This is your host to welcome you into the Inner Sanctum once again. Come in. Our little place may not be a mansion, but it has its advantages. For one thing, it's thoroughly scare-conditioned. The scream pipes are always in good working order, and the rent's quite reasonable. We get a cut-rate. Whatever happens from now on, you asked for. Just be sure the family is provided for. And now to our happy little anecdote for tonight. Bird song for a murderer. My name is Carl Warner. I'm not a young man any longer, but I don't mind that. I wasn't very happy when I was young. Now, well, at least I'm not unhappy. And late at night after Elaine has gone upstairs to bed, but she's my wife, and she's very pretty and younger than I am. Perhaps I made a mistake in marrying her, but... Well, anyway. Late at night, I go into the room where I keep the birds, and then, listening to them sing, I get as close to happiness as I can expect.  And they sleep. Even on the stormiest of nights. This was a stormy night. Someone knocked at the front door. It was late. We know very few people. We kept to ourselves, mostly Elaine and I, so... I was worried a little when I opened the door. Yes? Mind if I come in, Mr. Warner? This kind of day about. No, of course not. You... You seem to know me. I do, don't I? But I don't know you. My name is Broul, Chester Broul. Chester Broul. I still don't know. It doesn't matter. What? What did you want? A nice place you got here. Much nicer than Kragmount. Kragmount? Kragmount Asylum for the insane. You... You worked there? I used to work there. This is all very interesting. Only thing happened just before I left. One of the inmates escaped. This baby was a homicidal maniac. Homicidal? That's right. I don't see what all this has to do with me. I didn't say it had. There was one funny thing about this inmate. What's that? Loved canaries. Loved to listen to them sing. Psychiatrists at Kragmount found it very interesting. Birdsong was the only thing that kept the murderous impulses down. I... I... Mr. Warner, I'm out of words. That's... that's too bad. You're not doing badly. Nice house, furnishings. Didn't I hear canaries singing before I come into the house? Maybe. Maybe you did. So, uh, 5,000 in the morning? No. I think yes. Otherwise, Kragmount will be happy to hear from me. 11 Crescent Place. Room 2B in the morning. You can show me to the door now. Of course. Good night, Mr. Warner, till we meet again. I watched him go out into the blackness and the blackness swallow him. The birds were quiet. I thought for a moment of taking the covers off the cages and letting the birds sing and then... Then I thought that tonight it might be better if I didn't let the birds sing. I didn't expect it. More than two or three hours. Fortunately, Elaine and I had separate rooms and at breakfast the next morning she was fresh and young and beautiful. Carl? Huh?  Nothing. You really shouldn't read at meals. With only the paper. So many exciting things happen. I can't wait till I get to them. Still... Oh, isn't that terrible? What is?  Not very far from here. Crescent Place. Crescent Place? Such an odd name. Chester Brewer. Carl, your coffee, Carl. Sorry, I... I wish you wouldn't read the paper. It says that his canary... He had a canary, Carl, was singing when the landlady found the body.  Elaine, I told you not to read that paper. But, darling... Give it to me. The car, you're tearing the paper up. What's the matter? I... I'm nervous this morning. Don't remember you ever having been like this before. I told you, I was nervous. Now, look, darling, why don't you go into the aviary? Listen to the birds for a while.  I went into the aviary as she suggested and I listened to the birds. But it was quite a little while before I stopped trembling. Carl? Yes, dear? Come into the kitchen. All right. I've been washing the breakfast dishes, darling, and found this among them. A carving knife. This isn't that funny. Besides, look at it. The blades all covered with brown stain. I see. Sure, I washed it after dinner last night. Did you use it for anything? No, darling. Now give it to me and I'll wash it now. Oh, I can do it. I just wondered, but... Oh, the door. Would you... No, you give me the knife. And you answer the door. I said you answer the door! All right. There's nothing to shout about. I don't know what's the matter with you this morning. I washed the knife. Quickly, but carefully. Very quickly, but very carefully. It didn't take long. The stains hadn't hardened much the... the brown stain. Carl? Yes? Someone to see you. A man. What does he want? He didn't say except that it was important. I'll go see him. He said he's a lieutenant. A lieutenant, Greg, from the police. There are 17 steps between the kitchen and our living room. I know because I counted them while I was walking to see Lieutenant Greg of the police. 17 steps to make my face polite, relaxed, smiling. But will I be able to hide the trembling of my hands? You're Lieutenant Greg. My wife said you wanted to see me. Yes, that's right. Mr. Warner, did you know a man named Chester Brule? Chester Brule? Why, I can't say offhand. I've got such a bad memory for names. I may or I may not. Why? He's murdered last night. You see, we found your name and address in Brule's address book. I see. We thought you might be able to help us. Well, the fact that my name is in its address book doesn't mean... Prove anything? Well, of course not. Uh, what the fact that Brule used to be an attendant in an insane asylum mean anything to you? Why should it mean anything to me? Well, I didn't say it should, Mr. Warner. I just thought... Well, it doesn't. Well, I guess that's that.  Huh? Well, lots of people are fond of canaries. Sure, sure. What was funny about it is that Brule's landlady swears Brule never had a bird. That...that is funny. Why, it looks, the killer knife Brule and then left the cage and the bird in it behind him. Doesn't make any sense. Unless you figure that the guy who killed Brule was insane. The birds had been quiet, but the slam of the door maybe started them off. And I knew that somehow I would have to get the cage and the bird in it out of Brule's room. I didn't know how I'd do it, but I'd do it no matter how insane it was. It was dark when I got to Crescent Place. Dark on a lonely street. There was no one in front of the house, nothing to show that a man had died inside the night before with a knife in his throat. The door was open. There was a dim light in the vestibule leaving the stairs beyond in darkness. I went up them to the second floor. There was no one in the corridor. The door of 2B opened and I went in. There was no light. The moon cast a pale glimmer over the room and someone in a chair near the window. For a moment I thought it was Brule, but there was no blood. And then I realized it was a policeman in uniform, asleep. The cage was near the sleeping man. Would his sleep be sound enough? I reached out, lifted the cage. That door was safe. Greg is here again. Greg? Where? In