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It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail My partner's Frank Smith the boss of chief of detectives that brown my name is Friday I was on my way into the office that was 758 a.m. When I got to room 27a robbery Warner Frank You've been in long about ten minutes. There'll be a hot one today in it. Yeah, that's what the paper says anything in the book No How about those mugs they come in from Burton? Yeah, I put them in your box. Thank you Did you take a look at them? Hey Frank what I said, did you see the mugs? Oh, no, what's the matter? They what happened Joe, you know me You know how I feel about Faye so you got to know I didn't mean anything by it He didn't mean you certainly not survive this thing for my mind. What was what she thought I meant You know Joe sometimes I think they just don't understand me. Well, I don't understand either on this one. Oh That's right. You weren't there so I got to thinking to myself you were you know, okay That's I got thinking to myself and I got a problem. You're trying to thank your old buddy knows all about it Yeah, so I got a fed you and I'll tell you all about it right now. Yeah, you see after dinner last night We had those Swedish meatballs at Faye make so good the one meatballs Swedish ones. Oh, yeah, I know I had those out Yeah, one very good. Yeah, excellent. Well after dinner last night. We went in the living room sat down to watch the television I switched on the set and I kind of arranged the pillows and settled back a Couple of minutes later Faye comes in with a box on those big flat ones like dresses come in. Yeah, she bought a new dress Joe, that's why she fixed the meatballs. I Don't know how this is going in but up to here. I must be on Faye side. I guess yeah, well, I don't understand any of it Oh, well, I'll straighten that out. You see whenever she wants me to go along with something She's already done. She always makes Swedish meatballs. Well, I could figure that part out What was in the box? A dress Joe. She bought a dress. Oh, it was a dress. Yeah She opened up the box. She shows it to me. Tell me how she bought it on sale Every notice every time a woman buys a dress. It's always on sale No, I can't say as I ever have well believe me buddy. It always is on sale on sale I Don't want you to go through the whole day with this on your mind But if you don't get to the point every time horses sign out mom talk about well I didn't mean anything but nothing she held the dress up for me to see and all I did I just said what size is it? You know how you do Won't look at these mug shots now. No wait a minute. I want to finish asked me what I was mad about I wanted to tell you I asked her what size it dressed was she told me it was a 12 a 12 a 12 Yeah, so I just kind of casually mentioned that when we got married she wore a nine That's all I said that she wore a nine Well look at the mug shots now. No wait a minute. What do you help me with this thing? So you should be in partners if you can't help a little we'll look at the mug shots when we were married She wore a nine and she just flipped her wig Joe. She got real mad walked out of the room right out of the room. Yeah Guess she thought I meant she was getting fat. Yeah, yes, she did Hot shot, I'll get it. Let's go corner grand viewing Union. Yeah, hold up By the time we got to the supermarket a broadcast carrying the description of the suspect had been gotten out to all cars in the city A small crowd of people had gathered in front of the store and the officers from the radio unit were attempting to keep them back from the entrance An ambulance had been called and when we got there the attendants were giving emergency treatment to the day manager of the store He'd been struck on the left side of the head just above the ear by the suspect when he'd made his getaway The attendant told us that the man was suffering from a mild concussion Frank and I entered the store and talked to one of the policemen who was there He led us back to a small office in the rear of the place where we met the other two victims One was the cashier of the store Irma Watson The other was the man who had the meat concession in the store Tom Spence. We asked him to tell us what happened First thing I saw was one apartment car up in the lot guy was standing right beside door. That's right Just standing there commas could be I saw him when I opened up the place Want to go ahead well, I unlocked the door and we all came in man did to just walk right in we don't normal Let people come in for eight hardly ever But since Gerald was there we figured he could take care of the man. You mean Gerald's the man the ambulance Yeah, that's right Hold up fella give him an awful cloud on the head give him concussion Concussion to head tell you something about that too. What's that miss Watson? I don't really think Gerald's hit that hard I think he's just putting on to get sympathy now Irma that ain't right not good say things like that Maybe not but I tell you you remember remember the time he cut his finger when he was moving the cases of empty soda Yeah, well you were there had to rush him to the hospital have his hands sewn up a lot of foolishness piece of adhesive Would have taken care of it sympathy. That's what he wants Can we go on with what we're talking about what happened after he came in the store, please? Well, I went upstairs and I turned on the lights have to turn them off from up there officers up there That's where I work Turned on the lights then come down to open the safe. Is that your job to open the safe in the morning? Yeah, and she's cashier. Yes, sir. What happened then? Well, Gerald was going on back to open the delivery door. I was over in the meat section kind of straightening up Now where was the hold-up man during this time? Just kind of strolling around looking at the different displays up and down the aisle just looking Gerald opened up the back door and come back As a fellow if there's something special he's looking for the guy said he wanted to know where they tell that to Vanchovies was Gerald told him well, I went back to get some that's what Gerald thought but we know different now a lot different All right, would you go on please? Well, I was upstairs counting the receipts from yesterday getting the bank statement ready. Irma's cashier. Yeah, yeah, we know Would you go on please? Well first thing I know the man standing right behind me holding this gun pointed right at me You can just bet he liked to scared me out of my wits must have been terrible Irma It was I just turned around and there he was with this gun just about scared me to death That's when he asked you for the money did he he didn't ask he just told me to put it in a wooden box He had just put it in the box what do you say what were his exact words? Well, he just kind of walked over and said put the money in the box and don't cause no trouble This is a stick up like that. He said it. Irma did just what he said. Yes, sir I gave him the money dumped it all in the box just like he said They told me to lay down on the floor just told me to lay down and not to make any noise He would come back and kill me. I think he'd have done it too. I think he would have Irma That's why I did what he said flatten the floor did he have the box when he came in Yeah, I had it under his arm I was down behind the meat counter and all of a sudden I heard this scream That was me this way I let out a yell and Tom here heard it So Gerald we kind of looked at each other and then I grabbed a meat cleaver and started up stairs I didn't know what was wrong, but I didn't know Irma was in trouble. I appreciate that Tom And I knew you're in trouble and I came around and got the stairs come up the office and then I saw him He was just coming down. He still had the gun did he yeah have gun in the box I didn't know what was in it at that time, but I had no idea I just hefted the cleaver and started up stairs stopped when he saw me stopped right in his tracks Tom's awful brave. Yes, ma'am.  You mean Gerald? Hmm. I don't know. I was upstairs. No, I saw him He was down to the cash register in front He saw this guy coming down the stairs and he ran for the phone to call the police Fell the saw him and he took off after Gerald.  That's all one hour me. You're wrong. I've seen it. He give Gerald an awful hit right along here They're real hard Now which way the man go after he left the store, please they ran down that way down Union Uh-huh. Oh, would you describe the man for us? Well, he was about five feet He's gonna be a little better if you told us one at the time. I guess you'd never get it that way It'll be a little difficult. So you go ahead Irma Well, I told the other policeman. He was about the funniest looking little man. I ever saw real little Oh, not really. I think he just kind of hunched over. Well, he looked little but how tall was it? Oh, about five foot eight maybe nine. I guess that's about right. Tell me about the way he was dressed Oh, yeah, had on this black overcoat in the hat all pulled down over his eyes the hat I mean, what color was his hair? Do you remember? Well, what I could see if it was kind of blonde like colored Yeah, that's right. And he had a mustache.  