suspense. This is the man in black. Here again to introduce Columbia's program suspense. Tonight from Hollywood we bring you two of America's most artful and distinguished stars. From the Metro-Goldwyn-Mare Studios comes Mr. Robert Young and from Warner Brothers, Ms. Geraldine Fitzgerald. Mr. Young and Ms. Fitzgerald are with us to play in an unusual tale by the unusual James Thurber. An excerpt from the book My World and Welcome to It called A Friend to Alexander, adapted for radio by Freya Howard, is tonight's study in suspense. If you've been with us before, you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution until the last possible moment. And so it is with Mr. Thurber's poignant and strange story and the performances of Robert Young as the man who was a friend to Alexander and of Geraldine Fitzgerald as his wife, Vess, who relates these events to us. We again hope to keep you in suspense. Harry was a laughing, happy-go-lucky fellow before he began to have those dreams. I guess he was pretty much like dozens of other men who go to work every morning, settle down in soft chairs with their newspapers after dinner and like a weekend in the country now and then. He was fond of easy living and good times. Like everyone else he talked of the war, rationing tires and his golf scores until until those nightmares began to plague him. At first I was amused. You know, I've been dreaming about Aaron Burr every night. What for? Well, how do I know what for? Aaron Burr is a funny person to be dreaming about nowadays. Why? I mean with all the countries in the world at war with each other. What's so funny about dreaming? Maybe you're upset. Well, everybody dreams, don't they? I don't see why you'd see Aaron Burr in your dreams. Well, I do. Where do you see him? Oh, places in Washington Square or Bowling Green or on Broadway. Even here on 55th Street? Mostly downtown.  Oh. And suddenly there will be Aaron Burr bowing and smiling and smelling like a carnation. Telling you stories about France and getting off his insults. Who is the woman in the Victoria? Hmm? What? The woman. Who is she? Well, how do I know? You know about people and dreams, don't you? There's nobody at all or everybody. Oh, but you see Aaron Burr playly enough though. I mean, he isn't anybody or nobody or everybody. All right. All right. You have me there, but I don't know who the woman is. Are you sure? What's more, I don't care. Maybe it's Madame Jumelle or Mittens Willet or a girl I knew in high school. Who's Mittens Willet? She was a famous New York actress in her day, 50 years ago or so. She's buried in an old cemetery on Second Avenue. I've seen the tombstone. That's very sad. Why is it? I mean, she probably died young. Almost all women did in those days. He's a vile cynical cad.  When I looked at Hamilton, who do you suppose it was? I don't know. Who? My brother, Walter, when I told you about the one who was killed by that drunk in the cemetery. Harry, I never could get that story. I told you about it a dozen times. This drunk came up to him when his back was turned and... What was he doing in the cemetery? That's not the point. He was killed. That's what's important. And I loved him very much. I don't understand. What's the use of telling you every time I mentioned as you start asking the same questions? I understand now, dear. When you looked at Hamilton, he was your brother, Walter. Yes. Harry, maybe we ought to go to the country for more weekends. Weekends? Yes. I'm going to bed. For a time that evening, I worried about Harry. Not about his dream. Why shouldn't he dream? But I wondered about his health. He looked so worried somehow, so unlike himself. I was glad when he went to bed. A good night's sleep was just what he needed, I thought. How could I know? The next morning, we were quietly eating our grapefruit when Harry flung down his spoon. I wish he'd go back to France and stay there, him and his lala. Who, dear? Oh, you mean Aaron Bird. Did you dream about him again? Yes, he said lala to me. Why should he say lala? I was at the tavern, we were drinking ale, and I said something funny. I don't remember what it was, something amusing about what Ben Franklin had said to Washington once. One of those things, you know. No, I don't. Have some more coffee, dear. I don't want any coffee. I made this remark, and everyone laughed. Everyone but Burr, that is, he sort of sniffed. And then he said lala. Well, why not? I mean, is there anything wrong about him saying lala? It was a way he said it. He was sneering at me. They all noticed it. Who, dear? Who noticed it? The others, all of them, and Hamilton. I was there with Hamilton. It was swell until Burr came in. Aaron Burr. I don't see why you dream about him all the time. Don't you think you should take some luminal? I'm not sick.  I just thought, well, it's always Burr, and that seems odd. Well, why? Why shouldn't I dream about Burr if I want to? But you don't want to. No, but I can't help it. Everywhere I go with Alexander, sooner or later, Burr shows up and makes those nasty remarks. Last night, he elbowed Alexander out of his way, did it deliberately. Alexander? Hamilton. Oh, Alexander Hamilton. Yes, goodness knows I'm familiar enough with him by this time to call him by his first name. Harry, you know, we might go to the Old Rovers Inn this weekend. You like it there. Hamilton has become not only my brother Walter, but practically every other guy I've ever liked. Don't you like the Old Rovers Inn anymore? Isn't it natural that Hamilton should represent my brother and guys I like? That's natural, isn't it? Yes. I suppose it is. Well, then, why are you looking at me like that? You know, dear, I wish you'd go and see Dr. Fox. I don't want to see Dr. Fox. I want Aaron Burr to stop sneering at me in my clothes. He looks at me in his lips curl up and he says, the law, Mr. Andrews, what odd taste you have. I wish you'd go and see Dr. Fox. I'm going to the zoo and feed popcorn to the rhinoceros. That makes the singing things seem right for a little while anyway. I thought he'd forgotten all about that ancient pistol duel, because for two days after that, he lost his haggard, tired look and actually seemed cheerful. But one night, about five in the morning, he came into my room with pyjamas and bare feet.  He got him. He got him. The rotter got him. Alexander fired in the air and smiled at him, just like Walter must have smiled. Like Walter? Oh, yes, dear, your brother Walter, who was killed in the cemetery. This was at Weehawken in New Jersey. What? Your brother? No, Hamilton and Burr. They're dual. Hamilton had a white ruff around his neck. Burr was in black tights, French clothes. Alexander lifted his pistol and fired in the air and then smiled at Burr. And then that fiend from hell took deliberate aim. He took so long, he meant to take his time about it. I saw him grin and then he pointed his pistol at Alexander and fired.  Oh, darling, don't, darling. Here, here, dear, take some of these pills. I don't want any. Oh, take it. You'll feel better. I don't want any, I tell you. Here, darling, swallow. Please swallow. All right. There. That's better. The cad, the rotten, sneaking cad. He grinned just as he fired and Alexander clutched himself at the stomach and shook his head and tried to walk forward. Then he fell with his mouth open as though he wanted to say something. And Burr stood there grinning. He was better after that, but I kept urging him to see Dr. Fox. At first he refused, but later he decided to humor me. He was humoring me by this time, and Dr. Fox too. How you been feeling, Doc? Oh, fairly well, Mr. Andrews. My pulse has been... Now, just what seems to be the trouble? Nothing. Nothing wrong with me. He has nightmares.  Oh, I'm not underweight. Overweight, maybe, but not underweight. Getting enough exercise? Same as usual. He's worried about something. He always has this same dream. Aha! A dream, eh? What kind of a dream? Just a plain old dream. Aha! No, it isn't. It's about his brother, Walter, who was killed in a cemetery by a drunken man. Only it isn't really about him. Really? Well, very few people are actually killed in cemeteries. It's an interesting coincidence, if I may say so. You mean you know somebody who was killed in a cemetery, too? Is that the coincidence? No, I meant your brother being killed in a cemetery. You know, dead in a cemetery? A sort of, uh... Do you follow me? No. I think you should go see Dr. Fox, Dr. Fox. Hmm, interesting. Yes, very interesting. I, uh... I wonder if you would mind stepping into the next room, Mr. Andrews. I want to give you a thorough examination. Right in here, sir, and we'll just have a look at you. Hope you're satisfied. You heard what he said. There's nothing to matter with me at all. I'm glad your heart is so fine. He said so, you know. He said your heart is fine. Sure, it's fine. My heart's fine. Everything's fine.  No, what? I was just thinking that now that Alexander Hamilton is dead, why, you won't see any more of Aaron Burr. Yeah. Yeah, I guess you're right. But I was wrong. Aaron Burr did not leave my husband to sweeter or more peaceful dreams. Harry said nothing about it for several mornings, but I could tell he was still being tortured by those ghosts. He brooded over his breakfast. He didn't answer me when I spoke to him. I dropped my butter knife and he jumped. What was that? Only my knife. Oh. Harry, are you still dreaming about that man? Oh, I wish I hadn't told you about it. Forget it, will you? I can't forget it with you going on this way. Can't you forget I mentioned it? Maybe you should see a psychiatrist. Oh, Bosch. What does he do now? Who does who do? Aaron Burr. I don't see why he keeps coming into your dreams now.  He says he didn't even look. Didn't look when? When he killed Alexander in that duel. Well, what? He claims he can hit the ace of spades at 30 paces blindfolded. Furthermore, since you asked what he does, he jostles me of parties now. I think you should stay out of this, Harry. I haven't seen any business of yours anyway. And it happened so long ago. I'm not getting into anything. It's getting into me. Can't you see that? I see that we've got to get you away from here. Oh, maybe if you slept someplace else for a few nights, you wouldn't dream about him anymore. I don't know. Let's go to the country tomorrow. We'll stay at the Limelock Rodge. Uh, Bess. Why can't we visit the Crowley's? They live in the country. All right, fine. Bob has a pistol and we could do a little target shooting. What do you want a pistol for? Plenty of open space. I think you'd want to get away from shooting. Yes. Sure thing. The vacation seemed a success at first. When we arrived at the Crowley's house in the cab, I thought I'd left my suitcase at the railroad station. Harry laughed his old normal laugh for the first time in many days as he found the bag and handed it to me. And then he leaned over and kissed me. Ah, good old kinetic. Oh, Harry, this is wonderful. Oh, we'll have a grand time, Bess. Yes, dear. Hello, Bess. Hi, Harry. Here they come. Good old Bob. Remind me to tell you that rabbit joke. Hello, Madison. I'll take your bags, Mr. Andrews. Thank you, Madison. Good to see you. Thank you, sir. Hello there. Bess, what a wonderful day. Well, Bob, how's the old country squire? Oh, fine. How've you been? Never better. Boy, it's good to be here. Hello, Alice. Well, you too.  