the bird room. Why did you take him to the bird room? He asked me to. All right. Oh, Lieutenant. Greg? Hello, Mr. Warner. Quite a collection of canaries you've got here. Yes, I have. Were you home all last night? Of course. This is still about Chester Brule's murder? Mm-hmm. Say, remember my mentioning I thought that the man who killed Brule and left the bird cage behind him must be insane? Well, you did say something of the sort. Yeah. And then there's the fact that Brule used to work with insane people. Begins to mesh, huh? I know very little about police work. I hope I'm not boring you. Anyway, it occurs to me. Maybe I'd better take a trip up to Crag Mountain. I suppose going to asylum or any police else is just part of your job. Oh, sure. Uh... Did I mention Crag Mountain was an asylum? Well, uh... You, um... But you must have, I mean... Yeah, well, I'll run up there and I wouldn't be surprised if I get all the answers. What do you think? I think... I'm going to. Why is it a lane? Well, it's so late, I thought... Oh, I can take a hint, Mrs. Warner. Don't bother showing me to the door. He seems like a very nice man. What? That stare. I didn't know you so well. I'd say you were going mad. Look at what? The window, the garden. Lieutenant Greg didn't go away. He's down there. Get away from that window. Go to bed. He looks as if he's waiting down there for something. For what, Carl? I knew what he was waiting for. I knew I mustn't go to sleep. Things happen when you sleep terrible things. Well, I hadn't slept well the night before. Not well at all. And I'd been the strain of the day. And it was night now. Ah, still. As soon as I got up, he wasn't in the garden anymore. He must have got tired. Or back to headquarters. Wherever policemen go. Oh, dear. That's the Swenson's dog. Fresh ones, Elaine. Get out of my way. Go to the bird room down and then. I'm taking the covers off the cages awkward, but I held on to it anyway. And the birds were still. They remained still unless I took the covers off. You must tell me what's wrong. Don't, don't come any closer. Elaine, please, not any closer. The night before last. Elaine, don't ask questions. That's dangerous. You were out of the house last night when Lieutenant Greg... I was asleep. You... That to me. Oh, no. I took it from Lieutenant Greg last night. After he stopped crying, they always cry when you... Elaine. Didn't like it the way you've been looking at me, Carl. You were thinking that maybe you'd have to send me back to Kregman. I wasn't. You were, Carl. I know you were. After Chester Bruel died. Elaine. Stop where you are. All right, but... Keep your hands... It was my fault. All those others. Not you, my darling. That's a very silly thing to say. And I'll become quite angry. The story of a couple of lovebirds who instead of billing and cooing went in for killing and shooting. Of course it was all little Elaine's idea. All Carl did was cover up. Well, friends, it's time once again to close that creaking door. Until next week at the same time when we'll be back with a little hunk of horror. You'll be sure to listen, won't you? Until next week then.


Hello, my name is Minakshi Wadhwa. I'm professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and director of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University. I'd like to begin by inviting you to direct your attention to this rock in my hand. What do you see? It looks kind of dark, and to me it feels quite solid, feels heavy, but there's nothing really particularly remarkable about this rock in its appearance. But here's the thing. This rock could only tell you where it's been, and all the places that it's seen, all the things that it's witnessed, it will be the most extraordinary tale you've ever heard. Can you imagine peering back in time almost four and a half billion years ago? Back then, our solar system and planets, including the Earth, they didn't exist. All that there was in place of the solar system was a massive swirling cloud of gas and dust at the center of which was a newly born star, the Sun. As this massive gaseous disk cooled and the very first solids begin to condense out from that, they got quickly swept up into rocks that looked kind of like this one right here. And so as these rocks formed, they swept together to form larger and larger bodies and eventually formed planets like the Earth. But this rock that I'm holding right here, it escaped that fate. So literally it's a remnant, a leftover fragment from the earliest stage of planet building. It's what we call a meteorite. All meteorites come from somewhere else in our solar system. Most of them come from asteroids, but some come from the Moon and some come from Mars. They have traveled billions of miles through interplanetary space until they finally fall on the Earth and can be recovered by us. And so it is that I happen to be holding here in my hand a piece of this rock that I think of as a rosetta stone for deciphering the earliest history of our solar system. So my path to deciphering the stories that are recorded in meteorites began as a little girl growing up in India. I was a really inquisitive kid and asked lots of questions. I was about eight years old and my science teacher at school taught us about the process of respiration, that we breathe in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide. And I started thinking about this and started to get kind of worried that we humans were using up all this oxygen, putting out this carbon dioxide that must be building up in the atmosphere. So I really got kind of worried about this and I asked my mother, are we going to run out of oxygen? Is the world coming to an end? And she just laughed and she very patiently explained to me the very delicate balance between the abundances of carbon dioxide and oxygen in our atmosphere. And so I came to appreciate early the beauty and the natural, the delicate balance in the natural world around me. I grew up in the shadow of the great Himalayas and couldn't help but feel odd and inspired by the great forces in nature that formed these tremendous mountains. I eventually found myself in the geology department at Punjab University in North India. But I was one of very few women studying this topic in that department at the time. Many of my girlfriends were encouraged by their families to pursue more traditional career paths like becoming a nurse or a teacher. But my parents told me that I could do anything, that I could be anything. And while they were very, very supportive of me, I was actually afraid to tell them what I really dreamed of being. And what I really dreamed of being was a geologist, but not just any geologist. I wanted to be a geologist on Mars. I came to the United States to go to graduate school in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. And at the time, I was again one of very few women in my department. It was actually my PhD advisor, who also happened to be a woman, who got me started down the path of