One of my favorite things to do is speculate about the future of Nintendo, be it sales, games, theories about specific games, or just in general have a nice chat about something we definitively do not know enough about just yet. Today, I want to take a different spin on this idea, and speculate about the woulda, coulda, shoulda scenario. We all know the story of the Wii U by now, and no matter what metric you look at or what reasons you think it failed to be a big seller was, reality is I think something else could have happened that maybe would have provided a very different outlook for Nintendo. What if instead of releasing the Wii U as a new generation system at the end of 2012, it instead released a Wii HD during Holiday 2010. It's a very interesting prospect, and it's something that the much maligned Michael Pachter said Nintendo should have done many times over again the past 10 years, but it never happened. What if it did though? We'd be looking at a much different Nintendo today, at least in my opinion. The Wii itself was a smashing success, 100 million units, a 9 to 1 game to console attach ratio, and the system itself literally made Nintendo billions of dollars. It is the best selling Nintendo home console ever made. It is also the only console of its generation to not be an HD, which allowed it to sell at a much lower price than the competition. This made sense in 2006, when HD TVs had a less than 50% penetration into the home environment. By 2010 however, that penetration had reached over 75% of homes in the United States, and the 360 and PlayStation 3 really started to reap the benefits of that fact. While Wii sales had already been declining pretty rapidly, the 360 and PlayStation 3 both had strong sales in 2010, 2011, 2012, and even 2013. I feel this is largely based on a number of factors, including HD support, DVD playback, and of course, software support. We all know Nintendo's software support really fell off a ledge after 2009, and by 2010, many third parties were also ready to be done with the system too. The fad of motion controls on a cheap family friendly box was seemingly coming to an end. The Wii, brand, and momentum was almost over. However, if instead of the Wii U, Nintendo released a Wii HD in 2010, the story of that generation and even Nintendo's future could have been very different. Just the concept of a Wii HD in 2010 would have been very attractive to the marketplace. The promise of Wii games in HD is great. Nintendo could have literally released the Wii U hardware without the gamepad at a very affordable price range that would have fell in line with the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 at that time. It would have had an easily understood name in the marketplace, and better yet, an easy to understand concept. You are now getting an HD Wii. Now this delivery wouldn't have been easy. Nintendo would have needed to create at least 720p, if not ideally 1080p texture packs for all of their released Wii titles, and made it easy for third parties to do this too. But imagine a world where Nintendo did just that. Free HD texture updates to the entire Wii library people already know. You not only could still bring in a new consumer base, you convert a large chunk of the already existing Wii audience who are ready for gaming in HD in the first place. In addition, all future Nintendo game releases would also support the Wii and the Wii HD with the texture pack being the only difference. More importantly, you're far enough removed from the start of that current generation that a looming Xbox One and PlayStation 4 would be far enough off on the horizon as to not overshadow the device. And that means that full AAA third party support would have made a lot of sense. It also wouldn't be a whole new generation of hardware. This is akin to a PlayStation 4 Pro situation last year, except in a scenario for Nintendo were actually made even more sense than it does today, since there is such a low penetration level of 4K TVs, especially back in 2016. Also, if Nintendo really loved that gamepad concept, it would have made more sense as an accessory you could buy with the Wii HD on the side, or maybe as a higher priced bundle. Who knows, maybe that would change the entire viewpoint of the gamepad itself. Anyways, with AAA multi-platform games on board and Nintendo's very best Wii titles getting what would feel like a fresh coat of paint and a second life, Wii HD would have prolonged an already amazingly successful brand name and sales to a tune were cumulative between the Wii and the Wii HD. It may have outsold the PlayStation 2 and kept Nintendo's brand and consumer loyalty around in plenty of time to release their next device to coincide with the rest of the industry, either in 2013 at the same time or even a year later in 2014. Of course, we all know this didn't happen, and if it did, it's possible the Nintendo Switch never exists. It's also possible that the Nintendo Switch may have still existed anyways and could have launched as soon as 2014 when the Tegra X1 came into existence and long before anyone even thought a PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X would even be a thing. While it would still be underpowered and maybe even launch at a $50 higher price tag, you would have carried a lot of that Wii audience into the launch hype, like Sony did with the PlayStation 4 coming out of the PlayStation 3 era. You would have also been positioned to potentially release a new Switch in 2017 with the Tegra X2 and 4K output for those that want that, or if nothing else, to help put the system on par with the standard PlayStation 4, something perfectly acceptable in 2017 especially for a portable. Alas, that's not the way the cookie crumbled, and as I noted, it's possible if the Wii HD blew up that the Nintendo Switch may not even have been conceived in the first place. Of course, I bring this to your folks' laps. With Nintendo with the Wii HD route in 2010, as I described above, what do you think would have happened? Do you think it would have changed their forecast? Would we have gotten the Switch sooner, later, or not at all? How would the gaming landscape change, or would it not change at all? More importantly, do you like this what if style of video? Let me know in the comments below. As always, I am Nathaniel Rufflejantz from Nintendo Prime. If you liked this video, you know what to do. If you disliked it, hit that dislike button. Subscribe for more videos like this. And hey, if you really love what we do, we do have a patreon at patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime where you can submit as little as $1 to us per month just to show your love for our content, or $5 to gain early access to our podcast. And we have stretch goals there that allow us to create more video series and make our podcast more regular and even launch a second podcast that talks about a little bit more than just Nintendo. Hey, even though we're Nintendo Prime, we understand. There's more going on in the industry, right? Anyways, I will see you guys in the next one.


So we have some exciting developments going on over at King's Island. All of you already know that Firehawk is being removed, and that's pretty divided. A lot of people are really excited, a lot of people are really upset, but we all know that good things are coming, and it looks like good things are coming soon. So for anyone that checked out the camps today, excavation was going on over far behind Banshee, and the area is very interesting. So the area is actually pretty close to where Firehawk is being removed, and if you connect the two areas, it's in the form of what could be a BNM layout, and more specifically a BNM gigalayout. I know that's a wild stretch we're reaching here, but it definitely looks like an out-and-back coaster could easily fit between Firehawk and this new area of excavation. So that's pretty exciting, I thought I would definitely share the footage for you guys, for those that haven't checked the camps or don't know, but things are definitely shaping up to be really interesting. I'm super excited to see what King's Island has in store for 2020, and I'm sure anyone going to the park in 2019 is going to have an amazing time watching the construction project for whatever is coming in 2020. But it looks like over the next week or two, or for now on, you'll be able to see a bit of action on the camps. I know this area has seen a bit of action before. I think they actually use this as kind of like a junkyard right now. They just throw whatever back there, like bricks, I think, even is what they typically store back there. But the area that it's located in correlation to Firehawk has me thinking that a BNM coaster of some sort, more specifically a BNM giga is coming to King's Island in 2020.  So I definitely want to hear from you guys down below. Do you think this is early signs of construction and a coaster coming to King's Island and more specifically what kind of coaster do you think is coming to King's Island? Comment down below. I want to hear from you guys. Don't forget to give the video a like, subscribe if you haven't, and share this video for others to enjoy. Thanks so much for watching, guys. Have a good one. Bye.


Breaking news coming out of the sports world. The match will have another epic clash on the golf course. This time, two OGs taking on two young bucks. Tom and Aaron will represent for the OGs against Josh Allen and Patrick Mahome at the Win Las Vegas June 1st, 6.30 PM Eastern time, available on TNT. Now, how does this not become a six hour affair where everybody tries to fall and not fall asleep at the end? Well, it's a good start with the 12 holes. They'll probably do where the first six will be their own ball, and then maybe they like they did with Phil and Tom and them. Two amateurs here, no pros golfing in the match. AJ, your first thoughts? We don't care nearly as much about good golf players we do like good banter to see all these four stud quarterbacks talk and see how they go back and forth at each other. The build up to this is going to be great. Yeah. June 1st, I mean, it's not too far away. That's cool.


Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he shall turn the heart of the parents to the children and the heart of the children to their parents lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." This passage of Scripture from Malachi mandates much of the impetus for the ritual and covenant work done on behalf of deceased people in LDS temples. This temple work can create a connection forged in faith across generations that can heal hearts, challenge minds to think bigger as we make room for all and invite them in. I think this spirit of Elijah can go further and not only heal the hearts and challenge the minds of generations separated by the grave, but also do so across the generations of the living, especially as we consider how parents are called to turn their hearts to their children. And this may be especially important if we seek to resurrect and redeem the faith of rising generations. In Mormonism, the arrow of salvation points in both directions of time. G.K. Chesterton in his 1908 book Orthodoxy describes democracy as the project of reconciling ancient wisdom with modernity and identifies one way in which the hearts and minds of the dead live on today. He says, tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.  All Democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth. Tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. We will have the dead at our councils. The ancient Greeks voted by stones, these shall vote by tombstones. Joseph Smith spoke on the passage from Malachi saying of the parents that they without us cannot be made perfect, neither can we without our dead be made perfect. And that our dispensation should seek a whole and complete and perfect union and welding together dispensations. Whether using the language of democracy or salvation, what's been described here is a healthy balance and ongoing reconciliation of the hearts and minds of the dead and dying with the hearts and minds of the living. To do this, we must seek out our dead. Those spirits live on in this world in the artifacts left behind them. Their books, songs, poems, buildings, documents, laws, customs, traditions, religions, worship, triumphs, failures, and even within us in our own bodies, hearts, and minds. Redeeming our dead from these artifacts takes the whole effort of the human race. Literary scholarship breathes life into their words. Musicians perform their music. Archaeologists build in their styles. Lawyers uphold their laws. Historians chronicle their lives. Anthropologists revive their relics. Historians clerics teach their faith and morality, et cetera, et cetera. All of these disciplines can provide access to the hearts and minds of the dead in a very real way. These are democratizing the dead and prototyping a resurrection. But this is, again, only one side of that spirit of Elijah. Focusing only on our dead can neglect the hearts of the living like gerrymandering the districts of time. Inherited literature, inherited literature, music, artifacts, laws, faith, culture, and so forth, each face new and sometimes unimagined realities today and into the future. And while the wisdom and hearts and minds of the dead can endure, tradition and norms are a bit like manna. They spoil after time.  As Greg Prince noted in his about LDS norms in his Sterling McMurran lecture, he says, not a single significant LDS doctrine has gone unchanged through the entire history of the church. As a generation forges its own path, it can turn to the previous generations for wisdom in how they gathered their manna. In their day, what sustained them? What dangers did they face as they gathered their own manna? What was the struggle like? How could they tell what they gathered was good? And how could these things have changed? Some of what will be gathered today will be familiar to the past, but some will be foreign, especially if one's palate has gotten used to stale and expiring manna. A related concept attributed to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, it was brought to the West largely by Carl Jung and is even applicable to mathematical models of chaos is enantiodromia, which is a phenomenon that describes the tendency of systems, concepts, beliefs to transform into their opposites. Ascending a mountain eventually requires descending. Pendulum swing, righteous can fall. The falling can be redeemed. Ecosystems vacillate. Ideologies can transform into their own opposites, et cetera. And Carl Jung described this concept as the principle which governs all cycles of natural life, physical or psychological. And this concept is visualized in models like here, like Lorenz attractors. We can see this theme in the Book of Mormon, not just with Lehi and his sermons on opposites, but repeated in the accounts given in the Book of Mormon. There's a religious awakening. People rally around it, think Nephi in First Temple, King Benjamin, Alma the Elder, Fourth Nephi. It provides spiritual unity and strength. But generations later, the rising generation is described as wicked or hardened. One way to read this, a common way, indeed a way that some of the own Book of Mormon authors and voices do read, is that clearly it's all about these youngsters, they just don't get it. They're lazy, wicked sinners. Certainly some of each generation are indeed lazy, wicked or sinners. But to accept that as the whole explanation seems too much like the dead tyrannizing the living. I think another side of the story is that past awakenings were largely oriented towards the problems and conditions faced in the past. As the conditions needs, challenges and contexts of younger generations change, merely sustaining frameworks exactly as they were, not only loses its power in some ways, but can become problematic. Turning the hearts of the parents away from the present needs of the children and the hearts of the children away from an increasingly foreign world of their parents. This is an example of an anti-adromia. Overzealous unity creates disunity. Conformity, nonconformity. Abraham Heschel, Joshua Heschel in his book, God in Search of Man, a Philosophy for Judaism, articulated this problem often as it presents itself today. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit, when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past, when faith becomes an heirloom rather than as a living fountain, when religion speaks only the name of authority rather than with a voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. So how might the hearts of the mothers and fathers turn to the children to establish faith as a loving, living fountain coming from within their own children? And how can this lead to the reciprocation of the hearts of the children turning to transfigure and redeem that which their parents cherished? The start is to be aware of the challenges of rising generation is faced with. 2015 Pew Research Center study finds that while spirituality is no less important to millennials than prior generations, religious affiliation rates, particularly across Christian affiliations, are declining. Meanwhile, religious non-affiliation is rising. In an independent study, 33% of millennials identified as religiously unaffiliated. And recently, in Janerice's next Mormon survey, has found growing cohorts of young Mormons for whom the pillars of Mormonism have instead become an anathema. For many, the comfort of correlation has multiplied into the crushing weight of conformity. Strict standards of safety have also birthed a culture of judgment. Truth claims have formed into a contentious wedge. The veneration of leaders can slide into idol worship. And the centrality of traditional family has defined a capricious periphery. For many, 64% of Mormon millennials in that survey who have left, the manna has spoiled. One temptation again is to simply blame it on millennials or whoever the rising generation is. They're lazy, entitled, irresponsible, naive, and are sinners. This is not dissimilar from what the silent generation has said about the boomer generation who were spoiled, war-long hair, protested war, challenged racial or gender norms, all while listening to noisy music that rotted their brains. Much of this is the age-old pattern of generation wars. There's great wisdom in the preacher's words in Ecclesiastes. Do not say, why were the former days better than these, or does not from wisdom that you ask this? Generational friction is a regular part of humanity, and religion intentionally operates in this friction. Can we see friction in our own LDS culture, which can simultaneously praise rising generations as being righteously reserved for this age, while also writing them off as lazy, spoiled, or weak? I believe this spirit of Elijah can point us at a better way as generations turn their hearts towards one another, see how God is speaking through generations old and new. Two examples from the Book of Mormon are informative here. First is to see how Nephi navigated and affected generational change. Nephi seems to have navigated a balance of how to carry forward the old with the needs of the new. He said, I, Nephi, have not taught my children after the manner of the Jews, but behold, I myself have dwelt at Jerusalem, wherefore I know concerning the regions around about. But behold, I proceed with my own prophecy concerning, according to my own plainness, handed down unto my seed from generation to generation, not withstanding. We believe in Christ. We keep the law of Moses, and look forward to his steadfastness in Christ until the law shall be fulfilled. His use of the word not withstanding shows an understanding that there was a need to move from some of the inherited traditions towards something new, while also preserving the good of that inheritance. This was not an either or choice. Nephi points to the enduring foundation he seeks to place his rising generations on in the society he's leading. We were all familiar with this, right? Talk of Christ, preach of Christ. Why? That our children may know what source they may look for or mission of their sins. Later in the Book of Mormon, Jesus promises that whoso buildeth on his doctrine, which he describes as faith, repentance, baptism, living by that spirit, buildeth upon my rock. He then immediately warns that whoso shall declare more or less than this and establish it for my doctrine the same cometh of evil and is not built on my rock. But buildeth on a sandy foundation. Perhaps each new generation needs to return to this foundation in order to repair and renovate what has been built before to adapt to changing needs. In doing so, each generation will need to carefully distinguish between the foundation of Christ and the traditions built upon that foundation. Later being prepared themselves to allow others to further restore and renovate to new conditions. When we confuse our traditions for Christ's gospel foundation, we fail to follow the words of Christ here. Second example in the Book of Mormon is also from the description of Jesus' ministry to the Nephites. After announcing himself to them, delivering a sermon, he begins to heal their sick. After those things, he turns toward his attention, the people's attention towards their children. He spake to the multitude and said to them, behold your little ones. And as they look to behold, they cast their eyes toward heaven and they saw in the heavens, they saw the heavens open, they saw angels descending out of heaven as it were in the midst of fire and they came down and encircled those little ones about and they were encircled about with fire and the angels did minister to them. The symbolism here asks powerful questions. What does it mean to behold our little ones? Do we trust them that they can adapt their faith to the unique issues they face today? How did our facing unique issues in our generation require trust and support from prior generations? Do we behold them and let them lead in their own religious awakenings as they gather fresh manna? Do we support them in the renovations, repairs and restorations they seek to build on this same foundation of faith in Christ? Do we allow them to be encircled with the yearning and burning witness of the spirit, even if it leads to things we never imagined? And are our attitudes towards and interactions with them worthy of this kind of ministering? And before Jesus ascended into heaven from the Nephites, he gave authority to their children. And it reads, it came to pass that he did teach and minister to the children of the multitude whom he had been spoken and he did lose their tongues and they did speak unto their fathers great and marvelous things, even greater than he had revealed unto the people and he lost their tongues that they could utter. Are we cultivating environments where our children can lose their tongues? Are we willing to listen to what they have to say? What things might we be doing to bind their words and spirits? Is some of what our children say marvelous, even greater than what has been revealed? Could God be speaking through our children things which we have been unable to utter? Are we willing to listen? To be sure, not everything novel and rising generations will be good. Neither was it in past generations. Each generation faces, creates and perpetuates their own demons. But atrophy and disillusion pose a threat too. In the book, Next Mormon's Janerises Survey and Interview Data, largely corroborated by other independent researchers, shows over and over that insistence on traditional family norms increasingly poses a threat to the engagement of rising generations. She asks, the question ahead of the LDS Church as it moves further to the 21st century is how far is it willing to accommodate new social norms? If the risk of not doing so is that in the United States at least, the substantial percentage of its young people may exit the doors. Is that a cost the church is willing to deem unacceptable changing its course to stem the tide or will those exiles be considered necessary? Collateral damage as the institution clings to its post-war brand identity and a religion devoted to a particular configuration of a nuclear family. Pope Francis has been pondering the engagement of youth as well. He said, a church always on the defensive which loses her humility and stops listening to others which leaves no room for questions, loses her youth, turns into a museum. How then will she be prepared to respond to the dreams of young people? Rather than see our religious duties merely perpetuating what we've inherited, we can see how we can transfigure it and we can turn to the youth to do so. How young was Joseph Smith when he had his first vision? How young was Samuel? How young was Jesus in the temple? By turning our hearts to generations and their own awakenings, we may even be able to join them and redeem us in us the fire that encircles the human soul as it changes towards God. I'll maybe end with this quotes. As Adam Miller in his book, Future Mormon describes this work, he says, so much of our world deserves to be left. So much of it deserves to be scrapped and recycled but this too scares me. I worry that a lot of what has mattered most to me in this world, Mormonism in particular may be largely unintelligible to them in theirs. This problem isn't new but it is perpetually urgent. Every generation must start again. Every generation must work out their own salvation. Every generation must live its own lives and think its own thoughts and receive its own revelations. And if Mormonism continues to matter, it will be because they, rather than leaving, were willing to be Mormon all over again. Like our grandparents, like our parents and like us, they will have to rethink the whole tradition from top to bottom right from the beginning and make it their own in order to embody Christ anew in this passing world. To the degree that we can help, our job is to model that work in love and then offer them the tools, raw materials and the room to do it themselves. So just to close, how this will play out in the LDS church, I don't know. I have hope, I have loyalty. I also have pragmatism knowing the problems that we face. I think transhumanism can provide a language to bridge this generational divide as it tries to combine the authority and independence of science with the traditions that it can be redeemed. And I think religions that can do this and engage in this work in conversations like transhumanism may be able to be a moderating force from the dangers of both scientific and religious fundamentalism. In my experience, the Mormon Transhumance Association has been a model of this. Look around, we have male, female, we have progressive, we also have some conservative, we have Mormon, ex-Mormon, theists, atheists, gay, straight, all these different personas come together. So much of one another's worldviews deserves to be scrapped. But so much of one another's worldviews are also redeemable. And I think that as we, it's possible with this model of Elijah, which calls us to turn from the curse of cynicism and instead powerfully turn our generation's hearts towards one another and trust and love that we can transfigure together. Thank you.


