Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a five box break of 2022 Panini 1 football, random number block break number one. You often see this format as fillers for pick your team breaks, but this time all five boxes are just going to be in this number format. Remember, redemptions will go to zero, even if it's a one of one redemption. That's been the rule for years. So hopefully you've read all that disclaimers and stuff. I think everything's numbered, right? So we shouldn't run into a non-numbered situation, but if that is the case, we'll randomize it to the group. Big thanks to this group for making it happen, appreciate you. There's all the numbers right there. And let's do it. Let's roll it. Randomize names and numbers three and a two, five at times each. One, two, three, four, and five. We got Sean and Dana Hans, and we are ready to pump you up three and a two, five times for the numbers, two, three, five, and that's one down to six. All right, Sean with one, Brian with zero, Chris with seven, Hans with four, and eight, William with nine, and three, Brian with two, Nicole with five, and Hans with six. Let's sort by number. And we're going to pause the video just for a moment. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trays. Again, we'll have the break, stick around, B, R, B. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. No deals were done. The deals often do not get done in these number block ways, but we give it, give it due time on a Chew Tuesday. It would be nice if we got some train whistles out of here. The Spanini one is going to be from a fresh case. So let's pop this open. It's a 20 box case. The diamond backs, Merrill Kelly drops to 0 and 11 against the Dodgers in his last 16 starts. Isn't that crazy? He's not a bad pitcher either. You would think he would stumble into a winner or two against the Dodgers over the years, but some teams just have your number. All right, so once again, four stacks of five, five, 10, 15, 20, right? So we're going to roll the dive. We're going to go one, two, three, four on the dice roll, right? Five into six, I'll just roll again. And it is one. So that's the first column right there. Scoot these over here. I did post another five box break in the store right now. Now, I know that I know that it's a little later in the evening. I know a lot of people are probably planning on tomorrow's new releases, which you can pre-order now in jaskyscasebreaks.com. But it doesn't take too many people to run this back. We just need to move five full spots and one filler. So if you want to give that a shot, jaskyscasebreaks.com, and for watching live there are the numbers once again. Thank you and good luck, everybody. Just one autograph for box and a sealed one touch case. Not too shabby. The first one out of the gate is in landscape mode. It is Chris Alave. Nice start. Three-color dual relic and on-card autograph. So if you're not familiar, it's 96 out of 99. If you're not familiar with the number blocks, we go by that digit right there, the one directly to the left of that slash. So that goes to six. And that'll be for Hans at number six, the spot he bought straight up. And the benefit of this break, obviously, is that it just takes one or two numbers. You have a chance of sweeping. You don't need a specific team. You got to change the sweep the entire break. All right, next one is Antonio Gates, The Wonders. Autograph, that's 58 out of 99. Nice Antonio Gates. That's also for Hans with a spot he won in the filler. And I wonder, wonder, who wrote the book of life. Wasn't The Wonders also the fictional band and that thing you do? Doing that thing. Next one is, I can tell you the team and the player, it's the Marcus Ware for the Cowboys, but it's a number block break. Who's gonna get it? It is four out of 15. Two colors, quad relic and autograph. That's gonna be for Hans in the number four. See what I mean? Got another five boxes in the store. We have a London, 19 out of 49. Two color dual relic and autograph, nice RPA. That's for William in the number nine. Number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine. All right, fifth and final. Good luck, everybody. Again, got another five box in the store. If you wanna get after it, let me know. Penini one stuff, really nice. And the final one, well, is another Drake London. Square one, but what's the number gonna be? See, so even if it's duplicate player, a different person can win it. It's a quad relic and autograph, and that is gonna be 81 out of 99. See if you can get the number right there. You can see it, 81 out of 99. Kinda hard to see the number against the print and the reflection there, but it's there. And that's gonna be for Sean Maddock in the number one. So it also makes it nice if there's duplicate players, you can at least count on different numbers so different people can get the different hits. So check it out, five boxes of Penini one football in the books, another five boxes in the store. I'm Joe, and I'll see you next time for the next break, jaspyscasebreaks.com. Bye bye.


Hey, fellow buddies. Thanks for watching. All right, you guys I have 20 items that sold on eBay in 10 days or less So I'm gonna tell you where I got it what I paid for it and what it sold for these are gonna range from bread and butter to There's some big money. What I consider big money is $35 or more. That's how I do it for my videos So you can also check out my channel for bread and butter videos Which are things that sold for 35 or less and then my big money Bolo videos are items that sold for $35 or more So that's how I break it down on this channel. So we are gonna get started right now This is the third time I have tried this video So let me know do you like to see the items that sold fast and you will see these in a future video on a What sold video because I want to break it down like in time frames So this I just kind of went through and pulled quick listing. So they'll be married in. All right, you guys Thank you again for being here. Thank you for watching. Be sure to like comment subscribe and share and let's get started All right the first item I got this at a garage sale I paid $1.50 for it. It was missing one screw It's a Eden pure hard water softener treatment system I have no idea what it does, but it sold for a best offer of $50 buyer was all in for 6175 and it sold in two days. How awesome is that? The next item that this one actually really surprised me My husband got these out of and a lot from an estate He bought the whole lot of jewelry and I was just kind of nitpicking and I'm like I'll list some stuff for you and I listed these and they sold in One day. So can anybody who's into jewelry? Please tell me why these sold so fast. Did I sell them too cheap? Their Coro brand which is c o r o and they are clip-on earrings here. Let me try to zoom in here for you and I was just shocked. I mean they didn't sell for crazy big money or anything like that It says 1584, but I sold them for $20. So I don't know why there's a discrepancy there I don't know and Unless maybe my sale wasn't on when they made the offer That's the only thing I can think of and then when I accepted my sale was on I don't know but $20 the buyer was all in for 25 20 and they sold in one day I mean, I remember thinking the same thing when I pulled up the listing and I went back and confirmed it sold for 20 So I'm not sure The next item is this Boyd's bears the shoebox bears flutter by bear jointed resin figure. It's in the original box It is numbered on the foot and I do this with the tape measure so everybody knows just how big it is I Think I undersold this. I think I should have held out I ended up taking a best offer of $12 the buyer was all in for 1875 I mean, I got this out of a mystery box. I've been doing pretty good over on Mercari with these So I think I should have Put it on Mercari I did put it on Mercari, but I think I should have waited a little longer and priced at higher The next item are these vintage brown bag Christmas cookie art mold Santas. So I Was listing these during a live show on my reseller testing Bolo products if you guys are not following me on that channel I do live working hangouts where I list. There's a link down in the description. Definitely check that out It's kind of like a list with me. You guys come and you list while I list and you can comment in the chat It's really a good time. I've really enjoyed doing it. So if you guys want to come hang out, that would be great these Wasn't sure what to do to be honest with you guys. They weren't really comping very well Like individually Some of them can go for decent money. So always look them up But I decided I'm like, you know what? It's gonna be a little bit of a pain because I'm gonna want to make sure that I Bubble wrap them a lot and then secure the package because they're gonna be sitting on top of each other and they are They can break so I wasn't really excited about the breakables But I listed these you guys and they sold in one day for $60 the buyer was all in for 85-28 so I was really excited to see a move and when I listed them I went ahead and packaged them So when they sold It was I bubble wrap them and then all I had to do was put them in a box and finalize the you know space void This is a Radica solitaire handheld game I Believe I got this at a thrift store for like 50 cents or a dollar. I can't remember I sold it for $39.60 full asking price and the buyer was all in for 49 70 and it sold the same day So these little handheld games can definitely be a bolo The next item came in this big Mr. Potato Head thing that I got and I ended up just getting rid of the big Container and pulling out what I thought I could salvage It looked like maybe a dog had chewed on a couple things. So I Got rid of those parts, but this is I think there it's a dog and a cat I don't know if it's two dogs Not really sure but this sold fast. So This sold in eight days for a best offer of $12 the buyer was all in for 1940 and this came out of a thrift store mystery box The next item This one was a nice surprise I Was looking through a bag of toys. This is Toki Doki Hello Kitty series one and I think I was listing this during a live show and I was gonna go back and Research it a little more and I think I forgot and listed it just at the price that I had you can see here There's a defect on the eye. So I put it at $25 and put it on sale for 28% off and it sold for full asking of 18 and it sold in one day you guys So I may have undersold this the buyer was all in for 24 52 for this item the next item came out of a mystery box from auctions for you and Again, I think I undersold it because it sold the same day for full asking price of $18 the buyer was all in for 24 90 for this You guys it's it's a little bit damaged. You can see right here like the teeth are missing. I think from the top. I Don't know it must be special. Maybe I should have done an auction if you guys know let me know in the comments It is from 1990 so The next item is so cute. It's this dandy animated musical poodle anytime I find anything animated I pick it up and I test the product over on my reseller testing Bolo products I show you guys how it works and then I add a video to my listing to show my buyers how it works This was so cute. You can check it out over on that channel, but I sold this for $35 and the buyer was all in for $46 and 75 cents and it sold in six days And I picked this up at a thrift store for $2 and I just realized that one of my items is missing. So I Must have accidentally deleted it. So bummer This Santa you guys if you missed it. I got this at a garage sale for $10. It is a vintage Herald Gale Santa. It's a store display. Let