studying meteorites. She asked me if I wanted to study these meteorites that are thought to come from the planet Mars. I remember seeing these Mars rocks and thinking to myself, wow, these rocks really look sort of familiar to me like these lava rocks that we find on the Earth. And they formed on a completely different planet. I was totally hooked. What these rocks actually can tell us about past history on Mars, about whether there were ancient oceans on that planet, and whether the atmosphere was much thicker in the past, all of these are all questions that I wondered about. And it turns out that these rocks can actually tell you all of this and a lot more. So here's the thing about meteorites. They're not some strange or obscure phenomena. They are central to understanding the origin of our home planet, to our very existence on this planet, and even to our future. Many of you have probably already heard about the great extinction that happened 65 million years ago when 70% of all species on our planet were wiped out by a large meteorite impact. And this is something that could happen to us in the future. But we can avoid that fate by gaining a better understanding of the chemical and structural makeup of meteorites, and we can develop strategies for deflecting them that way. What I really love about studying meteorites, though, is that the information that these objects tell us basically help us to answer some of humanity's biggest questions. Are we alone in the universe? Is there life elsewhere in our solar system or beyond? How did our planets form? How did the earth form? And why is it that our earth is so different from other planets in our solar system? How did life originate on our planet? At the ASU Center for Meteorite Studies, my students and I focus on answering these big questions, of course, but to initiate that process we actually start by answering smaller questions which are like the pieces of a puzzle, which when we put them together can help us answer those bigger questions. So here's a couple of interesting things that we've learned recently from the kinds of things that we're working on in my laboratory. Using dating techniques involving radioactive elements, we have measured the age of our solar system to be 4.568 billion years old, and we know this age to within a few hundred thousand years. That's like looking at a man who's 100 years old and being able to estimate his age to within half a month. Why is it even important to know the age of our solar system to that precision? Well, this is the very basis, the very context for understanding the timeline of evolution of our entire solar system and the planets. The other thing that we've learned recently by studying the chemical makeup of meteorites like the one that I just showed you is that our solar system began in very close proximity to a supernova, which may have triggered the very formation of our solar system. And so the beginnings of our solar system were likely to be very energetic, very violent. I'm a geologist by training, and so I look for ways to answer the big questions through the abundant rock record that we have here on Earth. In addition to telling us about our own planet, the rocks that we find on Earth can also help us to understand the geologic history of other planets like Mars. For example, my next project, which was just funded by NASA, will involve field work in Iceland, where I'll study rocks that are analogs to some types of rocks on Mars. So by studying these rocks on the Earth, I will actually get to be a proxy geologist on Mars, and I'll get to understand how volcanism on Mars has affected the hydrosphere and the atmosphere of the planet Mars. Also, since the United States is now committed to sending human beings to the planet Mars in the 2030s, these types of studies, like the project that I'm going to be doing in Iceland, is going to help us to inform strategies for human exploration by astronauts on the surface of Mars. So through my research, I hope to continue to ask and to answer questions that give us insights into the workings of our planet in our solar system, and possibly also other planets, exoplanets, as they're called, in other solar systems. However, the important thing to remember is that science is not about having all the answers. It's about being able to ask better and more sophisticated questions. It's only by constantly pushing the boundaries of our knowledge that we can gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of our planet and of our solar system, and even beyond our solar system. So science is also about the ability to ask and answer questions differently from new perspectives and also from different approaches. And so one of the new approaches is working on a proposal to NASA to collect a sample from the surface of a comet. Why do we want to examine pieces of a comet, though? Well, we have meteorites in our collections that have quite a lot of organic material and water in them, but they're invariably contaminated because they've been sitting on the Earth and they've been exchanging with the abundant water and organics in our environment. Now the sample that we would bring back from a comet would actually not be contaminated in this manner, and so it would preserve some of the most organic materials in our solar system. So by bringing back a sample to Earth and studying them in laboratories like the ones at ASU, we have the hope of understanding how life may have originated on our planet. If someone had told the eight-year-old me that I would grow up to be a geologist and would be able to do geology on other places, on other planets in our solar system like Mars and maybe even comets, I would have told them they were crazy. But by studying these rocks in laboratories here on Earth, in my own laboratory, and by being able to study environments on the Earth that are analogues for other places in our solar system, other worlds in our solar system, I'm actually a planetary geologist in the broadest sense of the word. I started this journey as an inquisitive young girl asking naive questions and the tools that I had back then were very simple too, I was asked to look at the fabric of rocks up close. The tools that I use now, of course, are much more sophisticated. But what really propels my research forward is still the questions. As kids, we are all innately and voraciously curious, but many of us seem to lose that spark of curiosity and wonder as we get older and maybe more cautious. So let's be unafraid to ask those big, bold questions and please do the young ones in your life a favor.  Fuel their imagination by taking them to a museum or to science fairs. Let them know that their dreams are not far-fetched, mine were not and theirs certainly are not. So let's always plan on looking up in wonder at the night sky, at the meteor showers, at shooting stars and keep asking those questions to propel us forward in our quest for knowledge and understanding of the world around us. Thank you.