It's kind of dull here in the hinterland. Oh, I'm glad too. I hope you get one of our extra-special cold martinis into you. You'll feel ship-shaped.  Butter never. Get lots of practices, Long Country Wonders. Oh, it was ground, seeing Harry's face relaxed and smiling over his cocktail glass. When I went to bed that night, I felt that at last that nasty old business of the dream was over. And I was happy. But when I woke the next morning, when I woke, I saw my husband lying rigid on the back, staring at the ceiling. One Henry Andrews and architect. What's the matter here? Nothing.  It's only eight o'clock, and this is the country. One Henry Andrews and architect. What are you talking about? That's what he calls me. Calls you who? One Henry Andrews and architect. He keeps saying in his nasty little sneering voice, One Henry Andrews. Harry, Harry, please don't yell. You'll wake the whole house. It's early. People want to sleep. I'm just anybody. I'm a man in a gray suit. Beyond your good behavior, my good man, he says to me. Or I shall have one of my lackeys give you a taste of the writing crop. Why should he say that to you? You ask me why. He wasn't such a great man, was he? I mean, didn't he try to sell Louisiana to the French or something behind Washington's back? He was a traitor. Then why worry what he says? He was a scoundrel, but a very brilliant mind. I was in hopes you weren't going to dream about him anymore. I thought if we came up here. It's him or me. I can't stand this forever. Neither can I. As I had expected, Harry spent most of the afternoon with Bob shooting at targets. At first they just aimed at the paper squares. It all seemed to be good nature and in fun. After a while, Harry stood with his back to the dead tree trunk on which the targets were nailed. Then he walked 30 paces ahead in a stiff-legged manner and his face was set in stern lines. His revolver was at arm's length above his head. When he turned suddenly and fired, Bob dropped to the ground, scared. Hey, what's a big idea, Harry? But Harry didn't answer. He started to walk back to that dead tree trunk again. Then with his back to the target, he began marking off the 30 paces. Bob called to him. I think they kept their arms hanging straight down. I don't think they struck him up in the air. But my husband continued to count off. At the 30th step, he lowered his arm, wheeled about suddenly and fired from his hip. Hey there, watch out! Two of the shots missed the tree, but the last one hit it. Like a mechanical man or someone in a trance, Harry began to walk back to the tree again without a word.  And look, it's my turn! But Harry about-faced and stalked on. This time when he fired, his eyes were closed. Poor Bob didn't know what to make of this strange behavior. Hey, good heavens, man. Give me that gun, will you? Without a protest, Harry let him have it. For the first time, he spoke. I... I need a lot more practice, I guess. Well, not with me standing around. Come on, let's get back to the house and shake up a drink. Gee, I've got the jumps. I need a lot more practice. I guess I must have slept soundly that night. Because I didn't hear him leave the room. He must have crawled out of bed, dressed silently and crept out of the room. The sun was just coming up and the light was hard and the air was cold. Then I heard the shots. I threw on a dressing gown and ran downstairs. The Crowley's were in the hall. Oh, good heavens, Pess. Is Harry all right? It sounds like it. Where is he? What's he doing? It sounds as though he's out behind the studio. Shoot him. Alice. Oh, no, no, take it easy, Pess. Bob will go out and get him. Maybe he had a nightmare or walked in his sleep. No, no, he never walks in his sleep. He's awake all right. Let's go down and get some coffee. He'll need some. Yes, I'll need some, too. What the tickens? It doesn't matter with him anyway. I don't know. I'm so sorry to... Bob, you go get him. At your service, madam. Alive or dead. Bob, stop it. Okay, I'll do my best. Come on, Pess. We'll go to the kitchen. What's that noise? Where? In the kitchen. Oh, it's you, Madison. Yes, ma'am. Well, you're shaking. I was just wondering, ma'am. No, no, no, it's all right.  Clotheter was scared, ma'am, and I thought... Well, you tell Clotheter that it's all right. Mr. Andrews is shooting a little. He couldn't sleep. Yes, ma'am. Yes. I guess the Crowleys were relieved when the cab came to drive us to the station early that day. They're made and threatened to leave. The neighbors were complaining about the early morning disturbance, and their own nerves were ragged. Boy, how neat a drink after that. Yes, and make mine a stiff one. Gee, I'm sure Gladdy's gone. Well, it was either here or Clotheter. You can't afford to lose a good cook these days. So what do you think's the matter with him? I don't know. It's what Clotheter would call the shoots, I guess. You know, he said a funny thing when I went out and got him this morning. Well, let's have it. I could stand a funny thing. I asked him what the doocy was doing out there in that freezing air with only his pants and shirt and shoes on, and... You know what he said? What? I'll get him one of these nights. That's just what he said. By this time, I was really frightened. When he returned to the city, Harry was a picture of gloom. Our first night back, I looked at him as he lay on the chaise long in my bedroom in his blue dressing gown, smoking a cigarette. He was haggard and tired, and he kept biting his lower lip. I mixed a Scotch and water nightcap for him. No thanks, no liquor. I need a steady hand. Watch my hand. Does it tremble? No. Is it steady? Yes, very. That's good. That's very good. You need a steady hand, you know. For what, dear? Oh, things. Harry, will you sleep in my room tonight? No, you'd keep shaking me all night to keep me awake. You're afraid to let me meet him. Are you still on that? Why do you think everybody's better than I? I can out-shoot him the best day he ever lived. Oh, of course, dear. Right next to the middle button. He has three big pearl buttons on his waistcoat. It came from France. Why don't you dream about somebody else? Anybody else, please? You'd like that, wouldn't you? You'd like to have me dream about somebody who wouldn't hurt a fly, somebody like that. Because you'd know I'd never get in a duel with him. A duel? You're dreaming of a duel now? Ever since Hamilton died.  It's nearly over now. Harry. It's him or me. I'll get him, the rotter. I know I'll get him. See, I have a modern pistol. He has to use an old-fashioned single-shot muzzleloader. Is that quite fair? Fair? What do I care if it's fair or not? Was it fair the way he shot Alexander? Was it?  Oh, I'm sorry, darling. I'm very unhappy. I'm sorry, darling. And I'm worried sick. Well, I'm sorry, darling. Don't cry. It upsets me when you cry. And I mustn't be upset. I must be very calm and rested. My hand must be steady tonight. Especially tonight. I'm so worried, Harry. Don't worry about me. I'll be all right. I'll be fine. My hand is like a rock. Later, when I kissed him good night, I knew it was really goodbye. He didn't say anything and neither did I. It's just that he seemed so far away, in, in another world. And each moment I felt that he was becoming more and more remote. Something told me he wasn't coming back. I couldn't sleep. After an hour of tossing and turning, I went to Harry's room. He was sleeping peacefully. I sat down in his chair and watched over him for a long while. Then, finally, I must have fallen asleep. A beautiful morning. It was about five in the morning when I awoke. Harry was talking in his sleep. Ah, yes, the doctor. Good of you to come, doctor. Yes, often misty at this hour. Harry. Are they loaded? Splendid. Harry, wake up. Yes, I am perfectly ready. Is Mr. Burr? Yes, good. Shall we proceed? No, I do not care to make a statement. Very well. Yes, I understand perfectly. Ten paces. Harry. Thank you for acting as my second, Mr. J. Of course, extremely good of you. Very well, then I'm quite ready. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Dr. Fox was puzzled when he examined Harry the next morning. Extraordinary. His heart was as sound as a dollar when I saw him the other day. He seemed to be fine, Dr. Fox. I can't understand it. What? Why is heart stopped as if he'd been shot? Shot. Yes, of course there are no gunshot wounds and no... Shot. Now, Mrs. Andrews. That's it, shot. Now, now you'll have to calm yourself. You can't open now. I should have known it would happen. And Harry's right hand. The three fingers next to the index finger were closed stiffly on the palm as if gripping the handle of a pestle. The taut thumb was doing its part to hold that invisible handle tightly and unwaveringly. But it was the index finger which held my eye the longest. I looked carefully to make sure I was right. Yes, yes it was so. That index finger was curved inward slightly as if it were about to press the trigger of a pestle. So there had been a duel after all. Perhaps there was no gunshot wound. But Harry had been shot as surely as he was dead. Dr. Fox saw me staring and spoke to me. What are you looking at, Mrs. Andrews? Harry never even fired a shot. Aaron Burr killed him the way he killed Hamilton. Well, what are you talking about? Aaron Burr shot him through the heart. I knew he would. Yes, but there's no evidence to... I knew he would. Then Dr. Fox put an arm around me. He looked at me gently and a bit frightened the way I used to look at Harry when he told me about his dreams. He led me to his assistant and whispered something. He thought I didn't hear him, but I did. She's crazy. Stark raving crazy. I let the assistant take me away. Maybe he thought I was crazy, too. But now I knew. Aaron Burr got Harry, just as he had killed Hamilton in that old quarrel long ago. A friend to Alexander, starring Robert Young and Geraldine Fitzgerald, the James Thurber story of which was tonight's tale of... Suspense. The producer of these broadcasts is William Spear who, with Robert Louis Shea on guest director, free a Howard author, and Bernard Herman and Lucien Marowick, conductor and composer, collaborated in presenting a friend to Alexander. Now CBS is pleased to announce that beginning August 17th at 10 to 10 30 Eastern War time, Mr. Robert Young, whom you've heard as star of tonight's suspense, will begin a brand new CBS series entitled Passport for Hunter. Passport for Hunter will bring you each week the adventures of an American newspaper reporter among the people of the United Nations. Next week's broadcast will be written and directed by Norman Corwin, with music by Bernard Herman, and the stars we have said will be Robert Young. This is your narrator, the man in black, inviting you to be with us next week at this same time when with Miss Agnes Moorhead and with a repeat performance by popular request called Sorry Wrong Number. We again hope to keep you in suspense. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.


