The Lottery Ticket by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated by Constance Gardner. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Lottery Ticket by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. Ivan Dmitrić, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the newspaper. I forgot to look at the newspaper today, his wife said to him as she cleared the table. Look and see whether the list of drawings is there. Yes it is, said Ivan Dmitrić, but hasn't your ticket lapsed? No, I took the interest on Tuesday. What is the number? Series 9499, number 26. All right, we will look. 9499 and 26. Ivan Dmitrić had no faith in Lottery luck and would not, as a rule, have consented to look at the lists of winning numbers. But now, as he had nothing else to do, and as the newspaper was before his eyes, he passed his finger downwards along the column of numbers, and immediately, as though in mockery of his skepticism, no further than the second line from the top, his eye was caught by the figure 9499. Unable to believe his eyes, he hurriedly dropped the paper on his knees without looking to see the number of the ticket. And, just as though someone had given him a douche of cold water, he felt an agreeable chill in the pit of the stomach, tingling and terrible and sweet. Masha, 9499 is there, he said, in a hollow voice. His wife looked at his astonished and panic-stricken face, and realised that he was not joking. 9499, she asked, turning pale and dropping the folded tablecloth on the table. Yes, yes, it really is there. And the number of the ticket? Oh, yes, there's the number of the ticket too. But stay, wait, no, I say, anyway, the number of our series is there. Anyway, you understand? Looking at his wife, Ivan Dmitrić gave a broad, senseless smile, like a baby when a bright object has shown it. His wife smiled too. It was as pleasant to her as to him that he only mentioned the series, and did not try to find out the number of the winning ticket. To torment and tantalise oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling. It is our series, said Ivan Dmitrić, after a long silence. So there is a probability that we have won. It's only a probability, but there it is. Well, now look. Wait a little, we have plenty of time to be disappointed. It's on the second line from the top, so the prize is 75,000. That's not money, but power, capital. And in a minute, I shall look at the list, and there, 26A, I say, what if we really have won? The husband and wife began laughing, and staring at one another in silence. The possibility of winning bewildered them. They could not have said, could not have dreamed what they both needed, that 75,000 for, what they would buy, where they would go. They thought only of the figures 9499 and 75,000, and pictured them in their imagination. Well, somehow they could not think of the happiness itself which was so possible. Ivan Dmitrić, holding the paper in his hand, walked several times from corner to corner, and only when he had recovered from the first impression began dreaming a little. And if we have won, he said, why it will be a new life, it will be a transformation. The ticket is yours, but if it were mine, I should first of all, of course, spend 25,000 on real property, in the shape of an estate, 10,000 on immediate expenses, new furnishings, travelling, paying debts and so on. The other 40,000 I would put in the bank and get interest on it. Yes, an estate, that would be nice, said his wife, sitting down and dropping her hands in her lap. Somewhere in the Tula, or Oriole provinces. In the first place, we shouldn't need a summer villa, and besides, it would always bring in an income. And pictures came crowding on his imagination, each more gracious and poetical than the last, and in all these pictures he saw himself well fed, serene, healthy, felt warm, even hot. Here, after eating a summer soup, cold as ice, he lay on his back on the burning sand, close to a stream, or in the garden under a lime tree, at his heart, his little boy and girl are crawling about near him, digging in the sand, or catching ladybirds in the grass. He dozes sweetly, thinking of nothing, and feeling all over that he need not go to the office today, tomorrow, or the day after. Or, tired of lying still, he goes to the hay field, or to the forest for mushrooms, or watches the peasants catching fish with a net. When the sun sets, he takes a towel and soap and saunters to the bathing shed, where he undresses at his leisure, slowly rubs his bare chest with his hands, and goes into the water. And in the water, near the opaque soapy circles, little fish, flit, to and fro, and green water weeds nod their heads. After bathing, there is tea with cream and milk rolls. Does evening a walk or a vint with the neighbours? Yes, it would be nice to buy an estate, said his wife, also dreaming. And from her face, it was evident that she was enchanted by her thoughts. Ivan Dimitrić pictured to himself autumn, with its rains, its cold evenings, and its St. Martin's summer. At that season, he would have to take longer walks about the garden, and beside the river, so as to get thoroughly chilled, and then drink a big glass of vodka, and eat a salted mushroom, or a sourced cucumber, and then drink another. The children would come running from the kitchen garden, bringing a carrot and a radish, smelling of fresh earth. And then he would lie stretched full length on the sofa, and in leisurely fashion turn over the pages of some illustrated magazine, before covering his face with it and unbuttoning his waistcoat, give himself up to slumber. The St. Martin's summer is followed by cloudy, gloomy weather. It rains day and night, the bare trees weep, the wind is damp and cold, the dogs, the horses, the fowls all are wet, depressed, downcast. There is nowhere to walk, one can't go out for days together, one has to pace up and down the room, looking despondently at the grey window. It is dreary. Ivan Dmitrych stopped and looked at his wife. I should go abroad, you know Masha, he said, and he began thinking how nice it would be in late autumn to go abroad somewhere, to the south of France, to Italy, to India. I should certainly go abroad too, his wife said. But look at the number of the ticket. Wait, wait! He walked about the room and went on thinking. It occurred to him, what if his wife really did go abroad? It is pleasant to travel alone, or in the society of light careless women, who live in the present, and not such as think and talk or the journey about nothing but their children, sigh and tremble with dismay over every farthing. Ivan Dmitrych imagined his wife in the train with a multitude of parcels, baskets and bags. She would be sighing over something, complaining that the train made her headache, that she had spent so much money. At the stations he would continually be having to run for boiling water, bread and butter. She wouldn't have dinner because of its being too dear. She would begrudge me every farthing he thought with a glance at his wife. The lottery ticket is hers, not mine. Besides, what is the use of her going abroad? What does she want there? She would shut herself up in the hotel and not let me out of her sight, I know. And for the first time in his life his mind dwelt on the fact that his wife had grown elderly and plain, and that she was saturated through and through with the smell of cooking, while he was still young, fresh and healthy, and might well have got married again. Of course, all that is silly nonsense, he thought. But why should she go abroad? What would she make of it? And yet she would go, of course. I can fancy, in reality, it is all one to her whether it is Naples or Cleen. She would only be in my way. I should be dependent upon her. I can fancy how, like a regular woman, she will lock the money up as soon as she gets it. She will hide it from me. She will look after her relations and grudge me every farthing. Ivan Dimitrić thought of her relations. All those wretched brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles would come crawling about as soon as they heard of the winning ticket.  Wretched, detestable people. If they were given anything they would ask for more, while if they were refused they would swear at them, slander them and wish them every kind of misfortune. Ivan Dimitrić remembered his own relations and their faces, at which he had looked impartially in the past, struck him now as repulsive and hateful. They are such reptiles, he thought. And his wife's face, too, struck him as repulsive and hateful. Anger surged up in his heart against her and he thought malignantly.  