when you see a teenager next maybe just see how you can make a connection and it might be as simple as you smile at them that can be massive that can be absolutely massive for a teenager and and I'm not saying they're going to come back at you with gleaming fun and unicorns um but just see if you can connect positively with a teenager in your life um because I think there's a real opening piece we can do that that could really help them feel more accepted in society and then help us play the world with their ability to see past boundaries that as adults we we put up


But just how far it up are you to get a clean bill of health and be ready to be able to go out and play.  You know, miss eight games.  We're going to compete no matter who's out there next man up mentality. So that's really the main thing. Is this the longest you've been able to injury like this? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, longest time I've been, I think it was two, three weeks.  What kind of minute limits are you on there? Oh, I don't know.   So, you know, we'll see. Are you going to have to change your approach in any type of way tonight? No, I don't think so.  So, no, I don't really see that. How hard was it to, I don't know, for lack of a better term, cobble together practices? I mean, you guys didn't have like a lot of full on practices. What were you going with, like the video guys and G-League guys? Yeah, it was tough just not being able to have a practice. But far as like, I mean, something about the playing aspect, just playing against the video guys and some of the G-League guys that I was good just to see where I'm at. I feel good, you know, nothing really, no injuries, nothing happening. So, I feel good to play, I'm good enough to play, so I'm going to be out there and playing. Do you think it's going to take long for you to kind of, you know, get your groove back or is it going to just kind of be feeling your way with how the team has played these last eight, nine games? No, I should be fine.  When you, I mean, when you went out, the team was kind of almost at a little bit of a different place. I mean, when you're sitting on the sideline and you're watching how they've been developing, how concerning is that you have to make sure that you don't kind of interrupt what they got going on now, right? I'm not concerned, I'm going to play my game, I'm out of work, so it is what it is. I guess what's been with this team is having so many shooters and scorers. Were you maybe not surprised that guys are able to kind of step in, step in and fill that scoring so that guy's like Lonnie, Royce, and you wanted to give the night to kind of like get hot? Oh yeah, it's, you know, we got a lot of shooters and scorers, like you said, just next to man up mentalities.  Is it kind of exciting, I guess, to be like, okay, we got all these weapons that are proving themselves and now you're back in it, it makes it harder for the defenders now to say, okay, we have to stop? Yeah, for sure.  I hope, I hope, I hope so, that's the main thing, I hope so.


Thank you for checking out this no spoilers movie review for the 1987 film stage fright, which is as I've seen it online categorized as a giallo, but I'm not 100% sure it is totally giallo and I'll talk about that during the review. Just wanted to say upfront, this is really funny because the way I'm picking a lot of these the ones that are on the shutter streaming service to do my reviews, I'm posting it in a Facebook group that is I forget specifically what it's called, but it's something like the Joe Bob Briggs Mutants Drive-In, I think it's Joe Bob Briggs Drive-In Mutants group on Facebook. So it's a bunch of people who have shutter obviously have been watching the Joe Bob show. So I keep putting polls in there to say here are three options for shutter films, films that are currently on shutter that I'll do a review for and I let people pick them by voting. People can add to it as well though. So there's been a string of these that people have always been picking giallo. And it's crazy and stage fright once again is technically one of the giallo. So I think it's been like four films in a row that were all giallo. So it's kind of funny. It was a deep red, blood and black lace, knife and heart and now stage fright. So you can check out all those reviews. But I will tell you right now the next one that has clearly already won in the poll is going to be Prince of Darkness, the John Carpenter film. So look forward to that review when I get that one out. Maybe in a week, maybe less. It depends on my timing because I don't do this full time. I don't make any money. So but anyway, let's get into the 1987 film stage fright, which is currently streaming on shutter. So the director of this film is Michel Suave. I don't know if I said that properly Italian. Like I said, this is technically categorized as a giallo. So it is an Italian slasher ish film. So Michel Suave has actually been an actor in a lot of films. He was directed a bunch, but he was in notable. He was an actor in notable films such as City of the Living Dead, phenomena by Dario Argento, Tenebrae by Dario Argento and Opera by Dario Argento, all giallo films. He was also in The New York Ripper and Argento's Demons, which I love, love, love that film. The other ones I've actually not seen, but I need to rectify that. So the very beginning of this film is like nuts. And like I said, no spoilers. So I won't I'm not spoiling anything. I'm talking generalities here. The beginning of this film is very much nuts. And it's it may it gives you this feel a little bit like Phantom of the Paradise, which I also did a review for you can check that out. But then the overall story kind of ties a little bit to Phantom of the Opera. Not quite, but it just gives you like these hints and like feelings of like I feel a little bit like Phantom of the Opera throughout it. But since it's a little more crazy over the top, it skews a little bit more towards Phantom of the Paradise, which is based on Phantom of the Opera, but crazier and more updated and you know, stuff like that. So stage fright just kind of gave me that feel. It's very nuts in the beginning like Phantom of the Paradise. And I guess it makes sense because it's set in a theatrical setting. And for that reason, some of the acting is actually not all that great. Actually some of the acting is just downright terrible. Well, OK, not quite that far. Just not good. I won't say downright terrible, just not good. Some of the acting is not good, but it kind of makes sense because with theatrical with a theatrical setting, theatrical acting is more over the top. It's more really emphasized emotion, really emphasized the words, the dialogue and all that stuff. And I feel like that is at play in this film at times. So if that bothers you, you're not going to dig it. But figure out for yourself if that's something. When I was watching it, though, like the very intro, I'm like, what is this? What is this? There's a saxophone solo in the beginning, a short one, but a saxophone solo. That will give you an idea of how weird the beginning is. But the other thing is that that gets to the music. The soundtrack of this film is all over the place. Some of the music feels like it matches. Some of it feels like it totally doesn't match. There are a bunch of different types of songs that are at play in this. So it feels weird. It's like a song salad of a soundtrack. You're like, pick something and go with it or just pick a few things and go with it because they are all over the place. And I even wrote down in my notes, man, they wail on those synths. There are some synth wailing like you