Welcome to our tour of the new version of DigiMap for Schools. First let's look at the key areas. Our map window is where you'll view maps, zoom in and out and move around. Our map selector is on the map window, letting you choose between our different maps. In the top toolbar you'll find a search box where you can use place names, coordinates and post codes. The locate my position tool, print, our aerial map information tool are also found here, as well as a handy start again button. There are lots of tools in the sidebar including drawing, measurement, map keys, overlays and adding data. You can adjust the width of the sidebar with the double arrows, or select collapse sidebar to see more map window. Now let's have a look at our global maps. When you first opened DigiMap for Schools you're positioned over Great Britain and the word panorama map from Collins Bartholomew's displayed. You can check the map information in the sidebar to check what map you're viewing and its date. Let's pan over to the Pyrenees and zoom in to have a closer look at that map. To zoom in I just double click or tap on the map window. You can also use the plus and minus signs on the scale bar to zoom in and out. I'll open the map key in the sidebar to let you see some of the features. In the key you can see a boundary section. The map gives an up-to-date accurate picture of world political geography. The boundary between France and Spain is visible here. It also provides rail, road and airports visible in the transport category. If I pan over the mountains you'll see there are spot heights of major peaks and some gradation in colour to denote different land heights. I'll open the map selector to show you we also have a less detailed global map at smaller scales. Just select the button to the right of world boundaries to display it. This can be a really useful map to use with some of our new overlays. Let's open the overlays menu in the sidebar. At this scale I can add a latitude, longitude grid. Just check any box to switch the overlay on or off.  Then try the major lines of latitude overlay. This world boundaries map can also be a great background map if you want to add your own data to the maps. I'll give an example of adding data later. One last overlay I want to show you is world place names. These can be really useful in areas where place names are not in Roman characters. If I zoom into Cairo for example, we're looking at our open street map and we have Arabic place names. I can switch on the world place names overlay to get some context. Remember if your pupils ever get a bit lost, the start again button on the top toolbar takes you back to the map of Great Britain. Let's change location now. I'm going to search for Anchorage. Note that in the results there are two lists, UK place names and world place names. I'll select Anchorage, Alaska, USA from the world place names list. At this larger scale the map is open street map. This is mapping that's collected and contributed by members of the public and offers fantastic detail in urban areas. Again there's a key available. I've moved to Paris now just to show you the detail available around the Pompidou Centre moving towards the river. Let's find a location in Great Britain. I'm searching for York and I'll select York from the UK place name results. I've opened our map selector. I'm going to zoom in on the railway museum. In Great Britain we can select between current Ordnance Survey maps, aerial photography, aerial X which is the aerial photography plus place names and major road names, 1950 or 1890 historical maps. You won't see open street map in Great Britain. Remember we just select the button to the right of any map name to display it. You can also combine two maps by using the slider bar. Let's show you how to do that. I select Ordnance Survey on the right and aerial on the left. Then I just drag the slider over to the left to view the aerial and OS mapping together. We have some more useful overlays when you're in Great Britain, Post Codes and British National Grid. The detail in both of these overlays adjusts as you zoom in and out. With the drawing tools in the sidebar you and your pupils can have great fun adding text, shapes, symbols, emojis and images. To add a symbol just select the symbol you want and select the place on the map you want to add it. It's very straightforward. To add text you can choose the label tool. First select the tool, then your text options, then select the point where you want to add your text. Type in your required text and select OK. You can add polygons. Select the polygon tool, click or tap to add the first point, then keep clicking for more points. Double click to finish. I'm going to select the measurement label tool, then select my polygon to add a measurement label. To add a predefined shape select the shape option. I'm going for an oval. This time I'm going to show you the styling options. I select a line color under stroke. I want the same color for my fill color so I'm going to copy and paste this hex color code to the fill box. I can select a line type. I'll go for dashes. Now click once to start drawing. Use your mouse to size and rotate the shape. When you're happy click again and you're done. Again I'm going to add a measurement label. We have a text box option to add paragraphs of text. Again select the tool, place it where you want it. Once you've added your text you can resize the text box using the double arrow at the bottom right. You can add point and line buffers with the drawing tools. Select the buffer tool. Let's add a point buffer to show a 0.5 mile radius around the school. We can imagine we're discussing with the pupils who lives within that radius. So select point, select 0.5 and miles as your unit. You can check the styling options. We want our fill to be transparent so we can still see the background map. So I move the slider left a little. Now we select the center of the school and your buffer is added. I just need to zoom out to see all of it. Next let's add a line buffer. Let's imagine we're discussing if the river flooded what might be affected. I select line, let's try a 50 meter buffer from the center of the river. I check the styling options and draw my line. As I zoom in you can see you could start to discuss the impact on the housing adjacent to the river. I've opened the measurement tools now in the sidebar where you can measure distance and area. Distance is already selected so I can just start drawing my line. I double click to finish and the distance is shown on the map window and in the sidebar. To measure area, select area in the sidebar then click to draw your area, double clicking to finish. You can delete the measurements with the option in the sidebar if you wish. Now I've opened the image search tool. This search is a bank of more than 6 million images from the Geograph project and we think it's a really great way to get pupils engaged with exploring an area. Let's try horse as a search and see what we get. You'll see that camera icons appear on the map where there's an image at that location. Just select any camera icon to view more details of the image. You can also enter an asterix to see all images at a location but only when you zoom in a bit further. I've tried it here in the message says zoom in or try a word. So let's zoom in around the beach. Okay, so lots of images have popped up now. The circles show clusters of images with the number available. Zoom in further and we can have a look at some of those. You can also add your own images with the drawing tools. Let's show you that. Select the upload image tool, select your point on the map, select choose file, navigate to your image, select it and select open. Finally select upload and there it is. You can add your own data to Digimap for Schools with the CSV file of locations. This is a great way to engage pupils with simple GIS concepts and the power of creating their own data sets. Here I've got a spreadsheet of London landmarks. I've saved it as a CSV file. From the add your own data menu, select choose file, navigate to your CSV file and select open. Select import and your points should be visible on the map window. I'm going to zoom in and show you one of those points. The marker that's been added has the styling options I set up earlier. I'll show you those in the drawing tools. You can change the marker. First I select it with the select arrow. Once selected I can just choose a different marker. I'll go for a smiley face. Now I'll select the Piccadilly Circus marker and change it to a stickman. You'll find the save maps menu in the sidebar. To save your maps within Digimap for Schools select save map, input a title, class name and pupil name and select save. To retrieve any save map just select it from the list. To print your map select the print tool from the top toolbar. You have the option of adding a name and map title. Select PDF or JPEG as the format. Both formats look exactly the same. Select A4 or A3, portrait or landscape. You can choose whether to include your drawings and British National grid lines. There's an add legend option which I'm going to select. Now select generate print file to download a printable file. Because I added a legend my download is a zip file with both my print file and legend inside. I hope that's been a useful introduction to the new Global Digimap for Schools. We hope you have great fun using it. Do get in touch with any questions.