If she won it she would give me a hundred rubles and put the rest away under lock and key. And he looked at his wife, not with a smile now, but with hatred. She glanced at him, too, and also with hatred and anger. She had her own daydreams, her own plans, her own reflections. She understood perfectly well what her husband's dream were. She knew who would be the first to try and grab her winnings. It's very nice making daydreams at other people's expense, is what her eyes expressed. No, don't you dare! Her husband understood her look. Hatred began stirring again in his breast, and in order to annoy his wife he glanced quickly, to spite her at the fourth page on the newspaper and read out triumphantly, series 9499, number 46, not 26. Hatred and hope both disappeared at once, and it began immediately to seem to Ivan Dimitrit and his wife that their rooms were dark and small and low-pitched, that the supper they had been eating was not doing them good. But lying heavily on their stomachs, that the evenings were long and wearisome. What the devil's the meaning of it, said Ivan Dimitrit, beginning to be ill-humoured, where ever one steps there are bits of paper under one's feet, crumbs, husks. The rooms are never swept, one is simply forced to go out. Damnation, take my soul entirely! Hello and hang myself on the first aspen tree! Or the heart of a country girl, by Percy Simple Chapter 1 A Simple Rustic Maid Irmingard Stubbs was the beauteous blonde daughter of Hyrum Stubbs, a poor but honest farmer bootleger of Hogdon, Vermont. Her name was originally Ethel Irmingard, but her father persuaded her to drop the prenumen after the passage of the 18th Amendment, a verring that it made him thirsty by reminding him of Ethel alcohol, C-2-H-5-OH. His own products contained mostly methyl or wood alcohol, C-H-3-OH. Irmingard confessed to 16 summers, and branded as mendacious all reports of the fact that she was 30. She had large black eyes, a prominent Roman nose, light hair which was never dark at the roots, except when the local drugstore was short on supplies, and a beautiful but inexpensive complexion. She was about 5'3.33 inches tall, weighed 115.47 pounds on her father's copiescales, also often, and was adjudged most lovely by all the village swans who admired her father's farm and liked his liquid crops. Irmingard's hand was sought in matrimony by two ardent lovers. Squire Hardman, who had a mortgage on his old home, was very rich and elderly. He was dark and cruelly handsome, and always rode horseback and carried a riding crop. Long had he sought the raid in Irmingard, and now his ardor was fanned to a fever-heat by a secret known to him alone. For upon the humble acres of farmer's stubs, he discovered a vein of rich gold. Aha! said he. I will win the maiden heir her parent knows of his unexpected wealth, and join to my fortune a greater fortune still. And so he began to call twice a week instead of once as before. But alas for the sinister designs of a villain, Squire Hardman was not the only suitor for the fair one. Close by the village dwelt another, the handsome Jack Manley, whose cruelly yellow hair had won the sweet Irmingard's affection when both were toddling youngsters at the village school. Jack had long been too bashful to declare his passion, but one day while strolling along a shady lane by the old mill with Irmingard, he found the courage to utter which was within his heart. O light of my life! said he. My soul is so overburdened that I must speak. Irmingard, my ideal. He pronounced it. Ideal. Life has become an empty thing without you. Beloved of my spirit, behold our supplicant kneeling in the dust before thee. Irmingard, O Irmingard, raise me to a heaven of joy and say that you will someday be mine. It is true that I am poor, but have I not youth and strength to fight my way to fame? This can I only do for you, dear Ethel. Pardon me, Irmingard, my only, my most precious. But here he paused to wipe his eyes and mop his brow, and the fair responded. Jack, my angel, at last. I mean this is so unexpected and quite unprecedented. I had never dreamed that you entertained sentiments of affection in connection with one so lowly as Farmer Stubbs' child, for I am still but a child. Such is your natural nobility that I feared, I mean thought, that you would be blind to such slight charms as I possess, that you would seek your fortune in the great city where meeting and wedding one of those more commonly damsels whose splendor we observe in fashion books. But Jack, since it is really I who you adore, let us waive all needless circumlocation. Jack, my darling, my heart has long been susceptible to your manly graces. I cherish an affection for thee. Consider me thy own own, and be sure to buy the ring at Perkins Hardware Store, where they have the nice indentation diamonds in the window. I regard my love, Jack, my precious, my darling, my own, my God! Curtain. Chapter 2 And the villain still pursued her. But these tender passages, sacred though their fervor, did not pass unobserved by profane eyes, for crouched in the bushes and gritting his teeth was his dastardly squire-hardman. When the lovers had finally strolled away, he leapt out into the lane, viciously twirling his mustache as a riding-crop, and kicking an unquestionably innocent cat who was also outstrolling. Curses, he cried. Hardman, not the cat. I am foiled in my plot to get the farm and the girl, but Jack manly shall never succeed. I am a man of power, and we shall see. Thereupon he repaired the humble stub's cottage, where he found the fond father in the still cellar washing bottles under the supervision of the gentle wife and mother, Hannah Stubbs. Coming directly to the point the villain spoke. Farmer Stubbs, I cherish a tender affection of longstanding for your lovely offspring, Ethel Ermengard. I am consumed with love, and wish her hand in matrimony. I always amount a few words. I shall not descend to euphemism. Gave me the girl, I will foreclose the mooridge and take the old home. But sir pleaded the distracted subs while his stricken spouse merely glowered. I am sure the child's affection are elsewhere placed. She must be mine. Sturnly snapped the sinister squire. I will make her love me, none shall resist my will. Either she must become my wife, or the old homestead goes. And with the sneer and flick of his riding crop, Squire Hardman strode out into the night. Scarce said he departed. When there entered by the back door the radiant lovers, eager to tell the senior Stubbs's of their new fond happiness. Imagine the universal consternation which reigned when all was known. Fears flowed like white ale, till suddenly Jack remembers that he was the hero and raised his head, declaiming in appropriately virile accents. Never shall the fair Ermigrad be offered up to this beast as a sacrifice while I live. I shall protect her. She is mine, mine, mine, and then some. Fear not, dear father and mother, to be. I will defend you all. You shall have the old farm still. Adverb, not noun. Although Jack was in a by and no means out of sympathy for Stubbs's kind of form produce. I shall lead to the altar of the beautest Ermigrad, loveliest of her sex, to perdition with the cruel Squire and his ill-gotten gold. The right shall always win, and the hero is always in the right. I will go to the great city and there make a fortune to save you all ere the mortgage fall due. Farewell, my love. I leave you now in tears, but I shall return to pay off the mortgage and claim you as my bride. Jack, my protector. Ermy, my sweet role. Dearest darling, don't forget the ring at Perkins. Oh. Ah. Curtain. Chapter 3. A Dastardly Act. By the resourceful Squire Hardman was not so easily to be foiled. Close by the village lay a disreputable settlement of unkempt shacks, populated by a shiftless scum who lived by thieving in other odd jobs. Here the devilish villains secured two accomplices, ill-favored fellows who were very clearly no gentlemen. And in the night, the evil three broke into Stubbs' cottage and adopted the frail Ermingard, taking her to a wretched hobble in the settlement and placing her there under the charge of Mother Maria, a hideous old hag. Farmer Stubbs was quite distracted and would have advertised in the papers if the cost had been less than a cent a word for each insertion. Ermingard was firm and never wavered in refusal to wed the villain. Aha, my proud beauty, Quothee. I have ye in my power, and sooner or later I will break that will of thine. Meanwhile, think of your poor old father and mother as turned out of hearth and home and wandering as helpless to the meadows. Oh, spare them, spare them, say the maiden. Never, hahahaha, leered the brute. And so the cruel days sped on, while all in ignorance young Jack Manley was seeking fame and fortune in the