Welcome to Monet Café, I'm artist Susan Jenkins bringing you a watercolor tutorial. You guys voted on many of my watercolor paintings and this is the one you chose, Spring Garden for me to create the first watercolor tutorial in April. And on this channel, if you've been a subscriber long, you've probably noticed there's a lot of pastel painting tutorials, but I happen to love watercolor as well. And over the years I've learned a lot being self-taught, so I think I can come about it with a fresh approach as I teach you how to paint in watercolor and some of its amazing qualities. And this video is all real time, so I hope you enjoy. Also I hope you will like this video, subscribe to this channel, and hit that bell icon to get notified of future videos. And I'm able to keep these free lessons coming because of the support from my patrons on my Patreon page. If you would like to consider becoming a patron, it's only $5 a month and you get extra goodies and extra content. Now let's talk about these supplies and I will change the angle soon so you can see a little bit better. Of course you'll need some water, it is watercolor. I like to use two containers of water, one to clean out the majority of the brush and then I can clean it further in the second jar. The brushes that I'll be using are mainly for this painting from the Princeton Art and Brush Company. These are some of my favorite watercolor brushes. This is the 40-50 round and this is the size 16. I believe I used also this size 10 probably for the majority of the painting that had smaller work. Now I also sometimes use a liner brush for finer lines or stems for flowers. And by the way, a lot of the products that you'll see me using in today's video tutorial will be on my Amazon shop. I have something called Idealist that I'm clicking right there. And there are categories of different types of art supplies. And I do have one category at the end there, watercolor products. In this list I have the paper that I used, which I'll talk about soon. I have the palette tray that I use and these Princeton watercolor brushes. Now the one I have in my Idealist, I believe it's a size 12, which is really a good size. Also it's the 40-50 round series. These work great for watercolor painting. Also it's always a good idea to have some paper towels handy when you're painting with watercolor. I can't tell you. You'll see how much I use these paper towels to blot my brushes sometimes to take excess paint off of the watercolor paper as well. Also you'll see me using a spritzer bottle to literally spray some water. This is not some sort of body spray from Victoria's Secret. I filled it up with water. I think a cup of coffee is pretty essential when you're painting. And also to set a mood to light a candle. I just love the experience of painting. The surface I'm using is an Arches watercolor block, also in my Amazon shop in the watercolor section. I do love the surface because it keeps the watercolor paper nice and flat. It's literally glued around the edges. I have a product tutorial video on this particular watercolor block if you're interested in how it even works. Now it is pretty pricey, so there are other options. This is a nice 9x12 Arches watercolor paper. And I really like the Arches brand, but use whatever you have. I do recommend 100% cotton papers. And what you see me doing here is taping off sections on this Arches watercolor block that happens to be a 12x16 inch size. I wanted to create a series of spring watercolor paintings. So what I did, I'm going to show you my measurements here. On the 16 inch side, I came over just a quarter of an inch to start my tape. And the tape is one inch wide.  And then I did the same thing going the other way. For the 12 inch side, I came in a quarter inch. I wanted a little border. That's why I did that. And then I made five inch sections that way. So each little section is four inches by five inches. And this is my Aqua Pro watercolor palette made by Mastersons. This is the bottom or the top, however you want to think about it. I actually use this part that I just put on, sometimes just as a large palette to mix paints on as well. Now I stress, use what you have. You don't even have to use tube paints. You can use a little watercolor set. So don't let some of these products intimidate you. I certainly couldn't afford some of these things when I first got started. I like to show that I do this with watercolor paint just like I do with pastels. I love to have a chart, a color guide of my colors. And I actually forgot to list a couple. So I'm going to do it right now. I love these micron markers. Sorry to talk about these products, but you guys are always asking me. I recently added these two new colors. This one was called, what was it called? It's such a pretty green. And then also an indigo cascade green. And I have a few examples in my list, my watercolor product list on my Amazon shop of some of the paints that I like. But if you're a patron of mine, remember how I talked about extra perks patrons, you will get an actual JPEG image of my watercolor palette chart here. I love to make little color notes. It's so helpful when you go into mix a color and you're like, how did I make that perfect terracotta color? So that's a really neat way to do that. Also I'm using unsplash.com for the reference image. I gathered together all kinds of little flower images for these watercolor paintings. And this one in particular happens to be a reference image from Brian Ring. He's from Indiana. It's a lovely, lovely image. Now it was the second one that you chose. So you see me covering up the first one I did. And you will get a tutorial on that one as well. But I had to protect the other parts of the watercolor paper. Here I'm using the little spritzer bottle. I've recently come to like this technique. I like really loose and impressionistic paintings, whatever medium I'm working in. So I find this little spritzer method works well. Now I believe I got, let me see here, what did I get? I believe I used a sap green and an azo green and it made a nice sort of an earthy green. And you can see I'm using my large 16 brush that I showed at the beginning. Now I'm grabbing some yellow. I believe that one was a Hansa yellow light, but whatever, whatever yellow you have. One thing I loved about this reference photo is how bright it was. It looked like spring when the sun is shining and everything is that really yellowy green. Notice I am dabbing on the color. I'm letting it do its thing. The little spritzer sections of water is just going to let it play. But I will be putting the reference image up here in a second so you can kind of see the method to my madness. I'm avoiding some of the larger flower heads that will be more of the focal point. Definitely those first few flowers as you come into the image. And I'm just laying down color in areas that I see it. Notice the water. This is look how watery that is. Now why would I do that? Because I want to lighten it up. I would say when you're first starting watercolor painting, this is how it was for me anyway, because one of the hardest things to learn is the water to paint ratio. And it changes based on what you're trying to accomplish. And when you're first getting started laying down your first applications of watercolor, I suggest to keep it pretty saturated with water. You want it to be loose. You don't want to get color that's too heavy too soon. Because one thing with watercolor paper, very different from pastel painting or oil or acrylic is you can't get the light back. I do have a little trick I'm going to show you at the end, but you can't get that brilliant light white like some of these flowers and some of the grasses. If you squint your eyes and look at the reference image, you can see the lightest thing is the sky and the distance. Then the next lightest thing is some of those distant grasses, kind of like where I'm painting right now. And also some of the flower heads, specifically the first ones coming in.  I actually get mine a little too dark in a little bit. And I'll show you a technique to really get that back a bit. But what I'm doing is I'm allowing the watercolor to do what it does so beautifully, which is to just find a way in the water that you've already sprayed down and I find it becomes kind of like a dance. You're in control to a degree. Like what I'm doing now, I used a paper towel to pull out some of the paint. I had gotten a little bit too much of that grain down, but you're in control, but you also want the watercolor and the water to have some spontaneity to it as well. And I really love that. Now I know that the darkest value in this area is this lower left corner where there are obviously lots of leaves and stems and flowers all in a mass together, but I still want to reserve or resist the urge to get too dark too soon. Now, one thing that does happen, the more you paint with watercolor, you'll realize as it dries, it's going to dry lighter. Already the areas that you can see are dry like that area. I said in the far distant right, uh, flat grass there. See how light it's already dried. So you learn about those things as you paint too. Now I'm using my paper towel technique. I got down some of the darker green, but notice there are a few little light areas where there's some little leaves where the light is catching it. So I just wiped out some of that. Now here's where I actually did after watching the video at the time. I didn't realize I was getting this a little, a little darker than I wanted. It's going to dry lighter, but I could have gone a little bit more, um, I don't know, a little bit more water to paint ratio. And have that first foreground flower a little bit lighter. Now I'm mixing some, one of my colors I love is Quinacridone, Nicolaiso gold with some yellow. I noticed there's one flower, um, the one that is kind of white, um, I have spaced out there is the red one. And these two I'm working on is this one right here is one that's behind the red flower. You can see in the reference image, it's a little further away. And there's another one in the distance, another kind of large yellow flower. Uh, I wanted to lighten that one up. I could tell that one looked a little dark. I'd also like to point out how I'm using my brush, my brush strokes. Notice how often I'm laying the brush on its side. Often when we start with watercolor painting, I know I did. I used the point of the brush and everything looked so overly detailed. Now I'm using a combination here of the cad orange with the Hansa yellow deep to get in some nice, uh, reddish oranges for this flower. Now, if you notice this particular flower, I think some of these might be zinnias too. I have a lot of you guys who helped me. You