me show you the bottom here says display And it is rare and hard to find and he's got some condition issues. You can see right here And he was missing his tree. He still sold for $588 you guys on auction. So seven days and I had 21 bids. How amazing is that? The next item is this little vintage MMA if you ever see MMA that means Metropolitan Museum of Art and this is a 1985 scaredy cat pendant and I did find some of these on eBay But they were like pins like like a brooch and this was the only one that was like a pendant This is a caliper. I use this to measure my items and put measurements in the listing I really like to do this because I feel like it's very precise. So a good little tool and it's actually pretty cheap. I sold this for $19.95 the buyer was all in for 26.05. It's sold in 10 days and I got this at a garage sale for 50 cents The next item is this UPS trucks and stuff this came from a mystery box a thrift store mystery box And I actually unboxed those thrift store mystery boxes over on my sourcing with Bola buddies channel So if you guys like that kind of content where I'm just what I do is I go to the thrift store They have mystery boxes sometimes it's toys sometimes it's Christmas sometimes it's Halloween and I basically come home and I record myself Unboxing it. It's really fun. A lot of times I Get junk and a lot of times I find some decent stuff, but they are definitely fun to watch So check that out. There's a link to that channel down in the description But this is one item that came out and the comparables for this actually surprised me a little bit But I couldn't figure out how to get the thing together So I don't know if it was broken or if it was just I didn't know how to put it together But this sold in seven days for $24 the buyer was all in for $33 and 72 cents The next item that sold it this one is funny And I'll tell you why I Sold this really really fast. It sold in one day I'm gonna try to look up that other listing real quick for you guys So I can make sure I show you on my phone But I got this at a thrift store. I did pay up for it a little bit I paid $4 for it, which is kind of funny because you guys are probably thinking $4 really isn't that much but I'm kind of cheap Okay, hold on. I want to pull up the one that I missed so this video will actually have 21 items in it So I Said something really silly the night that I was listing this too I'm not even gonna mention it. If you guys want to go watch some replays of my live shows It was really silly and we'll just leave it at that if you were there Wow, right? Okay, so 39 60 the buyer was all in for $50 and 28 cents I'm gonna go full screen and show you guys this other one here So this item I got it in a state sale I think it was like 50 cents and I sold it for $65 the buyer was all in for 74 66 and it sold in six days It is a Fisher price puff a lump plush toy zebra horse from 1991 If you guys see these puff a lumps that are kind of like a nylon parachute material Definitely grab them. They are a bolo. This thing had like some issues and it's still sold for that much money Alright, let's get back to it here All right, the next item came from a Facebook marketplace. I actually did an unboxing on this channel I had a contact that I had purchased not really a contact But I had purchased some stuff from someone on Facebook just going through the ad a while back and I did a video on it It's way back on my channel But I told her if you ever have more stuff Please reach out to me because I would be interested and she reached out to me.  And I was like, yes, so if you want to see that full video go check it out There was one item that I parted out which I Made really good money on so I talk about that in the video I show you guys comps of everything and what sold so it's educational as well as an unboxing So this is from a game and the game was in there. It was incomplete. It typically comes with four nets I do believe so what I did is I took off the trunk I grabbed the two nets and I grabbed I think these are called butterflies and I went ahead and listed it as Replacement parts you guys this sold in one day for $14.40 the buyer was all in for 22.04 Here is another item that came from that same sale. I told you I parted an item out This is part of that. It's the Doc Mcstuffins baby all-in-one nursery and I tore it apart If you want to see more details about that you can check out that video, but this sold in 10 days Oh, I'm sorry for a best offer of $10 and the buyer was all in for $16.99 so this is a replacement part to that toy set. I Love this one. This is vintage big feet wishbone Jack Russell Terrier dog. It's a little stuffed animal from 1997 and boy. Oh boy this little guy. He sold fast He sold in 10 days for $32 the buyer was all in for 41 23 and I was on during my live show I think somebody said this was maybe a TV show or something like that I had never heard of it So I was really excited about how much that sold for and how quick it sold The next item is this raggedy Ann and Andy. I got these at a garage sale I went to this garage sale and it was Packed with vintage toys, but they had a collection of raggedy Ann stuff and my friend Choosing Goods reseller Carissa loves raggedy Ann Well, at least she did at the time, but I sent her some photos and I'm like, do you want any of this stuff? It's half off today. So She told me what she wanted. I gave her a total and I oh my goodness you guys this box took me like an Hour to ship because there were some breakables in there and I was trying to get it all in one box So the shipping would be cheaper for her. Oh my gosh. It was a mess But this is one of the items I kept that she did not pick that she wanted So I bought it to resell and I sold this for 36 dollars The buyer was all in for forty five dollars and thirty cents and it sold in Ten days and I paid five dollars for this and if you guys want to see all of the raggedy Ann items that she She didn't I bought them for her and she paid me back for the items I didn't charge her anything and then I also threw in some freebies But it took her like six months to unbox it So by the time she unboxed it neither one of us could remember what the freebies were but they were in there So go check out her channel to see that unboxing again. That's Choosing Goods reseller Carissa and she has a live show also on Oh my goodness. I just drew a blank. Is it Tuesday or Thursday? Oh my gosh. It's Thursday Thursday morning. I think it's I Am blanking out right now It's at noon eastern standard time. Sorry you guys. I'm mixing up my live shows and all that stuff when I do my premieres Okay, so this t-shirt you guys I don't pick up much clothing anymore Mmm, excuse me. Oh my goodness But I saw this at a thrift store and it was like 50 cents and it was vintage and I had to grab it Beware of dogs. I think this is a Cleveland Brown shirt Yeah, when I looked it up. It said Cleveland Browns. So I don't know I threw the tape measure across it Put some measurements on there used my background. I Used photo room to give it a white background and it sold in one day you guys one day for twenty dollars The buyer was all in for twenty seven sixty seven. So that was awesome Here's another Doc McStuffins thing from that same nursery replacement parts sold this for $13 the buyer was all in for 1972 and this sold in four days All right, you guys that was 21 instead of 20 my mistake there Items that sold on eBay. So let me know what you guys think about the 10 days or less videos. Do you like it? I Don't know the fast sales. I'm really I'm really liking them So leave me an emoji of a hat if you made it this far and as always thank you for being here Thank you for watching be sure to like comment subscribe and share it out If you know somebody that might be interested in the channel Thanks for watching


Sadhguru, you mentioned about the fact that, I mean a true devotee is a one who is willing to like give himself up and his agent does. How does one work with this philosophy in let's say any work, you know, in this corporate world or in… You cannot. In this business… You just cannot because you have your own agendas. So don't waste your time on devotion. You must explore other ways. Devotion means taking your emotion to its highest pitch, yes, isn't it so? You have various kinds of emotions. Devotion is held as the highest form of emotion because it's least entangling, it's liberating. So taking your emotion to its highest pitch, devotees are insane people, they are not reasonable people as far as the world is concerned. They are very beautiful people within themselves. But as far as the society is concerned, they are usually insane people. Your Mirabas, I don't know if you've heard of the South Indian devotees, Akka Mahadevies, all these people are very insane people. You can't live with them. After they are gone, you can worship them. When they are there, nobody could understand what the hell is happening with these people. I know Meera is so worshipped in the northern part of the country, there is a wonderful book called Kakald written by Kiran Nagarkar. This is life perspective of Meera Bhai's husband. Let's say you have a wife who believes she is Krishna's wife, not yours. All the time she is going into such states that it's like Krishna is with him, with her, she is dancing with him, she is loving him, she is kissing him, she is everything, okay? She is so deeply involved. Now you are the husband. Are you going to appreciate her devotion or go insane with your own problems, isn't it? So this book is the husband's perspective of Meera's life, how he experienced Meera. Because devotees are like that. They don't belong to the logical dimension of life, they are of a different, less thing. Devotion is one of the quickest ways to attain, but you won't fit into normal, social and other situations. It's not possible. If you want to fit into normal situations, your family and social situations and still pursue spirituality, I am not saying devotion is completely absent in you, there is a part of you. Your emotions are there, so naturally certain amount of devotion happens here and there. But you can't choose it as a path because you still want life to happen the way you want it.  You can also attain through your intelligence. You can also attain through your physical action. You can also attain by transforming your inner energies.  So we are choosing a combination of these things so that without disturbing external realities you can still evolve. If you want to preserve the external realities and still evolve, then naturally there are compromises, you go slowly.  You want to preserve this also but you want something else to happen, that is why we are going slowly. With different people we do different things, there are some people who are not concerned about all those things, with them we work in a different way. Now you are people who want to preserve the external situation but still you want an internal possibility. So we are going slowly, a combination of all these things, not putting anything to a high pitch, everything trying to raise to the next level of experience, not to the ultimate. We are just seeing how to push it to the next level of experience. Devotion and corporation, corporate world will not go. Devotion and family life will not go. Devotion and anything will not go. Devotion means everything else has to dissolve. That's why I am saying, don't talk devotion, it's just deception. Some moments when your experience raises to a certain pitch, a moment of devotion may happen to you. Just wait for that moment, it's very wonderful. But don't try to pursue devotion as your policy because there is a very deep deception in it.


