Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back to yet another FNAF news video. This time we'll go an old school. If you've been with the channel for a long time, you may know that I used to do a whole bunch of videos previewing the upcoming FNAF books. And we're coming back to that tradition today because we got the first 20 or so pages of the first volume of the graphic novel for the Fazbear Fright books. So if you are excited about the upcoming graphic novels for Fazbear Frights, make sure to hit the like button if you're new to the channel, subscribe so when we do get more previews for future FNAF books, you don't miss out on those. And let's kick it off by talking a little bit about the backstory of this book. What stories are in it, when is it releasing? Well as you can see this is the cover for FNAF, the Fazbear Frights graphic novel collection volume one. On the front you can see the plush trap chaser kind of bursting through some boarded planks probably trying to get to the protagonist, the reader, whoever he's trying to get to. Stories in the first volume are into the pit, to be beautiful and out of stock. And as of right now the release date for the first volume is September the 6th so it's actually coming up pretty soon. So now let's actually go through the preview for the official book. If you want to look through the preview for yourself or maybe you want to take it a bit slower, it'll be linked down in the description down below. But this is the first page as you can see it's just the cover of the book. Next up we got all of the authors and the illustrators and everyone who works on the book. We have the copyrights, you know, pretty boring stuff and then we have the cover page for Into the Pit. And finally turning the page here are the first illustrations for the book. And it also looks like we have an outline of plush trap, you know the plush trap chaser which is an awesome detail that I freaking love. As you can see the first panel has Oswald the main character and his dad driving in the car. So yeah they're driving in the car, Oswald's pretty bummed out because summer's starting, you know he's getting out of school and that's boring. But home is also boring too because his best friend Ben has moved away. His dad's talking about what he used to do as a kid but once again Oswald's like yeah well I can't really play games because I don't have anyone to play games with. The next panel you can see Oswald drawing some FNAF characters in a sketchbook on a piece of paper, looks like he got Freddy, Toy Bonnie and Chica. And since Oswald's dad has to go to his job he's dropping his son off at the library. So his dad drives off and he's gonna come pick him up when he's done with his shift at work and Oswald is depicted reading, drawing, all that good stuff. But he eventually gets pretty bored as you can see right here so he goes over to get some lunch at Jeff's Pizza. So this is Jeff's Pizza which as you can see has the time-traveling ball pit.  Gazing over at the ball pit he will come back to that pretty soon, getting up close and then what looks to be Jeff sneaks up on him with another slice. Actually a couple slices, oh my god that's a steal. Two free slices of pizza, oh he's living the life right now.  He gets a text from his dad while he's eating, his dad's off work, he'll be out in the front of Jeff's Pizza in about two minutes. And then we cut to later that evening where him and his dad are watching his favorite show or I think it's actually a movie, I can't remember, honestly it's been a bit since I've read Into the Pit. Ironic right here, how scary could a guy in a suit be? How's he gonna find out later on in the story on his wall? He could be pretty terrifying, especially if he replaces your dad. So yeah they're chilling out there watching his favorite show and he eventually heads off to bed. And on the bright side he's like hey, you know that day it wasn't so bad, he's talking himself in bed, looks like he's got little, little Bonnie figure going on there, that's cute. He wakes up and I'm super glad that this is in the graphic novel, his mom makes the best pancakes.   And this begins a heated argument with his father because Oswald wants to watch the brand new movie that came out on the streaming services and his dad's like no man, we gotta watch the old ones, you know, the ones I used to watch as a kid and Oswald is getting pretty upset at that. Mom comes in, making a joke, if they can't, you know, settle their argument, she's gonna put on a romantic comedy which I'm sure neither of them will appreciate. And so, you know, Oswald just goes up to his room and ends up drawing and texting Ben. It looks like in complete juxtaposition, Ben is having a fantastic summer but they still both, you know, heavily miss each other and desperately wish to hang out. And then we eventually go back to Oswald and his dad driving in his car, it looks like he's cranking up the volume to a song and Oswald is very grumpy right now and they get into a pretty heated argument. It doesn't go so well and so, that's the end of the preview. Ooh, what a cliffhanger. Yeah, so that is actually the end of the preview. These are all of the pages. Again, if you wanna go through and look them on your own, you can either pause the video or once again, it'll be linked in the description down below. Going over it, I just kinda explained what was happening in the panels, you know, without really taking into consideration the actual art itself, but I wanna say, I think it's fantastic. Especially, and I mean, I don't mean any ill intent towards the other artists who worked on graphic novels for FNAF in the past, but this is definitely one of the best ones we've gotten. There are certainly some, you know, panels that have very bland backgrounds, but honestly, I don't mind it that much. As you can tell, the characters themselves are pretty consistent. They're very well drawn in my opinion. The colors are also pretty spot on, which is awesome, you love to see that. So even though I'm sure this was rushed as all or at least most scholastic products are, especially graphic novels, it's a truly terrible industry. I think this is looking fantastic so far, and I can't wait for it to fully release because I really wanna see now, after seeing this, I wanna see To Be Beautiful. I wanna see what Eleanor looks like. I wanna see Spring Bonnie. I wanna see, you know, the Plush Trap Chaser and Outta Stock. I'm just super excited by seeing these previews. I think the book looks amazing so far, but that is the full preview and also just in case you did miss it, I do wanna talk about the second volume of the Fazbear Fritz graphic novels before we wrap up this video. So this is the cover of the second volume of the graphic novels for Fazbear Fritz. As you can see, it features the Minerinas from The Room for One More Story. The two other stories in the second volume are Fetch and also The New Kid. We did show these off in a previous FNAF news video, but again, just in case you missed it, this is the preview page for Fetch. As you can see, it's got Greg kind of brutally beating up the Fetch animatronic. This is the preview page for Room for One More. As you can see, it has who I believe to be Stanley being operated on by the nurse Ballora and also what appears to be a doctor Minerina. And finally, the preview for The New Kid has who I believe to be Devin. I'm just picking that up from the very quick summaries of the books of the stories because I have not read Room for One More. I have not read The New Kid. So apologies if I get the names mixed up or don't know a certain character. But as you can see, this preview has, again, maybe Devin looking into the Golden Freddy suit in the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place. And it also has Bonnie, Freddy and Chica up on the stage. And Volume Two has a release date of March the 7th of 2023. So pretty far away. Let's a quick look at the previews for the two upcoming graphic novels for the Fazbear Fright books. Tell me what are your thoughts on the previews? How do you think they look so far? What stories do you want to see adapted into graphic novels next? Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


Here in Cakewalk by BandLab I have a guitar track in blue and a vocal track in green. Now unfortunately during the second phrase of this vocal track I sung a wrong lyric. Let's just have a quick listen. It should be was it the way that I stand. Obviously I want to correct that. Now one thing I could do is just record on a second audio track and edit it in. So for example if I show you one I made earlier I've got this second recording here with the correct lyric. I could go in probably select the one that I want to get rid of like so, press delete on my keyboard, drag the new one in there and it's all fixed very nicely. Now that's one way you could do it. It's not the most elegant way and particularly if you want to do multiple takes and then select later which one you want best I probably wouldn't think this is the best way to do it. Another downside to this methodology is if we go back a couple of steps to where I recorded this new vocal I'll still be able to hear the original vocal as I'm singing. That will be quite off-putting okay so I'd probably need to go in beforehand and delete it anyway like so. Okay so as I say if you want to use this method I think it's okay but it's probably not the most elegant method so let's just hide that track like so and look at another method. Now the other method you could use is comping. I've discussed this in other videos and I'll put a link at the top right if you don't know how to do comping but as a quick overview what we do with comping is we record several takes and then select which takes we want later. It does require sort of prior preparation and knowing that you want to do it this way. You'd have to go up to the record button, long press on it and make sure you have comping selected as your recording method and as long as you've done that and you've recorded it to new lanes which we'll look at now by clicking on this little icon then you'll have a number of different takes to choose from. Now assuming that