great city. Chapter 4. Subtle Villainy One day a squire-hardman sat in the front pallor of his expensive and palatial home. Indulging in his favorite pastime of gnashing his teeth and swishing his riding-crop, a great thought came to him, and he cursed aloud at the statue of Satan on the honest mantelpiece. Fool that I am, he cried. Why would I ever waste all this trouble on the girl when I can get the farm by simply foreclosing? I never thought of that. I'll let the girl go, take the farm, and be freed to wed some fair city maid, like the leading lady of the burlesque troop that played last week at Town Hall. And so he went down to the settlement, and said to Irmingard, let her go home, and went home himself to plot new crimes and invent new modes of villainy. The days wore on, and the stubses grew very sad over the coming loss of their home, and still, but nobody seemed to be able to do anything about it. One day a party of hunters from the city chanced astray over the old farm, and one of them found gold. Hiding his discovery from his companions, he feigned rattlesnake bite and went to the stubs' cottage to buy him. He also saw her, and in that moment resolved to win her and the gold. For my old mother's sake I must, he cried loudly to himself, no sacrifice is too great. Chapter 5 The City Chap Algernon Reginald Jones was a polished man of the world from the great city, and in his sophisticated hands our poor little Irmingard was as a mere child. Algernon was a fast worker and never crude. He could have taught Hardman a thing or two about finesse and shrieking. Thus only a week after his advent to the stubs' family circle, where he lurked like a vile serpent that he was, he had persuaded the heroine to elope. It was in the night that she went leaving a note to her parents. Sniffing the familiar mash the last time and kissing the cat goodbye, touching stuff. Allowing a paper to fall out of his pocket by accident. Irmingard, taking advantage of her supposed position as bright elect, picked up the folded sheet and read its perfumed expanse when low she almost fainted. It was a love letter from another woman. Perfidious deceiver she whispered to this sleeping Algernon. So this is all that you were boasted fidelity amounts to. I am done with you for all eternity. So saying, she pushed him out the window and settled down for a much needed rest. Chapter 6. Alone in the great city. When the noisy train pulled out into the dark station at the city, poor helpless Irmingard was all alone without money to get back to Hogdon. Oh, why, she sighed in innocent regret. Didn't I take his pocketbook before I pushed him out? Oh, well, I should worry. He told me all about this city so I can easily earn enough to get home if not pay off the mortgage. But alas for our little heroine, work is not easy for a greenhorn to secure. So for a week she was forced to sleep on park benches and obtain food from the bread line. Once a wily and wicked person perceiving her helplessness offered her a position as a dishwasher in a fashionable and depraved cabaret. But our heroine was true to her rustic ideals and refused to work in such a gilded and glittering prowse of frivolity especially since she was only offered three dollars a week with meals but no board. She tried to look up Jack Manley, her one-time lover but he was nowhere to be found. Per chance, too, he would not have known her for in her poverty she had perforce become a brunette again and Jack had not beheld her in such dates since school days. One day she found a neat but costly purse in the dark and after seeing there was not much in it took it to the rich lady whose card proclaimed her ownership. Delighted beyond words at her honesty of this forlorn waif, the aristocratic Miss Van Idi adopted Irmingrad the little one who had been stolen from her so many years ago. Had like my precious Ma she sighed as she watched the fair brunette return to blondness and so silver weeks passed with the old folks at home tearing their hair and the wicked squire hardman chuckling devilishly. Chapter 7 Happily Ever Afterward One day the wealthy heiress Irmingrad, S. Van Idi hired a new second assistant chauffeur struck by something familiar in his face. She looked again and gasped, low. It was none other than the perfidious Algernon Reginald Jones whom she had pushed from a car window on that fateful day he had survived. This much was almost immediately evident. Also he had wed the other woman who had run away with his milkman and all the money in the house. Now wholly humbled he asked forgiveness of our heroine and confided to her the whole tale of the gold of her father's farm. Finally on words, she raised her salary a dollar a month and resolved to gratify at last that always unquenchable anxiety to relieve the worry of the old folks. So one bright day Irmingrad motored back to Hogden and arrived at the farm just to squire hardman was foreclosing the mortgage and ordering the old folks out.  We are in the union whilst the squire twisted his mustache and riding crop in bafflement and dismay but hark what is this footsteps sound on the old gravel walk and who should appear but our hero Jack Manley worn in seedy but radiant of face seeking at once the downcast villain he said squire lend me a 10 spot will you I just come back from the city with my beautiest bride the Fair Bridget Goldstein I need something to start things off on the old farm then turning to the stubs as he apologized for his inability to pay off the mortgage as agreed don't mention it said Irmingrad prosperity has come to us and I will consider it sufficient payment if you will forget forever the foolish fancies of our childhood all this time Miss Van Iddy had been sitting in the motor waiting for Irmingrad but as she lazily eyed the sharp faced Hannah Stubs a vague memory startled from the back of her brain then it all came to her like the agrestic matron you, you Hannah Smith I know you now 28 years ago when you were my baby mods nurse and you stole her from the cradle where oh where is my child then a thought came as the lightning in a murky sky Irmingrad you say she is your daughter she is mine faders restored to me my old shield my tiny moddy Irmingrad mother's loving arms but Irmingrad was doing some tall thinking how could she get away with the 16 year old stuff that she had been stolen 28 years ago and if she was not Stubs's daughter the gold would never be hers but Miss Van Iddy was rich but Squire Hardman was richer so approaching the dejected villain she afflicted upon him the last terrible punishment Squire dear she murmured I have reconsidered all I love you and your naive strength marry me at once or I will have you prosecuted for kidnapping me last year for close your mortgage and enjoy with me the gold your cleverness discovered come dear and the poor dub did the end the young man came into an ordinate restaurant at eight o'clock in London he was alone but two places had been laid at the table which was reserved for him he had chosen the dinner very carefully by letter a week before a waiter asked him about the other guest you probably won't see him till the coffee comes the young man told him so he was served alone those at adjacent tables might have noticed the young man continually addressing the empty chair and carrying on a monologue with it throughout his elaborate dinner I think you knew my father he said to it over the soup I sent for you this evening he continued because I want you to do me a good turn in fact I must insist on it there was nothing eccentric about the man except for this habit of addressing an empty chair certainly he was eating as good a dinner as any sane man could wish for after the burgundy had been served he became more valuable in his monologue not that he spoiled his wand by drinking excessively we have several acquaintances in common he said I met King Setai a year ago in Thebes I think he has altered very little since you knew him I thought his far had a little low for kings Cheops has left the house that he built for your reception he must have prepared for you for years and years I suppose you have seldom been entertained like that I ordered this dinner over a week ago I ordered this dinner over a week ago I thought then that a lady might have come with me but as she wouldn't I've asked you she may not ask for all be as lovely as Helen of Troy was Helen very lovely not when you knew her perhaps you were lucky in Cleopatra you must have known her when she was in her prime you never knew the mermaids nor the fairies nor the lovely goddesses of long ago that's where we have the best of you he was silent when the waiters came to his table but rambled merrily on as soon as they left still turned