Question is from Zebo 57. Do tight muscles and or a lack of mobility impede gains? Totally. I can't. I told, I tell you what, there's two, two ways. Here's the first one. It's easy. This is an easy way to understand if your lack of mobility or your tightness is preventing you from doing the best exercises, for sure, yeah, that's going to prevent or even full range of motion. That's the other one right there. Yeah. If you can't, if you're not able to go, I mean, again, this is personal personal story for me, but like my my legs, when I got to the place where I could squat all the way down, I don't have to do nowhere near the load to get the size on my legs because I'm taking the legs through its fullest range of motion now in comparison to where it was just three years ago. So yeah. And which is it's kind of to me, when you think about it's pretty obvious, right, you know, would be would using half the muscle, give you the most amount of gains or using all of your muscle like the forward, which I know, and if somebody hears that goes like you use all of your muscle even when you go, right.  No, wait, I just I remember working with one of the models for like doing our maths programs and stuff and like not being able to get, you know, their their elbow in a certain position and then get it to lock out completely like, you know, and not fully developing their triceps, like their triceps were substantially, you know, smaller in comparison than the biceps. And it's just like one of those frustration things for them, whereas like if they just worked on the mobility of it and regain that, you know, strength and range of motion, like that would have unlocked all new like levels for them. Yeah, totally.  So first off, bodybuilders have been saying this for years, for decades, that full range of motion, full reps are better for muscle growth. Personal trainers have observed this also for forever. I observed this over two decades of training clients. If I could get my clients to do a full curl versus a half curl or a full press versus a half press or a full row versus a half row, they just got better, better results. They got better results overall, better muscle development and then indirectly better fat loss because they were able to build more muscle. So that's number one. But number two, the studies actually support this. When studies compare full range of motion to partial range of motion in terms of muscle gains, all the studies, they slant towards the fact that full range of motion is superior. So if you're so tight or you're tight and your lack of mobility prevents you from really utilizing what you can do with your full range of motion, what's possible with the full range of motion, you're not getting the best gains through your workouts. This is why I always make the case for mobility training for bodybuilders or for people who are just don't even care about mobility. It's like, that's fine. If you don't, if you don't want to have better mobility, that's okay. But work on your mobility because it's going to make all your other exercises way, way, way more. It's going to give them longevity too. Yeah. And not to mention right now, maybe when you're young, like tight muscles are just tight muscles for you. But as you get older, tight muscles turns into chronic pain. Exactly. You know, being tight and wound up at 40, 50 plus ends up being elbow pain, shoulder pain, hip pain, knee pain. So you may get away with being tight in your 20s and maybe early 30s. But as you start to age, if you don't address all those overactive or tight muscles, you soon will be told by your body that you need to. So even if it's not just about gains as far as building muscle, you know, eventually the chronic pain follows. Here's some anecdote. Uh, probably this is probably in my late teens. I remember I started working out when I was 14. One of my body part, one of my focuses was my shoulders. I have a narrow bone structure and I wanted big round shoulders to offset that a little bit. And so I did some, a lot of the exercises that I read in like Arnold Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding encyclopedia, bodybuilding and all those stuff. But I remember at the time, the bodybuilding magazines, uh, of the time were showing a lot of behind the neck presses. It was really popular back then. All the bodybuilders were doing behind the neck presses. I didn't have the shoulder stability or mobility to do it. So I just avoided doing them. And especially when I got certified as a trainer, I remember the first certification I took, they said, it's a bad exercise. Right. Well, at some point, I don't know what convinced me, but I said, you know what, I'm going to get good. At behind the neck presses, forget what the certification says. I see people doing them. They seem to be fine. So I started practicing them. I started working on getting better at doing them. And at some point, my mobility got good enough to where I could make it a part of my routine and guess what happened? My shoulders got bigger. I got, yeah, I got better gains because I'm now doing an exercise. I couldn't do before, but I had to work on the mobility first.


I'm Hemant Puruhit, I'm Founder of Summic Initiative and an interdisciplinary computing and social sciences researcher at Noises Center, Wright State University, studying for Ph.D. as well. And having this passion, transforming research for social good into practice, what led me to work on this kind of project. This was really how can you improve the work and the functionalities of humanitarian organization with the help of technology. As per stats, disaster response organizations and humanitarian organizations, they spend annually nearly like $150 billion in responses across the world, but just too much. And then the question comes, can we help them improve their processing? So with the specific focus here for disaster response given the challenge, the objective was, can we improve situational awareness and enable engagement for those organizations with the citizens efficiently? Why? Because we are seeing massive growth of mobile technology adoption, internet adoption and social media adoption in both the worlds, developing as well as developed one. So having this opportunity, Summic was created, Summic is an application that automatically finds important people in the community to engage with and that helps response organizations timely spread information, timely spread prioritized needs so that people can contribute for that counter rumors in the community. And unlike the existing technologies, Summic actually is based on scientific research that we have been doing for identifying efficiently important actors to engage in the community in near real time. So that's what Summic is all about. Hemant, do you want to talk about where you are in developing your startup? Absolutely. So I would compliment the third piece actually, what Rathul and Sahas said, that is understanding the customers very well. I believe for me, especially for my project, it's important, it's all about information, it's all centered on data and information. So conveying that information to the end user is also a very major part of it. So right now what I'm doing is actually I'm speaking with the people who are going to be end users that are organizations, emergency response organizations with them. So folks of them with them, I'm trying to understand a good information visualization with them because technology since we already researched it in the earlier phases, so we had the sort of prototype in place already. Right now, the point was how to customize the prototype so that it can be more meaningful for the end user is the focus. And being on that focus, I'm actually doing co-opization, setting with them to understand what would be the best ways that they would feel information is good because they don't have time really, much time. So how fast they can comprehend the information quickly. So understanding those information visualization at this point is what my focus is. And then after that, the next step would be then customizing the prototype with this kind of visualization and then scaling it up. But technology is there, so it won't be a problem for me because prototype is in place.