one of those takes has the correct lyric I could just select that area like so down here in the lanes and hey presto it's fixed and I now have my corrected lyric in there. Okay comping is one method as I say as long as you have recorded the correct lyric in this case at some stage. One of the downsides to comping and it may be off-putting for you is the fact that you can't hear the previous takes as you're recording your new take okay so this means that you have to just record this lyric in isolation now we're not always recording vocals of course and wanting to correct just vocals. Sometimes the context is really really important when you just want to insert a new recording okay so another method that you may want to look at is punching in and out. My folks I'm Mike and I hope you're well someone somewhere not only wants skin the cat but they found multiple ways of doing it. Anyway here in Cakewalk by Bandlab there's also multiple ways to solve problems often now we're going to solve that problem that we had there in the intro using the punching method in just a moment however before we get into that I just want to remind you that if you're new to Cakewalk by Bandlab and you haven't even recorded your first song yet you should follow the link in the description down below to my absolute beginner's guide to Cakewalk where I guide you through that process with no fluff in a simplified manner and all in one place. Now there's a coupon code on the screen at the moment which is going to be valid for the next couple of days so you can get a handy discount for that now let's get punching. So before we go ahead and record using punching in and out we need to make sure that we can see the module for punching in and out you may or may not be able to see it at the moment at the top row up here in Cakewalk so if you can't just right click on a blank area where all the modules are go to where it says modules and then go down and select punch and then you'll be able to see this little module here these are our punch in and out options the other thing that I like to do is select the correct recording method okay so I'm going to go to the record button over here long left press on there and that brings up these options it's on comping at the moment which will come back to later but I'm going to suggest one of the most sort of straightforward ways of doing punching in and out is to use the overwrite method this is like the traditional method you would have with tape okay where the old recording is you know gone it's deleted and then the new recording is inserted in its place so it's the most sort of basic method. Now the next thing I like to do is select the area that I want to use my punch in and out method with okay you don't have to do it like this but I think it makes it easier so I'm going to go down to my vocal and I'm going to just wait till my mouse cursor changes to this eye beam and then I'm going to select an area give myself a little space a little bit of space either side of where I want to do the take yeah and then release now that has made a selection in Cakewalk okay and you can see that selection reflected in the ruler at the top there okay that just makes it easier for the next step if we go to the record punch in out module I'm going to click this icon here okay that's going to set the in and out points of our punch in and out according to the current selection not to be confused by the way with an icon which is right next to it here which is exactly the same which is in our sort of loop module here okay just be careful you don't click on the wrong one this is in our punch module I'm going to click on that a few things are going to happen and I'll explain them also I click on it now okay so the first thing that's happened is it's set the in and out points for punching according to that selection you can see the numbers reflect that here indeed if you want to manually change that you can go in and change those numbers there if you want to use that methodology now the other way that you can change this selection is on the ruler we can see now this red these red sort of markers have appeared okay they are now showing the in and out points for our punch we could grab one of them and just sort of drag it around like so or we could just grab the bottom line here wait till our cursor changes to this sort of weird left and right icon with a P and then we can drag the whole punch in and out sort of selection there if we want to okay now another thing that happened when I pressed that icon was we automatically went into the punch mode and this button was switched on so it's going to punch in the next time we record we could switch that off of course if we don't decide to go ahead but of course we're going to punch in and out so I'm going to turn that on okay so because as I say we had overwrite selected here in the recording method what's going to happen as soon as I press record now to record this track you're going to see this disappear it's going to start off by deleting what was originally there and that's handy because it means we're not going to hear that original recording okay I'm going to arm my track for recording over here on the left go to and sort of a few bars before I need to record and I'm going to hit record and re-record that vocal was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close and you can see that it's just got rid of that old recording and put in my slightly dodgy new recording wasn't that great a performance but I did get the lyric correct okay so that's one thing you may want to do now another thing you may want to do is actually set up a loop so you can do several takes and I probably would want to retake that again okay so what I'm going to do is make a selection again like so just leave myself a little bit of leeway okay and I'm going to go up here to I'm going to set my loop selection up here by clicking on this icon as I just did there similar to the way we did it in the punch in and out okay now it's set up a loop and it's going to go around around there and it's going to re-record that okay so that's one method I could do until I've got a take that I'm happy with okay now this leads me into my sort of next topic because you can combine this with comping okay so if we go up to our record method like so and click on comping what's going to happen now is we've got that loop set up we can you know re-record this as many times as we want but we can keep each take okay it's not just going to simply overwrite each take but if we do make sure that we delete the section yeah that we're going to be re-recording before we start comping that will ensure that we can't hear it each time so I've just going to select this clip here and press on my delete key on the keyboard I could have selected arrange and done the same thing so what's going to happen now and I'm going to demonstrate this to you by recording three different takes is we can record those three takes and get the best of them later so bear with me my voice is a bit croaky today these might not sound all that great but I'll try my best let's hang in there and do three takes was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close was it really was bad huh was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close okay let's stop there we could do as many takes as we want now the last take that I did there is the one which is showing okay that's the the last take but I don't have to stick with that one because I set this to comp mode up here yeah with that record button now when I click on the lanes track down on the lanes icon down here to show the lanes yeah then I can see those other three takes which I just recorded there okay so I can now go ahead and do as I demonstrated earlier and just select one of those and that will be the take which is actually played in the comp now apart from being able to punch in and out when you're recording I really do think it's useful for you to fully understand comping in cakewalk by bandlab I didn't go into too much detail about it here so if you want to know all about it just click on this thumbnail right here


Good morning. I'm Mary Ellen and today I'm here to do a collaboration with two beautiful women, Natalie the beauty diva and Carol from the old Carol show. Every for the last six years we have done our yearly favorites, but this year we decided instead of doing our favorite 21 for 2021 we were gonna pick out our top ten. This is the eighth year that I have filmed a yearly favorites and it is the sixth one that Carol and Natalie and I have done together and I have known both Carol and Natalie since the very beginning of my channel. I call Carol the Queen of Cool and Natalie is my beautiful little sister and I sure hope you watch their videos and I will link those below and I think you'll enjoy them as much as I do if you don't already know them. I really had a hard time limiting what I was going to talk about because I did have like 25 things picked so what I did was I'm not gonna talk about beauty items in this one because to tell you the truth I have found some good beauty items and I'll talk about those in an upcoming video but if you've watched me very long, you know that anything that makes me happy or makes my life a little bit easier. I think they're beauty items. I really do and I have three rules when I decide what I'm gonna talk about. It has to be something that I have purchased myself. It's has to be something that I haven't talked about in a former yearly favorites and I have to go back to all my favorites and I make notations if I still like it, if it if it didn't work out like I thought it was going to because those videos are there forever. So anyway, those are my rules. So the first thing I'm going to talk about is my Apple Watch and I am going to link the video that I talked about it in depth in the card and down below because I mean this this has been well, I haven't found anything in the last few years that I liked as much as this. There's two things that are really important to me about this. If I would fall and I did one time, it sets off an alarm that you can choose, if you're still awake, you can choose to cancel it or if you