to the empty chair you know I saw you here in London only the other day you were on a motor bus going down Ludgate Hill it was going much too fast London is a good place but I should be glad enough to leave it it was in London that I met the lady that I was speaking about if it hadn't been for London I probably shouldn't have met her and if it hadn't been for London I wouldn't have had so much besides me to amuse her it cuts both ways he paused once to order coffee gazing earnestly at the waiter and putting a sovereign in his hand don't let it be chicory said he the waiter brought the coffee and the young man dropped a tabloid of some sort into his cup I don't suppose you come here very often he went on well you probably want to be going I haven't taken you much out of your way there is plenty for you to do in London then having drunk his coffee he fell on the floor by a foot of the empty chair and a doctor who was dining in the room bent over him and announced to the access manager the visible presence of the young man's guest end of the guest by Baron Edward John Morton Drax Plunkett Donsani A work of art by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov translated by Constance Garnett this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Sasha Smirnov the only son of his mother holding under his arm something wrapped up in number 223 of the financial news assumed a sentimental expression and went into Dr. Kosherkov's consulting room ah, dear lad was how the doctor greeted him well, how are we feeling what good news have you for me Sasha blinked laid his hand on his heart and said in an agitated voice Mama sends her greetings to you Ivan Nikolaevich and told me to thank you I am the only son of my mother and you have saved my life you have brought me through a dangerous illness and we do not know how to thank you nonsense lad said the doctor, highly delighted I only did what anyone else would have done in my place I am the only son of my mother we are poor people and cannot of course repay you and we are quite a shame doctor although, however Mama and I the only son of my mother I beg you to accept in token of our gratitude this object which an object of great value an antique bronze a rare work of art you shouldn't said the doctor frowning what's this for no, please do not refuse Sasha went on muttering as he unpacked the parcel you were wounded Mama and me by refusing it's a fine thing an antique bronze it was left us by my deceased father and we have kept it as a precious souvenir my father used to buy antique bronzes and sell them to connoisseurs Mama and I keep on the business now Sasha undid the object and put it solemnly on the table it was a not very tall candelabra of old bronze and artistic workmanship it consisted of a group on the pedestal stood two female figures in the costume of Eve and in attitudes for the description of which I have neither the courage nor the fitting temperament the figures were smiling coquettishly and all together looked as though had it not been for the necessity of supporting the candlestick they would have skipped off the pedestal and have indulged in an orgy such as proper for the reader even to imagine looking at the present the doctor slowly scratched behind his ear cleared his throat and blew his nose irresolutely ah yes it is certainly a fine thing he muttered but how shall I express it it's not quite for family reading it's not simply deco-let but beyond anything that's it all how do you mean the serpent tempter himself could not have invented anything worse why to put such a phantasmagoria on the table would be defiling the whole flat what a strange way of looking at art doctor said Sasha offended why it is an artistic thing look at it there is so much beauty and elegance one's soul with a feeling of reverence and brings a lump into one's throat when one sees anything so beautiful one forgets everything earthly only look how much movement what an atmosphere what expression I understand all that very well my dear boy the doctor interposed but you know I am a family man my children run in here ladies come in of course if you look at it from the point of view of the crowd said Sasha then this exquisitely artistic work may appear in a certain light but doctor rise superior to the crowd especially as you will wound mama and me by refusing it I am the only son of my mother you have saved my life we are giving you the thing most precious to us and I only regret that I have not the pair to present to you thank you my dear fellow I am very grateful give my respects to your mother but really consider my children run in here ladies come however let it remain I see there's no arguing with you and there is nothing to argue about said Sasha relieved put the candlestick here what a pity we have not the pair to it it is a pity well goodbye doctor after Sasha's departure the doctor looked for a long time at the candelabra scratched behind his ear and meditated it's a superb thing there's no denying it he thought and it would be a pity to throw it away but it's impossible for me to keep it hmm here's a problem to whom can I make a present of it or to what charity can I give it after long meditation he thought of his good friend the lawyer Uhov to whom he was indebted for the management of legal business excellent the doctor decided it would be awkward for him as a friend to take money from me and it would be very suitable for me to present him with this I will take him the devilish thing luckily he is a bachelor and easygoing without further procrastination the doctor put on his hat and coat took his candelabra and went off to Uhov's how are you friend he said finding the lawyer at home I've come to see you to thank you for your efforts you won't take money so you must at least accept this thing here see my dear fellow the thing is magnificent on seeing the bronze the lawyer was moved to indescribable delight what a specimen he chuckled juice take it to think of them imagining such a thing the devils exquisite ravishing where did you get hold of such a delightful thing after pouring out his ecstasies the lawyer looked timidly toward the door and said only you must carry off your present my boy I can't take it why cried the doctor disconcerted why because my mother is here at times my clients besides I should be ashamed for my servants to see it nonsense, nonsense don't you dare to refuse said the doctor just articulating it's pigish of you it's a work of art what movement, what expression I won't even talk of it you will offend me if one could plaster over it or stick on fig leaves but the doctor just articulated more violently than before and dashing out of the flat went home glad that he had succeeded in getting the present off his hands the lawyer examined the candelabra fingered it all over and then, like the doctor wracked his brains over the question what to do with the present it's a fine thing he mused and it would be a pity to throw it away and improper to keep it the very best thing would be to make a present of it to someone I know what I'll take it this evening to Shashkin the rascal is fond of such things and by the way it is his benefit tonight no sooner said than done in the evening the candelabra carefully wrapped up was duly carried to Shashkin's the whole evening the comic actors dressing room was besieged by men coming to admire the present the dressing room was filled with the hum of enthusiasm and laughter like the neighing of horses if one of the actresses approached the door and asked, now I come in the comedian's husky voice was heard at once no, no my dear, I'm not dressed after the performance the comedian shrugged his shoulders flung up his hands and said well, what am I to do with the horrid thing why, I live in a private flat actresses come and see me it's not a photograph that you can put in a drawer you had better sell it sir the hairdresser who was disrobing the actor advised him there's an old woman living about here who buys antique bronzes go and inquire for madame smirnov everyone knows her the actor followed his advice two days later the doctor was sitting in his consulting room and with his finger to his brow was meditating on the acids of the bile all at once the door opened and Sasha Smirnov flew into the room he was smiling beaming and his whole figure was radiant with happiness in his hands he held something wrapped up in newspaper doctor he began breathlessly imagine my delight happily for you we have succeeded in picking up the pair to your candelabra mama is so happy I am the only son of my mother you saved my life and Sasha all of a tremor with gratitude set the candelabra before the doctor the doctor opened his mouth tried to say something but said nothing he could not speak end of a work of art by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov


What's up you guys welcome to the single guy channel I'm Lloyd your pickup and dating coach and today We're gonna be talking about why women do not give good advice for men when it comes to dating now I know there's a lot of female dating coaches out there that are giving great advice for men. I watch them I've had women on my channel before too speaking about kind of like you know They're they're their story and the things that they like in a guy And I'm usually there to kind of translate and turn into practical advice for you guys But yeah, dude, I would say in general most of the advice that women give is pretty terrible I mean what's the advice that people give in general is pretty bad as well too The problem is is that most guys when they hear a hot girl giving them advice they automatically like assume It's the gospel because You know it's a hot girl That's the girl that they're trying to get but that's not true at all So in this video, I'm gonna be telling you why women don't give good advice All the reasons and they're relevant for not just women because other people are gonna tell you this to this too So this is gonna teach you how to gauge feedback and take advice That's actually going to help you out rather than taking all this bad advice, which is only gonna make you dumber So let's get right into it. The first reason is that women do not understand your experience They're not going through the same motions as you now There's the saying where you shouldn't ask a fish had a fish you should ask a fisherman You shouldn't ask a gazelle had a hunt. You should ask a hunter the same thing applies here, man Okay, she does not know what it's like walking up and you know talking to a girl. She doesn't understand the approach She's not familiar with all that stuff.  This is exactly the same thing that happens when you're explained to a woman Your perspective here. Okay, they're not gonna understand what it's like being in your shoes The only way for them to truly or if you I used to believe that if you talked with another person Explain your story told it to them that they can understand you and for you are I no longer think that anymore I think that you can appreciate Something about another person by having tell their story and explaining it to you you can appreciate it But you will never truly understand unless you are in that person's shoes for a very long period of time And that's just not going to happen for women and men So I think that you know, not only is she not gonna extend understand your experience And women that pretend that they do are usually give the worst advice But not only she not gonna understand your experience, but you should never expect her To to she assumes all women are like her So this kind of goes back to women's and people in general are solipsism We are we generally think solipsism is basically the belief that your reality is everybody else's reality And because it's the only reality that you know people generally fall into this trap So a lot of women will give advice and they'll say, oh well You know this you know girls like this do this and they're saying what they want But not every girl's like her she might like different things She might like different types of guys and there are baseline principles that are attractive to women But normally when women are talking about this they talk about all the little things That they like and the little things change me three when they give advice They're not talking about desire and attraction. They're usually talking about like commitment So what do I mean by this?       So go out there and do you All right That's really cool. That's gonna make you it's gonna. It's a good pump up. You know speech to give you It's gonna make you feel good in the moment. Maybe um, but it Doesn't really help you.  I will though. I have no problem doing that If you're my coaching program, I will tell you when you're a loser and the stuff that you need to focus on So with this you really have to take into account what's going through the person's mind Is this person just trying to get me to like them or do they actually care and give me care enough to give Me good advice that I might not like at that moment I might be mad at them for saying it and resent them for it But in the long term I'm gonna be better for it five is what they say they want is not what they actually do This is the classic example of the woman who says she wants a guy to be kind Respectful to her. She wants a guy who shows affection She wants a guy who's you know always there for her and then she goes and fucks the football player On the you know on the high school team who doesn't call her doesn't respect her Doesn't respond to her phone calls and treats her like dirt. Okay, this is the classic example about what they are saying What they want them to want they wish they liked that guy who was that kind of like pushover provider type Who was always nice to them in there for them?  You have to see if what they're saying is actually what they're doing And I think too often and they're not the mainstream media falls into this category They tend if you look at the advice they give they tend to give the general typical advice that most women get which is like Just be yourself find someone who's compatible with you and all of that different stuff. They don't when they when you actually Tell them to tell you which people they pick who they're mating with and why they're mating with them The answers aren't so pretty man You know sometimes like they are really seeing if a guy's a loser or not They are really seeing if a guy has game. They are really seeing if a guy has some sort of status that they're looking for that they do care about those things and that's not a pretty picture that anybody wants to paint and so It's something that they keep private and that they probably won't tell you so Hopefully from this video you've seen how not just women Are giving this bad advice. It's meant to it's the mainstream media. It's everyone Okay, these people at the end of the day when you're asking for advice from someone you really have to see where it's coming from Do them from my channel too. Okay, you really got a Vet who you're getting advice from I think Alan nation said this I don't know who said it but they said that a 90% of the advice that you get you should just ignore But when you see a guy who has which you or a guy or girl who has what you want who has this, you know similar story to you Listen to everything they say Okay, you might not agree with everything But a lot of the stuff they say is going to be in the direction that you're looking for And I think that's a rule that you should have in your lives as well too. It's one that I go by so Thanks a lot you guys if you made today and consider subscribing I come up with videos like this every single week if you're interested in my weekly one-on-one mentorship program where I coach Guys in this sort of stuff shoot me an email the single guy 2017 gmail.com Give me your age name city you live in and tell me a little bit about your situation. Thanks a lot you guys Good luck out there


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Uh desmond ridder jersey auto 59 to 99 for the nfc south Hey niques. What's up, man? awesome desmond ridder And the next one Is an rpa desmond ridder 63 of 99 nfc south Chris g congrats on the back-to-back ridders Wasn't there a hassan haskins earlier? Yes, there's been a fc south. There was a hassan haskins jersey auto or auto That's just the one like I can remember I don't think anyone's hit list God zack wilson 11 a 99 afc east alexander madison jersey auto nfc north 5 out of 99 three agents Okay, so he was only a stealer. Okay, so this is afc north jersey auto matthew dirant 4 of 99 Whoa, what what the heck is going on there? 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Best Buy is allegedly set to also do away with physical media sales early next year. Blu-ray, DVD, both on the chopping block, that would be in store and online. I just popped a Blu-ray out of my PS5 yesterday. So I'm the iconic class here that still has them. I don't see this as the, you know, underlying period death of Blu-ray. This is the moment that Blu-ray has become niche. And it may or may not ever get out of being niche, but I imagine it's still going to be around for a long time just based on the fact that we still have cassettes. We still have LPs. Both of those have made a comeback. I don't think Blu-ray and DVD are in the eight track category where you're only going to find them in thrift stores.