Well, he left the start. Did you notice if he got into a car? Yeah, he did I saw him run down the street and jump in one dark color. I'm not sure what kind it was I think it might have been a Hudson Lake model. I saw that I was looking up the side window upstairs And I saw the same thing. Did you tell the other officers about it? Well, I didn't and neither did you die I guess I better got out of broadcast on it. Yeah, you happen to get the license number of the car Yeah, that's where I went to work. I've got it written down right here on my apron. She Numbers ain't too plain, but you can make them out No, sir. I can't you'll have to help me there. I got it too right here. I saw him get in the car and I wrote it down Thank you having the number the car is going to make it easier to catch fell ain't it I should make it a snap just find out who owns the car and that's the man. Oh, it's not gonna be that easy I'm afraid why both numbers are different A Supplemental broadcast was got not carrying both the license numbers that the victims had gotten Frank put in a call to DMV asking him to forward all information on the numbers The crime lab crew came out and went over the place for fingerprints, but they were not able to turn up anything that we could use We continued to question the butcher in the cashier We've got a complete description of the thief the one outstanding thing that both of them agreed on was the moustache Both said that it was a direct contrast to the color of the man's hair and said that it might have been dark And with shoe polish or some kind of grease people in the vicinity were questioned But none of them were able to supply us with any new information The injured manager was removed to Georgia Street receiving hospital for emergency treatment and then referred to his own doctor Frank and I talked to him, but he only verified the story that we've gotten from the other two people in the store 1245 p.m. We returned to the city hall and asked the stats office to start a run on the MO for us The victims were asked to go through the mug books, but they were not able to identify any of the photographs Frank and I spent the rest of the day talking to the other storekeepers in the vicinity of the robbery We asked each of them if they'd seen anyone loitering in the area anyone who looks suspicious from each of them We got the same answer none of them could help us in establishing the identity of the suspect the kickback on the license number came in from Sacramento, but when we checked out the information, we were no closer to apprehending the thief The next morning Thursday, August 14th Frank and I met in the squad room Hi, Joe. Why how's my old buddy this morning? I'm all right Sound happy the problem with face straight now. Oh, yeah, sure got home last night. Everything's great. They're right Hey, we started last night What's that thing in me? We're going on a diet both gonna lose a little weight. That's nice Yeah, there's no weight anything new in the market holder. No, the stats office should finish the run for us this morning We can start checking out the possible. Yeah, it's a good thing. I wore my walking shoes. I get it robbery Friday. Yeah No, that's right. No, that's all right. We'd like to hear it. Mm-hmm Yeah, sure All right, we'll be out and see you know right away. All right. Thank you very much. Bye What do you got cash here out at the market that Irma Watson? Yeah, might have something for us. What's that? No, she says she thinks she knows who the suspect is Frank and I drove out to the market We went upstairs to the office in the rear of the store and met Irma Watson She was seated at a desk with a large ledger book opened in front of her I got to thinking it over last night after I got home about the hold-up man. Yes, ma'am Something about him the way he acted and talked made me think I knew he was that I'd seen him someplace before Uh-huh later work most of the night just thinking about it Then then all of a sudden it came to me right out of the air it came to me Yes, ma'am go ahead. Well, I knew where it was that I thought I knew him from where ma'am Right here in the store. You mean he's a customer. No, he works for us right here in the store That's where I've seen him Mustache kind of fooled me for a minute, but not for long. I remembered what's the man's name? I didn't remember that Not last night, but I came down here this morning and started through the books and came upon it got it right here. Take a look for yourself See right there That's jet Ellsworth. That's him. I'm sure of it. What's Ellsworth work here now? Well, yes, and no ma'am. Well, he does and he doesn't he still got the job But he ain't working right now got a leave of absence He's got ulcers said he wanted to get him taken care of so he had to go out of town and see a specialist get his Fixed when do you leave last week? See I got it right here last day. He worked was Wednesday August 6th That was the last day Do you have his home address? You just bet got it right here wrote all the information out for you Thank you very much. It's him. I'm sure of it. All right, miss Watson. We'll check into it Only thing I can't figure out is that mustache. What's it the mustache? I can't figure out how he could have grown it so fast takes longer than a week to get a mustache like that Doesn't it depends on what where you buy it Frank and I returned to the office to run the name jet Ellsworth through the record bureau Well Frank went through the packages checking the description. We've gotten of the suspect I went down to the stats office and picked up the list of possible that they had for us 1026 a.m. I met Frank back at the R&I counter Hi, how's it going? Looks like we got a live one. Hmm. Got a jet Ellsworth here pretty close to the description Yeah, record in the east St. Louis done big time back there nothing locally though. What do you fall for? 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You hear it everywhere The Chester field you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made For the taste you want the mildness you want join the thousands now changing to Chester field We sent an immediate request to the authorities in St. Louis asking that they forward all available information on their suspect jet Ellsworth 115 p.m. Frank and I drove out to the address we've been given by the cashier at the supermarket Was a one-story Redwood house in the Beverly Glen area. We rang the front doorbell Yes, we'd like to see jet Ellsworth. He's not here. Well, you know where we can reach him What's this about he in trouble again, ma'am jet in trouble again? We'd like to talk to him, please your cops or police officers Figures what's he done this time? It's just routine. We want to ask him a couple of questions. Where is he? I don't know Well, he lives here doesn't he? Yeah, I don't know where he is. I haven't seen him since day before yesterday It's packed up in the left. I don't know where he went. Well, didn't he give me any idea where he was going? None went through my purse or put money I hadn't shoved off Don't much matter to me if I never see him again. I'd probably be better off One of we could see his things. You mean what he left? Yes, ma'am. Sure. Come on in during his room I'm about to throw him up. I don't want him. I don't think you'll be back for him this time Down the hall this way. Thank you, ma'am What are you after him for? I'll be a little better if we talk to him. Sure Don't matter to me. I'm through with him Nothing but trouble with cops since we've been married. I Didn't know he had a record when I met him until after we got married. I found out it was a jailbird Right after we got married the cops started coming around asking questions How long have you been married 18 months? met him back in st. Louis It's been right after he got out of jail. I didn't know a sin I wish they did wouldn't have nothing to do with him. Give me nothing but trouble Would you know if he has any people in California? But I ever saw he never talked about him Does he drive a car jet? Yes, ma'am. No, he didn't own one Never he needed one and go to one of these rental agencies rent one This is room stuff's there on the bed. Thank you. I'll check it I'm gonna throw it all out anything there you want. Just take it with you I don't think that'll be necessary. Well, they offer still good, but you don't take off a lot Your husband got any close friends at all in town. Yeah, I've got a lot of bums. You give us their names Only one name. I know Larry Jessup him and Jed used to pal around all the time I think his job at the store took up too much pal time. That's the reason Jed quit Understand your husband had trouble with his stomach. Yeah, all sir. Was he under the care of a doctor? Uh-huh all the time taking pills and eating special things got to the point where nothing I cooked was right for the ulcer We did nothing but fight all the time miserable 18 months. I'm glad he's gone never see him again It'll be a week too soon. Can you give us the doctor's name? Yeah, some of the bills there got it in with the rest Reminds me. Can you answer me something? Oh, what's that? Am I responsible for his bills the ones he ran of himself without my help? I gotta pay him Well, man, that's not a police problem. You better check with a lawyer on there a lawyer. Yes, ma'am More expense seems like all I do is put out money for him. Oh, I'm glad he's gone. You have a picture of me You mean like a snapshot? Yes, ma'am. No, I wouldn't let nobody take pictures of him said it was bad luck Mm-hmm Yeah, I'm a stashed in me. That's insane. Oh, there's also a yeah, you know, what's on these dictograph records? Oh, those are mine. I'm a stenographer suddenly they do work at home. Those are mine. Oh just letters It's the one thing he ever did for me. What's that made that box for records real big thing took him all day to make it Just a plain simple wooden box. You thought it was a Taj Mahal only thing you ever did for me Your husband get many phone calls here. No, that's as you'd notice where I'd call once in a while I told you there was real palate You ever hear any of the conversations by any chance just on this end, you know what they were talking about Not too good. They used to get real secret, you know low voices. They were playing something though I don't know what it was that they were playing at something. Let's follow jessopy drive a car. Yeah, you know what kind? Yeah new Hudson We got the address of the suspect's friend and we drove back to the city hall We made arrangements for a stakeout to be placed on the house in addition to asking Mrs. Ellsworth to call us in the event That she heard from her husband We ran the name Lawrence Jessup through our and I and we came up with a criminal record for him It listed several arrests for burglary and auto theft According to his package. He'd never been convicted in California We sent a teletype up to George Brayden CII and Sacramento asking for further information on the man 450 p.m. Frank and I left the office and drove out to the address given us by the suspect's wife Was a large boarding house in the Hollywood Hills area. We talked to the landlady She told us Jessup wasn't in but she expected him by 6 p.m. We asked if she'd ever seen a man answering Jed Ellsworth's description She said that such a man was a frequent visitor in Jessup's room 5 p.m. Frank and I and the company of the landlady checked the room We found nothing to tie Jessup in with a robbery. We waited for him 5 58 p.m. He came up the stairs and opened the door What are you guys doing here police officers is Frank Smith? My name's Friday I still want to know what you're doing here got a couple of questions. We don't ask you Jessup go ahead I got nothing to hide ask where's Jed Ellsworth. I don't know I haven't seen him a couple of days Why understand you two are pretty good friends were friends guys off his rocker How do you mean that what I said you only got out of the can a couple of years ago right away He's doing his best get back in that right sure a couple of days ago He called said he had to see me right away and a big idea for both of us make a lot of money Yeah, well, I don't want to have to work all my life So I told him I'd listen laid out this big deal where he could knock off a supermarket told me had it all planned out It all worked out real good couldn't miss mm-hmm. I told him I didn't want no part of it I could sure use a dough. Yeah, but not take a chance on going to jail for it already got a record I had enough to do with cops to last me the rest of my life been lucky the last couple of times It didn't fall, but I don't want to press I'm punching a clock now. That's where it's gonna be I told him that they say it was gonna go ahead with the job No, I just said I was crazy not to pick up some easy money. You heard from him says there Yeah, so I'm yesterday came over in the morning told me to forget all about the market job Said he realized it was wrong asked me to drive him out to Pomona. What for do you say? Yeah, I said he'd walk down on Hazel. That's his wife. Yeah, we know Said he left her and we're going to Pomona had a job out there.  