No new positives today the three that from yesterday were confirmed overnight and this morning so but no as of today no new ones. Voight there in the lineup is something up with him. Voight went on the IL today not COVID related but knee related. He's got a bone bruise in his left knee had some swelling over the weekend and then had that drain but there was still some lingering pain there was diagnosed with the bone bruise will probably get some kind of PRP potentially tonight and then hopefully a few days arrest and hopefully get going from there. And was that from when he was hit by the the pits or something totally unrelated? No it's it's his left knee the surgically repaired knee or the knee that he had surgery on but no not related to the hit by pitch. You have arguably the most important series of the year for your team right now you have a totally different roster than you originally anticipated how do you guys get over the hump? It's a great opportunity for a number of for for our team and for a lot of people that you know are getting opportunities in some cases for the first time at the big league level or some time for the first time in this organization a lot of these guys that we got to see in spring training a lot of these guys that are having really strong seasons down in in the minor league so we're really excited to go take the field tonight and and have the opportunity to go up against you know the first-place team in our division and and we expect to go play well. Top of everything else you have a closer right now? We'll see I mean each and every day's a new day look I I continue to go back to for us to be our the team we're gonna be you know Chappy's Chappy's got to be that guy and and he may very well find himself in that closing situation tonight and and hopefully we're in a situation to close out a game and it may it may very well be Chappy you know there are some times on this trip where I was hoping to bring him in and maybe a game or maybe we're losing or something like that and that you know fortunately you actually didn't present itself and we're in position winning games so you know I I wouldn't hesitate to put them into a lower leverage medium levered situation but where we are as a club right now I also I'm not going to hesitate to put them in in the biggest spot in the ninth inning and I think it's important and this is you know something I've tried to reiterate to to Chappy as well as you know for as great as his career has been he's not far removed from probably the best version of the oldest Chapman that I've seen the first couple months of the season and so I do think it's a matter of getting out there and you know finding his delivery early executing a couple pitches and I think it can really snowball and take off from there and hopefully we can get that outing sooner rather than later.


SHALL WE EVER BE ABLE TO VISIT THE MOON? by Charles Nevers-Holmes This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. SHALL WE EVER BE ABLE TO VISIT THE MOON? It is not impossible that the feat may someday be accomplished, but the difficulties to be overcome are very great. Many of us have traveled around our world a distance approximately 25,000 miles. Shall we ever be able to travel from our world to the moon a distance of about 239,000 miles? Today, of course, we cannot do so, but it is not impossible that someday men may travel from our earth to the moon and back again. No one at all familiar with the progress of modern science and invention will deny that such a journey is a future possibility. Indeed, it may be that tomorrow some stupendous discovery will revolutionize aerial navigation, and if this should occur, a journey to the moon would soon be occupying the minds and energies of terrestrial inventors and scientists. Even with the assistance of remarkable discoveries, however, there will remain great difficulties in the way of traveling from the earth to the moon. The first of these is the force that binds us to our world's surface. This force, which we call gravity, pulls us toward the center of the earth away from the moon, and it is so powerful that at present we know of no means by which to counteract it. To break its chain so that we can fly away from our planet home would require a velocity of not less than 37,000 feet per second. Since the best modern guns can throw a shell with a speed of about 3,000 feet per second, it is evident that we should have to be projected from our terrestrial surface about 12 times as fast in order to reach the surface of the moon. Furthermore, because both earth and moon are in motion, we should have to make careful mathematical calculations in order to hit the mark. Otherwise, in case our skycraft should miss the moon, we might go on traveling through space indefinitely, unless some planet like Jupiter were to capture us. A difficult and dangerous voyage. Moreover, there are other difficulties and dangers in making a trip to the moon. Our skycraft would have to be strongly constructed, very strongly indeed, to stand such a journey. Leaving out of consideration the friction and pressure upon it in passing through our atmosphere at such tremendous speed, there would be a great outward pressure from within it after we reached the vacuum-like environment of the ether. In order to remain alive, we should have to be surrounded by practically the same conditions inside our craft as they were when we left the terrestrial surface. We should have to breathe and to have about the same atmospheric pressure upon our bodies as at the surface of our earth. Therefore, unless some unpredictable scientific discovery should assist us, the walls of the craft would have to be exceedingly strong to resist the tendency to expand outwardly into the ether, thus causing some opening which might suddenly or slowly destroy us. Again, the walls of our skycraft would have to be very strong to resist possible collisions with air-lights, the small or large rock fragments popularly known as shooting stars. When we remember that these bodies are traveling with a velocity of 10 to 40 miles per second, not far from the earth's surface, and that our craft would be speeding seven miles per second, it is evident that a head-on collision would not be a gentle one. Moreover, when our skycraft reaches the moon, its landing is not likely to be at all a soft one since the moon possesses no known atmosphere to retard our speed, and the lunar surface is believed to be wholly rocky and hard. Doubtless were we able to hurl our skycraft free from terrestrial gravity, we could today build a craft that would weather an ethereal voyage from the earth to the moon. Doubtless it would be constructed to stand to the powerful attacks of pressure and of air-lights, as well as the sudden and terrific bump at the end of the route. Our astronomers of this 20th century could certainly aim such a craft so that it would reach its destination, and it is probable that the crew would not have much to do. Vast propulsive power needed. But the power required to hurl a skycraft weighing perhaps 10 tons or more, with a velocity of about 7 miles per second from the terrestrial surface and through the atmosphere into the aether, would be nothing less than terrific. It seems an almost impossible thing to do, but future discoveries and inventions may put it in a different light. We can calculate, at least approximately, how long such a voyage would take. Leaving out of consideration the acceleration of the skycraft owing to the attraction of the moon, the average time would be about 9 hours and a half. In other words, we could embark in America at 8 p.m. and disembark upon the moon before 6 o'clock the next morning. But now another problem arises. After we have reached the moon, how are we to get home? That is a difficult question to answer, although if we had the necessary mechanism to propel our craft, it would be easier to return to the earth than to go to the moon. Upon the lunar surface, owing to the smaller mass of the moon, the force of gravity is only about one-sixth that of our terrestrial gravity, and it would therefore require a velocity of only a little more than 6,000 feet per second to overcome it. However, the voyage would be longer, about 56 hours. Thus the whole trip to the moon and back, if there were no delay, would take almost three days. Shall we ever visit the moon? If we, or any of the generations following us, should travel to this beautiful satellite of ours, they would, according to the testimony of the telescope, find it to be indeed a waterless, weird, and wonderful place. And of Shall we ever be able to visit the moon by Charles Nevers Holmes Read by Anita Sloma Martinez A Talk with Mr. Oscar Wilde by Gilbert Burgess From the Sketch, 9th of January, 1895 This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org On the morning following the production of an ideal husband, I met Mr. Oscar Wilde as he came down the steps of a club at the top of St. James's Street, and I took advantage of the occasion to ask him what he thought of the attitude of the critics towards his play. Well, he replied, as we walked slowly down the street, for a man to be a dramatic critic is as foolish and as inartistic as it would be for a man to be a critic of epics, or a pastoral critic, or a critic of lyrics. All modes of art are one, and the modes of the art that employs words as its medium are quite indivisible. The result of the vulgar specialization of criticism is an elaborate scientific knowledge of the stage, almost as elaborate as that of the stage carpenter, and quite on a par with that of the call-boy. Combined with an entire incapacity to realize that a play is a work of art, or to receive any artistic impressions at all. You are rather severe upon dramatic criticism, Mr. Wilde. English dramatic criticism of our own day has never had a single success, in spite of the fact that it goes to all the first nights. But, I suggested, it is influential. Certainly, that is why it is so bad. I don't think I quite. The moment criticism exercises any influence, it ceases to be criticism. The aim of the true critic is to try and chronicle his own moods, not to try and correct the masterpieces of others. Real critics would be charming in your eyes, then? Real critics? How perfectly charming they would be! I am always waiting for their arrival. An inaudible school would be nice? Why do you not found it? I was momentarily dazed at the broad vista that had been opened for me, but I retained my presence of mind, and asked, Are there absolutely no real critics in London? There are just two. Who are they? I asked eagerly. Mr. Wilde, with the elaborate courtesy for which he has always been famous, replied, I think I had better not mention their names. It might make the others so jealous. What do the literary cliques think of your play? I don't write to please cliques. I write to please myself. Besides, I have always had grave suspicions that the basis of all literary cliques is a morbid love of meat teas. That makes them sadly uncivilised.  