All right, here we go. So this is something I'm very passionate about. So the biggest mistakes I've seen around fasting, not 20 years into this, 22 years in, truth is my first fast was not on purpose. It was when I was in the room core and it was eight days and I lost 30 pounds. That's not what we're talking about. Lots of mistakes happen that day. But I want to kind of cover some of the biggest mistakes I'm seeing with people fasting and what you can do to prevent it and also to do it appropriately. And there's a few that are out there that are really kind of hanging on me.  And just so you know, if you're watching this, what's the longest you've ever went fasting before? What's the longest amount of time? For me, it's 14 days, not that I'm bragging. I didn't feel like I had a choice at that time. And I don't actually recommend that for most people. 14 days, that's crazy, right? Hey, what's up, bae? How are you? Seba, good to see you. So here's the deal. When you start to fast, I'm a huge fan of it. I think fasting appropriately and fasting in a right manner can be super beneficial. Now we can, there's science on all sides of this whole thing, but what I'm gonna go to is primitively humans fast it. So it's not a new thing for the human body, although we don't live in the primitive world. So there is some complications to that concept.  And the first one, I'm just gonna hit it off the top. So what happens is that there's a problem in our world today. And this is really serious. I want you to really listen to this because if you're one of these people, you're ultimately going to quit sabotage and fail long-term unless you understand that this, you have to do some things in place, okay? So there's a large percentage of people, at least in the Western civilization, in America, Canada, Mexico, Europe.  And this percentage could be 40 to 70%. So it's a large percentage of people basically don't metabolize fat really well. They also, they can't get into ketosis really well. So meaning what our ancestors used to be able to do really in and out, your body should naturally go in and out of ketosis. Meaning that when you fast a long enough amount of time, your body's gonna run out of this glucose, it's gonna start to use ketones as a fuel source. If you can't transition that very easily, fasting can actually really be a hard for you and hard on you and ultimately cause a lot of problems. And there's a tool, there's some things you can do and I'm gonna give you that right off the bat and then I'm gonna give you the other fasting challenges that I have for people. So the IFAST is great. And we're gonna talk a little bit about that. I got one right here. So here's the deal. If you ever watch a vampire show, you ever see somebody get bit by a vampire? Vampire Diaries or something?  They're like freaking out between this phase of being a human and becoming the vampire, right? They're in this transition phase. That transition phase is the way I relate it to going from a glucose burner to a ketone burner. You have to transition, okay? The better you are at going back and forth, the more that you can transition metabolically really easy, the more fasting you're gonna thrive on. The more that that's an obstacle that you can't do it. And there's a lot of people that can't do it while Dr. Mojiki Parodi does his research on how some people doing the perfect ketogenic diet, fasting regularly, can't produce enough ketones. Well, that means they don't have enough fuel. That means that their body is basically in limbo. It doesn't have enough fuel to satisfy its demand.    So if you're somebody out there that's fasting and not feeling like you're getting the best results, then we wanna implement tools in place, okay? So this is by far the biggest among, I want people to just really realize this. It's easier than, because I see it all the time, people go like, I already fast. People are fasted and obese, right? You see construction workers, you see it. You're like, well, what's wrong? Why is it not working for them? Like their body should be more efficient than that. No, because this switch is off. That person also comes home and basically passes out exhausted. Like their body is not operating the way it should be. So first thing we wanna do, and this is, I would say everybody do it this way, is use ketones while you fast. Support your fast. It doesn't break your fast. But basically what you're doing is providing a sustained fuel source as your body's getting used to running out of glucose, right?  Because let's be honest, most of you aren't gonna follow a strict ketogenic diet forever, right?  You wanna be good at going in and out. More in than out, let's just say. You wanna be, you want your body to be able to go into ketones just more than you want out of it. Long term, okay? That percentage is up to be determined. So what we have here is our fasting kit. So why I'm a huge fan of this is, it's frankly, who's done the IFAST? If you don't mind in the chat, drop down what's your benefit of IFAST? It's been extraordinary. What I'm gonna tell you is I've watched, I've been not only been teaching fasting for 20 years, mostly without using ketones, the last eight years with ketones, people are fasting and not even realizing it. It's just easy for them. Like I kind of already am fasting. And then over the last few months, we've implemented this thing called IFAST. And IFAST, and there's a reason why people are getting a more abundant result from IFAST. And it has to do with that when you're basically utilizing ketones throughout the entire day, right? And so while you're going into this fasting state, what's happening is you're elevating your ketones it's called the zone to a very optimal level. There's a range that you want to get to. When you get to that optimal level, you just feel super laser in. And you're like, I don't even need that eat. I feel good. I'm not super hungry. So now you can start to be more decision making on your food choices. So we do this for five days in a row and you might take a couple of days off. Do you want to fast all the time? No, that's one of the mistakes people are making. So the IFAST is a great tool to use to get your ketone levels up and then start to teach you your relationship with food. Okay, and then when you come out of it, we want to transition out back in, out back in, out back in. What's happening is you're training your body become a ketone burner back to be in just an efficient machine. Ketone burner efficient machine and you're staying in the optimal range, which is what our ancestors would have naturally done because they were very efficient and they weren't consuming a lot of the foods that we consume on a regular basis. So people are noticing a really strong satiation. They're noticing their waistline trimmed down. They're noticing hyper focus, sustained energy, high quality sleep, just overall wellbeing, enhanced mood. And that's the normal benefits of what a high level of ketones would do for you. Basically you're performing at the highest possible level. So it's really, really, really extraordinary.  