You know what bank he had the money in no, he didn't say I didn't know him and Hazel had that much of course. She works pretty hard thrifty, you know Jetta always said she was stingy a lot of money. Yeah had it in this wooden box all stacked in there real neat Hard to believe what's in but the box Jeds about the laziest guy I ever knew last one to work with his hands sure proud of it though Hmm said he made the box himself Larry Jessup Frank and I drove out to the motel in Pomona We checked with a manager, but found that the suspect had checked out that morning Fortunately the room had not been cleaned yet and we went over it on a shelf in a closet We found the wooden box that Jessup had spoken of was a duplicate of the one that we'd seen at the suspects home We told the manager we were taking it with us and asked her to notify us in the event Ellsworth returned We asked if he had a car when he left the manager told us he didn't but that he had asked for the name of some automobile rental agencies in Pomona Jessup and I went out to our car and waited for Frank to come back from the suspects room Sure looks like he pulled a robbery, huh? It seems to fit him real good doesn't Joe yeah, look at that Find another bed only black mustache We checked with the automobile rental agencies in the area none of them had seen a man answering the suspect's description We asked them to call us if such a man did come in We drove by Ellsworth's house and picked up the wooden box that he'd made for his wife's dictograph records Both of the containers were taken to the crime lab for comparison We drove to the market that had been held up all three of the victims were shown the false moustache that we'd found in a Motel all three said it was identical with the one that the holdup man had worn After his investigation Lee Jones said that the two wooden boxes were cut from the same piece of three-ply wood Paint particles on the wood maxed the nails used were made by the same machine The box we found at the motel was shown to both the butcher in the cashier They said that it was the same one that the thief had carried a Local and an APB were put out on the suspect asking that he be picked up for suspicion of robbery For the next three days the surveillance on the suspects house was maintained all of Mrs. Ellsworth's activities were observed Sunday August 17th. We got a call that the suspects wife had left the house carrying a suitcase The officers on stake out followed her to the subway terminal in downtown, Los Angeles We met them there. Mrs. Ellsworth walked down to the landing and appeared to be waiting Frank And I took over the surveillance. We waited 9 30 p.m. 10 10 15 10 18 p.m. Joe, I see looks like the description Let's let them get together Come on. Hey seizes Come on right all right hold it up police officers Come on drop the gun else worth you're not gonna get out of here He's hurt yeah, I'll get an ambulance right Now we've sent for an ambulance Why don't you call us when you heard from him? I don't know I don't know he said if I met him it give me some money so I could pay the bills what you owed He was gonna give me some money. I was gonna call you after I got the money I was gonna call. Yeah, sure you were Chance to get out from under get even he didn't care when we were together I was the one who worried about it. He never cared. He never paid a bill. Don't worry. He's gonna pay this one You've just heard is true The names were changed to protect the innocent On january 17th trial was held in department 97 superior court of the state of california in and for the county of Los angeles in a moment the results of that trial now here is our star jack web Thank you, george fenerman You know the Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made and best for you now That's a fact and to my way of thinking it's the very reason for you to change to Chesterfield Try them either way regular or king size if you try them I think you'll say with all of us Chesterfields for me Jed Warren Ellsworth was tried and convicted of robbery in the first degree and received sentence as prescribed by law Robbery in the first degree is punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a period of from five years to life You have just heard dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files Technical advice comes from the office of chief of police wh parker los angeles police department Technical advisors captain jack donahoe sergeant marty wins sergeant fans bracer Hurt tonight were ben alexander ralph moody june wittley Script by john robinson music by walter schuman hell give me speaking Watch an entirely different dragnet case history each week on your local nbc television station Please check your newspapers for the day and time Chesterfield has brought you dragnet transcribed from los angeles Filter tip smokers. 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Hello dear learners, I am Dr. Pallavi Gugoy of Krishna Kandahandic State Department University. Welcome to today's program. Today, I shall take up Unit 7 of Gen. English Course, Semester 1, Block 1. The unit is entitled K.K. Indarwala-Wolf and here we shall discuss the life and works of the poet. I shall start with a table of contents where I shall be presenting the learning objectives followed by the introduction, the life of K.K. Indarwala and the literary works of K.K. Indarwala. This will be followed by a few questions to check your progress and the references. Learning objectives. After going through this unit, the learner will be able to gain an insight into the life of the visionary poet K.K. Indarwala and also gain an insight into the literary works of the poet. First I shall provide a brief introduction. Nature and its changing elements find a strong expression in the works of the well-known and widely read Indian poet K.K. Indarwala or better known as K.K. Naseerwanji Darwala. While reading his poems, one feels instantly drawn into the world of nature, enraptured in its mysterious elements and driven by its powerful forces as also reflected in his works. In particular, his nature poetry leads the reader into the depths of the unknown wilderness and directs one's sensibility into probing the significant aspects and realities mirrored in his political landscapes. In the present unit, we shall gain a brief insight into the life and works of the poet. So let us quickly begin. First I shall start with the life of K.K. Indarwala. K.K. Indarwala was born in the year 1937 to a Parsi family in Lahore. His family had moved to Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh and then to Rampur well before the partition days. As a child, he had to change several schools and much of his childhood was spent in India where he received his early education and also completed his higher studies. Darwala had completed his post-graduation in English literature from Government College, Ludhiana. Prior to starting out as a poet and a writer, he had begun his career in the Indian Police Service in 1958. In addition to this, Darwala had also served as a special assistant to the Prime Minister on International Affairs and retired as a Cabinet Secretary. Throughout his challenging career as a police officer, Darwala continued to pursue his interest in writing. Today, Darwala is one of the leading Indian English poets who had also received the Sahitya Academy Award in 1984 for his anthology of poems titled The Keeper of the Dead and also the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Asia in the year 1987. Darwala was honored with a Padmasri in 2014 and has held the post of President of the Poetry Society of India. Now, coming quickly, the literary works of K. K. Darwala. To his credit, K. K. Darwala has written over 12 works that comprise both anthologies of poetry and short stories. His first political work to be published by the writer's workshop was titled Under Orion in the year 1970. This was shortly followed by his second anthology of poems titled Apparition in April in the year 1971 for which he had also won the Uttar Pradesh State Award in 1972. Some of his other notable works are In Morning Dew, Crossing of Rivers, Winter Poems, The Keeper of the Dead, Landscape, A Summer of Tigers, Night River Poems, The Scarecrow and the Ghost, A House in Ranikeet and For Pepper and Christ. The anthologies of his short stories are titled Swords and Abysses and The Minister for Permanent Undress and Other Stories. Here are a few questions to check your progress. Question number one, how did Darwala begin his career before starting out as a poet? Question number two, name the work for which Darwala had received the Sahitya Academy Award. Question number three, when was Darwala honored with a Padmasri? Question number four, name the work for which Darwala had received the Uttar Pradesh State Award. And question number five, write a few lines on the life and works of KK in Darwala. Here are the references you are to refer to the B-English Graduate Self-Learning Material, SLM, that is, of JL English Block 1 Unit 7 Semester 1. Thank you, dear learners.