guys are flower experts. What this particular flower is, it might be a zinnias. Um, notice in that particular flower and all of them, really the darker values are underneath or where some of the pedals are keeping the lower pedals from receiving sunlight. So I, but, but the top pedals are lighter and then that center is really light with the yellow center. So, and I'm laying my brush literally in just the direction of the pedals. And I want to still keep this loose, but this flower is going to have more focal interest than some of the others. You'll see me develop them later. They look like blobs right now. Um, but now I'm using my paper towel to kind of blot out that center area. I did add a little yellow there as well. Now I'm going to work on this a little bit. And then I'm just going to let it dry. Later I will add more of the darker values underneath these, these pedals underneath. So don't get overly fussy, um, with getting too many of your light versus dark values in now, because you really need to let it dry a few of these layers. Let them dry, then come back after they're dry because they're just going to bleed into each other. Like mine kind of did with that red flower or orange flowers working on. So just let it dry and move on. And I'll say this is similar to pastel painting in that I'm still working on what I would call the blocking in stage. I'm trying to get my composition right where some of these flowers are, but I'm also trying to keep it nice and loose. But I know that I do need to get color everywhere. I'm, I'm blocking in where things are. Eventually you'll see me add the sky. But what happens is if you get too overly focused on one particular area, as I say with pastel painting as well, what you're going to lose is the continuity of the painting. It all working together, especially with values, because values and colors actually are dependent on what's next to it. So what ends up happening is as I go in and add darker values around some of these flowers, especially the ones in the foreground, they're going to all of a sudden look lighter when I add another layer of dark green around them. So that's why it's a good idea to work the overall composition.  And then let it dry and then start on your next layer, because these values will change as you add other elements to the painting. And also too, you can see, I'm just dabbing in where some of these flowers will be, and you can just use your reference image as a guide. They don't have to be perfect. Now I'm getting in the sky. Now I believe this was a Magnes blue. I wanted to use a blue that was a little bit more teal. I thought the sky would look better. This color versus like an aquamarine blue, like a blue blue. Now I believe I added a little bit, a teeny little bit of magenta to that Magnes blue to get a little purple. I often like a little bit of a purple color sometimes in the sky, especially where it's darker. If you look at the reference image, I don't know what's behind those flowers in the sky to the left, looks like a building or something. But I just went ahead and added a little bit of a darker value, which is like the purple that I said, I could have added ultramarine blue to that, maybe to the Magnes blue. But now I'm using, you'd see, I've almost got it all blocked in. So now I'm going in and adding some of those little spaces between some of those flower heads I've blocked in. Do you see how loose this is to begin with? I haven't gotten overly detailed with anything. And this is what's going to help keep the painting not looking like a paint by number. And that's exactly how I painted when I first started watercolor. I looked at other watercolor artists that had this nice, loose, impressionistic style, which I'm still working on, by the way. And I looked at what I was doing and I thought, what the heck? Didn't look anything like theirs. Now, I apologize, the shaky footage will stop in just a minute. I wanted you to see me adding. Now I'm going in. You see now how all of a sudden these values look so much darker whereas before the ones I put down before looks very dark. So that's why I say, let it dry, move on. Now I'm just going to get some of the stems. I'm using this big old brush and I knew these stems were a little bit larger. But I want to keep them kind of gestural. So see how I did a little quick, quick line down and make little breaks and little difference in angles when you make flower stems. And now I'm adding a little bit of more of a blue green to some of this background. I decided to make this, you can't see it in the reference image and it looks very warm. I wanted to push it back. So I know the rule of color temperature is that if things in the distance typically cool off, so I wanted them to have a little bit of a cooler greenish blue tone to them. And I add a little bit more of that down to the base of the bushes and where these stems are going down deep into the grasses, because that's what happens. It's going to be more shadowy and it's going to be a little bit of a darker value. I do go in and kind of connect to those things in a minute. But you can see how I'm filling in the blank spaces, still working on the overall composition. And this was really a lot of fun. I find watercolor painting is so relaxing. And I recommend if you're just getting started, do small studies. This one's pretty small, four by five, but just do small studies and even do exercises. I have a watercolor video. I think I make like these little watercolor caterpillars. And it's literally just an exercise in playing with color and seeing how the water and the watercolor behave, learning how much water to mix with paint, learning that it actually dries lighter. So playing is the best way to learn with this. And now you can see I'm adding a little bit, a little bit of that green on top of the kind of more bluish green I added before. And I did like how some of these other flowers in the distance seem to be popping up over those background bushy areas. And that was a lot of fun. And, you know, I don't consider myself a professional watercolor artist, but over the years, as I have grown to love this medium, like I said before, my first work was terrible. I didn't think I was going to like it, but the more I fiddled and played with it, I fell in love with it. And many of its qualities that I find is very unique to watercolor. Now, notice that foreground yellow flower is or it has areas in the petals that are darker if you squint your eyes. And I noticed they were almost like a brownish neutral color. And so, again, I'm not wanting to get so fastidious about everything being spelled out. But at the same time, I want to anatomically do you use anatomically with flowers? I know you do with animals be somewhat correct. You know, otherwise, it's going to look amateurish. So I'm just squinting my eyes and getting him in the general areas where there are some shadows. I did get this flower too dark. I realized after it dried, it was darker than it should have been. So again, I'm going to show you a little trick to lighten things up with watercolor. Usually you can't get the light back. And I don't think you can ever get it back the way it is originally when it has that. When I say get the light back, it's like in areas where you can still see the white of the paper showing through and it causes things to look bright, like the sun shining on them, like some of the areas, the orange areas of these petals of this flower. The more I add watercolor, the more I'm going to lose that luminosity of the paper showing through. But I did want this red flower to be more of the focal point. I felt like it was really just compositionally in the photo anyway. And I am striving to keep this nice and loose. And that's the style that I like the most. And I have the same habit with watercolor that I do with pastel is just to fiddle with something and fiddle. I think I'm just enjoying painting and I just don't walk away. So it's a good idea to walk away. Now, I'm adding a little bit of the darks. Notice that orange flower kind of on the left side going out of the frame. See how it also has some dark underneath. Now, why would that be? Well, it's because the sun is coming from up from above. And so petals and things underneath are going to have darker colors. I decided to make this flower a little bit wider, which would have been better if I did it before the fact, instead of after the fact. And now I'm working a little bit more on that kind of golden flower behind it. The same thing applies with watercolor painting as it does with any other paintings to see your values and compositions. Squint your eyes. You can see things so much better. Even now, if you watch me painting, squint your eyes and kind of look at the reference image. And you'll see that I'm that's what I'm working on. Getting those values and those colors right. I can change the positioning of the flowers a little if I want. But you do want to keep the basic elements of the flower, like I said, the type of flower, the way the petals grow pretty much the same. Now, you can see here, if you squint your eyes and look at the reference photo, the lower part or underneath the flowers and the stems is pretty dark. And I'm trying to preserve a little bit of areas where there might be light. There's a few grasses or leaves of the flowers that have light. I'm going to use a paper towel in just a minute to pull back some of the paint. And when the paint is wet, you can just take a paper towel and pull back some of that paint and get your light back again. You can even do it once it's dry. If you take a wet brush with clean water and certain colors lift off better after they're dry than others, but you can wet an area that's already dry and then get a paper towel and pull up some of the paint. So there is some flexibility to watercolor and again, it's all about playing and don't hold yourself. Don't be too hard on yourself, I should say, when you're first learning. I definitely was, but so what am I being a hypocrite? I guess I am, but I didn't have anybody telling me that. Look, just don't get frustrated and play. I think that's why I like to teach so much because I can tell you all the things not to do. I was back before there was a lot of online instruction, certainly not the things on YouTube that there are now. And so I had to hunt and pack all on the Internet to find groups and forums and try to learn things. And I share this often, but that was the birth of Monet Cafe. I decided, you know what, if I can learn some of the stuff and get OK at it, I want to share I homeschooled my kids, so I love teaching.  