I have far too much time, but I think some day I will give a general answer, in the form of a lecture in a public hall, which I shall call Straight Talks to Old Men. What is your feeling towards your audiences, towards the public? Which public? There are as many publics as there are personalities. Are you nervous on the night that you're producing a new play? Oh, no, I am exquisitely indifferent. My nervousness ends at the last dress rehearsal. I know then what effect my play, as presented upon the stage, has produced upon me. My interest in the play ends there, and I feel curiously envious of the public. They have such wonderful, fresh emotions in store for them. I laughed, but Mr. Wilde rebuked me with a look of surprise. It is the public, not the play, that I desire to make a success, he said, but I'm afraid I don't quite understand. The public makes a success when it realises that a play is a work of art. On the three first nights I have had in London, the public has been most successful, and, had the dimensions of the stage admitted of it, I would have called them before the curtain. Most managers, I believe, call them behind. I imagine then that you don't hold with the opinion that the public is the patron of the dramatist. The artist is always the munificent patron of the public. I am very fond of the public and, personally, I always patronise the public very much. What are your views upon the much vexed question of subject matter in art? Everything matters in art, except the subject. When I recovered, I said, several plays have been written lately that deal with the monstrous injustice of the social code of morality at the present time. Ah! answered Mr. Wilde, with an air of earnest conviction, it is indeed a burning shame that there should be one law for men and another law for women. I think—he hesitated, and a smile as swift as stones, hectic of a moment, flitted across his face—I think that there should be no law for anybody. In writing do you think that real life or real people should ever give one inspiration? The colour of a flower may suggest to one the plot of a tragedy. A passage in music may give one the sestect of a sonnet, but whatever actually occurs gives the artist no suggestion. Every romance that one has in one's life is a romance lost to one's art. To introduce real people into a novel or a play is a sign of an unimaginative mind, a coarse and tutored observation, and an entire absence of style. I'm afraid I can't agree with you, Mr. Wilde. I frequently see types and people who suggest ideas to me. Everything is of use to the artist except an idea. After this I was silent, until Mr. Wilde pointed to the bottom of the street and drew my attention to the apricot-coloured palace which we were approaching, so I continued my questioning. The enemy has said that your plays lack action. Yes, English critics always confuse the action of a play with the incidence of a melodrama. I wrote the first act of A Woman of No Importance in answer to the critics who said that Lady Windermere's fan lacked action. In the act in question there was absolutely no action at all. It was a perfect act. What do you think is the chief point the critics have missed in your new play? It's entire psychology. The difference in the way in which a man loves a woman, from that in which a woman loves a man, the passion that women have for making ideals, which is their weakness, and the weakness of a man who dare not show his imperfections to the thing he loves. The end of Act 1, the end of Act 2, and the scene in the last act, when Lord Goring points out the higher importance of a man's life over the woman's, to take three prominent instances, seem to have been quite missed by most of the critics. They fail to see their meaning. They really thought it was a play about a bracelet. We must educate our critics. We must really educate them," said Mr. Wilde, half to himself. The critics subordinate the psychological interest of a play to its mere technique. As soon as a dramatist invents an ingenious situation, they compare him with Sardu. But Sardu is an artist not because of his marvellous instinctive stagecraft, but in spite of it. In the third act of Letosca, the scene of the torture, he moved us by a terrible human tragedy, not by his knowledge of stage methods. Sardu is not understood in England, because he is only known through a rather ordinary travesty of his play, Dora, which was brought out here under the title of Diplomacy. I have been considerably amused by so many of the critics, suggesting that the incident of the diamond bracelet in Act III of my new play was suggested by Sardu. It does not occur in any of Sardu's plays, and it was not in my play until less than ten days before production. Nobody else's work gives me any suggestion. It is only by entire isolation from everything that one can do any work. Idleness gives one the mood in which to write, isolation, the conditions. Concentration on oneself reveals the new and wonderful world that one presents in the colour and cadence of words in movement. And yet we want something more than literature in a play, said I. That is merely because the critics have always propounded the degrading dogma that the duty of the dramatist is to please the public. Resetti did not weave words into sonnets to please the public, and Corot did not paint silver and grey twilight to please the public. The mere fact of telling an artist to adopt any particular form of art in order to please the public makes him shun it. We shall never have a real drama in England until it is recognised that a play is as personal and individual a form of self-expression as a poem or a picture. I'm afraid you don't like journalists, I remarked nervously. The journalist is always reminding the public of the existence of the artist. That is unnecessary of him. He is always reminding the artist of the existence of the public. That is indecent of him. But we must have journalists, Mr. Wilde. Why? They only record what happens. What does it matter what happens? It is only the abiding things that are interesting, not the hooded incidents of everyday life. Creation, for the joy of creation, is the aim of the artist, and that is why the artist is a more divine type than the saint. The artist arrives at his own moment, with his own mood. He may come with terrible purple tragedies. He may come with dainty rose-coloured comedies. What a charming title! added Mr. Wilde with a smile. I must try to play and call it a rose-coloured comedy. What are the exact relations between literature and the drama? Exquisitely accidental. That is why I think them so necessary. And the exact relations between the actor and the dramatist? Mr. Wilde looked at me with a serious expression which changed almost immediately into a smile, as he replied, usually a little strained. But surely you regard the actor as a creative artist. Yes, replied Mr. Wilde with a touch of pathos in his voice. Terribly creative. Terribly creative. Do not consider the future outlook of the English stage is hopeful. I think it must be. The critics have ceased to prophesy. That is something. It is in the silence that the artist arrives. What is waited for never succeeds. What is headalded is hopeless. We were nearing the sentries at Marlborough House, and I said, Won't you tell me a little more, please? Let us walk down Palmal. Exercise is such a good thing. Exercise? he ejaculated, with an emphasis that almost warrants italics. The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. And as he spoke he motioned to a passing handsome. We shook hands, and Mr. Wilde, giving me a glance of approval, said, I am sure that you must have a great future in literature before you. What makes you think so? I asked, as I flushed with pleasure at the prediction.  I feel sure that you must write poetry. I certainly like the colour of your neck-tie very much. Goodbye. The cardinal sin of the public man is theft. The cardinal sin of the public writer is mendacity.  I abhor the assassin who tries to kill a man. I abhor almost equally the assassin of that man's character. From shaping of public opinion and the Ninth Commandment. Chapter 7 Applying the Ninth Commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Mr. Roosevelt considered the Eighth and Ninth Commandments particularly applicable to public conditions, for one commanded the honest hand while the other commanded the honest tongue. If there was one person more than another for whom he felt profound contempt, it was the person with the forked tongue. He himself was the soul of candour. He would not dissimulate. What he had to say to an individual, he said to him direct and face to face. In his fight for a clean state he ran counter to numbers of men who were expert in trimming their sails to meet the prevailing wind. These men cared not what they did, nor for whom they worked provided the price paid was large enough. May 12, 1900 he published in the Outlook an article which he called The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics, in which he explained how gravely those endanger the country who bear false witness against the honest man.  