have passed out it will call all your text, all your contacts and 911 services and also it it works as a phone. I can tell it to do anything that I can tell my phone to do to make telephone calls, to get me directions, to text, although I don't use it for all those things. The main thing I use it for is safety. I bought it for Jim and he will not, he's not interested right now. He may be at some point. Before I talk a little bit more about this, I want to share something else with you. If you're not interested in having a phone on your wrist and the safety things, having a Fitbit and a pulse oximeter, this gets me everything that my Apple Watch does except for the safety features. Jim still wears his Fitbit and this is mine and this is going to be a backup for him because I don't want to give my Apple Watch up. I am not trying to sell you anything. I'm just going to share with you the things that I really like, like this watch. I'm going to tell you what I think is important. I did a little research and I wanted to share that with you and I'm going to go ahead and look down because I don't want to get these numbers mixed up. This is a 44 millimeter watch. I wanted a bigger one because I wanted to be able to read it if I didn't have glasses on or if I didn't have my contact lens on. I had to buy the expensive watch because this is stainless steel and even though I have to switch it, that every two days from one arm to the other, it doesn't really bother me but I know that I couldn't wear an aluminum one. This one came with the leather band that is magnetized but really it's not important what bands you get because you can get any you can get bands everywhere for Apple Watches and I'm embarrassed to say but I paid $749 for mine. I didn't know it until later. My grandson said, well you can get it for 24 months with absolutely no interest if you choose to do that but I didn't know about that at the time and you can because I looked on their website but I'm going to share with you what I would have gotten or what Jim will maybe get eventually if I didn't have a metal allergy. I would go for the SE. SE, it does everything that my watch does with the exception of it doesn't do the EKG and it doesn't measure oxygen but you know I have this so and I think a lot of people have these. I've had this one for years. The SE can be cellular and have the GPS. The 44 millimeter SE with GPS and cellular is $359 or $14.95 for 24 months. Well when I'm talking about the GPS and cellular you need to add it to your cellular plan and mine was $10 a month and it is well worth it. They also have a new one out. It's a series 7 and a 41 millimeter with the GPS and cellular is $499 or $20.79 for 20 months and if you wanted the Leather Magnetic Band it's $50 more. I can leave the house with my driver's license my debit card and the watch on my arm and if I get lost somewhere I can just say I'll say the magic name and say take me home. I can call anybody I need to call just by you know if I'm in a wreck or got stranded. There are two things you need to think about. It is swim proof but it's not like take a shower and take a bath proof because of the soap. I'm thinking about people as they get older you know like me or Jim that you know if you live alone and you fell that a lot of times it's getting in and out of the bathtub so if you could have it right next to where you get in you can get in the bathtub take it off put it on the table get in when you get done with your bath have a towel ready dry your arm and you could put it back on before you got out. That's one thing that you cannot take a bath in it and the other thing is you need to have a time. In my case I do it every day although this battery on mine doesn't last as long as the series 7. I want to get in the routine when I come in here in the evening I plug it in when I get in bed I usually put my charger over there and it usually takes about 45 minutes and then I will unplug it I will put it on and I'm good for another 24 hours but also I'll leave some information below but I really this to me has been just a huge game changer well because Jim did not want to wear an Apple watch I wanted something that he could call he's not good with keeping his phone close to him and neither am I but I wanted something that if he fell and I was in the room or I was outside or I was you know gone that he could say to call me and I bought an Echo Dot and all he has to do is say her name and it is A-L-E-X-A and he can say to call Mary Ellen and he's normally in four rooms in this house and he can holler in all of them and it'll activate it you don't have to scream but what I like I mean she'll answer a lot of questions Alexa how far are we from Chicago Chicago is 346.9 miles away by car and if you want to know anything else about Alexa I'm going to link a video of Elle's oh from Elle is her living you would not believe all the things she has her this person do her Echo Dot so that's been one of my favorites for safety reasons the next one is kind of recent I've had it for about a month and I am just absolutely in love with it and it is the ring video doorbell and I'll put a picture of it on there it's about the size of this box and it just it it just replaces a doorbell that you have and I had somebody do it for me because Jim's not able to stand out there and do it I could have done it myself but my doorbell doesn't work and I didn't know if there was still electricity to the prongs if you and I did have it but it has a battery in it that'll last a year too so I charged it put it up and what it does is when somebody comes on my front porch I get a notification on my phone on my watch that there is a person on my porch if they ring the doorbell this is the thing that is so cool if they ring the doorbell I get the notification if I'm 600 miles away I get the notification and I can just say how can I help you and they don't know that you're not home so I think that is good but I think it's a great safety feature and I've been really excited with it I've kind of had to change it a little so every big vehicle that went by didn't trigger it so it's been working great okay I'm talking about techie things but I'll get out of techie things I bought this probably a year ago and it is the firestick tv and they sell anywhere from $30 to $40 I'll link the one I have below because it does everything I want it to do all you need for this this this allows you to get apps on your tv because the tv I have in this room is not a smart tv and we still have cable because that's gem loves cable there's certain shows I like to watch that I need to get on an app in order to use these you need internet and you need a television that has a usb cable in the back and a plug-in and then you just follow the directions any app I get from my tv I can get on my computer so it you know it works real well but I really really like it I've had one in the living room for quite some time and in the kitchen is a smart tv so didn't need the the firestick but right now I have peacock because our cable does not carry NBC for some reason and there's some shows I want to watch on well the voice I want to watch that for sure and so I'll probably discontinue that when I'm done watching what I want to watch on NBC I talked about these in a favorites in a monthly favorites but I love them and I'm going to put this in front of my face so you can see the difference these sets these towels are the same size they're 32 by 71 this is a towel these are the towels I used to use this is a towel I use now I love it it is a microfiber towel of course you can't use any laundry detergent no you can use laundry detergent you can't use any fabric softener I wash these in the washer and I put white vinegar in my dispenser that has my what I used to use April Fresh Downey and they just come out wonderfully well I love them because they're lightweight they're easy to store in my cabinet they're so easy to reach in I have a stackable washer and dryer and the washers on bottom I can just reach in there and throw them up and they're not heavy just perfect I got these for Jim and these are microfiber also they just look a little fluffier but it's still the same microfiber inside this is a smaller one than mine the fit cream of it is a little bit larger but we both really like it and I know I'll never buy another regular towel again I found a perfect robe for me on Amazon and I've worn in a video I've modeled it if I can find where I modeled it I'll put the picture here it was terrible but I think I threw it away but I'll put a picture I love the fabric what I love is that the belt is attached in the back it has pockets it is probably three-quarter length it met a need I had I had plenty of warm bath robes or house coats or whatever but I didn't have anything like this and I liked it so well that I bought two of them the brand is max moto and I got an extra extra large because on the instructions it said machine wash hang dry and I knew I didn't want one I didn't want it if I had to do that so I bought this one in an extra extra large I washed it I dried it in the dryer and it did beautifully so I sized up because normally I would get an extra large in a row the next item is truly my luxury item and I liked it so much I bought three as Christmas gifts and I consider this expensive this is an unhide blanket it is 80 inches by 60 inches and it is thick and it is plush and I have never found anything that feels as good as this does I never have what happened it was when I was subscribed to fabfitfun they sent a throw that I absolutely loved that washed up like a dream and I thought man I wonder if they make blankets and I searched for it and I found this at Nordstrom and when I found it and it was like $195 I loved my little one so much that I went ahead and bought it for $195 and when I was ordering I waited to order my Christmas gifts until the Nordstrom sale and they were marked down I think about 30% so oh my gosh I love it it weighs like nine pounds so it's just a semi weighted but oh my gosh it feels like heaven and I put this side I want to be able to put my hand between my sheet and blanket and just feel it it's it's soothing so this is