we're lucky that this movie was even made and released because it went through so much problems with production touching on the you know the gay scene spurred on all this protesting they were lucky to even get what they got yeah yeah the protesting was so heavy that they had to record almost all the dialogue from all the outdoor shots afterwards the mics are picking up all the protest yelling and screaming the movie was highly criticized for anti-gay commentary this movie actually has none of that it actually has no gay commentary whatsoever if you really watch the movie no no anti and no pro yeah it is just simply a backdrop for the movie


Welcome back to another episode of Love at First Bite! Let's make these tacos. Boil some chicken. Set to the side, let it cool off. Once cooled, pull all your chicken apart. Get you a non-stick pan and we're going to preheat it just to a medium temperature. Now you're going to need some corn tortillas, not flour. Now just a little bit of oil. Little pinch of sea salt. Tortilla hen. Make sure the oil gets all over the tortilla. Grab a small handful of your chicken. Then you choose your favorite danos. I'm going with the hot chipotle. Then immediately fold over and press down and let cook for another 30 seconds to a minute. Give it a flip when it starts to get crispy. Now our first taco is done. Set to the side and repeat the process. Pico de gallo. A little chalua hot sauce. Then lettuce. Just a little bit of cheese on top. A little bit of cream. And maybe a little bit more dano chipotle. For a simple basic taco, people are going to have a hard time beating that.


First, staying in Ogun State, the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, has promoted six officers from Deputy Superintendent of Police to Superintendent of Police. The declaration was done by the Commissioner of Police, Landry Ban Kolei, other Command Secretariat. He said the promotion of the Senior Officers' Walls as a result of hard work and due diligence. The Command will not relent in its efforts to ensure a safer, more secured environment. And let me also see this opportunity to ask the people of Ogun State to go about their lawful duties with that letter of endurance as all measures have been put in place to ensure that security of lives and properties are guaranteed. To those who still want to, in one way or another, engage in acts that are inimical to the peace and security of the state, I want to sound this note of warning that they do not have a place in Ogun State and the long arm of the law will surely get them. Speaking on behalf of the newly promoted officers, S.P. Abim Bola Oyeyemi sent the Inspector General of Police for considering them worthy of the promotion. I want to thank the Commissioner of Police and the Management Team of Ogun State Police Command for their kind support. If not for them, we might not be able to get this done because if we are having one pending disciplinary matter or the other, the promotion might not be coming our way. And on behalf of my colleagues, I want to seize this opportunity to pledge our loyalty to the Nigerian Police Force and we want to assure them that we are going to continue to carry out our duty diligently.


The world is facing a new challenge that is the pandemic of Covid in last almost close to a year. We are seeing rapidly increasing infection all over. Now when it comes to specifically the heart, now we have learned through some scattered studies and our own experiences that Covid does not produce only the respiratory infection. It does affect many a time simple sore throat and things like that and often it goes away without creating a major issue. But we also do see these things becoming a little more serious, going and producing a pneumonia kind of picture. Some of them heal, some of them do not. Another important thing which we have also seen in some of the patients as it is also seen by various groups across different countries in the world is that Covid also affects the heart muscle. Now how many of these patients will land up in very severe heart problem, requiring immediate care. The exact data is not known because whatever data we are seeing is all kind of scattered. But there are CT scan studies which show that the strength of the heart muscles is decreased in some patients where it has affected the heart. So these patients certainly have to be followed up for long, just not the immediate period. Even if they remain stable, there is no issue. We probably repeated RTPC and we know that Covid has become negative and they go home. But they need to be followed up for quite some time because it's a new disease and the effect of which on the heart is not completely understood. When an echo is done or CT based studies have shown that even after 60 days, some of the hearts still show the effect of Covid in the form of reduced heart function. Now will they produce some kind of hardening of the heart in medical terms called as fibrosis? Will they put them into a new level of heart failure in the future? No one knows. Now this is one way the Covid is damaging the normal hearts. And there are concerns that patients with pre-existing heart problems or patients with diabetes, hypertension and things like this or pre-existing valve problems or coronary artery disease are more prone for developing Covid. Out of fear of Covid, many patients who do require their primary treatment in the heart like somebody who has got acute heart attack or somebody who is suffering from a heart failure, either primary heart failure or secondary to many other pre-existing problems which certainly needs to be treated well within time. Many newborns who are born with very sick, very severe heart problems who require immediate care all these subsets of patients are not reaching the specialist. They are not reaching the hospital. But just with the fear which is not substantiated that you go to hospital you will get Covid. People staying at home and taking things here and many are dying. We know that because patients with acute heart attacks, they cannot survive most of them. At least 40-50% of them, they don't get the right treatment in the right time. So also other serious ailments. Our request through this is that those who really require medical care don't bother too much about contacting Covid in a hospital because that is certainly not substantiated. You should go and take care of your own ailments in your own hospitals with your own cardiologists and surgeons for looking into this problem. This is the time we should try to keep ourselves fit and fine. As far as I am concerned, what I understand by looking into all this is that those who have got good innate immunity are the ones who are escaping these infections and even if they do get an infection, they are not becoming very sick. So what can we do to keep our own immunity proper is one, your diet, eat nutritious diet. Don't compromise on the quality of the diet, more and more of vegetables, fruits, high protein diet. Most important thing. Number two is keep yourself active. Some amount of time spent in exercise properly keeps your immune system boosted as well as your general and cardiac health. Other things, the general things which you are looking at, like if somebody has got a high risk factor really supposing to either lung or the cardiac issue like smoking and other things, it's high time one should give up. We know that these are the things which will compromise your immune system to general health, cardiac health, lung health. So one should give up or cut down or get indulged in it at all. Last but not least is mental health. We all know that stress is never a good thing for our health, whether it is heart or otherwise, it's never a good thing. One should learn how to control your stress, how to come out of it. Be it medication, be it indulging in probably some exercises, be it playing the game. I think what holds good in general also holds good in the COVID season. But since some of the things like going to gym and other things are not possible, even at home one can look at various ways of doing the exercises so that they can maintain their health. Now on this occasion of whole life day, I wish all, everyone a very good heart and as well as general health. Please stay safe.


Hello, this is Buona from Buona.TV and here is another Buona.Summary for August, what's the dates? August 11th through August 18th, it's kind of a short abridged version because I lost my internet last week so I was out of commission for a majority of the time. But this is our Buona.Summary and we started streaming on Thursday through Saturday so that's what this is going to cover. No Man's Sky came out, the Beyond Update, the big update for VR and for multiplayer. So I played a little of that, probably about two to three hours.  I also went back to Rebel Galaxy Outlaw where I played some more of that, did a lot of ship painting, got into the big beluga, huge, whatever ship, I don't know the name of the ship, it's a big one and it's quickly becoming my favorite ship. And we did some painting and painting and more painting. I love the ship painting in Rebel Galaxy Outlaw but we also made about two million credits and did some other stuff so making great progress in Rebel Galaxy Outlaw. Check it out, use Creator Code Buona if you decide to buy it. So we played some more Fallout 76 as well, I got bit by the bug after watching my wife play a little bit, got about two levels, one or two levels in that so not too much. And actually we finally did our art stream and this was a Corsair charity, sorry my voice and brain I'm not working today, it was a Corsair charity incentive and I drew some emails from my wife's channel over at Twitch.tv slash Pink Sapphire. I drew a sub-emote and also a couple of emails, she has two slots, she's already submitted them but they haven't been approved yet by Twitch. Also I did a sponsor stream on Saturday for Apex Legends to check out their new stuff, they have a new Twitch Prime skin that they were promoting so I did that. And I also played a new solo mode which I actually enjoyed and I played some duos with my wife. We didn't win, spoilers, we didn't win but it was still fun nonetheless. And then we played some Minecraft as well and got on our subscriber server, did a little bit of things, didn't find any diamonds, that was kind of upset. Next week we're going to be doing Minecraft all week for another Corsair incentive for the charity thing. We're going to do one week of hardcore Minecraft so expect many deaths there. Alright, that's a boy with that summary, this is Buona from BuonaTV, you can check out my stream at anytime at buona.live, we stream generally from 7pm Eastern to 2am and on Sundays and Wednesdays we're doing something different, we're over on mixer.com slash Buona where we do behind the scenes, kind of like a live stream type thing, lots of idling, lots of music, just a laid back environment like the old Ustream, Ustream.tv days so we're just chilling out over on mixer if you can come check that out. Alright guys, take care, have a good day.