They might have a small meal for lunch and a larger one for dinner. They might have a larger one for lunch, smaller one for dinner. It doesn't matter. And then you're trying to cut off any food after 8 p.m. and try not to eat much food before 12 p.m. or 12 p.m. Now some people might need to walk into that a little bit but I'm not gonna get into that today. This is just the mistake. So that's number one is that you're fasting but your not body's not super efficient. So therefore you're basically slowing the system down, not speeding it up to the way that you want it to work. That's number one mistake. The second mistake is people are making fasting a competitive sport. What do you mean by that? Is they're trying to challenge themselves to see how long they can fast for. And once again, if the first one's wrong, if you're not efficient yet and you're competitively fasting, you actually could be breaking down your system.  So you're slowing down your metabolism. So what I recommend is that's why you do them in windows. You do basically a 24 hour fast, a 60 hour fast or you do the five day eye fast and then you cycle back off and you have more of a normal diet or normal eating plan. Basically think of this way, is you run out of food, our ancestors ran out of food and then they went hunting, right? Well, that hunting period might have been 24 hours. It might have been 12 hours. It might have been 60 hours, right? So that hunting window is gonna depend. It's gonna be flexed, right? And then they catch an animal. They didn't put it away and say, I gotta finish my fast. No, they went and ate the animal. So they over consumed or consumed a plenty of calories. That keeps their metabolism more stable. It's reminding your body you wanna be up here. You don't wanna always be in lack, right?  So you wanna cycle, not carbohydrates as much. You can do that if you understand what you're doing, but it's more cycling calories, right? So you're not always being aggressive saying I'm gonna fast all the time. Some days I eat a little earlier. I usually don't eat at five or six like I used to do five or six in the morning. I might eat at nine. I might eat at 10. I might eat at 12, one, five, three. It's changing because I feel different some days, right? And so this is a big mistake. People are making their competitively low calorie all the time and you don't wanna do that. You wanna cycle your calories. So you wanna give yourself days of being permission. Now that's one of the mistakes I see. The last mistake I'm gonna go over, I can talk for hours on this and I actually do more zooms on it. The last mistake I see quite often is what people are doing when they come out of their fast.  And it kinda undoes the fast, the benefit of the fast. The truth is, is gut health is a huge problem in our country. And you're gonna hear me talk more about gut health and I'm gonna give you some solutions to gut health if you guys are open to that. Would you guys all wanna learn more about improving your gut health without stressing out about it and really simple and easy? I'm gonna put something together for you all. It's gonna obviously conjunction with ketones, conjunction with a high quality food. But when you come out of your fast, you kinda, it's a natural cleanse. A fasting is a natural cleanse. Your body naturally is detoxing all the time anyway. And so what happens is, so what happens is, is that when you come out of the fast, what you put in your body really is important at that time, okay? So what I recommend is you're gonna wanna lean towards, first off, this is more paleo foods. More natural, like the more natural the food sources is better. The last thing you wanna do is over, over in the, you don't wanna necessarily overeat. Ideally what I'd like you to put into your diet is things like broth from soup. I love making like a homemade soup coming out of my fast. Now if it's intermittent fasting, it's not as much of a concern. The longer you go on the fast, the more I emphasize this. But I like to make soup, make broths, have keto pro coming out of your fast. What I also like is things like kimchi and sauerkraut for minted type foods to help improve gut bacteria and gut flora. What we wanna do is we wanna get flourished. We want our gut to really get flourished and ramp up digestive process. We don't wanna dampen it down by foods that are over processed. We don't wanna dampen it down by junk food, right?  And it's not serving you long term. Does it mean I don't ever have crap? No, I do. I do have fun foods from time to time, but I don't do it as a way to break my fast. I always wanna progress out. You can do some apple cider vinegar with a little bit of water. You can actually do that during your fast also. We wanna promote a better gut environment and gut health just to help improve digestion. What it'll also do is the more that we can improve gut bacteria, it's gonna help your bowels transition so you're not basically in loose stools all the time. And these are things that you just wanna, you wanna be able to do. So those are the three biggest mistakes I see in fasting. So if you haven't gotten this kit yet, grab it. Whoever invited you to follow me, make sure you grab this. They come in pack of five. They're amazing. It'll change everything in your journey. I actually recommend having that with get a couple boxes of the ketones with it and put this to program together. It'll change everything for you. You'll be in therapeutic ketosis in an optimal range sustainably and you're gonna feel absolutely lights out amazing. So whoever invited you to follow me, get back to them and go, hey, I wanna try this. It'll change everything. Remember my recommendation is always 60 days of ketones. Always do 60 days of ketones. Don't just try them, do it. This will change your life forever. It's the best shot you have.  Win, win. It's a huge win. Of course, if you're following me, hit me up. Let me know and I'll take care of you and get you all set up. So peace out. Later guys. Cheers.