what I consider a luxury item that I bought for myself just for total pleasure now for something really practical the spinco slides I bought mine from the men's department at amazon in the men's department from their men's but I just sized them you know down to my size which is like a nine and a half or ten and I wear these with socks they have around the house these are my around the house shoes I showed them in a video earlier this summer that I just put on my black socks put these on if I need to leave and go someplace I take these off and put a pair of black Clark shoes on that I wear just go anywhere that I just need to go but these have just really been so comfortable it gives my foot a lot of support it has because of all gyms doctors office visits I needed a bigger crossbody and I shared this in an earlier video and I bought the Duny and Burke this crossbody it has a big pocket right here red interior which I love and it also has a key fob but this has just worked out so well it's exactly the amount of room I need because I he wants me to carry his wallet and his cell phone and in the smaller ones that I have it all wouldn't fit in there these are on sale a lot I can't remember if I got mine at QBC or the website to tell you the truth because I always I put both links when I did it I love it I love black and brown always looks good it was definitely a winner for me and my last favorites are lap desks I have two of these I have a laptop in my bedroom and a laptop in the living room and I was taking it back and forth at night because I and I thought don't just get another one because these have little pockets back here it fits a 13 and a half inch computer and it's just perfect absolutely perfect as a place you can put pens I always put something right here just a piece of something so if I turn it my computer wouldn't fall off and we've been using these other ones for different things it's a book great on here you can put it on your lap and it can be just like if you want a sandwich or if you want to write something that you know these are handy they're comfortable they have padding right back here and then here's my other one we are a family of four lap desks so this is I think my oldest but I love them all the same I like the ones for my computer for my computer but I like these for lots of other things so I think I covered everything I hope I didn't spend too much time on anything in particular but those are these are just some things that really made me happy this year that really made a difference in my life I hope you go and watch my friends Natalie and Carol and see what they have I can't wait to see what they picked out is there 10 favorites for 2021 it is all good I'm gonna see you two weeks from today that'll be my last video of the year I appreciate your support more than you will ever know and uh and I'll see you in my next video take care I didn't have an apple and it does not do the pulse and it doesn't do the and I bought an Alexa no I didn't buy an Alexa so all I have to do is turn if I didn't have


So in real life on the phone the writing is all mirrored. When I put this in front of the teleprompter you can see that the mirrored writing is reflected in the glass so it reads the right way round. I can't say that, right way round. Under here is the tripod thread and there's a metal... This is the Prons Store or Ambitfall mini teleprompter. It's a prompter that you can clip onto the lens of your DSLR camera or as you'll see with my experiments maybe you can also clip it onto a Sony ZV-1 camera or even a Canon G7 X Mark II or Mark III. I'll be showing you as much of this teleprompter as possible to show you how it works, how it fixes to the camera and what kind of teleprompter apps you can use with the supplied remote control. This is how the Ambitfall mini teleprompter arrives. Let's see what's inside the box. Look at this. If I told myself when I was a child that I would be unboxing an actual autocue I think I would have been very excited and it's like a matte plastic if I give it a flick. So it sounds less than premium but it looks pretty good in real life and it feels really really light. Under here is the tripod thread and there's a metal... Okay so that's how it... it's unscrews. I didn't know if it was like spring loaded and there's a kind of a rubber pad to grip the phone but I'm really pleased with this. There's a cold shoe mount on the top. You can pause the video if you'd like to look at these. The lens adapters to fix your camera to the teleprompter hood. These foam covers if you wanted to film with a phone and the thing that I'm looking forward to the most I think which is the remote control. Four buttons and a joystick okay button on the top and it takes two AAA batteries.  I have a 52 millimeter lens adapter ring but it's stuck on. I mean it's literally stuck on with a sticky pad. I don't think this is going to work but I'm going to try it anyway just in case you're wondering if you can mount a ambit full teleprompter onto a Sony ZV-1 with just a stuck on lens adapter ring. So I'm recording on the the Sony as well before I inevitably smash the thing. You can just slide the hood onto the ring like this and if I look into the lens I'm in really harsh daylight here so it's not the best test or we'll take it indoors and do this properly in a moment but I thought it might be more picturesque out here. Now what I love about this is it actually looks like a TV camera now. I grew up in the 80s and 90s wanting to work in TV and this I mean this really looks like a TV camera now. The entire weight of the teleprompter and my chunky case phone it's all putting the weight on this ring of double-sided sticky tape. I think having the rugged phone case is probably a good idea if this suddenly tears off and collapses to the ground. I'm like sorry my dog's going nuts digging a hole. If I suddenly fall out of shot it's because I've fallen into Casper's hole here. So the ambit full mini teleprompter or prawn store teleprompter is holding out really well. Let's get it indoors now. So welcome to the happy hut and I found, well nearly dropped it, I found my old Android phone and I've put onto this the Parrot Teleprompter app. There's a link to that in the description. There are all kinds of free prompter apps. I've got my camera here. Hello this is what the shot looks like before the prompter hood goes onto the camera and the trick is to get the ring to slide into the clip on the back here. Try and get my camera around so you can see what's going on. So it clips on like this and because it's on this round hood clip you've got to kind of straighten the prompter and there I am hello. This is what the picture looks like with the hood on. So to me this is looking good but what do you think? Leave a comment down below. It is so nice to look at a TV style autocu rather than a tiny lens. So with my Parrot Teleprompter app I'm going to click on settings and then I'm going to turn on mirror mode and then I'll explain how this works just in case you've not used the autocu before. So in real life on the phone this is what it looks like. The writing is all mirrored. When I put this in front of the teleprompter I'll slide this into the phone holder and you can see that the mirror of writing is reflected in the glass so it reads the right way round. I can't say that right way round. I'm going to straighten the teleprompter. You're now seeing me which is me reading the words and you can also see what I can see which is what's coming off the ambit full teleprompter. The teleprompter also comes with this remote control and there have been a lot of reviews saying it doesn't work with their particular prompter app but it seems to be working great with me. So let's bring the camera around so you can literally see what I'm seeing. So rather elegantly I now have my DJI Osmo Pocket over my shoulder and I can use the remote control to scroll up and down. Now if I zoom in you can see what I've got on the screen here. This script that comes with the Parrot Teleprompter app. So I'm just going to read a few lines. The Parrot Teleprompter app is the companion app for the Parrot Teleprompter, the world's most portable and affordable teleprompter. Use the script manager to manage your scripts or add and delete new scripts. You can adjust various scroll settings by selecting the gear icon. Wow it feels so much easier to actually deliver to you into the camera lens down the barrel rather than what I usually do which is to try and remember what I'm trying to say and then I'm sort of eye flicking off to the monitor on the side to see if I'm in focus or check that that thing is recording anyway. It is so much easier and more reassuring to have words in front of me and to make my eye line meet those words. Now this is incredible I downloaded the Chrome Remote Desktop app and I've linked it to my computer here and incredibly it's sending what's happening on Chrome on my computer to my phone. Now obviously I need to make the text supersize so I can read that straight off my computer screen and I can scroll it with my mouse while I'm delivering the script but I still don't have the text as a mirror image you can see it's back to front. So then I got another Chrome extension which is called Mirror I'll leave a link in the description I'm not sure how safe this extension is but it flips the Chrome tab to be a mirror image and now you can see that it is completely the right way around on the teleprompter for me so I can scroll up and down or even view any web page that I like. The other thing that I can do now is to use the Chrome Remote Desktop to send a zoom call straight to the teleprompter and that means that I can see my zoom call actually in my eye line right here in front of me I can maintain eye contact and see all the participants right in front of my camera so I don't have to look down or pretend to look at them by looking at my lens. Of course if you want to buy one from Amazon the links are all in the description and I'll put all the links to the apps there as well and I'll change those if I find any better ones. Good luck with your AutoCube teleprompter Ron Burgundy style reading. Stay classy San Diego!


Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have to protect the innocent.  You're assigned a burglary detail. You get a call that a clothing store in Hollywood is some losses. The value of the stolen property is over $12,000. There's no lead to any of the beef. No pattern to his MO. Your job? Get him. It was Wednesday, June 3rd. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a burglary detail. My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Bernard. My name is Fred. We were on our way out from the office at 9.56 a.m. when we got to 1592 Vine Street. Dodd's men's store. Excuse me? Yeah. I wonder if you can tell us where you find Leonard Dodd's? Yeah, uh, that's him. Tell it back here in the blue suit. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I don't know how it happened, honey. No, I just came in this morning. I noticed this stuff. What's going on? The whole shipment is wearing coats. It hasn't even been unpacked yet. Yeah, about two dozen of them. We're white with a button-down collar. Yeah, I called the cops and the insurance company. Yeah, a little less 12,000. Well, a couple of customers just came in, honey. I'll call you back. Yeah. Well, don't worry about it. Yes, sir? Can I help you, gentlemen? Mr. Dodd? That's right. Police officer, this is Frank Smith. My name is Freddy. How are you, sir? You reported to Bergery this morning? Yeah, are you guys from Hollywood? No, sir. We're out of central. I didn't think I'd seen you around here before. You want to tell us what happened? Yeah. Come on back to the storeroom. When did you first discover the staff? Well, this morning, when I came in, I went back here to unpack merchandise, and I found most of it gone. Here, I'll get to you. Now, this is our storeroom. I'm going to ship them from the east. The cases are going to get canceled and packed with the invoices. Was all of the stolen merchandise taken from this room? I'm not sure about that. I do know that a shipment of suede jackets and weskets was in here. It's gone now. A couple of cases are sure it's too. The only way I'd have of knowing if it took anything from out in the store itself would be to make a complete inventory. What do you estimate the loss at? $12,000. When was the last time you saw the merchandise in here? Yesterday afternoon. About what time? Well, I'd have to guess at that. I'd say about 3 or 3.30. How many doors are there in the store here? Just the front one, one in the back, opens into an alley. What if we can see the rear door? Sure. Back this way. One of the first I called them. I found out it was gone and I checked the door. It was still locked. You have an arm system in the store? Yes. It didn't go off last night. I see. This is big for yourself. There's nothing locked. No, it'll fall into the gym. Well, that's what I thought, too. I looked pretty close. Any sign of where they came? How about windows? Hmm? Possibly got into a window? No, I'm sure. Two got in here. You can see them. They're 10 feet and barred. They couldn't have gotten in there. All right. We'll have our crime. We'll have to take a look. Who has keys to the plate? Well, I've got one. Yes, sir, but who else? Well, they're just me and Al. Al? Yeah, Al Baker. He's sort of the assistant manager. Whenever I'm not around, he takes charge of things. Whoever you can when he comes in. Listen, I don't want you to give him any trouble. I cut him with anything. Anything at all. I don't want you asking why. All right, sir. He would. Well, I could live here. It's not one of the things I'm going to do.  But you can be sure of one thing. What's that? Isn't anybody who works at the store did that? You seem pretty sure about that. Well, I know my people. All of them have been with me for a couple of years. I trust them all. I noticed that you're doing some remodeling here. How about the workman? A possible one of them took the merchandise? To Friday, do you know how much $12,000 in closing? Yes, sir. I have an idea. And the both of you couldn't carry it in one trip. Not in a couple of trips. Well, we took the whole entire getting of it. We have to open up to let them in and they leave before we close. They tried to get the things out of the store. One of us had seen it. Couldn't possibly have been one of them. Right. Yeah. Sure. You need your phone? Yes. It's on the counter in front of the store. I just don't understand it. Sure. This doesn't seem to be any way they could have gotten all of the clothes out. No way at all. We must have found one. 1038, the crew from the crime lab arrived and went over the place. The whole cell checked and all entrances and exits of the store were checked for fingerprints. Both the front door and the rear exit were examined, but there was no mark of a jimmy. The windows on the second floor were gone over, but the locks on them were secure and there was no apparent way they could have been used to remove the stolen merchandise. We talked to the other clerks in the store, and then we got approximately the same story that we'd obtained from the store manager. They verified that the merchandise had been on the premises at 3.30 p.m. the day before. None of them could say for certain that it was there after that, however. While Frank was checking with the members of the crew from the crime lab, I called the names of the employees into the record bureau for a check. Yeah. That's Baker. B-A-K-E-R. W-M-A. 46.5. 156. That's all. No visible marks this time. John, I got something for you. Okay, if you'll check the names, I'll give you a call later. Right. What do you got? Come on upstairs. I got talking to the figure from the found the merchandise had to be came out in the daytime. Will he go along with that? Yeah. They were open. Somebody used a key. He thinks like we do that somebody took the cases out of the plan of them and picked the stuff up last night. What do you got up here? The window that opens out on the roof of the next building. Check the lock from here. Yeah. Come on. Climb up. No bars on this one, huh? Uh-huh. Over here. Get behind here. Now what? Take a look. There. Shirts. And this one? Swag cuffs. This is all it was taken. No. The manager says it's about half. No time for the rest of it. No. Just take them out last night. Takes a few back nights for the rest. Well, it'll be here. So will we. We had a manager clothing store to keep watch on the case of solar ties while we made arrangements to play stakeout. 12.14 p.m. The crime lab finished their investigation back in angles. He told us that he checked the fingerprints found on the doors and windows but that all of them had been eliminated as they belonged to the members of the store staff or to the workmen. He told us that they found an impression of a tire print in the dirt of the alley next to the building where the stolen clothing had been found. He went on to say that they'd checked and found that the truck belonging to the plaster contractor had tires of the same type that had left the impression. It slipped into the building next to the clothing store. There was no new information on the possible identity of the thief. 3.52 p.m. We checked back with the record bureau on the list of names of store employees. Yeah. When was that? Uh-huh. How long? To get out clean. Mm-hmm. Nothing on the rest of them, huh? Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Bye. Anything? We checked the names, came up with one possible. Yeah. The assistant manager, Al Baker. Uh-huh. He's done time for burglary. The record bureau had come up with the information that Alfred Roger Baker had been arrested in 1943 for burglary. He'd been tried and convicted on three counts. He'd spent a term in the state penitentiary of San Quentin and he'd been released. Since that time, he apparently had led the life of an exemplary citizen. 4.07 p.m. Frank and I took him to the office to clothing store. Sit down, Baker. Sure. Hold on. You don't think I had anything to do with this burglary, do you? How many times have you been arrested? What do you have to say? We just want an answer. You seen the record? We've seen it. You know without me telling you? We'd like to hear it from you. I think I did the time. I'm clean since then. I thought when you did the title, you did anything. Yes, that's right. You know what are you guys hopping on me for? I just work here. I mean, just because I did a hitch for burglary that I had anything to do with this. You know you did. Well, you sure are acting like I did, bringing me in here, talking about how I was arrested. You sure are acting like you think I had something to do with this one. Good for it. How do you figure that? You've got the only other to your door. Look, I don't like to bring this up. Maybe you bright cops haven't thought about it, but who says Dodd couldn't have done it? Well, he's in trouble. Big trouble. This would be an easy way out of it. All right. You tell us. Well, all this stuff is insured. Be pretty sweet for him to lift the merchandise, collect down the insurance, and then sell the stuff, too. Come real good. I thought you... Try and figure it anyway. All I know is that you guys are trying to wrap something around me that doesn't fit, and I want no part of it. Come right down. It must be a couple of... You must have trouble financially, otherwise you're doing all this remodeling. He hasn't got much choice. He's got a brightness place up. He's going to lose what business he's got. You check into him. You look it up. You'll see what I'm talking about. It makes a lot more sense than you hauling me in here. Can you account for your time last night? From when? From the time you left here. Yeah, I can give you every minute. All right. Go ahead. I left here at 6.30. That's the time I always leave. Who was here when you left? You mean who locked up? That's right. Leonard, he always locks up. Always.  Went up to the corner and had a beer. That's like always, too. Anybody in the bar know you? Yeah, the bartender and the waitress. They'll vouch for you? Sure, they will. All right, go ahead. After I left there, I drove home. What time did you leave the bar? About 7.10. I had one beer, smoked two cigarettes, put a nickel up the home. I left at 7.10. She was sure you were going to want to know the time I got proven that. You'll have to take my word for it. What time did you get home? By 7.50. Where do you live? On the valley. Traffic's heavy going out of the path that time. And I took me 10 minutes longer than it usually does. You approve when you got home? Yeah, I can. How? Talk to my wife. We got a time clock on the wall just as you come in the door. I punch in and out. The time will be there. What about last night? I was home the day I sat her on, watched television, went to bed.  No, nothing the time. I got home last night until I left this morning. Pretty bad, isn't it? How do you mean that? I can prove every minute of it.  