By 300 BC, the Greeks had invented a number of curves in addition to straight lines, circles, conic sections, quadratracieses, conchoids, and a whole bunch of others. They'd solved a number of problems like duplicating the cube or trisecting the angle, and had looked at problems involving continued proportions. In short, it was an unwieldy mess, and it was very remote from the Pythagorean ideal of deductive geometry. And that's where Euclid came in. Here's a picture. Well, actually, we don't know what he looked like. We do know he lived around 300 BC, and was active in Alexandria, the capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. Ptolemy II had the idea of making Alexandria the premier city in all of the Mediterranean. A brand new lighthouse would make Alexandria one of the great port cities. And to make Alexandria an intellectual center, Ptolemy established a research institution. The institution was known as the Museum of Alexandria. So-called because of a statue of the Nine Muses, the patron goddesses of the arts and sciences stood at its entrance. The best-known part of the museum today is the Great Library. The library's mandate was to collect copies of everything written in Greek. And we can surmise that Euclid probably had access to the mathematics of Hippias, Menachemus, Eudoxus, Dynastratus, and many, many others. Euclid sought to organize geometry along Pythagorean lines, start with some basic assumptions, and deduce all that is possible. And that sounds like a great idea, until you get down to the details, and in particular the question you've got to ask yourself is, what assumptions are we going to make? And out of the infinitude of possibilities, Euclid chose to begin with five axioms. Now this word means slightly different things to different people. To Euclid and his contemporaries, an axiom was a universal truth that any rational person would agree to. Well, that's easier said than done. And that was Euclid's genius. He was able to pick five axioms that were so reasonable that it took us a very long time, almost 2,000 years, before we realized there could be other ways of thinking. So let's see what those axioms are. Euclid's first axiom, between any two given points, a straight line may be drawn. And this seems to fit the nature of this idea of a universal truth that everyone would agree with. There are some caveats. We usually think about this as referring to two points in a plane, but Euclid actually means any two points. And so we might even be talking about a point in the middle of some solid object. And the real impact of this is that the first axiom states that space has no gaps. Or as they say in New England, you can get there from here. What? They don't say that? No. How about Euclid's second axiom? The second axiom is that a straight line may be extended in a straight line. Now this axiom points to an important but subtle feature of Euclidean geometry. If you can extend something, as the second axiom says that you can, it means that whatever it is can't be an infinitely large object. And so in Euclidean geometry, a line is a finite object that can be extended indefinitely, but it is not an infinite object that we only see part of. And we can look at the second axiom as stating that space has no boundaries. Wherever you are, you can always go further. Euclid's third axiom states that about any point and with any given length a circle may be drawn with the point as center and the length as radius. So no matter where you are, and no matter what radius you want to use, you can draw a circle. And again the important thing to recognize here is that while we generally think about this as applying in the plane, this is true in three-dimensional space. And the third axiom assumes the existence of circles with arbitrary centers and radii. Now let's pause and take a breather. The first three axioms identify the types of figures Euclidean geometry is concerned with. First, we can draw straight lines, so we're talking about figures that are defined by straight lines, and we can also construct circles. We identify these with compass and straight edge figures, but it's important to keep in mind that it's not the tools, but how they're used. So we can use the straight edge to join a line between two points, or extend a straight line and a straight line, or use a compass to draw a circle. But any other use is forbidden, and we can do a lot with compass and straight edge constructions. However, there are some notable absences. The axioms of Euclidean geometry do not include the conic sections, the quadricists, conjoids, or any other curves. In short, the axioms guarantee the existence of straight lines and circles, and nothing else.


The global water sector has huge challenges. Clean drinking water and sanitation for all. That needs cooperation among a lot of organizations. The IWA water exhibition offers this cooperation.  That is the unique element of the IWA exhibition. And also that it travels around the globe. It does not stay in one place. It's either in Latin America, in Europe, in Asia. We are everywhere. And with that, we inspire change to the global water sector.


It is that time. Hello. We're back. We never left. My computer wants to do something. Hold on. Get me along there. Okay. We're here. It's what we can I guess start calling like the classic edition, which means it's just me hanging out with y'all. Just you, the best. Hanging out with y'all. And tomorrow we will have another special guest, but we won't tell them unless we already have. I think we did, but we'll tell them again later. Special guests are fun, but I feel like you all are so special. And so we have a good time. So if nobody knows what washroom work is, this is something, this is an event where we get to talk about your writing, your work actually doesn't have to be writing. It's your work and your creative process. We've been doing this, what I call this show for 11 years out of the public theater, not the public theater in the lobby of the public theater for 11 years. Thank you for the public theater for supporting this endeavor. And thank you also to howl round who came on a few years ago to help us live stream and has just totally supported this effort during these, these crazy wild abundant times. You hear a crying in the background, my son is crying because I asked him to read. So anyway, what we do is we work for 20 minutes together. And then we talk for the remaining time about your work and your creative process. And just so you know, if you ask me a question about my work, I'm going to turn it around and make it about your work, because that's what it's going to be super helpful. And it doesn't have to be writing. It can be any kind of work you want. So if you want to get in touch with us and ask a question, Audrey's going to tell us how to get in touch. Thank you, Audrey. Thanks, SLP. So if you're inside of the Zoom, all you need to do is click on the raise your hand button, which is likely in a participant tab, likely at the bottom of your screen on the laptop top if you're on an iPad or a tablet. And if you are watching the stream on howlround.tv, you can tweet at us at at watch me work SLP, a hashtag howlround h o w l r o u n d. And you can also tweet at at public theater and why or you can message public theater and why is Instagram and we will get those questions as well. That's it. Awesome sauce. Okay, we're going to start working for 20 minutes and we'll see you on the other side. Thanks. Hey, we're back. We're back. We're here. We never left. I actually did get up. I think that's the first time in all the 11 years of watching work that I actually got up. Someone's having a tear from it. I just had to go watch. I just had to go watch. Oh, you're so big. Yeah, you have no idea. Anyway, yeah. So, but hey, here we are. I'm writing down with a good book and good. We don't have a question quite yet. I actually saw something come in on social media that I am now trying to find. Maybe we have all the answers. Forget the questions. We just had a question come in. Oh, darn. I was going to take a poll and see if anybody was taking hydro, what's it called? Hydro, but that thing, that medicine. Oh, I just want to take a poll like. Oh, yeah, I don't know. Maybe we could find out. Let's go to Eric for now. We can take the poll later. Let's take the poll later. We can pull the group at a separate time for sure. Big, big amounts of no over here, though, I think. Yeah. Um, Young Jean Lee was so fun yesterday and interesting and I'm so happy. I found that writing class that she did.  So pause me whenever you feel like it. So great to do that. But I was just like thinking about, I don't know if anyone else can feel free to everyone to chat about this, but like, there are things I feel that we, you hear at a certain place in time and all of a sudden in your brain, you're like, Oh, well, that's fact. That's absolute fact. And like, there's no other way around that. Like someone said something at some point and now your mind has like completely ingrained it as like this ultimate truth. And one of those things was that like it's very, it's like not proper for a writer to ever direct their own work.  And, and since young Dean Lee was talking yesterday, I was like, wait, I've like believed this whole lot this whole time and felt like, because I feel like the first question I asked on here when I was first started coming was like, Oh, I feel like I direct my work too much in my brain while I'm writing it. Therefore, I need to separate those things. And I was like, do you feel like you sometimes want to direct your work? Or have you always? I do. Yeah, I do direct my own work. But I don't know, I just writing, but there's there's directing. I mean, there's there's there's in the writing on the page.  