And I think sometimes I I'm a better teacher than I am an artist. But, you know, hopefully you guys will learn something. All right, so we are getting somewhere now. It's still very loose and impressionistic, which is what I wanted. But I am going to go in and get a little bit more detail to a few of the flowers so that they are the focal point. That's one of the focal point strategies. So now you can see it's dried and I probably could have focused a little more on the colors being a little brighter. That would have been done more by me really keeping the white of the paper behind some of these. Some artists do that early on by using something called masking fluid. It's literally like a little liquid glue. You can put down on your watercolor paper in areas like maybe a couple of these larger flowers and you can just do it. Once it dries, you can do like a wash of your grasses and everything over it and it keeps the white of the paper underneath that little area that you glued on it. Then later, when you've got your grass, everything down, you rub off the glue that's dried and you've got that nice white background of the paper still to lay down your flower color. I I have used masking fluid. I'm not a huge fan. I just sort of like to keep things impressionistic loose with painterly edges and just have some fun. Like I said, a lot of my watercolor painting is therapeutic. Now, speaking of getting the white back, this is that product I was telling you about or that technique. It's called Dr. P. H. Martin's Bleed Proof White. I have this in my little Amazon list as well. And also what this does is it's similar to white wash. You can use white wash the same as I'm doing here. What I'm doing is this right here, I think is pretty much just the bleed proof white. I just put a little bit in a little dish and I was using it just to get a little bit of light back in some areas. What I'm doing is kind of you see it. It's not getting totally white like the paper back again, but it's lightened it up a little bit. I could have gone even thicker with it. But what I did is I just lighten up a few areas and then once it dries, I can go back in and add a little more of a vibrant color on top. I want to keep it light, though.  And I'm doing this to a couple of the other flowers that seem to be pretty dark in value. And I'm using this to have the impression of that light of the sunlight hitting the tops of these. So it really does come in handy. I like this product a lot. And I my goal is to paint in a way to where you don't have to use this because really the white of the paper, there's nothing that beats that when it comes to the really brilliant light and bright colors that you're trying to achieve. But this this is fun and it does work. So you can see here there. And I think I had this, yeah, a little thicker and I added a little color to it. So this is actually definitely getting in some of that light back. And you see now the flowers are starting to take shape. They're starting to look kind of like those zinnias where before they looked a little bit like the blobs. So be patient. That's my point at the beginning or what I've said a few times is I like to keep things rather impressionistic to begin with and let things come to a final conclusion a little bit more towards the end. And I find it's more enjoyable that way and that your painting will be a little bit more painterly and impressionistic. I'm using the bleed proof white here mixed with some of the color to lighten up some areas in the grasses. And you can see it works quite well. And I'm going to show you the final in just a second. Sometimes my studio lights when I'm painting don't really show the vibrancy of the colors. So I try to get an image that looks more close to the painting. Here it is. Here's the final. It is in my Etsy shop, along with the other four watercolor tutorials that go with the series. I hope you learned something. Please comment. Let me know. A lot of you have been liking the watercolor tutorials. I love to hear from you. Give me some feedback. Like this video. Subscribe. 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suspense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William M. Robson. A couple of years ago we were delighted to chill our audience with the performance of Frank Lovejoy in a story of civilian aviation called The Long Night. Since that time Mr. Lovejoy undaunted by the terrors of his performance began taking flying lessons and recently qualified and was licensed as a private pilot. This accomplishment plus the many requests of air-minded listeners have impaled us to repeat the story now with the deep bow of appreciation to the unsung heroes of the Civil Aeronautics Administration who man the control towers of the nation's airports all day long and through every long night. Listen, listen then as Frank Lovejoy stars in The Long Night which begins in just a moment. Memo on Medals, interesting information about our military awards and decorations. For almost the first half century of its existence from 1862 till 1904 the original design of the Medal of Honor was identical for both the Army and Navy. A five-pointed star with a large medallion in the center showing the goddess of wisdom Minerva warding off the figure of discord. The Navy Medal of Honor hung suspended from its ribbon by a small anchor. The Army Medal of Honor by an eagle resting on crossed cannons. Originally the ribbon was the same for both branches of service. Thirteen vertical stripes of red and white topped with a blue border. In 1904 the Army changed its medal to the present design with just the head profile of Minerva in the center of a smaller star backed with a green enamel laurel reed. In 1913 the Navy changed its Medal of Honor service ribbon and in 1919 made an additional change resulting in the present-day design five white stars on a field of blue. The Medal of Honor today as in the past remains the highest military decoration that can be earned by an American serviceman for devotion and valor above and beyond the call of duty. It is an inspiring call to great sacrifice and dedication undimmed throughout the long years of our history as a free people. And now the long night starring Frank Lovejoy a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. Rockford radio this is Delta 2318 over Delta 2318 this is Rockford radio go ahead. You stand in the airport controlled tower 90 feet up in the sky over Rockford field waiting to go on the night watch and you listen to the babble of voices that fill the crowded room in an endless series of requests requests for an altitude change request for landing permission request for the weather ceiling 2200 feet and lowering steadily smoke and haze below cloud ceiling with fog blowing in from the northeast cloud smoke haze and fog in a ceiling getting lower every minute this is going to be a long night okay Charlie I'll take it yeah well happy landing yeah hello Charlie Rockford this is TWA flight 701 1000 feet met foot 2100 TWA 70 acknowledge. This is Beachcraft Bonanza 91457 Beachcraft 91457 this is Rockford tower over. I've been homing on your range in the prison working right. What seems to be the trouble with your ADF? Just like I was told to and I ought to have been somewhere over Minneapolis long ago. All right 457 we'll work something out for you where you're flying from. What was your last known position? Well I guess the last time I positively knew where I was was when I departed Indianapolis. What time was that? 530 maybe 545. 530 please verify that would be more than three hours en route you should be well out of my range. What's your remaining fuel? I think I've got about 45 minutes maybe it's the very best an hour. What's your altitude? About the clouds. 457 take a good look around you are there any breaks in that overcast do you see any holes any thin spots in your area at all? Are you an instrument pilot? How many you checked out on instruments do you have any instrument training? In a moment we continue with the second act of suspense. Another visit with Joe and Daphne Forsythe. Oh ouch. What's wrong Joe? Daphne have you been using my razor again? Just a little. I was peeling peaches. Oh fine. Why didn't you change the blade? It feels like you've been sharpening pencils with this thing. Now just a minute buddy it was you who said we could use more economy around here and I've been saving wherever I can and by shaving the skin off the peaches. Look at my face think how the Red Cross could have used all this blood. It's your own fault you and your economy. Well being penny conscious isn't such a bad idea not if you use common sense take savings bonds for instance. Uh-uh here it comes. Go right ahead and scoff but I got eight million Americans who agree with me. We all buy savings bonds on the payroll saving plan because we know that investing in bonds is the best way to use our money. We could use some of that money around here. Well maybe or maybe we just think we can. When we buy bonds we guarantee we'll have the money in the future when we'll certainly need it more.  Well I don't mean to get excited but who wouldn't. Where else can a man make an investment that's guaranteed to pay off four dollars for every three and guaranteed by the credit of the whole US of A. So there. Bravo Bravo. All right all right now let me change the blade and get back to shaving. I think I'll stay and watch. Why.  Oh fine. And now. Starring Frank Lovejoy act two well the long night. You look at the clock nine oh four.   Mike yeah ATC emergency Roger. This is Rockford Tower emergency to all concern emergency landing at Rockford Airport all aircraft below eight thousand feet within twenty miles of Rockford radio range leave courses immediately and maintain rock tower beachcraft nine one four five seven command four five seven. Okay Rockford emergency landing at tell me are you familiar with range orientation. No I don't know anything about that either. Just a business man with a new airplane. I know only enough about the radio to tune in the station. Six seven. I know I'm lost though I need help. Yes yes I know now.  I'll tell you what must be done but you have got to do it I can't fly the airplane for you do you understand. Yeah okay Rockford I understand.  Okay hello Rockford I hear a code sound is that the rain. That's right now what does it sound like. Well it's okay four five seven now is it loud or soft. It's pretty loud. Okay that's the end quadrant now I want you to tune to the Madison Wisconsin range and tell me what you hear. Okay what does that read. That's right. Okay four five seven now that's the A quadrant now I want you to try Peoria and then Chicago. Rockford Madison Peoria Chicago four corners to check from. Four radio sounds that you hope he's reading correctly. You finish the check and he comes through without a bobble you know you have him fixed you know at least his direction from you.  