You start looking around. You'll come up with a lot. I've got a lot more chance and a lot more reason to height that stuff than I do. That won't be hard because I haven't got any. You sit tight and I'll show you who sold that stuff. Huh? Wait a minute. Where are you going? Just over to the desk. I want to show you something. What? You'll see. Hold it just a minute. What's the white one? You can never learn to do. You open up, Troy. This one? Yeah. All right. I'll open that one. All right. What do you want? Uh, a folder right there. This one? Yeah, this one. Put it up on the desk. All right. Go on, open. Yeah. Now take a good look at the reason the stuff was stolen. What is it, Joe? Bills? Isn't there anything that's paid for? Take a look at them yourself. Here. Okay. A past due. Please remit. Your credit is important. Over due. Past due. Go through the rest of them. They're all like that. There's no place in the country anymore to extend any credit to Dodds. Not one. You're looking for some kind of reason to steal the stuff. Well, there's your answer. You talk to them about it. He's got the reason. Come in. Joe. I'll take it. I'll take it. You've got to lean on somebody. You lean on Leonard Dodd. He's the one. Don't come around here bothering me. Joe. Yeah. He might be telling the truth. Huh? Stuff on the roof. Yeah. It's gone. You are listening to Dragnet. The authentic story of your police force in action. With the removal of the remaining packages on the roof, our main opportunity in the seat was done. We questioned the people in the store. From them, we learned that the man-hides had brought the cases of clothing into the store himself. We talked to him and he offered as an explanation the fact that the insurance company wouldn't like him leaving a supply of expensive suede coats up on the roof. He went on to say that catching the thief was our best apprehendment. We tried to question him regarding the accusations made by the salesman, Al Baker. He said they were ridiculous and that we hope they end up listening to the next convict. He went on to say that he resented the questions we put up in the thinking of the office and made arrangements for a stakeout to be set up on the roof of the building next door. And then Frank and I returned to the office to check further on Leonard Dodds. We checked with his bank and we found that he had several notes on the clothing store. The head of the loan department told us that Dodds' payments had been irregular and that at the time he was overdue on one of the notes. We contacted the insurance company and found that Dodds had made a claim on the stolen merchandise that morning and had requested payment as soon as possible. We turned the list of the stolen articles over to Pawn Shop Detail and asked them to see that the information would get into the hands of the second hand dealers in the city. Ten fifteen p.m. Frank and I filled out the log and prepared to leave the office. You about ready? Yeah, I'll be right over there. I got it. Very great Friday. Yes, ma'am. Hmm? Well, I'm not sure. No, the officer that handled the case isn't here right now. What if I could take a message? Yes, ma'am. He'll call you when he gets in. All right. Uh-huh. Yes, all right. If you'll wait just a minute, I'll transfer to the main jail. No, the main jail. They'll probably be able to tell you. Yes, that's right. Just a minute. Hold on, please. Would you give this call to 2949, please? That's right, the bail plate. Thank you. All right. The woman wants to know how much it's going to cost to get her out of jail. I got it. Very great Friday. Yeah, mm-hmm. Yeah, that's right. We did. Yeah. The one was that. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, okay. We'll wait here. Bye. Bye. It looks like we got it made, maybe. What do you mean? Radio car out in the West Lake District just picked up a couple of kids. Uh-huh. Both of them were loaded down with clothes. Yeah. Label on them as Dodds clothing. The radio car officer had told me on the phone that he and his partner, while making a routine patrol of the area, spotted two boys walking down the street, securing large quantities of clothing. When they were stopped, the two suspects were unable to account for the clothes, and they were not able to tell the arresting officers where they'd gotten them. In checking the pair out, the officer called Bergeri detail, and we'd gotten our first concrete lead to the thief. 10.47 p.m. The two suspects arrived at the office. Their names were checked through R and I, and they were both found to have misdemeanor records listing petty theft and attempted Bergeri. One of them, Walker Kramer, had been convicted on Bergeri charges and had been sentenced to Preston School for boys. He was at the time on parole. While the other boy waited in the squad room, Frank and I questioned Kramer in the interrogation room. Howler. 18. 40 lit. You know that already when you're asking me again before I told the other cop gave him all the information. Where do you live? By 74 Brandon Street. You want to tell us where you got the clothing you had when you were picked up? You're smart cops, you figure it out. You on parole now? No, I got out clean. Are you still that way? That depends on how you read this one. Where'd you get those things? I found them. You expect us to buy them? I don't care if you buy it or not, it's the truth. You're pretty heavy, aren't you? I've been around. That time up at Preston didn't do you much good, did it? Be surprised what I've learned up there. Not what you were sent there for. That depends on where you're sitting.  You want to tell us where you got them? You tell me. Come on, kid, where'd you get the clothes?  There ain't any of it. Where were you yesterday? Starting when? From when you got up. I got to tell you all that? We want to hear it. Pretty dull. All right, go ahead. I got up about noon. You got a job? Yeah. Where? Around. What do you do? Nothing. I'm a philosopher. I study people. I just sit around all day and study people. How do you live? What you did yesterday? Told you. I got up about noon. Had some breakfast. Then went over to Harry's. That's the boy you were picked up with? Yeah. Went over to his house. Sat around and watched the television. How long were you at his house? Maybe six. Sat around and talked philosophy. Talked and watched the old movies. What'd you do then? Left him out to study people. Where'd you go? Went down, played a couple of games at pool. Had some lead. And after that? Went out to a movie. You got any way of proving that? Sure. Talked to Harry. See your alibi? Yeah, you talked to him. You may not know this, but he's in the theft as deep as you are. I got some information for you, cop. Neither one of us is in on it at all. All right, get your coat. What are you taking? City jail. You gonna book me? You called it. How about him? He going to? Yep. Charge. Suspicion 459 PC. Burgary? That's right. Come on. You mean that stuff is really stolen? That's right. You're telling me right? Yep. That ain't true. You tell us about it. No, I mean, Harry and me didn't steal the stuff. At least not the first time. What do you mean by that? Well, we stole it. Yeah, you got us cold for that, but not the first time. Where'd you get it? From a garage. That's the truth. We stole the stuff from a garage. Where is the place? I'll show you. There's a lot more stuff there, a lot more. Clothing? Yep. Whose garage is it? I don't know. Harry and me were walking around out there and we saw this truck pull up. Guy got out and then loaded some packing cases. When was all this? Last night. Where the garage looked though it wasn't the first time. The place was loaded. A lot of shirts, coats, suits, all kinds of things. Harry and me figured that we might as well help ourselves. We didn't steal the stuff originally, not the first time. What's the address where the garage is? I don't know. Up on Shortale Avenue near the light. All right, we take you up there when you point it out for us. Sure, I'll show you. I want to see him get his. Get a real good. What do you mean?  Well, that's all right. Sure. The important thing is that you know that we didn't steal it the first time. You got to believe that. We didn't steal it the first time. Is there really a difference? Well, 15 a.m. We talked to the suspect that had been picked up with Kramer. He gave us substantially the same story that we'd gotten from the first boy. They both agreed to take us out to the garage where they found the stolen merchandise. Before we left the office, we put in a call to the clothing store, but there's been no report from the stake out on the roof. The two suspects directed us to drive out. We took the freeway out to Glendale Boulevard and turned right. We drove out to Loma Vista and then we turned right again.   We drove down the street and parked the car. Frank and I and the two suspects walked back to the house and into the rear of the yard. A two car garage in the rear of the building was unlocked. We went in. Scattered around the place, we found several large packing cases of clothing. The labels on them were from some of the most exclusive men's stores in the city. There was no question about it. This was the plant for the stolen merchandise. Frank stood by the back door of the house and I went up on the front porch and rang the bell. Yeah. You're Martin Hepman, aren't you? Yeah, do I know you? My name's Pipe's Police Department. Oh yeah, I met you over at Dodge. What is this, one question? Yeah, a few. Kind of late to come around it. Well, maybe a little. Just going to turn in. Can you wait a little morning? I could come down to the police department. You don't have to talk tonight. Oh. Okay, come on in. Thank you. Anybody else in the house? Just my wife and the kids. Where are they? Upstairs. They're all asleep. I told you I was just going to turn in. Uh-huh. That garage out back, that belonged to you? What? The garage out in the back of the lot. Is it yours? Yeah, that's mine. Why? What do you use it for? What do you use a garage for? I keep the truck there. But where's the truck tonight? I left it at the service station down Glendale Point. Heaven agrees, and you have changed. Why? Anybody else use the garage besides you? No. Everything in it belonged to you?  Well, you can do that from downtown. You arresting me? Yes, sir.  We found it. That's a cigarette? Yeah. There's a man. I guess I should have gotten it out of the garage sooner. Figured on the first thing in the morning. You talked to me this morning and thought I should have known. I shouldn't have known right then. I didn't think you'd figure it this way. All right.  Just let me finish the cigarette. Let me see your headed figure. You're going real good. Want to hear about it? All right. Well, I'm a plastering contractor, you know that. Yeah, you told us that this morning. Well, I bid on the jobs, all the contractors submit bids on how much we'll do the work for, you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. I always got in with the low bitches to drive the other contractors crazy. Never could figure out how I could come out on it. You see it, though, don't you? Well, you tell me. Well, you see, if a job would cost me, say, $3,500 to do, I'd put in a bid for $2,500. I always get the job, and then I'd steal the other thousand merchandise, see? Mm-hmm. It could hurt. What about the store owner? I weren't sure. Only about in the middle was the insurance company, so you see, nobody really got hurt. You about finished that cigarette now? Yeah, just about. Pretty lucky, you know. Is it right? Yeah, sure. This was going to be the last time. I figured that after this, I'd be able to go it straight. Got my equipment all paid for, money in the bank. Figured I could go it straight. This was going to be the last time. Well, you were right, weren't you?  What's that? How'd you tag me? How'd you find out? We caught a couple of kids breaking into the garage. They'd stolen some of the clothes they were picked up and they pointed the place out to us. Kids? That's right. How about that? That's really terrible, isn't it? What is? Oh, this younger generation, I had legitimate reasons. I was just trying to come out. Wasn't anybody going to get hurt my way? But those kids, I hope you're going to put them away for a long time with them thieves.  Let's go. That's just awful. No sense of honesty at all. I sure hate to think of what the world's coming to. You want to tell me something, Hepman? Sure. What do you want to know? You said you just stole the difference between what you agreed to do the job for and what it really ought to be. Am I got it right? Yeah, just the difference. Well, you hit the dodge star pretty high, didn't you? $12,000 worth? Well, you see, that was a kind of a deal. Well... I didn't get anything on the last job, not a thing, so I had to make up for it, you see what I mean? Yeah. I had to come out some way. Nobody would expect me to take a complete loss with it. I wouldn't know about that. I just wanted what I had coming. Yeah, well, you're going to get it this time. ... Martin April Hepman was tried and convicted of burglary in the second degree for counts and received sentence as prescribed by law. Burglary in the second degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than one or more than 15 years or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year. Walter James Kramer and Samuel Arthur Nicholson were tried and convicted of burglary in the first degree. Burglary in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of not less than five years. This is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio Service.