I mean, I think young Jean Lee was talking about actually, I mean, directing it as she's writing it. But also when she's she's actually in the theater doing that, I've done that too. Done it in film and a lot of filmmakers, of course, do it. You know, Irene Fromnes used to be there, lots of writers who have directed their own work. I don't know where it became like one of those rules that people listen to. I think it's just preference, like what you like to spend your time doing, you know, and I think that's what it comes down to. If we're lucky, we get to spend our time doing things that we like and get to have choices. And so if you enjoy, you know, being in the theater and being the one with the, you know, vision, you know, and then bringing in the collaborators and all that, that's really cool. I mean, for example, I like I love show running, you know, and I love directing, would I do it all the time? I like to mix it up, you know, sometimes I like being in the band, sometimes I like being on the dance floor, you know what I'm saying? It depends. But what I was saying, I think to you, Eric, if I can remember correctly, remember I was saying, like, do you have a desire to be in the show? I mean, I didn't mean to push you, but I was kind of hearing that you had some interests that maybe we could encourage if that were appropriate. And I think it's, yeah, I think it's drawn from a lot of my writing comes from I see it first, usually. And I see the movement first, usually. So I think I've always kind of had this weird directorial part of my brain. It's always been there and it kind of comes first. So just to hear her say that was very interesting and conflicted with something that I don't know right. Right. So I thought it was back for so long, which is so strange.  But for me, directing is actually hours spent, not at home. I like hanging at home.   And I like talking to actors and I like working with designers and all that stuff. Do I want to sit at home?  Yeah, definitely, definitely. Thanks. Thanks, Eric. All right, we got some more questions. All right. Zara, are you with us? Hey. Hi. Hi, Zara. Hi. I'm so grateful to be here. I have a question that I think you basically just answered with Eric, but I've had this idea for a conversation between a character that is in the public domain and one that is not. And so I've been sort of afraid to even get started writing it because I don't know what even the processes they go about getting permission from an estate or a character that is not in public domain. So I think that I'm not sure what the question is. I guess I've been just sort of afraid to even know how to get started on it in case, okay, I write it and then I can't even do anything with it because I don't have permission. So yeah, I guess that's my question. A character in the public domain maybe historical or from your imagination? So it's a character, it's like a Shakespearean character. Okay, you don't have to tell us any names or anything. You don't have to be specific. Okay, just be private. And then in conversation with a character that is not in public domain. And so I've had this idea for a long time, but I have like no, I'm not like writing it because of the fear of if I write it, can I do anything with it beyond that if I can't then design like a permission from the estate or whoever owns that character. So, right, right. Well, there are a couple of things there. It goes to the core of why we write anyway. I'm echoing, I hope nobody minds. It goes to the core of why we write anyway, right? Zara, so you ask yourself the question of why am I writing this? And if you're writing this for the joy of writing with the hopes that one day it'll be produced, which is I think wonderful reasons to write something, then I would say let yourself write it for the joy of writing. You might discover halfway through or a quarter of the way through or after the first page, you know what? I don't need this character, this historical, this character who I have to get rights for from their state. I can just make it an imaginary character or a character a lot like them, but not them specifically. You know what I'm saying?  You want to talk about Bessie Coleman, but no, no, you can't get the rights of their state. So you just make up some, maybe, maybe, or you can write it and then go about trying to get the rights to it. I always try to, in my practice, err on the side of do it, err on the side of instead of articulating the obstacles, you know, let us recognize the obstacles, right? But then go, you know, I bet you if it weren't the fact of getting the rights from the estate and all that, then you would find another reason to get in your way. That's my, always my go-to, like, feeling, you know. So why don't we just leap over that and write it and give yourself the pleasure of writing it. You say you've had this idea for a long time, it seems to be with you, it seems to be very exciting to you, write it, and then figure out what you're going to do with it. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. All right. Next, let's go to Roxanne. Roxanne, can you hear us? Yes, I can. Thank you for doing this, as always. I have a question about building yourself up to receive feedback or criticism. You know, I can do the writing process thing. I've developed a whole thing, a procedure to write, so that's not my problem anymore. But like, how do you get yourself to just accept feedback and not take it personally? Very good. Yes, stage two of the, of the, or stage five, I don't know what stage it is, from Phupanda or Zinx, warrior, sister, martial art, practice. I think you've got to practice. If you are at the point in your writing, or your artistic practice, where you're, getting the work done isn't the problem anymore. You know what I mean? You can find ways, you see obstacles and you find ways around them, you get work done. You're in that zone, in that, on that level, if you will, of your creative process, which is great, which means that you've done a lot of work and you've been lucky, you know, and I think you've, the more, the harder you've worked, the luckier you've gotten, right? So, good on you, okay? And now you come to this other aspect of it, which is a little different, which is you have to show your work to people and you're doing that, and now you want to learn or become better at taking feedback. Yeah, and I would say they're different, you know, I mean, one could say, and it depends, one could say that good feedback and positive feedback and negative feedback are equally difficult. You know, some people don't do well when they hear encouraging words. Just know that. Some people, oh, no, I'll never live up to it. The next draft will never live up to it. Oh, no, kind of thing. And some people crumble when they hear negative comments. I'll tell you something that I did yesterday on a Zoom meeting with some very high-powerful people. Some of them were saying positive things, some of them were saying very negative things, and very loud voices with very animated gestures. You have to hold on to your faith and know that you will continue to work. And so what I did, knowing that my face was large, on there probably large screens, larger than mine, I have a very small computer in a very small apartment, figuring my face was, you know, I wanted to present a picture to them. So I held my pen in a visible place and my notebook where I was writing notes, and I did this. Right? Right?  Right? Right.   I wanted to invite her to my classes at NYU and ask her to give feedback to my students like that. She could maybe somehow learn that that is not the way you talk to people in a professional situation or in the grocery store, but she probably talks to people like that in the grocery store too when they bag her groceries incorrectly. So I didn't feel personal, right? I felt like on my side was my face and my strength to continue writing, and I was displaying that, right? And on my face, I wore a smile and Zora Niel Hurston says, what did she say? And I'm spacing on her quotation right now, but she says, I smile, especially when I'm feeling the spirit and kind of angry. I show my teeth. Yeah, I'm here. I'm doing my job and ain't nobody going to turn me around, right?  Shit is combustible. Use it for fuel. They will not turn you around. If those mantras worked for the civil rights movement and for other movements and other peoples all around the world in the universe, they will work for you in that moment when you're getting some feedback that's less than helpful or that doesn't feel good. You never know if it's helpful or not. You're just writing it down. You'll look at it later, you know?   And the kinder, more generous and open I am, the more they have to take me down a notch because it's okay. You know what I'm saying? So know that you have a squad here. We're your tribe and we're the people who can show up for you and all the people who don't have the means or the time to show up for you. Know that you're not alone in getting mean sayings perhaps. I hope that you never get them. But if you do get them, know that they're going to just keep you going. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Ain't nobody going to turn me around. Shift for fuel. That's right. You shift for fuel. Yeah, it is combustible. You know what I'm saying? And just, hey, keep it coming. Thank you so much. You know, who's going to turn you around? Nobody.  You. You can stop. And you know, we all know if we stop, they win whoever they are. That changes every day. That's true. So keep coming to this and the other groups that you're part of, you know, we're here for you. We're, you're there for you. You're here for you. And we're here for you and each other. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you, Roxanne. Great question. Thank you. All right. I've got Russell. Go for it, Russell. Russell. I mean, first and foremost, this is amazing. I was super nervous to be a part of this today. You just radiate more. I guess the past couple of months have been hard for everybody. I'm sure we all know why.  That's, that's a great question. It's a simple, it's a very straightforward question. I have a little schedule. I don't know if you're a schedule kind of person, you know, I got a schedule. I get up in the morning, I meditate, you know, I do my little yoga practice and I sit at my notebook and write a little bit. And then I find other pockets of the day in which I can get a little more writing done. I kind of plan it. Yeah, sounds kind of dorky, but I budget it in, you know, at 11, I'll write a little bit. You know, after I do the dishes, I'll write a little bit. I'll, I'll finally clean under the couch and I'll write a little bit. I'll take the kid and run him around outside in circles, then I'll write a little bit. You know what I mean? I budget it in. I make a little list every day. Do I have it with me? Let's see. What do I got here? Oh, here it is. See, it's called, it's called, it says hoita at the top because that's German and I speak German and my husband's German. So it kind of makes it kind of fun. Hoita. Hoita. Yeah, and so it has all my little things on there, you know, and I make a new one every day. This is old paper, you know, scrap paper, you know, torn in half, right? I make a little list for myself.  