Hello again, Saint Lucia, and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the Move. I am Philip Sidney, your host. Today with me, my guest, a very pretty young lady, who has been with us for a little while. She is attached to the marketing unit, and of course she is an agricultural officer, and she is also a committee member of the Agri Events Committee in the ministry, and of course I'm trying to see whether she can understand me, you know, when it comes to events coordinating, because she has a passion for that. So I want you to introduce her to Kendra Pin. Welcome to the program. Thank you for having me, Mr Sidney. Great. So Kendra, you have been from the, the fact the first day you came to the ministry, did I drop you on me, right? And we had, we had this activity up at Bosigio? Yes, I think it was the Caribbean Expo, right? Right. Yes, yes, yes.  Because everybody was asking, well, where you get this young lady from? Right, that's what I'm into over there. So you started on a very good, good footing. Thank you. And then from there, what happened? You went straight into the marketing unit, right? Yes, when I got my first temporary implement to the ministry, then I understood it at the time is unfair, and then from there I came in, I got appointed and they kept me in marketing units. Beautiful. Yes. You determined though. So Kendra, we had today really to talk about the many events we have had in the ministry, but then some of them are outstanding and you being in the marketing unit and also on the event committee, you're involved in organizing and coordinating the production of recipe books. Tell us, what are the real objectives of the recipe books? Okay, but to be honest with you, most of them that we have produced, we've done three thus far, and they all have similar objectives, more or less to increase our local consumption of the various commodities and also to in the hopes that it helps to increase production so that farmers can get more sales and whatnot. Like I said, we have done three. So the first one that we had was a cassava recipe book when I came in. It was done under Jaika at the time and then I think Ministry of Health and of course our ministry facilitated the development of that book. That one I think had some food safety aspects behind it because some persons were concerned about consuming cassava. And then the second one that we did after that was the original mango which got revamped this year as our also launched at our mango festival. And then we had the banana which was, I think that one came about with some issue they had with exporting bananas to the UK at the time and the government found it necessary to promote more local consumption of the bananas. Not excluding the statement made by our prime minister that drove everybody bananas. Yes, very much so. The objective was to really show solutions and maybe the foreigners, the many derivatives especially from a culinary standpoint that can be done with the cassava, the mango and the bananas. So let's look at each of them individually. I remember we did some work with the schools some years ago for a whole food day activity and the school did so many things and I'm wondering at the time I don't think we were able to capture what the schools did. Very unfortunate because the kids did a lot of stuff and we need going down the road, I think we need to capture a lot of what the schools have done. Maybe a school's recipe book maybe call it that way or maybe moving forward we probably can look at including them in other recipe books moving forward because I mean they have done a lot of work. What are your thoughts on that? I think that's a good idea. I think officially right now we will also promote sustainability. It will be very good to involve the young upcoming DC chefs etc to partake in those stuff. Especially when we have the festivals going on they see how excited they should be to prepare their dishes and stuff. The kids are so excited. Anytime they hear festivals of that nature you know they are all excited and they really come to the fore and sometimes very little time for preparation and you could see the array of dishes that especially with the banana festival I mean I was wow I was surprised and unfortunately we didn't really capture but I was telling Miriam who is on the committee for the Ministry of Education maybe we definitely have to sit and look go back and look at the banana the mango and the cassava from the school's standpoint you know and come up with certain things that they have done because they have done I mean one I always keep seeing it all the time I we had this one at the at the at the sub that was in 2019 and we had the the head school and this girl did this sweet potato ice cream you know I mean that that's on my mind up till now that tastes my taste buds are still you know I'm still waiting for this you know and I believe we need to highlight those persons the young young people because I think they've done a lot so the cassava going back to it how how was that produced well at the time we had a Japanese volunteer attached to the marketing unit it was mainly her project but I gave support so that's where I kind of caught an idea a feel of how to put together a recipe book and everything I think at the time we also had a cassava project going on as well which is where it stemmed from right in terms of how it has done we worked with bakery um bakers from the various bakeries around the island who currently were engaging in cassava production um in terms of like making cassava bread cakes etc and then we also worked with a lot of schools for that one um we worked with especially the cashiest comprehensive school I remember they did a lot of a lot of stuff yeah and then we worked with one or two chefs from the various hotels and um yeah I feel like that was the the beginning or something really nice I would say and you find that kind of form like the foundation for all the other ones that came afterwards yeah right what I remember with the cassava I remember um there was a master chef from Trinidad who came down under the FU project and and they they had this this um on hand showing or demonstrating how to make the cassava bread I think bruce bruce bickery was present yes you're right armor bickery was present manis as well manis was present too and in fact they were the ones selling a lot of those um recipes of the cassava bread but the problem they encountered was to get the cassava mash and the cassava itself you know and often people weren't buying this you know because it was it was a shift I think it was what it was it 40 percent 40 percent cassava and 60 percent flour I believe something like that yeah yeah and in fact so much so I think one of them to get to 50 percent cassava mash and 50 percent flour right you know and people gravitated to that because of the the nutritive value to it right and less white flour right you know and that is what I think we should go back again and try and revisit that and to get solutions to eat more of that you know that bread because I think it it it can it can go very very very far so I think that's that's another area we need to probably go back to the um because FAO came and they give them some support maybe we can have them come back again probably you know and have the ministry get involved and to to ensure that that is a stable but what is for us I think most important is the question of um production you know either farm if if the farmers can produce then the beakers can do it agree and then to do it at the cost of production to us another thing too because um to get the cassava right and to get the cassava mash at that cost I think it was a bit high for them too so I think that's another area we need to but but but in in your opinion you you um that was the beginning so did that catapult you to going to doing some more and going going into the banana um the banana recipe book um more or less I would say um just in the sense of when I came into the ministry I already had a graphic design background however when it comes to capturing the dishes in a particular way I didn't really have that skill at the time so I really got that through Ricky I really have to um fank her for Ricky so carrying me along with her and kind of teaching me how to maneuver the camera and whatnot um but to be honest I think from we did that first cassava book the public received it so well that they had other initiatives coming out of the ministry when now they saw the need to incorporate recipe books under different projects and that's how the other ones came about and whichever wants to come yes yes yes but I think in off-camera discussion we had maybe this morning in the office we saw the need not only to look at the culinary aspect of those uh commodities but we also saw the need for the agro processing standpoint yeah because I think uh we have really pushed the agro processors over the years to come up with derivatives from those various crops and other other other crops all right like the banana flower and stuff like that look I guess at the mango festival which we'll talk about there was a mango oil that was produced for ladies hair you know so I believe maybe the next step is for us to look at um another book where we could look at um maybe um value added you know what what what what's your thoughts on that would it be a book that will be focused on only consumption products or because I heard you mentioned about some oils for hay etc yes I think we look at everything we bring in this this um agro processing book in general yes that's what I was thinking agro processing book in general so we can focus on various aspects you know um because I mean not only banana not only um cassava not only mango I mean you have coconuts all right now we have coconut flower and that is that if that takes off people are going to buy it it's it's getting in demand we have the gentleman who's pushing it so I'm saying with all of those derivatives I believe we should have a special book highlighting those products I think that's a good idea Mr Sydney especially since um normally what you find whenever we have those books come out it kind of indirectly shows us promotion for the participants in the book so for example um if we have let's say um a named processor puts them in together and someone's like oh wow this person actually does let's say breadfruit flower and then they would now be able to know where to go to get such circles not everybody knows what we have on island that's another thing too yeah we need to put the web those persons are doing yes probably some contact information I can tell you after those festivals the people kept calling I mean for example island pop is a very popular you know product and people have been calling us to know where they can get it so this is another another area we have to look into you know yes they are they they are at a festival they are showcase signal whatever they're doing but they need continuity you know as to where to where to where to to to get those products for sale and I think so we definitely have to go back to drawing board and sale and sit and put some things together because we need to highlight those get those persons out there like the the um the central network of real women right the barbuno cluster and the miku cluster I mean the only thing I think that has been that has come out of the miku cluster is the miku chocolate all right yes but they do more than that it's true so where is it where I mean they come yes they showcase at at an event and that's it that's it for them you know apart from the chocolate that took off all right it's in the store markets and it does move the world now all right they're doing more than just the dark chocolate you know so what do we do how how do we handle that I mean I am so this is something that you know when we go back to the drawing board we'll have to look at it and actually decide let me be called them into because they are part and parcel of that whole thing so you can have to call them in sit down and let us do some brainstorming you understand because at the end of the day we need to move them and move us that is the country you know when you look at our our food security yeah you know now is more of an important time now yes you know that has to be looked at you know in the in when you look at this over markets right now all right I mean to be honest with you I notice they've been bringing in what they call it um um plant and chips and banana chips that's been imported can we not do it tell me what do we do I mean I believe we can be empowered to do that right at least let us do something to cut down on our import the importation you know and maybe we made just or the ministry we may have to you know have a discussion with the agro processors you know and decide hey what can we do instead of doing I mean so many but then we can focus on a few priority ones and do it well you understand because I believe I mean we have there's some locals you know who have been doing the plant and chips and banana chips right but then they're still being imported there's something what are we what are we not doing or what are we doing you know so I believe that you know it's an area that we definitely need to give some attention to and um you know let's look because as you have heard the ministries mansion now especially