If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law. Under the higher law, under the great law of morality and righteousness, he is precisely as guilty of, instead of lying in a court, he lies in a newspaper or on the stump. And in all probability the evil effects of his conduct are infinitely more widespread and more pernicious. The difference between perjury and mendacity is not in the least one of morals or ethics, it is simply one of legal forms. He found plenty of invective for editors, reformers, and clergymen who assailed men in conditions without proper knowledge of the facts. Criticism was needed, but the critic should remain silent unless he was assured that his criticism was truthful. It is quite as important not to tell an untruth about a decent man as it is to tell the truth about one who is not decent. When a certain newspaper reporter hit upon the name Ananias Club, Mr. Roosevelt eagerly seized upon it for cataloging those shifty individuals who misrepresented facts. The clubs served to put them where they belonged and to reveal their exact status to the country. The name especially appealed to him on account of his intimate knowledge of the Bible, where the mendacity of Ananias and Saphira his wife is recorded. The instance is recorded in the fifth chapter of Acts, where the two conspired to hold back from the Apostles Peter and John part of the price of the land they had bought representing it as the whole. Hence the Ananias Club was an excellent organization into which to put modern deceivers, men who could not be dependent on to tell the truth or to represent the exact facts against one's neighbor. He thought it would be well for writers and speakers to keep in mind the comment of Puddin Head Wilson, who said that while there were 999 kinds of falsehood, the only kind of specifically condemned in Scripture, just as murder, theft and adultery are condemned, this bearing false witness against one's neighbor. The Ananias Club rapidly became famous. The country delighted in it. Roosevelt took an immense delight in adding to the membership and secretly not a little satisfaction in getting before the country the names of false-hearted men who had long and bitterly opposed his policy of reform. He may have assigned persons to membership who did not deserve the notoriety. Roosevelt was not a paragon of patience when opposition from individuals he considered in the wrong was concerned. He had intensely human qualities, which were at once his strength and his weakness. He spoke as he felt with impetuous fervor. A number of times in his career, notably when he endorsed the Ananias Club following the organization of the Progressive Party and after the sinking of the Lusitania, he spoke and wrote with a bitter invective that made him many enemies and seriously impaired his influence in the estimation of a number of good people. As a matter of fact, his attitude in these instances was proof of his honesty. Other persons feel and dissimulate or remain silent through policy. Roosevelt felt and spoke his convictions, though he must have known the result for no man understood better how public opinion shapes itself. His enemies charged him with a long list of shortcomings.  His wide-open honesty of purpose was too evident. Roosevelt originated the term muckraker. Using the phrase first in an address given March 17, 1906, had a dinner prepared by Speaker Cannon for the Gridiron Club in Washington. He took the figure from Pilgrim's Progress, where is described the man with the muckrake, who would not look up to take the celestial crowd offered him, but kept his eyes on the filth he was raking up. Newspapers and magazines, at the time when the Roosevelt publicity method was uncovering an unbelievable amount of corruption and special privilege in high places, made much of the opportunity and printed articles that reeked with sensational discovery of malfeasance in high places. Roosevelt at once went to the heart of the matter. He said, He objected chiefly to that kind of writing, because it confused the public mind. To accuse an honest man of dishonesty, encourages rogues, and prevents decent citizenry. He objected chiefly to that kind of writing, because it confused the public mind. To accuse an honest man of dishonesty, encourages rogues, and prevents decent citizens from distinguishing the true attack from the false. By and by the average citizen distrusts all public servants, becomes disheartened, and ceases to believe an honest efficient government possible. Speaking after a political experience of thirty years, during which period he had not only every opportunity for observation, but the disposition and the mental balance to draw correct conclusions, he said that if he were to name three evils against which the nation should war most relentlessly, he would name dishonesty, lawless violence, untruthfulness and mendacity, especially that kind of mendacity, that took the form of slander. In this connection he remarked, For thirty years I have striven so far as the power was given me to fight for the cause of decency, and I feel that the greatest drawback in any such struggle is the man who consistently speaks what is not true until he misleads the public so that they cannot tell the truth from the false. He had suffered severely from writers who had not understood his motives, and who had misrepresented the cause for which he contended, and therefore was familiar with the immense power for harm possessed by these men. On more than one occasion he forcefully expressed himself in this particular. The influence wielded by newspapers in popular magazines is enormous, and in proportion to their influence, publishers, editors, writers and reporters should consider themselves public servants, and as such, quote, only exact fact, they should spend themselves finding the truth, for it is what they write that determines public opinion. He heartily condemned that paper or magazine which sought to sell as many copies as possible, and that only, that gave the public what it wanted, whether truth or falsehood. The first requisite of the person who writes should be honesty. He should not hesitate to tell the entire truth, however unpopular. His ideal newspaper man or editor applies so well that we shall quote it. He included the description in an address on the public press given before the Milwaukee Press Club, September 7, 1910. The highest type of newspaper man ought to try to put his business above all other businesses. The editor who stands as a judge in a community should be one of the men to whom you would expect to look up, because his function as an editor makes him a more important man than the average merchant, the average businessman, or the average professional man can be. He wields great influence, and he cannot escape the responsibility of wielding it. If he wields it well, honor is his beyond the honor that comes to the average man who does well. If he wields it ill, shame should be his beyond the shame that comes to the average man who does ill. And what I say of the editor applies to every man who writes for a newspaper or a magazine or who is connected with it in any capacity. One of the achievements of the Roosevelt administration was the passing of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. The act was persistently opposed by a large number of merchants who were making fortunes by illicit sales of adulterated products, chiefly foods. These merchants sold goods by means of a deceptive label that misrepresented the contents of the package. Since the adulterated food men advertised heavily in newspapers and magazines, papers and magazines carrying their advertisements threw in the great weight of their opposition. In fact, opposition was so well entrenched that six years passed before the bill became law. On the same principle that false witness should not prevail in high places, Roosevelt prosecuted vigorously other malefactor corporations. Scandalous abuses were practiced in the large meat-packing houses of Chicago and other cities. Despite bitter opposition from the packers and their satellites, a good meat investigation law was framed and passed. He stopped flagrant corruption by the railroads by abolishing the pernicious system of rebates and by favoring the passage of the Hepburn bill, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission control over the railroads. He uncovered frauds perpetrated by the great American refining company, the Sugar Trust, punished the criminals, and restored to the United States Treasury four million dollars stolen by the trust through a system of short waits. Charles R. Heike, Secretary and Treasurer of the Sugar Trust, was convicted and sentenced to prison. About the same time Charles W. Morse, a prominent New York banker, was convicted of fraudulent handling of the people's money and likewise sentenced. Both these men, due to the influence of their position, were able to get commutation of their sentences. In view of this, and influenced by the fact that several of their subordinates who had been associated with the big criminals were obliged to serve out their term in jail, Roosevelt wrote his opinion of condoning the evil deeds of powerful men. Every time a big money defender who naturally excites interest in sympathy and who has many friends is excused from serving a sentence which a man of less prominence and fewer friends would have to serve, justice is discredited in the eyes of the plain people, and to undermine faith and justice is to strike at the foundation of the Republic. Roosevelt attacked slander and misrepresentation however powerful and high placed the factor that was practicing it. The New York Herald, one of the largest and wealthiest papers in the country, owned and edited by James Gordon Bennett, was found to be carrying a personal column of villainous character. At Roosevelt's order District Attorney Harry Stimson sued James Gordon Bennett for violation of the law that prohibited circulation of obscene literature through the males. Mr. Bennett was living at the time in Paris, and every effort was made to enable him to conduct his case from that city. Even the friendship of the Herald was offered Mr. Roosevelt, but the law declared that the accused must appear in person to answer to a criminal charge, and the prosecution made the law apply to Mr. Bennett as it would have made it apply to an unknown defendant. Mr. Bennett eventually crossed the ocean and was sentenced by the court to pay a fine of $30,000. The obnoxious personal column disappeared from the Herald, but Roosevelt thereafter was relentlessly pursued in the columns of that paper. The other New York papers had excluded all mention of the trial, save one obscure notice. In consequence, the public does not know today why the Herald under Bennett pursued the Roosevelt administration with such persistent, virulent opposition. The belief has prevailed quite widely that Roosevelt was a party man, and that he was a shrewd politician. Listen to his own statement in regard to the matter, a statement he bore out more than once to the letter. I ask you, whatever your politics may be, to be nonpartisan when the question of honesty is involved. A certain type of big corrupt corporation cares nothing whatever for political parties when its interests are at stake, and labor unions of the same type act in the same fashion. I ask the people in their turn to pay no heed to parties when the great fundamental issues of honest and decency as against dishonesty and indecency are involved. Only let them act in the reverse way from the corporations and unions in question. When it comes to the question of a crook, I will respect party feeling to just this extent. If there are two crooks, one of my party and one of another party, I will cinch the crook of my party first because I feel a shade more responsible for him. It must be evident that Roosevelt faced