never heard before. And it's over the top and you're just like, calm down, calm down on that synth, man. But yeah, the music in general is nuts like all over the place. There's some enjoyment in that, but there's also some annoyance in that as well. And I'm just like, I don't know. So I would have liked a much better soundtrack to it. Watching something like this and being like, this is a giallo. You really want something like a goblin score, but not everyone can have that. So you get what you get. So for me personally, when I was saying that this is technically a giallo, that's what online it's saying. It didn't feel totally giallo to me because it's a little too straightforward for that. And there are also some other aspects. It's not as stylish as you would think it is. It is Italian. So maybe people just put it in that in the giallo camp because it is Italian and it is it plays out the way it does. But to me, I don't know if people know, I'm sure a lot of people have heard it, but giallo basically informed what became the American slasher film. So the American slasher film is is a devolution in a sense of a giallo because giallo is more complex than slasher. Slashers are very straightforward. It's more of like the stalking killer that you see, you know, who they are and they're coming after people. And it's mainly about the deaths. It's not about unraveling a mystery so much. So for me, this film is actually in the middle. It feels actually a lot more like the bridge between the giallo and the slasher film, which is kind of interesting in itself. And I feel like if you watch it from that perspective, it's kind of a cool case study in how giallo went to slasher, like stage fright is the missing link in how that happened. So and it makes sense time wise because it's a 1987 film and most of the hardcore Italian giallo was done in like the 60s and 70s. So a little bit more in the 80s. But, you know, as you're going more towards the 90s, obviously in the 80s in America is when the slasher really hit. So, you know, 60s, 70s giallo slashers at the very, very end of the 70s. So like 80s and into the 90s and then for stage fright to be an 87. And that's kind of like one of those bridge films. It's just something interesting that occurred to me while I was watching it. So if you watch it, just think about that while you're watching it. I think it's it's neat. Here's another issue with sound. The audio is terrible with this because it fluctuates randomly, totally randomly. It'll be really high at one point to the point where you feel like you have to turn the volume down and then it'll be so low where you're like, I can't even hear what these people are saying. So the the fluctuation in the audio is really bad and it's distracting as well. So that's a big criticism. It seems like a really predictable film. Like I was saying, it's it's relatively straightforward. That's that's not to say that there isn't stuff to enjoy in this. There certainly is.  It's it's just this weird thing where it's like you'll see some of these kills and be like, whoa, that's cool. I've not seen that before. That's very creative. It's inventive. It's interesting. And then it's balanced out by some kills that are just like really quick and totally uninspired and you feel like they they didn't even script it like they just came up with that kill at in the moment where they were just like, oh, we need to kill a character here, but we didn't figure out how to do it. So just like, I don't know, just insinuate that he got killed, you know, and cut away. And so it's weird because you have like these really creative inspired kills and then you have these other kills where it's just like we just needed to kill this character. So so I don't know. It's just kind of odd in my opinion. And I appreciate creative kills in slasher, G.A.L.O. films, whatever. So one of the things that really stood out to me is it really rides so hard. The what am I looking for?  It rides that character so, so hard. It is beyond ridiculous how unrealistic that character is.  And it's, you know, so it's bad writing in that sense. It already talked about the family opera thing. There are some actually really cool like killer point of view shots in the film where it kind of like the camera is like going with it. And not just from the perspective of like, oh, the person doesn't see and it's coming up on him, but also from where they start the shot from. Like being behind some things and kind of like how they navigate through the stuff is very interesting and looks really good.  And like I said, there's some good kills with the acting. I know I was saying that there's some not good acting in this. Quite a bit of not good acting. There's a lot of bad pauses with the acting, both before they start lines and after they start lines. And, you know, some people may be like, oh, well, maybe it's just because it's it's dubbed in English and it's just, you know, when the English picks up. No, because I was watching and their mouths don't start moving at all until they've waited for a little bit. So there's weird pauses in the acting where like it's like pause, dialogue, pause, and then they go to the next scene or the next person talks. And I don't know if that was a conscious choice or if that was just the actors doing it or what, but it's it doesn't play well. And it really messes up the flow of things, to be honest. You're just like, that's it's just weird. It's it comes off as really weird. And then the other thing is there's there's some positioning of things in the story that don't make sense. Like it messes up continuity with physically where people are and how they get places and where they end up. It just does not actually work. So continuity issues within it. It they're not horrible. They're not totally egregious. And honestly, if you're not like really, really paying attention to the film, you probably won't catch them. But for me, like really watching it with a keen eye, because I'm doing a review on it, it really stood out to me. And I'm just like, oh, that doesn't even make sense. How did this person get here and how did they get from here to here? There's no pathway. It just it's crazy. It's messed up. So that's all I have to say about it pretty much.  I didn't hate it. I didn't actually. There's a lot of fun to be had with it, but there are also a lot of problems with it, too. And I think it kind of falls into one of those categories of like, it's an 80s film and people are just more forgiving when it comes to 80s films, because especially with 80s horror, it was just everything, including the kitchen sink, just like anything goes. People just know it was crazy. People know it was crazy. So they're just like, oh, yeah, it's an 80s horror film. That's it's just going to be that way. So they're more forgiving. So honestly, I would put this film at a out of five stars with half stars in play. I got to go with a I'll go with the three with a little bit of that 80s mindset playing into it. I'm going to go with the three. I was between a two and a half and a three, but I think a three because I ultimately I did enjoy it more than being indifferent to it because there are some good kill scenes in it. There there is an interesting story at at the heart of it. It's just there's a lot of other problems. So it's worth a watch, I would say. So check it out if you're if you're so inclined. Anyway, thank you, everyone, for checking this out. Please hit the subscribe. It means a lot for my channel and it can really help me out and encourages me as well. But watch for the review of Prince of Darkness. And thank you for checking this out. Until next time, keep it brutal.