the minister is pushing it is food and nutrition security yeah that is key you know the policy is has to be is there so we never we now have to put all hands on deck and to ensure that we can feed ourselves you know definitely because what's happening you can see it right now and the cost of production is rising the cost of inputs are rising you know so let us do what we can do organically to the next end so that we can actually get our stuff on the on the supermarket shelf and not only putting there because what has been happening and people are telling you they keep putting all our all the local stuff all at the bottom you know and they're putting the imported ones on top right you understand so they get there's more visibility you know kind of so we need to look at this thing and see what's happening something maybe is the advertising we need to do a lot a lot a lot more now with what's happening you know with mr. Sydney as you brought that up and I think I've noticed from being the ministry you know I also do work if agro processors right and um we have a lot of persons out there doing a lot of amazing products but they don't know how to market it properly right and sometimes you'll find because of that is very difficult for them to get on the shelf so that's something us we also I think we need to put a bit more effort definitely I think we need to have that discussion but we do have to do for our break now okay you're watching out the culture on the move stay tuned we'll be back soon don't go away what's in the food you're eating do you really even know all the chemicals and hormones used to accelerate their growth all the artificial flavoring sweeteners and colors too we consume and we don't spare a thought for the damage that they do think about the children think about the children how will we save them it calls and GMOs are not the solution use organic and join excessive agrochemical use additives and genetically modified foods are harmful to health and the environment join the good food revolution grow buy and consume organic a message from rye st lusia and the ministry of sustainable development with funding from the gef small grants program UNDP welcome back to the program agriculture on the move of course i'm philip sidney your host and with me kenja pain who is an agricultural officer attached to the marketing unit in the ministry of agriculture kenja we were talking about um the marketing of those commodities from the agro processors very important point um okay before i say anything how how how do you see that happening um well maybe the ministry can put something but instantly we could have a discussion and see if it's possible where we could kind of like have some sort of trainings to kind of show them the importance of branding um labeling um and also we could work with bureau of standards other persons that play a part in um putting together a product that meets standards especially when it comes to food safety aspects as well um and i think basically we could just um guide them along and if they come to the ministry to get some sort of support some sort of assistance you could probably um help them in terms of putting designs together because we do have skilled persons at the ministry that can probably make something like that happen beautiful in fact i think the ministry the ministry is best poised in terms of the marketing unit to guide when it comes to marketing of the farmers just all the agro processors you know so i think that's the start from there and then they continue to the next level maybe to go out there get for apart from we you know the guidance right they can actually get somebody out there some graphic artists to put something together even even we i mean i know you you're very good that maybe you can start them with with something because it is costly it is it is very very costly to get to get a graphic artist to do this it's going to work for you um but if you can get somebody to start off then you can get there so i think i think there's some something that we need to call them in to discuss you know because after an event i mean where can you get that product from you know and the people are asking people after the mango the mango activity people have been calls have been coming to the ministry asking but where can i get henshin island pops the ps called me asked me to send his number to him right you you understand and not only him all right um people have been asking about the the the mango the mango oil you know i'm talking about mango let's go to bananas now okay um the banana of our festival um or the banana expo i mean it really we that was that was only on the on the table for a while yes because you remember what 2019 or 2020 it was a little bit before covid time before yes before covid right but covid came in and that actually shelved it for a while yes and um what i think got it back on track again was when the the prime minister made the statement yes you know about the consumption of bananas and people you know took this thing to the next level and tried to really ridicule him in that regard which i find out was i mean i mean there's a time for politics for me and there's a time for you know let's look at country you understand there's nothing wrong in telling solution let us eat what we grow and you know our mantra in the ministry is eat fresh the solution is best okay so bananas are you know is inclusive so here we decided to have a banana expo all right i mean it was it was fast forwarded based on the statement that the prime minister made but then at the end of the day we came out in a big way to to tell the solutions yes it can be done right and then one of the components was the development of the of the the recipe book so tell us about that recipe book okay so the banana recipe book um that we have has 60 recipes um we i worked with at the time that one was more of a sole project into putting the book together so i worked with um restaurants and hotels um from around the island um well to be honest it had to be around the island but then jutsu covid and that that um sudden stop i wasn't able to do the restaurants and stuff in the south of the island however we were still able to get 60 recipes so that's still commendable commendable so yes yes um in any event so basically the way we normally would conduct those those visits i would visit the restaurants um normally i would have a colleague of mine accompanying me to take down the recipes um we'll capture the dish right there taste it have an idea of of what stem that creativity to put that particular dish together so that when anybody would come back and ask us at the mini she will know how to respond obviously people want to ask you that it tastes good i have to be able to say if it tastes good for true etc um everybody that have worked with us thus far in all the books that i've done in general i find they're very hospitable um they they seem very excited to be part of our initiatives they always ask in what other book will be doing because they're so eager to be featured in upcoming um commodity books so yeah but you had some main chefs that i mean there are so many oh yes but then one of the two main contributors that come to mind is chef holando and chef robbie yes you know and they really came to the fore you know um in in in the book and in the recipe book and not only that on the day of the expo you know um i must really thank holando because he really came to the fore where he had a live cooking demonstration in fact not only one i think he had he had a few and people already went to them and he worked with with um robbie in that regard too because robbie had his chef there you know and they also did some work you know so i must say that banana fest um expo was it was an eye opener for a lot of people because even for me too when i especially schools man when i i went to the to their booth and i actually saw what was happening that i was again i was mesmerized you know and um and that is why i insist that we have to do something separately for them for the school school a school's recipe book you know um we have to do that because we cannot allow that allow these things to go go to waste you know you know yeah and um so but again the other chefs from the other hotels contributors right i mean i i don't know if you have you had a book with you right well we cannot on display right now but i would love to go through those of you who are really interested in getting the books we'll talk about that where you can get them because we have realized the demand for these books are increasing you know robbie you know we will get to you because robbie have been calling me chef robbie because he really wants some of those books at his um restaurant right because um the tourists are asking for it yes and so he's calling every week so um definitely we need to put something together maybe just um print some more have a sale of recipe books maybe down in the in the boulevard okay or constitution park but um we also will i'll mention it in a while where we can do it again but definitely the the recipe books need to go out the other one that really caught our attention you know it was again the mango festival that came on board which we had about four years ago but it but it was looking you know yes i think that one is under forestry under forestry and we see as i think would push this one um but at the end of the day we saw the need to to to you know again get it back on track again and then tell us about the revamping of this one okay so for the revamp um mango book to be honest with you the very first one that we did already got um good positive feedback from persons who got their hand but it was printed on a small scale um so for the revamp for me because a couple years past we wanted to include some additional recipes in there and also um but for this one i guess because there was a major festival attached to it you find out more people kept looking for those books i think the first time we printed it was about 100 to 200 copies it wasn't that much but the revamped version we printed about 400 copies of the book and we plan to print some more so um in light of that um yeah um the first time when the book was done it was basically featuring only um restaurateurs um bartenders et cetera but um the revamp one has some additional recipes from the south for louis school which i really liked because um the the educators got an opportunity to showcase some other stuff that they've been teaching the students which was nice and and of course we also featured um uh these things uh interesting guests um on the book as well which was the ambassador's wife if you remember yes yes who who did something she put together that's the the thai one is ambassador's wife so so there was some thai one is dish yes yes so one or two thai one is dishes in there as well which is interesting and i think that that that this this is the things that we need to um you know combine you know our own with the foreigners and so that is why i'm looking forward for you know a national food fair again you know too because we have a lot of foreigners like san lusia the jamaican the trinidadians and whatever so we need we definitely need need need to do that but the mango is very interesting because one of the things that we try to do and we try to do it in mango in the mango season all right and we're able to show some varieties but i thought i knew mangoes varieties and let me tell you yeah we have a lot let me tell you you know about the week before i knew about 25 when uh just the the day before the activity i had 49 already and i was told there about 75 recipes of um varieties of mangoes in san lusia you know and what's interesting is the various varieties do do different things yes there are some those those are a bit sour which will go for juice and other things and that is the the the variety of um the variety of mangoes that we have and the variety of things that we can do the various derivatives from it and that too again both the mango and the banana we need to do you know the agro processing part of it because that's just the culinary aspect so we need to do the the other thing this is what we we definitely need to have a a chat in that in that direction so overall what are your thoughts well overall i'm just happy to see how well the books have been going people have been calling um the ministry even after they like today still asking about um either person that want to participate in any upcoming books and also person that is want to copy yeah and um it's so it's so interesting that the first day that we go is already done yes so much so we have to print some more but it is it's good because i feel like these books um um are meeting its objectives so definitely i see that there is need for more and obviously we could always improve as we go forward well Kendra we come to the end of the program i want to thank you for being here thank you for having me sir Sydney definitely you have a lot to do yes for sure for sure and before we leave i just want to tell you something we look forward for our um our seamos fiesta coming on stream for october 16th whole food day at four door i have this one's going to be big so i just want to remind you so remember our culture is our business eat fresh it's the lucius best i'm philip sydney of course kendra p in my gears goodbye