continually grave and critical periods in his application of the Ninth Commandment, and faced along with them the human tendency to indecision and nonaction. Excuses can usually be found for refusing to assume risks that carry with them certain censure and determined opposition. Roosevelt's idea of action in such instances is thus revealed. If the man is worth his salt, he will do his duty. He will give the people the benefit of the doubt and act in any way which their interests demand and which is not affirmatively prohibited by law, unheeding the likelihood that he himself, when the crisis is over and the danger passed, will be assailed for what he has done. In an address he delivered before the Pacific Theological Seminary in September 1911, he appealed for honesty in public life as follows. To all good citizens, I make the appeal to stand for honesty in public life and to stand for the creation of an opinion which shall demand truth and decency in the press and the magazines. Do what you can by private effort, but especially by organized effort, and by pressure upon those who are your representatives to bring about the day when the man who willfully misleads the public and willfully lies to the public on any question of interest to the public shall be amenable if possible to the law, if not to the force of public opinion exactly as if he were a mal-factor of any other kind. In Roosevelt's estimation the chief offense of the public man was theft and that of the public writer of mendacity. The infamy of the creature who tries to assassinate an upright and honest public servant doing his duty, he said once, is no greater than the infamy of the creature who tries to assassinate an honest man's character. In his judgment the two cardinal points for voting citizens were, Thou shalt not steal and thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Multitudes of men break these moral laws and escape human law because they are adroit, but in the eyes of the higher justice they are equally as culpable as their more foolish brethren who get into the penitentiary. We can afford to differ on the currency, the tariff, the foreign policy, but we cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty in itself of quite evident importance is not enough. Public servants must have the courage and wisdom to enforce unpopular measures. Honesty is not salvation for weaklings and cowards. Slander, perversion of truth, and dishonest manipulation of funds had small chance while Mr. Roosevelt was president. He was at all times a defender of public righteousness. It is a good old principle to act upon in the long run, he declared, that the most uncomfortable truth is a safer traveling companion than the pleasantest falsehood. He based his attitude on an ancient and wise code and he could not have had a better justification. End of Chapter 7 Applying the Ninth Commandment from the Ideals of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward H. Cotton Travels in the Air Chapter 3 A Sense from Wolverhampton September 5, 1862 by James Glacier This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to learn how to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org September 5, 1862 This ascent had been delayed owing to the unfavorable state of the weather. We left the earth at one hour three minutes p.m. The temperature of the air was 59 degrees and that of the dew point 50 degrees. The air at first was misty. At the height of 5,000 feet the temperature was 41 degrees, dew point 37.9. At one hour 13 minutes we entered a dense cloud of about 1,100 feet in thickness where the temperature fell to 36.5 degrees, the dew point being the same, thus indicating that the air here was saturated with moisture. At this elevation the report of a gun was heard. Momentarily the clouds became lighter and on emerging from them at one hour 17 minutes a flood of strong sunlight burst upon us with a beautiful blue sky without a cloud. And beneath us lay a magnificent sea of clouds. Its surface varied with endless hills, hillocks and mountain chains and with many snow-white tufts rising from it. I here attempted to take a view with the camera, but we were rising with too great rapidity and revolving too quickly to enable me to succeed. The brightness of the clouds however was so great that I should have needed but a momentary exposure. Dr. Hill Norris having kindly furnished me with extremely sensitive dry plates for the purpose. We reached the height of two miles at one hour 22 minutes where the sky was of a darker blue and from whence the earth was visible in occasional patches beneath the clouds. The temperature had fallen to the freezing point and the dew point to 26 degrees. The height of three miles was attained at one hour 28 minutes with a temperature of 18 degrees and dew point 13 degrees. From one hour 22 minutes to one hour 30 minutes the wet bulb thermometer read incorrectly, the ice not being properly formed on it. At one hour 34 minutes Mr. Coxwell was panting for breath. At one hour 38 minutes the mercury of Danielle's hygrometer fell below the limits of the scale. We reached the elevation of four miles at one hour 40 minutes. The temperature was 8 degrees the dew point minus 15 degrees or 47 degrees below the freezing point of water. Discharging sand we in 10 minutes attained the altitude of five miles and the temperature had passed below zero and then read minus 2.0 degrees. At this point no dew was observed on Regnault's hygrometer when cooled down to minus 30 degrees. Up to this time I had taken observations with comfort and experienced no difficulty in breathing, whilst Mr. Coxwell, in consequence of the exertions he had to make, had breathed with difficulty for some time. Having discharged sand we ascended still higher. The aspirator became troublesome to work and I also found a difficulty in seeing clearly. At one hour 51 minutes the barometer read 10.8 inches. About one hour 52 minutes or later I read the dry bulb thermometer as minus 5 degrees. After this I could not see the column of mercury in the wet bulb thermometer, nor the hands of the watch, nor the fine divisions on any instrument. I asked Mr. Coxwell to help me to read the instruments. In consequence, however, of the rotary motion of the balloon which had continued without ceasing since leaving the earth, the valve line had become entangled and he had to leave the car and mount into the ring to readjust it. I then looked at the barometer and found its reading to be 19.75 inches, still decreasing fast, implying a height exceeding 29,000 feet. Shortly after I laid my arm upon the table, possessed of its full vigor, but on being desirous of using it I found it powerless. It must have lost its power momentarily. Trying to move the other arm I found it powerless also. Then I tried to shake myself and succeeded, but I seemed to have no limbs. In looking at the barometer my head fell over my left shoulder. I struggled and shook my body again, but could not move my arms. Getting my head upright for an instant only, it fell on my right shoulder. Then I fell backwards, my back resting against the side of the car and my head on its edge. In this position my eyes were directed to Mr. Coxwell in the ring. When I shook my body I seemed to have full power over the muscles of the back, and considerably so over those of the neck, but none over either my arms or my legs. As in the case of the arms, so all muscular power was lost in an instant from my back and neck. I dimly saw Mr. Coxwell and endeavored to speak, but could not. In an instant intense darkness overcame me so that the optic nerve lost power suddenly, but I was still conscious, with as active a brain as at the present moment whilst writing this. I thought I had been seized with asphyxia and believed I should experience nothing more as death would come unless we speedily descended. Other thoughts were entering my mind when I suddenly became unconscious as ongoing to sleep. I cannot tell anything of the sense of hearing as no sound reaches the air to break the perfect stillness and silence of the regions between six and seven miles above the earth. My last observation was made at one hour fifty-four minutes above twenty-nine thousand feet. I supposed two or three minutes to have elapsed between my eyes becoming insensible to seeing fine divisions and one hour and fifty-four minutes, and then two or three minutes more to have passed till I was insensible, which I think therefore took place about one hour fifty-six minutes or fifty-seven minutes. Whilst powerless I heard the words temperature and observation, and I knew Mr. Coxwell was in the car speaking to and endeavouring to rouse me. Therefore consciousness and hearing had returned. I then heard him speak more emphatically but could not see, speak, or move. I heard him again say, do try, now do. Then the instruments became dimly visible. Then Mr. Coxwell, and very shortly I, saw clearly. Next I arose in my seat and looked around as though waking from sleep, though not refreshed, and said to Mr. Coxwell, I have been insensible. He said, you have, and I too very nearly. I then drew up my legs which had been extended and took a pencil in my hand to begin observations. Mr. Coxwell told me that he had lost the use of his hands, which were black, and I poured brandy over them. I resumed my observations at two hours seven minutes, recording the barometer reading at eleven point five three inches, and temperature minus two degrees. It is probable that three or four minutes passed from the time of my hearing the words temperature and observation till I began to observe. If so, returning consciousness came at two hours four minutes p.m., and this gives seven minutes for total insensibility. I found the water in the vessel supplying the wet bulb thermometer, one solid mass of ice, though I had by frequent disturbances kept it from freezing. It did not all melt until we had been on the ground some time. Mr. Coxwell told me that while in the ring he felt it piercingly cold that whorefrost was all around the neck of the balloon and that on attempting to leave the ring he found his hands frozen. He had therefore to place his arms on the ring and drop down. When he saw me he thought for a moment that I had lain back to rest myself and he spoke to me without eliciting a reply. He then noticed that my legs projected and my arms hung down by my side and saw that my countenance was serene and placid without the earnestness and anxiety he had observed before going into the ring. Then it struck him that I was insensible. He wished to approach me but could not and when he felt insensibility coming over him too he became anxious to open the valve. But in consequence