Serap is opposing live pensions for former governors, Nisam, Mike, Ge, Imang and others. Serap is joining us this morning to give us details of this matter that they are taking to court to stop the ex-governors from the continued collection of pensions. That will be our first hot topic on the breakfast this morning. As the world goes digital, today on the program we'll be looking at the development in technology, especially in Africa, and the availability of funding for startups. We'll also be taking a look at some national dailies and the headlines that made it to their front pages of the press, but joined by our analysts to do that on the program. Good morning and welcome to the Breakfast in Plus TV Africa. I am Maureen Minnauizigwe. And I am Nyamgul Agadje. It's the tech Tuesday and we hope that you're going digital for the right reasons. And like they say, anytime that you want extra income, you just might find it on Google or any other place that technology has given us the opportunity to be able to connect with. And I do hope that you will have a wonderful time watching us this morning. And we do have a very, very robust appetite for technology in this part of the world. Although, unfortunately, most of what we consume here are packaged and imported. And we want to see that change. We want to see a situation where we can also package and export technology to the rest of the world. So these are part of the things to be taking a look at this morning. And I'm also very particularly happy. There's news making the rounds that girls of federal government, girls' college, I think, have also produced their own robot that does the things that they command it to do. And when you look at it, it's so beautiful and you just love the fact that they're able to do this. And I commend the principle of that school because when the girls were being interviewed, they said before that principle came, they didn't know anything about technology, at least to the extent that the principal made them know. Now she enrolled them in competitions. She made sure that they had a dedicated lab and all the things that were needed to do this. So probably they have done a lot of coding and all that. So now they have produced their own robot in that school. And that just tells us that with a little bit of pushing, with a little bit of opportunity, a lot can be achieved in Nigeria as well. And it also tells us that it all begins and ends with leadership. If you have the right leadership, things will definitely change. If the head is screwed on well, the body will follow suit. So if, for instance, in Nigeria, we want to see an end to corruption, then the president himself must be seen not to be corrupt, must be seen to be against corruption and must be seen to be fighting corruptions with the right words, the right actions, the right body languages. Otherwise, nothing is going to change. This is not saying that you have to be a saint, to be a leader. At least show us that even if you were corrupt before, you have repented enough. Yes, because everybody will have one kind of skeleton or the other in their cupboard. We are all humans. But for people to see that, okay, even if you've done that journey, you are now ready to change. Or at least you've seen that it's not taking you or the country to anywhere. Or even when you were doing it, you were doing it as a person. But now, as a leader, you want a different approach to all of these things. Then we'll follow suit. And it depends on, like you said, how the leader is. It trickles down to the people because body language is enough to put everybody on their toes. Body language, actions, you know, these things go along, going saying that a new sheriff is in town. And what it would need to see and feel and experience that a new sheriff is in town. Not many Nigerians, if at all, have forgotten how things were with the last administration and how the level of impunity that we saw play out in the poverty. And if there is a new sheriff in town, even though it's the same party, we would want to see a change in some of the things, if not all of the things that we cried against. I mean, why then did we have an election? Yeah. Why is there a change of God? It should not just be that there's a new sheriff in town, like you said. And it shouldn't be that we had impunity in the last government, but now we're having a different kind of impunity, or the same impunity with a different name. It shouldn't be that way. We should feel the impact of a new sheriff coming in town and feel the relief that comes with good governance. Because, hey, democracy is about the people, no matter the nomenclature that you're giving to eat, so long as the people are carried along and they enjoy, it doesn't matter whether it's for me anyway. It doesn't matter whether it's a monarchy, whether it's an autocracy, whatever name you're calling it. So long as I have what to eat, I'm secure in health, I do whatever I want to do, I have some level of freedom that I need because I don't need 100% freedom anyway. I have the level of freedom that I need to function as a human being and not feel that someone is trampling on me and pressing my neck and not letting me to breathe, you know, those kind of things. So leaders should not get comfortable that they are in a democracy and so democracy is untouchable. They shouldn't get comfortable. They should get comfortable with the fact that they are so good to the people that they don't need bullet-proof cars, for instance. Exactly, they just need Nigerians, African leaders, if they never knew or they forgot, now they know that democracy can be touched. It's no longer untouchable if at all it ever was. What is happening in the Sahel region, the coups and all of that, and as you have said, why do they need bullet-proof vehicles? If they are comfortable and confident that they were voted in by the people to represent them, then what are they afraid of?  They wouldn't see you get hurt and allow anything to come to you that will not be of good to you. Also, if they need this bullet-proof, as someone has widely stated, they should use their own money to get it and not use Nigeria's money, taxpayer's money to get unnecessary vehicles, very expensive vehicles. I understand that some of them in one state in the east rejected innocent motos. The vehicles given to them are assembled by innocent motos. I thought that was very insensitive of them. How do you encourage people for it? It's just like, okay, Dango Tears Refinery will come on stream and then you never buy fuel from him.  That's exactly what is playing out. How do you encourage people in that sector to continue to do things like that?  And then there are other countries that are coming here to buy those same vehicles for their government functionaries. Why are you giving them the space where you are? As a senator or a member of House of Maps in your state, why are you there if you do not have that mentality to promote local content? If you do not have that mentality to see growth you do not want to see the local manufacturers growing. You do not want to see how you are improved in your state. Why are you there? You are not qualified to be there. And I think it's time that Nigerians begin to recall their senators, so-called representatives. We have to begin to sing a song. You must begin to know and begin to get actively involved in the process of recalling these people when they begin to miss yarn. Because that's what it is. When they begin to forget that they are there and that they can be removed. And they are so good in the divide and rule strategy now. One group will come and say, hey, this thing you're doing is wrong. And it really is wrong. Another group will just rise up in the evening just opposing what you're saying. Whether they're making sense or not, it's just that, okay, we oppose this thing that you're saying. How can you say our leader is not doing good? So they come to the street, they protest. Even sometimes they are violent and all that. And then they are also very strategic in placing themselves. A lot of them now own some kind of media houses, whether it's a print media, whether it is even online, V-logs, whatever kind of media. Because media is what will push the propaganda. Media is powerful. Yes, it's very powerful. So a lot of them have done this. And they saw it from M.K. O.A. Biola, maybe, because he ran... Concord. And it did a very wonderful job. But even if you're pushing an agenda, it should be a positive agenda. We should think Nigeria. And until our leaders begin to think Nigeria, it cannot resonate with the ordinary man.  You want to fly from here to just go for a weekend or a spa that you think is better in America. And you're using our money. Because no matter how you see it, it's our money. They have just given them billions for accommodation. A senator should have a house, right? But now you're giving billions for accommodation to these people who a lot of them do not even sleep in their houses. In Abuja, when you go, there are stories of some of them having permanent houses or rooms or shallies or whatever it is in hotels where they pay through the nose for just one night throughout their tenure. And then you're still giving them this money for accommodation and it doesn't make sense to anybody. We talk about social economy, which is lacking in our society. Social economy is lacking. Most offices come with perks. You can deny that. But then how reasonable are the sizes of the perks that come to some of our public offices? That's what people are complaining about. The sizes are just so humongous when you compare it with the existing economic reality on the ground. So many people are suffering. The economy is at its standstill. There's this new report on our reserve. You can't be broke and be living on borrowed money. It's opulence. Using borrowed money to live in opulence. It just tells whoever is watching you that something is wrong with you upstairs. There was this time that there is a revenue mobilization and the people responsible for allocating salaries to public office holders and they were trying to raise the money and people complained. What their response was was that people of that standing need XYZ. What standing? The UK Prime Minister was riding a bicycle. That's why they want to enjoy themselves and show that opulence, that we have a radio, big boys and big girls. They should use their money to justify their big boys and all that. Do you believe the taxpayers' money is for things that would affect the economy and benefit the generality of the Nigerian populace? That's just what it boils onto. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why one of our top trending this morning is that over 500 directors have reportedly defied federal government's order to retire. Because the directors in ministries, organizations and agencies that are MDAs of the federal civil service have reportedly defied the federal government's directive which mandates them to go on compulsory retirement. The directors who were to proceed on compulsory retirement since July 27 have spent eight years at their positions or they have stayed put in contravention to a new rule. The new rule stipulates that such affected directors should give way following the revised public service rule and the secular issued by the head of the civil service of the federation. So if you have stayed up to 80 years and above, you should leave for others to come on. So Dr. Foulashaday Yameer Son last month gave that to the heads of MDAs directing them to ensure compliance with the new rule and the revised PSR. So the revised PSR was unveiled last month at a public service lecture held at the Presidential Villa Abuja. According to the head of the service, its implementation kicked off immediately with the launch. The secular noted that the new rule which seeks to give room for deputy directors within the federal civil service some of whom have been stagnated on level 16 for about a decade to rise to the cutter of the director and it will see over 500 directors across the civil service on level 17 who have spent more than eight years in their positions proceed on compulsory retirement. So now the secular has been given everybody has been instructed if you have stayed up to 80 years and above leave so that others can feel the vacancy. Some people have been in a particular position for so long but the others do not want to leave. Much as I disagree with their defiance of the rule I also ask myself why are they afraid of retiring? Is it because of what they see in the office or because of what they fear when they retire they will meet because some of these people will retire and they will not get their benefits for years. Meanwhile the politicians will get severance package which comes with a lot of money and then they will be having some pension for something you did for four years like now today we will be talking about anyway about one of those things you get a pension from governor you get a pension or you get a salary from minister or a senator or something it doesn't really make sense. Yeah and then of course the 10th assembly has become like a retirement heaven for ex-politicians, ex-governance especially we have not less than 13 of them in there receiving pensions just one of them has announced that he doesn't want to continue to collect that monthly pension talking about former governor of Ocean state he said he doesn't want to continue collecting at least for as long as he is there so far. The others obviously have no interest in following suit which is what Serap is saying it should be a law all of you should stop collecting as a senator and be collecting as former governor you know enough of the long throat by the way don't you just love the half way of that woman so cute So moving forward to our second top trending police bans, protests, ascension mounds in Karno, every election tribunal. The Karno state police command on Monday banned all forms of street protests across all parts of the state with immediate effect following an intelligence report and possible outrage from the judgment of the tribunal on the state election. Addressing journalists in an emergency press conference at the state's police command the commissioner of police Mohammed Usaini informed members of the police to take note that in New Nigeria people's party and the all progressive congress have assembled a crowd to embark on a protest without the endorsement of the Nigeria Labour Congress and pair approval from the security agencies in the state. He warned both organizers as well as the umbrella body that any attempt to disrespect the NLC and the security agencies in the state by playing around the fragile security situation which the combined security agencies have been managing is not only uncivil criminal but also a threat against national security. So there you have it. I'm not sure how many people will agree with the police on this you know civilians should have a right to protest in a democracy. That's what some would argue. Yeah well it is also it's also right to give out that warning because they need to take the appropriate steps if it is to inform the police and all that but over the years the unfortunate thing is that over the years when you have this protest whether you tell the police or not they are the same in fact sometimes when you're just planning to have a protest or a demonstration or whatever name you want to call it like now it is the police that will first of all come and warn you you must never hold this protest so that you know firsthand already that when you go to meet them you might not have the approval that you want. So over the years I think some people have just grown thick skinned maybe rightly so that the police may not even cooperate and this is something that needs to be done so if they want to do a thing like this they know the chief tins of the APC and the NNPC invite them talk to them and all that let them talk to their people but now what we see the police saying is we have credible intelligence that people want to disrupt this election no names and nothing and whether the election is disrupted or not whether the society is disrupted or not we don't see the critical people being picked we see only the people that were used that are being picked nobody else is picked so what are we talking about oh wow it is a breakfast on plus TV Africa have you got a cup of coffee a cup of tea or a glass of juice whichever you fancy do get it because it's getting hotter now we're going to off the press we'll be back in a moment to do that stay with us


Coming up, while most Californians had their eyes safely focused on the sun, emergency managers throughout the state were keeping their eyes on the state's power grid. We'll show you what happened behind the scenes when the sun faded, impacting critical power supplies. Plus, we'll take you on a mission in space to get reaction from this well-known NASA astronaut and hear why his life depended on having a plan when disasters strike. And speaking of, we'll teach you the three simple steps everyone should take as California kicks off National Preparedness Month. Monday, August 21st. Traveling at a speed of 2,100 miles an hour, a rare solar eclipse makes its journey across the United States west to east. All across California, people were enjoying the views and watched the eclipse safely. And thanks to you, last week's show on eclipse safety was seen by over 100,000 people and they took notice, making sure they had NASA-approved glasses or they made their own do-it-yourself kits to view the eclipse. One of those who got to see the eclipse from the path of totality, well-known former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, and we got a chance to talk with Mike about his experience on Tuesday. Yeah, it was pretty cool. I was in Charleston along the path just before the eclipse exited the country and went out over the ocean. And it was really cool. In just a few moments, you'll hear more from Mike, but first, what effect did the eclipse have on California's massive power grid? The California independent system operator spent the eclipse closely monitoring the solar energy charts. And you can see the clear dip at the peak of the eclipse around 10.15am. But lower than usual temperatures and months of planning combined to ease California through the crunch with no problems at all. And speaking of preparedness, September is National Preparedness Month nationwide. It's when federal, state and local public safety officials urge you to take steps to be prepared for everything, from earthquakes to floods to wildfires and even things you haven't thought about. Just ask astronaut Mike Massimino. He says every spacewalk he took had something go wrong. It often goes according to the plan and sometimes it's something little and sometimes it's bigger things, but always something happens that you didn't expect and every time you think you've seen everything, well, you really haven't. As long as we did whatever we could to prepare ourselves to be ready and to have whatever we needed to be ready for whatever emergency or every predicament we could be in, that was the best we could do. We've got an extended version of our interview with former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino online. You can find it at OESNews.com. And as Mike said, there's a lot you can do to be prepared. We recommend starting with these three steps. First, build an emergency kit. Make sure that you and your family has emergency kits stocked with items such as flashlights, water, batteries, first aid supplies, all are good starters. Most are inexpensive items and easy to find and any one of them could save your life. Second, make a family emergency plan. You and your family may not be together if disasters strike, so it's important to know how you'll contact one another. Establish a family meeting place that's familiar and easy to find and make sure everyone knows how and when to call 911 for help. And third, be informed. Know what disasters could affect your area and in California that includes everything from earthquakes, fires, floods, and even tsunamis. And know where to get alerts. Check with your local public safety agency websites to see how they keep you informed before, during, and after a disaster. You can find easy step-by-step guides that save you time by visiting ready.gov and our preparedness pages online at Cal OES. And there's also a lot of free resources available at preparedness events in your local community. If you're in Northern California, we invite you and your family to join us Saturday, August 26th as we kick off National Preparedness Month in Old Sacramento. That's it for this edition of Inside Look for All of Us here at Cal OES. I'm Brian May. Thanks for watching. Visit our online newsroom at OESNews.com to learn more about this program and get the latest news and information from our team. Don't miss our next video on your Facebook timeline, like our page, and you'll get the latest posts as they happen. If you're an Instagram user, you can see the latest snapshots by following our Cal OES Instagram account. And Twitter users can get instant access to our tweets from across the state by following Cal OES.