Tom here from Lawrence Systems, and I am a long-time tech enthusiast and for those of you that already follow my YouTube channel You know I talk a lot about a variety of different things Because I do some business videos and that's what this is and it's how I apply kind of the DevOps or system engineering thinking To business or at least specifically to my business I figure these analogies will ring well for those of you that are systems engineers or you know work in tech as well But first you like to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems comm if you'd like to hire short Projectors a hires button right at the top if you want to support this channel in other ways There's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services We talk about on this channel including a link to our patreon if you like become a patreon supporter We also have a swag store where you can get shirts and other items that are for sale and that changes from time to time What's available and what's not so go ahead and check that out frequently And finally our forums if you'd like to have a more in-depth discussion about this video suggestions for new videos Or just reach out say hi and talk tech our forums are a great place for that all right now back to the Content I am a long-time tech enthusiast I have been playing with computers and working in the industry for over 20 years I've had this business for 17 years now There's a lot of different concepts in business and you can read a million different books on business and you may even find Conflicting ideas from different people who both found success with those ideas and that's because well There's a lot of different styles, but I want to talk about analogies that may ring true to I think a lot of my Audiences probably in the tech field so these are analogies that may help you understand it or at least Help you understand what I do here and a lot of my concept is applying the dev ops or systems Engineering thinking to business. What do I mean by that? Well, you wouldn't just store data on a single hard drive You're gonna put it on a rate array.  You're gonna come up with processes and flows You're also not going to manually back up computers You're gonna create a process automation for that You're not going to put a bunch of computers that we have to manage under our MSP agreements and contracts and check in on them every day That's just inefficient and not a great way to run it and keeps you very busy and not any time to innovate if you do that So you create processes you buy software you create large levels of automation that same process works for business I take anything and manage by exceptions. What do I mean by that? Everything is a process procedure and until you have process procedures because this comes back to well I need a higher staff to do that you can't even hire staff if you don't have processes for them If not, they sit around twiddling your thumbs. I've talked about this before when you hire your staff I've got other business videos on this topic that well If they can't follow procedures or you can't write procedures for them You don't have you're not ready yet for having staff everything is about Process automation and figuring out how to free up your time now Some people like to be deeply busy and that's fine if you want to be deeply busy and involved in everything that's great But in this is my opinion that is very likely to hinder your growth because if you spend all the time Actually doing and programming and setting up and installing And never create a process by which someone else can follow for it Or every time a client calls you want to be the front line person talking to him every single time You're gonna have a growth. I have really worked hard over the years to constantly look and manage by exception Just like you do with a backup system. So the backups are just going and everything's great You got little green lights on the dashboard, you know, everything's good You've got whatever indicators you have and it's the same ones can apply to business and you manage by the one system That is having a problem you go. Oh that one didn't back up Why didn't so what can we do and of course you're looking at how can we stop that process from breaking again? The same thing applies to business I've created procedures for all of my staff for all of them in any one of them So any one of them knows what process to follow. What do you do in the phone rings? What do you do when a client wants this? What is the template you have to they go? Hey, I need to upgrade my Wi-Fi Well, all right, we have kits we have everything set up so they can quickly go alright This is how much a new wiring run is going to cost we're going to go out and quote it They know who to talk to to quote it They know who to talk to to get the wiring drop those process and procedures are Really important and there would allow me to have a lot more free time to spend time researching What products we should be using and I bring it up because like I'm looking over here I got the phones over here and how did I even choose these phones? Well, I chose what I think worked best for the phone systems for the phones We're going to use the process by which we sold it the way we do the pricing I'm constantly working on that And making sure it runs like a fine-to-machine And if there's any exceptions to it or if I don't think the you know the margins are right on it I'll make adjustments, but I don't get myself involved in the actual sitting down and programming all of them I may do it for a video and I do start with the high levels of things and then whittle them down to a process to make sure that All right, this is the process that my staff is going to follow But that's what's important is that I have time to do that. I probably only spend right now Roughly less than 20 hours a week actually doing things within my business Everything else is either making YouTube videos or just researching products and playing with technology because that's where my passion lies And what I really want to do and the outcomes of those is Evident, you know all the different YouTube videos I have or all the different new technologies my Staff is using or the new things are implementing and things. I've learned and ways we deploy I'm always so you know constantly innovating that is what's keeping our company very successful it's what keeps clients interested in us because we have new things that we can send to them that help bring Efficiency to their process as well and that's that whole DevOps thinking even my accounting I use a fully outsourced accounting firm This also helps with my business continuity planning because what happens if Tom doesn't spend 20 hours a week working on a business well, Tom can take some time off then the innovation stops for a little while, but Functionally the phone will still ring the payroll will happen the deposits will happen all those mundane processes I have just built automation around so even without me in the middle of it every day It still flows and that's an important thing that I think you should be working towards as a business owner Because if you're not working towards that You can't grow as a company. You can't innovate on product You can't stop and think are how do we do this better because you're too busy doing not thinking doing it better This is that old adage of you got to work on the business not in the business and the way you detach from that Is creating process automation so get out your DevOps hat just like you probably already had on and just take in apply those same concepts to your business and It will really once you start looking at it from that standpoint You're trying to put processes around there the people fall into place Once you start with that then you can start putting staff members in because well I know this process and you're following the process yourself You create the process which means you can then train someone to do that process That's what allows you to grow as a company That's what allows you to keep innovating It's what allows you to stay on top of things a lot better from an external perspective on the business and Generally, this is what keeps me really happy. I mean, I don't know if this is the right thing for you Maybe you're happy being absolutely busy and involved in every little detail in every little meeting micromanaging everything I do know people who seem to find great joy in that. I am as far from that person as possible I'm always like hey guys. Let me know how it went. Let me know how that sales job went I'm fine to manage that by exception I still do client interaction. I still enjoy talking to clients and things like that So it's not like I've removed myself