How the Narcissist hypnotizes you. When you first meet the Narcissist, they produce a state of hypnosis within you. They capture your whole attention. They fascinate you. They attract the strong attention and interest of you. They deprive you of your ability to resist or escape by the power of their gaze. They look at you steadily and intently in admiration, surprise or thought. It's mesmerizing. It captures your complete attention. It sends you into a trance. But this is not caused by any real qualities, abilities or talents of the Narcissist. It isn't real. It's all an illusion. They induce a misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience. They persuade or lead you to believe in their deceptive appearance or impression. A false idea or belief. They trick you into accepting and believing that what they are displaying to you is real or what they are saying to you is true. Narcissists have exceptional skills in this area. They are experts at hypnotizing their victims. They have exceptional skills in this area because this is something they have been practicing for a very long time. They have to practice manipulation because they have no real authentic qualities, abilities or talents of their own. Everything is manufactured or fabricated. It is invented in order to deceive. It is not real or genuine. They are unable to fulfill their needs in an honest way. So they have to resort to manipulation. And this is something that they have been practicing for a very long time. So naturally they have developed exceptional skills in this area. Which means that they are going to be very good at hypnotizing you and getting you to believe in their deceptive appearance or impression. They create illusions, tricks that deceive the eye. They can generate their desired response from you by displaying an appearance or impression which is designed to deceive you. It is designed to deliberately cause you to believe something that is not true for their own personal gain. It is designed to give you a mistaken impression to generate their desired response from you. This is how they lower you in. When you first meet them, they display an optimistic, confident person. Someone who appears to be hopeful and confident about the future. Someone who shows confidence in themselves and their own abilities or qualities. Someone who shows certainty in something. Someone who shows firm conviction that something is the case. And because they seem so confident, so certain, you begin to believe in them. You begin to believe in their deceptive appearance or impression. And they will play along as though they are working with you to achieve a mutually desired outcome or result. Until you begin to adopt their beliefs, their version of reality as your own, the wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience. The deceptive appearance or impression makes you numb to your own intuition. It deprives your feeling or responsiveness to your ability to understand something instinctively without the need for conscious reasoning. It creates a false idea or belief which you then begin to adopt as your own idea or belief. Once they have planted these false ideas or beliefs within you, they then begin to dissect you. They begin to psychoanalyze you, examine you methodically and in detail in order to study your internal parts. In order to explain and interpret it in an attempt to discover or reveal something through close examination, they conduct a detailed investigation and analysis of who you are, your likes and interests, your disadvantages or faults, without your awareness of this. Narcissists have exceptional skills in psychoanalysis. This is something that they have practiced for a very long time. It is an essential skill for their survival to obtain narcissistic supply. So naturally, they are very good at gathering information, collecting data which can then be used to manipulate you and give them the fuel that they need. They are taking mental notes of everything you are saying and doing, not to get to know you but to control and manipulate you. Knowing who you are, knowing your likes and interests, your disadvantages and faults, gives them the power to influence and direct your behavior on the course of events. They are trying to determine your behavior and supervise your actions or movements to find flaws or defects, deficiencies, things that you are unable to resist and things that you like excessively. It gives them the ability to control and influence you. It gives them the ability to change your behavior or perception through the use of indirect, deceptive or underhanded tactics. Once they have gathered enough information about you, they begin to experiment. They begin to try out new ideas or methods in an attempt to validate beliefs that are held with limited evidence. They secretly make use of their influence over you to gain an advantage over you and make full use of and derive benefit from you in a way that might be considered unfair or underhanded. Once they have done these experiments enough times, it improves their accuracy. It improves their quality or state of being correct or precise. So now they know what to do to affect you.  They know how to impress you. They know how to make you mad. They have attached strings to you like a puppet. You are under their influence and control. They can dial up any feeling or action they want through the use of deceptive or manipulative tactics. The narcissist targets their victims usually based on some feeling of envy or jealousy and as a means of obtaining narcissistic supply. Their goal is to secure their source of narcissistic supply so that it can provide them with supply whenever they need it. But when they are done with it and they have extracted all that they can get from it, their goal is to destroy it. The narcissist does not want to see their source leave them in good physical or mental condition. They do not want to see their source leaving them with a physical strength, mental power, skill, time, money or opportunity to do anything. They do not want to see you being a benefit or advantage to someone else. That is why they want to ruin you once they are done with you. They do not want you to be good for anyone else other than them. They exploit you and extract as much as they can from you. But as they get more and more familiar with you they begin to lose interest and they have used up everything that you had to offer. This is when they begin deconstructing you and reducing you to your constituent parts to reinterpret you. To explain the meaning of certain information or of your actions. To understand your action, mood or way of behaving. To decide what the intended meaning of something is.    They have too much anger and rage within them to let you move on as a confident, self-assured, happy person. When you do finally have the opportunity to leave they want you to be so twisted and confused so forced out of your natural shape or condition that you no longer even have the capabilities to move on from them. That is what they want to see. They want to keep you in a state of confusion and uncertainty where you cannot think of anything other than them. Where you cannot think of anything other than what they did to you. So even when you finally have the opportunity to leave you are still anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen. You are still thinking about everything that you went through in the past. That is what they want to happen because it will prevent or hinder progress in any future relationships that you try to develop. The narcissist knows how to produce a state of hypnosis within you. They know how to bring you through the process of hypnosis. It is done in a deliberate, scheming and ruthlessly determined way. It is done intentionally. They have an awareness of what they are doing.  You are their objective or result towards which efforts are directed. And you have been their target even since before they had met you. Before they even knew you while they were in the process of targeting you. They brainwashed you. They pressurized you into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and forcible means. They made you believe something by repeatedly telling you that it is true and preventing any other information or influence from reaching you. They targeted your self-worth and self-esteem. They made you believe that your own beliefs were not credible. It created uncertainty regarding your own credibility and value. While the narcissist displayed a false, excited sense of confidence and certainty. So naturally, you were more accepting of whatever they were dictating to you and you were more doubtful and uncertain of your own beliefs, your own intuition. You lost your good sense and common judgment which then led to you making bad decisions.  And these are the undesirable effects and consequences of dealing with a narcissist. They deprive you of your identity until you don't know who you are. You develop a state or condition where you are always doubting or questioning yourself. And then they come in and they dictate to you what is right and what is wrong. They dictate to you who you are and what you should be doing. This is how the narcissist hypnotizes you. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. 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Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft, thank you for watching today. So in this week's What Did I Get? I have been to Hobby Craft, I have brought some stuff from Craft Stash, I visited a craft there, a couple of charity shops and then I had a surprise gift from my parents which I will share with you in a moment. This lady makes these absolutely beautiful pin cushions. So there's already a few little pins in there, she's got handmade with Love in the Middle, tiny little buttons there with the bumble bee on again, you can just see it there. Really nice, so well made and then you know she's put the string through to create that really nice flower shape like the petals and it's handmade by Busby's. So I will show the card here, so this is Busby's, Busby's Stories, Children's Books and Handmade Gifts, Marie Robinson and she writes books as well which I thought was really nice. So her Etsy store, because she did say yeah visit Etsy for craft items at Busby's. So I'll share the link, I love the fabric she chooses so yeah and I just, I like things that can be displayed and I love this one particularly because the way the bird was there you could really see it and that lovely bloom there with the flowers so that was something I purchased. So I really like that and I like to support small businesses and things like that so yeah it was really nice. So then I purchased this from Craft Stash, this is by the Craft Consultium, it's their newest collection so you've got the Herbarium, you've got the Riverbank and you've got something Meadow, again I'll have all the links on my blog and those of you that have already seen my pop-up box card that I shared this week, I've got the links to all of the collections over on my blog so you can always look at that as well. It's absolutely beautiful, if you haven't heard of the Craft Consultium go and check them out because they do absolutely beautiful luxury premium of course paper pads and accessories. So I picked up, this I brought as a bundle, it worked out cheaper so I got the 12x12, two stamp sets and three accessories in a bundle but I got the stamps there, again I used these recently in that card that I shared, beautiful card and I'll link that one up here actually so you can just click on that and then these are all your different herb leaves and then these are all metal embellishments and they are heavy, there's a real nice weight to them, they're like an antique gold color or brass, bronze whatever you want to call it, little watering cans, your little scissors and those little trowels there, beautiful. I'm not going to go through all of the papers, I'll just go through some of them, they're coated, they're absolutely gorgeous, you know when you sit there stroking papers again, I know I always do it but oh just love them and I like that they, I shared this in the video but I like that they make the use of the front page so you can fussy cut all these and you've got all those lovely little kind of signs there with the different herbs and things so yeah I'm really enjoying this so far. Then I popped into hobby craft and they had a sale on, there wasn't a great deal of stuff but whenever the thickers they go into sale I always grab some because I find them quite expensive to be honest, I don't tend to buy them when they're full price, so I've had my eye on these happy birthday ones for a while and when I went in they were £2 each so I grabbed two packs because I think usually they were £4 each so these are just going to get used so often and they're just one of those ones that I know I'll pull out and they go with a lot of my layouts so double-sided, happy birthday, party, hooray, wishes, surprise, just really like them, love the bunting, that look nice on cards as well and even you know these ones so I've got two of that one and this is called Hurrah, okay if anybody's interested then that one I really like it's just got like the rainbow stripes going through that's called Prismatic, again double-sided, these ones here it's like bubblegum