So, you know, I just, I just, often trying to put myself in the good frame of mind, the loving frame of mind, you know, as much as I can. So I would suggest, do you have a schedule, a little schedule that you have? You know, I'm normally very bad at it. I've been keeping one recently just, you know, to keep myself sane. But I typically just block out like an hour to write. I really like writing a little between activities each day. Fantastic. An hour is great. An hour is great. Some of us, like, you know, if I said go for a running for an hour, some of us would get tired, you know? So the 20 minutes kind of allows me to not freak out and think, okay, I'll get some, you know, something else done. So an hour is a great thing. You can maybe do an hour and then maybe later in the day, another little pocket of time. And know that that's enough to get your work done. You know, two hours a day is enough to get a good chunk of work done in one month. Today is the 20th, you know, if we went from today to June 20th, two hours a day is good. If you can't do two hours, because it's a lot. An hour a day, you know, three 20 minute segments. Those of you like Melania and me and others who are homeschooling, right? Small chunks, right? Even if you're not homeschooling, it's okay. It's a lot to do with small chunks. Maybe you've got a parent to care for or, you know, something, some situation. Small chunks. You can completely get your work done. And I hear people go, well Shakespeare, King Lear doing the plague or whatever.  He wouldn't want you to think. Maybe he would want you to think that he's up on his high horse. I don't think so. You're going to write or do whatever. This is a time when we're saying like, do your thing, man. You know what I mean? It just has to be something that keeps you feeling awake and alive and look at the leaves. They're green out here. Beautiful. I sat the other day yesterday on the couch and my husband said, are you watching the TV? It's covered. And I said, actually I'm watching. Look, there's a flock of birds and they fly past one window and look, then they fly past another one. It's kind of cool. I was sitting there for like 20 minutes. He was like, okay. I'm like, yeah. Well, that's my other problem. I'll just spend like an hour or so on the fire escape every day. Good. Guess what? That's good. An hour or so on the fire escape. What Wilbur says in Charlotte's Web, right? Wilbur, you know, the pig, he makes a list of things he wants to do and he puts on his list spending time in the yard standing completely still and I want to feel what it's like to be alive. And I said, that's so great. You know, so Wilbur can do it and make time for it. You know, okay. So make yourself a little list and then check it off if you like doing that. I really like doing that. You like the check? Actually the line through it, yeah. Ooh, nice. Okay. Thanks. The check mark is my favorite part. Well, someone reminded me that check off is a playwright. Next, we've got Cornelius. All right. Cornelius, go for it. Good afternoon. Good evening. Hey, Cornelius. This is my first time here. So this is pretty awesome. All right. I won class for myself as a writer as of yet, even though I've written one particular script. But my question is this, right? Just give a little back context. Some of my favorite writers is Maya Angelou and Octavia Butler. And, you know, I looked up some interviews with them just to see how, you know, they get into the space of writing, especially when creating from the depths of the characters that they present. And Maya Angelou kind of gave an example of how she kind of channels the energy of this character from the universe and then she becomes this character and then she writes from that space. Now, for me, the first script that I wrote, I was inspired by a traumatic event. So that traumatic event allowed me to go and create from that space. Now, I, from the moment that event happened to where I shot and produced this monologue was three and a half weeks, four weeks. So it was great. It was awesome. I had it and it was tangible. But as going through, as I was going through the editing process, it was like, you know, I started to leave that space. So ultimately, because, you know, life goes on and everything else changes. So it's like, my question is, if you are inspired by a strong event that made you create and then now that moment or that energy is not how you feel anymore, but the essence of the project is still relevant to society, to the beneficial of like all of us. How do you get back into that space? Or do you even go back to that space? I love what a beautiful question. What a beautiful question. My husband and I were talking about what it must be like for a singer to sing one of her or his hit songs, you know, say Bob Dylan wrote Blowing in the Wind when he was, I don't know how, right? And now maybe people expect him to sing it or Bob Dylan going to do what he want to do. But you know, there's an expectation. How does he go back to that place? How do you, how do we go back to that place of maybe initial inspiration or where we were at when we wrote the thing? If we have to actually perform the monologue or the song, we're not necessarily having to go back to the place where we were when we wrote it, but we go back to, we connect with where we are right now and feel the time moving through us. It's a great gift to write something that over time still resonates with people.   You know, I'm not there anymore. You know what I mean? And I'm glad. I'm glad I'm not there, but I'm glad it still speaks to people. You know, so our work can continue to speak to people. You're tricky. You're writing something. You tape, you filmed a monologue. It's you. You're editing it. You're already changing, but no with certainty, Cornelius, that when you finish it, it will be what it should be. Know that.  You know what I mean? I can't feel that, that thing. That's okay. Because you need perhaps some distance to create what the world needs to see. Okay. So just know, again, like we hold on to the spirit, you're going to hold on to the spirit and know that you're in the place you need to be to create this beautiful thing that will speak to people over time, if that's what should happen with it. Thank you so much. That was, spot on. And you know we want to see it. You know we want to see it be done. You better do it. I made the first cut and I'm, and I'm putting, and I'm just putting together some more, some more b-roll to go over the top of it. But basically it's just a monologue of one actor inside of a room and it's shot to replicate the way the mind thinks. It's just thoughts, you know what I mean? And it's not with like structure and anything like, no, our mind doesn't think in structure. Our mind just thinks and it just does. So, yeah. Oh, sounds beautiful. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We got about 10 minutes left. We're going to go to Rebecca. Go for it, Rebecca. Hey, SLP. It's me again. How you doing? I'm good. I'm good. I want to thank Zara for her question because it has finally given me the context for the question I've been wanting to explore. So, I did an interview in 2007 with a county historian who has turned out to be just an exquisitely unreliable narrator, which actually is an important part of what's happening in the manuscript. He's the county historian. He's also the historian for the county chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. And so, he was just doing what he does. I don't use his name because he kept saying I'm a historian. I only deal in facts. I just call him the historian. My issue is I had his permission to record him, but I don't have it and I have the audio tape on my computer. I have the audio file. It just occurred to me recently and I think this is what's been nagging at me about him. I don't have anything written and I don't know if I need anything in writing that gives me permission to quote him. There was three of us on the little tour he gave us. And I just don't know how that's supposed to work when I have an interview and, you know, he knew he was being recorded. He was gleefully engaging with the recording. And now, with any luck, this will get published. And it is really clear who it is, even though I don't use his name. What I feel like you might be telling me, Rebecca, is that you have decided to fabricate and create a character, a whole new character that is not that is based on this historian and other historians that you have spoken with and other historians that you have read about over time in various locations, countries, cities and universes. And you have threaded through all that the concept of history and how it is, how we rely on it and how it is by definition unreliable to create this character, who while it may resemble people living or dead, is not really based on any one person because of the scope of your manuscript. That's what I feel like you, that's where I feel like you're going with this. In a meta sort of way. Yes, I guess I am going there. I try not to do research because otherwise I will never finish this. And I found a testimony to the Senate where a general was lying to the Senate about the same events. I was like, oh, lying is just what these people do. I would suggest that you fabricate, that you grow, that you listen back to what I just said. That you grow your, that you use the spirit to grow your imagination and that this character is not the one person who remembers you speaking to them, but it is a conglomeration and an amalgamation of many, many, many, many, many historians and historical events. You need to be free. And that is a, the things that I just said are a way to be free. It is not about this one person. It is not. And you will find if, if lying is just something they do, you will find many other examples to, from different time zones and different historical periods to pull from, so that it's very clear beyond a doubt that this is not this one person who remembers being interviewed. Do you hear what I'm saying? I hear what you're saying. Okay. Yes, yes. I think that, that character exists. Oh, definitely.  