Now listen carefully four five seven I'm going to run a check procedure on you I want you to take up a northeast heading turn your volume down as low as you can and still receive the rain signal. At the very moment you detect the change in signal strength either higher or lower advise me. All right Rockford I'll do my best. Hello Rockford my gauges indicate empty tanks there's some gas left I know but I have no idea how much you know where I am. I'm quite sure of your direction from me and I believe I know how far you are out within say 20 miles. If what you've told me is correct I estimate you have 30 minutes fuel remaining I believe your gauges are indicating normally not try to concentrate on doing what I've told you to do. Yeah okay Rockford out of port. Last much longer I'm not trying to hurry you but the gauges say empty and my son is getting sick. You didn't say anything about having any passengers aboard how many are there. Just my son and me. Does the air off is there turbulence. No the air is smooth. You said your son is getting sick. In a moment we continue with the third act of suspense. We have together ample capacity in freedom to defend freedom. This is NATO the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Soviet dominated nations are held together only by political and military coercion. The strength and fiber of NATO lies in the fundamental unity in the face of dangers which threaten. Thanks to this solid fundamental unity NATO nations can overcome difficulties and bring into harmony their individual points of view. The United States of America is a part of NATO. You should be aware of and alert to the objectives and programs of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. And now starring Frank Lovejoy act three of the Long Night. You don't say anything for a long minute. You just stare out into the miserable night and your thoughts are not nice.  And now you have an even stronger reason to bring this stranger home. You reach for the microphone button. Listen carefully for five seven. You should be approaching my west leg close into the station. I want you to listen carefully and describe any change in your signal. I will call you.  All right for five seven. That's fine. That's good. Now listen carefully.  I want you to turn right to nine three degrees on your compass. Do you understand me. Yeah. That is correct. The tone is strong. Now I don't hear the other signal nothing but the tone. Shall I. Yes. Yes. Turn right. Turn to nine three degrees and advise. Advise when on course when on nine three degrees advise. Good. Are you're approaching the range now almost over the station. The range is about two miles from where I'm sitting. The signal you hear will continue to increase in volume until you cross the range at that time it will fade out quickly and for a moment you may hear nothing. Then it will increase again rapidly. Now at the very instant your signal fades I want you to make an immediate left turn to a heading of four or five degrees. You take that heading and advise understand understand. Mike. Yeah. Get on the phone and alert the local police and fire departments tell them what we've got Roger get all the lights on on the field and the runway markers. We get them down through this you won't have any time to spend looking for the field yeah we'll do that is if we get them down through it. Roger four five seven you're doing fine now come left to four five straight and level hold it until I tell you different I'll call you back I think you've got him can if he's where he ought to be we'll hear him in about 20 seconds I'm going out on the platform and listen let me know if he calls him OK you stand on the steel grading of the tower platform you try to hear over the sounds from the field below you strain your ears for a sound that should come to you out of the Southwest you never want to hear anything so much in your life you hold your breath you stop breathing they hear better and then it's there a single engine singing a quiet sweet sound and approaching directly on course you flick your burning cigarette out into the black space and stumble back into the tower room and grab the mic four five seven this is Rockford you're over the field I hear you clearly start a 360 immediately in orbit in your present area. What to do with this engine is ready to quit a little bit of the clock it's nine forty six five maybe six minutes more if you're lucky six minutes at the outside to get him lined up properly for a straight in approach to talk him down through four thousand feet of solid clouds six minutes to bring off a miracle you mash the microphone button hard and you try to sound calm four five seven I hear you plainly you're circling the airport now there isn't time to talk this thing out you'll have to do exactly what I tell you to do the first time and do it right it simply isn't enough time wait a minute you have any shoots parachutes aboard all right all right we'll have to do it this way now listen to what I say you don't have to talk you just listen now come around to a do west heading do west as you do start slowing her down slower down trim her up for a power approach a normal power approach do you understand don't talk don't talk just bring her around head west power on slower down flaps down to approach position trim her up make her steady advise me when you're headed west and slowed down steady I'm trying to do what you're all right all right four five seven don't talk advise when on course I know you don't know all we can do is try Roger now four five seven you're going to bring her around very slowly and precisely to an east heading you're going to handle her very gently so she won't fall off on your flying so slow do you hear me yes I hear you let her continue to settle at 500 feet of minute just bring her around slowly to the east recover and then take your hands off the controls she will fly with my hands off the she will fly she'll fly better than you can now listen to me when your eastbound hands off she'll descend slowly into the clouds after you're in those clouds do not touch the controls don't think do as I tell you now when you get in the clouds everything will change for you you'll think the airplane is all wrong that is doing everything it shouldn't do if you leave it alone it'll start a slow spiral to the left but I don't think it'll be enough to do any harm until you've broken out under the ceiling now whatever it does you'll think it's going to the right or up or down or even spinning but it won't be doing any of those things unless you make it do them now don't touch it are you eastbound now take your hands off the control take your hands off now and now just let her have it let her fly herself ceilings down to 600 feet can't go doesn't give much time to recover and get his bearings when he breaks out but it's all we can do it's all anybody can do you stand there waiting you're only too aware of what can be happening in the cabin of beachcraft 457 sweating out each second of the time with a terrified pilot and his deathly scared kid you wonder if this man this stranger and yet no longer a stranger can keep his fantasies under control for the long let down the lonely long let down through total darkness with nothing but a great fear for companion a minute goes by another and then get off those controls cut the throttle all right she's going to stall give her the throttle slowly keep your hands off except the throttle she'll climb back out on top if you keep your hands off her two minutes wasted and now if the tea cup of gas still in his tanks holds out if he gets back on top you still have to do it all over again you begin to feel the long night closing in on you he's almost calm when he calls you back this time you can almost hear his sigh of relief back on top now good now let's try it with the power off this time no use do nothing i just couldn't listen there's time there's time for another try forget it you can still hello four five seven hello beach four five seven he can't hear you can his hands froze to the mic you better hit the crash button roger rockford tower to all planes awaiting landing instructions the emergency is over normal radio procedure is now in effect rockford tower out this is united 512 at 12 000 feet plane view range at 215 suspense in which frank lovejoy starred in william and robeson's production of the long night adapted by sam pierce from the story by lolly blanton supporting frank lovejoy in the long night where barney phillips peter leads sam pierce and eddie firestone listen listen again next week when we return with it's all in your mind starring bary kroger a tale of telepathy and terror well calculated to keep you in suspense this is the united states armed forces radio and television service


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Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Coming at you with 2020, 2021 Panini Donneress Optic Basketball, back on the menu. This is pick your team number 15. A lot of people pick their teams and the remaining teams we pulled for a filler. So if you see a little rooftop next to your name, that means you won that spot, that you won that team in the filler. So here it is on Monday the 18th, for pick your team 15. Thanks everyone for getting in, for making this happen, I appreciate it. And now it's a fresh case. The second half of the case in the store, just loaded it up.  