completely I've still come so to speak the face of the business and I still do consulting work That I offer where people can hire me directly. I'm not 100% removed I don't want to be 100% moves. I do like a level of involvement I just don't like being the detailed person who sets up every single firewall and every single sale because well that would really inhibit growth of the company and The company is growing that's a status of us right now in May of 2020 things are going really well Not just for my YouTube channel. So thank you. Thank you for all of you who subscribe to it But also business wise things are going really well in these process and seizures have been working for me for a long time So I can leave lead a life that makes me both happy makes me some money I get to do some videos and share my knowledge with the world and get people, you know Excited about technology and new things I talk about as well have a good staff with a great atmosphere All the things I want I'm really thankful for all those things but they do require a lot of work and automation to keep it going Those are my thoughts on that and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel Hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to Lawrence systems calm fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together On if you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurance systems calm where we can carry on the discussion about this video Other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time


Felly, can you remind members that social distancing measures are in place in the chamber and around the Holyrood campus? I asked that members take care to observe those measures, including when entering and exiting the chamber. Please only use the aisles and walkways to access your seat and when moving around the chamber. The next item of business is an urgent question, and I invite Gillian Mackay to ask the urgent question. To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body for what reason it applied for designated status for the Scottish Parliament under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, and whether it will publish the background paper upon which that decision was based. On behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, I welcomed the opportunity to correct some of the significant misunderstandings and inaccuracies regarding our decision to seek designated status for the parliamentary state that has been reported and commented upon. The SPCB takes its responsibility to provide a safe and welcoming parliamentary state very seriously. As you all know, the Parliament welcomes and facilitates thousands of protests all year round as an essential part of the expression of democracy in Scotland, and I categorically assure Parliament and the public that this will not change. Corporate Body members considered a paper and received a comprehensive briefing from Police Scotland and had an opportunity for full discussion. The decision to seek designated status was unanimous and no member requested that that decision be put to a vote. Applying for a designated status, we are not seeking to curb or limit protests. The reasons for applying for a designated status is to give the Parliament the means to address protest by individuals where they try to prevent Parliament from meeting to carry out its essential role, who seek to interfere with the rights of others to engage at Holyrood or where their actions make it unsafe for others. Unfortunately, Parliament has experienced this kind of disruption impacting on its democratic role. In taking the decision to apply for a designated status, the SPCB has listened closely to police advice. We have considered the experience of other Parliaments such as Westminster and Wales where the same measure is available. After very careful consideration, we were assured that the measure offers additional support, which will only be used in a small number of the most exceptional circumstances, which cannot be resolved by the usual means via our on-site security and Police Scotland. In practice, we are assured that the corporate body will be consulted and engaged on any circumstances where the designation will be used. As the chamber knows, the corporate body does not publish papers that include security advice. Colleagues will recognise a significant concern around the changing status of the Scottish Parliament estate from 1 October, which will criminalise some forms of peaceful protest, as we have seen elsewhere, such as reading out the names of dead soldiers. Unfortunately, statements from the SPCB have failed to recognise that. I know that many MSPs have joined protest outside this Parliament, as I have, for a whole range of issues. Protest is a fundamental part of our democracy, and the Scottish Parliament should be open, accessible and welcoming of peaceful protest. Can I urge the SPCB to reconsider this decision, which I do not believe can be justified? I will make it very clear that this measure will not criminalise protesters who come to to put their case outside Parliament. I myself have been on marches and demonstrations all my life, and I would not support measures to curtail them. They are a vital part of our democracy, and I fully support people's right to protest at this Parliament. This is about protecting the functions of the Parliament, our ability to conduct business, the health and safety of all who come there here, including our Parliament's security staff, and being cognisant of the impact on the public purse of the current limited options that are available to us. I also have concerns about how the process has been conducted. The minutes of the SPCB's meeting on 24 June note that the SPCB discussed the matter and highlighted the concerns that were raised by Maggie Chapman MSP. The minutes make no mention of consulting MSPs nor the public, and in fact MSPs were not even informed of the change until legislation had already been laid in the comments. Does the member not accept that the controversy around the matter could have been avoided if the SPCB had adopted a more transparent approach, in line with the Scottish Parliament's key principles of accountability and open participation? The member will know that members of the corporate body have a responsibility to make decisions on behalf of Parliament in certain circumstances. That is often a way to include the security of the Parliament and the secure device that we receive from Police Scotland. We had a very thorough debate at the corporate body. There was no member who proposed that we have a vote. We listened very carefully to the arguments that were made. We expressed some of the concerns that have been raised by members, and we were satisfied with the answers that we received that this was the correct course of action to take. First, I thank the member for her clarification on the matter. I was dismayed to see that it was a member of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body that was guilty of passing on the kind of misinformation that we have seen in the media elsewhere. Does the member agree with me that, as Parliamentarians, we have a duty and a responsibility to ensure that the public is not misled? I am pleased this afternoon to be able to give clarity to some of the reports that happened over the weekend and to make it clear that this is not about criminalising protests that take place at Parliament. Members should avoid making misleading comments in public. We do have a responsibility to ensure that information that we provide is clear and accurate. MSPs received an email from the Presiding Officer on Thursday explaining the decision of the corporate body. I am very grateful to the Deputy Presiding Officer, and again I echo Mr Kerr's conclusions that it is a good opportunity to clarify the situation that arose over the weekend, and possibly is a situation where a better communication at the start might have avoided that. I know that this is challenging because much of the evidence that you receive from the police is confidential and rightly so and you make those decisions. However, could you possibly give an example of the sort of situation where that would apply rather than to people who want to gather outside to have their views known to us in here? It is difficult to provide an example that links directly in the chamber this afternoon, but if members reflect on instances that the Parliament had to deal with in recent years where sometimes there has been a protracted solution to situations and it has often been a costly solution, I think that this designation would help in those situations. I am going to pause proceedings for the front benches to change when we move on to the next item of business.