Hey everybody, this is Brian. Welcome to the fifth Ye2 tutorial. Today we're going to be going over the very high-level version of authentication. If you go to your website and you click on Login, you can see we're presented with this nice little login screen and it says you can either log in with admin, admin, or demo, demo. So let's try that. Let's go. Demo, demo. And it doesn't really do much in the basic skeleton of a project that Yee's created for us, but you can see how it says log out demo.  So what we're really demonstrated is that you can log in with different credentials. How does that work? Well, that's what we're going to cover. Very high level here. Go to YeeFramework.com and you can go to documentation guide 2.0 and I believe it's under security. I kind of scroll up and there's authentication. Now some of these guides are not fully fleshed out, but authentication is actually pretty well done. And it really explains, oops, I just nudged my microphone here, it really explains how all this works. For example, you can configure the identity class. Now what is an identity class? Whenever you go to a website, you have an identity. Even if you haven't logged in yet, your user 537 or whatever, or if you log in, you're me at home.com or whatever you've logged in as. So that's what an identity is. And this really defines what class controls that. And we'll look at that in detail. And then you can implement the identity interface on your own. So if you want to skip ahead and go, how do I authenticate from a database? Well, they actually give you directions right on this page. And it's pretty simple, actually. We won't actually write the code, but I'll show you what it looks like. And then in future tutorials, we're going to actually write the code and, you know, generate all that from scratch. So but you should go out and really read the authentication guide, because I mean, this is kind of a mini tutorial in itself. And that's really how I learned it. I thought it was pretty well done. So we'll go out here and we've we've kind of looked at that. So let's look at the underlying method under this. What do you think this is going to be? You can see where it says to modify the username and password, please check out the code in app models user and then users. So let's go out there. Well, app is pretty much just the root of your project pet store. And it said models. And then user user. So there's user. And then the dollar sign denotes a variable. So there's our user class. Now this is our identity. How do we know that? Well, two reasons it implements or, you know, uses an interface called identity interface. And if you actually go into your config here under these web, yeah, user identity class, and then well, there it is, you can actually switch these out as you want. And I believe you can actually on the fly dynamically do that if you want to do different authentication schemes for whatever reason. So if you're ever opening a project, you're like, Oh, what's the identity clashing? Just go into the config and it'll tell you app models users app is your root models and then ta-da users. So it extends or inherits the object class for ye and it implements the interface. Now if you slept through your PHP classes, what is an interface? What does it mean when it implements it? Well, an interface is a contract. It's a binding agreement between two classes saying thou shall have these properties. It's a lot like applying for a job. If you're going to apply for a job as say a brain surgeon that has 10 years of experience, well, you need to have that interface on your resume. You need to say I am a brain surgeon with 10 years experience. So if you work at McDonald's, you're not going to get a job for a brain surgeon. It's pretty much the gist of what an interface is. It's a contract. And you can see this bare bones class that he's automatically generated. It's got some, it's a model, right? It has some properties. I shouldn't really call it a model. It's not truly a model, but it's in the model's namespace. It has some properties and these are the actual credentials right here. You can see the username, password, off key, off token. What are those? Well, those really go in for like mobile authentication. They've actually done really well in E2. If you kind of want to see something awesome, take this website. If it's on like your local, you know, whatever, your local computer or whatever, find out your computer's IP address. It's IP config on Windows or IF config on Linux. And basically just surf that on your mobile phone, on your local network. And it actually scales beautifully for mobile development. I was very surprised when I saw that because a project I'm working on, I was like, oh, I got to build a separate view for mobile and blah, blah. No, it does it all. So anyways, the way mobile authentication typically works is you won't pass a username and password. What you'll do is you'll do an initial login, like a username and password login and it'll hand you what's called an off key or an off access token. And you as a mobile app will hand that back to the application. So that's unique per user. All right, anyways, so let's look at this identity interface because this class extends it. You can see there's some properties in here. Find identity, find by access token, you know, find by username, get ID, you know, what's all this stuff? Why do we need it? So let's go out to web. Oops, not web. Sorry. My bad. Vendor. Is it Yeesoft? I think it's Yeesoft. E2. Web. And there is the identity interface class. So if you ever want to inherit or implement something, you're like, where is it? I want to look at that code. Well, it's right there. All right, so in here you can see a full description of what's going on here. This should be implemented by a class providing identity information. This interface can typically be implemented by a user model class, for example, and then they give you a whole how to do it. And they have full descriptions of what each one of these are, which you can go out and really read. So in short, if you're going to do an identity, you need to implement this interface. And it's not hard. You just have to have the properties in there. And then you have to fill in what they do. So you have, let's see here, find identity. This finds somebody based off a primary key, if you will. So let me actually pull up on a different project that I've already fleshed out in the database. There we go. I have this accounts class. This is a different project, mind you. You won't have this. And this, as you can see, it's a model, which is just the user, if you will, the account. So I have email and password. That's how they log in. But in the actual user, I have commented out the auto-generated garbage. And then I'm just doing the, and I should grow up, this actually extends the accounts model. So what you do is you make a model out of your database where whatever bucket you want to call it, accounts, users, whatever. And you're going to inherit that using extends. So you have all those base properties, and then you're going to implement this interface on top of it. That way you keep your model separate from your authentication scheme. And then in your authentication scheme, you're going to actually, you know, you see how I've commented that out. You're going to do return static, find one. So what this is doing is it's saying accounts, because I've extended that model, find one based off that primary key. And pretty much the same thing with access token. I put in a little reset. And find by username, I added that myself. Actually, did I add that myself? Let's find out. No, I didn't. Sorry about that. Gosh, got kind of lost there for a minute. That was scary. Anyways, find by username is, you know, you have a username. I used email in the site that I was building. So I just kind of commented that out. And I did, you know, static find one where email equal to, you know, the username, et cetera, et cetera. So it's not hard, but you just need to understand how all this works and why it exists. So we covered how it works. Now, why does this exist? Well, this exists because you want to be able to log in to your website. And when you log in, you want to be able to do certain things. Now, we haven't really covered it, but we will in future tutorials. Let's kind of go back out here. When you look at your controllers, remember controls control the flow of things. You can see in your site controller this access control. And you have to use this E filters access control. So what you can actually do here is you can say if you're logged in, allow this. Otherwise, you do not allow this. If you're an admin, allow this. If you're not an admin, don't allow that. And you can see a prime example of that in the log out button. It's only available for this at sign, which is a shorthand for authenticated users, meaning you have to be logged in for log out to actually work. So let's just kind of play with this for a little bit, right? Let's go demo, demo. We're just going to log in. You see this log out. I don't know if it's picking up in the video, but down in the lower left hand corner kind of down here, you'll see where it says site slash log out. So if I click that, notice how it doesn't appear here because there's a redirect in the controller, but if we just kind of go, and I want to go log out, notice how it just bumps me back. So that's called the intrinsic redirect, meaning if you're not allowed to do it, it's just going to throw you right back there. We can look at that cold, that cold, geez, that code. See? You use your log out. Let's go home. There's another little thing you should understand is how did that actually change here? Like if you log in, log in again, demo, demo. See how it says log out demo? How does it know who you are? Whoops. Yeah, see, because we were playing with it, we broke it. Log out. So that actually demonstrated what I wanted to show you is we went go home and the home was set to log out when we modified the query string. I apologize if that's a little confusing, but I'm going to log out again. Contact. We'll reset the go home so it doesn't screw up on us. There we go. So how does it know if you're logged in or logged out? How does it know that in this view here? Well, if you go out to the, where is it? Views, layouts, and then your main layout. This is your page. I kind of just scroll down here. You see EAP user is guest. Is guest means you really don't have an identity at that point. You're just surfing there. You have an identity, but everything's blank. So if you're not a guest, then it's going to say EAP user identity username. So remember the identity is the identity interface. That's why you have to implement that interface because we're expecting that contract, those properties to be available. And one of those properties as well, username, kind of go back up here and look at this a little bit. See, user name. So that's pretty much it for this tutorial. I realized this is a complex topic. We haven't written any code, but this is all theory at this point. You need to understand the basics of how this works. Before we can really dive in and start writing code, you're really going to be lost because trust me, I was. Some of you out there that have been old school programmers for a long time are going, oh, this is easy. Get to the code. 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