All right, so we've got six box on the left side and six boxes on the right side. We're gonna select a die, we'll select that one right there. And we'll go one, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right side. Dice almost rolled off the table right there. It's two, left side. So this side we will save for next time. We'll put some X's right along the QR code here and we'll know that they're from the same case. I think this is the only case we have anyway, so I don't think it's gonna get mixed up with anything. But there you go, we'll save this for next time. All right, one autograph and 20 inserts or prism parallels per box on average. We're looking for the ultra rare photon prisms. That's what we're looking for. A lot of fun stuff here, so thanks everybody for the fill. Good luck, basketball right around the corner too, regular season right around the corner, so I'm looking forward to that. Is it, no wait, is it this week? Or is it next week? There's just too many things going on sports-wise. No, I think regular season starts tomorrow, right? Basketball used to start later. I think a few years ago, they moved up the Hoops calendar. Used to be later in October. See, they moved it up a couple weeks. So tomorrow, Brooklyn at Milwaukee, Golden State at Los Angeles, both TNT games, that should be pretty exciting. Then a big slate of games on Wednesday with a couple ESPN games, Boston at New York, Nix, Denver at Phoenix. So a lot happening tomorrow. What teams are, what NBA teams are everyone, are you a fan of, and what are you hoping happens for your team this season? I know everyone wants to win a championship, but realistically, I mean, I think for teams like Milwaukee, Golden State, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, four teams playing tomorrow, I think their aspirations are championship aspirations. I'm looking forward to the sort of younger teams, you know, stuff that's hashtag good for the hobby, right? Bulls could be that team. Grizzlies could be that team. You know, you want to see like, John Moran and Luca Doncic continuing what they've been doing. Zion to continue what he's been doing. All right. First box, good luck, there's Brooke Lopez. Patrick Williams, this could be a guy for the Bulls. There's LeBron James, 15 out of 99, all-star insert. So we're just going to sleeve these up for now. Our shipping team will top load those before they're sorted out. Pretty sure all cards ship. So actually it doesn't say all cards will ship. Bojan Bogdanovich, 11 out of 99. That'll be for the Jazz Andrew. And speaking of Zion Williams, and there he is, 40 out of 199 second-year Zion going to Chad Dott and the Pelicans. In years past, we've seen some of the top rookie second-year cards do pretty well in the secondary market. Yeah, Gilo, what's going on, man? Yeah, we're entering that sports equinox. We may have like baseball, football and basketball and hockey all in the same day. Could be pretty crazy. Carl's a Atlanta Hawks fan. How are we feeling about the, what did the Hawks do in the off-season? Did they kind of pieces, did they add? What kind of, did they add some pieces through the drafts, free agency? They had a really good run last year. Trey Young's pretty excited. There's Evita Zubac, signature series auto going to Tyler and the Clippers. Danny Avigia, that guy could be good. There's Devin Vassel, rated rookie Hollow. Carl's saying they kept everyone and then added some pieces in the draft. Jones found Chunis, 18 out of 149. There's Sean Moran right there, lights out, Hollow. Yeah, Hawks, Hawks could make some noise. First box in the books, next box. Remember, the second half of this case is in the store right now, jaspyscasebreaks.com if you want to get your teams.  Gilo wishes KC had an NBA team. Well, you know, commissioner Adam Silver has said that, has said that, I think previously he has pretty much shot down the idea of expanding to 32 teams. But I think in more recent interviews, I think it's sounding like he's more open to adding two more teams. Kansas City used to have an ABA team, right? I think they might have been the old Kings. Jimmy's saying KC doesn't get a team till Seattle does. I think Seattle's positioning themselves pretty well for that expansion, Jimmy. So I'm sure the, I mean, well, the Kraken, Seattle Kraken do play in the old arena, right? I think it's been remodeled since, but where could the two teams be? Seattle, yeah, Seattle for sure. Right, and there's been a lot of talk about Las Vegas getting one. I think that's what NBA wants to do. They want to put a team in Vegas and have a presence there. Now that hockey has kind of paved, that has kind of opened the door there and now the Raiders are there. I think the NBA wants to be next. There's Luka Donchich, 23 out of 49. Nice dominators, elite dominators blue. And a Lamello here. The rookies insert for Charlotte. That's gonna go to Sean Mattet. Got the Hornets straight up. Oh, so Jimmy's saying the city, Seattle did retain the rights to all the Sonics, the Sonics name and the history. So they'll be the Sonics name again. So do they take the records away from OKC? Is that how it'll work? If the, and Luka goes to Dallas, that'll be for Matt. Is that how it'll work if the Sonics come back? Because currently the Oklahoma City Thunder hold all the old records. Lyme Green, Montrezzarelle, 24 out of 149 for the Lakers. I'll go to Matt Lieber. And we got Isaiah Stewart Hollow. Detroit could be a really interesting team to watch this year. They got a lot of youngsters on that team. And if they all kind of blossom around the same time, that could be a fun team to watch. Daniel House Jr., 78 out of 99. For Houston, that's gonna be for Oliver. So Jimmy thinks, so I wanna say, I heard that, heard the same thing, Jimmy. And nice, Lamello Ball, Rated Rookie, just base. It's so nice. Yeah, I think so. I think there was an agreement when Oklahoma City moved that if Seattle ever got a team back, that they would take the history of Seattle back to that city, which makes sense, I think. Sabin Lee, Rated Rookie Hollow. Landry Shamet for Brooklyn, 53 out of 59. That'll be for Brooklyn. That's gonna go to Carl. And we got Xavier Tillman, Rookie Auto for Memphis. Nice one for the Grizz. That'll be for Robert with the Grizzlies. Grizzlies could be fun too. John Morant with another year of experience under his belt. Jared Jackson Jr. just got paid by Memphis. They locked him up. Xavier Tillman, pretty solid. Desmond Bain on that team. It could be a fun team to watch. LeBron James and his future teammate, Russell Westbrook. It's almost as if Penini knew that this was gonna happen. They predict that. This cash is Stanley, 70 out of 199 for the Pacers, Jimmy Connell. And it's Joel Embiid, elite dominators. Is he gonna be playing with Ben Simmons or not? Four boxes to go. Yeah, so Jimmy's saying the biggest problem near key arena is gonna be the parking. They remodeled it so they can handle the hockey and prepare for basketball. But they've added so many apartments and condos in the area, it's gonna be a nightmare, Jimmy says. Interesting. They should figure that out. Get that figured out in Seattle. So what's the, Jimmy, I know you're from up, you're up in that area, the Pacific Northwest. What is the, like, has there been talks? Has there been talks with the league? Like what's local news saying about that? Are city officials actively, you know, are city officials actively working on that? Are they telling citizens, hey, we're working on this? Like we're talking to the NBA every season, asking what are your plans for expansion we want in? Yeah, Chad's up there too. He was like, it was a nightmare before the crack. And it was, Jimmy's saying it was a nightmare 10 years ago, even before they moved. Can't imagine what it's like now. But hey, get the team back, worry about the parking later. Gotcha, Adam Silver brought up the idea of expansion like a year ago. Yeah, that's what kicked off this conversation. But nothing since. So they just wait for the arena to see how it goes. Got it. Just taking a quick look at the list of teams here in the standings. But I mean, there's gotta be, I wonder if there's gonna be teams that are gonna be moving around. You think there'll be expansions and moves or you think they'll just add moves? Or add expansion teams? There's Peyton Pritchard. I know some Celtics fans are eager to see what he does this season. Larry with the Celtics could have some upside there. We've got Obi Toppin nice, 65 out of 149. He's got a nice ceiling too. That's gonna be for the Knicks. Eric with the Knicks. Looked like he was ahead of schedule or that team was ahead of schedule. He could be a big part of their evolution this year. And we've got a pink velocity, James Ramsey, 57 out of 79 for Sacramento. Robert with the Kings. We've got Otto Porter Jr. to 199 for the Bulls. Oh, and there's an Anthony Edwards. Nice. Base rated rookie. It's a start though. Brian Frank with the Timberwolves. And your autograph is JJ... Oh no, this flipped around. That totally got me. We've got a Jared Allen, 14 out of 39. Black Velocity, Cavs. Brian Frank with Cleveland. And there's Cassius Stanley, rated rookie autograph blue. And that's for Jimmy and the Pacers. 22 out of 49, nice low number on that. Now we're rooting for Cassius Stanley. Hopefully he blows up this season. And lights out Zach Levine. Halfway through this half case break. I suppose they could just, I don't know, it got me too. I got fooled by that JJ, really, as well. So I wonder what, you know what? Here's what they would do. The Timberwolves and the Grizzlies are still in the Western Conference. So I guess if you expanded to two teams, Seattle and Vegas, they would be in the Western Conference and they would probably move Minnesota and Memphis. They would move Minnesota and Memphis to the Eastern Conference to balance out the conferences, right? That's my guess. Oh, did that reddit insert flip while I was, oh, okay, that might have flipped while I was putting cards down. It's possible. All right, next box, good luck. Second half in the store, there's James Weisman, the rookies. And that's for Sean Maddock and the Warriors. Let's see if we can find some parallels for him, too. Duncan Robinson for the Heat. Lyme Green, 15 out of 149. Jimmy Connell. Darius Garland for Cleveland. That'll be for Brian. 54 out of 199. Rated rookie Tyrell Terry Hollow for Matt and Dallas. Jarrett Culver, pink. Velocity, 32 out of 79 for Minnesota. Brian. James Weisman, rated rookie, base. And Bam Adebayo, 121 out of 199. That'll be for Miami. Jimmy. Base James Weisman going to Sean. Zeke Najee. It's your rated rookie auto for Denver. Showed some moments. Steve Kim with that one. Let's hope he keeps it up. You got Buddy Heald, reigning threes to 99 for the Kings. Robert. Yeah, LeBron's all right, Gilo. My outlook on the Lakers, they gotta stay healthy. Anthony Davis has to stay healthy. I think he's the main key. And I think everything kind of revolves around him and that they're an old team. They've gotta just stay healthy. If they can stay healthy, I think they'll be really solid. But they gotta stay healthy. And it's pretty much a brand new team. So I think the first month or so of the season, maybe two months, I think will be a little, there'll be some good games, there'll be some bad games as the coach is figuring out new rotations. Wow, who just said, Jady Martinez just hit a home run. I think as they figure out rotations, they figure out how to play some team defense, et cetera, et cetera. Once they kind of get all that, it might take a couple of months because they just completely revamped that team. So it'll take a minute or two, but I think by the end of the season, if everybody's healthy, they'll be in contention for an NBA title. Yeah, I think Westbrook's gonna be fine. Westbrook's pretty talented. I think he could fit on any team. I think he's pretty happy to be back home playing with LeBron, probably one of the best teams he's been on surrounding him in a long time. I think he's gotta be happy about that. There's been a couple injuries. I think they've been counting on Trevor Ariza to play.  