of having lost the use of his hands he could not do this. Ultimately he succeeded by seizing the cord with his teeth and dipping his head two or three times until the balloon took a decided turn downward. No inconvenience followed my insensibility and when we dropped it was in a country where no conveyance of any kind could be obtained so I had to walk between seven and eight miles. During the descent which was at first very rapid the wind was easterly. To check the rapidity of the descent sand was thrown out at two hours and thirty minutes. The wet bulb seemed to be free from ice at this time but I held the bulb between my thumb and finger for the purpose of melting any ice remaining on it or the connecting thread. The readings after this appeared correct. That took place in the center of a large grass field belonging to Mr. Cursall at Cold Weston seven miles and a half from Ludlow. I have already said that my last observation was made at a height of twenty nine thousand feet. At this time one hour fifty four minutes we were ascending at the rate of one thousand feet per minute and when I resumed observations we were descending at a rate of two thousand feet per minute. These two positions must be connected taking into account the interval of time between this thirteen minutes. And on these considerations the balloon must have attained the altitude of thirty six thousand or thirty seven thousand feet. Again a very delicate minimum thermometer read minus eleven point nine degrees and this would give a height of thirty seven thousand feet. Mr. Cursall on coming from the ring noticed that the center of the aneroid barometer its blue hand and a rope attached to the car were all in the same straight line and this gave a reading of seven inches and leads to the same result. Therefore these independent means all lead to about the same elevation this fully seven miles. In this ascent six pigeons were taken up. One was thrown out at the height of three miles when it extended its wings and dropped like a piece of paper. The second at four miles flew vigorously round and round apparently taking a dip each time. The third was thrown out between four and five miles and it fell downwards as a stone. A fourth was thrown out at four miles on descending. It flew in a circle and shortly alighted on top of the balloon. The two remaining pigeons were brought down to the ground. One was found to be dead and the other a carrier was still living but would not leave the hand when I attempted to throw it off till after a quarter of an hour it began to peck at a piece of ribbon with which its neck was encircled. It was then jerked off the finger and shortly afterwards flew with some vigor towards Wolverhampton. One of the pigeons returned to Wolverhampton on Thursday the 7th and it was the only one I ever heard of. In this ascent on passing out of the clouds there was an increase of nine degrees and then there was no interruption in the decrease of temperature till the height of 15,000 feet was reached when a warm current of air was entered which continued to 24,000 feet after which the regular decrease of temperature continued to the highest point reached. On descending the same current was again met with between 22,000 and 23,000 feet. A similar interruption but to a greater amount was experienced till the balloon had descended to about the same height in which it was reached on ascending. After this, no further break occurred in the regular increase of temperature the sky being clear till the descent was completed. From the general agreement of the results as observed by Regnault's hygrometer and those of the dew point as found by the dry and wet bulb thermometers there can be no doubt that the temperature of the dew point at height succeeding 30,000 feet must have been as low as minus 50 degrees below the zero of Fahrenheit scale or 82 degrees below the freezing point of water implying that the air was very dry. End of travels in the air Chapter 3 A Sense from Wolverhampton, September 5, 1862 by James Glacier


Welcome to a demo of the new features of the Certified OpenStack Administrator exam. As of June 2017, the exam is offered on the Newton release of OpenStack and has three new key features that we'll be walking through today. First is easier access to OpenStack documentation. When you start the exam, you'll see a prompt letting you know that you can open a new tab for docs.openstack.org. Keep this open throughout the duration of the exam and refer back to it whenever you need to. Second is easier discovery of all the resources you need for the exam. When you start the exam, you will be in the student folder in the home directory. Inside this folder are all the resources that will be referred to throughout the exam. This includes the OpenRC files you will need for certain tasks clearly marked in their own folder. Third is the addition of a question navigation menu. Previously, you could only move one question at a time with the arrows on the left side of the screen. Now we've added a full menu that lets you skip to any question at any time. We recommend that you still answer the questions in order, but now you can go backwards and forwards much easier if you need to. To find out more about the COA or to register for the exam, visit openstack.org.coa.


Okay, so here you can see a reaction sequence. Notice we have cyclopentenol and we have a two-step reaction sequence, okay? This two-step reaction sequence going from an alcohol to an ether, right? What is the name of this sequence called, or this reaction sequence? Williams and Ether. Yeah, that's the Williams and Ether, okay? So remember, Williams and Ether, right, you're going to have the sodium hydride, and then after that you're going to react that with your alkyl iodide, okay? So what we're going to do now is we're going to draw the mechanism of this reaction, okay? So recall, again, just like I always say when we're about to draw a mechanism, we're going to erase everything except for the active ingredients, okay? We're going to want to expand the portions that the reaction mechanism is reacting on, okay? The arrows are going to be kind of coordinated. So I'm going to erase this. In fact, I know what this thing is going to be making, but make sure you're always aware of kind of, you know, your end goal. You know, because this is kind of like you're going from one place to some destination. So if I'm saying going from home to school or something like that, and I forget after I leave home where I'm going, right, then I'll just be driving around forever not knowing where I'm going, okay? I'm not going anywhere, okay? So if we don't remember what the product is, we probably won't get it right, okay, the mechanism. So the other thing we want to do, not only expand this structure, but I also like to draw in my lone pair of electrons because that oftentimes helps me. So what is the name of this? This is a salt, right? Okay, what is the name of this salt or ionic compound? Yeah, sodium hydride. And the sodium, does that do anything in this reaction? Uh-huh, it's the hydride portion, right? What does a hydride have that's different than an actual hydrogen hydride? A negative charge and another electron, right? That's how you get your negative charge. So remember, the sodium, it just kind of is a spectator ion, so just the hydride is what we're really going to draw, okay? We can draw the sodium out there, so we can draw our kind of intermediate if you want to. Hydride is a hydrogen with a negative charge and two electrons, so that's the way I like to draw it. And is there an acidic hydrogen over here? Does anybody see one? Yes, we do. On the oxygen, yes, the alcohol proton. So what's going to happen? The hydride is going to deprotonate the alcohol proton. These electrons are going to go to that oxygen there, making the alkoxide a anion, okay? So just like I always say, I'm not doing this because I don't know how to write the mechanism. I'm doing this for you, okay? So if you're not drawing, probably not the best use of your time at this point in time. I would suggest you draw. Okay, so everybody by now should have been able to draw the product. Do you have it? So draw it out and see if what you drew is the same thing that I drew, okay? So did you draw that? Okay, wonderful. We've got our sodium ion, so we can think of a kind of coordinating around there a little bit, not that there's an actual bond or anything, okay? And what else did we make in this reaction? H2. H2, remember. So remember, when we're doing this reaction in the lab, we're going to add the sodium hydride until we stop seeing the what? The hydrogen bubbles coming up, okay? So that H2, I'm going to put like a little arrow like it flies away, okay? Oftentimes you'll see that in an organic reaction. So that thing's not there anymore, okay? So that's the end of the first step of the reaction, okay? So remember, THF, what was THF doing in there? Why didn't we use that? THF. What is THF normally used for? Like I told you about a thousand times. What did I say about THF? Nobody to solve it. So that says an all-or-a-protex solvent, very good. So if you didn't write that down, right, that would have been something that you should write down. That's one of those things that I'm saying like I know. If you didn't write it down when I said, now I'm asking you again, right? That's going to be a wrong answer if it was on a test. So write it down. Okay, so why didn't we show THF in this mechanism? Don't do anything. It's just like the media that the reaction is being performed in, okay? So the second step is what? We have this salt with the sodium there. But the sodium, again, is just kind of a spectator, okay? So we have this and we're reacting it with methyl iodide, okay? So methyl iodide, CH3i, okay? Of course, this is a primary alkyl halide with, well, it's a methyl alkyl halide. So even more reactive than the primary, right? With a really good leading group. Remember, iodide is the best of the, or the best of the allergens to be a leading group. So it's going to happen. Very good. The SN2 reaction. Okay, just like that. We can even write SN2 to remind us. And what do we get at the end? What's the name of the functional group that we're about to draw? SN3. Very good. So we get this E3 here. And of course, what you'll see in the bottom of your reaction class is sodium iodide, the salt. So some white, you know, from the bottom of your reaction class. You'll be spinning it around. So that would be your final product. This is the Williams and E. Any questions about this? Okay, wonderful. I expect you to know all that stuff that I asked you. Okay, so check this one out again if you're having trouble. Okay.


