practice. I've been content to be in the quiet enclave where such healing practices occur, eschewing the public domain and bolstered by Emily Dickinson's words in a poem that Michael shared last week in his reflections on the evanescence of fame. Here's the poem. I'm nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us. Don't tell, they'd advertise, you know. How dreary to be somebody, how public like a frog to tell one's name the live long June to an admiring bog. This from a poet who wrote almost 1,800 poems in her lifetime of which fewer than a dozen were published. Clearly Emily did not want to be public like a frog. As my literary studies became more focused and I approached the dissertation stage back on that PhD path I became more interested in the question of women's literary engagement and production and the, quote, forces ranged within us and against us, against us and within us in Adrienne Rich's words that invite as well as inhibit finding voice. Focusing on what was then called Minority Women's Literature, black, lesbian, Jewish, Native American I was exploring the narrative of the Künzler Roman, kind of a fancy German word for the novel depicting the development of an artist and how the forces of racism, sexism, classism and how those forces are encoded in the intimate realms of relationships that shape the developing artist and her creative expressions. This morning then I returned to the woman question, I'm not quite sure what that means but in light of Hillary Clinton's emergence as the first woman to be nominated for the highest office of this land and used this historic moment to consider the perils and possibilities for women's continued emergence and finding voice. Young women may not be marking this moment as historically or even personally significant taking the gains made by women in the last 30 years or so for granted but for others of us who came of age in the second wave of the women's movement and before this is a heady moment indeed and against the backdrop of Hillary's emergence are reminders of the work left to do to ensure the inherent worth and dignity of every person in this interdependent web of life. This from a recent article in which a group of female scholars analyzed the New York Times coverage of the presidential primary looking at every article published between March 2015 through January 2016. They found that 80% of the political scientists quoted in those articles were men. The writer of this article herself a female journalist went on to illustrate the deep institutional and attitudinal gender bias shaping that kind of statistic to which she herself acknowledged she routinely succumbs. Another reminder of the work left to do the recent so-called honor killing by the brother of Kwandil Balak a Pakistani woman who had become a social media celebrity she reportedly called herself a one woman army against the repression of women in Pakistan. Two days before her death she said in a Facebook post as women we must stand up for ourselves as women we must stand up for each other. Her brother has said he had no regrets about drugging and strangling his sister whom he accused of dishonoring her family. In Pakistan more than 500 people die in so-called honor killings every year almost all of them women and thus the practice of murdering women accused of violating highly restrictive social rules is widespread and done with impunity by male relatives. The perils and possibility of women emerging and finding voice are exemplified by Kwandil Balak. In her case the perils have become obvious in her death. The possibilities lie in the fact that her brother was arrested that because of her popularity via the social media attitudinal change about the status of women in Pakistani society might have a positive effect on social policy. As we continue to consider the question of women, emergence and finding voice I also want to think like a psychologist and look at what are the impediments for emergence and voice what are the forces ranged within us and against us that keep us silent inhabiting the margins, the private sphere. Bell Hooks in an early book of essays called Talking Back Thinking Feminist Thinking Black writes about her experience growing up black and female in the American South where children were meant to be seen and not heard.  And yet she says that what was born in her was the craving to speak to have a voice and not just any voice but one that could be identified as belonging to me to make my voice I had to speak to hear myself talk and talk I did darting in and out of grown folks conversations and dialogues answering questions endlessly asking questions making speeches needless to say the punishments for these acts of speech seemed endless they were intended to silence me the child and more particularly the girl child had I been a boy they might have encouraged me to speak believing that I might someday be called to preach there was no calling for talking girls no legitimized rewarded speech overt and covert punishments externally then leading to shame and fear internally are the forces from within and without that prohibit voice that make women's emergence and finding voice the struggle it can be for so many so now I want to look at several idiosyncratically chosen texts by and about women to illustrate the difficult and daring movement out of silence and into speech a movement that bell hooks names as quote a gesture of defiance that heals that makes new life and new growth possible it is that act of speech of talking back that is no mere gesture of empty words that is the expression of our movement from object to subject the liberated voice my thoughts first turned toward the autobiographical novel of Harriet Jacobs called Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl which was published in 1861 in this merging of the genres of the slave narrative and the sentimental novel Jacobs under the pseudonym of Linda Brent describes her life from early childhood where she was born into slavery she describes the relative ease of her early life where she was taught to read and write and