This paper presents a novel approach for modeling post-tension beams using calibrated finite element, FE, models to accurately predict the behavior of the beam under various loads. The FE models were created using hypermesh software and then analyzed using the abacus slash explicit solver. The concrete material was modeled using a concrete damage plasticity model while the steel components were modeled using elastic hardening plastic constitutive models. A Rayleigh mass damping was introduced into the model to ensure good agreement between the numerical and experimental results. The results from the experiments were compared to the numerical simulations and showed good correlation. Additionally, random imperfections observed during the experiments were discussed. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the modeling process and its application to post-tension beams. This article was authored by Anna Janssi, Adam Stolarski, and Jacek Zikowicz. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


American John boy who does a lot of cricket analysis on Twitter trying to get Americans to understand the game He's gonna have a field day with that. Yes, they are on to us. They are aware that we are aware I'm talking about cricket. So we have the scoreboard.  This means runs 100 runs and they've gotten out six times So six wickets six outs once there are ten of these the inning is over and they cannot score any more runs or once 20 Overs are thrown and over is a set of six balls That's the most important thing you have to remember an over is a set of six balls The game has broken up into Multiple overs in this version there can only be 20 and they have already thrown 19. So there's one Over left six more balls left the northern brave need eight more runs from the six balls That's pretty easy. They should be able to get that they should be looking Dandy and primed to win and beat Their opponents the first pitch of the ball is hit skyed up into the air going for six and it's taken For a wicket. That's how they say that and they don't say caught for the out they say taken for the wicket and he's going for Over the boundary because that's an automatic six runs and that kind of guarantees victory because they need eight from the next six balls But he falls just short We would say warning track power now this guy looks back to find the boundary make sure his feet doesn't hit it because they can't do that Takes the wicket. That's one.  That's bolt. His partner is up and he's pretty fresh He's only seen one ball in parentheses right here. He's only seen one ball He got two runs off of it So now he's gonna see his second ball and the second ball of the over and that is hit straight up into the air and That's gonna be taken for a wicket and now. Oh, no, are we really gonna blow this? That is what the fans are thinking because they were primed to win That ball is caught and now the first two balls of the over have gone for a wicket So the hat trick is in order and that's a very exciting play now There's nineteen point two and now there's eight outs. Okay, and now a new batter comes in Walker So now you have two batsmen that haven't seen a pitch. They're fresh their tail enders. Here's the hat trick ball Not out. That's put into play the two batsmen run across the wicket Once so they get one run and now there's three balls left in the game and the northern brave needs seven more runs from three Balls, so let's see if they can do it Jay Walker the first pitch that he sees is hit right into the hands of the Defender.  This is bad for us taking for another wicket. So now they got three wickets in the last over Which is crazy.  They're rubbing their heads seven more runs from two balls Boy and Clark comes in and he pokes that one and they're gonna run across once both runners have to reach the other side For the run to count and now it is as crazy as it can get They have one ball left They need six more runs from one ball if you hit it over the boundary. It's an automatic six So it's pretty obvious What has to happen here? Trevor bolt is not a batsman traditionally. He is a Bowler is a pitcher. So this is not his primary skill set and basically the pitcher has to throw this ball The bowler has to bowl this ball The batter has to swing as hard as he can This is basically like the last pitch in a home run derby for the US Now a lot of people are probably asking why doesn't the pitcher just throw an unhittable ball Well, if he throws it and it's deemed too wide the umpire will say wide The batsman will automatically get one run and then they'll have to throw another ball So you get penalized if it's not a hittable pitch so to speak so here you go the last ball and BAM clobbers it for the six for the walk-off win The only way they could have won and they did they get it They almost blew it and then they come back and that's so sweet. Look at this hug. Oh Man, that's what cricket does just produces a lot of hugs a lot of really good hugs The northern brave Almost blow it They don't they win it Amazing as a wild finish. That's the one of the more exciting ones I've seen from the domestic New Zealand cricket league and he's barely celebrating, but he's likes this guy's like Shit northern brave win and it was drama filled cricket Get into t20. This is on ESPN plus if you want to watch But it's pretty fun. They last as long as baseball games and They're high drama and there's a lot of strategy once you understand how to read the scoreboard Listen to the call of this last ball nettle to ball sex required