Another guy that's banged up, but they've tried to get some youngsters on that team too. Try to balance it out. I'm looking forward to seeing what Kendrick Nunn does with the Lakers. I think they picked up Avery Bradley off of waivers after the Warriors, I think, released him. So there's Avery Bradley is back with the Lakers and he's still got some gas left in the tank. He's pretty solid. Yeah, me too. I wish that core of Hardin, Westbrook, and Durant would have worked out. I wish they were able to make that work. It just didn't happen, but that would have been cool to see. Yeah, Lakers have the top, three of the top five players in the NBA. Yeah, LeBron's great, he's, I mean, we gotta admit that he's, Father Time is undefeated. Time will catch up, but that's why I'm saying the big key will be Anthony Davis being healthy. And if he can do that, then it'll all revolve around him. I mean, Anthony Davis could be MVP and win defensive player of the year, but the health has been the issue. Nice Lamello ball, the rookies hollow. That's pretty nice.  The hollow parallels definitely make a difference between the regular ones and the base versions. I'm gonna miss this guy though, Alex Caruscio. That's the 79, this is still Lakers edition from Matt. But yeah, I think there's gonna be some growing pains though for the Lakers. I think they just have to figure out how to play together as a team. But once they figure that out, hey, there's Kevin Durant and that's the Photon short print. That'll be for Carl and the Brooklyn Nets. And that is, they call it the ultra rare Photon Prisons. Yeah, these are not very common at all. Maybe one or two per case, sometimes none, but generally one or two per case. There's Bogdan Bogdanovich, 45 out of 149 for Atlanta. That goes to Carlos and the Hawks. And a Devin Daxi, right on the dot. Chicago Bulls, Robert with the Bulls won that spot in the filler. Now, I love your optimism, Chris, but I can understand that a team like that is just gonna need some time to gel together. Hey, if it gels together faster, then, you know, Holo Onyeka Kongu goes to Carlos. Hey, if that team gels together more quickly, then I'm not gonna complain about that. But I think there's gonna be some games where they just look unstoppable. I think there's just gonna be some games where they just kind of not look good. I think that's just how the Lakers play sometimes. But let's see what the, what's the, so the win totals, the highest win totals in the NBA according to Vegasinsider.com. Brooklyn Nets, 56 and a half wins. Bucks, 54 and a half wins. Utah Jazz, 52 and a half wins. Lakers, 52 and a half wins. Phoenix Suns, 51 and a half wins. I mean, that sounds about, that sounds about right. I mean, again, I'm just, Anthony Davis has not demonstrated in his career just the health that he needs to demonstrate, especially when he's most needed. I don't know how much of it's his fault. I don't know how much of it's just genetics in his body. But you think they break the record for the most wins by a team this season? All right, now you're just pulling my leg, Chris Lambert. Come on. 70 some odd wins. I mean, that's 20 over the, 20 over the win total. Put a hundred bucks on it, Chris Lambert. Show me the ticket. Show me the ticket. I'll be happy if that happens. Well, put a futures play on it, Chris. Show me the ticket and we'll watch that all season long. Unfortunately, basketball's not really played on paper. Yeah, on paper. The Lakers look amazing, but it's not.  I think they're just gonna be playing for the playoffs. I think they'll settle for like the top half of the West, you know what I mean? I don't think they're gunning for number one. Really, if they end up with a three seed, I think they'll be happy or something like that. Just, they just want to get into the playoffs and just rock and roll there. Really Carl saying that KD sold last week for two, so it looks like you should have played to the whistle, Carl. Carl, you were all worried and there were still like two or three boxes left. There's Westbrook to 99 and then Anthony Edwards to the rookies insert and that's for Frank and Minnesota. There's James Harden for the Nets, 55 out of 99. Triple J just got paid. Kevin Porter Jr. to 199 for the Rockets, that's for Oliver and we got Jordan and Wara, rated rookie auto for the Bucks. That's gonna be for Luis, last spot Mojo strikes again. Lakers win 65 to 70. Again, I love your optimism, Chris Lambrose, but I've been watching the Lakers for a long time. I don't know if this is the team that's gonna win that much. I think Vegas is usually pretty on with their win totals. This guy's got us, I mean, that means you're saying Anthony Davis is completely healthy and is having a MVP type season and a defensive player of the win type season. LeBron turns back the clock. Mellow turns back the clock.  It'd be nice. I wouldn't complain. Ooh, nice, speaking of nice, rated rookie hollow Anthony Edwards. This is a nice one here. Brian Frank won that spot, won that team in the filler. There's Lonnie Walker to 149, Lime Green and Akira Lewis Jr., signature series, last box, autograph, Chad with the Pelicans, won the Pelicans in the filler. The Lakers are a 500 team after 20 games. Will people be panicking in LA? Yeah, probably. And they may very well be 10 and 10 after 20 games. I think it's gonna take a second or two for them to really gel together. It's triple J again, 183 out of 199. Grizzlies, that's gonna be for Robert and JJ Auretic, hollow at the end. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. That was the first half of that optic case. This six box half-case Picker Team 15, 2020, 2021 Panini Donneress optic hoops. I always enjoy talking the hoops with you. That was a nice card right there. Chatting hoops, breaking hoops. It's a nice parallel. So thanks everyone for joining the action on jaskyscasebreaks.com. We could run this back. We've got plenty of other basketball on the site too. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next hoops break. Bye-bye.


Welcome back to the channel. So in this video I'm going to show you how you can remove a taxonomy from the WP side map XML file. Now I'm running WooCommerce inside my admin and when you come to WooCommerce you actually have a number of taxonomies and right now on our side map we can see the product cut which is the product category inside our WooCommerce. So you have the products and then you have product cut. If you look at the bottom of the screen right here when I hover over product you will see the categories. So we have a taxonomy which is called product cut. Now I might not want to expose this particular category for whatever reason that I do have. So let's remove that category. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to work within my functions.php. I could have made this a plugin but I can also at the same time work inside my functions.php. So I'm going to add a new filter which is a new function of WordPress and the filter we're going to use is called WP sitemaps taxonomies. I'll add a new function to this and what I'm going to do is I'll just duplicate this function that I have here. Then I'll say remove product cut taxonomy tax from the XML sitemap. Now I'll copy this and then I'll start writing that function and add some space down here. So whenever we use a filter hook we're getting some information passed into the hook by default. I'll use taxonomies to catch what is being passed in and then I'll return that at the end of the day. Now if I don't make any code changes that will still work and it won't be affected in any way. Now what we're going to do is use the php function which is unset and we are looking to unset the taxonomies knowing that this is actually an array of data that's coming in. So we'll be looking inside that array and now I'm going to just pass in the name of that taxonomy. Remember this is called product underscore cut for the categories. So I'll do product cut and when I update this file and then go to the site maps I want you to watch the product cut here in the site maps. If you will notice that it uses the same name as the taxonomy that is in there. So I'll reload this and you'll see that that category is no longer there. If we want to see the same thing about this category we can just come back here, copy this, add it the line here and we're just going to say category and this is coming from the posts. We have category right inside as a taxonomy. So let me update this and then reload and you'll see that that category is no longer showing up inside our site map. So that's how you remove a taxonomy from the XML site map. I hope you enjoyed the video. If you did please share it with your friends. Don't forget to hit the subscribe button and let me know in the comments how you're finding the XML site map feature in Wordpress 5.5 and above.


This book is so much fun to read and it's a lost gem from somebody we don't focus near enough on. So Pope St. Leo the Ninth was an incredible Pope and this book he wrote is called The Battle of the Virtues and Vices Defending the Interior Castle of the Soul. Now when this was proposed to us by our great translator Father Robert Nixon I was really taken back because what this guy did I think in the 1100s I mean it was a long time ago what he did was he personified the virtues and the vices. So if you have for example humility is personified in a way that sounds like a person who walks into the room and and then you have pride who's also personified as a person walks in the room and he does this with all the different virtues and vices and explains what would each of these virtues look like sound like dress like and likewise what would pride if it was personified walk into the room how would they dress how would they talk how would they walk how would they interact it's absolutely fun and fascinating to read so it's just a beautiful gem that's been lost never before in English but just to give you a little a little bit more on this so pride and humility like I mentioned but let's say Envy is rebuked by fraternal charity so in this chapter you have Envy walk into the room but fraternal charity argues with him and sets him straight. Wrath is calmed by patience gentleness disarms severity I mean sloth is reproved by energetic virtue all of this is so descriptive it's almost as descriptive as say something like Dante's Inferno so it's a masterpiece and was lost in the in the ash heap of you know so many years and we've uncovered it and translated it into English for the first time and I can't recommend it enough.


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