so by her mother's mistress an extraordinary circumstance really for a slave child and then the difficulties after that mistress dies and she's placed in a new household with a five-year-old mistress whose father treats Linda as mere property as Linda approaches puberty he mounts increasing pressure to exploit her sexually Jacobs writes he told me that I was made for his use made to obey his command in everything that I was nothing but a slave whose will must and should surrender to his the war of my life had begun and though one of God's most powerless creatures I resolved never to be conquered alas for me in the narrative and in her life Linda Harriet was not conquered by her master instead in an act of resistance she takes a white lover Mr. Sands bears two children whom her master subsequently claimed as his slaves eventually Linda escapes and for seven long years hides in a crawl space in her grandmother's house evading capture and finally through a network of friends and abolitionists she makes her way to New York in a letter to the abolitionist Amy Post Harriet Jacobs wrote God gave me a soul that burned for freedom and a heart nerve with determination to suffer even unto death in pursuit of liberty triumphing over fear determined in her pursuit of liberty Harriet Jacobs sought her freedom and then in that freedom risked even more by documenting her experience of exploitation and abuse in her autobiographical novel whose subtitle is an authentic historical narrative describing the horrors of slavery as experienced by black women a contemporary of Harriet Jacobs with an entirely different life experience is Julia Ward Howe whom we Unitarians claim as one of our foremothers widely known mostly for her penning the words to the battle hymn of the Republic a recent biography of Julia Ward Howe by the esteemed feminist scholar Elaine Showalter reveals a profound tension between her public and private selves mostly due to her marriage to Dr. Samuel Ridley Howe referred to as Chev short for Chevalier he'd been awarded the title by the King of Greece for his six year participation in the Greek War for Independence a resume of Julia Ward Howe would illuminate an intellectual literary and industrious life of a woman born into privilege her father, a wealthy New York banker she knew six languages she published six books she traveled all over the world she was an ardent abolitionist and later in life an ardent advocate for women's suffrage she founded and led the American Women's Suffrage Association as well as the New England Women's Club among others she was the first woman inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters behind the resume in the life lived revealed by Showalter's narrative was a woman who struggled significantly within the restrictions of her husband's deeply patriarchal views of a woman's place which was in the home and involved in maternity and not in the public sphere or in literary production she also struggled for her own internalization of those societal and gender norms as we'll see later Julia Ward Howe was referred to from childhood on as the diva she was spirited, musical and vibrantly intellectual her family supported her intellectual and literary pursuits she was privately tutored and studied mathematics philosophy, music and history after the death of her mother in childbirth however her father's grief turned him toward Calvinism and the sense of freedom and joy that had pervaded Julia's early childhood was transformed by the age of 12 Julia began to note the differences between the education and expectations of and for her brothers versus her and expressed frustration and longing in this quote from an earlier biography she says I made rhymes and even dreamed of speeches and orations often wishing that I had been a boy in view of the limitations on a girl's aspirations after the death of her father in 1839 Julia's morning took the form of a retrenchment in Calvinist theology much like her father's did after the death of his wife showalter notes with significance a turning point in Julia's life when after her older brother's sudden death from typhoid fever and at the urging of her first significant female friend who was also her brother's fiance she studied her way out of the mental agonies which Calvinism can engender and became a Unitarian showalter comments that this was a first and very decisive time that Julia's intellectual studies led her to action and to autonomy so Julia and Chev then Chev who was a Harvard trained physician and established a lifelong career as a liberator of the blind from institutionalization who was an educator of the blind and deaf they met in 1841 and were married in 1843 there were signs in the courtship of the difficulty to come as Chev many years Julia's senior would switch from flirtatious to patronizing and corrective in his letters to Julia for her part Julia's letter announcing their engagement revealed what I call a full throated embrace of a fairytale fantasy in her role in it she wrote the Chevalier says truly I am captive of his bow and spear true devotion has won me from the world and from myself the past is already fading from my sight already I begin to live with him in the future which shall be as calmly bright as love can make it I am perfectly happy to sacrifice to one so noble and so earnest the day dreams of my youth he will make life more beautiful to me than any dream well her perfect happiness and her sacrifice of self gave way to increasing despair as Julia struggled within the confines of this marriage and her adaptation to her role as a mother as articulated in a role to her sister Louisa she writes dearest weavy what is this problem are we meant to change so utterly are our hearts to fade and die out with our early bloom and in giving life to others do we lose our vitality and sink into dimness nothingness and living death I have come to him have left my poetry my music my religion show Walter painstakingly documents the tension in the marriage that results from Chev's complete lack of support for Julia's literary pursuits three years into