pink this is called Shoebox and again double-sided, really nice tall but thin ones I like those and then this one here I absolutely love this it's called Grayson, I'm working on a baby mini album at the moment and this is just going to finish it off perfectly so I had seen it again before it was full price at that point I wasn't really starting the project but now I am I went in there and it was reduced so perfect I just love these look snuggle time, my buddy, little dude and then on the back you've got Huggable and then I love the giggles as well I think that's really cute and then the numbers so that's those then I popped into a shop called Tiger or Flying Tiger I think it is and this is just a very large post-it note thing let me open it or as it should be said because it obviously isn't done by the same company these are sticky memos but I just thought they were really handy so they're going to go on a big bulldog clip that I've got but I just need sometimes it's nice to just have a big scribble pad I used to have a massive one that was actually covering my desk but I just didn't like it I prefer my mat so this was quite nice and then obviously you've got the post-it part there with the sticky bit even at the top and that's good for using these as well when you're doing any masking so stamping and masking so I just picked that up I think it was a pound two pounds something like that wasn't much and then I popped into a charity shop and I did share this over on my Facebook page so this is maybe Mabel Lucy Atwell I don't know if anybody of you have heard from her she has been going for decades an absolutely amazing illustrator and this is a kit using her images and it's just adorable these are just look at these oh my gosh they are just so cute apparently these illustrations were based on her own children or her own daughter I think it was but look and it's all been stuck down there you see all the levels all the layers to it and look at this oh I absolutely love doing these so I'm going to be making some I've got a few projects in mind actually for this something a little bit different which I'll be sharing in due course look at that one oh then you've got the gorgeous little girl and little boy there again I've already stuck them down lifted them up so you could have them singly on their own but look how cute they look when they're just kissing and then the idea is is that you would stick them on to their kind of their background there so now they've got the green and they'll see she's that's no different actually if you pop that over there there is no difference to that one this one had already stuck down so there's the little girl skipping lovely you got these that you can cut out and then this is the other page here so I love the two little girls whispering they're so cute and then like I said those ones if you want to add them to their scene you can so apologies with this one if anybody's like oh my god I want it because this is from 2011 I paid a pound for this in a charity shop you get how many do you get you get two of each so these two more pages still they just fall out and they're all numbered again just like the normal decoupage so yeah I will try and find any links but it's it was produced through ktsudesigns.com Katie Katie Sue still going now but this is from 2011 made in the UK and this is obviously yeah the Lucy Atwell designs so yeah I'll try and have a look for you see if I can find it if anybody is interested but it is gorgeous absolutely love this one and then my truly awesome parents surprised me with the Cricut Explore Air 2 yeah overwhelmed well I was just absolutely yeah speechless so thank you so much to my awesome parents for this I have already been playing with it and I've started to you know get to grips with the software it's very easy straightforward and I've already started you know putting some things together and in due course I'm not rushing this I will share some tutorials with some cards that I've made using this amazing machine so yeah let me know in the comments below if you have one I did share this already over on my Facebook page and lots of people you know said that they've got theirs and they absolutely love it you know there I know the maker is out there as well but I have no real interest in cutting metal and wood and things like that it's just not something if I end up doing all that then I won't do my paper crafting and that's my passion that's what I love so this does just what I need I have researched this enough to know that this gives me what I want and I'm just so happy and very very very thankful and humbled that my parents got me this I think to be honest they were probably sick of me going on deciding whether or not you know to get it or whatever so yeah look at it it's just oh and I got the mint green as well which I absolutely love so yeah thanks mum and dad let me know what you think let me know what you would like to see and all that kind of stuff and then we can take it from there okay so that is everything there I'm just about squeezing because this is large it actually got it's got its own home now it's got its own kind of area because it's got the wi-fi so I'm able to you know use my laptop and do everything at my desk and then this will do its thing over on the other side of the room so yeah love it oh my gosh so there we go so let me know what you think as always I will share as many links as I can below and I will be back tomorrow with another tutorial thanks for watching bye


You know, with running a company, I'm curious how often you actually get to go play golf these days because you mentioned you're also into cycling and tennis as well. Yeah, I, uh, realistically, I probably play 27 holes a month. I say that because I'll probably play like last week, there's certain times where it's like I'll play like if I play 18 holes a week, that's like really good. On average, I like go like two weeks without playing just because stuff. So we're in peak season right now. So just work is crazy. The company's growing a ton. So it's, it's wild. It's not like I am not living the CEO, you know, who has an assistant doing all his work and like playing golf.  I can't be like gone for five or six hours during the day. So for me, it's much more about those little weekend hangs with the boys or if I can get out to play, like do that. But like I couldn't, there's a big crew of guys playing last Friday. Like it's just a lot of stuff going on. I just can't, can't always do it. So I understand that so well. I get out on the golf course and on the days that you can play around in four hours or less, great, cause that's, that's a good amount of time. And then you can still have most of the rest of your day to do whatever work that you need to get done. But on the weekends, when it's slow and backed up and I've had games take six hours and it really is a big turnoff of the sport for me. Because when you add in the time that it takes to drive there and warm up and then drive home afterwards, I mean, that's, you were looking at at least eight hours with a slow game. And it's really prohibitive for anything to get done other than that.  I think Malcolm Gladwell had a really interesting podcast about that a couple of years back where he talked about all of these CEOs who were not only spending a lot of time in the golf course, but actually taking the time to log their results on this, um, this website that tracked their scores and whatnot and just he calculated just how much time and energy and money was being wasted by them not actually doing their job. So it's interesting that you mentioned that you're not that CEO living the golf life. I probably play the least amount of golf out of any like golf company owners I know. I feel like it, like I play less golf than my, my sales guys play golf all the time. I mean, they're also selling, but I'm like, I'm just, yeah, I'm also the worst golfer on the team. Like everyone else is like scratch golfers, but I love it. It's just, and I would love to get to a spot where I can do like one day a week, like maybe that's like a one-on-one meeting or something, you know, with one of the team and we go play golf, but I think we're not there yet. I mean, we're still bad, but he's still like this little scrappy company that we got a lot going on. So totally. I mean, we have the old adage that says a lot of business gets done on the golf course and it sounds like your sales guys are doing just that, but at a certain point you have to draw the line and say, okay, like, yes, I can do some business on the golf course, like, you know, rocking your polo around, people might see it and want one, but like, overall, that's not going to get your company to where you want it to be, you know, $20, $50 million valuation. Yeah, you do have to spend some time in the office grinding away and not on the golf course. Hey, everyone, thanks for checking out that clip. If you enjoyed it, be sure to hit the like button down below. And if you're interested in hearing the full episode, it's out right now on our YouTube channel. We've had a lot of great guests come on this show before and we've got a lot of great guests coming up in the future. So hit subscribe so that you don't miss a single episode. In one final note, we're always looking for new ideas and new companies to feature on the show. So if you know of someone or know of a company, write us a comment down below letting us know who they are and what they do. We'd be happy to have them on the show. Till then, I'll just be here waiting for your comments. So, uh, see you later.


Item Number SCP-711 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures Under no circumstances whatsoever is SCP-711 to be operated. Operation, or attempted operation of SCP-711 is to be punished in all cases by the severest and most extreme measures available to the SCP Foundation. Enforcement of this zero-tolerance policy, should it become necessary, is to become the single highest priority assignment for all available Foundation personnel. The current instance of SCP-711 is to be embedded in concrete and stored in a type 2 high value item vault at storage site secured by at least four multiply redundant locking systems and guarded by armed Foundation agents of no less than level 2 security clearance. The item should never be stored in operable condition. In any major crisis during which the survival of the SCP Foundation, or of any significant, greater than 20% portion of human civilization is called into question, the item's supervisors are to destroy it immediately and determine a safe time and place for its reassembly. No person capable of operating SCP-711 is permitted to have any knowledge of the contents of String 17. See below. Description Built by the SCP Foundation from plans retrieved SCP-711 is a device assembled from several highly modified energy physics equipment. Its primary function in short, it is capable of sending data into its past and of receiving data from its future. Transmission is strictly one way. Independent operation of the item is therefore causally impossible. Any message it receives will necessarily be sent at some point in its future. All SCP-711 messages predetermine their own existence and content. To date, exactly 17 messages have been received via SCP-711. The first String was received at 1300 hours on the day of the item's creation and sent 4 minutes later. It consisted only of the character's test. With successive operations, signal quality has declined dramatically. String 1 was transmitted perfectly, reading precisely test, both when sent and when received. String 16 when sent, also read precisely test. When received, it consisted of the character's T$3SKFAT followed by 5 kilobytes of meaningless noise. Additionally, over the course of testing, 4 strings were received which were never sent and which consist demonstrably P less than 0.0001 of nothing but noise. String 17 was detected data-expunged 10 years after the object's construction. It consists of 347 characters, either heavily encrypted or data-expunged. Within the first 50 characters, however, is sufficient data to establish that it will be sent by a duly authorized agent of the SCP Foundation. Its date of origin is unknown. To date, it has not yet been sent. Since String 17 will necessarily be sent, and since it is known to be sent by an agent of the Foundation, the survival of the SCP Foundation and of humanity in general is guaranteed, at least until such time as String 17 is transmitted. Transmission of String 17 must therefore be postponed at all costs. The above containment procedures are calculated to ensure that it will not be sent until such a time as the SCP Foundation is too weak to enforce them, in which case the Foundation will have already de facto ceased to exist. Note, SCP-711 is an insurance policy of sorts. Until we send String 17, we know we have to survive any crisis, otherwise that String is a BL-class predestination paradox. Once it's sent, we no longer have that guarantee. Yes, we'll have to fail at some point. We did receive String 17 after all, but the longer we postpone it, the longer we know we can survive. Stop that signal, people. Our continued existence may just depend on it. Dr. P. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-710, Disappearance, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.