I know them. I know them and I can feel them and they're very eager to, to be part of your beautiful manuscript. Yeah. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Thanks, Rebecca. All right. We got about four minutes left and we're going to go to Melania as I think Carlos question. Hey Melania. I wanted to say that I am so thankful to you that I am listening to what you say and I am writing and it's a difficult time with the homeschooling you mentioned with three and it's so crazy and so uncertain everything that is happening outside, but thanks to this space and your words and your warmth. I am finding this inner space in me to sit and write and I wanted to say thank you. That was my thing. Where I get the warmth from, it's a circle. It's a circuit here. You know what I mean? We together, all of us are creating this circuit, this, this energetic field, you know, whether you're new and it's your first time or it's your first time talking for the first time or it's your, your 10th time like Melania or Rebecca or you know what I mean? We, you know, we've had these long conversations over many years or if you're new to it or you've always got a great background like Julian, you know, we, we're creating this circuit. Yeah. And that's, that is what we're doing and it is a beautiful, even my dear child in the background. You know, but we're creating the circuit we all are. So we're all making it together and it's a great joy and like a huge thing but it's a cool thing. It is and thanks to your child, I am reading Charlotte's web. When you get to the part about Wilbur standing in the yard, ma'am, I'm dead. I am loving it. I am loving it. It's, it's, it's like intense. It is a beautiful beauty. Yes, it is. I love it. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Thank you Melania. All right, we've got about a minute left. Anybody have a really quick question? I'll give a really quick answer. Yes, no. Gerald, go for it. Oh wow, thank you. Okay. Hi, I just want to say hello. I just want to second the gratitude. But I do have a quick question and I love Charlotte's web too. My question is to dovetail on the feedback question. I feel ready. I think to, to send out my novella to some trusted friends. Yeah, not, not people who are judging it like in a work situation, but for feedback. What I found in the past is when I send out my pieces and I get feedback, I get so many disparate pieces of information. I don't know how to process it. So what would you recommend if that's too hard to answer in the minute? And it's easy. Go ahead, keep going, keep going. Oh, and, and do you write a list of questions that I just want to be better at asking for feedback. And it could be, I mean, it's great. Congratulations on finishing something and ready to send it out. And I just, sorry, if Roxanne, if I painted too bleak a picture about getting shit, you know, it's just because I went through yesterday and had to deal with it. But, but a lot of times people who read our work, they give a lot of great notes. I have a rule that says, even if it hurts hearing it, all notes make the project better. So that's just to kind of do like the, you know, jujitsu or whatever, flip it over, right? All notes are going to make it better. Even if you don't like the notes, even if the notes don't fit in the project, all notes are going to make it better. Number one, you can, Gerald asked for specific questions like, can you follow the story? You know, does the, do I earn the ending? You know, do you understand that moment on page, blah, blah, blah? You can ask specific questions if you want. And if you get like, oh, she thought it was too sad. He thought it was too funny. They didn't understand it. They totally got it. You know, there might be many differing opinions, but I would tend to look for ones that are the same. Like if everybody totally, you know, love the middle thing that happened in the middle, you know, that's a common, look for the point, the common, the commonality points. That's helpful. And also as much as you can listen in, feel how they res, the notes resonate with you. Okay.  You know, so you got to kind of sift through that. But the most, the biggest thing to feel is proud of yourself that you've brought something to a stage where you're ready to share it with some, some trusted friends. That's a huge step forward in the artistic process. So congratulations. Thank you. My heart goes out to you yesterday. Thank you. Oh, thanks. We're good. Thank you, though. Thank you. Thanks, Terrell. All right, it's 601. It's 601. Crazy, crazy. I know, crazy, crazy. We have a special guest. Tell them who the special guest is tomorrow. Tomorrow we're going to have Tim Blake Nelson on the show. So come on. Famous. He's famous. He's famous. He's famous. He's famous. He's lovely. And he's, and he's so lovely. So yeah, so he'll come talk to us. And as a reminder, you can sign up for the show every day by 3 p.m. Eastern time. And I'll send you the link between 3 p.m. and 4 30 p.m. Eastern. And you can also always watch on howround.tv. We'll see you tomorrow. Cool. Cool. All right. Love you guys. Thank you, SLP. Bye. Thanks.


Hey Psych2Goers, welcome back to another video. Have you ever been questioning your introversion? Or have you been bordering between introversion and extroversion? Unsure where you stand? Introverts make up around 25% to 40% of the world's population. With the decent chunk of the world being introverted, there is a high chance you might be one as well. So here are seven signs you're actually an introvert. Number one, you prefer one-on-one conversation. Do you like having a deep conversation with one close friend over interacting with a group of people? For introverts, it's always quality over quantity. They'd much rather spend their time in the company of one or two close friends instead of spreading themselves too thin with strangers. Idol chatter in a large group does not interest introverts. It might even feel dishonest to some of them. But a deep conversation with their best friend at 2 a.m. might be more suited to an introvert's taste. Number two, you like weekends with no plans. Would you rather have a restful weekend over a high-energy one? Weekends are a great time for introverts to unplug and unwind, especially those with energy-draining jobs or days at school that require constant interaction. While it's healthy to catch up with your friends every once in a while, you're not at all weird for silently celebrating a canceled plan or relishing in a schedule-free day. Watching Netflix or meditating in your PJ sounds like a great plan for any introvert. Number three, you prefer working alone over working with others. Do you dislike group work or prefer working independently instead? Introverts are drawn to jobs that involve independence. Instead of worrying about dealing with other people, they'd much prefer to focus their minds on their duties. Writing, accounting, computer programming or graphic design are great jobs for introverts since they don't require a whole lot of small talk. On the other hand, working as a host or a retail staff may not mix well with the nature of most introverts. Number four, you go to parties but not to meet people. At parties, are you someone who'd rather stick by a close friend instead of meeting new people? Even if you're an introvert, you do enjoy some degree of socialization every now and then. Many introverts don't mind going to parties as long as a close friend is around to accompany them. Introverts and extroverts see parties in a fundamentally different way, however. An introvert will consider going to a party to spend quality time with a friend while an extrovert would consider a party a good time to talk to new and interesting people. Number five, your hobbies are solitary. Do you enjoy drawing, running, video games, reading and other things that don't require much social interaction? Just like working, an introvert enjoys low distraction activities. A few hours absorbed in a book, a meditative stroll around the park or watching a great TV show are some of the things that introverts love to do. If a good couple of hours all to yourself sounds like a good time rather than an absolute bore, you may be an introvert. Number six, you spend a lot of time when making a decision. Would you consider yourself an indecisive person? An introvert may constantly have back and forth conversations with their internal monologue. Introverts tend to take a long time to process information before diving into something, whether it's picking a college course or ordering food off a menu. While this trait allows them to see all angles and problems, it could also lead them to fail to make a decision and have it snatched away. And number seven, you can get extremely passionate about something. Do you sometimes get worked up about a topic that you're passionate about? Introverts may appear reserved and shy at first, but once they get going, they can talk your ears off. Introverts tend to drown themselves in their hobbies and interests. And since most of these interests are solitary in nature, an introvert may not have a platform to express their passion about it if no one else shows their interest. But if you give them a chance, their enthusiasm can surprise any unsuspecting person. So, do you relate to any of these signs we've mentioned above? If you do, consider yourself an introvert or someone with the tendencies of introverts. Did you find this video fun or insightful? Tell us in the comments below. Please like and share it with friends that might find value in this video too. Make sure to subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content. All the references used are added in the description box below. Thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.