the marriage Julia writes again to her sister Louisa my voice is still frozen to silence my poetry chained down by an icy band of indifference I begin at last to believe that I am no poet and never was one saved in my imagination despite this expression of despair and foreclosure Julia did continue to write and in 1853 her first book of poetry Passion Flowers was published to significant notice this publication was the provocation of a significant rupture in the relationship between Julia and Chev because Chev was furious about the book and responded as though publicly humiliated divorce was contemplated but Julia was unwilling to choose the loss and dislocation from her children that would have been the inevitable consequence one of the significant points of interest for me in the reading of show Walter's biography is her discussion of a manuscript found amid the boxes of Julia's papers in the Houghton library at Harvard the manuscript is of a novel begun by Julia between 1846 and 1848 which was never finished nor published and which is a Quince Le Romand the story of an artist development in it Lawrence the protagonist is born with both male and female sexual organs but is raised as a boy by his parents in the imagining of this narrative we see Julia seeking a way out of the confines and the confining strictures of gender women artists in show Walter's words is quote not only a divided soul but also a monster doomed to solitude and sorrow feminist literary scholar Joanne Fry suggests in her book Living Stories Telling Lives that women writers choose what she calls fantastic narrative modes as a way to free themselves from the power of current gender-based assumptions that serve to stifle imagination and voice we can see that Julia sought freedom for her intellectual pursuits for her literary voice and its expression of freedom that was hard won in her historical moment in general and within her marriage to Shev in particular and that that pursuit was not without personal peril and cost perhaps nothing could be more stifling of imagination or voice than time served in prison time served in solitary confinement a recent play I had the privilege to attend called Mariposa and the Saint from solitary confinement a play through letters is a contemporary work by Sarah Fonseca a tribal woman and mother of two who is in isolated confinement in a prison in California and Julia Steel Allen an activist organizer and playwright against seemingly impossible odds the two corresponded back and forth beginning in 2012 slowly developing a narrative revealing the rigors and realities for Mariposa in prison in the collaborative drafting of the play Julia provided a channel for Sarah's expression of a self that survives despite the terrible isolation degradation and deprivation of prison life the play featured two characters Mariposa and a masked anonymous guard whose presence was both ubiquitous and ominous a symbol of the forces ranged against her the monologues of the character of Mariposa revealed the forces ranged within her fear anger despair at her condition loss of self and loss of sense of connection to anything larger at one point in the play breaking the fourth wall Mariposa played by Julia Steel Allen herself at the behest of Sarah Fonseca turns to the audience and asks a question I have for the normal if you were suddenly ripped from your life with no access to the world nothing to help you what would you mourn what would you ache for you can answer Bell Hooks then reminds us that speaking out is not a simple gesture of freedom in a culture of domination finding a voice is an essential part of liberation struggle when we end our silence when we speak in a liberated voice our words connect us with anyone anywhere who lives in silence may all of us then find our way to voice to the fullest expression of who we are challenging the forces ranged within us and against us and within us so that we may all be free blessed be an amen please be generous this morning in your giving to First Unitarian Society for our programs and its possibility and there's a change of program I will not be doing parents testimony although beautiful song this is a serah or else unpositioned call of raving I think quite appropriate those find a place where they can be received, celebrated and honored we didn't have any entries in the book I want to just remind everyone that at the little table outside of the double doors is the book for such notices so please remember and add in if you desire may we silently in the spirit of empathy and hope hold in our hearts in our hands the unspoken joys and concerns of this community because of this time shared may our burdens be lightened and our joys expanded I don't have a program what's next ah let's sing together hymn number 1026 if every woman in the world please rise Helen Herschel 1750 to 1848 astronomer sister of William and others a woman in the shape of a monster a monster in the shape of a woman the skies are full of them a woman in the snow among the clocks and instruments or measuring the ground with poles in her 98 years to discover eight comets she whom the moon ruled like us levitating into the night sky riding the polished lenses galaxies of women there doing penance for impetuousness ribs chilled in those spaces of the mind an eye virile, precise and absolutely certain from the mad webs of Uranusborg and countering the nova every impulse of light exploding from the core as life flies out of us taiko whispering at last let me not seem to have lived in vain what we see we see and seeing is changing the light that shrivels a mountain and leaves a man alive heartbeat heartbeat of the pulsar heart sweating through my body the radio impulse pouring in from torus I am bombarded yet I stand I have been standing all my life in the direct path of a battery of signals the most accurately transmitted most untranslatable language in the universe I am a galactic cloud so deep so involuted that a light wave could take 15 years to travel through me and has taken I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind oh god