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Good morning, everyone. I'm going to talk a little bit about a couple of example cases we have had when it comes to troubleshooting, some real-world issues and how we identified them and fixed them. To start with setting the stage, we were formerly known as City Network and ran the service called City Cloud. Nowadays, we're known as Clura. We're running multi-region public clouds, a number of them, as well as some public cloud, private clouds, and a bunch of compliant clouds for users that have specific regulatory needs like finance, etc. We have been running OpenStack since IceHouse, and nowadays we're mostly on Sena in most of our environments. We use OpenStack Ansible for deployment, ML2 OVS for networking, and I work with architecture deployment and maintenance of our OpenStack setups. So, how do we get kind of reports? How do we know there are an issue to take a look at? Of course, classic monitoring. We might get an alert. Someone might get woken up in the middle of the night, and has to start troubleshooting due to our own monitoring systems, finding something. Also, there are a number of tests, of course. If we, for example, are doing changes, we can see that something happens during an upgrade, and have it to act on that. Also, there are logs that can both be monitored and also alerts, etc., can be generated from those logs. And user reports. We prefer to find things before the users find them, but in some cases, also, we get reports from customers that something is behaving in a strange way or not working at all. So, the first issue, the initial report here is that a user is trying to access a long Barbican secret from heat, and that leads to a heat error and an undelitable stack. And the user is using a heat template, injecting a Barbican secret, and writing that to a file, basically. Plain and simple. The client-side error that the user gets from heat is a data too long for column status reason. So, it looks like something is, that heat is trying to get to the client-side error. It's trying to shove something into MySQL that is too long. Then, we start taking a look at the service side logs. And there we can actually see two errors, two different errors. The first one there, data too long for column status reason is kind of the same thing we saw in the client-side error. And it points to MySQL problem or a problem that heat is trying to push something into MySQL that is too large. But we also see another error that is actually from Nova, which is a bad request. We're getting a 400 error from Nova that something is too long for the Nova API. And let's take a look at the limits there. When it comes to the status reason, that's a text. MySQL type text has a limit to 64k. And also documentation says that the provided user data, which we saw in the earlier slide that was, and Nova was complaining about being too long, it should not be basis 64 encoded because that will be automatically done. And the base 64 encoded result has a limit of 64k. Okay, so we're probably on to something here. So what's actually going on here? A request is sent to heat to spin up the stack. Heat attempts to create a Nova instance. Then, Nova fails to create the instance due to user data being too large, more than 64k after the base 64 encoding. So at this point, Nova will return an error to heat, which is pretty much what's seen there. And if you look at the value, that's the full base 64 encoded data, and then the full base 64 encoded data again within quotes. So heat in the intern attempts to shove this error that is now more than 130k characters into the status reason in the database, which as we saw earlier has 64k size limit, which doesn't work obviously. And MySQL complains about that and the stack ends up in a broken state. So what we actually had there was two separate issues. The user data that was provided by the user is too large, which is an error in itself. But while trying to report that error back, the status reason filled in the database is too small to be able to hold the entire error message from Nova. And heat doesn't truncate that error before inserting it into the database. At this point, we actually found an older bug that had been filed against heat, where the status reason field was actually increased a bit in size because it was too text, though, but still it's not too large enough for every case. So the solution in this case is just that the user shave off about 20k of comments from files in user data. So it comes below the 64k limit. And also we did report the heat bug that the reason field was too small and the status reason field was too small and probably should be increased in size or it should truncate whatever it's trying to put there before. So another one. At this time, we had an initial report after an upgrade from Victoria to Sina. And we were seeing, this was kind of seen from multiple locations. We were seeing it in our monitoring. We got customer reports and also as this was during an upgrade or right before people actually saw it in the logs real-time. So we were seeing flapping agents. Agents going up and down, both neutron agents as well as compute, nova compute, services. We saw intermittent API call failures, kind of what looked quite random. Sometimes just an API call wouldn't work or would time out or give an error. We also saw Octavia load balancers that went into error state for no apparent reason. And intermittent issues spinning up new instances, you could kind of send the API call there and try to spin it up but it would end up in error state instead of getting spun up as it should. So we start looking at some logs. And both in Octavia, the Octavia logs as well as nova logs, we start seeing it's database connection errors, often lost connections or lock-weight timeout exceeded, which kind of didn't make sense at the time but everything seems to point to MySQL. So we take a look at the MySQL logs and we see aborted connections, lots of them, from different service users. And with the error, we got an error reading communication packets. So it's basically lost the connection to the client and after a while times out and emits this error. So we kind of focus a lot on the database at this time. We're calling in our MySQL hotshots, looking into the database and the health of it, et cetera. We spend quite a lot of time on analysis there, performance tuning, et cetera. And we see quite a lot of long-running queries that are waiting for locks as also the previous error message indicated. We also see that those locks are generally held for the kind of default period of 50 seconds and then the lock is released and whatever was going on can continue. We also see some connections that actually time out rather than wait enough time for the locks. We try to fail over the database to another node. As this is a Galera cluster, we have three nodes available to see if it's some issue with a specific node. That doesn't help at all. Nothing changes. We start looking into HA proxy timeouts and try increasing those to see if that helps in any way to prevent errors. It doesn't. Right around this time, also something that is seen is an error in the logs of non-master nodes. We had kind of been focusing on the keep alive D master node at this time, but on the non-master nodes, we see intermittently it just enters a master state, directly receives a VRRP advert from the master and sees that it shouldn't be master and reenters backup state. So, yeah, it's going from backup state, master state, and then back to backup state. This kind of indicates that we're missing some VRRP packets from the master that the backup nodes doesn't see those as it should. And we start thinking there are kind of two hypothesis that either it's lost on the network on the way or it's not being sent in time by the master VRRP process. Keep alive the process. So, at this time, we fire up some TCP dumps. And this TCP dump is from the master node. So, we kind of know that what we see here is actually what the master keep alive D is sending it, and it can't get lost kind of over the network or the physical infrastructure. And as you can see there on the timestamps, intermittently we see multi-second delays in VRRP packages, packets from the master node. It actually doesn't send those in time. So, at this time, we kind of devise a workaround. We stop keeping live D on the backup nodes and only keep it running on the master node. So, the master node will always be master and nobody else is kind of able to be able to try to obtain master status. And this is also to test the hypothesis that this is the problem behind all the other issues. And there we see that, yes, when we stop keeping live D on the backup nodes, everything seems to be working fine. We get rid of the excessive locks in MySQL and we get rid of the lost connections. And, yeah, everything pretty much works fine. So, at this time, we focus on keep alive D. First of all, kind of the issue that occurred, what it meant when the backup node actually got to master state was that suddenly some of the packets from a connection that was ongoing went to the backup node instead. And the backup node then dropped the IP and you would probably get some resets of connections, et cetera, as it flapped. But, yeah, keep alive D. What was interesting here was that the keep alive D configuration had not been changed during the update. So, nothing there was changed. We also tried, yeah, and keep alive D was how we upgraded the version of keep alive D. We tried to reproduce the issue in a test environment and with the same configuration. But that wasn't possible. We just couldn't reproduce it. So, we tried to figure out what was different there. At this time, when looking at the logs, we also see another issue. For historical reasons, what we actually see in the logs is that we're seeing collisions, VRRP collisions, ID collisions, but with an incorrect password, which means that keep alive D should just discard those and, well, not care about them as the password is different for the VRRP. But for historical reasons, we do have a layer two connections between the management networks of two of those regions, which this was one of them. This had been going on for a long time, so it wasn't anything new and it had never caused any issues before. Yeah, the same VRRP virtual router ID was used in both regions, but the password was different. So, in this case, we tried to change the VR ID in this environment and restart keep alive D on the backups to see if that is the issue or not. And this issue doesn't reappear, so that was actually the issue. In this case, it seems like the keep alive D upgrade actually changed the behavior somewhat. And that is probably bugging keep alive D that we intend to report. But in this case, the workaround of actually changing the VRRP router ID was the easiest way out. So, the cause, the virtual router ID was not unique between installations. And the upgrade of keep alive D changed this behavior and obviously different password was not enough anymore. So, the solution is just to ensure that we have unique VR IDs in all environments that are connected through L2 or any other way, which kind of we should have had anyway, but as it hadn't caused any issues before, it wasn't that way. So, some general resources for troubleshooting, we often look at monitoring. I mean, that's kind of the generic classic style monitoring, different tests that are run, and we get alerts if something is submissed or something unexpected happens. And that's kind of one of the most common ways to both get the alert that something is wrong, as well as a resource during troubleshooting to be able to see what parts of our environments are not working as expected. Also, we extensively use logs, both kind of automatically analyze them and see animalities, and as well as using them as a tool during the troubleshooting phases. And we kind of most often find whatever is wrong there. Also, there is a bunch of metrics that we can use. I mean, everything from performance to a number of errors in different environments, et cetera, can be used to kind of see that something is going on in an environment that is not expected or normal. Another really useful tools for troubleshooting is, of course, the bug databases of the different projects that we use, OpenStack projects or operating systems or whatever. And also, and good resources are the mailing lists. Both searching the archive, see if someone has seen an issue before, as well as asking on the mailing list if there is something that hasn't been seen before and you need some help or assistance with figuring out what's going on. And people are usually very helpful. Also, the IRC channels can be really recommended for different projects. People there also seem to be very helpful and you usually can get a lot of help there even if you're not sure it's actually a bug or so, but to get another view on the problem. And also, a recommendation if this is something you should report as a bug or if it's kind of intended behavior or rather probably a configuration error or whatever. Yes, that's about it. And I would like to be able to take any questions from you. And there is a mic there where you can ask the questions if you want. Okay, thank you very much.